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00:31 techrightssec2; A fair amount of referals come via the fediverse, it would seem.
00:31 techrightssec2; Those arrive in bursts. It's otherwise mostly random, very recent posts, plus
00:31 techrightssec2; a trickle of bots. Unfortunately some of the bots keep hitting the same pages
00:31 techrightssec2; again and again, or at least "Bing" does that all the time. The other bots
00:31 techrightssec2; seem better programmed and don't do that as much or at all.
00:31 techrightssec2; I looked into the bots many weeks ago but haven't analyzed the recently.
00:31 techrightssec2; A very small portion of the patents embedded in H.264 have expired and a tiny
00:31 techrightssec2; number of additional patents will expire soon:
00:31 techrightssec2; https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avc-att1.pdf
00:31 techrightssec2; Yet phone makers went out of their way to avoid Ogg and paid at great expense
00:31 techrightssec2; to add H.264 with "hardware acceleration".
00:31 techrightssec2; When do the rest expire?
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03:42 schestowitz-TR; working on 3 posts for midnight server time
03:42 schestowitz-TR; \
03:42 schestowitz-TR; vonick uptime 50 days, 8 hours
03:42 schestowitz-TR; that's the machine that kept crashing due to storage-related issues
03:42 schestowitz-TR; I already moved critical files off of it
03:42 schestowitz-TR; but the problem seems to have temporarily gone away
03:42 schestowitz-TR; TR gets many visits on Microsoft 2023 layoff pages
03:42 schestowitz-TR; which sort of tells you something, imho
03:42 schestowitz-TR; regarding MPEG patents, I know none individually
03:42 schestowitz-TR; there are so many that it would be a waste of time to study that, unless you do it for a living
04:12 schestowitz-TR; Deaths Soaring in Ireland After COVID-19 and Vaccination https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/29/ireland-q2-2022/
04:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Deaths Soaring in Ireland After COVID-19 and Vaccination
04:44 schestowitz-TR; Time to pause covid mass vaccination https://rumble.com/v22ugd2-time-to-pause-covid-mass-vaccination.html
04:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-rumble.com | Time to pause covid mass vaccination
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08:54 schestowitz-TR; In Norway GNU/Linux is found on over 12% of laptops/desktops this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway/#monthly-200901-202212
08:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats
08:54 schestowitz-TR; not sure how accurate
08:55 schestowitz-TR; I think Microsoft has gamed their data in recent months
08:55 schestowitz-TR; in order to fake "success" of vista11
08:55 schestowitz-TR; but I cannot prove it
08:56 techrightssec2; They usually do game or outright cook their data to give the illusion of being
08:56 techrightssec2; better off than they really are.
09:40 techrightssec2; If I recall correctly there were some game companies helping them, and probably
09:40 techrightssec2; still do. It might have been regarding WoW where game clients that used
09:40 techrightssec2; Windows even once during the first few months were counte as Windows and not
09:40 techrightssec2; GNU/Linux even if the game was only ever played via GNU/Linux. Those stats
09:40 techrightssec2; were later used to drop support for the platform. Game support, or more
09:40 techrightssec2; specifically the politics coming from the gaming companies, is a whole can of
09:40 techrightssec2; worms. Those issues were discussed online back when Slashdot was still around.
09:41 schestowitz-TR; i still remember this
09:47 schestowitz-TR; many gnu/linux clients pretend to be windows (librewolf does my default; rianne and I look like
09:47 schestowitz-TR; Firefox on Windows)
09:47 schestowitz-TR; no wondows clients
09:47 schestowitz-TR; pretend to be gnu/linux
09:49 techrightssec2; Yes, many do, exacerbating the problem by not forcing the servers to address
09:49 techrightssec2; the full market. In the 'old' days, marketers would jump at the chance to
09:49 techrightssec2; increase their market share by a few percent. Now they are all about forcing
09:49 techrightssec2; a particular company's corporate ideology in such a way as to actively shrink
09:49 techrightssec2; market share while responding to compaints with F.O.A.D.
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10:13 schestowitz-TR; Donald Knuths 2022 Christmas Tree Lecture Is about Trees - The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2022-christmas-tree-lecture-is-about-trees/ Source: The New Stack | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2022-christmas-tree-lecture-is-about-trees/
10:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thenewstack.io | Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is about Trees - The New Stack
10:16 schestowitz-TR; Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) - Invidious https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zg6YRqT4Duo&feature=youtu.be | Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/zg6YRqT4Duo&feature=youtu.be
10:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) - Invidious
12:25 schestowitz-TR; Phoronix has just RE-published an article for the THIRD time in two days. Maybe his xmas traffic puts him down, so he's bumping old stories.
13:37 schestowitz-TR; I can post another batch of Daily Links
13:37 schestowitz-TR; unless daily links are imminent from the Links account
14:31 techrightssec2; just a sec
14:31 techrightssec2; All set. It took much longer than planned today.
14:32 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I thought something had gone wrong
14:32 schestowitz-TR; glad it was fine
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15:29 schestowitz-TR; commondreams grabs para1 thrice in a row
15:29 schestowitz-TR; i think some variable might be echoed repeatedly
15:29 schestowitz-TR; for now I remove second and third lines
15:38 techrightssec2; checking
15:38 techrightssec2; hmm. seems to be in the source html the XPath will need changing
15:39 schestowitz-TR; I've manually culled the ones from today and am progressing towards bedtime circa 6pm
15:39 schestowitz-TR; been a productive day here at least
15:39 schestowitz-TR; more so tomorrow:-)
15:58 techrightssec2; yep, the actual text + markup is in the source x3
16:24 techrightssec2; ok, the scraper is fixed in regards to commondreams.org but, as always,
16:24 techrightssec2; scraping remains brittle.
16:24 techrightssec2; Thanks for catching the change.
16:26 schestowitz-TR; it is a moving target
16:26 schestowitz-TR; but at least it lets reading be done better
16:26 schestowitz-TR; like in books, no mimages to distract me
16:26 schestowitz-TR; I can't see the faces of people the articles are about
16:26 schestowitz-TR; and this is fine
16:26 schestowitz-TR; that also shows why gemini is fine
16:26 schestowitz-TR; the imagination works more
16:54 techrightssec2; ack
16:54 techrightssec2; Heads up: Rossmann reported that the NY bill got gutted leaving a useless
16:54 techrightssec2; piece of garbage with the old bill's name in it's place. The change was a few
16:54 techrightssec2; words but it effectively opened a loophole that opponents can drive trucks
16:54 techrightssec2; through.
16:55 schestowitz-TR; so basically a never-0ending battle with well-funded and tireless lobbyists
16:55 schestowitz-TR; like upc
16:55 schestowitz-TR; and the media covers it only as suits its owners
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23:55 techrightssec2; It was done more or less outside of democratic processes.
23:55 techrightssec2; It reminds me of when the secretary left the Open Source discussion off of the
23:55 techrightssec2; state of Oregon's agenda for the last session before the end of the season.
23:55 techrightssec2; That ensured it was not discussed with the old legislature, and the new
23:55 techrightssec2; legislature was an entirely different power constellation with different people
23:55 techrightssec2; and all.
23:55 techrightssec2; M$, and in this case also Apple, play the quite corrupt politicians with their
23:55 techrightssec2; lobbyists and legalized bribery.
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