●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Saturday, April 17, 2021 ●● ● Apr 17 [00:10] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [00:12] *MinceR (mincer@unaffiliated/mincer) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 17 [04:57] schestowitz I have just published another old video of RMS. If does not have text with it, but I did include a video URL. [04:58] schestowitz Median Gemini access continues to grow: [04:58] schestowitz 1307 2021-04-13 [04:58] schestowitz 1153 2021-04-14 [04:58] schestowitz 1574 2021-04-15 [04:58] schestowitz 1501 2021-04-16 ● Apr 17 [05:00] schestowitz Last week in IRC someone asked us to add gemini to the RSS feeds, though I'm not sure what clients support this and how [05:00] Techrights-sec It looks about 5 minutes long. I'll check it out. [05:00] Techrights-sec It is important to feed Gemini space. [05:03] Techrights-sec RSS would be easy if there is a spec somewhere for Gemini. If it is just [05:03] Techrights-sec a matter of making a new feed containing Gemini links, that is not hard. [05:03] Techrights-sec and not time-consuming. What about the feeds we already have in [05:03] Techrights-sec place? [05:03] Techrights-sec gemini://gemini.techrights.org/feed/ [05:03] Techrights-sec gemini://gemini.techrights.org/daily-feed/ [05:03] schestowitz Maybe there are already RSS readers that support gemini? I know of none... [05:04] Techrights-sec RSS is not difficult, it is just a structured document (XM) [05:04] Techrights-sec (XML) [05:05] schestowitz I could craft another field for gemini, but I don't know how it's used by the person who brought it up in IRC (s/he had left before I could ask) [05:12] Techrights-sec Maybe the Gemini list has collective knowledge about the "right" way to do [05:12] Techrights-sec and RSS feed? [05:13] schestowitz I am a lurker, don't want to subscribe and participate as that tends to be super-time-consuming (I did that ages ago) [05:24] Techrights-sec I think the archive has some discussion of it, if I recall correctly. [05:37] schestowitz "Knowing that many people have changed their minds since signing the hate letter (which was frozen to prevent them removing their names), it has been suggested to us that we use the git log to figure out the number of people asking to retract/revoke their signature (until it was "locked") because there may be hundreds such people." [05:37] schestowitz Do you know how to get the names from the git archive? [05:45] Techrights-sec I'm not that familiar with Git yet. [05:45] Techrights-sec (BTW see rms-on-sharing.transcript.txt) [05:45] Techrights-sec As for the GitHub attack letter against RMS, I would say to checkout or clone [05:45] Techrights-sec it and then use some log statitics on it. [05:45] Techrights-sec e.g. [05:45] Techrights-sec $ git log --format='%aN' | sort -u [05:45] Techrights-sec and see where that goes. [05:45] Techrights-sec A clone is probably a good idea before that too is prevented. [05:45] schestowitz I will have a go at it [05:47] Techrights-sec If the clone is archived, it will compress well with tar and gzip. [05:48] schestowitz roy@vonick:/tmp/rms-open-letter.github.io$ git log --format='%aN' | sort -u | wc -l [05:48] schestowitz 1415 [05:57] Techrights-sec Interesting. [05:57] Techrights-sec How many backed out once they saw how wrong its premises are? ● Apr 17 [06:01] schestowitz would this headline be correct? [06:01] schestowitz Hate Letter Against FSF (Concern Trolls): 1415 Committers, Letter in Support of FSF (With Its Founder Back): 5116 [06:06] Techrights-sec Be sure to have someone familiar with Git verify that. It would not [06:06] Techrights-sec do to publish a mistake. But it is big news if true. [06:06] Techrights-sec Last 24 hours there has been megathread on RMS: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2021-04/threads.html [06:06] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.gnu.org | libreplanet-discuss (thread) [06:59] schestowitz > Thanks for your encouraging words. [06:59] schestowitz > [06:59] schestowitz > In the meantime, Heiko Maas has advanced to become the German foreign minister. [06:59] schestowitz > https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/aamt/leadership-federal-foreign-office/bm-curriculumvitae-node [06:59] schestowitz > [06:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.auswaertiges-amt.de | Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas - Federal Foreign Office [06:59] schestowitz > So a lot of people in "high places" will be unhappy to see an exposure of his complicity in EPO coverups. [06:59] schestowitz > That might explain the increase in DDoS attacks? [06:59] schestowitz Attribution patterns seem to suggest it's vengeance for software-related coverage. [06:59] schestowitz We had to write some programs to protect the sites. ● Apr 17 [09:07] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [09:07] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [09:14] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:16] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 17 [10:11] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [10:12] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [10:16] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [10:17] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [10:21] Techrights-sec One thing about the RMS letter is that RMS now has a second chance to ensure [10:21] Techrights-sec that the FSF will be able to continue as it needs to, with the right [10:21] Techrights-sec priorities, later when he is not around at all. ● Apr 17 [12:48] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [12:48] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) ● Apr 17 [13:03] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [13:03] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 17 [14:09] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [14:11] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [14:16] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [14:17] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 17 [15:08] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [15:09] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [15:09] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [15:10] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 17 [17:05] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [17:05] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [17:07] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [17:09] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [17:54] schestowitz > I am watching the funeral on Fox News. Impressive British pageantry, a look at the sad ceremony traditional to the monarchy over hundreds of years. The Brits love their Royals. [17:54] schestowitz The media loves them. [17:54] schestowitz Re: Prince Philip Funeral [17:55] schestowitz > Hi Roy, [17:55] schestowitz > [17:55] schestowitz > Have you had your jab yet, it will do you the world of good, you'll feel [17:55] schestowitz > much safer, hopefully once everyone is injected we can start opening [17:55] schestowitz > everything up fully again, not sure how long it will be but we'll have [17:55] schestowitz > to wait and see, it's so unpredictable with these deadly variants appearing. [17:56] schestowitz > [17:56] schestowitz > Stay safe! [17:56] schestowitz Have not been contacted about it yet, maybe because 30s bracket and working from home as per census. [17:56] schestowitz I need to decide next week whether to renew gym membership. ● Apr 17 [18:02] schestowitz > Interesting! [18:02] schestowitz > [18:02] schestowitz > Do you think we will see a change in the legal team at FSF. [18:02] schestowitz > I highly recommend new or different representation... Just my 2 cents. :) [18:02] schestowitz > [18:02] schestowitz > Especially considering Google insertion/sponsorship of SFC. [18:02] schestowitz FSF also took Google money for many years. ● Apr 17 [19:22] schestowitz > Hi Roy [19:22] schestowitz > [19:22] schestowitz > I hope my email finds you well. I would like to check whether you have [19:22] schestowitz > recently experienced any problems with your twitter account. I know that [19:22] schestowitz > you had some issues in the past and I would like to see who may recently [19:22] schestowitz > have tried to complain about your comments. [19:22] schestowitz > [19:22] schestowitz > If I can be of any help, please let me know. [19:22] schestowitz > [19:22] schestowitz > Best regards [19:22] schestowitz > [19:22] schestowitz > Dimitris [19:22] schestowitz Twitter suspended my account without explanation. Such is the nature of Twitter. Prior to that they demanded a mobile phone number, which I do not have (so I gave a friend's). [19:28] schestowitz > Move to the hills, plenty of outdoor space to exercise and gyms. [19:29] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/20541068#59c238fc-1860-7a75-102a-ade024083054 [19:29] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Hate Letter Against FSF (Concern Trolls): 1415 Committers, Letter in Support of FSF (With Its Founder Back): 5116 http://techrights.org/2021/04/17/committers-and-hate/ [19:29] schestowitz "So ethics and morale are questions of statistics now. Interesting." 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