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| schestowitz | >>> x https://www.windowscentral.com/its-official-microsoft-teams-coming-linux | Sep 11 04:56 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.windowscentral.com | It's official: Microsoft Teams is coming to Linux | Windows Central | Sep 11 04:56 | |
| schestowitz | >>> # vaporware | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/2019/09/10/linux-is-googlebombed/ | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > Nice. I'd like to add in the use of the term vaporware where relevant. | Sep 11 04:56 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Microsoft Uses the Word “Linux” to Promote Privacy-Infringing Proprietary Software and Spread FUD | Techrights | Sep 11 04:56 | |
| schestowitz | > If it's not on the shelf or available for immediate down load then it | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > is vaporware. | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > I almost wrote a masters thesis on vaporware back in 1996 since it was | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > such a big problem even then. I no longer remember all the examples but | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > a big one was NT vs OS/2. OS/2 was a real system. NT was vaporware. | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > The problem there was IBM had been gullible enough to contract with M$ | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > for the OS/2 applications. So when it was launched, there was little to | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > use it for and then during the intervening years, M$ was able to get its | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > toy-like NT on the shelves, in part by extending its DOS monopoly and | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > using money from the illegal per-processor OEM fees. | Sep 11 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > Roy, | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > maybe in next few days or weeks me & Mrs. Sota visit law office of | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > William Boyce | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > in London. In that case I will contact you. | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | OK, cheers | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > Dear Roy | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > Apologies for the lack of response - I ended up being out of the office on my return last week and have come back to a number of urgent matters. | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > As I mentioned previously, Latitude Law based in Manchester specialise in immigration and are highly recommended. | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | > I apologise again that I was unable to help. | Sep 11 04:57 |
| schestowitz | Re: ive spent months formulating this | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > im not against decentralised networks. | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > its the false claims im against. theyre fallacious in theory, and false in practice. | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > im against hyping up a censorship platform as one where people who are considered know the most about it claim that it is "impossible" to have censorship on diaspora. we know thats bunk, because design wise, there is nothing diaspora does that mastodon doesnt also do. and censorship on mastodon is certainly not impossible. | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > diaspora fallacy | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > https://share.naturalnews.com/posts/aed45ec0b635013752390cc47a07853c | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 05:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-share.naturalnews.com | or basically youre not censored, if you can talk to yourself you ca... | Sep 11 05:03 | |
| schestowitz | > is a fallacy of special pleading | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > https://share.naturalnews.com/posts/6d5f9c00b6360137b1990cc47a07853c | Sep 11 05:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-share.naturalnews.com | diaspora fallacy is a fallacy of special pleading. you would think ... | Sep 11 05:03 | |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > which (in practice) allows for uber-like exploitation | Sep 11 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > https://share.naturalnews.com/posts/49eaf310b638013752430cc47a07853c | Sep 11 05:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-share.naturalnews.com | saying censorship is impossible once you move from facebook to dias... | Sep 11 05:03 | |
| schestowitz | https://mastodon.social/@kot/102749457874520670 | Sep 11 05:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-mastodon.social | kot: "@tuxmachines@mastodon.technology Fuck Stallman." - Mastodon | Sep 11 05:23 | |
| schestowitz | "Fuck Stallman." | Sep 11 05:23 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mimHG4uwHVl152VCy | Sep 11 05:27 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Sep 11 05:27 | |
| schestowitz | "So was #Parliament... Should not constructs setup by our #fathers to protect their #NaturalRights be used by all of us to protect our natural rights today? Seven out of every ten small arms on the planet are privately owned by a U.S. citizen, yet we do not contribute seven out of every ten murders. Ninety-four percent of our #MassShootings happen in "#GunFreeZones", where the victims are #disarmed. An #armed #public has never been a | Sep 11 05:27 |
| schestowitz | threat to the people, but only to "the owners"." | Sep 11 05:27 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Sep 11 05:27 | |
| schestowitz | "I think there might be some misunderstanding here. Google's only connection to #kotlin is using it in the android APIs, which seems to be unrelated to this project. Kotlin is owned by jetbrains, and this work seems to be about providing kotlin runtime as a Debian package for the jetbrain IDE and third party build system Gradle to use as a depedency." | Sep 11 05:27 |
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| schestowitz | " check for borg implants" | Sep 11 05:28 |
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| schestowitz | ""check for borg implants" | Sep 11 05:29 |
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| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:29 |
| schestowitz | Actually, RMS secretly implanted AGPL-licensed code into all of Microsoft's software while he was there. That's what I heard anyway. | Sep 11 05:29 |
| schestowitz | @schestowitz | Sep 11 05:29 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:29 |
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| schestowitz | "If grandma is a member of Congress, the self-driving car will be legally required to hit the baby." | Sep 11 05:29 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mjtFgVyZVW1GWqulU | Sep 11 05:30 |
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| schestowitz | "How do you think is the best way to solve the #EchoChamber problem in #SocialMedia?" | Sep 11 05:30 |
| schestowitz | change algos | Sep 11 05:30 |
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| schestowitz | "@schestowitz what the fuck now i want to work at microsoft" | Sep 11 05:31 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mjxGkxXvow39mVycq | Sep 11 05:31 |
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| schestowitz | "become? Jono has always been a sell out lol" | Sep 11 05:31 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mk0phLFfp0dw0xKKm | Sep 11 05:31 |
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| schestowitz | "explains how they got rms to give a talk there" | Sep 11 05:31 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mk1XU2gTwMXQe9KpU | Sep 11 05:31 |
| schestowitz | "#Xfinity wifi password list https://www.geekyarea.com/xfinity-wifi-username-password-free-list-psiphon/" | Sep 11 05:31 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.geekyarea.com | Xfinity Wifi Username And Password Free List - Psiphon Login Page Hack | Sep 11 05:32 | |
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| schestowitz | "Got error 500" | Sep 11 05:32 |
| schestowitz | try again? | Sep 11 05:32 |
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| schestowitz | "z what a mess" | Sep 11 05:32 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mkg3X7QZjIaP5CnpI | Sep 11 05:33 |
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| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:33 |
| schestowitz | Oi pal, easy with the " 's " | Sep 11 05:33 |
| schestowitz | ss it aint. | Sep 11 05:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:33 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mkvkyZXsVUFJVWxFY | Sep 11 05:34 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9mkvkyZXsVUFJVWxFY | Sep 11 05:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:34 |
| schestowitz | AFAIK WSL actually implements the Linux kernel's userspace interfaces (which are Linux specific). You can run pre-compiled Linux binaries in WSL, but you can't with Cygwin (they need to use the Windows syscalls). So it'd be correct to call Cygwin a sorta GNU/Windows, but WSL should be called something along the lines of "Linux binary compatibility layer for Windows". | Sep 11 05:34 |
| schestowitz | That all changes with WSL2, where the name is total bullshit and should be FreeSW-Abuse-VM. | Sep 11 05:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 11 05:34 |
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| schestowitz | '" if msft or other outfit seeks to disrupt/infect any github project, this would be how." | Sep 11 05:34 |
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| schestowitz | "Applying class analysis is more illuminating. SA mobs not attacking professionals from other African countries either. While mobs mostly comprise poor SAns, they are often led (even if from behind) by businesspeople & politicians who stand to benefit from reduced competition, and redirected frustration of the masses." | Sep 11 05:35 |
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| schestowitz | "He is true leader of Russian opposition, not like all these Navalny's. He will defend Darth Vlad and save Russia." | Sep 11 05:35 |
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| schestowitz | "please see our new Anti-Cloud campaign and share widely: https://privacysafe.ai" | Sep 11 05:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-privacysafe.ai | PrivacySafe – Secure IoT Storage Appliance | Sep 11 05:36 | |
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| schestowitz | "Out of 35 people that came to Russia 23 are citizens of Ukraine. But your press will only talk about those who returned to Ukraine, won't it?" | Sep 11 05:36 |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | The image in question, in the live site, is | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | xxx | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | We can probably swap it at the filesystem level, without (necessarily) direct access to or familiarity with the underlying CMS. | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | The size of the existing image is 851x315. | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | The new image has a different aspect ratio. It is narrower, so adjusting it for identical height give us the attached 2-new.png, with 1-new.png being adjusted for width and thus taller than what it currently is. | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | Which one suits you better? | Sep 11 06:08 |
| schestowitz | I'd also suggest converting to JPEG (jpg) before uploading, which we can do. | Sep 11 06:10 |
| schestowitz | > People are naive and ignorant about Iran. That includes the orange one, | Sep 11 06:12 |
| schestowitz | > who is playing into their hands. | Sep 11 06:12 |
| schestowitz | He does what the most extreme so-called 'neocons' tell him, I guess... | Sep 11 06:12 |
| schestowitz | >>> People are naive and ignorant about Iran. That includes the orange one, | Sep 11 08:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> who is playing into their hands. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >> Funny fact: at this very moment I work for a client that runs a bunch of | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >> site looking to reform Iran with journalism, women's rights etc. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >> Also: I have a friend who is an atheist from Iran. She's my friend's | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >> partner for 7-8 years. Got her phd 2 years ago. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > Few escape. Family are often left behind and used as leverage. I don't | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > have links handy but some are pressured to spy for or otherwise act on | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > behalf of the regime. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > Also from what I gather via books on the Middle East the current Iranian | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > government is willing to kill off 80% of the world's population in order | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > to enforce islam globally. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > As far as knowing and talking with people, I used to know a neighbor | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > from Iran who had gotten detained there and was missing for some months. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > She looked like she aged more than 10 years older when she finally | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > returned. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > The wife in one couple I used to know partially escaped from Iran via an | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > intermediate country. They spent some time in a UN refuge camp before | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > being admitted to Europe. Her parents are trapped there indefinitely. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > Back during the revolution the Iranians on campus were panicked, rightly | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > so, and trying to keep it hidden. I supposed a good portion of the | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > people I knew from there back then died if they went back. However I | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | > expect that few chose to. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | I have some stories about that. But even with PGP encryption, I'd hesitate to put these in writing. Because that involves someone who lives there. | Sep 11 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >>> People are naive and ignorant about Iran. That includes the orange one, | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | >>> who is playing into their hands. | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | >> He does what the most extreme so-called 'neocons' tell him, I guess... | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > He's too chaotic, childlike, and unintelligent to do that. His modus | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > operandi is to create a shit storm and then enjoy the show. The R | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > politicians exploit that and do their dirty work out of the spotlight | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > while attention is diverted. He does seem to be breaking just about | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > every important alliance or treaty that the US has so maybe there really | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > are the "pee tapes" or some equivalent. If they've used him for money | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | > laundering or bailed out his real estate failures they own him. | Sep 11 08:25 |
| schestowitz | Chomsky explained this ages ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvig0KvUaE | Sep 11 08:25 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump is a Distraction - YouTube | Sep 11 08:25 | |
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| schestowitz | > [snip] | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> [WOW! TruthOut stopped working back in July!! No RSS items since... | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> their loss! They never responded to me when I mentioned it!] | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > I haven't heard back from them either. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> Please add: https://couragefound.org/feed (I think it's always reliable) | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | Good. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> If possible add: | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/rss/nosnews.xml | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Server does not respond. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | Maybe they broke it again. NOAA is under many attacks these days. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.desmogblog.com/rss.xml | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Added. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news2.rss?preview=true | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Will take more work. Something is weird with the feed. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | Yes, it's an oddball feed. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> https://climatenewsnetwork.net/feed/ | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Added. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> https://therevelator.org/feed | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > Something is broken on their end | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> NB - I watch Swapnil more closely now. | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 11 18:18 |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.linux.com/news/577520/ | Sep 11 18:18 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.linux.com | Open Source Security Platform Snyk Raises $70m - Linux.com | Sep 11 18:19 | |
| schestowitz | >> https://www.tfir.io/2019/09/10/snyk-raises-70-million/ | Sep 11 18:19 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tfir.io | Snyk Raises $70 Million - TFiR | Sep 11 18:19 | |
| schestowitz | > I corresponded with him very briefly back in his Muktware days. One | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | > exchange in 2012 and one in 2013. However, even though I gave him the | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | > benefit of the doubt at the time I did not really trust, since he popped | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | > up out of nowhere and something else did not feel quite right. | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | If you can recall what this "something else" was, let me know... | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | I spend a lot of time researching these things. | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | >> NB2 - I've just looked at Google News feeds for topics of interest. Far | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | >> too much noise, low s/n ratio for these. | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | > Google feeds are wortthless. | Sep 11 18:19 |
| schestowitz | Except when you look for something which is very rarely covered. Although that too nowadays gets 'buffered' with ENDLESS spam. s/n ratio dooms it. | Sep 11 18:19 |
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