●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, June 11, 2022 ●● ● Jun 11 [00:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [00:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [00:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [03:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [03:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [06:28] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Jun 11 [08:11] Techrights-sec2 can SFTP be used instead? [08:11] Techrights-sec2 # df -h /home/roy/temp/ [08:11] Techrights-sec2 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on [08:11] Techrights-sec2 /dev/sdb1 7.0G 24K 6.7G 1% /home/roy/temp [08:11] Techrights-sec2 I've put a detachable USB stick there temporarily [08:12] schestowitz-TR the files (2 of them) are not on this machine but the camera [08:12] schestowitz-TR they are old photos anyway [08:12] Techrights-sec2 can they be transferred via an intermediary system? [08:13] schestowitz-TR yes, but there is really nothing special about then [08:13] schestowitz-TR *them [08:13] schestowitz-TR I just popped them off the queue when I realised smtp had failed [08:13] Techrights-sec2 ok [08:13] Techrights-sec2 STMP fails a lot [08:17] Techrights-sec2 as mentioned many times, e-mail is not a surrogate for a file sharing system [08:17] Techrights-sec2 but when M$ killed Novell's Netware, they then followed up by attacking and [08:17] Techrights-sec2 destroying even the phrase file sharing such that no business can really do [08:17] Techrights-sec2 it any more, technically, and lack the political will to even try since it [08:17] Techrights-sec2 would mean an escape from M$ [08:23] schestowitz-TR draft [08:23] schestowitz-TR rianne got the url working at the end, chocolatre was uppsercase, but should be lowercase [08:23] schestowitz-TR she saw other recipes and is on holiday from work today, so will bake instead [08:25] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [08:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:27] Techrights-sec2 excellent [08:27] Techrights-sec2 this time of year the coconut or lemon pies are quite good to have [08:27] Techrights-sec2 the lemon (meringue) is work though [08:27] Techrights-sec2 i found that if you start the mixer on low while beating the meringue the [08:27] Techrights-sec2 bubbles are smaller and thus the foam sturdier [08:28] schestowitz-TR depending on the weather, we might cycle again, she has a percel to send [08:28] schestowitz-TR but too early to tell [08:28] schestowitz-TR the video processed overnight, I'll get is out of thee way, then do links [08:35] Techrights-sec2 bicycling is always good [08:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [08:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [09:11] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [09:12] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:22] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [09:23] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [09:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [10:30] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[10:36] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [10:36] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@5tcc2vuaj9aks.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [10:48] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [11:15] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.it/JRepin/status/1535558218667241474#m [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 ● Jun 11 [13:13] schestowitz-TR topics needed ;-) [13:13] schestowitz-TR see latest on wipo and debian [13:13] schestowitz-TR getting interesting [13:14] Techrights-sec2 There were some Debian items in the links recently [13:14] schestowitz-TR there is more today, you can see some background in techrights irc logs [13:20] Techrights-sec2 There were some Debian items in the links recently [13:20] Techrights-sec2 Google is misusing its web browser dominance to e=try to eliminate [13:20] Techrights-sec2 certain type of plug-ins like "ad-blockers". With Baker and Mozilla so damn [13:20] Techrights-sec2 dependent, intentionally, on Google's money Firefox will probably soon to [13:20] Techrights-sec2 ^toe [13:20] Techrights-sec2 that line [13:23] schestowitz-TR regulag, (re gulga) I saw several articles to that effect in recent days, one sent by you [13:23] schestowitz-TR I say to people, move to librewolf [13:23] schestowitz-TR assuming they use firefox [13:23] schestowitz-TR what worries me though is that out of the box librewolf subscribes VERY strictly to the CA cartel mindset [13:26] Techrights-sec2 retreating (by moving to librewolf) won't make a dent in the market share [13:26] Techrights-sec2 and allows them to continue to corner the browser market [13:28] schestowitz-TR but what, like Gal said years ago, Chrome won [sic] and I think it's too late to expect a Firefox/Gecko rebound [13:28] schestowitz-TR XUL is mostly dead and buried, thunderbird killed off many useful extensions that I use, and I think [13:28] schestowitz-TR an approach like Gemini is worth investing in, e.g. by creating ore tools for it [13:28] schestowitz-TR our www proxy, for example, shows you can focus on gemini and still present near pages to the web users [13:28] schestowitz-TR with no extra effort [13:30] schestowitz-TR yes for the most part FF is gone [13:30] schestowitz-TR especially while Baker is still ostensibly at the helm [13:30] schestowitz-TR yes, Gemini is quite valuable [13:30] schestowitz-TR apropos your post from the other day: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/10/1242257 [13:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | The Code: Story of GNU and Linux (2001) Complete Documentary - SoylentNews [13:30] Techrights-sec2 yes for the most part FF is gone [13:30] Techrights-sec2 especially while Baker is still ostensibly at the helm [13:30] Techrights-sec2 yes, Gemini is quite valuable [13:30] Techrights-sec2 apropos your post from the other day: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/10/1242257 [13:31] schestowitz-TR go to the official mozilal blog [13:31] schestowitz-TR check the latest blog post [13:31] schestowitz-TR this is what LF does too [13:31] schestowitz-TR I'd rather not even say what I think [13:31] schestowitz-TR same for the sysadmin we have, a brilliant, caring, very nice person... but I'd rather not say anything about other stuff [13:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [13:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:39] Techrights-sec2 wtf? the mozilla blog is no longer about the WWW [13:41] schestowitz-TR they did several blog posts like this the past week alone [13:41] schestowitz-TR maybe they reckon their market share is so small already that they might as well use a niche's identity poilitics [13:41] Techrights-sec2 it just limits them further [13:43] schestowitz-TR "Mozilla will be represented on the WHATWG Steering Group by Tantek elik going forward." https://annevankesteren.nl/2022/06/after-mozilla [13:43] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-annevankesteren.nl | After Mozilla Annes Blog [13:43] schestowitz-TR see the departure post as well, a day earlier [13:43] schestowitz-TR read between the lines [13:46] Techrights-sec2 Who / what is tantek elik? [13:50] schestowitz-TR ytalk chomps the (I think) Turkish character [13:50] schestowitz-TR Tantek was well known in the early blog era [13:50] schestowitz-TR he was well regarded as Mr. Technorati [13:50] schestowitz-TR where we would find other blog posts by topics etc. [13:50] schestowitz-TR That Tantek ended up in Mozilla some years ago says a lot [13:50] schestowitz-TR about his demise [13:50] schestowitz-TR like Sternberg joining Mozilla [13:50] schestowitz-TR he left years ago, but wolfssl isn't much betteer [13:50] schestowitz-TR but I guess they needed a salary [13:50] schestowitz-TR and they are given freedom and access through these orgs [13:50] schestowitz-TR Mozilla lost many others too [13:50] schestowitz-TR iirc, dennies schuberg (de) from joindiaspor also left [13:50] schestowitz-TR Schubert [13:50] schestowitz-TR *Dennis [13:51] schestowitz-TR A lot of the Web is collapsing [13:51] schestowitz-TR while few malicious compsnies pocket some ad revenue here and there [13:51] schestowitz-TR or just weaponise the Web to advance some imperial agenda [13:51] schestowitz-TR subsidised by debt or real produce, such as agriculture [13:51] schestowitz-TR or oil/gaS (rUSSIA) [13:53] schestowitz-TR names are VERY important to remember [13:53] schestowitz-TR they are like ID or barcode for certain topicsa [13:53] schestowitz-TR if you forget the name, you can struggle to find relevant idea or information [13:53] schestowitz-TR like "what's his name" who said X [13:53] schestowitz-TR "shit, I don't even know his first name... don't know what to search for... something "politics"... Russia.... TOO BROAD" [13:53] schestowitz-TR Names are more unique [13:57] schestowitz-TR it is not your fault when their namne is very common, but making files with lists of people can help [13:57] schestowitz-TR about a decade ago I exported the list of contacts, inc. email (this was POSSIBLE), from linkedin [13:57] schestowitz-TR Those included some old university friends [13:57] schestowitz-TR the email addresses might perish, but the names aree important [13:57] schestowitz-TR we did not have yearbooks for uni ● Jun 11 [14:01] schestowitz-TR a lot of old names and old literature is obsolete [14:01] schestowitz-TR but being able to resurrect hard-to-find old facts helps [14:01] schestowitz-TR esp. when you are the only/last person left with such data, and can prove something [14:01] schestowitz-TR or make a point [14:01] schestowitz-TR technical debt is a thing that now impacts "e" libraries [14:01] schestowitz-TR and almost nobody talks about it [14:01] schestowitz-TR even physical libraries might perish completerly [14:01] schestowitz-TR so unique book IDs and full detailed refs with page numbers and everything might be just that: [14:01] schestowitz-TR title, page, author [14:01] schestowitz-TR but no actual access to the material cited [14:02] schestowitz https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/24194-never-memorize-something-that-you-can-look-up [14:02] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.goodreads.com | Quote by Albert Einstein: Never memorize something that you can look up. [14:05] schestowitz-TR bbig rant: my dad is full of BS on Russia and China, spent an hour arguing politely on the phone today [14:05] schestowitz-TR he seems to forget very easily some key historic events or is not properly familiar [14:05] schestowitz-TR with them [14:05] schestowitz-TR and he's bad at admitting he might be wrong [14:06] Techrights-sec2 probably he is unfamiliar with the historical facts [14:06] Techrights-sec2 digging one's heels in only makes the error worse and that's what social [14:06] Techrights-sec2 control media exacerbates terribly: people are fed shit at the first possible [14:06] Techrights-sec2 opportunity and they take it to heart and adopt it as their world view, [14:06] Techrights-sec2 then as facts come to light they refuse to update their position and worldview [14:08] schestowitz-TR it used to be a problem before social control media [14:08] schestowitz-TR when it was word of mouth [14:08] schestowitz-TR but social control media spreads these thingss quadratically [14:08] schestowitz-TR when broadcast TV you could more or less conmtain baseless hearsay [14:08] schestowitz-TR and peple spoke to one person at a time [14:08] schestowitz-TR i.e. it was linear, not quadratic [14:10] Techrights-sec2 yes but word of mouth was slower, with social control media, various [14:10] Techrights-sec2 interests can stake out a position very quickly in advance of any upcoming [14:10] Techrights-sec2 debate and effectively poison the well [14:10] Techrights-sec2 a big difference was that, at least in most countries, when there were [14:10] Techrights-sec2 only a few channels available only via broadcast television, there was [14:10] Techrights-sec2 great effort expended to stick to facts and only the facts and avoid [14:10] Techrights-sec2 opinions from anyone even those who were interviewed [14:33] schestowitz-TR Wait! What happened to RSS?! Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165889 [14:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Wait! What happened to RSS?! | Tux Machines [14:35] schestowitz-TR Wait! What happened to RSS?! Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165889 [14:35] schestowitz-TR OSOR sued to have rss feeds [14:35] schestowitz-TR when the drupal 'redesign' totally killed these off I asked givs (some dutch/.belgian name) what would happen [14:35] schestowitz-TR he never got back to me [14:35] schestowitz-TR mind the last sentence there about EU action [14:35] schestowitz-TR the wwww as useless nonsense [14:35] schestowitz-TR a bunch of "apps" ("platforms") [14:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [14:36] schestowitz-TR history shows that when something gets killed off it almost nnever comes back again [14:36] schestowitz-TR it's not how it works [14:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:36] schestowitz-TR rss won't make a comeback/rivival [14:36] schestowitz-TR revival [14:36] schestowitz-TR tghere would be no mopmentum to it [14:36] schestowitz-TR it's not "addictive" enough [14:37] schestowitz-TR and RSS businesses won't get "angel investors" [14:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [14:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:47] Techrights-sec2 too much of what's left ofthe net is not just about centralized service [14:47] Techrights-sec2 monopolies but also about farming addictive behaviors [14:47] Techrights-sec2 through intentionally designed addictive interfaces [14:50] schestowitz-TR it is gamification of sorts [14:51] schestowitz-TR some good posts in gemini lately [14:51] schestowitz-TR about people's pov on the www [14:51] schestowitz-TR they speak of it as outsiders or recovering ex addicts [14:51] schestowitz-TR there was a time, not too long ago, when you could run a blog like techrunch and sell it for a long of money [14:51] schestowitz-TR now you would just shut the same thins for financial reason [14:51] schestowitz-TR like omalik/gigaom [14:51] schestowitz-TR to name one example [14:53] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [14:53] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:57] Techrights-sec2 yes the political dynamics regarding the control of public discourse have [14:57] Techrights-sec2 changed drastically since the metastasization of social control media [14:57] Techrights-sec2 througout society and through, especially, the shell that is left of [14:57] Techrights-sec2 journalism [14:57] Techrights-sec2 gamification is just a way of exploiting addictive behaviors through addictive interfaces and monetizing the farmed "behaviors" [14:57] Techrights-sec2 which people "emit" there [14:57] schestowitz-TR "gamification" is the term used by the perpatrators themselves [14:57] schestowitz-TR not me [14:57] schestowitz-TR but I did experiuence game addiction when I was young [14:57] schestowitz-TR the sense of progress or getting the upper handover other [14:57] schestowitz-TR and starting to blieve this game you care about so much really matter [14:57] schestowitz-TR or will received widespread recognitoon [14:57] schestowitz-TR kind of like twitter [14:57] schestowitz-TR to many people it is what tiktok is to me [14:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [14:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jun 11 [15:09] schestowitz-TR a personl with many patents judges others by # of patents [15:09] schestowitz-TR a person with many publications assumes the worth of a scholar is weighed sum of pub impact factor erc. [15:09] schestowitz-TR a person who write code might assess the importance and size of projects/programs [15:09] schestowitz-TR a person who thinks some silly corporate game matter to society (like Kim Dotcom) will get obese and lazy [15:09] schestowitz-TR a person who spends 24/7 in FB thinks a popularity of a person is # of likes, "friends" etc. [15:09] schestowitz-TR A saners person has balance [15:11] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:12] schestowitz-TR (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 [15:12] schestowitz-TR listening for 40 minutes can have more impact than a paper taken 3 months to produce) [15:12] schestowitz-TR that's partly the reaosn academia did not appeal to me [15:12] schestowitz-TR it felt like a dying profession and dead end [15:13] schestowitz-TR of course you also get the opccasional "fun" of marking up exams, a motoric, repetitive job [15:14] Techrights-sec2 since the Bologne Agreement that has been the case, that more or less was [15:14] Techrights-sec2 a death blow to the institution as it had existed, at least in Europe [15:14] schestowitz-TR they have made some propaganda films like beatiuful mind about john nmash to entice or lure in some people into acadeia [15:14] schestowitz-TR 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 [15:17] Techrights-sec2 that was not academia, Nash was a street person venerated by MBAs because [15:17] Techrights-sec2 he told them what they wanted to promote at that particular moment, [15:17] Techrights-sec2 they also lie about him getting a Nobel Prize when in reality he was [15:17] Techrights-sec2 rewarded with a non-scientific bankster gimmick [15:17] Techrights-sec2 masquerading as an honor [15:18] schestowitz-TR iirc, his dissertation was astyoundingly short [15:18] schestowitz-TR like 30 pages? [15:18] schestowitz-TR and they hail that as a "success" story [15:19] Techrights-sec2 yep and in some countries that level of superficiality has become the norm [15:19] Techrights-sec2 you read them and thing, good start but where is the substance and research? [15:19] Techrights-sec2 the banksters again hail that as a success story for the same reason [15:19] Techrights-sec2 the promote their own prize and pretend that it has any intellectual significance [15:20] schestowitz-TR Turing Machine => drop dead, after we used you for ENIGMA [15:20] schestowitz-TR Cold War PR => here, have this honour and Hollywood film [15:25] schestowitz-TR reading comments on "non-recprocal licencing" and the scoring of that comment in particular, I see social contron media [15:25] schestowitz-TR earlier today I linked to an articles about RSS [15:25] schestowitz-TR I have put that in the FP of TM [15:26] schestowitz-TR but towards the end he boasts that he reads 'hacker' 'news' [15:26] schestowitz-TR I assume over RSS [15:26] schestowitz-TR without bothering to think who curates it [15:26] schestowitz-TR that's not rss feeds [15:26] schestowitz-TR that's social control media or "platform"/centrlisation that ALSO has RSS feeds to rope people in [15:26] schestowitz-TR in geminispace [15:26] schestowitz-TR there would be a new page [15:26] schestowitz-TR "Re: Licence" [15:26] schestowitz-TR it would contain a proper post and then no score associated with it [15:26] schestowitz-TR it stands out on its own [15:26] schestowitz-TR no moderators [15:26] schestowitz-TR and those who follow that capsule can read it, unadulterated [15:26] schestowitz-TR that's how we did blogging in 2004 [15:26] schestowitz-TR sometimes with "trackbacks" or "pingbacks' [15:27] Techrights-sec2 correct [15:27] Techrights-sec2 that would be social control but via RSS as a novelty [15:27] schestowitz-TR combative "ideas wars" might be OK [15:27] schestowitz-TR piutting everyone in the same stage does not work [15:27] schestowitz-TR the "moderator" is put there by the platform owner, e.g. TV conglemerate [15:27] Techrights-sec2 ack [15:27] schestowitz-TR and so there's no room for everyoner to speak as equal [15:27] schestowitz-TR there can also be mobbing/grouping [15:27] schestowitz-TR which begets self-censorship [15:31] schestowitz-TR I said in 2009 ish I'd stop leaving commetns in othwer people's blogs [15:31] schestowitz-TR imposters became an issue [15:31] schestowitz-TR and Groklaw's Pamela Jones had the same problem [15:31] schestowitz-TR so she had said she would not comment [15:31] schestowitz-TR and any comment is thus presumed imposter [15:31] schestowitz-TR of course it's tragic what happened to all her work [15:31] schestowitz-TR someone even pretended to be me and called people nazis [15:31] schestowitz-TR or pretended to be one [15:31] schestowitz-TR I recently worried about neonazis in our irc network pushing some limits [15:31] schestowitz-TR but they self-vanished [15:31] schestowitz-TR that puts some people off regardless [15:31] Techrights-sec2 yes she did [15:31] Techrights-sec2 or at least no comments under a recognized name [15:31] Techrights-sec2 too bad her site got only partially archived [15:31] Techrights-sec2 maybe the good parts which remain accessible there would be a good topic [15:31] Techrights-sec2 for a post some time [15:31] Techrights-sec2 yes [15:34] schestowitz-TR the full site DB is still there somewhere [15:34] schestowitz-TR frozen in time [15:34] schestowitz-TR read-only [15:34] schestowitz-TR but.. [15:34] schestowitz-TR I have not kept up with how geeklog is maintained for longterm "longin the tooth" users [15:34] schestowitz-TR there is usually some tightly-knit community that hacks on the code to race past php version upgrades [15:34] schestowitz-TR I did that a few times myself, even as recently as months ago [15:35] schestowitz-TR sometimes it's just the same change in many lines [15:35] schestowitz-TR extends the lifetime [15:35] schestowitz-TR this Groklaw DB also contains ALL the "News Picks" (if that's what she called them, I do not remember anymore) [15:35] schestowitz-TR there must be many thousands there, with her commentary added [15:35] schestowitz-TR Techrighs reproduced some, but not all [15:35] Techrights-sec2 yes but abandoned more or less [15:35] Techrights-sec2 It's going on 10 years now since Groklaw shut down, and the SCO case is still [15:35] Techrights-sec2 festering [15:37] schestowitz-TR we need to spent less time producing and more time strategising I think [15:37] schestowitz-TR on both technical and editorial grounds [15:37] schestowitz-TR sometimes the sites become irrelevant or sell out because they are too impulsive [15:37] schestowitz-TR money, trends, clickbait etc. [15:37] schestowitz-TR fsf is become "news desert" (sad to say) [15:37] schestowitz-TR *becoming [15:38] Techrights-sec2 yes that has been a problem, and as a paying member I am rather annoyed that [15:38] Techrights-sec2 they are keeping members in the dark [15:38] schestowitz-TR fig wrote about it about 3 years ago [15:38] schestowitz-TR "member fodder" irc was his term [15:40] Techrights-sec2 yes they made a point of not benefiting from or to the membership [15:40] Techrights-sec2 I probably won't donate to them this year, especially if nothing improves [15:40] Techrights-sec2 on their part regarding membership news and active work by staff [15:40] schestowitz-TR Liam Dawe told me (when you suggesting resorting to Patreon) that the one lesson he learned from his experience [15:40] schestowitz-TR in GamingOnLinux is that you MUST offer SOME benefits to people who choose to pay [15:41] Techrights-sec2 yes there must be some benefits, not necessarily exclusive benefits but [15:41] Techrights-sec2 something better than just flushing the money away [15:48] schestowitz-TR 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." [15:55] Techrights-sec2 ack ● Jun 11 [16:06] schestowitz-TR coming 2 weeks will be busy in epo as meetings approach (3 meetings) [16:06] schestowitz-TR so will keep hands free of freesw topics unless there is a lot of unused time at hand [16:06] schestowitz-TR our company's direction (at work) is challenged by me, but another person does the same [16:06] schestowitz-TR they don't seem to grasp the concept of client confidence and skill retention [16:06] schestowitz-TR they want OPTICS, instead [16:06] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:07] Techrights-sec2 important to collaborate with that other person then [16:08] schestowitz-TR no, it would be problematic because she sleeps with someone who is close to the boss [16:08] schestowitz-TR and is generally doing that for other motivations [16:08] schestowitz-TR sorry, not "she" [16:08] schestowitz-TR she goes by "they" [16:12] schestowitz-TR (not taking the piss at all btw, perfectly factual; and used the wrong pronoun by accideent. nether technical nor suitably qualified) [16:12] Techrights-sec2 :/ [16:13] schestowitz-TR "our system is done, the database if fucked, but at least it is being looked at by one girl, two boys, and one nonbinary..." [16:13] schestowitz-TR *down [16:13] schestowitz-TR *is [16:14] Techrights-sec2 :/ [16:14] schestowitz-TR I guess it's a successful technique for distracting from and preventing actual [16:14] schestowitz-TR work [16:14] Techrights-sec2 I guess it's a successful technique for distracting from and preventing actual [16:14] Techrights-sec2 work [16:15] schestowitz-TR I think that is just a side effect [16:15] schestowitz-TR there have been some altruistic intentions [16:15] schestowitz-TR how they're being co-opted is not the fault of those who meant well [16:15] schestowitz-TR and thus we should be careful todinstguish and perprly attribute [16:15] schestowitz-TR it has been the same at the epo [16:17] schestowitz-TR the net effect is Team A and team B are both shit [16:17] schestowitz-TR and your colleagues are not as useful as they otherwise would be [16:17] schestowitz-TR collectively, as a community of a company or as an org, you are worse off and weaker [16:19] schestowitz-TR nobody knows everything [16:19] schestowitz-TR posers and imposters can pretend to be everything [16:19] schestowitz-TR but a dgree in "classics" or similar may mean you're not in the right domain or ballpark [16:19] schestowitz-TR and that putsd a burden on the rest of the team [16:19] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:19] schestowitz-TR I'm not a great sys admin or programmer [16:19] schestowitz-TR I'm "OK" [16:19] schestowitz-TR but I'm better at some other things [16:19] schestowitz-TR so can make up for it [16:20] schestowitz-TR rianne's programming skills are rather basic [16:20] schestowitz-TR she did a cs degree [16:20] schestowitz-TR but she is meticulous at work [16:21] schestowitz-TR and has access to good equipment and to me [16:21] schestowitz-TR so I think some colleagues are a little intimidated [16:21] schestowitz-TR and that leads to cat fights [16:22] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:22] Techrights-sec2 cat fights are all too common and, sadly, part of a lot of human nature [16:22] Techrights-sec2 especially women. men tend to have conflicts but often settle into [16:22] Techrights-sec2 some stable situation begrudgingly or otherwise rather quickly at least until [16:22] Techrights-sec2 something major changes to affect the dynamics [16:23] schestowitz-TR right, that suitably describes some of the conflicting (on technical matters) views 3 of us [16:23] schestowitz-TR have, e.g. ansible vs puppet or shitware vs freesw [16:23] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:25] schestowitz-TR I'm relatively easy to work with, I think, that's why I'm there 11.5 years (could leave many times) [16:25] schestowitz-TR and TM and TM age OK, inc. the community (even those who ragequit often come back later) [16:25] schestowitz-TR BTW, TM depends a lot on RSS [16:26] schestowitz-TR if the RSS web culture dies, both TR and TM might suffer [16:26] schestowitz-TR but there is no simple solution to that, other than diversifying a bit [16:26] schestowitz-TR "Social media" or "SEO" are not valid options [16:26] schestowitz-TR those are controlled by very large companies [16:26] schestowitz-TR with whims of shareholders [16:26] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:26] Techrights-sec2 social control media works actively against software freedom, note [16:26] Techrights-sec2 the agenda and owners of reddit as one example [16:27] schestowitz-TR I prefer to call it Internet freedom [16:27] schestowitz-TR because, like swpats, it affects both us the freesw community and the rest of the technical folks [16:27] schestowitz-TR with whom we need an alliance on certain matters, hecen ffii [16:27] schestowitz-TR *hence [16:28] Techrights-sec2 FFII also seems a bit quiet of late [16:28] Techrights-sec2 last blog post in 2021 and invisible in the search engine results [16:30] schestowitz-TR pedants' point: never say "Web freedom"; that's a paradox in 2022 or the past 10 years [16:30] schestowitz-TR if not 20+ years [16:30] schestowitz-TR gulag does not like ffii ;-) [16:30] schestowitz-TR zoobab told me that his press releases show up first as techrights, before ffii [16:30] schestowitz-TR not my fault [16:30] schestowitz-TR that may change in the future [16:30] schestowitz-TR just some knobhead at gulag seeing we don't fancy "gulag" and pulling a knob to derank us [16:30] schestowitz-TR we're of no value to "alphabet agency" shareholders anyway [16:30] schestowitz-TR not anymore [16:31] Techrights-sec2 no gulag hates and the others [16:33] schestowitz-TR gulag noise: we syndicate microsoft.com as a NEWS site [16:33] schestowitz-TR also "Microsoft on te Issues" (lobbying blog) [16:33] schestowitz-TR but not techrights, ffii etc. [16:33] schestowitz-TR mondaq/lexology are OK becayse they are "professional" [16:33] schestowitz-TR they take BRIBES to push lies [16:33] schestowitz-TR so they have a businessModel(R) [16:33] schestowitz-TR hence Professional(TM) [16:34] Techrights-sec2 sadly bribes are a business plan [16:36] schestowitz-TR larabel and I cheered him being enlisted in Gulag Noise years ago [16:36] schestowitz-TR to me, those are just more cruft in my rss feeds now [16:36] schestowitz-TR but sometimes I use them to follow through to originals, such as patchsets [16:40] 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 [16:40] 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 [16:40] schestowitz-TR are companies, not people) [16:40] schestowitz-TR fossforce killed itself [16:40] schestowitz-TR check date of last story [16:40] schestowitz-TR it tries to come back, shills some corporarte bullshit [16:40] schestowitz-TR then coredumps [16:40] schestowitz-TR too focused on trying to raise money, one war or the other [16:40] schestowitz-TR years ago christine and I were close, blasted LF [16:40] schestowitz-TR now the site is a shrine to LF [16:40] schestowitz-TR like Putin invaded Ukraine and planted a flag in it [16:41] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:41] Techrights-sec2 yes [16:41] Techrights-sec2 she sold out [16:41] Techrights-sec2 probably had to [16:41] Techrights-sec2 for economic reasons [16:43] schestowitz-TR based on photos poasted a decade ago of her car windows getting smashed by a brick, it's very "hand-to-mouth" [16:44] Techrights-sec2 most in the US are in that situation and the gutting of their savings in 2008 [16:44] Techrights-sec2 did not advance the standard of living to put it mildly [16:44] schestowitz-TR plus medical bills and partented prescription drugs [16:44] schestowitz-TR the other day I read that in 2020 it became a $500 BILLION industry [16:44] schestowitz-TR those repeat drugs [16:44] schestowitz-TR they shoulds be generic really [16:44] schestowitz-TR but politicians take bribes and with Microsoft Vidal the patents will stay [16:44] schestowitz-TR something "property" [16:45] Techrights-sec2 still say-for-pay is awfully degrading [16:45] Techrights-sec2 yes and generics are usually unavailable or otherwise blocked [16:47] schestowitz-TR 'coz "counterfeit" [16:47] schestowitz-TR or maybe if you know someone in India and can pray it gets through customs [16:47] schestowitz-TR the "counterfeit" [16:47] schestowitz-TR police [16:47] schestowitz-TR protecting you from drugs... that you can afford and would extend your life [16:47] schestowitz-TR the "war on (legal) drugs" [16:48] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:48] Techrights-sec2 war on inexpensive or effective drugs [16:52] schestowitz-TR s/or/and/ [16:52] schestowitz-TR through the two aren't necessarily coming in conjuction [16:52] schestowitz-TR story of relevance: my mother had a prescirbed drug [16:52] schestowitz-TR and iirc when the patent thing kicked in they stopped making it available [16:52] schestowitz-TR instead pushing only a more expensive one, which ALSO was worse for her [16:52] schestowitz-TR caused all sorts of issues [16:52] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:52] schestowitz-TR so the more expensive was in fact worse [16:52] schestowitz-TR and impose (now) if the previous one, which worked well, got blocked [16:52] schestowitz-TR purely for business reasons [16:52] schestowitz-TR thank you for the innovation, Antonio CamPoonios [16:52] schestowitz-TR he doesn't have to worry about the price of medication [16:52] schestowitz-TR he just takes REAL drugs [16:52] schestowitz-TR the F* good ones [16:52] schestowitz-TR s/impose/imports of the previous one [16:52] schestowitz-TR she had to contact people with connections in India [16:52] schestowitz-TR and was looking on the Web [16:53] schestowitz-TR they are torturing people for profit [16:53] schestowitz-TR "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/ [16:53] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-theweeklychallenge.org | Get started with Perl v5.36 [16:55] schestowitz-TR based on the timestem, 8:42pm just now, Mo Anwar, who wrote this, is no longer in London but somewhere like India? [16:55] schestowitz-TR He wrote many posts about his depression and sobbing [16:55] Techrights-sec2 ack [16:55] Techrights-sec2 I had not seen those ● Jun 11 [17:08] schestowitz-TR 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. [17:12] schestowitz-TR 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/ [17:12] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | Feds raid dark web market where 24 Americans' data was sold The Register [17:12] schestowitz-TR "Good" spying versus "Bad" information sharing https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*flkRZlw79d7EYWZkRltD0A.jpeg [17:12] schestowitz-TR apropos pocock on privacy versus debian/fsfe on 'privacy' ● Jun 11 [22:02] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1534792966681894914#m [22:02] -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 [22:02] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1535535606301921280#m [22:02] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "@piratskastranka do you have someone who could check?"|nitter.it [22:03] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.it/JRepin/status/1535556433231716352#m [22:03] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Jure Repinc (Mastodon: @JRepin@mstdn.io) (@JRepin): "Unfortunately it's true :( The correct link for parliamentary voting documents (in Slovenian) related to this agreement is: http://www.dz-rs.si/wps/portal/Home/zakonodaja/izbran/!ut/p/z1/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfIjo8zivSy9Hb283Q0N3E3dLQwCQ7z9g7w8nAwsnMz1w9EUGAWZGgS6GDn5BhsYGwQHG-pHEaPfAAdwNCBOPx4FUfiNL8gNDQ11VFQEAAXcoa4!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/?uid=C1257A70003EE6A1C1258 ... [22:03] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.it/JRepin/status/1535558218667241474#m [22:03] -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 [22:44] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)