IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, November 17, 2022

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Then if they win the academic lottery they can advance to being part-time

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"adjunct" faculty, working three jobs just to stay afloat. Then if lightning

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strikes twice in the same spot, they get a tenure track job and the false hope

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of a permanent job, still at low pay unless they are able to pivot into

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administration.

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not a uniquely US problem anymore

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Not nice the Bologne Process, which is fancy clothes for the destruction of

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higher education on the other side of the Atlantic:

https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/inclusive-and-connected-higher-education/bologna-process

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It had fancy marketing and a lot of hangers-on.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-education.ec.europa.eu | The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area | European Education Area

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Three years is not enough to either specialize in a topic nor to gain a well-

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rounded experience. The failure is then double if trying to do both.

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introducing lesser skilled people into a workplace typically helps bring wages down, over time

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same with introducing women where not many women are suitably qualified

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but it's unpopular to say that

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That appears to be one of the goals. Now there are two or three academic

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generations of half-educated people flooding the market and vying for

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jobs including university jobs

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It's not like the universities have a separate supply chaing.

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Introducing unqualified but certified individuals means that the individual

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in question knows that they are in over their head and keep their job only

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at the whim of the decision makers. As a result there is no pushback against

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other stupidity.

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two words: jim. zemlin

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one word: spamnil.\\

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they could instead keep carla schroder or jack wallen onboard

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vastly more qualified

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imagine being carla and they choose spamnil over you

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she called LF "poo"

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maybe she write "shit" and then changed that to something more polite.

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deep inside many people know what LF really is

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but there is concern that speaking out about it woukd seem "unprofessional"

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or anti-corporations, lessening the % of netting another 6-figure salary

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if this job candidate can tolerater the shit of the LF, he will tolerate our antics and keep quiet too. -company recruiter

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LF wants to avoid competent writers likely for similar reasons as above.

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Ideally it looks like its goal is to collapse the brand as quickly as possible.

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Also they have to make LT appear irrelevant so he can be shoved out the door too

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CoC violation for criticizing a corporation.

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CoCs were never, not even for a minute, about anything else than that.

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rather, it's about allowing corporations to weaponise something (borad, vague, anything) against people who get

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marked for removal

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seen it firsthand earlier this month ;-)

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The weapon is less important than the targets: the leadership and control of

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the various, key FOSS projects.

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They'd weaponize hairstyle when they can.

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"he didn't shave often enough. we caught him in his desk with stubble."

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(apropos, today, this morning, after 5+ years, I reminded myself why I quit using shaving foam)

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hygiene ...

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says a boss who drives a car that emits 3 times the gases of a normal car

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for vanity purposes alone

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ack

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s/car/suv(truck)/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abk7b/bidens-new-fuel-economy-standards-still-allow-cars-to-pollute-more-if-theyre-not-called-cars

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https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/

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https://www.fleetmanagementweekly.com/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-and-so-are-their-front-blind-zones-children-are-paying-th

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.vice.com | Biden’s New Fuel Economy Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More If They’re Not Called Cars

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-me.engin.umich.edu | CAFE Standards Could Mean Bigger Cars, Not Smaller Ones – Mechanical Engineering

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fleetmanagementweekly.com | America's Cars & Trucks are Getting Bigger and So Are Their Front Blind Zones. Children are Paying the Price - Fleet Management WeeklyFleet Management Weekly

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e-price/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-are-front-blind-zones-children-rcna52109

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nbcnews.com | America's cars and trucks are getting bigger, and so are their front blind zones. Children are paying the price.

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That's OK as long as they are not embroyes anymore

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*embryos

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yep

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ack

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It's 2022 and some dumb sites like Spamnil's still use the misleading misnomer "serverless". How repulsive and objectionable that liars

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and charlatans are treated like the more "repesctable" 'web3' 'bros'.... because corporate media officially recognises their buzzwords

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ack

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. We're in for some painful reckoning when people realise "clown computing" does not exist; it's a ruinous buzzword enshrining a trap.

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"Personally, I seek very little social interaction in the real world; the everyday family life is quite enough." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1205

Nov 17 12:40

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should I rebut the 3 POS 'articles' in "Linux" sites about WSL 1.0 (w00t! 1) or would that just give it more

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publicity than it's worth? I think after the 3 I saw it stopped

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betanews, itsfoss (idiot took over), and brad linder

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I'd rather see it going away

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countdown to phoronix doing a puff piece about it....

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ack

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WSL spam is thick on many sites these days.

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I reckon I can ignorew it and cover something else?

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left out from Daily Links, as it is WINDOWS news

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just hijacking a brand

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Probably rebut the concept of WSL. There are certainly some technical short

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comings in addition to the loss of freedom and security

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I think the 1.0 thing is RER-announcing it to get people to give it another look

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as very few use it and sites quit mentioning it

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I reckon it will be mothball not too long from now

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Yes, brand hijacking. It's marketed as "being able to run Linux" which

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at least with the first version, it is not.

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It's definitely a talking point being pushed by m$ marketeerts.

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^marketeers.

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if the googlebombing stops, I'll carry on ignoring

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this re-affirms what we've all been seeing for years

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sites that behave like this deserve no users at all

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That's usually how it works afaik

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otaX3

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otaX3

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DONE

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covid-19 tests in the uk has sunk to new lows and it's winter already. gov strategy: pretend we don't see it

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ack

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If they don't check, they can then confirm that the number of verified cases

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has gone down. :/

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draft

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checking

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Mastodon and Pleroma etc are social control media not a publishing platform

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like gemini, so a comparison would be irrelevant.

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s/videos on/videos about/

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typo fixed

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yes, I will add a footnote

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excellent

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was anything changed in tm-new?

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rianne tried twice to add a page and it gives a .PM complaint

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updated the packages but not the scripts

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checking

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At what stage does it give an error?

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[y/N] y

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Waiting for database to unlock ...lock acquired

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Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_generic" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/TuxMachines/ReadOn.pm line 27.

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Creating temporary directories and files

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Creating static XHTML and GemText hierarchies

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Updating SSI files

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Writing the RSS feed for HTTP

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Writing the Atom feed for Gemini

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Writing the Gemini index

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Pinging via MQTT

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Erasing temporary directories and their files.

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Just checked. It can add, modify, and delete records.

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HOwever the error described is that there is a bad URL in the 'ReadOn' link.

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Perhaps a check should be added to ensure that there is something there.

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But if the record can be edited to ensure that there is a valid

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URL in the href element it should be good.

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Perhaps the URL is outside the quotes?

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rianne made a mistake

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she put the title in the URL

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sorry, our error

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The non-bot traffic for tm-new has been increasing. I see however that

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one of the clients (FB?) mangles the URLs resulting in 404 errors. They

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are not paying attention to the fact that URLs are case sensitive.

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nothing can save "meta"

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btw, the earlier article on twitter mentions someone rianne knows in person

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i didn't know till i sent it to her

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ack

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I haev just added anothger draft. 13 pages of pdf. NOT my area of expertise, but very relevant to daemonFC and us.

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Per the discussion about sub-minimum wages for working in academia:

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"Mr. Robbins teaches at several universities around Manhattan. "

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/realestate/nyc-harlem-west-side-apartment.html

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[16:20] <psydruid> https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/academic-publishing-and-the-death

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia

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[16:20] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia

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[16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> Academic Publishing sucks on MANY levels

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[16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it's exploitative

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[16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it was not always like that

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Not just the publishing. It's the wages (not salary) and hours too.

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They're not getting quality work if the dude has to juggle three jobs to get

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by economically.

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Then that just goes to show that the goal is not to provide quality education

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or research but to simply go through the motions and siphon money out through

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charades.

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He's probably working hard but multi-tasking four tasks (three jobs

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plus transportation) does not make for an efficient result.

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There is a lot of overhead for multi-tasking, especially in people, but also

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in computers.

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Then there are the journals themselves which are churning out lots of filler

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in addition to extorative pricing to buy back the work the universities and

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faculty provided them for free.

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after two years as a postdoc I pulled the plug

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actually after 6 months or less

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but then I just worked both my current job and the older job in paralell

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*llel

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did you see the draft

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I fixed something

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checking

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The body of the post ought to mention a little about what is in the open

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letter to support the link rather than relying 100% on the hope that the

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link will get clicked and the PDF handled.

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good suggestion

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I've added a long paragraph and checked it over several times for clatity

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final (3rd) video will cover the WSL BS (without linking)

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ack

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thanks for the irc suggestions on that

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it helps guide what's covered and how

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itsfoss and phoreonix are explained in passing

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in the epo video, i still casually mention the copyright trolling

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Great