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| Techrightssec | good to hear. Mumble is very useful, especially if echo cancellation is active | Nov 26 00:35 |
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| schestowitz-TR | Oh, god! 'Linux'Hint has just published another couple dozen WINDOWS stories, Proprietary Crap, and other stuff totally NOT related to Linux. That site has been like this throughout November. Might as well just shut the thing down! In respect to the people who USED to run it. | Nov 26 04:35 |
| Techrightssec | :/ | Nov 26 04:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | 'Linux'Hint is now run/written by people who don't know Linux, don't use Linux, and generally reject Linus | Nov 26 04:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | It's fair to say 'Linux'Hint is now an anti-Linux site. It promotes Windows! | Nov 26 04:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | draft (3 videos this mornign; one as per your suggestion) | Nov 26 04:38 |
| Techrightssec | checking | Nov 26 04:49 |
| Techrightssec | Maybe expand "EPO" for the first occurence of the acronym. | Nov 26 04:49 |
| Techrightssec | What channels to Eurppean citizens have to ask for oversight of the EPO? | Nov 26 04:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks, amending | Nov 26 04:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | no official channels | Nov 26 04:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | will emntion this in next artic.e.. | Nov 26 04:50 |
| Techrightssec | The absence of official channels should be mentioned then, possibly along | Nov 26 04:58 |
| Techrightssec | with the existing, suboptimal options such as they are. | Nov 26 04:58 |
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| Techrightssec | it is not possible for microsofters to 'reskill' and become ICT professionals | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | because not only is the skillset incompatible but the very mindset and illogical | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | way they have of (not) organizing their thoughts is incompatible. | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | for actual ICT you need a clear and organized thought process and logic. | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | the m$ crap follows neither and is just randomly put together, thus it drives | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | away those that would even have the potential to someday become skilled in ICT. | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | that and their gatekeeper style oral tradition ensure that no one who is not | Nov 26 08:06 |
| Techrightssec | 100% loyal to the cult will get the essential but undocumented knowledge needed | Nov 26 08:07 |
| Techrightssec | to pretend to operate m$ products. thus there can be no crossover. | Nov 26 08:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | i do not have sufficient direct experience with microsofters inside a company | Nov 26 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe I'm lucky to have dodged that | Nov 26 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | the cloest was my phd supervisor, but he more than tolerated the use of gnu/linux by his postgrad students | Nov 26 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | not to brag | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and not to claim a correlation for sure | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | but since calling out spamnil i see he is reluctant with the clicfraud | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and limits how many he does (I think he sends a list of URLs for the bots) | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | you can see videos almost 2 months old with less than 10 views | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and he doesn't make many videoa anymore, but what owrries me nowadays | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | is what happened to linuxhint | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | today it was a net of 0% linus | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and lots of windows | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | it went rhough periods, sometimes doing programming posts | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | then PLAGIARISING programming post | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | after it had attemped to do amazon catalogue disguised as reviews and such | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | a year ago the site was still mostly OK | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | a | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | TON of GOOD howtos | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | those are very rarely now and author names have changed | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | if this keeps happening to good sites, we'll be short on material for daily links | Nov 26 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and TM | Nov 26 08:23 |
| Techrightssec | ack | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | excellent | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | that he is curbing the bullshit | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | Yes, site after site has been falling away, eithe shut down outright or passing | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | through an ugly pro-M$ phase first. | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | It's a matter of national security for all nations that there is only | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | microsoftianism taught (a vocation) instead of theory and applied theory | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | at universities. I bet it's not possible to get through a basic 5-year | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | Comp Sci or Electrical Engineering degree without being *required* to | Nov 26 08:26 |
| Techrightssec | use m$ gimmicks for at least two semesters. It's a bet I'd like to lose but | Nov 26 08:27 |
| Techrightssec | all the indicators are that Bill has destroyed higher ed in the US. | Nov 26 08:27 |
| Techrightssec | Reagan took out the primary and secondary education first though. | Nov 26 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | you are right, even 22 years ago there was a semester with a module where we needed to do some stuff in excel | Nov 26 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | or access or something | Nov 26 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | back then they didn't have staroffice as an option | Nov 26 08:27 |
| Techrightssec | The institutions lock people into m$ + blackboard and then don't give a rat's | Nov 26 08:30 |
| Techrightssec | asshole if either work or if instead the teachers or students end up frittering | Nov 26 08:30 |
| Techrightssec | away the contact hours unproductively attempting to accomplished the assigned | Nov 26 08:30 |
| Techrightssec | tasks using the toys required in place of real tools. | Nov 26 08:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2 daysa ago I saw a blog post (you sent the rss feeds) about someone who had taught, moved to industry, then made | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | a statement on teacher (IIRC, maybe a comeback) | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | the problem with such a trajectory is, people who taught decades ago have not much to go BACK to | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | as that thing they had come from changed over time | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | I recently examples the syllabus of UoM and it's mostly OK, aside from buzzwords | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | but that's a relatively high-ranked CS school | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | becoming a teachers in universities now, I would gues, means lots of clown, smut "phones", | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | and other crap never designed with either productivity nor education | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | *or | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | in mind | Nov 26 08:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | ime, based on Palm PDA/Palm OS since 2001, too much of these gadgets is harmful and possibly addictive | Nov 26 08:34 |
| Techrightssec | https://www.bbc.com/news/education-46019429 | Nov 26 08:36 |
| Techrightssec | It's worse for mental / social health | Nov 26 08:36 |
| Techrightssec | Back then the PDAs were still about getting work done. Nowadays the tools are | Nov 26 08:36 |
| Techrightssec | either designed intentionally as addictive timewasters (engagement) on purpose, | Nov 26 08:36 |
| Techrightssec | or unintentionally by kids who have only ever seen inefficient, time-wasting | Nov 26 08:36 |
| Techrightssec | user interfaces and think not only that it is "normal" but expect it. | Nov 26 08:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients' - BBC News | Nov 26 08:36 | |
| schestowitz-TR | yesterday I had a lengthy chat with my mom about what cars were becoming | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | she hadn't thought much about it, but the point sank in after a while | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I still don't know what the "latest" cars are like, it's moving ahead fast, | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | converging with what cars are NOT meant to me | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | becoming more of a distraction (hence, death toll) | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I still don't fully understand how people "use" [sic] tiktok but sometimes I see | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | people use "phones" and "apps". Their time would be better spent talking to an | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | actual person or using actual programs such as kdenlive or cad suites | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | getting stuff "done" in life using "car" screen and "mobile" is like getting by | Nov 26 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | nutrition/diet-wide on 12-pack bags of craisps and pcks of chewing gum | Nov 26 08:42 |
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| schestowitz-TR | going through links atm, seeing more on twitter going titsup | Nov 26 09:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is very very very good news | Nov 26 09:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | also the alexa bubble | Nov 26 09:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | losses upon losses just to record people inside their own homes | Nov 26 09:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | companies operating at a loss... for social control, rewarded by "deep state" budget | Nov 26 09:13 |
| Techrightssec | IIRC it was Cory who has been vocal about cars being computers you put your | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | body into; They're more complex than that though and are really rolling | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | networks of networks which are in turn often connected intentionally or | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | accidentally to The Internet. | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | If Musk can take out Twitter permanently then that will only be a good thing. | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | However, there is a small risk that he and his Saudi backers can succeed in | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | turning it into a loud and successful version of Gab or Pravda -- for social | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | control. | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | Like m$, it does not matter how much losses there are nor for how long the losses run. It's entirely about control. | Nov 26 09:15 |
| Techrightssec | Just like the rest of modern computing. | Nov 26 09:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, that's one message we need to convey | Nov 26 09:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | with burden of proof on us | Nov 26 09:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | as that contradicts the well-funded marketing machines, which nowadays include "the media" | Nov 26 09:16 |
| Techrightssec | It's hard to convey when almost no one under the age of 40 even knows how | Nov 26 09:16 |
| Techrightssec | to use a computer let alone actually uses one. Under the age of 30 even fewer | Nov 26 09:16 |
| Techrightssec | have even seen a general purpose computer. | Nov 26 09:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's not easy to convince people | Nov 26 09:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | same issue when the vast majority do not understand how patents work | Nov 26 09:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | or why some meds, even vaccines, are made so expensive (superficially) | Nov 26 09:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | and hence the rich get richer rapidly | Nov 26 09:18 |
| Techrightssec | Or if they have some misguided or misinformed idea that patents are related in | Nov 26 09:18 |
| Techrightssec | any way to innovation. Yes there is correlation but an inverse one. :( | Nov 26 09:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | my mom thought patents are an actual thing | Nov 26 09:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | like if you see a screw, that's a patent | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | because something about it might be patented | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | the media played a big role in this | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I saw some very misleading headline | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | when I was a teenager and we did a business the media covered us, saying we "invent patents" | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | which makes no sense | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | also, we never pursued any patents | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | so it was a lie on several level | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I still have a clipping of that title (headline) and the article | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | they basically used teens to make a bunch of noise about "patents" | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | where none at all were involved | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | my guess is that patent-related activists have been quiet due to shock and trauma of this economy | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | or lack of participation from media with broader audiences | Nov 26 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | which in turns lowers incentive to do the activism, the work | Nov 26 09:22 |
| Techrightssec | One of the reasons lawyers and MBAs can get away with so much noise is that | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | they've succeeded in confusing and disorienting the public by yammering on | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | about "intellectual property rights" which are neither intellectual, | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | nor property, nor rights. The media has chosen to play along so many | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | smart and otherwise well-intentioned individuals don't know better and parrot | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | those lines. Basically by steering the discussion away from the concrete | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | and distinct domains of 1) patents, 2) copyright, 3) trademarks, or | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | 4) trade secrets they make discussin impossible and that is the main goal that | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | I see from use of the misleading term "intellectual property rights" | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | If you can't even converse about the topic you certainly cannot fight it or even | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | reform it because you are *not* talking about it but instead some fantasy in | Nov 26 09:37 |
| Techrightssec | its place. | Nov 26 09:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | clown computing | Nov 26 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | home assistants | Nov 26 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | "enterprise" software | Nov 26 09:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | and so on | Nov 26 09:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | the media chooses the language | Nov 26 09:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | and we know who fudns the media | Nov 26 09:39 |
| Techrightssec | One of the spying microphones is losing money. I wonder how long the company | Nov 26 09:58 |
| Techrightssec | fronting it will keep it around anyway despite the ongoing losses. | Nov 26 09:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | iirc, the aws cia contract is circo 10bn | Nov 26 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | or 6 | Nov 26 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | was 6 around 2015? | Nov 26 10:11 |
| mjg59_ | CIA have no meaningful need for compute, it's nowhere near that much | Nov 26 10:38 |
| mjg59_ | It's a number that would make sense for the NSA | Nov 26 10:39 |
| Techrightssec | Not sure. Do you mean this one, it is just a drop in the bucket: | Nov 26 11:02 |
| Techrightssec | https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cia-awards-multibillion-c2e-cloud-contract-aws-microsoft-google-oracle-and-ibm/ | Nov 26 11:02 |
| Techrightssec | https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-awards-secret-multibillion-dollar-cloud-contract/170227/ | Nov 26 11:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/cia-awards-multibillion-c2e-cloud-contract-aws-microsoft-google-oracle-and-ibm/ ) | Nov 26 11:02 | |
| Techrightssec | More bailout money for M$ | Nov 26 11:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-CIA Awards Secret Multibillion-Dollar Cloud Contract - Nextgov | Nov 26 11:02 | |
| Techrightssec | https://fortune.com/2015/06/29/intelligence-community-loves-its-new-amazon-cloud/ | Nov 26 11:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-CIA cloud gets kudos from security agencies | Fortune | Nov 26 11:02 | |
| Techrightssec | https://www.govexec.com/magazine/features/2014/07/daring-deal/88207/ | Nov 26 11:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.govexec.com | Daring Deal - Government Executive | Nov 26 11:02 | |
| schestowitz-TR | oceans of "money" (debt) | Nov 26 11:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | bailout (financial, threat to national security) under the guise of "defence" | Nov 26 11:03 |
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| schestowitz-TR | Statistics About COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/26/statistics-about-covid-19-vaccines/ | Nov 26 13:28 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » Statistics About COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States | Nov 26 13:28 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | ping | Nov 26 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | never mind | Nov 26 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | but there's a draft | Nov 26 18:05 |
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| Techrightssec | back | Nov 26 19:36 |
| Techrightssec | checking | Nov 26 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | been setting up pi400 to do things | Nov 26 19:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | nice to have a spare to experiment on like this | Nov 26 19:39 |
| Techrightssec | Yes a spare is quite valuable. If you have additional USB sticks to boot from | Nov 26 19:39 |
| Techrightssec | then you effectively have an additional machine from each stick. | Nov 26 19:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | this machine is already a 'hot spare' in case the 2020 pi dies | Nov 26 19:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it's hard to get more of them now | Nov 26 19:49 |
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