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| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "The CEO of America's largest bank is worried, and for good reason." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/03/you-can-thank-ronald-reagan-economic-shitstorm-come | Source: Common Dreams | Jun 04 08:02 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Opinion | You Can Thank Ronald Reagan for the Economic Shitstorm to Come | Thom Hartmann | Jun 04 08:02 | |
| schestowitz-TR | On github as a social network gemini://erock.io/2022/06/03/github-as-social-network/ "Slowly I began to realize that these social networking sites were echo-chambers that really didn't mean much at all." | Jun 04 08:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | "Github is the worst kind of social networking site. Like a virus, it has infected my mind and is constantly getting me to engage with it. It's a social networking site that I have to use for work." gemini://erock.io/2022/06/03/github-as-social-network/ | Jun 04 08:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | "Github isn't just a code repository, it's a social networking site. The network effect makes it really hard to host other open source projects anywhere else." gemini://erock.io/2022/06/03/github-as-social-network/ | Jun 04 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | "I really like sourcehut[1] and will be moving everything there. There are no "engagement" features like stars or trending projects. Drew, more than anyone, has made me realize that you don't have to participate in social networking in order to have people use your projects." "gemini://erock.io/2022/06/03/github-as-social-network/ "I really like sourcehut[1] and will be moving everything there. There are no "engagement" features like | Jun 04 08:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | stars or trending projects. Drew, more than anyone, has made me realize that you don't have to participate in social networking in order to have people use your projects." "gemini://erock.io/2022/06/03/github-as-social-network/ | Jun 04 08:41 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | sr.ht seems ok | Jun 04 08:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Chomsky ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/03/a-response-to-yuriy-gorodnichenko-bohdan-kukharskyy-anastassia-fedyk-and-ilona-sologoub-regarding-their-critique-of-noam-chomsky-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/ | Source: Counter Punch | Jun 04 09:34 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-A Response to Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Bohdan Kukharskyy, Anastassia Fedyk and Ilona Sologoub Regarding Their Critique of Noam Chomsky on the Russia-Ukraine War - CounterPunch.org | Jun 04 09:34 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | tried thinking of venn diagrams for brands and threat types, but those would not fit well | Jun 04 10:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | trying to come up with a more useful presentation | Jun 04 10:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | an alternate approach is to highlight overlap in threats, as in surveillance and censorship having overlaps | Jun 04 10:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | the goal is to do something nobody else did before | Jun 04 10:39 |
| Techrights-sec | THere may be too many aspect for a simple chart for visualization | Jun 04 10:40 |
| Techrights-sec | that might work better | Jun 04 10:40 |
| Techrights-sec | simply cataloging them ought to be a good start | Jun 04 10:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | the companies, the threats, or both? | Jun 04 10:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | hardware lockdown is a reasonably new one | Jun 04 10:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | btw, quite a few articles this morning about covid-19 patent barriers | Jun 04 10:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | the problem was never solved | Jun 04 10:48 |
| Techrights-sec | both | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | the chain of UEFI, Restricted Boot, TPM, etc ought to be prominent | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | People have been ignoring the slowing creeping assault, others are in denial | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | and claim they will just buy old hardware for all eternity. Even if the old | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | hardware remains available, the DRM'd software and new DRM'd hardware will | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | actively introduce incompatibilities so that it will be mariginalized and | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | rendered useless quickly anyway. | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | Gate''s PR team has already poisoned the well on that topic though so | Jun 04 10:50 |
| Techrights-sec | there is a bit of an uphill fight to get it acknowleged as a real problem | Jun 04 10:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've nearly cleaned all my feeds apart from patents (which is mostly noise and causes annoyanace... not good for my head) | Jun 04 10:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'll try to produce some abstraction of the threat landscape | Jun 04 10:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | btw, fsf has been supoer quiet this past month, not sure if it's just me noticing that | Jun 04 10:52 |
| Techrights-sec | they've been quiet for a long time but especially quiet of late, but the | Jun 04 10:54 |
| Techrights-sec | general long period of quiet masks that | Jun 04 10:54 |
| Techrights-sec | dunno | Jun 04 10:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've just checcked, rms talk starts in 3:05 (hours: mins), but it's in French so not sure a live feed would be worth embedding | Jun 04 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't suppose many readers grasp french even at the rms level | Jun 04 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've just checcked, rms talk starts in 3:05 (hours: mins), but it's in French so not sure a live feed would be worth embedding | Jun 04 10:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't suppose many readers grasp french even at the rms level | Jun 04 10:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've chedked 2 online venn diagramming tools (JS, obv.), both crap and unfit for purpose | Jun 04 10:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I might just bake it like a pie from scratch in GIMP | Jun 04 10:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | while it's important to crush not only Microsoft but also Microsoftism ("ex" staff), we must also look at the broader | Jun 04 10:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | picture | Jun 04 10:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | to me, Microsoft looks a lot weaker than in 2006 when Windows was EVERYWHERE | Jun 04 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | use layers for that | Jun 04 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | Not enough is done in the world to counter the damage from "former" microsofters and from embedded sales reps on company salar | Jun 04 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | y but working against the | Jun 04 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | company to the nenefit of M$ | Jun 04 10:59 |
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| schestowitz-TR | you might not like me saying that, but in our company we don't have THAT threat but a few "MacDiots" and people | Jun 04 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | who worship clown everything | Jun 04 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | that mindset too needs eradicating | Jun 04 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | I recognise that in other companies Microsoftism is a bigger problem | Jun 04 11:02 |
| Techrights-sec | clown is a problem two , but as harmful as it is it is nonetheless a smaller | Jun 04 11:02 |
| Techrights-sec | threat than M$ and its minions | Jun 04 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will use layers | Jun 04 11:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I might later get small icons for companies to represent examples of the threat, without many words | Jun 04 11:04 |
| Techrights-sec | TM just hiccupped | Jun 04 11:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | I did not notice, thanks for keeping an eye | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have been managing to post a ton of updates there lately | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | I cannot say anything good about lzer's editorial choices of late | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | very drunk at the wheel | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | broken URLs | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | links to links | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | Microsoft promotion | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | total OT stuff | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | makes you wonder | Jun 04 11:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | slashdot is a farce | Jun 04 11:06 |
| Techrights-sec | I didn't have time to check the cause | Jun 04 11:06 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | Jun 04 11:06 |
| DaemonFC | schestowitz-TR, The whole idea of wireless connectivity is pretty bad too in consumer electronics. | Jun 04 11:07 |
| DaemonFC | Usually it doesn't function well even with "premium" brands. They want you to use proprietary software which they clearly won't always support. | Jun 04 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | DaemonFC: yes, I considered moving to ethernet | Jun 04 11:08 |
| DaemonFC | In the case of Bose, it's that stupid SoundTouch model which bolts on a huge thing to the underside of your Wave system, and then wants smartphone apps. | Jun 04 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | but it would look ugly and messy | Jun 04 11:08 |
| DaemonFC | The reviewers I was looking at said the app was a clunky mess. It made them spend hours just doing firmware updates on the SoundTouch before it even worked, and then they had dropouts and disconnects. | Jun 04 11:09 |
| DaemonFC | But the Bluetooth worked. | Jun 04 11:09 |
| DaemonFC | Why should I have to pay another $150 for a huge bolted-on dock just to get fucking Bluetooth!? | Jun 04 11:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | OK, I will use squares rather than circles | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | easier to edit and more suitable when some are subthreats | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | this morning's gz files are OK | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | inc. wiki | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | I might spend more time working on the wiki | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe soon some upgrades too, but with this software when you upgrade you get unwanted and dangerous features | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | more js, xss, more things that can go wrong | Jun 04 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | like people uploading scripts | Jun 04 11:11 |
| DaemonFC | schestowitz-TR, Like, this dock is something you can't remove later and if there's a new Bluetooth spec, you can't upgrade to it. | Jun 04 11:13 |
| DaemonFC | So you'd be stuck with it, and it costs more and is bulky. | Jun 04 11:13 |
| DaemonFC | It's crazy. | Jun 04 11:13 |
| DaemonFC | You could just get a 3.5 mm splitter, turning the Aux In into two things, and then plug in a Bluetooth receiver to one of them. | Jun 04 11:13 |
| DaemonFC | They sell them for cars and older stereos for like $25-50. | Jun 04 11:14 |
| DaemonFC | They did a really good radio but I don't think whoever did the SoundTouch model really put a lot of care into it. | Jun 04 11:14 |
| DaemonFC | That's probably why longtime Bose customers are complaining about the innovation stopping when Amar Bose died. | Jun 04 11:15 |
| DaemonFC | I couldn't imagine he'd be happy with what the Wave IV SoundTouch model does. | Jun 04 11:15 |
| DaemonFC | You could easily build in Bluetooth at no extra charge and have one model of radio and not increase the size at all. | Jun 04 11:16 |
| DaemonFC | It's not like Bluetooth chips are big or produce a lot of heat or are power hogs. | Jun 04 11:16 |
| DaemonFC | If I had to name another example of a company behaving this way, it would have to go back into the 90s with Sega. | Jun 04 11:17 |
| DaemonFC | They released way too many adapters for their consoles, and the Genesis especially turned into a "Choose Your Own Adventure" of dongles, which didn't work together. | Jun 04 11:17 |
| DaemonFC | Like, you could attack a Sega 32X and have a 32-bit Genesis system, but then you had to use cartridges, which could not fit complex games. | Jun 04 11:18 |
| DaemonFC | Or you could use a Sega CD, and have CD-ROM games that could be very big, but were limited to the processing capabilities of the base system. | Jun 04 11:18 |
| DaemonFC | If they had released one adapter that plugged into the cartridge port and did both and retailed for $99, they could have killed Nintendo. | Jun 04 11:19 |
| DaemonFC | Just absolutely killed them. | Jun 04 11:19 |
| DaemonFC | Then you had compatibility with the old system by removing the adapter, or an entirely new console that used the original one for co-processors, by plugging it in. | Jun 04 11:21 |
| DaemonFC | You know, I could have done better as a CEO than the one they had. | Jun 04 11:21 |
| DaemonFC | "Get in there and give me something that does this, this, and this. We'll sell it at cost, and then we'll make a whole heap of money on games when the customer realizes that our system is faster than Nintendo's with better graphics, for half the money, and will be for 5 more years at least!" | Jun 04 11:22 |
| DaemonFC | Backwards compatibility was something that nobody did back then, and absolutely nobody was going to give you what was essentially a brand new console for $99. | Jun 04 11:23 |
| DaemonFC | What Bose is doing with the SoundTouch is a middle finger to customers who want basic wireless functionality that all of their competitors have in the base model mini Hi-Fi market. | Jun 04 11:24 |
| DaemonFC | They need to do something about this eventually or they're cooked. | Jun 04 11:24 |
| DaemonFC | As for jsut passing along the raw files, I get that, but DLNA or something is a better choice than a proprietary app. | Jun 04 11:26 |
| DaemonFC | I could set up DLNA in less than five minutes. | Jun 04 11:26 |
| DaemonFC | And the protocol doesn't change in incompatible ways or get discontinued like some app in Google Play will. | Jun 04 11:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes | Jun 04 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | Upgrades might be good if they are not a trojan for more JS | Jun 04 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | Jun 04 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | Upgrades might be good if they are not a trojan for more JS | Jun 04 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | atm I think splitting it into several charts would work better | Jun 04 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | to avoid text becoming too small | Jun 04 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I can refine these easily, I keep it simple with all plain text aside in a text editor | Jun 04 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | yes venn diagrams work best with just two or three main sets, it ca | Jun 04 11:41 |
| Techrights-sec | can get too complicated to visualize otherwise | Jun 04 11:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will share a crude draft first | Jun 04 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think several charts can be interconnected via BLOB -> see chart 2 for blob's context | Jun 04 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | like an expanding magicbox | Jun 04 11:42 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 11:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | in turn, each box can get a number | Jun 04 11:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | and that number than has a list of icons aside, or names of companies | Jun 04 11:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | easier to update these | Jun 04 11:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | as time goes by | Jun 04 11:44 |
| DaemonFC | In the early 90s, Sega was a household name with millions and millions of installed units. | Jun 04 11:44 |
| DaemonFC | Pitching a $99 upgrade would have worked had the upgrade deck been well planned. | Jun 04 11:45 |
| DaemonFC | The annual expected failure rate for a Genesis console was so low that many of them still work fine today. | Jun 04 11:45 |
| DaemonFC | The fact that the Genesis was still going strong years after Nintendo released the SNES showed that the Genesis was originally designed pretty well. | Jun 04 11:47 |
| DaemonFC | Sega really began running into trouble with the Saturn. | Jun 04 11:47 |
| DaemonFC | By the time they gave up on adapters and retired the Genesis and got the Saturn on the market, Nintendo had the 64 and Sony had the Playstation. | Jun 04 11:47 |
| DaemonFC | Sega was always a few years ahead of their competitors, but their competitors used FUD and vaporware to keep people on the fence about buying someone else's console. | Jun 04 11:48 |
| DaemonFC | I think the XBOX was a success because Microsoft had plenty of practice with that already. | Jun 04 11:48 |
| DaemonFC | The original XBOX got off to a really bad start and it was still more than another year AFTER it launched (so 2003) before there were decent titles hitting the market. | Jun 04 11:50 |
| DaemonFC | But they managed to deploy enough FUD and vaporware to keep people reluctant to buy the Dreamcast, which was out in 1998. | Jun 04 11:50 |
| DaemonFC | Microsoft's original plan was to buy Nintendo. | Jun 04 11:51 |
| DaemonFC | They couldn't get anyone at Nintendo to even talk to them about it. | Jun 04 11:51 |
| DaemonFC | The plan to buy Nintendo was really a threat. | Jun 04 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | They figured if Nintendo didn't sell, they could just destroy them. | Jun 04 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | The only console I have right now is a Nintendo Switch. | Jun 04 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | It does not overpower the others by any means, but that's fine. I like the games better. | Jun 04 11:52 |
| DaemonFC | Microsoft and Sony play to the crowd that respond to computer specifications over how many decent titles the system has and what each one shall cost. | Jun 04 11:53 |
| DaemonFC | There's unfortunately a market for that, but they're slugging it out between themselves because the Switch is plenty of fun and people realize it. | Jun 04 11:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | ok, check the png on /home/roy/ on your device | Jun 04 12:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'm sure many more can be added | Jun 04 12:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is focused on some clusters of threats | Jun 04 12:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | no numbers, companies, examples... yet | Jun 04 12:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | those can be added as editable text, where topology does not matter | Jun 04 12:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | there are less than 24 labels to add in total, so can use A-Z for legend | Jun 04 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have just uploaded a newer version with legend added | Jun 04 12:38 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | checking | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | way to "busy" to interpret, are these groupings? | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | maybe a plain HTML table would be better if these are groupings | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | In the disenfrachisement category, "complexity" could be added | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | "entrapment" could be "decommodification", since it was used so much in the | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | Halloween documents or maybe just "vendor lock-in" | Jun 04 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | The font size needs to be consistent within each block | Jun 04 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | OK, I think we'll focus on text then | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | and the visual chart will be secondary | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | I was thinking | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | use h1-h4 | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | for levels | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | list the item | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | then give a list of companies | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | as links to pages inside the wiki | Jun 04 12:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then they can be alluded by by "letter" for the "map" | Jun 04 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'll go draft something... | Jun 04 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | hang on... | Jun 04 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | (coffee in percolator) | Jun 04 12:54 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | charts would be PITA to update in the long run anyway | Jun 04 12:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | usually a one-off | Jun 04 12:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | so the meat will be in text and links | Jun 04 12:55 |
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| Techrights-sec | ok | Jun 04 13:09 |
| Techrights-sec | maybe even a hierarchical DL in HTML ? | Jun 04 13:09 |
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| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wiki/High-Priority_Opponents | Jun 04 13:18 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | High-Priority Opponents - Techrights | Jun 04 13:18 | |
| Techrights-sec | The graphic is not really usable | Jun 04 13:20 |
| Techrights-sec | The TOC works better though | Jun 04 13:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, the graphics was a fast, crue attemp | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | crude | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | shall we add a list of Examples: | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | with list of companies linking to the wiki? | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | some companies need a NEW pages in the wiki | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | as a sort of mnemonic at the last | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | a lot of this is a mental exercise in 'mapping' the threat | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | so we can properly respond | Jun 04 13:22 |
| Techrights-sec | probably better without it for the time being, it is a hard visualization | Jun 04 13:22 |
| Techrights-sec | to produce | Jun 04 13:22 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes, some examples under each line item would help, possibly with links | Jun 04 13:22 |
| Techrights-sec | to the relevant wiki pages | Jun 04 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | biab | Jun 04 13:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | we have no wikip page for "Google" | Jun 04 13:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | if we start one, what to have in it? | Jun 04 13:29 |
| Techrights-sec | no need to add it yet, for the time being just link to any existing, relevant | Jun 04 13:29 |
| Techrights-sec | wiki pages | Jun 04 13:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | I put aside a list ot topics/companies for which a wiki page would help | Jun 04 13:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | it can even link to similar pages from rms | Jun 04 13:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | he keeps list of articles demonstrating bad things they do | Jun 04 13:30 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 13:38 |
| Techrights-sec | google got so bad they've started nym shifting (alphabet, etc) | Jun 04 13:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | good call, microsoft took another approach | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | grab lots of companies, use them for graft (e.g. hololens) | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | and try to ensure people do not associate them with the real operator | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | skype, github, linkedin, minecraft... | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | also, it is a hack against antitrust enforcement | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | they preactively "split" themselves | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | and even have multiple CEOs, like Paul at Red Hat | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | the media does the same | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | one company, many tentacles | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | so you don't realise who controls the channels | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | or when you order water and orange juce at a fast food chain but those too are controlled by Coke (or Pepsico) | Jun 04 13:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | soon enough there will be a lot more genders than corporations | Jun 04 13:41 |
| Techrights-sec | yes M$ works by porxy as much as they can get away with | Jun 04 13:42 |
| Techrights-sec | a duopoly; coke and pepsie basically take turns on the display case | Jun 04 13:42 |
| Techrights-sec | :/ | Jun 04 13:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've just complted a quic, crude, first pass for examples | Jun 04 13:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | might need to add a few words to explain the threats and maybe break down further | Jun 04 13:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | as we see fit, over time... | Jun 04 13:47 |
| schestowitz | I am now adding more in http://techrights.org/wiki/High-Priority_Opponents#Other_Threats_.28Peripheral.29 | Jun 04 13:53 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | High-Priority Opponents - Techrights | Jun 04 13:53 | |
| schestowitz | I think we will use this page for reference a lot in the coming years, once it's a lot more polished... | Jun 04 13:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've just noted that the gates foundation wqiki page approaches 1m views. | Jun 04 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | *noticed | Jun 04 13:55 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 14:00 |
| Techrights-sec | legal attacks: COC | Jun 04 14:00 |
| Techrights-sec | administrivia DoS | Jun 04 14:00 |
| Techrights-sec | more ruels and committees than coders | Jun 04 14:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | the "legal" sectiuon has been rewritten | Jun 04 14:00 |
| Techrights-sec | 1M is good, his reputation laundering budget would be interesting to know now | Jun 04 14:02 |
| Techrights-sec | it was $300 M USD per year a long time ago, with Epstein and everything else, | Jun 04 14:02 |
| Techrights-sec | I can't see it having gone down | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | sometyimes one "bad" piece about billg can do enough damage that even 100 puff pieces won't cancel it out (IME) | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | you just need to explin the key points, e.g. world's richest DOES NOT speak for the poor | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | OR for the CHILDREN | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | or tell us about climate change while keeping 3 kids and 4 saircrafts | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | *aircrafts | Jun 04 14:02 |
| Techrights-sec | Astroturfing and shilling are also a way to wear down projects, too many | Jun 04 14:02 |
| Techrights-sec | project leaders seem to think that the majority of the comments are legitimate | Jun 04 14:02 |
| Techrights-sec | in forums | Jun 04 14:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | case of point: abuse in sourcehut | Jun 04 14:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | which put drew devault in "depressive" (his word) episode | Jun 04 14:03 |
| Techrights-sec | s/in/of/ | Jun 04 14:05 |
| Techrights-sec | yes that was one of the cases I had in mind | Jun 04 14:05 |
| Techrights-sec | he may think that the attacks are from real people or represent actual opinions | Jun 04 14:05 |
| Techrights-sec | rather than realizing that M$ or other group(s) are behind the *desperate* | Jun 04 14:05 |
| Techrights-sec | attacks against his very successful project; he's doing a lot for software | Jun 04 14:05 |
| Techrights-sec | freedom along the way, hence the pressure | Jun 04 14:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | he competes with shithub | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | and afaict they gained a lot of devs+projects | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | that momentum needed [sic] to be curtailed | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | "toxic" site | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | need a "safe space" like Microsoft | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | just don't be a woman and upset Alex Graveley | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | you will cease to be a problem... or exist | Jun 04 14:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | tasking a break from the wiki for a bit, catching up with rss | Jun 04 14:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | will make pages later for 7 companies identified as needing at the very least a stub | Jun 04 14:08 |
| Techrights-sec | I'll probably look at RSS tomorrow or Monday | Jun 04 14:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | lots of very insightful ranrs about the state of the Net and Web in gopher and gemini space/s | Jun 04 14:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think we must prepare for changes | Jun 04 14:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | many people have sunken much effort into ticking time bombs | Jun 04 14:11 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | Jun 04 14:11 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wiki/Google | Jun 04 14:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Google - Techrights | Jun 04 14:36 | |
| Techrights-sec | I wonder if a Geocities parallel can be drawn | Jun 04 14:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | Now there is neocities | Jun 04 14:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | but it outlived its usefulness | Jun 04 14:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | except nostalgic value | Jun 04 14:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | in geminispace a lot of hosting or arrangements for hosting are like geocities | Jun 04 14:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | and managed siomilarly | Jun 04 14:38 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wiki/Clownflare | Jun 04 14:43 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Clownflare - Techrights | Jun 04 14:43 | |
| Techrights-sec | yes | Jun 04 14:44 |
| Techrights-sec | I was thinkin that people build up large hosted communities for the hoster | Jun 04 14:44 |
| Techrights-sec | to eventually get shut down having been bought out or for other reasons | Jun 04 14:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | opriginally maybe for altruistic reasons | Jun 04 14:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | but those purposes do not outlive founders | Jun 04 14:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | and those who inherit it have other ideas in mind | Jun 04 14:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | at least with tuxmachines we kept the original spirit | Jun 04 14:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | and even removed all the ads that susan had put in there | Jun 04 14:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | only two pages are now rophaned | Jun 04 14:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | need a stub | Jun 04 14:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | spotify and netflix | Jun 04 14:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am going to link to the RMS pages about these | Jun 04 14:48 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 14:48 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_200 | Jun 04 15:18 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Cargo 200 - Wikipedia | Jun 04 15:18 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | my young sister is getting married | Jun 04 17:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | b/f proposed today in italy | Jun 04 17:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | more pressure off me re ofspring, I guess | Jun 04 17:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | through my other sister my dad has just found out I want to go part time | Jun 04 17:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | so at least he is aware ( a little prematurely) | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | i went to the nearby electric store | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | what a joke! | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | the only sound systems they sell are overpriced pieces of shit | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | absolute shit | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | "sound bars" | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's the fashion now | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they cost a lot, maybe for a brand | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | even the monitors are a lot more pricey than they need to be | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think they intentionally stock it like that | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | they also never have affordable peripheral | Jun 04 17:33 |
| Techrights-sec | yes the sound bars are probably unlicensed Linux in violation of the license | Jun 04 17:33 |
| Techrights-sec | the stock here has turned like that too. Last I checked, there were no plain | Jun 04 17:33 |
| Techrights-sec | loudspeakers to be had anywhere | Jun 04 17:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | sometimes rianne noticed the fast opening also, less under an hour | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | "just clean the garden... and bloom it goes out of where moments later" | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | *neaned | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | *nowhere | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | anyway, I will try to do some blog posts now | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | seems EPO is pretending to be poor | Jun 04 17:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | like our gov... until andrew's mom is throwing a party | Jun 04 17:36 |
| Techrights-sec | yep | Jun 04 17:37 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 17:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | status: | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | flying: sucks | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | stores: suck (unless I really need something) | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | parties: superspreaders | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'm running out of reasons to go out, except for running (or cycling) | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | sad to say this, years ago it would seem unthinkable | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am NOT going to pay for a single speaker what a whole laptop (WITH speakers) cost me | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | I still have my 1990s stereo, which works... but we use that for exercise | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | of course you can never find a mouse or keyboard for a sane price there, either | Jun 04 17:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's a bsiness decision | Jun 04 17:40 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 17:48 |
| Techrights-sec | flying has gotten progressively worse due to the security theatre degrading | Jun 04 17:48 |
| Techrights-sec | both the experience of flying and the dignity of the fliers. The latter | Jun 04 17:48 |
| Techrights-sec | is almost certainly the main reason it is deployed like it is. | Jun 04 17:48 |
| Techrights-sec | there have to be 2 EUR worth of parts and labor in your average mouse | Jun 04 17:48 |
| Techrights-sec | yet the price is many times that | Jun 04 17:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | like a light bulb, it is possible to make electronics that last decades | Jun 04 17:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | there has been no business incentive though | Jun 04 17:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | and regulation has flatlined | Jun 04 17:49 |
| Techrights-sec | the lightbulb is a good example, along with nylong stockings. The early | Jun 04 17:55 |
| Techrights-sec | instances of incandescent bulbs lasted a long time. The cartel cut that | Jun 04 17:55 |
| Techrights-sec | down to 2000 hours and did a marketing campaign to make it sound like | Jun 04 17:55 |
| Techrights-sec | and improvement. Run-free nylons were available decades ago but the companies | Jun 04 17:55 |
| Techrights-sec | which manufacture them engineer them to be ruined after a few uses | Jun 04 17:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | oh, btw | Jun 04 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | the model I bought in march is not available now | Jun 04 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's the same now except 5 pounds more and HD is 128GB SSD instead of 1000GB magnetic | Jun 04 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't consider this an upgrade | Jun 04 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | just more expensive | Jun 04 17:56 |
| Techrights-sec | right. they change models every few months | Jun 04 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | right. they change models every few months | Jun 04 18:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | it keeps the marketeers busy, if companies fired the marketeers they'd have | Jun 04 18:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | a lot of spare money and probably sell just as much | Jun 04 18:05 |
| Techrights-sec | it keeps the marketeers busy, if companies fired the marketeers they'd have | Jun 04 18:07 |
| Techrights-sec | a lot of spare money and probably sell just as much | Jun 04 18:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | tbh, I'm alone in this floor so headphones serve me ok, no need to broadcast sound outwards to neighbours and rianne | Jun 04 18:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | also, the sound is mp3 quality, around 128 whatsDatUnit, so no need for fancy system | Jun 04 18:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | we had a decent one from ebay (35 pounds), 7 pieces, since 2013 | Jun 04 18:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | but it broke down last yuear | Jun 04 18:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | (logitech) | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | mp3 still sucks | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | the sound is highly distorted even on "high" quality files and that distortion | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | is amplified by the bluetooth and other shortcomings | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | it's hard to know which ones are good quality in advance because they are | Jun 04 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | changing (on purpose) all the time | Jun 04 18:09 |
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| schestowitz-TR | https://nitter.it/BryanWilhite/status/1532952299684843520#m | Jun 04 20:17 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Bryan D. Wilhite (@BryanWilhite): "When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions Having boasted about hardware worth as much as a house (likely in breach of FTC regulations, not just the most fundamental ethical guidelines), apparently comi… http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=311124 #rxa 👁⚙🌩"|nitter.it | Jun 04 20:17 | |
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