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07:07 Techrights-sec; Remember that Lunduke and others have commented that putting the string "Linux"
07:07 Techrights-sec; in the video title gets it demonetized, at least initially. The status can
07:07 Techrights-sec; be restored after a small fight, but by then the peak has past and there
07:07 Techrights-sec; will be only a trickle of views left for that video. Most videos get all
07:07 Techrights-sec; their views at the beginning, so this tactic of Google is a way to eliminate
07:07 Techrights-sec; production of "Linux" videos. There used to be other sites which were always
07:07 Techrights-sec; fighting demonetization, though I cannot recall which companies. For example
07:07 Techrights-sec; the original GNUheter site always had problem with its ad revenue and the
07:07 Techrights-sec; ad vendor usually refused to pay and never paid what was owed, claiming
07:07 Techrights-sec; false stats.
07:07 Techrights-sec; So it's not just against the channels but against all coverage of Linux or GNU
07:07 Techrights-sec; anywhere.
07:07 Techrights-sec; https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/wth-youtube-queen-wiciwici-may-be-after:2
07:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | WTH YouTube? | Queen Wiciwici may be after me again!
07:13 schestowitz-TR; gm
07:13 schestowitz-TR; i recorded 2 videos and went to sleep while they process
07:13 schestowitz-TR; I will finish the process shortly
07:13 schestowitz-TR; will quote your explanation
07:13 schestowitz-TR; I had mentioned something to that effect in the longer (45 min) video
07:13 schestowitz-TR; which will give another example (dr. campbell)
07:13 schestowitz-TR; yesterday did not go as planned, i got like a dozen emails and calls from the scammed friend
08:21 schestowitz-TR; draft
08:21 Techrights-sec; checking
08:26 Techrights-sec; GMail ignores the existence of Thunderbird:
08:26 Techrights-sec; https://support.google.com/a/answer/9003945?hl=en
08:26 Techrights-sec; and mainly only works with OAuth-emcumbered software
08:26 Techrights-sec; https://support.google.com/a/answer/7281227
08:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-support.google.com | Set up Gmail with a third-party email client - Google Workspace Admin Help
08:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-support.google.com | Control which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace data - Google Workspace Admin Help
08:28 Techrights-sec; "As of May 30, 2022, Google no longer allows Less secure apps [sic] access for Gmail accounts, thus OAuth is required. If you are using Google supplied app
08:28 Techrights-sec; passwords, Thunderbird version 91.8.0 and newer will make that conversion for you. Further, Gmail accounts do not work with Thunderbird 31 and older becau
08:28 Techrights-sec; se they do not support Google's OAuth (implemented in bug 849540)."
08:28 Techrights-sec; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail
08:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-support.mozilla.org | Thunderbird and Gmail | Thunderbird Help
08:42 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I've incorporated all the aboive poins
08:42 schestowitz-TR; got massive distracted by troll incident in irc
08:42 schestowitz-TR; i should look away more
08:42 schestowitz-TR; also lost my train of thought and forgot some point that I had planned to add to the text
08:42 schestowitz-TR; need to slow down and not multitask with irc
08:42 schestowitz-TR; i need to sit down and think how to better manage the time; maybe I'll take a walk again later, that was a lot of fun...
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08:47 schestowitz-TR; may i suggest, a la "ota",
08:47 schestowitz-TR; we use some tag for topics to cover
08:47 schestowitz-TR; then I can scan the irc logs for that tag to see the topics
08:47 schestowitz-TR; e.g. [topic]
08:47 schestowitz-TR; so that acts as a market fow when I'm done with rss feeds
08:47 schestowitz-TR; [topic] Why Canonical is Not a Friend of GNU/Linux Freedom and Mentioning WSL/systemd Helps Windows
08:47 schestowitz-TR; [topic] Microsoft Is Vanishing From Netcraft
08:48 schestowitz-TR; [topic] Kristall in KDE Neon
08:48 schestowitz-TR; [topic] Separating Techrights IRC Channel From Non-Tech-Related Politics
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08:57 Techrights-sec; ok
08:59 schestowitz-TR; will record 'in bulk' later
08:59 schestowitz-TR; it's a lot faster
08:59 schestowitz-TR; and they can be short
08:59 schestowitz-TR; maybe at some point I will add a "playlist" file so that the processing can be done for multiple files in series
08:59 schestowitz-TR; without human intervention
08:59 schestowitz-TR; when handling multiple files things start to get confusing
08:59 schestowitz-TR; as they are labeled by the data and time only
09:01 Techrights-sec; ok
09:01 Techrights-sec; [topic] GMail not supporting standard IMAPS and instead supporting a slightly incompatible variant
09:04 schestowitz-TR; i don't have enough knowledge of it
09:04 schestowitz-TR; if the links you passed along earlier cover it, i can go through them
09:04 schestowitz-TR; like we did in march
09:04 schestowitz-TR; i used imap only at work and still use imap at work
09:04 schestowitz-TR; for my personal accounts I'm pop3
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and sometimes "leave on server" (do not pop)
09:04 schestowitz-TR; i spent years (job) supporting email access for uni professors here
09:04 schestowitz-TR; plus vpn, dial-up (ran bsd)...
09:04 schestowitz-TR; mostly for library access
09:04 schestowitz-TR; digital access to journals from home
09:11 Techrights-sec; POP went out in the 1990s; IMAPS can download or leave on the server
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09:22 Techrights-sec; rver
09:22 Techrights-sec;
09:22 Techrights-sec; In the 1990s many (most?) universities had Kerberos + LDAP to identify
09:22 Techrights-sec; users whether on campus or off campus and let them have access to the right
09:22 Techrights-sec; level consistent with the rules. I guess that was later all scrapped
09:22 Techrights-sec; so that IPv4-based all-or-nothing level access could replace it. The VPN
09:22 Techrights-sec; is an unnecessary redundant bug-ridden pile of crap though.
09:22 Techrights-sec; Usually the only purposes of the VPN is to siphon money out of the university's
09:22 Techrights-sec; budget and have an innocuous excuse to ban GNU/Linux desktops and clients,
09:22 Techrights-sec; FreeBSD as well.
09:23 schestowitz-TR; we ueed ldap
09:23 schestowitz-TR; for the vpn and for dial-up
09:23 schestowitz-TR; i had interfaces for ldap to check the users' accounts
09:23 schestowitz-TR; i had high-level access to the full DB of the uni
09:23 schestowitz-TR; the vpn ws not there just for library access though
09:23 schestowitz-TR; many resources were lazily made lan-restricted
09:23 schestowitz-TR; based on ip address
09:23 schestowitz-TR; inc. at the cs depat
09:23 schestowitz-TR; *dept
09:23 schestowitz-TR; epo does the same
09:23 schestowitz-TR; they have a vpn form intranet and such
09:23 Techrights-sec; Keyword: lazily
09:23 Techrights-sec; euphemism for: incompetently
09:54 Techrights-sec; Same for "intranet". With proper access control, a VPN is only an expensive
09:54 Techrights-sec; boondoggle and serves no purpose but to bleed coffers and to block GNU/Linux
09:55 schestowitz-TR; i think that the vpn has another purpose: spying
09:55 schestowitz-TR; they want to log everything
09:55 schestowitz-TR; using the middleman for packets
09:55 schestowitz-TR; spying on workers
09:55 schestowitz-TR; albeit there are workarounds
09:55 schestowitz-TR; like using two machines or two stacks in tandem
09:55 schestowitz-TR; without turning off and on a vpn
10:03 Techrights-sec; In practice, there are very few real use-cases for VPNs, despite them
10:03 Techrights-sec; being shoehorned in everywhere (usually to block GNU/Linux)
10:04 schestowitz-TR; back then I tried to support the vpn for slackware and bsd users
10:04 schestowitz-TR; but my boss (mark) had an attitude that was like,
10:04 schestowitz-TR; if these people can figure out how to install it (20 years ago)
10:04 schestowitz-TR; they can probably figure out the vpn
10:04 schestowitz-TR; and can compile from source, too
10:05 Techrights-sec; Whereas if the authentication and authorization had happened via Kerberos
10:05 Techrights-sec; and LDAP, both would have been supported more or less automatically.
10:11 schestowitz-TR; rememeber we did not even have firefox yet
10:12 Techrights-sec; Yeah that was back in the Netscape days
10:12 Techrights-sec; or era. IIRC all that could be done not only as a web service but /without/
10:12 Techrights-sec; cookies, but time has passed and I am not sure of the details any more.
10:14 schestowitz-TR; iirc, vpn was not ued so much for journal access
10:14 schestowitz-TR; the library had a web portal
10:14 schestowitz-TR; for journ access, downloading pdfs etc.
10:14 schestowitz-TR; i think people just needed dial-up from home
10:14 schestowitz-TR; witgh ldap
10:14 schestowitz-TR; not to rely on isps
10:14 schestowitz-TR; this was pre-boradband for many regions
10:15 schestowitz-TR; the vpn came later
10:15 schestowitz-TR; for some faculties that mistook vpn for 'security'
10:15 Techrights-sec; There were strong sales teams pushing VPNs combined with managers seeing
10:15 Techrights-sec; them as a stealth method of blocking GNU/Linux + BSD plus, I suspect, kickbacks
10:16 schestowitz-TR; the market share or userbase of any kind of linux was a lot smaller back then, but enjoyed momentum
10:16 schestowitz-TR; one was to slow down momentum was to fulful the prophecy of "it's too hard"
10:16 schestowitz-TR; and x not supported.
10:16 schestowitz-TR; e.g. x=games
10:17 Techrights-sec; Not entirely, it was threatening to grow on the desktop overall and was
10:17 Techrights-sec; becoming popular at universities. :/
10:17 Techrights-sec; The lack of game support was and probably still is cited by the business
10:17 Techrights-sec; community as a reason for not using GNU/Linux at work. WTF??
10:24 Techrights-sec; Back when /. was still relevant and independent, there was a huge attempt at
10:24 Techrights-sec; getting Adobe to port Photoshop. The company responded poorly and doubled down
10:24 Techrights-sec; on avoiding the platform.
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10:44 schestowitz-TR; source, mjg59_?
10:44 Techrights-sec; SELF was under heavy attack for its successful progressive work in "inclusivity"
10:44 Techrights-sec; They use a blind review process, unlike the other conferences.
10:44 Techrights-sec; I hope ESR is ok soon but that is a serious health issue. Can that be verified
10:44 Techrights-sec; from a reliable source and not just a rumor?
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10:49 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "There has been an unprecedented rush of people canceling their subscriptions to this blog the last five days." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/09/i-am-puzzled/ | Source: Craig Murray
10:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.craigmurray.org.uk | I Am Puzzled - Craig Murray
10:49 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Could be people are struggling with providing for themselves at the moment; could also be a hacker. Is there any way you can check this?" https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/09/i-am-puzzled/
10:50 schestowitz-TR; "It seems the only way to subscribe to this blog is via PayPal which is currently out of favour because of its censorship of free-speech organisations. Im surprised they havent got round to cutting off this site." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/09/i-am-puzzled/
10:51 mjg59_; schestowitz-TR: https://twitter.com/mtaht/status/1554203297891827712 - Dave Taht knows esr well
10:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@mtaht: @realsporky @mjg59 He is recovering from stomach cancer.
10:53 schestowitz-TR; craig murray: "Good point. Certainly people continually find they have unfollowed me on twitter." Happened to Wikileaks and others too. Social control media can not only censor but also hide and break links between nodes. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/09/i-am-puzzled/comment-page-1/#comments
10:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.craigmurray.org.uk | I Am Puzzled - Craig Murray
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11:15 Techrights-sec; ack
11:15 Techrights-sec; ack
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11:47 schestowitz-TR; lasagna finished, that was fast
11:47 schestowitz-TR; just got off the phone, long call
11:47 schestowitz-TR; and yes, twitter and other such crap is a very unreliable and low s/n "outlet"
11:47 schestowitz-TR; "outlet" is the right term
11:47 schestowitz-TR; goes well with "shitter"
11:47 schestowitz-TR; gonna try to clean up feeds etc. and later record 4-5 topics
11:53 Techrights-sec; ack
11:59 schestowitz-TR; Sam Varghese wasting his time doing these puff pieces :/ https://itwire.com/mobile-devices/review-oppo-reno8-pro-5g-lives-life-in-the-fast-charging-lane.html
11:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - Review: Oppo Reno8 Pro 5G lives life in the fast-charging lane
12:01 Techrights-sec; Likely required by his managers
12:01 schestowitz-TR; if I added a sentence, that would be it
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14:34 schestowitz-TR; cops and authorities useless, as usual
14:34 schestowitz-TR; unless you are billg
14:34 schestowitz-TR; then they attack the critics, not the criminals
14:35 schestowitz-TR; no, microsoft is the victim of its own platform being used for fraud
14:46 schestowitz-TR; I once called the police about days-long ddos attack
14:46 schestowitz-TR; "it was like talking to a deaf person" -Lavros about Liz Trump
14:46 schestowitz-TR; *Lavrov
15:01 schestowitz-TR; 40+ "reports" in michael west this past week... from AAP (AP)
15:01 schestowitz-TR; I came for the "Independent journalism"
15:01 Techrights-sec; ack
15:01 Techrights-sec; He has fully outsourced his site then
15:01 schestowitz-TR; not fully, but it needs filtering
15:18 Techrights-sec; It'd be great if he had a separate Atom or RSS feed for /just/ his work which
15:18 Techrights-sec; leaves out the newsfeed junk.
15:19 schestowitz-TR; yes, you probably understand and can relate to why I take issues with this approach
15:19 schestowitz-TR; it's like contamination of motivations
15:19 schestowitz-TR; de-purifying the independence and moreover this means that any time I link to his site I boost all "that other stuff"
15:19 Techrights-sec; yes
15:20 schestowitz-TR; "that other stuff"
15:20 schestowitz-TR; e.g.
15:20 schestowitz-TR; 1) the economy is good news
15:20 schestowitz-TR; 2) our great leaders do wonderful job
15:20 schestowitz-TR; 3) cat found, very very important to know!!
16:26 Techrights-sec; :/
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19:25 schestowitz-TR; 0/
20:08 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> British Government Stops Properly Reporting How Many COVID-19 Patients Are Admitted to Hospital and Die (as Winter Approaches and Numbers Already Goes Up) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/25/no-data-no-problems/
20:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive British Government Stops Properly Reporting How Many COVID-19 Patients Are Admitted to Hospital and Die (as Winter Approaches and Numbers Already Goes Up)
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