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06:41 schestowitz-TR; So many people associated with Wikileaks lose a laptop. So many. "My laptop was stolen from me on the Vienna to Frankfurt train on Saturday" https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/11/electronic-grief/ | Source: Craig Murray
06:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.craigmurray.org.uk | Electronic Grief - Craig Murray
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07:22 Techrightssec; I hope Murray had multiple backups.
07:22 Techrightssec; The article and the day's work are of course lost but if the backups were
07:22 Techrightssec; done responsibly it should be less than 24 hours lost.
07:22 Techrightssec; Encryption is another matter though.
07:26 schestowitz-TR; some days ago, when ipfs was having issues 'upstream' (nothing wrong at our end, no changed had been made)
07:26 schestowitz-TR; I turned on ipfs on the pi
07:26 schestowitz-TR; a couple of days later the lockfile got stuck
07:26 schestowitz-TR; I only turned off ipfs there a day ago
07:26 schestowitz-TR; and I noticed no updates in gemini since 25/11
07:26 schestowitz-TR; I deleted the lockfile, reran, but some older articles are not in gemini
07:26 schestowitz-TR; I suspect it limited itself to maybe 10 latest posts -- less than the total in the RSS feeds
07:26 Techrightssec; I can check in a bit, but the weak link in the current work flow is that
07:26 Techrightssec; the links are gathered from RSS.
07:28 schestowitz-TR; yes, but if ipfs is not running, then the weakness does not manifest itself
07:28 schestowitz-TR; after several days of ipfs request timeouts I decided to temporarily run it on the pi, at least for older objects
07:28 schestowitz-TR; ipfs worked like a charm again this morning
07:28 schestowitz-TR; I suspect their hive/network/swarm had some issues with itself, maybe last week and some of this week
07:28 schestowitz-TR; it's hard to find any real news about ipfs
07:28 schestowitz-TR; there are reasons for that
07:49 schestowitz-TR; I think I narrowed down the io issues on "vonick" to quiterss and disk churn
07:49 schestowitz-TR; it not only takes more ram then before
07:49 schestowitz-TR; it would hog io
07:49 schestowitz-TR; leaving other processes on the queue
07:49 schestowitz-TR; the simplest solution, for now, is to close the application
07:49 schestowitz-TR; it's possible that the db itself is not in a good state
08:19 Techrightssec; Running batch processing of old, missed pages for Gemini.
08:19 Techrightssec; checking
08:19 Techrightssec; Updating Gemini hierarchy and Gemini index
08:19 schestowitz-TR; just expanded camelcase a bit
08:19 schestowitz-TR; some new sites emerge, but not as many as go offline or become inactive and barely active
08:19 schestowitz-TR; the issue isn't so much cleaning feeds or finding enough feeds
08:19 schestowitz-TR; the issue is lack of circulation of information, a lack of journalism
08:19 schestowitz-TR; which in turn means harder to write, rather than repeat (WSL)
08:38 Techrightssec; Done: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/
08:38 schestowitz-TR; excellent, thank you!
08:38 schestowitz-TR; biab exercise
08:41 Techrightssec; np
09:43 schestowitz-TR; was afak last was "np"
09:43 Techrightssec; nothing missed
11:53 Techrightssec; ack
12:01 schestowitz-TR; The Decline of COVID-19 Severity and Lethality Over Two Years of Pandemic (Center for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/28/covid19-paper-italy/
12:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The Decline of COVID-19 Severity and Lethality Over Two Years of Pandemic (Center for Health Emergencies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy)
12:05 schestowitz-TR; busy with upc these weeks, very crucial time
12:05 schestowitz-TR; I responsed to the journalist after she had sent me email
12:05 schestowitz-TR; the 'proper' way, not Microsoft 'social' 'media'
12:05 schestowitz-TR; upc is a political issue, not a technical or legal issue
12:05 schestowitz-TR; seems to be widepread knowledge... over time
13:02 Techrightssec; UPC is very important and getting coverage of the problems is crucial
13:02 Techrightssec; in making sure it stays dead. The more companies which get suckered by
13:02 Techrightssec; team UPC, though, the bigger the scandal will grow and the longer they
13:02 Techrightssec; all will try to draw out the admission of its demise.
13:02 schestowitz-TR; UPC is a "monster" bigger than any one company
13:02 schestowitz-TR; because it is convergence of several companies, across fields,a dn their controlled regimes and policial parties
13:02 schestowitz-TR; but we must give it a fight
13:02 schestowitz-TR; sometimes we even win
13:03 Techrightssec; Law is on our side AFAIK but the largest problem over time is the
13:03 Techrightssec; lack of accountability and oversight enforcing any aspect of law there.
13:04 schestowitz-TR; yes, _exactly_
13:08 schestowitz-TR; motto of mine (not inspired any oneone): no regrets as long as you knew you did your best at it
13:08 schestowitz-TR; in the case of the upc, I did my best. whether others join in and help... not my problem. As I did my best
13:08 schestowitz-TR; to get others involved in the issue.
13:08 schestowitz-TR; when orgs crush the law in their path (microsoft, eu, upc), they will struggle to paint critics as "haters"
13:09 Techrightssec; It'd be nice though to get a little help on the sw patent problem from EFF, FSFF, FFII, OSI, or others even if they operating fulling i
13:09 Techrightssec; y independently from TR on it.
13:11 schestowitz-TR; EFF is mostly shit
13:11 schestowitz-TR; I did a 44-min video to show that it did or didn't do on EPO, swpats directive, and swpats in the US
13:11 schestowitz-TR; FSF is not doing much (still better than doing evil)
13:11 schestowitz-TR; FFII 2 pres releases ina year(and some... tweets... boo)
13:11 schestowitz-TR; OSI = Microsoft front group, part time
13:12 Techrightssec; Shit or not, they need to stop ignoring a problem which affects the long,
13:12 Techrightssec; medium, and short term viability of general purpose computing and digital
13:12 Techrightssec; rights.
13:12 Techrightssec; The FSF could stir from its dazed state this once.
13:12 Techrightssec; OSI could grow a pair.
13:14 schestowitz-TR; I'd just defer to what Pieter said about misbehaving orgs
13:14 schestowitz-TR; they won'r reform
13:14 schestowitz-TR; they will go under or keep at it (the "new" agenda)
13:14 schestowitz-TR; I've yet to see an org going bad, then good again
13:14 schestowitz-TR; there is a human flight element
13:14 schestowitz-TR; like gillmore getting the boot (eff)
13:30 Techrightssec; Right, they won't reform but that does not mean they can't be squeezed or
13:30 Techrightssec; cajoled into doing the right thing one more time.
13:30 Techrightssec; ack
13:30 schestowitz-TR; I tried with EFF and OSI
13:30 schestowitz-TR; and nothing came out of it
13:30 schestowitz-TR; they are cajoled by others and better funded interests
13:30 schestowitz-TR; and they love their pocket more than what the orgs stand for
15:22 schestowitz-TR; cannot think of topics for articles or videos today
15:22 schestowitz-TR; already went through lists of places to check
15:22 schestowitz-TR; i know it is extended weekend in usa
15:22 schestowitz-TR; but still
15:22 schestowitz-TR; got lots of spare time, even slept a lot more lately
15:22 schestowitz-TR; and writing or recording just "for the sake of it"
15:22 schestowitz-TR; always results in low-qualify cruft
15:23 schestowitz-TR; so better not, better silence
15:29 schestowitz-TR; -
15:29 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I will try to contexualise that with "news"
15:29 schestowitz-TR; btw, lanier is a microsofter
15:29 schestowitz-TR; he 'rebranded' some eyars ago as some 'guru' on harms of social control media
15:29 schestowitz-TR; fter some books he wrote
15:29 schestowitz-TR; *after
15:29 schestowitz-TR; I saw an interview with him about that
15:29 schestowitz-TR; he doesn't say anything too novel
15:29 schestowitz-TR; jus rehash
15:29 schestowitz-TR; the media made him what he is
15:29 schestowitz-TR; and then Microsoft hired him
15:29 schestowitz-TR; iirc, he wrote a log in TheEdge along with Jeffrey Epstein
15:29 schestowitz-TR; edge.org
15:29 schestowitz-TR; now he's just some very obese man who pretends to be an expert in whatever he sells a book on
15:29 schestowitz-TR; like vr, hey hi...
15:29 schestowitz-TR; iirc, his claim to fame is some vr stuff
15:29 schestowitz-TR; his latest 'blockbuster' article is in bill's guardian 'uk'
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16:54 schestowitz-TR; still chewing on eff and twitter etc.
16:54 schestowitz-TR; now sure i have anything new or witty to say just yet
16:54 schestowitz-TR; *not
16:54 schestowitz-TR; even though about it on the way to the shop and back
16:54 schestowitz-TR; writer's block
17:00 schestowitz-TR; the slant du jour is,
17:00 schestowitz-TR; saying "bad" things (saying something about what's bad) is "illegal" because "privacy"
17:00 schestowitz-TR; "CoC" takes that to another level
17:08 schestowitz-TR; 100 day blogging challenge: Let's get those RSS feeds going again: Dissociated Press https://dissociatedpress.net/2022/11/28/100-day-blogging-challenge-lets-get-those-rss-feeds-going-again/ Source: Joe Brockmeier
17:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dissociatedpress.net | 100 day blogging challenge: Lets get those RSS feeds going again: Dissociated Press
17:08 schestowitz-TR; this is what we want! back to blogs!!
17:09 Techrightssec; :) :)
17:44 schestowitz-TR; i think I know what video to make... while afk I got an idea
17:44 schestowitz-TR; herding people from twitter to mgemini and rss/blog challenges
18:19 Techrightssec; ack
18:19 schestowitz-TR; OTA in a moment...
18:19 schestowitz-TR; daemonfc has taken covid-19 very very violently
18:19 schestowitz-TR; after 4 shots
18:19 schestowitz-TR; he is 37
18:20 Techrightssec; :(
18:20 Techrightssec; I hope he survives unscathed
18:20 schestowitz-TR; DaemonFC: ^
18:20 DaemonFC; 38
18:20 DaemonFC; Thank you.
18:21 schestowitz-TR; you look 37 ;-)
18:21 DaemonFC; I have a 3 PM appointment to see the NP.
18:21 DaemonFC; I chose Highland Park CVS Minute Clinic and 3 PM because I know that's usually when that NP that Mandy saw is there.
18:21 DaemonFC; She didn't give us crap about not wanting to prescribe Paxlovid.
18:22 DaemonFC; So you go with what you know. :)
18:36 schestowitz-TR; who took it harder?
18:36 schestowitz-TR; you or mandy, so far? (day 1)
18:36 schestowitz-TR; different genetics, same vaccination
18:41 DaemonFC; I got it much worse.
18:41 DaemonFC; I couldn't move last night to get water and a pouch of Tylenol pills sitting right next to me.
18:42 DaemonFC; I had to dial him on my phone using my nose because it hurt too bad to move anything other than my head.
18:43 schestowitz-TR; so there might be long-lasting damage
18:43 DaemonFC; Then once the Tylenol kicked in, I got up and drank some hot mint tea and gave my throat a few blasts of Vick's numbing spray.
18:44 DaemonFC; <schestowitz-TR> so there might be long-lasting damage
18:44 DaemonFC; Too soon to tell.
18:44 DaemonFC; Hopefully, they give me Paxlovid and it works.
18:44 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, The COVID is much worse at night.
18:45 DaemonFC; It hits you hard at night while you're trying to sleep. This is the second night it did that, and then it lets up a bit during the day.
18:46 schestowitz-TR; don't know what Paxlovid
18:46 schestowitz-TR; just the brand, "Paxlovid"
18:46 schestowitz-TR; what chemical it is and what it does
18:46 schestowitz-TR; there must be SOME side effects
18:47 schestowitz-TR; "chilling man, start upping your antibodies"
18:48 DaemonFC; It's an antiviral drug.
18:48 schestowitz-TR; how does it work?
18:48 DaemonFC; The other one is Merk's Molnupiravir, but they don't use that much because it's not as effective.
18:49 DaemonFC; Paxlovid is a protease inhibitor and a medication booster that causes the protease inhibitor to stay in your system longer.
18:49 DaemonFC; It basically inhibits viral proteins from coming together in a way that they can invade more cells.
18:50 schestowitz-TR; so it's for survivor
18:50 schestowitz-TR; won't prevent infection either
18:50 schestowitz-TR; hence, masks, distance
18:50 schestowitz-TR; still most effective
18:50 schestowitz-TR; if you can afford to
18:52 DaemonFC; Mom thinks she's coming down with COVID again.
18:52 schestowitz-TR; congrats
18:53 schestowitz-TR; maybe she though it's a one-trick pony
18:53 schestowitz-TR; many love to think that
18:53 schestowitz-TR; my mom got it thrice already
18:53 DaemonFC; Says symptoms began today. But she thinks it was that nurse's aid that goes around with her mask hanging down.
18:53 DaemonFC; Came to speak with her for 15 minutes that way last week then tested +.
18:53 schestowitz-TR; I asked if a fourth one is there already, she through it was a mean wish
18:53 schestowitz-TR; because she likes to socialise like a superspreader
18:53 schestowitz-TR; and covid minimiser
18:53 DaemonFC; I wasn't near her long enough ago that it would be from me.
18:53 schestowitz-TR; but got 4 shots
18:53 DaemonFC; Yes, church, work idiots.
18:54 DaemonFC; Work is the Catholic church even though healthcare.
18:54 DaemonFC; So they get COVID in there all the time because religious bullshit on top of hiring idiots.
18:55 schestowitz-TR; superstitution can be lethal
18:55 DaemonFC; Church people aren't brilliant, you know.
18:55 schestowitz-TR; like cancer patients who threw away the pill
18:55 schestowitz-TR; and relied on teleevengelists
18:55 DaemonFC; Germs become "God is punishing that person for some sin in their life.".
18:55 DaemonFC; Yes, like cancer.
18:55 DaemonFC; Same exact thing there.
18:55 schestowitz-TR; repent!!
18:55 schestowitz-TR; and heal! HEEEEL dog!
18:56 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, I think I'll recover but I sure wasn't trying to get it.
18:56 DaemonFC; And I know you can get it 5-6 times in rapid succession.
18:56 DaemonFC; Immunity is not durable to this. You've got a few months, perhaps.
18:56 schestowitz-TR; 1)it still mutates
18:57 schestowitz-TR; 2) it mutates faster when more people contract it
18:57 schestowitz-TR; and (2) is why the current strategy is inane
18:57 DaemonFC; Yes, "breakthrough" infections.
18:57 schestowitz-TR; they will never stop it
18:57 DaemonFC; Lots of them, you know.
18:57 schestowitz-TR; people will just get more ill over time
18:57 schestowitz-TR; and fatalities will be higher
18:57 schestowitz-TR; not per capita fatalities
18:57 schestowitz-TR; but fatalities overall
18:57 schestowitz-TR; they likely deal with a biolological weapons
18:58 schestowitz-TR; likely leaks by ACCIDENT in the Wuhan lab
18:58 schestowitz-TR; and they can't put the genie back in the mottle now
18:58 schestowitz-TR; bootle
18:58 schestowitz-TR; *bottle
18:58 schestowitz-TR; and it keeps mutating
18:58 DaemonFC; You'd think a biological weapon would be more deadly than this, though.
18:58 schestowitz-TR; another incarnation might hit young people hearder
18:58 schestowitz-TR; lots of dead babies
18:58 schestowitz-TR; government: no,no, it's milsd
18:58 schestowitz-TR; it's OK, let it do its thing
18:58 DaemonFC; Unless maybe it's just to harass another country so they can never get their economy to work right again.
18:59 schestowitz-TR; biological weapon need sto spread
18:59 schestowitz-TR; check
18:59 DaemonFC; Ironically, this is happening TO China now, where the government was experimenting on it.
18:59 schestowitz-TR; needs to be hard to combat
18:59 DaemonFC; People want to rip Xi's head off and shit down his neck.
18:59 schestowitz-TR; easier to deny
18:59 DaemonFC; Their government is destabilizing.
18:59 DaemonFC; Don't be fooled.
18:59 DaemonFC; It did to them perhaps what its job was to an "enemy country".
19:13 DaemonFC; And now it's time for a sneezing fit, apparently.
19:13 schestowitz-TR; :(
19:13 schestowitz-TR; don't suppose you do blog posts atm
19:13 DaemonFC; Should I?
19:14 DaemonFC; Near as I can tell, I'm getting this as hard as most people do who aren't vaccinated.
19:14 DaemonFC; It's pretty crazy.
19:15 DaemonFC; I'll be back in a few hours.
19:17 DaemonFC; Oh, I was looking at the clock I didn't turn back an hour.
19:24 schestowitz-TR; should you? maybe later
19:24 schestowitz-TR; take notes
19:25 schestowitz-TR; or use irc logs for pointers
19:25 schestowitz-TR; yes, people who get the shots take it harder than any shots i ever took
19:25 schestowitz-TR; i don''t feel anything after taking them
19:25 schestowitz-TR; all of them get the RealThing later
19:25 schestowitz-TR; and all of them feel it VERY well
22:45 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, They couldn't prescribe Paxlovid because it's dangerous if you have high blood pressure and it interacts with 3 of my other meds. One potentially life threatening.
22:45 DaemonFC; So I asked the Nurse Practitioner "What about Molnupirovir?".
22:46 DaemonFC; She goes, "What's that?". I said, "The Merck pill. It has a different mode of action. Can we try that?".
22:46 DaemonFC; So that's what I'm on now.
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