●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 ●● ● Sep 28 [00:36] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:37] *asusbox2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 28 [01:00] *rianne (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [01:00] *asusbox (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [01:28] *activelow has quit (Quit: rebooting) [01:30] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:30] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:55] *rianne_ (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [01:55] *liberty_box (~liberty@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 28 [03:31] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:35] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:35] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [03:59] *liberty_box (~liberty@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 28 [04:00] *rianne_ (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [04:34] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [04:34] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 28 [05:39] *wallacer (~quassel@6bsu33ajs4zs4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [05:44] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:45] *wallacer (~quassel@6bsu33ajs4zs4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [05:59] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 28 [06:00] *wallacer (~quassel@6bsu33ajs4zs4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 28 [07:35] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [07:37] Techrights-sec I re-ran the script manually and got no errors. It must have been [07:37] Techrights-sec a ntemporary network problem in retreiving the feed. I'll see about [07:37] Techrights-sec putting a test there. [07:37] Techrights-sec It should now be more robust in case of feed errork, but at the cost [07:37] Techrights-sec of two disk writes. [07:37] schestowitz-TR thanks, works great again. I've meanwhile noticed that ipfs failed at about the same time, I'll monitor it this coming night and maybe implement some workaround [07:41] schestowitz-TR OK, the symptoms are not the same as last night. Why this started happening in the first place is a mystery to me, for I have changed nothing. Today is my last shift, so next night I can play closer attention in real time. ● Sep 28 [08:04] schestowitz lately we have been getting nearly 1000 reqs per day for favicon (context and background in https://index.theres.life/x/gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2021/02/25/my-thoughts-on-gemini-favicon-txt/ it's Lazar's fault). So I decided to put a file there with something rather than return that many errors. [08:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-index.theres.life | My thoughts on Gemini favicon.txt [08:04] Techrights-sec A polite file or something rude? [08:05] schestowitz-TR the users do nothing wrong, no reason to be rude to them [08:05] schestowitz-TR you can have a look [08:06] schestowitz gemini://gemini.techrights.org/favicon.txt/ [08:07] Techrights-sec Ok [08:08] schestowitz-TR I should be able to be more productive after I finish work at 9am. A lot of what goes under "Patents" in Daily Links I could in theory do many articles about, though the subject became less heated in recent years [08:11] Techrights-sec Strange because patents, especially software patents, have been causing [08:11] Techrights-sec increasing damage to innovation and the economy. I used to be neutral on [08:11] Techrights-sec patents in general and only wanted software patents to stay gone. [08:11] Techrights-sec However, in recent years the more I read about them it seems the more that [08:11] Techrights-sec regular patents are becoming as bullshit as the software patents. [08:12] schestowitz-TR If you try to reform EPO by saying all patents are bad, it's hard to make headway [08:17] Techrights-sec Yes. In the case of the EPO a compromise is needed. The reform is needed [08:17] Techrights-sec in regards to their illegal behavior regarding their (wrongly) granting [08:17] Techrights-sec software patents. [08:17] schestowitz-TR you said, "however, that mess is apreading" (to other continent) [08:17] schestowitz-TR continents even [08:17] schestowitz-TR which is the issue [08:17] schestowitz-TR RMS spoke in .au about it [08:18] Techrights-sec On the topic of vaccines, while there is a lot of press coverage devoted [08:18] Techrights-sec to the overall price of the doses, there is /no/ coverage of the role [08:18] Techrights-sec that patents play in driving those prices through the roof. Nor is there [08:18] Techrights-sec much coverage about the publicly funded origins of said vaccines. [08:18] Techrights-sec A few years (acutally more than a few) ago there were several series of [08:18] Techrights-sec articles showing the publicly funded origins of the 'smartphones' and mobile [08:18] Techrights-sec phones in general. Those countered a little of the revisionism that [08:18] Techrights-sec went on about the origin of the devices and their underlying technologies. [08:18] Techrights-sec I recall also at the end of the 1990s that the large business tried to [08:18] Techrights-sec do a rewrite of Internet history, trying to make it look like they [08:18] Techrights-sec had anything at all to do with it and leaving out the DoD and universities [08:19] Techrights-sec completely. [08:19] Techrights-sec [08:19] Techrights-sec The loss of LF hurts because they should be among those working to [08:19] Techrights-sec reform industry behavior. Same for the EFF. [08:20] schestowitz-TR EFF fought swpats when Mark Cuban paid them a lot to [08:21] Techrights-sec EFF has a lot of money now. they could still fight sw patents if they wished. [08:21] schestowitz-TR they never even NAMED EPO, and I brought that up to them [08:23] Techrights-sec EFF has mostly ignored outside the US. I shuold resume reading their [08:23] Techrights-sec "Deep Links" blog but never find the time and on the occasions I do I never [08:23] Techrights-sec find anything interesting there. [08:24] schestowitz-TR I disagree. EFF spent a LOT of resources on EU copyrights, as I noted in articles. They ignore patents at their own peril. [08:25] Techrights-sec I guess they're doing somewhat ok in regards to surveillance, except for them [08:25] Techrights-sec endorsing or encouraging Vista10 etc. [08:25] schestowitz-TR they are too soft on privacy to my taste [08:27] *blitzed has quit (connection closed) [08:29] Techrights-sec ack [08:29] Techrights-sec Yes, that was kind of the point about Vista10 etc., no privacy. Same for [08:29] Techrights-sec the Apple stuff. [08:29] Techrights-sec However, one big sea change has been that IT has become politics no longer [08:29] Techrights-sec science thanks due to M$ and its minions. So most of what needs to be [08:29] Techrights-sec done nowadays is schmoozing with senators and MEPs. It doesn't help that [08:29] Techrights-sec ICT has become the battlefield for WWIII currently in a cold war phase. [08:35] Techrights-sec The CIA, for example, was planning to kill JA and his associates. [08:36] schestowitz-TR exposing EPO secrets and CIA secrets is a different ballpark because the latter is run by violent thugs who take pleasure in torture [08:45] Techrights-sec Yes, my point is that RMS was precient about the importance of who controls [08:45] Techrights-sec the computers via the programs. Now that microcomputers and microcontrollers [08:45] Techrights-sec are in almost everything, control of an unprecedented type can be had once [08:45] Techrights-sec people cede control of their devices. Look at the iPhone13 screen fiasco [08:45] Techrights-sec and the way car and other vehicle software is kept away from the ostensible [08:45] Techrights-sec owner. Even most routers, while based on "linux" of some kind, sometimes even [08:45] Techrights-sec GNU/Linux, are completely ignoring the license obligations of allowing the [08:45] Techrights-sec owner to control or even examine the device. [08:46] schestowitz-TR activelow has a lot to contribute to the discussion about control over things that the FSF does not even speak about ● Sep 28 [09:02] schestowitz
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    Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Beta Testing Day
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    [09:03] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-jriddell.org | Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Beta Testing Day Jonathan Esk-Riddell's Diary [09:03] schestowitz

    Friday 1 October is the testing day for Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition.

    • [09:12] schestowitz It took India two days to recover from 2012 blackouts, the article suggests USA could take weeks to recover from a similar event. [09:12] schestowitz Why would it take USA longer than India? [09:12] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21648765 [09:12] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: [Old] #India #Energy The Two Hours That Nearly Destroyed Texass Electric Grid https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/texas-blackout-how-the-electrical-grid-failed [09:12] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.bloombergquint.com | The Two Hours That Nearly Destroyed Texass Electric Grid [09:12] schestowitz good question.. [09:12] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21649959 [09:12] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Nuclear war will almost certainly happen in my lifetime but we don't know which region and what players. I once read it's most likely #india and #pakistan first. [09:12] schestowitz "Why is it considered most likely between India and Pakistan?" [09:12] schestowitz I wondered the same [09:13] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17128576 [09:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Switching from Gnome to a tiling window manager https://blog.freesources.org//posts/2019/12/switch_to_sway/ #gnu #linux #Debian #sway [09:13] schestowitz "I too started using #sway recently & liking it !" [09:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> blog.freesources.org | switch to sway [09:13] schestowitz openbox is good [09:13] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21651087 [09:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@agent_smith@joindiaspora.com reshared: We need concrete protections from [computer programs] threatening human rights https://theconversation.com/we-need-concrete-protections-from-artificial-intelligence-threatening-human-rights-168174 #theconversation [09:13] schestowitz "Yeah good luck with that. :(" [09:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> theconversation.com | We need concrete protections from artificial intelligence threatening human rights [09:13] schestowitz indeed [09:15] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21643990 [09:15] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@bosshammer@diasp.eu reshared: These media reports will of course just encourage people to start stockpiling food. When demand grows and supply falls the prices will inevitably soar. #uk #eu #brexit #covid19 #borisnaro [09:15] schestowitz "Some idiots have been filling random unsafe containers with petrol." [09:15] schestowitz same as in US months ago [09:17] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21643300 [09:17] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #google #surveillance "Ive had this account for well over 10 years and had everything there. When I became more privacy-aware I deleted a lot of stuff from it and migrated to other services but I was finally able to delete it for good" https://mastodon.technology/@weltsnake/106976627736094230 [09:17] schestowitz "Did the same thing. Went on a deletion spree, meant to continue it the next day and guess what: Google suddenly threw me a message about connecting from an unknown device and wanted to verify by phone. Except I never added my phone number in the first place!" [09:17] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> mastodon.technology | weltsnake :mastodon:: "I finally deleted my google account :blobdab: I" - Mastodon for Tech Folks [09:17] schestowitz Creepy Google [09:18] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21640730 [09:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Reimplenting the #Wolfenstein 3D renderer | mcomella.xyz http://mcomella.xyz/blog/2021/w3d-renderer.html #mcomella #games [09:18] schestowitz "My public domain game Anarch uses this technique but extended to allow variable floor and ceiling." [09:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> mcomella.xyz | Reimplenting the Wolfenstein 3D renderer | mcomella.xyz [09:18] schestowitz https://drummyfish.gitlab.io/anarch/ [09:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-drummyfish.gitlab.io | Anarch [09:18] schestowitz neat! [09:19] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21640488 [09:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Those are 20k #google useds, whom you rely on to watch your stuff only if Google decides that it likes you. #youtube = #censorship https://yewtu.be/watch?v=T6b7a7FBw-0 [09:19] schestowitz "useds [sic]" [09:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> yewtu.be | 20k CelebrationQ&A And Cringing At Myself - Invidious [09:19] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/20916540 [09:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #tpp is dead. Why still write about a dead thing? Dead trees to be sold? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/06/book-review-trans-pacific-partnership.html [09:19] schestowitz "Not so dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_and_Progressive_Agreement_for_Trans-Pacific_Partnership" [09:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> ipkitten.blogspot.com | Book Review: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property and Trade in the Pacific Rim - The IPKat [09:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - Wikipedia [09:20] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21621735 [09:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: NEWS #CounterPunch Imagine Life After #Capitalism https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/22/imagine-life-after-capitalism/ [09:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.counterpunch.org | Imagine Life After Capitalism - CounterPunch.org [09:20] schestowitz "Theres no life after capitalism." [09:20] schestowitz "We may be about to find out!" [09:28] *rianne_ (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:29] *liberty_box (~liberty@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:31] schestowitz x https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-28/microsoft-ceo-calls-tiktok-deal-strangest-thing-he-s-worked-on [09:31] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bloomberg.com | Bloomberg - Are you a robot? [09:31] schestowitz # /lots/ of spam on that topic; for some reason there are dozens of such articles [09:32] schestowitz x https://duo.com/decipher/attackers-target-critical-vmware-bug [09:32] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-duo.com | Attackers Target Critical VMware Bug | Decipher [09:40] schestowitz x https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/science-and-technology/20033-microsoft-will-end-support-for-internet-explorer-in-2022-will-mozilla-be-google-chrome-s-closest-threat.html [09:40] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/science-and-technology/20033-microsoft-will-end-support-for-internet-explorer-in-2022-will-mozilla-be-google-chrome-s-closest-threat.html ) ● Sep 28 [10:38] schestowitz https://joindiaspora.com/posts/21655765 [10:38] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: NEWS #CounterPunch #China #cn The US and China: A Productive Path Forward https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/27/the-us-and-china-a-productive-path-forward/ [10:38] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.counterpunch.org | The US and China: A Productive Path Forward - CounterPunch.org [10:56] *techrights_guest|85 (~8da43d85@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [10:57] techrights_guest|85 anybody here? [10:58] *techrights_guest|85 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) ● Sep 28 [14:36] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:36] *rianne_ (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:47] schestowitz > Hey, [14:47] schestowitz > [14:47] schestowitz > Just listened to the last UPC podcast, where is your source about the [14:47] schestowitz > movement in Slovenia? [14:47] schestowitz > [14:47] schestowitz > Slovenia has passed the UPCA in parliament, they were waiting for the [14:47] schestowitz > Brexit issues to clear to send their ratification letter to the [14:47] schestowitz > Council. [14:47] schestowitz > [14:47] schestowitz > I am not surprised there is lobbying there to get the 2 countries to [14:47] schestowitz > ratify in order to reach the required quorum, even though UK is still [14:47] schestowitz > in the text. [14:47] schestowitz > [14:47] schestowitz > I think their strategy is to lobby 2 more MS and declare that they [14:47] schestowitz > have to meet somewhere in Brussels quickly to replace UK by Italy in [14:47] schestowitz > the PPI and PPA. [14:47] schestowitz Re: Slovenia [14:47] schestowitz I saw 3 'articles' about them. They are all in Daily Links already. [14:47] schestowitz Now they move to German again for more BS. [14:47] schestowitz See under the "Patents" section in [14:47] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2021/09/28/supertuxkart-1-3-release/ [14:47] schestowitz Patents [14:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 28/9/2021: GnuCash 4.7 and SuperTuxKart 1.3 Release | Techrights [14:47] schestowitz Unitary patent is coming: Germany ratifies protocol via EU patent court [14:48] schestowitz On Monday, the federal government deposited the instrument of ratification for the protocol on the provisional application of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA). This is considered an important stage on the way to building the planned judicial institution. The agreement on the patent court also forms the keystone of the reform of the European patent system, with which the new EU unitary patent, which has been planned for many years, [14:48] schestowitz is to be introduced. [14:48] schestowitz Latest news and updates on the Unified Patent Court [Ed: Amy Sandys as Team UPCs unquestioning megaphone. And JUVE has just published a dozen pages of pure spam.] [14:48] schestowitz Only a few days after Slovenia, Germany has also completed the ratification of the protocol on the provisional agreement (PAP) of the Unified Patent Court. As announced by the Ministry of Justice in Berlin, Germany deposited the corresponding ratification instrument in Brussels. [14:48] schestowitz I hope that us tracking those things help others. We have limited capacity as I already speak to some MEPs, who are not particularly helpful. ● Sep 28 [16:24] *blitzed (~blitzed@e9z2gaipyfp5y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 28 [18:33] schestowitz https://twitter.com/GordonFbpe/status/1442768482983194626 [18:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@GordonFbpe: @schestowitz Edward Snowden doesnt think its lies. [18:33] schestowitz https://twitter.com/battyjann/status/1442624822769561606 [18:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@battyjann: @schestowitz I suggest you should message Unique_cr4ck on Instagram he's real and trustworthy mine was fixed by him https://t.co/nv94yKHzoj [18:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@battyjann: @schestowitz I suggest you should message Unique_cr4ck on Instagram he's real and trustworthy mine was fixed by him https://t.co/nv94yKHzoj [18:46] Techrights-sec Could not open 'http://techrights.org/2021/09/28/ipfs-issues/' : 500 Server closed connection without se [18:46] Techrights-sec nding any data back [18:46] Techrights-sec 500 = Internal Server Error [18:46] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IPFS: The Good, the Bad, and the Exceptionally Ugly | Techrights [18:46] schestowitz-TR can you reproduce this? Maybe load surge at the time? ● Sep 28 [19:03] Techrights-sec not consistently but there do seem to be more errors of late [19:03] Techrights-sec the load was low at the time [19:03] schestowitz-TR I can only reproduce this at times of backup or when I publish and then post in social control media (big surge for 20 seconds) [19:29] Techrights-sec I've adjusted gemini-fetch-web-page.pl to be less sensitive to 500 [19:32] schestowitz-TR np but we'll have to watch the script a little for how well the change [19:32] schestowitz-TR works. It's a minor change. [19:32] Techrights-sec np but we'll have to watch the script a little for how well the change [19:32] Techrights-sec works. It's a minor change. [19:32] schestowitz-TR I have that cycling in my monitoring on one screen, I can see such problems fast ● Sep 28 [20:12] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:12] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:14] Techrights-sec $ time /home/gemini/bin/gemini-cron-updater.sh [20:14] Techrights-sec system 'wget --quiet --user-agent="TechRights-Gemini-Bot/0.1" --no-directories --no-clobber --retry-on-h [20:14] Techrights-sec ttp-error=500 --tries=5 --waitretry=8 --output-document=/tmp/tempCxH2N.gemini.tmp http://techrights.org/ [20:14] Techrights-sec 2021/09/27/facts-catch-up-epo/' failed: 1024 [20:14] Techrights-sec Script seems to work but not sure which HTTP error the above was. [20:14] Techrights-sec No corresponding log entry in the httpd log. [20:14] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Welcome to Techrights [20:14] Techrights-sec Oh, well. [20:15] schestowitz-TR Let's hope that as more people use gemini (true) we'll have more than an approximation of the http side. All these trial and error things make it more robust and the code is public, likely of use for people who use wordpresa and mediawiki [20:15] *rianne_ (~rianne@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:17] *liberty_box (~liberty@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:24] *schestowitz-TR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:24] *libertybox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:24] *Techrights-sec has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:30] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:30] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:31] *libertybox (~schestowitz_log@qhduu73fcjmdn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:39] *blitzed has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:44] *blitzed (~blitzed@ve6r5huv3y49u.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 28 [21:16] Techrights-sec User Agent string needs tweaking but that will be later. ● Sep 28 [22:02] *activelo1 (~activelow@mzna7d8hci2cq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:02] *activelo1 has quit (Quit: leaving) [22:06] *activelo1 (~activelow@mzna7d8hci2cq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:06] *activelo1 has quit (Quit: leaving) [22:17] schestowitz https://www.fosslife.org/understanding-java-naming-conventions [22:17] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Failed connect to www.fosslife.org:443; No route to host ( status 0 @ https://www.fosslife.org/understanding-java-naming-conventions ) [22:17] schestowitz " [22:17] schestowitz If youre learning to speak a new language, its important to understand the various rules and syntax. The same is true when learning a programming language, such as Java. As Cameron McKenzie explains, the rules for Java variable naming are fairly lax, but the first letter of a variable must be either a letter, dollar sign, or an underscore. [22:17] schestowitz However, Java naming conventions for variables, methods, and reference types are more complicated. In this article, McKenzie outlines those conventions to help you get started. [22:17] schestowitz " [22:17] schestowitz links to something from 3 monthd ago [22:20] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [22:23] *activelo1 (~activelow@m436cq3vujvzw.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:24] *activelo1 has quit (Quit: leaving) [22:25] *activelow (~activelow@uq8vqszfv73ew.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:28] *blitzed has quit (Quit: +++ATH0&D2 NO CARRIER NO CAREER) [22:51] *blitzed (~blitzed@9uwwxcm9gmc5w.irc) has joined #boycottnovell