IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, September 08, 2022

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today is exam day

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for the second time in a week an interruption caused me to forget something I was about to do

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I wrote about it in my personal blog, at long last

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I think this happens to everyone

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Good luck to Rianne on the exams

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The animated GIFs are probably processed by ImageMagick on a single core.

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It basically ends up being video processing using a tool not designed for such.

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In principle it is likely a very parallelizable task but not really the

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main purpose of ImageMagick and I myself don't have the skill to write a

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patch for them.

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it's OK, don't bother changing it

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at the end it did finish

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it's actually part of the reason I got distracted and forgot something

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about 4 things going on all at once

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GIFs have inter-frame compression fo sorts, so doing frames across cores might be tricky and splitting the same frame across CPUs the same

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or across cores

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Sep 08 09:43

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I thought it was MPEG and the other video formats which had inter-frame

Sep 08 10:13

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compression and that GIF merely moved through a stack of images. But then

Sep 08 10:13

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I have no detailed knowledge of the formats.

Sep 08 10:13

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mr gif dies months ago

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I know from experience that a gif with many similar frames is a lot smaller

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never mind pallette size

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and so I assume there's some in-file compression

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maybe I'm wrong and it's a stack of images compressed AT THE END

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but judging by how it is handled on the Web

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where it starts showing frames before the whole is ready

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that cannot be the case

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maybe some ad hoc dynamic compression of some sort

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optical flow maybe

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but I think animated gifs predate that

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Ok, that makes sense.

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ot: experimented with some 'extra' sleep the past fortnight

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did not notice positive effects

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might go back to 6 a day, split across 2 or 3

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starting tonight

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this week I did experience limited memroy capacity and motivation was not high

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in fact, when aware 18 hours in a row there's some mental fatigue

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so better split off into chunks so that there are rest breaks

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I came back to coffee yesterday

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I've just seen a link you sent about micro-posts, posts the length of a tweet

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I think that in TR, if we deploy the same CMS, there will be a more suitable workflow of publications

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which wordpress isn't adequate for

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the wordpress side is good for certain types of posts

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and soon wordpress will no longer bring security patches for it

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itsfoss.com has a site called news.itsfoss.com

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they're not the same, not the same people, not the same software

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but one is less formal than the other

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I think that's one possible approach for TR

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a lot of what gets posted to IRC, or stuff with editorial comments, can instead be a short post

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a bit like tumblr

chunky

did u say.. chunks..?

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yes!

*chunky chef kissyfingers

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btw

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I was in tesco last month

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saw that item that says "chunky"

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it's a forzen food

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*frozen

chunky

nice

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so when I walk past it I go

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tesco is UK?

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"oh... chunky... I know him!"

chunky

hell yeah

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yes, tesco

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that's me!

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If I have read correctly, WordPress has mainly gone SaaS and it's decreasingly

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possible to run one's own instance.

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Approximately how many accounts will need to post to TR in the future?

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A good bit of the parts from the current tm-new probably need to be modified

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to fit into the different work flow.

chunky

i dunno what you're reading but that sounds very wrong

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open source wordpress is the same as it ever was from my perspective

Sep 08 10:25

chunky

i'm forced to work on wordpress sites quite a bit so i'm a little familiar

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chunky

maybe you're talking about wordpress.com rather than running your own installation of wordpress

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anyway it's a bad platform, technologically dated

Sep 08 10:26

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(imo)

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yeah

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I agree

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your assertion about wordpress is not accurate, it's not that it discourages self-hosting, but to me it is the bloat and fast release pace

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I don't think that TM CMS will need much adjustment for TR

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we're still talking about automated split into taxonomy, maybe daily archives

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I think wordpress will stay

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some dorks like me will backport patches

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as happened with drupal 6

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but wordpress is suitable for long form posts

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like projects.propublica.com

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whether to run with multiple CMS types and then duse together rss feeds, I don't know

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but I know a lot of what I post in wordpress would be more suitably done some other way

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with another workflow

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wordpress was designed as b2 a long time ago for another era and another purpose

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now it does all this clowny stuff, as you note, and that was made evident in recent releases of it

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it's the era of GAFAM, not technorai and Firefox

chunky

schestowitz-TR2: why do your chats come out in batches like that? do you have a poor connection or is that intentional?

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*Technorati (incidentally, its founder moved to Mozilla)

chunky

i used to think you guys were simulating chats programatically in here because of that, but now i realize that's not the case.. still, curious

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it's done over a bridge

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in ytalk

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ah ok.. maybe the bridge could use some work ;x

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unelss you're writing longform like email

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then i guess it's all working as it should

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the timing is poor

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but the sequence is still more or less alright

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my preferred platform these dies for blog/news/etc type platforms is Hugo

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it's a static site generator and it's an absolute joy to use

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Hugo has a dependency chain I don't like

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these days*

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so we rejectec it

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and wrote our own

chunky

ah ok, understood

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reading code is hard

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writing code is easier

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so if you adopt some thing like hugo

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i don't think anybody would argue w/ that

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you're at their mercy

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then they have new releases

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maybe your hacks obsolete

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the one thing i don't like about hugo is that it really does assume you're structuring a website like a blog

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even if you use hooks

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they can later remove or break APIs too

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but overall i really do enjoy using it

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so you're never really in control of your system

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and cannot shape it to your needs

chunky

yeah, fair enough

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you're in a similar boat w/ wordpress though, i imagine

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but at least it's not written in a language created by google ;x

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tuxmachines is not a blog

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it's something different

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and it has almost 200k pages

chunky

oh yeah i'm not referring to any specific website here

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i didn't know you ran that

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so there's the scale to take into account

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like DB queries to run

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hugo can smash through that without issue, in fact a static site generator on that scale (imo) is better than a dynamic website

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thw www is also dying

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ok, strong words

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not dying

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perishing

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hugo does not support gemini

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and if you plug in gemini support, it might break in the future

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i've used hugo to develop ecommerce sites w/ more than half a million product pages and it smashes through compilation w/ no problem

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at the whims of some other devs

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yeah that's the kind of stuff i've never really taken into consideration

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we also added MQTT to the CMS

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i've used a gemini browser once, for example

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it's still young

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just to read drewdevaults blog posts that were only available on that protocol

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but more tools come

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and "content"

chunky

if you're familar w/ him, idk

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yeah

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we linked to him this morning and yesterday

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abdout kernel stuff written in hare

chunky

nice

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i use a lot of his softare, he's a hero to me

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schestowitz-TR2: is there a reason tuxmachines.org isn't using an ssl cert signed by a known root ca?

Sep 08 10:37

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i'm getting MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT

Sep 08 10:37

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gemini.tuxmachines.org runs on his software

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chunky

nice

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the error you get says,

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this site is not controlled by a cartel

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it trusts itself

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fair

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guess that's why i asked

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and the cartel cannot verify that roy is outsourcing control to the cartel

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mozilla is rubbish

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couldn't agree more

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i still use firefox

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i try to get away from it

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qutebrowser is super promising

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i have it installed

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getting better all the time

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qutebrowser shills Microsoft

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at least in Debian 10

chunky

yeah?

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it defaults to DDG

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i bet The-Compiler would change that

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i certainly doubt he is compensated for that

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and makes it hard to change these defaults

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it's not hard at all

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it's just a setting in a config file

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i tried

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mine is changed to a searx instance, for example

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it ignored that

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it's not difficult

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hopefully i don't get kicked for flooding, but

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c.url.start_pages = 'https://paulgo.io'

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c.url.default_page = 'https://paulgo.io'

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c.url.searchengines = {

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'DEFAULT': 'https://paulgo.io/?q={}',

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-paulgo.io | PaulGO

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 308 @ https://paulgo.io/?q={} )

chunky

this in my config file fixes that completely

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for qutebrowser

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no problem

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there are no kickbans for "floods"

Sep 08 10:42

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the servers just throttles down after 4 fast lines

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ah ok, gotcha

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i run an irc server where we blast irc art @ each other all day

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no flood protection at all

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luv it :)

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anyway qutebrowser is very good and i hope you wouldn't think that the author, The-Compiler is intentionally trying to harm its users

Sep 08 10:47

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i bet the ddg default is only based on his own personal preference, and maybe he's not privvy to these privacy issues

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if you know the dev, contact him/her

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and tell them what DDG is

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and how that puts off more and more potential users

http://techrights.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

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reading about ddg is how i came to find techrights website :)

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that's why i'm on this irc server

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for a long time i figured something wasn't right about it, and i'm pretty much always skeptical of services offering privacy/security as their main feature, so it was nice to see techrights drill down on some detail at some point

Sep 08 10:51

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thx :)

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i'll mention it to The-Compiler and see what he says about it

Sep 08 10:51

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i normally don't worry about defaults like that in software because most tend to be garbage, but i have nothing to lose from mentioning it to him

Sep 08 10:52

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the ddg controversy is not new

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but those MFers have budget

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and they gaslight people

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and don't answer critics

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yeah

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the guy is a piece of shit

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we got some whistleblowers

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i saw him answer to a thread on ycombinator's hacker news and it was just steam

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and have warned about DDG for over a decade

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no real answer

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all along calling it a Microsoft proxy

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now it's more evident with the NDA and all

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Gabe admits it

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i've warned personal friends over the years about ddg being suspect without having any actual proof

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people just said i'm overly cautious and the usual stuff

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I hope they fall back to 0%

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it was just bing with a mask

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like the scooby doo meme

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"let's see who you really are!"

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they're pretty popular now

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they have budget

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and get hosting from Microsoft

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people tricked into believing they're the good guys

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among other things

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haha, Microsoft trhe good guys

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honestly technology seems hopeless sometimes

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"oooh, Microsoft, save me from Gulag, PLEASE!"

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computers and the internet really highlight some of the worst qualities in humans

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pure greed

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yeah

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now the marketing people rename everything

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devops

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clown

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meaning

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sysadmin

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server

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yeah i've never really understood the term devops

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and the more i look into it the less it makes sense

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then "smart"... and hype waves like "web3" and "hey hi" (AI)

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make you want to get off the train

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my conclusion is basically that in order to understand it you have to buy into bullshit

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some idiots at my workplace are like that

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same w/ all the renamed tech stuff at the cloud service providers

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dev ops = programmijngn

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coder

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development

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now it's all "OOPS"

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GitOOPS

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amazon and google take pre-existing tech and give it some super weird name

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ClownOOPS

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l0l

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p much

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"HEYHIOOPS'

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(aiops"

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it'a a farce

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it's not CS

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it's shitty suits and m,arketing drecks like jim zemlin

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ruining the industry

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it's just deep vendor lock-in

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which they rebraded as "AYE TEA" decades back

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CS=science

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at some point the people working on this stuff won't understand computers

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"IT"=whatever

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i wonder when the time will come that not a person alive will actually understand how computers work

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right

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but everyone will rely on them

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but we need to reject the buzzwords

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for starters

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and use terminopoly that explains what happens

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like "outsourcing"

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Red Hat keeps saying "transformation"

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lol

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yeah

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or "modernisation"

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"serverless" nah dawg that's "outsourcing"

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they mean complexity

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serverless is one that really gets me, god is that ever stupid

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like adding kubernetes to a business with one physical server

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l0llll

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so then they buy crap like openshit

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and ask Red Hat, PLEASE WE NEEDE SUPPORT! FAST FAST!! DOWNTIMES.

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it's just guys in suits at business meetings doing handshake deals w/o having a clue what they're talking about

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that's how most of this stuff comes to be

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openshift is Free software

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but you can't find people who know how to use and fix it

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some of it is engineered and downright evil though

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not may people elarned ansible either

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unless they get thewir expensive "red hat" cert

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many use puppet

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or even chef

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then you have wordpress

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i wouldn't know what the better option is for deployment automation

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and what becomes of it

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talking over yalk about it atm

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i'd roll my own to know what's going on

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chunky: nor would they

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they just look at IBM brochures

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and go with a bundle

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yeah

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ansible tower, openshift..

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.and then look for clueless gards with got some "red hat"c ert

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for memoprising stuff

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*memorising

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sad

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and once they are off script

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or need to actually writ ea program

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they are stuck

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it's not in "the exam"

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GET BILL GATES IN HERE!

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YOU TOLD US WINDOWS 98 WOULD BE FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT!

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so you pay red ahat $2000 per year per server

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for many 2 open tickets per year

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so you pay $1000 for erach "incident"

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l0l

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racket

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which means they profit from issues in their software

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some of these companies come to us

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because they get rippd off

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and we fix things for them more cheaply

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red hat has an incentive to make gnu/linxu robust

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but not the add-on

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they want a good product

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but they also want you to NEED them

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like many businesses

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even ours

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you should see managers

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trying not to give away some secret sauce

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as then the client would fix the issues without us

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that's managers

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now, re wordpress

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they profit as a hosting company

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with ads

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and other premium products

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wordpress.org lets them rope in more potential users

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they can later "upsell"

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but to be fair they don't make wordpress.org more buggy

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just more bloated

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and thus potentially hard to set up and diagnose

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Two reasons for saying the above are that the maintenance is now highly

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complex (and as you say fast moving) *and* that they require remote access

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to your system *via FTP* for automated updates. Yes, it is possible to

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do manual updates, you know the details on that. That is too much for

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many people, even just counting the time requirement not including the skills

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necessary. So without manual updates, the choice becomes between a highly

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insecure system where the login credentials are, in effect, broadcast because

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of FTP, or just let them handle the whole thing for a fee. I looked into

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various CMS in detail a few months ago and came to that conclusion, hopefully

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not too incorrectly.

chunky

yeah i think wordpress is an example of a good way to operate an open source company

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they offer open source software and also offer to host it for you for a free

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chunky

for a fee*

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i don't take any issue w their business model, seems like the ideal way to do things

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they used to use ftp

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I've not myself installed newer versions except at work

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and then didn't update then, just handed over the system

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I have notes on the 'recipe' for manual update

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I can give that to you

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I assure you

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that

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a) many sec patches don't need backporting

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b) v 3.9.x won't be affected by many new bugs

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c) any backporting would be simple

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d) someone out there will stll do it

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e) the patches don't need downloading

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f) edit file, change the lines based on the patch reference/object

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like I did in drupal 6

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so I reckon wordpress isn't hopeless

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the problem is that I maintain and look after about a dozen wordpress sites

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if the se patches are not super critivcal

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e.g. xss (JS)

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multi-user installs where some users are very untrustweoirtthy (wishing to n vandalise the bsystem)

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ete etc.

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nobody will bother with a patch until something major comes along

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as happened years ago with drupal 6

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susan contacted me about it after I had patched it

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you could basically bypass the shim between one file/function and another

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and pass some bad stuff to the function from a web browser

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the fix was a simple input sanitisation

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so I added it

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at work I see all the latest drupal holes (eeven this morning I reported one to colleagues)

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most affect just new versions. The bigger the s/w, the more holes are to be expectred.

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As far as I know they used it as recently as the beginning of this year!

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The recipe would be of interest, thanks

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The business model is kind of ok, the excessive complexity is not. Nor is

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the (former?) dependence on FTP and any form of obligatory remote access

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as a precondition for updating.

chunky

i think the core wordpress updates now use the php curl library to download rather than ftp

Sep 08 11:16

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I know the backstory very well

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I was a student and deeply involved in the community back then

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matt mullenweg and his buddy from cisco expressed oncerns that many did not update their wordpress installs

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(to be fair, it was not simple and some tried to update without making proper backups first, or not knowing how to restore from backup)

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by then, matt's friend had taken over from mike little (Stockporrrt, near here) and even locked him out

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people blasted them for low-quality code

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with holes

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and then hosts were threatening wordpress would not be an option for quick automated installs

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so they had to do something

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first they threatened users

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like "Upgrade, or else"

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headline (from memory)

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then this FTP thing

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which I wrote about a decade ago

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it's like a back door

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with tracy's server it never worked

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because access was 'two factor' (password PLUS keys, in two stages, via gateway)

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I will give you my crude notes

chunky

imo wordpress still is low quality code

Sep 08 11:20

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it was not made by coder

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it was not made by coders

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but a curious bunch that hacked on code

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of b2

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chunky

that's the kind of stuff that tends to be more successful

chunky

people trying to fulfill a real-world goal instead of trying to be technically correct

chunky

that's what i see anyway

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chunky: as noted earlier, the occupation is under attack

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MBA

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suits

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patent lawyers

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the security "experts" are biologists

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like mgarrett

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with no relevant training, just studying as one goes along

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that's like me becoming a GP

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by sitting at the office listening to sessions

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hey can you check out this weird lump on my anus?

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and learning this way

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GPs do all sorts of unpleasant jobs

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even the seemingly sexual stuff isn't nice

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worse than platonic

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like sticking singers up dold people

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yes

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even of the same gender

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nothing "turn-on" about that

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erven gynecologists

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i've said and i'll say again that tricking people into thinking that being a doctor or a lawyer is a good job is mankind's greatest con

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i worded that poorly, hopefully u know what i mean

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I reckon the good -looking girls choose doctors who are old straight women

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not some old men

*chunky puts on a wig and doctor outfit

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aha

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after kicking myself for 3 hours last nigth tryint to recall what I wanted to do

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moments ago in the bathroom I recalled what it was I had planned to do

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so it came back to me like 16 hours later

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due to the same train of thought colliding with the same issue

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but 16 hours is a long time

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mystery solved at least

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ack

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is it ok that financial affairs, unless very politicised (class vs tribalism), are ok for the main #techrights channel?

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I think there's some overlap there with tech and usually it doesn't bring unwanted politics

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unlike, say, immigration

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climate is a science topic too, but probably better restricted to social

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I'm asking because,

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everywhere I look

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anyone I speak to (even family)

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financial woes are a big theme

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and people try to make sense of it

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seems they correctly blame "the rich" and not [that political party]

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apropos, don't know what's happening in norway

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my contacts there haven't been corresponding in a while

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but in spite of natural resources they too would be impacted by high energy prices, esp. in winter

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set aside immigration as a strain

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when your country has that few citizens even 100,000 financial/economic immigrants, somw of whom flee famine/war, is a cumbersome obligation

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and it was interesting to see norway's reaction to russia's aggression

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invasion from the north is super easy, by land or by sea (or ice)

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putin would love to get his hands on that energy pool

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another spiggot by which toi punish europe (of course it causes the poor to suffer most, then he can try to incite them against other poor people,

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based on racial profile)

Sep 08 12:15

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no reporting from this sam this past week; then, hours ago: https://itwire.com/mobility/oppo-puts-two-more-reno-5g-models-on-sale-down-under.html

Sep 08 12:43

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wasting his time on marketing puff

Sep 08 12:43

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - Oppo puts two more Reno 5G models on sale Down Under

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ack

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ack

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Norway is also in an awkward position. They could be supplying petrochemicals

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to Europe but for some reason aren't very much. Not that it would be a good

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thing in the long run for either the world or for Norway. IIRC Norway has been

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trying to wean itself from petrochemical income and invest in sounder areas.

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norway does not have the brain drain issue

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they seem to retain smart people

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the friends I had from there mostly came back to begen, oslo etc.

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and are happy enough there

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no need for Liz Trumps

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but..

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that edge can be lost over time, like in companies where you bring in Z types, X types...

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the other night I opened the door around midnight

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the next-door neighbours were having like a 'conference' of a dozen men in the back year

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laughing off in some foreign language

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our city is highly dependent on ultgra-tolerance of those who reject the culture

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partly due to "investment" (like football)

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Norway, unlike other countries, has invested in quality of life factors and

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made an effort to ensure that the entire country is livable, not just the

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tiny zone around the capital.

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Norway, unlike other countries, has invested in quality of life factors and

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made an effort to ensure that the entire country is livable, not just the

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tiny zone around the capital.

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^capitol

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^capitol

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s/are/were/

Sep 08 12:57

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Brushing those problems under the carpet just makes it worse here and now.

Sep 08 13:04

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Then as the problmes grow, they become just downright intolerable later.

Sep 08 13:04

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However, that is next month or next quarter or even next year, i.e. never

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the "saving face" approach is why many orgs in FS are undermined

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while they shout and scream at Techrights, debian.community etc.

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for saying what they would rather keep under the carpet or behind the veil

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as you are aware, britain is a tax haven economy esp. near the southeast, so they cultivate that further with "tax cuts" and "foreign investment"

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welcome, even if that prices residence out of reach for locals and ushers in a cultural problem

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having said that, guess who gets blamed at the end

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they don't frame that as an economic issue

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and then blame "the liberals"

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saying stuff that incites one clique of poor people against another

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"This approach has not worked and has never worked before, so therefore

Sep 08 13:09

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let us inflict more of it towards the goal it has never yet achieved and

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appears to counteract."

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ack

Sep 08 13:32

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<techrights-news> Later they wonder why people became more sceptical of the medical profession (like physicians who take a bribe to recommend some prescription) and even vaccines. People observe what low standards are now imposed/expected, like testing on some animals and then distributing to millions/billions of people in bulk. You're killing the profession. Like LF kills "Linux(TM)" (openwashing stamp).

Sep 08 13:36

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<techrights-news> "Critical thinkers and sceptics haven’t lost sight of the fact that British media now pushes for a new vaccine. Yeah, because the first one was so successful that this summer was the worst so far." https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/03/uk-statistics-about-58-of-the-population-opted-to-receive-a-booster-and-now-they-say-another-vaccine-is-needed/

Sep 08 13:37

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » UK Statistics: About 58% of the Population Opted to Receive a ‘Booster’ (and Now They Say Another Vaccine is Needed)

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ack

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this evening we'll have the latest data fro thwe week

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they pushed that back to thurs 4pm

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was weds 4pm before

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and the mortality reports were silently killed when there was a surge in deaths

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how convenient

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I'm sure Liz Trump will be a "strong leaders"

https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/07/memory-shortcomings/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Human Memory’s Obnoxious Weakness

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sorry, wrong url

" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/06/truss-more-of-the-same/

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Sep 08 13:40

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Our New Prime Minister: More of the Same

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ack

Sep 08 13:41

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<techrights-news> Victory? EFF should call to ABOLISH Slack. But EFF is run by a bunch of slackers these days. 3 key people died. ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/victory-slack-offers-retention-settings-free-workspaces | Source: EFF

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | VICTORY: Slack Offers Retention Settings to Free Workspaces | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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EFF: Victory! We had a meeting with Donald Trump.

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FSF: Victory: RMS was on Kremlin channel twice this year

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<techrights-news> EFF is still fighting. Seriously, it's fighting. Just not for EFF causes.

Sep 08 13:51

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<techrights-news> The E is today's EFF is estrogen

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<techrights-news> The issue isn't Linux itself; they're misplacing the blame, just like Microsoft wants them to (Microsoft does this too https://cisoseries.com/cyber-security-headlines-cisa-incident-reporting-linux-focused-iot-malware-albania-cuts-ties-over-cyberattack/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cisoseries.com | CISA incident reporting, Albania cuts ties over cyberattack

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-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- cisoseries.com | CISA incident reporting, Albania cuts ties over cyberattack

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<techrights-news> How about we start calling all Adobe and AutoCAD flaws "WINDOWS MALWARE?

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It's not Linux that welcomes that malware; the malware gets there by other means and once installed it can do anything it wants. Not an OS issue. https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/next-gen-linux-malware-takes-over-devices-unique-toolset

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-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.darkreading.com | Next-Gen Linux Malware Takes Over Devices With Unique Tool Set

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.darkreading.com | Next-Gen Linux Malware Takes Over Devices With Unique Tool Set

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<techrights-news> You can drive your car off a cliff. That doesn't mean the car is not safe.

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rianne has returned

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the results are not given on the spot

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but she finished in 10 mins instead of 45

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and thought she aced it

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will need to wait

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excellent

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hmmm

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interesting

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they apparently just say pass or no pass

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without telling you the score

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she knew all the questions

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and had practiced a lot

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but I guess Home Office can see the actual score

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which can help

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weird that they don't tell the person taking the exam

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oh well.

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Was it a language test or a specific topic instead?

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general knowledge

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we'll ask the attorney tomorrow

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he used to work for Home Officer

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Office

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if they can at l;east appreciate a perfect score

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I hope they can and that it is to her advantage.

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anyway, she could finished in 8 mins

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I told her to take her time

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but no need beyond 10

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she knew those questions

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45 mins is too much

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I now they that for confidentiality reasons they don't send the full results over emaiul/www

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just assure her it's ok, nothing further

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she spent over a month preparing

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That's good if they are cognizant of the shortcomings of standard e-mail,

Sep 08 17:47

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not to mention M$ imitation of e-mail which routes through Washington state.

Sep 08 17:47

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even if they say just pass/fail in unencrypted mail

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along with some personal details

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this is not good

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the exact score is hardly the most sensitive bit of info

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that they can leak to foreign countries

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<techrights-news> NHS Once Again Admits That the Number of Deaths It Gave Was Wrong (More People Had Died Than It Disclosed) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/08/number-of-deaths-wrong-lowballed/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » NHS Once Again Admits That the Number of Deaths It Gave Was Wrong (More People Had Died Than It Disclosed)

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Gates mentioned, but only in passing, https://text.npr.org/1121525125

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certainly not the visit in jail

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-text.npr.org | Here's why conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein keep flourishing

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yes, BillPR is a total disgrace

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they use the label to discredit some facts

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by tying them to BS

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I'd rather just boycott BillPR

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it makes me sick

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it keeps insulting people who point out facts

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and even blocks some in twitter

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for pointing out Gates pays them

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Yes they are pushing strawman arguments on the topic.

Sep 08 18:03

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Strangely they did not mention the conflict of interest regarding funding

Sep 08 18:03

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there in the article. Not even a word.

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it is outrageous

Sep 08 18:04

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billbC did the exact same

Sep 08 18:04

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painting bill as the victim

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"people shout at me in the streets"

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I guess hiding the bribes is now their fallback strategy

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we should just boycott them and call them out on it

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later you say gates and epstein in the same sentence

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and people reclal this BS they saw in BillBL and BillPR

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Yep. That's a goal of theirs.

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and then they then think you are insane

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I think it's hardly a new strategy and some people older than me say the same about JFK

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and some about 9/11

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became too toxic to discuss

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Yep. That's a goal of theirs. Saturate, diffuse, confuse.

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l;ater people get cyncical about the media

Sep 08 18:08

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and turn to even worse: social control media

Sep 08 18:08

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maybe gates is hardly mentyioned for them to avoid having the burden of adding a disclosure of conflict

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Ack

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Already too many politicians, especially high-level ones, appear to have gotten

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suckered by social control media to the point that it looks like it has been

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influencing both their rhetoric and their policies. Chumps

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That level of irresponsibility is harmful when coupled by they authority they

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have been granted through elections or appointments.

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It's essentially worse than lobbying, and that is bad enough being in practice

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just bribery dressed up a little.

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However rather than bribery, social control media is maniuplation and propaganda

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my note: record something on banned boosk, relate this to the www/net era, mention billpr along tghe way

Sep 08 18:52

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rianne is now back to posting as usual

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she is pretty certain she got 100%

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we'll ask tomorrow

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price of toiletries (toothpoaste, creams etc.) went up sharply

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we'll try to 'cheat' this system by hopping between stores

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And perhaps the ephemeral nature of the web.

Sep 08 18:55

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"shrinkflation" is affecting those goods badly

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yes, web rot is a think

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TR, TM, and my site have a near perfect record of keeping ALL URLs alive, even almost 20 years down the line

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I do this with a passion, sometimes adding redirections

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you might even call it a compettiive advantage

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but it's not a content

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*contest

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need to think of key points to cover

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maybe after the next round of rss cleaning

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by which point it'll be dark here anyway

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----

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two bad news

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1) queen liz just died (yes, same time rianne did her exam)

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2) the aunt whose hunsband died months ago... got cancer (stage 1, but we hoped for less)

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i might not record today

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lots to digest

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I'll prioritise auto-pilot on the sites

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bbl

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otr: I can see 2) being of concern, but how does 1) affect anything, sorry

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otr: for the callousness regarding 1) there

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it is complicated

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what it means to me is not what it means to millions of others

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many of whom cry now

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disparity in compassion

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but i have many other things in my mind atm, so took a break

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I will post link with robot-like mind

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and do posts later

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need to calibrate a little

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rianne is writing something about it atm

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remember she studied this stuff all day long for a long time

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---

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rianne heard of the term shinkflation before

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she even used it

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to me it is new as I read different kinds of media

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we're discussing how to bypass that, like which shops sell what and where

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there are usually 'backchannels' if you are clever and then repetitive about it

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and buy in bulk

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we also need to find where to buy suppliss for the fish on the cheap

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prices soared on basic products where we used to get 'generic' products

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i think the "petm industry" makes a killing atm as people prioritise that sort of stuff

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ack

Sep 08 19:59

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re earlier issue, you could a dopt a "i don't give a f*" attitude regarding what other people think

Sep 08 20:00

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and then end up targeted as enemy #1 of vbrigades online

Sep 08 20:00

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or you could just focus on other things

Sep 08 20:00

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There is a rumor that RMS has been working on GNU C Language Introduction & Reference Manual. Any way to confirm or debunk that?

Sep 08 20:01

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I put that in TM

Sep 08 20:02

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he announced that in the mailing list

Sep 08 20:02

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but did not say who had comosed this document

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baib, too many thinbgs in my mind (esp. aunt)

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i put that down in writing to better manage the mental storm

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will poost new like a robot to get by

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little emotion

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Nothing at Stallman.org

Sep 08 20:04

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maybe social control media conflates announcing with working on

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that's why I ignore that

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I can find you the mailing list archive (xhtml) url again

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but I don't suppose you need it

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I'd better get back to a posting rhythm now

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better than staring at the wall overthinking and speculating

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which I'd rather avoid

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keeping my mind busy with new info makes me happier

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as long as it's not optimised for "engagement"

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---

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cancer treatment is a long process

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and no "closure" for very many months

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you never know if it's "over"

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so expect more travel and visits

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and tears