IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, January 14, 2022

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<h5><a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/humble-bundle-retires-all-mac-and-linux-games-from-the-humble-trove-starting-february-1st/">Humble Bundle retires all Mac and Linux games from the Humble Trove starting February 1st</a></h5>

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.neowin.net | Humble Bundle retires all Mac and Linux games from the Humble Trove starting February 1st - Neowin

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<p>The news comes one day after Humble announced changes to its Humble Choice subscription model which, while buried in the announcement, requires use of their new launcher. It’s a minor blow to those who pre-ordered Steam Deck or will be running Steam OS 3.0 next month. It’s a big year for gaming on Linux and an even bigger year for portable gaming as new users around the world are set to get their hands on the powerful

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device. But for Humble Bundle, it’s seemingly not worth the effort.</p>

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<p>For those who remember, Humble Bundle started out offering DRM free games for Linux way back in 2010. At that point in time they were indeed a humble outfit.</p></blockquote></li>

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It's feasible to migrate a RPi4 to boot from USB stick with minimal down time.

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However since I included both a hardware and operating system upgrade, there

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are a lot of loose ends to tie up. That includes notifications and such.

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I worry a bit about debian

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last night norbert (kde, latex packages etc.) said he would leave his stuff orphaned

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a day earlier debian said it had gotten jkust two new DDs in 2 months

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It's feasible to migrate a RPi4 to boot from USB stick with minimal down time.

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However since I included both a hardware and operating system upgrade, there

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are a lot of loose ends to tie up. That includes notifications and such.

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I presume it is part of the sea change in the project that occured with the

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TC takeover / intrigue which shoehorned 4th place choice, systemd, throughout

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the distro. There have been many other scandals since then.

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There are two conflicting situations affecting all potential developers there

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and elsewhere. One is that volunteer project members want to focus on the

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code and not CoCs and other barriers to focusing on the code. The other is, as

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RMS points out, you can ignore the politics but the politics won't ignore you.

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Those two facts cause problems where they collide.

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Speaking of politics notice that the US' concern about critical infrastructure

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is shifting all of the blame and attention on to FOSS. At the same time

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only the big, proprietary vendors are invided to the planning sessions with the

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government. They bring in clowns instead of the big names. They should at least

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be consulting with Bruce Perens, Bruce Schneier, Dan Geer, Moxie Marlinspike,

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etc.

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Eugene Spafford, etc.

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(notice that Spaf's quote about Windows is now missing from pretty much every

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page that includes his old quotes...)

http://techrights.org/2021/05/02/ransomware-task-force/

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Daniel Bernstein, Paul Vixie,

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Yes, I have noticed the same, mentioned in passing in last night';s video

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Microsoft-Centric “Ransomware Task Force” | Techrights

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even RMS and Linus Torvalds could add benefit if they had not been reframed

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as controversial by the attackers now moving in and out of DC.

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Wietse Venema is in the US too

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Phill Zimmermann is still around too

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the list of knowledgable, skilled, experienced people is long. No need for them

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to include any frauds, charlatans, or poseurs. But that's what we get when

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M$ reps got in on the campaign team. Many of those involved in LibreSSL and

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OpenSSL are in the US as well.

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M$ created the problems, and therefore is unable to solve them and it would be

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inappropriate to even have them involved.

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There's a famous quote which goes approximately like this, "we cannot solve our

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problems with the same thinking we used to create them." As such M$

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representatives have to be cleared from the room long, long before discussion

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can start.

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ack

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Ransomware is just one symptom of microsoftianism. Even if Windows is retained

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for a shorter period on the desktop, servers could run FreeBSD with OpenZFS.

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The snapshotting feature would make data restoration much less inconvenient.

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However, any real plan has to eliminate M$ from both the desktop and the

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supporting infrastructure. That is a staffing problem not a technical one.

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Even microsofters, such as Mitchel Lewis, observe that, but most don't dare

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speak up. I presume fear of NDAs and non-disparagement clauses in various

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contracts, especially terinations.

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shopuld we do some article about this?

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shopuld we do some article about this?

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About the disappearance of the Spafford quote? It used to be cited everywhere

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but most of those sites are gone and the rest seem to have redacted just that one

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quote.

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https://nitter.eu/yuhong2/status/1481915163775176710#m

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.eu | Yuhong Bao (@yuhong2): "Even Boycott Novell/Techrights used to have Google ads." | nitter

x https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/01/13/the-first-seditious-conspiracy-charges-drop/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.emptywheel.net | The First Seditious Conspiracy Charges Drop - emptywheel

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# s/drop/are pressed/

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irc logs for today not posted yet, I've only; just noticed

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"Checking remote server for IPFS logs." ...

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not having them automated introduces human error

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wordpress in action

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or MIA

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is there a /usable/ API for wordpress? Or must one spend two weeks learning and

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debugging it?

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If there is one, it probably sucks

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Maybe the site could be moved to Hugo or something for all new pages. For all

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old URLs a redirect to static, archived copies could be used. Both Apache2 and

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Nginx can do that redirection easily. wget could be used to scrape and make the

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static archive.

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there would be many practical limitations

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What do you see as the main practical limitations? It would greatly reduce the

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amount of system resources required by the site. I figure maintenance would

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be much easier too.

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things like site search and linking between posts would be a lot harder

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the links would remain the same but nothing dynamic between new and old.

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When you c

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get a chance, can you test

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/usr/local/bin/buzzer-quick.py##############################

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and

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aplay /usr/share/quiterss/sound/notification.wav

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I think I have restored the audio.

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No, just a heads up that I was having to logout/login again. It is necessary

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to do that to adjust group memberships so that the audio and other alerts can

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be used again.

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ok, I ask because I heard lots of sounds while I was talking and thought maybe I had lost many things you typed

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I was just recording

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did you say something before resetting this chat session?

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Sorry, just adjusting the activity alerts here.

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I have them through a script

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now so it far easier and less disruptive to adjust it. Now only the script

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has to be adjusted for changes whereas before I had hardcoded stuff into tmux.

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Also, I have an idea for a better chat method but it might take a week or two

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to hammer out the details. It'd use tmux but not ytalk.

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OK, video processing

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now I finished the text

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maybe next time when I record I'll send a sign I'm "on air"

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as the session restarting and all (special sounds) distracted me a great deal ;-

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;(

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sound good

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maybe "ota"

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I use hooks in tmux to monitor activity launch an alert script, so to silence

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the script, i make this window active. Making any other window active or

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detaching the session makes tmux trigger the script upon any fresh activity

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in this window.

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what is the full URL for the upper left graphic?

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all of them?

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just the graph

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coronavirus.data.gov.uk

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/01/14/bbc-spin/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com | schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » BBC is Not on the Same Planet as Us

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thanks