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| schestowitz-TR | Why does techdirt help promote this lie that FB does encryption???? https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/07/social-responsibility-organization-says-metas-embrace-of-encryption-is-important-for-human-rights | Apr 08 08:13 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Social Responsibility Organization Says Meta’s Embrace Of Encryption Is Important For Human Rights | Techdirt | Apr 08 08:13 | |
| Techrights-sec | The myth of end-to-end encryption being possible in a web browser is problematic | Apr 08 08:14 |
| Techrights-sec | The public does not gain but surveillance capitalism does win from spreading | Apr 08 08:14 |
| Techrights-sec | the myth. A browser is basically a highly insecure VM running other people's | Apr 08 08:14 |
| Techrights-sec | unvetted, unauthenticated programs on your computer using your computer's | Apr 08 08:14 |
| Techrights-sec | resources. | Apr 08 08:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | the rest of the latest in techdirt wasn't so bad | Apr 08 08:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | there was one about "big tech" | Apr 08 08:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | but eff uses that term too | Apr 08 08:15 |
| Techrights-sec | I hope that the EFF and Techdirt both include M$ in that category. | Apr 08 08:17 |
| Techrights-sec | It's stupid that one even has to wonder about that. | Apr 08 08:17 |
| Techrights-sec | However, M$ has been spinning fools' heads rather successfully over the years. | Apr 08 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | no, no | Apr 08 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | keep hoping | Apr 08 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | that would make them MicrosoftHaters(R) | Apr 08 08:17 |
| Techrights-sec | People don't wake up one day and suddenly decide to "hate" M$. Many years of | Apr 08 08:23 |
| Techrights-sec | very hard work by a great many people have gone into M$ earning and maintaining | Apr 08 08:23 |
| Techrights-sec | that hate. | Apr 08 08:23 |
| Techrights-sec | For what it's worth the site did not have even the normal termporary lack | Apr 08 08:56 |
| Techrights-sec | of access accompanying the daily backups and cron jobs. Normally there | Apr 08 08:56 |
| Techrights-sec | are a few minutes of slowness or unavailability each morning UTC | Apr 08 08:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | TR? | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think that with this many cores we only have 1-2 mins of the site being not accessible | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I checked backup sizes yesterday | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | this weekend I plan to do full backup to the new laptop | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe also TR /root and TM | Apr 08 08:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | TM does not have many files in it | Apr 08 08:58 |
| Techrights-sec | I have a new drive for backups here. | Apr 08 09:32 |
| Techrights-sec | It is all set up and seems to be working. | Apr 08 09:32 |
| Techrights-sec | How did things settle out yesterday? | Apr 08 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | Thanks for asking | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | I as actually about to open up about that myse | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | mysef | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | *I have just cleared out the broken(by rianne, while washing) coffeee | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | making glass thingie | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | I put in a better one | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | and cleaned surfaces, arrange the hot beverages utntils a lot better, still | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | need to 'test' it later | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | but rianne gave me the predictably shit news | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | about a colleague getting excited by almalinus doing wsl | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | see? I work with some truly idiotic people | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | some fo not even use gnu/linux | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | and barely care | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | and this is what the company looks like | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | last night I devoted 1-2 hours to an unethical clients | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | which I was not ahppy to do | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, and a colleague nwas like, oh! We'll share this in "social media" | Apr 08 09:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | Microsoft approves :-) | Apr 08 09:35 |
| Techrights-sec | :/ WSL undermines FOSS | Apr 08 09:36 |
| Techrights-sec | :( some people can be so stupid about M$ and not see it is harmful even to | Apr 08 09:36 |
| Techrights-sec | proprietary software | Apr 08 09:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | I just keep as distant as possible and mind my own business | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | costs me no time | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the "general pride in the occupation" aspect (like at EPO) | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | eroades | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's the sort of thing I confronted the boss about | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | finding work from home is hard enough | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | for two people even harder | Apr 08 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | for little actual work (NOC) very hard | Apr 08 09:38 |
| Techrights-sec | However, it sounds like the company is getting corrupted from within. | Apr 08 09:39 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes that is true, but it would not hurt to key an eye open for other | Apr 08 09:39 |
| Techrights-sec | opportunities. It's not something to waste a lot of effort on but just | Apr 08 09:39 |
| Techrights-sec | keep alert for options. | Apr 08 09:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | a few years ago I could envision taking a break, but with inflation going mad no amount of savings can suffice for a lifetime | Apr 08 09:40 |
| Techrights-sec | not any more,there are "investements" but they are often part of the probelm | Apr 08 09:42 |
| Techrights-sec | and make the world worse often locally too | Apr 08 09:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, well... oil-rich nations had big investments in airlines | Apr 08 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | they hardly see returns for that now | Apr 08 09:45 |
| Techrights-sec | airlines have been scams for decades | Apr 08 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | either way, to sum up | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | (to self, and for you) | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | colleagues don't get freedom | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | some clients I strogly dislike (nothing to do with Windows/Microsoft) | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | proprietary tools | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | for now I dissent and lower hours worked | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | which is 1) a way to maintain a lack of guilt | Apr 08 09:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2) way to increase hourly salary (lower the hours) | Apr 08 09:46 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 09:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | ok, this seaset is lovely | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | *teaset | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | to be clear, all the work I did last night was gnu/linux | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the client's business I consider to be unethical | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | so my skills contribute to something which is overall | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | not good to society | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | the FSF has had VASTLY worse patrons | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | sspeaking of which, a colleague used the company's "social" media | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | account to link to some libel about RMS | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | we used to have Debian Developes as staff | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | Our Web site literally had gnu logos in it | Apr 08 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | as part of the design | Apr 08 10:00 |
| Techrights-sec | +1 teaset | Apr 08 10:03 |
| Techrights-sec | -1 libel against RMS | Apr 08 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | is it worth covering fedora phasing out BIOS support? wante dto cover | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | this and another topic (then got assignment at work) but it's | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | one of those topics where in 60 seconds you can run out of things to say | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | IBM bad, UEFI fake advacncement, and then there was some other | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | obnoxious stuff in "the news", but I didn't take note of it | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | so it could not be THAT important | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | freebsd will have a final mrelease soon, this month... | Apr 08 10:04 |
| Techrights-sec | FreeBSD runs on the RPi and OpenBSD does too, at least to a certain extent | Apr 08 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | phoronix only continues to reaffirm what we wrote this past winter | Apr 08 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | but I don't want to persist in covering that | Apr 08 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | as it would contribute tioo the concept of obsession or | Apr 08 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | attacking each othger | Apr 08 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | for this reason I'd not do a piece calling out fossforce either | Apr 08 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | IRC is enough | Apr 08 10:06 |
| Techrights-sec | best to give phoronix' misdeeds coverage a pause | Apr 08 10:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | There is something I love about gemini | Apr 08 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | even if the "quality" is sometimes low | Apr 08 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the other day I saw "influencer" there | Apr 08 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | should I do a video about it? | Apr 08 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | that would be off-putting | Apr 08 10:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | but still a cautionary note | Apr 08 10:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | (it's line when a company sends something to 'review') | Apr 08 10:10 |
| Techrights-sec | not sure. "influencer" is a euphemism for "shill" | Apr 08 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | DT spams also | Apr 08 10:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | fake reviews | Apr 08 10:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | not sure if that's what you're about to say | Apr 08 10:15 |
| Techrights-sec | Derek Taylor closed his Gemini capsule, he could write a perl or python | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | scraper for that. | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes, but I think on average he's mostly a positive force. And despite | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | the most recent video so is Brodie Robertson. I disgree with most of the | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | assessment he made but one point he mentioned almost as an aside is actually | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | very important: M$ can play the attrition game and force those locked into | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | windoze to suck it up and deploy vista11 even though it would be more effort | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | than migrating away. | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | He only mentioned the attrition part, but the rest needs to be emphasized | Apr 08 10:16 |
| Techrights-sec | The EU considers exit costs part of the TCO | Apr 08 10:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | OK< EPO quiet so far today | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | I look behind the curtains a bit | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | BTW, I dumped Gulag Alerts | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | I mentioned this only ina video | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | s/n ratio there too became awful | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I will cover gemini something | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | the "Linux" side had no compelling enough topics for us to cover, so instead I focused on Links, Links, Links | Apr 08 10:18 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 10:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | not sure you agree, but the risk of spam creeping into gemini as it grows (in the webspam sense) | Apr 08 10:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | is an underreported risk | Apr 08 10:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | The www, based on my rss feeds, is a lost cause esp. once I open up to something that's not a personal blog | Apr 08 10:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | even opensource.com is mostly ICBM marketin cruft | Apr 08 10:20 |
| Techrights-sec | It's definitely a potential problem. | Apr 08 10:21 |
| Techrights-sec | yes spam is there too | Apr 08 10:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is difficult to use the term spam there | Apr 08 10:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's like calling everyone "nazi" | Apr 08 10:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | which devalues thej word | Apr 08 10:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | opensource.com is a misnamed IBMHat site | Apr 08 10:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | and could be named differently | Apr 08 10:22 |
| Techrights-sec | unnecessary voluminous marketing? | Apr 08 10:25 |
| Techrights-sec | no, just as a placeholder for marketeering | Apr 08 10:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | they keep around and recently rennovated the site not as a service to "community" | Apr 08 10:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | I thiuk we covered the topic last year in articles and videos | Apr 08 10:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will start OTA shortly, re gemini | Apr 08 10:26 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 10:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | ok, i covered geminia | Apr 08 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | and veered off to fossforce, phoronix ewtc. | Apr 08 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | wioth their paid-for BS | Apr 08 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | akllong the way | Apr 08 11:08 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | IO have just addded a very incomplete draft | Apr 08 11:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | let me know whgat points o add | Apr 08 11:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | I plan to add more paras later | Apr 08 11:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | I want to record another video while the other laptop is processing | Apr 08 11:10 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 11:10 |
| Techrights-sec | s/go at it/go at corrupting it/ | Apr 08 11:14 |
| Techrights-sec | or "go at infiltrating and coopting it" | Apr 08 11:14 |
| Techrights-sec | s/is what/is that/ | Apr 08 11:14 |
| Techrights-sec | Perhaps emphasis that due to the text-only nature of Gemini it is of necessity | Apr 08 11:14 |
| Techrights-sec | focused on content and leaves the insecure or obstructive fluff aside | Apr 08 11:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks, correcting ans ddding | Apr 08 11:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | OTA | Apr 08 11:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | *and adding | Apr 08 11:14 |
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| schestowitz-TR | ota | Apr 08 12:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | added another draaft | Apr 08 12:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | this one is short but with many links | Apr 08 12:23 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Apr 08 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | mostly away from the computer for the next n hours | Apr 08 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | about foisting new purchase onto end users, M$ had a strategy with | Apr 08 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | Intel to force new purchases every other year or so | Apr 08 12:24 |
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| schestowitz-TR | fyi I rotated openssl cert a monmth early | Apr 08 14:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | and put some more informative things in them | Apr 08 14:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | not to appease Gulag/Mozilla/CAs | Apr 08 14:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | but people who review the cert | Apr 08 14:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | so your browser might issue an alert that this has changed, if you | Apr 08 14:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | set exceptions | Apr 08 14:50 |
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