IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, September 26, 2021

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Richard Stallman’s First Public Talk (Delivered in Person) in Years, Now With a Free Format | Techrights

https://stallman.org/talks.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-stallman.org | Talks - Richard Stallman

http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2021

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-audio-video.gnu.org | Audio/Video - GNU Project - Free-Software Foundation

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Meanwhile, when you speak in Poland tomorrow, it's worth noting that it's the anniversary: http://techrights.org/2021/09/25/gnu-turns-38-monday/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Reminder: GNU Turns 38 This Monday Around Midday (When GNU’s Founder Gives Talk in Poland) | Techrights

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Happy hacking,

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1288100353975259146?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1288100353975259146:0:0:0:1288105308178092040

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"It's "Climate Change" propaganda enacted as policy that is causing the bulk of Global food shortages."

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | Raj Patel: Climate, Conflict and Capitalism Drive Global ... | Minds

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1288101553168715790?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1288101553168715790:0:0:0:1288105412712730634

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"Technically, we're never at war with anyone. A small minority start it and another small minority fight it. The rest of the people are all at the mercy of the military industrial complex."

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | United States of War: How AUKUS Nuclear Submarine Deal Co... | Minds

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"War mongerers don't represent American or British people, they represent themselves and their interests"

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1288180134406262801?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1288180134406262801:0:0:0:1288181004745314317

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | Daily summary | Coronavirus in the UK | Minds

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1287077079661154308

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | " The Truth and only the truth" that will make you free f... | Minds

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1288215904382881805?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1288215904382881805:0:0:0:1288713348568846345

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | PowerShell on Linux? A primer on Object-Shells - Fedora M... | Minds

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"Is it pushing lock-in or just talking about a potentially useful tool? Considering PowerShell (not to be confused with Windows Powershell) is open-source and licensed under MIT, the threat of vendor lock-in seems minimal."

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It integrates with other stuff

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1283415879702286352?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1283415879702286352:0:0:0:1283472989383299080

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | The Far Right Calls Biden a "Tyrant" Over Vaccine Rules M... | Minds

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Appeal to majority, tyranny of the majority anyone? Just because most Americans back the rules, doesn't mean Biden has the authority to make them.

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https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1286968025974575122?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1286968025974575122:0:0:0:1286971525341122567

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | The economy of EVMs | Minds

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"No way, paper ballots is the only way to vote."

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"thats a zerg rush"

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1286978209685966866?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1286978209685966866:0:0:0:1286984421525688335

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | “People Are Desperate”: Biden Vows Mass Deportations as T... | Minds

https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1287072743040225291?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1287072743040225291:0:0:0:1287073026369654787

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"I Can't stop watching doomsday films like The End of the World (1916), The War of the Worlds (1953), Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The day the Earth stood still (1951) The Omega Man (1971)It's like there's no tomorrow. https://www.minds.com/Talon123/blog/google-their-mission-is-to-program-humanity-1287070018336460805"

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | A lot of people who still get infected with #covid19 are ... | Minds

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | Google Their mission is to program humanity. | Minds

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[19:51] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sorry for disturbing

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[19:51] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> while ago i had seen you supported /keyx

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[19:52] <schestowitz> keytool?

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[19:52] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> fish

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[19:53] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had to patch irss-fish plugin, because it segfaulted, and wanted to quickly test with a peer who supported /keyx and setkey

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[19:53] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> strangely your client doesn't respond to /keyx anymore

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[19:53] <schestowitz> I'm not sure of keyx

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[19:53] <schestowitz> I do use some CLI tools for i/o in x

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[19:54] <schestowitz> but I'm no gurus

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[19:54] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> i did successfully keyx once, but your client doesn't respond anymore

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[20:15] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ?OTRv23?

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[20:23] <schestowitz> my client as in IRC, server?

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[20:23] <schestowitz> I need to check what keyx actually is

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[20:23] <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> end-to-end

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[20:23] <schestowitz> oh

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[20:23] <schestowitz> it's irc

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*irc.techrights.org sets mode +q #boycottnovell schestowitz

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IRC post - "2 hours ago Missed schedule", posted now

Sep 26 10:32

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thanks. Are you good at accounting or reading financial statements? I read my employer's now, and some of that is too cryptic to me...

Sep 26 10:32

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not really, I usually get help with that myself

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How long is the statement?

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The trend for about 30 years has been to obfuscate the data.

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Many no longer have a "bottom line" at all.

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Some schools (MBA) teach people to cook the books and have two sets

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of financials, a public one for investors and anoter for tax purposes.

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A few years ago I took more detailed notes, but in short:

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1. the company is not in a good state

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2. the company just turned 23 years

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3. the company keeps changing official registered names

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4. there are still at least 2 currently active

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5. the CEO a'bsconed' to the US after divorce

Sep 26 10:37

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6. the wife was a director, who I can see in the filing was terminated under the old company name

Sep 26 10:37

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7. 9 months later we were invited to sign documents for the new company name

Sep 26 10:37

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8. it's easy money for us, even if not much. AFAIK, the financial risk is not the workers', not a liability

Sep 26 10:38

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9. I used to read about how it's better to leave companies before they go under because it looks better?

Sep 26 10:38

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thoughts?

Sep 26 10:38

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Those are the same schools which train the MBAs for "successful bankruptcies"

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-- plural.

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9. Yes. And more practical. However, I gather a lot of hiring practice

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is just bizarre these days and based on superstition or other non-factual

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bases.

x https://www.techzim.co.zw/2021/09/if-you-install-windows-11-on-an-unsupported-pc-you-will-not-get-updates/

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Are the financials online anywhere?

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yes

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Thanks. Will look but it may take a day or so.

Sep 26 10:49

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Thanks, another pair or eyes can help. bear in mind we get paid about 80-100 pounds net (after tax) for very little work, for me no more than an hour per shift. Net work.

Sep 26 10:50

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They can barely come to us with demands for fear of losing key staff

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# fails to mention upgrades to GNU/Linux

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.techzim.co.zw | If you install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC, you will not get updates - Techzim

Sep 26 11:14

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I saw the article last night and added it to TM because almost half of it actually DOES advocate gnu/linux

Sep 26 11:15

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Those are difficult to call, for me. I greatly dislike when they start out

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on a good track and then close off with some crap which they foist off

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using the credibility built up in the first part.

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So some I post some I dont'. Maybe it's not so important to be a stickler for

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detail.

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my initial instinct was the same, but then I decided to dig deeper and see if gnu/linux gets a mention at all.

Sep 26 11:18

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re jobs, two lovely mottos I picked recently from the ibm layoff forums are, 1) you get a pay increase by working less (per hour) 2) employers pay just enough to keep you, and you work just enough to keep the job

Sep 26 11:19

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Unfortunately. Not too long ago it was good pay for good results. But that

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has changed across the board. It might be one of the contributing factors

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to the downfall and collapse of what's left of civilized society. The

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behavior is going already.

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There are hundreds of applicants for most job postings these days.

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With that volume, the selection process becomes very arbitrary and inaccurate.

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I'm not sure how much the old method of knowing people helps any more.

x https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/tomorrows-soldiers-will-have-their-reality-augmented/21804963

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From what I am hearing, most people get jobs through connections and interviews are sometimes theatre for compliance purposes

Sep 26 11:26

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In some ways that is a relief to hear. It has its own downsides but

Sep 26 11:28

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at least it is possible to bring in skill that way. The other way, many

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get to the interview by having gamed the HR drones.

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Referrals from existing insiders can help (like vouching or like debian chains of trust). My sister's partner recently got a job this way and wasn't the first. Many jobs I had over the years I got without an interview or just some very informal chat.

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Any that weren't downright unpleasant and/or unsafe I got that way too.

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.economist.com | Tomorrow’s soldiers will have their reality augmented | The Economist

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# handout to keep m$ afloat;

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# yet in exchange our own soldiers will die because of this m$ boondoggle

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/authorship-of-photographs-and-ownership.html?showComment=1632508296305#c3616573208106973012

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Although when there is an internal candidate in mind, it is usually a waste

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of time to apply and compete for that one.

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apropos the financials, it looks like there will be relevant information at

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the end of October.

Sep 26 13:30

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if only I could interpret it reliably :-)

Sep 26 13:31

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Well, there is little information to interpret.

Sep 26 13:32

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Debian 11 seems to work okay on my Thinkbook 15 ITL Gen2. There werre some odd ACPI errors on boot though.

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But then again, what else is new?

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Authorship of photographs and ownership of image rights in Nigeria: Banire v NTA-Star TV Network Ltd - The IPKat

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"I can't be the only reader here to get two-thirds of the way through this posting before realising that the sentence beginning "The Appellant was the plaintiff at the (Federal) High Court where she had sought a declaration that the Respondent/Defendant’s use of her photographs on its billboards.. " did not mean that the appellant took the photographs, but instead that she was the subject of the photographs in question. Similarly the fact that

Sep 26 16:19

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we are told that "VNML took the photograph ..." turned out to be the other sense of 'took', and not the appropration sense, as would have been more usual in a case of alleged infringement. "

Sep 26 16:19

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https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-unified-patent-court-do-we-finally.html?showComment=1632560919553

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | The Unified Patent Court. Do we finally have a predictable timeline? - The IPKat

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As the RPUPCA only exist as 18th draft, going back to 2015, I doubt that the commission's opinion has been requested.

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At the member of the commission in charge of the topic is one of the staunchest supporters of the UPC it will go through without batting an eyelid.

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It is not clear from the UPCA or from the PPA when the opinion of the commission has to be sought.

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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/reasons-for-eba-referral-on.html?showComment=1632655261016#c1423943791337964639

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Reasons for an EBA referral on plausibility, post-published evidence and problem-solution - The IPKat

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Accepting post published information, in order to show that an invention is enabled or to justify a broad claim, should not be taken into account as it boils down to give a premium to slapdash drafting and/or hurried filing.

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It is only when the invention is ripe that a patent application should filed and not before.

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https://twitter.com/jrbrtson/status/1442197205792735233

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jrbrtson: @schestowitz Embrace, extend, extinguish?

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https://twitter.com/andymorphs/status/1442153894570823680

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@andymorphs: @schestowitz i think its the fact that we can see the effort they're going to makes it feel like its a serious product.

https://twitter.com/affiShiller/status/1442152065480871940

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@affiShiller: @schestowitz Market Red - $BETU Green

https://twitter.com/Vecchi_Paolo/status/1441899926833680389

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Vecchi_Paolo: @schestowitz No, there are no cows roaming the streets around Bologna (generally). I guess that is Bolonia in south… https://t.co/GkjtZJLu45

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Vecchi_Paolo: @schestowitz No, there are no cows roaming the streets around Bologna (generally). I guess that is Bolonia in south… https://t.co/GkjtZJLu45

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No, there are no cows roaming the streets around Bologna (generally).

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I guess that is Bolonia in southern Spain.

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