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[00:50] schestowitz-TR cheaply-made printers
[00:50] schestowitz-TR sold at a loss
[00:50] schestowitz-TR to sell toner
[00:50] schestowitz-TR and then break down after 5-10 years
[00:51] schestowitz-TR so you need to buy the "razor handle" again
[00:51] schestowitz-TR we have decided not to buy "razor handle" again
[00:51] schestowitz-TR 2015-2022 RIP
● Jan 13
[01:05] schestowitz-TR epo and .de lunacy!
[01:05] schestowitz-TR \
[01:06] schestowitz-TR fcc throws out complaint from BEFORE brexit
[01:06] schestowitz-TR citing brexit
[01:06] schestowitz-TR germany is a rogue country
[01:06] schestowitz-TR (still)
[01:06] schestowitz-TR anyway, I will try to focus on another series
[01:06] schestowitz-TR epo abuses stand out on their own
[01:06] schestowitz-TR and we have lots of info online about that
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[03:20] techrigthssec FCC?
[03:29] schestowitz-TR federal con s. cout in de
[03:29] schestowitz-TR *cons court
[03:35] techrigthssec thanks
[03:35] techrigthssec The significance of that action is worth several posts
[03:37] schestowitz-TR it happened yesterday and it's in german
[03:37] schestowitz-TR so give it time...
[03:37] schestowitz-TR either way, beyond tech there are all these malicious political things
[03:37] schestowitz-TR impacting even "pharma"
[03:37] schestowitz-TR but media has mostly vanished
[03:37] schestowitz-TR so it's easier for them to get away with it
[03:37] schestowitz-TR for social control media, just buy some ads (like apple became biggest twitter spenders)
[03:37] schestowitz-TR and they can "take care of things" for you at "scale"
[03:38] techrigthssec And the media vanishing is a pernennial subject. :/
[03:39] schestowitz-TR there is no media left to cover that there is no media left to cover...[recursion]
[03:39] techrigthssec Yep
[03:43] schestowitz-TR bubi was backed up this week
[03:43] schestowitz-TR it has a lot of the most important files, sans material that's stored on several disks and rare/never changes
[03:43] schestowitz-TR going to finish the text for the video, biab, irc causes overwhelming multitasking that I'm unable to cope
[03:43] schestowitz-TR with lately (troll and troll feeding atm)
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[04:36] schestowitz-TR draft
[04:51] techrigthssec checking
[04:52] schestowitz-TR at the end I'll do grand overview of sorts
[04:52] schestowitz-TR with links and all
[04:52] schestowitz-TR semes to incorporate a lot of dirty tricks
[04:52] schestowitz-TR all in one so to speak
[04:52] schestowitz-TR and as I do not look for another job i'm not afraiud to talk abotu those things
[04:53] techrigthssec "sliding away the debt" is an awkward phrase
[04:53] techrigthssec maybe hiding the debt in
[04:53] schestowitz-TR i will rephrase
[04:54] techrigthssec thanks
[04:58] techrigthssec In the archive of the tm gallery, should symbolic links be used to de-duplicate
[04:58] techrigthssec the files or are hard links ok?
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[05:00] schestowitz-TR i'm surprised suan uploaded duplicate screenshots
[05:00] schestowitz-TR not sure how to best ahndle that
[05:00] schestowitz-TR I only know it would be great to have all the same pages and objects accessed using the same addresses
[05:00] schestowitz-TR so none will be penalised or delisted
[05:00] schestowitz-TR for some distros these are the latest remaining memroeis
[05:00] schestowitz-TR the isos are gone along with old reviews/screenshot
[05:00] schestowitz-TR it's like a museum for distros
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[05:28] schestowitz-TR 1 hour ago: "That's the day of bonus announcements! Be positive!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kEVRR1U#replies
[05:28] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thelayoff.com | Jan 17 - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs
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[06:17] techrigthssec The screen shots are not duplicate but an artifact of the scraping.
[06:18] schestowitz-TR i see, that makes sense now
[06:18] schestowitz-TR the reviews and screeenshots are imporant
[06:18] schestowitz-TR on the www, technical debt doomed many sites
[06:18] schestowitz-TR inc. siets that had a massive catalogue of screenshot galleries
[06:18] schestowitz-TR they became too hard to maintain
[06:18] schestowitz-TR ended up in a torrent site a decade ago
[06:18] schestowitz-TR probably unreachable soon afterwards
[06:18] schestowitz-TR not sure who wants tens of gigs of screenshots
[06:19] techrigthssec The scraping preserves the old site map, but at the cost of a lot of unnecessary
[06:19] techrigthssec linking and (due to scraping) duplicates.
[06:20] schestowitz-TR that is what happens with "smart" systems that offer many ways to access the same thing or things
[06:20] schestowitz-TR inc. drupal and wordpress
[06:21] techrigthssec
[06:21] techrigthssec smart == complicated , at best
[06:21] techrigthssec I am beginning to question the use of MySQL / Postgresql for the back end of
[06:21] techrigthssec most CMS systems.
[06:32] techrigthssec The concept of CMS does not really lend itself to a table
[06:32] techrigthssec like structure.
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[06:41] techrigthssec The language SQL is thus the problem.
[06:43] schestowitz-TR maybe the modality
[06:43] schestowitz-TR not the lang per se
[06:43] schestowitz-TR relational dbs
[06:43] schestowitz-TR tm-new: db of pages
[06:43] schestowitz-TR and pages derived from it
[06:43] schestowitz-TR rm-old: db -> pages -> caches
[06:43] schestowitz-TR *tm
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[08:30] schestowitz-TR twitter staff not booted from the office
[08:30] schestowitz-TR "it's over, joe"
[08:30] schestowitz-TR "it's dead, jim"
[08:30] schestowitz-TR i was asleep from 3:30 to 9:30pm
[08:30] schestowitz-TR too groggy when i woke up
[08:30] schestowitz-TR so today startes yesterday
[08:30] schestowitz-TR also distracted by the n (as in s/n) in main channel
[08:30] schestowitz-TR going to consider just looking away from it most of the time
[08:30] schestowitz-TR to get stuff done
[08:30] schestowitz-TR twitter staff not booted from the office
[08:30] schestowitz-TR /t/not/now
[08:30] schestowitz-TR it's a lot faster than soap operas
[08:30] schestowitz-TR maybe he wants to "stage" the demise a bit
[08:30] schestowitz-TR then blame it on others, like freenode
[08:30] schestowitz-TR "don't pay bills" -> people get angry -> people leave -> operations failing
[08:30] schestowitz-TR and not in that order necessarily
[08:34] schestowitz-TR just noticed colgate moved from local to china, now more production in eastern europe
[08:34] schestowitz-TR for much higher prices than before, so we buy like half a dozen different brands and compare
[08:34] schestowitz-TR decades ago I said they should make bigger packs to save the planet
[08:34] schestowitz-TR but would would rather pay "just 70p" for a 100ml tube than 20 pounds for 4 litres
[08:34] schestowitz-TR it's about presentation and packaging, partly due to ads and class consciousness
[08:34] schestowitz-TR people don't want toothpaste "refills"
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[11:04] techrigthssec https://torrentfreak.com/sony-patents-anti-piracy-blacklist-for-smart-tvs-and-media-players-230111/
[11:04] techrigthssec Further spreading of the misleading term "sideloading" rather than normal
[11:04] techrigthssec installation
[11:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Sony Patents Anti-Piracy Blacklist for Smart TVs and Media Players * TorrentFreak
[11:05] schestowitz-TR yes, I noticed more and more mpeople who should know better, even rossmann iirc, using the
[11:05] schestowitz-TR term like it'\s modern or hip or "informative"
[11:05] schestowitz-TR I still hate it when people say "piracy"
[11:05] schestowitz-TR they imply guilt, or presumption thereof
[11:05] schestowitz-TR and miss the context of the whole debate
[11:05] schestowitz-TR worse -- they serve to spread the propaghanda
[11:16] techrigthssec https://torrentfreak.com/images/sony-patent.pdf notice that TF has to host the
[11:16] techrigthssec PDF themselves because the USPTO site is not a site but a web "app" and
[11:16] techrigthssec completely impossible to link to
[11:18] schestowitz-TR companies house (uk) outsourced all the PDFs to amazon/aws
[11:18] schestowitz-TR and the links are not permanent
[11:18] schestowitz-TR massively long urls that seem like hashes for cache
[11:19] Moocher5254 Tangentially related, have you tried asking ChatGPT how to remove DRM from ebooks (after informing him it is valid in your own country)?
[11:20] schestowitz-TR maybe this is what thhey tech engs to do now
[11:20] schestowitz-TR I should not have to connected to an american companiy as a birtish resident looking for ingo on
[11:20] schestowitz-TR british ciompasnies
[11:20] schestowitz-TR there are many decent software firms here
[11:20] schestowitz-TR surely some of them know how to -gasp - store pdfs locally and serve them
[11:20] schestowitz-TR maybe even ith varnish
[11:21] schestowitz-TR Moocher5254: ChatGPT is nonsense
[11:21] schestowitz-TR just microsoft 'open'HEY HI PR stunt
[11:21] schestowitz-TR ot does a lot of plagiarism
[11:21] Moocher5254 It is, but you can't dismiss it
[11:21] schestowitz-TR and some mixing/blending
[11:21] schestowitz-TR it creates new problems
[11:22] schestowitz-TR manually plagiarising does not take a lot longer
[11:22] schestowitz-TR same for coe
[11:22] schestowitz-TR images are tricky
[11:22] Moocher5254 Yes it does
[11:22] schestowitz-TR because you need to tailor the seams
[11:22] schestowitz-TR coe>code
[11:22] Moocher5254 Anyway, I'm thinking of relabelling the Internet to CableNet
[11:22] schestowitz-TR nice
[11:22] schestowitz-TR nut
[11:23] Moocher5254 And start 'living' on one of the alternatives
[11:23] schestowitz-TR the internet involved fewer cables then before
[11:23] schestowitz-TR esp. the client end
[11:23] schestowitz-TR not satellite
[11:23] schestowitz-TR wifi, bt, etc.
[11:23] Moocher5254 Nah, thinking more of CableTV's immense number of garbage channels
[11:24] techrigthssec PDF themselves because the USPTO site is not a site but a web "app" and
[11:24] techrigthssec completely impossible to link to.
[11:24] techrigthssec ^ topic ?
[11:24] schestowitz-TR i think at the end of last year i did a video about uspto site beign webapp
[11:24] Moocher5254 Anyway I just have to find the alternative. Last time I went to a random I2P site it was full of nutjobs
[11:24] schestowitz-TR i would expect so
[11:33] techrigthssec The "app" itself is a problem and keeps the material from being examined.
[11:33] techrigthssec Though other topics can be the misleading term "sideloading" used in place
[11:33] techrigthssec of the established term "installation". Another, related topic, copuld be
[11:33] techrigthssec the use of the misleading term "piracy" which bundles copyright infringement
[11:33] techrigthssec with a bunch of other concepts, quite wrongly. A third topic can be the
[11:33] techrigthssec stupidity of the USPTO to grant such a dumb patent.
[11:33] schestowitz-TR around 2005 a microsofter and micrtosoft troll in usenet (COLA) called me "pirate" in the subject line
[11:33] schestowitz-TR (title) after I linked to a cartoon of bill gates and showed it in my site
[11:33] schestowitz-TR it was clearly fair use, but that was the first time a-holes tried weaponising copyrights
[11:33] schestowitz-TR for time-wasting etc.
[11:33] schestowitz-TR btw, eff has not followed up
[11:33] schestowitz-TR it's just parked there in a ticket, i guess in case there is escalation
[11:35] techrigthssec Microsofters use ad hominem fallacies when they have nothing else to use,
[11:35] techrigthssec There had been no expectation of action from the EFF, that they opened a
[11:35] techrigthssec ticket in the first place is more than usual. The point in contacting them
[11:35] techrigthssec is to document the silence and inaction.
[11:37] schestowitz-TR i mailed about 4 addressed at eff.org
[11:37] schestowitz-TR inc. cory
[11:37] schestowitz-TR maybe that's why they bothered with a ticket
[11:37] schestowitz-TR somethign behind the scenes
[11:37] schestowitz-TR they don't seem to recognise patent activism unless it is attriobuted to CindyCohn
[11:37] schestowitz-TR and helped them raise reven... donations
[11:45] techrigthssec ^ silence and inaction on what was once and still should be a core topic
[11:46] schestowitz-TR google used to worry about software patents
[11:47] schestowitz-TR than, around 2010, it had gathered enough of its own
[11:47] schestowitz-TR became close uspto p[artner
[11:47] schestowitz-TR and became part of this cartel
[11:47] schestowitz-TR sort of like msft in the 1990s
[11:47] schestowitz-TR fearing icbm's "warchest"
[11:47] schestowitz-TR eithher way, that shows those patents are about obstruction
[11:47] schestowitz-TR at the behest of monopolies
[11:47] schestowitz-TR nothing else
[11:47] techrigthssec That still won't protect any of them from NPEs
[11:47] techrigthssec It's only useful in crushing startups and stealing their work.
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[12:02] schestowitz-TR http/s proxy for gemini, not external but native, clocked about 5k requests yesterday
[12:02] schestowitz-TR ir probably serves about a million a year
[12:02] schestowitz-TR geminis still growing
[12:02] schestowitz-TR but the lack of media coverage impedes momentum
[12:02] schestowitz-TR i try to think how else we can help hasten adoption of gemini://
[12:10] techrigthssec More promotion of Gemini clients is the main way.
[12:10] techrigthssec Writing in a Gemini-friendly manner (clear prose) helps a lot too.
[12:10] techrigthssec ^standalone articles written in clear prose
[12:10] techrigthssec The proxy is not Gemini, it is HTTPS and thus does not count in any way
[12:10] techrigthssec as promotion of Gemini. It is probably time to decommission it, or at least
[12:10] techrigthssec work out a time line for doing so.
[12:12] schestowitz-TR each page there links to the list of gemini clients
[12:12] schestowitz-TR so in a sense it helps promote these
[12:12] schestowitz-TR I'd hate to lose it
[12:12] schestowitz-TR before that we used third parties
[12:12] schestowitz-TR like ... i forgot
[12:12] schestowitz-TR there was a couple
[12:12] schestowitz-TR vulpes.one was one
[12:48] techrigthssec If there are Gemini clients then there is no remaining need to keep the
[12:48] techrigthssec proxy in place.
[12:48] techrigthssec It was only a temporary stop-gap for the time when Gemini clients were hard
[12:48] techrigthssec to get.
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[13:27] techrigthssec If it's a matter of local URLs mistakenly pointing to the proxy, they
[13:27] techrigthssec can be intercepted with the RewriteEngine
[13:42] techrigthssec The scraper needs to continue running over TM's gallery still. This is
[13:42] techrigthssec a very inefficient way of archiving but one of the advantages is that the
[13:42] techrigthssec result preserves a large amount (all or nearly all) of the original structure.
[13:44] schestowitz-TR Gallery the software is not green
[13:44] schestowitz-TR for each image retrieved it needs to get lots of work done
[13:44] schestowitz-TR my albums in gallery2 and 3 must have taken lots of power over the years
[13:44] schestowitz-TR millions of DB queries
[13:47] techrigthssec Yes, the back end is terribly inefficient too.
[13:47] techrigthssec There are much more efficient database technologies than SQL but everyone
[13:47] techrigthssec learns to program SQL and MySQL, now MariaDB, was the goto tool without
[13:47] techrigthssec questioning what it is good or bad at. Switchin to Postgresql, SQLite, or
[13:47] techrigthssec any other SQL is not going to help either. With so little change, it's a good
[13:47] techrigthssec candidate for a static site generator, too.
[13:47] techrigthssec I guess it was a way of thinking in the 00s and no one was allowed to question
[13:47] techrigthssec the trend/
[13:49] schestowitz-TR there are many pros, many cons
[13:49] schestowitz-TR depends on the case
[13:49] schestowitz-TR but prior to wordpress (I adopted it for two blogs in 2004, a year after its birth)
[13:49] schestowitz-TR I did everything without DBs, just html files
[13:49] schestowitz-TR and some tools that help craft and manage these
[13:49] schestowitz-TR some perished due to the CMS treadmill
[13:49] techrigthssec WordPress started out OK but drifted badly in recent years.
[13:53] schestowitz-TR in 2005 (iirc) wordpress wanted to copy "ajax" (yes, the term was used back then) from drupal
[13:53] schestowitz-TR so went ahead and did that for uploaded
[13:53] schestowitz-TR *der
[13:53] schestowitz-TR a lot of cms things compete upwards (bloat)
[13:53] schestowitz-TR like a dick enjoy content
[13:53] schestowitz-TR so they all end up getting bigger and more complex
[13:53] schestowitz-TR at best, they modularise
[13:53] schestowitz-TR same for linux
[13:53] schestowitz-TR "all i wanted is some fucking script to display the 10 blog posts per year that I type!"
[13:53] schestowitz-TR typos: like a dick enjoy content
[13:53] schestowitz-TR like a dick envy contest
[13:53] schestowitz-TR freudian word
[13:53] schestowitz-TR btw, what's the deal with people saying kids are a selfish thing and then call the baby after themselves?
[13:53] schestowitz-TR or people trying to impress mom and dad (boys copy dad) to "virture signal" to a-hole dad?
[13:53] schestowitz-TR by copying bad things and outdated worldviews?
[13:56] techrigthssec A slew of database queries per each page retrieval is not reasonable, especially
[13:56] techrigthssec with how many cycles SQL requires
[13:56] techrigthssec LOL
[13:56] techrigthssec Billy the III
[13:57] schestowitz-TR john dick the III = grandpa was a failure, so he wanted a second chance and called his son the same,
[13:57] schestowitz-TR worked towwards it till age 65, then dad was failing too, so he called me the same and worked hard till
[13:57] schestowitz-TR 67
[13:57] schestowitz-TR now dick III needs to show that he finally can do something worth a f* in life
[13:57] schestowitz-TR ah, yeah... "trey" gates III
[13:58] schestowitz-TR maybe he wants to pass on his dna to young women
[13:58] schestowitz-TR who arew not his daughter
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[14:09] schestowitz-TR Kurt Opsahl https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/kurt-opsahl-moves-eff-special-counsel | Source: EFF
[14:09] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Kurt Opsahl Moves to EFF Special Counsel | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[14:12] techrigthssec What's behind the change there at EFF? At least he'll be sticking around
[14:12] techrigthssec I hope they have someone with the right background to step up to the
[14:12] techrigthssec vacancy.
[14:12] schestowitz-TR the headline is misleading
[14:12] schestowitz-TR but they have "people for that"
[14:12] schestowitz-TR spin the nagative as a good thing
[14:16] techrigthssec The name 'Filecoin' sounds dodgy.
[14:16] techrigthssec It's another cryptocurrnecy, according to wikipedia, but nothing informative
[14:16] techrigthssec on their own pages. https://fil.org/about/
[14:16] techrigthssec Worse, it mentions "Web3" there.
[14:16] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fil.org | About - Filecoin Foundation
[14:16] techrigthssec and promotes "Slack" (the proprietary one, not Slackware)
[14:17] schestowitz-TR like zemlin (bakkt)
[14:17] schestowitz-TR brian of apache (but he moved to security later)
[14:17] schestowitz-TR and many others who moved to crypto crap
[14:17] schestowitz-TR even jack dorsey
[14:17] schestowitz-TR when it was still all the rage
[14:17] schestowitz-TR lots more
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[15:14] schestowitz-TR "Some years ago, a friend, a director of the Swiss think tank Avenir Swiss, proposed in the press that the University of Geneva raise it fees from CHF500 to CHF5,000 per semester" https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/13/swiss-scandal-a-canton-tries-to-raise-university-fees/ | Source: Counter Punch
[15:14] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Swiss Scandal: A Canton Tries to Raise University Fees - CounterPunch.org
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