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04:09 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Public Knowledge seems to have been 'hijacked' someone by totally unrelated causes; it even brought a Microsofter to its board https://publicknowledge.org/privileged-conversations-mar-2023/
04:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-publicknowledge.org | Privileged Conversations | Mar. 2023 - Public Knowledge
06:37 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> HRW, which took bribes from Saudi terrorists, says UK revoking citizenship of ISIS person is "a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System" https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/23/shamima-begum-ruling-dark-stain-uk-justice-system
06:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.hrw.org | Shamima Begum Ruling a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System | Human Rights Watch
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08:54 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "While looking up at the night sky on the University of Michigans campus, the reflection of the citys lights can be seen on the clouds as a result of light pollution." https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/no-more-night-skies-ann-arbors-light-pollution-ordinance/
08:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.michigandaily.com | A follow up on Ann Arbor's light ordinance
09:03 schestowitz-pi2; VICE CEO stepping down
09:03 schestowitz-pi2; last week they publish 0 articles some days
09:05 schestowitz-pi2; as you are probably aware, they have had layo
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09:46 techrights[sec]; yes layoffs are all the rage, the question is which groups are getting laid off
09:46 techrights[sec]; managers hr and other dead weight? or developers and operationns? or r & d?
09:46 techrights[sec]; or in the case of media, are they laying off investigatvice reporters or
09:46 techrights[sec]; marketeers? NPR is laying off people too
09:47 schestowitz-pi2; "investigatvice" = expensive
09:47 schestowitz-pi2; low "yield"
09:47 schestowitz-pi2; hire spamnil
09:48 schestowitz-pi2; as you are probably aware, they have had layoffs too
09:48 techrights[sec]; Normal journalism == "expensive"
09:58 techrights[sec]; It's all around, across most industries. There an active unwillingness to
09:58 techrights[sec]; cover to costs of doing business. I suspect that in many cases it is because
09:58 techrights[sec]; the specific businesses have already moved to financialization and are now
09:58 techrights[sec]; able to drop the pretense of actually doing work.
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; it gravitates towards shit and PR when the business model is not selling copies
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; but rather, ads and lies-as-a-service
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; re "as you are probably aware, they have had layoffs too
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; "
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; it's getting hard to find newsrooms that did NOT sack
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; i saw today CBS apparently doing better
10:00 schestowitz-pi2; maxing up business debt and personal debt
10:37 schestowitz-pi2; The CEOs usually end up with conflicting personal investments. Their financial
10:37 schestowitz-pi2; benefit then comes at the expense of the health of the company.
10:38 techrights[sec]; The CEOs usually end up with conflicting personal investments. Their financial
10:38 techrights[sec]; benefit then comes at the expense of the health of the company.
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13:09 schestowitz-pi2; improved my running range a bit
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; going to a nearby tesco
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; got some good things today
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; goiing to record some videos today, at long last
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; i think i'm getting this new workflow under control now
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; but taking some notes to myself to help adapt, what to do when and how
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; the links in TM and in TR (overlap) have more inline URLs and some formatting
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; which is a bit improvements
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; other sites cannot compete or keep up with that
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; as they simply lack the tools for collection, curation etc.
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; so we're all set for years to come, i just want to automate removal of some "?utm=cruft"
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; in some feeds
13:09 schestowitz-pi2; at the moment a lot of search and replace, or manual editing
13:21 techrights[sec]; Yeah, some of that ?utm_ garbage gets missed someti
13:22 schestowitz-pi2; some of that went away around the time Gulag Inc. burned FeedBurner
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; I don't know what those contribute to back-end surveillance
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; never saw how this type of spying gets processed and by which software
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; if I forget to remove it there's always some geek out there who righly moans
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; so I try never to forget
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; removing them algorithmically is not simple as there are special cases
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; rianne remembers to always remove them manually
13:23 schestowitz-pi2; it's a matter of treating well those whom you share links with
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; Google used to direct every news item with news.google.com/some crap tracking
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; then, some years ago, it started linking directly
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; about a year ago it went back to tracking
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; i don't know why but can have a hunch
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; google news used to offer excepts from articles
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; with the relevant bits or keywords
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; it would also cluster related articles
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; and highlght (bold) relevant bits
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; they castrate themselves
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; about 10 years ago
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; i believe this is related to legal threats associated with "link tax" and fair use
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; so they basically made their product worse in many ways
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; we later saw the same in australia and now canada
13:26 schestowitz-pi2; *excepts>excerpts
13:27 techrights[sec];
13:27 techrights[sec]; Yeah, some of that ?utm_ garbage gets missed sometimes.
13:27 techrights[sec]; Yes, the tracking there has returned. I skip their lists now. There
13:27 techrights[sec]; wasn't much quality or relevance in what they produced anyway.
13:27 techrights[sec]; Ah, and referer links are not tracked in many cases any more, so maybe they are
13:27 techrights[sec]; trying to build up evidence of how much traffic they send to various domains.
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; bypassing this is feasible algorithmically but infeasible by hand, at scale
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; as you would need to substitute many symbols in the parts trailing the tracking bits
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; indluding for "https://"
13:29 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: "; Unknown error ( status 0 @ https://" )
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; in effect reverse-engineering their tracking code
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; to skip the tracking
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; some regex can maybe catch most cases
13:30 techrights[sec]; Any regex cleanup would have to go on a host-by-host or, at best, domain by
13:30 techrights[sec]; domain basis.
13:30 techrights[sec]; It's easier probably to just keep doing it by hand.
13:44 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "Russia ends nowhere" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/25/russia-ends-nowhere-they-say | Source: Meduza
13:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-meduza.io | Russia ends nowhere, they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next Meduza
14:27 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> cruft/social control media https://yle.fi/a/74-20019432
14:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Nordic neighbours poking fun at Finnish stereotypes become social media hits | News | Yle Uutiset
14:28 schestowitz-pi2; there is NO other news to investigate and to cover
14:28 schestowitz-pi2; scroll with a thumb on a fucking "smart" phone for article "ideas"
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; [14:32] <techrights-news> phoronix is pushing Microsoft products again! Even ones that nobody but Microsoft uses this. This isn't just irresponsible, it's trash.
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; [14:34] <techrights-news> It is becoming increasingly hard to justify linking to Phoronix, not just due to the ads but the shilling of freedom-hostile crap. Judging by the forums, this is a common sentiment.
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; [14:35] <techrights-news> "Messaging app Signal has a
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; in nexdaily links batch, mind you, i had already added some russia links prior to us discussing the matter
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; i hope things will calm down on that front
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; china is probably just pretending about trying to reach a resolution
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; it costs nothing to issue a statement
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; like their (documented) lobbying for tiktok
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; all those stories that are puff pieces are likely a component of this lobbying budget
14:56 schestowitz-pi2; OTA
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17:21 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/nyatsumura/status/1629416237821497345#m
17:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Nekomura Natsu (@nyatsumura): "Do you know the name of this Dr. I mistakenly thought it was Dr. Roy Schestowitz. I found your tweet in the video, and I came across you by looking for you through Rob Schneider's tweets. https://youtu.be/QD6uid_eT0Q" | La Contre-Voie - nitter
17:21 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/nyatsumura/status/1628795857561874432#m
17:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Nekomura Natsu (@nyatsumura): "I wanted to know the name of the Dr. who explains chitin in the "Redacted" video, but didn't know because there was no introduction. Your RT helped me to know. Thank you " | La Contre-Voie - nitter
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