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| Techrights-sec | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/20/not-so-smart-cars/ | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | Eventually the supply of old cars will run out and then even those that | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | have succeeded, until then, in avoiding them will have their hand forced. | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | The only way out is to influence the supply chain. | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | Another aspect to cover, one which is as pernicious as the software aspects, | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | is the push to move all aspects of car use and car maintenance over to | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | subscription based models. | Dec 21 04:31 |
| Techrights-sec | Dec 21 04:43 | |
| Techrights-sec | Even roadside service subscriptions have replaced the spare tire + jack | Dec 21 04:43 |
| Techrights-sec | I don't mean leasing a car or similar to leasing, but the repair contracts | Dec 21 04:43 |
| Techrights-sec | in place of being able to choose where and when to do maintenance. Also | Dec 21 04:43 |
| Techrights-sec | various functionalties, such as the remote start addressed by Louis in his | Dec 21 04:43 |
| Techrights-sec | video. However, whole cars are being pushed as a subscription "service" | Dec 21 04:43 |
| Techrights-sec | nowadays: https://www.repairsmith.com/i/blog/how-do-car-subscription-services-work/ | Dec 21 04:43 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.repairsmith.com | How Do Car Subscription Services Work? | RepairSmith Blog | Dec 21 04:43 | |
| Techrights-sec | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_subscription | Dec 21 04:43 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Vehicle subscription - Wikipedia | Dec 21 04:43 | |
| Techrights-sec | That's a different matter. | Dec 21 04:43 |
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| Techrights-sec | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.skodaauto.connect&hl=en&gl=US | Dec 21 05:08 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-play.google.com | MyŠKODA - Apps on Google Play | Dec 21 05:08 | |
| schestowitz-TR | what a clusterfuck. You can see it in reviews, too. | Dec 21 05:09 |
| Techrights-sec | yep | Dec 21 05:18 |
| Techrights-sec | btw happy solstice | Dec 21 05:18 |
| Techrights-sec | as for those reviews, I figure with a distribution of scores like that, many | Dec 21 05:18 |
| Techrights-sec | of the +5 votes are probably shills. | Dec 21 05:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | there is a whole industry for that | Dec 21 05:18 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Dec 21 05:19 |
| Techrights-sec | router maintenance; eta 30 minutes | Dec 21 05:26 |
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| Techrights-sec | maintenance done | Dec 21 06:04 |
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| schestowitz-TR | I should mention this | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | even though it was posted in irc logs for full transparency already | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | there's this small firm that seems to offer ipfs mirroring (so to speak, metapher) servcie | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | they contacted me in twitter | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | than in email as well, as I never reply to "tweets" | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe they can help sort out othe capacity issues | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | e.g. by pinning (or similar) the content | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | shall they ever cease to do this, fine | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | because the way ipfs works, nothing is essential | Dec 21 09:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | as long as at least one node still has a copy | Dec 21 09:08 |
| Techrights-sec | That would be great. | Dec 21 09:09 |
| Techrights-sec | Any improvement in the current workflow and back end would be very helpful. | Dec 21 09:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | it would potentially reduce somewhat the strain on our home network | Dec 21 09:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | I still have a fibreoptic router installed and ready to use | Dec 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | based on some readings I did, there's a risk associated | Dec 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | like downtimes and such | Dec 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't want to be the first in my whole area to adopt it | Dec 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | and I already had bad experiences, which is why I bailed out | Dec 21 09:10 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Dec 21 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | Fibre would probably help relability and the local services. | Dec 21 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | Remote sites would not be noticeably faster because of the lag /on/ the | Dec 21 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | remote servers themselves. Many pages take > 10 seconds to load and then | Dec 21 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | a second or two on top of that to finish rendering. | Dec 21 09:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | topic change if you don't mind: | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | colleague (Hannah) got covid, she's not the first | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | we are a small company | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | the strain means rianne gets extra paid shifts | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | but as you may have noticed, covid slipped out of control here | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | and I am guessing right after xmas, just like last year, we'll lock down again | Dec 21 09:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | you know who the gov will blame | Dec 21 09:17 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Dec 21 09:18 |
| Techrights-sec | be sure that the pay rates are comensurate with overtime work i e 2x or more | Dec 21 09:18 |
| Techrights-sec | The UK is going to have a major problem after Xmas + New Year since there | Dec 21 09:18 |
| Techrights-sec | are no precautions being taken. I expect the US will hit 1M dead soon. | Dec 21 09:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | since 2011 when I joined they always paid the same for extra shift | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | yewt worse, the more you are paid, the higher the tax | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | so overtime shift are, in a sense, paying less than the normal | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | but this is not ogligatory , just an extra | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | and I compensate for the BS salary by working less | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | or working not hard | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | they know they pay way below market value | Dec 21 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | and thus cannot complain | Dec 21 09:21 |
| Techrights-sec | What kind of compensation can they give for the shifts then, if not monetary? | Dec 21 09:23 |
| Techrights-sec | A double shift is a real burden even if it does not necessarily feel like it | Dec 21 09:23 |
| Techrights-sec | at the moment. | Dec 21 09:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | I like how someone in ibm the layofff board put it | Dec 21 09:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | about controlling the salary by taking it down a gear | Dec 21 09:24 |
| Techrights-sec | How did IBM do that? | Dec 21 09:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | not IBM, some workers. They just pace down the work | Dec 21 09:25 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Dec 21 09:26 |
| Techrights-sec | What does your union recommend? | Dec 21 09:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | we don't have a union, but I chat with some colleagues OTR | Dec 21 09:26 |
| Techrights-sec | In some countries it is very useful to have membership. | Dec 21 09:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | I considered joining one when Samreen (aka "Sarin Gas") was harassing workers | Dec 21 09:27 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Dec 21 09:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | an UNOFFICIAL collective, led by me I think, contributed to her demise | Dec 21 09:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | the person who replaced her is a kind one | Dec 21 09:36 |
| schestowitz | Lederhosen.... | Dec 21 09:53 |
| schestowitz | https://www.flickr.com/photos/sassimunich/4243929681/ | Dec 21 09:53 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.flickr.com | Flickr | Dec 21 09:53 | |
| schestowitz | Miguel de Icaza in the back: | Dec 21 09:54 |
| schestowitz | https://www.flickr.com/photos/sassimunich/4244701434/in/photostream/ | Dec 21 09:54 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.flickr.com | Flickr | Dec 21 09:54 | |
| schestowitz | Friend and CEO of Stripe Patrick Collison (maybe not sure if this is him) | Dec 21 09:54 |
| schestowitz | https://www.flickr.com/photos/sassimunich/4246408902/in/album-72157623140728850/ | Dec 21 09:54 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.flickr.com | Flickr | Dec 21 09:54 | |
| schestowitz | https://www.flickr.com/photos/sassimunich/4245640193/in/album-72157623140728850/ (Possibly John Collison on the far left) | Dec 21 09:54 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.flickr.com | Flickr | Dec 21 09:54 | |
| schestowitz | Does not look like the guy, but that was 12 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Collison | Dec 21 09:54 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Patrick Collison - Wikipedia | Dec 21 09:54 | |
| schestowitz-TR | could use further research on this, as Nat will still serve Microsofft | Dec 21 09:55 |
| Techrights-sec | good | Dec 21 09:56 |
| Techrights-sec | btw there are masks which do a better job of filtering incomming particles than | Dec 21 09:56 |
| Techrights-sec | others | Dec 21 09:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | re masks, we only use them when buying food I think (or few other shops), usually the ones with hardly anybody inside them, or at quiet hours | Dec 21 09:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | A profile of the brothers published in Forbes in 2021 claimed the brothers had "escaped" from Limerick, describing it as a "warzone" because of a gang feud and it was "the 'murder capital' of Europe".[21] It claimed "shootings, pipe bomb attacks, and stabbings" happened there every night.[21] It also claimed that "Some bad neighbourhoods are even walled off by a dirty graffitied 10-foot-high barrier, like the Berlin Wall".[21] | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | The article received a lot of publicity online, causing a backlash.[21] Patrick tweeted "Not only mistaken about Limerick but the idea of ‘overcoming’ anything is crazy. We are who we are because we grew up where we did".[21] John tweeted it was "daft".[21] Patrick O'Donovan called on the magazine and author to apologise to the people of Limerick "or the insult and hurt caused" by it.[21] He also tweeted "I am calling on them to come to | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | Limerick where I will gladly set the record straight in respect of what our county and city has to offer as opposed to what your work of fiction depicts," and "Please let me know when suits to visit."[21] Niall Collins tweeted that the article was a "disgraceful description of Limerick, home to so many fine and decent people".[21] | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | The article was removed from the website on 9 April 2021.[21] | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company) | Dec 21 09:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Stripe (company) - Wikipedia | Dec 21 09:59 | |
| Techrights-sec | ok avoidance is good mitigation, but multiple methods reinforce each other | Dec 21 10:06 |
| Techrights-sec | back in a few hours | Dec 21 10:06 |
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| Techrights-sec | Many forget, or choose to omit intentionally, the fact that GNU/Linux and | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | the BSDs are in and of themselves an "IDE" if used properly. Thus | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | M$ VSC and other boondoggles are attempting to solve a problem that does | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | not exist. M$ VSC is on top of that just a vector for breaking not just things | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | but ways of thought. | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | Corey Doctorow, among many others, has also written a lot about the software | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | in cars and other consumer devices. | Dec 21 15:19 |
| Techrights-sec | s/Corey/Cory/ | Dec 21 15:20 |
| Techrights-sec | https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html | Dec 21 15:20 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-boingboing.net | The Coming War on General Purpose Computation | Boing Boing | Dec 21 15:20 | |
| Techrights-sec | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation | Dec 21 15:20 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikisource.org | The Coming War on General Computation - Wikisource, the free online library | Dec 21 15:20 | |
| Techrights-sec | from 28C3 in 2011 | Dec 21 15:20 |
| Techrights-sec | also, software showed up in public consciousness, though briefly: | Dec 21 15:20 |
| Techrights-sec | https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339250/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-vw-diesel-emissions-scandal/ | Dec 21 15:20 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.caranddriver.com | Everything You Need to Know about the VW Diesel Emissions Scandal | Dec 21 15:20 | |
| Techrights-sec | https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339250/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-vw-diesel-emissions-scandal/ | Dec 21 15:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | are both links at thge bottom meant to be the same? | Dec 21 15:21 |
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| Techrights-sec | https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/business/audi-vw-emissions-scandal.html | Dec 21 15:44 |
| Techrights-sec | fixed | Dec 21 15:44 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | ‘A Few Dirty Tricks’: Documents Show Audi’s Role in the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal - The New York Times | Dec 21 15:44 | |
| schestowitz-TR | ty | Dec 21 15:46 |
| Techrights-sec | np | Dec 21 15:46 |
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| schestowitz | http://wikibin.org/articles/alex-graveley.html | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 21 17:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wikibin.org | Alex Graveley | Dec 21 17:03 | |
| schestowitz | Alex Graveley (legal name Balabhadra Battacarya Graveley) is a professional software developer based in San Francisco. He is known in the free software community for his work on GNOME, and for creating the Tomboy, Gimmie, and Pyro Desktop projects. | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | Graveley has worked for VMware Inc. as an engineer since 2004 on its Linux desktop products. He was technical lead on the VMware Workstation 6.0 software release in May, 2007. | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | From 2000 to 2003, Graveley worked for Ximian Inc. on projects including Ximian Desktop, Novell Evolution, and the HTTP client library libsoup. | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | He dropped out of high school in the 10th grade, and has spent considerable time traveling abroad in Brazil and Southeast Asia. | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | All these projects will need to distance himself from him very soon | Dec 21 17:03 |
| schestowitz | he's a massive liability to them | Dec 21 17:03 |
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