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09:08 schestowitz-TR2; this past month "Microsoft" barely shows up in Linux news
09:08 schestowitz-TR2; thory: they dismantled some units reponsible for it, e.g. WSL and PR spam
09:09 Techrights-sec; quite likely though this is the time of the year during which they regroup
09:09 Techrights-sec; historically (if I understand correctly) they call in their minions to a
09:09 Techrights-sec; conference to ensure they are all on message for the coming academic year
09:09 Techrights-sec; if they all return to making noise next week, don't be surprised if
09:09 Techrights-sec; 1) they are all on the same talking points, but 2) those talking points have
09:09 Techrights-sec; change a little since the summer;
09:11 schestowitz-TR2; an hour ago in TM I put the video of Jay (leanrnlinuxtv) regarding "year of the desktop"
09:11 schestowitz-TR2; it's not a bad video, worth the time tbh
09:11 schestowitz-TR2; I tend to playback invidious at 1.5x or 2x the speed, depending on the content
09:11 Techrights-sec; Did he acknowledge the OEM monopoly that M$ abuses?
09:13 schestowitz-TR2; no, this is my main issue with it
09:13 schestowitz-TR2; no mention of secure boot
09:13 schestowitz-TR2; bribes OEM lockout
09:13 schestowitz-TR2; and other crimes
09:17 Techrights-sec; Then without acknowledgment of the anti-competitive abuses, specifically
09:17 Techrights-sec; stuff like restricted boot and the OEM monopoly, there is really no point
09:17 Techrights-sec; and in some ways is kind of blaming the victim:
09:17 Techrights-sec; "if only vendors saw the market potential ..."
09:17 Techrights-sec; "if only distros were easier to use ..."
09:17 Techrights-sec; "if only there were fewer distros ..."
09:17 Techrights-sec; and so on with the FUD they are reinforcing. Remember that m$ successfully
09:17 Techrights-sec; fought against and got laws blocking whitebox systems.
09:19 schestowitz-TR2; hence I thought it might be worth doing a rebuttal to
09:19 schestowitz-TR2; what do you think?
09:19 schestowitz-TR2; video rebuttal?
09:19 schestowitz-TR2; you can then see it with my response
09:19 schestowitz-TR2; it would be fair use
09:22 Techrights-sec; Perhaps more like filling in the gaps than an actual rebuttal. DT often makes
09:22 Techrights-sec; the same mistakes. Though I can't guess the reason for DT's mistakes, it
09:22 Techrights-sec; can't be naivety because he has been around the block enough times to know
09:22 Techrights-sec; how M$ operates. If he is trying to project his own values onto the crowd
09:22 Techrights-sec; or mob known as M$, then that is a major error in judgement. Without having
09:22 Techrights-sec; seen Jay's video(s), I may be off, but say again that projecting ones own values
09:22 Techrights-sec; is a common error. There may be other reason for missing or pretending not
09:22 Techrights-sec; to see the ongoing anti-competitive behaviors.
09:22 schestowitz-TR2; thanks, OTA
09:24 Techrights-sec; np
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10:48 schestowitz-TR2; done, I realise he does indeed repeat thew same (wrong) point again and again like 10 mins
10:48 schestowitz-TR2; he could make it more concuise, but so could I (50 mins)
10:48 schestowitz-TR2; but I didn't script it
10:48 schestowitz-TR2; I will now look into IRS files of LF for more things
10:48 schestowitz-TR2; processing video, draft in place (not for LF, not yet)
11:07 Techrights-sec; ack
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; draft re lf
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; took a while
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; but worth it
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; done, published
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; there's lots more to be shown some other day
11:36 schestowitz-TR2; same for github, we keep it on reserve
12:07 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Excess Deaths in the UK This Summer Worst in Years https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/30/excess-deaths-in-the-uk/
12:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Excess Deaths in the UK This Summer Worst in Years
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12:36 Techrights-sec; ack
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; productive day today
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; the exam is tomorrow, then there will be another one for her ("Life in the UK"... she's scoring a lot higher than needed in the mock exams)
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; tomorrow is oral, so can induce some stress/anxiety, unlike the multiple-choice exam
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; I did my last shift today, could use more topics tbh
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; or stuff to do on the sites, I've begun dealing a bit with the utf-8 issue, using a bunch of sed lines... I'll copy these over to rianne's scripts when
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; I'm done, to greatly reduce the chance of that happening
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; in rss I noticed such issues can creep in too
12:39 schestowitz-TR2; maybe some perl libraries handle unicode differently, that's my guess anyway
12:40 Techrights-sec; for topics, there are those who apparently knowingly omit mentioning M$ ongoing
12:40 Techrights-sec; anti-competitive maneuvers, for whatever reason. That shifts the blame to the
12:40 Techrights-sec; victims and makes them at least passively complicit in the crimes.
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; i put a quick first draft about this
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; video is 50 mins, so will take longer
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; I could add links, but said in the video they would be rather old
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; so it's more important to explain, with or within a lot of rerefences
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; Derak Tayloer is mentioned too
12:41 schestowitz-TR2; as you had brough Derek taylor up
12:49 Techrights-sec; He mostly does good work but goes out of his way to turn a blind eye to the
12:49 Techrights-sec; OEM problems and joins those incorrectly placing the blame on the distros.
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14:47 schestowitz-TR2; I am not sure if TM server side manages to catch camelcase for the cites domain and inject that into title=""
14:47 schestowitz-TR2; so far I don't think I saw that happen except when I added thse manually at my end
14:47 schestowitz-TR2; just sayin'
14:47 schestowitz-TR2; you did post an example with redhat.com but I don't think I have saw that working
14:51 Techrights-sec; checking
14:51 Techrights-sec; It works, for the sites that are registered, and only in new posts, not
14:51 Techrights-sec; retroactively. There'd have to be a script to do the retroactive editing
14:51 Techrights-sec; if the old posts are to be modified.
14:51 Techrights-sec; It's a labor intensive work flow to keep the file up to date.
14:51 Techrights-sec; I'm not sure it is viable in the long run.
14:55 schestowitz__[TR]; <p class="dropcap-first">For a systems administrator, it seems like every project brings new complexity, more servers, and more sprawl to manage. I will assume that your messes are a lot like mine: On one server, you're running CentOS Linux 7 from a project several years ago. Over here, you have a handful of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 servers from a recent project. Over there, you have an Oracle RAC database running on Oracle Linux
14:55 schestowitz__[TR]; 8.
14:55 schestowitz__[TR]; <a class="readon" title="" href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/linux-update-convert2rhel-leapp">Read on</a>
14:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.redhat.com | 2 tools to manage infrastructure sprawl with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | Enable Sysadmin
14:55 schestowitz__[TR]; Also Red Hat: <a href="https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/8/edge-computing-considerations">Edge computing: 4 considerations for success</a>
14:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-enterprisersproject.com | Edge computing: 4 considerations for success | The Enterprisers Project
14:55 schestowitz__[TR]; <a href="https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/08/30/kubernetes-101-developers-names-ports-yaml-files-and-more">Kubernetes 101 for developers: Names, ports, YAML files, and more</a>
14:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-developers.redhat.com | Kubernetes 101 for developers: Names, ports, YAML files, and more | Red Hat Developer
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; is
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; <a class="readon" title=""
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; the correct form?
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; rianne is posting like this too and it never picks up the domain when she does
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; see the outcome in the site (latest page)
15:11 Techrights-sec; checking
15:11 schestowitz-TR2; I've just attempted update ... .pl with -d the camelcase test
15:11 schestowitz-TR2; but I think the syntax as I used it did not work
15:11 schestowitz-TR2; the shell wrapper does not support -d
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15:28 Techrights-sec; checking
15:28 Techrights-sec; the shell wrapper does not do deletions
15:28 Techrights-sec; I see the posts now, checking further
15:28 Techrights-sec; I think I see the problem.
15:30 schestowitz-TR2; thanks for looking into it
15:30 schestowitz-TR2; from my ewnd, I'll try to weed out those "&#" symbols
15:30 schestowitz-TR2; marius never posts these symbols
15:30 schestowitz-TR2; sometimes, not always, the culprit is how I use curl and perl to fetch title
15:51 Techrights-sec; Thanks for spotting that.
15:51 Techrights-sec; Additions and updates should work now.
15:51 Techrights-sec; But a script is needed to retroactively modify unannotated ReadOn link.
15:51 Techrights-sec; ack
15:52 schestowitz-TR2; the old ones don't matter much
15:52 schestowitz-TR2; but going forward for years it is nice to have it build in, yielding tens of thousands auto-completitions
16:07 Techrights-sec; The key is to use the clas="readon" because that is the marker for the script.
16:07 Techrights-sec; Is anyone working on the db at the moment?
16:07 Techrights-sec; I can back it up and try and update, if it is quiet.
16:09 schestowitz-TR2; now is a good time to back it up
16:09 schestowitz-TR2; my rss reader is empty, I've just applied the fixes to rianne's scripts too and tested that upstairs
16:09 schestowitz-TR2; I also made a copy of the command you gave yesterday for backups
16:09 schestowitz-TR2; I won't post anything in the next 30 mins
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; btw, i saw the conteroversial dancing video an hour ago
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; I was expecteing a lot worse
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; so basically it seems to be like lazy guys and girls are a little jealous because she uis younger, looks better, and rose to power quickly
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; she did nothing illegal
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; and having a good-looking PM is no national disgrace
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; ffs... this video was showing tweets and tweets and tweets
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; like this is what "the media" now boils down to
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16:58 Techrights-sec; another turning point to harp on is when LF got rid of community representation
16:58 Techrights-sec; ack
16:58 schestowitz-TR2; draft, short
16:58 schestowitz-TR2; 2016 (iirc)
16:58 schestowitz-TR2; maybe i'll do another part about that
16:58 schestowitz-TR2; trying to go through the irs forms serially
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Where LF used to be but left http://www.onelettermandrive.com/pdf/ldac_availability_6_13.pdf
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; And LF was in unit D: http://www.onelettermandrive.com/campus_plan.html# www.onelettermandrive.com/cp/building_d.html
17:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.onelettermandrive.com | Letterman Digital Arts Center
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.onelettermandrive.com | Letterman Digital Arts Center
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Linux development has long been based in Portland, but Jim Zemlin and Microsoft Sheela prefer to blow away $5,000,000+ a year (NOT their own money) on some glorified estate at the banks of Golden Gate Bridge
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; draft
17:18 schestowitz-TR2; this will abuse you
17:18 Techrights-sec; ack
17:20 schestowitz-TR2; adding transcript
17:24 schestowitz-TR2; adding transcript
17:24 schestowitz-TR2; he's a bit like TheLiar in our company
17:24 schestowitz-TR2; funnily enough, Sheela Microsoft looks a lot like SareenGas
17:24 schestowitz-TR2; both of the same country of origin
17:25 schestowitz-TR2; Sareen liked to pretent she was from KSA
17:25 schestowitz-TR2; to elevate her status
17:25 Techrights-sec; ack
17:28 schestowitz-TR2; hoyek from container fame (docker) was ousted from his own company
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; familira story these days
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; Jobs
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; RMS (temporarily)
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; LT (same)
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; EFF (John)
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; the capital givers call the shots
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; and those whom the capital givers hold by the strings
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; other than our CEO (relatively OK; technical too) I'm the longest serving employee
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; I doubt I can find a way out by year's end
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; they're not progressing at all
17:29 Techrights-sec; RMS seems retired at this point
17:29 Techrights-sec; ack
17:29 schestowitz-TR2; just stalling, but at least I'm paid for my time and today I opened my mouth again
17:30 schestowitz-TR2; rms is prof emeritus
17:30 schestowitz-TR2; still allowed the visit the campus sometimes
17:30 schestowitz-TR2; give a special one-off lecture
17:30 schestowitz-TR2; then go bakc home to die
17:30 Techrights-sec; hmm. they should be working on using his guidance to future-proof the movement
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17:36 Techrights-sec; the way 'open source' is being abused in place of Software Freedom, the
17:36 Techrights-sec; resources are in effect being strip mined and not cultivated. but the monthly
17:36 Techrights-sec; or quarterly result crowd doesn't look that far ahead. they can't care if
17:36 Techrights-sec; there's little to nothing in the pipeline compared to decades past if they
17:36 Techrights-sec; only look ahead a few weeks at a time.
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; I don't think it's about money
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; they need to motivate enough volunteers to join hands a la Debian
17:42 Techrights-sec; ack
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; it does matter that osi perishes too
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; a lot can be accomplished on shoestring budget
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; I think gnu got lots done (thousands of 'workers') in the 1980s and 90s
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; but didn't see that first-hand
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; osi lost almost all the "members"
17:44 schestowitz-TR2; not enough fools to 'volunteers' or 'donate' to a Micrtosoft front group/outpost
17:44 Techrights-sec; yes
17:44 Techrights-sec; popular computer magazines at the time discussed not only the tools, which
17:44 Techrights-sec; isn't even done any more, but also the reasons for the tools, up to and
17:44 Techrights-sec; including discussions of the GNU Manifesto -- in multiple magazines
17:44 Techrights-sec; of the era
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17:48 schestowitz-TR2; those would not succeed today unless that fit in a "tweet"
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; with some emoji about a dancing 'celeb' in an infinite scroll UI
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; I think today's interaction tools lack proper reading, saving, and writing capabilities
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; they encourage shallow shit in high quantities
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; "don't think before you post"
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; calling a person drunk just because the person dances
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; any press office would obstruct such foolish utterances
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; and contribute to better discourse, cohesioin
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; the vast majority if the anti-RMS campaign went on in "social" control media
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; though the signing was managd by Microsoft TypeScript in ShitHub
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; by Elana Hashpuppy
17:48 schestowitz-TR2; (back then Azure @ ICBM)
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17:50 schestowitz-TR2; Elana Hamasman
17:50 schestowitz-TR2; lol
17:51 Techrights-sec; Many article mention "cloud" and those that mention M$ Azure mention as an aside
17:51 Techrights-sec; that they don't say how much, if any, money they make on it.
17:52 schestowitz-TR2; or what share
17:52 schestowitz-TR2; this was mentioned in irc about 2 hours ago
18:05 Techrights-sec; checking
18:05 Techrights-sec; only mentioned there superficially
18:05 schestowitz-TR2; curious I cannot find any real data
18:05 schestowitz-TR2; in the past there was
18:05 schestowitz-TR2; a) journalism (with real budget)
18:05 schestowitz-TR2; b) 'analysts' who study this, like sandvine for net traffic
18:11 Techrights-sec; old, rerun: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/13/u-s-newsroom-employment-has-fallen-26-since-2008/
↺ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/13/u-s-newsroom-employment-has-fallen-26-since-2008/
18:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pewresearch.org | U.S. newsroom employment has fallen 26% since 2008 | Pew Research Center
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; curious I cannot find any real data
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; in the past there was
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; a) journalism (with real budget)
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; b) 'analysts' who study this, like sandvine for net traffic
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; many of the remaning get rented
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; bill, jeff bezos, etc.
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; but don't worry, we still have billions of "tweets" out there and people who can toss them in a basket to call it "journalism", e.g. about Marin, Marine Le Pen,
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; and Cheeto Nazi
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; like with RMS< they've called corbyn everything in the black book
18:14 schestowitz-TR2; and twitter deems "you're next" (to be assassinated) to be OK while bagging KSA regime $
18:15 Techrights-sec; They hammered on Corbyn so long that he started to go along with what they
18:15 Techrights-sec; were setting him up for. He's over.
18:15 Techrights-sec; Long ago now.
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18:18 schestowitz-TR2; [...]
18:18 schestowitz-TR2; I herad something to that effect wrt libya
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; but cannot verify for myself
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; the source is a cranky ol friend
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; btw, corbyn was "assigned" to Integrite Initatyive (friends of Bill's Guardian)
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; which incidentally also got assigned to 'kill' Assange
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; around the same time CIA plotted to kill him and discussed optiond
18:19 schestowitz-TR2; *options
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18:25 schestowitz-TR2; ---
18:25 schestowitz-TR2; ftr: "bashing" someone for running a scammy org = legti criticism
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; not "harassment"
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; bashing a man who stares at people due to mental condition = low blow
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; saying ytoung lady cannot dance with friends = sexism/slut-shaming
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; if bojo did the same with his belly hanging, they'd say it's "clown" and "hoi polloi"
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; I foresee attempts to spin LF and EPO criticism as "abuse"
18:26 schestowitz-TR2; like OSI (just mentioned it in IRC btw) uses "homophobia"
18:28 Techrights-sec; ack
18:32 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> FACEPALM!!! " The affected product root credentials are hard-coded and not changed automatically when first commissioned, which may allow an attacker with SSH access to the device to gain full control." https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-242-06
18:32 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | Honeywell ControlEdge | CISA
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21:52 Techrights-sec; ack
21:52 Techrights-sec; Note that there is a general whisper campagin among the microsofters against
21:52 Techrights-sec; SSH itself. It, along with IMAPS, has been targeted for removal from the net.
21:52 Techrights-sec; I can guess at the reason. SSH allows generic access, which helps keep
21:52 Techrights-sec; servers and other systems as interchangeable commodities. If peope can only
21:52 Techrights-sec; or learn to only access the systems via proprietary interfaces, then the systems
21:52 Techrights-sec; are effectively no longer commodities.
22:03 schestowitz-TR2; I think the new modules that makes the TM RSS feed is having a hard time with "smart" quotes or unicode
22:03 schestowitz-TR2; look at the source of the RSS feed near the word "Unofficial" for instance (after that word)
22:04 psydruid; I've experienced this myself recently with Microsoft mail using some kind of OAuth that doesn't work with Thunderbird anymore
22:05 psydruid; These kinds of substandard "solutions" must be rejected
22:05 psydruid; But when even universities succumb to this nonsense the plot is lost
22:06 psydruid; And this country loves Microsoft a lot, my university was/is one of the few holdouts
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22:51 schestowitz-TR2; citrix ;-)
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23:05 schestowitz-TR2; Weaning off social media and the over-capitalised Big Internet life gemini://xiu.smol.pub/1661838260
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