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schestowitz> 1.Jun 24 01:17
schestowitz> https://debian.community/nicolas-dandrimont-maria-climent-pommeret-outreachy-gsoc-conflict-of-interest-policy/Jun 24 01:17
schestowitz> 2. https://fsfellowship.eu/2019/01/26/fsfe-behavior-standards.htmlJun 24 01:17
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-debian.community | Nicolas Dandrimont, Pauline (or Maria) Climent-Pommeret & Debian, Outreachy, GSoC Conflict of Interest policy scandalsJun 24 01:17
schestowitzI've relayed that back into IRC. I did feel baffled by the accusation.Jun 24 01:17
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fsfellowship.eu | FSFE behavior standardsJun 24 01:17
schestowitzRe: women in the photosJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> 1. Anisa Kuci (Debian Outreachy, now at Wikimedia Italy)Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Utente:AnisaJun 24 01:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.wikimedia.it | Utente:Anisa - Wikimedia ItaliaJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> 2. not a studentJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> 3. Elena Gjevukaj. (GSoC 2018, got married during GSoC, photo attached)Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> https://wiki.debian.org/ElenaGjevukajJun 24 01:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | ElenaGjevukaj - Debian WikiJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> 4. Diellza Shabani. (GSoC 2018.  When she was selected for GSoC sheJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> became very popular and another company immediately offered her aJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Thinkpad and a job in a local office so she didn't do much GSoC work.Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> This happens to some interns every year.  Mentors were supposed to helpJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> her catch up at DebConf18, Taiwan but people only wanted to party withJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> the girls.  I wasn't at DebConf18 or DebConf19.  After making the tripJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> to Taiwan, she probably knew she could not pass.  She resigned from GSoCJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> instead of failing.  I think some people were pissed off about thisJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> because they wanted to fail her.)Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> https://wiki.debian.org/DiellzaShabaniJun 24 01:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | DiellzaShabani - Debian WikiJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> 5. Enkelena Haxhija. (GSoC 2018.  This is the girl that had aJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> relationship with Ubuntu employee Lucas Kanashiro at both DebConf18 andJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> DebConf19.  She also makes the pitch for DebConf in Kosovo)Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> https://wiki.debian.org/EnkelenaHaxhijaJun 24 01:20
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.debian.org | EnkelenaHaxhija - Debian WikiJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> There is another girl who went to Brazil but she is not in the photo.Jun 24 01:20
schestowitz> She was never a candidate for GSoC or Outreachy.    I never had anyJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> romantic relationship with this woman.  It is Albiona Hoti.  She is inJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> the presentation of the Kosovo bid with Enkelena, she is in the TVJun 24 01:20
schestowitz> interview with me and she is in the video with Enkelena:Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> https://danielpocock.com/how-kosovo-won-debconf21/Jun 24 01:21
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-danielpocock.com | How Kosovo won DebConf21Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> You can verify the names of the three women in GSoC on this page.  ThereJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> were only three women in GSoC 2018, women #3, #4 and #5 in the photo.  IJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> did not have a romantic relationship with any of these women.Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> https://bits.debian.org/2018/05/welcome-gsoc2018-and-outreachy-interns.htmlJun 24 01:21
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-bits.debian.org | Debian welcomes its GSoC 2018 and Outreachy interns - Bits from DebianJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> An interesting question: if Diellza did not pass GSoC 2018, why did theyJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> give her a second DebConf, the trip to Brazil in 2019?Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Same story with one of the admins, Jaminy.  She met Chris Lamb and I atJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> FOSSASIA 2016 in Singapore.  Selected for GSoC 2016.  Failed GSoC.  SheJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> is invited back to every conference since then.  Molly appointed JaminyJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> as an admin in 2018 through the Google interface.  Lamb added Jaminy'sJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> name to the delegation in 2019, the same email where he added Molly,Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> none of these three people are Debian Developers:Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/03/msg00011.htmlJun 24 01:21
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Updating the Debian Outreach Team delegationJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Another fact: they actually rejected my DebConf18 (Taiwan) fundingJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> request on 13 June 2018.  It looks like they were already plottingJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> something.  I was an administrator in GSoC but they wanted to have theJun 24 01:21
schestowitz> interns in DebConf without me, bribe them, say things behind my back.Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> Why?  I was elected by FSFE fellows in April 2017 for a two year term.Jun 24 01:21
schestowitz> They started looking for ways to undermine me from January 2018 or earlier.Jun 24 01:21
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Techrights-secUS pledges support for Taiwan after forced withdrawal of diplomats from Hong Kon^ wrong windowJun 24 06:40
Techrights-seccorrect window: ERR News' working hours over Midsummer holidayJun 24 06:40
Techrights-sechttps://news.err.ee/1608254712/err-news-working-hours-over-midsummer-holidayJun 24 06:40
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.err.ee | ERR News' working hours over Midsummer holiday | News | ERRJun 24 06:40
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Techrights-secYes, they're trying to turn it into a partisan thing.  :(Jun 24 06:53
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schestowitz      <li>Jun 24 09:57
schestowitz                      <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-hd-scaling-snaps.html">Plasma desktop, HD scaling &amp; snaps</a></h5>Jun 24 09:57
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-hd-scaling-snaps.html">Plasma )Jun 24 09:57
schestowitz                      <blockquote>Jun 24 09:57
schestowitz                        <p>I like the topic of HD scaling in Linux desktops. Like fonts, it's one of the most neglected areas of user experience in the Tux space. By and large, Plasma is the only environment that does scaling well. The other desktops sort of get along with full-integer scaling, font DPI tweaks, and, if you're lucky, some fractional scaling, with 25% increments and such. </p>Jun 24 09:57
schestowitz                        <p> Things get extra interesting when you use Plasma with non-native applications, i.e., stuff that goes beyond the default Plasma set. I talked about this in my first article on HD scaling in Plasma, where I showed you a whole bunch of tweaks for software like Firefox, Chrome, old GTK2 stuff, and such. Now, I want to elaborate and show you how to scale snaps, in those scenarios where the scaling does not work well out of Jun 24 09:57
schestowitzthe box. Follow me.</p></blockquote></li>Jun 24 09:57
Techrights-secWhat would really help the world more than any whistleblowing on M$Jun 24 09:57
Techrights-secwould be for the courts to neutralize non-disparagment clauses and Jun 24 09:57
Techrights-seccertain non-disclosure 'agreements' attached to ending employment.   Jun 24 09:57
Techrights-secA lot of 'ex' microsofters could then talk freely.  It's a cult so many won'tJun 24 09:57
Techrights-secbut some probably want to talk but are afraid of the papers they signedJun 24 09:57
Techrights-secon the way out.Jun 24 09:57
schestowitz <li>Jun 24 10:23
schestowitz                  <h5><a href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6126">Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG</a></h5>Jun 24 10:23
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bunniestudios.com | Adding a ChaCha Cipher to Precursor’s TRNG « bunnie's blogJun 24 10:23
schestowitz                  <blockquote>Jun 24 10:23
schestowitz                    <p>So in Precursor, we’d like to add some conditioning on the collected entropy. To be clear, we will always make the raw entropy pool available for inspection — this is absolutely necessary for testing and CI coverage — but it’s a good idea to throw the output of your TRNG into a cryptographically sound stream cipher of some type, so that in the case that your TRNG suffers a sporadic drop-out, you don’t have a Jun 24 10:23
schestowitzdisastrous, instantaneous collapse of entropy. Depending on how you configure the conditioning, you can also increase the effective availability of random numbers.</p></blockquote></li>Jun 24 10:23
Techrights-secShould we add any headers or other information to the HTTP responses toJun 24 11:28
Techrights-secadvertize the Gemini site?Jun 24 11:28
Techrights-secs/headers/custom headers/Jun 24 11:28
schestowitzare there any specs for this, or just some made-up hand-crafted cruft nobody will see except in page source?Jun 24 11:29
Techrights-secNot even in page source, it would be a custom header in the HTTP responseJun 24 11:44
Techrights-secThe effort would be minimal but probably so would the returns.Jun 24 11:44
Techrights-sechttps://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_headers.htmlJun 24 11:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-httpd.apache.org | mod_headers - Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4Jun 24 11:44
schestowitzmaybe better to suggest something in the gemini mailing lists first?Jun 24 11:45
Techrights-secOk, I'll try a few things here on my machine first.Jun 24 11:50
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Techrights-secapropos : http://techrights.org/2021/06/24/microsoft-attacking-linux-from-the-inside/Jun 24 15:25
Techrights-secDidn't KDE 3.4 or 3.5 blow away the competing version of M$ Windows in regardsJun 24 15:25
Techrights-secto usability in formal usability tests?  That was about two decades ago Jun 24 15:25
Techrights-secand I consider GNU/Linux distros to have surpassed M$ in usability at Jun 24 15:25
Techrights-secthat point.  Since then the gap has only widened as M$ gets more convolutedJun 24 15:25
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Politicians Need to Crack Down on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse Amid Yet More Attacks on Linux (Even From the Inside) | TechrightsJun 24 15:25
Techrights-secand GNU/Linux distros more polished.Jun 24 15:25
Techrights-secDoS against TR at the momentJun 24 15:25
Techrights-secSeemJun 24 15:26
Techrights-secSeems over.Jun 24 15:26
schestowitzKDE Plasma5 improved gradually over the years and it's really nice now, also very stable. I'm thankful for that. The issue we have is not technical. Marketing, lobbying, bribery etc.Jun 24 15:26
Techrights-secYEs, bribery and other bullshit are the deciding factors in *any* Windows     Jun 24 15:35
Techrights-secdeployment.  Yet, they yammer on with continued lies about it beingJun 24 15:35
Techrights-seceasier to use than GNU/Linnux.  I would point out that those lies wereJun 24 15:35
Techrights-secdebunked many years ago.  Jun 24 15:35
Techrights-secHow are the system requirements for KDE Plasma now?  It used to be quiteJun 24 15:35
Techrights-secbloated and sluggish.  If it is lighter than XFCE4 now I might give it Jun 24 15:35
Techrights-secanother try.Jun 24 15:35
schestowitzxfce4 is a lot lighter and I use it on an older laptop. No reason to move unless you need some particular functionality of KDE.Jun 24 15:36
Techrights-secOk.  Thanks.  I'll stay with XFCE4 for now.  I am curious enough that I mightJun 24 15:37
Techrights-sectry Plasma on a spare machine for part of a day sometime soon.Jun 24 15:37
Techrights-secI consider XFCE4 kind of heavy so if Plasma is heavier then it may Jun 24 15:39
Techrights-seconly be for the sake of novelty. Jun 24 15:39
schestowitzI suppose one worthy video to do is, what features make KDE so good, but I need to prepare and think and advance which ones to show, and how.... (without revealing local files etc.)Jun 24 15:39
schestowitzthere was a time techrights did more 'marketing' for free software, but the times require response to BoA issues, swpats, RMS/GPL matters. Also bloated Web. I might switch off temporarily the tuxmachines protection, seeing it causes that site to restart due to an issue with a different container.Jun 24 15:44
schestowitzx https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/microsoft-becomes-second-us-firm-to-pass-2-trillion-market-cap/83798561Jun 24 15:57
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Microsoft: Microsoft becomes second US firm to pass $2 trillion market cap, IT News, ET CIOJun 24 15:57
Techrights-sechttps://nitter.actionsack.com/sxpert1/status/1408054475206533126#mJun 24 16:01
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Raphaël Jacquot 🔻 (@sxpert1): "techrights.org/2009/09/21/rm…" | nitterJun 24 16:01
Techrights-sechttps://nitter.actionsack.com/stderr_/status/1408054323897147393#mJun 24 16:01
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | josue ortega (@stderr_): ""The most abusive ‘tech’ company (akin to a cult disguised as “software company” since the 1970s) is ... attacking Linux from the inside; thankfully, those insipid plans of theirs face major backlash from longtime kernel developers and GNU/Linux users" https://techrights.org/2021/06/24/microsoft-attacking-linux-from-the-inside/" | nitterJun 24 16:01
Techrights-sechttps://nitter.actionsack.com/lipoqil/status/1408027742491353093#mJun 24 16:01
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Mailo Světel (@lipoqil): ""the WWW tries to be everything to everyone, both a floor-wax and a toothpaste, while Gemini tries to be good at just one thing" 😂 http://techrights.org/2021/04/28/joining-gemini-space/ #GeminiSpace" | nitterJun 24 16:01
Techrights-sechttps://nitter.actionsack.com/lipoqil/status/1407992973888036866#mJun 24 16:01
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.actionsack.com | Mailo Světel (@lipoqil): "Tohle by byl zajimavej serial http://techrights.org/2021/05/19/freenode-and-cancel-culture/ #Freenode #LiberaChat #Netflix ? #TVshow ?" | nitterJun 24 16:01
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Techrights-secWhich container?Jun 24 16:23
Techrights-sec> TM under attackJun 24 16:23
Techrights-sec> TM aggregatorJun 24 16:23
Techrights-sec> blockedJun 24 16:23
Techrights-secTR and TM load is connected (one to the other), so one container can trigger another's scriptJun 24 16:24
Techrights-secOh.  I had not thought of that, I am not familiar at all with containers.Jun 24 16:32
Techrights-secStrange interaction.Jun 24 16:32
schestowitzit's the same with VMs. if you see high load, you must consider the possibility that another tenant on the hv causes it.Jun 24 16:32
Techrights-secCan HV monitor the loads on TR and TM instead?Jun 24 17:04
schestowitzgood question/I don't know/never checkedJun 24 17:04
Techrights-secIf it can watch then there might be an easy or simple way for it toJun 24 17:06
Techrights-sectrigger an action in the appropriate guest.Jun 24 17:06
schestowitzwe only started having this issue when ddos attack on TR resumed, happening in conjunction with our monitoring programJun 24 17:06
Techrights-secyes, the monitor is based on the situation that one would find on Jun 24 17:08
Techrights-sec"bare metal" and the quirks of the host-guest relationships in VMsJun 24 17:08
Techrights-secis not taken into account.Jun 24 17:08
schestowitzi reckon those waves on TR will go away; they're not novel, they come back once in a few months, last a few days, then ebb awayJun 24 17:08
schestowitzbtw, green flares in nmon are usually attack on TR, if it's TM then expect lots of red in the bars. .htaccess for aggregator is in 'history'Jun 24 17:13
schestowitzsetting topics for libera char to point in the right place....Jun 24 18:20
schestowitz#boycottnovell is NOT here. It is at irc.techrights.org (port 6667) under the same channel name, #boycottnovellJun 24 18:21
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schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/c3iq/status/1408020889518673921Jun 24 22:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@c3iq: Will the UK get some graphics cards now or Brexit... https://t.co/ELYKigurolJun 24 22:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #BBC #Finance ☞ #Bitcoin tumbles below $30,000 on #China crypto-crackdown https://t.co/tfDK07DEHKJun 24 22:11
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/teckids_eV/status/1408017851873640450Jun 24 22:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@teckids_eV: @schestowitz You can always donate to us directly if you want to support our cause. Apart from that, I do not understand your tweet.Jun 24 22:11
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/buZztiaan/status/1408014400372494336Jun 24 22:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@buZztiaan: @schestowitz https://t.co/TKs62Mk400Jun 24 22:11
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@buZztiaan: @schestowitz https://t.co/TKs62Mk400Jun 24 22:11
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