●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 ●● ● Oct 19 [00:33] *starstreak has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:42] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:43] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@tx253scgdu2uq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [01:01] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [04:51] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [04:51] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [04:58] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@22agg6qj8dxhg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [04:58] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [06:04] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:14] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:19] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@9t4cunvjaq94e.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:21] *wallacer has quit (connection closed) [06:22] *wallacer (~quassel@6bsu33ajs4zs4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [07:04] schestowitz-TR gm [07:04] schestowitz-TR you know things are bad when masks are BACK [07:04] schestowitz-TR btw, today's links start at "Leftovers" [07:04] schestowitz-TR I wanted to ask to be sure [07:04] schestowitz-TR not that I have a reason to think anything was omitted [07:04] schestowitz-TR news was very slow, so I focused on UPC [07:04] schestowitz-TR phoronux did lots of shitposting: 3 microsoft "stories", today a "story" about 10-work TWEET! [07:04] schestowitz-TR *word [07:11] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:12] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@22agg6qj8dxhg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [07:12] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Connection closed) [07:14] techrights-sec gm [07:14] techrights-sec checking [07:14] techrights-sec hmm. that's not the right result, yet it's what happens when I re-run the [07:14] techrights-sec merge script. will have to look. [07:14] techrights-sec Ok. It turns out it is correct, or at least nothing above that remains. :/ [07:14] techrights-sec Yes news was slow ● Oct 19 [08:02] schestowitz-TR slow news can be good to [08:02] schestowitz-TR it has given me a lot of time to do chores here [08:02] schestowitz-TR some is visible in git, but most is to do with backup regimes [08:02] schestowitz-TR I've just done a lot of maintenance on the ipfs instance running here [08:02] schestowitz-TR we have a morning backup all of all our important working files [08:03] schestowitz-TR i need to check whether power supply for it (and the router) is visible in case of outages [08:03] schestowitz-TR btw, rianne and I assume either [08:03] schestowitz-TR a) the company "left us alone" re smart phones [08:03] schestowitz-TR b) it was delayed a lot [08:03] schestowitz-TR c) nobody will have them after our fightback [08:03] schestowitz-TR I just hope it's not (b) [08:04] techrights-sec I hope it was C [08:21] techrights-sec (b) is better than (a) and option (c) is the best [08:22] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [08:24] schestowitz-TR rant: this morning I noticed ipfs had spawned lots of processes [08:24] schestowitz-TR 600 processes ran on the pi in total [08:24] schestowitz-TR managed to recover without ruining today's backup or rebooting etc. [08:24] schestowitz-TR ipfs can be a bit of a kludge at times [08:24] schestowitz-TR but on the server it runs OK now [08:24] schestowitz-TR not sure how you fixed the cron on the server the last time [08:24] schestowitz-TR you changed something somewhere in the system level [08:24] schestowitz-TR the pi is more of a backup of that [08:25] techrights-sec No idea, I do not recall. [08:25] techrights-sec However, I wonder if IPFS has any advantage over plain old BitTorrent? [08:25] techrights-sec Maybe it would be just better to seed the material over BitTorrent instead? [08:25] techrights-sec That'd be more reliable. [08:29] schestowitz-TR they don't work the same way [08:29] schestowitz-TR dht is the same, but addressing and storage are different [08:29] schestowitz-TR ipfs is, "i have these hashes", "pass it on" [08:29] schestowitz-TR and the swarm keeps track of what is where [08:29] schestowitz-TR i don't regret investing hundreds of hour of work in ipfs because it is still growing [08:29] schestowitz-TR like gemini does [08:29] schestowitz-TR hmmm... reminds me to add recent gemini links to TM [08:29] schestowitz-TR brb [08:42] *schestowitz-TR all for vaccines, still looking for something good, shopping for something demonstrably effective and safe [08:48] schestowitz-TR Gulag translate gives me a word salad that is barely reasable [08:48] schestowitz-TR and lacks context [08:48] schestowitz-TR *redable [08:52] schestowitz-TR My eyes can comprehend a buncn of English words [08:52] schestowitz-TR but the message isn't in them [08:52] schestowitz-TR it's like that reading "for the sake of reading" where the mind is somewhere else compltely [08:52] schestowitz-TR and so it's just a little better than not reading at all (some people actually read books this wa [08:52] schestowitz-TR way for a false sense of "progress") [08:52] schestowitz-TR the clarify in my own writing isn't great, I admit this [08:52] schestowitz-TR doctorow is a good writer, glyn moody to name ones who cover tech [08:52] schestowitz-TR but imho translations can be a waste of time unless the material is very very rare [08:52] schestowitz-TR and there is room for misunderstandings [08:52] schestowitz-TR we mentioned this in relation to the epo many times [08:52] schestowitz-TR /me recalls that "users" of EPO are angry right now, they realise the EPO goes "to shit" [08:57] schestowitz-TR --- [08:57] schestowitz-TR epo vision: HEY HI HEY HI, Google translate, "products", more "business", "high "productivity", intern, SEAL, [08:57] schestowitz-TR HEY HI, HEY HI,. automation, Microsoft, clown, quality of service, sales, lobbying, UPC NEXT YEAR, PROMISE! [08:57] schestowitz-TR I am the "fucking president" [08:57] schestowitz-TR imagine this is EUrope's forfront scientific classificattion org [08:57] schestowitz-TR where they are MEANT to have the best researchers in their respective fields [08:57] schestowitz-TR if you see the video of Campinos from yesterday [08:57] schestowitz-TR it's like watching a kid on his Microsoff Surface [08:57] schestowitz-TR he keeps hitting the desk [08:57] schestowitz-TR maybe moving the hands so much is a medditerrean thing [08:57] schestowitz-TR but either way he is totally unaware of how much noise this is making [08:57] schestowitz-TR so even in his kmother's tongue he talks like a f*ing rbotos [08:57] schestowitz-TR saying lies and nonsense [08:57] schestowitz-TR even zemlin is more qualified than he is [08:57] schestowitz-TR and that says a loit [08:57] schestowitz-TR *forefront [08:59] schestowitz-TR sorry for the rant or the vanting, it just feels like those who progress to positions of powers are least [08:59] schestowitz-TR qualified and I don't sense this was "always like this" [08:59] schestowitz-TR as a kid I remember John Major and some really decent politicians [08:59] schestowitz-TR even if you did not agree with their polocieis [08:59] schestowitz-TR and now you have Trump wanting Marjorie Taylor to run USDOJ [08:59] schestowitz-TR f***ing qanon pressing charges on intl scale, imagine that... [08:59] schestowitz-TR while the US voter drools and blames "immigrants" [08:59] schestowitz-TR *venting ● Oct 19 [09:04] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:07] *starstreak has quit (Quit: Leaving) [09:07] schestowitz-TR we also did not have prime minister uploading dancing videos of them "partying" [09:07] schestowitz-TR or peers doing that in social control media [09:07] schestowitz-TR but that's a separate issue [09:07] schestowitz-TR they had privacy in their private lives [09:07] schestowitz-TR they danced and parties [09:07] schestowitz-TR but not for "facebooks" and "tiktoks" [09:10] techrights-sec ack [09:10] techrights-sec As far as the tsunami of illegal migrants there in the US, there seems to have [09:10] techrights-sec been and still be some coordination somehow since the waves (e.g. Haiti) came [09:10] techrights-sec from a diverse and widespread multitude of origin countries but arrived more [09:10] techrights-sec or less at the same time to the same point on the border. That very strongly [09:10] techrights-sec suggests they are being coordinated somehow. Given the situation, one could [09:10] techrights-sec call that weaponization. At the bottom of it all is a problem no politicians [09:10] techrights-sec are allowed to address: massive overpopulation [09:12] schestowitz-TR when people run out of space or basic resources they expand to places where there is space and spare [09:12] schestowitz-TR resources [09:12] schestowitz-TR but yesterday I watched lots of stats (uk, ireland, us) including birthday [09:12] schestowitz-TR 2020 was low, then picked up [09:12] schestowitz-TR and it takes 9 months (latency) [09:12] schestowitz-TR so time will tell if people "got the message" [09:12] schestowitz-TR economically at least [09:12] schestowitz-TR kids cannot be aborted [09:12] schestowitz-TR embryos can (for now) [09:14] schestowitz-TR parenting seems to have become a fashionable "hobby" due to peer pressure, family pressure, and religion [09:14] schestowitz-TR but sooner or later when people realise about 3 billion women already do this "hobby" they might [09:14] schestowitz-TR choose something a bit more unique [09:14] schestowitz-TR like sewing, gardening, running a charity, working in a charity shop, herding cats/dogs [09:16] techrights-sec Not just space but resources are more imporant. Carrying capacity is exceeded [09:16] techrights-sec wildly even in countries with a "low" population density if one measurs only [09:16] techrights-sec people per square kilometer. If one measures by the ability to clothe, house, [09:16] techrights-sec feed, and educate, then few are even remotely sustainable. [09:16] techrights-sec https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/ [09:16] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.overshootday.org | Country Overshoot Days 2022 - Earth Overshoot Day [09:16] techrights-sec https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/earth-overshoot-day-climate-crisis/ [09:16] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.weforum.org | Action needed as Earth Overshoot Day gets earlier each year | World Economic Forum [09:18] schestowitz-TR it's not helping that WEF bigwigs typically fly jets (sometimes private) to go on and on, droning [09:18] schestowitz-TR about how poor countries are a "burden" [09:18] schestowitz-TR later they do "D & I" web pages, like the EPO's "diversity" fluff from the other day [09:26] techrights-sec Jet travel is the largest or at least one of the largest problems in the [09:26] techrights-sec climate crisis. [09:26] techrights-sec https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/08/earth-overshoot-day-climate-crisis/ [09:26] techrights-sec https://www.bbc.com/news/59135899 [09:26] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-COP26: What's the climate impact of private jets? - BBC News [09:28] schestowitz-TR if billBC was to cover bill taking the lolita express [09:28] schestowitz-TR he would not be criticised for the reason he hitched it [09:28] schestowitz-TR buf ro acarbon footprint [09:28] schestowitz-TR headline like, "bill says he will reduce air travel" (a bit) [09:28] techrights-sec https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/02/taylor-swift-kylie-jenner-private-jet-emissions/ [09:28] techrights-sec ack [09:28] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | How Taylor Swift, Drake and celebrities with private jets affect the climate - The Washington Post [09:28] schestowitz-TR exercise bbl [09:30] techrights-sec ack ● Oct 19 [10:30] schestowitz-TR back [10:30] schestowitz-TR razors and other things that are difficult to find at discounted rates are getting more expensive [10:30] schestowitz-TR not at typical rates [10:30] schestowitz-TR so I changed my shaving routine a lot [10:30] schestowitz-TR we checked the nearby gym, maybe next year if cases rop below 1 in 1000 we can go there cautiously [10:30] schestowitz-TR not been in a gym "proper" since May 2021 [10:30] schestowitz-TR seems the travel industry is collapsing "again" in spite of the bailouts [10:30] schestowitz-TR michael west wrote about those things last week and booking.com has many layoffs now [10:30] schestowitz-TR when we came back to gym summer 2020 about 500 cases/day in uk [10:30] schestowitz-TR left may 2021 when it rose to thousands [10:30] schestowitz-TR now it's like one person in 20 or one in 30 [10:30] schestowitz-TR two orders of magnitude higher, maybe three ● Oct 19 [12:25] schestowitz-TR observation: jwallen published about half a dozen articles, mostly howtos, yesterday [12:25] schestowitz-TR after several days of nothing [12:25] schestowitz-TR so you get a sense of what dates the editors work and the workflow [12:25] schestowitz-TR for howtos this might be ok because they are timeless at long as applicable to a recent distro/similar [12:25] schestowitz-TR albeit sometimes the howtos is "how to install [just released version]" [12:25] schestowitz-TR for emergent news this latency is a real killer ● Oct 19 [14:30] techrights-sec ack [14:30] techrights-sec The editors probably work one or, at the most, two days a week. [14:32] schestowitz-TR I think two [14:32] schestowitz-TR they just archive all content and maintain 'skeleton crew' on a budget [14:32] schestowitz-TR jwallen works for zdnet (techrepublic is becoming a spamfarm this year, you noticed that too, [14:32] schestowitz-TR you sent me a link; same owner, different domain) [14:32] schestowitz-TR zdnet will be next to become spamfarm, it already does this habitually, but that is [14:32] schestowitz-TR a bit more subtle [14:32] schestowitz-TR they also pay linuxtoday.com to send traffic to the webspam [14:32] schestowitz-TR probably for gulag search ranks [14:32] schestowitz-TR this... is today's www [14:34] schestowitz-TR be sure to read what I said about phoronix in irc [14:34] schestowitz-TR it's getting ridiculous [14:34] schestowitz-TR tl;dr 10-word tweets become 'articles' and little patches (like a few lines in charge) become articles [14:34] schestowitz-TR longger than the code [14:34] schestowitz-TR those beers he brags about in photos will be needed soon [14:34] schestowitz-TR i can't blame him much tbh, news is very slow [14:34] schestowitz-TR i'm still (at this moment) hunting for topics, mostly in vain [14:43] techrights-sec checking [14:43] techrights-sec checking [14:44] schestowitz-TR atm instead of chewcking covid-19 figures I mostly catch up with x86 and mst layoffs [14:44] schestowitz-TR seems pretty deep [14:44] schestowitz-TR which is good [14:44] schestowitz-TR their whole stack needs to perish [14:44] techrights-sec ? http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-181022.html#tOct%2018%2020:29:33 [14:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 [14:49] schestowitz-TR ah, yes, I don't know enough about this tbh [14:49] schestowitz-TR larabel is just doing brochure and marketing copypasta [14:49] schestowitz-TR which has become typical of him [14:49] schestowitz-TR never challenging what AMD, Intel, and GAFAM are claiming [14:49] schestowitz-TR it's not as bad as spamnil, but does not have much value [14:49] schestowitz-TR I could just read the slides or read press release [14:49] schestowitz-TR without expert opinion on what they hide [14:49] schestowitz-TR it is about as worthless as those thousands parrots who m [14:49] schestowitz-TR merely repeat Microsoft saying layoffs affected less than 1000 [14:49] schestowitz-TR *obviously a lie! but how does not get a tally? staw poll? needa whistleblower [14:49] schestowitz-TR from accounting [14:49] schestowitz-TR and if anonymous, then they'll shoot the messenger or call it "fake" [14:49] schestowitz-TR ot attack the publisher [14:49] schestowitz-TR we used to have more leaks, even direct [14:49] schestowitz-TR now it's like drawing blood out of a rock [14:51] schestowitz-TR if you trawl the www (I did too), [14:51] schestowitz-TR you will find that source is some random "twitter" account [14:51] schestowitz-TR or someone telling a publisher (BI, I think), I "got fired" [14:51] schestowitz-TR so they ask Microsoft, Microsoft throws some number at them [14:51] schestowitz-TR and they they quote that as holy grail truth [14:51] techrights-sec Yet again "twitter" is nothing more that hearsay [14:53] schestowitz-TR sometimes there is true material in it, but the signal/noise ratio is poor [14:53] schestowitz-TR it's like putting microphones in a large crowd [14:53] schestowitz-TR hoping that somone you'll come up with a story*somehow [14:56] schestowitz-TR I looked again at phoronix [14:56] schestowitz-TR he quotes a wall of text and shows slides [14:56] schestowitz-TR it's very promotional [14:56] schestowitz-TR and it doesn't seem like he knows what he writes about [14:56] schestowitz-TR he is guessing like I would [14:56] schestowitz-TR but I don't claim to know, nor do I cover it [14:56] schestowitz-TR OCP is Microsoft [14:56] schestowitz-TR seems like another "extend" in the "open core" (close system) ploy [14:56] schestowitz-TR or "secure core" [14:56] schestowitz-TR "risc-v" coopted for good openwashing measure [14:56] schestowitz-TR you could ask mjg about it, but he'd mostly go on and on with technobabble [14:56] schestowitz-TR and then say that critics of "secure core" are "transphobes" [14:58] psydruid Bill says you're redundant now [14:59] schestowitz-TR they fries "secutity" stuff [14:59] schestowitz-TR amid "freeze" [14:59] schestowitz-TR because security was all along facade there [14:59] schestowitz-TR they need more janitors [14:59] schestowitz-TR to clean up the mess [14:59] schestowitz-TR and maybe sign some support contracts [14:59] schestowitz-TR to help with "cyber" [14:59] schestowitz-TR after many Microsoft machines became zombies ● Oct 19 [15:00] schestowitz-TR locked up by ransomware [15:00] psydruid that's what I meant the other day [15:01] psydruid 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 [15:02] psydruid even going as far as saying the Microsoft environment is more powerful and GNU/Linux is only useful for simple things [15:03] psydruid and that's people who used to do Unix and GNU/Linux sysadmin [15:04] psydruid they will only move on reluctantly when the foundation they built their career on moved out from under them [15:07] schestowitz-TR at their own peril [15:07] schestowitz-TR obviously [15:08] schestowitz-TR many gnu/linux users are former windows users [15:08] schestowitz-TR many work in MAGMA/GAFAM now [15:08] schestowitz-TR but not Microsoft [15:12] schestowitz-TR generation 1980s: grew up on DOS [15:12] schestowitz-TR generation 1985: grew up on MS-DOS [15:12] schestowitz-TR generation: 1990-95: grew up on Windows [15:13] schestowitz-TR .... [15:13] schestowitz-TR generation 2010: android etc. [15:13] schestowitz-TR they don't know dos and don't have so much interest in windows [15:13] schestowitz-TR "gaming" is becoming expensive [15:14] schestowitz-TR both the hardware and the power bills [15:14] techrights-sec ack ● Oct 19 [16:11] schestowitz-TR [16:11] 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 [16:11] schestowitz-TR [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 [16:11] schestowitz-TR [16:11] [Notice] -TechrightsSocial to #boycottnovell-social- Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now - Phoronix [16:11] -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 [16:11] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Mesa OpenGL Threading Messed Up Cursor Handling With KDE Wayland - Fixed Now - Phoronix [16:59] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [17:05] schestowitz-TR being bossed by another publisher with another (future) agenda is a demotion, unless you have nowhere else to wri [17:05] schestowitz-TR te [17:05] schestowitz-TR draft [17:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [17:16] techrights-sec checking [17:16] techrights-sec The text of the draft is only about sentence and a half. It's not clear from [17:16] techrights-sec the text, what the topic is or what the message is. [17:17] schestowitz-TR the EPO would write to the publisher to stop the articles [17:17] schestowitz-TR re draft, I know too little [17:17] schestowitz-TR not because I am thick [17:17] schestowitz-TR but because no journalist exist to explain [17:18] schestowitz-TR it's phoronix and a press release [17:18] schestowitz-TR phoronix=microsoft marketing material [17:31] schestowitz-TR I checked phoronix comments [17:31] schestowitz-TR all of them [17:31] schestowitz-TR they didn't shed light either [17:31] schestowitz-TR very shallow [17:31] schestowitz-TR microbell did not even bother pointing out that OCP=Microsoft [17:31] schestowitz-TR common knowledge [17:31] schestowitz-TR going to do a video with my hunch now [17:31] schestowitz-TR OTA ● Oct 19 [18:11] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:15] *parsifal (~parsifal@8vte7vm6885eu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:34] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@h635kpe3hju7k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:43] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [18:45] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:45] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:46] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@h635kpe3hju7k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [20:42] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@yt7zxu45ne39a.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 19 [21:12] schestowitz-TR I checked phoronix comments [21:12] schestowitz-TR all of them [21:12] schestowitz-TR they didn't shed light either [21:12] schestowitz-TR very shallow [21:12] schestowitz-TR microbell did not even bother pointing out that OCP=Microsoft [21:12] schestowitz-TR common knowledge [21:12] schestowitz-TR going to do a video with my hunch now [21:12] schestowitz-TR OTA [21:12] schestowitz-TR 4+ mins [21:12] schestowitz-TR 40+ [21:12] schestowitz-TR covers "supply chain" and other BS too [21:45] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) ● Oct 19 [22:32] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Oct 19 [23:51] schestowitz-TR New Video: Neonatal Deaths on the Rise https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/19/neonatal-deaths-on-the-rise/ [23:51] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive New Video: Neonatal Deaths on the Rise