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00:42 Techrights-sec; context?
00:43 schestowitz-TR; just some patent chatter and the lies told in Musk Social
00:43 Techrights-sec; ok
00:45 Techrights-sec; patents not even software patents have held back a lot of fields,
00:45 Techrights-sec; so while for diplomatic reasons one has to let non-sw patents slide for now,
00:45 Techrights-sec; they do appear to also be causing great harm; however, perhaps most
00:45 Techrights-sec; people will figure that out once the final nails are in the coffin for
00:45 Techrights-sec; sw patents
00:47 schestowitz-TR; the problem is more urgent in some areas than in others because of "benefit"/harm rratio/proportion
00:47 schestowitz-TR; frug patents
00:47 schestowitz-TR; *drug patents where the drugs are not for rich people but something very life-saving and needed for
00:47 schestowitz-TR; billions of people are one area
00:47 Techrights-sec; yes however as you know that topic specifically is one which is highly censored
00:47 Techrights-sec; in social control media and thus mainstream media which has replaced authoritative sourcces with social control mea
00:47 Techrights-sec; dia hearsay
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07:00 Techrights-sec; the strategy M$ seems to be taking in responses in its "reports" on cybersecurity is to downplay their role and vuu
07:00 Techrights-sec; lnerability and to get shills to sing the
07:00 Techrights-sec; same tune
07:00 schestowitz-TR; shills like Bruce :-)
07:00 schestowitz-TR; he literally links to microsoft.com
07:00 schestowitz-TR; some 'authority'
07:13 schestowitz; <li>
07:13 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/selinux-unmanageable.html">SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way</a></h5>
07:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ctrl.blog | SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
07:13 schestowitz; <blockquote>
07:13 schestowitz; <p>Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a type of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) in the Linux kernel. It can prevent software from performing unexpected such as abusive or malicious actions on your Linux systems. However, its also an unmanageable mess, and I have a much greater understanding of why people recommend that people disable it.</p>
07:13 schestowitz; <p>SELinux is one of many layers of security that helps protect your Linux servers (and desktops) from the lions, and tigers, and bears oh, my! SELinux policies specify which programs, sockets, and files are allowed to interact with each other. It requires everything on the system to be properly labeled with a security context that gets enforced through a policy that maps which labels are allowed to
07:13 schestowitz; interact.</p>
07:13 schestowitz; </blockquote>
07:13 schestowitz; </li>
07:35 Techrights-sec; yes he has lost a lot of standing and seems to have even forgotten his own
07:35 Techrights-sec; skills and experience
07:35 schestowitz-TR; the 'SJVN of security'
07:37 Techrights-sec; perhaps however I figured SJVN sold out due to being on the rocks economically
07:37 Techrights-sec; in regards to pension, who knows. Schneier is probably better off and
07:37 Techrights-sec; certainly knows betters. However, he probably receive some personal pressure
07:37 Techrights-sec; and targetting around the Snowden leaks.
07:40 schestowitz; <li>
07:40 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts/">Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts</a></h5>
07:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.mozilla.org | Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
07:40 schestowitz; <blockquote>
07:40 schestowitz; <p>So youve washed your sheets and vacuumed under the couch in the name of spring cleaning. But what about your online clutter?</p>
07:40 schestowitz; <p>Apps that delight, inform and keep you connected deserve room in your digital space. But if you havent used your Facebook account in years, or youre looking to permanently take back some time from doomscrolling, you might consider getting rid of some accounts once and for all. Of course, like other services that profit off of you in this case, off your user information social media and
07:40 schestowitz; other online platforms can make it hard to cut ties. Heres a guide to that elusive delete button for when youve made up your mind.</p>
07:40 schestowitz; </blockquote>
07:40 schestowitz; </li>
07:42 Techrights-sec; It is not out of the question for them to have pulled sumething similar to
07:42 Techrights-sec; what they did to Durusau, whatever that was. He suddently turned dazed and
07:42 Techrights-sec; stayed that way pitifully bleating M$ talking points. If he ever recovered,
07:42 Techrights-sec; I have not heard, yet.
07:42 Techrights-sec; That change happened immediately after he travelled to meet some microsofters
07:42 Techrights-sec; in or near Redmond
07:42 schestowitz-TR; they had a lot to gain financially from it
07:42 schestowitz-TR; and we know they do bribe a LOT
07:49 Techrights-sec; there very existence depended on it; not just bribe. He looked too traumatized
07:49 Techrights-sec; for a bribe. Maybe Schneier was bought maybe not, but either way he started
07:49 Techrights-sec; softpedalling M$ problems and turning a blind eye to security since then.
07:49 Techrights-sec; Spaf also more or less went quiet and soft pedals M$;
07:49 Techrights-sec; Knuth has earned his retirement many times over and is not so much online
07:49 Techrights-sec; As a result of not being online he can get surrounded and mislead by microsofters
07:49 Techrights-sec; That might be one explanation for him going soft on M$ in the last 10 eyars
07:49 Techrights-sec; People also tend to project on MM$, doing wishful or 'magical' thinking that
07:49 Techrights-sec; M$ can't be as bad as it is. Many regular people, when presented with M$
07:49 Techrights-sec; crimes past and present, deny them saying that "it would not be allowed" and
07:49 Techrights-sec; it is hard to get through to them that they are being presented with
07:49 Techrights-sec; court-documented facts and not hypotheticals of future action.
07:49 Techrights-sec; Average people can't even imaging the scope and depth of the villany involved.
07:49 Techrights-sec; Others, get overloaded and helped by desperation for money soften to M$
07:49 Techrights-sec; overtures and may even consider working there when approached to sell out.
07:54 Techrights-sec; EFF "Deep Links" are covered automatically, did you notice this one?
07:54 Techrights-sec; https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eff-european-court-no-intermediary-liability-social-media-users
07:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | EFF to European Court: No Intermediary Liability for Social Media Users | Electronic Frontier Foundation
07:54 schestowitz-TR; yes, it is already in Daily Links
07:54 Techrights-sec; It's a rare example of them 1) being proactiv, 2) taking the right stance,
07:54 Techrights-sec; 3) reaching out in the EU
07:54 Techrights-sec; So it's a positive effort on their part to a very bad situation in the EU
07:57 schestowitz-TR; When I think of EFF I think off Ba[n]ker, though it's actually Cindy Cohn
07:57 schestowitz-TR; Because I don't think they fully understand their supportera and users
07:57 schestowitz-TR; (Not rhe gender thing)
07:57 schestowitz-TR; I guess corporations like weak leaders or defeatism inside their rivals
07:57 schestowitz-TR; Baker already pushed gmail like a decade ago when arguing that Thunderbird
07:57 schestowitz-TR; had no future
07:57 schestowitz-TR; and all this time later it still has many users
07:57 schestowitz-TR; many of them do not use gmail but still use email
07:58 Techrights-sec; yes but they are doing what they can to break the thunderbird user base
07:58 Techrights-sec; by destroyign the utility of the program and using GMail's "security"
07:58 Techrights-sec; measures to lock out Thunderbird users in the name of "security"
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08:38 schestowitz-TR; some very good links you have foun
08:38 schestowitz-TR; inc. the PDF re Microsoft being misuse of tax money (hololens)
08:38 schestowitz-TR; the news about netflix and spotify is welcome
08:38 schestowitz-TR; I've long thought it was a bubble
08:38 schestowitz-TR; based on promoses and speculations
08:38 schestowitz-TR; netflix price hikes are likely due to very high operational expenses
08:38 schestowitz-TR; their kernel dev, who is very well knowm, left a month ago
08:38 Techrights-sec; thanks
08:38 Techrights-sec; I figure any money M$ gets from the US is both a scam and a bailout at the same
08:38 Techrights-sec; time
08:38 Techrights-sec; Interesting. Netflix is nothing without the custom FreeBSD kernel modifications
08:38 Techrights-sec; and they can't go long without maintenance ...
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I have this "theory" (I use this word to get attention)
08:42 schestowitz-TR; about how 50-90% of companies are 'bullshit'
08:42 schestowitz-TR; and the government wants to hide it
08:42 schestowitz-TR; the nation overseeing and taxing (however little) these companies
08:42 schestowitz-TR; so the strains are passed to the general citizen (poor), making up for relative
08:42 schestowitz-TR; economic scales by quantity
08:42 schestowitz-TR; so joe and jill won't be able to buy pizza anymore
08:42 schestowitz-TR; that's OK
08:42 schestowitz-TR; they can live in butter and slided bread
08:42 schestowitz-TR; and take fewer showers
08:42 schestowitz-TR; no gov. help with gas bills
08:42 schestowitz-TR; the inflection point is, when national debt is too much and people don't meet
08:42 schestowitz-TR; basic needs
08:42 schestowitz-TR; and then the gov. will need to throw actual corporations over the fence
08:42 schestowitz-TR; but that won't be pretty
08:42 schestowitz-TR; people who worked there are well off already
08:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom
08:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.newyorker.com | The Bullshit-Job Boom | The New Yorker
08:48 schestowitz-TR; unemployment is misframed
08:48 schestowitz-TR; switzerland and sweden experimented around that, e.g. lowering hours to make more people
08:48 schestowitz-TR; participate in "the market"
08:48 schestowitz-TR; "fair share", UBI... fewer days
08:48 schestowitz-TR; the automation and so-called 'industrial revolution' (fourth SPAMNIL revolution)
08:48 schestowitz-TR; mean we do not need to have everyone working 8-6 every day (I count communte as well, set aside time to
08:48 schestowitz-TR; run errands, maintenance of home, car etc.)
08:48 schestowitz-TR; but capitalists entities don't view it that way
08:48 schestowitz-TR; worse yet, they need more consumers (births)
08:48 schestowitz-TR; at the very least as debt collaterals
08:48 schestowitz-TR; at the end I'm all in favour of everyone working
08:48 schestowitz-TR; but not as much as some do
08:48 schestowitz-TR; my brother recently told me he was working dawn till night
08:48 schestowitz-TR; some people take pride in it and think this is normal
08:48 schestowitz-TR; it's not even his own business, he's seduced by the salary
08:48 schestowitz-TR; i read today hardware shortages will last at least 2 yerars in the US
08:48 schestowitz-TR; (people in china now live inside the office, in some companies, like in the sweatshops with bunk beds)
08:48 schestowitz-TR; so the goal ought to be (I think), "stgay as far away as possible from 'the system'... it's killing people"
08:48 Techrights-sec; I think it was Finland which did the UBI test; it had very positive results
08:48 Techrights-sec; but was called short because of that
08:48 Techrights-sec; 30 hours per week at a livable wage ought to do it, but that would come
08:48 Techrights-sec; out of tax dodges by the oligarchs and wannabee oligarchs
08:48 Techrights-sec; ack
08:52 schestowitz-TR; let me check which countries tested ubi
08:52 schestowitz-TR; wikipedia speaks of Kela
08:52 schestowitz-TR; mentioned also a city in south korea
08:52 schestowitz-TR; parts of canada
08:52 schestowitz-TR; iran india spain israel
08:53 schestowitz-TR; mentions switzeerland as referendum only
08:53 schestowitz-TR; rejected with 77% majority
08:53 schestowitz-TR; poll says in eu 64% would support such a proposal
08:53 Techrights-sec; Like most studies which show positive results when political interests wanted
08:53 Techrights-sec; the opposite it the studies were cancelled early or buried in spin
08:53 Techrights-sec; and misdirection
08:53 Techrights-sec; the main obstacle to UBI appears that it would allow people to have free time
08:53 Techrights-sec; to educate themselves and, worse, then participate in society
08:53 Techrights-sec; referendums are subject to manipulation in many ways and not relevant ot the
08:53 Techrights-sec; actual success or failure of UBI
08:54 schestowitz-TR; referenda are based on perception, not an actual excperiment with empirical evidence in this case
08:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe the population can be riled up, saying that the "Muslims" in Zurich area would use that to have
08:54 schestowitz-TR; 10 kids or something
08:54 schestowitz-TR; there is always some straw man that can be used
08:55 Techrights-sec; yes and perceptions are easily manipulated through mass media and very easily
08:55 Techrights-sec; through social control media
08:59 schestowitz-TR; One method I personally find out ('cheat' sheet) or found out is,
08:59 schestowitz-TR; lower expenses
08:59 schestowitz-TR; push them down to the floor, to the basics
08:59 schestowitz-TR; then find a way to make up the deficit
08:59 schestowitz-TR; for 2 people at about 400 a head it's not too hard
08:59 schestowitz-TR; leah rowe discovered the same
08:59 schestowitz-TR; but my view of her is deeply tarnished
08:59 schestowitz-TR; ryan is still wasting a ton of money "fixing" the "new" car
08:59 schestowitz-TR; I told him it was cheap because he would likely need to
08:59 schestowitz-TR; bring it up to date
08:59 schestowitz-TR; you should watch the video of Gardiner about the massive house he bought
08:59 schestowitz-TR; much work to be done, but he makes it sound lie he got it for free or
08:59 schestowitz-TR; something, it was just "abandoned"
08:59 schestowitz-TR; he barely produced videos this month, maybe a morale issue, with the april
08:59 schestowitz-TR; first "joke" about selling out (to "Disney")
09:00 Techrights-sec; yes
09:00 Techrights-sec; I've stopped watching anything he produced since he stopped covering FOSS
09:00 schestowitz-TR; You: Gardiner, you sold out!!
09:00 schestowitz-TR; Gardiner: haha, nop!! That was just a prank!
09:01 Techrights-sec; yeah. what's that kind of distraction? It's kind of like a pre-emptive
09:01 Techrights-sec; strawman argument, it's used enough in politics these days that it probably
09:01 Techrights-sec; has a specific name
09:04 schestowitz-TR; to be fair, many gulagtubers are burned out
09:04 schestowitz-TR; those who joined in the past 10 years and beneefited from Gulag partner programs
09:04 schestowitz-TR; flown in, given cash, studios etc.
09:04 schestowitz-TR; Gulag cut that off
09:04 schestowitz-TR; like it did the in-campus chefs like 15 years ago
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and now they see new videos receiving barely even half the views they used to get
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and feel guilty
09:04 schestowitz-TR; "did I offend someone?"
09:04 schestowitz-TR; "Am I boring?"
09:04 schestowitz-TR; Some are trying to cash in on their way down
09:04 schestowitz-TR; like the laptop advertorials
09:04 schestowitz-TR; which got "linux experiment" (in shilling) banned
09:04 schestowitz-TR; they have no real contingency
09:04 schestowitz-TR; odysee maybe gives them 1-5% the views they had
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and no income
09:05 Techrights-sec; I guess in that regard it is what would be referred to as "self-limiting" :/
09:06 schestowitz-TR; some people drtopped out of college or left their job for gulagtube
09:06 schestowitz-TR; just beforre the latest ruthless changes
09:06 schestowitz-TR; "MOM, I FINALLY FOUND MY VOCATION"
09:06 schestowitz-TR; [oh, wait]
09:06 schestowitz-TR; Like the small business that presents a press release about partnering with Microsoft
09:06 schestowitz-TR; More like partnering TO Microsoft
09:06 schestowitz-TR; to be used up and thrown away
09:06 Techrights-sec; partnerign or merely pandering; no company to-date has survived partnership with
09:06 Techrights-sec; M$
09:08 schestowitz-TR; Canonical is not a success story
09:08 schestowitz-TR; I am 90% sure MS is faking it
09:08 schestowitz-TR; Mark S
09:08 schestowitz-TR; Because he tossed aside the CEO
09:08 schestowitz-TR; after many years she had made no profits
09:08 schestowitz-TR; they were insolvent
09:08 schestowitz-TR; so the found rides back in
09:08 schestowitz-TR; typical story
09:08 schestowitz-TR; like Sorsey with Twitter
09:08 schestowitz-TR; *Dorsey
09:08 schestowitz-TR; they still lost money and sold to another charlatan of "crypto" (like Jack)
09:09 schestowitz-TR; another example of founder riding back in was yang with yahoo!
09:09 schestowitz-TR; and he could not save his 'baby', Microsoft has made the company vanish in all forms
09:09 schestowitz-TR; except on paper
09:11 Techrights-sec; Canonical is a sad story now, they had a second chance, an ability to recover
09:11 Techrights-sec; from the mono herd in MOTU, but they blew it and added to the harm by
09:11 Techrights-sec; hiring actual microsofters into executive positions; thereafter it was only
09:11 Techrights-sec; ever dead on its feet and now MS is planning to exit via IPO
09:11 Techrights-sec; specualators might keep it alive for a while after that and then it might
09:11 Techrights-sec; get sold again but it's game over for Ubuntu / Canonical now. Linux
09:11 Techrights-sec; Mint will have to play forward with the Debian (or Devuan) Edition from then
09:11 Techrights-sec; on
09:11 Techrights-sec; that was a goal of Icahn, along with eliminating t FreeBSD house. Hmm.
09:11 Techrights-sec; Perhaps that is a factor in the demise of Netflix, M$ has many inside the
09:11 Techrights-sec; company since the beginning and their love of M$ ideology has proably
09:11 Techrights-sec; gained the uppoer hand over their love of money.
09:11 Techrights-sec; Si tgey kill the goose which lays the golden eggs and fire the BSD people
09:11 Techrights-sec; or dtive them out
09:14 schestowitz-TR; Netflix CEO is from Microsoft IIRC
09:14 schestowitz-TR; but maybe they changed CEO
09:14 schestowitz-TR; I've not paid attention
09:14 schestowitz-TR; I told this to RMS and he did not mind
09:14 schestowitz-TR; he was more focus on their DRM agenda being evil
09:14 schestowitz-TR; to clarify, the person who left was a hiogh-profile LINUX dev
09:14 schestowitz-TR; not freebsd
09:14 schestowitz-TR; I saw it in Planet (Linux) Kernel
09:14 schestowitz-TR; I simply could not believe and was mildly horrified TBH that someone with such a salary level
09:14 schestowitz-TR; was made to work in a shared office, little cubicle with one laptop, one screen and s little whiteboard
09:14 schestowitz-TR; maybe 10 squared feet
09:14 schestowitz-TR; to work on kernel staff
09:14 schestowitz-TR; but I reckon they found they can get more prooductivity out of people
09:14 schestowitz-TR; who are unhappy in a cage
09:15 schestowitz-TR; if you "pamper" them too much, "productivity" can decrease
09:15 schestowitz-TR; counter-intuitive, I know...
09:15 Techrights-sec; A reason for their evil DRM agenda was the M$ presence at the top.
09:15 Techrights-sec; Same for their initial move to FreeBSD - they needed something that worked
09:15 Techrights-sec; but could not palate Linux for the kernel;
09:15 Techrights-sec; Ah my mistake.
09:15 Techrights-sec; What were they paying him? 15k per year?
09:15 Techrights-sec; ack
09:20 schestowitz-TR; who knows... maybe per month.
09:20 schestowitz-TR; For kernel devs of a high profile you need to shell out a lot
09:20 schestowitz-TR; but the disparity is astounding
09:20 schestowitz-TR; I mean, that desk and equipment they provide him with is like less than one week of his salary
09:20 schestowitz-TR; to me, personally, it makes no sense at all
09:20 schestowitz-TR; I could find the blog post
09:20 schestowitz-TR; but it generally reaffirms my thoughts
09:20 schestowitz-TR; Linus has a nice office, but it's usually disorganised from what I saw
09:20 schestowitz-TR; and I reckon he stopped using the treadmill (probably suggested by GP or the wife)
09:20 schestowitz-TR; judging by the looks of his legs
09:20 schestowitz-TR; I don't think he has a condition (not Putin either, probably some wartime propaganda)
09:20 schestowitz-TR; in old photos of him in bathing suit you can see he had a belly and proportional leg side
09:20 schestowitz-TR; for a person at 52 he does not look healthy to me
09:20 schestowitz-TR; but I'd be "concern-trolling" if I went along those lines any further
09:20 schestowitz-TR; Linus comms, as shared her yesterday (3 links while afak), show he's not in control
09:20 schestowitz-TR; he's just some 'suit in a robe'
09:20 schestowitz-TR; and his presence has been relegated for late sunday rc/final announcements
09:21 schestowitz-TR; he's not 'permitted' to do media interviews
09:21 schestowitz-TR; and in events he's managed by a PR clown, Dreck Hondahl
09:21 schestowitz-TR; who is now crossing over to crank ville
09:21 schestowitz-TR; from SUSE to Intel (crime) to VMware (GPL violation) to cargo cult...
09:21 Techrights-sec; he's basically a mascot nowadays; I fully expect they will dismiss him
09:21 Techrights-sec; after a few more years of increasing marginalization
09:21 Techrights-sec; ack
09:26 schestowitz-TR; here is the thing
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09:26 schestowitz-TR; if Torvalds was sacked in 2005, it would be a MASSIVE uproad
09:26 schestowitz-TR; *uproar
09:26 schestowitz-TR; no social control media
09:26 schestowitz-TR; but Torvalds is barely noticed anymore
09:26 schestowitz-TR; he became a respected historical figure with two projects under his name
09:26 schestowitz-TR; RMS has even more than two, but it's not an enumeration problem, the impact
09:26 schestowitz-TR; varies
09:26 schestowitz-TR; GNU included emacs and FSF includes GNU
09:27 schestowitz-TR; Linux uses Git et.
09:27 schestowitz-TR; but they won't sack Torvalds
09:27 schestowitz-TR; he might end up like Guido de Icaza or Miguel de Icaza
09:27 schestowitz-TR; retiring, getting away from the limelight, while occassionally helping
09:27 schestowitz-TR; "Big Tech" for "appreciating" (and paying) for the "crown jewels"
09:27 schestowitz-TR; the movement is being defanged with moral support for it waning as a result
09:27 schestowitz-TR; Lunduke is insinuing Linux is "Amazon, FB, Microsoft"
09:27 schestowitz-TR; thi is false
09:27 schestowitz-TR; Even LF, not Linux, is a lot of things
09:27 schestowitz-TR; those three companies are not the sole holders
09:27 schestowitz-TR; but being Microsoft Lunduke maybe he has veiled goals there
09:27 schestowitz-TR; also, re OSI, he left out what Microsoft did to it
09:27 schestowitz-TR; he used the term "Big Tech"
09:28 Techrights-sec; Guido met a sad end
09:28 Techrights-sec; Vint Cerf ended up in a rather simlar end
09:29 schestowitz-TR; tim b-l ended up shilling JS as a 'fix', in Microsoft shithub (NSA, Microsoft criminals, must create
09:29 schestowitz-TR; shacropper ID in proprietary jail)
09:29 schestowitz-TR; Cerf will die soon, he's just helping Gulag cement the closing of the Internet, not just the Web
09:29 schestowitz-TR; they must make him feel very special, their bearded mascot
09:29 schestowitz-TR; with his Mac
09:29 Techrights-sec; Yep
09:29 Techrights-sec; :(
09:34 schestowitz-TR; Cerf had COVID-19 some months ago
09:34 schestowitz-TR; he survived, but that leave damage usually
09:34 schestowitz-TR; and if you don't die within 28 days you don't get counted
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I still watch the covid numbers here (still not good)
09:34 schestowitz-TR; we're running today outdoors (soon)
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I lacked tiem to write about covid yetserdat
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I had to defend myself a lot in irc
09:34 schestowitz-TR; irc is very busy today as well
09:34 schestowitz-TR; thankfully, unless I RE-remind myself, I already forgot the "missing" video
09:34 schestowitz-TR; and don't feel annoyed by that
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I also caught up with rss feeds before bedtime
09:34 schestowitz-TR; without having to fully chase patent news, and with the sites being well-bahaved (still need OS upgrade/change),
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I have a one-day buffer for catchup on Sundays
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I need to make more local backups of things
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I will test the backup script changes tonight at 18:30
09:34 schestowitz-TR; then post part 7, make a video
09:34 schestowitz-TR; the microsoft attacks on Linux "slowed" a bit yesterday afternoon
09:34 schestowitz-TR; I was about to say this here last night
09:34 schestowitz-TR; but thought it would be safe to wait 24 hours in case there's a "part 2"
09:34 schestowitz-TR; after Schneier hails Microsoft as dsaviour of Ukraine
09:35 Techrights-sec; it apparrently damages mental capabilities, like what might have happened with
09:35 Techrights-sec; Lunduke
09:38 schestowitz-TR; going on anecdotes, not media reports or studies, I do hear and read about
09:38 schestowitz-TR; people who had it
09:38 schestowitz-TR; some have foggy memory
09:38 schestowitz-TR; not remembering names, cannot focus on PC (I gave an example of a Debian Dev
09:38 schestowitz-TR; a week ago)
09:38 schestowitz-TR; Those aren't related to internal organs other than brain
09:38 schestowitz-TR; but the brain is something that is hard to repair
09:38 schestowitz-TR; there are many remedies for internal organs semi-functioning or even ceasing to function
09:38 schestowitz-TR; like dialisys (I think I got the i and y swapped around)
09:38 schestowitz-TR; but when the brain goes, that's it
09:39 schestowitz-TR; you won't even noticed it
09:39 schestowitz-TR; it's like telling a demented person s/he demented
09:39 Techrights-sec; foggy thought process is a known symptom during and afterwards
09:39 Techrights-sec; It may be my misunderstanding but it looks liek the virus damages internal
09:39 Techrights-sec; capilaries
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09:45 schestowitz-TR; The oldest "tgest sample" of data we have is 30 months old
09:45 schestowitz-TR; when dealing with polio or similar things (longstanding like Malaria)
09:45 schestowitz-TR; you have centuries of knowledge already
09:45 schestowitz-TR; China is too busy fending off for its PRODUCTIVE industry
09:45 schestowitz-TR; while Europe and US are busy pretending the economy "works" and the "system"
09:45 schestowitz-TR; is back (so go to the cage and go watch football, get drunk at the pub, have sex,
09:45 schestowitz-TR; have cons^H^hkids).
09:45 schestowitz-TR; even the vaccines are not fully understood yet
09:45 schestowitz-TR; we know they work to an extent
09:45 schestowitz-TR; but little is known other than their short-term "training the body" capacity
09:45 schestowitz-TR; this is the "approved-by-Establismenbt-figures" herd immunity strategt
09:45 schestowitz-TR; give it to everyone, then open up, see who's left alive afterwards
09:45 schestowitz-TR; eradication cuts into profits and the patents are still there
09:45 schestowitz-TR; it is possible to edradicate, but not locally, internationally rather
09:45 schestowitz-TR; isolate people
09:45 schestowitz-TR; check who has it
09:45 schestowitz-TR; treat them for it
09:46 schestowitz-TR; globally
09:46 schestowitz-TR; same in zoos
09:46 schestowitz-TR; then open up
09:46 schestowitz-TR; repeat again
09:46 schestowitz-TR; until the numbers are very small
09:46 schestowitz-TR; and it become a niche virus
09:46 Techrights-sec; ack
09:46 Techrights-sec; yes, quite likely
09:46 Techrights-sec; however the governments and in particular the businesses have been unwilling
09:46 Techrights-sec; to take the measurss requires *at the beginning* to compartmentalize and
09:46 Techrights-sec; such
09:46 Techrights-sec; \
09:47 schestowitz-TR; after thew first lockdown in the UK it was hard to even find cases
09:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe 500 cases a day in the UK
09:47 schestowitz-TR; then they started opening pubs, football, mask policies loosened
09:47 schestowitz-TR; 50,000 cases a day, loockdowns again
09:50 schestowitz-TR; now the gov. spins that as pandemic of the weak
09:50 schestowitz-TR; like Edwqin Black's book title
09:50 schestowitz-TR; "War on the Weak"
09:50 schestowitz-TR; and thus it's OK to let it spread and let people die
09:50 schestowitz-TR; they are "weak" and "antivaxxer" anyway
09:50 schestowitz-TR; they deserve it....they say... there's nothing we can do to help them
09:50 schestowitz-TR; maybe a placebo 5th shot
09:50 schestowitz-TR; BBC now boasts about "first shot receiver... getting a booster"
09:50 schestowitz-TR; it's an actual headline! Rianne joked about it and I saw it last night.
09:50 schestowitz-TR; AZ mascots (astrozeneca)
09:50 schestowitz-TR; bbl (running)
09:50 schestowitz-TR; *astra
12:23 schestowitz-TR; parks, forests (man-made), and other nature-like features near uis are 'criminally' under-used
12:23 schestowitz-TR; you can run for 10 mins, on average, without seeing another human being (or dog)
12:23 schestowitz-TR; it's like a ghost town\
12:23 schestowitz-TR; I can only assume slobs sit on the sofa with "phone" scrolling FB
12:23 schestowitz-TR; it's bright and sunny and nobody is out
12:23 schestowitz-TR; I can't complain, but if people don't use these, there's risk it'll get sold to "estates"
12:23 Techrights-sec; ack
12:23 Techrights-sec; ok
12:29 Techrights-sec; The risk of getting sold off is high. One has to stay proactive in politics
12:29 Techrights-sec; and remind the councils periodically of the value of greenspace.
12:29 Techrights-sec; There are social, health, and economic advantages to the surrounding neighborhoods. Paving them over is a losing p
12:29 Techrights-sec; roposition except for the dickhead who
12:29 Techrights-sec; builds the first building on it. Everyone else loses, especially those nearby.
12:30 Techrights-sec; https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00229-1/fulltexthttps://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/publications/2016/urban-green-spaces-and-health-a-review-of-evidence-2016
12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00229-1/fulltexthttps://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/publications/2016/urban-green-spaces-and-health-a-review-of-evidence-2016 )
12:30 Techrights-sec; https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/urban-health/publications/2016/urban-green-spaces-and-health-a-review-of-evidence-2016
12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.euro.who.int | WHO/Europe | Urban green spaces and health - a review of evidence (2016)
12:30 Techrights-sec; https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/how-green-are-european-cities
12:30 Techrights-sec; etc
12:30 Techrights-sec; They won't get converted to estates but to microscopic lots instead or even
12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eea.europa.eu | How green are European cities? Green space key to well-being but access varies European Environment Agency
12:30 Techrights-sec; apartment buildings
12:30 Techrights-sec; and "shoping" centers
12:30 Techrights-sec; https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/nature-green-space-urban-cities-exercise-fresh-air/
12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.weforum.org | Cities: Why more green spaces means healthier residents | World Economic Forum
12:30 Techrights-sec; https://news.stanford.edu/2021/05/10/health-boost-nature/
12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.stanford.edu | Health boost from nature | Stanford News
12:30 Techrights-sec; Greenspace is an investment in health, economy, and society. Unfortunately
12:30 Techrights-sec; the trend is to liquidate rather than invest. Doesn't matter the topic or
12:30 Techrights-sec; domain -- assholes do what they can to force liquidation so they can siphon
12:30 Techrights-sec; off a few cents on the dollar as things go under. Not dissimilar to the
12:30 Techrights-sec; "successful bankruptcy"
12:32 Techrights-sec; I hope the post about Lunduke is sufficiently diplomatic, it looks so, and that
12:32 Techrights-sec; he notices the main point.
12:33 schestowitz-TR; Our coverage on these topics is a lot more detailed and more accurate
12:33 schestowitz-TR; he cuts corners to turn heads
12:33 schestowitz-TR; even the headline
12:37 schestowitz-TR; to borrow an analogy that is topical, they close down churches and beautiful libraries (or hospital near us) with h
12:37 schestowitz-TR; istoric value
12:37 schestowitz-TR; to make way for real estate
12:37 schestowitz-TR; in software, they ram down millions of line of code for utter crap that will vanish in 2 years (fad) at the expense
12:37 schestowitz-TR; of integrity of core parts
12:37 schestowitz-TR; gcc, linux, mozilla
12:37 schestowitz-TR; so even the core bits become less reliable
12:37 schestowitz-TR; they are outweighed by outdated and unmaintained low-quality crap
12:37 schestowitz-TR; like archs that no longer exist
12:37 schestowitz-TR; file systems nobody uses
12:37 schestowitz-TR; and things like linux-azure
12:37 schestowitz-TR; or hyperv shite 20k lines of crap
12:37 schestowitz-TR; that kvm can do in a lot less
12:37 schestowitz-TR; or wireguard for vpn
12:37 Techrights-sec; Yes, but some years ago he did do some really nice coverage of a few important
12:37 Techrights-sec; topics. I hope for a return to that from his part.
12:37 Techrights-sec; yes
12:41 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Throughout this huge region, hundreds of partners conservation groups, private landowners, businesses, government agencies, tribe" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/28/linking-protected-areas-from-yellowstone-to-the-yukon-shows-the-value-of-conserving-large-landscapes-not-just-isolated-parks-and-preserves/ | Source: Counter Punch
12:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Linking Protected Areas From Yellowstone to the Yukon Shows the Value of Conserving Large Landscapes, Not Just Isolated Parks and Preserves - CounterPunch.org
12:43 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Now they go after people's pensions and oligarchs-owned media is happy https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/28/media-lauds-fidelity-ceo-who-destroyed-good-pensions/ | Source: Counter Punch
12:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Media Lauds Fidelity CEO Who Destroyed Good Pensions - CounterPunch.org
12:46 Techrights-sec; ack
12:46 Techrights-sec; The looting that took place before and during 2008 has still not been properly
12:46 Techrights-sec; addressed. Nor have measures been retained to prevent a recurrence.
12:48 schestowitz-TR; social control media, pandemic, war, famine
12:48 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile people try to "smack a fascist" or "own the lib"
12:48 schestowitz-TR; nobody remembers OWS
12:48 schestowitz-TR; as if they accomplished something and then went back home
12:48 schestowitz-TR; the economy "recovered"
12:48 schestowitz-TR; now it's the fault of nature/china/russia
12:49 Techrights-sec; ack
13:05 schestowitz-TR; I am pissed off right now by
13:05 schestowitz-TR; 1) report on "voting" machines being a "Trump" thing; now the machines are 'sacred'
13:05 schestowitz-TR; 2) microsoft spinning itself as security hero in ukraine while 'linux' (systemd) is the "real" issue
13:05 schestowitz-TR; but I am not sure how to properly respond without deepening the issue by amplification
13:05 schestowitz-TR; it would be nice if there was a campaign site to make it loud and clear that "WE DO NOT SUPPORT TRUMP BUT"
13:05 schestowitz-TR; and
13:05 schestowitz-TR; "MICROSOFT IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION"
13:05 schestowitz-TR; Wikipedia, media, and social control media are dominated by PR
13:05 schestowitz-TR; so it is a big challenge
13:05 schestowitz-TR; we can compensate by patience and repetiton
13:05 schestowitz-TR; I hope twitter collapses already, along with FB
13:18 Techrights-sec; """
13:18 Techrights-sec; Microsoft is not the answer, it is the question.
13:18 Techrights-sec; No, is the answer.
13:18 Techrights-sec; """
13:18 Techrights-sec; Twitter can go away just like many other social control media businesses have
13:18 Techrights-sec; before. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWTR/twitter/net-income
13:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.macrotrends.net | Twitter Net Income 2011-2021 | TWTR | MacroTrends
13:18 Techrights-sec; Beyond mass manipulation of opinion, especially through lazy journalists,
13:18 Techrights-sec; it has no value and it is hard for it to exist on its own through its own
13:18 Techrights-sec; money. Giving it a bailout directly would be too obvious since they can't even
13:18 Techrights-sec; pretend to be selling something legitimate like M$ fakes when it gets bailouts.
13:18 Techrights-sec; Same goes for Facebook, though if I were to guess I would say that it has
13:18 Techrights-sec; had a lot of covert support in order to acheive a detailed social graph of
13:18 Techrights-sec; much of the world's population.
13:18 schestowitz-TR; "Congrats, support team member - you have a bullshit job." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ayaron/bullshitjob.txt
13:19 Techrights-sec; is there a gemini or http link for that post?
13:20 schestowitz-TR; no, but it is new
13:20 schestowitz-TR; I use our planet a lot and add over a dozen links a day to "smol" web
13:23 Techrights-sec; There's not date of publication
13:23 Techrights-sec; in the article body. :(
13:23 Techrights-sec; The default gopher client is harder to use than I recall
13:42 schestowitz-TR; it is helpful to remind people that net is not web
13:42 schestowitz-TR; and web is not just html
13:42 schestowitz-TR; or http/s
13:42 schestowitz-TR; btw, I got a full final archive from twitter
13:42 schestowitz-TR; the way it's done does not feel safe
13:42 schestowitz-TR; same as diaspora
13:42 schestowitz-TR; which still does not give me the download
13:42 schestowitz-TR; they had a new release
13:42 schestowitz-TR; but only for RoR-related sec patches
13:42 schestowitz-TR; anyway, if people see ftp or gemini urls that helps get across the message
13:42 schestowitz-TR; that "new" (or old) thing exist
13:42 schestowitz-TR; lbry:// is another one
13:42 schestowitz-TR; and they they get "FMONO"
13:42 schestowitz-TR; They want to read what's in the link
13:42 schestowitz-TR; but their browser does not support it
13:42 schestowitz-TR; FOMO = fear of not seeing interesting stuff in geminispace
13:49 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "retail prices of essential goods like food and energy are not set by simple supply and demand." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/28/one-way-control-inflation-enforce-price-controls-corporations | Source: Common Dreams
13:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Opinion | One Way to Control Inflation? Enforce Price Controls on Corporations | Wenonah Hauter
14:00 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "The student was up on a windowsill at school and, when instructed to come down, he spit." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/28/failing-and-floundering-school-system-while-us-pumps-pentagon-funding | Source: Common Dreams
14:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Opinion | A Failing and Floundering School System While the US Pumps the Pentagon With Funding | Frida Berrigan
14:00 Techrights-sec; ack
14:03 schestowitz-TR; coping mehcnisms: when news about "the real world" get you down one solution isn't to change the world
14:03 schestowitz-TR; but to disengage to some extent from "the system"
14:03 schestowitz-TR; today's news is full of very bad things
14:03 schestowitz-TR; from sources that don't talk about will smith, along with other nonsense
14:03 schestowitz-TR; we got a bill from the energy company
14:03 schestowitz-TR; turns out they overcharged us and now correct it
14:03 schestowitz-TR; but we lower our use of energy all in all
14:03 schestowitz-TR; taking on the "energy price fixer" is too big a task for any one givernment
14:03 Techrights-sec; do you have to constantly change 'supplier' and 'source' ?
14:03 Techrights-sec; for the electricty?
14:08 schestowitz-TR; no, but there was a series of acquisitions
14:08 schestowitz-TR; turns out ours isn't even the expensive one
14:08 schestowitz-TR; it's a choice between evils, like in telecoms
14:08 schestowitz-TR; the utility sources are the same (Net, water, gas pipe (underground), electric (also undergrouns)), so you
14:08 schestowitz-TR; only really choose the logo on your bill
14:08 schestowitz-TR; the providers are really the same
14:08 schestowitz-TR; george carlin had a nice skit/take on the fake choice we get
14:08 schestowitz-TR; "window" or "isle"
14:08 schestowitz-TR; *aisle
14:08 schestowitz-TR; "oh yea<h!!!! I'm going to take my business to another billing company with another call centres!!"
14:08 schestowitz-TR; BT: bicycle model B8320576 in pink
14:08 schestowitz-TR; Sky: bicycle model B8320576 in blue
14:08 schestowitz-TR; TalkTalk: bicycle model B8320576 2022 edition
14:08 schestowitz-TR; Virgin: bicycle model B8320576 for teeanger
14:08 schestowitz-TR; there. choice. celebrate, peasants
14:10 Techrights-sec; yes it's a stupid game that must be played to reduce the bill by an order of
14:10 Techrights-sec; magnitude; one cannot opt out or else the bill will be > 10x
14:10 Techrights-sec; ack
14:10 Techrights-sec; Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos
14:10 Techrights-sec; https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%20voted%20for%20kodos
14:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.urbandictionary.com | Urban Dictionary: I voted for kodos
14:11 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft: we give choice. If you don't like Vista 11, use 10
14:11 schestowitz-TR; If you still use 7, "free upgrade"
14:11 schestowitz-TR; sssssooo many choices!!
14:12 schestowitz-TR; if you argue with the telecoms and energy billing (yes, billng, resellers) companies long enough
14:12 schestowitz-TR; you can get better tarriffs, discounts ("deals"), and compensation for bad service
14:12 schestowitz-TR; but sometimes the savings are not worth the amount of effort it takes to get that
14:12 schestowitz-TR; and they play psychological games with deeadlines to tire you down
14:12 schestowitz-TR; so sometimes you have to fake "leaving"
14:12 Techrights-sec; or if you enjoy playing them off against eachother
14:15 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> World Police collective punishment https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/28/coalition-denounces-us-sanctions-harming-people-worldwide | Source: Common Dreams
14:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Coalition Denounces US Sanctions Harming People Worldwide
14:16 schestowitz-TR; they should also blame Putin/Russia in this imperial dick-measuring contest
14:22 Techrights-sec; ACK
14:22 Techrights-sec; (caps by accident)
14:30 schestowitz-TR; eugenics by economics
14:30 schestowitz-TR; (btw, rianne says she saw 8 of our neighbours at once... ina home for a couple, with 1 or 2 kids)
14:30 schestowitz-TR; it became like a hostel for construction workers
14:30 schestowitz-TR; last week they threw a double mattrass (maybe julie's) at the back yard
14:30 schestowitz-TR; maybe it'a waste of space and two men won't share a bed
14:30 schestowitz-TR; but maybe there's also unused space in summer, outside, can squeeze 3-4 bed there too :-)
14:30 schestowitz-TR; this is not about religion, race, or gender
14:30 schestowitz-TR; it's about 8+ human beings, occupants, being loud at 1am and over-congesting a place, which
14:30 schestowitz-TR; begets more noise (a couple cannot talk that much)
14:30 schestowitz-TR; today there is a trolley from a supermarket at the front garden
14:30 schestowitz-TR; I don't suppose you buy them off ebay :-)
14:30 Techrights-sec; an industry infamous for illegal work; maybe there are a f ew more that were
14:30 Techrights-sec; out at the moment she saw the others
14:30 Techrights-sec; probably trashing the place as well
14:40 schestowitz-TR; I saw it before, when we put a bid in
14:40 schestowitz-TR; if the owner is unaware of how many live there, it's possible changes will come soon
14:40 schestowitz-TR; Based on the listing online, which I checked like 50 times in one year, it was never sold
14:40 schestowitz-TR; it's just rented away to buy time
14:40 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile the living room looks like a couple of improvised bedrooms from the outside
14:40 schestowitz-TR; and this cheapens nearby homes, too
14:44 Techrights-sec; Yes, unfortunately the councils tend to see that reduction as one of the few
14:44 Techrights-sec; legitimate complaints. Violation of zoning and safety code does not bother them
14:44 schestowitz-TR; just spoke to the wife about it, will check online again...
14:44 schestowitz-TR; it was actually sold some time last year
14:44 schestowitz-TR; which is not good
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14:45 Techrights-sec; especially if the new owners are doing illegal renting
14:50 schestowitz-TR; prior toi accomodation we think we saw the owner a few times
14:50 schestowitz-TR; it would not shock me if there's full awareness and intent
14:50 schestowitz-TR; but the main question is, given the number, is there really
14:50 schestowitz-TR; one owner, who is not living there
14:50 schestowitz-TR; if so, there's a chance of change in the future
14:50 schestowitz-TR; whether for the better, I don't know
14:50 schestowitz-TR; tey did nothing bad, except speaking (not shouting) at unsocial times
14:50 schestowitz-TR; and leaving a bit of a mess outside, sometimes...
14:50 schestowitz-TR; there are the adjecent block, not the one one level down,
14:50 schestowitz-TR; so it might become more of an issue in the future
14:50 Techrights-sec; yes
14:50 Techrights-sec; there are probably zoning violations as well as, if one checks indoors, many
14:50 Techrights-sec; health and safety violations to be found
14:50 Techrights-sec; The sheer number pronably exceeds what is allowed.
14:57 schestowitz-TR; I became aware oif this problem a very long time ago
14:57 schestowitz-TR; more mattresses than rooms, inc. kitchen and all
14:57 schestowitz-TR; but the issue stems from the economic situation that led me down this rabbi hole
14:57 schestowitz-TR; as people escape war and starvation
14:57 schestowitz-TR; having a mattress is a good place is better than a home somewhere else
14:57 schestowitz-TR; so putin and donald biden cause much agony, which impacts everybody
14:57 schestowitz-TR; even those who are far from famine and do not particpate in wars
14:57 schestowitz-TR; this will worsen
14:57 schestowitz-TR; I spoke about it with a friend over a decade ago
14:57 schestowitz-TR; maybe around the time of the financial crisis
14:57 schestowitz-TR; which later contributes to arab spring amid rise of discontent
14:57 schestowitz-TR; now, with covid (and oil, food etc.) there's another wave of suffering
14:57 schestowitz-TR; this isn't about identity but the sheer number of people in one place
14:57 schestowitz-TR; we are only a wall apart and a fence apart, same level unlike the other wall
14:57 schestowitz-TR; so when you rightly point out overpopulation as an issue there's much
14:57 schestowitz-TR; at stake even if it's not directly visible
14:58 Techrights-sec; ack
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15:23 schestowitz-TR; earlier today I said I had seen some very down-puttin (putin?) news
15:23 schestowitz-TR; and some of it was about prices of food and famine
15:23 schestowitz-TR; set aside water conflict and climate as a factor
15:23 schestowitz-TR; I sort of forgot what I wanted to say, but it was to
15:23 schestowitz-TR; do with peak oil or lack of ability to provide food
15:23 schestowitz-TR; with rationining in the east already
15:23 schestowitz-TR; even in belarus there are issues
15:23 schestowitz-TR; but anyway, what I wanted to say next was not so important
15:23 schestowitz-TR; riuanne says even in china they now have an issue feeding people,
15:23 schestowitz-TR; partly due to lockdown, but I have not seen such reports
15:23 schestowitz-TR; either way, I'll set this aside, I forgot the main popint I was trying to get at (
15:23 schestowitz-TR; and that's before even catching covid)
15:23 schestowitz-TR; in mad max there is weaponisation of the citadel/water
15:23 schestowitz-TR; and in ukraine there was stalin using food access
15:23 schestowitz-TR; in terms of congestion and integration, or opium wars, there are other means to covertly harm
15:23 schestowitz-TR; but either way, things are becoming less safe for everyone
15:23 schestowitz-TR; and this was long overdue
15:25 Techrights-sec; Water conlficts are function of overpopulation; Droughts come and go but
15:25 Techrights-sec; during wet periods, populations explode and societies live as if there is no
15:25 Techrights-sec; tomorrow. Then when the local climate resets back to normal and it dries
15:25 Techrights-sec; up, they are far above the local carrying capacity.
15:25 Techrights-sec; Petrol chemicals do more than power harvest and transportation. They are
15:25 Techrights-sec; converted to fertilizers to give innefficient methods an unrealistic and
15:25 Techrights-sec; unsustainable illusion of viability and temporarily high yields.
15:25 Techrights-sec; Yes, they are considering moving to potatos from rice to better feed the
15:25 Techrights-sec; excess.
15:25 Techrights-sec; Mad Max was predicated on huge supply chains for petrochemical fuels still
15:25 Techrights-sec; working flawlessly despite the rest having imploded. With the just-in-time
15:25 Techrights-sec; inventory management, filling stations would be empty in days and then
15:26 Techrights-sec; individual vehicles would run dry within days afterwards.
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15:55 schestowitz-TR; I lost my train of thought because I had branched out in many different direction
15:55 schestowitz-TR; all at once
15:55 schestowitz-TR; it's a critical and unexplored topic
15:55 schestowitz-TR; because nobody wants to be called "racist"
15:55 schestowitz-TR; maybe speciesist will become a "thing"
15:55 schestowitz-TR; like claiiming stuff about humans as a whole
15:55 schestowitz-TR; but I will stick to tech for now to avoid too much mental fog
15:55 schestowitz-TR; g
15:55 schestowitz-TR; I will street away by saying,
15:55 schestowitz-TR; the "economy" depends on constant growth in fiunite planet
15:55 schestowitz-TR; and projection shiinged on that future, unrealistic expansion
15:55 schestowitz-TR; which likely means trampling and squeezing many people
15:55 schestowitz-TR; in software, the engineers are made to work on more and more code
15:55 schestowitz-TR; even if for worse condition -- a sepatrate issue
15:55 schestowitz-TR; joel spolsky tried to explain paypal and ebay a very long time ago
15:55 schestowitz-TR; he said that they needed to keep their geeks occupied... with something
15:55 schestowitz-TR; anythingf
15:55 schestowitz-TR; hence bloat and complexity
15:55 schestowitz-TR; sometimes you just need to leave things alone
15:55 schestowitz-TR; like web sites
15:55 schestowitz-TR; don't add 30 more domains just because the visitor MIGHT have 8 CPU corea and 4G data connection
15:55 schestowitz-TR; also, NO, I do not want a computer on my microwave or 6,400,000,000 megapixels on my so-called 'phone'
15:55 schestowitz-TR; so I can keep memories of dusk specs on someone's selfie
15:55 schestowitz-TR; 480x640 is usually enough
15:55 schestowitz-TR; *dust specs
15:56 Techrights-sec; that has been the card the oligarchs play when the topic of overpopulation
15:56 Techrights-sec; is raised
15:56 Techrights-sec; ack
15:56 Techrights-sec; "... presented by Catalin Cimpanu"
15:56 Techrights-sec; https://risky.biz/RBNEWS2/
15:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-risky.biz | Risky Biz News: Microsoft saw Russia pre-position a year before invasion - Risky Business
15:56 Techrights-sec; you had wondered a while back where he had gone
15:56 Techrights-sec; yes to keep them running on the hamster wheel so as to prevent them from
15:56 Techrights-sec; planning -- anything
15:56 Techrights-sec; https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9116 is needed for gemini proxy
15:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.rfc-editor.org | RFC 9116: A File Format to Aid in Security Vulnerability Disclosure
15:56 Techrights-sec; by pushing things until collapse maximizes the markup for the narrowest possible
15:56 Techrights-sec; area, everything else is an externality and does not show up on the monthly
15:56 Techrights-sec; or quarterly report
15:58 schestowitz-TR; incresasing my buffer a little
15:58 schestowitz-TR; softpedia's bogdan popa also stopped troilling Linux from there
15:58 schestowitz-TR; and then rianne saw him emerging in something called auto(r)volution
15:58 schestowitz-TR; covering things like android
15:58 schestowitz-TR; I don't think that site ever got anywhere
15:58 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile softpedia was rotting away
16:00 Techrights-sec; softpedia never t really had any original content that I know of, or maybe
16:00 Techrights-sec; I justremember incorrectly
16:01 schestowitz-TR; softpedia made copies of a lot of sofwtare froim freshmear and sourceforce
16:01 schestowitz-TR; including some of mine
16:01 schestowitz-TR; with marius I spoke about how my software there suddenly vanished
16:01 schestowitz-TR; they started removing "less often accessed" pages
16:01 schestowitz-TR; to cut down
16:01 schestowitz-TR; but they built the romanian empire by making a catalogue (hence "pedia") of other people's binaries
16:01 schestowitz-TR; not code
16:01 schestowitz-TR; they were ranked very well at one point
16:01 schestowitz-TR; maybe the news section came much leter
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16:06 Techrights-sec; ack
16:06 schestowitz-TR; based on rianne's cycle through the news (she netted just 3 items since midnight), it's another bloody slow
16:06 schestowitz-TR; day for "Linux"
16:06 schestowitz-TR; I will do the belarus thing for now
16:06 schestowitz-TR; howtos are only OK in bulk as the chance of someone using system x and wanting to install y is rather low
16:06 schestowitz-TR; but if I can group them, then it's OK
16:06 schestowitz-TR; same for mgames
16:06 schestowitz-TR; games are mostly "stream" (DRM) and WINE (WIndows blogs)
16:06 schestowitz-TR; *steam
16:06 schestowitz-TR; so don't consider me too excited
16:06 schestowitz-TR; I'm no gardiner on the payroll
16:06 schestowitz-TR; *blobs
16:06 schestowitz-TR; DRM, blobs, "entertainment"
16:09 Techrights-sec; ack
16:09 Techrights-sec; yes, RSS has some stuff but not a lot
16:09 Techrights-sec; DRM is a large problem already
16:09 Techrights-sec; TBL is to blame mostly but not entirely however blaming at this point does not
16:09 Techrights-sec; solve any problem for now
16:09 Techrights-sec; The reason games and videos are targeted now are the same reasons the videoa
16:09 Techrights-sec; and audio were targeted 20 years ago, they are not taken seriously and are
16:09 Techrights-sec; considered frivilous and thus the estrictions are also accepted by the public
16:09 Techrights-sec; as being unthreatening. If M$ DRMed the productivity file formats right away
16:09 Techrights-sec; there would be rebellion, even against M$, so they have to use games and
16:09 Techrights-sec; videos to lock DRM into place first before then making optional for productivity
16:09 Techrights-sec; software and then mandatory. Probably in vista12 or 14
16:10 Techrights-sec; if Vista survives that much longer
16:10 schestowitz-TR; tbh (thinking laterally here)
16:10 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should rethink how I do lInux links
16:10 schestowitz-TR; just as I reconsidered the way I digest and post patents
16:10 schestowitz-TR; and how I relate to social control media
16:10 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the Linux stuff is boring shit
16:10 schestowitz-TR; like all the Red Hat/ICBM "news"... purely corporate junk, this isn's Fedora Core days
16:10 Techrights-sec; ok
16:10 Techrights-sec; Fedora community is gone afaik just some fascade backed up by IBM staff
16:10 Techrights-sec; Canonical is going away in 2023, give or take a year
16:14 schestowitz-TR; canonical tried to regain community a few times
16:14 schestowitz-TR; they reformed a Council like 2 years ago
16:14 schestowitz-TR; but nothing came out of it
16:14 schestowitz-TR; they looked to appease some bloggers who had moaned about how alienatedd they felt
16:14 schestowitz-TR; so Canonical whipped up some press releases with proclamation
16:14 schestowitz-TR; anyway, ubuntu is losing share in desktop
16:14 schestowitz-TR; Canonical does not know how to stop the bleeding
16:14 schestowitz-TR; their blog focuses on devices and servers
16:14 schestowitz-TR; they want some big name clients
16:14 schestowitz-TR; they have a few
16:14 schestowitz-TR; should we consider using the daily links software for more "Linux" feeds?
16:14 schestowitz-TR; certain ones are very predictable and mechanical
16:14 schestowitz-TR; like the howto sites
16:14 schestowitz-TR; bear in mind even formerly "OK" so-called 'news' sites became a word salad
16:14 schestowitz-TR; and the writers aren't qualified, except in salad making
16:16 Techrights-sec; yes
16:16 Techrights-sec; depends on the feeds though
16:18 schestowitz-TR; I suppose criteria are: can retrieve <title>
16:18 schestowitz-TR; RSS summary is decent
16:18 schestowitz-TR; even without any summary it might be OK
16:18 schestowitz-TR; esp. for howtos
16:18 Techrights-sec; yes that is one prerequisite, another is that the articles are steuctured
16:18 Techrights-sec; consistently so that the useful parts are usually in the same place each
16:18 Techrights-sec; time. Summary or 1st 2 paragraphs or 1st paragraph or last paragrap,
16:18 Techrights-sec; that doesn't matter as long as it is the same each time
16:20 schestowitz-TR; ok, I will check and make a list
16:20 schestowitz-TR; should I specify which parts are consistently useful?
16:20 schestowitz-TR; this way we can scan more feeds or produce more articles
16:20 schestowitz-TR; I got the latest camelCase from git today
16:21 Techrights-sec; the feed URLs would be all that are needed, though if there are some
16:21 Techrights-sec; strings which should trigger exclusion (sponsored articles etc) then those
16:21 Techrights-sec; would be good to know up front too
16:23 schestowitz-TR; I recently disabled the ones that do seo webspam
16:23 schestowitz-TR; they can harm our site anywhere, no matter what we link to in such domains
16:23 schestowitz-TR; either way, I check them all manually before using post.ff.sh to catalogue them in the right place
16:23 schestowitz-TR; and sometimes I remove irrelevant paragraphs or items
16:23 schestowitz-TR; I am going to make a list now while cleaning the feeds
16:23 Techrights-sec; yes
16:23 Techrights-sec; ack
16:24 schestowitz-TR; sorting the wheat from the chaff will only get HARDER, not simpler, as time goes by in the WWW
16:24 schestowitz-TR; so we need to cast the net wider on the Net
16:27 schestowitz-TR; btw, lxer is like 20 times less in magnitude compared to 15 years ago
16:27 schestowitz-TR; slashdhot is maybe the same
16:27 schestowitz-TR; they rapidly lose visitors
16:27 schestowitz-TR; a
16:27 schestowitz-TR; alexa as in alexa rankins shutd down for good in 2 days
16:27 schestowitz-TR; netcraft is nnoot accurate
16:27 schestowitz-TR; few people use their malware
16:27 schestowitz-TR; "plugins"
16:27 Techrights-sec; yes
16:27 Techrights-sec; one of the problems is that some of the automated feeds are quite good
16:27 Techrights-sec; but I don't usually have time to check them so they pass unnoticed for my
16:27 Techrights-sec; part
16:27 Techrights-sec; yes most sites are like that if they are even around
16:27 Techrights-sec; still
16:28 Techrights-sec; slashdot was killed off through repeated sales to increasingly disconnected and
16:28 Techrights-sec; hostile companies then reddit lied about aaron swartz during an interval of
16:28 Techrights-sec; elevated dissatisfaction with slashdot and most left (stupidly) for reddit
16:28 Techrights-sec; being conde nast it has marketing money unlike slashdot which had grown
16:28 Techrights-sec; organically
16:37 Techrights-sec; netcraft has not been accurate for a long time
16:37 schestowitz-TR; it never was, but in the "toolbar" era of Web browser some technical people like me had it installed
16:37 schestowitz-TR; I don't know who STILL reports to the company
16:37 schestowitz-TR; it was always spyware of sorts
16:37 schestowitz-TR; justified as "security"
16:39 schestowitz-TR; 2025: daddy, what's alexa ranking?
16:39 schestowitz-TR; daddy: non, no, alexas isn't doing credit ratings, alexa used to measure traffic before the Musk
16:39 schestowitz-TR; without lots of hair plugs bought the original company just to shut it down
16:39 Techrights-sec; ack
16:41 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if I should include plan ets too, like debian and fedora that I added already
16:41 schestowitz-TR; the first para is usually OK
16:41 schestowitz-TR; if not, I can void it and just use title, or manually access the page for better outline
16:41 schestowitz-TR; so no debian uncoensored either
16:41 schestowitz-TR; I will remove from the list
16:42 Techrights-sec; no planets have a poor signal to noise ratio and even when they do have ites
16:42 Techrights-sec; ^items
16:42 Techrights-sec; they are curated heavily and a subset selected to promote a given agenda
16:42 Techrights-sec; the closer we can harvest to the original source the better
16:42 Techrights-sec; maybe some of the sites it promotes would be of use to add individually though
16:44 schestowitz-TR; in the older days planets would have a long list of all the original sites or rss feeds in the sidebar
16:44 schestowitz-TR; some still do this
16:44 schestowitz-TR; but it's their "secret sauce"
16:44 schestowitz-TR; it's like telling you how to recreate or bypass them
16:44 schestowitz-TR; like a chef at a restaurant offering you the book of all the recipes
16:44 schestowitz-TR; and the secret sauce changes
16:44 schestowitz-TR; if one blogger turns "sour"
16:44 schestowitz-TR; or "toxic"
16:44 schestowitz-TR; they only like "sweet" arse-sucking bloggwers
16:44 schestowitz-TR; to the controller of the planet, e./g. mozilla
16:44 schestowitz-TR; no dissent tolerated
16:44 schestowitz-TR; not after the first time anyway
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17:18 schestowitz-TR; go to www.hecticgeek.com
17:18 schestowitz-TR; see what happened in March
17:18 schestowitz-TR; webspam, seo spam, and Windows spam
17:18 schestowitz-TR; it is interesting that windows "content" egts introduced alongside webspam
17:18 schestowitz-TR; as if both entail some kind of payment
17:18 Techrights-sec; correct
17:18 Techrights-sec; ack
17:18 Techrights-sec; likely
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20:49 schestowitz-TR; I have just passed 2 emails to you
20:49 schestowitz-TR; one is preliminary list of rss feeds, the howto-centric ones are further at the bottom
20:49 schestowitz-TR; I've just got parts 8-11 of the series ready, want a copy in /tmp?
20:49 schestowitz-TR; regarding gulag voice, our very stupid company - WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH STAFF -
20:50 schestowitz-TR; wants to move everything from Asterisk hosting (Gradwell) to Gulag, which even
20:50 schestowitz-TR; for purely pragmatic reasons is a mistake (it barely works; waste of time and stress)
20:50 schestowitz-TR; rianne said, "let's leave the company'
20:50 schestowitz-TR; I say, "wait, we can oppose the move and also we can keep milking them" (the job
20:50 schestowitz-TR; is easy)
20:50 schestowitz-TR; the troubling thing is, key decisions are made that are both wrong and
20:50 schestowitz-TR; involve no real cinsultation with the staff
20:50 schestowitz-TR; as pointed out at the start, iirc I was told something denying my hypothesis
20:50 schestowitz-TR; about the long-erm plan being gulag migratiopn
20:50 schestowitz-TR; being left out of the process is one thing
20:50 schestowitz-TR; being lied to is a lot worse
20:50 schestowitz-TR; we not only lied about this move internally
20:50 schestowitz-TR; we also lie externally to clients
20:50 schestowitz-TR; as the boss did an hour ago, making fake excuses
20:50 schestowitz-TR; they say, if someone you work with lies to others
20:50 schestowitz-TR; that someone might lie to you too (like the person being rude to the waiter not being a nice person)
20:50 schestowitz-TR; I will go discuss this with rianne now
20:50 schestowitz-TR; I will then work on USPTO tip-off and EPO series
21:26 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "The Steam Deck has had a huge week. Not only did the Deck have a MASSIVE update on Monday evening, but it also had one of the most eagerly awaited features land in the beta channel." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=oyvt_ENMUCs
21:26 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- yewtu.be | Valve dropped ANOTHER HUGE UPDATE making 40 FPS better than 50. Plus other Steam Deck news. - Invidious
21:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Valve dropped ANOTHER HUGE UPDATE making 40 FPS better than 50. Plus other Steam Deck news. - Invidious
21:26 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Gardiner turned from "Linux" to marketing :/
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