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| schestowitz-TR | "From what I've seen, it's a pretty common belief across Geminispace and Gopherspace that social media is not healthy or good for people. I agree, and I've decided to write a little bit about my experience with social media." gemini://eph.smol.pub/1657427715 | Jul 10 07:26 |
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| Techrights-sec | https://nitter.net/brau_ner/status/1545021335440687104 | Jul 10 07:47 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.net | Christian Brauner (@brau_ner): "After a long long time just talking about how to make this happen @pid_eins and I are finally on the same team. Very excited about having @blucaz around as well and we have another hire dear to my heart hopefully coming on board later this year."|nitter | Jul 10 07:48 | |
| schestowitz-TR | this confirmed it, but what is the significance? | Jul 10 07:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | I mean, OK, let me put it like this: | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | in irc I asked, what's the background story | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | , did he leave, | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | was he pushed? | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | what is the plan? | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | very few details | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | those details do matter | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | and phoronix was just a bunch of microsoft platitudes | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | no substance | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | the only new thing was his headline | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've decided to release the post about career in my PERSONAL bloga | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then post a lot of chaff to 'hide' it from 'Amish' colleagues | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | who will probably never see it, just as they don't know what IRC is | Jul 10 07:52 |
| Techrights-sec | https://nitter.net/brau_ner/status/1545021335440687104 | Jul 10 07:52 |
| Techrights-sec | that's also affecting LXC / LXD | Jul 10 07:52 |
| Techrights-sec | yes there are no details about what is going on; they seem to be holding | Jul 10 07:52 |
| Techrights-sec | their cards close to their chest as far as that goes, for now; | Jul 10 07:52 |
| Techrights-sec | the ad hominems against anyone displeased with systemd are increasing though | Jul 10 07:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | I just call it Microsoft systemd | Jul 10 07:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | and that alone can help put people off | Jul 10 07:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | I keep getting insulted for not condemning it strongly ENOUGH | Jul 10 07:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | (you know by who) | Jul 10 07:53 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 07:54 |
| Techrights-sec | one of the reasons it got any traction at all was they were very effective | Jul 10 07:54 |
| Techrights-sec | at brigading any who failed to toe the line; that applied not just to verbal | Jul 10 07:54 |
| Techrights-sec | attacks online but in ostracizing people within project and sometimes even | Jul 10 07:54 |
| Techrights-sec | getting them kicked out or forced to quit | Jul 10 07:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | referring to themselves as "team" | Jul 10 07:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | not cult | Jul 10 07:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | in twitter I also got called names for questioning systemd | Jul 10 07:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | or bemoaning bugs | Jul 10 07:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | or saying it was breaking things for me personally | Jul 10 07:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | woirds like "neckbeards" | Jul 10 07:55 |
| Techrights-sec | (btw GNOME is getting a big handout from M$) | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | m$ definitely is a cult | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, that in twitter was part of the ongoing brigading; anything other than | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | praise for systemd resulted in piling onto the writer with lots and lots | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | of personal attacks, so as to completely dodge the technical aspects and | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | to derail any technical discussion immediately | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | all systemd has going for it, and all it ever had going for it, was the | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | coordinated ad hominem attacks and the appeal to novely fallacy | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | Upstart was an init system. systemd was not and is not an init system | Jul 10 07:58 |
| Techrights-sec | but as we see now, it is only about a power grab | Jul 10 07:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | decom-d | Jul 10 07:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe that's what the d stands for | Jul 10 07:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | anyway, with the LP move the debates will change | Jul 10 07:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | and ad hom will be far less effective | Jul 10 07:59 |
| Techrights-sec | the debates must change now, but so far only a few distros are in any sort | Jul 10 08:00 |
| Techrights-sec | of a good position and even they are a bit weak due to the amount of | Jul 10 08:00 |
| Techrights-sec | effort which must be wasted to clean packages from gratuitous systemd dependencies | Jul 10 08:00 |
| Techrights-sec | x https://github.com/microsoft/foss-fund | Jul 10 08:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-GitHub - microsoft/foss-fund: The Microsoft FOSS Fund provides a direct way for Microsoft engineers to participate in the nomination and selection process to help communities and projects they are passionate about. The FOSS Fund provides $10,000 sponsorships to open source projects as selected by Microsoft employees. | Jul 10 08:00 | |
| schestowitz-TR | "Then they fight you" < - we are here | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | we need just a few distros to remove systemd | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then others can branch off them | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe now these efforts will be boosted | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | or maybe BSDs will gain a bit | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | but BSDs too are under attack from Microsoft | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | the same attacks as those against Linux | Jul 10 08:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | starting with bribes into key orgs | Jul 10 08:01 |
| Techrights-sec | true but it is more complex than that, systemd is not just one thing | Jul 10 08:05 |
| Techrights-sec | and distros are comprised of packages and the fight is now at the package | Jul 10 08:05 |
| Techrights-sec | maintainer level; | Jul 10 08:05 |
| Techrights-sec | Debian is a key organization and has been broken and, AFIAK, quite infiltrated | Jul 10 08:05 |
| Techrights-sec | Upon it hang hundreds of derivative distros, both directly and indirectly | Jul 10 08:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | same as tor, which now puts microsoft in the tor browse, after taking microsoft money (DDG) | Jul 10 08:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | debian took MS money via SPI for several years | Jul 10 08:05 |
| Techrights-sec | If the Tor Project is taking dodgy money they ought to approach Brave instead | Jul 10 08:05 |
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| Techrights-sec | https://www.fudzilla.com/news/55103-lennart-poettering-quits-red-hat | Jul 10 08:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fudzilla.com | Lennart Poettering quits Red Hat | Jul 10 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | I put that in http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/166960#comment-34284 yesterday | Jul 10 08:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Microsoft Still Attacking From the Inside | Tux Machines | Jul 10 08:23 | |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 08:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | Entering Phase Two of Life https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/10/phase-two-of-life/ | Jul 10 08:25 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Entering Phase Two of Life | Jul 10 08:25 | |
| schestowitz-TR | now I will add some chaff | Jul 10 08:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | for the Amish not to notice, just to be sure... | Jul 10 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | checking | Jul 10 08:30 |
| Techrights-sec | otr: biden promoting terrorism and intolerance: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3551155-bidens-wish-muslims-celebrating-eid-al-adha-a-joyous-holiday/ | Jul 10 08:30 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thehill.com | Bidens wish Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha ‘a joyous holiday’ | The Hill | Jul 10 08:30 | |
| schestowitz-TR | I thought it would be a link about him bailing out Microsoft again :-) | Jul 10 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | anyway, remember what the lectures of lessig say about "lean to the green" | Jul 10 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's not about morality but about money/oil... and oil, did I mention oil? | Jul 10 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | Oil is Freedom(TM) | Jul 10 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | ---- | Jul 10 08:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | re the above, I'm not allowed to speak >TO COLLEAGUES< about it, except spouse | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | but my blog is not colleagues | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't think separating people and gagging them is moral | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's like an anti-union tactic, akin to NDA | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | obv. part of HR's trick | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | they advice how to avoid paying severence fees | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | hence I sniffed around a bit | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | so far nobody has fallen for the honey traps | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | I once dated a girl who was put on garden leave | Jul 10 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | I cannot recall the reasons | Jul 10 08:34 |
| Techrights-sec | interesting constraint, is it an enforceable constrait / legal or is it a lie | Jul 10 08:35 |
| Techrights-sec | they tell ? | Jul 10 08:35 |
| Techrights-sec | HR is an opponent; they are there to protect the company against the employees | Jul 10 08:35 |
| Techrights-sec | it's like an anti-union: coordinated defense and even attacks against the | Jul 10 08:35 |
| Techrights-sec | workers | Jul 10 08:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is worth them the money if you consider how much severence is at stake | Jul 10 08:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | I play my cards carefully here, with words | Jul 10 08:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will add chaff soon | Jul 10 08:36 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 08:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks for the advice on this | Jul 10 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I'm done frnakly | Jul 10 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | rms resigned aged 30 at mit | Jul 10 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | for me it'll be 40 | Jul 10 08:50 |
| Techrights-sec | np | Jul 10 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | time to do my own projects, maybe overdue, too | Jul 10 08:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | (job lost the element of pride last year, 2 years after the bullying) | Jul 10 08:50 |
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| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> NHS Breaking Its Promise in Order to Help COVID-19 Spread While We’re Blindfolded https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/10/nhs-numbers-4pm-next-week-but-never-mind/ | Jul 10 09:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » NHS Breaking Its Promise in Order to Help COVID-19 Spread While We’re Blindfolded | Jul 10 09:02 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | two more posts and the sensitive one is below front page threshold | Jul 10 10:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | after that daily links, cleaning all rss feeds, rianne hair dye | Jul 10 10:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | I already feel a lot more liberated | Jul 10 10:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | even if I still work full time | Jul 10 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe till sept. | Jul 10 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | with the departing gift i think we can reach 55 ok, then use pensions | Jul 10 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | no kids | Jul 10 10:06 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 10:06 |
| Techrights-sec | the one post is just a chart | Jul 10 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | the goal of thes eposts is chaff/flak | Jul 10 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | kids cost increased 10% or so this past year | Jul 10 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | iirc, food and energy are consumed more by teens thasn grown-ups | Jul 10 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | esp. boys, for food | Jul 10 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | my mom used to joke(ish) about how much feeding me had cost | Jul 10 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | growing kids consume more than adults | Jul 10 10:09 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 10:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | babies are most expensive to feed | Jul 10 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's a cartel | Jul 10 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | the otheer dat at m and s i saw all the baby clothes and shoes | Jul 10 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | 10 times less material | Jul 10 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | same price | Jul 10 10:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | pricefixing | Jul 10 10:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | "if you love yo babbbbbbbyyyyy" | Jul 10 10:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's it, it's in page 2 now | Jul 10 10:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | moving on to daily links now | Jul 10 10:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> England Swings Back to Excess Deaths (Exceedingly High Mortality Rates in Summertime) With COVID-19 Surge https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/10/covid-19-summer-exceeding-normal-mortality/ | Jul 10 10:43 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » England Swings Back to Excess Deaths (Exceedingly High Mortality Rates in Summertime) With COVID-19 Surge | Jul 10 10:43 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | eugenics, culling, survivasl of the strong | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | poor old people, almolst 200k of them, who do not enjoy pension anymore | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | 90%+ of them are pension age | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | they are a "burden" on "the capitalism" | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | "dude, want a seventh jab?" | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | "no jab, no job" | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | pensioner: i finished doing jobs after 45 years | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | capitalism eats its own, the ones who spent the most building the capital | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am not accepting this | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | in usa, champion of unbridlod capitalism, they cherish embroyos and fetuses 3 weeks old more | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | than they value war vetarans etc. | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | so that dispells this notion that the gov. exists to guard human life | Jul 10 10:55 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 10:55 |
| schestowitz[TR] | "Truth: government exists to protect life and liberty. But the lie embraced was government is willing to kill everyone because: “better dead than red.”" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/08/time-for-a-convention-of-the-people-by-the-people-and-for-the-people/ | Source: Counter Punch | Jul 10 10:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Time for a Convention of the People, by the People and for the People - CounterPunch.org | Jul 10 10:57 | |
| schestowitz[TR] | "Truth: government exists to protect life and liberty. But the lie embraced was government is willing to kill everyone because: “better dead than red.”" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/08/time-for-a-convention-of-the-people-by-the-people-and-for-the-people/ | Source: Counter Punch | Jul 10 10:57 |
| schestowitz[TR] | "Raped by My Father" ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/4/michele_goodwin_abortion_saved_my_life | Source: Democracy No | Jul 10 10:57 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.democracynow.org | “I Was Raped by My Father. Abortion Saved My Life”: Prof. Michele Goodwin on SCOTUS & the New Jane Crow | Democracy Now! | Jul 10 10:57 | |
| schestowitz-TR | the gov. exists to protect capital and "private property" | Jul 10 10:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | remember thaty and there will be less disappointment ;-) | Jul 10 10:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | WTO, EPO, Microsoft bailed out... | Jul 10 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | the interest is lost the moment they get born | Jul 10 10:59 |
| Techrights-sec | and diminishes by the day ever after from that point onward | Jul 10 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | baby dies: woman arrested | Jul 10 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | pupil dies: thoughts and prayers ;-) | Jul 10 11:00 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-flask-with-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-22-04/">How to Install Flask with Nginx and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 22.04</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.howtoforge.com | How to Install Flask with Nginx and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 22.04 | Jul 10 11:09 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | <p>Flask is a microframework written in Python for developing modern web applications and API (Application Programming Interface). It's based on the Werkzeug toolkit and Jinja2 template. Instead of using complex architecture, Flask is a small web framework that easy-to-extent the core and easy to learn because Flask has less code. Flask doesn't include the ORM, but still has cool features like URL routing | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | and template engine.</p> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:09 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:10 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/07/06/this-small-space-invaders-game-runs-on-an-arduino-nano-with-a-salvaged-crt-display/">This small Space Invaders game runs on an Arduino Nano with a salvaged CRT display</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:10 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.arduino.cc | This small Space Invaders game runs on an Arduino Nano with a salvaged CRT display | Arduino Blog | Jul 10 11:10 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:10 |
| schestowitz | <p>Rob Cai over on Instructables has created his own version of the classic video game Space Invaders using an Arduino Nano. However, unlike most other projects that would typically incorporate some kind of LCD or OLED screen, he chose to use a small black and white cathode ray tube (CRT) display recovered from an old video intercom system.</p> | Jul 10 11:10 |
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| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:10 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:10 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-impish-jammy-upgrade.html">Kubuntu upgrade - from 21.10 to 22.04 - Smooth as silk</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.dedoimedo.com | Kubuntu upgrade - from 21.10 to 22.04 - Smooth as silk | Jul 10 11:12 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | <p>Operating system upgrades are not a fun activity. Like the annual tax report, or mandatory HR training, you want them done as quickly and smoothly as possible. Over the years, I've found myself mustering less and less patience for everything software, and look at any major system change with a considerable amount of dread. Not the fear that I won't be able to resolve it, but the knowledge that I simply | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | don't have the desire to play with unnecessary things.</p> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | <p>On the Linux side of the pond, surprisingly, system upgrades have been relatively smooth. Still, they weren't always perfect. Well, today we need to see how things have changed since my last attempt, on the elderly Vivobook. My guinea pig will be the newish test system, an IdeaPad with its Ryzen processor and NVMe storage, which I use for Linux distro explorations and disappointments. The box runs a | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | triple-boot setup, including one Kubuntu 21.10. And now, we shall nudge that instance to the latest LTS. Begin to commence.</p> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | closest-to-truth analogy I can think of right now is bridge of cliff | Jul 10 11:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | and lots of fools followwing the crowd | Jul 10 11:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | assuming crowded places mean safety | Jul 10 11:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | I studied these issues and don't read BillBC (vaccine sales site) | Jul 10 11:16 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 11:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | billbc is not antivaxx | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | but it sells the idea that boosters are magic serum | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | today i work while standing | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | walking in and out the door to the sun outside | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | soon cider | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | buttefly outside just now | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | same problem here | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | yellowing | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2018 was worse | Jul 10 11:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | many animals were dying | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | grass was dying entirely at some edges | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | if it gets warm due to heating, we'll turn up the A/C (cycle) | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | if we lack rainfall, we'll turn on the taps more to feed flora and fauna | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | overpopulation is an inflection point thing | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is worsened further by its own effects | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne and i practice frugality even while earning 3000 net per month | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | we opened libre office the other night in bed, put in all the monthly expenses | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | adds up to not much at all | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | even after hyperinflation | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | food is about 50 per head per month | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | inc. alcohol | Jul 10 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | until today | Jul 10 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | good to keep expenses low | Jul 10 11:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | motto is | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | live modest, work less hard | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | money is storage of labbour quotient | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you need less money, less arrduous labour will be required (or for shorter duration) | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | we can live on rianne babysitting elephants 16 hours a wek | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | net time working 2-5 hours | Jul 10 11:34 |
| Techrights-sec | storage with loss / entropy | Jul 10 11:34 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/ubiquitous-surveillance-by-ice.html">Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| schestowitz | <p>Report by Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology published a comprehensive report on the surprising amount of mass surveillance conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).</p> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE - Schneier on Security | Jul 10 11:36 | |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:36 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | <h5>[Old] <a href="https://americandragnet.org/">American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-americandragnet.org | American Dragnet | Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century | Jul 10 11:37 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | <p>This report argues that you should. Our two-year investigation, including hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests and a comprehensive review of ICE’s contracting and procurement records, reveals that ICE now operates as a domestic surveillance agency. Since its founding in 2003, ICE has not only been building its own capacity to use surveillance to carry out deportations but has also | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | played a key role in the federal government’s larger push to amass as much information as possible about all of our lives. By reaching into the digital records of state and local governments and buying databases with billions of data points from private companies, ICE has created a surveillance infrastructure that enables it to pull detailed dossiers on nearly anyone, seemingly at any time. In its efforts to arrest and deport, ICE has – | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | without any judicial, legislative or public oversight – reached into datasets containing personal information about the vast majority of people living in the U.S., whose records can end up in the hands of immigration enforcement simply because they apply for driver’s licenses; drive on the roads; or sign up with their local utilities to get access to heat, water and electricity.</p> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | <p>ICE has built its dragnet surveillance system by crossing legal and ethical lines, leveraging the trust that people place in state agencies and essential service providers, and exploiting the vulnerability of people who volunteer their information to reunite with their families. Despite the incredible scope and evident civil rights implications of ICE’s surveillance practices, the agency has | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | managed to shroud those practices in near-total secrecy, evading enforcement of even the handful of laws and policies that could be invoked to impose limitations. Federal and state lawmakers, for the most part, have yet to confront this reality.</p> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | social control media magnifies or amplified social/peer pressure | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | we use invidious | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | next up maybe gemini, but for this ytou need to download first or play an open file | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | which oiver gemini:// can be damaged on transmission | Jul 10 11:37 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | i realised ~5 years ago she barely opens web pages | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | shge watches videos and scrolls down the front page of billbc without clicking on anything | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's a long long scroll | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | like social control media | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | wirth many photos | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | at least curated a bit | Jul 10 11:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe not in favour of lies but state agenda | Jul 10 11:39 |
| Techrights-sec | infinite scolling | Jul 10 11:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | motto is | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | live modest, work less hard | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | money is storage of labbour quotient | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you need less money, less arrduous labour will be required (or for shorter duration) | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | we can live on rianne babysitting elephants 16 hours a wek | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | net time working 2-5 hours | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | not infinite but long | Jul 10 11:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | drew devault and some geminauts are latest to blast social control media | Jul 10 11:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | as being toxic and unhealthy | Jul 10 11:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | more in Daily LINKS | Jul 10 11:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | Musk put twitter in a death spiral | Jul 10 11:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | he plastwered a "caution: do not buy" label on it | Jul 10 11:43 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 11:51 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2022/07/09/Fediverse-toxicity.html">The Fediverse can be pretty toxic</a></h5> | Jul 10 11:51 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-drewdevault.com | The Fediverse can be pretty toxic | Jul 10 11:51 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 11:51 |
| schestowitz | <p>Social networks are not good for you. The Fediverse brought out the worst in me, and it can bring out the worst in you, too. The behaviors it encourages are plainly defined as harassment, a behavior which is not unique to any ideological condition. People get hurt on the Fediverse. Keep that in mind. Consider taking a look in the mirror and asking yourself if your relationship with the platform is | Jul 10 11:51 |
| schestowitz | healthy for you and for the people around you.</p> | Jul 10 11:51 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Jul 10 11:51 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Jul 10 11:51 |
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| Techrights-sec | I didn't get anything done yesterday except a bit of planning. Today I was | Jul 10 14:16 |
| Techrights-sec | able to do some experiments with SQLite3. Perhaps tomorrow I'll be able | Jul 10 14:16 |
| Techrights-sec | to squeeze in some merging of the experiments into the existing mockup | Jul 10 14:16 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 14:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | db still holding up OK enough | Jul 10 14:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will prod kanini once a day | Jul 10 14:16 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 14:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | I want to 'innovate' in the sites (scare quotes) to make things better than 'traditional' ones, but do not know how to | Jul 10 14:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | but making our own cms makes extending it easier | Jul 10 14:28 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 14:28 |
| Techrights-sec | the HTML + CSS in the mockup still needs polishing though | Jul 10 14:28 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1545619236403515392 | Jul 10 14:54 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@BrideOfLinux: Too much top down isolates the top and they go crazy with self importance: This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its L… https://t.co/ip2lJRuRQA | Jul 10 14:54 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@BrideOfLinux: Too much top down isolates the top and they go crazy with self importance: This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its L… https://t.co/ip2lJRuRQA | Jul 10 14:54 | |
| schestowitz | "Too much top down isolates the top and they go crazy with self importance: This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its Lowest Share (Just 3%), But CEO Baker Made a Fortune (Especially When Mozilla Sank)" | Jul 10 14:54 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GiamBuonomo/status/1546116613077966851 | Jul 10 14:55 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@GiamBuonomo: @schestowitz https://t.co/9QdP8uFQpd | Jul 10 14:55 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | Last I saw.... | Jul 10 17:31 |
| Techrights-sec | ok the other messages about maintenance must not have gone through | Jul 10 17:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | I was afk | Jul 10 17:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | so I only see the new session | Jul 10 17:47 |
| Techrights-sec | not much other than that | Jul 10 18:20 |
| Techrights-sec | I had a little bit of time and modified the script to save into an SQLite3 | Jul 10 18:54 |
| Techrights-sec | database. Next time I will throw together something quick to extract | Jul 10 18:54 |
| Techrights-sec | records based on date and save them as static files. | Jul 10 18:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | if I understand it correctly, the DB is then accessed just to create the statis files and the feeds | Jul 10 18:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | then, once pages age, no more need to touch the DB to retrieve them | Jul 10 18:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | great! | Jul 10 18:55 |
| Techrights-sec | correct | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | it also makes it possible to make a new template some time in the future | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | and then apply it to the whole site, including the pre-existing posts, not just | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | future posts | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | There are some fine points I am missing or misunderstanding with SQL | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | but the main thing is that as far as a proof-of-concept prototype goes, it is | Jul 10 18:56 |
| Techrights-sec | moving along | Jul 10 18:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think the lion's share of human (non-bot) traffic is posts from the past 1-2 days) | Jul 10 18:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | the same is true in a lot of sites | Jul 10 18:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | so applying changes to old pages isn't so critical | Jul 10 18:57 |
| Techrights-sec | after the extractor, or as part of its development, I'll have to figure out | Jul 10 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | the navigation links | Jul 10 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | Of course, but there is always the off chance that someone finds an old post | Jul 10 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | and wishes to explore. That needs to remain possible. | Jul 10 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | for a foreseeable future the very old ~167,000 nodes can be sevred with the old CMS | Jul 10 19:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | which will be locked such that it's just there as legacy, with all those distro review susan did and are linked to | Jul 10 19:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | from distowatch etc. | Jul 10 19:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | scraping is the next stage, as we'll need to scrape anything after 27/6/2022 anyway | Jul 10 19:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | I already know how to do this | Jul 10 19:00 |
| Techrights-sec | yes but it would be best to scrape them into a static site eventually, using | Jul 10 19:01 |
| Techrights-sec | wget or something | Jul 10 19:01 |
| Techrights-sec | It's just a matter of finding the right parameters to ensure that the comments | Jul 10 19:01 |
| Techrights-sec | and such are retained | Jul 10 19:01 |
| Techrights-sec | There are a lot of parts, like the reviews and galleries | Jul 10 19:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | some nodes are multi-paged, both for content and for comments (there are thresholds) | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the priority is retaining existing readers by giving a good rss feed | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | later worry about "the other stuff" | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | we can do something similar with TR wordpress later on | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | there is CMS and bloat fatigue anyway | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | people should not need to download like 20- tiny images and other objects just to read an article with one image | Jul 10 19:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | gemini shows it can be done withoiut even that one image | Jul 10 19:04 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | Jul 10 19:13 |
| Techrights-sec | the current mockup has no direct provision for images. They are probably not | Jul 10 19:13 |
| Techrights-sec | needed but I would like to know what other think | Jul 10 19:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | images are just like a field | Jul 10 19:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | you enter some external url, sometimes wikipedia | Jul 10 19:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | it adds a little at a low cost | Jul 10 19:14 |
| Techrights-sec | ok, an additional table with a blob can be added | Jul 10 19:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | I used to think of other ways of improving or enhancing the site | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | it has been mostly the same since 2014/15 | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | putting myself in the shoes of what I think readers are | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | some times around 2016 we decided to utilise comments to post followups | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | avoiding repetition of themes and stories in the front page | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | but comments are not meant to be used like this | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | we shut doiwn registration for new accounts due to spam and worse | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | one thing I 'implmented' is a loop that checks timestamps | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | so that if I add "update" to an existing page it gets bumped up to the top | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | this was never possible with the front page or rss feed | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | but we had a view (still have it) at the top of the front page) to indicate new | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | comments based on visitor's cookie | Jul 10 19:19 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Jul 10 19:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | of note: if we add "UDPATE" to a page maybe better reverse chronological | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | so that the latest additiion is shown first, giving emphasis to the new stuff with the older stuff trailing | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | ----- | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | Ubuntu 24.04: things to do after install | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | Ubuntu 24.04 reeleases | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | Ubuntu 24.04 to be relerased later today | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | ==== | Jul 10 19:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | (all in one "node") to avoid flooding the site over and over again with related story | Jul 10 19:22 |
| Techrights-sec | so a dc.date.modified field is needed, too, then | Jul 10 19:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | the way it works now, when the file is edited the file system is containing the time stamo | Jul 10 19:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | and that gets determined when scanning the files | Jul 10 19:24 |
| Techrights-sec | It's more efficient to scan the sqlite database | Jul 10 19:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, but it would be nice to edit the files directly, too | Jul 10 19:25 |
| Techrights-sec | then there is a great challenge to get them back into the database | Jul 10 19:26 |
| Techrights-sec | the files must be 100% valid HTML and conform to several check points regarding | Jul 10 19:26 |
| Techrights-sec | structure, or else that is not feasible | Jul 10 19:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | makes sense, so maybe a script to open the file in nano and then commit the change | Jul 10 19:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne can cope opk with nano | Jul 10 19:27 |
| Techrights-sec | but it's quite doable within those constraints | Jul 10 19:31 |
| Techrights-sec | excellent | Jul 10 19:31 |
| Techrights-sec | though the todo list just grew by six points in these last few minutes :/ | Jul 10 19:31 |
| Techrights-sec | I'll work on the extaction, then extraction + nav menu, next time I can | Jul 10 19:31 |
| Techrights-sec | get a chance. (Prob. tomorrow) Then the update. | Jul 10 19:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | if all the nodes are in a db, then off-the-sheft converters cann produce gemtext from that DB as well | Jul 10 19:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | gemini.tuxmachines.org:1965 with agate running or similar | Jul 10 19:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | the format is quite consistent, either list or item, sometimes with "Also:" | Jul 10 19:32 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes all the nodes need to be in the db and then the conversions to gemtext | Jul 10 19:33 |
| Techrights-sec | will be easy as would any other template. The file syste basically becomes | Jul 10 19:33 |
| Techrights-sec | a mirror of the db content. | Jul 10 19:33 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, good idea. | Jul 10 19:33 |
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| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "I wrote a bunch about social media in the past few years, and I sort of stopped trying to "convince" anyone to stop using it (be it entirely, or even just partially), but I still remark on the dangers of the services out there." gemini://tmo.smol.pub/1657471912 | Jul 10 20:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | "Anyway, I still support (or sometimes just tolerate) that people still use social networks, but more people are probably leaving them (all of them) at this point, and that can only be a good thing. It's always up to the individual, though. No one will do it for them." gemini://tmo.smol.pub/1657471912 | Jul 10 20:23 |
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