●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, February 25, 2023 ●● ● Feb 25 [01:35] *libertybox_ is now known as schestowitz-pol ● Feb 25 [04:09] schestowitz-pi2 Public Knowledge seems to have been 'hijacked' someone by totally unrelated causes; it even brought a Microsofter to its board https://publicknowledge.org/privileged-conversations-mar-2023/ [04:09] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-publicknowledge.org | Privileged Conversations | Mar. 2023 - Public Knowledge ● Feb 25 [06:37] schestowitz-pi2 HRW, which took bribes from Saudi terrorists, says UK revoking citizenship of ISIS person is "a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System" https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/23/shamima-begum-ruling-dark-stain-uk-justice-system [06:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.hrw.org | Shamima Begum Ruling a Dark Stain on the UK Justice System | Human Rights Watch [06:47] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:48] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@cffezv5nc9hgc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 25 [07:00] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:37] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@zddii85icr5xq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 25 [08:54] schestowitz-pi2 "While looking up at the night sky on the University of Michigans campus, the reflection of the citys lights can be seen on the clouds as a result of light pollution." https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/no-more-night-skies-ann-arbors-light-pollution-ordinance/ [08:54] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.michigandaily.com | A follow up on Ann Arbor's light ordinance ● Feb 25 [09:03] schestowitz-pi2 VICE CEO stepping down [09:03] schestowitz-pi2 last week they publish 0 articles some days [09:05] schestowitz-pi2 as you are probably aware, they have had layo [09:25] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [09:46] techrights[sec] yes layoffs are all the rage, the question is which groups are getting laid off [09:46] techrights[sec] managers hr and other dead weight? or developers and operationns? or r & d? [09:46] techrights[sec] or in the case of media, are they laying off investigatvice reporters or [09:46] techrights[sec] marketeers? NPR is laying off people too [09:47] schestowitz-pi2 "investigatvice" = expensive [09:47] schestowitz-pi2 low "yield" [09:47] schestowitz-pi2 hire spamnil [09:48] schestowitz-pi2 as you are probably aware, they have had layoffs too [09:48] techrights[sec] Normal journalism == "expensive" [09:58] techrights[sec] It's all around, across most industries. There an active unwillingness to [09:58] techrights[sec] cover to costs of doing business. I suspect that in many cases it is because [09:58] techrights[sec] the specific businesses have already moved to financialization and are now [09:58] techrights[sec] able to drop the pretense of actually doing work. [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 it gravitates towards shit and PR when the business model is not selling copies [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 but rather, ads and lies-as-a-service [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 re "as you are probably aware, they have had layoffs too [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 " [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 it's getting hard to find newsrooms that did NOT sack [09:59] schestowitz-pi2 i saw today CBS apparently doing better ● Feb 25 [10:00] schestowitz-pi2 maxing up business debt and personal debt [10:37] schestowitz-pi2 The CEOs usually end up with conflicting personal investments. Their financial [10:37] schestowitz-pi2 benefit then comes at the expense of the health of the company. [10:38] techrights[sec] The CEOs usually end up with conflicting personal investments. Their financial [10:38] techrights[sec] benefit then comes at the expense of the health of the company. ● Feb 25 [12:25] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:43] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:45] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 25 [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 improved my running range a bit [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 going to a nearby tesco [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 got some good things today [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 goiing to record some videos today, at long last [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 i think i'm getting this new workflow under control now [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 but taking some notes to myself to help adapt, what to do when and how [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 the links in TM and in TR (overlap) have more inline URLs and some formatting [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 which is a bit improvements [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 other sites cannot compete or keep up with that [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 as they simply lack the tools for collection, curation etc. [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 so we're all set for years to come, i just want to automate removal of some "?utm=cruft" [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 in some feeds [13:09] schestowitz-pi2 at the moment a lot of search and replace, or manual editing [13:21] techrights[sec] Yeah, some of that ?utm_ garbage gets missed someti [13:22] schestowitz-pi2 some of that went away around the time Gulag Inc. burned FeedBurner [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 I don't know what those contribute to back-end surveillance [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 never saw how this type of spying gets processed and by which software [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 if I forget to remove it there's always some geek out there who righly moans [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 so I try never to forget [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 removing them algorithmically is not simple as there are special cases [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 rianne remembers to always remove them manually [13:23] schestowitz-pi2 it's a matter of treating well those whom you share links with [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 Google used to direct every news item with news.google.com/some crap tracking [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 then, some years ago, it started linking directly [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 about a year ago it went back to tracking [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 i don't know why but can have a hunch [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 google news used to offer excepts from articles [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 with the relevant bits or keywords [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 it would also cluster related articles [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 and highlght (bold) relevant bits [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 they castrate themselves [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 about 10 years ago [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 i believe this is related to legal threats associated with "link tax" and fair use [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 so they basically made their product worse in many ways [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 we later saw the same in australia and now canada [13:26] schestowitz-pi2 *excepts>excerpts [13:27] techrights[sec] [13:27] techrights[sec] Yeah, some of that ?utm_ garbage gets missed sometimes. [13:27] techrights[sec] Yes, the tracking there has returned. I skip their lists now. There [13:27] techrights[sec] wasn't much quality or relevance in what they produced anyway. [13:27] techrights[sec] Ah, and referer links are not tracked in many cases any more, so maybe they are [13:27] techrights[sec] trying to build up evidence of how much traffic they send to various domains. [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 bypassing this is feasible algorithmically but infeasible by hand, at scale [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 as you would need to substitute many symbols in the parts trailing the tracking bits [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 indluding for "https://" [13:29] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: "; Unknown error ( status 0 @ https://" ) [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 in effect reverse-engineering their tracking code [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 to skip the tracking [13:29] schestowitz-pi2 some regex can maybe catch most cases [13:30] techrights[sec] Any regex cleanup would have to go on a host-by-host or, at best, domain by [13:30] techrights[sec] domain basis. [13:30] techrights[sec] It's easier probably to just keep doing it by hand. [13:44] schestowitz-pi2 "Russia ends nowhere" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/02/25/russia-ends-nowhere-they-say | Source: Meduza [13:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-meduza.io | Russia ends nowhere, they say Sociologist Grigory Yudin discusses a year of war and what comes next Meduza ● Feb 25 [14:27] schestowitz-pi2 cruft/social control media https://yle.fi/a/74-20019432 [14:27] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Nordic neighbours poking fun at Finnish stereotypes become social media hits | News | Yle Uutiset [14:28] schestowitz-pi2 there is NO other news to investigate and to cover [14:28] schestowitz-pi2 scroll with a thumb on a fucking "smart" phone for article "ideas" [14:35] schestowitz-pi2 [14:32] phoronix is pushing Microsoft products again! Even ones that nobody but Microsoft uses this. This isn't just irresponsible, it's trash. [14:35] schestowitz-pi2 [14:34] It is becoming increasingly hard to justify linking to Phoronix, not just due to the ads but the shilling of freedom-hostile crap. Judging by the forums, this is a common sentiment. [14:35] schestowitz-pi2 [14:35] "Messaging app Signal has a [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 in nexdaily links batch, mind you, i had already added some russia links prior to us discussing the matter [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 i hope things will calm down on that front [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 china is probably just pretending about trying to reach a resolution [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 it costs nothing to issue a statement [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 like their (documented) lobbying for tiktok [14:48] schestowitz-pi2 all those stories that are puff pieces are likely a component of this lobbying budget [14:56] schestowitz-pi2 OTA ● Feb 25 [16:30] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:30] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [16:54] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [16:54] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:56] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:57] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 25 [17:21] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/nyatsumura/status/1629416237821497345#m [17:21] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Nekomura Natsu (@nyatsumura): "Do you know the name of this Dr. I mistakenly thought it was Dr. Roy Schestowitz. I found your tweet in the video, and I came across you by looking for you through Rob Schneider's tweets. https://youtu.be/QD6uid_eT0Q" | La Contre-Voie - nitter [17:21] schestowitz-TR https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/nyatsumura/status/1628795857561874432#m [17:21] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Nekomura Natsu (@nyatsumura): "I wanted to know the name of the Dr. who explains chitin in the "Redacted" video, but didn't know because there was no introduction. Your RT helped me to know. Thank you " | La Contre-Voie - nitter ● Feb 25 [20:22] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@4yb3icc5dpsa8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 25 [23:00] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed)