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[04:14] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 25 [05:50] *teucer (~teucer@4ecww8a6d7mz2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 25 [06:15] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Apr 25 [07:38] schestowitz-TR backups gz files still all OK, unless there is a bug in my script alterations [07:38] schestowitz-TR like the issue we had some months ago with httpd hanging (never figured out), [07:38] schestowitz-TR this one might become an eternal mystery/enigma unless it comes back ● Apr 25 [08:01] schestowitz x https://text.npr.org/1094240470 [08:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-text.npr.org | The Russia-Ukraine war drives countries to consider NATO membership [08:11] Techrights-sec ack ● Apr 25 [09:10] *teucer has quit (Quit: leaving) [09:23] *teucer_ (~teucer@yascbkben3u52.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 25 [10:21] Techrights-sec ack [10:21] Techrights-sec Youtube has long been shortchanging creators and putting "Linux" in the title [10:21] Techrights-sec is apperantly almost guaranteed to ensure that the video is demonetized [10:21] Techrights-sec on the spot. [10:22] schestowitz-TR "YouTube might not be doing so well" (traffic is not income, traffic is expenses) https://odysee.com/youtube-not-paying-creators:c [10:22] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | YOUTUBE NOT PAYING CREATORS [10:22] schestowitz-TR I want someone to bair/experiment to prove this [10:23] schestowitz-TR empirically [10:23] schestowitz-TR like reverse-engineering the alg [10:24] Techrights-sec the algorithm changes all the time and those that have partially figured [10:24] Techrights-sec it out generally don't speak. Though Bryan Lunduke and, I think, DT complained [10:24] Techrights-sec a lot about the "linux" string triggering demonetization [10:25] schestowitz-TR rianne is using librewold and loves how (AFAIK) it blocks gulagtbe ads [10:25] schestowitz-TR IIRC, it was already 2-3 years ago thgat some ads in youtube woiuld even become [10:25] schestowitz-TR 10 minutes long [10:25] schestowitz-TR as as it autoplays subsequent videos you don't know what you might be getting [10:28] Techrights-sec checking the video ... [10:32] schestowitz-TR you should watch this video, I still watch it [10:32] schestowitz-TR he says a lot of what I've argued for a whole [10:32] schestowitz-TR but I did not see it from the insiude as "creator" [10:32] schestowitz-TR rather, as "user" [10:32] schestowitz-TR spmanil has 1:1000 ratio for views/subs [10:32] schestowitz-TR not "conversion rate" [10:32] schestowitz-TR rather, imagine a channel with 1 million subs and 1000 views for new videos [10:32] schestowitz-TR social control media friends/.followers/subs = fakecoins [10:32] schestowitz-TR "social control media ..... looks at us like slaves.. circa 15:10" [10:32] schestowitz-TR 2009-1015 it was getting better, he argues [10:32] schestowitz-TR yes, makes sense to me [10:32] schestowitz-TR like with twitter [10:32] schestowitz-TR there's a cutoff where it was sabotaged [10:32] Techrights-sec ack [10:57] schestowitz-TR Regarding Wu,, I stopped watching after 4 or 5 minutes [10:57] schestowitz-TR In the past I had an online altercation with her in Twitter [10:57] schestowitz-TR but it was settled mostly amicably at the end [10:57] schestowitz-TR I got in trouble for saying something rather obvious [10:57] schestowitz-TR in Twitter this isn't permitted [10:57] schestowitz-TR I stopped watching the video because her explanation is not clear [10:57] schestowitz-TR and the later video, wqhich I pasted above, explains things [10:57] schestowitz-TR much better as it concurs with what I've long suspected [10:57] schestowitz-TR it's not so much about dress code, it is about [10:57] schestowitz-TR YouTube trying to find a way to "cash in" (Netflix also did irrational things)3~ [10:57] schestowitz-TR Spotify is up and down with profits and losses [10:57] schestowitz-TR After the Rogan incident I expect mostly losses [10:57] schestowitz-TR maybe they too will pursue ways to "cash in" [10:57] schestowitz-TR bot by bringing in rogue "casters" hoping that podcasts will be the milling cow [10:57] schestowitz-TR and paying $100k for this gsmble. Sorry, 100M. [10:57] schestowitz-TR Obamas are out out Spotify too, so this idea that "x is on it... let's follow x" [10:57] schestowitz-TR won't fly [10:57] schestowitz-TR and with some musicians boycotting spotify there's something else for others to research before [10:57] schestowitz-TR putting "catalogues" on there ● Apr 25 [11:01] Techrights-sec good [11:01] Techrights-sec she did make an interesting video where she called out some shop about its [11:01] Techrights-sec GPL compliance, I'm not sure the did a follow up to show the actual source code [11:01] Techrights-sec though [11:01] Techrights-sec Yes the Eli video does a better job. He is more articulate [11:01] Techrights-sec As for Rogan, Spotify has been quiet about how well that has gone economically [11:01] Techrights-sec and not even dropped hints about viewer base [11:01] Techrights-sec https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/a-suggestion-to-youtube-on-not:a [11:01] Techrights-sec Eli - "when the slaves want to feel like stakeholders" @ 14:55 or so [11:01] schestowitz-TR when your product costs you money to operate and the more you operate it, the greater sum you lose, [11:01] schestowitz-TR then sabotaging your own product is a "cost-saving" move [11:01] schestowitz-TR I remember Ballmer joking about Gulag buying it for 6 billion (IIRC) [11:01] schestowitz-TR of course the dancing fat monkey then made soapbox, which failed fasta dn spectacularly [11:01] schestowitz-TR faster than codeplex [11:01] schestowitz-TR turns out Google Code was also on the chopping block because, like GitHub, there's [11:01] schestowitz-TR no money in it [11:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 521 @ https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/a-suggestion-to-youtube-on-not:a ) [11:01] Techrights-sec https://www.insider.com/video-steve-ballmer-celebrates-clippers-rubbing-legs-2021-7 [11:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.insider.com | VIDEO: Steve Ballmer Celebrates Clippers by Rubbing Fans' Legs [11:02] Techrights-sec groping dancing fat monkey [11:05] *teucer_ is now known as teucer [11:05] schestowitz-TR I was thinkiung this morning about those unstable people who spread words about RMS [11:05] schestowitz-TR based on something from 2014, way before callimng him "hero" [11:05] schestowitz-TR and then alleging he was buddies with epstein [11:05] schestowitz-TR when it was in fact bill gates [11:05] schestowitz-TR which again led me to thinking, how on earth can the lawyers eever justify those prison visits? [11:05] schestowitz-TR isn't mr. "too busy saving the world" aware of what epstein did? [11:05] schestowitz-TR People must bring it upo each time billg raears his ugly head again [11:05] Techrights-sec the prison visits are suspicious to the point of incriminating [11:05] schestowitz-TR what ballmer did is likely legal, but gross [11:05] schestowitz-TR billg can be arrested [11:06] Techrights-sec Yes and should be arrested [11:11] schestowitz-TR the rms infowars interview is gone [11:11] schestowitz-TR just like many US to US interviews of hedges [11:11] schestowitz-TR nothing to do with Russia [11:11] schestowitz-TR you possibly saw my remark already about why infowars rms interview is not worth preserving [11:11] schestowitz-TR disinformation thrn inn as a side dish [11:11] schestowitz-TR which is a common tactic of the "buffs" [11:11] schestowitz-TR RMS was used as appetiser" or bait for them [11:11] schestowitz-TR to rope in new viewer [11:11] schestowitz-TR *vieweds [11:11] schestowitz-TR with LBRY probably still under investigation [11:11] schestowitz-TR I do not count on odysee to still be around in 5-10 years [11:11] schestowitz-TR I think of it as an experiment [11:11] schestowitz-TR it is like doinng mastodon "as a career" [11:11] schestowitz-TR as "jopurnalism' [11:13] Techrights-sec ack [11:13] Techrights-sec I don't expect LBRY will be around either [11:13] Techrights-sec more like an "attempt" than an experiement, I'm not sure many will learn much [11:13] Techrights-sec if anything from it (on the business side) [11:16] schestowitz-TR vimeo and gulagtube will soon enough "successful" cost-cutting [11:16] schestowitz-TR fewer servers, less in losses (less of other things, but shareholders don't see THAT book... [11:16] schestowitz-TR like Netflix and FB admitting loss of users... however they define "active"... I told [11:16] schestowitz-TR you the other day what I think they calculklate and how) [11:16] schestowitz-TR lbry when Ic hecked in 2020 MANDATED that I enter their "scheme" AND put some money in it [11:16] schestowitz-TR i.e. become "active" user [11:16] schestowitz-TR this can help prop up the scme [11:16] schestowitz-TR with the reciprocisy being "free "(temporarily) hosting [11:16] schestowitz-TR the videos may be decentralised [11:16] schestowitz-TR the comment, cms etc. is not [11:16] schestowitz-TR they just try to lower or offload costs to the viewers [11:16] schestowitz-TR some ISPs already crush DHT packets [11:16] schestowitz-TR they can do similar "p2p"-like things [11:16] Techrights-sec LBRY is useless without an account, the account is needed to block the [11:16] Techrights-sec truckloads of tripe and drivel [11:17] schestowitz-TR like farts for sale (I did not even click) [11:19] schestowitz-TR Musk Social: get extra traffic/views, buy MuskCoin today [11:19] schestowitz-TR aside from manipulating things by trend, tweets etc. [11:19] schestowitz-TR notably stock [11:19] schestowitz-TR Twitter already shilled a lot and censored a lot for GSK, Pfizer, Moderna... [11:19] Techrights-sec ack [11:19] Techrights-sec yep that's one of the reasons [11:41] Techrights-sec twitter has basicaly been about the same as the other social control medai: [11:41] Techrights-sec mass manipulation of opinion; sometimes it is for political purposes, [11:41] Techrights-sec sometimes it si for financial purposes, or more usually both [11:42] schestowitz-TR if more people begin to say this [11:42] schestowitz-TR diaspora will acceleratre [11:42] schestowitz-TR literal diaspora [11:42] schestowitz-TR diaspora(r) or fediverse = multple ahenda pushers [11:42] schestowitz-TR like blogspot [11:42] schestowitz-TR it is not blogging but sharecropping [11:42] schestowitz-TR msn spaces was folded [11:42] schestowitz-TR into wordpress com [11:42] schestowitz-TR I was user #1 to 10 [11:42] schestowitz-TR and when I was in Germany my account was suspended [11:42] schestowitz-TR baronkh/daemonfc already moaned about them shoving ads into his posts [11:42] schestowitz-TR like youtube [11:42] schestowitz-TR and he gets paid nothng [11:43] Techrights-sec yep [11:43] Techrights-sec a lot of people outsource to wordpress.com [11:43] Techrights-sec yep that'll happen more and more. the temptatin is too high for the MBAs to [11:43] Techrights-sec resist and they do manage to weasel their way in everywehre [11:50] schestowitz-TR in the case of wordpress dot com it is worse than in youtube in the sense that [11:50] schestowitz-TR the free stuff they give you is just a little cpu and maybe a little b/w [11:50] schestowitz-TR with netflix and gulagtube the costs of b/w are a lot higher [11:50] schestowitz-TR esp. as more people and companies do HD [11:50] schestowitz-TR so the justification of the "trade" between space ands ads is rather unfasair [11:50] schestowitz-TR now youtube bans people for trying to do ads within videos [11:50] schestowitz-TR like linux laptop giveaway [11:50] schestowitz-TR for being a competition basically [11:50] schestowitz-TR factor I saw nobody int nhe media speaking about: the cost of b/w [11:50] schestowitz-TR went up because retail energy costs are higher [11:50] schestowitz-TR 100,000 servers and energy bill up 300 per annum = 30 million more in operating expenses [11:50] schestowitz-TR not even counting routers and such [11:55] schestowitz-TR in south korea they pursued netflix subcharges [11:55] schestowitz-TR as internete subscribers did not pay "enough" for the infra [11:55] schestowitz-TR while the "uber of DRM" netflix was clobbering away at the Net [11:55] schestowitz-TR worse than IPTV, which clogged up our university networks almost 20 years ago [11:55] schestowitz-TR to the point where they had to issue new rules [11:55] schestowitz-TR (I worked for the uni'\s 'isp')...from 2001 until 2007) [11:56] Techrights-sec routing is energy intensive [11:56] Techrights-sec too many routers have wasteful x86 architectures [11:56] Techrights-sec it's a difficult thing since surcharges like that are often an attempt at [11:56] Techrights-sec doing away with net neutrality at the same time [11:59] schestowitz-TR "well, he's dead" [11:59] schestowitz-TR I'm going toi think of articles to do not [11:59] schestowitz-TR not really allured by 500 unredad items under "patents" [11:59] schestowitz-TR i cherry=ick from these from now on ● Apr 25 [12:01] Techrights-sec I wonder if theree is a heuristic which can be used to sample the crap patent [12:01] Techrights-sec articles [12:01] Techrights-sec ack [12:02] schestowitz-TR i know what you are going to say and I thought about that too, but it's a big project [12:02] schestowitz-TR esp. as the problem domain is not generic [12:02] schestowitz-TR that's like suggestinmg that patent examination can be done by "hey hi" [12:02] schestowitz-TR and not a domain expert who actually graps what is read, knows other inventions, knows [12:02] schestowitz-TR other patrents (not the same), and can figure out if it's trivial or BS [12:03] Techrights-sec the examination cannot be done with AI or machine learning because too much [12:03] Techrights-sec is abstract and requires actua deep domain expertise not just a vague [12:03] Techrights-sec statistical constellation of strings [12:03] schestowitz-TR the CSC or SUEPO already explored the subject [12:03] schestowitz-TR one argument is that to bypass the "algos" [12:03] schestowitz-TR one can alter the words a bit [12:03] schestowitz-TR to confuse the algo [12:03] schestowitz-TR it'll be like the "SEO of patent profession" [12:05] Techrights-sec the examination cannot be done with AI or machine learning because too much [12:05] Techrights-sec is abstract and requires actua deep domain expertise not just a vague [12:05] Techrights-sec statistical constellation of strings [12:05] Techrights-sec yes I reemphasize the essential nature of in-depth domain expertise in the [12:05] Techrights-sec evaluation process; However, I would think that the articles would be more [12:05] Techrights-sec of a sorting process and thus possibly acheivable via machine learning, but probably not and it would certainly have lots of rough ed [12:05] Techrights-sec ges [12:07] schestowitz-TR search for "cloest prior art" [12:07] schestowitz-TR another "pilot" (bad programme, immersed in phases) [12:07] schestowitz-TR like OOXML in USPTO (now with Microsoft Vidal in charge) [12:07] schestowitz-TR gulag already guides examiners and you're meant to think string analysis will narrow things down [12:07] schestowitz-TR to just one patent and that's all you need for examination [12:07] schestowitz-TR but maybe that's what you get when 21 year olds with a science degree become "examiners" [12:08] Techrights-sec I was just ranting (offline0 yesterday about the OOXML scandales from ages ago [12:08] Techrights-sec the damage from that still goes on [12:08] Techrights-sec that level of emplyee lacks the necessary experience and domain expertise to [12:08] Techrights-sec beconsiderd a competent exaniner no matter how ambitious the individual might [12:08] Techrights-sec be [12:09] schestowitz-TR those are more obedient and better at rubberstamping to meet quotas and cement their new position in [12:09] schestowitz-TR an org that has no certain future [12:09] schestowitz-TR maybe trump can turn the 35 year olds into judges [12:09] schestowitz-TR for upc [12:11] Techrights-sec their presence help ensure that the future of that organization becomes unsure [12:11] Techrights-sec good topic [12:11] Techrights-sec s/good/important/ [12:11] schestowitz-TR thery demoraile the seniors for a number of reasons [12:11] schestowitz-TR maybe merits a futyure article [12:12] schestowitz-TR I will do part 3 tonight [12:12] schestowitz-TR scabs4Lukampinos [12:12] schestowitz-TR *demoralise [12:13] schestowitz-TR we covered this topic before [12:24] schestowitz-TR DeVault has taken the wrapping off his new P/L project [12:24] schestowitz-TR "Hare" [12:24] schestowitz-TR Site lacks RSS [12:24] schestowitz-TR lacks post outline [12:24] schestowitz-TR very minimalist [12:24] schestowitz-TR but... brand new, so I will be patient [12:34] Techrights-sec looking [12:34] Techrights-sec gemini://drewdevault.com/2022/04/16/Stepping-away-from-Gemini.gmi [12:34] schestowitz-TR youtube has "creators" in the same sense pyramids had "creators" [12:34] schestowitz-TR I am gfoing to check if gulag slapped ads on my videos [12:34] schestowitz-TR after removing me from their program about 5 years ago for not having enough subs [12:34] schestowitz-TR or something long those lines... [12:35] Techrights-sec the creators of the pyramids were probably treate much better and with [12:35] Techrights-sec more respect and value [12:35] Techrights-sec https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt [12:35] Techrights-sec grauniad [12:35] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theguardian.com | Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves | Egypt | The Guardian [12:42] schestowitz-TR some people treat biblical texts (scrolls) like history books [12:42] schestowitz-TR without examining the evidence [12:42] schestowitz-TR causing diplomatic blunders with egypt [12:42] schestowitz-TR did you know jesus crossed the read sea by walking on fish? [12:42] schestowitz-TR *red [12:42] schestowitz-TR I am testing a theory of mine about gulagtube [12:42] schestowitz-TR related to the second video I posted [12:42] schestowitz-TR I think they deny access to or thottle "unsuccessful" videos [12:42] schestowitz-TR because like Internet Archive [12:43] schestowitz-TR they keep one set of videos not "off the cliff" yet [12:43] schestowitz-TR sio they load faster and have copies in a datacentre near you [12:43] schestowitz-TR and then there is some "vault" for stale videos [12:43] schestowitz-TR like the ones that take ages for Wayback Machine to truen [12:43] schestowitz-TR no cache, no proximity to data [12:43] schestowitz-TR the second video says that they actively deny access to "too many" people [12:43] schestowitz-TR (viral) if your channel is low profile [12:43] schestowitz-TR I see no explanation for this counterintuitive policy unless it's tied to [12:43] schestowitz-TR cost andf technical overhead [12:43] schestowitz-TR (of course gulag won't admit this) [12:43] schestowitz-TR because on a daily basis, any given day, I reckon only 1% of videos will be accessed at all [12:43] schestowitz-TR the old ones are "archived" [12:43] schestowitz-TR if gulag can lower that to 0.1%, that's a big costint saving through CDNs and other [12:43] schestowitz-TR content distribution optimisations [12:43] schestowitz-TR the trouble is, it means gulag actively DISCRIMINATES against the SMALL [12:43] schestowitz-TR which is what the video demonstrates [12:43] schestowitz-TR you can watch it in... https://odysee.com/@PodcastNow:7/youtube-hates-small-creators-this:8 [12:43] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | YouTube Hates Small Creators - This Warning Message Proves It [12:44] schestowitz-TR (this latter video is not that good; better save the time for another, I didn't even watch the whole thing) [12:45] Techrights-sec https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/tombs-suggest-pyramids-not-built-by-slaves-1.965867 [12:45] Techrights-sec perhaps [12:45] Techrights-sec I just know that YouTUbe has been useless since a few months ago, Im not sure [12:45] Techrights-sec when it turned since I don't look at it often [12:45] Techrights-sec not even a full 1% because there are so many in their storage pool [12:45] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cbc.ca | Tombs suggest pyramids not built by slaves | CBC News [12:45] Techrights-sec queued to listen later [12:47] schestowitz-TR currency is money (labour, savings) => currency is debt ("credit") => currency is influence/power [12:47] schestowitz-TR business models [12:47] schestowitz-TR earn money => get good "credit" to borrow like Alex Jones => cheat and lie like Elon Musk and Jeff H. gates [12:54] Techrights-sec yep [12:54] Techrights-sec I suspect that "credit" and "debt" are promoted because they allow bluffing [12:54] Techrights-sec and bullshitting throughout all activities [12:54] schestowitz-TR re debt, graft/bailouts [12:54] schestowitz-TR not for people in tent cities [12:54] schestowitz-TR for microsoft and bezos space "pet project" [12:55] Techrights-sec wow, even my old howtos (like openCV) now have ads on them [12:55] Techrights-sec skip ad to start [12:55] Techrights-sec and that's after I was in effect "disqualified" [12:55] Techrights-sec like demonetised in bulk [12:55] Techrights-sec for not meeting new criteria (thresholds) [12:55] Techrights-sec so they are doing carrot and schticcck [12:55] schestowitz-TR wow, even my old howtos (like openCV) now have ads on them [12:55] schestowitz-TR skip ad to start [12:55] schestowitz-TR and that's after I was in effect "disqualified" [12:55] schestowitz-TR like demonetised in bulk [12:55] schestowitz-TR for not meeting new criteria (thresholds) [12:55] schestowitz-TR so they are doing carrot and schticcck [12:59] schestowitz Shame on Gulag (Google Inc.)... even my old howtos (like OpenCV) now have ads on them (need to "skip ad" to start my videos that are just Free software howtos). To make matters worse, that's after I was in effect "disqualified" for "monetisation" (like demonetised in bulk for not meeting new criteria (thresholds)), so they are doing carrot and schticcckkk, changing the terms as they fly along, profiting off my free work while shutting me out ● Apr 25 [13:46] schestowitz-TR I've recorded a video covering some but not all of these points [13:46] schestowitz-TR https://odysee.com/@PodcastNow:7/youtube-hates-small-creators-this:8 [13:46] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | YouTube Hates Small Creators - This Warning Message Proves It [13:47] schestowitz-TR https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/a-suggestion-to-youtube-on-not:a [13:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | A suggestion to YouTube on not demoralizing longtime creators [13:47] schestowitz-TR https://odysee.com/youtube-not-paying-creators:c [13:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | YOUTUBE NOT PAYING CREATORS [13:48] schestowitz-TR https://odysee.com/@Naomi-SexyCyborg-Wu:b/youtube-cheats-its-creators-and-i-can:0 [13:48] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | YouTube Cheats Its Creators- and I Can Prove It. [13:52] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:57] schestowitz-TR I recomended mediagoblin (still active, I checked commits and code) and peertube [13:57] schestowitz-TR not odysee [13:57] schestowitz-TR it's another bubble [13:58] Techrights-sec ack [13:58] Techrights-sec i've yet to find a way to "discover" material via mediagoblin [13:59] schestowitz-TR I think it can be federated, but maybe I confuse that with another video sharing piece of software ● Apr 25 [14:00] schestowitz-TR anyway, if you tap onto search and "discoverability" [14:00] schestowitz-TR then you typically give one or more parties control on who "wins" and who ""loses" [14:00] schestowitz-TR that's why for some things, as debated in irc in 2020, nothing like gulag should be pursued [14:00] schestowitz-TR ipfs, gemini etc. [14:00] schestowitz-TR GUS is dead [14:00] schestowitz-TR Planets are themselves biasdd [14:05] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:05] Techrights-sec I though that MediaGoblin was software one installed for oneself [14:05] Techrights-sec https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mediagoblin [14:05] Techrights-sec Planets were never good except the theoretical, abstract idea even that [14:05] Techrights-sec is not so good once you think about all the ways Planets can (and do) get gamed [14:05] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-savannah.gnu.org | GNU MediaGoblin - Summary [Savannah] [14:35] Techrights-sec ack [14:35] Techrights-sec it should be noted that TR self-hosts and has done so for a long time [14:36] schestowitz-TR yes, I should state that. I hope you saw no typos. My problem is, I don't use or even see many of these bad things, so I rely on others explaining them to me. I still never saw tiktok. [14:36] schestowitz-TR draft [14:36] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [14:36] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [14:37] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:37] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [14:38] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [14:38] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:40] schestowitz-TR [14:39] Embedded Linux project: Yocto or Ubuntu Core? | Ubuntu https://ubuntu.com//blog/embedded-linux-project-i https://ubuntu.com//blog/embedded-linux-project-ii https://ubuntu.com//blog/embedded-linux-project-iii canonical/ubuntu should compete harder AGAINST MICROSOFT, not other distros [14:40] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Embedded Linux project: Yocto or Ubuntu Core? [Part I] | Ubuntu [14:40] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Embedded Linux project: Yocto or Ubuntu Core? [Part II] | Ubuntu [14:40] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Embedded Linux project: Yocto or Ubuntu Core? [Part III] | Ubuntu [14:44] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [14:44] Techrights-sec I've not seen tiktok either just read of its bad reputation and role as [14:44] Techrights-sec manipulator of youth [14:44] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [14:52] schestowitz-TR what happened? I think you typed something and then it vanished [14:52] schestowitz-TR last line I saw was "manipulator of yough" [14:52] schestowitz-TR *yough [14:52] schestowitz-TR >youth [14:53] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [14:54] Techrights-sec ctrl-C in wrong window [14:54] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [14:55] Techrights-sec :( ####################################### [14:55] Techrights-sec the shift on this keyboard is starting to become less than 100% reliable [14:55] Techrights-sec anyway, I was starting to paste a good quote for the draft: [14:55] Techrights-sec """ [14:55] Techrights-sec 12:01:00 TR News; DO NOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT [14:55] Techrights-sec in Gulag or YouTube. Stop giving them any of your work. [14:55] Techrights-sec Stop it. It's over. They're trying to "cash in" now, at [14:55] Techrights-sec your expense. They're profiting off my free work while [14:56] Techrights-sec shutting me out (they keep increasing thresholds). So [14:56] Techrights-sec glad I stopped uploading videos there years ago. [14:56] Techrights-sec """ [14:56] Techrights-sec tikitok is for china to do massmaniuplation of opinion against youth [14:56] Techrights-sec that is particularly damaging because people mostly soak up the first [14:56] Techrights-sec post they are exposted, whether rfact or fiction, as the truth and [14:56] Techrights-sec resist any change thereafter regardless of evidence and facts [14:56] Techrights-sec it's not unlike the tobacco companies aiming to get kids addicted [14:56] Techrights-sec tiktiok therefore sucks even worse than youtube [14:56] schestowitz-TR OK, I assume whatever was lost from the buffer is reinstated [14:56] schestowitz-TR I don't want to reuse text from IRC too much [14:56] schestowitz-TR I also try not to repeat in video what's in the text and vice versa [14:56] schestowitz-TR because people don't need two of the same ● Apr 25 [15:03] *acer-box (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [15:03] schestowitz-TR as a side note, I don't do much coverage about gemini and instead just link a lot to gemini capsules [15:03] schestowitz-TR I think sites or orgs getting caught up with just one thing [15:03] schestowitz-TR leading to repetition [15:04] schestowitz-TR makes them stale and boring [15:04] schestowitz-TR I don't understand the video 'sharing' stuff like tiktok, but it seems to me like "wall of youtube" [15:04] schestowitz-TR so some sort of hybrid with addictive elements like infitive scroll and instant animation [15:04] schestowitz-TR becoming single-issue orgs is fine [15:04] schestowitz-TR like rms speaking of the 4 freeddoms, then branching out to many othwerr things, inc. many he barely understands [15:04] schestowitz-TR and never used [15:04] schestowitz-TR it would be good if someone tested youtube for filter (to demonetise) on "Linux" [15:04] schestowitz-TR DeVault complained that many in Gemnin spoke ogf Gemini itself instead of showing the protocol in action [15:04] schestowitz-TR covering stuff not rlated to the subject matter being employed as the medium [15:04] schestowitz-TR ####################################### [15:04] schestowitz-TR There was another thing I wanted to say but forget... it must not have matters much anyway... [15:04] schestowitz-TR mattered [15:04] schestowitz-TR in linuxhint they keep pushing some JS shite called boost5 iirc [15:04] schestowitz-TR a literal toolkit of web junk [15:04] schestowitz-TR I reckon they give you one meg of function [15:04] schestowitz-TR for you to leverage to maybe make a little bouncing ball somewhere [15:04] schestowitz-TR this takes up a lot of resources other than b/w [15:04] schestowitz-TR infinite scrool would likely be another "framwwork [15:05] Techrights-sec infinite scroll is a tool in the addiction toolkit [15:05] Techrights-sec many seem to perceive a steaming pile of javascript as job security: [15:05] Techrights-sec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window [15:05] *schestowitz-TR2 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [15:05] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Parable of the broken window - Wikipedia [15:29] Techrights-sec when the ads are a larger proporation of the stream then the content [15:29] Techrights-sec the visitor count for youtube will plummet, as is happening [15:30] schestowitz-TR [15:17] Googles YouTube is Not Free Video Hosting | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/04/25/gulagtube-no-fre [15:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Googles YouTube is Not Free Video Hosting | Techrights [15:30] schestowitz-TR e-lunch/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/04/25/gulagtube-no-free-lunch/ [15:30] schestowitz-TR [15:18] Google now puts ads in videos of mine that are SHORTER than the ads! Guess who gets paid for these ads! [15:30] schestowitz-TR i mention in the video that I saw ads that are like 15 mins long [15:30] schestowitz-TR unless you press something [15:30] schestowitz-TR that's just outrageous [15:37] Techrights-sec even when presssing to eascape the ads you still have o wait at least 30 seconds [15:37] Techrights-sec sometimes 2 x 30 seconds [15:37] Techrights-sec that's prior to the video then there are several like that spliced in at [15:37] Techrights-sec intervals [15:37] Techrights-sec and then again at the end [15:37] Techrights-sec to make matters worse, their search function is useless and it is almost [15:37] Techrights-sec impossible to find known old videos by searching any more [15:38] schestowitz-TR I wrtote about the search some time last year [15:38] schestowitz-TR youget lots of stuff totally unrelated to what you search for [15:38] schestowitz-TR they mix things for relevance and for "engagement" [15:38] schestowitz-TR so what you think are search results [15:38] schestowitz-TR are in fact not likely to contain the word/s yoiu searched for [15:38] schestowitz-TR the only explanation for it is, [15:38] schestowitz-TR Gulag wants engagment even if they wastes your time [15:40] Techrights-sec had a process to ci [15:40] Techrights-sec kill but hit the wrong window (again) [15:41] Techrights-sec the MQTT-based chat seemed ok, should I try a python-based version of that in ###### [15:41] Techrights-sec the next month? THis method is as it is and won't improve [15:42] schestowitz-TR I managed to read everything [15:42] schestowitz-TR but not capture the text [15:42] schestowitz-TR so it was not a waste of typing [15:43] schestowitz-TR I read everything [15:43] schestowitz-TR I don'r suppose there is a buffer somewhere in a file? [15:43] schestowitz-TR for this? [15:43] Techrights-sec no, not the way this program works at the moment, the easier option would [15:43] Techrights-sec be to trap various signals to change the behavior when ctrl-C is encountered [15:45] schestowitz-TR ok, no worries [15:45] schestowitz-TR I did read carefully what was missed [15:45] schestowitz-TR about KDE and GNOME, I cannot share this assessment [15:45] schestowitz-TR they changed a lot [15:45] schestowitz-TR but this aspect of the change I don't see or feel [15:53] Techrights-sec I have seen it especially with the move to KDE4 and later [15:54] schestowitz-TR fwiw, i've just rechecked the ytalk manual (did so years ago) [15:54] schestowitz-TR still no releases in ages [15:54] schestowitz-TR made by a swede [15:54] schestowitz-TR in unix era [15:54] schestowitz-TR and hardly updated [15:54] schestowitz-TR no new features [15:54] schestowitz-TR I suppose talk, which I used 20+ years ago, is the lesser of the two [15:56] Techrights-sec yes. lesser [15:56] schestowitz-TR OK, now I may have miussed something that was said [15:57] schestowitz-TR no you suggested that in a comparison of ytalk and talk,the latter is lesser########## [15:57] schestowitz-TR I agree [15:57] Techrights-sec no you suggested that in a comparison of ytalk and talk,the latter is lesser########## [15:57] Techrights-sec I agree ● Apr 25 [16:46] Techrights-sec otr: I should buy computer glasses next time there is a sale ● Apr 25 [17:01] schestowitz-TR "We"... do you work for them now as "influencer"? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=77x-HwMnsRY [17:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | We've fixed the Steam Deck's worst hardware flaw! Plus other Steam Deck news! - Invidious [17:10] Techrights-sec Gardiner sold out a few months back [17:10] Techrights-sec I stopped watching shortly afterwards due to the dro in quality and relevance [17:10] Techrights-sec I do sometimes still read the summaries though. [17:10] Techrights-sec Before that he used to style himself, "The Linux Gamer" [17:37] schestowitz-TR Canonical has just published not one but TWO Microsoft shilling pieces [17:37] schestowitz-TR on the same day it attacjttacked yocto [17:37] schestowitz-TR but I don't want to cover it as that would give more coverage to Microsoft brands [17:39] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [17:39] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [17:40] schestowitz-TR when people sell out their value diminished fast (Bryant) [17:40] schestowitz-TR his base was "Linux" [17:40] schestowitz-TR When companies sell out the word gets out fast [17:41] schestowitz-TR Ubuntu share is falling and I read about distros that move from ubuntu base [17:41] schestowitz-TR to debian base [17:41] schestowitz-TR which is the lesser evil [17:41] schestowitz-TR mint miught be next to make lmde the default [17:43] Techrights-sec hopefully the D in LMDE soon stands for Devuan rather than Debian ● Apr 25 [18:16] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:35] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:55] schestowitz-TR Our Prime Minister Borisnaro Said Let the Bodies Pile High (and Now They Do, Even in Spring) http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/25/bodies-pile-high/ [18:55] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Our Prime Minister Borisnaro Said Let the Bodies Pile High (and Now They Do, Even in Spring) [18:55] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [18:55] *schestowitz-TR2 (~acer-box@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:55] *schestowitz-TR has quit (connection closed) [18:55] *acer-box (~acer-box@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [18:56] Techrights-sec :( ● Apr 25 [19:20] schestowitz-TR2 thoughts on the hare programming language; march 2021 to now gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2022-04-25.gmi [19:26] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Apr 25 [20:21] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@6w5unahkg59x6.irc) has joined #boycottnovell