●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, February 06, 2023 ●● ● Feb 06 [01:28] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:31] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 06 [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 not many new articles [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 don't worry [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 i do TONS of backups [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 and tidying up [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 local machines [04:32] schestowitz-TR2 want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity [04:33] techrightssec There seem to be fewer with each passing week [04:33] techrightssec That's on an absolute level. On a relative level, relevant articles are [04:33] techrightssec even more rare [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 not many new articles [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 don't worry [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 i do TONS of backups [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 and tidying up [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 local machines [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 i actually want to discuss this: [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 a) [to keep tidy] all google rss feeds - blogspot, youtube etc. -seem to block rss downloaders [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 this is ok, f* google [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 b) yes, fewer new items over time [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 c) (B) is a reason to adapt some more [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 d) some sites temporarily try to make a comeback, like foss force last month [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 e) twitter is dyng. maybe feb 14th tuxmachines will become inactive there. xrevan was not sure if disapora [04:35] schestowitz-TR2 api impacted [04:36] techrightssec ok [04:36] techrightssec a) google's new way of hiding the destination RSS links is unacceptable and [04:36] techrightssec dangerous [04:36] techrightssec e) probably, best to plan for the possibility [04:36] techrightssec c) what kind of adaptations? It's hard to wade through blogs even as RSS and [04:36] techrightssec even harder to discover them. [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 the lifeblood of TM is good, notable stories re bsd and gnu/linux [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 e.g. reviews (very rare these days, low roi) [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 casting the net wider is one option [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 that i have nearly exhausted [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 with the hardware crash i lost only months' worth of new feeds in opml [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 i made backups to bubi after adding many [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 backups of the opml dump [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 opml files are the best bet, i think [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 when i find a new site and it is on topic i try to add it [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 unless the ratio of signal/noise is very bad [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 like some that veer way off topic or post something like tweets as "posts" [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 sparkfun?? [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 using those blogs up and distracts from the real feeds [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 cisa is also very template-like [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 one upside of ditching quitrrss is that in blockquote i now have "proper" html [04:40] schestowitz-TR2 with some links and styling [04:42] techrightssec Yes, reviews have more or less vanished but that is ok because it is mostly [04:42] techrightssec from the uniformly high quality of desktop distros and systems [04:42] techrightssec Yes [04:42] techrightssec sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers [04:42] schestowitz-TR2 it kept filling up my 'inbox' [04:42] schestowitz-TR2 to the point where i knew it wasn't as 'full' as I had gotten accustomed to [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 this enlightened me as to a new trouble ahead [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 spending far too much effort and time separatinh wheat from chaff [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 while adding/posting almost nothing [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 after 20 years of posting from rssowl thunderbird, quiterss we do need 'fresh' thinking [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 and social control media is waning [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 it was sort of 'replacing' feeds for a lot of people [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 they even called it newsfeeds or "timelines" [04:47] schestowitz-TR2 curated by a-holes [04:54] techrightssec sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers [04:54] techrightssec and their algorithms ● Feb 06 [05:09] schestowitz-TR2 youtube seems to be breaking itself again [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 i cannot play ANYTHING infalkon [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 not even via invidious instances [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 youtube tells me to reboot my pc! [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 when rianne wakes up i can check what it does to librewolf [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 which blocks all youtube ads [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 wait, restarting falkon itself restored some sanity [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 but still, on rianne's librewolfsetup all newer videos - recent eyars - [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 won't play [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 we reckon it's some drm [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 or some anti-invidious mechanism [05:10] schestowitz-TR2 making life hard for those who want to dodge the youtube ui, ads, drm [05:10] techrightssec It has too many ads most of the time. When there are ads they often are [05:10] techrightssec longer than the video itself and break it up to the point of being unwatchable [05:10] techrightssec :/ [05:10] techrightssec youtube is no longer a web site but has become a javascript "app [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 alphabet releases fin' results days ago [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 youtube revenue is DOWN [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 12 month period apart [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 so the past 12 months' ad blitz did not result in higher income [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 it seems to be scaring people away [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 maybe they can say advertisers... downturn etc etc [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 this is GOOD news [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 unless you are "vested" in Google 'subscribers' [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 lunduke stopped again uploading to yutube, which he had protested against years ago [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 his videos did not get many views anyway [05:13] schestowitz-TR2 hundreds [05:16] psydruid I use an mpv frontend for YouTube on my laptop [05:17] schestowitz-TR2 what is ti called? [05:17] schestowitz-TR2 i use mpv by default [05:17] psydruid QMPlay2, it's on shithub [05:17] psydruid after I came across it on Haiku [05:18] schestowitz-TR2 does it work like mpv --something youtube id/url? [05:18] psydruid I don't know, it's a GUI [05:18] schestowitz-TR2 in repo also? [05:18] psydruid probably not [05:18] schestowitz-TR2 q as in qt? [05:18] psydruid yes [05:19] schestowitz-TR2 i used some guis for youtube in the past [05:19] schestowitz-TR2 they keep breaking [05:19] schestowitz-TR2 yutube breaks them [05:19] schestowitz-TR2 then the developer gives up [05:19] schestowitz-TR2 project abandoned/forked [05:20] techrightssec It was a waste of time for him there but then also he doesn't cover much of \ [05:20] techrightssec interest any more. He did a few *really* good ones a long while back but they [05:20] techrightssec turn out to have been anomalies [05:22] schestowitz-TR2 i see unduke a lot in kate [05:22] schestowitz-TR2 but nothing worth anything this past week [05:22] schestowitz-TR2 some satire about shitGPT [05:22] schestowitz-TR2 that was not even remotely funny [05:22] schestowitz-TR2 and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust [05:23] techrightssec Mentioning it by name seeds the alogorithms with it and keeps it visible, sadly [05:24] schestowitz-TR2 yesm, exactly [05:24] schestowitz-TR2 daemonfcis mentioning it again in techrights [05:24] schestowitz-TR2 and his blog [05:24] schestowitz-TR2 at this very moment ● Feb 06 [06:14] *web-60 (~web-60@freenode-eam.tce.edi4v1.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [06:22] *web-60 has quit (Connection closed) ● Feb 06 [07:01] schestowitz[TR2] "On recent results alone, the club is in crisis." [07:01] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/football/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-refuses-to-answer-question-spt-intl/index.html [07:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Jurgen Klopp refuses to answer journalist's question after Wolves loss | CNN ● Feb 06 [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 i see unduke a lot in kate [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 but nothing worth anything this past week [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 some satire about shitGPT [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 that was not even remotely funny [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 msft cut a lot of marketing staff [08:54] schestowitz-TR2 and soon the shitgpt pr spam will run dry too [08:55] schestowitz-TR2 and nobody will remeber any microsoft product promosing this pixie dust [08:55] techrightssec Yes that is an additional advantage of them cutting. [08:55] techrightssec I hope that what's left of the media can reinvent itself without m$ money but [08:55] techrightssec those that were once indpendent of m$ money, and thus influence, have been [08:55] techrightssec bought and shut down or else paid by M$ ● Feb 06 [10:21] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Feb 06 [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 crude draft [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 do you consent to then generla direction? [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 www become so shitty [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 that going back to quiterss 'felt' wrong [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 i sarted posting links to indivious videos [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 some were not evengood [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 like "linux" gamer [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 valve spam [12:29] schestowitz-TR2 i stopped [12:29] techrightssec your call but will check anyway [12:29] techrightssec Might bowdlerize some of the pejoratives for the one gimmick software [12:29] techrightssec By hand? Does the script not help? [12:29] techrightssec s/classic spam/egregious spam/ ?? [12:30] schestowitz-TR2 i will change the text and clarify [12:30] schestowitz-TR2 thanks! [12:30] schestowitz-TR2 it was a fast rough type [12:30] techrightssec np [12:31] schestowitz-TR2 today's main video and feature is epo 'leak' [12:31] schestowitz-TR2 that'll take longer to put in text [12:33] techrightssec ack ● Feb 06 [13:27] schestowitz-TR2 the past 3 days no "other-links" in tr:links [13:27] schestowitz-TR2 a bug or intentional? [13:31] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [13:36] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [13:37] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@52ym6jpttx2xw.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:37] techrightssec bug [13:37] techrightssec checking [13:55] techrightssec They were in the wrong dir, will verify the script tomorrow to be sure it is [13:55] techrightssec fixed [13:55] techrightssec thanks for catching that ● Feb 06 [15:13] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 06 [17:02] schestowitz-TR2 "Modern" and "progress" meaning worse and more annoying https://rubenerd.com/booking-a-hotel-in-2023/ [17:02] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Rubenerd: Booking a hotel in 2023 [17:10] techrightssec Is KDE's default browser / own browser still Konqueror? [17:10] schestowitz-TR2 might dependon he distro [17:10] schestowitz-TR2 in debian 11 it's firefoxand konq ● Feb 06 [20:37] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) ● Feb 06 [21:21] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@mumw5xsbhyj8c.irc) has joined #boycottnovell