IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, July 17, 2022

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I am tempted to use this for a publication, but need your permission.

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> Permission granted…but only if you make it a barn burner.

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I'll take time to think how to 'budget' it for positive impact. I've called out Bishop for over 15 years. He's a male version of ZDNet's Microsoft Mary.

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> At least he was cordial 🤣

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> Tech journalists really are as stupid and compromised as we think 🤣

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Don't be misled by the smiles. They make a living by propping up very malicious agenda. The smiles just keep them at it...

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draft

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first crude one with blanks

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so you can suggest stuff

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will add allchin quote

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"We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."

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the Plaintiff's Exhibit about killing Mac conferences might be relevant also

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and about how consultants sell out, it's their business model

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again, when nicknames are used, always include the full, real name at least once

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sometimes I forget the given namess

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and so that takes more effort

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added more quotes (x3)

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thanks

Jul 17 08:37

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though the impact of the quotes would be very much improved by linking tothe

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actual PXE documents, they're PDFs. Whether on TR or via Groklaw it is

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essential to get people to look at the source documents!

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There is no quote at the top.

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The first quote is about "I've killed at least two Mace conferences" and that

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links to your excellent post, but the original PDF needs a link there, too.

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THe second quote, "This really isnt that hard" has no link yet.

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It is very important to link to the PDFs!

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I see there is a link to PXE3096 from the picture, but pictures are not

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relvant, they are only nice extras

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2 out of 3 link to the source of the quotes

Jul 17 08:52

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one links to the actual PDF, the one at the top

Jul 17 08:52

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Primary sources have an impact that secondary sources can't even begin to

Jul 17 08:55

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approach.

Jul 17 08:55

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I will have more chances (parts) to add more such quotes with direct links to PDF like evangelism is war

Jul 17 08:56

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good time to remind the ZDNet puddle and others

Jul 17 08:56

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ack

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I'd still advocate for repeating links to the primary sources throughout the

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series

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tweets are still only hearsay and highly filtered by twitter at that

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I try to balance speed with quality

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so my articles might still have typos, but not too many

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also, a lot of impact can come from irc

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as very few other sites ave them

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they rely on "tweets" and comments, which can be trolling and unmitigated mess

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ddi you hear anything about the chinese economy?

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covid aside

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rianne says that people are queuing at the bank

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cannot get paper notes

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and also 1000 yuan limit

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I don't suppose the media here knows much about what happens in china

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but china also canceled quite a few projects

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and it dooing trade (imports) from/with russia

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counterpunch did not have a wekeene edition this weekend

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that's a rare thing

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as noted in irc yesterday

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I reckon they'd mention china's affairs if it was something significant

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seems like those who don't gamblame with ("invest") their money

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risk is being stolen via the banks at some point

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so no safe haven

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inflation aisde

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hadn't heard but it's maybe not such a big surprise

Jul 17 09:33

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[20:43] <schestowitz-TR> just noticed that about a day ago all new posts were "posted by"

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[20:43] <schestowitz-TR> without a name after that

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[20:43] <schestowitz-TR> not sure if suggestive of a new bug, thought I'd mention it

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[20:43] <schestowitz-TR> added drop cap effect for first letter, it's starting to look more like the drupal site, sans the bloat

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[20:43] <schestowitz-TR> and almost no images

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checking

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ok, there were two bugs hidden by one symptom, shoud be working now

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I suppose an automatic default can be added by looking up the UID

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it already defaults to current user in entry phase

Jul 17 09:47

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it just didn't show anything in the resultsnt page

Jul 17 09:47

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/07/14/security-expert-matthew-garrett-blows-up-windows-by-enabling-the-microsoft-3rd-party-uefi-ca-certificate-then-says-the-bitlocker-backdoor-for-police-saved-his-data-from-the-tpm/">“Security expert” Matthew Garrett blows up Windows by enabling the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA certificate, then says the Bitlocker Backdoor (for police) saved his data from

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-baronhk.wordpress.com | “Security expert” Matthew Garrett blows up Windows by enabling the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA certificate, then says the Bitlocker Backdoor (for police) saved his data from the TPM. – BaronHK's Rants

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the TPM.</a></h5>

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<p>Essentially, what Garrett is saying is that when you enable Microsoft’s 3rd Party UEFI CA certificate, which is what the “shim” that enables “Security Theater Boot” to work on GNU/Linux, is signed with, that the TPM will refuse to decrypt your Bitlocker volumes. Not that this could be any sort of an inconvenience. Right?</p>

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<p>The TPM freaking out is a problem I ran into when I applied an official Lenovo UEFI update for March of 2021 on my ThinkBook 15 ITL Gen2.</p>

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<p>There was no warning that this was even possibly going to happen, just like it seems there was no warning on Garrett’s laptop that enabling that certificate would destroy Windows and cause data loss due to the TPM and Bitlocker.</p>

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</blockquote>

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yes, there were two bugs hidden there

Jul 17 10:00

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do you want me to start adding code to git?

Jul 17 10:09

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i have time today...

Jul 17 10:09

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kaniini made no progress

Jul 17 10:09

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I'd rather have the Git repository on the new system

Jul 17 10:13

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there's not so much point prior to that

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not sure if you saw it,

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but

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1) mjg had sought therapy

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I will soon show the partner is also a sderial defamer

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got sued for defamation

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false sexual allegations

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acting more likes spies than engineers imho

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2) he speaks from position of weakness

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I would rather just ignore them

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there's not much better one can do

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when other try to take you down it's not a crime

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dragging people down can be ocd or a job

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can we have an algo that, when hotlinking is detected, it'll wget/curl that curl, then add a put to the local copy?

Jul 17 11:10

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Jul 17 11:13

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that'd be complicated but it can go on the todo list but it would be

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difficult to work out the details to avoid collisions and other problems

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The image capabilities would have to be added first, anyway.

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or /both/ ocd *and* a job :(

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ack

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probably not necessary at all

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those images we added are just a "nice to have"

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I think we started this 2014 or 2015

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I've just added some notes

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all went OK

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names showing up

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one simple feature to make is

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create a page for each month

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as a sort of archive that lists all the posts

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as we do not do categories of "hashtags"

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the concept of hashes is passe

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I can see it becoming a thing is the past in a few years

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ack

Jul 17 11:22

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yes that might be useful as might be a page for each day

Jul 17 11:22

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subject headings would be quite easy to include as another option

Jul 17 11:22

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"hashtags" are already stupid, but do imitate keywords and subject headings

Jul 17 11:24

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a little. Those can be quite useful.

Jul 17 11:24

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whereas hashtags not so much

Jul 17 11:24

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technorati did it differently in the golden era of blogs

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a lot can be inferred from categories and generalised, e.g. remove plural form

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the db has had no new issues for days, but it misses old nodes, hence I want to revert back to a backup and start using the new cms asap

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assuming any errors can be corrected ah hoc

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what's really important is rss feed anyone can parse even if the original rss address redirects

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the current xml file in the new CMS is interpreted as flat lines in firefox

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as i's using SOCKS proxy I canbnot see how rss readers ahndle it

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we could deplooy a similar thing to TR, but not before OS migration

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e.g. to post IRC log pages into

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in an automated fashion

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wordpress should not be needed for these

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ack

Jul 17 11:42

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2 mins saved x 365 days = ~ 10 hours

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I've just checked all the accounts in /home

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a lot are stale, munin, nagius

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the main ones are BN, links, and git

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there is one callaed "linker", I think a discountinued predecessor of links

Jul 17 11:50

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that'll be a much harder machine to migrate, there's also a lot of stuff in /root

Jul 17 11:50

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ack, efficiency always pays off

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posting IRC logs takes around 5 minutes on average, I would guess

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when it is done manually

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it could be easily automated if WP were not so unnecessarily, damn complicated

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lol, lunduke subscriptiopn price up from 5 usd to 8 usd

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60%

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why?

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"inflation sucks"

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I wonder how many people pay for him or for phoronix

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Jul 17 12:33

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ack

Jul 17 12:36

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no idea, but Lunduke is continuously hawking one thing or another, so there

Jul 17 12:36

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must not be many takers

Jul 17 12:36

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rianne is making another banana bread

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as the first one was so successful

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I've nearly cleaned my feeds

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will make a vcideo later today

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probably epo video

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as for larabel, it looks to me like corporate stakeholders have taken precedence over readers

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and that's why any reader buying subscription is imho misguided

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I saw all of today's (morning) articles, none was of any interest

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we use what's available

Jul 17 12:43

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atm, acc to rianne:

Jul 17 12:43

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> Price of eggs at Aldi nearly doubled in a few months

Jul 17 12:43

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we will cycle to hunt for discounts tomorrow

Jul 17 12:44

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too bad there were no useful articles

Jul 17 12:44

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michael has the same problem as me

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aiming to do 10 a day

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but not enough proper topics

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so some are just repetition of some announcment -- the sort of stuff I put in TM

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but the solution of michael is imho unsavoury

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you can imgine his power bills this past year

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afaik, his wife's family is in ukraine

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but i am not 100% sure

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ack

Jul 17 12:50

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i'm going to have to make some changes to the db structure, the easiest way

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will be to nuke and pave and start over; I'll do that in a few hours

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yes, if you change the scheme we can reset

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I added notes for both of us to test and then observe

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schema, not scheme

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one thing I noticed was, the rss generated did not render correctly in firefox

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thanks

Jul 17 12:59

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yes the schema has to change and, for performance reasons, the columns

Jul 17 12:59

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should be in a different order so that means redoing one table

Jul 17 12:59

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never mind, it seems I already implemented the schema change, I just need

Jul 17 13:01

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to modify the scripts to work with -- after a little clean up

Jul 17 13:01

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I use SQL so rarely that I manage to forget everything about it in between

Jul 17 13:01

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We used to say Twitter would be dead in a few years. That was wrong. In a lot of ways (e.g. financial, impact, momentum) Twitter is ALREADY dead. It's just not declaring or stating that publicly. It's still just faking a lot of things.

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How much money does Bing LOSE for Microsoft? Still billions? Will Joe Biden continue to bail out Microsoft? Will savers be conned into tying their savings to gambling by Microsoft? https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BingbotFrontPageBlock

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-utcc.utoronto.ca | Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/BingbotFrontPageBlock

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twitter will get bailed out, or given the illusion of life since it is so

Jul 17 13:13

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important in the mass manipulation of public opinion, similar to facebook

Jul 17 13:13

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yes, the second part is related to the first. Second= backdoorsoft

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papa said, you want to do crime, eh?

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private or public sector (govt.)?

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papa said, you want to run a business, eh?

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for profit of for government (graft)?

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for many publishers, the bills get paid by the companies they write about

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that now includes the larabels

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ack

Jul 17 15:58

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progress on the update script, will show later on after some more local testing

Jul 17 15:58

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thanks

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ack

Jul 17 16:48

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otr: can windows on opposite sides of the house be opened for cross ventilation?

Jul 17 16:48

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Heat wave approaching, promising to almost break some temperature records tomorrow. And we don't have air conditioning...

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this is why I went downstairs next to a double door for summer

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the plan is to probably move up in october when it's warmer with the carpets

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and we can seal up a room with many heat sources in it, 4 computers of mine, 3 of hers, and many screens

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outdoors too messy for a whole lot of reasons

Jul 17 16:50

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I thought about it almost 5 years ago

Jul 17 16:50

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irc has been a lot more decent lately

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I think we found a good community balance there

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it was a lot worse 1-2 months ago

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I've nearly cleaned my feeds

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I kept my promise opn social control media

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and stuck to my guns on gulag, resisting the temptation to find "MORE" news

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via gulag

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which is possible but I'd rather not, there's an element of addition to that

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quite rss breaking and you sending me opml file broke the habit

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so i'm "off the wagon" now

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I have some ideas for new tuxmachines, maybe even a gemini only (gemini://) section for the capsule

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drupal 6 was inflexible, it'll be there only for legacy

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read-only

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what you said about pinky-p[romise-this-time-for-real-off-twitter lunduke is true

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some of his posts are chaff (pay me, buy me), some very strange, maybeone in 5 ot 10

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are OK, usually the ones where he talks about microsoft

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he chose an awful platform -- one that he does not even control, unlik,e his site. he isd a tennant

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it's a downgrade

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excellent

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great

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ack

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most are :/

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1 in 20 of late, but to his credit some very good ones have been made recenly

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some as in 2 or 3

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I read them fully just now

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it's good that SOMETONE had patience to respond to the BS

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if nobody does, the next cycle of lies carries on

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btw, this past week almost no "Linux is not secure" chorus/bridge/interlufe

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maybe a matter of luck

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but on Thurs sveeral very obnoxious articles

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inc. micreosofters blasting sfc or having the 'audacity' to not like copilot and shithub

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I will transmit to you parts 11-12 when they are ready

Jul 17 17:00

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as you can see if you peek into 5-8, philpott is out

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he's the one who was threatening me

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buthe's out so that they can promote a ton of swpats

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so it's not welcome news

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zoobab will complain and sue

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an open secret

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ack

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xxxxxxxxxxxx So far I've found Ted T'so, John A De Goes, KEvin Kofler, Chris Punches

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xxxxxxxxxxxx I'm considering adding Roy Schestowitz if you have a link to any events I can include in my publication

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xxxxxxxxxxxx (this would be situations where he defamed you)

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xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/database/Garrett,%20Matthew/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org; Unknown error ( status 0 @ http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org/database/Garrett,%20Matthew/ )

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xxxxxxxxxxxx Peter Todd

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xxxxxxxxxxxx it looks like his fiance has also been sued at least once (by peter todd no less) for false accusations of sexual predation/ her name is sara reichwein

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xxxxxxxxxxxx in the suit it details the exact same strategy that garrett took when he facilitated the appelbaum campaign, which is concerning

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xxxxxxxxxxxx you'd never know this is a den of psychotic defamers by their public appearance

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xxxxxxxxxxxx i suspect there's something about pocock early on but he may have destroyed so much of his credibility since then that its hard to tell what really happened there

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ack

Jul 17 17:04

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wipo ecision monday or tuesday

Jul 17 17:04

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debian/spi wasting os merely SUING gulag money

Jul 17 17:10

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not to compensate or support devs

Jul 17 17:10

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but to get tomatoes and eggs

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no lessons learned from ICBM's failures

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phony scandal focusing on style, not substance

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I do not trust wipo (correct), but afaik the panels is made up from external people

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and they ought to recognise the unintended consequences, e.g. for sites like "boycott novell"

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that happened with a site called "goldmansachs666"

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at the end they gave it a lot more publicity and agreed just to add a notice about a lack of affiliation

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the suits don't have common sense

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for several years I was getting dailly links from goldmansachs666 after that incident

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we must have about a million daily links by now in TR, that would be about 70000 per year or 200 per day

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ack

Jul 17 17:12

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goldmansachs666 died years later due tto a lack of activity afaik

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which typically happens when they run out of audicnce and then motivation goes out the

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window

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ack

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Phoronix slowinng down. 5 posts in weekends, used to be about 10.

Jul 17 17:22

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ack

Jul 17 17:32

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the update script updates the SQL database but the extraction script needs more

Jul 17 17:32

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work

Jul 17 17:32

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thanks, hopefully updated posts are identified as newer and show up at the top again

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as updates typically mean followup added and strung onto a previous page

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to avoid duplication of stories/themes

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no but the dc.date.modified is updated (I think) and the filesystem time stamp

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is updated

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but for now the extraction script does not overwrite existing files so that

Jul 17 17:35

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has to be adjusted first

Jul 17 17:35

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I see

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at the moment when upadint the front page it shows up blank for a couple of seconds

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as the file is being rewritten

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one fix would be writing to a temporary file, then swapping over when done

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yes, that's perhaps the most practical approach

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on a beefier server that might be 0.2s, not 2s

Jul 17 17:38

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but cp temp live

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is like 0.002s

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speed is not critical there

Jul 17 17:47

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yes, as both files are valid ones

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at the time of the copying

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the file system just has a pointer changed to reference another block

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the newwe one

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I see the problem with the extraction / update, it's using the wrong date

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for the destination;

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temporary fix in place, a more substantial change will be needed to

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query the whole database; It's probably a case for a join, so I will have

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to do some experiments with the SQL queries first before returningto scripting

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and the feed.xml generator will need checking

Jul 17 18:46

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fixed the SQL query in the feed generator to work against the date.modified

Jul 17 18:46

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(I think)

Jul 17 18:46

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excellent, I told rianne an hour ago we'd no longer need to add comments

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and instead just edit existing pages

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if they're then "bumped" in the feed, that's extra good

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in drupal it could nto work this way

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still tweaking that but it;s withiin easy reach

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at some point we can improve cross-site (tm/tr/irc) workflow to better discoverage and arrange news, I think

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but I'm not suure how, I just know there's replicated effort across sites sometimes

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but we're like the only site doing that at this deapth level

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esp. TM

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rianne won't have more spare time than before as she intends to keep the job

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the next stage for phopronix is "running intereferences" for Microsoft like SJVN does

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to borrow the words used by lunduke

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expect money to be allocated to this

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phoronix crossed some red lines

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it used to be a lot better

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go to front page now, see top stories

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chaff and cruft

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I see you've left our linux9to5 for now

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sadly that is probably the forecast for phoronix

Jul 17 18:59

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that is just a matter of regenerating the feed list but that will be in a bit

Jul 17 18:59

Techrights-sec

once the generator is updated

Jul 17 18:59

schestowitz-TR

yes, time is not important in that context

schestowitz-TR

as topics are all over the place and order/sequence is almost arbitrary

schestowitz-TR

just so you know, i am going through linuxhint at the moment

schestowitz-TR

it became a blend of spam, microsoft (lots of powershell at the moment), and at best 50% signal

schestowitz-TR

the name linuxhint is misleading

schestowitz-TR

they obv. changed strategy

schestowitz-TR

discord, laptop webspam (with amazon urls)

schestowitz-TR

this is what sickens me about thew web I need to PRE-filter the feeds before I even get to the nitty gritty signal and details

Techrights-sec

we're not tracking time just date, I suppose that is an acceptable level

Techrights-sec

of detail

Techrights-sec

ok thanks

Techrights-sec

dreadful

Techrights-sec

it's not just that it may be only 50% signal, the rest seems quite harmful

Techrights-sec

to the public

Techrights-sec

ok the feed.xml should be ok now

schestowitz-TR

yes, I put them in panalty box/suspension for a ahilw in the past under the assumption linking to them links TR and TM to sites

schestowitz-TR

that are detected as spam or send readers to Microsoft, sales, etc.

schestowitz-TR

at which point they become like phoronix or worse

schestowitz-TR

like linking to a "good" article in Bill's Guardian

schestowitz-TR

then people stay around for the bILLshit

https://linuxhint.com/write-for-linuxhint-com/

Techrights-sec

ok the feed.xml should be ok now

Jul 17 19:10

Techrights-sec

ok the feeds.html shoud be ok too

Jul 17 19:10

schestowitz-TR

can your quiterss s/w parse that feed at your end? I cannot do SOCKS proxy here

Jul 17 19:10

Techrights-sec

checking

Jul 17 19:12

Techrights-sec

yep, QuiteRSS can use the feed just fine!

Jul 17 19:12

schestowitz-TR

good, this means firefox xml/rss support has become so appalling

Jul 17 19:13

schestowitz-TR

it's not pretending they exist

Jul 17 19:14

schestowitz-TR

and does not parse them well either

Jul 17 19:14

schestowitz-TR

they used to be a key reason p[eople were adopting rss around 2004

Jul 17 19:14

schestowitz

"Have a product you think is of interest to our audience and want to collaborate in a partnership of some kind. We are open ears to new ideas. Email editor@linuxhint.com with a brief sketch of your proposal.'

Jul 17 19:17

schestowitz

Jul 17 19:17

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Write For LinuxHint.com

Jul 17 19:17

schestowitz

New 'articles' https://linuxhint.com/razer-blackwidow-v3-mechanical-gaming-keyboard/ https://linuxhint.com/razer-blade-pro-17-review/

Jul 17 19:19

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxhint.com | Razer BlackWidow V3 Review – A Budget-Friendly Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Jul 17 19:19

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxhint.com | Razer Blade Pro 17 Review: The Gaming Beast

Jul 17 19:19

Techrights-sec

Jul 17 19:21

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schestowitz-TR

gooint to call them out on it ina quick post

schestowitz-TR

like I did fossmint years agoi

schestowitz-TR

fossmint basically died after that

schestowitz-TR

saive just posted pure spam there for a while until it just stopped

schestowitz-TR

I call it the "exit startegy"

schestowitz-TR

also see: fossforce

schestowitz-TR

see its latest story

schestowitz

the sole story in 2 months: https://fossforce.com/2022/07/green-checks-saas-for-legal-pot-biz-a-shot-in-the-arm-for-dispensaries/

schestowitz-TR

"wtf" moment

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fossforce.com | Green Check's SaaS for Legal Pot Biz: A Shot in the Arm for Dispensaries - FOSS Force

Techrights-sec

fossmint?

Techrights-sec

ok fossforce

https://techrights.org/2020/06/10/fossmint-misnomer/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | FOSSMint is Not a FOSS Site But a Proprietary Software Site | Techrights

Techrights-sec

Jul 17 19:32

Techrights-sec

lame

Jul 17 19:32

Techrights-sec

I hope she is ok and does not end like SJVN

Jul 17 19:32

schestowitz-TR

she is connected to LF and SJVN now

schestowitz-TR

flip-flopping a bit

schestowitz-TR

but falling back on where the moey moneyh moneyh money talking-0about-money is

Techrights-sec

short term money at the cost of long term viability

schestowitz-TR

s/visibility/credibility/

schestowitz-TR

given how much manhours it takes tho buld up credibility the sellout is now worth it

schestowitz-TR

like $10,000 owrth of work lost for $100 of actual money

schestowitz-TR

short term money at the cost of long term viability

schestowitz-TR

yep

Techrights-sec

yep

schestowitz-TR

i need to do a post/shoutout/shoutdown

schestowitz-TR

for when they go awry and I can share a reference to make a point

schestowitz-TR

draft in 5 mins

schestowitz-TR

draft

Techrights-sec

ack

schestowitz-TR

I will add image captions

Techrights-sec

ack

Techrights-sec

the image might be described a bit so that the Gemini audience gets more of

Techrights-sec

an idea what is being referenced in the summary.

Techrights-sec

thans

Jul 17 19:52

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Jul 17 19:55

schestowitz-TR

christine is in a tough place

Jul 17 19:58

schestowitz-TR

I wond't mention that

schestowitz-TR

because it feels like "kicking a puppy"

schestowitz-TR

and maybe 2 months with one off-topic article is due to health reasons

schestowitz-TR

she wished us a safe lockdown

schestowitz-TR

she respects TR and reads TM every day

gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20220717.txt

Techrights-sec

it could be. like mentioned early, I hope she is well, since the indicators

Jul 17 20:04

Techrights-sec

are concerning

Jul 17 20:04

Techrights-sec

local backup complete

Jul 17 20:04

schestowitz

schestowitz

"So covid was... interesting. I was mostly hit hard on the Saturday and

schestowitz

found myself in a fit of fever madness. Sunday was not so bad and I

schestowitz

stayed off work Monday mostly as a eff you for having no weekend.

schestowitz

Tuesday started out alright but then I was hit by a feeling of sheer

schestowitz

madness. I could not move without the room swinging around. This

schestowitz

continued for several days with a severity where I was struggling to

schestowitz

walk to the toilet. I didn't eat for several days as I felt so

schestowitz

confused. Sitting up involved several slow movements almost in a

schestowitz

single axis. Friday is when it slowly started to improve and I found

schestowitz

myself able to sit up for longish periods on Saturday. I am still

schestowitz

struggling to walk without some balance issues. I think it is

schestowitz

labyrinthitis, an infection of the ear which causes vertigo."

schestowitz-TR

yeah, just like the flu /sarcasm

schestowitz-TR

with permanent damage possibl;e

schestowitz-TR

probably worse than the 'cure'

schestowitz-TR

but the cure itself does not seem alluring to me either

schestowitz-TR

as long as I can isolate as effectively as we do

schestowitz-TR

Florian Mueller told me he reckons I can cruise past it without infection

schestowitz-TR

he said this in 2020

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