IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, September 11, 2021

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> /Where are the *civil* servants? /You asked.

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> I'd like to know, too.

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> Before Kappos, there was John Doll. He was actually a career civil

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> servant, and my very first letter to the USPTO, when my problem began,

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> was addressed to him - I sent everything to the Director of the USPTO,

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> if I didn't have another name/address - and, it was the first and only

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> time I had any action from the USPTO. I refer to him on page 11 and in

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> Attachment C (pages 29-30) in my

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> report. http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/REPORT-ABOUT-THE-USPTO-PDF-VERSION.pdf

> <http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/REPORT-ABOUT-THE-USPTO-PDF-VERSION.pdf>

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> And, later, after he retired, I actually tracked him down and wrote to

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> him - I think he was in North or South Carolina - and he actually wrote

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> back to me, telling me that he could no longer do anything, since he was

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> retired.

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> Of course, he wasn't too popular with the "IP community." There's a guy

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> named Gene Quinn who has what may be the most widely read IP website,

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> and he disparaged Doll. Quinn is a corrupt shill. He writes sickening

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> puff-pieces about the corporate-types that come and go at the USPTO, but

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> he had nothing good to say about Doll.

> https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/01/20/the-john-doll-era-begins-at-uspto/id=1618/

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> <https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/01/20/the-john-doll-era-begins-at-uspto/id=1618/>

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ipwatchdog.com | The John Doll Era Begins at USPTO - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law

> https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/03/john-doll-announces-retirement-from-uspto/id=5507/

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> <https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/09/03/john-doll-announces-retirement-from-uspto/id=5507/>

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ipwatchdog.com | John Doll Announces Retirement from USPTO - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law

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> When my problem began, I discovered something that Quinn had written

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> that supported my argument - page

> 5 http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/REPORT-ABOUT-THE-USPTO-PDF-VERSION.pdf

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> <http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/REPORT-ABOUT-THE-USPTO-PDF-VERSION.pdf> -

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> and I called him many times and left messages on his phone, but he never

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> answered.

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I argued with Quinn many times over the years. He is a mean-spirited blowhard:

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Watchtroll

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Watchtroll - Techrights

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Thankfully his site has been perishing since BEFORE he left. I think he left because he realised he could not save the site. Going downhill since then and Techrights continues to grow. Our message is a lot more compelling.

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Regards,

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> Just finished a story about Linux, which I've prepared as a separate e-mail.

Sep 11 02:49

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Thanks, I shall take a look.

Sep 11 02:49

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Oh, I see it now.... let me open.

Sep 11 02:49

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Re: Linux hack

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> For some reason, something that happened almost five years ago popped

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> into my head.

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> I was the victim of a Linux hack. I was using a used Dell with Linux

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> 17.1, and I was having some minor issues, so I was thinking about

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> updating, so I downloaded 17.3.

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> Afterward, I began having issues with warning messages: red button on

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> Opera and "not secure" message on Gmail, etc.

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> Apparently, on the very day that I downloaded Mint 17.3, there was a hack.

> https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux-mint-hit-by-malware-infection-on-its-website-and-forum-after-hack-attack/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-arstechnica.com | Linux Mint hit by malware infection on its website, forum after hack attack | Ars Technica

> <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux-mint-hit-by-malware-infection-on-its-website-and-forum-after-hack-attack/>

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> I downloaded my communications with Opera, and they are attached. They

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> will explain what happened.

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I went through the first 5 pages quickly. I myself would not use Opera because it's proprietary and now controlled by a Chinese entity. I prefer Falkon.

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> I ended up getting another used Dell, and a Mint 17.3 disk, and

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> everything has been more or less problem free since then.

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Excellent!

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> But, do you know what the hack tried to do? In my files, I had a file

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> called "Passwords," and, as I remember, when the problem started

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> occurring, I discovered that I couldn't get into the "Passwords" file.

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> Apparently, the hack or worm, or whatever it was programmed to look for

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> "passwords" and tried to break into my file. Apparently, Linux Mint

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> 17.1 detected this, and locked the "Passwords" file, so nobody, even me,

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> could get into it.

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Odd. Either way, yes, I remember that security breach.

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> Fortunately, I had everything backed up.

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Always a good idea to back up to external device, disconnect it at the end of the backup. I do this with 3 external hard drives.

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> I just double-checked, and my Issues were in October 2016, and the

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> ArsTechnica article is from February 2016.

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> So, somehow my issue was different from the ArsTechnica. Somehow, I

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> didn't check the dates back then.

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So your system probably did not get cracked. Probably something else...

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://blog.finnix.org/2021/09/06/finnix-123-released/">Finnix 123 released</a></h5>

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://blog.finnix.org/2021/09/06/finnix-123-released/">Finnix )

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<p>Today marks the release of Finnix 123, the LiveCD for system administrators. Expanding on Finnix 122 from six months ago, this release includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features. From the Finnix 123 release notes: [...]</p></blockquote></li>

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another dimension if the cold war and the risk of being called agent of X/Y when you blow the whistle on corruption in the system (see this morning's post on Latvia)

Sep 11 07:56

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Yes, the crap that was pushed through under the Patriot Act and subsequent

Sep 11 07:56

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crap entranches and protects taht corruption.

Sep 11 07:56

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I suspect that the rise of Facebook is not entirely organic and its role

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was kind of expected.

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youtube=fb of video, social control

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t_Covert_Operation_in_History

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yes, youtube steers people towards certain agendas.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War:_The_Extraordinary_Story_of_the_Larges )

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A factor which exacerbates the ongong political muddle is that most

Sep 11 08:05

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young people and many old people can't tell fact from fiction any more,

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and are unwilling to try to differentiate the two.

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As far as I can tell the business community started LARPing and the rest of

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society joined in. As long as they can postpone the consequences, they can

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keep going, even if it leads to irrevocable collapse of civilization.

Sep 11 08:08

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I concur and have said something to that effect some times in the past

Sep 11 08:09

Techrights-sec

On a more local note, would it be worthwile to just scrape TR and munch

Sep 11 08:11

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the HTML into something more suitable for a static archive?

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schestowitz-TR2

as long as we have the latest raw WordPress DB, it should be possible to export/convert to something like hugo, but only when the time is right. It would be hard to run the site without WordPress at the time, and risky too...

Sep 11 08:12

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Hugo is not enough?

Sep 11 08:14

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I have not checked, but it's not something I am accustomed to and I'm sure some functionality is lacking

Sep 11 08:14

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Ok but maybe one of the others. The load that WP puts on the server,

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despite the "low" traffic, is not reasonable. It is not reasonable that

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the bottleneck is the CPU.

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What functionality is lacking? What is the must-have set of features?

https://nitter.actionsack.com/zoobab/status/1436623622936870916#m

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cross-linking by post # and listing all posts linking to current

Sep 11 08:22

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BTW, in desmog.com the third line included is always a template. I manually cut all occurrences of it (for weeks, since it started)

Sep 11 08:24

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You mean as new posts are added, the cross-linking must occur automatically?

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there is a lot of sort of metadata, which would be lost if WP is abandoned so one option is to start afresh, redirect the RSS feed, keep the old in "legacy" mode

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ok, I'll take a look at de-smog

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ok, check desmog again in tomorrow's links, it should skip the template parts

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thanks, those help a lot as I often use them while preparing articles or talking on the phone

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I should move it all to RakuLang some time, it's more a motivational issue than

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a technical question at this point. Ideally the automated parts ought to

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happen on TR but that is yet another item waiting for the OS upgrade.

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "Remove http, problem solved." | nitter

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unscheduled router maintenance

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x https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01196-4

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# M$ spam dressed up as research; note mole inside MIT and Harvard;

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nature.com | The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers | Nature Human Behaviour

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it is possible Cimpanu was fired and then sought a gig elsewhere

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It's possible. I have no idea about the details of his new employment.

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>> These people think they are VERY important. After all, they are dealing

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>> with IP - intellectual property. Really, they are pretentious idiots.

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> LOL. Homeland Security.

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> What did they think at Homeland Security? That some guy would fire off

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> an E-mail???

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> Talk about misplaced priorities.

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> Anyway, lots about Quinn in that wiki page I gave you, though I've not

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> updated it in years...

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> Wasn't too bad. Very laid-back guy with a deep voice. A black man, I'm

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> sure.

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> Him: Mr. Murphy

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> Me: Yes.

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> Him: Mr. Murphy, this is officer ____ at Homeland Security. Mr.

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> Murphy, I understand you called the USPTO and left expletives on their

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> voicemail.

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> Me: Yeah.

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> Him: That's a government agency, Mr. Murphy. You can't do that. We

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> would appreciate it if you don't do it any more.

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> Me: Okay, fine.

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> Him: Thank you, Mr. Murphy.

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> They don't have anything else to do, except call citizens who get angry

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> because people at the USPTO don't answer their messages.

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> Tomorrow's 20th anniversary of 911, which gave us Homeland Security.

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> I looked through your Watchtroll link, and you also mention Dennis

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> Crouch, at Patently-O.

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> I also found an article at Patently-O that dealt with my problem, and I

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> tried repeatedly to contact Crouch. No response.

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> These people just don't care about inventors.

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Patently-O/Crouch is bankrolled by a large litigation firm.

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> That explains it.

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> There are so many websites that are just fronts for big money.

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> I'm sure you probably already know about it, but a few months ago I ran

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> across something called savetheinventor.com

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> <http://savetheinventor.com>. It features a video by Kappos, as well as

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.savetheinventor.com | Save the Inventor |

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> other people, and, when you try to track them down, they are just

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> highly-paid shills.

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> You can imagine that I've contacted them several times,

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> identifying myself as an inventor, and they don't reply.

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> A few months ago, I ran across a similar website that had maybe 40-50

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> smiling faces of well-paid corporate shills, but I somehow forgot to

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> bookmark it.

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The above-mentioned site is another collective of idiots, liars, and imposters. We wrote about them and others in the past. Techrights has over 31,000 blog posts.