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| schestowitz | "you mean that people _don't_ want to buy a license and install Windows to install Linux instead of... just installing Linux??" | Dec 06 01:04 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Dec 06 01:04 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9pe0bfMT5y76hEt052 | Dec 06 01:04 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 01:04 |
| schestowitz | I do not know. | Dec 06 01:04 |
| schestowitz | It works this morning. | Dec 06 01:04 |
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| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 01:04 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9peb5vbgr8KM7Ojem8 | Dec 06 01:05 |
| schestowitz | "patches are already out" | Dec 06 01:05 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9penxhN1Cc2v3GHLxA | Dec 06 01:05 |
| schestowitz | "@schestowitz Excuse me for being a cynic, but I suggest you wait at least until the primaries before saying anything like this... or else these articles would age like milk." | Dec 06 01:05 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9pewgx8oDGFwd1iqp6 | Dec 06 01:06 |
| schestowitz | " Of course..." | Dec 06 01:06 |
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| schestowitz | >> What sort of updates would you like? Title? I typically just look for | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | >> the 'nearest' image in the target page; for sites with almost no images | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | >> it's often the author's. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > For the titles and headings, here are some ideas: | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126057 | Dec 06 03:33 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Debian Governance/Volunteer's Rights: Codes of Conduct and Hypocrisy | Tux Machines | Dec 06 03:33 | |
| schestowitz | > Currently: "Daniel Pocock: Codes of Conduct and Hypocrisy" | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > could become one of these: | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > "Debian Governance: Codes of Conduct and Hypocrisy" | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > "Volunteer's Rights: Codes of Conduct and Hypocrisy" | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | Title changed. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > Notice how it shifts the article from egos to issues? | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > If people see my name over and over again, some people think it is a | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > personal issue or vendetta, then they miss the real issues. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > For the pictures: I'll try and add some extra pictures to the articles | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > and then you could use those in future. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | >> I only take planes at most once in 2 years (ecological reasons), so am | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | >> not attending events to be frank. Unless they're local. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | > That's understandable. Let me see when I can come by Manchester again. | Dec 06 03:33 |
| schestowitz | My wife also likes your blog and might want to meet. | Dec 06 03:33 |
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| schestowitz | > Why do you consider Nebula “openwashing”? It was created by a small team | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > of engineers inside of a company, and we engineers expended a lot of | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > effort to ensure it was released as open source, because it is a useful, | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > simple, reliable, performant tool. | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > It is MIT licensed and there is absolutely nothing about it that | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > requires interaction with the company where it was created. | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | Can you show me the context/link in which it was presented as openwashing? | Dec 06 03:48 |
| schestowitz | > ifso, established in 2004, has had a related orgs page since before techrights or free media alliance did: | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.ifso.ie/related-orgs.html | Dec 06 03:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ifso.ie | Related Organisations - Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) | Dec 06 03:57 | |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > note that ffii is on there. although they do use macs, right? i mean that does suggest something. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > things im looking into: | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > UK Campaign for Digital Rights (UKCDR) <http://www.ifso.ie/related-orgs.html#ukcdr> | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.ifso.ie/related-orgs.html#ilug | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.ifso.ie/related-orgs.html#affs | Dec 06 03:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ifso.ie | Related Organisations - Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) | Dec 06 03:57 | |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > when trying to find organisations that exist to promote free software, its going to be extremely difficult to deny that an org called "association for free software" is not one of those, unless its a COMPLETELY orwellian name for an organisation very devoutly dedicated to destroying free software outright. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ifso.ie | Related Organisations - Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) | Dec 06 03:57 | |
| schestowitz | > for example, sfc IS an organisation that exists to promote free software, even if it has done great harm. this is a list, not a rating system. it tries to be as simple and matter-of-fact and fact-based as possible, in determining inclusion. thats why fsfe and sfc are there-- their present status is barely relevant. to this, i mean. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | Yes, it is important to check this, irrespective of who recommended inclusion. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ifso.ie | Related Organisations - Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) | Dec 06 03:57 | |
| schestowitz | >> I let him know your thoughts. Him = Daniel. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > i just realised the links are from him. thats very gratifying. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | We've corresponded lately and might meet in person. | Dec 06 03:57 |
| schestowitz | > Windows is on its last leg. Expect Microsoft to ship a Linux distro of their own within a few years. Their big burden is creating a migration path to their legacy services/server tooling for Linux. | Dec 06 03:58 |
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| schestowitz | > Lots of M$ spam. Some examples below. | Dec 06 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Among "LINUX" news there has not been much Microsoft creep lately. | Dec 06 07:15 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1/status/1202652840486985728 | Dec 06 07:58 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@SleepyPenguin1: @schestowitz As they say in Yorkshire... 'OW MUCH' ?? | Dec 06 07:58 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1202654318148501505 | Dec 06 07:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras I was thinking about you when I tweeted this thread last night about patents on the Apple Pen… https://t.co/TxiVAtH8OU | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras I was thinking about you when I tweeted this thread last night about patents on the Apple Pen… https://t.co/TxiVAtH8OU | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| schestowitz | '"I was thinking about you when I tweeted this thread last night about patents on the Apple Pencil. I think Microsoft isn’t as concerned about GNU/Linux inside #Chromebooks because they see Google as a company with a business model that’s not too subversive." | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1202654890763309056 | Dec 06 07:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras 10 years ago, Apple and Microsoft were aligned in wanting to punish free (or patented, but ro… https://t.co/E5O8funlsU | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras 10 years ago, Apple and Microsoft were aligned in wanting to punish free (or patented, but ro… https://t.co/E5O8funlsU | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | Replying to | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | @jhamby | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| schestowitz | @schestowitz | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | and | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | @Seegras | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | 10 years ago, Apple and Microsoft were aligned in wanting to punish free (or patented, but royalty-free) codecs like Vorbis, Opus, and Google’s VP8 & VP9. Today, only Apple still refuses to support free codecs in their browser. | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | I think WSL is primarily to compete with macOS. | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Ad_Inifinitum/status/1202655730836398081 | Dec 06 07:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Ad_Inifinitum: @jhamby @schestowitz Yeah. It does most of what I need it to now. There's still a few annoying kinks, but it mostly works fine. | Dec 06 07:59 | |
| schestowitz | "Yeah. It does most of what I need it to now. There's still a few annoying kinks, but it mostly works fine." | Dec 06 07:59 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1202655769847447552 | Dec 06 08:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras For you, WSL is trivial, unneeded, and therefore unimportant. I don’t have any practical use… https://t.co/wSpvTzmyJr | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras For you, WSL is trivial, unneeded, and therefore unimportant. I don’t have any practical use… https://t.co/wSpvTzmyJr | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | For you, WSL is trivial, unneeded, and therefore unimportant. I don’t have any practical use for it myself, but am playing with it for general knowledge. | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | I think from a marketing perspective, Google Chromebooks compete with iPads, while Windows 10 competes with macOS laptops. | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1202656629461680128 | Dec 06 08:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras One depressing note is that while Chromebooks succeeded at getting #Linux into the hands of l… https://t.co/2LUAJac5QI | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras One depressing note is that while Chromebooks succeeded at getting #Linux into the hands of l… https://t.co/2LUAJac5QI | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| schestowitz | "One depressing note is that while Chromebooks succeeded at getting #Linux into the hands of large numbers of people, it was only by wrapping it in a slick, cloud-centric Google shell that customers and big box stores could accept and respect. CrOS & Android help Linux acceptance." | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1202656967778373632 | Dec 06 08:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras So the success of Chromebooks is better than a Windows monoculture, but it’s not totally free… https://t.co/yB9oVKiWbj | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz @Seegras So the success of Chromebooks is better than a Windows monoculture, but it’s not totally free… https://t.co/yB9oVKiWbj | Dec 06 08:00 | |
| schestowitz | "So the success of Chromebooks is better than a Windows monoculture, but it’s not totally free like the “netbooks” of 10 years ago would have been. But everything is a compromise, including life." | Dec 06 08:00 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MarkKen20510303/status/1202676394444148743 | Dec 06 08:01 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@MarkKen20510303: Hmm finally something is like to give to a Tory. A smart enema. https://t.co/p9TGljUprX | Dec 06 08:01 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: Are there "Smart" enemas and "Smart" vomits already? Is there anything outside and inside that… https://t.co/UtfjRSYouG | Dec 06 08:01 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/_________it/status/1202749567558508544 | Dec 06 08:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@_________it: @schestowitz @wikileaks Prosecute the bait? | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/unixterminal/status/1202766264617308161 | Dec 06 08:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@unixterminal: @schestowitz https://t.co/IzhMyTA40G | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@unixterminal: @schestowitz https://t.co/IzhMyTA40G | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jmarhee/status/1202767300031594499 | Dec 06 08:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jmarhee: @unixterminal @schestowitz lol https://t.co/JD9et17isb | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jmarhee: @unixterminal @schestowitz lol https://t.co/JD9et17isb | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/StarchyArchie/status/1202795346193199104 | Dec 06 08:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@StarchyArchie: @Schestowitz https://t.co/RNGjij48N2 | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@satish_babu: A newly-discovered vulnerability on the #Linux kernel that permits hijacking of VPNs may impact a wide range of pla… https://t.co/8Fztn6ns0A | Dec 06 08:02 | |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/131354 | Dec 06 08:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | VPN Vulnerability (CVE-2019-14899) | Tux Machines | Dec 06 08:03 | |
| schestowitz | >> Rianne and I do 4 extra shifts (paid) in 5 days, hence not much time for | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | >> articles | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > Paid overtime, 1.5x or 2x? | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | Extra shifts, partly by choice. Same pay as usual. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | >> The charset issue seems to be all gone now for 2-3 days, which is very good. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > It's only hidden, not gone. :/ I've been looking into it on the side a | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > little. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | If no manual work is required, then good. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | >> I'll start posting 9am when I'm done at work. One more shift tomorrow... | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | I got some thinks lined up, but very tight schedule (work, gym) until Saturday 9am. Family comes over Monday night. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | >> Among "LINUX" news there has not been much Microsoft creep lately. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > M$ has been prolific in googlebombing the news feeds. | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > Here are a few more links, but unrelated: | Dec 06 08:34 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 08:35 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/05/conman-sets-fake-russia-border-finland-trick-migrants/ | Dec 06 08:35 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 08:35 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-finland-border-eu-immigration-arrest-europe-fraud-charge-a9234521.html | Dec 06 08:35 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 06 08:35 |
| schestowitz | > https://abcnews.go.com/International/russia-detains-conman-built-fake-border-finland-trick/story?id=67526621 | Dec 06 08:35 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.telegraph.co.uk | Conman sets up fake Russia border with Finland to trick migrants | Dec 06 08:35 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.independent.co.uk | Man builds fake EU border and charges desperate people thousands to cross | The Independent | Dec 06 08:35 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-abcnews.go.com | Russia detains conman who built fake border with Finland to trick migrants - ABC News | Dec 06 08:35 | |
| schestowitz | I know it's 'wrong', but I actually find this hilarious. | Dec 06 08:36 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Flavia0847/status/1203059011110739969 | Dec 06 21:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Flavia0847: Totally unnecessary. Vs how many deaths from adverse reactions? https://t.co/ZVy54hfZvb | Dec 06 21:36 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #bbc #measles #health ☞ Measles deaths 'staggering and tragic' https://t.co/ZZJxTZe9VY | Dec 06 21:36 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1203062467116617729 | Dec 06 21:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@j082298: Thought you might be interested , starting @ 2.16 re: Palantir and Theil. @schestowitz https://t.co/RhOp8jmz3X | Dec 06 21:37 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.youtube.com | Trump's Billionaire 'Shadow President' Thiel Exposed: Palantir & The Beast System Is Being Built - YouTube | Dec 06 21:37 | |
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