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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9uZ7Vvh0LBqAv4YyUy | May 01 06:36 |
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| schestowitz | " yup"" | May 01 06:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | May 01 06:36 | |
| schestowitz | I migrated to it ages ago after the previous wiki software lacked php support for the latest php | May 01 06:37 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9uZ7yX40zOjSvrxt1E | May 01 06:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | May 01 06:37 | |
| schestowitz | " just a flu bro" | May 01 06:37 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9uZmzzgm8wki7cuVqi | May 01 06:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | May 01 06:37 | |
| schestowitz | "The problem is not #Android, it is #GoogleAndroid. #LineageOS is #Android without the #Google." | May 01 06:37 |
| schestowitz | Then you mean AOSP | May 01 06:37 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9uZqxDPR4gphcfjLfM | May 01 06:38 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 06:38 |
| schestowitz | My thoughts exactly. The issue is Google Services and Apps. When you deactivate them, Android stops being spyware. It doesn't work too well if you're using the factory version though, that's why you have custom ROM's, LineageOS and the likes. | May 01 06:38 |
| schestowitz | @schestowitz | May 01 06:38 |
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| schestowitz | " | May 01 06:38 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9ua1o1HxrsaMvB3ONM | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | It doesn't seem like it, though mostly open. | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | @schestowitz | May 01 06:39 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | May 01 06:39 | |
| schestowitz | The back-end is Rocket.Chat code, which is open source. | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | It uses a bot to intake data, made by ilhasoft.com.br source presumably on their site bothub.it somewhere. | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | A CRM by a company named Konecty who's normal product, at least, is open source. | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | Also it was tested by Amazon, which shouldn't affect anything I suppose. I can't find any other partnership info for Amazon, though it sounds like there might be. | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 06:39 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17977568#7b582d906d920138d43408002785b8a8 | May 01 06:47 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@linux@joindiaspora.com: scrcpy 1.13 Released and COVID-19 Response by Rocket.Chat http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/137046 | May 01 06:47 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.tuxmachines.org | scrcpy 1.13 Released and COVID-19 Response by Rocket.Chat | Tux Machines | May 01 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "#deletegithub" | May 01 06:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17952781#466793d06d0d0138d6382a0000053625 | May 01 06:48 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Getting Started to Use Gogs Git Hosting http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/136906 | May 01 06:48 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.tuxmachines.org | Getting Started to Use Gogs Git Hosting | Tux Machines | May 01 06:48 | |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | gogs can be safely ignored. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | can the fact that gitea is a hostage of microsoft also be safely ignored? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea | May 01 06:48 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Gitea - Wikipedia | May 01 06:48 | |
| schestowitz | gitea isnt the only gogs fork, but both gogs and gitea are being developed on github. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | please don’t spread bad advice. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | this generally implies that youre some kind of authority on what good advice is. in fact, youre both promoting github-based software at the moment. “gitea is the way forward” is fucking terrible advice. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Michele Santullo | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Michele Santullo - about 16 hours ago | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | can the fact that gitea is a hostage of microsoft also be safely ignored? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitea | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Not sure what you mean, I see no mention of Microsoft in your link | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | gitea isnt the only gogs fork | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Don’t keep us hanging! | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | but both gogs and gitea are being developed on github | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Correct. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | this generally implies that youre some kind of authority on what good advice is. in fact, youre both promoting github-based software at the moment. “gitea is the way forward” is fucking terrible advice. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | I’m simply someone who followed the development of gitea and gogs and knows about the security holes and the delays in accepting patches in the latter. But if you’re convinced that using gogs is not a fucking terrible advice then go ahead, no one is holding you. | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | ' | May 01 06:48 |
| schestowitz | > Until the supreme court ruling in 1995, sampling was considered Fair Use. | May 01 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > | May 01 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > Until the DMCA which came later under the same administration, DRM circumvention was not a crime. | May 01 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > | May 01 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > It's the Librarian of Congress who is given the authority to decide which exceptions to the DMCA circumvention clause are important enough to grant. The Librarian of Congress probably has a lot of other leeway with things like that, though Oliva insists that Copyright and DRM have nothing to do with each other, because he's a stupid old fuck. | May 01 06:58 |
| schestowitz | DRM and copyright are not >Directly< related, but DRM is usually used to enforce a copyright regime. | May 01 06:58 |
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| schestowitz | > In the meantime I an SUPER SUPER (super key?) careful NOT to press Fn | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > and over time I get used to this layout. | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > If a key gets in my way that much, I will literally pry the key off the keyboard. Then it's not going to be pressed accidentally, but I still have the option. | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > Some people think tools have to look perfect. In other industries, tools aren't complete until there is gaffers tape or some handwritten labeling added. Keyboards are functional, if they aren't doing your bidding, put yourself in charge. I will remove a screen from a laptop if I don't like the screen, and use a monitor I do like. Of course it's not portable then. | May 01 08:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17934189#9b7c29806d940138d8e2002590d8e506 | May 01 08:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@willhill@joindiaspora.com reshared: The news about #lenovo #thinkpad with #fedora is a positive sign that shows new #ibm management (weeks on the job) might be serious about desktop/laptop GNU/Linux See http://techrights.org/2020/01/06/matthew-miller-fedora-project-leader-sheds-light-on-future-of-fedora-gnulinux-for-desktopslaptops-for-the-most-part-under-ibm/ | May 01 08:37 | |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | This week (after a replacement M.2 drive arrives) I will be ripping the Ubuntu off of a Dell XPS 13 and loading Fedora in its place. For the stuff I do, the Red Hat stuff (and derivatives) are far more professionally managed than the Debian/Ubuntu versions. (I need bleeding-edge Fedora because I use a lot of machines with rather new hardware components.) | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Linux is, however, turning into Windows. I am increasingly at war with things ranging from Network-Mangler to window managers that try to do to much. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 3 days ago | May 01 08:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader, Sheds Light on Future of Fedora (GNU/Linux for Desktops/Laptops for the Most Part) Under IBM | Techrights | May 01 08:37 | |
| schestowitz | The fastest way to turn GNU/Linux into Windows is to mix it up with non free software. Much of the problem is a natural consequence of dealing with ACPI, EUFI, and other garbage from Microsoft that was designed to thwart free software. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | The ruin of Debian, as I see it, has been their becoming more like Red Hat - complex, opaque, and accepting of non free software as “practical.” SystemD based Debian is a long way from the simple but very functional systems I was using between 2005 and 2010. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 3 days ago | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | when I run OpenBSD with the icewm, there are about 40 processes listed by the ps command. When I use Debian with xfce4, there are over 120. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach - 3 days ago | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | @Will Hill - U/EFI has a few good points - we really needed a better initial boot directory mechanism and EFI’s is rational. (I’m talking about the directory layout, not “secure boot.”) And we really needed to replace the old MBR partition table. But for the rest of the U/EFI stuff - it is mind boggling what is in there, and we seem to know only a piece of what’s there. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | On the other hand there are a lot of secret recess in Intel and AMD processors that relatively few people know about. | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - about 3 hours ago | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | Why not just use Libreboot, or rationalize any of the other free firmware replacements? | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:37 |
| schestowitz | ps aux | wc | May 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | 233 2917 26451 | May 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | Debian Buster | May 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17933971#133e99206b49013860f0005056264835 | May 01 08:39 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@willhill@joindiaspora.com reshared: #apple whose CEO #timcrook gleefully put the company in #nsa #PRISM still pretends this cult ('company') values #privacy (how foolish the cultists must be to believe this...) https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/21/apple-car-could-have-automatically-tinting-moon-roof-and-windows | May 01 08:39 | |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Shiny. | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach - 4 days ago | May 01 08:39 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> appleinsider.com | Apple Car could have automatically tinting 'moon roof' and windows | May 01 08:39 | |
| schestowitz | I’m not sure I’d want an Apple car - I’d be concerned that it would have to do huge updates every time a new iPhone version was released, plus seven large patches, and then a 45 minute mandatory reboot in which the car would show nothing but a black screen and a slowly progressing white line. | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 3 days ago | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Automotive computing from Apple is likely to be as bad as Microsoft’s work for BMW, Ford, and so on. The “upgrades” to fix trivial issues were outrageously expensive and malfunctions were common, sometimes fatal. It’s been a very bad 15 years. | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | I’m doing my best to avoid modern vehicles. Regardless of who makes them, they all have remote kill switches and other overrides, zero privacy, and lots of planned obsolescence. The more control they grasp, the worse the stuff gets. | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 3 days ago | May 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | Apple would insist that you have to take your car to their authorized and vastly overpriced service stations for even the most minor of repairs. | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 3 days ago | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | I’m doing my best to avoid modern vehicles. | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | I have a 2010 Honda CRV, and (though I hate to admit it) I love that car. I don’t see any newer vehicles that are significantly better. | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | Karl Auerbach - 3 days ago | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | @tomgrz - My wife’s care is at the opposite end of the spectrum, it’s a Tesla M3. I think it gossips about us. | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | "Your car has run out of security updates. Please stop driving. Good day." | May 01 08:40 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17948068#737119006b3d01384e247a163ef10931 | May 01 08:41 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@willhill@joindiaspora.com reshared: “Today’s Linux Foundation does more for Microsoft than it does for Linux; heck, look who runs that foundation and speaks for it.” http://techrights.org/2020/04/26/free-software-privatisation/ | May 01 08:41 | |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:41 |
| schestowitz | What is this about? | May 01 08:41 |
| schestowitz | https://debian.community/google-microsoft-and-debian/ | May 01 08:41 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 08:41 |
| schestowitz | Welcome to 2020 | May 01 08:41 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Software in the Public Interest or Software in Microsoft’s Monopoly Interests? | Techrights | May 01 08:41 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-debian.community | Google, Microsoft & Debian | May 01 08:41 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/3deb18806dc20138d978002590d8e506 | May 01 11:19 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Not a Diaspora post? | May 01 11:19 | |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 11:19 |
| schestowitz | #GNU #Linux distribution #PopOS 20.04 LTS from System76 is out now with awesome Auto Tiling http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/136910#comment-24862 | May 01 11:19 |
| schestowitz | iophk: “The “Y’alliban” are getting riled up by astroturfers via Facebook and other social control media on behalf of rich PACs in violent campaign rallies.” | May 01 11:19 |
| schestowitz | " | May 01 11:19 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Pop OS 20.04: When You Can Upgrade And The Best New Features | Tux Machines | May 01 11:19 | |
| schestowitz | x https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelist-calls-ps1-billion-covid-19-research-prize | May 01 11:23 |
| schestowitz | # bullshitter being promoted | May 01 11:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.timeshighereducation.com | Nobelist calls for £1 billion Covid-19 research prize | Times Higher Education (THE) | May 01 11:23 | |
| schestowitz | x https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-install-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts-wsl-windows-10.html | May 01 11:24 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.how2shout.com | How to install NextCloud on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS WSL Windows 10 | May 01 11:24 | |
| schestowitz | = | May 01 11:24 |
| schestowitz | x https://www.biometricupdate.com/202004/immunity-certificates-should-leverage-biometrics-to-alleviate-privacy-concerns-says-id2020s-executive-director | May 01 11:24 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.biometricupdate.com | Immunity certificates should leverage biometrics to alleviate privacy concerns, says ID2020's executive director | Biometric Update | May 01 11:24 | |
| MinceR | ah yes, security theater | May 01 15:00 |
| MinceR | with microsloth and fiasco systems on board, there's no way id2020 could go wrong! | May 01 15:01 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/BillionDollarQ/status/1256235573599244288 | May 01 16:16 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@BillionDollarQ: @schestowitz I don't know if that polling data is accurate | May 01 16:16 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: a friend sent these 2 to me | May 01 16:16 |
| schestowitz | the x means, better not to link | May 01 16:16 |
| schestowitz | i.e., it is BS | May 01 16:17 |
| MinceR | :> | May 01 16:17 |
| MinceR | microsloth and fiasco systems being involved with id2020 comes from wikipedia though | May 01 16:18 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/ambulanzen/status/1256176549029707778 | May 01 16:18 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@ambulanzen: @schestowitz @glynmoody A k a denialism | May 01 16:18 | |
| acer-box__ | https://twitter.com/Haggenbagge/status/1256245626469265409 | May 01 16:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Haggenbagge: Summary: Adjunct lobbyist of Microsoft and its co-founder gets analysed for its sources of influence that it pays a… https://t.co/vrfcFXTHf0 | May 01 16:37 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Haggenbagge: Summary: Adjunct lobbyist of Microsoft and its co-founder gets analysed for its sources of influence that it pays a… https://t.co/vrfcFXTHf0 | May 01 16:37 | |
| acer-box__ | " | May 01 16:37 |
| acer-box__ | Summary: Adjunct lobbyist of Microsoft and its co-founder gets analysed for its sources of influence that it pays and exploits | May 01 16:37 |
| acer-box__ | NNDB on Gates Foundation Connections | Techrights | May 01 16:37 |
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