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| Techrights-sec | Found out that the local "college", if one can still call it that, has | Oct 27 08:46 |
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| Techrights-sec | been teaching Linux not on bare metal but on M$ Azure. Among all the other | Oct 27 08:46 |
| Techrights-sec | probelms with that, it is far more expensive than any other hosting service. | Oct 27 08:46 |
| Techrights-sec | https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/107164426544023552 | Oct 27 08:46 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-mastodon.nzoss.nz | Dave Lane: "A couple years back, the charitable foundation I …" - Mastodon - NZOSS | Oct 27 08:46 | |
| schestowitz-TR2 | Right now at work some desktop users protest and complain that we're about to start a contract wherein we support "Linux" on the SERVER side. | Oct 27 08:48 |
| Techrights-sec | I had wrongly assumed that Azure's damage was limited to being garbage, not | Oct 27 08:48 |
| Techrights-sec | that it adds price gouging on top. The Mastodon link there describes | Oct 27 08:48 |
| Techrights-sec | pricing, I can only guess what's going on here but presume it is similar. | Oct 27 08:48 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | If Microsoft bribes officials, as it habitually does, there can be kickbacks. Microsoft isn't a company, it's a crime syndicate. | Oct 27 08:49 |
| psydruid | it's unbelievable we are still talking about one sinister company that has embedded itself in so many places that it is proving to be hard to get rid of it and build real scalable and secure systems that are also relatively inexpensive | Oct 27 08:55 |
| psydruid | but the world got rid of IBM and that will happen to Microsoft too, eventually | Oct 27 08:56 |
| Techrights-sec | I don't know the original cause but it comes down to almost off-the-charts | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | levels of corruption with close relatives and friends feeding off of public | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | money. There are microsofters through all levels, with all characteristics | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | of a cult, on top of that. In one institution, a while back, the key | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | decision maker kept blocking FOSS in general because of a spouse who actively | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | sold M$ "solutions". But that is mild compared to the rest of the corrutption,bbut there seems to be col | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | lusion not to report it. Contracts are given to | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | companies where those deciding on the contract have heavy investments, for | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | example. Said companies also double bill, charge for non-existent deployments | Oct 27 09:01 |
| Techrights-sec | and so on. | Oct 27 09:01 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | Zemlin's wife sold Microsoft "solution" | Oct 27 09:02 |
| psydruid | The worst consequence of this criminal organisation's actions is that legitimate IT professionals are robbed of opportunities to implement better solutions and earn decent livelihoods without becoming microserfs | Oct 27 09:21 |
| Techrights-sec | (will read later) | Oct 27 09:50 |
| Techrights-sec | back in a few hours | Oct 27 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | psydruid: depending on how it pans out, I might anonymise the story a bit and mention it later | Oct 27 09:51 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | it's public sector, sort of | Oct 27 09:51 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | (UK) | Oct 27 09:51 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | our CEO says, the 1990s phoned | Oct 27 09:51 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | "linux is a cancer" | Oct 27 09:51 |
| psydruid | I am not sure if that is a joke or not | Oct 27 09:57 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I don't know much | Oct 27 09:57 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | rianne looked into it | Oct 27 09:57 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | "not my department" | Oct 27 09:57 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I don't even want to deal with such crap people | Oct 27 09:57 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I just patch machines and investigate stuff | Oct 27 09:58 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | psydruid: do you use xdotool? | Oct 27 09:59 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I'm about to publish some scripts of mine | Oct 27 09:59 |
| psydruid | it's a consequence of a bunch of companies getting too big and too entrenched based on the same monoculture solutions | Oct 27 10:00 |
| psydruid | schestowitz-TR2: I haven't used it but may look into it in a few days | Oct 27 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I've just pushed it into git | Oct 27 10:35 |
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| Techrights-sec | Desktop-Utils/post-ff.sh ciuld use mktemp instead of a fixed file name | Oct 27 12:54 |
| Techrights-sec | pushed into Git now | Oct 27 12:54 |
| schestowitz | thanks, my code in many of this single-user script is kludge that just about works, I've pulled the changed, pushed to original ('prod') file and so far it still works well. I think the the url.sh script has some room for reuse when putting together Daily Links, as it helops grab a lot of stuff with a couple of clicks | Oct 27 12:58 |
| Techrights-sec | temp files don't matter much until they start to get used in a multi-user | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | environment. | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | Reducing the number of clicks saves a lot of mental effort not just the mouse | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | jand. | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | ^hand | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | automation can sometimes reduce chance of human error | Oct 27 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | automation can sometimes reduce chance of human error | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes, I have to have several automated scans for errors in my work otherwise | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | things will break several times a month, without visible symptoms other than | Oct 27 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | data loss. | Oct 27 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | with with tools we manage to wade through a lot of material and organise/digest it. As sites perish and go offline many of these old archives become invaluable to us. | Oct 27 13:06 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | *with these | Oct 27 13:06 |
| Techrights-sec | Definitely. | Oct 27 13:12 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | pushed small fix to git | Oct 27 13:28 |
| Techrights-sec | thanks | Oct 27 13:29 |
| schestowitz-TR2 | I can do tidying up, cleanup, expansions now that it's in git, as anything removed remains in the repo in case I need it in the future | Oct 27 13:30 |
| Techrights-sec | I should test things :/ | Oct 27 13:45 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | Oct 27 13:45 |
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