●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, December 29, 2022 ●● ● Dec 29 [00:21] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:22] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [00:22] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:31] techrightssec2 A fair amount of referals come via the fediverse, it would seem. [00:31] techrightssec2 Those arrive in bursts. It's otherwise mostly random, very recent posts, plus [00:31] techrightssec2 a trickle of bots. Unfortunately some of the bots keep hitting the same pages [00:31] techrightssec2 again and again, or at least "Bing" does that all the time. The other bots [00:31] techrightssec2 seem better programmed and don't do that as much or at all. [00:31] techrightssec2 I looked into the bots many weeks ago but haven't analyzed the recently. [00:31] techrightssec2 A very small portion of the patents embedded in H.264 have expired and a tiny [00:31] techrightssec2 number of additional patents will expire soon: [00:31] techrightssec2 https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/avc-att1.pdf [00:31] techrightssec2 Yet phone makers went out of their way to avoid Ogg and paid at great expense [00:31] techrightssec2 to add H.264 with "hardware acceleration". [00:31] techrightssec2 When do the rest expire? ● Dec 29 [01:22] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@h2y8br2muhqfn.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 29 [02:31] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:31] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:37] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [02:37] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 29 [03:42] schestowitz-TR working on 3 posts for midnight server time [03:42] schestowitz-TR \ [03:42] schestowitz-TR vonick uptime 50 days, 8 hours [03:42] schestowitz-TR that's the machine that kept crashing due to storage-related issues [03:42] schestowitz-TR I already moved critical files off of it [03:42] schestowitz-TR but the problem seems to have temporarily gone away [03:42] schestowitz-TR TR gets many visits on Microsoft 2023 layoff pages [03:42] schestowitz-TR which sort of tells you something, imho [03:42] schestowitz-TR regarding MPEG patents, I know none individually [03:42] schestowitz-TR there are so many that it would be a waste of time to study that, unless you do it for a living ● Dec 29 [04:12] schestowitz-TR Deaths Soaring in Ireland After COVID-19 and Vaccination https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/29/ireland-q2-2022/ [04:12] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Deaths Soaring in Ireland After COVID-19 and Vaccination [04:44] schestowitz-TR Time to pause covid mass vaccination https://rumble.com/v22ugd2-time-to-pause-covid-mass-vaccination.html [04:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-rumble.com | Time to pause covid mass vaccination [04:46] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[04:47] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [04:47] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 29 [08:54] schestowitz-TR In Norway GNU/Linux is found on over 12% of laptops/desktops this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway/#monthly-200901-202212 [08:54] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats [08:54] schestowitz-TR not sure how accurate [08:55] schestowitz-TR I think Microsoft has gamed their data in recent months [08:55] schestowitz-TR in order to fake "success" of vista11 [08:55] schestowitz-TR but I cannot prove it [08:56] techrightssec2 They usually do game or outright cook their data to give the illusion of being [08:56] techrightssec2 better off than they really are. ● Dec 29 [09:40] techrightssec2 If I recall correctly there were some game companies helping them, and probably [09:40] techrightssec2 still do. It might have been regarding WoW where game clients that used [09:40] techrightssec2 Windows even once during the first few months were counte as Windows and not [09:40] techrightssec2 GNU/Linux even if the game was only ever played via GNU/Linux. Those stats [09:40] techrightssec2 were later used to drop support for the platform. Game support, or more [09:40] techrightssec2 specifically the politics coming from the gaming companies, is a whole can of [09:40] techrightssec2 worms. Those issues were discussed online back when Slashdot was still around. [09:41] schestowitz-TR i still remember this [09:47] schestowitz-TR many gnu/linux clients pretend to be windows (librewolf does my default; rianne and I look like [09:47] schestowitz-TR Firefox on Windows) [09:47] schestowitz-TR no wondows clients [09:47] schestowitz-TR pretend to be gnu/linux [09:49] techrightssec2 Yes, many do, exacerbating the problem by not forcing the servers to address [09:49] techrightssec2 the full market. In the 'old' days, marketers would jump at the chance to [09:49] techrightssec2 increase their market share by a few percent. Now they are all about forcing [09:49] techrightssec2 a particular company's corporate ideology in such a way as to actively shrink [09:49] techrightssec2 market share while responding to compaints with F.O.A.D. [09:59] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Dec 29 [10:13] schestowitz-TR Donald Knuths 2022 Christmas Tree Lecture Is about Trees - The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2022-christmas-tree-lecture-is-about-trees/ Source: The New Stack | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//thenewstack.io/donald-knuths-2022-christmas-tree-lecture-is-about-trees/ [10:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thenewstack.io | Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is about Trees - The New Stack [10:16] schestowitz-TR Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) - Invidious https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zg6YRqT4Duo&feature=youtu.be | Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/zg6YRqT4Duo&feature=youtu.be [10:16] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth - Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) - Invidious ● Dec 29 [12:25] schestowitz-TR Phoronix has just RE-published an article for the THIRD time in two days. Maybe his xmas traffic puts him down, so he's bumping old stories. ● Dec 29 [13:37] schestowitz-TR I can post another batch of Daily Links [13:37] schestowitz-TR unless daily links are imminent from the Links account ● Dec 29 [14:31] techrightssec2 just a sec [14:31] techrightssec2 All set. It took much longer than planned today. [14:32] schestowitz-TR thanks, I thought something had gone wrong [14:32] schestowitz-TR glad it was fine ● Dec 29 [15:24] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [15:24] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [15:26] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [15:26] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@auubhxtweg528.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:29] schestowitz-TR commondreams grabs para1 thrice in a row [15:29] schestowitz-TR i think some variable might be echoed repeatedly [15:29] schestowitz-TR for now I remove second and third lines [15:38] techrightssec2 checking [15:38] techrightssec2 hmm. seems to be in the source html the XPath will need changing [15:39] schestowitz-TR I've manually culled the ones from today and am progressing towards bedtime circa 6pm [15:39] schestowitz-TR been a productive day here at least [15:39] schestowitz-TR more so tomorrow:-) [15:58] techrightssec2 yep, the actual text + markup is in the source x3 ● Dec 29 [16:24] techrightssec2 ok, the scraper is fixed in regards to commondreams.org but, as always, [16:24] techrightssec2 scraping remains brittle. [16:24] techrightssec2 Thanks for catching the change. [16:26] schestowitz-TR it is a moving target [16:26] schestowitz-TR but at least it lets reading be done better [16:26] schestowitz-TR like in books, no mimages to distract me [16:26] schestowitz-TR I can't see the faces of people the articles are about [16:26] schestowitz-TR and this is fine [16:26] schestowitz-TR that also shows why gemini is fine [16:26] schestowitz-TR the imagination works more [16:54] techrightssec2 ack [16:54] techrightssec2 Heads up: Rossmann reported that the NY bill got gutted leaving a useless [16:54] techrightssec2 piece of garbage with the old bill's name in it's place. The change was a few [16:54] techrightssec2 words but it effectively opened a loophole that opponents can drive trucks [16:54] techrightssec2 through. [16:55] schestowitz-TR so basically a never-0ending battle with well-funded and tireless lobbyists [16:55] schestowitz-TR like upc [16:55] schestowitz-TR and the media covers it only as suits its owners ● Dec 29 [21:15] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@3wpw8i8zcbs5u.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 29 [23:55] techrightssec2 It was done more or less outside of democratic processes. [23:55] techrightssec2 It reminds me of when the secretary left the Open Source discussion off of the [23:55] techrightssec2 state of Oregon's agenda for the last session before the end of the season. [23:55] techrightssec2 That ensured it was not discussed with the old legislature, and the new [23:55] techrightssec2 legislature was an entirely different power constellation with different people [23:55] techrightssec2 and all. [23:55] techrightssec2 M$, and in this case also Apple, play the quite corrupt politicians with their [23:55] techrightssec2 lobbyists and legalized bribery.