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schestowitz-TRfor a complete www backup of TM on my machine, gz is 680mbOct 06 01:02
schestowitz-TRgrew about 100mb since a month agoOct 06 01:02
schestowitz-TRso think 1200mb increase per year (compressed)Oct 06 01:03
starstreakthats not badOct 06 01:28
schestowitz-TRhttps://nitter.it/_______dev/status/1577814655304704003#mOct 06 01:35
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-- (@_______dev): "Microsoft/CIA love them so much, no wonder why https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_corrupt_business/ http://techrights.org/2014/05/28/microsoft-brazil/"|nitter.itOct 06 01:35
DaemonFCFucking Walmart.Oct 06 02:09
DaemonFCTheir Web site firewall stops me from doing my shopping if it thinks I'm not in the US.Oct 06 02:09
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starstreak^ yayOct 06 03:23
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Techrights-secTR httpd does not like the new certificate and putting the old one back inOct 06 08:35
Techrights-secplace does not restore functionality.Oct 06 08:35
Techrights-secIt is up and running again now but, not having touched the configurations,Oct 06 08:35
Techrights-secit is still a mess behind the scenes.Oct 06 08:35
Techrights-secThe steps used to make the current certificate are in mk-self-signed.sh  Oct 06 08:35
Techrights-secHowever, I am not sure how much closer that gets to solving the problemOct 06 08:35
Techrights-secwith the testing site:Oct 06 08:35
Techrights-sechttps://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=techrights.orgOct 06 08:35
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ssllabs.com | SSL Server Test: techrights.org (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)Oct 06 08:35
schestowitz-TRthanks, I overslept again, but anyway not many [topics] to coverOct 06 08:37
schestowitz-TRso time is sufficientOct 06 08:37
Techrights-secnpOct 06 08:45
schestowitz-TRone thing I noticed is, about 5 years ago half the 'articles' in phoronix became just a mailing list message Oct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRwith light commentary addedOct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRlater he added photos like TM, also for categoriesOct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRmaybe even inspired by it (it was his biggest source of traffic, accoriding to alexa)Oct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRbut here is the thing:Oct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRthat site too runs out ofn topicsOct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRand compensates with clickbaitOct 06 08:46
Techrights-secpossible topic: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/05/1412249Oct 06 08:46
Techrights-secackOct 06 08:46
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | You Don't Own the Software You Bought, You Own a License - SoylentNewsOct 06 08:46
Techrights-sechttps://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/you_cannot_buy_software/Oct 06 08:46
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie • The RegisterOct 06 08:46
schestowitz-TRclickbait=wasting people's time, possible annoying themOct 06 08:47
schestowitz-TR*possiblyOct 06 08:47
Techrights-secThe Register mentions FOSS by name, specificallyOct 06 08:47
schestowitz-TRyes, liam proven is OKOct 06 08:48
schestowitz-TRI think we both read his own blog tooOct 06 08:48
schestowitz-TRwith FOSS you at least trul ownsomething in some senseOct 06 08:48
schestowitz-TRcan modify, sell etc. at least pass on...Oct 06 08:48
Techrights-sec^topic ?Oct 06 08:50
mjg59_Phoronix has *always* been rephrased mailing list messagesOct 06 08:50
schestowitz-TRyes, copying notesyes, copying notesOct 06 08:50
mjg59_Michael has never actually understood any of the stuff he's writing aboutOct 06 08:50
Techrights-sechaving caused a world full of security problems through bad design and      Oct 06 08:55
Techrights-secimplementation, m$ is wrongfully posing as a leader in data protection;Oct 06 08:55
Techrights-secproblems cannot generally be solved by the same people and methods as Oct 06 08:55
Techrights-seccaused them to begin with;Oct 06 08:55
Techrights-sec^ topic ?Oct 06 08:55
schestowitz-TRI'll hawk or watch out for any new items in the news that reaffirm this deceptionOct 06 08:57
schestowitz-TRthere's one almost every dayOct 06 08:57
schestowitz-TRi cannot quite recall the last time the FSF published an essayOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRit did some formal calls for talks and announced times for IRC sessionsOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRbut those are "meta"Oct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRGNU used to routinely have some new articles from RMSOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRhe still writes some, but less than in prior yearsOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRpointing this out is scattering salt over wounds, hence not a topidOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRthe other day there were some good irc discussions about erosion of rights due to Oct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRdigitisationOct 06 09:01
schestowitz-TRbut I cannot quite recall all the pertinent details anymore, let alone the contextOct 06 09:01
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schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> Thus spake the master programmer: “time for you to leave.” gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/10/05.1Oct 06 09:08
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Techrights-secCan the details be looked up from the logs?  It too would be a good topic.Oct 06 09:20
Techrights-sec1) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hundreds-of-microsoft-sql-servers-backdoored-with-new-malware/Oct 06 09:20
Techrights-sec2) https://ubuntu.com//blog/microsoft-sql-server-on-ubuntuOct 06 09:20
Techrights-sec3) profit!!Oct 06 09:20
Techrights-secthough technically that is running within "drawbridge" and not within UbuntuOct 06 09:20
Techrights-secitselfOct 06 09:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Hundreds of Microsoft SQL servers backdoored with new malwareOct 06 09:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The benefits of running Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro | UbuntuOct 06 09:20
Techrights-sechttps://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/drawbridge-what-sql-server-on-linux-is-built-on/Oct 06 09:23
Techrights-secBest though to focus on the real tools which m$ tries to draw people away from:Oct 06 09:23
Techrights-secpostgresql, mariadb, sqlite3, etcOct 06 09:23
Techrights-sec^ topic ? Oct 06 09:23
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-threedots.ovh | Drawbridge: what SQL Server on Linux is built on – random blogOct 06 09:23
schestowitz-TRyes, adding to notesOct 06 09:23
schestowitz-TRside topic, re microsoft and othersOct 06 09:30
schestowitz-TRpeople tend to wrongly assume that if you act nice or appease a bullyy or sociopaths things will improveOct 06 09:30
schestowitz-TRand they will leave you aloneOct 06 09:30
schestowitz-TRbut that's wrongOct 06 09:30
schestowitz-TRsociopaths do not think like healthy peopleOct 06 09:30
mjg59_You do demonstrate that pretty clearlyOct 06 09:30
schestowitz-TRroy noorda learned this from experience and the same seems tro be applicable to a certain kind of trollsOct 06 09:33
schestowitz-TR*rayOct 06 09:33
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Techrights-secappeasement never works; furthermore they are, as you point out, incorrectOct 06 09:52
Techrights-secin projecting their values onto a group which is ideologically, diametricallyOct 06 09:52
Techrights-secopposed to those very values.  Oct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRI think if today and tomorrow (off work) I spend just all the time keeping TM in good form and up to date (speed),Oct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRthat alone would be niceOct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRbut I will try to do videos in "chains" againOct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRit's a lot more efficient when done this way, the hard part is gathering enough deent topic and brainstormingOct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRif the idea come by reading other sites, they may not be originalOct 06 09:52
schestowitz-TRand can be covered properly by clustering related coverage with some editorial comments (imho)Oct 06 09:52
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Techrights-sechttp://techrights.org/2016/03/05/psychopath-vs-sociopath/Oct 06 10:00
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Guest Post: What’s the Difference Between a Psychopath and a Sociopath? | TechrightsOct 06 10:00
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schestowitz-TRyou know what sorts of things noorda said about ballmer and gates after they had buried him with fake "kindness"Oct 06 10:02
schestowitz-TRso I'll spare the quote seekingOct 06 10:02
schestowitz-TReither way, canonical and MarkS are maybe not malicious, but their playing along is a malignant cancer that spreads upstreamOct 06 10:02
Techrights-secSufficiently advance incompetence is indistinguishable from malice :/Oct 06 10:03
schestowitz-TRMarkS is not mean-spirited, I spoke to him beforeOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRhis business was not profitableOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRso he has canned the CEO and is experimenting with all sorts of approachesOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRall that GAFAM hoddling, IME, gives THEM benefits, little of benefiot to UbuntuOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRand to gnu/linux in generalOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRit's an experiment and it harms the brand, even the viability of the companyOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRquite a few key people resignedOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRbut I cannot claim to know the true reasons Oct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRI could look up some names and positions, based on memoryOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TRsame thing happed in red hatOct 06 10:05
schestowitz-TR3 CEOs in 3 yearsOct 06 10:05
psydruidis Canonical doing well financiallyOct 06 10:10
schestowitz-TRthey claims so nowOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRafter many eyars of lossesOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRbut sellouts are like thisOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRyou make a little in the SHORT-TERMOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRbut screwing those whom you counted onOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRTechrights-sec: Oct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TReven UK Conservatives have been more StrongAndStable than thisOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRthe turnover PM-wiseOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRI need not say 'too' much about UK politics atmOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRas there's an application to be assessedOct 06 10:13
schestowitz-TRpsydruid: to put it another way, with far fewer typos ;-) Canonical closed bug  #1 in Ubuntu and basically changed the missionOct 06 10:23
schestowitz-TRbut it already invested a lot of money in farming goodwillOct 06 10:23
schestowitz-TRlike volunteers' time (support in forums, wiki, advocacy)Oct 06 10:23
schestowitz-TRso it is burning what it invested inOct 06 10:23
schestowitz-TRin hope that the new mission or 'Plan b' will pay offOct 06 10:24
schestowitz-TRMandriva was royally pissed off when MarkS openly moaned there was no money in the desktop marketOct 06 10:24
schestowitz-TRbecause Mandriva did have a planaOct 06 10:24
schestowitz-TRand the plan wasn't ShipIt -- using deep pockets to make it comvenient for people to 'choose' UbuntuOct 06 10:24
schestowitz-TRit was not long after that... that MarkS sucked up to Azure in publicOct 06 10:25
schestowitz-TRand tried to rebrand as "clown"Oct 06 10:25
schestowitz-TRIMHO, unless there are MASSIVE price hikes (there are; I see it in ByteMark UK)Oct 06 10:25
schestowitz-TRthe whole clown business model will benefit very fewOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TReven webhosting was never a ver lucrative buisnessOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TRlots of money and time spent maintainig the servers and helping clientsOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TRmitigating securityy incidentsOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TRwith hope that one day, over time, there will be profitsOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TRwhere I work we provide supportOct 06 10:26
schestowitz-TRthe hosts aren't us, not anymoreOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRwe no longer use our premises for the hostingOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRit's a lot of troubleOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRlike, when ISP problems happenOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRand then you have to send staff after midnight to the rackOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRthe following day that staff is far too tired to functionOct 06 10:27
schestowitz-TRclown computing bills are soaringOct 06 10:28
schestowitz-TRof course they use "energy crisis" as a pretext, even if energy isn't the highest cost componentOct 06 10:28
psydruid"energy crisis" seems to be mostly a European thingOct 06 10:30
schestowitz-TRif russia does not export through east europe, it has a surplus to send to china dn toehrsOct 06 10:31
schestowitz-TRthe cynic in me says, china/wuhan did a one-two punchOct 06 10:31
schestowitz-TRand then russia comes with the suppercutOct 06 10:31
schestowitz-TR*upperOct 06 10:31
schestowitz-TRbrexit was promoted by groups that had enjoyed russian media's supportOct 06 10:31
schestowitz-TRthey divide and rule europeOct 06 10:31
Techrights-secackOct 06 10:32
psydruidI've read that in some countries, possibly including Russia, using local cloud is becoming mandatory for at least some businessesOct 06 10:32
Techrights-secYes with the inappropriately premature closure of bug #1, Ubuntu changedOct 06 10:33
Techrights-secmissions about 180 degrees away from the community it is dependent on.  Oct 06 10:33
psydruidI noticed Ubuntu became buggier in 2019Oct 06 10:34
schestowitz-TRand debian?Oct 06 10:34
psydruidand Debian started working better than beforeOct 06 10:34
psydruidso I stopped evaluating Ubuntu at that pointOct 06 10:35
schestowitz-TRthat's great newsOct 06 10:35
schestowitz-TRI first installed debian ages agoOct 06 10:35
psydruidI'll get rid of all Ubuntu installs for relatives and myself by the end of the yearOct 06 10:35
schestowitz-TRand also had it on a server around 2010Oct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRin 2020 both rianne and I used it as daily driver with kdeOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRthen my sister tooOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRdebian 10 is very very solidOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRand predictableOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRdebian 11 is not too bad, but "upgrading" from 10 to 11 is not a great ideaOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRmaybe fresh install.. maybeOct 06 10:36
schestowitz-TRmy sister had a ton of issues when upgrading to itOct 06 10:37
psydruidIt's not that I didn't tryOct 06 10:37
psydruidUbuntu didn't work correctly on multiple architectures whereas Debian simply didn't have those problemsOct 06 10:37
schestowitz-TRlike old things only worked in 10Oct 06 10:37
schestowitz-TRso i told her, why did you move? pressure from workOct 06 10:37
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Techrights-sec   Oct 06 10:38
Techrights-secackOct 06 10:38
schestowitz-TRthe funny thing is, i think vista 10 -> 11 is similar scenarioOct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRbut inherently different systemsOct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRone serves the master (company)Oct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRthe other claims to prioritise usersOct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRiceweasel showed how far Debian would go to PREVENT what Canonical did with AmazonOct 06 10:39
psydruidvista 10 is slower than vista 11 in a virtual machine for some reasonOct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRor Mozilla did with only TM back thenOct 06 10:39
schestowitz-TRbefore Firefox became spywareOct 06 10:39
psydruidbut it's just another layer of lipstick on the same pigOct 06 10:40
psydruidnot something you can rely on for anythingOct 06 10:40
schestowitz-TRmicrosoft needs to slow down market erosionOct 06 10:40
schestowitz-TRindia (1500 million people) is not buying new PCsOct 06 10:40
schestowitz-TRSam Varghese showed the figures 2 weeks agoOct 06 10:41
schestowitz-TRsales plungedOct 06 10:41
schestowitz-TRso people recycle old ones, I assumeOct 06 10:41
psydruidI can understand thatOct 06 10:41
schestowitz-TRwith Indian distrosOct 06 10:41
schestowitz-TRgnu/linux climbed to 10% there this monthOct 06 10:41
psydruidmy machines are all 5-6 years oldOct 06 10:41
schestowitz-TRto me, the only explanation is, people check what can be done with the old PCsOct 06 10:41
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psydruidand work just fine with DebianOct 06 10:42
schestowitz-TRmine are about the same agweOct 06 10:42
schestowitz-TR2015, 16,17Oct 06 10:42
schestowitz-TRthe pi is 2020Oct 06 10:42
schestowitz-TRpcworld is offloading lots of machines that cannot run vista 11Oct 06 10:43
schestowitz-TRsold like 50% or less RRPOct 06 10:43
Techrights-secDebian is a lot less solid with systemd now Oct 06 10:43
psydruideven KDE Plasma works better again for me now that I am on BookwormOct 06 10:43
psydruidbut I know what I'm doing and install LTS for othersOct 06 10:43
psydruidmy newest machine is a used Jetson Nano from 2019Oct 06 10:44
schestowitz-TRnano does debian mostly iircOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRnot sure if by defaultOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRand it's not so cheapOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRprobably doing graphics well, due to nvidia being involvedOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRthe pi machines are getting harder to getOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRand expensive if youdo find themOct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRfrom less official "channels"Oct 06 10:46
schestowitz-TRI'm glad rianne bought one, barely, just before the war eruptedOct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRshe got a raspi400 for about 65 pounds inc. adapter and shipping, iircOct 06 10:47
psydruidI got it for €30Oct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRTechrights-sec helped find it onlineOct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRat first they had none in stockOct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRand she signed up for alertsOct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRday later they got shipment arriving and within hours we reserved and bought itOct 06 10:47
schestowitz-TRis gaRUDA ANY GOOD, psydruid?Oct 06 10:49
schestowitz-TRSORRY, CAPSOct 06 10:49
schestowitz-TRpsydruid: TYPING WHILE EATINGOct 06 10:50
psydruidbusinesses appear to be buying lots of pisOct 06 10:50
psydruidI don't know why production isn't higher than it is right nowOct 06 10:50
psydruidI don't know, I don't use fancy distrosOct 06 10:50
schestowitz-TRI HEARD GOOD THINGSOct 06 10:51
schestowitz-TRffs, caps lockOct 06 10:51
psydruidI've settled on debian because it generally works, has most of the software I need and takes some of the work out of my hands so I can focus on other thingsOct 06 10:54
psydruidprobably the same argument as Linus for settling on FedoraOct 06 10:55
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schestowitz-TRyeah, he is still on fedoraOct 06 11:05
schestowitz-TRbased on last month's reportOct 06 11:05
schestowitz-TRre apple story,  better if corrupted scotus does not touch anything that can 'overturn' aliceOct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRside notes: mancity 'thrashed' copenhagen fc 5-0Oct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRtoday we'll have more covid figures at 4pmOct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRi used to be able to write more when disclosurees were dailyOct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRargued with nhs clerical staff yesterdaty about the public safetyOct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRcovidiots get facts from other covidiots Oct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRthey think this thing is over because they bought a product (or 3 doses of it)Oct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRhence, it's not safe to go shopping for other products and watch footballOct 06 11:19
schestowitz-TRthat causes further mutationOct 06 11:19
Techrights-secYes overturning Alice is a possibility there.  I cannot guess at the risk thoughOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TRthe furher mutation lessens the incentive to get "old" products which target a phanton enemyOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TRwhich already mutated yesrs agoOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TRlike superbugs in the context of antivioticsOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TRbut virus is differentOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TRtell that to people who take horse 'medicine' for a virusOct 06 11:21
schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> "Cops kill dogs literally all the time. It happens so often even the DOJ has taken notice." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/05/court-strips-immunity-from-cop-who-shot-a-dog-within-seconds-of-arriving-on-the-scene-of-a-non-crime/ | Source: TechdirtOct 06 11:28
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Court Strips Immunity From Cop Who Shot A Dog Within Seconds Of Arriving On The Scene Of A Non-Crime | TechdirtOct 06 11:28
schestowitz-TRdraftOct 06 11:28
Techrights-seccheckingOct 06 11:31
Techrights-secWhat is the yellowish line in the charts?Oct 06 11:32
Techrights-secThere are rectangles in the charts saying "linux" but which line do they referOct 06 11:32
Techrights-secto?  The key at the bottom does not have the yellowish color listed.Oct 06 11:32
schestowitz-TRrightOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRI'll leave that as is in draftsOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRand do a video about it along with the restOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRI can also mention norway and finland in passingOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRbut they are small populationsOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRthe goal is to explain why windows is shrinking and whereOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRit'll take  a while to get around to videosOct 06 11:34
schestowitz-TRI'm still going through LinksOct 06 11:34
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schestowitz-TR"GAFAM"... our coined term is spreading!! gemini://gemini.astropirados.space/gemlog/instagram.gmiOct 06 12:33
Techrights-secUSPTO going rogue: https://www.lightreading.com/5g/uspto-study-everyones-winner-in-5g-patents/d/d-id/776174Oct 06 13:16
Techrights-sec^ topicOct 06 13:16
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.lightreading.com/5g/uspto-study-everyones-winner-in-5g-patents/d/d-id/776174 )Oct 06 13:16
Techrights-secRPi could have easily avoided all that damage, their selling out a littleOct 06 13:16
Techrights-secprobably lead to them selling out a lot by including microsofters insideOct 06 13:16
Techrights-secthe company and on the board :(Oct 06 13:16
Techrights-secCertainly many of their staff have turned out to be rats.Oct 06 13:16
Techrights-secand working against RPi and for M$ while on the clock.Oct 06 13:16
schestowitz-TRwe did millions in damages to raspi ltd after calling them outOct 06 13:17
schestowitz-TRthey paid a price for bad deal, likely under ndaOct 06 13:17
schestowitz-TRwith 2 obligatory blog posts shilling vs and azureOct 06 13:17
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schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> "From the way that the Anglo media are treating the October 2 Brazilian first-round presidential elections, a casual news consumer may get the impression that the Brazilian Workers Party suffered a crushing defeat." ☛ https://fair.org/home/media-spin-lula-victory-as-defeat/ | Source: FAIROct 06 14:10
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fair.org | Media Spin Lula Victory as Defeat - FAIROct 06 14:10
schestowitz-TR^ media digging its own graveOct 06 14:10
Techrights-secackOct 06 14:10
schestowitz-TRlinkedin = scamsOct 06 14:11
schestowitz-TRmicrosoft: not our department, blame fossOct 06 14:11
schestowitz-TRzdent: microsoft victim of fossOct 06 14:11
Techrights-secThe media sure helps them with all that misdirection.Oct 06 14:14
schestowitz-TRdisinformation as a serviceOct 06 14:15
schestowitz-TRjust finished LinksOct 06 14:15
schestowitz-TRdoing RSS nowOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRlater the videosOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRbecause i don't want TM to be "bhind"Oct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRthe speed is a key advantageOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRrianne barely finds anything worthy todayOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRand hasn't been lately, eitherOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRI need to ghroup things to make them worthy of posting, power in numbersOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRbut this is not limited to FOSSOct 06 14:16
schestowitz-TRit's a "desert" issueOct 06 14:16
Techrights-secackOct 06 14:24
schestowitz-TRrianne has a good sense or smell for SMFT BSOct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRthis morning she mentioned that she noticed linuxlinks and itsfoss onclude many pro-Microsoft BS sentencesOct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRand that she needs to work around themOct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRshe doesn't know all the publishers' history and peopleOct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRbut learns frome xperience over timeOct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRit's also why curation cannot be automatedOct 06 14:39
Techrights-secGood call.  She's also super-fast in finding material for TM too.  Speed Oct 06 14:39
Techrights-secis a huge advantage.  Oct 06 14:39
schestowitz-TRmarius having direct access helpsOct 06 14:40
schestowitz-TRtwo key factor: expoerience with rss readers (fast is hard, also dupe detection/recognition... needs human understanding... helps with clustering.. GulagOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRNoise gets the clustering wrong a LOT)Oct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRmomentum: no audience, no incentive to do the above and fast, i.e. very oftenOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRchick-and-eggOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TR*chickenOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRGoogle is clustering things based on keywords in headlinesOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRbut then connected totally unrelated storiesOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRmaybe Gulag Noise will be next product to be canned... for an inferior "replacement"Oct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRlike they do with voice callsOct 06 14:45
psydruidRPi siding with MSFT didn't bring them much other than influencing the next generation of free software developers into becoming dependent on closed source MSFT toolsOct 06 14:45
schestowitz-TRto sjvn, the current editorial workflow lessens the incentive to break neewsOct 06 14:46
schestowitz-TRthe "breaking news" can come out 3 days late. LOLOct 06 14:46
Techrights-secRPi's siding with MSFT was not about benefit to RPi, but to MSFT at the expenseOct 06 14:58
Techrights-secof the RPi community and ecosystemOct 06 14:58
schestowitz-TRin deals with Microsoft only one side benefitsOct 06 14:58
Techrights-secDuplicate detection based on URL is "easy" but based on topic or, worse, themeOct 06 15:00
Techrights-secis very hard.Oct 06 15:00
Techrights-secNo company has ever survived a partnership with M$; RPi won't, that's for sure Oct 06 15:00
Techrights-secjust looking at the way things have been heading since they flubbed that Oct 06 15:00
Techrights-secdecision.Oct 06 15:00
schestowitz-TRthey won't be first to survive thisOct 06 15:00
schestowitz-TRbut it seems like for 20 months almost no more Microsoft sellout, at least not in the openOct 06 15:00
schestowitz-TRi know about the ads and the boardOct 06 15:00
psydruidthere are few who have even tried to run Vista on RPi hardwareOct 06 15:09
psydruidand if more people did, that would make AMD and Intel and their OEMs unhappyOct 06 15:09
psydruidso there isn't much to win for MSFT eitherOct 06 15:09
psydruidexcept for retaining the status quoOct 06 15:10
schestowitz-TRthe goal is to sabotage piOct 06 15:10
psydruidwhich is going away tooOct 06 15:10
schestowitz-TRlike they did olpc/xoOct 06 15:10
schestowitz-TRor turn those users into azure/vs dronesOct 06 15:10
Techrights-secAside from financialization, M$ makes its money off of monopoly rents soOct 06 15:18
Techrights-secmaintaining the monopoly is the only way to stay afloat.  As we see fromOct 06 15:18
Techrights-sectheir failed profits which are smaller than the government bailouts, that Oct 06 15:18
Techrights-secis no longer working.  Below ~ 85% market share in their OEM monopoly orOct 06 15:18
Techrights-secin their productivity software file format monopoly they cannot charge rents.Oct 06 15:18
Techrights-secPoof.  Their goes their income source.  Oct 06 15:18
schestowitz-TRMicrosoft 2021: we are worth 2000 billion dollarsOct 06 15:20
schestowitz-TRMicrosoft 2020: we are firing 20,000 workersOct 06 15:20
schestowitz-TRMicrosoft 2022^Oct 06 15:20
Techrights-secThe Azure layoffs are the most interesting because the are going to such Oct 06 15:32
Techrights-secgreat efforts to pretend that the division is going ok when it's clearly losingOct 06 15:32
Techrights-secmoney.Oct 06 15:32
Techrights-sec Oct 06 15:32
schestowitz-TRclown is like "metaverse"Oct 06 15:34
schestowitz-TRit's bluff to keep shareholders aroundOct 06 15:34
schestowitz-TRtwitter and FB have lots of fluff going onOct 06 15:34
schestowitz-TRyou know youtube cannot make money based on the latest self-harming movesOct 06 15:34
schestowitz-TRpeople don't harm themselves just for funOct 06 15:34
Techrights-secBill has two business skills and shoehorns every strategy into them:Oct 06 15:34
Techrights-sec1) extend an existing monopoly, 2) bluff like crazyOct 06 15:34
schestowitz-TRryan says 'billburgers' are failing badlyOct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRin this kind of economy no wondersOct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRthe price collapsedOct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRnobody buys themOct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRrianne get slots of these products on the penniesOct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRwho would buy this overpriced shit at this time?Oct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TReven meat and milk (and anything absed on them) got a lot more expensiveOct 06 15:36
Techrights-secThe US and perhaps several other markets appear to have been in a recessionOct 06 15:36
Techrights-secfor a few decades with occasional dips into actual depression, at least Oct 06 15:36
Techrights-secaccording to the old-style definitions.  Oct 06 15:36
schestowitz-TRtoday in TR IRC we spoke about real unemploymenr rateOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRdc went off topic, as usualOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRi hope the price of popcorn (cord) does not changeOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRfor some of us not having kids is enough for reprieveOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRthere is apparentyly also a bewingf mental health crisisOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRimpacting kids in particularOct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TR(I know a few)Oct 06 15:38
schestowitz-TRnew covid numbers in 8 minsOct 06 15:52
schestowitz-TRi think i finished meeting people for the yearOct 06 15:52
schestowitz-TRone meeting tomorrow, then that's itOct 06 15:52
schestowitz-TRestimates are 2 million infested atmOct 06 15:52
schestowitz-TRand rising fastOct 06 15:52
Techrights-secackOct 06 15:52
Techrights-secSocial control media on its own is a health crisis.  However, it is greatlyOct 06 15:52
Techrights-secamplified by the distancing / lockdown which feed even more misues of it.Oct 06 15:52
Techrights-secThen there are all the cuts to activities and similar budgets hidden byOct 06 15:52
Techrights-secthe pandemic.  Oct 06 15:52
schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> NHS late to release this week's figures, which should be posted daily, not weekly https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?nocache "Last updated on Thursday, 29 September 2022 at 4:00pm"Oct 06 16:01
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?nocache )Oct 06 16:01
schestowitz-TRresults minutes late: "did you try retsarting the program?"Oct 06 16:03
schestowitz-TRresults hours late: "did you try restarting the computer?"Oct 06 16:03
schestowitz-TRresults days late: "did you try reinstalling the OS or buy a new PC?"Oct 06 16:03
Techrights-secrestarting the program / system as a "solution" comes from Windows abilityOct 06 16:22
Techrights-secto crash for no reason after minutes or seconds of uptime.  It would also freezeOct 06 16:22
Techrights-seca lot too necessitating use of the debugging sequence ctrl-alt-del :Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-sec"""Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-sechttps://www.geekwire.com/2013/rest-story-controlaltdelete-inventor-expeIt was like a five-minute job in doing it. I didnt realize I was going to create aOct 06 16:22
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2013/rest-story-controlaltdelete-inventor-expeIt )Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-seccultural icon when I did it, he said. But I have to share the credit. I may have invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-sec"""Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-sechttps://www.geekwire.com/2013/rest-story-controlaltdelete-inventor-expect-command-widely/Oct 06 16:22
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The rest of the story: Control-Alt-Delete inventor didn't expect it to be widely used – GeekWireOct 06 16:22
Techrights-secIt still crashes often, but maybe not quite as often, and reboots so that  Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-secuseds forget quickly about it and try to pick up with their tasks whereOct 06 16:22
Techrights-secthey left off.  A real dollar value on the increased productivity a nationOct 06 16:22
Techrights-secwould benefit from could be calculated for migrating to GNU/Linux, *BSD, Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-secor even MacOS.  Most current spam would disappear as would > 99% of the world'sOct 06 16:22
Techrights-secmalware, and more or less 100% of the world's ransomware.  Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-secRebooting the system is superstition not repair.  Oct 06 16:22
Techrights-secBut the masses have been trained to accept it.  Oct 06 16:22
schestowitz-TRalso after installing a programOct 06 16:23
schestowitz-TRfrom what I have read the opec policy was an agreement between ksa and russiaOct 06 16:26
schestowitz-TRso you know putrler pulls strings stillOct 06 16:26
schestowitz-TRhe had it easy during trumpOct 06 16:26
schestowitz-TRmany institutions have failed to remove the tainted partsOct 06 16:26
schestowitz-TRinc. scotusOct 06 16:26
schestowitz-TRlol! nhs: only minutes ago: the data will be ready an hour later. must be a reboot then ;-)Oct 06 16:27
schestowitz-TRmaybe they even lost some data because excel crashes :-)Oct 06 16:27
schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> NHS: After Worst Summer Ever We Release Data Weekly, Not Daily Anymore (and Scotland Stops Reporting). Now: Cannot Even Release Every Week! https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/06/late-nhs/Oct 06 16:32
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » NHS: After Worst Summer Ever We Release Data Weekly, Not Daily Anymore (and Scotland Stops Reporting). Now: Cannot Even Release Every Week!Oct 06 16:32
schestowitz-TR5pm. still npo data.Oct 06 17:02
schestowitz-TR*noOct 06 17:02
schestowitz-TRcampbell now self-censors far too much to be informativeOct 06 17:13
schestowitz-TRI think that on that bnasis alone I will can himOct 06 17:13
schestowitz-TRhe cannot speak his mind outOct 06 17:13
schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> New NHS Data: COVID-19 Hospitalisations at Start of October 2022 Are 3+ Times Worse Than in 2020 and Twice as Bad as Last Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/06/covid-19-hospitalisations-october/Oct 06 17:23
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » New NHS Data: COVID-19 Hospitalisations at Start of October 2022 Are 3+ Times Worse Than in 2020 and Twice as Bad as Last YearOct 06 17:23
schestowitz-TRheadsup: i try to get a little more involved in techpol ircOct 06 17:43
schestowitz-TRnot much but a littleOct 06 17:43
schestowitz-TRit gets shown in -social at the bottomOct 06 17:43
schestowitz-TROTAx3 (I think, 2 at least)Oct 06 17:43
Techrights-secnpOct 06 17:43
Techrights-secMaybe responses from the main channel but which are off topic can be respondedOct 06 17:43
Techrights-secto there also.Oct 06 17:43
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schestowitz-TRdoneOct 06 18:30
schestowitz-TRyes, that's a good solutionOct 06 18:30
schestowitz-TRdraftOct 06 19:56
schestowitz-TRworking on the next 2 as well, in tandemOct 06 19:56
schestowitz-TRdrafy - sql serverOct 06 19:56
schestowitz-TRlast draft left now re market share Oct 06 19:56
Techrights-secackOct 06 19:56
Techrights-seccheckingOct 06 19:56
Techrights-secokOct 06 19:56
schestowitz-TRafter this rianne and I will "clean the feeds"Oct 06 19:57
Techrights-secthe lines need to be labeled, what is the beige / yellowish line? Oct 06 20:01
Techrights-secit is not in the keyOct 06 20:01
schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> Latest COVID-19 Data: Back to 10,000 Patients in English Hospitals (Double What It Was Last Year, 3+ Times Worse Than 2020) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/06/covid-19-september-october-hospital/Oct 06 20:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Latest COVID-19 Data: Back to 10,000 Patients in English Hospitals (Double What It Was Last Year, 3+ Times Worse Than 2020)Oct 06 20:47
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