IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, October 19, 2022

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you know things are bad when masks are BACK

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btw, today's links start at "Leftovers"

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I wanted to ask to be sure

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not that I have a reason to think anything was omitted

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news was very slow, so I focused on UPC

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phoronux did lots of shitposting: 3 microsoft "stories", today a "story" about 10-work TWEET!

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*word

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checking

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hmm. that's not the right result, yet it's what happens when I re-run the

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merge script. will have to look.

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Ok. It turns out it is correct, or at least nothing above that remains. :/

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Yes news was slow

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slow news can be good to

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it has given me a lot of time to do chores here

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some is visible in git, but most is to do with backup regimes

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I've just done a lot of maintenance on the ipfs instance running here

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we have a morning backup all of all our important working files

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i need to check whether power supply for it (and the router) is visible in case of outages

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btw, rianne and I assume either

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a) the company "left us alone" re smart phones

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b) it was delayed a lot

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c) nobody will have them after our fightback

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I just hope it's not (b)

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I hope it was C

Oct 19 08:04

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(b) is better than (a) and option (c) is the best

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rant: this morning I noticed ipfs had spawned lots of processes

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600 processes ran on the pi in total

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managed to recover without ruining today's backup or rebooting etc.

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ipfs can be a bit of a kludge at times

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but on the server it runs OK now

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not sure how you fixed the cron on the server the last time

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you changed something somewhere in the system level

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the pi is more of a backup of that

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No idea, I do not recall.

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However, I wonder if IPFS has any advantage over plain old BitTorrent?

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Maybe it would be just better to seed the material over BitTorrent instead?

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That'd be more reliable.

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they don't work the same way

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dht is the same, but addressing and storage are different

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ipfs is, "i have these hashes", "pass it on"

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and the swarm keeps track of what is where

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i don't regret investing hundreds of hour of work in ipfs because it is still growing

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like gemini does

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hmmm... reminds me to add recent gemini links to TM

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brb

*schestowitz-TR all for vaccines, still looking for something good, shopping for something demonstrably effective and safe

Oct 19 08:42

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Gulag translate gives me a word salad that is barely reasable

Oct 19 08:48

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and lacks context

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*redable

Oct 19 08:48

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My eyes can comprehend a buncn of English words

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but the message isn't in them

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it's like that reading "for the sake of reading" where the mind is somewhere else compltely

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and so it's just a little better than not reading at all (some people actually read books this wa

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way for a false sense of "progress")

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the clarify in my own writing isn't great, I admit this

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doctorow is a good writer, glyn moody to name ones who cover tech

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but imho translations can be a waste of time unless the material is very very rare

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and there is room for misunderstandings

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we mentioned this in relation to the epo many times

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/me recalls that "users" of EPO are angry right now, they realise the EPO goes "to shit"

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epo vision: HEY HI HEY HI, Google translate, "products", more "business", "high "productivity", intern, SEAL,

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HEY HI, HEY HI,. automation, Microsoft, clown, quality of service, sales, lobbying, UPC NEXT YEAR, PROMISE!

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I am the "fucking president"

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imagine this is EUrope's forfront scientific classificattion org

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where they are MEANT to have the best researchers in their respective fields

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if you see the video of Campinos from yesterday

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it's like watching a kid on his Microsoff Surface

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he keeps hitting the desk

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maybe moving the hands so much is a medditerrean thing

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but either way he is totally unaware of how much noise this is making

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so even in his kmother's tongue he talks like a f*ing rbotos

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saying lies and nonsense

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even zemlin is more qualified than he is

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and that says a loit

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*forefront

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sorry for the rant or the vanting, it just feels like those who progress to positions of powers are least

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qualified and I don't sense this was "always like this"

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as a kid I remember John Major and some really decent politicians

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even if you did not agree with their polocieis

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and now you have Trump wanting Marjorie Taylor to run USDOJ

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f***ing qanon pressing charges on intl scale, imagine that...

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while the US voter drools and blames "immigrants"

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*venting

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we also did not have prime minister uploading dancing videos of them "partying"

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or peers doing that in social control media

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but that's a separate issue

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they had privacy in their private lives

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they danced and parties

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but not for "facebooks" and "tiktoks"

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ack

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As far as the tsunami of illegal migrants there in the US, there seems to have

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been and still be some coordination somehow since the waves (e.g. Haiti) came

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from a diverse and widespread multitude of origin countries but arrived more

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or less at the same time to the same point on the border. That very strongly

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suggests they are being coordinated somehow. Given the situation, one could

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call that weaponization. At the bottom of it all is a problem no politicians

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are allowed to address: massive overpopulation

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when people run out of space or basic resources they expand to places where there is space and spare

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resources

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but yesterday I watched lots of stats (uk, ireland, us) including birthday

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2020 was low, then picked up

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and it takes 9 months (latency)

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so time will tell if people "got the message"

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economically at least

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kids cannot be aborted

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embryos can (for now)

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parenting seems to have become a fashionable "hobby" due to peer pressure, family pressure, and religion

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but sooner or later when people realise about 3 billion women already do this "hobby" they might

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choose something a bit more unique

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like sewing, gardening, running a charity, working in a charity shop, herding cats/dogs

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Not just space but resources are more imporant. Carrying capacity is exceeded

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wildly even in countries with a "low" population density if one measurs only

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people per square kilometer. If one measures by the ability to clothe, house,

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feed, and educate, then few are even remotely sustainable.

https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.overshootday.org | Country Overshoot Days 2022 - Earth Overshoot Day

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/earth-overshoot-day-climate-crisis/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.weforum.org | Action needed as Earth Overshoot Day gets earlier each year | World Economic Forum

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it's not helping that WEF bigwigs typically fly jets (sometimes private) to go on and on, droning

Oct 19 09:18

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about how poor countries are a "burden"

Oct 19 09:18

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later they do "D & I" web pages, like the EPO's "diversity" fluff from the other day

Oct 19 09:18

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Jet travel is the largest or at least one of the largest problems in the

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climate crisis.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/earth-overshoot-day-climate-crisis/

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https://www.bbc.com/news/59135899

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-COP26: What's the climate impact of private jets? - BBC News

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if billBC was to cover bill taking the lolita express

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he would not be criticised for the reason he hitched it

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buf ro acarbon footprint

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headline like, "bill says he will reduce air travel" (a bit)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/02/taylor-swift-kylie-jenner-private-jet-emissions/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | How Taylor Swift, Drake and celebrities with private jets affect the climate - The Washington Post

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exercise bbl

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ack

Oct 19 09:30

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back

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razors and other things that are difficult to find at discounted rates are getting more expensive

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not at typical rates

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so I changed my shaving routine a lot

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we checked the nearby gym, maybe next year if cases rop below 1 in 1000 we can go there cautiously

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not been in a gym "proper" since May 2021

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seems the travel industry is collapsing "again" in spite of the bailouts

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michael west wrote about those things last week and booking.com has many layoffs now

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when we came back to gym summer 2020 about 500 cases/day in uk

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left may 2021 when it rose to thousands

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now it's like one person in 20 or one in 30

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two orders of magnitude higher, maybe three

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observation: jwallen published about half a dozen articles, mostly howtos, yesterday

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after several days of nothing

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so you get a sense of what dates the editors work and the workflow

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for howtos this might be ok because they are timeless at long as applicable to a recent distro/similar

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albeit sometimes the howtos is "how to install [just released version]"

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for emergent news this latency is a real killer

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ack

Oct 19 14:30

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The editors probably work one or, at the most, two days a week.

Oct 19 14:30

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I think two

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they just archive all content and maintain 'skeleton crew' on a budget

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jwallen works for zdnet (techrepublic is becoming a spamfarm this year, you noticed that too,

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you sent me a link; same owner, different domain)

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zdnet will be next to become spamfarm, it already does this habitually, but that is

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a bit more subtle

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they also pay linuxtoday.com to send traffic to the webspam

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probably for gulag search ranks

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this... is today's www

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be sure to read what I said about phoronix in irc

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it's getting ridiculous

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tl;dr 10-word tweets become 'articles' and little patches (like a few lines in charge) become articles

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longger than the code

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those beers he brags about in photos will be needed soon

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i can't blame him much tbh, news is very slow

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i'm still (at this moment) hunting for topics, mostly in vain

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checking

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checking

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atm instead of chewcking covid-19 figures I mostly catch up with x86 and mst layoffs

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seems pretty deep

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which is good

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their whole stack needs to perish

? http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-181022.html#tOct%2018%2020:29:33

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, October 18, 2022

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ah, yes, I don't know enough about this tbh

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larabel is just doing brochure and marketing copypasta

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which has become typical of him

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never challenging what AMD, Intel, and GAFAM are claiming

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it's not as bad as spamnil, but does not have much value

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I could just read the slides or read press release

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without expert opinion on what they hide

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it is about as worthless as those thousands parrots who m

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merely repeat Microsoft saying layoffs affected less than 1000

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*obviously a lie! but how does not get a tally? staw poll? needa whistleblower

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from accounting

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and if anonymous, then they'll shoot the messenger or call it "fake"

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ot attack the publisher

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we used to have more leaks, even direct

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now it's like drawing blood out of a rock

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if you trawl the www (I did too),

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you will find that source is some random "twitter" account

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or someone telling a publisher (BI, I think), I "got fired"

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so they ask Microsoft, Microsoft throws some number at them

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and they they quote that as holy grail truth

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Yet again "twitter" is nothing more that hearsay

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sometimes there is true material in it, but the signal/noise ratio is poor

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it's like putting microphones in a large crowd

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hoping that somone you'll come up with a story*somehow

Oct 19 14:53

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I looked again at phoronix

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he quotes a wall of text and shows slides

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it's very promotional

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and it doesn't seem like he knows what he writes about

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he is guessing like I would

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but I don't claim to know, nor do I cover it

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OCP is Microsoft

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seems like another "extend" in the "open core" (close system) ploy

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or "secure core"

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"risc-v" coopted for good openwashing measure

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you could ask mjg about it, but he'd mostly go on and on with technobabble

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and then say that critics of "secure core" are "transphobes"

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Bill says you're redundant now

Oct 19 14:58

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they fries "secutity" stuff

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amid "freeze"

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because security was all along facade there

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they need more janitors

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to clean up the mess

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and maybe sign some support contracts

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to help with "cyber"

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after many Microsoft machines became zombies

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locked up by ransomware

Oct 19 15:00

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that's what I meant the other day

Oct 19 15:00

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there are many Wintel apologists here in the Netherlands, who are in denial about what's happening even as things are changing in the US

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even going as far as saying the Microsoft environment is more powerful and GNU/Linux is only useful for simple things

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and that's people who used to do Unix and GNU/Linux sysadmin

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they will only move on reluctantly when the foundation they built their career on moved out from under them

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at their own peril

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obviously

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many gnu/linux users are former windows users

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many work in MAGMA/GAFAM now

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but not Microsoft

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generation 1980s: grew up on DOS

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generation 1985: grew up on MS-DOS

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generation: 1990-95: grew up on Windows

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....

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generation 2010: android etc.

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they don't know dos and don't have so much interest in windows

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"gaming" is becoming expensive

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both the hardware and the power bills

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ack

Oct 19 15:14

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[16:11] <techrights-news> LOL. Michael Larabel: Mesa changed 9 lines of code: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/19147/diffs so I wrote 30 lines of text about it and added a screenshot https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-GLThread-KWin-Wayland

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[16:11] [Notice] -TechrightsSocial to #boycottnovell-social- gitlab.freedesktop.org | driconf: 2 workarounds: for a cursor issue with kwin_wayland, and GLSL issues with Cossacks 3 (!19147) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab

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[16:11] [Notice] -TechrightsSocial to #boycottnovell-social- Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now - Phoronix

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gitlab.freedesktop.org | driconf: 2 workarounds: for a cursor issue with kwin_wayland, and GLSL issues with Cossacks 3 (!19147) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now - Phoronix

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being bossed by another publisher with another (future) agenda is a demotion, unless you have nowhere else to wri

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draft

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The text of the draft is only about sentence and a half. It's not clear from

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the text, what the topic is or what the message is.

Oct 19 17:16

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the EPO would write to the publisher to stop the articles

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re draft, I know too little

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not because I am thick

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but because no journalist exist to explain

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it's phoronix and a press release

Oct 19 17:18

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phoronix=microsoft marketing material

Oct 19 17:18

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I checked phoronix comments

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all of them

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they didn't shed light either

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very shallow

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microbell did not even bother pointing out that OCP=Microsoft

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common knowledge

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going to do a video with my hunch now

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OTA

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I checked phoronix comments

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all of them

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they didn't shed light either

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very shallow

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microbell did not even bother pointing out that OCP=Microsoft

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common knowledge

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going to do a video with my hunch now

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OTA

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4+ mins

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40+

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covers "supply chain" and other BS too