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Techrights-secThe script export-stats.sh is failing to merge these two URLs:Nov 18 07:27
Techrights-sec    Requests    PageNov 18 07:27
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Techrights-secI can debug it but the account would need temporary membership in the group adm.Nov 18 07:27
Techrights-secOr a copy of /var/log/syslog.1 somewhere.Nov 18 07:27
schestowitz-TRsee your homedir for a copy of the logNov 18 07:35
Techrights-secdead link : https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-looking-back-project-athena ...    wrong paste Nov 18 07:35
Techrights-secdead link: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/features/SCO-vs-Linux-mixed-reactions-to-Novell-Unix-copyright-verdict--/11Nov 18 07:35
Techrights-sec0819Nov 18 07:35
-altlink_623/#boycottnovell-📣 Cloudflare: mit.edu | 🙆 Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-looking-back-project-athenaNov 18 07:35
Techrights-secHeise Online seems to have been dturned off quietlyNov 18 07:35
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-looking-back-project-athena )Nov 18 07:35
Techrights-secThe rot is intentional. In the old days the old articles were kept by librariesNov 18 07:35
Techrights-secand archives...Nov 18 07:35
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.heise.de | heise online - IT-News, Nachrichten und HintergründeNov 18 07:35
schestowitz-TRI knew it was a broken link, and this was part of the point, showing history rots away2~Nov 18 07:35
Techrights-secackNov 18 07:40
Techrights-secgot the log, will look shortlyNov 18 07:40
schestowitz-TROT but still noteworthy: at the moment there is still no plan to go back to the gym, and in fact I'm not even sure when I'll bother flying seeing all the EXTRA hassle it now entailsNov 18 07:41
schestowitz-TRgood for techrights, maybe less for my health, but I still exercise at home Nov 18 07:42
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Techrights-secMovement every hour is important, not just standing.  Standing and suchNov 18 07:58
Techrights-secmust be done more frequently.  Nov 18 07:58
schestowitz-TRgoing to get a cup of choc/tea/coffee/lemon water, sometimes a little stretching while waiting for water to boilNov 18 07:58
Techrights-secyepNov 18 07:59
Techrights-sechttps://www.golem.de/news/verschluesselung-bsi-verschickt-privaten-pgp-schluessel-2111-161073.htmlNov 18 08:13
Techrights-secLUT is infected with Vista10Nov 18 08:13
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.golem.de | Golem.de: IT-News für ProfisNov 18 08:13
schestowitz-TRsometimes I think or mostly 'feel' -- and it's not based on actual evidence -- that interests high up in states, military and high society would do as little as is necessary to keep adoption of free systems at bay, or limited only to infra where security actually serves them, not usNov 18 08:15
Techrights-secyes, I would say that has been the case since the mid 1990s.  Nov 18 08:16
schestowitz-TRmany parallels wrt antiwar movementNov 18 08:16
Techrights-sec They want all    Nov 18 08:17
Techrights-secsystems to be insecure so they can /easily/ go in and out of them, yet complainNov 18 08:17
Techrights-secthat others do the same.Nov 18 08:17
Techrights-secYes, anti war groups are also often infiltrated and undermined.Nov 18 08:17
schestowitz-TRwe need to outwit them. They have a go at Pocock again.Nov 18 08:17
Techrights-secDebian has been thoroughly compromised.  Shuttleworth unintentionally   Nov 18 08:20
Techrights-secweakened it by drawing of a lot of talent for Ubuntu.  Many projectsNov 18 08:20
Techrights-secdepend on Debian so hurting it has a high return on investment.  UnfortunatelyNov 18 08:20
Techrights-secsince Canonical is a private company, it was much easier to infiltrate andNov 18 08:20
Techrights-secsubvert.  The spinmeister, Bacon, was part of that.  Pocock is attacked Nov 18 08:20
Techrights-secbecause he is not part of the subversion.Nov 18 08:20
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Techrights-secHowever, M$ has been undermining the schools at university level for a long timeNov 18 08:22
Techrights-secIt weeds out anyone with potential to lead because M$ products produce sheep.Nov 18 08:22
Techrights-secAnd illogical thought.  One cannot survive in an M$ environment withoutNov 18 08:25
Techrights-secsome kind of dysfunctional flow of thought.  So those that are capable get Nov 18 08:25
Techrights-secweeded out, mostly.  Those capable that remain get damaged.  The rest wereNov 18 08:25
Techrights-secnever any good to begin with but are then "certified" and "accredited" to Nov 18 08:25
Techrights-secserve in bootstrapping a community of fraud.  See all the M$ "experts" adNov 18 08:25
Techrights-secand "security" consultants as examples of that fraud.  However there are startingNov 18 08:25
Techrights-secto be enough that they boost each other.  Nov 18 08:25
schestowitz-TRwe need to coordinate the response to these issues, as I think we have something many sites and groups lack,including some inside connections in specific institutionsNov 18 08:26
schestowitz-TRapropos, mainstream dutch media is having a go at EPO again (issues were covered before), but this isn't in English, so we may have to waitNov 18 08:28
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Techrights-secDutch is not too difficult if one can read German.  Though obviously Nov 18 08:49
Techrights-secnueances will be lost.  It is good that they have noticed the EPO.  I hopeNov 18 08:49
Techrights-secthat German sites notice too since that is close to home.  Nov 18 08:49
schestowitz-TRif they turn a blind eye for financial reasons, then they give us a 'monopoly' over accurate informationNov 18 08:50
Techrights-secWould a German translation of TR be either feasible or desireable for that?Nov 18 08:53
schestowitz-TRno, it would not matterNov 18 08:56
psydruidwhere is the EPO mentioned in Dutch news?Nov 18 09:30
schestowitzpsydruid: televisionNov 18 09:33
schestowitzI did not see the programNov 18 09:33
psydruidNieuwslicht?Nov 18 09:33
schestowitzcannot rememberNov 18 09:33
schestowitzNieu something...Nov 18 09:34
psydruidNieuwsuurNov 18 09:34
psydruidNews hourNov 18 09:34
schestowitzhttps://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2021/20211109.htmlNov 18 09:36
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.epo.org | EPO - RTL Nieuws programmeNov 18 09:36
schestowitzoh, RTLNov 18 09:36
schestowitzlux I guesssNov 18 09:36
psydruidhttps://www.rtlxl.nl/programma/rtl-nieuws/b377e36e-a17c-4a4a-b7cd-624214ab5082Nov 18 09:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.rtlxl.nl | RTL XL - RTL Nieuws • RTL Nieuws - 19:30 uurNov 18 09:44
psydruidI would have to log in or somethingNov 18 09:44
schestowitzis that the one?Nov 18 10:14
schestowitz"Dagelijks het laatste nieuws uit binnen- en buitenland. Voor nog meer nieuws kunt u ook gebruikmaken van onze mobiele apps."Nov 18 10:14
schestowitzI asked aroundNov 18 10:14
schestowitzand am waiting for people who can say moreNov 18 10:14
schestowitzthe EPO is good at censoring critical press coverageNov 18 10:14
psydruidevening broadcast from the 8th of NovemberNov 18 10:20
psydruidit could have been mentioned in the earlier bulletins tooNov 18 10:20
psydruidit must have been a really short item because I can't find it skipping through the broadcast minute by minuteNov 18 10:46
schestowitzmaybe I can find it somehowNov 18 11:13
schestowitzif someone saved itNov 18 11:13
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schestowitzpsydruid: aproposNov 18 12:05
schestowitzfrom Daily Links:Nov 18 12:05
schestowitz"This year Denmark has been pipped to the post by the Netherlands in first place and Austria in second."Nov 18 12:05
schestowitzhttps://cphpost.dk/?p=129527Nov 18 12:05
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cphpost.dk | Danes the third best non-Anglophone speakers of English in the world - The PostNov 18 12:05
psydruidDutch is literally somewhere in between English and German and we generally learn both language in schoolNov 18 12:08
psydruidthis list also makes clear that there is a cultural difference between Austria and Germany, even though they have the same official languageNov 18 12:12
psydruidand Portugal is the only country with an official Romance language in the top 10Nov 18 12:13
psydruidmaybe because it is small and dependent on trade like the Netherlands isNov 18 12:13
schestowitzI seeNov 18 12:16
schestowitzDutch have American accent typicallyNov 18 12:16
schestowitzunlike GermansNov 18 12:16
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psydruidI was told by my managers that they couldn't really hear where I'm from, because I sound pretty neutral in whatever language I speakNov 18 12:28
psydruidI think we just get exposed more to English in daily life, just like people in Nordic countriesNov 18 12:29
schestowitzin larger countries you get a lot of stuff domesticallyNov 18 12:32
schestowitzso lesser need to communicate with outsiders?Nov 18 12:32
psydruidI think soNov 18 12:39
psydruidI think foreign language education is one of the best parts of education in this countryNov 18 12:44
psydruidhttps://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/voortgezet-onderwijs/vraag-en-antwoord/vreemde-talen-onderbouw-voortgezet-onderwijsNov 18 12:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.rijksoverheid.nl | Welke vreemde talen krijg ik in de onderbouw van het voortgezet onderwijs? | Rijksoverheid.nlNov 18 12:44
psydruidyou get taught English, French and German and there is nowadays also a choice to replace one of the latter two with Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish or ChineseNov 18 12:45
psydruidand this is only secondary education, so pre-universityNov 18 12:46
psydruidand Latin and Ancient Greek in what they call gymnasium here, something like grammar schoolNov 18 12:48
Techrights-secI am quite sure that the main reason for the existence of Vista11 is to Nov 18 13:04
Techrights-secpush TPM chips into all consumer notebooks and desktops.  That will Nov 18 13:04
Techrights-secthen get daisychained to UEFI in Vista12.Nov 18 13:04
Techrights-secAlso, I've asked around here a little and there has been zero coverageNov 18 13:04
Techrights-secof "chat control" or any other policy level changes.Nov 18 13:04
schestowitzpsydruid: interesting..Nov 18 13:05
schestowitzTechrights-sec: so a bit like EPO scandals. The unspeakable. On the UPSIDE, I see lots of mentions of vaccine patents being an issue now, in sites I follow anywayNov 18 13:06
psydruidquite a few people are also quite aware of what is happening and threatening to leave for GNU/Linux or actually leavingNov 18 13:08
psydruidthat was also apparent in the post on Thurott's site that DaemonFC linked toNov 18 13:09
schestowitzyes, I saw thatNov 18 13:10
schestowitzUEFI 'secure' boot will give them a harder timeNov 18 13:10
schestowitzand i think that only Microsoft wants to discourage thisNov 18 13:10
schestowitzall those 'antivirus' companies, NSA, DoD at large...Nov 18 13:11
schestowitzbut I cannot "prove" it..Nov 18 13:11
schestowitzmaybe common senseNov 18 13:11
psydruidyesNov 18 13:22
psydruidI've just got Doom running on my Orange PiNov 18 13:22
psydruidafter installing some collection on WINE on another laptop and transferring that to the Orange Pi's SSDNov 18 13:23
psydruidMicrosoft (and Intel) are going to be experiencing a death by a thousand cutsNov 18 13:24
psydruidMicrosoft isn't going to survive the transition to ARM and RISC-VNov 18 13:24
psydruidand the little market share it will still have is going to be eroded the same way it is on x86Nov 18 13:24
psydruidit's just another branch of the battle to bring games to Linux + OpenGL/VulkanNov 18 13:25
psydruidbut gaming is often the only reason why people still run Vista at homeNov 18 13:25
schestowitzi will record a video re thisNov 18 13:29
schestowitzafter workoutNov 18 13:29
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psydruidDoom 2 doesn't run because OpenGL 3.0 isn't supported, but that's a relatively minor issueNov 18 13:47
schestowitzdone :-)Nov 18 13:56
schestowitzI used external camNov 18 13:56
schestowitzpsydruid: you can fall back onto opengl2.xNov 18 13:56
schestowitzusually 2.1Nov 18 13:57
psydruidI think Gzdoom has a hard requirement on OpenGL 3.0Nov 18 14:02
psydruidand Lzdoom doesn't workNov 18 14:02
psydruidbut I can play Doom 1 at leastNov 18 14:03
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Techrights-secblog.torproject.org is not using valid HTMLNov 18 15:56
schestowitz-TRprobably maintained by some mac users with the latest iphoneNov 18 15:57
schestowitz-TRsipping latte somewhere in Bay AreaNov 18 15:57
Techrights-secrss-since-scraper.pl needed tweaking to compensate for their broken pageNov 18 16:00
Techrights-secpushed to GitNov 18 16:01
schestowitz-TRcan do tor relays, cannot do www. Sounds like an issue...Nov 18 16:01
Techrights-secThere's been turnover in staffNov 18 16:02
Techrights-secI have not had time to catch up with this, which is 2 hours:Nov 18 16:02
Techrights-sechttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNhIjtXuVzk&t=115sNov 18 16:02
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | State of the Onion 2021 - YouTubeNov 18 16:02
schestowitz-TRhave  they yet 'modernised' by moving to shithub like letsencrypt (LF ) did, both for the web site and back end code?Nov 18 16:03
Techrights-sechttps://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.torproject.org%2Fnew-release-tor-browser-1101%2FNov 18 16:04
-altlink_89f/#boycottnovell-📣 Cloudflare: w3.org | 🙆 Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.torproject.org%2Fnew-release-tor-browser-1101%2FNov 18 16:04
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-validator.w3.org | Showing results for https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1101/ - Nu Html CheckerNov 18 16:04
schestowitz-TRmaybe US Navy did not like Tor being leveraged by Wikileaks and "other criminals", so something needed to be done to 'reform' this projectNov 18 16:04
Techrights-secMore compliant and less competant Nov 18 16:05
schestowitz-TRless revolutionary... except in "rogue countries"... the ones that need to be undermine. All in the name of "protecting minorities" or something..Nov 18 16:06
schestowitz-TR*underminedNov 18 16:06
Techrights-secMore compliant and less competant informants / moles?Nov 18 16:07
Techrights-sec"Helping" the project to death.Nov 18 16:07
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Techrights-secCoCNov 18 17:20
schestowitz-TRWHO leeeet the CoC out?Nov 18 17:20
Techrights-secCoC'onutsNov 18 17:22
schestowitz-TRI was going to say something about Tor, which I forgot, but they laid off tons of staff and it may help to know who's who among those sacked and those who are left. The Heads distro (no systemd) has not had releases in yearsNov 18 17:23
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Techrights-secI noticed that Heads was already defunctNov 18 17:46
schestowitz-TRI wondered if the main demoralising force was lack of users, hardship removing systemd, or lack of faith in Tor ProjectNov 18 17:47
Techrights-secWell there are nasty, dishonest whisper campaigns against it in many countries.Nov 18 17:55
Techrights-secTV, Radio, and various "IT" consultants parrot the false assertion that Nov 18 17:55
Techrights-secit is only "darknet" and that is therefore only illegal and has no legal letNov 18 17:55
Techrights-secalone legitimate uses.  The Tor Project does have outreach but it's hardNov 18 17:55
Techrights-secto push effectively against the volume of microsofters.Nov 18 17:55
schestowitz-TRI have not used tor since 2013 or 2014Nov 18 17:56
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Techrights-secIt is recommended to use it periodically anyway so that those that actually nedNov 18 18:31
Techrights-secit have a little noise to shelter in.  The network apparently has a lot of Nov 18 18:31
Techrights-seccapacity these days.  Many of the US sites which block the EU and UK are Nov 18 18:31
Techrights-secstill availabe via Tor, though not all.  Nov 18 18:31
Techrights-sec$ sudo apt install torbrowser-launcherNov 18 18:31
Techrights-sec$ torbrowser-launcherNov 18 18:31
Techrights-secIt's also good to have a browser which is not Chromium based.Nov 18 18:35
schestowitz-TRfor the time being rianne and I use librewolf, but I use falkon the mostNov 18 18:36
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schestowitz-TRhttps://nitter.eu/WukinaJ/status/1461410815517544451#mNov 18 20:10
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.eu | Liščí bůh 🦊🐏č.8 (@WukinaJ): "Zabezpečení: Straight Line Spekulace, TPM, Drupal a další | Tuxové stroje http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/158104" | nitterNov 18 20:10
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