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08:36 Techrights-sec; More grumbling: LXD pushes Snaps: https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/
08:36 Techrights-sec; Are there any month-by-month statistics about Gemini's growth?
08:36 Techrights-sec; https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/
08:36 Techrights-sec; "Project sponsored by Canonical Ltd."
08:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxcontainers.org | Linux Containers - LXD - Getting started
08:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxcontainers.org | Linux Containers - LXD - Introduction
08:39 schestowitz-TR; for month-to-month stats on gemini see botond's capsule
08:39 schestowitz-TR; I've just checked backup gz files again, all fine
08:43 schestowitz-TR; I think I might do a video about the lunduke thin
08:43 schestowitz-TR; *thing
08:43 schestowitz-TR; since I set up a job to test the integrity of gz file I never saw an error, so I've just checked
08:43 schestowitz-TR; manually in case I miss something
08:44 Techrights-sec; ack
08:44 Techrights-sec; for the most part, he's been off his rocker for at least a year
08:46 schestowitz-TR; to be fair to him,. he has a family to feed, his profession is dying (publishers,
08:46 schestowitz-TR; gulagtube etc.), and there's this pandemic thing
08:46 schestowitz-TR; that he cannot keep cool is a weakness
08:46 schestowitz-TR; he did say some self-discrediting things
08:46 schestowitz-TR; and he keeps making promises he cannot keep
08:46 Techrights-sec; yes, even when giving him a lot of slack for getting money to feed his family
08:46 Techrights-sec; I'd still have to say that he's been off his rocker
08:51 Techrights-sec; can't or just plain doesn't
08:51 Techrights-sec; :(
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09:14 schestowitz-TR; irc post for today?
09:14 schestowitz-TR; (side note: today I tried to make a mental list of 4 thing to do, which was a mistaker, as even though
09:14 schestowitz-TR; I did 4 things I cannot be entirely sure it was these things; so better to not even make the mental
09:14 schestowitz-TR; lists: something like post bulletin, post irc, catch up with chat, and check daily links. I used to put in the palm
09:14 schestowitz-TR; pda a "checkllist" of sorts, but that became more of a burden over time, so I stopped years ago)
09:14 Techrights-sec; checkig
09:16 schestowitz-TR; I think at the end it is,
09:16 schestowitz-TR; 1) either write things down
09:16 schestowitz-TR; 2) or don't make any lists at all, use intuition
09:16 schestowitz-TR; either way, the truly important things are likely written down already, in any case
09:17 Techrights-sec; posting of links can happen any time but posting of IRC logs can only happen
09:17 Techrights-sec; after they've been prepared, so the two activities cannot be paired
09:17 Techrights-sec; one of the problems is that it becomes rote and done witout thought and thus
09:17 Techrights-sec; is not thought about; it is overdue for automation but that is contingent
09:17 Techrights-sec; upon the OS upgrade ...
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09:17 schestowitz-TR; and probably CMS change, too
09:18 schestowitz-TR; the gemini side of IRC logs is automated and never gets it wrong when I check (which is rare)
09:19 Techrights-sec; Gemini is handled on an uptodate OS
09:19 Techrights-sec; more / better / relevant tools are available there
09:20 schestowitz-TR; noptice how gemini always updates OK on its own following changes made with tc, some cleanup of stale
09:20 schestowitz-TR; processes etc.
09:20 schestowitz-TR; I've not even had to log in for a week
09:31 schestowitz-TR; I've decided to do the video about lunduke later today along with the EPO video
09:31 schestowitz-TR; as it's faster when several are done in a row
09:31 schestowitz-TR; I don't plan to cover gemini much anymore
09:31 schestowitz-TR; it's still growing and there's lots I can just link to, instead
09:40 Techrights-sec; ack
09:42 schestowitz-TR; maybe the key message is,
09:42 schestowitz-TR; if you want to support Gemini then,
09:42 schestowitz-TR; a) use it
09:42 schestowitz-TR; b) link to it
09:42 schestowitz-TR; (b) follows (a) and (b) helps people learn about gemini because it they stmble upon gemini://
09:42 schestowitz-TR; link and want to open it, then they must learn something new
09:46 Techrights-sec; more importantly, at this point in time, would be packaging for key distros
09:46 Techrights-sec; of the Gemini clients; that is the next step
09:46 Techrights-sec; it cannot grow beyond the niche it has without being accessible to normal
09:46 Techrights-sec; GNU/Linux and BSD users
09:47 schestowitz-TR; at the moment a lot of gnu/linux and bsd users are technical
09:47 schestowitz-TR; you could argue that growth can come through "mobile"
09:47 schestowitz-TR; even if that sucks
09:47 schestowitz-TR; seeing articles about mastodon, i wonder if the message should still be
09:47 schestowitz-TR; just abandon social control media completely
09:47 Techrights-sec; there's technical and then there's bleeding edge; both can agtee that it is
09:47 Techrights-sec; not appropriate to require people to build from source and update from source
09:47 Techrights-sec; in the context of average software
09:47 Techrights-sec; I would say yes, that social control media in all its forms should be
09:47 Techrights-sec; avoided for many reasons
09:49 schestowitz-TR; other links/daily links no longer contain those
09:49 schestowitz-TR; and NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST
09:49 schestowitz-TR; if they have something important to say, they will blog about it
09:49 schestowitz-TR; and if it can be summed up in one sentence alone
09:49 schestowitz-TR; then it's likely not of much value
09:49 schestowitz-TR; and might not be verifiaable, which is likely the more important aspect
09:49 Techrights-sec; especially since none of the articles truly explain the federated nature of
09:49 Techrights-sec; Mastodon and even then the blacklists are automated and centralized anyway
09:49 Techrights-sec; Yes, blogging is the way to go
09:50 schestowitz-TR; The Web we Lost - Anil Dash (article, talks etc.) [citation]
10:00 schestowitz-TR; wow, lxer links to techrights today and the traffic is like... nothing.
10:00 schestowitz-TR; yeah, don't smile too fast
10:00 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I also saw 3 links from reddit
10:00 schestowitz-TR; same, no traffic
10:00 schestowitz-TR; it's becoming like traffic in twitter
10:00 schestowitz-TR; or casinos and gambling in the street or arcade tokens
10:00 schestowitz-TR; they show you the "success stories" (like front page)
10:00 schestowitz-TR; of jackpots
10:00 schestowitz-TR; but for 99% of more it's nothing but a dream
10:00 schestowitz-TR; false marketing
10:00 schestowitz-TR; some people join twitter for "activism"
10:00 schestowitz-TR; because they saw Daily Mail something...
10:00 Techrights-sec; :)
10:00 Techrights-sec; :(
10:00 Techrights-sec; So lxer is much smaller than it used to be
10:00 Techrights-sec; they promote those statistical anomalies as if they were the rule and not the
10:00 Techrights-sec; exception
10:00 Techrights-sec; Notice also that Facebook and the others only get 'growth' coverage and
10:00 Techrights-sec; mostly only positive articles, to help keep them afloat
10:03 schestowitz-TR; you have seen how I put it
10:03 schestowitz-TR; the real news is that that facebook loses relevance
10:03 schestowitz-TR; but that FB itself ADMITS it
10:03 schestowitz-TR; using its secret, proprietary data
10:03 schestowitz-TR; and now the Zuck is getting to gripsm with it having no real future
10:03 Techrights-sec; yes
10:03 schestowitz-TR; so he wants some fiction he may have read about as a kid to
10:03 schestowitz-TR; a) be hyped up by media like "hey hi" (metaverse, meta, vr, ar)
10:03 schestowitz-TR; b) become market leader in this
10:03 schestowitz-TR; c) keep shareholdera around for (b), based on lies in (a)
10:03 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft is the same in the post-Windows era
10:04 schestowitz-TR; security
10:04 schestowitz-TR; games
10:04 schestowitz-TR; military-ware
10:04 schestowitz-TR; hosting (azure)
10:04 schestowitz-TR; developers developers developers (shithub)
10:17 schestowitz-TR; "CNC Engraver" https://hackaday.com/2022/04/27/no-laser-cnc-engraver-is-something-new-under-the-sun/ | Source: Hackaday
10:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-No-Laser CNC Engraver Is Something New Under The Sun | Hackaday
10:18 Techrights-sec; M$ has lost some of the games market already, how much more remains to be
10:18 Techrights-sec; seen and appears to have put them in a panic
10:18 Techrights-sec; the loss of github is problematic especially because too many idiots and
10:18 Techrights-sec; idiot journals try to conflate version control and Git specifically with GitHub
10:20 schestowitz-TR; some of the time, not all the time, this is deliberate
10:20 schestowitz-TR; the equiv. of producing FB "happy stories" (we met in FB, got married..)
10:20 schestowitz-TR; BTW, ICBM does ther same
10:20 schestowitz-TR; I occasionally show examples of this
10:20 schestowitz-TR; LF also (FOSSForce is one of their tentacles, but that can turn Christine into
10:20 schestowitz-TR; another SPAMnil)
10:20 Techrights-sec; In th beginning, every time FB started to ebb, the tabloids and worse filled
10:20 Techrights-sec; with "happy stories" about FB
10:20 Techrights-sec; FOMO was pushed heavily and still is
10:21 schestowitz-TR; Girls I met online (and then in person) were always not good
10:21 schestowitz-TR; not to say ones I met in person first were perfect
10:21 schestowitz-TR; but at least you find out evry fast
10:22 Techrights-sec; yes
10:24 schestowitz-TR; I cannot imagine doing job interviews or court hearings "online"
10:24 schestowitz-TR; It is a grotesque notion that shows how supposed "progress"
10:24 schestowitz-TR; is exactly the opposite of it
10:24 schestowitz-TR; it's like calling pr0n a progress for sex
10:24 schestowitz-TR; or like calling [something] better than xuisine
10:24 schestowitz-TR; cannot think of that something yet, maybne a pastry and coffee at starbucks
10:24 schestowitz-TR; hmmmmmmmm!!! STARBUCKS... SOOOOOO DELICIOUS!!!
10:26 Techrights-sec; Most places make it illegal to dig around online and especially in social
10:26 Techrights-sec; control media for job applicants, but the way around that is to outsource
10:26 Techrights-sec; part of the hiring process one or two layers deep and turn a blind eye to
10:26 Techrights-sec; contractor abuses and violations
10:26 schestowitz-TR; Gulag approached me 2-3 times over the years after "stalking" me online
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I assume in USENET
10:27 schestowitz-TR; if that's illegal, and according to what chris DiBono told me this is in fact what the recruiters do
10:27 schestowitz-TR; (along with headhunting), then maybe legal action is overdue
10:27 schestowitz-TR; *DiBona
10:27 schestowitz-TR; (of course he tries to destroy GNU/RMS/FSF now)
10:27 schestowitz-TR; (the millionaire turncoat who is troubled by poor activists)
10:27 Techrights-sec; Google approached me in person a *very* long time ago but I was quit turned
10:27 Techrights-sec; off by their (then) recent hiring of microsofters and spend the encounter
10:27 Techrights-sec; warning them of the consequences of bringing microsofters inside the company
10:27 Techrights-sec; needsless to say they did not heed and my warnings were proven prescient :(
10:31 schestowitz-TR; Red Hat has had similar problems
10:31 schestowitz-TR; Not sure about Canonical
10:31 schestowitz-TR; but at the back of our minds we should perpetuALLy have this lingering reminder
10:31 schestowitz-TR; that states too DO NOT want citizens to control their devices
10:31 schestowitz-TR; s
10:31 schestowitz-TR; so there will be coordinated efforts to promote centralised "media"
10:31 schestowitz-TR; and consolidated media
10:31 schestowitz-TR; not blogs
10:31 schestowitz-TR; or OSes that are like chromeOS
10:31 schestowitz-TR; as a compromise for when Windows is up in flames and down in market share
10:33 Techrights-sec; Canonical has been thoroughly ruined from the inside by microsofters.
10:33 Techrights-sec; The exit strategy seems to be to bail via IPO next year.
10:33 Techrights-sec; Correct, a lot of overt and covert action will be taken to ensure that
10:33 Techrights-sec; groups and projects move in a centralized, proprietary direction.
10:33 Techrights-sec; Remmber the "licensing disagreement" that blocked the pro-open standards
10:33 Techrights-sec; web sites, almost down to a site, during the hours that some of the European
10:33 Techrights-sec; states were deliberating on OOXML. That "disagrteement" was resolved within
10:33 Techrights-sec; minutes of the decision and within an hour or so, service was restored once it
10:33 Techrights-sec; was too late to influence the decision(s)
10:34 Techrights-sec; LXD is not available on Devuan and only via Snaps on Debian. :/
10:35 Techrights-sec; LXC is somewhat insecure, last I read :\
10:36 schestowitz-TR; ectra complexity was never good for security
10:36 schestowitz-TR; for a number of reasons
10:36 schestowitz-TR; I know, I know... they will say "insulation", "isolatioon", "abstraction" etc.
10:36 schestowitz-TR; but containers are not the way
10:36 schestowitz-TR; you end up having to deal with a lot more files all over the place
10:38 Techrights-sec; a Snaps on Debian. :/
10:38 Techrights-sec; LXC is somewhat insecure, last I read :\
10:38 Techrights-sec; I figure shared hosting may the best way to go, but I can see some convenience
10:38 Techrights-sec; factors with "just" copying a large image from one machine to another
10:38 Techrights-sec; The container itself is a service and a complex one at that. Complexity is BAD.From the little I see of LXC / LXD
10:38 Techrights-sec; and FreeBSD jails, FreeBSD jails seem
10:38 Techrights-sec; worlds better.
10:41 schestowitz-TR; disk space got cheaper
10:41 schestowitz-TR; b/w is less of a problem in most places
10:41 schestowitz-TR; www got bloated because it's "faster" (for development) to ignore contraints and limits
10:41 schestowitz-TR; similarly, on the server side and desktop (flatpak/snap), containers are seen as "compromise"
10:41 schestowitz-TR; just get half a gig of "stuff" for some small progra
10:41 schestowitz-TR; AppImages are also MASSIVE
10:41 schestowitz-TR; but we no longer federate installs using cd-roms or even DVDs
10:41 schestowitz-TR; from what I recall, the install media for Vista 11 is loaded with lots of very very
10:41 schestowitz-TR; poor-quality cruft
10:41 schestowitz-TR; this is where the world goes (EPO also): low-quality junk in high quantities
10:41 schestowitz-TR; kettle every year, OS with EOL after 2 years, patents on CHEWING GUM
10:47 schestowitz-TR; ====
10:47 schestowitz-TR; on a positive note, I think we have done a fantastic job, all things considered (like people moving to "apps"
10:47 schestowitz-TR; as jail-as-'media'), in TM and TR
10:47 schestowitz-TR; I had to cut off a lot of the patent new picks as it's more noisy than it's worth
10:47 schestowitz-TR; I am back to work tonight, but will do a recording on EPO (now in lxer) and Lunduke
10:47 schestowitz-TR; The upside of his articles, lunacy notwithstanding (I saw none of the rest; I dumped him like a hot potato
10:47 schestowitz-TR; when he was shilling Microsoft), is they they legitimise what we've long said about OSI, LF, and others
10:47 schestowitz-TR; and you can be sure he has read us as when you research those issues Techrights is very visible
10:47 schestowitz-TR; hence the likes of Gulagboy coming to IRC looking for "material"
10:47 schestowitz-TR; last week I learned that it's "homophobic" to be against PentaGAFAM
10:47 schestowitz-TR; even if you write about an org led by someone whom you presume is hetero
10:47 schestowitz-TR; but I think that trick will backfire on him
10:47 schestowitz-TR; He stepped away from OSI, partly, this year
10:47 schestowitz-TR; Phipps is back
10:47 Techrights-sec; yes, a lot of good work and you do a *lot* of work
10:47 Techrights-sec; ack
10:47 Techrights-sec; In a good way or a bad way?
10:51 schestowitz-TR; OK, I don't want to ctrl c/v into unix term
10:51 schestowitz-TR; go to the osi site/blog, search for webmink or phipps
10:51 schestowitz-TR; he wrote about things like patents
10:51 schestowitz-TR; which I think is an area they should be active in
10:51 schestowitz-TR; he rallied people in the EU to submit input
10:51 schestowitz-TR; I used to chat with him privately about those issues
10:51 schestowitz-TR; before we got into big arguments over the OSI's direction and Patrick resigned
10:51 schestowitz-TR; he was so proud that he promoted diversity that he lost sight
10:51 schestowitz-TR; of what those people stood for (or didn't)
10:55 Techrights-sec; That's good news then.
10:57 schestowitz-TR; it would be counter-productive if I wrote something like, phipps is back and writing
10:57 schestowitz-TR; for osi for first time in years
10:57 schestowitz-TR; as it would also give the false impression he's as important (or of integrity) as
10:57 schestowitz-TR; Perens
10:57 schestowitz-TR; Phipps worked with FSFE to undermine FSF
10:57 schestowitz-TR; Perens is corresponding with RMS
10:57 schestowitz-TR; while phipps mocks him and signs ant-RMS defmation writs
10:58 schestowitz-TR; "Its very early days for CAD Sketcher, a new parametric CAD add-on for Blender by [hlorus], but it looks very promising" https://hackaday.com/2022/04/27/cad-sketcher-its-parametric-cad-for-blender/
10:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-CAD Sketcher, Its Parametric CAD For Blender | Hackaday
11:02 schestowitz-TR; a longstanding, applicable, suitable analogy is "doping"
11:02 schestowitz-TR; like financial doping in football clubs
11:02 schestowitz-TR; some of these "open source" people try to cheat their way into thrones
11:02 schestowitz-TR; so they provoke and lie and suck up
11:02 schestowitz-TR; and temporarily they might benefit
11:02 schestowitz-TR; all the coup leaders (vs rms) are out
11:02 schestowitz-TR; gulagboy not in gulag
11:02 schestowitz-TR; deb not in osi
11:02 schestowitz-TR; bully and mcgovern unemployed
11:02 schestowitz-TR; not sure where deb is
11:03 schestowitz-TR; she vanished
11:03 schestowitz-TR; like MattL
11:03 schestowitz-TR; spamnil is busy tryint to bear gulag's algos and get noticed
11:03 schestowitz-TR; LF too will drop him
11:03 schestowitz-TR; in my articles FOR the video on LF I already have 3 new linkss
11:03 schestowitz-TR; about LF
11:03 schestowitz-TR; they got some other new lackey to run linux.com
11:03 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned him in passing a month ago
11:03 schestowitz-TR; Lunduke did mention their NFT lunacy!
11:04 schestowitz-TR; going on "RT" for an interview is a bit like doping
11:04 schestowitz-TR; it might seem like a good idea (at the time)
11:04 schestowitz-TR; but years later you can get blacklisted like Russian atheletes
11:04 schestowitz-TR; so better say, "no thank you... I'd rather not be on TV than be associated with you"
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11:07 schestowitz-TR; Assange paid a MASSIVE price, for 10 years, for having some show broadcast via some company in "RT"
11:07 schestowitz-TR; some other associates of his (Jeremie and others) can get "marked" for this
11:08 schestowitz-TR; afaik chomsky never went on iranian or russian channels, ever
11:08 schestowitz-TR; not sure if hedges counts
11:08 schestowitz-TR; I think hedges just sold his episodes to RT
11:08 schestowitz-TR; "RT" is not news
11:08 schestowitz-TR; RT is a campaign to descridit EU and US
11:08 schestowitz-TR; and they will rope anything in... to support this mission
11:08 schestowitz-TR; under the guise of "journalism" and "free press"
11:08 Techrights-sec; ack
11:08 Techrights-sec; apt analogy
11:08 Techrights-sec; yes good call
11:08 Techrights-sec; the associatino hurt both RMS and JA from day one
11:15 schestowitz-TR; doping [metaphor]: doing something to get ahead, at least temporarily, despite knowing and sensing that it
11:15 schestowitz-TR; may be counter-intuitive and counter-productive. Ex: clickbait.
11:15 schestowitz-TR; I am trying to recall the name of IDG "journalists" who made up people and quotes. Randall Keneddy? I think
11:15 schestowitz-TR; at least one of those names is right, but anyway his career was over after this and past articles were
11:15 schestowitz-TR; retroactively disgraced. He did some reporting against Microsoft, but you would not wish to link to this
11:15 schestowitz-TR; knowing what you know about him now.
11:17 schestowitz-TR; "CBS News hiring former Trump aide Mick Mulvaney speaks volumes about systemic problems in our media. Mulvaney noto
11:17 schestowitz-TR; riously defended various Trump chicaneries" https://fair.org/home/damn-good-for-cbs-but-really-bad-for-democracy/
11:17 schestowitz-TR; | Source: FAIR
11:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fair.org | Damn Good for CBSbut Really Bad for Democracy - FAIR
11:17 schestowitz-TR; ^Bryan Lunduke, "Linux Sucks!"
11:20 Techrights-sec; unfortunatley so
11:20 Techrights-sec; I can't reca;; specific IDG "journalists"
11:21 schestowitz-TR; I have just checked
11:21 schestowitz-TR; Randall C. Kennedy
11:21 schestowitz-TR; wrote a lot in infoworld
11:21 schestowitz-TR; when it still ran/existed (I've not even seen that domain in ages)
11:23 Techrights-sec; InfoWorld was ok back in the 1990s
11:23 Techrights-sec; perhaps a bit longer too
11:27 Techrights-sec; THat's common: buy a brand or take over the name from the insude and then
11:27 Techrights-sec; gut it for short term profit
11:27 Techrights-sec; do it for a few quarters before people catch on and use the rising stock
11:27 Techrights-sec; prices to cash in and to get a new job doing more of the same damage at
11:27 Techrights-sec; a new company
11:28 schestowitz-TR; Twitter.
11:28 schestowitz-TR; Infoworld:
11:28 schestowitz-TR; now oened by some chinee entity
11:28 schestowitz-TR; they use a few of the still-online domain for "BRAND POST"
11:28 schestowitz-TR; and other sponsored webspam
11:28 schestowitz-TR; trying to ride what's left of the past reputation
11:28 schestowitz-TR; they used to do BOSSIE Awards
11:28 Techrights-sec; THat's common: buy a brand or take over the name from the insude and then
11:28 Techrights-sec; gut it for short term profit
11:28 Techrights-sec; do it for a few quarters before people catch on and use the rising stock
11:28 Techrights-sec; prices to cash in and to get a new job doing more of the same damage at
11:28 Techrights-sec; a new company
11:29 schestowitz-TR; Twitter.
11:29 schestowitz-TR; SCMP
11:29 schestowitz-TR; (for Chinese example)
11:42 schestowitz-TR; Singapore has quite a few examples, but I forgot the details due to passange of time
11:42 schestowitz-TR; On the plane they handed out 'free' copies of the regime's media
11:42 schestowitz-TR; PAP
11:42 schestowitz-TR; showbox-for-home land
11:42 schestowitz-TR; Shoe
11:42 schestowitz-TR; Overpopulation based on hype and consumrism
11:42 schestowitz-TR; mandatory military service for men
11:43 schestowitz-TR; and reliance on imports as they barely make anything of their own
11:43 schestowitz-TR; same as macao (IIRC highest pop. density in the planet)
11:43 Techrights-sec; ack
11:55 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Don't let corporations conflate social cohesion with commercial impunity
12:04 schestowitz-TR; I want to ask you,
12:04 schestowitz-TR; regarding Canonical
12:04 schestowitz-TR; neither of us is an accountant
12:04 schestowitz-TR; but I was thinking in th e kitchen
12:04 schestowitz-TR; the company was insolvent years ago
12:04 schestowitz-TR; if they say "IPO", does that mean buying time with other people's money?
12:04 schestowitz-TR; Also, MS (Mark S) claims profits
12:04 schestowitz-TR; why now?
12:04 schestowitz-TR; Why not before?
12:04 schestowitz-TR; They killed off the community
12:04 schestowitz-TR; in a lot of ways
12:04 schestowitz-TR; could he be faking it and, if the firm is private, what would be the ramifications?
12:04 schestowitz-TR; (nb. most businesses do not make money, but they hide it or talk about "the future")
12:04 schestowitz-TR; [this is brainstorming IN CASE I want to thjrow a hat in the ring]
12:04 schestowitz-TR; if a company turns from losses to big profits while the users of its flagship product FLEE, something
12:04 schestowitz-TR; seems a tad "off"
12:17 Techrights-sec; It's probably his way of cashing out and leaving, having had enough
12:19 schestowitz-TR; ok, here is the thing
12:19 schestowitz-TR; if I said something dismissive
12:19 schestowitz-TR; and someone said, "PROVE IT!"
12:19 schestowitz-TR; I would not have compelling material
12:19 schestowitz-TR; but intuition and guy feelign say he's just making proclamation
12:19 schestowitz-TR; to encourage people to invest
12:19 schestowitz-TR; but once they see if from the inside, they'll realise it has many server
12:19 schestowitz-TR; users but not so much money
12:19 schestowitz-TR; a lot of that happens, buyer's remorse
12:19 schestowitz-TR; like IBM
12:21 schestowitz-TR; ----
12:21 schestowitz-TR; years ago mandriva was enraged that MS (Mark S), having grabbed the lion's share of desktyop users,
12:21 schestowitz-TR; moaned that there was "no money in it"
12:21 schestowitz-TR; while he was doing ShipIt
12:21 schestowitz-TR; and Mandriva was trying toi upsell superpacks
12:21 schestowitz-TR; so even then he complained he was in it for money
12:21 schestowitz-TR; not altruism
12:21 schestowitz-TR; and then focused more on eating debian's and icbm's lunch
12:21 schestowitz-TR; instead of microsoft's or apple's
12:22 Techrights-sec; yes Mark could have done well except for allowing the microsofters into MOTU
12:22 Techrights-sec; which damaged the project + company, then he made the damage permanent
12:22 Techrights-sec; by hiring in more micrtosofters and placing them within the company
12:23 schestowitz-TR; the first I knew of, via IRC ("tacone" from Italy) was Rick Sponcer
12:23 schestowitz-TR; later Jono Bacon was licking the boot
12:23 schestowitz-TR; and then there was the Azure turnoff, WSL etc.
12:23 schestowitz-TR; WSL failed so badly
12:23 schestowitz-TR; that it's mostly WINDOWS sites shilling it, and even that it rare this year
12:26 Techrights-sec; Bacon was a spinmeister and more a diode than conduit, he was to lord on high
12:26 Techrights-sec; to the community about how they were going to have to accept, than interact
12:26 Techrights-sec; with the community and negotiate mutal goals and work towards them;
12:26 Techrights-sec; he was a *VERY BIG PART* of the problem with Canonical; Yet despite doing
12:26 Techrights-sec; so much damage to the company and the project he was lauded for his efforts
12:26 Techrights-sec; rather than thrashed and driven out into isolation
12:26 Techrights-sec; as he more rightly deserved
12:34 Techrights-sec; Many were fooled by his (mis-)use of the title Community Manager and did not
12:34 Techrights-sec; look further at his harmful actions.
12:34 Techrights-sec; add one more to the fail pile if you count his time at Ubuntu ...
12:35 schestowitz-TR; "art" of community managerment
12:35 schestowitz-TR; his art is not graphics, or barely. His "art" is shouting into the microphone.
12:35 schestowitz-TR; which I think speaks "volumes".
12:35 schestowitz-TR; "bad volume"
12:35 schestowitz-TR; his current podcast
12:35 schestowitz-TR; he had many failed ones over the years, more than I can recall
12:35 schestowitz-TR; "bad volume" barely even focuses on Free software
12:35 schestowitz-TR; his prior podcast was named after booze
12:35 schestowitz-TR; he worked at github while Microsoft ambushed the company for takeover
12:35 schestowitz-TR; (afaik, github manmagement was aware all along)
12:35 Techrights-sec; I would not be surprised if he had somehow contributed to the demise of GitHub
12:36 schestowitz-TR; he was there for a relatively short time, I think they failed to find somthing for him to do
12:36 schestowitz-TR; as he lacked both the technical skills or.... well....what else?
12:36 Techrights-sec; indeed
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15:42 Techrights-sec; of the news sites covering mastodon, many of them are calling it a "site" wint
15:42 Techrights-sec; ^with
15:42 Techrights-sec; with the implication that it is a centralized service and avoid mentioning even
15:42 Techrights-sec; the idea of decentralization and federation; though truth be told, the centralized blacklists do a ot to neutralize
15:42 Techrights-sec; the benefits of federation
15:42 Techrights-sec; yep
15:43 schestowitz-TR; the media is also mostly centralised
15:43 schestowitz-TR; they cover the same BS
15:43 schestowitz-TR; which comes from the same regimes and corporations
15:43 schestowitz-TR; using the same funnels, such as Gulag search and FB
15:43 schestowitz-TR; to them, www is just a bunch of "companies" and "stores"
15:43 schestowitz-TR; this is not how the web started
15:44 Techrights-sec; "Wired" at least has the federation part described correctly, despite it being
15:44 Techrights-sec; a shadow of what it ws in the 1990s when they wrote regularly about cutting
15:44 Techrights-sec; edge policy issues
15:45 schestowitz-TR; the "they" changed
15:45 schestowitz-TR; technical people and scholars, geeks
15:45 schestowitz-TR; now stenographers with no relevant qualifications except grammar/english
15:45 schestowitz-TR; sort of like what JUVE Patent became
15:45 schestowitz-TR; not understanding of technical issue
15:45 schestowitz-TR; no understanding of legal issues
15:45 schestowitz-TR; or what patents are
15:46 Techrights-sec; However, didn't mastodon have its roots in GNUsocial?
15:46 Techrights-sec; The GNU Social roots of the fediverse would be a good topic to cover
15:46 Techrights-sec; if you are still looking for video topics
15:50 schestowitz-TR; I think you remember it not accurately, except the term "fediverse
15:50 schestowitz-TR; "
15:50 schestowitz-TR; mastodon afaik started from scratch as Twitter clone
15:50 schestowitz-TR; and statusnet being gnu social predated that by a lot
15:50 schestowitz-TR; later they connected across 'CMS' stuff, inc. for video
15:50 schestowitz-TR; but never got around to diaspora
15:50 schestowitz-TR; which likely hurt diaspora
15:50 schestowitz-TR; (btw, THEY ARE ALL SHIT!)
15:50 schestowitz-TR; they used to have many users, mastodon had momentum in 2017, but it's all going down the toilet
15:50 schestowitz-TR; that's why joindiaspora pulled the plug... not many active users left
15:50 schestowitz-TR; it is not a twitter issue (Also down)
15:50 schestowitz-TR; or FB (down)
15:50 schestowitz-TR; it's the concept
15:50 schestowitz-TR; gamification of filtered communications
15:50 schestowitz-TR; moanths ago when joindiaspora was throwiong in the towel I shows you some stats in a site that combinees all
15:50 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the activity is historical
15:50 schestowitz-TR; in recent years you saw lots of shutdowns, inc. distrotoot and drew devault's instance
15:51 Techrights-sec; my innacuracy is due to my ignorance in that area, I have not followed it at all
15:51 Techrights-sec; ack
15:52 schestowitz-TR; in terms of videos, I'm well behind
15:52 schestowitz-TR; I need to do belarus article, I'm well behind on RSS feed (lost a lot of time arguing in IRC)
15:52 schestowitz-TR; need to then record about LF and Belarus
15:52 schestowitz-TR; and I start work in 100 minutes
16:28 schestowitz-TR; draft
16:28 schestowitz-TR; the summary was an attempt at EPO tie-in, but I will expand a bit
16:28 Techrights-sec; ack
16:28 Techrights-sec; needs a tie-in to the EPO in the intro so that the reader knows this will
16:28 Techrights-sec; be about patents or the EPO itself
16:29 Techrights-sec; same for the conclusions
16:29 Techrights-sec; thanks
16:35 schestowitz-TR; ok, check the new summary and last paragraph
16:42 Techrights-sec; nice. thanks!
16:42 Techrights-sec; that provides much more context for the body
16:43 schestowitz-TR; thanks for the sanity check
16:43 schestowitz-TR; it did not occur to me
16:43 schestowitz-TR; I work in 45 mins
16:43 schestowitz-TR; so will start recording NOW
16:43 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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18:50 schestowitz-TR; 1) I was frustrated to lose my first recording re EPO, but the second time around was better anyway
18:50 schestowitz-TR; and I learn my lessons (obs double checking) without losing anything os immense value
18:50 schestowitz-TR; 2) while recording about lunmduke I realised he created some straw men
18:50 schestowitz-TR; several incorrect assertion that can in fact discredit some of our thesis
18:50 schestowitz-TR; so in a 'defensive' move I think my article will be focused on stating that is not true/accurate
18:50 schestowitz-TR; and set the record straight
18:53 Techrights-sec; ack
18:53 Techrights-sec; strawmen are important to identify, they are distractions from the core issue
18:54 schestowitz-TR; As I go along the text, like last year with vaccines, I realise
18:54 schestowitz-TR; he mighht do more harm to us than good
18:54 schestowitz-TR; with these straw men
18:54 schestowitz-TR; on the surface OK, but it's easy to prove him wreong
18:54 schestowitz-TR; or misguided on COVID, too
18:58 schestowitz-TR; My text will be defensive
18:58 schestowitz-TR; not what I planned
18:58 schestowitz-TR; \I had a very fast read last night
18:58 schestowitz-TR; but now, while recording, I saw many small errors
18:58 schestowitz-TR; I will use the text to focus on that
18:58 schestowitz-TR; to defend what we have shown
18:58 schestowitz-TR; Lunduke might become the straw man, almost literally, for these issues
18:58 schestowitz-TR; and that would benefit nobody
18:58 schestowitz-TR; I want an outlet to burst out at the recording thing
18:58 schestowitz-TR; which I already told rianne about
18:58 schestowitz-TR; my mouse has bad buttons
18:58 schestowitz-TR; so sometimes it clicks twice, not once
18:58 schestowitz-TR; usually it's not causing any serious issues that I cannot correct
18:58 schestowitz-TR; today it did m record/stop in succesion
18:58 schestowitz-TR; but I consider myself lucky as I managed to recall about 20 minutes' worth of thingsd I said and say the same more
18:59 schestowitz-TR; concisely
18:59 schestowitz-TR; but I should not involutarily lose recordings
18:59 schestowitz-TR; so now there is another step in the checklist
18:59 schestowitz-TR; obs does not make it very obvious when it records
18:59 schestowitz-TR; with webcomoid I have better protocols in place
18:59 schestowitz-TR; also, after recording i had somew technical issue with a file, taking me about 20 minutes to correct
18:59 schestowitz-TR; i.e. ther equivalent of time wasted recording to something that was not recording
18:59 schestowitz-TR; it's all relative
18:59 Techrights-sec; ack
18:59 Techrights-sec; not just defend but also bring the discussion back on topic since strawmen
18:59 Techrights-sec; fallacies are one form of distraction
18:59 Techrights-sec; maybe the mouse can be disassembled and cleaned to restore it to working
18:59 Techrights-sec; condition. if not then it MUST be recycled in the electonic waste :(
19:07 schestowitz-TR; a simpler, well-overdue alternative is, improve the protcol for doubelk checking... in caase of double clicking: -)
19:07 schestowitz-TR; I tend not to throw anything away
19:07 schestowitz-TR; this is the first time I lose something with obs and it's not the fault of obs
19:07 schestowitz-TR; there are more concrete issue like face and souns not being properly synched
19:07 schestowitz-TR; because my hardware is not strerong enough
19:07 schestowitz-TR; draft
19:09 Techrights-sec; ack
19:09 Techrights-sec; broken equipment needs to be either repaired or removed permanently in such
19:09 Techrights-sec; a way as to prevent reuse either through temptation or forgetfulness
19:09 Techrights-sec; a reminder of the self-styled nature of the nickname is in order if it is
19:09 Techrights-sec; used
19:09 Techrights-sec; also it needs to be reminded (as always) that EPO is not part of the EU
19:09 Techrights-sec; epsecially since EU is mentioned
19:10 schestowitz-TR; I will revise the text a bit
19:10 schestowitz-TR; I attempted to recall things I said when thinking I was recording and it was not recording
19:10 schestowitz-TR; but anyway, lessons learned, no major harm done
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19:20 Techrights-sec; ack
19:28 schestowitz-TR; it will always be a terrible feeling losing text of multimedia you worked on
19:28 schestowitz-TR; with text it can be worse because text is a process with refinements
19:28 schestowitz-TR; whereas audio can be spontaneous
19:28 schestowitz-TR; it's impossible to meliminate all data loss
19:28 schestowitz-TR; but possible to reduce it
19:28 schestowitz-TR; with text, I now write to the pi over ssh (all working text files)
19:28 schestowitz-TR; if the pi dies, I have local copies
19:28 schestowitz-TR; if the local machine dies, the piu has all the files
19:28 schestowitz-TR; but tbh,m I very rarely lose text
19:28 schestowitz-TR; I lost an article more than 10 years ago after the palm PDA messed something up in the transfer
19:28 schestowitz-TR; ity was something about Vista 7
19:28 schestowitz-TR; and not a very long or detailed article
19:28 schestowitz-TR; like the one I did "interview" for muktware) inside the gym
19:28 schestowitz-TR; that one was rather long
19:28 schestowitz-TR; if I at least know I did what was possible to reduce loss (horrible feeling) and it no longer happens
19:28 schestowitz-TR; often, then I'm happy
19:28 Techrights-sec; yep
19:28 Techrights-sec; it is hard torecreae the old flow
19:28 Techrights-sec; ack
19:28 Techrights-sec; things generally work when watched closely, when it comes to intermittent problems
19:40 schestowitz-TR; tm backup is happpening at this very moment
19:40 schestowitz-TR; I sort of want it to fail at l;east once so that I know my check works OK
19:40 schestowitz-TR; oh, wait, it's not compressing the dumps at all for TM
19:40 schestowitz-TR; investigating...
19:40 schestowitz-TR; I think I found the issuie
19:40 schestowitz-TR; 'ionice nice'
19:40 schestowitz-TR; no, wait, that still pu
19:40 schestowitz-TR; lol, got it, I was testing the gz before it existed, I think
19:40 schestowitz-TR; I think it'll be OK now, on your backups you may have up to 4 uncompressed TM dumps
19:40 schestowitz-TR; I am compressing the 5 of them now
19:41 schestowitz-TR; later on today I'll have a lot of catching up to do with linux news
19:41 schestowitz-TR; and with work
19:41 schestowitz-TR; but it's almost weekend already!
19:41 Techrights-sec; race condition :/
19:41 Techrights-sec; ack
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19:57 schestowitz-TR; I'm still two posts behdind
19:57 schestowitz-TR; rianne will help post the latest news to TM
19:57 schestowitz-TR; also helps with work atm
19:57 schestowitz-TR; testing 5 latest gz files in tmux
19:57 Techrights-sec; ack
19:57 Techrights-sec; excellent
19:57 schestowitz-TR; coffee
19:57 schestowitz-TR; all were OK, I will check the script tomorrow
21:43 schestowitz-TR; 'Public Knowledge' has just been infiltrated by Microsoft, so it is more likely to help cover up Microsofts crimes than promote actual knowledge https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-welcomes-new-members-to-board-of-directors/
21:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-publicknowledge.org | Public Knowledge Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors - Public Knowledge
22:03 schestowitz-TR; crosofts Anti-Linux Propaganda and Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164258
22:03 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
22:03 schestowitz-TR; see comment on Schneier
22:14 schestowitz-TR; I will take the belarus text agsin and redo it to overcompensate for the loss
22:14 schestowitz-TR; away I know, but there's a draft now
22:14 schestowitz-TR; instead of blasting byan I directed the cirtiicsm towards the LF
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23:24 Techrights-sec; "General Manager of Microsofts Global Airband Initiative" from the first link
23:24 Techrights-sec; was apparently bought from the FCC
23:24 Techrights-sec; revolving door politics :
23:24 schestowitz-TR; revolving door politics :/
23:24 schestowitz-TR; graft as governance
23:24 Techrights-sec; revolving door politics :/
23:24 Techrights-sec; graft as governance
23:24 schestowitz-TR; 0/
23:24 schestowitz-TR; You theory about calm before storm and FUD coordination seems more plausible
23:24 schestowitz-TR; 3 links above\
23:24 schestowitz-TR; corporations are government, governments are corporations
23:24 schestowitz-TR; graft
23:26 schestowitz-TR; I've managed to remain rather clam considering all that happened today dnt his emotionally-draining
23:26 schestowitz-TR; BS from Microsoft
23:26 schestowitz-TR; I think we covered all the imports stuff in TM and TR has just had Daily Links
23:26 schestowitz-TR; maybe I'll get a nap soon, need to recharge
23:27 schestowitz-TR; tomorrow I'm free to video ideas, found none other than rehash of Microsoft FUD
23:27 schestowitz-TR; which would be a waste of time, just fgive that more attention
23:27 schestowitz-TR; so part 7 belarus
23:32 schestowitz-TR; rms is asking me some questions about the whispers
23:32 schestowitz-TR; but it's a tricky one
23:32 schestowitz-TR; I only meant to drop a cautionary tip without disclosing much pertinent information
23:32 schestowitz-TR; so as to balance the need to mitigate risk of another "boycott GNU" (or similar)
23:32 schestowitz-TR; with respect for privacy of someone or a conversation
23:32 schestowitz-TR; I decided after 2 days that I ought to at least say something
23:41 schestowitz; > Another link to Knight: https://dcsolutionfocusedcounseling.com/
23:41 schestowitz; > <https://dcsolutionfocusedcounseling.com/>
23:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dcsolutionfocusedcounseling.com | Home - BK Consulting
23:41 schestowitz; HAHAHA!
23:41 schestowitz; Thanks, I shall use that.
23:43 schestowitz; Re: WorldIPday ipeurope
23:43 schestowitz; > The tweets of iPeurope for worldipday are hilarious.
23:43 schestowitz; >
23:43 schestowitz; > Patents helps transportation lol.
23:43 schestowitz; Without patents, toasters would not work and you would starve to death!!
23:43 Techrights-sec; ack
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