IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, November 12, 2021

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Weird. I was almost certain it was done as usual. I should add timestamps to

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the shell log for that session.

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Anyway, it is now posted, although quite behind the usual time.

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Thanks, been a bit stresseful here today

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Hope it settles down there.

Nov 12 16:31

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, November 11, 2021

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EPO is de-legitimizing several states and authorities.

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yes, we keep stock of them. Their participation is corrosive.

Nov 12 16:35

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"[...] the digital equivalent of being abandoned on the streets of New York City?" https://digitalvegan.net/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-digitalvegan.net | Digital Vegan Book

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the reason for my angst is mentioned in the first 10 mins of the video I upload at the moment, eta 20 mins

Nov 12 17:09

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Will listen once it has posted.

Nov 12 17:10

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Increased work load => increased salary

Nov 12 17:37

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Overtime is usually at least 150% base pay. During weekends or odd hours

Nov 12 17:38

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it should be at least 200%.

Nov 12 17:38

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I was supposed to start work 5:30pm

Nov 12 17:42

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I am protesting

Nov 12 17:42

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Rianne said I'd come online 9pm

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and then logged out

Nov 12 17:43

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the way this was handled was beyond bad and I don't mind making a bit of a scene

Nov 12 17:43

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I thought about doing a video about phoronix again, but he's the wrong "target" to focus on

Nov 12 17:44

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any other suggestions for videos?

Nov 12 17:44

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Still listening, but I would recommend lots of text since most can read

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faster than they can listen, at least certain generations can.

Nov 12 17:45

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Also text boosts Gemini.

Nov 12 17:45

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Maybe the above about the EPO working against the EU and the German government

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which puts the EPO on the wrong side of the law.

Nov 12 17:49

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Video content is more ephemeral than text, since it does not get AAAAAAAAindexed yet in the search engines.

Nov 12 17:55

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it is vastly faster to make and for topis where I need something like slides or page or PDF it helps... but I know I

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should do more text. Maybe I should cross swords with my bosss for a whilke; bragging about how low my salary is ha

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s its limits and they are poushing it now... and it's juust taking up time... I could say much more and vent, but wo

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uld rather get back to my usual routine

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As far as topics go, the AARD historical review shows that M$ is still the same

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espeicially if it can be proven that they are messing with WINE

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Is there a way to petition for acknowledgement of the overtime and such?

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Be sure to at least document it in your work journal so that if it keeps

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happening, you have a record to refer to.

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this is the first time in years that this happens

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I want to change subject anyway

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no good would come out of this

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About topics, I have conflicts in terms oif missions and perceptions

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e.g. if we go atter small targets and miss the bigger issues

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ack

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The big stuff is important but much of it comes down to world politics.

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IIRC it was Bruce Schneier who was most prominent in pointing out that

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the choice is between insecure computers for everyone or secure computers

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for everyone. So many agencies are used to being able to snoop and poop at

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will that they are adamant about enforcing insecure computers for everyone.

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Look at all the "technical" advisors that the Biden administration is afflicted

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with. THere is not a single bona fide security expert there. Where is

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Schneier, Perens, Haldeman, Spafford, yes David A Wheeler, too?

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David Wheeler

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ariadne's boss

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Instead snake oil peddlers and sales drones buzz in and out of the White House

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at their liberty. Perhaps FOSS needed (or needs, if the goal is to remain

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viable) to take up a collection and hire a handful of professional, full-time

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lobbyists. However, M$ and the others are able to infiltrate even the smallest

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projects, sometimes directly, and cause infighting over CoCs and just about

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anything.

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IBM

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to cope with publication at scale and still do Daily Links in TM and TR I must rely on outside contributors too or have my own low-quality, full of typos (like IRC) articles

Nov 12 18:07

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The taistoism movement used the same methods that M$ includes in their tactics.

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So for those methods the approaches which beat taistoism are likely to also

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work against microsoftianism. However, that gets back to the harball politics

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at the global scale. Were you able to ever get a copy of the book,

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"Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the

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History of Our Times "

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It is also available as audio CD so one can slog through it while doing

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some other non-though intensive task.

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public domain works that are of relevance to us can be files in gemini. a book can be one megabyte only, inc. with styling

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we are not a curation site per se, but by Internet standards we have a long span of 15 years of links, so a lot of the material we have is no longer available anywhere except IA

Nov 12 18:09

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It is harder and harder to round up links.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/charlie-wilsons-war-the-extraordinary-story-of-how-the-wildest-man-in-congress-and-a-

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rogue-cia-agent-changed-the-history-of-our-times/oclc/264798705

-altlink_b55/#boycottnovell-📣 Cloudflare: worldcat.org | 🙆 Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.worldcat.org/title/charlie-wilsons-war-the-extraordinary-story-of-how-the-wildest-man-in-congress-and-a-

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Yes, the IA is very important but it will succumb as the WWW is phased out

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in favor of pbfuscated, proprietary javascript.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.worldcat.org | Results for 'ti:"charlie wilsons war the extraordinary story of how the wildest man in congress and a "' [WorldCat.org]

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ack

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off-ish topic-ish:

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2-3 years ago I said to people the www wll die

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don't know whenm or how

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buit we don't know yet what will replace it

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so it's a "format-shifting'" task

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"evolve or perish"

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Maybe links should be accompanied by an archive link either at the IA or

Nov 12 18:13

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elsewhere.

Nov 12 18:13

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archive.is is interesting, but it'll die one day

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Nov 12 18:18

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In the long run they will all pass away. In formal archives, one of the

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initial decisions the institution has to make about any given artifact is

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that of how long it shall be preserved for. Nothing lasts forever, but

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there are ways of stretching things out and the duration determines the

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methods of preservation. IIRC Norway aims to keep certain items in its

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official archives for 1000 years. Media shiftin will obviously be involved,

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but at a loss for some items.

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The plan pre-dates AWA by a great many years:

https://arcticworldarchive.org/about/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-arcticworldarchive.org | About AWA

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is this subject worth covering? I'm no expert, but I can have a go at it..

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You have experience as to how it affects TR and TM .

Nov 12 18:20

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yes

Nov 12 18:21

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Already in 15 short years, may whole sites are gone. And of the sites that

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remain, many have lost all their old articles in clumsy reorgs. Of that which

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is left, some of those have purged documents with "inconvenient" messages or

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themes.

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Already in 15 short years, may whole sites are gone. And of the sites that

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remain, many have lost all their old articles in clumsy reorgs. Of that which

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is left, some of those have purged documents with "inconvenient" messages or

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themes.

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Yes, even Groklaw purged its comments.

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I suppose few to none of the Groklaw comments made it into the Library

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of Congress archives.

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and comments

https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Techrights%22

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Nov 12 18:24

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Nov 12 18:24

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-archive.org | Internet Archive Search: subject:"Techrights"

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4 results. Perhaps WordPress has some archival plug-in which could help?

Nov 12 18:26

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gemini tar (I have the file from weeks ago) might be better, should I upload it? Safe this way?

Nov 12 18:27

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4 results. Perhaps WordPress has some archival plug-in which could help?

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I think so, but maybe the IA has a preferred method or approach to that?

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Gemini is rather new and they might have a special interest in figuring out

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the best practices for it. I expect that whatever the solution, it will not

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4 results. Perhaps WordPress has some archival plug-in which could help?

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I think so, but maybe the IA has a preferred method or approach to that?

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Gemini is rather new and they might have a special interest in figuring out

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the best practices for it. I expect that whatever the solution, it will not

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be complex.

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be complex.

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It the text-onky-web-scrape file safe to upload as is? Just cxhecking

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Yes, as far as I know. It's not got the Wiki though.

Nov 12 18:32

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But not all posts make sense without the pictures or videos.

Nov 12 18:32

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uploading 205 mb

Nov 12 18:34

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will do a post about this, maybe it can inspire other sites to think ahead

Nov 12 18:34

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I hope so, many programmers and even engineers are conscientious in erasing

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anything "old" even important records.

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Now with electronic media, there is often only a single copy of anything

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any more and that introduces, obviously, a single point of failure.

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So in the old days, one could maintain a relevant personal or professional

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archive. Now those are all centralized and continue to exist only at the

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whim of participant consensus. Anyone with administrative privileges, can

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"tidy" up and easily erases the world's last copy of a standard or other

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evidence or similar material.