●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 02, 2021 ●● ● Nov 02 [00:11] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@tfequspuxrvkg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:14] *altlink_ad1 has quit (connection closed) [00:14] *altlink_fe1 (~altlink_fe1@2f7u5j6f87p9g.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:31] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@eganakf2bu9k2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:34] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:48] *liberty_box (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:48] *rianne (~rianne@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:49] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [02:03] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:03] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:04] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:49] *liberty_box (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [02:49] *rianne (~rianne@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [02:49] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [03:43] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:43] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:43] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:52] *rianne (~rianne@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [03:53] *liberty_box (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [03:53] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [04:03] *u-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) ● Nov 02 [05:10] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [05:22] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:22] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:22] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:51] Techrights-sec For that I would recommend renting a very low-end VPS. [05:52] schestowitz-TR sounds like clown computing for me and they can shut it down, citing [something] [05:55] schestowitz-TR btw, finished my shift at 1am, not free till satur. [05:55] schestowitz-TR *now [05:56] Techrights-sec In that situation, it does not matter, it is just another node. [05:56] Techrights-sec IPFS, if I understand correctly, is decentralized [05:56] Techrights-sec Not? [05:56] Techrights-sec ack [05:57] schestowitz-TR would rather convince tr supporters to set up ipfs and pin the CIDs [05:59] Techrights-sec That would be the best option but there is so little material about IPFS, [05:59] Techrights-sec or else it is just hard to understand. No idea what it does, how it works, [05:59] Techrights-sec or most importantly how to interact with it to retrieve information ● Nov 02 [06:00] schestowitz-TR I would do more coverage about IF I thought it did not suck... esp. suck up resources (CPU and BW) [06:00] schestowitz-TR I would do more coverage about IPFS IF I thought it did not suck... esp. suck up resources (CPU and BW) [06:01] schestowitz-TR when I put it in Tasmania the guy was a bit alarmed by how many connections it made, inc. with China [06:03] Techrights-sec Hence the idea to look for other distributed publishing methods. [06:03] Techrights-sec Based on resource requirements IPFS does not seem to scale. [06:03] Techrights-sec AFAIK you get lots of connections from China if you do anything out of the [06:03] Techrights-sec ordinary. Even running a Tor middle relay will get you probed actively [06:03] Techrights-sec by Chinese addresses, some very slow and subtle others rather blatant and noisy [06:04] schestowitz-TR people have come to assume connection is attack is breach... Microsoft media teaches them this [06:05] schestowitz Next in Daily Links: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-rise-in-password-sprays-targeting-cloud-accounts/ related to http://techrights.org/2021/09/30/azure-brute-force/ [06:05] -altlink_fe1/#boycottnovell- Cloudflare: bleepingcomputer.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-warns-of-rise-in-password-sprays-targeting-cloud-accounts/ [06:05] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Microsoft warns of rise in password sprays targeting cloud accounts [06:05] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Microsoft Whistleblower and Clients Warned, More Than 2 Years Ago in Fact, About the Current Azure Mess (But Microsoft Ignored Those Warnings, Buried Facts) | Techrights [06:10] Techrights-sec Yes, with Windows an attack is often the same as a breach. [06:10] Techrights-sec How did BP get in there? [06:10] Techrights-sec ^BC [06:13] schestowitz-TR admfubar [06:21] *rianne (~rianne@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:22] *liberty_box (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:22] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:29] *leah has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:29] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [07:43] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:43] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:44] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Nov 02 [08:01] *liberty_box (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:02] *rianne (~rianne@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:02] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@62vhapicsw4ds.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:48] *sears_hardware has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Nov 02 [09:36] *leah has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:36] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [10:04] *leah has quit (connection closed) [10:05] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [10:09] *leah has quit (connection closed) [10:09] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [11:17] *sears_hardware (~search_social@akqta89mfqm5k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [12:15] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [13:17] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@eganakf2bu9k2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [16:40] schestowitz-TR news getting drier each moonth, but we are coping [16:42] Techrights-sec I guess so. But it certainly is drying up. I was just noticing that again [16:42] Techrights-sec today it has gone down further. [16:42] Techrights-sec Patents of any kind are not covered. [16:42] schestowitz-TR It has gotten LAUGHABLY bad, esp. in patents [16:42] Techrights-sec And now that it is too late, the press is starting to mention JA and his trial. ● Nov 02 [17:08] Techrights-sec Anyway, the weekly pool of available articles seems to have shrunk again [17:08] Techrights-sec quite a bit. [17:09] schestowitz-TR I compensate for it by 1) posting Daily Links more often (BTW, the CMS feed recently added... still nothing coming from it, not sure if technical issue), 2) subscribing to lesser known sites for gnu/linux howtos and stuff [17:09] schestowitz-TR *CMD [17:11] Techrights-sec I wonder how much further it will decline before they decide [17:11] Techrights-sec to stop pretending that there is new service at all. I remember a long time [17:11] Techrights-sec ago, at the turn of the century, there was *lots* of news daily just about [17:11] Techrights-sec FOSS and GNU/Linux alone. [17:11] Techrights-sec Yes, I try to check blogs these days. There are many with RSS or Atom feeds. [17:11] schestowitz-TR lxer and 'linux' 'today' became very bad. Many links to howtos, usually from over 5 years agoi. WHAT IS THE POINT? [17:13] Techrights-sec I've lost track of all the sites that turned to crap and / or vanished. [17:13] Techrights-sec ZDNet used to be great, now it's drivel at best. [17:13] Techrights-sec They had a handful of people writing about FOSS and GNU/Linux in particular. [17:13] schestowitz-TR "no money in it..." [17:15] Techrights-sec . [17:15] Techrights-sec It's not happening in a vacuum though. There are companies that specialize [17:15] Techrights-sec in buying out and shutting down news sites. [17:15] Techrights-sec "successful bankruptcy" as taught to MBAs in "business" school. [17:15] schestowitz-TR Samreen Syed nearly killed our company before she was sacked, as few of union gathered forces, complainted [17:21] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@rpczsniumjgxg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:21] Techrights-sec MBA? [17:22] schestowitz-TR hahaha [17:22] schestowitz-TR you wish [17:45] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [17:57] psydruid art history like Carly Fiorina? ● Nov 02 [18:35] schestowitz-TR Nearly killing companies is a common MBA activity. [18:35] schestowitz-TR psydruid: I did not know [18:35] schestowitz-TR art history -> hp [18:35] schestowitz-TR same thing [18:38] psydruid you have to be really good at your job to be called the worst CEO in the history of HP ● Nov 02 [19:11] schestowitz-TR oh, I missed that part [19:11] schestowitz-TR well, she did spy on journalists [19:11] schestowitz-TR Then she wanted to lead the insurrection party, GOP [19:12] schestowitz-TR Maybe she thinks she can FORCE her way into things [19:12] schestowitz-TR psydruid: if at first you fail, move to 'Murica [19:12] schestowitz-TR you can molest dozens of women and get 80 million votes [19:24] psydruid I'll have to seriously think about that [19:29] schestowitz-TR but first you need to molest [19:29] schestowitz-TR to "own the libs" [19:29] schestowitz-TR reserve-psychology [19:29] schestowitz-TR get vote for spite [19:30] schestowitz-TR George W Bush: they hate us because of our freedom [19:30] schestowitz-TR (to molest women) [19:45] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@6428nfd4iqwik.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [19:48] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Nov 02 [20:04] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@6428nfd4iqwik.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:12] *leah has quit (connection closed) [20:12] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:22] *leah has quit (connection closed) [20:22] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:24] *blitzed has quit (Quit: +++ATH0&D2 NO CARRIER NO CAREER) [20:30] *blitzed (~blitzed@kic8p867d28q6.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Nov 02 [21:03] schestowitz-TR Not quite an MBA but close: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/window-strength-death/ [21:03] -altlink_fe1/#boycottnovell- Cloudflare: snopes.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/window-strength-death/ [21:03] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.snopes.com | Did a Man Die Demonstrating a Window's Strength? | Snopes.com [21:03] schestowitz-TR "one of the best and brightest" [21:31] schestowitz > Its a pleasant thought to think that after I am below ground someone above ground will be making good use of some of my better postings. Although its an easy task for me, i must say it takes a lot of skill to do the job. When you loosened the reins a bit on using pictures is when I started to really enjoy posting. The right picture enhances the text and being able to use Photo Elements and Pic Monkey was the icing on the cake. [21:31] schestowitz Your 'competition' may decrease over time because many sites perish, leaving just some junk in sites like Facebook, where little is visible to the outside. ● Nov 02 [23:34] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)