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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-learn.opsec.institute | Grugq's OPSEC Institute

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> https://medium.com/@thegrugq

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thaddeus t. grugq – Medium

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I don't like him and don't trust him for things he did and said in the past (cannot recall all of them).

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Title Topic Deadline Action

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Draft Act

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Key performance indicators for the Digital Decade policy programme 2030

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<https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13743-Key-performance-indicators-for-the-Digital-Decade-policy-programme-2030_en> Digital economy and society

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13/03/2023 Published for feedback

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Feb 17 06:14

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you said something about "testing...."

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but i did not manage to read it before the session got reset

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I've made little progress on the pension

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a lack of progress is something, but I'd rather get answers

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other people look into it as well

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Feb 17 07:41

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testing a short script for impor

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testing a short script for improved connectivity

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seems to work

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Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis (Brain and Heart Damage) After BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/17/mrna-vaccination-brain-damage/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis (Brain and Heart Damage) After BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19

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the only good thing about not quitting in 2019 is that we managed to work from home and avoid this chaos │

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there seems to be a pattern forming across sector

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private and public

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big snd small

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i did a video about this

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going to leave home in a bit

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5 tasks to do outside ahead of rianne's ceremony

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will be away about 2-3 hours

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i generally think we left at the right time

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seeing what was happening months later

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if i had left in 20211 to get another position

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those other jobs would not be safe either

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or uncertainty exploited to get people to work a lot harder

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for less pay (inflation)

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Yes, there is a more exploitation than ever.

Feb 17 08:31

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this is somewhat proportional to job security

Feb 17 08:32

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"my worker will leave if I do this" -> i respect the worker

Feb 17 08:32

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"my worker is sesperate to keep this job" -> got him/her by the b0ls

Feb 17 08:32

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The market conditions at the moment should strongly favor the workers

Feb 17 08:34

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but their is extreme collusion against them by both emplyers and media

Feb 17 08:34

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to expand: (naturally)

Feb 17 08:35

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work hard and save when the econoy is ok

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take sabbatical when SHTF

Feb 17 08:35

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s/their/there/

Feb 17 08:45

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i managed to improve frame rate and sound quality for videos

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with no extra gadgets

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back in 2-3 hours

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youtube will sink

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its new chief is an advertising person

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shows what they have plans for that "platform"

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Good

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acck

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Yep. The further they get from tech, which is where there core is, the more

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they will lose. MBAs burn money, anwyay. So YT is toast now.

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It was probably toast before, but this move ensures it.

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youtube revenue is DOWN

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AFTER all that ad blitz

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they put off "creators" and "users" alike

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it's like this with all social control media, inc. twitter

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get in people's way and they will walk away

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YT has been unwachable for months because of adds, I basically avoid it now

Feb 17 08:49

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even when something otherwise interesting might have been posted to it.

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Their abuse of "creators" has become legendary now, No one in their right

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mind will try entering that market and their is only some much more time left

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in which YT can milk the established "creators" before they leave too, and not

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just through normal attrition.

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YT has been unwachable for months because of adds, I basically avoid it now

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even when something otherwise interesting might have been posted to it.

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Their abuse of "creators" has become legendary now, No one in their right

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mind will try entering that market and their is only some much more time left

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in which YT can milk the established "creators" before they leave too, and not

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just through normal attrition.

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bbl

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People are walking away from YT both the viewers and the "creators"

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chief "resigns" (walks away)

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one of the company's very early employees

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youtube DID try, MANY times, to set up PAID "programs"

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like "red"

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they never worked

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they could not "monetise" it

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same for twitter

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they shrank a lot in 2018 after they had tiaghtened screwed

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the monetary boost lasted only wuarters, not a year

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*tightene screws

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and now musk has another go at killing off APIs

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now he's just milking it to boost his own 'ads' (tweets)

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bad RoI for 44 billion bucks, partly paid by HeadChoppers Inc.

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"impulsive buying"

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Feb 17 10:37

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back and thinking aloud in ytalk:

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so maybe the future is not social control multimedia

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tiktok apparently has some revenue, but no idea is the goal is to make money or to 'retart' peopl;e

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twitter will be reduced to niche by year's end, FB executives are leaving

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the web became very JS-intensive

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I saw that in firefox for a few days, it was truly, awful, you can barely open any page without popup

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overlaps and animations all over the place

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mobile device sales slowing, but likely for purely economic reasons

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gemini has been slowing lately, sad to say...

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Tiktok is a weapon, the costs are covered...

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It's not about communication or entertainment, those are just bait on the hook

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The purpose was covered quite clearly by 60 Minutes last year.

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ok, so let's assume not only the "chinese one" is digital opium war

Feb 17 11:38

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Twitter is vagule similar in that a main purpose is maniuplation of mass opinion

Feb 17 11:41

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I was just thinking about that. There has been limited support for Gemini

Feb 17 11:41

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clients among the various distros.

Feb 17 11:41

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what's left of "tech" 'media' barely covers it either

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self-fulfilling prophecy

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nytimes seems to have been hijacked by angry men who reject biological sciences

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ny times did other bad things, which i noted in irc

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nader lost interest in that paper and wrote about it last month

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we need to think of to curate what's left

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i must be honst

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i am slowed this the past 2 days because I am adapting to a new workflow

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which includes firefox

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it'll be ironed out over time

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i've also just moved one task out of the rasp400 because for some reason one pi connection over ssh to the other

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pi can lead to network timeouts more than once a day

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and i got tired of logging back in again

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The "tech media" covers basically nothing any more.

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Again, the emphasis needs to be on quality and relevance.

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It's so hard to find items which are both good and relevant that there is no

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reason to risk adding more chaff.

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i agree we need not add more feeds

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i cannot keep up with what we have already and need to keep time free to write/record and house chores

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regarding the ssh trick, it would not be applicable for this task as it needs to keep a file open in nano

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so unless gnu screen runs, it's a workaround at best

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i put that session back where it was before: "bubi"

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i have a lot less mental clutter since leaving that awful job, that had gotten worse in 2022

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draft

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Casting a wider net is fine, only if it brings is more relevant articles from

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outside.

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checkinfg

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s/botched/botched attempt at a/

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since my last opml backup I've not added many additional rss feeds, and those that I added were

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not important (hence I did not bother copy the opml dump to another drive)

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the weirdest thing is that in a planet with 8 billion people if someone asks me, what's a good site

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for news, I have to pause and cannot answer

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and if there's something happening in the uk news-wise I STILL do not know which site I can bear

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opening!

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i don't think it's me who's at fault but the press or society

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maybe vendetta is a more appropriate term than "witch hunt" there

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Only a few main Indian sites have feeds. When they cover tech , they

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cover apsects missed in the EU and US

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i reckon even librarian or columnists are abused this year

Feb 17 11:59

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some unionised and went on strike

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that tells me enough

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few libraries are stocked with libarr

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libarians any more, the management cuts costs (and thus service) by

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using assistants so a fair bit of domain expertise ends up missing from

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the working and service environments

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The ongoing anti-union activities continue there as in other disciplines and

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fields of work.

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Many libraries have been closed as the management 1) stops collection management

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and/or 2) stops staffing the faclilities. Without staff, the UN definition

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of library is not fulfilled. Without collection management, the UN definition

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of library is not fulfilled. The result is when either or both are missing

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is something other than a library even if politicians encourage confusion

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with one.

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many us libraries are called after a politician who was a frequqentflyer of lolita express

Feb 17 12:15

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because he was the world's expert on every topic!

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That too. But in some states, over 90% of the buildings which were once

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libraries are unstaffed and thus no longer libraries. Then there is the

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question of whether the collections are maintained in any way. Those

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have been heavily politicized and even more heavily attacked by "both" sides

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of the aisle.

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The worse damage done by that frequent flyer is what he has done to colleges

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and universities' abilities to teach computing let alone computer science.

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They sell out for chump change / peanuts by eliminating their very ability

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to do science.

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-either learning or teaching or research or any combination of the three

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Common MBA quote: "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

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Said to basically everyone by them.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chanc

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chanc )

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https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2023/02/research-says-top-1-of-rich-are.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.digitalinformationworld.com | Research says the top 1% of the rich are actually not that smart / Digital Information World

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They figure since he stole some printouts from the trash and his mom set him

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up with a meeting at IBM he must therefore know a lot about computers.

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Not true.

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At some point the images change from being something relevant and informative

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to being just arbitrary, unknown people in an arbitrary photograph.

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At some point the images change from being something relevant and informative

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to being just arbitrary, unknown people in an arbitrary photograph.

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in cemetaries the people who have loved ones become just piles of bones with a rock on top, so to

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"save space" they're passed to mass graves

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nobody likes to think about such eventualities

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in egypt they made pyramids to secure more time in their resting place

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but some museums plundered those too

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Some countries have rental fees and if they are not renewed every few generations the graves disinterred and the

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, the stone removed and recycled, and the plot used

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for a fresher corpse.

Feb 17 13:20

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rianne was just watching some youtube video of a funeral

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someone filming and uploading to youtube

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not so respectful

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hours ago I was thinking of the filimg ban in the allegiance ceremony

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makes perfect sense to me

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or else it starts changing the behavious of people in that ceremony

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and it would not be pretty

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*filming ban

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some people in youtube still run a video of themselves in selfie mode

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they don't care about the rules

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they want "likes" or something

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Definitely

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That's coming up the Wednesday after next!

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Speaking of videos, are the FOSDEM 2023 talks available anywhere? I'm not finding a playlist in the infamous Yu

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ouTube though there seem to be some scattered

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accounts with relevant videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@fosdemtalks/playlists

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vs https://youtu.be/K1R7oK2piUM

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-FOSDEM - YouTube

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=K1R7oK2piUM

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> invidious.namazso.eu | Our Mad Journey of Building a Vector Database in Go - Weaviate at FOSDEM 2023 - Invidious

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with me, in this state of flux, it's a bit like this:

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start at the top of full html file, scroll downwards, add what's relevant, find cutoff dates by checking

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for dupes

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a lot of feeds i can quickly skip/skmp

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because they're mostly ****

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but source diversity can help

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recently, with firefox, I find stories i like

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then search by title/url in the html file

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so i don't have to open a so-called 'web page' (JS bomb)

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at some stage the workflow can be programmed a bit

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to avoid switching between applications

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sna maybe to retrieve both the outlines and the "bodies" in one pass

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right now I spent a lot of time arguing about nord stream

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i think irc is still important, if on topic in suitable channels

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many sites envy irc

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because they never get the same "interaction" via "tweets" or blog comments

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long term, we'll have some "bigstories"(r), right now I'm adapting because

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the news sites are dying and we need another approach

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There are a lot of shortcomings with the script but I am still amazed at

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how much more efficient it is to use than QuiteRSS was.

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btw, if you look at the past week's Daily links, you will see URLs also inside blockquotes sometimes

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the script that parses these at the end wipes off the whitespace near <strong> ot <a> and I've

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not investigated why

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the fix might be like a few characters in perl

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in tuxmachines there's no such issue

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so the stuff there has some in-line links too, which i think improves matters

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sometimes a bit of formatting as well

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in quiterss there was not even a "view source" option, iirc

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Which entry would be an example of the missing whitespace?

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That script has not changed in a long while so changes in the source HTML

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coming in from the remote sites can break things.

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A URL would be the easiest way to identify the offending entries.

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"Kushal Das: SamNet Vinterkonferensen 2023" in http://techrights.org/2023/02/16/youtube-crisis/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 16/02/2023: YouTube Crisis and Tesla Mass Recalls | Techrights

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More details needed.

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see "Simon Ser: Status update, February 2023" in http://techrights.org/2023/02/17/tokodon-23-02-0/ from one minute ago

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 17/02/2023: Tokodon 23.02.0 and Tails 5.10 | Techrights

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look around the URLs, as the white space gets removed when i finalise

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i reckon it's what tries to precede a link with site name

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and does not restrict itself to <h5>element</h5>

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I'm not sure where that one is coming from since it is not in the manual links

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or the automated links or the supplementary links. How is it being acquired

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and edited. I suspect that the spaces are lost early on.

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There are no spaces just linebreaks and they might be processed incorrectly and

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actual spaces needed instead.

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Which script is all that for, rss-since?