●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, March 21, 2026 ●● ● Mar 21 [01:30] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [01:36] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-j1v.9lt.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 21 [08:06] *enyc_ (~enyc@user/enyc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:10] *enyc has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [08:25] *enyc_ is now known as enoc [08:25] *enoc is now known as enyc ● Mar 21 [15:16] *croissant has quit (Quit: Leaving) [15:25] *croissant (~croissant@hnu3xhj2e9i5n.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/17/Vibe_forking_and_Why_It_ll_Ultimately_Fail_Hype_on_Top_of_Hype.shtml [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > Nailed it per usual! Thank you. [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > That YouTuber who covered the Cloudflare slop project also did a video [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > on RMS a few months ago - fairly positive, but focused on the LibrePhone [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > project the FSF recently launched. He pretty much missed the point entirely. [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > RMS told me in person that the goal was never to build a phone outright, but [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > rather a reverse engineering project to make it possible to create a [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > fully free [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > software/hardware smartphone. The YouTuber, however, covered it as "the [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > FSF is [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > trying to create their own iPhone and maybe sell it one day!" I learned [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > my lesson [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > after the Brodie Robertson faux pas from a few weeks ago and checked my [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > watch history [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > before blindingly recommending anything. So here's one of their slip-ups [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > - and [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > honestly, the missed point alone might be worth an article without even [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > mentioning [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > YouTuber or video. I want the LibrePhone to work out, but it's going to [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > fail if [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] > nobody knows what the hell it actually is! [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] Robertson is not a techie but a parrot of Reddit, which is just a filter of the world. [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] Some days, Robertson praises TR. [15:50] schestowitz[TR2] If I criticise something, he does whole attack videos against me. [15:50] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:50] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:50] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:50] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > > [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/17/People_Who_Attacked_Techrights_Also_Attacked_My_Mother.shtml [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > I'm praying for you and your family. Please stay safe - and as always, [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > if there's [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > anything I can do to help, don't hesitate to ask. Atticus (our club VP) [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > and I [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > decided to email several of the politicians behind the campus freedom [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > bill that [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > protected our event, citing Techrights and Tux Machines exclusively in [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > those letters. [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > I also shared with a few faculty members here that you called GT a role [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > model for others [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > in the Free Software world and they were blown away that our HR [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > department actually [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > did something right for once! You have our support and much of the [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > faculty here as well. [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > I appreciate you both so much! Apologies for the length, but I truly mean [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > every word of it. [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] > Warm Regards, [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] (cc wife) [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] TY for raising awareness, we do need alibis. All these attacks on us come from the US: [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml [15:52] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_Americans_View_Free_Speech_in_Practice.shtml [15:52] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:52] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:52] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:52] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:53] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:53] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:53] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:53] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:53] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:53] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:53] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:53] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! ● Mar 21 [16:01] schestowitz[TR2] Here we go: https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/21/Reader_Shares_Recent_Memes_on_Slop_and_Coding_by_LLMs.shtml [16:01] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [16:01] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [16:01] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! 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