●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Monday, November 09, 2020 ●● ● Nov 09 [00:02] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [00:03] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [00:04] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [00:04] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-118.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Nov 09 [02:18] schestowitz >> Let's fight [02:18] schestowitz > [02:19] schestowitz > Fight all you like, the game is over. [02:19] schestowitz > [02:19] schestowitz > Not in the world, only in the former USA. Not officially-- just [02:19] schestowitz > completely. There will be no more real corporate reform, except crumbs [02:19] schestowitz > from the table reform-- The People have abdicated. That's it. The whole [02:19] schestowitz > thing is a giant corporation now. Might as well call it the MSA. The [02:19] schestowitz > only difference is it isn't just one corporation. GSA, ISA, ASA, FSA, [02:19] schestowitz > MSA-- but not USA. [02:19] schestowitz assange-in-the-eyes-of-biden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF8WRFw5sHQ [02:19] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Assange a high-tech terrorist: Biden - YouTube [02:25] schestowitz > https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/06/task-sleepy-joe-put-liberal-america-right-back-sleep [02:25] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.commondreams.org | The Task of 'Sleepy Joe' Is To Put Liberal America Right Back To Sleep | Common Dreams Views [02:25] schestowitz > [02:25] schestowitz > [02:25] schestowitz > I've been saying this for more than a year. It's not limited to Biden [02:25] schestowitz > but it most certainly applies. [02:25] schestowitz > [02:25] schestowitz > I'm more annoyed by Common Dreams coverage of events than yours. I do [02:25] schestowitz > think you're playing at more than one thing, but mostly you remain the [02:25] schestowitz > least annoying "source" of coverage I know, and you know how picky I am. [02:25] schestowitz > I'm also pleased by this link, but during the actual election I finally [02:25] schestowitz > took CD off my "RSS list" after 17 years. [02:25] schestowitz I did not even know you follow it. [02:25] schestowitz I know RMS does. [02:25] schestowitz I started following it ages ago. [02:25] schestowitz Look up their IRS filing. I last did years ago. [02:25] schestowitz https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/203368194 [02:25] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-projects.propublica.org | Common Dreams Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica [02:29] schestowitz >> Re: Schestowitz's Law [02:29] schestowitz >> "_____________ may claim to be a liberating and democratising force, [02:29] schestowitz >> but that's assuming it does what it says on the tin." [02:29] schestowitz >> [02:29] schestowitz >> (Originally referring to Let's Encrypt, but works for countless [02:29] schestowitz >> relevant examples) [02:29] schestowitz At least no "law" is named after me that protects nazis from being called nazis. [02:29] schestowitz > This is why I keep insisting that Free Software is a _practice_ not a [02:29] schestowitz > _property_. I am writing more on this, now. [02:29] schestowitz Excellent. I spent so much time on RasPi setup and IPFS lately. Next week we're locked down, so lots of time to resume publishing things... not just coding and sysadmin stuff. [02:31] schestowitz https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/comments/jqhce5/hacker_news_large_corporations_arent_going_to/ [02:31] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.reddit.com | Hacker News: Large Corporations Arent Going to Save the Real Linux Community : NoFilterNews ● Nov 09 [06:26] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) ● Nov 09 [09:18] schestowitz Re: New essay [09:18] schestowitz > Hi, [09:18] schestowitz > [09:18] schestowitz > I'm working on a new essay and it is just about complete. I'll send it [09:18] schestowitz > along to both of you tomorrow for editing. [09:18] schestowitz > [09:18] schestowitz > It is important to me that this piece (in particular) be as high-quality [09:18] schestowitz > as is possible. When each of you has read it and gotten back to me with [09:18] schestowitz > any comments or suggestions, I will shortly thereafter submit the [09:18] schestowitz > piece. The proposed title is: "Free Software Freedom Is Not Linux". If [09:18] schestowitz > this title is too close in resemblance to previous titles, let me know. [09:18] schestowitz > [09:18] schestowitz > Thanks much, [09:32] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes [09:42] schestowitz > All set with the log in. The key was done correctly but the default [09:42] schestowitz > file name is 'authorized_keys', without a leading dot and with a 'z' [09:43] schestowitz > instead of an 's'. Any file name can be used if sshd_config is updated [09:43] schestowitz > accordingly, however. [09:43] schestowitz > [09:43] schestowitz > I can read the files so I'll look at the automation bit soon. [09:43] schestowitz > This worked OK, only a couple of XHTML validation errors in there, which I've corrected (table stuff) [09:43] schestowitz after midnight I need to run two scripts from each machine and in turn I'll integrate to make that one from each machine (one step rather than 2, 1 at a time) ● Nov 09 [11:30] *GNUmoon has quit (Write error: Connection reset by peer) ● Nov 09 [13:56] schestowitz >> Not sure why, but truthout started returning empty body (blockquotes). [13:56] schestowitz >> Can that be corrected somehow? [13:56] schestowitz >> [13:56] schestowitz > Insurmountable errors in their page. It is neither XHTML nor HTML. [13:56] schestowitz > [13:56] schestowitz > https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fjoe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election%2F [13:56] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-validator.w3.org | Showing results for https://truthout.org/articles/joe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election/ - Nu Html Checker [13:56] schestowitz > [13:56] schestowitz > It would be important to them to fix that. We are not the only ones [13:56] schestowitz > affected and it certainly is going to limit their availability at least [13:56] schestowitz > a little. [13:57] schestowitz > PS. It would help if you also contact them: [13:57] schestowitz > [13:57] schestowitz > info@truthout.org [13:58] schestowitz Hi, [13:58] schestowitz RSS feeds of the site have not been functioning properly lately and the pages too have issue in them? [13:58] schestowitz https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fjoe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election%2F [13:58] schestowitz Can you please look into that? ● Nov 09 [17:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1325726262195875840 [17:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are https://t.co/AJxw1h8qov [17:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are https://t.co/AJxw1h8qov [17:37] schestowitz ""there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are "pointless" and "meritless." "" [17:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/theincitement/status/1325720401356353536 [17:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@theincitement: @schestowitz Don't like your freedom of speech being violated? Care about humanitarian issues? Join https://t.co/h4wsxlJziM. [17:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theincitement.com | Incitement [17:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/AnyDadInAmerica/status/1325718030106697729 [17:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AnyDadInAmerica: @schestowitz https://t.co/X8ZJvOZHIj [17:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AnyDadInAmerica: @schestowitz https://t.co/X8ZJvOZHIj [17:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/MoreSocialism/status/1325641760639479808 [17:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MoreSocialism: @schestowitz This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've bee https://t.co/fjyqs2IjWY [17:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MoreSocialism: @schestowitz This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've bee https://t.co/fjyqs2IjWY [17:38] schestowitz " [17:38] schestowitz This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've been deprecated. In fact, if you're doing greenfield development, don't actually use Java. Use Scala or Kotlin. [17:38] schestowitz And Java is mature, you just don't want to make your own DI framework [17:38] schestowitz " [17:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/entubao/status/1325578503245459458 [17:38] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@entubao: @angsuman @schestowitz neither the linux community from themselves [17:39] schestowitz https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1325508224985014272 [17:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz in ftp as well? "lftp> mirror" command makes mirroring easy. [17:39] schestowitz https://twitter.com/Tebrizli_Baybek/status/1325464101405995008 [17:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Tebrizli_Baybek: @schestowitz See the Difference We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. But they disrespect our https://t.co/bWmEeTo2If [17:39] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Tebrizli_Baybek: @schestowitz See the Difference We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. But they disrespect our https://t.co/bWmEeTo2If [17:39] schestowitz " [17:39] schestowitz See the Difference [17:39] schestowitz We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. [17:39] schestowitz But they disrespect our #mosques, they destroy them and they turn our holy places into #pigsty. [17:39] schestowitz This is #Armenian doing, the mentality and their true nature... [17:39] schestowitz " [17:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/esdaniel/status/1325419986207256577 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@esdaniel: @schestowitz Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if https://t.co/3hKY86tUr8 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@esdaniel: @schestowitz Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if https://t.co/3hKY86tUr8 [17:40] schestowitz "Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if compositor crashes regularly, that's where you'll find things needing fixing to ensure KWin runs smoothly. There's still quite a few 'deprecation warnings' you can ignore." [17:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1325414423025102853 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz Expect a re-post of the STRONGER patent act. [17:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/DeadPoetUnion11/status/1325397738771542021 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DeadPoetUnion11: @schestowitz Is Hunter Biden going to jail? [17:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/DeadPoetUnion11/status/1325395491887050752 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DeadPoetUnion11: @schestowitz Good, death to America! [17:40] schestowitz https://twitter.com/0xCEDE/status/1325385161240956928 [17:40] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@0xCEDE: @schestowitz Nah, but it's a good start. [17:44] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A11X8mxKffz0dViQMK [17:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-shitposter.club | Pleroma [17:44] schestowitz " I agree with her, but it seems like she should have seen this coming" [17:44] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A11R7PuQH3vP8vJjRA [17:44] schestowitz " I am just testing out how Mastodon works. Thanks for understanding. :)" [17:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://masthead.social/@JK_AIMV/105180457047107990 ) [17:44] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A11Bi3Tp1s1r1pK7Vo [17:44] schestowitz " thunderbird 78+ has deprecated extensions along with enigmail.... encryption is now native in tb, but still very buggy... seamonkey, evolution, claws to the rescue :)" [17:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-todon.nl | : "@schestowitz@pleroma.site thunderbird 78+ has dep" - Todon.nl [17:45] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A10rU0eojFXZ8XUXbc [17:45] schestowitz "I think that the public sector should take responsibility for the freedom of software. free software is in fact a common resource and a public property." [17:45] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site I think that the public" - Mastodon Italia Social [17:46] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0zISvMlE0e6snphbc [17:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freespeechextremist.com | Pleroma [17:46] schestowitz "Linus: "Daaad, don't tell them about my convos with the NSA"" [17:46] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0yyY0cN80YBXHHYYK [17:46] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site The interesting thing i" - Mastodon Italia Social [17:46] schestowitz "The interesting thing is that the social media have allowed a previously isolated unease to emerge in an organised and shared way on the net. It can't be ignored" [17:47] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0whNQ14GpdPaKHIJc [17:47] schestowitz " The internet was by definition decentralised before these drifts. The problem is that these monopolies push their vision, produce software (maybe open source) and pollute everything... especially minds." [17:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site The internet was by def" - Mastodon Italia Social [17:47] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wWAj6UtQwXWWYxWa [17:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-masto.1146.nohost.me | LPS: "@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org @schestowitz@pleroma.s" - Mastodon [17:48] schestowitz "QmTBSq4ieTiACMUoQdJQ1eHhZub1Y9gxwiQdAu8xXwxdFd" [17:48] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wQrCaX3sE3PCTxJ2 [17:48] schestowitz " [17:48] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "Mirroring #TechRights's "hello world" post throug" - Fosstodon [17:48] schestowitz Mirroring #TechRights's "hello world" post through #IPFS [17:48] schestowitz Hash is: QmPb4WopVrVwxiYszrYvMdGnRYzTACZmdEsZ5si1HnEJdM [17:48] schestowitz Keep it up @schestowitz ! [17:48] schestowitz " [17:48] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wQ6hdhnQjg6AnHUW [17:48] schestowitz " [17:48] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site GREAT move towards prot" - Fosstodon [17:48] schestowitz GREAT move towards protecting your content against #censorship and arbitrary takedowns. [17:48] schestowitz I'ma mirror this. [17:48] schestowitz " [17:49] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0w7YR0XKOgXUlz0IS [17:49] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mathstodon.xyz | pretentious7: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site he's going to flee righ" - Mathstodon [17:49] schestowitz " [17:49] schestowitz he's going to flee right? Like, he has to. [17:49] schestowitz The people you spit on going up are the same ones you meet going down. [17:49] schestowitz " [17:49] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vWHw68mivkh3sFJA [17:49] schestowitz "best linux kernel distro fluff piece" [17:49] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxrocks.online | Nixi: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site best linux kernel distr" - LinuxRocks.Online [17:49] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vJXhHQLYz5xvKwBU [17:49] schestowitz " [17:49] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://ps.s10y.eu/@how/105163732930019309 ) [17:50] schestowitz this link is broken [17:50] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2020/11/06/youtube-dl-meme-eff/ [17:50] schestowitz " [17:50] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | [Meme] EFF Fails to Learn an Important Lesson | Techrights [17:50] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vIf6vRIQgXZn1b6G [17:50] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-floss.social | Ade Malsasa Akbar: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site this is important. I sa" - FLOSS.social [17:50] schestowitz " this is important. I saved this immediately to my Zotero. Thanks, Dr." [17:50] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vHFhnFV3G6R8W2UK [17:50] schestowitz "thanks anyway, Dr." [17:50] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-floss.social | Ade Malsasa Akbar: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site thanks anyway, Dr." - FLOSS.social [17:51] schestowitz https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vBcV2YTxrBoqA2vw [17:51] schestowitz "one more for John Deere and his #DRM tractors to suck on" [17:51] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site one more for John Deere" - Fosstodon ● Nov 09 [18:05] schestowitz >> I did not even know you follow it. [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz >> I know RMS does. [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > I was a peace activist (and technologist) before I was a Free Software [18:05] schestowitz > activist. I was very much a fan of DOS and FreeDOS until I was able to [18:05] schestowitz > become proficient with other systems. I also used VB 1.0 when it was [18:06] schestowitz > new, but I never had enough interest past the first few hours. [18:06] schestowitz > [18:06] schestowitz > When people were switching to 95 I was using 3.x as long as I could. [18:06] schestowitz > When people were switching to XP I was using 98-- there were lots of [18:06] schestowitz > things I disliked about XP, but having to call Microsoft to "activate" [18:06] schestowitz > your computer when that was never a thing before was beyond the pale. [18:06] schestowitz > The only way I obtained an XP machine was one fell into my lap. [18:06] schestowitz > [18:06] schestowitz > Soon enough it was running Xubuntu, but those were early days of having [18:06] schestowitz > a fully functional Free Software platform, complete with browser, etc. [18:06] schestowitz > [18:06] schestowitz > Common Dreams was one of the better websites-- founded in 1997 and quite [18:06] schestowitz > well known by the time I started doing activism during Junior's first [18:06] schestowitz > term. I had taught myself HTML just a few years earlier. [18:06] schestowitz > [18:06] schestowitz > Democrats are just as invested in war as Republicans. That's true [18:06] schestowitz > whether you're talking about the party, or people who work for [18:06] schestowitz > Rand/Honeywell/Raytheon who elected Biden. I knew someone who did [18:06] schestowitz > weapons design for Honeywell-- he didn't want to work for Raytheon [18:06] schestowitz > because they were too creepy. You meet lots of interesting people as a [18:06] schestowitz > peace activist. I met Stan Goff (he's got a Wikipedia page) and read his [18:06] schestowitz > book-- and someone from the Manhattan Project, though the latter was [18:06] schestowitz > before I was an activist, it was more of a family field trip. [18:06] schestowitz > [18:06] schestowitz > I don't have Stan Goff's book anymore, I gave it to a veteran sniper [18:06] schestowitz > with PTSD. You meet a lot of guys from the war in Vietnam who are peace [18:06] schestowitz > activists. [18:08] schestowitz > Sure, elect them for 4 years, THEN say they're criminally unfit. Repeat [18:08] schestowitz > every 4 years. [18:08] schestowitz > [18:08] schestowitz > If this plan were software, I'd rather run Clippy. If it were medicine, [18:08] schestowitz > it would be "let it make lots of people sick first, THEN recall." We [18:08] schestowitz > already know it's bad. So if you were an M.D. would you proscribe the [18:08] schestowitz > lesser of two poisons, knowing the patient would die from either one? [18:08] schestowitz > RIIAn would. Simple rule: don't elect KNOWN traitors. Seriously, how [18:08] schestowitz > hard is that? It works a lot better than "elect them, THEN tell the [18:08] schestowitz > public they're bad." [18:08] schestowitz > [18:08] schestowitz > And just what do you expect the public to do after they know better? You [18:08] schestowitz > give them two unacceptable options, that's the only level they work on-- [18:08] schestowitz > pick something that sets the world back further every time, but not as [18:08] schestowitz > further back as the other guy. [18:08] schestowitz > [18:08] schestowitz > It means the world will always go backwards. But you get to pick the [18:08] schestowitz > speed! Broken, stupid, worthless-- bullshit. But people keep lining up [18:08] schestowitz > to support it. At least now, they'll know they're fucked. But most [18:08] schestowitz > people have such a vested interest, they won't even know. Because if [18:08] schestowitz > they're fucked no matter what-- hey, what's the actual point of knowing? [18:08] schestowitz > So we have half a solution. Nobody (ever) bothers with the first half-- [18:08] schestowitz > so we just keep repeating the second. And nothing (ever) improves, [18:08] schestowitz > except in relation to the previous. Like a stock market plummet, every [18:08] schestowitz > 8-12 years, with little climbs partway back on the way to doomsday. Oh, [18:08] schestowitz > what a lovely war... People elect war criminals, then expect progress. [18:08] schestowitz > There's got to be a word for that, but there aren't any nice ones. [18:08] schestowitz > [18:08] schestowitz > schestowitz [18:08] schestowitz > I never liked Biden and still don't. [18:08] schestowitz > Nov 08 08:35 [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Sunday, November 08, 2020 [18:09] schestowitz > schestowitz [18:09] schestowitz > I mentioned his RIAA connections and views on Assange etc. [18:09] schestowitz > Nov 08 08:35 [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] schestowitz > schestowitz [18:09] schestowitz > Let's fight; it seems safe now (Trump has no leeway). [18:09] schestowitz > Also, you can call it journalism-- but if people never learn from the [18:09] schestowitz > part of their mistake that perpetuates it, they'll always be getting [18:09] schestowitz > half of the story: [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] schestowitz > Here's why nobody should elect Biden again. <- sure, let's run this. [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] schestowitz > Unless there's somebody worse. <- oh, he's all set then [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] schestowitz > Here's why nobody should have elected him in the first place <- nope, [18:09] schestowitz > this is the most important one. Let's skip it. [18:09] schestowitz > [18:09] schestowitz > Whole thing is a lie. [18:11] schestowitz >> The constitution is very clear that you can't pardon future crimes. [18:11] schestowitz > [18:11] schestowitz > Oh please, RIAAn talking about the Constitution is like Josh Simmons [18:11] schestowitz > talking about the GPL. He just went on a self-righteous rampage in [18:11] schestowitz > favour of a person who wrote over it in crayon. [18:11] schestowitz > [18:11] schestowitz > It takes 2/3 of states to nullify the Constitution. But with half the [18:11] schestowitz > country supporting Trump and half supporting a person who wrote his own [18:11] schestowitz > fascist Constitution (which both traitor parties replaced the real one [18:11] schestowitz > with in 2001) it's safe to say that 90% of the country supports ending [18:11] schestowitz > the Constitution. [18:11] schestowitz > [18:11] schestowitz > Referring to it when you just confirmed a 90% vote to (unofficially, but [18:11] schestowitz > effectively) eliminate it isn't just hypocritical, it's delusional. [18:11] schestowitz > [18:11] schestowitz > The People have spoken, and although it's not the process that actually [18:11] schestowitz > removes the Constitution officially, what The People have said loud and [18:11] schestowitz > clear is: "90% of us do not care if POTUS disregards the Constitution [18:12] schestowitz > entirely." [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > That was the last call, and The People do not care about the [18:12] schestowitz > Constitution-- except as a glorified hall pass. 90% don't. So it's done. [18:12] schestowitz > They ended it. It exists only historically. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz >> he knows your first name [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > It's how he is normally addressed in chat-- nearly, as often, or more [18:12] schestowitz > often than he is called by his handle. If I thought he was a threat to [18:12] schestowitz > free software I'd try to discover his last name, but only to find it in [18:12] schestowitz > other news stories. I don't bother with smalltime traitors to larger [18:12] schestowitz > causes, like the country itself, because there are millions and it will [18:12] schestowitz > never change anything. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > In fact I've settled on RIAAn, since he's so eager to see them in power [18:12] schestowitz > again. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > Free Software is derived from Free Speech. RIAAn doesn't care about [18:12] schestowitz > freedom, he only hates Microsoft. That part's nice, but he still [18:12] schestowitz > welcomes fascism as long as it's on his side. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > Fascism is always like that. Hitler (fuck you Mike) didn't say "Okay [18:12] schestowitz > everybody, here's what we're gonna do! Everybody who falls out of favour [18:12] schestowitz > with me, dies!" [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > He said "You're all wonderful people, these people are terrible, we are [18:12] schestowitz > going to take care of this." [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > RIAAn is wonderful people, and he has no problem with any solution as [18:12] schestowitz > long as he's not considered part of the problem. He's a fascist and a [18:12] schestowitz > former softie-- but he's still a giant unapologetic corporate whore. [18:12] schestowitz > Have the RIAA, Microsoft, and Amazon run against a Republican, and he [18:12] schestowitz > will order a ballot from Amazon to put Richard Gabriel and Bill Gates in [18:12] schestowitz > the White House. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > But even that doesn't make me call him a traitor, it only makes me call [18:12] schestowitz > him an idiot. [18:12] schestowitz > [18:12] schestowitz > The Democrats are willing to fix an election to keep it between Reps and [18:13] schestowitz > Dems, just as Microsoft is willing to do antitrust violations to keep it [18:13] schestowitz > between Microsoft and Apple. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > The part where he cheerfully celebrates the loss of the right to vote to [18:13] schestowitz > third parties is what makes him a cheerleader for treason. The part [18:13] schestowitz > where he supports the ender of the Constitution so enthusiastically is [18:13] schestowitz > what makes him a fascist and a complete and total hypocrite. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > But what really matters now is Biden second, and the fact that his [18:13] schestowitz > supporters just ended the USA first. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > It's never about Trump or Biden, it's about the damage they leave in [18:13] schestowitz > place that nobody ever cleans up. America has spent 20 years dying, [18:13] schestowitz > thanks to Biden. Now it's gone, and the idiot traitor Dems are getting [18:13] schestowitz > out the cake and streamers. I haven't voted for a Republican since 2001, [18:13] schestowitz > but I wouldn't vote for Biden if he were the last politician on Earth. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > Because if you do, then voting doesn't serve its purpose. It shouldn't [18:13] schestowitz > just select the best person available. It should also keep out the worst [18:13] schestowitz > known traitors. It does neither, and opportunists like RIAAn with no [18:13] schestowitz > principles-- who mistakenly believe that any party is somehow OWED votes [18:13] schestowitz > that voters don't want to give-- are the reason it doesn't work. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > It's not YOUR fucking vote unless someone wants to vote for you. The [18:13] schestowitz > Democratic party are a bunch of electoral rapists-- but rape isn't a [18:13] schestowitz > capital crime. People who don't like the words "electoral rape" can opt [18:13] schestowitz > for it's old fashioned name: treason. [18:13] schestowitz > Then again, if we agree not to pick on his corporate fascism by calling [18:13] schestowitz > him RIAAn we can poke at his racism instead-- and call him "a Ryan". [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > But I don't think he's really racist. I do think he's really a traitor [18:13] schestowitz > that kneels mouth open for corporate rule. [18:13] schestowitz > [18:13] schestowitz > I know he's useful to you, and I don't have any goal of changing your [18:13] schestowitz > mind (I'd sooner expect you to defend him) and I'm not asking you to [18:13] schestowitz > take sides (I'd sooner expect you to take his-- or none at all). But [18:13] schestowitz > simply put, I'm disgusted, and until I get bored with saying so (I will) [18:13] schestowitz > whenever he says something fucking stupid I'm going to have to work hard [18:13] schestowitz > not to mention it. It's not going to improve, and believe it or not I do [18:13] schestowitz > eventually walk away from matters that are hopeless. Linux being a prime [18:14] schestowitz > example. I intend to walk away from America as well, because it has no [18:14] schestowitz > more of a future than Linux does. But I'm still going to say why it [18:14] schestowitz > doesn't, before I leave. It's the biggest local news in 244 years. [18:17] schestowitz In spite of its name, the EUIPO is mainly dealing with trademarks. Where the work force able to deal with patents should come within the EUIPO? That a UP is a patent granted by the EPO should not be forgotten. [18:17] schestowitz One of the reasons for creating the UPC is that its promoters wanted to keep the influence of the CJEU a small as possible. Completely doing without was not possible, so that the UPC foresees the possibility to file requests for preliminary rulings to the CJEU, Art 21 UPCA. [18:17] schestowitz @ Peter Parker [18:17] schestowitz If I am not mistaken, even in the USA the members of the judiciary, not the prosecutors, are appointed for life time. Could you please cite one country, beside autocratic regimes, in which appointments to the judiciary is not for life time? [18:17] schestowitz In an interesting decision of March 2018, the German Constitutional Court decided that judges might be appointed for a given length of time, but under two strict conditions: [18:17] schestowitz 1) They have to be civil servants appointed for life time; [18:17] schestowitz 2) The can only be appointed once. [18:17] schestowitz Even the members of the CJEU are originally judges in the various contracting states and are appointed lifetime, so when they period ends, they go back as national judges. [18:17] schestowitz That we do not accept chancellors or presidents for life time is for a different reason, as otherwise they would end up as dictators or autocrats. It is not to guarantee their independence, whereas the latter is a necessary condition for a judge. The difference between the offices is more than gradual, unless you confuse the issues and ignore what is called separation of powers. [18:17] schestowitz In democratic societies, judges are not free to do as they like, but they are controlled by their peers. And the system works, even if it not always perfect. In principle the executive cannot and should not interfere in those proceedings, be it only to respect the separation of powers. [18:17] schestowitz That quite few EPO examiners are technical members is correct, but there is (or was) also an input from the profession. Those people have applied for a job as member of the boards, and not for a job as examiner. A guaranteed fall-back to examiner status is thus not even possible. [18:17] schestowitz The member dismissed for alleged misconduct has been reintegrated as examiner and immediately transferred to The Hague in the interest of the Office. So any former examiner becoming member of the boards knows the sanction should he misbehave or not show the expected performance. [18:17] schestowitz The same applies to legal members of the boards. While some come from inside the EPO, and mainly from DG5, lots of them come from outside, being lawyers specialised in IP or even national judges. They have also not applied for a job as lawyer at the EPO. For those people a guaranteed fall-back to lawyer status at the EPO is thus not even possible. [18:17] schestowitz What you consider as a compromise is thus not even legally foreseen and only obfuscates the problem of lack of independence. 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