IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, October 25, 2022

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needs to be deleted because it is corrupt. Neither the audio nor the video

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Richard Stallman on Self-Driving Cars and Microsoft’s Universal Back Door | Techrights

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I tstedd in vlc and browsers

Oct 25 04:55

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works in 7 media players and browsers here

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It does not work in VLC here. Can you please re-check it from your end?

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The file seems quite corrupt even though it is only one minute.

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I;ve tried re-downloading it.

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Try downloading it from TR

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No aspect of it works from here. :/

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oh well

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checking

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i even can stream it in vlc using the url

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did any prior clips of thhis kind have the same issue?

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This one seems to be wholly missingth evideo link: http://techrights.org/2022/10/01/libre-software/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Richard Stallman on Libre Software | Techrights

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this one seems completely ok: http://techrights.org/2022/09/14/rms-books/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Privacy-Respecting Book Loaning | Techrights

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maybe the way I use ffmpeg is not just sub-optimal but bad

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I think it slips it without re-encodingf

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the fast and distry way

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but it never caused problems at my end

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probably

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Well a spot check of the last three shows there may be something severly wrong

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with the work flow. However, be that as it may, is there a URL for today's

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talk in India by RMS?

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just the introduction in text

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but no video

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Too bad. I would like to find out what his topic is and how he covered it.

Oct 25 05:22

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the talk is about 7 hours from now

Oct 25 05:22

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I reproduced the talk's abstract last night

Oct 25 05:22

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yes. I saw. It seems that just 3 - 4 years ago institutions were much

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better at streaming.

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By the way, Chromium-based web browsers block access to https://techrights.org/

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with no means of allowing the self-signed certificate through.

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Given what Baker is doing to Mozilla it is a matter of time before Firefox

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also fully blocks self-signed certificates. From what I recall, Let's Encrypt

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never got recognition as a Certificate Authority and are still using a dual

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CA as a temporary work-around which seems to have become kind of permanent.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Welcome to Techrights

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got back to keyboard

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all server went offline (reboot maybe)

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lots to fix and test

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brb

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checking servers, nothing triggered here so the outage must have been short

Oct 25 07:39

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about 1h30m ago HV turned over, same for the guests

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oh, well done

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the changes to cron persistent across startups/reboots

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ipfs does not yet start automatically though, but that's OK

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I think everything is back now

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and the system updates apply following reboots, which were planned weeks ago

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excellent

Oct 25 08:12

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yes, that was a benefit and overdue

Oct 25 08:12

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sorry I was slow to respond, just slept, got back, many terminals were 'dead'

Oct 25 08:17

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regarding https, TR is never advertised with that protocol

Oct 25 08:17

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some browsers try to be 'clever', even without extensions

Oct 25 08:17

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Chromium is not just 'some', it is like 85+ % of the market.

Oct 25 08:22

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iirc, finfish from gemma group *german) is still around under some other name

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regarding, chrom* if given a http:// domain or address

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I hope it does not try to rewrite it

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I heard tor browser used to do that

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maybe also librewolf by default

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*finfisher

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Oct 25 08:47

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I will open email tonight

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latest thunderbird made it a lto faster to open

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like a big issued 6-7 years after the problem started

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and that gives temptation to break workflow again

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by letting mail get in there

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better done in bulk

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esp. when some mail is not pleasant

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e.g. copyright troll

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re mood-swinging etc, a mechanical mindset/thinking (like working in garden, following routine) can help

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but that very much depends on the root causes, e.g. chamical or outside factor

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re covid-19, tonight or this afternoon we'll have more figures of mortality

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i've looked forward to these for days already as they can help validate a hypothesis

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Prince Sunak thinks money can solve everything, like carpenters with their nails and glue

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I joked to rianne that all food would be just one penny because she found a large milk for that price

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for a moment she though I was serious

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Sunak is the one behind "eat out, help out" in summer 2020 (the spread of covid-19 was curbed)

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Sunak's appointment is not beneficial

Oct 25 08:58

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my friend destroyed his heart with excessive or too hard exercise

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he broke some rowing record and did not know it was ruining his main arteries

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until this past February

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when he experienced shock like never before (from the news, not any bodily event)

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so what he thought made him younger and would elongate his life did the opposite

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same with my dad and his diving (he only realised when it was too late)

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there is ample literature on how athletes don't like long

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Tragic

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and that depends on their discpline esp. intensity they subject themselves to

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my philosophhy is, exercise but as less as it is enjoyable

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*as long

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(not so private:)

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I have the following routines

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stair climbing, very fast, sets of 5 floors

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pushups/situps/lunges etc. (floor)

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computer room: shotput ball various things, inc. squats and fast-box

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no equipment, but after hiatus in lockdowns (2020, 2021) each time I returned to the gym

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I could handle the machines OK

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so loss of body mass or muscle erosion (like, from illness) is the main risk

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I find walking and jogging routes around the stadium/academy

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planes are just nasty by every metric

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and a shop to make it worth the journey

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i keep hearing of unhealth people or people whose relatives are not healthy

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(rubenerd, mastodon.technology's ash, some people I know in person)

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which can mandate dangerous mingling with covidiots

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or boarding planes where isolation is infeasible

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sans the "sanitation theatre"

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"leg room" is never an issue until you board a plane, where they already (iirc) patent

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the stuffing of passengers in standing position to save space

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not even military planes do this

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"excuse me, you two people in the middle and aisle, I have to go pee, do you mind waking up and walk to the

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aisle for me, once when I leave and then again when I get back? That would be greeeeeatttttt"

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[holds breath for 5 mins and walks away from "scene of the crime"]

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they call this "lifestyle", "seeing the world", and boast about "air miles"

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like debt (not debit) cards that are made 95% of plastic but say "Gold" or "Platinum" on them

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to stroke the egos of the likes of Zemlin, who barely knows how to restart a service let alone

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deliver a presentation from his Mac PC without it getting jammed

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people who look down on those who don't participate in these 'rituals' aren't worthy of enagement

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let them find their other career-climbing losers to waste their lives with

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apropos, social control media is a driver of this toxic culture

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and takes it out of the classroom and the mall, shoving it into the home 24/7

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"the phone in the socket that never stops beeping"

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yep

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one improvement has been the cessation of smoking on the flights;

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the whole plane was otherwise filled with smoke such that the ceiling was

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hardly visisble

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smoke in plane is a safety hazard

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if someone cannot avoid a fag for 2-10 hours of flight, one is a junkie

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and junkies don't belong on planes

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we sat next to one for 5 hours, it was truly horrible and I wrote about it

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btw, pay in academic has sunk and the atmosphere at the job became very bad

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at one postdoc position I worked 10 hours a week and was paid just enough for bills and barely food

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so they're eliminating jobs that don't resemlbe wage slavery, by lowing the pay and also making the job

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less pleasant

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they've taken disgnity out of teaching jobs; in hungary there was a 80,000-strong protest by teachers

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Orban hates scholars and academia

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those "f*ckers" don't vote for him, so "f*ck them!"

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that protest was this week, I posted a link in irc about it minutes ago

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it's not just us/gop issue

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when I was intervewed her for postdoc job (last time, cirica 2012) one person was my phd mentor

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and the other was some "business development" BS person. she knew NOTHING about science

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it was just some useless "business" (so-called) person

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like a university needs to juistify its existence now by making money!

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back then everyone who smoked more or less chain smoked for the duration of the

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flight

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yes academic pay is below minimum wage at least in the US and there the minimum

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is not even remotely livable

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then there are the terrible work conditions and irrelevant make-work tasks

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thrown on top of the real tasks

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you're lukcy these days if the job is only 'less pleasant' most workplaces

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aim to have a downright unpleasant and nasty environment.

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yes you mentioned. they ruin everything like a business now:

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into the ground and ask for a bailout

Oct 25 09:22

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that is an excellent analogy actually

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similar to ones I tell my parents about

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I keep reminding them my sinblings accomplish nothing

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they waste their lives making a bunch of sociopaths richer

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regarding dotcom, put aside ".com" and say tech or tech-fascism

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aside from those milking off the taxpayers' teat, like Microsoft,

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many companies perish atm

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they never had a viable plan, just "many users"

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Netflix, Spotify (layoffs)

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Twitter "overstaffed" (no shit! Running a pile ofm JS shit takes that many staff???)

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thewy don't even do any real moderation or assess appeal; they overturn nothing, just like gulag

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and in youtube they strip sound or remove stuff autonmously (real sorry! not out fault!!! bad,, bad HEY HI)

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(many "tech" companies, even large ones, don't even have their own infra to look after, they're overcharged

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by bezos or gulag or -- for idiots -- a clusterfuck full of layoffs called "azure" -- whatever that is)

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thus the "underpants gnomes" meme

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in youtube, people have gotten copyright strikes for playing their own

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compositions as well as for playing classical pieces like Bach, Beethoven, etc

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Most "tech" companies don't produce anything and aim for a buyout / IPO

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how to run youtube channel in "modern" GoogleTube:

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1) don't have any music, just speech

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2) never curse, no matter the context

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3) don't touch certain subjects; if you do, make 25% of the video all about "YouTube Guidelines" to waste viewers

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' time and pray your foes won't twist your words out of context

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4) don't expect money, even if your audience grows (reminder: spamnil 9 views in 9 days)

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5) don't buy any equipment like lighting ane expensive camera/microphone gear; those WILL NOT pay for themselves

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had long chat about related staff (kitchen talk)

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this afternoon we might go check the nearby gym

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to see how crowded it is at off-peak times

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for next year, assuming we resume

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not the same gym as before

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iirc, offpeak membership is about 22.5 a month

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maybe less for a pair

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it's where the water polo team is training, two large pools

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ack

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more Mastodon clients for the Fediverse are now javascript-only, that

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sucks even more than before

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I think I'll just delete the last of the bookmarks over that

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to the various instances. So much for openness and inclusivity.

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They suck.

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you understimate the "sucness"

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the instance I moved tuxmachines to

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not only wants JS

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it also rejects many "modern" browsers

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or does not render correctly

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but I spend no time there

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I've been checking every other week from a few bookmarks, but no longer.

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There were *very* few links posted there anyway though sometimes independent

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searching could follow clues given in the comments to find stuff. Either way

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though it was very, very low yield.

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everything feels low yield compared to a decade ago

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sometimes I check the 12 or so static pages I have in a list for weekends

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10 minutes spent for maybe 3 links

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rss feeds are full of shit but fast to navigate

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gulag noise is mostly stuff I already have direct feeds for

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and not there is a level of indirection/spying in URLs

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so I stopped refreshing that

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The way things are going with the browsers as VMs we should not have the world

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running Firefox or Chromium but simple Qemu or VirtualBox

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Compare to a decade ago, journalism has been abandoned and even back then it

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was kind of thin compared to the turn of the century.

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RSS is 100s of times faster to navigate than regular web access but still

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very very slow and time consuming to find anything worth quoting.

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i have just been to the gym, checked the whole place upside down, in and out

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it's not bad

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at one point he suggested I "download the apo" for more info

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I didn't say anything to that

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Which are the key resources you would want to use there? If I understand

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correctly you are big enough for waterpolo but that is probably too much

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lung exhaust all around.

Oct 25 10:55

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I could probably do the goalkeeping as I did that since a little kid till 20 (in soccer though)

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but I checked it not for the pools but for gym, showers etc.

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you have reminded me I need to check for replies, if any, in mastodon

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that always felt like a chore

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just spent 5-10 mins checking comments

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it was not time well spent

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and thought me not much new

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mostyl a lot of scrolling

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irc is a lot more effective than these GUIs

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arbitrary thought: in the early 2000s I wrote articles differently

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those were articles based on other articles

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because journalism existed

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in my text file I'd add my references with excerpts from them

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not it is difficult

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as even if there is coverage of some issue, usually there is only one source for it

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rianne told me this morning about sites she noticed were dying, inc. techrepublic (spam)

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I gave her some more examples (she reads similar feeds to me)

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she then mentioned what happened tio IPFire (licence infringment)

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I said to her that a decade ago there would be article about it, but not anyore

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journalism was harmed by "famred" social control media and now that it goes away many rush to other

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things that ebb away

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ack

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Like forecast in the mid-1990s, the centralized nature of web-based publishing

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ensures that whole decades worth of material vanishes at the pull of a plug

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or the stroke of a key. Each site has one, and only one, copy. When that is

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gone, it does not matter how many people were using it or how important or

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relevant the material was, it is gone.

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With paper copies, those were distributed and the recipient could decide (legally) whether to preserve their copi

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es and for how long.

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So, as web sites fade away, it becomes more and more important for individual

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posts to stand on their own, with quotes and other supporting data self-

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contained as possbile.

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sorry, fell asleep, got new data from ONS

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spoiler: it's a shocker

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grabbing alculator

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ack

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ffs

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I think I see what the issue is with my site now

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many CMS bits don't work at the back end or altogether

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not just my blof

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they probably "upgraded" PHP or something

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maybe not as severe as I thought -- they're looking into it atm

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i was right, it was php versions

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seems to be settled now

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they set my account to old compat mode

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php is messy business

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if you won't keep up (same w/ pyton3 btw), code needs to be rewritten and stuff

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ack

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Fortunately perl5 is quite stable

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PHP will change (break) between point releases

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static pages help overcome some of these changes

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sometimes the cost of keeping a site offline become astronomical

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as you need to rewrite a piece of software just to keep some ARCHIVES online

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and some sites would rather shut down (go offline) than do this

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sometimes you want to tell folks, slow down a bit, stop "innovating", you'e breaking people's workflows

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and data far too often

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society spends a lot of effort just chasing "latest version"

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we covered this in techrights before

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in passing at least

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I still use jpilot in 2022

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no gym till the numbers improve a lot

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they use "war", "inflation" and "politics" to pretent COVID-19 queries aren't relevant anymore:

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Office for National Statistics (ONS): Deaths This Autumn 21% Higher Than Same Period Prior to COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/25/autumn-death-surge/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Office for National Statistics (ONS): Deaths This Autumn 21% Higher Than Same Period Prior to COVID-19

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rianne says the trains now charge extra one pound to have a physical ticket for thew train

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and no fee if you use "app"

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f*cers

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they call it "green"

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to carry around a high-powered device

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and conflict minerals used to asdsemble the darn thing

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ridiculous

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Not just high powered but very electricity-hungry. Those need to be charged

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several times per day, not per week, per day.

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riaqnne is livid

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this wasn't like this just 2-3 months ago

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she wants to visit the aunt after cancer operation

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Well of course she's livid, they are lying to her.

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this sounds like a better option

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here, they charge 7.50 to post the ticket to you

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or you pay 1 pound to have it printed at the station

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and she says they are greenwashing the "app" option

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I guess they also profit from hoovring your data and selling it

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(those are private companies now)

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England and Wales Increase in Deaths by Age Group: 62% in Children, 12% in Teens, Almost 20% in Adults, and 16% in Old People https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/25/increase-in-deaths-by-age-groups/

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That would probably the primary reason for foisting an "app" on all the

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surveillance devices, to continually monitor and sell the observations.

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kitchen talk about it atm

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she agrees with me trhat buying the ticket does not even tall them if she boards the train

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app can help track her before, durig, and after travel

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then sell the data

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and she tells me they already sell her data to booking.com (layoffs btw)

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rianne found out about the booking.com diversion

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I'm not even sure if train companies are permitted to pass data like this

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ok, rianne now says that the revolving gates don't work for physical tickets mas they used to

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with a barcode on the printed ticket

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instead you neede to go to a person to let you through

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with the idiots scan their [cr]app shit

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to get through the revolving gates

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I reckon they not only penalise financially old people whose pension barely suffice for food now

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they also aim to compltely eliminate travel by people without [cr]apps

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I watched thjese trends over the years

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10 years ago you could not use wifi anonymously unless in first class ('free' wifi, they can still

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fingerprint you)

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and to travel anonymously you needed to go to the counter

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it's even harder to purcahse soccer ticketa anonumous

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except froim scalpers

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or using fake data you give the cashiers

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ack

Oct 25 15:06

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lol!

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so much progres

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we can set satellite in orbit (for MASSIVE budgets... far more than justified)

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but cannot run trains on time like 200 or so years ago with coal/steam)

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because "the system is down"

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lol!

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"come right up, horse, we're going to the pub"

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horse repair shop = vet

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no blinkers to fix, just blinders

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i thought about doing mems of car vs horse

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along the lines of "rock vs hypePhone"

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or ven palm PDA

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battery life, privacy, security etc.

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kitchen talk ctd:m rianne said the iran-xxxxx site that we support is having technical issues again

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after moving from djangoCMS tro drupal

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we've lost count; the context was, I mentioned python and php 'upgrade' paths

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and she just noticed in triage that this client (you know who) is having compatibility problems

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the bills they need to pay just to keep the site going and preserve 30k or so articles' archive are

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hard to justify even when they hire "geeks" from yerevan (they are not that good tbh)

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the ones they hired from india were a lot worse, but probably cheaper, more harm than good ime

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we had to lock one out of the system because he kept making a mess; so his access would be request-based

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no improvisig allowed; one troll in irc likes to mock people who strive to have stable systems

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ack

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would a static archive be more suitable?

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wget could scrape the old pages.

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coffee break, need [topic]

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then rss again (super-slow, even for a tuesday when editors are typically 'back' temporarily)

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in light of covid-19 numbers we decided to further delay gym

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until we know wth is going on

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seems like permanent health damage

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/rnc-lawsuit-google-spam-filter-blocks-email

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Oct 25 15:28

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.axios.com | Republicans sue Google claiming spam filter blocks email

Oct 25 15:28

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https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/rnc-lawsuit-google-spam-filter-blocks-email

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^ topic ?

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oli

techrights-sec[2]

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gopoly-has-won.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-national-committee-sues-google-over-email-spam-filters-2022-10-22/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oli )

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Republican National Committee sues Google over email spam filters | Reuters

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thanks, i'll think of how to cover this

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rianne meanwhile says, why can't they just make software that lasts many years and is maintained for a long time?

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it's not a rhetorical questiob

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it is partly the outcome of software being managed by suits rather then geeks like openbsd

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e.g. in the case of linux, sheela microsoft and her wife james

Oct 25 15:36

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being NOT techical but merely exploiting technical people (to get rich)

Oct 25 15:36

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Part of the reason they can't do that is because M$ has sold people software

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using the Appeal To Novelty (argumentum ad novitatem) that the drones in

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purchasing and the suits in the C-suite evaluate software based on very

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few other critera other than version number. Recall in the NT vs Netware days

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they jump the versions up to have a higher number than the competition. Then

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renamed it to "2000"

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And part of that comes down to few to none of todays institutions having an

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actual IT department where they /support/ the mission critical teams in finding

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easier, more efficient tools and methods. Instead they have all become

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embedded M$ resellers working against the company using the company's own

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money.

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"newer is not better; different is not better; only better is better;"

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OpenBSD doesn't support any old versions beyond n-1 because they have positioned

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themselves as mostly a research and development team and that is the way to

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be able to drop old cruft. Ensuring "backwards compatibility" too long

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ensures that some cruft never goes away. That's why so many remote exploits

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affect all known versions of M$ Windows. Or as they put it, the exploits are

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known to affect the old but supported versions but no info about the "latest

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version". Then they push for across the board upgrades to the latest version.

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Then after a pause of a few days or a week, it is quitely mentioned that

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the "latest version" is also equally vulnerable, but to buy the new version

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anyway.

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s/That's why/That's one of the many reasons why/

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type z "BS job": keep changing things that work

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this way things change

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and money changes hands

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there are theories of so-called 'economists' about flow of money

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which I don't quite get

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first, money does not exist per se

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it's a token/barter -- a concept

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passing a goat from one person to another person to another person

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yields no productive "gain"

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so ideally you can buy a radio alarm clock (fm) that lasts you a lifetime

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and build a home with good enough materials

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(not going into specifics about all the things that go wrong with "modern" homes, built fast and cheaply to look

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good on the surface)

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cars diminish in value so fast that only a job and peer pressure can justify buying a "modern" one

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meanwhile I drink a a whole teaspot of coffee that costs just 10p to prepare, inc. power and ingredients

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*teapot

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a plastic cup with coffee (i heard) now costs about 4 pounds

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so you work for 30 minutes at minimum wage *(physically demanding) for some water with ground seeds in it

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New appliances apparently have input from engineers assigned the task of having

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critical components fail just after the warranty expires. e.g. plastic

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encased bearings, glued-in perishable batteries, decomposing belts, etc

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biab (wiring another computer)

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a sceptic or cynic would scoff and say "conpricacy theorist"

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without having read about the light bulb cartel or similar

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there are hardly proseuctions for bribery anymore (see Microsoft)

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so cracking down on price-fixing cartels(petrol, food, electronics with patents)

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not likely any time soon

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there are ways to shun them (direct action, personal) but it comes with some temporary inconveniences

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and means you go through life having to constantly challenge and argue with "systems"

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the aspiration is, make more people out there challenge the system to the point where it becomes

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financially unjustifable

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gym this morning: "you can download the app"

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all your need is a stack of weights and a shower; no apps, no thank you!

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I tried m,any queries by which to find bits of the rms talk

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but was not successful (yet)

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i look forward to publishing andy's piece

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he covered aspects like life further complicated by "systems"

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ack

Oct 25 16:01

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I too look forward to Andy's article.

Oct 25 16:01

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flatpak has a new releas

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egithub

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the site says at the top (main headline/()

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the future of APPS on LINUX

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then shows slack.. steam... microsoft atom (eol!!)

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yeah, the future

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drm and dead Microsoft stuff

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we became what we fought?

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that's what they aim for -- drm and proprietary

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infiltrated and subsumed; also the pipeline of new IT people has been cut off

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so there are no places anyone can learn technology even if they wanted to

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pgksrc is probably better

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^pkgsrc

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they don't even announce the release anyywhere but shithub

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and I refuse to link to THAT

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their web site is very out of dats

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latest press release 2018~

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1.0 rewlease

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/using.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.netbsd.org | Chapter?5.?Using pkgsrc

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now I see more compression algos (zstd, shithub) inserted right into the kernel, linux.

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there's no reason to put that inside a kernel

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nope

Oct 25 16:17

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no reason

Oct 25 16:17

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this is facebook using kernel.org as a trijan horse to spread its stuff along with microsoft proprietary prison

schestowitz-TR2

same for rust

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while paying millions to Sheela Microsoft and the wife James

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to make sure they cannot say "no"

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ack

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LT said FB was "a disease"

Oct 25 16:19

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that was before Zuckerface and Sanbag paid his boss for some gem-styles sponsorehip mtier that comes

Oct 25 16:19

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with TWO board seats

Oct 25 16:19

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gem-styled sponsorship tier

Oct 25 16:20

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LT/LF: "I heard you like to [some sexual act], how much for you to do that?"

Oct 25 16:21

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ha!

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new video an hour ago, validates what I wrote

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ack

schestowitz-TR2

Many Young People Are Dying (a Lot More Than Before) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/25/many-young-people-are-dying/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Many Young People Are Dying (a Lot More Than Before)

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well worth it, I've jyst told rianne

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and he rightly points out the billBC and other media like BillPR won't fu*cking mention such

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very simple facts

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and the academic community sees no need to properly study the causes

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to repat what I said today and prior days, until we know "wth is going on" I'm lowering the risk

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of shortening our lives

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meanwhile in Boston University they developed a far more potent virus based on COVID-19

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let's hope that one does not escape the lab

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checking

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???

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the text does not make much sense

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there isn't an academic community any more just "adjunct lecturers" in the US

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and similar, post-Bologne Treaty flunkies in Europe

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if the text does not make sense to you, it is because he covers a number of topics in an order that makes sense

Oct 25 16:53

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those are like his written notes

Oct 25 16:53

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and URLs

Oct 25 16:53

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ack

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in both the US and Europe there aren't any stable academic jobs to speak of

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and they spend much of their time playing administrivia with the bureacracy's

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proprietary software locked into Windows instead of teaching or doing research

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The Bologne Treaty toroedoed the system already in 1998 but the damage did not

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fully kick in 2003 but instead an academic generation or two later as the

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real people aged out.

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in 2000 i started bsd

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in 2003 phd

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in 2005 i questioned my mentor (cs dept head) about postdoc jobs

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he said they're expected to work well beyond 9-5

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that was 17 years ago

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i later discovered how low a pay and "administrivia" too

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like swiping card and filling out time sheets

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like I was 15 again working at Burger King

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and even comparable salaries!

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/s/bsd/bsc/

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that necessarily means those who can do decent research won't be postdocs

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they need to eat

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the sysadmins at uni were so awful that it's a miracle they even got the responsibilities

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like wiping a whole server without even telling tenants

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without doing any backups

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after getting cracked

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they are probably fake 'tech' people who just could not find employment anywhere slese

schestowitz-TR2

*else

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(obv. they could not conduct research, either)

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Unqualified flunkies are easier to keep on short leash because the managers

Oct 25 17:04

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can boss them around because the flunky knows he is both highly unqualified and

Oct 25 17:04

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can be replaced on a whim

Oct 25 17:04

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we have those in our company now

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using "Ubuntu" in VirtualBox (Windows)

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with degree in "Classics"

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and no real ability to solve technical issues

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ack

Oct 25 17:27

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"A pause and reappraisal of global vaccination policies for COVID-19 is long overdue

." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363759427_Curing_the_pandemic_of_misinformation_on_COVID-19_mRNA_vacc

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363759427_Curing_the_pandemic_of_misinformation_on_COVID-19_mRNA_vacc )

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ines_through_real_evidence-based_medicine_-_Part_1

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rianne's mom got special exemption issued by the cardiologist

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because the heart conditions are known to be interacting badly with some vaccines

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but more research is needed

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though I am guessing it would be obstructed when you sell a 20 ent dose for $130 or more

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*cent

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I know some people who reported heart events after 1st or 2nd dose

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it was then thay they refuses to take any more

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*refused

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no matter what they were told (assurances based onm hearsay and fear of sounding non-conformist)

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buying a new heart is difficult because it's hard to replace moving parts that pump blood

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ack

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same for spine, but there are remedies there and you can live with a bad spine

https://siliconangle.com/2022/10/24/snyk-cut-14-workforce-latest-round-tech-industry-layoffs/

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(news VERY slow today; tuesdays are usually busy)

Oct 25 17:36

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^ topic ?

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Snyk to cut 14% of workforce in latest round of tech industry layoffs - SiliconANGLE

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haha

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nice one

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In the United States, Winter Deaths Increased 28% Between 2016 and This Year (But President Biden Insists Pandemic is Over) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/25/cdc-numbers/

Oct 25 17:57

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » In the United States, Winter Deaths Increased 28% Between 2016 and This Year (But President Biden Insists Pandemic is Over)

Oct 25 17:57

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ack

Oct 25 18:02

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otr: do you have a specific paper by Lemley in mind? He has written quite

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otr: a few and the search engines do not show any of them to be obviously

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otr: connected to software or the

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otr: do you have a specific paper by Lemley in mind? He has written quite

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otr: a few and the search engines do not show any of them to be obviously

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otr: connected to software or the concept of innovation.

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concept of innovation.

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he wrote about how patent maximalism should avoided and patent quality preserved, iirc

Oct 25 18:23

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the topic of patents fell off the media and I lost track

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now the pharma companies don't even suffer any scrutiny of it

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systemic collapse

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the interests of the vast majority have no bearing on policies

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I would rememeber no better than past TR psost that mention them by name

Oct 25 18:38

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and have URLs

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"Study finds patent systems may discourage innovation"

https://phys.org/news/2009-07-patent-discourage.html

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Maybe this one:

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"Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry"

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-phys.org | Study finds patent systems may discourage innovation

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/343/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-scholarship.law.georgetown.edu | "Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry" by Julie E. Cohen and Mark A. Lemley