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00:03 TR News; Continuously measure wind speed and direction with this EMT conduit-mounted station | Arduino Blog https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/17/continuously-measure-wind-speed-and-direction-with-this-emt-conduit-mounted-station/ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking
00:03 TR Bot; Continuously measure wind speed and direction with this EMT conduit-mounted station | Arduino Blog
00:04 TR News; cURL survey outsourced to Gulag, so you know it's not an anonymous survey ^_^ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/17/curl-annual-user-survey-2022/
00:04 TR Bot; annual user survey 2022 | daniel.haxx.se
00:05 TR News; Canonical: "Anything to help their friends make less developer switch to real Linux..." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1324212-ubuntu-preview-makes-it-easy-to-try-the-bleeding-edge-ubuntu-experience-on-wsl avoid Ubuntu, it works for Microsoft http://techrights.org/2022/05/11/canonical-boosting-windows/
00:05 TR Bot; Preview" Makes It Easy To Try The Bleeding-Edge Ubuntu Experience On WSL - Phoronix Forums
00:05 TR Bot; Ubuntu (Canonical) Will Not Help Us Get Rid of Windows (Microsoft) | Techrights
00:05 TR News; "Canonical as always, the traitors of Linux and free world! Weird that they are based in the Uk and not in Belarus. I guess the stupid things they do with Ubuntu are not stupid at all and just another way to make Linux look bad compared to Windows." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1324212-ubuntu-preview-makes-it-easy-to-try-the-bleeding-edge-ubuntu-experience-on-wsl
00:06 TR News; "Anyway, I would not recommend Ubuntu or any other Canonical product to anyone!" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1324212-ubuntu-preview-makes-it-easy-to-try-the-bleeding-edge-ubuntu-experience-on-wsl http://techrights.org/2022/05/11/canonical-boosting-windows/
00:07 TR News; Ubuntu 2004/5: bug number one is "Windows has majority market share". Ubuntu 2022: Windows no longer has majority market share. We need to rectify this with WSL. Let's herd users BACK into Windows.
00:08 TR News; The Linux Foundation uses proprietary software (look where they hire and take money from) and be sure theyre probably not even aware of it http://techrights.org/2022/05/17/linux-foundation-uses-google-docs/
00:08 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Almost Never uses Open Source | Techrights
00:08 TR News; The Linux Foundation never really leads by example; by default, it uses proprietary software http://techrights.org/2022/05/17/meme-linux-rejecting-foundation/
00:08 TR News; Earlier today SUEPO mentioned this new article demonstrating that EPO President Antnio Campinos can very obviously and blatantly violate the Code of Conduct of the Office without facing any consequences; there are translations too, so the report is now available in four languages http://techrights.org/2022/05/17/epo-oversight-debunked/
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00:14 TR News; Promoting clown computing nonsense. Buzzwords for outsourcing. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zepNawKQmCg
00:14 TR Bot; Mark Shuttleworth - Future of Ubuntu - Invidious
00:21 TR News; "remembered for being a vicious meat eater more than anything else" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ixam4j36CsA
00:21 TR Bot; Mark Shuttleworth - His Legacy - Invidious
00:21 schestowitz-TR; I cannot find his Microsoft talk
00:21 schestowitz-TR; I'm sure he gave something to that effect years ago
00:23 schestowitz; Bacon promotes proprietary
00:24 schestowitz; while LF (Miccrosoft et al) pay him
00:24 schestowitz; https://yewtu.be/watch?v=llh_1L_ZgLc
00:24 TR Bot; Building Open Core that Works - Jono Bacon, Jono Bacon Consulting - Invidious
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00:26 atdoc; psst Schestowitz someone's badmouthing you https://mastodon.social/@donhawkins/108312189630080514
00:26 TR Bot; Don Hawkins - W7DAH: "@bojkotiMalbona@infosec.exchange @maxi@todon.eu @" - Mastodon
00:26 schestowitz-TR; hi
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00:26 schestowitz-TR; no idea who that is..
00:27 schestowitz-TR; " Schestowitz didnt write that article. Hes just the editor and publisher"
00:27 schestowitz-TR; yes, but they try ad hom
00:27 schestowitz-TR; " What is the good docs relationship with Gemini then? Hmmm? As always follow the money."
00:27 schestowitz-TR; LOL
00:27 schestowitz-TR; Gemini Corp. pays me
00:27 schestowitz-TR; Gemini Inc.
00:28 schestowitz-TR; anyway social control media is a waste of time
00:28 schestowitz-TR; and meaningless
00:28 schestowitz-TR; anyone can fart out falsehoods
00:28 schestowitz-TR; as above
00:29 schestowitz-TR; I see jono bacon is doing openwashing
00:29 schestowitz-TR; and tried to turn that into a "business"
00:29 schestowitz-TR; with the openwashing "community"
00:30 schestowitz-TR; still trying to squeeze out any karma he got from MS (Mark Shuttleworth)
00:32 TR News; Free software dev's journal in Spain https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2022/05/18/europe-trip-journal-entry-13-15-valencia/
00:32 TR Bot; Europe Trip Journal Entry 13-15: Valencia vanitasvitae's blog
00:34 DaemonFC; Okay, so Batteries Plus replied and the charge went back on my account.
00:35 DaemonFC; So I appealed in a five page complaint accusing him of being a liar and a fraud with almost 13,500 words in it spanning five pages.
00:35 TR News; Phoronix nowadays writes to -- or targets -- an audience that may not exist or barely exist. Like x86 lovers and Microsoft apologists who are ALSO interested in Free software. It's like trying to reconcile vegetarian site with cockfights. I saw sites perishing like this, e.g. adding pure politics to tech issues. The Phoronix sponsors aren't compatible with the audience.
00:35 DaemonFC; He has to reply to all of that now, so he has to sit down and do this again.
00:36 schestowitz-TR; wow, well done
00:36 schestowitz-TR; so he lost money AND time
00:36 schestowitz-TR; and got insulted
00:36 schestowitz-TR; in public, too
00:36 schestowitz-TR; don't mess with DaemonFC and his spare time
00:37 MinceR; https://assets.amuniversal.com/d87dbeb0a47b013aa5e3005056a9545d ( https://dilbert.com/strip/2022-05-04 )
00:37 TR Bot; Be Love For Dave - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2022-05-04 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
00:39 bnchs; schestowitz-TR, lol that's basically what i expect from these
00:39 bnchs; >someone has an interest in something
00:40 bnchs; HMMMMMM WHAT'S HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT THING, FOLLOW THE MONEY
00:40 schestowitz-TR; but GEMINI
00:40 schestowitz-TR; the very grassroots thing
00:40 schestowitz-TR; made up by an incognito Aleman
00:41 bnchs; doesn't matter if it's a protocol
00:41 bnchs; you are PAID by them
00:41 bnchs; humans cannot have interest
00:41 schestowitz-TR; I saw other smears
00:41 schestowitz-TR; another is about IRC
00:41 schestowitz-TR; or freenode
00:42 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should look into that irc:// company
00:42 schestowitz-TR; maybe the irc:// company can pay me
00:42 schestowitz-TR; when I quit my job
00:42 *schestowitz-TR gets popcorn
00:43 *schestowitz-TR gets paid by PopcornCOmpany(TM)
00:45 schestowitz-TR; I think popcorntime is still around
00:45 schestowitz-TR; I never used it, but I know some who did
00:45 schestowitz-TR; it used argentina for refuge at one point
00:46 bnchs; "i don't wanna die"
00:46 bnchs; "what is his relationship with LIFE, is he paid by LIFE CORPORATION???"
00:46 bnchs; "follow the money!"
00:46 schestowitz-TR; either way, seeing clownflare losing money, spotify imploding, and netflix having problems, I think we can see what's going on
00:46 schestowitz-TR; they will try to compel politicians to bail them out, e.g. with "piracy tax"
00:47 schestowitz-TR; bnchs: "he is a sucker for life"
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00:49 TR News; Later this week Techrights passes 33.5k blog posts.
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00:51 TR News; There are still many stories (and scandals) in the pipeline about Microsoft/GitHub. Just waiting for the best time to publish these, to maximise outcome... Techrights knows what you did last summer...
00:51 TR News; Today in #Techrights Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164970
00:51 TR Bot; Today in Techrights | Tux Machines
00:54 TR News; "Any update on when we can restore our backed up data?" https://pod.diaspora.software/posts/4984491
00:54 TR Bot; An update on the future of JoinDiaspora.com
00:55 schestowitz; "
00:55 schestowitz; Any update on when we can restore our backed up data?
00:55 schestowitz; goobler
00:55 schestowitz; goobler - a day ago
00:55 schestowitz; That wont be possible until version 0.8 is released, and that is unlikely to be soon as theres still a fair bit more work to do on it
00:55 schestowitz; goobler
00:55 schestowitz; goobler - a day ago
00:55 schestowitz; In fact, see the comment directly above yours: many months.
00:55 schestowitz; pavi@despora.de
00:55 schestowitz; pavi@despora.de - about 9 hours ago
00:55 schestowitz; 2 months have passed and yes its not many months. Maybe I will ask again in winter :)
00:55 schestowitz; goobler
00:55 schestowitz; goobler - about 9 hours ago
00:55 schestowitz; I think, sadly, its going to take a lot longer than everyone would like too, because there are few people working on it and they are all very busy with other real-life things.
00:55 schestowitz; "
00:55 schestowitz; IOW, diaspora is going downhill
00:55 schestowitz; and it's unlikely it'll surevive another decade
00:58 TR News; Press "Active 6 months". Diaspora is going away. https://the-federation.info/diaspora
00:58 TR Bot; the federation - a statistics hub
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01:01 TR News; "the cloud promise is flexibility, reduced costs, less maintenance, less overhead, easier everything. whether it can live up to those promises is highly dependent on factors. maybe it's comparable to the agile promise "oh if you do it right, it definitely works" and when it doesn't, you probably haven't done it right!" gemini://tilde.pink/~maria/log/2022-05-17_cloud_insanity.gmi
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01:03 DaemonFC; <schestowitz-TR> don't mess with DaemonFC and his spare time
01:03 DaemonFC; Damn right!
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01:11 DaemonFC; schestowitz, He fucked up in his reply.
01:12 IPFS; test
01:12 DaemonFC; He made several statements and then made further statements that conflicted with what he said a few paragraphs ago.
01:12 DaemonFC; So I decided to hang him with all of it.
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01:12 DaemonFC; Then say, "If he can't even keep his own story straight, then how can you trust anything else he tells you?".
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01:17 *schestowitz-TR does some coding for Gemini Corp.
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01:21 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at genimi://gemini.techrtights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at genimi://gemini.techrtights.org/gemini/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
01:21 schestowitz-TR; hmmm
01:21 schestowitz-TR; shit, I work fore genimi company
01:21 schestowitz-TR; fixing typo
01:22 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at genimi://gemini.techrtights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at genimi://gemini.techrtights.org/gemini/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
01:22 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrtights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrtights.org/gemini/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
01:23 schestowitz-TR; cannot spell techrights correctly either...
01:24 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/gemini/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
01:27 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, I got a lot of jabs in on the guy in my rebuttal letter and appeal.
01:27 schestowitz-TR; careful
01:27 schestowitz-TR; don't make him kill himselkf
01:28 schestowitz-TR; get the money back
01:28 schestowitz-TR; move on
01:28 DaemonFC; I accused him of being a liar who contradicts himself, how absurd his side of the argument is in light of the evidence and facts of the situation, and went further to call him mentally ill for threatening to call the cops on me.
01:28 DaemonFC; I didn't actually call him mentally ill.
01:29 DaemonFC; I said his behavior was "unacceptable", "inappropriate", and "unstable", and "puts his mental state in question".
01:30 schestowitz-TR; borderline name-calling
01:30 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, When the law supports you, pound the law. When the facts support you, pound the facts. Where the law and the facts don't support you, pound the table.
01:31 schestowitz-TR; OK, code pushed to git now
01:32 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, Well, then I wrote to the bank stating my case with them.
01:34 DaemonFC; Basically, it boils down to. "I've been your customer since 2012." "My account has been in good standing." "I have never filed a card dispute with you until this one, in 11 years, because I usually do business with people who are stable and don't deal in shoddy merchandise." "I've put many thousands of dollars through your cards, generating you quite a bit of profit." "If you don't rule in my favor, I have other cards from other banks, and if I
01:34 DaemonFC; feel I cannot trust you to decide a dispute case fairly and in a reasonable manner, I may decide to use those cards and not yours in case I run into a problem with a merchant again someday."
01:35 DaemonFC; "My spouse and other people I know have your cards, generate a lot of money for your bank, and I will inform them of how badly I was cheated by Mr. Chouhan and what the outcome of my dispute is."
01:37 DaemonFC; Basically, "It's not worth ruling in favor of a guy who is not only wrong, over a relatively small amount, and isn't even your customer.".
01:38 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, Even if they rule against me, the merchant has to pay the dispute fee even if they win.
01:38 DaemonFC; So he's already lost more than the amount in question even if he replies to my appeal and wins.
01:38 DaemonFC; He's lost twice as much to the dispute fee and yet more for having to sit down, dig up sales receipts, and write letters to the bank.
01:39 DaemonFC; And if he doesn't win, then he's in even more trouble than that plus the disputed amount.
01:39 DaemonFC; If you lose enough disputes, the banks flag you as high risk, and charge you higher interchange and dispute fees in the future.
01:39 DaemonFC; So you have to fight the disputes even though you've lost no matter what.
01:40 DaemonFC; There's also timelines, strict ones.
01:41 DaemonFC; Between all the back and forth, he can miss a deadline and I win, or he could just keep having to respond to more of my letters until late this year, over a small amount of money, over something that happened in April.
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01:43 DaemonFC; So there's multiple angles here and I probably win but even if I lose I can at least make it a loss for both sides.
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02:37 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-170522.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-170522.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-170522.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-170522.txt
02:37 TR Bot; IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
02:38 TR News; Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-170522.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-170522.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-170522.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-170522.txt
02:38 TR Bot; IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
02:39 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-170522.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-170522.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-170522.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-170522.txt
02:39 TR Bot; IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
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02:40 TR Bot; IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
02:42 TR News; Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2022-05-17.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2022-05-17.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
02:46 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, The funny part I just found out is that since the bank accepted his representment and then my appeal is another chargeback case, he's going to get hit with another chargeback fee.
02:52 DaemonFC; I've won a dispute by rebutting a representment before. On John's account.
02:52 DaemonFC; One time, someone stole his credit card and went and had a $150 dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Disputed it. No response from the restaurant, won by default.
02:53 DaemonFC; He got mugged and the guy was able to charge $42.88 to his debit card at a corner shop before I could freeze all of his accounts. Disputed it, gave the bank the police report, won.
02:54 DaemonFC; Then he ordered a Nintendo Switch from B&H Photo in New York City, and I selected Signature Required. The UPS driver dropped it off no signature, it went missing. I filed a dispute, and the merchant sent a representment to Capital One.
02:54 DaemonFC; They basically went on and on about how it really got delivered and they claimed we were defrauding them. I only did the dispute because their customer service said they wouldn't accept responsibility for the lost package.
02:55 DaemonFC; So I filed a rebuttal and the bank decided in favor of John.
02:55 AdmFubar; https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/05/17/ble-vulnerability/
02:55 TR Bot; BLE vulnerability may be exploited to unlock cars, smart locks, building doors, smartphones - Help Net Security
02:55 DaemonFC; So just because you file a representment doesn't mean you'll win. In fact, you may be worse off. If the cardholder files a rebuttal, your dispute fees go up and it counts as losing two chargebacks.
02:56 AdmFubar; so does this make it a "heart attack"? https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/05/17/cardiologist-charged-for-use-and-sale-of-ransomware/
02:56 TR Bot; Cardiologist charged for use and sale of ransomware - Help Net Security
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03:11 IPFS; Gemini requests since start of month: 244135 total Total number of pages in capsule: 40654 Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-02-07 16:50:38 GMT; 3 months 8 days ago
03:12 IPFS; IPFS local node stats (bandwidth since last reset) calculated. TotalIn: 60 GB TotalOut: 13 GB
03:13 IPFS; New daily bulletin is now being generated and assembled.
03:17 IPFS; QmXwe8jeZh6Do5S8g1LTRjAN8HWyTrQYN5F55Z6MpCv1VJ
03:17 IPFS; New daily bulletin has just been added to IPFS, hereon retrievable with the CID above.
03:32 DaemonFC; https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/walmart-online-delivery-is-turning-into-a-major-disaster-thanks-to-doordash/
03:32 TR Bot; Walmart online delivery is turning into a major disaster thanks to Doordash. BaronHK's Rants
03:49 AdmFubar; https://torrentfreak.com/elon-musk-overzealous-dmca-is-a-plague-on-humanity-220513/
03:49 TR Bot; Musk: "Overzealous DMCA Is a Plague On Humanity" * TorrentFreak
03:52 AdmFubar; :)) https://www.windowscentral.com/apple-once-used-windows-vr-headsets-proof-concept-its-board-members
↺ https://www.windowscentral.com/apple-once-used-windows-vr-headsets-proof-concept-its-board-members
03:52 TR Bot; Apple once used Windows VR headsets as proof of concept for its board members | Windows Central
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03:59 AdmFubar; https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/
03:59 TR Bot; Software Freedom Conservancy right-to-repair lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio, Inc. remanded to California State Court - Software Freedom Conservancy
04:07 AdmFubar; https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/17/how-hard-disks-get-slower-as-they-fill-up/
04:07 TR Bot; How hard disks get slower as they fill up The Eclectic Light Company
04:31 AdmFubar; https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-websites-apps-tracking-software-commercial.html
04:31 TR Bot; Government websites and apps use the same tracking software as commercial ones, according to new research
04:35 AdmFubar; you are out of milk and ammo https://www.techspot.com/news/94589-russian-tanks-using-chips-household-appliances-due-sanctions.html
04:35 TR Bot; tanks are using chips from household appliances due to sanctions | TechSpot
04:36 AdmFubar; https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/judge-brings-dismissed-steam-antitrust-lawsuit-back-from-the-dead/
04:36 TR Bot; Judge brings dismissed Steam antitrust lawsuit back from the dead | Ars Technica
04:38 AdmFubar; eh sonny? https://scitechdaily.com/restoring-hearing-new-tool-to-create-ear-hair-cells-lost-due-to-aging-or-noise/
04:38 TR Bot; Restoring Hearing: New Tool To Create Ear Hair Cells Lost Due to Aging or Noise
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05:59 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, Walmart spent half their cash on hand on building up inventories. Almost $12 billion in the past year.
05:59 DaemonFC; They know how bad what's coming is.
06:26 TR News; #Techrights Bulletin for Tuesday, May 17, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext
06:26 TR Bot; Bulletin Archives
06:26 TR News; #Techrights full #IPFS index updated just now http://techrights.org/ipfs available as plain text @ http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt #dweb #sharing
06:26 TR Bot; Techrights Full IPFS Index
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06:30 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/gemini/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
06:30 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D591.jpg
06:31 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D234.jpg
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06:32 TR News; "Grab any 19th century novel, and you'll see displays of vapidness or people bemoaning the increase of vapidness in society. Many have blamed this on technology -- TV, and before that radio, and before that yellow journalism newspapers" gemini://nomadpengu.in/thoughts/sincerity/
06:34 TR News; "i myself don't seek the _elimination_ of all smalltalk, and i'm certainly willing to continue make the effort to engage in it for prosocial reasons, but given that i find it gets in the way of _really_ connecting with people, i prefer to minimise its presence in my life." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/flexibeast/gemlog/2022-05-18.gmi
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06:39 TR News; Phoronix: 3 Microsoft stories in 24 hours. Way to alienate your core audience...
06:43 TR News; Walmart online delivery is turning into a major disaster thanks to Doordash. https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/walmart-online-delivery-is-turning-into-a-major-disaster-thanks-to-doordash/
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06:51 TR News; Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164971
06:51 TR Bot; today's howtos | Tux Machines
06:59 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 19.25 k/sec., IPFS upstream 12.51 average k/sec., average swarm size 345.60
07:04 TR News; Phoronix: Microsoft and Phoronix Sponsor (and Close Microsoft Partner) AMD All Over the Place | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/peak-bias/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/peak-bias/
07:04 TR Bot; Phoronix: Microsoft and Phoronix Sponsor (and Close Microsoft Partner) AMD All Over the Place | Techrights
07:07 TR News; "What is there to negotiate with a person who has systematically worsen the conditions of employment and wants to continue on this track?" http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/05/17/silence-at-the-epo-after-angry-outburst-president-antonio-campinos/#comments
07:07 TR Bot; Silence at the EPO after angry outburst president Antnio Campinos - Kluwer Patent Blog
07:07 TR News; "The whole financial study taken as pretext for blocking salaries and reducing benefits was an absolute scam. Just an example: the EPO would get any renewal fees for the next years. All actions of this president were to lower working conditions!" http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2022/05/17/silence-at-the-epo-after-angry-outburst-president-antonio-campinos/#comments
07:09 TR News; PikaScript - A lightweight Python implementation that runs on STM32 and other low-end MCUs - CNX Software https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/18/pikascript-a-lightweight-python-implementation-that-runs-on-stm32-and-other-low-end-mcus/ Source: Linux | GNU | Hardware | cnxsoftware
07:09 TR Bot; PikaScript - A lightweight Python implementation that runs on STM32 and other low-end MCUs - CNX Software
07:10 TR News; Rajasthan HC issued notice in a petition by Industry Bodies against repeated internet suspensions in Rajasthan https://internetfreedom.in/rajasthan-hc-issued-notice-in-a-petition-by-industry-bodies-against-repeated-internet-suspensions-in-rajasthan/ Source: internetfreedom
07:10 TR Bot; Rajasthan HC issued notice in a petition by Industry Bodies against repeated internet suspensions in Rajasthan
07:10 TR News; "Arm Cortex M33 application processor" https://linuxgizmos.com/nordic-semiconductors-offers-low-cost-nrf5340-optimized-for-bluetooth-le-audio-products/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
07:10 TR Bot; ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/nordic-semiconductors-offers-low-cost-nrf5340-optimized-for-bluetooth-le-audio-products/ )
07:11 TR News; "Inkscape is great for artists working on pretty much anything be it games" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/vector-graphics-editor-inkscape-12-is-officially-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
07:11 TR Bot; graphics editor Inkscape 1.2 is officially out now | GamingOnLinux
07:12 TR News; "Here we go again. Another game is moving from Steam to become an Epic Exclusive and this time it's Fall Guys." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/fall-guys-to-become-epic-exclusive-for-new-owners-so-no-steam-deck-support-then/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
07:12 TR Bot; Guys to become Epic Exclusive for new owners, so no Steam Deck support then | GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR News; "There's been various attempts to show how durable (or not so) the Steam Deck can be in various situation..." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/this-steam-deck-durability-test-had-me-watching-in-horror/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR Bot; Steam Deck Durability Test had me watching in horror | GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR News; "After not hearing much from Cradle Games and tinyBuild on Hellpoint, they've now announced the first major expansion..." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/space-souls-like-expands-with-hellpoint-blue-sun-set-to-arrive-on-july-12th/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR Bot; souls-like expands with Hellpoint: Blue Sun set to arrive on July 12th | GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR News; "Songs of Conquest is a brand new release from Lavapotion and Coffee Stain Publishing, a turn-based tactical RPG" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/songs-of-conquest-looks-good-on-linux-works-quite-well-on-steam-deck-too/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
07:13 TR Bot; of Conquest looks good on Linux, works quite well on Steam Deck too | GamingOnLinux
07:14 TR News; The the long term threat of hardware DRM https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/where-do-you-go-after-the-ancient:2
07:14 TR Bot; Where Do You Go After The Ancient Thinkpads
07:14 TR News; Presentation Archive - RIPE 84 https://ripe84.ripe.net/presentations/presentation-archive/ Source: ripe84
07:14 TR Bot; Presentation Archive RIPE 84
07:15 TR News; "The Volume Mode determines whether a volume is formatted into a filesystem or presented as a raw block device" https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/18/prevent-unauthorised-volume-mode-conversion-alpha/
07:15 TR Bot; Kubernetes 1.24: Prevent unauthorised volume mode conversion | Kubernetes
07:15 TR News; "The top command in Linux lets you monitor running processes and the system resources they use." https://vitux.com/how-to-use-the-ubuntu-linux-top-command/ | Source: Vitux
07:15 TR Bot; to Use the Linux Top command VITUX
07:16 TR News; "If you have already worked with vim editor, gvim is a similar tool but it has a graphical user interface." https://vitux.com/how-to-install-gvim-editor-on-debian-11/ | Source: Vitux
07:16 TR Bot; to Install gvim Editor on Debian 11 VITUX
07:16 TR News; "The touch command is a program used in Linux operating systems to create, edit, and modify timestamps of a particular file" https://vitux.com/common-uses-of-the-touch-command-on-rocky-linux-8/ | Source: Vitux
07:16 TR Bot; uses of the Touch command on Rocky Linux 8 VITUX
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07:17 TR News; Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses - Luke Smith https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses Source: lukesmith
07:17 TR Bot; Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses Luke Smith
07:18 TR News; Microsoft... conficker https://ripe84.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/presentations/64-HVIKT-IoT-encounters-ripe.pdf
07:18 TR News; "Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, codenamed Jammy Jellyfish, has been released a month ago" https://ostechnix.com/install-ubuntu-desktop/ |
07:18 TR Bot; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Desktop [Step By Step] - OSTechNix
07:18 TR News; Low-grade Canonical 'tech'? https://ubuntu.com//blog/snapping-photonotebook-lessons-from-the-kitchen-table-or-how-an-android-app-got-converted-to-a-linux-snap | Source: Ubuntu
07:18 TR Bot; PhotoNoteBook: Lessons from the kitchen table, or: How an Android app got converted to a Linux snap | Ubuntu
07:19 TR News; "Yet no matter what OS or hardware you use, or how easy it is to use, you are going to need help with it at some point." https://puri.sm/posts/free-software-support-is-critical-to-its-success/ | Source: Purism
07:19 TR Bot; Free Software Support Is Critical to Its Success Purism
07:19 TR News; "Istio: An open source project for integrating and managing traffic between services." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/application-connectivity-hybrid-cloud | Source: Red Hat Official
07:19 TR Bot; Application connectivity in a hybrid cloud
07:21 TR News; "Yandex is looking to sell Russian assets" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/17/deal-or-no-deal | Source: Meduza
07:21 TR Bot; NO TITLE
07:29 TR News; Formula Shortage https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/17/baby_formula_shortage_fueled_by_monopoly | Source: Democracy Now
07:29 TR Bot; David Dayen on the Baby Formula Shortage & Monopolies in the Age of Corporate Power | Democracy Now!
07:32 TR News; DRM is chaos. Microsoft is even worse. https://torrentfreak.com/software-downloads-netflix-disney-videos-to-make-drm-free-copies-220517/ | Source: Torrent Freak
07:32 TR Bot; Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies * TorrentFreak
07:32 TR News; "Downloading pirated [sic] movies and TV shows is against the law in the United States." https://torrentfreak.com/is-it-illegal-to-use-pirate-streaming-sites-220517/ | Source: Torrent Freak
07:32 TR Bot; it Illegal to Use Pirate Streaming Sites? * TorrentFreak
07:39 TR News; Games: Steam Deck, Hellpoint: Blue Sun, Songs of Conquest Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164972
07:39 TR Bot; Games: Steam Deck, Hellpoint: Blue Sun, Songs of Conquest | Tux Machines
07:44 TR News; "Ralph Nader points out that today's corporate dictators are like no others." https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/17/ralph-nader-the-new-corporate-dictators/ | Source: Scheerpost
07:44 TR Bot; Nader: The New Corporate Dictators scheerpost.com
07:44 TR News; "A global index publishedTuesday ranks the United States as the world's leading perpetrator of financial secrecy" https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/17/a-shameful-distinction-us-ranked-worlds-biggest-perpetrator-of-financial-secrecy/ | Source: Scheerpost
07:44 TR Bot; Shameful Distinction: US Ranked Worlds Biggest Perpetrator of Financial Secrecy scheerpost.com
07:44 TR News; "This paper calls for policies that support better sharing of cultural heritage in the public interest" https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/17/virtual-workshop-recap-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage/ | Source: Creative Commons
07:44 TR Bot; Virtual Workshop Recap: Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage - Creative Commons
07:45 TR News; Texas https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-put-texas-social-media-law-back-hold | Source: EFF
07:45 TR Bot; EFF to Supreme Court: Put Texas Social Media Law Back on Hold | Electronic Frontier Foundation
07:46 TR News; EFF buzzwordsfest: HEY HI https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/podcast-episode-ai-hammer-search-nail | Source: EFF
07:46 TR Bot; Podcast Episode: An AI Hammer in Search of a Nail | Electronic Frontier Foundation
07:46 TR News; "Millions of U.S. government employees and contractors have been issued a secure smart ID card that enables physical access to buildings" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/when-your-smart-id-card-reader-comes-with-malware/ | Source: Krebs On Security
07:46 TR Bot; When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware Krebs on Security
07:47 TR News; "If you were around when the ICBM PC rolled out, two things probably caught you by surprise." https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/how-the-ibm-pc-went-8-bit/ | Source: Hackaday
07:47 TR Bot; The IBM PC Went 8-Bit | Hackaday
07:53 TR News; "What if we could see concerning developments related to organized hate crimes and violence and predict where they might occur?" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/17/using-early-warning-data-to-create-communities-of-peace/ | Source: Counter Punch
07:53 TR Bot; Early Warning Data to Create Communities of Peace - CounterPunch.org
07:54 TR News; Sort of like the briber of ProPublica, Bill Gates, promotes the same vaccines he profits from (and bribes the media to distract from his Jeffrey Epstein collusion) https://www.propublica.org/article/pharmaceuticals-pay-doctors-drugs | Source: Pro Publica
07:54 TR Bot; Documents Reveal Ties Between Opioid Makers and Doctors ProPublica
07:59 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 22.83 k/sec., IPFS upstream 3.85 average k/sec., average swarm size 353.20
08:02 TR News; Bezos is your enemy https://fair.org/home/action-alert-wapo-calls-peaceful-protest-against-roe-reversal-totalitarian/ | Source: FAIR
08:02 TR Bot; ACTION ALERT: WaPo Calls Peaceful Protest Against Roe Reversal 'Totalitarian' - FAIR
08:05 TR News; Razer pivots from gaming with Tensorbook Linux laptop http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163670#comment-33713
08:05 TR Bot; Razer and Lambda Team Up to Unveil a Linux Laptop for Deep Learning | Tux Machines
08:07 TR News; It's not really about security https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/suse_rancher_neuvector/
08:07 TR Bot; SUSE releases Rancher 2.6.5 and NeuVector 5.0 The Register
08:07 TR News; When youre taking massive 'gifts' from AMD (and also some from Microsoft) maybe its not surprising that editorial decisions change somewhat http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/peak-bias/
08:07 TR Bot; Phoronix: Microsoft and Phoronix Sponsor (and Close Microsoft Partner) AMD All Over the Place | Techrights
08:14 TR News; Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164973
08:14 TR Bot; Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
08:16 TR News; Links 18/05/2022: PikaScript and cURLs Annual User Survey | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/curl-annual-user-survey/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/curl-annual-user-survey/
08:16 TR Bot; Links 18/05/2022: PikaScript and cURLs Annual User Survey | Techrights
08:17 TR News; Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164974
08:17 TR Bot; today's leftovers | Tux Machines
08:21 TR News; ICE https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/17/crime-begets-crime-ice-edition/ | Source: Counter Punch http://techrights.org/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/
08:21 TR Bot; Begets Crime, ICE Edition - CounterPunch.org
08:21 TR Bot; Microsoft: Nationalism As A Service (NaaS) | Techrights
08:21 TR News; "giant price-fixing" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/17/the-new-corporate-dictators-super-rich-super-immune/ | Source: Counter Punch
08:21 TR Bot; New Corporate Dictators Super-Rich & Super-Immune - CounterPunch.org
08:21 TR News; "Section 230 isnt just some unearned privilege enjoyed by tech companies to shield them from angry" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/new-hampshires-top-court-says-section-230-shields-retweeters-from-defamation-lawsuit/ | Source: Techdirt
08:21 TR Bot; Hampshires Top Court Says Section 230 Shields Retweeters From Defamation Lawsuit | Techdirt
08:23 TR News; IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/irc-log-170522/ Source: Techrights | GNU | Linux | FreeSW | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/irc-log-170522/
08:23 TR Bot; IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 17, 2022 | Techrights
08:24 TR News; "Several years ago you might recall that a bunch of eBay executives were busted waging a bizarre harassment campaign against a blogging..." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/former-ebay-exec-last-to-plead-guilty-to-bizarre-pig-fetus-journalist-harassment-campaign/ | Source: Techdirt
08:24 TR Bot; eBay Exec Last To Plead Guilty To Bizarre Pig Fetus Journalist Harassment Campaign | Techdirt
08:24 TR News; Buffalo https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/author-of-texas-social-media-law-admits-that-he-meant-the-law-to-exempt-any-moderation-decisions-protected-by-section-230-thats-everything/ | Source: Techdirt
08:24 TR Bot; Of Texas Social Media Law Admits That He Meant The Law To Exempt Any Moderation Decisions Protected By Section 230 (Thats Everything) | Techdirt
08:29 TR News; Roe v. Wade https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/playstation-boss-addresses-abortion-concerns-from-staff-with-jaunty-email-about-his-cats/ | Source: Techdirt
08:29 TR Bot; Boss Addresses Abortion Concerns From Staff With Jaunty Email About His Cats | Techdirt
08:30 TR News; I hope Twitter will be dead within 3 years. It's a net negative since 2018. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/techdirt-podcast-episode-320-elon-musk-doesnt-understand-twitter/ | Source: Techdirt
08:30 TR Bot; Podcast Episode 320: Elon Musk Doesnt Understand Twitter | Techdirt
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08:40 TR News; "Tech journalism is evolving, including how it reports on and critiques tech companies" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/17/a-guide-for-tech-journalists-how-to-be-bullshit-detectors-and-hype-slayers-and-not-the-opposite/ | Source: Techdirt
08:40 TR Bot; Guide For Tech Journalists: How To Be Bullshit Detectors And Hype Slayers (And Not The Opposite) | Techdirt
08:43 TR News; Pegasus https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/17/rogues-and-spyware-pegasus-strikes-again/ | Source: Counter Punch
08:43 TR Bot; and Spyware: Pegasus Strikes Again - CounterPunch.org
08:43 TR News; DRM https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/ | Source: Hackaday
08:43 TR Bot; EPUB, And Amazons Love Of Reinventing Wheels | Hackaday
08:44 TR News; Politicians do not understand file sharing" https://falkvinge.net/2012/05/23/cynicism-redefined-why-the-copyright-lobby-loves-child-porn/ | Source: Rick Falkvinge
08:44 TR Bot; Cynicism Redefined: Why The Copyright Lobby Loves Child Porn Falkvinge on Liberty
08:49 TR News; "Fortunately there is a solution: you can use a "proper" camera, of the sort you associate with earnest tourists" https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/using_a_proper_camera_as_a_webcam.html | Source: Lawrence Tratt
08:49 TR Bot; Laurence Tratt: Using a "Proper" Camera as a Webcam
08:50 TR News; "If you say that the filesystem is an API..." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/FilesystemVersusAPI | Source: uni Toronto
08:50 TR Bot; Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/FilesystemVersusAPI
08:50 TR News; "Docker packages software applications into containers making them easy to build, test, and ship (deploy)." https://geshan.com.np/blog/2022/05/docker-commands/ | Source: Geshan
08:50 TR Bot; 10 useful Docker commands to get things done with a real-life example
08:50 TR News; "The Partaker H2 is a kind of Protectli FW6D clone on steroids ; at least when it comes to the 11th Gen Intel CPU" https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/openbsd-on-partaker-h2-i5-1135g7/ | Source: TuMFatig
08:50 TR Bot; TuM'Fatig - OpenBSD on Partaker H2 I5 1135G7
08:51 TR News; "Do keep in mind that I have nothing against the authors opinion" https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022/05/16/response-to-flatpak-is-not-the-future.html |
08:51 TR Bot; Response to Flatpak Is Not the Future | TheEvilSkeleton
08:55 TR News; "Controlling the stepper motors was done with the aid of two L298N full H-bridge motor drivers" https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/15/motorize-a-manual-wheelchair-with-this-adaptable-electronic-system/ | Source: Arduino
08:55 TR Bot; Motorize a manual wheelchair with this adaptable electronic system | Arduino Blog
08:55 TR News; "" http://www.righto.com/2022/05/talking-with-moon-inside-apollos.html | Source: Ken Shirriff
08:55 TR Bot; Talking with the Moon: Inside Apollo's premodulation processor
08:55 TR News; "" https://www.talospace.com/2022/05/aosc-for-old-and-new-power.html | Source: Talospace
08:55 TR Bot; AOSC for old and new Power
08:56 TR News; "The device is essentially a drum plotter, which rotates a cylinder around an axis" https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/12/automatically-make-masking-tape-labels-with-this-arduino-powered-machine/ | Source: Arduino
08:56 TR Bot; Automatically make masking tape labels with this Arduino-powered machine | Arduino Blog
08:57 TR News; "I like the idea of a third-party service offering this logic" BUT.... https://jamesg.blog/2022/05/17/indieweb-social-polling/ | Source: James G
08:57 TR Bot; Distributed polls on your personal website | James' Coffee Blog
08:57 TR News; "I dont believe that the Web is the best solution for having feed readers and blogging clients everywhere." https://andregarzia.com/2022/05/Old-school-blogging-retro-computers-and-decentralisation.html | Source: Andre Alves Garzia
08:57 TR Bot; blogging, retro computers, and decentralisation AndreGarzia.com
08:58 TR News; "So, we can't omit the favicon, and we can't use an arbitrary character... what can we do?" http://flower.codes/2022/05/10/disabling-favicon.html | Source: Zach Flower
08:58 TR Bot; ( status 308 @ http://flower.codes/2022/05/10/disabling-favicon.html )
08:58 TR News; "Now that I recently upgraded my internet connection to 25 Gbit/s, I was curious how hard or easy it is to download..." https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-05-14-http-and-https-download-25gbit/ | Source: Michael Stapelberg
08:58 TR Bot; 25 Gbit/s HTTP and HTTPS download speeds - Michael Stapelberg
08:58 TR News; "It seems like SQLite has shown up in more places everywhere you look" https://matt-rickard.com/sqlite-renaissance/ | Source: Matt Rickard
08:58 TR Bot; SQLite Renaissance
08:59 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 20.53 k/sec., IPFS upstream 48.61 average k/sec., average swarm size 356.61
08:59 TR News; "Our success relies on us rapidly shipping new features to customers." https://monzo.com/blog/2022/05/16/how-we-deploy-to-production-over-100-times-a-day/ |
08:59 TR Bot; How we deploy to production over 100 times a day
09:00 chunky; ty for the link techrights-news !
09:01 schestowitz-TR; which one?
09:02 TR News; "A couple of weeks ago I was looking around for different CSS frameworks to play around with..." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/05/semantic-html-and-shiny-applications/ | Source: Rlang
09:02 TR Bot; HTML and Shiny Applications | R-bloggers
09:05 TR News; MATRIX complexity and its impact on IRC: "Good morning. A critical vulnerability in the Matrix IRC bridge has been patched, deployed, and disclosed" http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-040522.txt
09:05 TR News; "Programs today are often a Frankenstein combination of different open-source libraries" https://matt-rickard.com/the-problem-of-sharing-code/ | Source: Matt Rickard
09:05 TR Bot; The Problem of Sharing Code
09:05 TR News; "Modern Unix derivatives have this really bad idea called ioctl." https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/14/generating-ioctls.html | Source: Drew DeVault
09:05 TR Bot; A Hare code generator for finding ioctl numbers
09:06 TR News; "Since I am also a tool maintainer AND my tool works with nREPL, I thought I share my ideas here" https://tonsky.me/blog/network-eval/ | Source: Nikita Prokopov
09:06 TR Bot; for Clojure Network Eval API @ tonsky.me
09:06 TR News; "Now lets say the exploit PoC comes with a ton of command-line flags: verbose mode, configuration options..." https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/codebases-as-communication/ | Source: Buttondown
09:06 TR Bot; Codebases as communication Buttondown
09:09 TR News; "We want to walk a tree in parallel. We dont know how big or deep it is." https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/parallel-tree-running | Source: Ted Unangst
09:09 TR Bot; parallel tree running
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09:25 schestowitz-TR; wb, gustaf :-)
09:28 TR News; "Given an undirected tree with N nodes numbered from 1 to N and an array A[] where A[i] denotes the value assigned to (i+1)th node." https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maximum-path-sum-in-a-n-ary-tree/ | Source: Geeks For Geeks
09:28 TR Bot; Maximum Path sum in a N-ary Tree - GeeksforGeeks
09:28 TR News; "The reason why none of this works, is that although you can make an HTTP/2 connection with AWSs API Gateway" https://earthly.dev/blog/lambda-grpc/ | Source: Earthly
09:28 TR Bot; Grpc, AWS Lambdas and GoLang - Earthly Blog
09:28 TR News; "If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person" https://ericwbailey.design/writing/the-optics-of-pair-programming/ | Source: Eric Bailey
09:28 TR Bot; The optics of pair programming Eric Bailey
09:30 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
09:31 TR News; "Quamina is all about building and running finite automata." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/05/14/Golang-Generics | Source: Tim Bray
09:31 TR Bot; ongoing by Tim Bray Golang Diaries: Generics
09:31 TR News; "Rellic is a framework for analyzing and decompiling LLVM modules into C code, implementing the concepts described in the original paper presenting the Dream decompiler and its successor" https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/05/17/interactive-decompilation-with-rellic-xref/ | Source: Trail Of Bits
09:31 TR Bot; Interactive decompilation with rellic-xref | Trail of Bits Blog
09:32 TR News; "Recently I started playing the game Core Keeper on my laptop, which is an early access game on Steam. As a testament to how good of a game it is, I ended up playing it a lot more than I was expecting to, so now who knows how much time I've wasted on it." gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202205181145.gmi
09:33 TR News; "I have replaced my Wordpress site, pretty as it was, with a Gemini capsule." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/gemini-capsule.gmi
09:35 TR News; Gemini is Magick: "The Tech Learning Collective offers a series of excellent free foundation courses/lessons in basic Linux sysadminning. The very first lesson is a magickal ritual designed to enchant your device with a vision of a better technological future." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/gemini-is-magick.gmi
09:35 TR News; "Today I tried to add Titan support to the Gemini server I'm using, Twins. It seemed like a great project to pick up. "Oh," I said to myself, "Oh the protocols for Gemini and Titan are so siiimple! I can totally do this without too much trouble, and maybe even learn something along the way."" gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/im-a-scrub.gmi
09:37 TR News; "Wikileaks, una organizacin de filtraciones, surgi el 4 de Octubre de 2006 de la mano de Julian Assange y otros hackers y activistas." gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/hackers/wikileaks.gmi
09:39 TR News; "For the past decade or so the general attitude I held was the the United States seems to lack some kind of cohesion has a society, that in some way rather than living in a society were were just a bunch of people that happened to be living in the same location, but the basis of our lives was not human connection" gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202205181207.gmi
09:41 TR News; "i myself don't seek the _elimination_ of all smalltalk, and i'm certainly willing to continue make the effort to engage in it for prosocial reasons, but given that i find it gets in the way of _really_ connecting with people, i prefer to minimise its presence in my life." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/flexibeast/gemlog/2022-05-18.gmi
09:42 TR News; "It doesn't matter how much fuel you get your hands on, replicator food will still be rationed." gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-05-18-things-i-ve-learned-from-star-trek-voyager.gmi
09:43 TR News; "Lately I've grown concerned with how social media affects me. In particular, modern social media, where the content you see is determined algorithmically, has become worrisome to me. I've come to believe it's a drag on my mental, emotional, and intellectual health..." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/digital-hygiene.gmi
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09:45 TR News; Python: "One reason I reach for the filter approach is if I have a certain amount of logic" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/ProgramFilterVsWrapper | Source: uni Toronto
09:45 TR Bot; Chris's Wiki :: blog/python/ProgramFilterVsWrapper
09:46 TR News; "Theres a revolution happening in color." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/principles-of-color-beyond-srgb/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
09:46 TR Bot; Principles of Color? Going Beyond sRGB - Jim Nielsens Blog
09:47 TR News; "If the channel is not maintained, try checking the projects homepage for their IRC presence." https://gerikson.com/blog/comm/Freenode-PSA.html | Source: Gustaf Erikson
09:47 TR Bot; PSA: unmaintained project channels on Freenode automatically redirect to #freenode - The occasional scrivener - Gustaf Erikson's blog
09:49 TR News; "In this session, you pair up an engineer with a candidate for an hour and a half and give them a project to work on" https://flower.codes/2022/05/14/favorite-coding-exercise.html | Source: Zach Flower
09:49 TR Bot; Favorite Coding Interview Exercise | flower.codes
09:49 TR News; "The following is a loose, unordered collection of thoughts that come up when I look back on the past 10 years." https://thorstenball.com/blog/2022/05/17/professional-programming-the-first-10-years/ | Source: Thorsten Ball
09:49 TR Bot; Thorsten Ball - Professional Programming: The First 10 Years
09:50 TR News; "They seemed okay overall, but for 200, I was expecting more" https://kevq.uk/airpods-pro-1-week-later/ | Source: Kev Quirk
09:50 TR Bot; AirPods Pro - 1 Week Later - Kev Quirk
09:50 TR News; [Old] Windows TCO https://www.varonis.com/blog/hive-ransomware-analysis | Source: Varonis
09:50 TR Bot; Hive Ransomware Analysis
09:51 TR News; [Old] Windows TCO https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/microsoft-exchange-servers-targeted-by-hive-ransomware/ |
09:51 TR Bot; Microsoft Exchange Servers Targeted by Hive Ransomware
09:51 TR News; "Disruption of IT Service to the Public" https://www.boz.zm/Disruption_IT_Services.pdf |
09:52 TR News; "The only way to prevent FOSS e2ee like Matrix or PGP or OMEMO is to own everyones uid zero." https://idiomdrottning.org/sudo-eu | Source: Idiomdrottning https://techrights.org/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/
09:52 TR Bot; When the EU wanted to own all computers
09:53 TR Bot; High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) | Techrights
09:53 TR News; "But corporations are moving forward with their own software-enhanced surveillance." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/science/insider-threat-private-companies.html | Source: New York Times
09:53 TR Bot; Your Bosses Could Have a File on You, and They May Misinterpret It - The New York Times
10:08 TR News; [Old] "Just 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions since 1988" https://indigenouspeoples-sdg.org/index.php/english/all-global-news/874-just-100-companies-responsible-for-71-of-global-emissions-study-says |
10:08 TR Bot; Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
10:08 TR News; [Old] "Just 100 of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world have been responsible for 71% of the global GHG emissions" https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/100-companies-responsible-71-ghg-emissions/ |
10:08 TR Bot; 100 companies are responsible for 71% of GHG emissions
10:09 TR News; [Old] "This edition of the Greenhouse 100 ranks companies by C02-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions" https://peri.umass.edu/greenhouse-100-polluters-index-current |
10:09 TR Bot; PERI - Greenhouse 100 Polluters Index
10:09 TR News; [Old] "This is why the individual-versus-the-system action question is a false binary" https://www.fastcompany.com/90680284/heres-how-to-push-for-action-on-the-climate-crisis | Source: Fast Company
10:09 TR Bot; If 100 companies are responsible for 70% of emissions, what can you do
10:09 TR News; [Old] "two-thirds of the major industrial greenhouse gas emissions" https://www.science.org/content/article/just-90-companies-are-blame-most-climate-change-carbon-accountant-says | Source: AAAS
10:09 TR Bot; Science | AAAS
10:15 TR News; "As it is, cryptocurrencies play almost no role in economic transactions other than speculation in crypto markets themselves." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/opinion/crypto-crash-bitcoin.html | Source: New York Times
10:15 TR Bot; Opinion | Crashing Crypto: Is This Time Different? - The New York Times
10:16 chunky; hey techrights-news hows it going
10:17 TR News; yo
10:17 chunky; whats up bro
10:18 chunky; i miss u
10:18 chunky; hey guys sorry i haven't been chatting much lately i am completely addicted to drugs
10:18 TR News; jus shillin
10:18 chunky; shillin da tech rights news
10:18 schestowitz-TR; which drugs?
10:19 schestowitz-TR; some are more harmless than others
10:19 TR News; "The only reason theres still any debate over encryption is because law enforcement refuses to let it drop." http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05/end-roe-will-bring-about-sea-change-encryption-debate | Source: uni Stanford
10:19 TR Bot; The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate | Center for Internet and Society
10:19 TR News; "[...] We find that donations result in an 8 to 11 percentage point increase in the probability that the targeted politician engages in legislative activities related to the bills lobbied by the donating firm" http://web.mit.edu/insong/www/pdf/campaign-lobby.pdf |
10:20 chunky; schestowitz-TR: acetaminophen
10:20 TR News; "When you stop voting with your ballots and start voting with your dollars, then the companies that get your dollars can capture your political representatives" https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/16/through-the-meat-grinder/#hells-kitchen | Source: CoryDoctorow
10:20 TR Bot; Pluralistic: 16 May 2022 Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
10:20 chunky; the doctor said if i don't stop soon i will destroy my liver..
10:20 TR News; Twitter will drop dead soon https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/business/elon-musk-twitter.html | Source: New York Times http://techrights.org/2022/05/14/fake-importance-of-twitter/
10:20 TR Bot; Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal Cannot Move Forward in Current State - The New York Times
10:20 TR Bot; Elon Musk is Right About Twitter Faking Its Importance and Using Doctored, Manipulated Stats (or Bots) to Boost Valuation Based on Lies | Techrights
10:23 schestowitz-TR; chunky: it says here some people use that instead of aspirin
10:24 schestowitz-TR; you must be overdosin
10:24 chunky; hopefully i can recover from this horrible affliction
10:24 schestowitz-TR; addition?
10:24 schestowitz-TR; or affliction?
10:24 chunky; yeah tylenol company is evil
10:25 schestowitz-TR; oh, it is related to paracetamol
10:25 schestowitz-TR; sometimes if I have mild headaches I take that
10:25 chunky; yeah.. that's how it starts
10:25 schestowitz-TR; but in moderation
10:25 schestowitz-TR; you can commit suicide apparently by taking 3 full packs of those
10:25 schestowitz-TR; but a slow and painful one
10:26 chunky; yeah i think it would cause liver failure perhaps.. not pretty
10:27 schestowitz; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Adverse_effects
10:27 TR Bot; Paracetamol - Wikipedia
10:28 schestowitz; "Meta-analyses suggest that paracetamol may increase the risk of kidney impairment by 23%[83] and kidney cancer by 28%"
10:28 schestowitz; " Paracetamol is particularly dangerous to the liver in overdose, but even without overdose those who take this drug may develop acute liver failure requiring liver transplantation more frequently than the users of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs"
10:29 schestowitz; I only take that as a last resort and usually in half doses
10:29 schestowitz; of children's dose
10:29 schestowitz; my wife refuses to take them outright
10:29 schestowitz; even then the head hurts
10:30 schestowitz; they're sold over the counter here, even in ordinary food shops
10:30 schestowitz; priced about 2 pence per caplet, which is like 3 cents
10:30 schestowitz; so feeding addition to it would be super-cheap
10:30 schestowitz; they limit how many you can buy per time
10:31 schestowitz; but that does not police people who are repeat buyers, or go to different shops on the same day
10:31 chunky; yeah
10:31 chunky; my wife & i use that stuff pretty sparingly
10:33 schestowitz-TR; is it addictive?
10:36 chunky; idk
10:36 chunky; i guess not
10:37 schestowitz-TR; so why take so much?
10:39 TR News; [RFC 0/6] Bootloader based hibernation - Vivek Kumar https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1652860121-24092-1-git-send-email-quic_vivekuma@quicinc.com/ Source: quicinc
10:39 TR Bot; [RFC 0/6] Bootloader based hibernation - Vivek Kumar
10:40 TR News; Going drupal.org: "Access to this page has been denied. You have been blocked because we believe you are using automation tools to browse the website." Errr. NO!! I use my RSS reader!!
10:40 TR News; Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164975
10:40 TR Bot; today's howtos | Tux Machines
10:43 TR News; "It was at this conference that Richard Stallman first publicly and explicitly stated the idea that all software should be free, and makes it clear that "free" refers to freedom, not price, by saying that software should be freely accessible to everyone. This was probably the first time he made that distinction to the public." http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10179
10:43 TR Bot; www.gnu.org - News: The History of GNU [Savannah]
10:46 TR News; "At the first Hackers Conference in 1984 Richard Stallman discusses his philosophy of free software, stating that to use software that cannot be shared would 'spiritually hurt' him." https://web.archive.org/web/20161107235202/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/at-the-first-hackers-conference-in-1984-richard-stallman-news-footage/146485179
10:46 TR Bot; At the first Hackers Conference in 1984 Richard Stallman discusses... Stock Footage Video | Getty Images
10:50 TR News; ICBM turned Red Hat into an ocean of buzzwords and little of substance after the drain drain (many of the most skilled hackers left the company) https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/5/how-evolve-developers-role-address-devsecops
10:50 TR Bot; How to evolve a developer's role to address DevSecOps | The Enterprisers Project
10:50 TR News; Webspam disguised as "best of" :/ https://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/best-cms-content-management-systems
10:50 TR Bot; Best CMS For 2022
10:51 TR News; At least the author does not say CLOWN computing https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/05/18/saas-architectural-checklist-kubernetes
10:51 TR Bot; A SaaS architectural checklist for Kubernetes | Red Hat Developer
10:53 TR News; This seems like VPN Webspam disguised as "article" https://linuxstans.com/is-linux-really-the-most-secure-operating-system/
10:53 TR Bot; Is Linux Really the Most Secure OS? Facts and Myths
10:55 TR News; TorrentFreak cannot be accessed or rendered without Gulag. They need to rethink how they make/made their Web site...
10:59 TR News; The BillBC, which covers up for Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex ring (like it did Jimmy Savile), has the audacity to associate privacy with "pedos". Who's paying you, BBC? Oh yeah.... Bill.
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11:24 TR News; Links 18/05/2022: PikaScript and cURLs Annual User Survey | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/curl-annual-user-survey/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/curl-annual-user-survey/
11:24 TR Bot; Links 18/05/2022: PikaScript and cURLs Annual User Survey | Techrights
11:24 TR News; Programming Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164976
11:24 TR Bot; Programming Leftovers | Tux Machines
11:24 TR News; Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164977
11:24 TR Bot; today's leftovers | Tux Machines
11:30 schestowitz; https://cache.legacy.net/usercontent/guestbook/photos/2014-02/2014-02-09/81323531.jpg
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11:40 DaemonFC; schestowitz, I decided to go further in a second document about why I should win my dispute.
11:40 DaemonFC; Here's part of it.
11:40 DaemonFC; "On 4/15/2022, while making the situation worse by deprogramming my remote control while failing to make his imitation of a car key work, Mr. Chouhan attempted to move my Buick, and had trouble figuring out how to shift the vehicle between all of 6 gear settings using a behind-the-wheel shifter."
11:40 DaemonFC; "This didnt cause any harm in and of itself, but goes to further my argument in that if a man cant figure out how to shift a car, then do you want him to work on your car? No. Unfortunately we were so far into this process that he already had my money and all I could do was watch helplessly and hope he didnt crash my car into anything while his confusion over the shifter knob seemed to play out over his attention to the vehi
11:40 DaemonFC; cles surroundings."
11:41 schestowitz-TR; DaemonFC: seems more like -social topic-wise
11:42 schestowitz-TR; don't use this channel just to air your dispute 24/
11:42 schestowitz-TR; 7
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11:59 TR News; Jim Zemlins Wife is Funded by Puppies (Microsoft) | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/funded-by-puppies/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/funded-by-puppies/
11:59 TR Bot; Jim Zemlins Wife is Funded by Puppies (Microsoft) | Techrights
12:02 psydroid2; she loves both puppies and grown up dogs
12:03 DaemonFC; Okay, this is weird.
12:03 DaemonFC; When I have Firefox open, there's an outline of a rectangle in my monitor.
12:04 DaemonFC; I thought maybe burn in? Then when I'm in any other application, it doesn't appear.
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12:04 DaemonFC; But when GNOME's screen locker is up, it comes back.
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12:10 SomeH4x0r; hi
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12:11 kiki; Hi SomeH4x0r .
12:16 *psydroid2 just disassembled a x86_64 binary using objdump and observed that the assembly code that resulted in was pure garbage
12:19 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, Walmart lost nearly 12% of their stock price yesterday.
12:19 DaemonFC; Worst day, by percentage, since 1987.
12:23 DaemonFC; https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/17/worlds-richest-family-loses-17-billion-in-walmart-wipeout/
12:23 TR Bot; Worlds richest family loses $17 billion in Walmart wipeout Orange County Register
12:23 DaemonFC; Walmart isn't set up to deal with e-commerce.
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12:24 DaemonFC; They have difficulty actually managing their delivery from store program due to Doordash being so unreliable. Drivers often steal things and then claim they delivered them to you.
12:24 DaemonFC; In many cases, the driver was never anywhere near your home and all Walmart offers to do is to attempt to deliver what you ordered with a replacement.
12:24 DaemonFC; This must be getting more expensive than just paying a courier.
12:25 DaemonFC; I have lost 0 Amazon packages in the last few years.
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12:25 DaemonFC; With Walmart it's an endless parade of "WTF Doordash!?".
12:25 DaemonFC; Sometimes you get your order, other times you don't.
12:26 DaemonFC; Lots of customer complaints. Even the people at the grocery pickup hate doordah.
12:26 DaemonFC; *doordash
12:26 DaemonFC; Often, they pick a big order and then have to put it all back and cancel because they can't even attract a driver at all.
12:30 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
12:30 DaemonFC; https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/17/netflix-lays-off-150-in-cutback-after-subscriber-loss/
12:30 TR Bot; Netflix lays off 150 in cutback after subscriber loss Orange County Register
12:31 DaemonFC; "The firings follow the unexpected loss of 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter and a forecast for the loss of another 2 million this period. At the end of last month, Netflix laid off a number of employees at Tudum, a website that promotes movies and TV shows for the streaming service, as part of a broader restructuring of its marketing department.
12:31 DaemonFC; Shares of Netflix gained as much as 2.6% to $191.40 in New York. The stock has declined more than 70% from its intraday high of $700.99 in November 2021."
12:32 DaemonFC; schestowitz-TR, The shitty venture capital nonsense is collapsing.
12:32 DaemonFC; Carvana and Netflix are the latest.
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13:19 psydroid2; https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-war-paternalism/
13:19 TR Bot; Why Cant Washington Break Its War Addiction? | The Nation
13:26 XRevan86; Another piece that tries to paint the picture that without lend-lease and such the invasion would've looked less gruesome.
13:27 XRevan86; https://theins.press/en/news/251350
13:28 TR Bot; Thousands of cultivars ready for seeding have been destroyed, but Ukraines plant gene bank mostly survived, says Plant Institute researcher
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13:55 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/germany-to-deprive-gerhard-schroder-of-ex-chancellor-privileges-over-ties-to-russia-news "Germany to deprive Gerhard Schrder of ex-chancellor privileges over ties to Russia"
13:55 TR Bot; .
13:55 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/seven-civilians-killed-in-attacks-on-ukraines-donetsk-region-news "Seven civilians killed in attacks on Ukraines Donetsk region"
13:55 TR Bot; .
13:55 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/russias-fsb-detains-man-accused-of-damaging-power-poles-in-kemerovo-brands-him-ukrainian-nazi-sympathiser-news "Russias FSB detains man accused of damaging power poles in Kemerovo, brands him Ukrainian Nazi sympathiser"
13:55 TR Bot; .
13:56 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/leonid-slutsky-appointed-as-new-leader-of-russias-ldpr-party-news "Leonid Slutsky appointed as new leader of Russias LDPR party"
13:56 TR Bot; .
13:56 XRevan86; A pale imitation of Zhirinovsky.
13:56 XRevan86; Also a scumbag, so at least that is faithful.
13:56 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/russian-man-hit-with-criminal-charges-in-first-ever-repeat-offence-case-for-discrediting-russian-army-news "Russian man hit with criminal charges in first-ever repeat offence case for discrediting Russian army"
13:56 TR Bot; .
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14:29 TR News; A Hypothetical Capitalist Invasion of Geminispace gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/capitalism-gemini.gmi http://techrights.org/2022/01/28/microsoft-and-gemini/
14:29 TR Bot; Microsoft Staff Trying to Subvert the Freedom of Gemini (Without Disclosure of the Paymaster) | Techrights
14:34 TR News; Leaving The Qt Company https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-May/042477.html
14:34 TR Bot; [Development] Leaving The Qt Company
14:35 TR News; "As Ive said in my other email, I am resigning from my position at The Qt Company to join a small startup in Norway that is working with things unrelated to Qt." https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-May/042478.html
14:35 TR Bot; [Development] New Chief Maintainer
14:36 TR News; It's a GNU program, not "command on Linux" https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-use-screen-command-in-linux-system/
14:36 TR Bot; How to use Screen Command in Linux System
14:37 TR News; $349 AMD Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164950#comment-33714
14:37 TR Bot; Kria KR260 Based on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu) | Tux Machines
14:39 TR News; After some high-profile people quit netflix and netflix tried to BLAME THE CUSTOMERS netflix announces many layoffs ; companies do not lay off unless things are really, really bad and even then they try to hide it. DRM collapse.
14:43 TR News; Killing off Clownflare (losses), Spotify (swinging back to losses), and Netflix (layoffs) would be a MAJOR accomplishment in the fight for the Open Web and against DRM
14:49 XRevan86; https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/18/russia-would-do-here-what-it-did-in-mariupol "Why Georgia's response to the war has been feeble despite months of pro-Ukraine protests in Tbilisi"
14:49 TR Bot; NO TITLE
14:49 TR News; Human rights leaders at Davos 2022: spyware is a weapon PRESS CONFERENCE - Access Now https://www.accessnow.org/spyware-davos-press-conference/ Source: accessnow
14:49 TR Bot; Human rights leaders at Davos 2022: spyware is a weapon PRESS CONFERENCE - Access Now
14:50 TR News; POLITICO is oligarchy owned. Is this a badge of honour? https://www.accessnow.org/fanny-hidvegi-politico-europe-tech-visionary/
14:50 TR Bot; Congratulations, Fanny Hidvgi! Access Nows Europe Policy and Advocacy Director a POLITICO Europe tech Visionary - Access Now
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14:59 TR News; No, Linux Foundation (LF) does not speak for "Open Source" and for "Linux". It speaks for Facebook, VMware, Microsoft etc. https://linuxfoundation.org/press-release/announcing-the-world-of-open-source-2022-europe-spotlight-survey/ http://techrights.org/2022/05/16/lf-misrepresentation/
14:59 TR Bot; Announcing the World of Open Source: 2022 Europe Spotlight Survey - Linux Foundation
14:59 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Does Not Speak for GNU/Linux Users | Techrights
15:00 TR News; Linux Foundation (LF) is fast becoming little more than a pest and leech borrowed -- by money -- by enemies of Linux to discredit, badmouth, undermine Linux
15:02 TR News; Jim Zemlin like his wife is bagging millions from Microsoft, but thats clearly a conflict of interest for the Linux Foundation http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/funded-by-puppies/
15:03 TR Bot; Jim Zemlins Wife is Funded by Puppies (Microsoft) | Techrights
15:10 TR News; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Is Finally Here, This Is Whats New Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164978
15:10 TR Bot; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Is Finally Here, This Is Whats New | Tux Machines
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15:16 TR News; Gulag Sweet (G Suite) is for dumb, lazy, incompetent companies governed by reckless fools who should be out of the job market https://www.maketecheasier.com/g-suite-legacy-free-edition-users-personal/ Clown computing is NOT savings, it is SUICIDE
15:16 TR Bot; G Suite Legacy Free Edition Users Get Some Breathing Room - Make Tech Easier
15:30 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
15:31 TR News; The 'Linux' Foundation is pushing outright spam into Web sites for its 'diploma mills' (see bottom) https://devops.com/prometheus-associate-certification-will-demonstrate-ability-to-monitor-infrastructure/ http://techrights.org/2021/09/23/lf-diploma-mill-and-narrative-control-by-fake-research/
15:31 TR Bot; Associate Certification will Demonstrate Ability to Monitor Infrastructure - DevOps.com
15:31 TR Bot; Linux Foundation and Other Diploma Mills Say Theres Demand for Their Products in Their New Research (Marketing) | Techrights
15:32 TR News; Canonical has its tongue stuck up in the clown https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-at-aws-summit-washington-202
15:32 TR Bot; ( status 404 @ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-at-aws-summit-washington-202 )
15:38 TR News; Clown computing = me gave up. We're not even a company. Heck, we might as well just close shop because all we is just an account or accounts in some OTHER company.
15:42 TR News; "I feel like it would be extremely easy to be sober in San Francisco" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi
15:43 TR News; "The RSS reader is my solution to the infinite algorithmic feed problem. Using an RSS reader allows me to create a finite feed, populated only by the newest content from sources I have specifically chosen to receive updates from." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/digital-hygiene.gmi
15:47 XRevan86; https://yuri.is/not-julia/
15:47 TR Bot; Why I no longer recommend Julia
15:47 TR News; Lufi is an open-source E2E encrypted file sharing software Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164979
15:47 TR Bot; Lufi is an open-source E2E encrypted file sharing software | Tux Machines
15:47 TR News; Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Drawings Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164980
15:47 TR Bot; Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Drawings | Tux Machines
15:50 TR News; "Why Mike feels like Heroku is in a failed state, what drove us crazy about Google I/O this year, how Chris botched something super important, and some serious Python love sprinkled throughout." https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/148622/luxury-emotional-manipulation-coder-radio-466/
15:50 TR Bot; Luxury Emotional Manipulation | Coder Radio 466 | Jupiter Broadcasting
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16:01 TR News; $349 AMD Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit takes on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier devkit Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164981
16:01 TR Bot; $349 AMD Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit takes on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier devkit | Tux Machines
16:01 TR News; Top 5 Best Open Source Passive OS Fingerprinting Tools in 2022 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164982
16:01 TR Bot; Top 5 Best Open Source Passive OS Fingerprinting Tools in 2022 | Tux Machines
16:03 TR News; ONLYOFFICE 7.1 Release Adds ARM Compatibility, a New PDF Viewer, and More Features http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164796#comment-33716
16:03 TR Bot; ONLYOFFICE Docs v7.1 released: ARM compatibility, PDF to DOCX conversion, Print preview in spreadsheets and more | Tux Machines
16:05 TR News; Peepee on the clown! https://opensource.com/article/22/5/pipy-programmable-network-proxy-cloud
16:05 TR Bot; guide to Pipy, a programmable network proxy for cloud | Opensource.com
16:07 TR News; Linux Foundation emulates Microsoft, including the calling of marketing "research" (because it sounds more professional) http://techrights.org/2021/09/23/lf-diploma-mill-and-narrative-control-by-fake-research/
16:09 TR News; Microsoft does NOT do marketing. Microsoft does "RESEARCH". "Microsoft RESEARCH".... like "Get the Facts" (defaming GNU/Linux) before the "loves Linux" charade of lies, promoting partly by bribing publishers (some are dumb enough to play along without money).
16:14 TR News; Linux Foundation is a big bunch of overpaid buzzword slingers bossing and misrepresenting actual geeks
16:15 TR News; Ubuntu? Gulag frameworks. https://ubuntu.com//blog/bring-multi-platform-apps-to-linux-desktop-with-flutter-3
16:15 TR Bot; your multi-platform apps to Linux desktop with Flutter 3 | Ubuntu
16:17 TR News; Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164983
16:17 TR Bot; today's howtos | Tux Machines
16:17 TR News; Not So Brave New World Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164984
16:17 TR Bot; Not So Brave New World | Tux Machines
16:18 TR News; 128 Cores for AI Vision Projects, the reComputer Jetson-10 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164985
16:18 TR Bot; 128 Cores for AI Vision Projects, the reComputer Jetson-10 | Tux Machines
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16:59 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 21.13 k/sec., IPFS upstream 60.55 average k/sec., average swarm size 330.08
17:00 XRevan86; https://theins.press/en/news/251369
17:00 TR Bot; Vadim Shishimarin, first Russian accused of war crimes in Ukraine, pleads guilty in Kiev court
17:01 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/belarus-introduces-death-penalty-for-attempted-terrorism-news "Belarus introduces death penalty for attempted terrorism"
17:01 TR Bot; .
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17:36 TR News; openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 released Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164986
17:36 TR Bot; openSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 released | Tux Machines
17:36 TR News; Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164987
17:36 TR Bot; Android Leftovers | Tux Machines
17:41 TR News; What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164978#comment-3371
17:41 TR Bot; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Is Finally Here, This Is Whats New | Tux Machines
17:46 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/head-of-conflict-intelligence-team-ruslan-leviev-arrested-in-absentia-under-fake-news-law-news "Head of Conflict Intelligence Team Ruslan Leviev arrested in absentia under fake news law"
17:46 TR Bot; .
17:47 XRevan86; I wish they translated their stuff to English, I like their work and would've liked to repost it here.
17:48 TR News; What is Rocky Linux Key Information and Overview http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164946#comment-33718
17:48 TR Bot; Rocky Linux 8.6 Is Now Available for Download, Based on RHEL 8.6 | Tux Machines
17:48 TR News; Meet the Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164988
17:48 TR Bot; Meet the Xperia 10 III with Sailfish OS | Tux Machines
17:49 TR News; Titan Linux is a New KDE Linux Based on Debian Stable Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164989
17:49 TR Bot; Titan Linux is a New KDE Linux Based on Debian Stable | Tux Machines
17:50 TR News; "Egypts human rights body calls for the activists transfer to a better facility, as Abdel Fattahs family calls for his release." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/18/group-urges-transfer-of-alaa-abdel-fattah-to-better-facility
17:50 TR Bot; Activist Alaa Abdel Fattahs health worsens in Egyptian prison | Human Rights News | Al Jazeera
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17:51 TR News; Proprietary software... gets you pwn3d https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/18/threat-actors-exploiting-f5-big-ip-cve-2022-1388
17:51 TR Bot; Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG IP CVE-2022-1388 | CISA
17:52 TR News; "Valve and their partners are progressing well, with a steady pace now when it comes to validating games for the Steam Deck, with more than 2900 games validated. There are now 2902 games at the time of writing working on the Steam Deck in two categories as usual..." https://boilingsteam.com/2900-games-on-the-steam-deck-with-chrono-cross-and-star-wars-squadron-verified/
17:52 TR Bot; 2900 Games On The Steam Deck with Chrono Cross and Star Wars Squadron Verified - Boiling Steam
17:55 TR News; CheapTickets.com History: A Failed Aviation Execs Hail-Mary Pass https://tedium.co/2022/05/18/cheap-tickets-com-online-travel-history/ Source: tedium
17:55 TR Bot; CheapTickets.com History: A Failed Aviation Execs Hail-Mary Pass
17:56 TR News; Proxmox Backup Server 2.2 available Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164990
17:56 TR Bot; Proxmox Backup Server 2.2 available | Tux Machines
17:57 TR News; SVT-AV1 v1.1 https://gitlab.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/-/releases
17:57 TR Bot; Alliance for Open Media / SVT-AV1 GitLab
17:57 TR News; [PATCH 00/10] RTW88: Add support for USB variants - Sascha Hauer https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.hauer@pengutronix.de/ Source: pengutronix
17:57 TR Bot; [PATCH 00/10] RTW88: Add support for USB variants - Sascha Hauer
17:58 TR News; "there are lots of other features including access to Surfsharks list of MultiHop routes, WireGuard, DNS leak protection and CleanWeb (an ad-blocker)." https://www.techadvisor.com/news/vpn/surfsharks-linux-app-gui-3815988/
17:58 TR Bot; Surfshark Launches Linux App With Graphical User Interface
18:03 TR News; Predominantly a Windows problem, based on the data https://www.itprotoday.com/vulnerabilities-and-threats/how-spot-warning-signs-ransomware-attacks
18:03 TR Bot; How to Spot the Warning Signs of Ransomware Attacks | ITPro Today: IT News, How-Tos, Trends, Case Studies, Career Tips, More
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18:07 TR News; Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164991
18:07 TR Bot; Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
18:09 TR News; Backwards-incompatible changes in Bodhi https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/backwards-incompatible-changes-in-bodhi/ they need to delete proprietary GitHub; Microsoft/NSA unsuitable for controlling this
18:09 TR Bot; Backwards-incompatible changes in Bodhi Fedora Community Blog
18:09 TR News; Kiwi TCMS: New versions of automation framework plugins https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2022/05/18/new-versions-of-automation-framework-plugins/ "These new versions are compatible with Kiwi TCMS v11.x and include several improvements and bug fixes. Check-out the pages above for individual information and instructions on how to use them."
18:09 TR Bot; Kiwi TCMS - New versions of automation framework plugins
18:10 TR News; WSL is NOT Linux but Windows and an ATTACK on GNU/Linux. Sites like this should know better; they do this every week. https://www.xda-developers.com/does-lenovo-thinkpad-t14-gen-3-run-linux/
18:10 TR Bot; Does the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 run Linux? Can you install it?
18:11 TR News; Percona launches open-source database management system - El Reg https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/percona_platform/ "platform initially targeted at PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB."
18:11 TR Bot; Percona launches open-source database management system The Register
18:13 TR News; Filestash is an open-source web file manager and Dropbox alternative Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164992
18:13 TR Bot; Filestash is an open-source web file manager and Dropbox alternative | Tux Machines
18:14 TR News; "This is the 101st issue of syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng-related news." https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2022-05-directions-epel-9-throttle-regexp-parser
18:14 TR Bot; syslog-ng Insider 2022-05: directions; EPEL 9; throttle; regexp-parser; - Blog - syslog-ng Community - syslog-ng Community
18:17 TR News; According to an old interview, when Jim Zemlin first dated his wife she didn't know Linux (hence, same as him!) and was not interested. I guess she was not impressed when he told her it competed with Microsoft; that'd be like "kicking a puppy"...
18:18 TR News; Bashing Vladimir Putin is like kicking a puppy. Ukraine loves Putin. http://techrights.org/2019/07/31/jim-zemlin-open-source-loves-microsoft/
18:18 TR Bot; Jim Zemlin: Open Source Loves Microsoft | Techrights
18:19 TR News; Working with Bill Gates is like stealing a bagel http://techrights.org/2020/10/11/bagel-reports-as-images/
18:19 TR Bot; Trafficking Thousands of Underage Women/Girls for Sex is Not (and Was Never Ever) No Worse Than Stealing a Bagel | Techrights
18:20 TR News; Exo Sense RP - A Raspberry Pi RP2040-based multi sensor module Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164993
18:20 TR Bot; Exo Sense RP - A Raspberry Pi RP2040-based multi sensor module | Tux Machines
18:20 activelow; some progress with dvtm sixel support... i think it is slightly better already than the one with tmux
18:23 activelow; i think, dvtm is exceptional quality software
18:23 TR News; "EvilCo comes along and starts offering a Gemini hosting platform for technically-challenged people. This platform becomes very popular. Under the hood, it's running a custom Gemini server, rather than any of the open-source offerings." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/capitalism-gemini.gmi
18:24 TR News; "Let's be honest, all of this is predicated on the frankly MASSIVE assumption that Gemini will take off in a big way, rather than staying niche. And to be honest, I don't know that I see that happening. I think it'll grow, definitely." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/capitalism-gemini.gmi
18:25 activelow; i do not miss anything with dvtm in comparison to any x11/wayland/gtk or any of the typical window managers; instead i think it is more powerful software, with 47KiB binary size
18:26 TR News; Brittany Day adds metal: Microsoft megaphone in "LinuxSecurity"
18:27 TR News; Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap & Next Steps | Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/ Source: Mozilla | WWW | FreeSW | Firefox | Internet
18:27 TR Bot; Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap & Next Steps | Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
18:27 TR News; "LinuxSecurity" site: we're SOOO good at security that we OUTSOURCED to CLOWNflare and now the whole site is DOWN
18:29 TR News; Windows ism technically, a joke https://www.maketecheasier.com/defrag-windows-hard-drive/
18:29 TR Bot; How to Defrag Your Windows Hard Drive - Make Tech Easier
18:29 TR News; Godot Engine - Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1 https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-3-5-rc-1 Source: godotengine
18:30 TR Bot; Godot Engine - Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1
18:33 TR News; Warp - Modern New GTK4 File Transfer App for both Local & Internet Networks Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164994
18:33 TR Bot; Warp - Modern New GTK4 File Transfer App for both Local & Internet Networks | Tux Machines
18:35 activelow; suckless.org is inspirational, however i think some of their products are not sufficiently radical
18:36 activelow; for example, suckless terminal too is quality software... however, it depends on X11/fontconfig etc... and X11/fontconfig are not compliant with the suckless philosophy
18:36 activelow; in fact i consider X11 a non-Unix type software, similar to systemd introduced 40 years later
18:38 TR News; Linux Foundation Misdirection and Spam Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164995
18:38 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Misdirection and Spam | Tux Machines
18:39 TR News; "I've found that often when I have deadlines coming up or a lot of work to do, I happen to find a very engaging story. I feel like this is not entirely a coincidence - maybe partly procrastination and partly stress relief." gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2020-12-08_reading-not-working.gmi
18:40 TR News; Backwards-incompatible changes in Bodhi Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164996
18:40 TR Bot; Backwards-incompatible changes in Bodhi | Tux Machines
18:41 activelow; somehow i am thankful to systemd clutter, so i began to take down any component which violates acceptance criteria, didn't consider QT/c++/gcc/GTK/X11/udev/etc. etc etc as a candidate for removal, initially
18:41 TR News; NEW: Gemini Beginner Selfhosting Guide gemini://altesq.net/~masqq/gemlog/2022-05-18.gmi
18:42 TR News; Wanted: How to set up a Gemini server, for complete idiots. gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-05-18.self-hosting.gmi
18:42 activelow; same with the situation surrounding web browsers, didn't expect to wipe _all_ graphical browsers (chromium, mozilla, too netsurf) was the action to take
18:44 activelow; including various text ui applications (tui), such as midnight commander, irssi, tmux, ...
18:44 TR News; "there isn't really a built-in mechanism through which you would be made aware whether your work is being noticed or not, and that's by design. I don't know how common this is, but I don't find it to require much effort to keep up with everything that shows up on the main CAPCOM/spacewalk instances so I keep up with it regularly." gemini://sakurina.flounder.online/20201006r.gmi
18:44 activelow; didn't replace irssi with suckless ii within dvtm yet, not yet...
18:45 TR News; "Is having deeper and meaningful internet friendships the best use of your time, compared to deepening other relationships that might be available to you?" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~adiabatic/scrawlspace/
18:45 activelow; apropos X11, DEC corporation, 40years later, their approach to commercialize *nix affects software quality
18:46 activelow; the shattered pieces of the "unix wars", it's a headache still, and developers and users became accustomed to this
18:48 activelow; my opinion, X11 (wayland too) or any dependency thereof, does not belong into a *nix type system
18:52 TR News; Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164997
18:52 TR Bot; today's howtos | Tux Machines
18:53 TR News; Programming Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164998
18:53 TR Bot; Programming Leftovers | Tux Machines
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19:03 schestowitz; [17:29] <DickCheney> umesh: the weblinks are broken. What channel did you intend to be in? do /join <channel>
19:04 schestowitz; [17:30] <umesh> don't understand what are you saying
19:04 schestowitz; [17:31] <DickCheney> You are not in a channel about java
19:04 schestowitz; [17:31] <DickCheney> This is the main network channel
19:04 schestowitz; [17:31] <DickCheney> #freenode
19:04 schestowitz; [17:34] <DYnamo_> Im trying to join #JS but when I do it says im banned, even tho im not
19:04 schestowitz; gustaf says freenode now redirects people
19:04 schestowitz; away from their channels of choice
19:04 schestowitz; it's funny because:
19:05 schestowitz; you get a bunch of people dropping in to ask technical questions
19:05 schestowitz; about seemingly random thingsa
19:05 schestowitz; rpm, js....
19:05 gustaf; schestowitz: hey
19:05 schestowitz; many awkward his and hellos
19:05 schestowitz; what's the point of such a channel? :D
19:06 schestowitz; it's not about freenode
19:06 gustaf; it's not really like that, it's that channels that are "unclaimed" are redirected to #freenode
19:06 schestowitz; but about people who lost their way
19:06 schestowitz; [13:41] <web-81> It's been since January I invested in bitcoin got scammed through it and have yet to receive my money or get a refund for it
19:06 schestowitz; [13:42] <web-81> Is there any way you can assist me
19:06 schestowitz; should have bought the 'crypto' from andrew lee
19:07 schestowitz; mr. my gox
19:07 schestowitz; "live"
19:07 schestowitz; (mt.
19:07 gustaf; those were the days
19:08 schestowitz; the fsf channel there still has about 40 users
19:08 schestowitz; but very idle/silent
19:18 bnchs; schestowitz, freenode is still alive?
19:18 bnchs; all the channels i went to are dead
19:19 psydroid2; it's on life support
19:23 AdmFubar; where is dr. Frankenstein when you need him
19:32 TR News; Links 18/05/2022: Qt Company Loses Chief; OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 and RHEL 9 Final | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/qt-company-loses-chief/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/18/qt-company-loses-chief/
19:32 TR Bot; Links 18/05/2022: Qt Company Loses Chief; OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.2 and RHEL 9 Final | Techrights
19:33 TR News; 2900 Games On The Steam Deck and Godot 3.5 RC 1 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164999
19:33 TR Bot; 2900 Games On The Steam Deck and Godot 3.5 RC 1 | Tux Machines
19:33 TR News; Flutter 3 in Ubuntu and Canonical on AWS Govclown Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165000
19:33 TR Bot; Flutter 3 in Ubuntu and Canonical on AWS Govclown | Tux Machines
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19:44 TR News; Free, Libre Software Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165001
19:44 TR Bot; Free, Libre Software Leftovers | Tux Machines
19:44 TR News; Linux 5.17.9, 5.15.41, 5.10.117, 5.4.195, 4.19.244, 4.14.280, and 4.9.315 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165002
19:44 TR Bot; Linux 5.17.9, 5.15.41, 5.10.117, 5.4.195, 4.19.244, 4.14.280, and 4.9.315 | Tux Machines
19:46 TR News; Re: [patch 0/3] x86/fpu: Prevent FPU state corruption - Jason A. Donenfeld https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YoTVIGiXUO2l8Czm@zx2c4.com/ Source: zx2c4
19:46 TR Bot; Re: [patch 0/3] x86/fpu: Prevent FPU state corruption - Jason A. Donenfeld
19:47 TR News; [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/7] DG2 VRAM_SR Support https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2022-May/298140.html Source: intel
19:47 TR Bot; [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/7] DG2 VRAM_SR Support
19:48 TR News; Fedora Magazine: Five common mistakes when using automation https://fedoramagazine.org/five-common-mistakes-when-using-automation/
19:48 TR Bot; Five common mistakes when using automation - Fedora Magazine
19:49 TR News; ICBM talking BS: "This has been especially relevant since COVID when companies are struggling to fill vacancies"... the opposite is happening. This is typical ICBM, which LAYS OFF A LOT OF WORKERS, blaming the victims with the "great resignation" myth
19:50 TR News; Reality: many people cannot find jobs. Oligarchs: the economy is FINE! The problem is that there are not enough workers!
19:52 TR News; 2022: oligarchy says there's not enough energy, but profits from energy are at all-time high. Companies fire loads of workers, then moan about "great resignation", insisting that there's a staffing shortage
19:52 AdmFubar; https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/17/trackers-may-collect-data-that-you-type-even-before-hitting-submit/
19:52 TR Bot; Trackers may collect data that you type even before hitting submit - gHacks Tech News
19:53 TR News; British media this week (not kidding): if you are poor, then look for a job that pays more. They shame and blame the victims.
19:54 TR News; ICBM is a grotesque, lying company. Do not buy its products. It's more conceited than Novell (whose last CEO, who gave the company to Microsoft, had come from ICBM).
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19:56 TR News; Linux Foundation is spamming legitimate sites to promote a diploma mill. This is not helping Linux! http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164995#comment-33720
19:56 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Misdirection and Spam | Tux Machines
19:57 TR News; This robotic system automatically scans film slides on its own | Arduino Blog https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/18/this-robotic-system-automatically-scans-film-slides-on-its-own/ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking
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19:57 TR Bot; This robotic system automatically scans film slides on its own | Arduino Blog
19:58 TR News; But sometimes, life happens. And, unlike my good friend Bdale, I didn't get Linus to do the honors https://gwolf.org/2022/05/i-do-have-a-full-face.html
19:58 TR Bot; Gunnar Wolf I do have a full face
20:03 XRevan86; https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/05/18/kyiv-regional-police-nearly-1300-bodies-of-civilians-found-in-areas-previously-occupied-by-russia-news "Kyiv regional police: nearly 1,300 bodies of civilians found in areas previously occupied by Russia"
20:03 TR Bot; .
20:03 XRevan86; https://theins.press/en/news/251374
20:03 TR Bot; Ban from sale by May 19: All versions of Orwell's 1984 banned in Belarus, Nasha Niva reports
20:03 XRevan86; https://theins.press/en/news/251373
20:03 TR Bot; Russian gymnast banned one year for displaying Z symbol. He won bronze, gold went to a Ukrainian
20:05 TR News; Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165003
20:05 TR Bot; today's howtos | Tux Machines
20:06 TR News; Reproducible Builds: Supporter spotlight: Jan Nieuwenhuizen on Bootstrappable Builds, GNU Mes and GNU Guix https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2022/05/18/jan-nieuwenhuizen-on-bootrappable-builds-gnu-mes-and-gnu-guix/
20:06 TR Bot; spotlight: Jan Nieuwenhuizen on Bootstrappable Builds, GNU Mes and GNU Guix reproducible-builds.org
20:07 TR News; Linux in the Ham Shack: "It's time once again for The Weekender" https://lhspodcast.info/2022/05/lhs-episode-467-the-weekender-xci-3/
20:07 TR Bot; LHS Episode #467: The Weekender XCI | Linux in the Ham Shack
20:08 TR News; DeskMini UM350 with Manjaro Linux is MINISFORUM's most affordable mini PC yet at US$299 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164966#comment-33721
20:08 TR Bot; MINISFORUM DeskMini UM350 mini PC now available with Manjaro Linux for $299 and up | Tux Machines
20:09 TR News; Proprietary software is a threat to national security https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/18/cisa-issues-emergency-directive-and-releases-advisory-related http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware
20:09 TR Bot; CISA Issues Emergency Directive and Releases Advisory Related to VMware Vulnerabilities | CISA
20:09 TR Bot; VMware - Techrights
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20:10 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
20:10 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 19.18 k/sec., IPFS upstream 34.60 average k/sec., average swarm size 355.81
20:14 TR News; Everything You Need to Know about Linux Input-Output Redirection | Linux Journal https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/everything-you-need-know-about-linux-input-output-redirection Source: LinuxJournal | GNU | Linux
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20:14 TR Bot; Everything You Need to Know about Linux Input-Output Redirection | Linux Journal
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20:26 DaemonFC; schestowitz, They denied my appeal so I filed a second chargeback.
20:26 DaemonFC; This time I added yet more. I accused him of creating the situation by engaging in the sale of counterfeit car keys which are not GM authorized and cause the anti-theft computer to malfunction.
20:27 schestowitz_TR2; so they did not undo the payment after all?
20:27 DaemonFC; But I made it clear what sense of the word "counterfeit" I was using and that it was merely my opinion that it fit the definition of "counterfeit" as a noun, which is defined as "attempting to make a thing appear to be another thing of higher value".
20:27 schestowitz_TR2; you said they had returned the money
20:27 DaemonFC; <schestowitz_TR2> so they did not undo the payment after all?
20:27 DaemonFC; It's tricky, schestowitz_TR2
20:27 DaemonFC; They return it immediately.
20:27 schestowitz_TR2; anyway, a bit off topic tbh
20:28 DaemonFC; Then the merchant responds. They close the case in favor of the merchant pending your response, and put it back on your credit card.
20:28 DaemonFC; At that point, you have to pay it, but you can appeal.
20:28 DaemonFC; If they deny your appeal, you can file it again as a "second chargeback", and they have to consider the case again with a different arbitrator looking over all of the documents.
20:29 DaemonFC; If the second arbitrator at the bank finds against you, and you, the bank, and the merchant still disagree, it goes into what is actually called "arbitration", where the case goes in front of the payment network instead of the bank.
20:29 DaemonFC; And the payment network makes a final ruling.
20:30 DaemonFC; If you lose the first chargeback, it can be beneficial to file another one. The merchant rarely continues to respond because if it goes to the payment network, they get whacked with more fees.
20:31 DaemonFC; Technically a dispute of any amount can go into arbitration, but usually only high dollar disputes go to the payment networks because the payment networks can sanction whoever loses.
20:31 DaemonFC; Like, if he sold me a $2,000 refrigerator that broke down and wouldn't take it back, it would be worth taking to the payment network.
20:32 DaemonFC; But a dispute over $69.99 probably isn't worth pursuing past a second chargeback at the bank.
20:33 DaemonFC; At some point you cut your losses, especially since the Buick dealer was at least able to save the remote control, which was $100, and Batteries Plus refunded $43.19 for the non-genuine key.
20:33 DaemonFC; So I'm down to being out $69.99 for his programming fee.
20:34 DaemonFC; But win or lose, you snowed the merchant under with paperwork from his bank and fees for handling the dispute. So even if he wins, he's probably still out at least the amount of $100, which means he doesn't really get to keep your money because of the expense of his time and fees from the bank.
20:35 DaemonFC; It's like "Okay asshole, I might not get my money back....but you won't keep it. The bank will.".
20:35 DaemonFC; schestowitz_TR2, And then you've created jobs, when you think about it.
20:36 DaemonFC; Because that money that got taken away from him goes to people at the bank from the Philippines who will be able to go home and feed their children tonight so that those children can grow up big and strong to have itty bitty children of their own. Thus creating the circle of life.
20:36 DaemonFC; "You're a monster, Zorg!" "I know...."
20:36 DaemonFC; MinceR, ^
20:37 MinceR; :)
20:38 DaemonFC; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA
20:38 TR Bot; https://y.com.sb/watch?v=krcNIWPkNzA
20:38 TR Bot; y.com.sb | Fifth Element - Zorg - Invidious
20:44 DaemonFC; MinceR, I quoted Heisenberg from Breaking Bad, sort of, in my latest document to the credit card company.
20:44 DaemonFC; "In some cases, the consumer expects that when they try to save a little bit of money, that the result will
20:44 DaemonFC; be less than ideal. Consider some tepid off-brand cola compared to Classic Coke."
20:46 DaemonFC; "However, Mr. Chouhan is charging very nearly what a licensed GM dealership would have, and selling a product that appears not to be compatible with a vehicle (at least my vehicle) at all, whereas the expectation of the consumer is that the system will work reliably."
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20:47 TR News; Too late, Canonical. You drive away Ubuntu users. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/05/canonical-hiring-gaming-engineer-for-ubuntu see http://techrights.org/2022/05/11/canonical-boosting-windows/
20:47 TR Bot; Canonical is Recruiting Devs for 'Ubuntu Gaming' Team - OMG! Ubuntu!
20:47 TR Bot; Ubuntu (Canonical) Will Not Help Us Get Rid of Windows (Microsoft) | Techrights
20:54 TR News; "New Linux users often are confused with why more intermediate-to-advanced users gravitate to the terminal rather than just using GUI apps for the same task. There are reasons why newer users hate the terminal and longtime Linux users love the terminal." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hFZyKDix65g
20:54 TR Bot; Why Use The Terminal Instead of GUI Apps? - Invidious
20:56 TR News; Oh, FFS. Brittany Day is again boosting Microsofters regarding 'security' https://linuxsecurity.com/news/iot-security/establishing-a-root-of-trust-in-embedded-linux-and-iot see http://techrights.org/2019/09/09/attacking-foss-by-proxy/
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20:56 TR Bot; Establishing a Root of Trust in Embedded Linux and IoT
20:56 TR Bot; Security Boulevard is a Microsoft-Connected Attack Site Created by a Free Software-Hostile Person | Techrights
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21:02 TR News; FingerX is a gadget that lets people feel the shapes of VR objects physically | Arduino Blog https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/18/fingerx-lets-people-feel-shapes-of-vr-objects-physically/ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking
21:02 TR Bot; FingerX is a gadget that lets people feel the shapes of VR objects physically | Arduino Blog
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21:07 TR News; Russia's Windows decline https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/russian-federation/#monthly-200901-202205
21:07 TR Bot; Operating System Market Share Russian Federation | Statcounter Global Stats
21:10 TR News; Freenode down from almost 50 server to about 9 this year https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode
21:10 TR Bot; NO TITLE
21:11 SomeH4x0r; techrights-news: you mean the new freenode with the new servers?
21:12 SomeH4x0r; because otherwise maybe the server operators disabled their servers
21:12 SomeH4x0r; still fuck their policies on exclusive root access, evil
21:13 psydroid2; Windows is a minority operating system in India
21:13 psydroid2; https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/india#monthly-200901-202205
21:13 TR Bot; Operating System Market Share India | Statcounter Global Stats
21:13 schestowitz-TR; psydroid2: stop being poor
21:13 schestowitz-TR; buy $500-$2000 LAPTOP
21:13 psydroid2; lol
21:13 schestowitz-TR; that takes up 20-30w
21:14 SomeH4x0r; yes, Android
21:14 psydroid2; Scamnil would like people to do so
21:14 SomeH4x0r; Windows is better
21:14 SomeH4x0r; because at least it didn't try to be locked down from the beginning
21:14 schestowitz-TR; android weakens windows
21:14 SomeH4x0r; maybe it does now, but past versions are better
21:14 schestowitz-TR; that's a net positive, but a stepping stone only
21:14 psydroid2; Windows isn't better, it lives on inertia
21:14 schestowitz-TR; for now, SOME Android devices can still be rooted
21:15 schestowitz-TR; android and windows are very different
21:15 SomeH4x0r; I have a few rooted devices, yet they have update issues
21:15 schestowitz-TR; that's like saying laptop is better than clamshell POS
21:15 SomeH4x0r; I have no desire to create per-device ROMs
21:15 SomeH4x0r; why can we have a single .iso which works everywhere for x86(_64)?
21:16 psydroid2; because it's a locked down platform where you don't have the keys to the firmware, as it's standardised on UEFI (and previously BIOS)
21:18 schestowitz-TR; android devices rarely run on amd
21:18 schestowitz-TR; so amd+microsoft will prop up pluton crap
21:18 schestowitz-TR; qualcomm is doing a lot better than them
21:18 schestowitz-TR; so microsoft tries to EEE qualcomm
21:18 schestowitz-TR; "always on"
21:18 schestowitz-TR; "always connected"
21:18 schestowitz-TR; "always wasting your battery" :-)
21:18 psydroid2; I still don't understand Qualcomm's infatuation with Microsoft
21:19 schestowitz-TR; always phoning microsoft with your data
21:19 schestowitz-TR; psydroid2: maybe some financial incentives
21:19 schestowitz-TR; we don't know the full details
21:19 TR News; Everything You Need to Know about Linux Input-Output Redirection Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165004
21:19 TR Bot; Everything You Need to Know about Linux Input-Output Redirection | Tux Machines
21:19 psydroid2; Windows on ARM will never amoung to anything
21:19 psydroid2; and if it does, where will that leave Intel and AMD?
21:20 psydroid2; one of the two camps will always be on the losing side
21:20 psydroid2; unless they all join the ARM camp
21:20 schestowitz-TR; microsoft would need isvs to port a ton of stuff
21:20 psydroid2; amount*
21:20 schestowitz-TR; otherwise "customers" would be frustrated
21:20 schestowitz-TR; and blamne Windows or ARM
21:20 psydroid2; I tried to compile some free software for Windows on ARM
21:21 DaemonFC; <schestowitz-TR> buy $500-$2000 LAPTOP
21:21 DaemonFC; Mine was like $900 on a sale.
21:21 psydroid2; but it was pretty much undoable, because Windows on ARM doesn't even provide a fully compatible development environment
21:21 DaemonFC; That's usually about what I pay.
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21:22 AdmFubar; https://pattern.monster
21:22 TR Bot; Pattern Monster - SVG Pattern Generator
21:24 schestowitz_TR2; DaemonFC: ripoff
21:24 schestowitz_TR2; unless assembled in "USA" or something
21:25 schestowitz_TR2; I use 5 laptops at the moment
21:25 schestowitz_TR2; they're all very cheap
21:25 psydroid2; these laptops are always 500-1000
21:25 schestowitz_TR2; and rather old except one
21:26 activelow; reading wikipedia with w3m text browser reveals some problems, the layout and content arrangement of wikipedia are not ideal
21:26 psydroid2; I think Intel realised they had a chip that was already too good with the Pentium Silver N6000 going in laptops that cost 300-400
21:26 psydroid2; and that will become even more of a thing in the future
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21:27 psydroid2; https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14556094
21:27 TR Bot; Acer Swift SF114-34 - Geekbench Browser
21:28 psydroid2; that is getting into Skylake territory
21:28 psydroid2; a high-end laptop from 6 years ago
21:28 psydroid2; one that is still very fast
21:29 XRevan86; "Freenode down from almost 50 server to about 9 this year" <- 9 sounds excessive.
21:29 DaemonFC; Skylake was sort of where it all went wrong.
21:30 IPFS; Planet Gemini updated. Latest complete date at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-17.gmi and so far today at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/othercapsules/2022-05-18.gmi
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21:41 psydroid2; Windows also nearing its lowest ever marketshare in Norway
21:42 psydroid2; and it's in a freefall in Turkey
21:42 psydroid2; good job
21:46 psydroid2; ok, this is really weird
21:46 psydroid2; if you search for "turkey linux" on google it suggests "turnkey" now
21:47 psydroid2; this is getting embarrassing even for google and the US
21:48 TR News; Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165005
21:48 TR Bot; Android Leftovers | Tux Machines
21:51 TR News; At the end of the road gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2022-05-18-at-the-end-of-the-road
21:52 TR News; "lefebvre continues the idea of valorizing the everyday through 'a scientific theory of social labour,' 'this totality of labour' which 'has modified and transformed the face of the world' (154). in this there is nothing hidden but that which does often go unperceived." gemini://aidn.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-18.gmi
21:53 TR News; Selfhosting Gemini? gemini://envs.net/~pen/log/hosting.gmi
21:54 TR News; "watching hasan piker's stream and he thought 4chan was invading him because someone named "genocide2ar" gave him money but someone in the chat pointed out that this refers to "2AR" as in the last speech in high school/college policy debate." gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi
21:55 TR News; "Theres a conversation flowing through geminispace about sinere conversations, and its reminded me of a thought Ive been meaning to flesh out. Its not quite there yet, but I thought Id offer it up; Id love your feedback." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20220518_cyborg_state
21:57 TR News; "This is Day 2 of "balcony sitting" - sitting out on my balcony all day, in the nice Spring weather, hammering away text on my phone, enjoying the birds and sunshine (and rain, should it ever arrive), and just basking in the ambiance of it all." gemini://tmo.smol.pub/1652805235
22:07 activelow; given the importance of wikipedia, it is concerning if content arrangement and layout is flawed with text browsers
22:14 schestowitz_TR2; use gemini
22:14 schestowitz_TR2; there are several gemnini:// portals for wikipedia
22:17 schestowitz_TR2; activelow: do you want URI/Ls?
22:27 DaemonFC; Okay, so it turns out that there's no difference between the Mach 3 disposable blades and the refill blades for the reusable handle. The blades will even pop off the disposable handles and work on the reusable handle, and the refill blades will attach to the disposable handles.
22:27 DaemonFC; It seems the only difference is that the reusable handle will probably last longer and feels better in your hand as you shave.
22:28 DaemonFC; The disposable ones are entirely plastic, and the reusable handle is mostly some sort of metal, and rubber grips.
22:29 DaemonFC; But if you already have some disposable handles, you could buy refill Mach 3 blades and keep using the handles until they wear out. You could probably use each one for months. By that time, you would have probably gone through a dozen blades per handle anyway.
22:31 DaemonFC; https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/beauty/hair-removal/reusable-or-disposable-razor.htm
22:31 TR Bot; Is a reusable razor or a disposable razor really cheaper in the long run? | HowStuffWorks
22:31 DaemonFC; Gillette changes their position about how long their razor cartridges last depending upon how the overall economy is doing.
22:32 DaemonFC; During the 2008 recession, their CEO made the claim that one Mach 3 blade lasted for "months" and so it was worth more money than the generic competitors.
22:32 DaemonFC; Today, their website says "each blade cartridge lasts for 15 comfortable shaves".
22:33 DaemonFC; Because they feel that the economy is better and they can convince men to throw out their blades more often, I guess?
22:33 TR News; "Have you ever felt like Linux was just missing something but not sure what it was missing, well maybe it was missing a really annoying watermark telling you to activate your system everytime you use it." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6oGbMnC-PC8
22:33 TR Bot; Bringing Windows Best Feature To Linux!! - Invidious
22:33 DaemonFC; You certainly can use a Mach 3 blade for "months", but it will get dull and unpleasant to use after about 15 shaves, and that's been the same in my experience, regardless of the economy.
22:33 TR News; "This week, Linux Out Loud chats about what it is like for us to be content creators on the Tux Digital Network." https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/linux-out-loud/lol-14/
22:33 TR Bot; Back Stage Pass - Linux Out Loud - TuxDigital
22:34 DaemonFC; You can probably push them a little longer than when they start to become uncomfortable, but "months" is a stretch.
22:34 DaemonFC; Gillette is certainly in a position to ensure that each cartridge starts out terrific and then degrades based on how often they want to sell more refills.
22:35 DaemonFC; If it happens on the second shave, their customer will feel cheated and stop buying them. If it happens a couple of times per month, the customer will write it off as wear and tear.
22:35 psydroid2; https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
22:35 TR Bot; Wikimedia Downloads
22:35 DaemonFC; You have to do a balancing act, as a company, based on how much you feel you can get away with.
22:36 TR News; Monopolists and racist corporations now disguise themselves as "social justice"; this is the LF doing PR services for political purposes while LF hires nobody black https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/my-dei-journey/ http://techrights.org/2020/06/14/linux-foundation-with-zero-african-american-employees-in-a-country-where-13-4-identify-as-african-american-boasts-about-its-support-for-the-black-community/
22:36 TR Bot; My DEI Journey - Linux Foundation
22:36 TR Bot; Linux Foundation, With Zero African-American Employees (in a Country Where 13.4% Identify as African-American), Boasts About Its Support for the Black Community | Techrights
22:36 DaemonFC; schestowitz_TR2, Walmart is having severe economic turmoil right now.
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; I read about it today
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; we also cycled past walmart uk today
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; it's called asda
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; not many people in the parking lot
22:37 DaemonFC; They've always been praised as "recession-proof", but customers are cutting back on their average spend to try to re-allocate money towards more expensive gasoline, rents, medical bills, etc. They don't feel confident that they'll definitely have a job in the long term, probably because they shouldn't feel confident.
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; sw several Fords
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; which is unuisual
22:37 DaemonFC; Almost every major company is laying off while CNN bullshits us about a booming economy.
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; and a family of geese and 7 goslings parked at the lawn next to starbucks
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; there is also a mcdonalds there
22:37 DaemonFC; Several are on the verge of collapse, and they're in the S&P 500.
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; in the car park
22:37 schestowitz_TR2; like a little USA island
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; DaemonFC: yes, see what I wrote hours ago in #boycottnobell
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; they fake the opposites
22:38 DaemonFC; Carvana is about to collapse.
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; maybe they reckon buying off the media and social control media
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; will let them gaslight us
22:38 DaemonFC; Netflix could collapse in the intermediate future.
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; the papers here said 44 days ago you should look for a job that pays better if you are poor
22:38 DaemonFC; Uber and Lyft, Doordash, and GrubHub....
22:38 schestowitz_TR2; as if it's all just to a matter of will
22:39 DaemonFC; They're probably not going to survive much longer.
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; ivanka: start something news
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; Kushner: blacks need to WANT to succeed
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; both born to rich parents
22:39 DaemonFC; Right now, Netflix stock has had a terrible go of it.
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; next: spotify
22:39 DaemonFC; Investors rewarded them a little bit for firing the 150 people this week.
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; and then clownflare
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; recent IPO
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; STILL losing money
22:39 DaemonFC; But not nearly as much as the stock has lost recently.
22:39 schestowitz_TR2; STILL making excuises
22:39 DaemonFC; They'll keep firing and cooking the books.
22:40 schestowitz_TR2; because the moment they start charging everyone there will be an exodus
22:40 DaemonFC; Lots of companies will.
22:40 schestowitz_TR2; brb
22:40 DaemonFC; Yeah, they lost over 200,000 US subscribers in the most recent quarter at Netflix, and they're projected to lose 2 million more the rest of the year.
22:40 TR News; No, LWN lost a lot of KEY staff lately (even "ris") https://lwn.net/Articles/895695/
22:40 TR Bot; is hiring [LWN.net]
22:40 DaemonFC; You're right that DRM is finally getting its comeuppance.
22:41 DaemonFC; They're in a death spiral.
22:41 schestowitz; http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164995#comment-33723
22:41 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Misdirection and Spam | Tux Machines
22:41 DaemonFC; Every major price hike, customers go fuck this....$20 a month so I can watch this crap?
22:41 schestowitz; Zemlin pays himself a million a year now
22:41 schestowitz; and they pretend (today) to speak for blacks
22:41 DaemonFC; They almost never have anything good on, and when they do, they cancel it.
22:41 schestowitz; they have hired NONE
22:42 DaemonFC; So people are getting tired of it.
22:42 DaemonFC; Staring at the wall is about as entertaining as the bulk of what's on Netflix.
22:42 schestowitz; yeah
22:42 DaemonFC; And the price hikes are just shoving it in your face that you pay more all the time for this crap.
22:43 DaemonFC; It's up to $240 a year for something you usually aren't even using now. And people are saying "It costs $80 to fill my car with gas and I'm paying Netflix how much!?".
22:43 schestowitz_TR2; DaemonFC: ftr, we might resign soon
22:43 DaemonFC; They're done. Close to it, anyway.
22:43 schestowitz_TR2; but it's not "great resignatioin"
22:43 schestowitz_TR2; it's a company that has become shit
22:43 schestowitz_TR2; because of the "downturn"
22:43 schestowitz_TR2; we might stay, maybe part time, but a lot of jobs became miserable
22:44 schestowitz_TR2; and they pretend the pandemic is over
22:44 DaemonFC; Yeah, I'm just hoping that things don't get so bad that Walmart starts having layoffs.
22:44 schestowitz_TR2; while media says we entered a "recession"
22:44 DaemonFC; They may not have to.
22:44 DaemonFC; They can just use attrition at the rate people quit there.
22:44 schestowitz_TR2; today we bought only discounted food
22:44 schestowitz_TR2; and did not find much... or not as much as we hoped
22:44 schestowitz_TR2; it's becoming competitive
22:44 DaemonFC; Yeah, you're dealing with other people who snag it all because they suffer.
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22:45 DaemonFC; "Prosperity". Thank Johnson for that.
22:45 DaemonFC; His immigrant bashing and criminalization of rough sleeping has really made you well off.
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; grocers:
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; people will ALWAYS needs food
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; you: but WHAT food
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; rationed?
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; bread?
22:46 DaemonFC; To some extent, there's devolved government in the UK, the local governments should really push back against Johnson. The more he has to assert himself, the more he'll simply remind people in areas that already don't like him how out of touch he is.
22:46 schestowitz_TR2; wheat?
22:47 schestowitz_TR2; now there are fears of cooking oil shortages
22:47 schestowitz_TR2; \I think an oil bottle was the only item we took which was NOT discounted
22:47 DaemonFC; Yeah, CNN was acting like the UK losing 4,000 fish and chips shops was the headline here.
22:47 schestowitz_TR2; UK is still vastly better off tyhan many countries
22:47 DaemonFC; And sure it'll cause a lot of unemployment, but it's not the major disaster unfolding in the country.
22:47 schestowitz_TR2; inc. US
22:48 schestowitz_TR2; we've not seen any more tents of homeless
22:48 DaemonFC; The rot in the UK is comparable from what I'm seeing.
22:48 DaemonFC; They like to live in denial about it, I guess.
22:48 schestowitz_TR2; I can't wait of the tech bubble to implode
22:48 schestowitz_TR2; a) no more Trump/Biden bailouts for Microsoftr
22:48 schestowitz_TR2; company reports LOSSES _AGAIN_
22:48 DaemonFC; In the 80s, you had actual Socialists opposing Thatcher. Today you have Johnson and the also-Johnson party.
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; b) People quit buiying Apple and Tim Crook quits blaming "supply chain"
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; like Twitter blames "bots"
22:49 DaemonFC; Accelerationism.
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; and netflix blames "password sharing"
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; c) same for Gulag
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; they do nothing good anyway
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; ICBM is at least emplopying some Red Hat staff
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; that works on gnu/linux stuff
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; AWS implosion
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; they keep doing price hikes
22:49 schestowitz_TR2; "enough"
22:50 DaemonFC; I don't consider myself a political extremist, honestly. I may cross the fence in the Illinois gubernatorial election this year for Irvin based simply on the facts I'm seeing.
22:50 schestowitz_TR2; people can save a lot of money by getting off "the clown"
22:50 schestowitz_TR2; then add 100 more "tech" companies that deserve to die
22:50 schestowitz_TR2; not being rescued
22:50 schestowitz_TR2; and we go back to basics
22:50 schestowitz_TR2; not monoliths
22:50 TR News; Shows and Videos: FLOSS Weekly, Linux Out Loud, Bringing Windows Best Feature To Linux, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165006
22:50 TR Bot; Shows and Videos: FLOSS Weekly, Linux Out Loud, Bringing Windows Best Feature To Linux, and More | Tux Machines
22:51 DaemonFC; Pritzker is a hotel billionaire who hasn't worked a day of his life. He's soft on crime and high on taxes. And Irvin isn't THAT bad, honestly. He's saying that our immigration policies need to be a lot more permissive than they are. He had a successful record as a prosecutor and a mayor, who has actually had to go in and take care of issues people are dealing with, like blighted neighborhoods and notorious apartment complexes overflowing with
22:51 DaemonFC; criminal activity.
22:51 DaemonFC; So I just don't see Richard Irvin as very extreme.
22:52 TR News; This is a proprietary software problem too and it's not a new problem; the FUD patterns are newer and driven by special interests https://www.esecurityplanet.com/applications/software-supply-chain-a-risky-time-for-dependencies/
22:52 TR Bot; Supply Chain: A Risky Time for Dependencies | eSecurityPlanet
22:52 DaemonFC; We're not in danger of him getting into office, pulling a hard right, and getting away with major policy changes, because the legislature has a Democrat supermajority.
22:53 DaemonFC; More than enough to prevent a shutdown or the passage of a budget bill if he stops negotiating with them.
22:53 DaemonFC; I just don't see how this will get much worse than Pritzker or how it can.
22:54 DaemonFC; It's disgusting what Pritzker is doing on crime.
22:54 schestowitz_TR2; there is no job security atm
22:54 schestowitz_TR2; the best security right now is savings
22:54 schestowitz_TR2; and those too lose value
22:54 schestowitz_TR2; inflation
22:54 DaemonFC; He's letting the worst of the worst out of prison to make way for a retail crime bill that puts people in there for a long time for stealing designer sunglasses (from China).
22:54 DaemonFC; I mean fuck Pritzker to death. That's what I say!
22:55 schestowitz_TR2; use #techpol
22:55 schestowitz_TR2; for politics
22:55 schestowitz_TR2; keep that out of this channel pls
22:55 DaemonFC; They don't want people to have any sort of security.
22:55 DaemonFC; You save money, they steal it.
22:55 DaemonFC; Wanna buy a car? Might as well.
22:55 DaemonFC; If you try to hang onto the money, the government will just steal it.
22:56 schestowitz_TR2; cars lose value fast
22:56 DaemonFC; They're trying to panic people into shopping under the threat that if they don't start hoarding things right now (and goose the economy) then they lose it anyway.
22:56 schestowitz_TR2; and price of maintaining and fuelling them varies a lot
22:56 schestowitz_TR2; very volatile "asset"
22:57 DaemonFC; Yeah, the Buick had to go back to the body shop. They missed a couple of things that I pointed out that they quoted me on.
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; DaemonFC: first, loeer your bills
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; water, electric
22:57 DaemonFC; So it's in there until tomorrow (I think).
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; by lowering usage
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; that they cannot change
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; no matter how much the charges are
22:57 DaemonFC; I'm trying to grind off and patch over as much of the body rust as possible so that it doesn't eat the car out from under me.
22:57 schestowitz_TR2; so you bought an "old" luxury car
22:58 schestowitz_TR2; and now you think walmart might lay off where you are
22:58 schestowitz_TR2; better to have stashed this money
22:58 DaemonFC; I doubt they will lay off, but I'm saying nothing is safe in an environment like this.
22:58 DaemonFC; The Federal Reserve has put itself in an impossible situation on the economy.
22:59 IPFS; IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 21.63 k/sec., IPFS upstream 33.33 average k/sec., average swarm size 326.10
22:59 DaemonFC; It's high inflation or job losses and people stuck with idiotic debts they ran up while things appeared to be okay.
22:59 DaemonFC; Like trips to Disney.
22:59 DaemonFC; Using their stimulus checks on another TV because the one they had was two years old.
22:59 TR News; RHEL Clone and CentOS Replacement Releases Rocky Linux 8.6 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164946#comment-33724
22:59 TR Bot; Rocky Linux 8.6 Is Now Available for Download, Based on RHEL 8.6 | Tux Machines
23:00 DaemonFC; Speaking of which, we still have not seen that $100 that Prickster said is coming.
23:00 DaemonFC; Wonder what the timeline is on that. The news never said.
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23:01 TR News; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Released with Security Enhancements http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164978#comment-33725
23:01 TR Bot; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Is Finally Here, This Is Whats New | Tux Machines
23:01 DaemonFC; <schestowitz_TR2> DaemonFC: first, loeer your bills
23:02 DaemonFC; That's difficult with Mandy insisting on accumulating white elephants like Apple products.
23:02 DaemonFC; Driving me crazy. Spending money behind my back if I say no.
23:02 schestowitz_TR2; I always laugh a little when the gov. helps with cash "Stimulus"
23:02 schestowitz_TR2; becauswe we know where this money come s from
23:02 schestowitz_TR2; from us
23:02 DaemonFC; Letting some idiot like his friend that can't figure out which county to drive to with her GPS on tell him what an asshole I am.
23:03 schestowitz_TR2; also, in some schemes they give those same stimulus checks also to billionaires
23:03 DaemonFC; Yeah, people making up to $250,000 a year or couples up to $500,000 a year get them.
23:03 DaemonFC; Because they'll really notice $50, won't they?
23:03 schestowitz_TR2; they don't pay that much tax either at millions per annum
23:04 schestowitz_TR2; don't know what the tax brackets are like in us states
23:04 DaemonFC; If they limited it too $100k/$200k, they could have sent out $100 per person.
23:04 schestowitz_TR2; but at some point you reach a 'root'
23:04 DaemonFC; But they send them out to MARISOL.
23:04 schestowitz_TR2; *roof
23:04 schestowitz_TR2; and you start paying LESS %-wise
23:05 DaemonFC; There is no bracket in Illinois. It's 4.95% on everything past a small personal exemption, which you don't get if you're extremely high income.
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23:05 DaemonFC; Even that is relatively new. The Democrats took away the personal exemption from rich people when they increased the tax rates to make it look like they did something to the rich.
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23:05 TR News; Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165007
23:05 TR Bot; Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
23:12 TR News; Fedora Magazine: Five common mistakes when using automation Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165008
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23:12 TR News; Arduino Projects: FingerX and Film Slides Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165009
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23:13 schestowitz_TR2; DaemonFC: what are your options for findings "gainful" employment?
23:13 schestowitz_TR2; things would sour quickly if Mandy lost his role
23:13 schestowitz_TR2; or lost hours
23:14 schestowitz_TR2; there needs to be an emergent counter-economy
23:14 schestowitz_TR2; not the fakecoin kind
23:14 schestowitz_TR2; parallel economies tend to get crushed
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; but you can make protestant movements
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; like the "buy nothing day"
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; make it week, not day
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; and crush the conformity
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; but anyway, back to my question
23:15 schestowitz_TR2; I think you tend to avoid those
23:15 activelow; schestowitz_TR2: i am planning to hack sixel support into gemini, certainly i'll notify once i got time to cope with it
23:16 schestowitz_TR2; which clients?
23:16 schestowitz_TR2; gemin is just a spec
23:16 schestowitz_TR2; not even a formal standard
23:16 activelow; not sure yet, my current favorite gemini client is cgmnlm ... written in C
23:16 schestowitz_TR2; it does not specitdypresentatyion either
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; it can just be a format for a screen reader
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; you can get wikipedia from gemini
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; hang on
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; but you need support for user prompt
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; amfora has that
23:17 schestowitz_TR2; telescope oes not
23:18 activelow; downloaded some wikipedia dump while ago, ideally i could handle this for offline reading, including search, gemini protocol support etc.
23:19 activelow; a tui gemini client will integrate perfectly with dvtm
23:20 activelow; btw. ffmpeg got some sixel support too, and hacking support for this into any gemini client shouldn't be too difficult
23:20 schestowitz_TR2; how do you watch video?
23:20 schestowitz_TR2; mplayer? mpv?
23:21 activelow; currently, mplayer-1.4 with vo=sdl and fbcon output
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23:21 bnchs; i'm hacking mpv right now
23:21 activelow; already hacked some vt-switching into libsdl1, yet with sixel output this should be alot easier
23:22 activelow; i had seen some discussions surrounding mpv too, for sixels, anyway, don't remember the exact reason, i'll keep legacy mplayer-1.4
23:23 activelow; now i remember, mplayer-1.4 got support for libsdl1, mpv requires libsdl2 (c++); mplayer-1.4 got fbcon support, mpv has not and supports undesireable libdrm/kms instead
23:23 chicksahoy; i like vlc
23:25 activelow; granted, vlc is open source, with permissive licensing... there is other reasons to refrain from this type of software
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23:33 schestowitz_TR2; isn't vlc lgpl\?
23:34 bnchs; schestowitz_TR2, yes
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23:34 DaemonFC; <schestowitz_TR2> DaemonFC: what are your options for findings "gainful" employment?
23:34 bnchs; it is compatible with MPV (which was partly relicensed to LGPL)
23:34 DaemonFC; I don't really know. Walmart is kind of the economy.
23:34 schestowitz_TR2; look at wikipedia
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; largest employers
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; from memory, walmart is about 2 million workers
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; and that's US alone
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; zmazon is about a million
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; but not only us
23:35 schestowitz_TR2; so waltons are controlling many households
23:35 DaemonFC; They're such a big part of the American economy that they have more US employees than the number of soldiers in the entire military, plus civilian contractors.
23:35 DaemonFC; They've been allowed to get too big to fail.
23:36 schestowitz_TR2; iirc, many blame it on the clintons (1990s)
23:36 schestowitz_TR2; but I don't know whyt
23:36 DaemonFC; Yeah, directly and indirectly, schestowitz_TR2
23:36 DaemonFC; What happens if lots of people lose their jobs at Walmart?
23:36 schestowitz_TR2; we boycott walmart
23:36 schestowitz_TR2; (asda)
23:36 DaemonFC; They have no money to spend, it leads to a knock on effect, where millions more lose their jobs because the people who worked at Walmart can't spend anything shortly.
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; this is the sick thing
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; (correct me if wrong)
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; they killed the market
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; they dominate what's left of it
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; and now they drown?
23:37 DaemonFC; They killed the market with cheap prices and low wages.
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; as supposed "market leader"?
23:37 DaemonFC; Now they raise wages and prices.
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; like various "tech" companies in their respective areas
23:37 schestowitz_TR2; "we dominate, but we cannot make money!! HELPP!!!!!!!!"
23:38 schestowitz_TR2; uber, lyft...
23:38 DaemonFC; They used low wages and prices to gain market share in a predatory manner, leading to much urban blight.
23:38 DaemonFC; They'd have managers go through cities and write down all the local retailers and when they wanted to "destroy" each one by.
23:38 schestowitz_TR2; armco is now highest valued company in the world
23:38 schestowitz_TR2; ksa oil
23:38 DaemonFC; They had a target date by which there'd be a going out of business sale everywhere else.
23:38 schestowitz_TR2; aramco
23:38 DaemonFC; And they would do whatever they had to in order to make it happen.
23:39 DaemonFC; They managed to ruin Marsh Supermarkets in Indiana.
23:39 DaemonFC; It was a huge chain of groceries when I was a kid, and they had all the best stuff.
23:39 DaemonFC; Walmart strategically placed their supercenters where there was a nearby Marsh in a coordinated attack on all fronts.
23:40 schestowitz_TR2; I saw many people in Tesco today sniffing around sdicounts
23:40 DaemonFC; They looked at what the prices were there and they always made sure they were very nearly half the cost on everything.
23:40 schestowitz_TR2; on a good day you can save like 50 pounds
23:40 schestowitz_TR2; that's like half a day's work
23:40 schestowitz_TR2; and it's actually fun
23:40 schestowitz_TR2; unlike work
23:40 DaemonFC; And it didn't take long before there was nobody shopping at Marsh. Then when Marsh laid off, the workers would get a job at Walmart making several dollars per hour less.
23:40 DaemonFC; This goes along with Walmart commanding their suppliers to offshore everything.
23:41 DaemonFC; Fire their workers.
23:41 schestowitz_TR2; aldi is trying to get people to replace the workers
23:41 schestowitz_TR2; the clients become till operators
23:41 DaemonFC; Then they can't get a good job and have to shop and work at Walmart.
23:41 schestowitz_TR2; but enough people refuse
23:41 DaemonFC; So this is how all that happened.
23:41 schestowitz_TR2; they will make the queues longer
23:41 schestowitz_TR2; to punish us
23:41 DaemonFC; Sam Walton was a brilliant guy, absolutely vicious too.
23:41 DaemonFC; And his management style outlived him.
23:41 DaemonFC; Today, though, the people running Walmart haven't got a clue, and so it's all unraveling on them.
23:42 DaemonFC; Yesterday was a terrible dark day for Walmart's stock. Worst in history.
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; good!
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; maybe coop farms will form
23:42 DaemonFC; And it's a harbinger of things to come because the people running it are squandering their market position.
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; and replace this megacorporatisation
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; the food does not come from walmart
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; it goes INTO walmart
23:42 schestowitz_TR2; bypass them
23:43 DaemonFC; Maybe something better comes along, maybe something worse. For a while, it looked worse (Amazon).
23:43 DaemonFC; But Amazon is losing money hand over fist now.
23:43 schestowitz_TR2; apparently a very close frieend of Jeffrey Esptein owns the most farmland in the US
23:43 DaemonFC; $700 million alone on some stupid battery car company that went bankrupt.
23:43 schestowitz_TR2; Amazon had losses about a decade ago
23:43 schestowitz_TR2; they are not as healthy as they want shareholders to believe
23:44 DaemonFC; Yeah, they turned profitable, and then it looks like things are going the other way now.
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; like Microsoooft, they get "defence" budget
23:44 DaemonFC; Bezos has no reason to care.
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; you need to check their "taxpatyers subsidy"
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; and compare to thr profit
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; not revenue
23:44 DaemonFC; He diverted many billions and if the company collapses he's not going to hurt because of it.
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; it might be the case they operate at a loss
23:44 schestowitz_TR2; and the taxpayers makes up for the losses
23:45 DaemonFC; Mom is addicted to Amazon shopping.
23:45 schestowitz_TR2; it's not shopping
23:45 schestowitz_TR2; shopping is something else
23:45 DaemonFC; She says, oh you can't find some of this stuff anywhere else. Where do you find a portable washing machine?
23:45 schestowitz_TR2; it's like calling porn "having sex"
23:45 DaemonFC; I told her, "On the homelabs website. It's the same price. They ship it to you and you have a washing machine.".
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; ebay has turned very nasty
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; it keeps changing rianne's listings
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; like reducin the prices
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; without her consent
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; and free shipping etc.
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; because ebay must be struggling
23:46 DaemonFC; Yeah, and they totally fuck up your account and make you call them to sort it out if you log in while you're on a VPN.
23:46 schestowitz_TR2; and they try to force more sales to happen
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; at the expense of sellers
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; rianne is livid!
23:47 DaemonFC; What did they do to her?
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; they change her listings
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; without her consent
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; I said, maybe there'sa setting to turn that off
23:47 schestowitz_TR2; also, their site got a lot worse
23:47 DaemonFC; They change the price when you do a Buy It Now listing?
23:48 schestowitz_TR2; with "sites" they get to change ther software remotely
23:48 schestowitz_TR2; you cannot use "old" GUI
23:48 DaemonFC; Unless they happen to permit you too.
23:48 schestowitz_TR2; they just send it from the server to the client (broweser)
23:48 DaemonFC; Like Old Reddit.
23:48 DaemonFC; *to
23:48 DaemonFC; But they try to divert you from Old Reddit now, and you need a browser extension to deflect those redirects.
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; ebay needs to go under
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; arse technica (conde nast) also
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; now conde nasty is suing
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; over trademarks
23:49 DaemonFC; I think Amazon is going to collapse. Walmart? I doubt it.
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; some town called "vogue" iirc
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; they they they own the word
23:49 DaemonFC; Amazon collapsing would be good for Walmart.
23:49 schestowitz_TR2; or that some magazine "owns" the word
23:49 DaemonFC; They get to pick over the corpse and take back some marketshare.
23:50 DaemonFC; Walmart hates Amazon. They hate them.
23:50 schestowitz_TR2; those are not complementary
23:50 DaemonFC; They consider every sale that Amazon makes to be stolen marketshare that is rightfully Walmart's.
23:50 schestowitz_TR2; people need to build an economy outside those few monoliths
23:50 DaemonFC; That's why every time Amazon introduces something, Walmart does too, and then tries to one up them.
23:51 schestowitz_TR2; walmart can use the food just to get people to buy clothes and stuff
23:51 schestowitz_TR2; even sell food at a loss
23:51 schestowitz_TR2; for the "convenience" of buying everything on the same trip
23:51 schestowitz_TR2; but it's based on a false assumption
23:51 schestowitz_TR2; I don't go food shopping to buy gadgets or clothes "casually"
23:52 schestowitz_TR2; so they they have extensive whole depoartments in asda with hardly a person in them
23:52 schestowitz_TR2; long aisles, zero people
23:52 schestowitz_TR2; and the moment people just come to shop for cheap break and generic "coke", they will be finished
23:53 schestowitz_TR2; and the diversion of customers to "self-checkout" will be exhausted as expense lowerer
23:53 schestowitz_TR2; once they exhaust this avenue
23:53 schestowitz_TR2; walmart wants to become warehousemark
23:53 schestowitz_TR2; come, pick up items from storage, leave them "digital" cash
23:54 schestowitz_TR2; no operational costs
23:54 schestowitz_TR2; but customers would hate it
23:54 schestowitz_TR2; we bought three bag-fuls today
23:54 schestowitz_TR2; for under 10 pounds!
23:54 schestowitz_TR2; that's less than the salary of one supervisot for an hour
23:55 schestowitz_TR2; not counting their replenishment and operational costs
23:55 schestowitz_TR2; maybe ussa will be the next russia/ussr and rationing will start in a few years
23:56 schestowitz_TR2; while CNN bags about the "booming" economy
23:56 DaemonFC; <schestowitz_TR2> and the moment people just come to shop for cheap break and generic "coke", they will be finished
23:56 DaemonFC; That's basically all I buy usually, on their website.
23:56 schestowitz_TR2; *bread
23:56 DaemonFC; Consumables (food, razors, toothpaste, toothbrush heads, cat food.....laundry soap).
23:57 DaemonFC; And if it gets as expensive as the supermarket, why would I go to Walmart anymore?
23:57 DaemonFC; So they're trapped.
23:57 schestowitz_TR2; I stopped with razors two months ago, moved back to shaver
23:57 schestowitz_TR2; water and gas became expewnsive
23:57 schestowitz_TR2; I can also watch videos while I use a shaver
23:58 DaemonFC; Yeah, I dump the water from the dehumidifier into the washing machine.
23:59 DaemonFC; It's not cheap to run the dehumidifier, but since I have waste water from it anyway....
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