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00:35 Techrightssec; good to hear. Mumble is very useful, especially if echo cancellation is active
04:35 schestowitz-TR; Oh, god! 'Linux'Hint has just published another couple dozen WINDOWS stories, Proprietary Crap, and other stuff totally NOT related to Linux. That site has been like this throughout November. Might as well just shut the thing down! In respect to the people who USED to run it.
04:35 Techrightssec; :/
04:35 schestowitz-TR; 'Linux'Hint is now run/written by people who don't know Linux, don't use Linux, and generally reject Linus
04:37 schestowitz-TR; It's fair to say 'Linux'Hint is now an anti-Linux site. It promotes Windows!
04:38 schestowitz-TR; draft (3 videos this mornign; one as per your suggestion)
04:49 Techrightssec; checking
04:49 Techrightssec; Maybe expand "EPO" for the first occurence of the acronym.
04:49 Techrightssec; What channels to Eurppean citizens have to ask for oversight of the EPO?
04:50 schestowitz-TR; thanks, amending
04:50 schestowitz-TR; no official channels
04:50 schestowitz-TR; will emntion this in next artic.e..
04:58 Techrightssec; The absence of official channels should be mentioned then, possibly along
04:58 Techrightssec; with the existing, suboptimal options such as they are.
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08:06 Techrightssec; it is not possible for microsofters to 'reskill' and become ICT professionals
08:06 Techrightssec; because not only is the skillset incompatible but the very mindset and illogical
08:06 Techrightssec; way they have of (not) organizing their thoughts is incompatible.
08:06 Techrightssec; for actual ICT you need a clear and organized thought process and logic.
08:06 Techrightssec; the m$ crap follows neither and is just randomly put together, thus it drives
08:06 Techrightssec; away those that would even have the potential to someday become skilled in ICT.
08:06 Techrightssec; that and their gatekeeper style oral tradition ensure that no one who is not
08:07 Techrightssec; 100% loyal to the cult will get the essential but undocumented knowledge needed
08:07 Techrightssec; to pretend to operate m$ products. thus there can be no crossover.
08:09 schestowitz-TR; i do not have sufficient direct experience with microsofters inside a company
08:09 schestowitz-TR; maybe I'm lucky to have dodged that
08:09 schestowitz-TR; the cloest was my phd supervisor, but he more than tolerated the use of gnu/linux by his postgrad students
08:23 schestowitz-TR; not to brag
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and not to claim a correlation for sure
08:23 schestowitz-TR; but since calling out spamnil i see he is reluctant with the clicfraud
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and limits how many he does (I think he sends a list of URLs for the bots)
08:23 schestowitz-TR; you can see videos almost 2 months old with less than 10 views
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and he doesn't make many videoa anymore, but what owrries me nowadays
08:23 schestowitz-TR; is what happened to linuxhint
08:23 schestowitz-TR; today it was a net of 0% linus
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and lots of windows
08:23 schestowitz-TR; it went rhough periods, sometimes doing programming posts
08:23 schestowitz-TR; then PLAGIARISING programming post
08:23 schestowitz-TR; after it had attemped to do amazon catalogue disguised as reviews and such
08:23 schestowitz-TR; a year ago the site was still mostly OK
08:23 schestowitz-TR; a
08:23 schestowitz-TR; TON of GOOD howtos
08:23 schestowitz-TR; those are very rarely now and author names have changed
08:23 schestowitz-TR; if this keeps happening to good sites, we'll be short on material for daily links
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and TM
08:26 Techrightssec; ack
08:26 Techrightssec; excellent
08:26 Techrightssec; that he is curbing the bullshit
08:26 Techrightssec; Yes, site after site has been falling away, eithe shut down outright or passing
08:26 Techrightssec; through an ugly pro-M$ phase first.
08:26 Techrightssec; It's a matter of national security for all nations that there is only
08:26 Techrightssec; microsoftianism taught (a vocation) instead of theory and applied theory
08:26 Techrightssec; at universities. I bet it's not possible to get through a basic 5-year
08:26 Techrightssec; Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering degree without being *required* to
08:27 Techrightssec; use m$ gimmicks for at least two semesters. It's a bet I'd like to lose but
08:27 Techrightssec; all the indicators are that Bill has destroyed higher ed in the US.
08:27 Techrightssec; Reagan took out the primary and secondary education first though.
08:27 schestowitz-TR; you are right, even 22 years ago there was a semester with a module where we needed to do some stuff in excel
08:27 schestowitz-TR; or access or something
08:27 schestowitz-TR; back then they didn't have staroffice as an option
08:30 Techrightssec; The institutions lock people into m$ + blackboard and then don't give a rat's
08:30 Techrightssec; asshole if either work or if instead the teachers or students end up frittering
08:30 Techrightssec; away the contact hours unproductively attempting to accomplished the assigned
08:30 Techrightssec; tasks using the toys required in place of real tools.
08:34 schestowitz-TR; 2 daysa ago I saw a blog post (you sent the rss feeds) about someone who had taught, moved to industry, then made
08:34 schestowitz-TR; a statement on teacher (IIRC, maybe a comeback)
08:34 schestowitz-TR; the problem with such a trajectory is, people who taught decades ago have not much to go BACK to
08:34 schestowitz-TR; as that thing they had come from changed over time
08:34 schestowitz-TR; I recently examples the syllabus of UoM and it's mostly OK, aside from buzzwords
08:34 schestowitz-TR; but that's a relatively high-ranked CS school
08:34 schestowitz-TR; becoming a teachers in universities now, I would gues, means lots of clown, smut "phones",
08:34 schestowitz-TR; and other crap never designed with either productivity nor education
08:34 schestowitz-TR; *or
08:34 schestowitz-TR; in mind
08:34 schestowitz-TR; ime, based on Palm PDA/Palm OS since 2001, too much of these gadgets is harmful and possibly addictive
08:36 Techrightssec; https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46019429
08:36 Techrightssec; It's worse for mental / social health
08:36 Techrightssec; Back then the PDAs were still about getting work done. Nowadays the tools are
08:36 Techrightssec; either designed intentionally as addictive timewasters (engagement) on purpose,
08:36 Techrightssec; or unintentionally by kids who have only ever seen inefficient, time-wasting
08:36 Techrightssec; user interfaces and think not only that it is "normal" but expect it.
08:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients' - BBC News
08:42 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I had a lengthy chat with my mom about what cars were becoming
08:42 schestowitz-TR; she hadn't thought much about it, but the point sank in after a while
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I still don't know what the "latest" cars are like, it's moving ahead fast,
08:42 schestowitz-TR; converging with what cars are NOT meant to me
08:42 schestowitz-TR; becoming more of a distraction (hence, death toll)
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I still don't fully understand how people "use" [sic] tiktok but sometimes I see
08:42 schestowitz-TR; people use "phones" and "apps". Their time would be better spent talking to an
08:42 schestowitz-TR; actual person or using actual programs such as kdenlive or cad suites
08:42 schestowitz-TR; getting stuff "done" in life using "car" screen and "mobile" is like getting by
08:42 schestowitz-TR; nutrition/diet-wide on 12-pack bags of craisps and pcks of chewing gum
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09:13 schestowitz-TR; going through links atm, seeing more on twitter going titsup
09:13 schestowitz-TR; this is very very very good news
09:13 schestowitz-TR; also the alexa bubble
09:13 schestowitz-TR; losses upon losses just to record people inside their own homes
09:13 schestowitz-TR; companies operating at a loss... for social control, rewarded by "deep state" budget
09:15 Techrightssec; IIRC it was Cory who has been vocal about cars being computers you put your
09:15 Techrightssec; body into; They're more complex than that though and are really rolling
09:15 Techrightssec; networks of networks which are in turn often connected intentionally or
09:15 Techrightssec; accidentally to The Internet.
09:15 Techrightssec; If Musk can take out Twitter permanently then that will only be a good thing.
09:15 Techrightssec; However, there is a small risk that he and his Saudi backers can succeed in
09:15 Techrightssec; turning it into a loud and successful version of Gab or Pravda -- for social
09:15 Techrightssec; control.
09:15 Techrightssec; Like m$, it does not matter how much losses there are nor for how long the losses run. It's entirely about control.
09:15 Techrightssec; Just like the rest of modern computing.
09:16 schestowitz-TR; yes, that's one message we need to convey
09:16 schestowitz-TR; with burden of proof on us
09:16 schestowitz-TR; as that contradicts the well-funded marketing machines, which nowadays include "the media"
09:16 Techrightssec; It's hard to convey when almost no one under the age of 40 even knows how
09:16 Techrightssec; to use a computer let alone actually uses one. Under the age of 30 even fewer
09:16 Techrightssec; have even seen a general purpose computer.
09:18 schestowitz-TR; it's not easy to convince people
09:18 schestowitz-TR; same issue when the vast majority do not understand how patents work
09:18 schestowitz-TR; or why some meds, even vaccines, are made so expensive (superficially)
09:18 schestowitz-TR; and hence the rich get richer rapidly
09:18 Techrightssec; Or if they have some misguided or misinformed idea that patents are related in
09:18 Techrightssec; any way to innovation. Yes there is correlation but an inverse one. :(
09:21 schestowitz-TR; my mom thought patents are an actual thing
09:22 schestowitz-TR; like if you see a screw, that's a patent
09:22 schestowitz-TR; because something about it might be patented
09:22 schestowitz-TR; the media played a big role in this
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I saw some very misleading headline
09:22 schestowitz-TR; when I was a teenager and we did a business the media covered us, saying we "invent patents"
09:22 schestowitz-TR; which makes no sense
09:22 schestowitz-TR; also, we never pursued any patents
09:22 schestowitz-TR; so it was a lie on several level
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I still have a clipping of that title (headline) and the article
09:22 schestowitz-TR; they basically used teens to make a bunch of noise about "patents"
09:22 schestowitz-TR; where none at all were involved
09:22 schestowitz-TR; my guess is that patent-related activists have been quiet due to shock and trauma of this economy
09:22 schestowitz-TR; or lack of participation from media with broader audiences
09:22 schestowitz-TR; which in turns lowers incentive to do the activism, the work
09:37 Techrightssec; One of the reasons lawyers and MBAs can get away with so much noise is that
09:37 Techrightssec; they've succeeded in confusing and disorienting the public by yammering on
09:37 Techrightssec; about "intellectual property rights" which are neither intellectual,
09:37 Techrightssec; nor property, nor rights. The media has chosen to play along so many
09:37 Techrightssec; smart and otherwise well-intentioned individuals don't know better and parrot
09:37 Techrightssec; those lines. Basically by steering the discussion away from the concrete
09:37 Techrightssec; and distinct domains of 1) patents, 2) copyright, 3) trademarks, or
09:37 Techrightssec; 4) trade secrets they make discussin impossible and that is the main goal that
09:37 Techrightssec; I see from use of the misleading term "intellectual property rights"
09:37 Techrightssec; If you can't even converse about the topic you certainly cannot fight it or even
09:37 Techrightssec; reform it because you are *not* talking about it but instead some fantasy in
09:37 Techrightssec; its place.
09:38 schestowitz-TR; clown computing
09:38 schestowitz-TR; home assistants
09:38 schestowitz-TR; "enterprise" software
09:39 schestowitz-TR; and so on
09:39 schestowitz-TR; the media chooses the language
09:39 schestowitz-TR; and we know who fudns the media
09:58 Techrightssec; One of the spying microphones is losing money. I wonder how long the company
09:58 Techrightssec; fronting it will keep it around anyway despite the ongoing losses.
10:11 schestowitz-TR; iirc, the aws cia contract is circo 10bn
10:11 schestowitz-TR; or 6
10:11 schestowitz-TR; was 6 around 2015?
10:38 mjg59_; CIA have no meaningful need for compute, it's nowhere near that much
10:39 mjg59_; It's a number that would make sense for the NSA
11:02 Techrightssec; Not sure. Do you mean this one, it is just a drop in the bucket:
11:02 Techrightssec; https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cia-awards-multibillion-c2e-cloud-contract-aws-microsoft-google-oracle-and-ibm/
11:02 Techrightssec; https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract/170227/
11:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cia-awards-multibillion-c2e-cloud-contract-aws-microsoft-google-oracle-and-ibm/ )
11:02 Techrightssec; More bailout money for M$
11:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract - Nextgov
11:02 Techrightssec; https://fortune.com/2015/06/29/intelligence-community-loves-its-new-amazon-cloud/
11:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-CIA cloud gets kudos from security agencies | Fortune
11:02 Techrightssec; https://www.govexec.com/magazine/features/2014/07/daring-deal/88207/
11:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.govexec.com | Daring Deal - Government Executive
11:03 schestowitz-TR; oceans of "money" (debt)
11:03 schestowitz-TR; bailout (financial, threat to national security) under the guise of "defence"
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13:28 schestowitz-TR; Statistics About COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/26/statistics-about-covid-19-vaccines/
13:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Statistics About COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States
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18:05 schestowitz-TR; ping
18:05 schestowitz-TR; never mind
18:05 schestowitz-TR; but there's a draft
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19:36 Techrightssec; back
19:36 Techrightssec; checking
19:39 schestowitz-TR; been setting up pi400 to do things
19:39 schestowitz-TR; nice to have a spare to experiment on like this
19:39 Techrightssec; Yes a spare is quite valuable. If you have additional USB sticks to boot from
19:39 Techrightssec; then you effectively have an additional machine from each stick.
19:49 schestowitz-TR; this machine is already a 'hot spare' in case the 2020 pi dies
19:49 schestowitz-TR; and it's hard to get more of them now
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