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02:25 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, Anyway, violent crime impacts you on an ongoing basis under federal law even if you leave the state of Illinois for one that cares about your Constitutional freedoms.
02:25 DaemonFC; And they can make anything a "violent" crime.
02:25 DaemonFC; They can make anything sound worse than it is.
02:25 DaemonFC; They're very very good at extracting false confessions.
02:26 DaemonFC; So it's like, I played the cards I had and I did better than most people do in court. Most white people anyway.
02:26 DaemonFC; The court system seems to enjoy lashing out irrationally with overly harsh punishments against white people due to white guilt among the judges and other court officials.
02:27 DaemonFC; MinceR would say this goes along with the idea that you can make things better for some by making them worse for others.
02:27 DaemonFC; Then everyone does poorly and it balances out, right?
02:53 MinceR; you said this
02:53 MinceR; i think it's a counterproductive idea
02:53 MinceR; except for fiends, i suppose
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07:07 schestowitz-TR; news was slow
07:07 schestowitz-TR; slept about 9-10 hours for first time in many years
07:07 schestowitz-TR; as an experiment of sorts
07:07 schestowitz-TR; level of concentration a lot higher (cognotive) and some physical things too
07:07 schestowitz-TR; but at the cost of hours to my day
07:07 schestowitz-TR; "cost"
07:27 Techrights-sec2; ack
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07:52 schestowitz; x https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/699319/open-source-software-risks-persist-according-new-reports/?fp=2&fpid=1
07:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.arnnet.com.au | Open source software risks persist, according to new reports - ARN
07:58 schestowitz; x https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5390/default/
07:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5390/default/ )
07:59 schestowitz; <li>
07:59 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2022-06-23-edition/">New Steam Games With Native Linux Clients 2022-06-23 Edition</a></h5>
07:59 schestowitz; <blockquote>
07:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-boilingsteam.com | New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-06-23 Edition - Boiling Steam
07:59 schestowitz; <p>Between 2022-06-16 and 2022-06-23 there were 25 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 298 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 8.4 % of total released titles. Heres a quick pick of the most interesting ones: [...]</p>
07:59 schestowitz; </blockquote>
07:59 schestowitz; </li>
08:02 schestowitz-TR; what you say about the deposition tapes of the famous criminals
08:02 schestowitz-TR; is interesting
08:02 schestowitz-TR; but to prove..
08:02 schestowitz-TR; wait,
08:02 schestowitz-TR; a) it's happening with many topics
08:02 schestowitz-TR; b) we cannopt prove this is intentional
08:02 schestowitz-TR; c) if it was intentional, there would be a risk of someone blowing the whistle
08:02 schestowitz-TR; d) what is NOT intentional is IF the media (.e.g Daily Mail) amplifies the nonsnese
08:02 schestowitz-TR; at the expense of the signal
08:02 schestowitz-TR; to muddy thw water
08:06 schestowitz; <li>
08:06 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xnview.html">XnView - Small, feisty and powerful</a></h5>
08:06 schestowitz; <blockquote>
08:06 schestowitz; <p>This article should have probably been written twenty years ago. But then, Dedoimedo only came into being in 2006, and by that time, I was heavily entrenched in my love and use of IrfanView as my favorite image viewer. The passion extends beyond its native Windows environment; 'tis my favorite in Linux, too, and I find it superior to the native crop. Of course, when I wrote more extensively about this in my
08:06 schestowitz; Windows-Linux migration saga, a bunch of folks emailed me, questioning my choices, and brining XnView into focus.</p>
08:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.dedoimedo.com | XnView - Small, feisty and powerful
08:06 schestowitz; </blockquote>
08:06 schestowitz; </li>
08:08 schestowitz-TR; re over population, one aspect not mentioned is,
08:08 schestowitz-TR; after plaguesn and wars
08:08 schestowitz-TR; parents may fear lose the child or all the children
08:08 schestowitz-TR; so they start making more "spares"
08:08 schestowitz-TR; if you give good healthcare, the parents -- like in norway -- feel like one kid
08:08 schestowitz-TR; is enough and will be safe (low chance of early mortality)
08:15 schestowitz; <li>
08:15 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/06/on-the-dangers-of-cryptocurrencies-and-the-uselessness-of-blockchain.html">On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain</a></h5>
08:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain - Schneier on Security
08:15 schestowitz; <blockquote>
08:15 schestowitz; <p>In our letter, we write: By its very design, blockchain technology is poorly suited for just about every purpose currently touted as a present or potential source of public benefit. From its inception, this technology has been a solution in search of a problem and has now latched onto concepts such as financial inclusion and data transparency to justify its existence, despite far better solutions to
08:15 schestowitz; these issues already in use. Despite more than thirteen years of development, it has severe limitations and design flaws that preclude almost all applications that deal with public customer data and regulated financial transactions and are not an improvement on existing non-blockchain solutions.</p>
08:15 schestowitz; </blockquote>
08:15 schestowitz; </li>
08:23 Techrights-sec2; I'm not sure of the reasons, just that the growth accelerates after calamities
08:23 Techrights-sec2; yes, the nordic countries were the model of success in that and many other
08:23 Techrights-sec2; regards up until they deviated from the "middle path" economic policied and
08:25 Techrights-sec2; in general, education and healthcare lead automatically to bettr population size
08:25 Techrights-sec2; and pensions help there too. The US has been eliminating all three, the one
08:25 Techrights-sec2; that hurts there the most is the elimination of public education which took a
08:25 Techrights-sec2; major hit at the start of the Reagan administration and has been monotonically
08:25 Techrights-sec2; reduced ever since. Now there are two full generations without adequate
08:25 Techrights-sec2; basic education. A major action like a combination of Peace Corps and the
08:25 Techrights-sec2; Marshall Plan would be needed from Europe there but Europe is caught up in
08:25 Techrights-sec2; its own mess, not entirely of others' making
08:28 Techrights-sec2; about the smearing of the deposition tapes (and other critique of Bill) it would
08:28 Techrights-sec2; be impossible to prove, aside from observed phenomena
08:29 schestowitz-TR; I think there might be more pluasible explanation
08:29 schestowitz-TR; I also think that over-hypothesising about this tie-up with buffs and crank
08:29 schestowitz-TR; can in itself be used to discredit critics
08:29 schestowitz-TR; which is why I want to be sure that it makes sense
08:29 Techrights-sec2; the causal relationship there can be from either ditection, the cranks can
08:29 Techrights-sec2; have picked up the material spontaneously. nevertheless it will be used to
08:29 Techrights-sec2; discredit any and all criticism by association
08:30 schestowitz-TR; let's see if the media plays ball for them
08:30 schestowitz-TR; I saw billBC doing this not in relation to the tapoes
08:30 schestowitz-TR; but in relation to vaccines
08:31 Techrights-sec2; I would expect that they will continue to play ball, they do now, and have in
08:31 Techrights-sec2; the past
08:31 Techrights-sec2; right, the goal is for them to discredit any critique or reproach of Bill
08:32 schestowitz-TR; for now I'd just ignore them
08:32 schestowitz-TR; and focus on the unfolding issues
08:32 schestowitz-TR; he seems to come and go in bursts
08:32 schestowitz-TR; with the "bill gates" wave
08:32 schestowitz-TR; "bill gates says" I mean
08:32 Techrights-sec2; yes that's mostly what I'm doing but noticed the huge upswing such that one
08:32 Techrights-sec2; has to waste a lot of time evaluating /who/'s posted the videos so as to avoid
08:32 Techrights-sec2; sending the wrong ones traffic
08:34 schestowitz-TR; to lead up with an example, last night I ranted to rianne that she was watching a bunch of idiots on youtube
08:34 schestowitz-TR; like the one about VAT in grocery shopping
08:34 schestowitz-TR; I told her this is why I try to avoid random "person with camera"
08:34 schestowitz-TR; there's no quality control at all
08:34 schestowitz-TR; and there are better avenues for information
08:34 schestowitz-TR; which is at least verified a bit
08:34 schestowitz-TR; she often reads a lot of yoioutube comments too
08:34 schestowitz-TR; which is even worse
08:36 Techrights-sec2; the comments there are usually even more uninformed (at best) and often
08:36 Techrights-sec2; misinformed. I have not seen any credible attempt to teach evaluation of
08:36 Techrights-sec2; sources since the 1990s. There are ongoing attempts but they are no longer
08:36 Techrights-sec2; credible and have fatal flaws in their methodology and actually facilitate
08:36 Techrights-sec2; the spread of misinformation and even disinformation
08:39 schestowitz-TR; pardon change of topic
08:39 schestowitz-TR; yesterday traffic on the gemini proxy doubled
08:39 schestowitz-TR; I don't know why
08:39 schestowitz-TR; it doesn't matter much
08:40 schestowitz-TR; right now I post Daily Links very rapidly and then look for EPO info
08:40 schestowitz-TR; until July (first week)
08:40 schestowitz-TR; I don't want to check logs
08:40 schestowitz-TR; I promised myseld not to
08:40 schestowitz-TR; as I'd rather write articles than "ego surf" or similar
08:40 schestowitz-TR; IU thought about automating link collection from gemini
08:40 schestowitz-TR; but atm the s/n ratio isn't good enough for automation of any kind
08:40 schestowitz-TR; I check manually every hour or two
08:40 schestowitz-TR; and the priority is just that
08:40 schestowitz-TR; many batches of lots of news
08:40 Techrights-sec2; np
08:40 Techrights-sec2; check the web server logs to see about referers
08:41 Techrights-sec2; ok the the log format can be simplifie even more to save space and not
08:41 Techrights-sec2; save data which is not needed or wanted
08:41 schestowitz-TR; the log for nginx does not save any IP addresses
08:41 schestowitz-TR; it queries locally
08:42 Techrights-sec2; right but IIRC for the first connection from the outside it might have the
08:42 Techrights-sec2; referer
08:44 schestowitz-TR; I see what you mean
08:45 schestowitz-TR; I'm just relieved that after going cold turkey outr of social control media IRC and web/gemini are doing as well as before
08:45 schestowitz-TR; lunduke did experiment with those things years ago
08:45 schestowitz-TR; a lot of twitter et al = bots
08:45 schestowitz-TR; even diaspora
08:45 schestowitz-TR; they crawl the target site for image (preview)
08:45 schestowitz-TR; and EACH diaspora pod with someone who FOLLOWS you does this
08:45 schestowitz-TR; so it merely generates a burst of bots
08:45 schestowitz-TR; not good value for 'the buc'
08:45 schestowitz-TR; *buck
08:45 schestowitz-TR; not sure if you gert what I mean
08:45 Techrights-sec2; excellent
08:45 Techrights-sec2; lunduke did not stick to his guns on that
08:45 Techrights-sec2; he kept going back to twitter and youtube and maybe a few other places
08:45 Techrights-sec2; yes I understand the inefficiency and redundant calls made by how twitter
08:45 Techrights-sec2; and diaspora deal with outside links, I've seen it in logs before
08:47 schestowitz-TR; you could also see this in nmon (spikes) each time I linked to a techrights post
08:47 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines also
08:47 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines had an account in joindiaspora with THOUSANDS of followers
08:47 schestowitz-TR; so merely linking to a link there would summon an army of 200 or so bots from 200 instances crawling for an image
08:47 Techrights-sec2; yep
08:47 schestowitz-TR; good for faking stats
08:47 schestowitz-TR; but little net benefit
08:50 schestowitz-TR; it is a very major inefficiency of "decentralised" or "federated" social control media
08:50 schestowitz-TR; and i never saw anyone mention this issue
08:50 schestowitz-TR; it has to do the same thing over and over again
08:50 schestowitz-TR; there is energy/pollution toll associated with it
08:50 schestowitz-TR; you need to over-provision
08:50 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I'd say to rianne, we cannot leave to the gym for another 5 miniutes
08:50 schestowitz-TR; because I need to 'throttle' down the linking
08:50 schestowitz-TR; like link from one site at a time
08:50 schestowitz-TR; back then we had fewer CPU cores
08:50 schestowitz-TR; so it would result in visitors getting error messages
08:50 schestowitz-TR; even people who come NTO from social contgrol media
08:50 schestowitz-TR; which owrsened the experience
08:50 Techrights-sec2; since it fetches whole images and the trend fora decade is not to scale a
08:50 Techrights-sec2; thumbnail, they were fetching the same image many, many times unnecessarily
08:50 Techrights-sec2; not just 'an' image but the whole full-scale image -- each time
08:50 schestowitz-TR; I never did a post or video about this issue
08:51 Techrights-sec2; bandwidth costs a lot of electricity, in addition to the other aspects
08:51 Techrights-sec2; maybe it is soon time for a post on the topic
08:53 schestowitz-TR; but wait, I am reluctant
08:53 schestowitz-TR; it would make centralised look "good"
08:53 schestowitz-TR; and federated look "bad"
08:53 schestowitz-TR; also, at the time I didn't mind the illusion of higher view counts
08:53 schestowitz-TR; now the numbers LOOK smaller
08:53 schestowitz-TR; but they're not
08:53 schestowitz-TR; we just get a lot less of that bot (junk) traffic)
08:53 Techrights-sec2; ah, that would be a likely way to misinterpet the resulting post
08:53 Techrights-sec2; never mind
08:53 Techrights-sec2; there is a lot of bot (junk) traffic still on both sites
08:56 schestowitz-TR; 'search' engines are a large contributor to it
08:56 schestowitz-TR; their business model is mostly POLITICAL
08:56 schestowitz-TR; hence, baidu, yandex
08:56 schestowitz-TR; because you might need to crawl a page 10 times for each person you might in fact redirect there one day
08:56 schestowitz-TR; very little bang for the buck
08:56 schestowitz-TR; that's why so few crawlers remain
08:56 schestowitz-TR; a loyal "base" with RSS is far better
08:57 schestowitz-TR; with search you might get a visitor a minute
08:57 schestowitz-TR; RSS is a lot higher
08:57 schestowitz-TR; gulag must have had some real "RSS anvy"
08:57 schestowitz-TR; it would invalidate some of their business model
08:57 schestowitz-TR; like "everything as a search bar"
08:57 schestowitz-TR; so they bought feedburner
08:57 schestowitz-TR; killed off Gulag Reader
08:57 schestowitz-TR; afte rGulag Reader had killed some potent rivals like FeedLounge )I was a beta tester)
08:57 schestowitz-TR; and then burned feedburner users
08:57 schestowitz-TR; who were left salty and sour
08:57 schestowitz-TR; but could do nothing to FORCE regulars to UPDATE their feed readers
08:57 schestowitz-TR; (note, of importance: the expensive part is NOT the crawling but the subsequent processing, like tokenisation
08:57 schestowitz-TR; and cross-DC synching)
09:01 schestowitz-TR; Gulag not does the same to many youtube users
09:01 schestowitz-TR; they spent years begging people to "subscribe"
09:01 schestowitz-TR; and not that number becomes increaisngly meaningles
09:01 schestowitz-TR; as gulag does not do much to connect "useds" with the channels they chose to follow
09:01 schestowitz-TR; Twitter did the same
09:01 schestowitz-TR; and few noticed or complained
09:01 schestowitz-TR; I had 7000+ followers
09:01 schestowitz-TR; but Twitter would push them trump crap and "engagement" noise
09:01 schestowitz-TR; not the stuff I posted to "my followers"
09:01 schestowitz-TR; hence, numbers decreased greatly
09:01 schestowitz-TR; same for glynmoody and others
09:01 schestowitz-TR; they silently became more merganislised
09:01 schestowitz-TR; as Twitter sought some business plan
09:01 schestowitz-TR; tim bray joked about twitter becoming "comms platform" that could just not find a way to make money out of it
09:02 Techrights-sec2; the crawlers don't do a thorough job either, especially Google is on the decline
09:02 Techrights-sec2; and seems to be focusing its resources elsewhere and letting the search
09:02 Techrights-sec2; engine fade
09:02 Techrights-sec2; the text parts of an RSS feed monitor are not hard to create the GUI is another
09:02 Techrights-sec2; matter though.
09:02 Techrights-sec2; Adding SQLite to what we have for TR already would be the next step but
09:02 Techrights-sec2; some more thought is needed on the topic first
09:02 Techrights-sec2; s/not/now/g
09:02 Techrights-sec2; twitter is about control of public opinion and trump crap was the theme
09:02 Techrights-sec2; they were, and are, pushing
09:02 Techrights-sec2; twitter has nothingto do with communication ever but especially since
09:02 Techrights-sec2; they moved to non-chronological sorting on messages
09:04 schestowitz-TR; a) tim bray wrote this like 5 years ago
09:04 schestowitz-TR; b) non-linear was a stepping stone or hopping point towards where we are today
09:04 schestowitz-TR; "FOLLOWING" used to mean what it sad
09:04 schestowitz-TR; now it's like "flattr" sans the actual monetary contribution
09:04 schestowitz-TR; you "follow"
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and then nothing happens
09:04 schestowitz-TR; thanks for following
09:04 schestowitz-TR; it's like pressing a "like" on the user !!!!
09:04 schestowitz-TR; the curation is done by jack... sorry,. I mean the "HEY HI" algorithm
09:05 schestowitz-TR; jack can be sued, HEY HI cannot
09:06 schestowitz-TR; youtube subscript = "like" the channel
09:06 schestowitz-TR; "subscribe"
09:06 schestowitz-TR; "my youtube channel has 1000000 likes" :-)
09:06 schestowitz-TR; used to be subscribers
09:06 schestowitz-TR; spamnil got many channel "likes" for posting videos that were not hius
09:06 schestowitz-TR; with misleading headlines added
09:07 Techrights-sec2; AI, as seen, is a dodge to pretend that the outcome is independent of the
09:07 Techrights-sec2; designs and wishes of the owners
09:07 schestowitz-TR; yes, I said it a very long time ago. It's also a legal hack. Just paint some robots and call ti "HEY HI"
09:07 schestowitz-TR; even when it is not ML but some simple filter or regex
09:08 Techrights-sec2; yep
09:08 Techrights-sec2; regex is not ML but lawyers don't know that and don't care either
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09:09 Techrights-sec2; as long as they can paint it as plausible deniability then they're ok with not
09:09 Techrights-sec2; looking
09:09 Techrights-sec2; plausible deniability (in regards to lost mail) is probably the largest reason
09:09 Techrights-sec2; that M$ Outlook/Exchange deployments exist anywhere
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09:17 schestowitz-TR; one techrights goal: make people less dependent on web searches
09:17 schestowitz-TR; or: various centralised things
09:17 schestowitz-TR; not to name examples, there are many
09:17 schestowitz-TR; baiscally: regain editorial control or take that away from large gatekeerpers
09:17 schestowitz-TR; those are the concepts, not boycott this and that
09:17 schestowitz-TR; just handed over at work
09:17 schestowitz-TR; (to rianne)
09:17 schestowitz-TR; so had to send some mails
09:18 schestowitz-TR; now I'm free
09:18 schestowitz-TR; some people think "reddit" = the community
09:18 schestowitz-TR; or... there used to eb sites like bored.com
09:18 schestowitz-TR; when search engines were still not mature
09:18 schestowitz-TR; so kids would go about typing in soccer.com (iirc, some porn thing)
09:18 schestowitz-TR; or sex.com
09:18 schestowitz-TR; those were the 90s
09:18 Techrights-sec2; re-decentralization
09:18 Techrights-sec2; re-decentralization is very important but complexity (cought*systemd*cough)
09:18 Techrights-sec2; in all its forms is an impediment (cough*AWS*cough)
09:18 Techrights-sec2; there was an informative post this last week about the heavy handed censorship
09:18 Techrights-sec2; there at Reddit but that post missed many egregious examples such as people
09:18 Techrights-sec2; getting kicked out of their own "subreddits" which they had founded
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09:18 Techrights-sec2; whitehouse.com ;)
09:19 schestowitz-TR; was the dot com used for some other purpose?
09:19 Techrights-sec2; yes the .com edition was owned by some porn company
09:19 Techrights-sec2; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com
09:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | whitehouse.com - Wikipedia
09:21 schestowitz-TR; to be fair, back then white house did have some porn in the oval office
09:21 schestowitz-TR; and later the lolita express become an issue, too
09:21 schestowitz-TR; pales in comparison to trump's "i like your smile"
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09:21 Techrights-sec2; https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/white-house-in-porn-domain-dispute/
09:21 Techrights-sec2; ack
09:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-White House in porn domain dispute - CNET
09:21 Techrights-sec2; https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4231962
09:21 Techrights-sec2; ]
09:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nbcnews.com | Pornographer to sell Whitehouse Web site
09:22 Techrights-sec2; https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjj4vx/whitehousecom-your-favorite-90s-porn-site-is-now-protesting-the-trump-presidency
09:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.vice.com | Whitehouse.com, Your Favorite 90s Porn Site, Is Now Protesting the Trump Presidency
09:24 Techrights-sec2; I
09:24 Techrights-sec2; I'm not sure how to navigate gemini so much
09:24 Techrights-sec2; I check a very small handful of capsules and occasionally follow links but there
09:24 Techrights-sec2; is not the flow where there are often links one wishes to follow and there
09:24 Techrights-sec2; is not an easy way to open the link in a background tab so as to first finish
09:24 Techrights-sec2; reading the present article
09:24 schestowitz-TR; so about gemini, I try to link to a ton of domains
09:25 schestowitz-TR; the planet is partly for my own use
09:25 schestowitz-TR; but people can get at the whole sausage factory
09:25 schestowitz-TR; and use the same
09:25 schestowitz-TR; the aggregation is swarm like
09:25 schestowitz-TR; aggregators of aggregators
09:25 schestowitz-TR; it's also a lot more efficient, fewer requestss
09:25 schestowitz-TR; tabs are for the www
09:25 schestowitz-TR; because pages became too slow to load
09:25 schestowitz-TR; so things got serialised
09:25 schestowitz-TR; in gemini there's barely that issue
09:25 schestowitz-TR; tabs are more like bookmarks
09:25 Techrights-sec2; https://www.cracked.com/article_30052_a-history-of-whitehousecom-aka-the-biggest-internet-controversy-of-the-1990s.html
09:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-A History of WhiteHouse.com, A.K.A. The Biggest Internet Controversy Of The 1990s | Cracked.com
09:27 Techrights-sec2; yes but the workflow has been efficient
09:27 Techrights-sec2; slow pages have been encouraged and cultivated by google, which could have
09:27 Techrights-sec2; penalized slow pages in the rankings and been done with the problem in
09:27 Techrights-sec2; at most a quarter or two. However since their main business is surveillance
09:27 Techrights-sec2; and such they need the slow sites and the toxic slurry of javascript they
09:27 Techrights-sec2; carry as a payload
09:28 schestowitz-TR; "payload" is a helpful term here
09:28 schestowitz-TR; painting that aspect for what it is
09:29 Techrights-sec2; yes that is clearly what it i
09:29 Techrights-sec2; is
09:29 schestowitz; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/new.gmi
09:29 schestowitz; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/allinone.gmi
09:31 schestowitz-TR; the first one is the newer version, which I will refine over time
09:31 schestowitz-TR; I thought about adding to our front page some section like, "Latest in Geminispace"
09:31 schestowitz-TR; like a blogroll of sorts
09:31 schestowitz-TR; but there are potentially bad things that would show up if automated
09:31 Techrights-sec2; ack
09:31 Techrights-sec2; manual curation is important
09:32 schestowitz-TR; irc and Daily Links have an edited subset of these
09:32 schestowitz-TR; but at least once can see that all batches of Daily Links treat gemini as equal
09:32 schestowitz-TR; with suitable warning using CSS
09:38 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to post anoher batch now
09:38 schestowitz-TR; I decided to split manual from automated
09:38 schestowitz-TR; to avoid mixing the two in the same batch
09:38 schestowitz-TR; we still have a ton of unread things in RSS (30k+) since you sent me the OPML
09:38 schestowitz-TR; that does not contain info like "disablesd"
09:38 schestowitz-TR; just the structure
09:38 schestowitz-TR; one way or another we can process them
09:38 Techrights-sec2; it's hard to find posts about the BSDs
09:38 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I enter a serach phrase for that whole lot
09:38 schestowitz-TR; like "bsd" for those 30k items
09:38 schestowitz-TR; or "respb"
09:38 schestowitz-TR; they help cluster stuff
09:38 schestowitz-TR; without using some third party with its "secret" recipes
09:39 schestowitz-TR; for that, you need to identify who speaks for bsd and latch onto their platform
09:39 schestowitz-TR; no planets
09:39 schestowitz-TR; but bypassing planets means making a lot of connections over and over again
09:39 schestowitz-TR; though you then don't have the filtering of the "planet"
09:48 schestowitz-TR; over the years many companies tried to compete with gulag search
09:48 schestowitz-TR; evenw ikipedia
09:48 schestowitz-TR; but you cannot compete with them
09:48 schestowitz-TR; you need to outmaneuvrer them with something else
09:48 schestowitz-TR; duckduckgo became a microsoft reslleer selling lies and lies
09:48 schestowitz-TR; and brva claims to have a search engine
09:48 schestowitz-TR; don't know what they use
09:48 schestowitz-TR; but they do not crawl the eb
09:48 schestowitz-TR; I think one positive apooproach is to teach peopel to rely a lot less on search
09:49 Techrights-sec2; planets are ok for an into but at this level we do need to make an effort to
09:49 Techrights-sec2; bypass the filtering which is inherent in the concept of a planet
09:49 Techrights-sec2; education is an uphill battle even not counting the microsoftianism which
09:49 Techrights-sec2; has replaced it; the best approach is in the tools themselves but we (I at least) have no influence over their development
09:49 schestowitz-TR; did you see fsf posts from lasdt night?
09:49 schestowitz-TR; 3 of them
09:49 schestowitz-TR; 2 of the 3 promote moving to mastodon
09:49 schestowitz-TR; which makes me go, meh...
09:53 Techrights-sec2; not yet
09:53 Techrights-sec2; checking
09:53 Techrights-sec2; their blog is not at the top in the navigation bar
09:53 Techrights-sec2; but I see the one promoting Mastodon, that is positive
09:53 Techrights-sec2; yes there is the problematic presence of invasive CoCs there and with
09:53 Techrights-sec2; that, consistently, goes the problem of very selective enforcement of said CoCs
09:53 Techrights-sec2; They are so selectively applied, everywhere, that it is clear that they are
09:53 Techrights-sec2; about control and destruction rather than about cultivating a pleasant and
09:53 Techrights-sec2; constructive working environment. For the latter CoCs not only aren't needed
09:53 Techrights-sec2; but actively get in the way, but again that's what they're for
09:54 schestowitz-TR; mastodon = cocwatre
09:54 schestowitz-TR; like cookware
09:57 schestowitz-TR; mastodon = CoCware
09:57 schestowitz-TR; odysee =K00Kware
09:57 schestowitz-TR; rianne=just made me a nice breakfast
09:57 schestowitz-TR; yesterday at the cancel a lady in her 80s did a survey for the cancel trust
09:57 schestowitz-TR; rianne agreed to fill out the survey
09:57 schestowitz-TR; "how often do you use the canal?"
09:57 schestowitz-TR; "is it clean?"
09:57 schestowitz-TR; "do you feel safe"
09:57 schestowitz-TR; at the end she asked for the ethnicity pary
09:57 schestowitz-TR; and excplaimed
09:57 schestowitz-TR; "you can cook without recipes!!";
09:57 Techrights-sec2; strange
10:01 schestowitz-TR; it was meant as a complimant
10:01 schestowitz-TR; but plays into steretypes
10:01 schestowitz-TR; I meant Canal Trust
10:01 schestowitz-TR; not "cancel trust" LOLK
10:01 schestowitz-TR; that would be a concept from next edition of 1984
10:01 schestowitz-TR; this past half a day it became a joke here
10:01 schestowitz-TR; "you can cook with recipes!"
10:01 Techrights-sec2; copyright violation?
10:01 Techrights-sec2; though recipes are excepmt from copyright
10:41 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Pro Publica left out Bill Gates because Gates BRIBES Pro Publica: "Our first story unraveled how billionaires like Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos" https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-tax-avoidance-techniques-irs-files | Source:
10:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.propublica.org | Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale ProPublica
11:09 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:09 schestowitz-TR; I mention this bribe any chance I get
11:10 schestowitz-TR; make them pay for it...
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11:15 Techrights-sec2; yes , definitely. Them having taken bribes impairs their coverage, but that
11:15 Techrights-sec2; was certainly one of the main goals which Bill had in mind there
11:15 schestowitz-TR; AOC thought he was a "Good" billioanire
11:15 schestowitz-TR; I hope she woke up
11:17 Techrights-sec2; Same with NPR / PBS
11:17 Techrights-sec2; she's clueless in that regard, but has only disinformation fed to her so it
11:17 Techrights-sec2; will be unlikely she wakes up
11:20 schestowitz-TR; that shows there are those areas that need working on
11:22 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Word from the inside (just now): Microsoft suspends hiring, even formally. Never mind the quiet layoffs (there are loopholes)...
11:22 Techrights-sec2; yes but who has the bags of cash big enough to get a message through to her?
11:22 Techrights-sec2; also whackdoodles are turning it, like everything else, into a partisan issue
11:22 Techrights-sec2; soon she will feel compelled to publicly praise and support His Billness solely
11:22 Techrights-sec2; because of her party membership
11:23 schestowitz-TR; he is a republican and I no longer see dem politicians defending him
11:23 schestowitz-TR; he is seen as toxic and a liabilitiy
11:24 schestowitz-TR; which to me means we're better off than years ago
11:24 Techrights-sec2; well that they're giving up on supporting him is a positive change
11:24 Techrights-sec2; still he's doing a million times better than in 1998 when even the
11:24 Techrights-sec2; Simpsons were rightly so taking digs at him
11:25 schestowitz-TR; the AOC remark is ~4 years old
11:25 schestowitz-TR; re Microsoft, got word from insiders
11:25 schestowitz-TR; it's not looking good
11:25 schestowitz-TR; of course the companyn will fake it
11:25 schestowitz-TR; all companies fake
11:25 schestowitz-TR; ours included
11:26 Techrights-sec2; https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE
11:26 Techrights-sec2; they spin everything and have a lot of legal dodges
11:26 Techrights-sec2; yes lying is part of the global business culture
11:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidious.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
11:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt | Homer Simpson and Bill Gates buy out - Invidious
11:27 schestowitz-TR; like with epo, that's WHY JOURNALISM IS SO MUCH NEEDED
11:27 schestowitz-TR; the pr swallows everything
11:27 schestowitz-TR; and social control media + gulag 'search' help that
11:27 schestowitz-TR; gulag noise tgreats micosoft.coim and the MS LOBBYING blog as NEWS sources
11:27 schestowitz-TR; maybe some former 'soifters' who got enrolled at gulag
11:27 schestowitz-TR; and had fun adding microsoft propaganda rags
11:27 schestowitz-TR; like msft fan club and Windows Updates
11:27 schestowitz-TR; *Update
11:29 Techrights-sec2; some go above and beyond that however, EPO and M$ are two examples
11:29 Techrights-sec2; the don;t even do the search, just click in social control media for some
11:29 Techrights-sec2; 'hot takes' however misinformed they might be
11:29 Techrights-sec2; there are way too many microsofters in Googl
11:30 Techrights-sec2; I think most managers don't get the cult-like nature of microsoft and how
11:30 Techrights-sec2; diametrically opposed M$ experience is to ICT; they appear to think themselves
11:30 Techrights-sec2; as clever by "hiring away 'talent'" from M$. The reality is that all they do
11:30 Techrights-sec2; is infect
11:31 Techrights-sec2; ^same old rant, again
11:31 Techrights-sec2; back on the topic of journalism, it seems that the inability to evaluate sources
11:31 Techrights-sec2; applies nowadays *also* to reporters
11:31 Techrights-sec2; that's a step further
11:32 schestowitz-TR; the issue is not that imho
11:32 schestowitz-TR; the issue is
11:32 schestowitz-TR; 1) no journalism to begun with
11:32 schestowitz-TR; 2) social media picking the PR points
11:32 schestowitz-TR; there is nothing to assess or to choose from
11:32 Techrights-sec2; yes by eliminating all the other material, people will pretend to make do
11:32 Techrights-sec2; with the remaining material that is offered even if it is misinformation,
11:32 Techrights-sec2; disinformation, or just play public relations press release
11:32 Techrights-sec2; s/play/plain/
11:35 schestowitz-TR; without gulag noise I can no longer do weekly rebutals to upc lies
11:35 schestowitz-TR; but it tedns to repeat itself over and over again at this point
11:35 schestowitz-TR; like my coverage of gates foundation around 2009-2011
11:35 schestowitz-TR; epo can also become a little repetitive, so now I focus mostly or only on the conflict
11:35 schestowitz-TR; trying to write "linux is awesome" articles in 2022 is also repetitive and rather dreary
11:35 schestowitz-TR; we need to look at the "next level"
11:35 schestowitz-TR; hence the diagrams and thinking about how to solve the issues beyond brands
11:35 schestowitz-TR; [15:51] <techrights-news> It is probably fair to say that in recent years the patent maximalism lobby perished, but at the same time the patent REFORM movement is dying or barely active. This is, IMHO, related to the demise of journalism and the WWW.
11:36 Techrights-sec2; yes, there are other approaches, the FSF blog had a good one about a
11:36 Techrights-sec2; munipality in Turkey;
11:37 Techrights-sec2; M$ suspending hiring is part of a long term and ongoing decline but it is
11:37 Techrights-sec2; a matter of two steps forward on steps backward heading into their demise
11:37 Techrights-sec2; since they get bailouts so often
11:38 schestowitz-TR; this is what I responded with
11:38 schestowitz-TR; but it seems like an unprecedented thing
11:38 schestowitz-TR; they let contract workers "expire"
11:38 schestowitz-TR; but no opnboarding either now
11:38 schestowitz-TR; *onboarding
11:39 Techrights-sec2; the fluctuations allow them to announce hiring occaionally while hiding
11:39 Techrights-sec2; the reductions, with the help of stenographers
11:40 schestowitz-TR; yes, that old trick was mentioned before
11:40 schestowitz-TR; all companies do this
11:40 schestowitz-TR; fire 100
11:40 schestowitz-TR; "hire" 10
11:40 schestowitz-TR; hide the former
11:40 schestowitz-TR; and if it leaks out, sign more "PR" contracts
11:40 schestowitz-TR; did you see the bizarre red hat message yesterday?
11:40 schestowitz-TR; let me find it
11:40 schestowitz-TR; [07:16] <techrights-news> This announcement, to me, made in PUBLIC, is rather baffling to me. Suggests to me Red Hat has a talent retention crisis and cannot recruit geeks anymore. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/expanding-us-healthcare-travel-benefits-access-several-healthcare-services
11:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.redhat.com | Expanding U.S. healthcare travel benefits for access several healthcare services
11:41 schestowitz-TR; I said something similar to it a day earlier
11:41 schestowitz-TR; unreal!
11:41 schestowitz-TR; or maybe it was a response tro SCOTUS
11:42 Techrights-sec2; yes, just like that
11:42 Techrights-sec2; advertising "partnerships" like how they took out The Register two decades ago
11:42 Techrights-sec2; checking
11:42 Techrights-sec2; it's related to the bizarre situation at the US Supreme Court
11:44 schestowitz-TR; we have not had a very hot day yet, but it is only June
11:44 schestowitz-TR; the garden is thirsty
11:44 schestowitz-TR; rianne had to water some plants to save them
11:44 schestowitz-TR; rain planned or expoected for tonight
11:44 schestowitz-TR; I don't mind rain
11:44 schestowitz-TR; much better than heat wave
11:44 schestowitz-TR; I can work in rain
11:48 schestowitz-TR; see what happaned to most of iceland
11:50 schestowitz; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Iceland
11:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Climate of Iceland - Wikipedia
11:51 Techrights-sec2; Iceland has ok weather at the moment
11:52 schestowitz-TR; from what I can gather maybe it was not always barren
11:52 schestowitz-TR; like australia
11:52 schestowitz-TR; which used to have a lot more life in it
11:52 schestowitz-TR; before the bushfires and man-made fires
11:52 schestowitz-TR; that ruined the land
11:53 Techrights-sec2; it used to be tree-covered before deforestation
11:53 Techrights-sec2; that was driven by excessive, unsustainable misuse and overpopulation
11:53 Techrights-sec2; many countries are overpopulated if on considers carrying capacity
11:53 Techrights-sec2; and not people per square meter
11:54 schestowitz; https://www.skogur.is/en/forestry/forestry-in-a-treeless-land/history-of-forests-in-iceland
11:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.skogur.is | History of forests in Iceland | Skgrktin
11:58 schestowitz-TR; to use your analogy
11:58 schestowitz-TR; to some people infection
11:58 schestowitz-TR; is seen as "business success" (or opportunity)
11:58 schestowitz-TR; I was just discussing the issue on the phone a while ago (several consecutive calls)
11:59 schestowitz-TR; the above page: before "human settlement"
11:59 schestowitz-TR; euphemism
12:00 schestowitz-TR; imagine saying that your uncle died after COVID-19 "settlement"
12:00 Techrights-sec2; ack
12:00 Techrights-sec2; yes the page does cover the cause but not so head on as it could
12:01 schestowitz-TR; in Liverpool Museum (been there 3 times, I think) they have a section on what England looked like before "settlement"
12:01 schestowitz-TR; it's not a bad section
12:08 schestowitz-TR; the reason I brought up iceland is to make a point about flora, fauna, and maybe also the accompnying weather patterns + shade (for fauna)
12:08 schestowitz-TR; things change
12:08 schestowitz-TR; people just reproduce like rabbits
12:08 schestowitz-TR; so we are doomed we just don't know when or how fast
12:08 schestowitz-TR; we are fortunte to still have a lot of large trees around us
12:08 schestowitz-TR; near the center of town there's not a chance
12:10 schestowitz-TR; a tree to you is "Wasted real estate opportunity" to some people
12:11 schestowitz-TR; need more "housing units" for their rabbits
12:11 schestowitz-TR; or the divorced spouse
12:11 schestowitz-TR; or empty "investments" (no tenants) of foreigners
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12:21 Techrights-sec2; yes overpopulation is the root cause of many problems
12:23 schestowitz-TR; thw taboo word you cannot say without upsetting some people
12:23 schestowitz-TR; RMS tried
12:24 Techrights-sec2; I realize
12:24 schestowitz-TR; brazil is devour catholic
12:24 schestowitz-TR; *devout
12:24 schestowitz-TR; also devours many things
12:24 schestowitz-TR; but that was a typo
12:25 Techrights-sec2; also many countries only talk about current static numbers and not trajectories
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12:37 Techrights-sec2; TR turns up as second link in Startpage if one searches for Microsoft Layoffs
12:37 Techrights-sec2; unfortunately for the world (but ok for TR) the other sites are not picking up
12:37 Techrights-sec2; on the news
12:37 Techrights-sec2; I was looking for other links but TR keeps turning up
12:37 schestowitz-TR; SERP "ego surfing" can be a waste of time
12:37 schestowitz-TR; I know because I did that around 2004-2005
12:38 schestowitz-TR; and then realised the time could be spent better
12:38 schestowitz-TR; we use a lot of images so for image searches we are very well ranked ime
12:38 schestowitz-TR; when I myself really search for something that I need
12:40 schestowitz-TR; SSH is done simply and elegantly so it won't go away any time soon
12:40 schestowitz-TR; unlike zune, natal, kinect etc.
12:40 schestowitz-TR; a lot of people write books about things that vanish faster than the time taken
12:40 schestowitz-TR; to write about such books
12:41 schestowitz-TR; that relates to the brand issue; companies and produicts come and go, but the concepts will matter more,. e.g.
12:41 schestowitz-TR; port forwarding as wormholes for security
12:41 schestowitz-TR; there are other terms for that
12:41 schestowitz-TR; the one I need evades me atm
12:41 schestowitz-TR; tunnel
12:42 schestowitz-TR; my head is still a bit of a vortex regarding topics of importance and tools of use
12:43 schestowitz-TR; like what to get rid of
12:43 schestowitz-TR; I am adapting
12:43 schestowitz-TR; in the meantime I post more batches of daily links
12:43 schestowitz-TR; to buy time
12:43 schestowitz-TR; also while figuring out if I can reduce job hours to what's needed to just cover bills
12:43 Techrights-sec2; hopefully there are ideas there in the daily links
12:47 schestowitz-TR; I sory of study sleep patterns and their effect on mood, concentration etc.
12:47 schestowitz-TR; did 4-5 naps a day a few times
12:47 schestowitz-TR; than a lot of sleep
12:47 schestowitz-TR; after the lockdowns I finally got to experiemtn with these
12:47 schestowitz-TR; atm I'm nowhere near peak productivity
12:47 schestowitz-TR; I'm experimenting a bit
12:47 schestowitz-TR; I nopticed gulagtube becoming tiktok for some
12:47 schestowitz-TR; with #shorts - lousy, useless BS videos
12:47 Techrights-sec2; ack
12:48 schestowitz-TR; almost always taken on a phone vertically
12:48 schestowitz-TR; so you have missed bits on the screen filled up, usually with blurred altefacts
12:48 schestowitz-TR; if this is the direction society is taking, I'll stay away from it
12:48 schestowitz-TR; it's the "emoji of comms" to multimedia
12:48 schestowitz-TR; the channels I follow never did shorts before, but maybe they are tired of investing days to make a decent video that's then
12:48 schestowitz-TR; underappreciated
12:48 schestowitz-TR; never mind cost of equipment
12:48 schestowitz-TR; shorts mean "cellphone"
12:49 Techrights-sec2; yes even less meaningful content; I've about given up trying to find
12:49 Techrights-sec2; conference material there any more; It used to be a decent source
12:49 Techrights-sec2; of presentations and lectures but not any more
12:53 schestowitz-TR; did the quality of the presentation decrease?
12:53 schestowitz-TR; or is it the ads, clickbait, etc?
12:53 schestowitz-TR; I try to never enter youtube because it's designed to suck you in like all other social control media
12:53 schestowitz-TR; they found a "winning formula"
12:53 schestowitz-TR; winning for them, not for the user
12:53 schestowitz-TR; and twitter, gulagtube don't make money
12:53 schestowitz-TR; I can believe FB doe
12:53 schestowitz-TR; slike the political astroturfing campaigns
12:53 schestowitz-TR; as for linkedin, they had layoffs and microsoft's claims are not reliable
12:53 schestowitz-TR; you do not typicall lay off if you still make money
12:53 schestowitz-TR; as it is bad for works' morale
12:53 schestowitz-TR; *workers'
12:55 Techrights-sec2; the availability of the presentations decreased. I can't find any anywhere
12:55 Techrights-sec2; yes
12:56 schestowitz-TR; you are describing a side effect of incentive reduction
12:56 schestowitz-TR; as I noted the other day, nils torvalds had uploaded a ton of videos of himself
12:56 schestowitz-TR; they get viewed like spamnil videos
12:56 schestowitz-TR; not even worth the time uploadoing
12:56 schestowitz-TR; def. not worth PROCESSING time
12:56 schestowitz-TR; esp. if manually done
12:56 schestowitz-TR; so those events might see small numbers for MOST talks and decide not to bother uploading
12:56 schestowitz-TR; 1) rapidly
12:56 schestowitz-TR; 2) at all
12:56 schestowitz-TR; it's not a priority
12:57 Techrights-sec2; It's more like #2 won
12:57 Techrights-sec2; which is too bad, since many of the talks were quite beneficial
12:57 Techrights-sec2; unlike the remaining crap like "TED" talks
13:00 schestowitz-TR; I hardlt hear of TED anymore
13:00 schestowitz-TR; maybe I am semi-blind to those things
13:00 schestowitz-TR; but TED was epxneive
13:00 schestowitz-TR; sometimes funded by corporations to ride the brand
13:00 schestowitz-TR; like Bill and Lolita Gates did
13:00 schestowitz-TR; TEDxsomething
13:00 schestowitz-TR; but expensive
13:00 schestowitz-TR; and they do lots of promotion of themselves or the bran d
13:00 schestowitz-TR; there used to be one I love
13:00 schestowitz-TR; I forgot the name
13:00 schestowitz-TR; maybe "Fora"
13:00 schestowitz-TR; also "Conversations with History"
13:00 schestowitz-TR; the host is probably dead by now
13:00 schestowitz-TR; he had some good guests
13:00 schestowitz-TR; Gulag tossed out all the Chris Hedges videos
13:00 schestowitz-TR; he too hadgood guests
13:01 schestowitz-TR; Is The Real News Network still going, or barely?
13:01 schestowitz-TR; I think Jay left
13:01 schestowitz-TR; youtube felt very good a decade ago
13:01 schestowitz-TR; I found lots of decent videos
13:01 schestowitz-TR; and I used to watch or listent o them while cleaning the home, posting daily links etc.
13:01 schestowitz-TR; IU even uploaded to youtube back then
13:01 schestowitz-TR; about 800 videos total, mostly techbytes stuff
13:03 Techrights-sec2; If the conferences would self-host like CCC does than that would be great
13:03 Techrights-sec2; but for now they have just fallen off the map
13:03 Techrights-sec2; the old ones are still there but if you do not have the URL handy you will
13:03 Techrights-sec2; be very unlikely to be able retrieve anythin g
13:03 Techrights-sec2; if estimated accurately, their storage costs go up geometrically relative
13:03 Techrights-sec2; to their income and their bandwidth is going to be in proportion to their
13:03 Techrights-sec2; income so in the long run it might not be an economically viable model
13:03 Techrights-sec2; in the beginning it might be ok but the burden only increases
13:05 schestowitz-TR; to put it mathematicallyt, sort of, if they maintain same audience level, or ir proportional to world population growth
13:05 schestowitz-TR; then the average views per video stored will always decrease
13:05 schestowitz-TR; to make matters worse, filming euippment improved, so file sizes increased, e.g. HD
13:05 schestowitz-TR; and this impacts b/w bills as well
13:05 schestowitz-TR; hosting OTHER people's videos is good as a "favour to a friend"
13:05 schestowitz-TR; but not as a proper "longterm business model"
13:05 schestowitz-TR; unless maybe transient
13:05 schestowitz-TR; host while you get "bang for buck" (ads), then discard
13:06 Techrights-sec2; yes the size of the average video is now monsterous, I have not checked to see
13:06 Techrights-sec2; if they downscale to the size of the window actually open but the storage on
13:06 Techrights-sec2; their equipement in their datacenters is not going to be small
13:06 Techrights-sec2; right
13:06 Techrights-sec2; or as a means of steering opinion for a fee
13:06 Techrights-sec2; but even then those fees are unlikely to cover the full cost since they cant
13:06 Techrights-sec2; be too open about that kind of activity if they are doing it
13:06 Techrights-sec2; and the market is going to be limite to a few governments and multinationals
13:06 Techrights-sec2; anyway
13:09 schestowitz-TR; full spectrum dominance (not making up the term, not mine) does not place limitations on budget
13:09 schestowitz-TR; it describes a condition
13:09 schestowitz-TR; so the general idea is, put the back doors (e.g. Windows, Android) in place, then ads camera and mic access
13:09 schestowitz-TR; or pseudo security like 2FA
13:09 schestowitz-TR; you do get to dominate the message, but at what cost?
13:09 schestowitz-TR; The US is dying from within
13:09 schestowitz-TR; my sister's kids all hate the place
13:09 schestowitz-TR; and want to leave
13:09 schestowitz-TR; their dad signed a contract
13:09 schestowitz-TR; I'm "really happy" Microsoft got its $22,000 million... but that won't bring a smile to the faces
13:09 schestowitz-TR; of those who footed that bill for Bill(TM)
13:10 Techrights-sec2; Many are 1080p at > 40fps :(
13:10 schestowitz-TR; I did not know 40fps is a thing now
13:10 schestowitz-TR; seems higfhly wasteful
13:10 schestowitz-TR; monitors do 55 or 65 iirc
13:10 schestowitz-TR; but the human eye does not discent the difference
13:10 schestowitz-TR; so unless you plan to play those video in "slow mo", wtf???
13:11 schestowitz-TR; *discern (iirc very old research set that a 24 or 25, maybe 21)
13:11 schestowitz-TR; the standard was a higher threshold
13:12 Techrights-sec2; the only part of the M$ product line that actually works somewhat as advertised
13:12 Techrights-sec2; would be the backdoors they rent to various agencies around the world
13:12 Techrights-sec2; no the US is being actively dismantled by various groups some with overlapping
13:12 Techrights-sec2; interests some with competing interests; it started under the Reagan admin
13:12 Techrights-sec2; when they dismantled the education and has proceeded from there since
13:12 Techrights-sec2; lack of education is a way to mentally disarm the populace
13:18 schestowitz-TR; outside my field of geekdom, BUT:
13:18 schestowitz-TR; I do watch those things
13:18 schestowitz-TR; and this is what they tell me when I ask simple, 'naive' questions like,
13:18 schestowitz-TR; what is "gaming" mouse
13:18 schestowitz-TR; "gaming keyboard"
13:19 schestowitz-TR; and "gaming" monitors
13:19 schestowitz-TR; I can understand low latency modems
13:19 schestowitz-TR; though I did not assess how much they reduce latency compared to "traditional" or "commodity" ones
13:19 schestowitz-TR; maybe just a salesman strategy with fake benchmarks (bribes)
13:19 schestowitz-TR; the multi-player shooting games give advantage to those who shoot "faster"
13:19 schestowitz-TR; but like GPUs, it's a way to sell more crap
13:19 schestowitz-TR; for very high prices
13:19 schestowitz-TR; and compsnate with FREAKY looks
13:19 schestowitz-TR; for the screens, the periipherals, and the modem
13:19 schestowitz-TR; even if they can be made to look "normal"
13:19 schestowitz-TR; 60 fps might be true, but if I cannot see that, then what?
13:19 schestowitz-TR; same for some audio systems and resolutions
13:19 schestowitz-TR; like 60-inch screens you sit 10 meters away from
13:19 schestowitz-TR; 1080p might be OK
13:19 schestowitz-TR; at the shop you stand right next to them, so you don't simulate REAL streams under REAL conditions
13:19 schestowitz-TR; they also colour-optimise what they show in demos
13:22 Techrights-sec2; 60fps might be thing even, not sure why
13:22 Techrights-sec2; most vlogs don't have any relevant images anyway
13:22 Techrights-sec2; checking
13:22 Techrights-sec2; picking a random "recommended" video (bad thing to do) shows choices
13:22 Techrights-sec2; at 60fps with 720p on up through 2160p :(
13:22 Techrights-sec2; What are people going to do, watch this on some 83" screen?
13:22 Techrights-sec2; 97" on the market soon
13:22 Techrights-sec2; above 22", monitors are a problem because they become too big to have in
13:22 Techrights-sec2; the field of view easily without moving them further back and wasting even
13:22 Techrights-sec2; more space
13:23 schestowitz-TR; I ws about to say, spectacle-wear "ol' fart" might do OK with 600x800
13:23 schestowitz-TR; but that's "old"
13:23 schestowitz-TR; and makes your "old" hardware reusable
13:23 schestowitz-TR; "what will your friends think of you!!"
13:23 schestowitz-TR; of course my grandma neighbour also did not need a "Smart" phone or a
13:23 schestowitz-TR; "smart" meter. kids and corporations foist that onto her...
13:23 Techrights-sec2; ack
13:25 schestowitz-TR; 1) I type this into a 27 inch screen (IIRC)
13:25 schestowitz-TR; a friednd offloaded it onto me for free, he did not need it
13:25 schestowitz-TR; 2) andy farnell wrote about waste aspects
13:25 schestowitz-TR; there was something else I wanted to say, but not important to I forgot
13:25 schestowitz-TR; but as you said, some of these require a large home or room
13:26 schestowitz-TR; and take up more energy than needed
13:26 schestowitz-TR; like US uses up gas for one person to ride a truck with a cargo of one empty baby chair
13:26 Techrights-sec2; how far away is the 27" screen though?
13:27 schestowitz-TR; the screen is about 60cm away, but the fonts are tiny
13:27 schestowitz-TR; intentionally
13:27 schestowitz-TR; so I can see more things, there is ytalk tall window at the centre and 3 IRC windows around it
13:27 Techrights-sec2; yes i need to re-read "The Digital Vegan" though in retrospect a more appropriate title might have been "Digital Fair Trade"
13:27 Techrights-sec2; most of the US drives what are legally and environmentally trucks
13:27 Techrights-sec2; it is how the car manufacturers evade the CAFE standards
13:27 Techrights-sec2; ok
13:30 schestowitz-TR; not sure the book covered it, I did not even see the table of contents
13:30 schestowitz-TR; it's the series he did around boxing day to nye
13:30 schestowitz-TR; based on noted he had gathered and then organised throughout the year
13:30 schestowitz-TR; he has an extensive note files for student assignments too
13:30 schestowitz-TR; I think I have a copy, but it is private
13:30 Techrights-sec2; ack
13:30 Techrights-sec2; that was a very good series
13:32 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Food issues https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/24/un-chief-warns-impending-unprecedented-global-food-crisis | Source: Common Dreams
13:32 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | UN Chief Warns of Impending 'Unprecedented Global Food Crisis'
13:33 Techrights-sec2; ack
13:33 schestowitz-TR; the countries worst hit are the ones media does not pay atttention to when they're hit
13:33 schestowitz-TR; like afghanistan the other day
13:34 schestowitz-TR; over 1000 dead, media barely even mentoioned it
13:35 schestowitz-TR; rianne told me this mornign that she saw several more stores shut down
13:35 schestowitz-TR; even relatively good stores
13:35 schestowitz-TR; maybe the holiday, but maybe not
13:35 schestowitz-TR; the malls' business model is at stake
13:35 schestowitz-TR; some mall owners warned as such
13:35 schestowitz-TR; a lot of them are in "fake it till you make it" mode
13:36 schestowitz-TR; inc. faking the end of the pandemic
13:39 schestowitz-TR; like english chruches
13:39 schestowitz-TR; that become either dead buildings, tourist hotspots (if there is tourism and the building is nice)
13:39 schestowitz-TR; that makes the media only if they are turned into mosques or something...
13:39 psydruid; yesterday I saw that most mall stores at a mall that used to have a much more diverse kind of products are moving to (women's) fashion and cosmetics
13:39 schestowitz-TR; "once upon a time we had these places of worship, son"
13:39 schestowitz-TR; "we used to buy lots of the same items for the home, it was the national posttime"
13:40 psydruid; s/a kind/kinds/
13:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe more demand there
13:47 schestowitz-TR; or perceived demand
13:47 Techrights-sec2; yes
13:50 Techrights-sec2; or higher profit margin
13:50 Techrights-sec2; and easier inventory management
13:53 Techrights-sec2; and products which expired
13:55 schestowitz-TR; in next Mad Max, women's garments are used as truck fuel
13:55 schestowitz-TR; spoiler: it does not give very good mileage
13:55 Techrights-sec2; I've not seen that version the old ones were stupid enough
13:55 Techrights-sec2; I'll skip "Furry Road"
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13:56 schestowitz-TR; I was just poking fun at"easier inventory management"
13:56 schestowitz-TR; they chargve a fortune for very small items with very little material
13:56 schestowitz-TR; the sweat is free of charge
13:57 Techrights-sec2; ok
13:57 Techrights-sec2; ack
13:57 Techrights-sec2; made in sweatshops for pennies
13:57 Techrights-sec2; sold for scores of pounds
13:58 schestowitz-TR; when I had a Chinese girlfriend I learned many Chinese contemplated suicide
13:58 schestowitz-TR; but I do not suppose their media will talk about it
13:58 schestowitz-TR; or, for that matter, Western media and ovies "optimised" for "the Chinese market"
13:58 schestowitz-TR; *movies
14:00 Techrights-sec2; movies are optimized for the Chinese market, I noticed that back in 2001 or 2002
14:00 Techrights-sec2; already and it has been confirmed in recent years that the story arcs and many
14:00 Techrights-sec2; details of scenes are radically modified to fit in there with minimal editing
14:01 schestowitz-TR; the other day I showed some scenes removed from the movie Fury
14:01 schestowitz-TR; I found them while searchingf for something else
14:01 schestowitz-TR; on the plane, "Seven Years a Slave" was heavily censored also
14:01 schestowitz-TR; which reduces the impact by a lot
14:01 schestowitz-TR; I could think of other examples but forgot
14:01 schestowitz-TR; Daily Links have some
14:02 Techrights-sec2; Twelve Years A Slave
14:02 Techrights-sec2; Seven Years In Tibet
14:02 Techrights-sec2; were different movies, the latter censored in China
14:02 Techrights-sec2; the book is well worth reading
14:07 Techrights-sec2; The isolationist policies of Tibet allowed Great Britain and China to conspire
14:07 Techrights-sec2; to carve it up without involving the Tibetans until the actual invasion
14:07 Techrights-sec2; and genocide started at the end of the 1950s. Both of which continue to this
14:07 Techrights-sec2; day but since they have little to no social media presence, they get no
14:07 Techrights-sec2; sympathy from the masses; unlike various illegal squatters, armed insurgents,
14:07 Techrights-sec2; and violent jihadis, which do have a very strong social control media presence
14:07 Techrights-sec2; and thus get only sympathies for their unwarranted agression and wars
14:07 Techrights-sec2; anyway Twelve Years a Slave was a very hard hitting movie
14:07 Techrights-sec2; I have not read the book, but did read some summaries of it and apparently
14:07 Techrights-sec2; Solomon vanished once again never to be heard from, so he was probably
14:07 Techrights-sec2; recaptured and either reenslaved or just plain executed, sad to say
14:07 Techrights-sec2; Of the many problems with slave trade, the source of the slaves is nearly never
14:07 Techrights-sec2; mentioned for reasons related to the above.
14:16 schestowitz-TR; one observation: twice already I wanted to say something and then partly or fully forgot it
14:16 schestowitz-TR; in spite of many hours os leep
14:16 schestowitz-TR; so i think that does not tackle short-term memory lapses
14:16 schestowitz-TR; but both times it was not critical stuff but minor details or examples trendign through the synapses
14:16 schestowitz-TR; I think I *look* a bit fresher, the eyes and all, but in terms of speed and sharpness it's just a tiny bit better
14:16 schestowitz-TR; every person gets annoyed at forgetting mintr things
14:16 schestowitz-TR; "what did I come to the kitchen for?"
14:16 schestowitz-TR; I think it's partly about methods of compartmentalisaiton
14:16 schestowitz-TR; and stress contributes to it
14:16 Techrights-sec2; :/
14:16 Techrights-sec2; don't A
14:16 Techrights-sec2; ~.
14:16 Techrights-sec2; don't skimp on the exercise
14:17 schestowitz-TR; /gemlog/2022-06-25.gmi
14:17 schestowitz-TR; Russias Conti working on exploits for Intel ME BMC AMT IPMI Intel ME the biggest security fuck up in computing history sue Intel https://dwaves.de/2022/06/10/russias-conti-working-on-exploits-for-intel-me-bmc-amt-ipmi-intel-me-the-biggest-security-fuck-up-in-computing-history-sue-intel/
14:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- Russias Conti working on exploits for Intel ME BMC AMT IPMI Intel ME the biggest security fuck up in computing history sue Intel | dwaves.de
14:38 schestowitz-TR; in gemini (upstream) weather says rain tonight
14:38 schestowitz-TR; the other one (US) says sunny this evening
14:38 schestowitz-TR; complete opposites!
14:38 schestowitz-TR; for the next few hours!
14:38 schestowitz-TR; not sure whether to water all the plants
14:40 Techrights-sec2; wait a bit for it to cool down before watering and that will also give time
14:40 Techrights-sec2; for you to see which way the weather will really turn out
14:40 Techrights-sec2; Some of the 5G frequencies impair weather radar so forecasts are going to get
14:40 Techrights-sec2; even more unreliable as time goes on
14:46 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, If you run a dehumidifier you'll need to dump the water somewhere anyway.
14:46 DaemonFC; As long as the plants are not edible and you don't plan to grow anything edible there, you can use it on that.
14:47 DaemonFC; I use the wastewater to reconstitute my rinseless car wash concentrate.
14:47 schestowitz-TR; we don't have A/c HERE
14:47 schestowitz-TR; oops, caps
14:47 DaemonFC; It makes the car look pretty shiny because it doesn't leave mineral deposits on it.
14:49 Techrights-sec2; ack
14:49 Techrights-sec2; :/
14:50 schestowitz-TR; if milk spils, we feed that to the plants
14:50 schestowitz-TR; happened a week ago
14:50 schestowitz-TR; when you buy milk on date of expiry
14:50 schestowitz-TR; there is a chance it is already sour
14:51 DaemonFC; What do you call milk that you water the plants with?
14:51 DaemonFC; Plant Milk
14:51 DaemonFC; :)
14:51 schestowitz-TR; use soy milk to feed soy :-)
14:51 Techrights-sec2; I presume that means lead contamination
14:51 DaemonFC; If you pour the milk into a plant that's in a base it's plant-based milk.
14:52 DaemonFC; <Techrights-sec2> I presume that means lead contamination
14:52 DaemonFC; Dehumidifier water? Can have loads of nasty things in it, but the car doesn't care about those.
14:52 DaemonFC; It's clean enough to wash a car or mix with antifreeze.
14:53 DaemonFC; Just make sure that you thoroughly rinse out all debris from the bottom of the tank now and then so you're not pouring that into your radiator.
14:53 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, I hosed down the tank with lysol the other day and let it sit for a while and then rinsed it out really well.
14:54 DaemonFC; That kills mold spores and stuff that may be growing in the tank.
14:54 DaemonFC; I also flush out the filter every few days.
14:54 DaemonFC; Excessive, maybe, but it puts less resistance on the fan in the unit which probably saves some electricity in the end.
14:56 DaemonFC; I usually keep the dehumidifier on 45%, because if you set it drier than that, it has little benefit at that side, but the thing never shuts off.
14:57 DaemonFC; By running it hard, you can get the humidity down to 35% in here, but then you start getting nose bleeds and dry eyes and cottom mouth because the air starts to dry YOU out.
14:57 DaemonFC; Anyway, nap time.
14:57 *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving)
15:30 schestowitz-TR; had to naps a short nap myself, sleeping a lot did not prevent this
15:30 schestowitz-TR; so it looks like I won't be keeping this routine
15:48 Techrights-sec2; back
15:56 schestowitz-TR; emptywheel 2022: sea of "tweets"
15:56 schestowitz-TR; wow, some research you got therer!
15:56 schestowitz-TR; would be s shame if musk "turned off" your blog post
15:56 schestowitz-TR; or "parts" of it
16:04 Techrights-sec2; ack
16:14 schestowitz-TR; rain is not coming after all
16:14 schestowitz-TR; plants will need watering
16:14 schestowitz-TR; I also could use suggestions for topics
16:14 schestowitz-TR; we touched som einteresting ones here today
16:14 schestowitz-TR; but not sure if article subjects
16:14 schestowitz-TR; as much as a need to improve how we curate links in www and gem
16:16 Techrights-sec2; of today's ramblings which were the most interesting?
16:16 Techrights-sec2; perhaps having a list of possible article topics in Git might help?
16:16 Techrights-sec2; As a stack or queue
16:16 schestowitz-TR; we used to do such a list in the wiki
16:16 schestowitz-TR; wiki is easier to edit in some sense
16:16 schestowitz-TR; but the list would be very short
16:16 schestowitz-TR; I'll clean all my "|extra" feeds soon (the ones from OPML)
16:16 Techrights-sec2; I checked only the most productive feeds today
16:16 Techrights-sec2; Before something goes into CamelCase.pm, I check if there is an RSS feed
16:16 Techrights-sec2; which can be harvested too
16:17 schestowitz-TR; I have increasingly done that lately
16:17 schestowitz-TR; and netted some staff
16:17 schestowitz-TR; if we both export as opml, then run the flattener, those resultant files are ease to diff
16:18 Techrights-sec2; xmlstarlet | sort
16:18 Techrights-sec2; ought to work
16:18 Techrights-sec2; or
16:18 Techrights-sec2; xmlstarlet | sort | diff
16:18 schestowitz-TR; even better
16:19 schestowitz-TR; I'm also thirsty (speaking of plants) for more gemini capsule feeds or aggregations
16:19 schestowitz-TR; surely there cannot be "too much" in geminispace just yet
16:19 Techrights-sec2; I use gemini but don't find or search out new sites
16:19 Techrights-sec2; I use gemini but don't find or search out new sites
16:20 schestowitz-TR; it would be one of the best ways to help it grow or keep existing capsules running: give some traffic
16:24 Techrights-sec2; yes that's true
16:27 schestowitz; "COSMOS is a Geminispace Super-Aggregator that collects posts from various other aggregators and groups threads of discussion together into "constellations". Notably, posts on Station and anonymous comments on Geddit are also shown as part of threads."
16:27 schestowitz-TR; this is one of the best sources I have, but there must be other means and ways
16:28 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:28 schestowitz; he wants people to pay just to hear him speak? That won't fly... https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-june limiting one's audience lessens incentive to record
17:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lunduke.substack.com | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - June 21, 2022
17:33 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:33 Techrights-sec2; I'm not really sure what he's up to any more, he kind of went around the bend
17:33 Techrights-sec2; around the time he got sick and hasn't been right in the head for a while
17:33 Techrights-sec2; Years ago he did some tremendously good material supporting FOSS and software
17:33 Techrights-sec2; freedom but most suddenly he stopped, and then turned weird
17:35 schestowitz-TR; I have a colleague like this called Daniel
17:35 schestowitz-TR; about my age, but was hospitalised for COVID-19
17:35 schestowitz-TR; he was never the same mentally
17:35 schestowitz-TR; not sure physically
17:35 schestowitz-TR; he does talk about it sometimes
17:35 schestowitz-TR; rianne reads the gossip more then me, so she knows better
17:35 schestowitz-TR; I don't want to make fun of it, even though I never really liked the guy
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I 'wasted' some time tryiing to find more sources for gemini
17:37 schestowitz-TR; it's not really a waste if you reach a conclusion
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I stopped my search for now, will make the most of what I have
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I also need a temporary break from the main irc channel, you will see why in logs circa 5pm
17:37 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:39 schestowitz-TR; going throughh your opml (by which I mean collection of feeds)
17:39 schestowitz-TR; much better s/n ratio than what I got with refined gulag searches before
17:39 schestowitz-TR; and thus better links for the site
17:39 schestowitz-TR; I miss the occassional rare finds on some topics
17:39 schestowitz-TR; but can leave without them if it means leaving without gulag's influence on what I see/read/link to
17:40 Techrights-sec2; still it's not 100% but it's as close as one is ever going to get without NLP
17:40 Techrights-sec2; Google has only ever provided something special less than two or three times
17:40 Techrights-sec2; per month, depending on keyword
17:42 schestowitz-TR; if you count how many gnu/linux-focused sites it added to gulag noise, now it's less than 10
17:42 schestowitz-TR; so I got those covered anyway
17:42 schestowitz-TR; but today some sites like popular science
17:42 schestowitz-TR; covered "linux" laptops
17:42 schestowitz-TR; it's hard to find that otherwise
17:42 schestowitz-TR; lxer is so bad now... linuxtoday is mostly self-promotion of sister sites
17:46 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:47 schestowitz-TR; even if I did now run TM with rianne
17:47 schestowitz-TR; and even if it was run by someone I hate a lot
17:47 schestowitz-TR; I'd still say TM beats the rest hands down
17:47 schestowitz-TR; on speed and on relevance
17:48 Techrights-sec2; TM is excellent and always has the news well ahead of the other few remaining
17:48 Techrights-sec2; sites
17:50 schestowitz; <li><h5><a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/why-every-developer-should-learn-data-structures-and-algorithms/">Why Every Developer Should Learn Data Structures and Algorithms?</a></h5>
17:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.geeksforgeeks.org | Why Every Developer Should Learn Data Structures and Algorithms? - GeeksforGeeks
17:50 schestowitz; <blockquote><p>Software developers are regarded as the unknown heroes who design, execute, deploy and manage software programs. It is indeed a lucrative career option that promises insanely high salaries, amazing career growth, and global opportunities. As per the survey software development will witness an amazing growth rate of 19% which is far more than the average.
17:50 schestowitz; [...]
17:50 schestowitz; And finally, you will find the meaning of the word. So this is an example of a Binary Search algorithm that you have applied without knowing.
17:50 schestowitz; </p></blockquote></li>
17:55 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "If you're an artist posting your comics exclusively to Twitter, please, I beg you, stop." gemini://zelena.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-06-24_Stop_Using_Twitter_For_Comics.gmi
17:55 schestowitz-TR; some insightful observattions below
17:56 schestowitz-TR; applicable to a lot of things inc. leaks, politicians, etc.
17:56 schestowitz-TR; and to a certain degree true for all social control media
17:56 schestowitz-TR; twitter is just a bit one
17:56 schestowitz-TR; with JS mandated
18:01 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:05 schestowitz-TR; when you are underwater with twitter whale everything looks like a tweet
18:05 schestowitz-TR; when you go above water and breathe you realise you never belond under the sea
18:05 schestowitz-TR; it's alluring when they present you with fake numbers, boosters by bots and whoknowswhat...
18:05 schestowitz-TR; *boosted
18:05 schestowitz-TR; it's part of the addiction gamification
18:06 Techrights-sec2; :(
18:06 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:06 Techrights-sec2; lots of fake usage numbers apparently
18:08 schestowitz-TR; everywhere one goes
18:08 schestowitz-TR; inc. spamnil's channel ;-) obvious clickfraud
18:08 schestowitz-TR; maybe gulag will turn a blind eye
18:08 schestowitz-TR; and just demonetise or somethging
18:08 schestowitz-TR; at their own peril
18:08 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:08 Techrights-sec2; I think they and others are selective in their enforcement of those rules
18:08 Techrights-sec2; like with many other rules
18:10 schestowitz-TR; tim from techbytes was buying fake followers
18:10 schestowitz-TR; that gave him nothing
18:10 schestowitz-TR; other than pretending he was popular
18:10 schestowitz-TR; based on some number you can only see at some page that is not him own (tennanted)
18:10 schestowitz-TR; people online who look for affirmation in FB are 'prostituting' themselves to strangers
18:10 schestowitz-TR; you and I do not PROPERLY known 500 people
18:11 schestowitz-TR; let alone 1000
18:11 Techrights-sec2; yes
18:14 schestowitz-TR; it has become a bubble currency like NFTs
18:14 schestowitz-TR; of course my popularity in digg.com isn't even provable since a decade ago
18:14 schestowitz-TR; if you write 1000 decent articles and 1 million people read them, that's a lot better
18:14 schestowitz-TR; than 1000 fake 'friends' pressing a "like" button on something
18:14 schestowitz-TR; but these people collect italisn lira or japanese yens
18:14 schestowitz-TR; for the numbers
18:14 schestowitz-TR; not the actual value
18:14 schestowitz-TR; this is why I half-mock FSF for messing around with Twitter in spite of warning
18:15 schestowitz-TR; people that it requires proprietary JS
18:15 schestowitz-TR; even if FSF bypass that someone
18:15 schestowitz-TR; for people to follow what FSF says there they need to run some shit code from twitter
18:15 schestowitz-TR; that m,ay change any hour of the day and even demand a phone number
18:17 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:17 Techrights-sec2; but there is probably covert money nudging FB forward, since it provides
18:17 Techrights-sec2; unparalleled surveillance as well as opinion maniuplation at a mass scale
18:22 schestowitz-TR; it does not need to be covert
18:22 schestowitz-TR; I think it is a lot simpler than you've put it
18:23 schestowitz-TR; they are running using apsculations and shareholders
18:23 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft was an early shareholder with 5% stake IIRC
18:23 schestowitz-TR; they said to prevent Gulag doing so
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and they set a fictional price for the company
18:23 schestowitz-TR; 20 times what Microsoft put in (5%)
18:23 schestowitz-TR; then they go public
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and the banksters game the thing
18:23 schestowitz-TR; that helps put "toxic assets" on people's pensions etc. too
18:23 schestowitz-TR; eventually plundering the middle class savings again, taking away what
18:23 schestowitz-TR; 2008 did not (my dad lost all his money that year)
18:23 schestowitz-TR; so FB can report some numbers
18:23 schestowitz-TR; with no real audio
18:23 schestowitz-TR; *audit
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and investors panic when years late they finally admit they lose users
18:23 schestowitz-TR; of course many are phantoms and dupes anyway
18:23 schestowitz-TR; I know some people with multiple accounts
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and I don't know how they count disabled users or people who never log in
18:23 schestowitz-TR; if they reach the site while logged off but with browser cookie, are they active?
18:23 Techrights-sec2; probably simpler yes but same goals
18:23 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:23 schestowitz-TR; I don't trust the pesky kid, sandbag and some of their main investors
18:23 schestowitz-TR; they are slime
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and they try to lie their way out of it
18:23 schestowitz-TR; if twitter could barely even make a profit
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and was still going
18:23 schestowitz-TR; it's because some people like saudi "royals" propelled it
18:23 schestowitz-TR; and not billG tries to "protect" it from musk
18:23 schestowitz-TR; zoobab and I were both suspended for talking about his stake in patents
18:23 schestowitz-TR; later I got evidence gates had been paying twitter
18:25 schestowitz-TR; todo: does reddit make money for condy nastY?
18:25 schestowitz-TR; does a breakdown exist?
18:25 schestowitz-TR; what is their business model?
18:25 schestowitz-TR; advertising?
18:25 schestowitz-TR; embedded narratives like their IE9 campaign?
18:25 schestowitz-TR; if they don't say, be sceptical
18:25 Techrights-sec2; some of those are loss leaders in exchange for suppressing or steering topics
18:25 Techrights-sec2; nothing positive regarding software freedom nor negative about M$ will ever
18:25 Techrights-sec2; gain traction at Reddit becaue of that
18:26 schestowitz-TR; I heard the "sub" for "Linux" in reddit really hates true proponents of gnu/lnux
18:26 schestowitz-TR; but did not look clsoely enough to verify
18:26 schestowitz-TR; I used to get abuse there from novell and microsoft employees even back in 2007
18:30 Techrights-sec2; there's even people who have gotten kicked out of their own FOSS-oriented
18:30 Techrights-sec2; "subreddits"
18:32 schestowitz-TR; a section masquerading as something that it is not (or against) iw worse than no section at all
18:32 schestowitz-TR; like all those Microsoft/Windows sites Gulag Noise is helping trot out lies about Munich
18:32 schestowitz-TR; any time a German city states intent to move to FS instead of Microsoft
18:32 schestowitz-TR; at least I did mention a lot of times what had gone wrong with Gulag Noise, inc. at least one
18:32 schestowitz-TR; video about how it "covers" (filters) "Linux" news
18:32 schestowitz-TR; with EDGE at the top and then malwar tropes
18:33 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Decentralized"... not really... check how the CA cartel/pyramid scheme works. And what happens in your browser if you don't surrender to it. https://css-tricks.com/what-the-web-still-is/
18:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-What the Web Still Is | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
18:42 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:43 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/Veritiste/status/1529789267144327168#m
18:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Vritiste (@Veritiste): "## Pdophile travaillant comme ingnieur de Bill Gates initialement signal par Google Publi dans Bill Gates, Google, Microsoft 01h23 par le Dr Roy Schestowitz"|nitter.it
18:45 schestowitz-TR; MAlinda French
18:45 schestowitz-TR; what does mal mean in French?
18:45 schestowitz-TR; the cops wrote down "malinda"
18:45 schestowitz-TR; the joke among crank is "manlinda"
18:45 schestowitz-TR; they claim she was a dude
18:45 schestowitz-TR; so you know you do not want to use that joke at all
18:45 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:45 Techrights-sec2; french
18:45 Techrights-sec2; :/
18:45 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:50 Techrights-sec2; that account is tied to "Gettr", a whackdoodle farm
18:53 schestowitz-TR; at least they cannot deface (leave a comment) the pages
18:53 schestowitz-TR; on their own, the pages are solid
18:53 schestowitz-TR; also, some sites start reasonable
18:53 schestowitz-TR; and then get infiltrated
18:53 schestowitz-TR; that happened like 20 decades ago in a site a friend visited
18:53 schestowitz-TR; surfingTheApocalypse
18:53 schestowitz-TR; let me see if I can find info still
18:53 Techrights-sec2; 3) also trolling to cause grief and strife
18:53 Techrights-sec2; 1+2+3
18:53 schestowitz-TR; it got invaded by "UFO" BS
18:53 schestowitz-TR; usually it's one of 1) crazy 2) racist
18:53 schestowitz-TR; or 1+2
18:55 schestowitz-TR; assuming this site I found in searx with the same name is the same site, too
18:55 schestowitz-TR; it's one of those k00ky things like alex jones now
18:55 schestowitz-TR; try to sell k00ky stuff
18:55 Techrights-sec2; or use kooks to disparage by association
18:57 schestowitz-TR; based on the domain it might be an imposter using the same titles
18:57 schestowitz-TR; like wikileaks-forums
18:57 schestowitz-TR; an anti-wikileaks site
18:57 schestowitz-TR; the media used it or they used the media to smear the real thing
19:04 schestowitz-TR; the wayback machine goes back 11 years for this domain
19:04 schestowitz-TR; so probably not a fake
19:04 schestowitz-TR; comparing to past states
19:04 schestowitz-TR; ok, even 10 years ago it was already a load of bs
19:04 schestowitz-TR; and bad taste/style
19:04 schestowitz-TR; but that's when my friend told me it had already gone bad
19:04 schestowitz-TR; and not to be associated with
19:04 schestowitz-TR; says the site is ru nn by "Nick Owens
19:04 schestowitz-TR; friend said a lady was running the site
19:04 schestowitz-TR; anyway, those are cautionary tales I heard ages ago
19:04 schestowitz-TR; 2010 = wikileaks-forum, maybe earlier
19:04 schestowitz-TR; we already touch some subject that are SUPER-susceptible to these sorts of tactics
19:04 schestowitz-TR; and you see those whom you expose trying to twist or whip up smears to that effect
19:04 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:04 schestowitz-TR; if sites do risk analysis/assessment, this is the sort of scenario they should study
19:04 schestowitz-TR; to avoid getting in legal ore reputation trouble
19:41 schestowitz-TR; douing 4th batch of links now
19:41 schestowitz-TR; decided not to sleep so long again
19:41 schestowitz-TR; it's not worth it
19:41 schestowitz-TR; but I won't be keeping track of sleep time anymore
19:41 schestowitz-TR; it's a mental burden
19:41 schestowitz-TR; rianne just watered the plants
19:41 schestowitz-TR; and now I hear thunders outside
19:45 schestowitz-TR; now it rains
19:45 schestowitz-TR; the grass needed it
19:45 schestowitz-TR; we had somewhat or a dry spell here this month
19:45 schestowitz-TR; yellowing
19:45 Techrights-sec2; at least they won't dry out
19:45 Techrights-sec2; excellent
19:45 Techrights-sec2; the right amount of rain at the right time is always a wonderful thing
19:47 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I read some abstracts about why plants die and when they go over the tipping point
19:47 schestowitz-TR; metaphorically and physically
19:47 schestowitz-TR; researchBillGates(TM) only lets me see abstracts
19:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe they think they own (steal) everything
19:48 Techrights-sec2; several reasons and ways
19:48 Techrights-sec2; many are programmed to survive only one growing season and different triggers
19:48 Techrights-sec2; bring about shutdown
19:48 Techrights-sec2; icanhazpdf ?
20:02 schestowitz-TR; looking...
20:02 schestowitz-TR; the 2013 paper, likely the last published, after theprevious that had been published 2006 or thereabouts
20:02 schestowitz-TR; so I assume it's the latest and best in a sense, or most up to date
20:02 schestowitz-TR; it is a book chapter
20:02 schestowitz-TR; held by spinger.docs ;-)
20:02 schestowitz-TR; docx
20:06 schestowitz-TR; Yes, I checked all the names in the refs
20:06 schestowitz-TR; trying to see someone I know
20:06 Techrights-sec2;
20:06 Techrights-sec2; :(
20:06 Techrights-sec2; checking
20:07 Techrights-sec2; the PDF is hammered though, the fonts don't work on the screen and cause the
20:07 Techrights-sec2; columns to overlap
20:07 Techrights-sec2; Using proprietary fonts / typefaces is one way of ensuring that articles can
20:07 Techrights-sec2; never become fully open access
20:08 schestowitz-TR; I did not try with a "proper" reader like okular but used gimp
20:08 schestowitz-TR; a later chapter is composed by someone I know ;-)
20:08 schestowitz-TR; but that is not accessible because springer wants money for springer's hard work!
20:08 schestowitz-TR; Writing, reviewing, editing ;-)
20:09 Techrights-sec2; try a few more articles ;)
20:12 schestowitz-TR; science moves fast
20:12 schestowitz-TR; people forget papers they read long ago
20:12 schestowitz-TR; and it's "old news"
20:12 schestowitz-TR; but by the time only a few named are becoming "household names"
20:12 schestowitz-TR; the scientists already perish and cannot see this
20:12 schestowitz-TR; maybe one day "jimmy savile" and "bill gates" will be remembered in the same
20:12 schestowitz-TR; categiry, except one owned a lot of farmland and some OS that was a thing in the late 1990s beforew it perished in the 2000s
20:13 schestowitz-TR; just like the marriage
20:18 schestowitz-TR; universities here are not glamorous
20:18 schestowitz-TR; I went to a few, visiting as a student and postdoc
20:18 schestowitz-TR; one let me work from home for 2 years
20:18 schestowitz-TR; as long as I habitually visit the lab
20:18 schestowitz-TR; but the budgets and corporate influence are bad
20:18 schestowitz-TR; some profs are double0-hatted (working for google or something)
20:21 Techrights-sec2; I have only contempt for those that retain a seat at a university while in
20:21 Techrights-sec2; reality working full time for some asshole corporation
20:21 Techrights-sec2; One neighbor's advisor died and when I asked him about that, he replied that
20:21 Techrights-sec2; over the years he had only ever met him twice and at that it was during
20:21 Techrights-sec2; department-wide social events. So it was a scam going on to a certain extent
20:21 Techrights-sec2; even if the work done was top quality, it was all on the student and the
20:21 Techrights-sec2; "advisor" just tacked his name on later, not dissimilar to how M$ Research
20:21 Techrights-sec2; does it
20:21 schestowitz-TR; re "pressure would be lower" <- like where I currently work...
20:21 schestowitz-TR; nothing glamorous
20:28 schestowitz-TR; the exploitation rackets:
20:28 schestowitz-TR; 1) publishers
20:28 schestowitz-TR; 2) stats funding (graft)
20:28 schestowitz-TR; 3) free labour/slavery/sharecropping at the backs of some of the brighter students for (2) and (1)
20:28 schestowitz-TR; the diplomas mill is treiple-dipping
20:28 schestowitz-TR; as non-productive actors bag a lot of "surplus"
20:28 schestowitz-TR; at least I made use of my degree, even if just to stave off low-grade ad hom
20:28 schestowitz-TR; I spoke to my mom about it today
20:28 schestowitz-TR; my parents are poorly educated
20:28 schestowitz-TR; but I told her few people work in the area they did their phd in
20:28 Techrights-sec2; true, it's fairly rare, though some are able to
20:30 schestowitz-TR; you could tell him, in 20 years redbrick US degrees would deflate in value
20:31 schestowitz-TR; (I literally have my feet place now on a plank on top of a book about 500 top US university
20:31 schestowitz-TR; my aunt sent it to me when I was about 17 and considered studying there
20:32 schestowitz-TR; placing it now beneath my naked feet would be symbolic somewhere like iraq, I suppose
20:33 Techrights-sec2; Universities have helped businesses kill the reputation and content of the
20:33 Techrights-sec2; degree system. There is no replacement, just a crater.
20:35 Techrights-sec2; throw a shoe at it ;)
20:35 Techrights-sec2; https://www.wired.com/2008/12/bush-shoe-toss/
20:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Bush Shoe-Toss Immortalized in Games, Animations | WIRED
20:35 schestowitz-TR; id did not name iraw for no reason
20:35 schestowitz-TR; when reading about assange the other day I recalled that footage
20:35 schestowitz-TR; you can grok the parallel of punishment without a clue
20:35 Techrights-sec2; https://youtu.be/_RFH7C3vkK4
20:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidious.osi.kr/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4
20:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> invidious.osi.kr | Man Throws Shoes At Bush - Invidious
20:37 schestowitz-TR; I saw it many times before
20:37 schestowitz-TR; I am upset at many things in the world
20:37 schestowitz-TR; but this invasion started when I was a student
20:38 schestowitz-TR; and 9/11 when I was a teen
20:38 schestowitz-TR; so my views of the world was not yet suitably adjusted
20:39 Techrights-sec2; yes including the absence of a trial at The Hague for little Bush
20:39 schestowitz-TR; the EPO was in this situation
20:39 schestowitz-TR; we did about 4 articles about it
20:39 schestowitz-TR; ICC snd The hague = olitical show trials
20:39 schestowitz-TR; we named some examples
20:39 schestowitz-TR; the Dutch king and his political puppets decide who to prosecure and who to let be
20:39 schestowitz-TR; no wonder china is laughing its off when the West says "The hague"
20:39 schestowitz-TR; I can't blame China for this
20:42 Techrights-sec2; packing him off to The Hague would have nonetheless been of use and repair
20:42 Techrights-sec2; he burned *all* the goodwill the US had aquired from both WWII and the Marshall
20:42 Techrights-sec2; Plan. The Orange Anus, with the assistance of social control media, turned
20:42 Techrights-sec2; into full-on pariah
20:42 schestowitz-TR; NL has zero leverage over USA
20:43 schestowitz-TR; today I spoke to my dad for a long time and he had very bad things to say about the US
20:43 schestowitz-TR; not for the first time
20:44 Techrights-sec2; Between the two, the world is now in the situation we find it in
20:44 Techrights-sec2; Though to be fair it was the Reagan administration which first gutted public
20:44 Techrights-sec2; education so that militant ignorance would be the defining cultural c=
20:44 Techrights-sec2; characteristic of the nation. it's been reduced every year since then, too
20:44 Techrights-sec2; Again, the Reagan administration.
20:44 schestowitz-TR; I think it startd with abortion (the conversation)
20:50 Techrights-sec2; https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106808204063174300
20:50 Techrights-sec2; polticized healthcare
20:50 Techrights-sec2; and made it into a partisan issue
20:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Ronald Reagan, Father Of the Pro-Life Movement - WSJ
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