IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, June 11, 2022

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# df -h /home/roy/temp/

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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

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/dev/sdb1 7.0G 24K 6.7G 1% /home/roy/temp

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I've put a detachable USB stick there temporarily

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the files (2 of them) are not on this machine but the camera

Jun 11 08:12

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they are old photos anyway

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can they be transferred via an intermediary system?

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yes, but there is really nothing special about then

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*them

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I just popped them off the queue when I realised smtp had failed

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STMP fails a lot

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as mentioned many times, e-mail is not a surrogate for a file sharing system

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but when M$ killed Novell's Netware, they then followed up by attacking and

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destroying even the phrase file sharing such that no business can really do

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it any more, technically, and lack the political will to even try since it

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would mean an escape from M$

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draft

Jun 11 08:23

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rianne got the url working at the end, chocolatre was uppsercase, but should be lowercase

Jun 11 08:23

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she saw other recipes and is on holiday from work today, so will bake instead

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excellent

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this time of year the coconut or lemon pies are quite good to have

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the lemon (meringue) is work though

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i found that if you start the mixer on low while beating the meringue the

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bubbles are smaller and thus the foam sturdier

https://nitter.it/JRepin/status/1535558218667241474#m

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depending on the weather, we might cycle again, she has a percel to send

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but too early to tell

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the video processed overnight, I'll get is out of thee way, then do links

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bicycling is always good

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Jun 11 11:15

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Jure Repinc (Mastodon: @JRepin@mstdn.io) (@JRepin): "Also, if you are interested in some English texts on copyright/patents/privacy in Slovenia the articles by @schestowitz on Tech Rights are quite a good read: http://techrights.org/index.php?s=Slovenia+Slovenian+Slovene"|nitter.it

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topics needed ;-)

Jun 11 13:13

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see latest on wipo and debian

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getting interesting

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There were some Debian items in the links recently

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there is more today, you can see some background in techrights irc logs

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There were some Debian items in the links recently

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Google is misusing its web browser dominance to e=try to eliminate

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certain type of plug-ins like "ad-blockers". With Baker and Mozilla so damn

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dependent, intentionally, on Google's money Firefox will probably soon to

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^toe

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that line

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regulag, (re gulga) I saw several articles to that effect in recent days, one sent by you

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I say to people, move to librewolf

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assuming they use firefox

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what worries me though is that out of the box librewolf subscribes VERY strictly to the CA cartel mindset

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retreating (by moving to librewolf) won't make a dent in the market share

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and allows them to continue to corner the browser market

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but what, like Gal said years ago, Chrome won [sic] and I think it's too late to expect a Firefox/Gecko rebound

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XUL is mostly dead and buried, thunderbird killed off many useful extensions that I use, and I think

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an approach like Gemini is worth investing in, e.g. by creating ore tools for it

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our www proxy, for example, shows you can focus on gemini and still present near pages to the web users

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with no extra effort

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yes for the most part FF is gone

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especially while Baker is still ostensibly at the helm

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yes, Gemini is quite valuable

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apropos your post from the other day: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/10/1242257

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | The Code: Story of GNU and Linux (2001) Complete Documentary - SoylentNews

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yes for the most part FF is gone

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especially while Baker is still ostensibly at the helm

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yes, Gemini is quite valuable

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apropos your post from the other day: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/10/1242257

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go to the official mozilal blog

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check the latest blog post

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this is what LF does too

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I'd rather not even say what I think

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same for the sysadmin we have, a brilliant, caring, very nice person... but I'd rather not say anything about other stuff

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wtf? the mozilla blog is no longer about the WWW

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they did several blog posts like this the past week alone

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maybe they reckon their market share is so small already that they might as well use a niche's identity poilitics

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it just limits them further

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"Mozilla will be represented on the WHATWG Steering Group by Tantek elik going forward." https://annevankesteren.nl/2022/06/after-mozilla

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-annevankesteren.nl | After Mozilla — Anne’s Blog

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see the departure post as well, a day earlier

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read between the lines

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Who / what is tantek elik?

Jun 11 13:46

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ytalk chomps the (I think) Turkish character

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Tantek was well known in the early blog era

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he was well regarded as Mr. Technorati

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where we would find other blog posts by topics etc.

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That Tantek ended up in Mozilla some years ago says a lot

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about his demise

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like Sternberg joining Mozilla

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he left years ago, but wolfssl isn't much betteer

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but I guess they needed a salary

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and they are given freedom and access through these orgs

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Mozilla lost many others too

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iirc, dennies schuberg (de) from joindiaspor also left

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Schubert

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*Dennis

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A lot of the Web is collapsing

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while few malicious compsnies pocket some ad revenue here and there

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or just weaponise the Web to advance some imperial agenda

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subsidised by debt or real produce, such as agriculture

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or oil/gaS (rUSSIA)

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names are VERY important to remember

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they are like ID or barcode for certain topicsa

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if you forget the name, you can struggle to find relevant idea or information

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like "what's his name" who said X

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"shit, I don't even know his first name... don't know what to search for... something "politics"... Russia.... TOO BROAD"

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Names are more unique

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it is not your fault when their namne is very common, but making files with lists of people can help

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about a decade ago I exported the list of contacts, inc. email (this was POSSIBLE), from linkedin

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Those included some old university friends

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the email addresses might perish, but the names aree important

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we did not have yearbooks for uni

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a lot of old names and old literature is obsolete

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but being able to resurrect hard-to-find old facts helps

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esp. when you are the only/last person left with such data, and can prove something

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or make a point

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technical debt is a thing that now impacts "e" libraries

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and almost nobody talks about it

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even physical libraries might perish completerly

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so unique book IDs and full detailed refs with page numbers and everything might be just that:

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title, page, author

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but no actual access to the material cited

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/24194-never-memorize-something-that-you-can-look-up

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.goodreads.com | Quote by Albert Einstein: “Never memorize something that you can look up.”

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bbig rant: my dad is full of BS on Russia and China, spent an hour arguing politely on the phone today

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he seems to forget very easily some key historic events or is not properly familiar

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with them

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and he's bad at admitting he might be wrong

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probably he is unfamiliar with the historical facts

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digging one's heels in only makes the error worse and that's what social

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control media exacerbates terribly: people are fed shit at the first possible

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opportunity and they take it to heart and adopt it as their world view,

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then as facts come to light they refuse to update their position and worldview

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it used to be a problem before social control media

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when it was word of mouth

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but social control media spreads these thingss quadratically

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when broadcast TV you could more or less conmtain baseless hearsay

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and peple spoke to one person at a time

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i.e. it was linear, not quadratic

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yes but word of mouth was slower, with social control media, various

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interests can stake out a position very quickly in advance of any upcoming

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debate and effectively poison the well

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a big difference was that, at least in most countries, when there were

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only a few channels available only via broadcast television, there was

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great effort expended to stick to facts and only the facts and avoid

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opinions from anyone even those who were interviewed

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<techrights-news> Wait! What happened to RSS?! • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165889

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Wait! What happened to RSS?! | Tux Machines

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<techrights-news> Wait! What happened to RSS?! Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165889

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OSOR sued to have rss feeds

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when the drupal 'redesign' totally killed these off I asked givs (some dutch/.belgian name) what would happen

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he never got back to me

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mind the last sentence there about EU action

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the wwww as useless nonsense

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a bunch of "apps" ("platforms")

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history shows that when something gets killed off it almost nnever comes back again

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it's not how it works

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rss won't make a comeback/rivival

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revival

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tghere would be no mopmentum to it

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it's not "addictive" enough

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and RSS businesses won't get "angel investors"

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too much of what's left ofthe net is not just about centralized service

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monopolies but also about farming addictive behaviors

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through intentionally designed addictive interfaces

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it is gamification of sorts

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some good posts in gemini lately

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about people's pov on the www

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they speak of it as outsiders or recovering ex addicts

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there was a time, not too long ago, when you could run a blog like techrunch and sell it for a long of money

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now you would just shut the same thins for financial reason

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like omalik/gigaom

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to name one example

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yes the political dynamics regarding the control of public discourse have

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changed drastically since the metastasization of social control media

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througout society and through, especially, the shell that is left of

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journalism

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gamification is just a way of exploiting addictive behaviors through addictive interfaces and monetizing the farmed "behaviors"

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which people "emit" there

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"gamification" is the term used by the perpatrators themselves

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not me

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but I did experiuence game addiction when I was young

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the sense of progress or getting the upper handover other

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and starting to blieve this game you care about so much really matter

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or will received widespread recognitoon

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kind of like twitter

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to many people it is what tiktok is to me

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a personl with many patents judges others by # of patents

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a person with many publications assumes the worth of a scholar is weighed sum of pub impact factor erc.

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a person who write code might assess the importance and size of projects/programs

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a person who thinks some silly corporate game matter to society (like Kim Dotcom) will get obese and lazy

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a person who spends 24/7 in FB thinks a popularity of a person is # of likes, "friends" etc.

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A saners person has balance

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(note: good scholars do a lot of teaching too. Since 2005 many acaemic papers were ready by maybe a few dozens, past ther abstract, so a classrom

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listening for 40 minutes can have more impact than a paper taken 3 months to produce)

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that's partly the reaosn academia did not appeal to me

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it felt like a dying profession and dead end

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of course you also get the opccasional "fun" of marking up exams, a motoric, repetitive job

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since the Bologne Agreement that has been the case, that more or less was

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a death blow to the institution as it had existed, at least in Europe

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they have made some propaganda films like beatiuful mind about john nmash to entice or lure in some people into acadeia

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but that is a mostly mythical version of what it's like, even if you make it into the redbrick league in the us of a

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that was not academia, Nash was a street person venerated by MBAs because

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he told them what they wanted to promote at that particular moment,

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they also lie about him getting a Nobel Prize when in reality he was

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rewarded with a non-scientific bankster gimmick

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masquerading as an honor

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iirc, his dissertation was astyoundingly short

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like 30 pages?

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and they hail that as a "success" story

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yep and in some countries that level of superficiality has become the norm

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you read them and thing, good start but where is the substance and research?

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the banksters again hail that as a success story for the same reason

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the promote their own prize and pretend that it has any intellectual significance

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Turing Machine => drop dead, after we used you for ENIGMA

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Cold War PR => here, have this honour and Hollywood film

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reading comments on "non-recprocal licencing" and the scoring of that comment in particular, I see social contron media

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earlier today I linked to an articles about RSS

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I have put that in the FP of TM

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but towards the end he boasts that he reads 'hacker' 'news'

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I assume over RSS

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without bothering to think who curates it

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that's not rss feeds

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that's social control media or "platform"/centrlisation that ALSO has RSS feeds to rope people in

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in geminispace

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there would be a new page

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"Re: Licence"

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it would contain a proper post and then no score associated with it

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it stands out on its own

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no moderators

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and those who follow that capsule can read it, unadulterated

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that's how we did blogging in 2004

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sometimes with "trackbacks" or "pingbacks'

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correct

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that would be social control but via RSS as a novelty

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combative "ideas wars" might be OK

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piutting everyone in the same stage does not work

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the "moderator" is put there by the platform owner, e.g. TV conglemerate

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ack

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and so there's no room for everyoner to speak as equal

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there can also be mobbing/grouping

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which begets self-censorship

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I said in 2009 ish I'd stop leaving commetns in othwer people's blogs

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imposters became an issue

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and Groklaw's Pamela Jones had the same problem

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so she had said she would not comment

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and any comment is thus presumed imposter

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of course it's tragic what happened to all her work

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someone even pretended to be me and called people nazis

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or pretended to be one

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I recently worried about neonazis in our irc network pushing some limits

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but they self-vanished

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that puts some people off regardless

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yes she did

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or at least no comments under a recognized name

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too bad her site got only partially archived

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maybe the good parts which remain accessible there would be a good topic

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for a post some time

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yes

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the full site DB is still there somewhere

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frozen in time

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read-only

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but..

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I have not kept up with how geeklog is maintained for longterm "longin the tooth" users

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there is usually some tightly-knit community that hacks on the code to race past php version upgrades

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I did that a few times myself, even as recently as months ago

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sometimes it's just the same change in many lines

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extends the lifetime

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this Groklaw DB also contains ALL the "News Picks" (if that's what she called them, I do not remember anymore)

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there must be many thousands there, with her commentary added

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Techrighs reproduced some, but not all

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yes but abandoned more or less

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It's going on 10 years now since Groklaw shut down, and the SCO case is still

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festering

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we need to spent less time producing and more time strategising I think

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on both technical and editorial grounds

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sometimes the sites become irrelevant or sell out because they are too impulsive

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money, trends, clickbait etc.

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fsf is become "news desert" (sad to say)

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*becoming

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yes that has been a problem, and as a paying member I am rather annoyed that

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they are keeping members in the dark

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fig wrote about it about 3 years ago

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"member fodder" irc was his term

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yes they made a point of not benefiting from or to the membership

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I probably won't donate to them this year, especially if nothing improves

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on their part regarding membership news and active work by staff

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Liam Dawe told me (when you suggesting resorting to Patreon) that the one lesson he learned from his experience

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in GamingOnLinux is that you MUST offer SOME benefits to people who choose to pay

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yes there must be some benefits, not necessarily exclusive benefits but

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something better than just flushing the money away

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<techrights-news> The Harsh reality of living offgrid. gemini://atyh.net/post-2022-06-11-the-harsh-reality-of-living-offrid.gmi "The most difficult part of living offgrid has nothing to do with the work, equipment, and life habits required to live off grid."

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ack

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coming 2 weeks will be busy in epo as meetings approach (3 meetings)

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so will keep hands free of freesw topics unless there is a lot of unused time at hand

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our company's direction (at work) is challenged by me, but another person does the same

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they don't seem to grasp the concept of client confidence and skill retention

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they want OPTICS, instead

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ack

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important to collaborate with that other person then

Jun 11 16:07

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no, it would be problematic because she sleeps with someone who is close to the boss

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and is generally doing that for other motivations

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sorry, not "she"

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she goes by "they"

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(not taking the piss at all btw, perfectly factual; and used the wrong pronoun by accideent. nether technical nor suitably qualified)

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"our system is done, the database if fucked, but at least it is being looked at by one girl, two boys, and one nonbinary..."

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*down

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*is

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I guess it's a successful technique for distracting from and preventing actual

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work

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I guess it's a successful technique for distracting from and preventing actual

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work

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I think that is just a side effect

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there have been some altruistic intentions

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how they're being co-opted is not the fault of those who meant well

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and thus we should be careful todinstguish and perprly attribute

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it has been the same at the epo

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the net effect is Team A and team B are both shit

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and your colleagues are not as useful as they otherwise would be

Jun 11 16:17

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collectively, as a community of a company or as an org, you are worse off and weaker

Jun 11 16:17

schestowitz-TR

nobody knows everything

schestowitz-TR

posers and imposters can pretend to be everything

schestowitz-TR

but a dgree in "classics" or similar may mean you're not in the right domain or ballpark

schestowitz-TR

and that putsd a burden on the rest of the team

Techrights-sec2

ack

schestowitz-TR

I'm not a great sys admin or programmer

schestowitz-TR

I'm "OK"

schestowitz-TR

but I'm better at some other things

schestowitz-TR

so can make up for it

schestowitz-TR

rianne's programming skills are rather basic

Jun 11 16:20

schestowitz-TR

she did a cs degree

Jun 11 16:20

schestowitz-TR

but she is meticulous at work

Jun 11 16:20

schestowitz-TR

and has access to good equipment and to me

Jun 11 16:21

schestowitz-TR

so I think some colleagues are a little intimidated

Jun 11 16:21

schestowitz-TR

and that leads to cat fights

Jun 11 16:21

Techrights-sec2

ack

Techrights-sec2

cat fights are all too common and, sadly, part of a lot of human nature

Techrights-sec2

especially women. men tend to have conflicts but often settle into

Techrights-sec2

some stable situation begrudgingly or otherwise rather quickly at least until

Techrights-sec2

something major changes to affect the dynamics

schestowitz-TR

right, that suitably describes some of the conflicting (on technical matters) views 3 of us

Jun 11 16:23

schestowitz-TR

have, e.g. ansible vs puppet or shitware vs freesw

Jun 11 16:23

Techrights-sec2

ack

Jun 11 16:23

schestowitz-TR

I'm relatively easy to work with, I think, that's why I'm there 11.5 years (could leave many times)

Jun 11 16:25

schestowitz-TR

and TM and TM age OK, inc. the community (even those who ragequit often come back later)

Jun 11 16:25

schestowitz-TR

BTW, TM depends a lot on RSS

Jun 11 16:25

schestowitz-TR

if the RSS web culture dies, both TR and TM might suffer

schestowitz-TR

but there is no simple solution to that, other than diversifying a bit

schestowitz-TR

"Social media" or "SEO" are not valid options

schestowitz-TR

those are controlled by very large companies

schestowitz-TR

with whims of shareholders

Techrights-sec2

ack

Techrights-sec2

social control media works actively against software freedom, note

Techrights-sec2

the agenda and owners of reddit as one example

schestowitz-TR

I prefer to call it Internet freedom

schestowitz-TR

because, like swpats, it affects both us the freesw community and the rest of the technical folks

schestowitz-TR

with whom we need an alliance on certain matters, hecen ffii

schestowitz-TR

*hence

Techrights-sec2

FFII also seems a bit quiet of late

Jun 11 16:28

Techrights-sec2

last blog post in 2021 and invisible in the search engine results

Jun 11 16:28

schestowitz-TR

pedants' point: never say "Web freedom"; that's a paradox in 2022 or the past 10 years

schestowitz-TR

if not 20+ years

schestowitz-TR

gulag does not like ffii ;-)

schestowitz-TR

zoobab told me that his press releases show up first as techrights, before ffii

schestowitz-TR

not my fault

schestowitz-TR

that may change in the future

schestowitz-TR

just some knobhead at gulag seeing we don't fancy "gulag" and pulling a knob to derank us

schestowitz-TR

we're of no value to "alphabet agency" shareholders anyway

schestowitz-TR

not anymore

Techrights-sec2

no gulag hates and the others

Jun 11 16:31

schestowitz-TR

gulag noise: we syndicate microsoft.com as a NEWS site

schestowitz-TR

also "Microsoft on te Issues" (lobbying blog)

schestowitz-TR

but not techrights, ffii etc.

schestowitz-TR

mondaq/lexology are OK becayse they are "professional"

schestowitz-TR

they take BRIBES to push lies

schestowitz-TR

so they have a businessModel(R)

schestowitz-TR

hence Professional(TM)

Techrights-sec2

sadly bribes are a business plan

Jun 11 16:34

schestowitz-TR

larabel and I cheered him being enlisted in Gulag Noise years ago

Jun 11 16:36

schestowitz-TR

to me, those are just more cruft in my rss feeds now

Jun 11 16:36

schestowitz-TR

but sometimes I use them to follow through to originals, such as patchsets

Jun 11 16:36

schestowitz-TR

(i don't envy michael, we've spoken since the BN days. we both work like horses around the clock to produce stories

schestowitz-TR

but the relationship with vendors is like "doping"... and it'll become a major liability down the line as readers leave and sponsors

schestowitz-TR

are companies, not people)

schestowitz-TR

fossforce killed itself

schestowitz-TR

check date of last story

schestowitz-TR

it tries to come back, shills some corporarte bullshit

schestowitz-TR

then coredumps

schestowitz-TR

too focused on trying to raise money, one war or the other

schestowitz-TR

years ago christine and I were close, blasted LF

schestowitz-TR

now the site is a shrine to LF

schestowitz-TR

like Putin invaded Ukraine and planted a flag in it

Techrights-sec2

ack

Techrights-sec2

yes

Techrights-sec2

she sold out

Techrights-sec2

probably had to

Techrights-sec2

for economic reasons

schestowitz-TR

based on photos poasted a decade ago of her car windows getting smashed by a brick, it's very "hand-to-mouth"

Jun 11 16:43

Techrights-sec2

most in the US are in that situation and the gutting of their savings in 2008

Techrights-sec2

did not advance the standard of living to put it mildly

schestowitz-TR

plus medical bills and partented prescription drugs

schestowitz-TR

the other day I read that in 2020 it became a $500 BILLION industry

schestowitz-TR

those repeat drugs

schestowitz-TR

they shoulds be generic really

schestowitz-TR

but politicians take bribes and with Microsoft Vidal the patents will stay

schestowitz-TR

something "property"

Techrights-sec2

still say-for-pay is awfully degrading

Jun 11 16:45

Techrights-sec2

yes and generics are usually unavailable or otherwise blocked

Jun 11 16:45

schestowitz-TR

'coz "counterfeit"

schestowitz-TR

or maybe if you know someone in India and can pray it gets through customs

schestowitz-TR

the "counterfeit"

schestowitz-TR

police

schestowitz-TR

protecting you from drugs... that you can afford and would extend your life

schestowitz-TR

the "war on (legal) drugs"

Techrights-sec2

ack

Jun 11 16:48

Techrights-sec2

war on inexpensive or effective drugs

Jun 11 16:48

schestowitz-TR

s/or/and/

schestowitz-TR

through the two aren't necessarily coming in conjuction

schestowitz-TR

story of relevance: my mother had a prescirbed drug

schestowitz-TR

and iirc when the patent thing kicked in they stopped making it available

schestowitz-TR

instead pushing only a more expensive one, which ALSO was worse for her

schestowitz-TR

caused all sorts of issues

Techrights-sec2

ack

schestowitz-TR

so the more expensive was in fact worse

schestowitz-TR

and impose (now) if the previous one, which worked well, got blocked

schestowitz-TR

purely for business reasons

schestowitz-TR

thank you for the innovation, Antonio CamPoonios

schestowitz-TR

he doesn't have to worry about the price of medication

schestowitz-TR

he just takes REAL drugs

schestowitz-TR

the F* good ones

schestowitz-TR

s/impose/imports of the previous one

schestowitz-TR

she had to contact people with connections in India

schestowitz-TR

and was looking on the Web

schestowitz-TR

they are torturing people for profit

Jun 11 16:53

schestowitz-TR

<techrights-news> "Honestly speaking I never bothered about any of the Perl releases before. But Perl v5.36 is very special and close to me." https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/get-started-with-perl-v536/

Jun 11 16:53

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-theweeklychallenge.org | Get started with Perl v5.36

Jun 11 16:53

schestowitz-TR

based on the timestem, 8:42pm just now, Mo Anwar, who wrote this, is no longer in London but somewhere like India?

schestowitz-TR

He wrote many posts about his depression and sobbing

Techrights-sec2

ack

Techrights-sec2

I had not seen those

schestowitz-TR

<techrights-news> Microsoft propagandist, liar, and shill Rob Enderle: "US Tech Market Leadership at a Crossroads" ... wait, what? What tech leadership? Almost EVERYTHING is made in China ALREADY.

Jun 11 17:08

schestowitz-TR

<techrights-news> This market was not known as Facebook and it wasn't headed by Mark Zuckerberg, hence "bad" https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/us_feds_raid_dark_web/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | Feds raid dark web market where 24 Americans' data was sold • The Register

schestowitz-TR

<techrights-news> "Good" spying versus "Bad" information sharing https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*flkRZlw79d7EYWZkRltD0A.jpeg

schestowitz-TR

apropos pocock on privacy versus debian/fsfe on 'privacy'

https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1534792966681894914#m

schestowitz-TR

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "UPC: 2/3 majority vote requirement was not followed (art3a Const) in Slovenia? 48 out of 90? https://www.bristowsupc.com/news/slovenia-passes-law-on-ratification-of-the-upc-agreement/"|nitter.it

https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1535535606301921280#m

schestowitz-TR

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "@piratskastranka do you have someone who could check?"|nitter.it