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beginning of new day, October 26

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2 AM, October 26

02:21 schestowitz-TR2; I am thinking whether to record a video about gulag and email

02:21 schestowitz-TR2; need to get my facts right, is gulag blocking GOP spam (yes, it's spam) because of the meil relays

02:21 schestowitz-TR2; or because it is spam? I can see this boomerranging if I cannot justify the assertion

02:43 schestowitz-TR2; Excess Deaths in the US Should be Calculated Based on Pre-Pandemic Levels https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/wrong-excess-deaths/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/wrong-excess-deaths/

02:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Excess Deaths in the US Should be Calculated Based on Pre-Pandemic Levels

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03:05 schestowitz-TR2; Chart: England and Wales Deaths (Totals) in 2014-2019 (Average), 2021, and 2022 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/deaths-in-uk/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/deaths-in-uk/

03:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Chart: England and Wales Deaths (Totals) in 2014-2019 (Average), 2021, and 2022

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7 AM, October 26

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; gm

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; Google's spam filter is blocking spam. That is a red herring.

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; The more serious problem is that Google's spam filter is blocking nearly

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; all independently operated mail servers. Who is to say whether more R mail

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; servers are outside of GAFAM or if more D mail servers are outsourced to GAFAM?

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; It does not matter, that is the distraction and turns a political problem into

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; a partisan issue. The political problem is that Google appears to be aiming

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; to gain control of e-mail and force everyone who wishes to use e-mail to

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; use GMail but only over Google's webmail interface. Notice that most regular

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; mail clients are blocked and only in a few situations are complicated OAUTH

07:15 techrights-sec[2]; clients allowed, but with no indication for how much longer they will be allowed

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; Also look at their non-standard IMAPS implementation which has been impairing

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; mail clients since many years ago.

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; ^ for background only; do not quote any of the above

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; Here is /one/ case study:

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

↺ https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

07:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cfenollosa.com | After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

07:16 techrights-sec[2]; https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2020/02/self-hosting-email-in-2020-joe-nobody-vs-world/

↺ https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2020/02/self-hosting-email-in-2020-joe-nobody-vs-world/

07:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.paranoidpenguin.net | Self-hosting email in 2020 Joe Nobody vs. World | ParanoidPenguin.net

07:28 *psydruid advocates "e-mail over XMPP"


8 AM, October 26

08:40 schestowitz-TR2; I'm still reading about the gamil situation

08:40 schestowitz-TR2; to ensure I properly understand what there si to be said about it before writing about it

08:40 schestowitz-TR2; or even recording somethingh on the matter

08:40 schestowitz-TR2; I am a bit of an outsider to itm, having never used gmail

08:48 techrights-sec[2]; https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/misc/xoauth2.html

↺ https://alpineapp.email/alpine/alpine-info/misc/xoauth2.html

08:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-alpineapp.email | Authenticating using XOAUTH2 in IMAP and SMTP

08:53 techrights-sec[2]; LT has no chance of getting real work done if he is playing webmail instead

08:53 techrights-sec[2]; of using a functional client

08:53 schestowitz-TR2; i knew only one user os it: linux torvalds

08:53 schestowitz-TR2; based on LF video, LT now uses "webmail" (his words

08:53 schestowitz-TR2; which is awful

08:54 schestowitz-TR2; 1) it's not about productivity, it is about oversight (bossing)

08:54 schestowitz-TR2; 2) email is not inn gneeral secure and gov. workflows should not use email for almost anything, but see (1)

08:55 techrights-sec[2]; Oversight, surveillance, and (in the case of employers) micromanagement

08:55 techrights-sec[2]; With the advent of M$ outlook, it's not only insecure but also highly

08:55 techrights-sec[2]; unreliable and 10% - 20% of messages for outlook/exchange go missing.

08:59 schestowitz-TR2; haha, seeing the link about youtube revenue declining

08:59 schestowitz-TR2; in spite or because of them bombarding the platfoprm with it?

08:59 schestowitz-TR2; They probably overdid it and scared away "users"

08:59 techrights-sec[2]; Youtube has overdone several abusive behaviors, and thus driven away droves

08:59 techrights-sec[2]; of useds.


9 AM, October 26

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; good, even great, news

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; that's what I want to see

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; even with tons in subsidies and corrupted media on their side I hope they will perish and something

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; decent can fill the gap

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; (ot: yesterday on 3 occassions I searched for videos on "rms" or "stallman" for the day;

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; did not find anything from india but some 10-20 secs videos of some girl kept showing up,

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; apparently some tiktok stuff she also uploads to youtube; I did not click and one video

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; said something like "getting hot in here"; I assume some 'sexualised' something... a lot of

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; teens on tiktok harm themselves for whatever this chinese company rewards for)

09:03 schestowitz-TR2; youtube is a dump of junk

09:03 techrights-sec[2]; Searching Youtube for "RMS" brings up pages and pages of junk but nothing

09:03 techrights-sec[2]; related to RMS or to Software Freedom. Youtube is proprietary anyway

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; sometimes you can still find some new rms talks this way

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; I will try again later

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; I used indivious, not youtube

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; I can't stand youtube because it's slow and full of ads

09:05 techrights-sec[2]; Nothing in Odysee either

09:05 techrights-sec[2]; I thought he admonished hosts not to upload to youtube but to self host

09:05 techrights-sec[2]; The UI for Youtube is crap

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; maybe crap for YOU

09:05 schestowitz-TR2; YOU are NOT a CUSTOMER

09:10 techrights-sec[2]; of course

09:34 schestowitz-TR2; just realised irc logs for today nor posted yet

09:34 schestowitz-TR2; biab gym

09:44 schestowitz-TR2; re operational costs at youtube, that is aside from paying creators

09:44 schestowitz-TR2; if youtube on its own profitable at all?

09:44 schestowitz-TR2; the can hide that


10 AM, October 26

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10:27 techrights-sec[2]; As mentioned, the costs for storage at youtube only go up and the number

10:27 techrights-sec[2]; of advertisers or other forms of income cannot grow adequately to cover

10:27 techrights-sec[2]; all that, I would guess

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; ack

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; that was "gym thought"

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; remember gitlab wanted to toss out "old" repos

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; and vimeo wanted to start charging

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; they know where the cost overhead is

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; gitlab even specified a number, 11 million dollars iirc

10:31 schestowitz-TR2; just for the "old" stuff

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; yes the cost structure or whatever it is called would be similar for

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; other storage-oriented sites. A problem there with GitLab is how they

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; can determine what is old or abandoned. Just because a code base is not

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; being changed does not mean it is not in use. It can quite simply have reached

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; a comfortable level as far as maturity goes.

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; So old, established projects would be very quiet regardless of how active

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; the community around the software actually is. There was one really prominent

10:37 techrights-sec[2]; and recognizable example there with GitLab but the name eludes me at the moment.

10:38 schestowitz-TR2; gitlab is not making money

10:38 schestowitz-TR2; it rides vc cash

10:38 schestowitz-TR2; that was BEFORE pandemic

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; must be worse now

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; same for github

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; azure has several waves of layoffs

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; but the sastroturfers in thelayoffs.com go rah rah over "clown"

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; I just lmao

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; riding debt

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; ~=success

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; andrew lee called himself "king of debt"

10:39 schestowitz-TR2; then again, also went by "clwon prince"

10:40 techrights-sec[2]; Debt, if one moves fast enough and never stops moving, is the new currency.

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; i have reasons to doubt the reason you heard; might be an exaggeration

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; well, then, good lukc to kings of debt

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; I'll watch them go down, as I have several times in recent years

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; people who went under super-fast

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; from showoff to nothing

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; over-evaluation of things partly enabled this debt heist

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; I will try to think more of the google thing while soing kitchen stuff

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; *doing

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; more topics would be good, too

10:43 schestowitz-TR2; news _seemed_ slow this morn

10:44 techrights-sec[2]; ack

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; social control media is a MOVING target

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; it got worse over time

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; I called out twitter every few years for "bcoming FB"

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; maybe at its grain, at the start, twitter was ok-ish

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; compared to some

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; youtube used to be more "you"

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; with compative non-religious channels

10:46 schestowitz-TR2; now it would be deemed "offensive"

10:47 techrights-sec[2]; https://www.r-project.org/foundation/

↺ https://www.r-project.org/foundation/

10:47 techrights-sec[2]; vs

10:47 techrights-sec[2]; https://www.r-consortium.org/

↺ https://www.r-consortium.org/

10:47 techrights-sec[2]; m$ and LF are in one to compete with the other; i.e. one is legitimate

10:47 techrights-sec[2]; ^ topic ?

10:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.r-project.org | R: The R Foundation

10:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.r-consortium.org | Home - R Consortium

10:52 techrights-sec[2]; a review of two or three of the key papers reminding us that sw patents

10:52 techrights-sec[2]; harm innovation would be of use in serveral ways

10:52 techrights-sec[2]; ^ topic ?

10:58 techrights-sec[2]; https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/24/1757258

↺ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/24/1757258

10:58 techrights-sec[2]; ^ topic ?

10:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | Apple Granted Patent for Deepfakes Based on Reference Images - SoylentNews

10:58 schestowitz-TR2; ok, that can be merged in with the fourth topic in the list


11 AM, October 26

11:01 techrights-sec[2]; https://futurism.com/riaa-ai-music-generators

↺ https://futurism.com/riaa-ai-music-generators

11:01 techrights-sec[2]; that is the RIAA making similar arguments as the FOSS community has made against

11:01 techrights-sec[2]; m$ GitHub's Co-pilot which steals code

11:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-futurism.com | Record Labels Terrified by Rise of AI Music Generators

11:01 schestowitz-TR2; This is FALSE: "At this point, Copilot strikes me as a tool that replaces googling for stack overflow answers." No, stack overflow is NOT copyleft. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/25/if-github-copilot-is-a-copyright-problem-perhaps-the-problem-is-copyright/ | Source: Techdirt

↺ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/25/if-github-copilot-is-a-copyright-problem-perhaps-the-problem-is-copyright/

11:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-If GitHub Copilot Is A Copyright Problem, Perhaps The Problem Is Copyright | Techdirt

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; microsoft is still trying to find a way to make some $ out of github

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; other than using it for sabotage

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; upselling "azure" did not work

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; they put azure person in charge

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; herding people into vscode won't work either if people grasp freedom

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; selling subscriptions for plagiarism alienates many developers

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; from what I saw, nat and his wife steph are moving to a whole different sector in "tech"

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; maybe after decades of mono and other crap they seek a fresh start,

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; but who knows...

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; the emaiul from graveley was a shot in his own foot (in court)

11:06 schestowitz-TR2; implusive and dumb

11:11 techrights-sec[2]; What's up with M$ and LF trying to compete against, and thus hinder, the

11:11 techrights-sec[2]; R Foundation?

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; you put the link once with "x" and once in Daily Links

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; I wantedd to say, mirosoft's attack on r is not new

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; and the infiltration attempts

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; I think it goes back to around 2016 when they bought some r-centric company

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; just to dip a finger in that pie

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; as a gateway to students/academia

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; but all those years later I don't see much r in shithub, azure, microsoft

11:13 schestowitz-TR2; they're irrelevant

11:14 techrights-sec[2]; It's not new but it is ongoing

11:14 techrights-sec[2]; The LF /is/ helping m$ carry out those attacks and is sponsoring events

11:14 techrights-sec[2]; I think most of the R community is aware of m$ though there is a push to

11:14 techrights-sec[2]; undermine development there as well by pushing a Windoze agenda sometimes

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; LF has become a rogue actor all around

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; that much is known, but needs to be explained repeatedly until

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; it's the "water cooler" talk

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; Sheela Microsoft and her wife love Microsoft and money

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; they never cared about Linus

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; Linus is an i**t for letting himself be controlled by wuch orgs

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; for 'convenience']

11:18 schestowitz-TR2; until they give him the 'stalin treatment'

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; even then he could have walked; for the time being it is still his trademark

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; and he had the fame though it is clear they are working to grind that away

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; so that when they yank the rug from under him there will be no one to protest

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; about it

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; and no outrage

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; on the possiblity of a new CMS for TR, searching will be important and something

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; will have to be arranged usin SQLite3's FTS5 with a FastCGI front end.

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; That is a little problematic since it will necessitate receiving strings

11:20 techrights-sec[2]; from the public.

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11:22 schestowitz-TR2; did you see the comments I reproduce from phoronix re LP?

11:22 schestowitz-TR2; phoronix still has some readers who care about freedom

11:22 schestowitz-TR2; and some idiots in the forum who pretend it is about "hate"

11:22 schestowitz-TR2; CorporateLinux won't be popular, but the remaining "media" will be bought off by it

11:22 schestowitz-TR2; like zdnet et al

11:22 schestowitz-TR2; I'll call out the sellouts more from now on

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; Yes, there are still visitors to Phoronix, but he will eventually tire them

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; out and those that are still coming back won't bother. I expect that the

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; number of commenters has already diminished greatly there since he sold out.

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; It's got to be hurting him in his conscience but whether it is enough to

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; make him repent is another matter. It would be very nice to see him try to make

11:25 techrights-sec[2]; good on this and go back to the old, quality work he used to do.

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; no, improbable

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; it's a point of no return

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; he noticed that when he covered msft shite like mono and windows he got more traffic

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; never stopped to think why perhaps

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; writing on these issues is ok, as long as you probably explain them, rather than reprodoce the lies

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; like the OCP thing (recent example)

11:27 schestowitz-TR2; tryint to be "objective" while giving a platform to liars

11:27 techrights-sec[2]; Quite improbably but those that are returning there to comment are likely

11:27 techrights-sec[2]; holding out such unrealistic hope of a recovery.

11:39 techrights-sec[2]; There's nothing objective when promoting lies or giving equal valence to

11:39 techrights-sec[2]; both lies / opinions versus facts.

11:39 techrights-sec[2]; That is a pervasive problem, not just in ICT but even more so in general

11:39 techrights-sec[2]; political discourse.

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; I use america-style scare quotes

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; michael has his knickers in a tizzy

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; he cannotproperly cover FOSS

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; why?

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; because of the sponsors

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; AMD and Intel are VERY close to Microsoft

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; putting aside the openwashing and virtue-signalling by michael

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; so he cannot 'bash' Microsoft without alienating the suppliers of gear etc.

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; iow, the site is compromised

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; when I saw the crates of 10,000-dollar EPYC I first reacherd out to him

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; because I hadn't realised just how compromised he had become

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; he has not posted similar phoronix since

11:44 schestowitz-TR2; inviting the "Evil eye" with "blingbling"

11:45 techrights-sec[2]; Intel and its fate are tied to M$; It's a crap, outdated, incurably insecure

11:45 techrights-sec[2]; architecture tied to a crap, outdated, incurably insecure, toy operating system

11:47 schestowitz-TR2; there will be more layoffs to come in both companies

11:47 schestowitz-TR2; be sure to stock some popcorn as the price of corn might increase

11:47 schestowitz-TR2; (rianne wasted money on some 'toy' popcorn machine that I told her she would barefly use

11:47 schestowitz-TR2; as it's a gimmick and not easy to clean; now she feels compelled to prove me e"wrong")

11:47 schestowitz-TR2; some people mistake kitchen (i.e. food) for gadgetry

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11:48 techrights-sec[2]; On the one hand it is good that the companies are diminishing;

11:48 techrights-sec[2]; On the other hand the characters employed there will be spreading out

11:48 techrights-sec[2]; and splattering across the market and infecting other sites with their (lack of)

11:48 techrights-sec[2]; values.

11:48 techrights-sec[2]; and skills

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11:50 schestowitz-TR2; in tech, there is a shortage of jobs, not people

11:50 schestowitz-TR2; and the skills of MSFTer are barely relevant to many companies that stay standing

11:50 schestowitz-TR2; vis-a-vis, the "novelty appeal" troll in IRC revealed having attempted to be hired by Micrfosoft

11:50 schestowitz-TR2; (and failing)

11:51 schestowitz-TR2; just something to bear in mind

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; Like deicaza they often work for m$ for many year prior to being officially

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; on the payroll.

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; There may be a break-in period where they have to prove useful in attacking

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; the competition in ways that they don't want directly or immediately associated

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; with the company. So they farm those tasks out to prospective hires and

11:53 techrights-sec[2]; let them cause trouble for some years while officially independent of m$

11:55 schestowitz-TR2; like peter o'[kelly and his attacks on ODF, along with Peter Galli (eWEEK)

11:55 schestowitz-TR2; fake 'journalist' get 'hired' as PR people for Microsoft later on


noon, October 26

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12:06 schestowitz-TR2; Microsoft profits fall 14% in 1Q 2023, Windows OEM sales most affected https://itwire.com/listed-tech/microsoft-profits-fall-14-in-1q-2023,-windows-oem-sales-most-affected.html probably a lot worse. That's what they say AFTER all the "creative" (Enron-style) accounting.

↺ https://itwire.com/listed-tech/microsoft-profits-fall-14-in-1q-2023,-windows-oem-sales-most-affected.html

12:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - Microsoft profits fall 14% in 1Q 2023, Windows OEM sales most affected

12:19 techrights-sec[2]; They've been doing Enron style accounting for a long time. Recall that using

12:19 techrights-sec[2]; the traditional accounting they ran a huge loss. Right now they are probably

12:19 techrights-sec[2]; only still in business due to ongoing bailouts, buying and selling their own

12:19 techrights-sec[2]; stock, and cooking the books.

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12:26 schestowitz-TR2; rianne sold an item this morning and will deliver later

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; the moden profit helps cover discount foods' cost

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; maybe I can ask ('instruct') her to add wine to the basket

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; seeing how our "enemies" crumble

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; (but I'm not the kind of person who 'wastes' time celebrating)

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; I'm off work till Sat

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; rianne will be in yorkshire for 2.5 days

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; today the CEO covers my shift (he does not even know how to)

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; because I asked for holiday and we are understaffed

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; one thing that can help is, check news about Micrtosoft finances

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; esp. the non-fluff, i.e. what they try to hide from headlines

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; like the big minuses

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; after Daily Links we can use those to make articles

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; it used to take a LOT of time to pick out the actual info out of their reports

12:26 schestowitz-TR2; "drpizza" was used a lot for official lying about their results back then

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14:19 schestowitz-TR2; can you read the post published 2 mins ago for andy?

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; checking

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; will look in detail in a bit, just skimmed it now; wikipedia is not such

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; a reliable reference especially if one does not link to the specific

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; day-version. Otherwise the page's contents can be radically changed over time

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; and a few years later not represent a single thing the citation was meant to

14:26 techrights-sec[2]; bolster.

14:42 schestowitz; the cancer has spread (results just in), chemo and radio will be needed :/

14:42 schestowitz; still no talk uploads of rms: https://yewtu.be/search?q=stallman&page=1&date=today&type=all&duration=none&sort=relevance

↺ https://yewtu.be/search?q=stallman&page=1&date=today&type=all&duration=none&sort=relevance

14:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | stallman - Invidious

14:44 techrights-sec[2]; condolences

14:44 techrights-sec[2]; recovery is still possible though

14:45 schestowitz-TR2; trying not to think about it _too_ much

14:45 schestowitz-TR2; in the link above you can see the tiktok crap

14:45 techrights-sec[2]; I'll skip bytdance

14:46 schestowitz-TR2; google needs to provide backup storage for that crap

14:46 schestowitz-TR2; i hope it costs them enough to wound the users some more

14:46 schestowitz-TR2; like, after 100 uploads you must pay or lose the older videos

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3 PM, October 26

15:00 techrights-sec[2]; I forgot Gardiner existed.

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15:01 schestowitz-TR2; Gardiner Bryant shilling proprietary software :/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

↺ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

15:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

↺ https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

15:01 schestowitz-TR2; @Invidious: https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

↺ https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=DNl2WfS3YnU

15:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> invidio.xamh.de | How to INSTALL Discord on Steam in UNDER 5 MINUTES (Even if you're a NOOB) - Invidious

15:01 schestowitz-TR2; -> invidious.flokinet.to | How to INSTALL Discord on Steam in UNDER 5 MINUTES (Even if you're a NOOB) - Invidious

15:03 techrights-sec[2]; I've read the post by Andy in detail now and made some annotation but are the

15:03 techrights-sec[2]; annotations of interest and if so how to communicate them?

15:03 techrights-sec[2]; It was a good read and well worth the time.

15:04 schestowitz-TR2; you can email him directly, I think

15:04 schestowitz-TR2; he would appreciate positive responses

15:04 schestowitz-TR2; I'm still thinking how to best handle the EPO/UPC issues

15:04 schestowitz-TR2; either way, an archive of old articles is in its own right valuable against the lies

15:31 techrights-sec[2]; ack


4 PM, October 26

16:10 techrights-sec[2]; The EPO / UPC issues can be best handled by contacting some of the committe

16:10 techrights-sec[2]; members there in Germany.

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