●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 ●● ● Mar 23 [00:00] TR News Tux Machines turning 18 soon. Before COVID-19 broke out in China we had a 15-year party. http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/15-Year-Anniversary-Party-for-Tux-Machines [00:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com | 15-Year Anniversary Party for Tux Machines [00:00] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162882 [00:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines [00:01] TR News When NBA was in Manchester http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/NBA-Teams-Come-to-Manchester/nba0 [00:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com | nba0 [00:04] TR News "If I close my Facebook account, I won't have friends" ~= "If I quit drinking alcohol, I'll never be happy again" [00:16] TR News FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ [00:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights [00:19] TR News Techrights is just 169 pages short of 40k pages in Gemini gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi we'll be there next week [00:22] TR News "Gemini is similar to WWW, with content mixed with site structure. So in Gopher, we would link to content, rather than to site structure like in WWW and Gemini." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi [00:22] TR News "The job market in my sector, and for my skill set, is to my advantage. Especially now that so many companies offer remote work. I don't expect to be between jobs for long." gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-03-22-being-laid-off-starting-new-chapter.gmi [00:24] TR News "For ebooks going DRM-free can limit your choices. For example, I haven't seen DRM-free versions of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings out there. But sometimes you can buy DRM-free versions of books straight from the publisher. It is always worth going and checking it out." gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2022-02-15.gmi [00:28] TR News LOL, BT. Like some "online" 'banks' that simple FAIL (by design) to operate at certain times: "Sorry, but we are doing some maintenance on the site at the moment. It should be back, better than ever, in a short while." 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-220322.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-220322.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-220322.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-220322.txt [02:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 [02:44] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2022-03-22.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2022-03-22.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) ● Mar 23 [04:02] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [04:34] *u-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [04:44] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [04:54] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Mar 23 [05:42] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Mar 23 [06:24] TR News KeePassXC 2.7.0 is a Massive Upgrade with Tags, Improved Auto-Type, and Windows Hello Support http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162445#comment-33159 [06:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | KeeWeb is a multiplatform password manager with a full KeePass database support | Tux Machines [06:27] TR News "For those of you who keep tabs on the compiler space, you might have heard that last week an announcement was made on the GCC mailing list to share with the world gcobol, a new GCC frontend" https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220321.html [06:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-briancallahan.net | Brian Robert Callahan [06:27] TR News "Last week I wrote a system daemon to manage the CPU frequency from userland, entirely bypassing the kernel automatic mode. While this was more of a toy at first" https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-03-21-openbsd-cool-frequency.html [06:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dataswamp.org | Solene'% : Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd [06:28] TR News "Apple's first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced in 1976. This early microcomputer used an unusual type of storage for its display: shift register memory." http://www.righto.com/2022/03/inside-apple-1s-unusual-mos-clock.html [06:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.righto.com | Inside the Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip [06:29] TR News "Im starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant futuresay in 2050." https://danielmiessler.com/blog/thinking-about-the-future-of-infosec-v2022/ [06:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danielmiessler.com | Thinking About the Future of InfoSec (v2022) - Daniel Miessler [06:29] TR News "Do you indent your code with one tab, two spaces, or eight spaces? Do you feel strongly about the location of the curly brace closing a function definition? Do you have naming preferences?" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/03/coding-style-coding-etiquette/ [06:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Coding style, coding etiquette | R-bloggers [06:30] TR News "Linux Command Line offers various techniques to play with folders." Linux ix a kernel, stop calling everything "Linux", and it has directories, not "folders" https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-linux-command-line-tips-and-tricks/ [06:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.geeksforgeeks.org | Top Linux Command Line Tips and Tricks - GeeksforGeeks [06:31] TR News "When designing for the CLOWN, pricing is one of the most important signals to take into account." https://danielcompton.net/2022/03/21/penny-wise-cloud-foolish [06:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danielcompton.net | Penny Wise and Cloud Foolish Daniel Compton [06:37] TR News #Techrights Bulletin for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext [06:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Bulletin Archives [06:38] TR News #Techrights full #IPFS index updated just now http://techrights.org/ipfs available as plain text @ http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt #dweb #sharing [06:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Full IPFS Index [06:38] TR News "The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the stark limitations of the US public health data systems" https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990852/cdc-public-health-data-covid [06:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | The CDC is still trying to fix its data problem - The Verge [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990637/okta-breach-single-sign-on-lapsus-hacker-group [06:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert - The Verge [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.reuters.com/technology/authentication-services-firm-okta-says-it-is-investigating-report-breach-2022-03-22/ [06:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hackers hit authentication firm Okta, customers 'may have been impacted' | Reuters [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/599243-software-firm-investigates-digital-breach [06:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Software firm investigates digital breach | TheHill [06:41] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/okta-changes-tune,-says-about-375-customers-hit-by-january-incident.html "2.5% of its customers which amounts to about 375 companies have been affected by the January breach" [06:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-iTWire - Okta changes tune, says about 375 customers hit by January incident [06:44] TR News Proprietary: "These have all happened to me. Technology X may be too expensive because we're using another technology with a special discount that's confidential." https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-03-19/why-dont-you-use.html [06:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.brendangregg.com | Why Don't You Use ... [06:45] TR News "A timeless strategy for technical products. One of the most effective forms of API warfare which Microsoft was (is) most notorious for." https://matt-rickard.com/embrace-extend-extinguish/ [06:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-matt-rickard.com | Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. [06:46] TR News Windows TCO: https://text.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087903332/us-companies-russia-cyberattacks-ukraine-infrastructure [06:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | The U.S. warns companies to stay on guard for possible Russian cyberattacks [06:46] TR News Windows TCO: https://circleid.com/posts/20210831-what-are-the-internet-domains-connected-to-the-conficker-botnet [06:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-circleid.com | What Are the Internet Domains Connected to the Conficker Botnet? [06:47] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22991409/lapsus-microsoft-security-windows-source-code [06:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ hackers stole source code via limited access - The Verge [06:48] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO: https://www.pcworld.com/article/625175/nvidias-hackers-say-theyve-stolen-37gb-of-microsoft-code.html [06:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Nvidia's hackers say they've stolen 37GB of Microsoft code | PCWorld [06:51] TR News "Trust in how governments handle data is a critical piece in developing a successful government digital identification system." https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2022/03/to-build-a-digital-identity-system-governments-must-build-trust-about-data-collection-panelists/ [06:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-broadbandbreakfast.com | To Build a Digital Identity System, Governments Must Build Trust About Data Collection: Panelists : Broadband Breakfast [06:57] TR News Windows helps Russia/Putin https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/biden-russia-cyberattack.html see http://techrights.org/2022/03/21/putin-loves-windows/ [06:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Biden Warns Private Sector of Potential Russian Cyberattacks - The New York Times [06:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Putins Russia Loves It When Its Enemies Use Microsoft Windows | Techrights [06:59] TR News "Navalnys extended sentence came as Russia amended an already draconian censorship law to make discrediting the activities abroad of all government bodies a potentially criminal offense" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/briefing/russia-navalny-pfizer-covid-pills.html [06:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Your Wednesday Briefing: Russia Extends Navalnys Sentence - The New York Times ● Mar 23 [07:00] TR News Stop saying "Big Tech"; that helps Microsoft lobbyists https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/21/jeffersonian-v-hamiltonian/#dinheiro-fala [07:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: 21 Mar 2022 Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [07:01] TR News Gulag goes into hiding https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/doj-accuses-google-of-withholding-documents-in-anti-trust-case.html [07:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-iTWire - DoJ accuses Google of withholding documents in anti-trust case [07:02] TR News Satire https://www.theonion.com/kamala-harris-enrolls-in-6-week-coding-boot-camp-1848636358 [07:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theonion.com | Kamala Harris Enrolls In 6-Week Coding Boot Camp [07:03] TR News Russians against the war https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/16/a-new-symbol-of-russia-s-anti-war-movement [07:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | NO TITLE [07:03] TR News As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next? https://text.npr.org/1087903348 iophk: many problems, including bad UI [07:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next? [07:05] TR News "In Great Britain they occupy Russian oligarchs houses and take over their yachts (what the hell are they going to do with them?)." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/its-all-oligarchs-all-the-way-down/ [07:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Its All Oligarchs All the Way Down - CounterPunch.org [07:07] TR News NVIDIA Unveils Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162852#comment-33161 [07:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Latest Jetson Development Kit | Tux Machines [07:08] TR News "To participate in the Visa Waiver Programme, Israel allows U.S. authorities access to its biometric data. The government in Washington wants to make this mandatory for another 40 countries." https://digit.site36.net/2022/03/22/screening-of-travellers-u-s-wants-to-query-fingerprint-databases-in-europe/ [07:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-digit.site36.net | Screening of travellers: U.S. wants to query fingerprint databases in Europe Matthias Monroy [07:09] TR News One America News (OAN) canned https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/six-republican-ags-try-to-pretend-oan-was-censored-by-directv/ [07:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Six Republican AGs Try To Pretend OAN Was Censored By DirecTV | Techdirt [07:09] TR News "Old habits die hard, even when limited by incarceration. Convicted lawyer/Prenda mastermind Paul Hansmeier apparently isnt going to let being locked up for 14 years steer him clear of recidivism." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/court-tells-convicted-fraudster-paul-hansmeier-to-stop-wasting-the-courts-time-with-frivolous-litigation/ [07:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Court Tells Convicted Fraudster Paul Hansmeier To Stop Wasting The Courts Time With Frivolous Litigation | Techdirt [07:11] TR News Stop saying "Big Tech"; you're playing into the hands of corrupt Microsoft's lawyers https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/big-tech-fundamentally-odds-childrens-well-being-advocates-say [07:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Big Tech 'Fundamentally At Odds With Children's Well-Being,' Advocates Say [07:12] TR News "Despite their popularity, all of these companies have huge problems, especially when it comes to privacy and surveillance." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/ it's still social control media, so the wrong approach [07:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.privateinternetaccess.com | The Fediverse: Decentralized Social Media for Human Beings [07:14] TR News "Similarly, although I didn't mention it running on OpenBSD is another low-cost way to improve security." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2022-03-22.gmi [07:15] TR News RE What do you selfhost gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/22/what-do-you-selfhost/ [07:16] TR News "For my recent birthday I received Isaac Asimovs Nightfall and Other Stories and I, Robot. I remembered him as a great author from when I was younger, but hadn't read anything of his for around 15 or so years." gemini://november.smol.pub/asimov [07:17] TR News "It's been only 38 hours or so since I tested positive for COVID, but it feels like it has been so much longer. I don't feel too bad, really. The worst part is being hulled up in a corner of the house while my wife has to take care of our three kids all alone." gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/allokdallok.gmi [07:19] TR News "Their bill proposes to have the US Copyright Office mandate that all websites accepting user-uploaded material implement technologies to automatically filter that content." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/cc-opposes-mandatory-copyright-filters-as-well-as-using-cc-to-justify-them/ [07:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-creativecommons.org | CC opposes mandatory copyright filters, as well as using CC to justify them - Creative Commons [07:19] TR News "The Fellowship is made up of the greatest thinkers, researchers, and practitioners working in or with Scotland today." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/creative-commons-ceo-honored-as-rse-fellow/ [07:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-creativecommons.org | Creative Commons CEO honored as RSE Fellow - Creative Commons [07:19] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [07:20] TR News Cops https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/taxpayers-shell-out-900k-to-cover-for-cops-who-charged-64-people-with-possessing-1-oz-of-weed/ [07:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Taxpayers Shell Out $900k To Cover For Cops Who Charged 64 People With Possessing 1 Oz. Of Weed | Techdirt [07:21] TR News I can understand why... https://torrentfreak.com/were-turning-off-the-comments/ [07:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-We're Turning Off The Comments... * TorrentFreak [07:22] TR News "One of the best-known pirate streaming sites says it will go to extreme lengths to prevent its latest new domain from being seized." https://torrentfreak.com/primewire-well-ban-pirate-streaming-sources-introduce-upload-filters-220322/ [07:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-PrimeWire: We'll Ban 'Pirate' Streaming Sources, Introduce Upload Filters * TorrentFreak [07:23] TR News "The MPA has teamed up with Google to remove pirate site domain names from search results in countries where these are already blocked by ISPs." https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-googles-delisting-of-thousands-of-pirate-sites-works-220322/ [07:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-MPA: Google's Delisting of Thousands of Pirate Sites Works * TorrentFreak [07:24] TR News "We already knew that the UKs Online Safety Bill was going to be an utter disaster for the open internet, because that had been made clear early on" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/the-uks-online-safety-bill-would-be-a-complete-and-utter-disaster-for-an-open-internet/ [07:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The UKs Online Safety Bill Would Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For An Open Internet | Techdirt [07:28] TR News "Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book Spam Nation, was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud." https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/spam-nation-villain-vrublevsky-charged-with-fraud/ [07:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-krebsonsecurity.com | Spam Nation Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud Krebs on Security [07:33] TR News "Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russias illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war." https://fair.org/home/escalation-without-consequences-on-the-op-ed-page/ [07:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fair.org | Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page - FAIR [07:33] TR News Fake companies that can operate at a loss https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/sanders-opposes-america-competes-act-over-billions-corporate-welfare [07:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Sanders Opposes America COMPETES Act Over Billions in 'Corporate Welfare' [07:35] TR News Throwing away fine vehicles and producing new one is hugely costly to the planet, too https://truthout.org/articles/usps-could-reduce-emissions-by-300-percent-with-all-electric-fleet-report-finds/ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/watchdog-finds-postal-service-could-serve-99-routes-electric-fleet [07:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | USPS Could Reduce Emissions by 300 Percent With All-Electric Fleet, Report Finds [07:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Watchdog Finds Postal Service Could Serve 99% of Routes With Electric Fleet [07:36] TR News Boycott Starbucks https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-tells-starbucks-ceo-to-stop-union-busting-and-obey-the-law/ [07:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Sanders Tells Starbucks CEO to Stop Union Busting and Obey the Law [07:38] TR News Capitalism https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/corporate-price-gouging-lapsed-ctc-send-us-families-food-banks-droves [07:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Corporate Price-Gouging, Lapsed CTC Send US Families to Food Banks in Droves [07:39] TR News Just boycott Starbucks. It needs to be bankrupt. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/bernie-sanders-returning-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-end-union-busting [07:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Bernie Sanders to Returning Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: 'End the Union-Busting' [07:40] TR News How to lose the audience https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/when-the-press-tries-to-hide-or-discredit-the-facts-it-discredits-itself-instead/ [07:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-When The Press Tries to Hide or Discredit the Facts, It Discredits Itself Instead - CounterPunch.org [07:43] TR News Their wealth is our sickness https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/pandemic-rich-richer/ see https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid/ [07:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | The Pandemic Made the Rich $1.7 Trillion Richer | The Nation [07:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | While the Poor Get Sick, Bill Gates Just Gets Richer | The Nation [07:44] TR News Not Western oligarchs, too? https://www.thenation.com/article/world/yacht-oligarch-sanctions-putin/ [07:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Sanctioning Oligarchs | The Nation [07:44] TR News Gulagtube https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/tesla-fires-employee-for-posting-critical-footage-to-youtube/ [07:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Tesla Fires Employee For Posting Critical Footage To YouTube | Techdirt [07:46] TR News Making a killing https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/khanna-warren-bill-would-ban-wall-street-profiteering-water-scarcity [07:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Khanna-Warren Bill Would Ban Wall Street Profiteering on Water Scarcity [07:47] TR News War Against Piracy. [sic] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/routinely-terrible-anti-piracy-company-seeks-court-order-preventing-torrentfreak-from-covering-its-terribleness/ [07:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Routinely Terrible Anti-Piracy Company Seeks Court Order Preventing TorrentFreak From Covering Its Terribleness | Techdirt [07:50] TR News IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/irc-log-220322/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/irc-log-220322/ [07:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | Techrights [07:52] TR News #HowTo Enable X11 and Disable Wayland Window System Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162883 [07:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | How to Enable X11 and Disable Wayland Window System | Tux Machines [07:56] TR News LOL. Client at work refers to Moodle as "noodle" this morning. ● Mar 23 [08:13] TR News Proprietary Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162884 [08:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Proprietary Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:14] TR News Programming Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162885 [08:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Programming Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:14] TR News Linux History and Why Are There So Many Distros Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162886 [08:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux History and Why Are There So Many Distros | Tux Machines [08:15] TR News Links 23/3/2022: GNU Parallel 20220322, Microsoft Breaches | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/microsoft-breaches/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/microsoft-breaches/ [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Links 23/3/2022: GNU Parallel 20220322, Microsoft Breaches | Techrights [08:15] TR News Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162887 [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Free Software/Open Source Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:15] TR News Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162888 [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's leftovers | Tux Machines [08:17] TR News "Russia is inching closer to a sovereign internet." https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [08:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | Updates: Digital rights in the Russia-Ukraine conflict - Access Now [08:19] TR News If you use Gulag Chrome, then you are doing it wrong ALREADY https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-chrome-security-extensions/ [08:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.maketecheasier.com | 12 Chrome Security and Privacy Extensions to Stay Safe Online - Make Tech Easier [08:24] TR News How Valves Long-Standing Embrace of Linux Is Helping Games Run Better https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg4ab/how-valves-long-standing-embrace-of-linux-is-helping-games-run-better [08:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.vice.com | How Valves Long-Standing Embrace of Linux Is Helping Games Run Better [08:26] TR News "To make set clock time and count increase with rotation probe, rotatory encoder ky-040 with Arduino is still best to use" https://peppe8o.com/ky-040-and-arduino-rotatory-encoder-wiring-and-code/ [08:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-peppe8o.com | KY-040 and Arduino: Rotatory Encoder wiring and code [08:31] TR News Stallman also spoke after LibrePlanet 2020 (in the 35-year anniversary of the FSF), so hes basically speaking every year, during or at least after LibrePlanet. Heres a video from LibrePlanet 8 years ago. http://techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ [08:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights [08:32] TR News CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS [08:32] TR News CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162853#comment-33162 [08:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Announcing CrossOver 21.2.0 | Tux Machines [08:32] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162889 [08:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines ● Mar 23 [09:01] TR News ICBM does not do solutions, it's telling you to outsource https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/3/how-sres-can-help-you-stop-managing-infrastructure [09:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-enterprisersproject.com | How SREs can help you stop managing infrastructure | The Enterprisers Project [09:02] TR News Our Response to the SCs Technical Committee on Pegasus #SaveOurPrivacy https://internetfreedom.in/our-response-to-the-scs-technical-committee-on-pegasus/ [09:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-internetfreedom.in | Our Response to the SCs Technical Committee on Pegasus #SaveOurPrivacy [09:03] TR News "EasyOS starts the desktop with Osmo personal organizer running in the systray. However, when testing the latest Easy on my baby laptop, I found that when restart the X server, Osmo often is not captured by the systray and runs as a regular window." https://bkhome.org/news/202203/jwm-fails-to-capture-osmo-in-systray.html [09:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bkhome.org | JWM fails to capture Osmo in systray ● Mar 23 [10:12] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social [10:19] TR News NVIDIA 510.60.02 driver rolls out for Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/nvidia-5106002-driver-rolls-out-for-linux [10:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-NVIDIA 510.60.02 driver rolls out for Linux | GamingOnLinux [10:19] TR News No, Microbel, I don't care for this and Intel doesn't give us all gifts https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Microsoft-SIOV [10:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Intel + Microsoft Contribute "SIOV" I/O Virtualization Spec To Open Compute Project - Phoronix [10:21] TR News Microsoft cannot even protect its own systems. Microsoft booster Lawrence Abrams will help deflect blame (blame the attacker, not the system) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-they-were-hacked-by-lapsus-extortion-group/ [10:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Microsoft confirms they were hacked by Lapsus$ extortion group [10:22] TR News Nobody but Microsoft needs this thing there in the first place https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58879.html see http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/ [10:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mjg59.dreamwidth.org | mjg59 | AMD's Pluton implementation seems to be controllable [10:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Pluton Proponents Working for Plutocracy (and Pentagon Agenda) | Techrights [10:25] TR News "please pull the latest fbdev updates and fixes for kernel 5.18-rc1. This patchset has been in linux-next without any reported problems and includes a lot of small fixes and code cleanups across many traditional fbdev drivers." https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YjokKxSLtqMwyLyB@ls3530/ [10:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lore.kernel.org | [GIT PULL] fbdev updates & fixes for v5.18-rc1 - Helge Deller [10:30] TR News Linux 5.17 released: Bootlin contributions http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162775#comment-33163 [10:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux Kernel 5.17 Officially Released, This Is Whats New | Tux Machines [10:30] TR News Top 10 compression utilities for Ubuntu Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162890 [10:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Top 10 compression utilities for Ubuntu | Tux Machines [10:35] TR News To participate in Fedora Linux 36 Release Party you must run proprietary JavaScript because ICBM/Red Hat outsourced to proprietary software https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/youre-invited-to-the-fedora-linux-36-release-party/ [10:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-communityblog.fedoraproject.org | You're invited to the Fedora Linux 36 Release Party! Fedora Community Blog [10:58] TR News Freenode has 1.4 times more channels than users https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode [10:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-netsplit.de | NO TITLE ● Mar 23 [11:13] TR News Fedora and IBM/Red Hat Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162891 [11:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Fedora and IBM/Red Hat | Tux Machines [11:17] TR News Interview with Plasma Mobile developer Bhushan Shah Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162892 [11:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Interview with Plasma Mobile developer Bhushan Shah | Tux Machines [11:20] TR News Cancel mobs are not anti-men. They're about removing individuals and communities that corporations and plutocrats do not like. Those often happen to be men, but not always. But it's about power, not identity. The latter is a distraction. [11:32] TR News A new source of trust for your platform - Dasharo with Intel TXT support https://blog.3mdeb.com/2022/2022-03-17-optiplex-txt/ [11:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.3mdeb.com | Thoughts dereferenced from the scratchpad noise. | A new source of trust for your platform - Dasharo with Intel TXT support [11:45] TR News Best Linux Media Center Distros for Your Home Theater PC Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162893 [11:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Best Linux Media Center Distros for Your Home Theater PC | Tux Machines ● Mar 23 [12:09] TR News People who say "I don't need the command line, I don't understand the command line, I just want and use GUI" won't be problem solvers. GUIs help you solve problems only other people solved before you. [12:09] TR News How our community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162894 [12:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | How our community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool | Tux Machines [12:09] TR News Tiny Jetson Xavier NX mini PC gets AI-powered Oosto video analytics software Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162895 [12:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Tiny Jetson Xavier NX mini PC gets AI-powered Oosto video analytics software | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News 24 Great KDE Plasma 5.24 Themes Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162896 [12:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | 24 Great KDE Plasma 5.24 Themes | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News Lilbits: /e/OS (de-Googled Android) turns five this year and NVIDIA unveils Hooper GPU architecture (for servers first) Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162897 [12:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Lilbits: /e/OS (de-Googled Android) turns five this year and NVIDIA unveils Hooper GPU architecture (for servers first) | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162898 [12:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Android Leftovers | Tux Machines [12:16] TR News Anatomy of a ghost CVE https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/23/anatomy-of-a-ghost-cve/ [12:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Anatomy of a ghost CVE | daniel.haxx.se [12:17] TR News Linux on Mars: 17 flights later Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162899 [12:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux on Mars: 17 flights later | Tux Machines [12:20] TR News Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162900 [12:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines [12:22] TR News "There was another COVID case in the office, but we were not told who exactly it was. I'm sure that those who had contact to the person were notified." gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2022-03-23__Negative.md it has been getting harder to dodge it [12:23] TR News "Sometimes it seems like itd be easier to get a Klein bottle to lie flat than some of these chicken thighs." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/ [12:24] TR News Bird feeder, part 2 ; "All this I've seen because I've been at home so much in the last couple of years. Thanks, covid, but it doesn't make up for all the bad stuff." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2022-03-23_Bird_feeder__part_2.gmi [12:25] TR News "The search engine index has grown quite considerably the last few weeks. It's actually surpassed 50 million documents, which is quite some milestone. In February it was sitting at 27-28 million or so." gemini://marginalia.nu/log/52-growing-pains.gmi [12:27] TR News "Earlier this month, there was quite the unexpected announcement: Epic Games has bought up Bandcamp. As a regular user of Bandcamp, this has filled me with a bit of despair." gemini://pennywhether.xyz/articles/epic-bandcamp.gmi [12:29] TR News LLVM / Clang 14.0 out soon, still needs to delete Microsoft GitHub to be taken more seriously. [12:30] TR News "Witness the rise of open hardware! Last year, I wrote about how now is the time to start seriously thinking about a career in open source." https://opensource.com/article/22/3/trailblazer-funding-open-hardware-academia [12:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-New Trailblazers Fellowships power open hardware in academia | Opensource.com [12:31] TR News If it comes with Windows (you are FORCED to pay MICROSOFT basically), why does CNX waste time promoting it? "Id like to thank Higole for providing the F7G Plus for review." Oh, THAT'S why. https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/23/higole-f7g-plus-review-a-affordable-rugged-tablet-tested-with-ubuntu-20-04-windows-11/ see http://techrights.org/2022/02/17/cnxsoftware-partly-compromised/ [12:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Higole F7G Plus Review - An affordable rugged tablet tested with Ubuntu 20.04 & Windows 11 - CNX Software [12:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | The C in CNX Software is Not Community | Techrights [12:40] TR News Cyberpunk 2077 gets an official Steam Deck setting but seems broken | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/cyberpunk-2077-gets-an-official-steam-deck-setting-but-seems-broken/ [12:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Cyberpunk 2077 gets an official Steam Deck setting but seems broken | GamingOnLinux ● Mar 23 [13:18] TR News "Since February 15, Ukraine has suffered through over 3000 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while Amazon Web Services has reportedly detected numerous instances of malware targeting charities, NGOs, and other aid organizations providing relief to Ukraine." Malware other than AWS itself. https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [13:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | Updates: Digital rights in the Russia-Ukraine conflict - Access Now [13:19] TR News NASA is funded by the public. It can release this. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/nasas-insider-threat-program.html [13:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-NASAs Insider Threat Program - Schneier on Security [13:20] TR News "This patch adds the feature bit for FP16 to the feature set for Armv9 since Armv9 requires SVE to be implemented and SVE requires FP16 to be implemented." https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0bae246acc758d4b11dd575b05207fd69169109b [13:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-gcc.gnu.org Git - gcc.git/commitdiff [13:21] TR News Imagination releases PowerVR code, but choose Microsoft proprietary software as the platform. Foolish and sends the wrong message. [13:25] TR News Microsoft reminds users of Windows who truly owns and controls these machines. They should move to GNU/Linux ASAP. https://www.maketecheasier.com/watermarks-on-unsupported-windows-11-pcs/ [13:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.maketecheasier.com | Watermarks to Start Appearing on Unsupported Windows 11 PCs - Make Tech Easier [13:26] TR News Microsoft Delighted by Windows 11 (Vista 11) Usage, Which is Only 1% Three Months After Official Launch and Six Months After Release Online Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/01/26/microsoft-delighted-by-failure/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/26/microsoft-delighted-by-failure/ [13:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Microsoft Delighted by Windows 11 (Vista 11) Usage, Which is Only 1% Three Months After Official Launch and Six Months After Release Online | Techrights [13:27] TR News Nushell 0.60: Command line structuring for Linux, Windows, and macOS Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162901 [13:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Nushell 0.60: Command line structuring for Linux, Windows, and macOS | Tux Machines [13:28] TR News FOSSlife uses MICROSOFT as a source. Says a lot... https://www.fosslife.org/top-skills-devops-engineers [13:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fosslife.org | Top Skills for DevOps Engineers [13:30] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@24m4cjnx52ddc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [13:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Mar 23 [14:07] *psymin (~psymin@me3biw7mdts84.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [14:27] TR News BhaiLang: A toy programming language syntaxes use Hindi slang Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162902 [14:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | BhaiLang: A toy programming language syntaxes use Hindi slang | Tux Machines [14:30] TR News Top 10 File Compression Tools For Linux Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162903 [14:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Top 10 File Compression Tools For Linux | Tux Machines ● Mar 23 [15:05] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162904 [15:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines [15:08] TR News Does Linux need an occasional cleanup? Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162905 [15:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Does Linux need an occasional cleanup? | Tux Machines [15:09] TR News Qt Creator 7 Open-Source IDE Released, Adds Wayland Backend for Qt on Linux Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162906 [15:09] TR News 28 Open-source free XMPP clients and messengers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Mobile, and the Web Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162907 [15:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Qt Creator 7 Open-Source IDE Released, Adds Wayland Backend for Qt on Linux | Tux Machines [15:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | 28 Open-source free XMPP clients and messengers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Mobile, and the Web | Tux Machines [15:16] TR News Links 23/3/2022: Linux on Mars and Bhushan Shah Interviewed | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/linux-on-mars-2022/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/linux-on-mars-2022/ [15:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Links 23/3/2022: Linux on Mars and Bhushan Shah Interviewed | Techrights [15:16] TR News Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162908 [15:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's leftovers | Tux Machines [15:22] TR News A quick look at 2022 7DRL Challenge games | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/a-quick-look-at-2022-7drl-challenge-games [15:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A quick look at 2022 7DRL Challenge games | GamingOnLinux [15:23] TR News Godot Engine - Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4 https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-4-4 [15:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-godotengine.org | Godot Engine - Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4 [15:25] TR News Asahi Linux: The Individual Users Stake in an Apple Silicon World Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162909 [15:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Asahi Linux: The Individual Users Stake in an Apple Silicon World | Tux Machines [15:27] TR News openmamba 20220323 is released https://openmamba.org/en/blog/category/openmamba/news/ [15:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openmamba.org | News | openmamba [15:29] TR News Alpine 3.15.2 released Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162910 [15:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Alpine 3.15.2 released | Tux Machines [15:37] TR News Clear Linux is the First Distro to Offer GNOME 42 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162911 [15:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Clear Linux is the First Distro to Offer GNOME 42 | Tux Machines [15:59] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Mar 23 [16:16] TR News GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912 [16:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [16:45] TR News Firebird 4.0.1 and 3.0.9 Docker images are released https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2022/03/firebird-401-and-309-docker-images-are.html [16:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mapopa.blogspot.com | Mariuz's Blog: Firebird 4.0.1 and 3.0.9 Docker images are released [16:46] TR News Shilling WSL is a bad idea because it is Microsoft's attack on GNU/Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/can-hp-elite-dragonfly-g3-run-linux/ [16:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | Can the HP Elite Dragonfly G3 run Linux? Here's what you need to know [16:47] TR News Linux: Efficiency and Performance from Kernel Customizations https://formtek.com/blog/linux-efficiency-and-performance-from-kernel-customizations/ [16:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux: Efficiency and Performance from Kernel Customizations | Formtek Blog [16:48] TR News IBCM diploma mills: "Become Red Hat certified" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/meet-your-learning-goals-new-personalized-skills-paths see https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Red_Hat [16:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Meet your learning goals with new personalized skills paths [16:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-wikileaks.org | Category:Red Hat - WikiLeaks ● Mar 23 [17:05] TR News GNOME 42 Released, This is What's New http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912#comment-33166 [17:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [17:06] TR News For, for a CHANGE, is about Linux https://linuxfoundation.org/featured/projects-featured/the-elisa-project-strengthens-its-focus-on-automotive-use-cases-with-expertise-from-new-members-automotive-intelligence-and-control-of-china-lotus-cars-and-zte-%EF%BF%BC/ [17:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linuxfoundation.org | The ELISA Project Strengthens its Focus on Automotive Use Cases with Expertise from New Members Automotive Intelligence and Control of China, LOTUS Cars and ZTE - Linux Foundation [17:09] TR News mozilla speaks of its vision for the www while screwing people who lack vision... as drm harms blind people :/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-webvision-future-of-web-five-year-plan/ [17:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.mozilla.org | The web is for everyone: Our vision for the evolution of the web [17:11] TR News "These landscapes depict worlds populated by animals, where the built environment of humans is relegated to the distant background." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world/ [17:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-publicdomainreview.org | Ferdinand van Kessels *Four Parts of the World* (ca. 1689) The Public Domain Review [17:11] TR News Wonderful life sim The Garden Path gets a new trailer | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/wonderful-life-sim-the-garden-path-gets-a-new-trailer [17:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Wonderful life sim The Garden Path gets a new trailer | GamingOnLinux [17:13] TR News Lightweight Linux distro Lakka for retro gaming version 4.0 out now | GamingOnLinux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162769#comment-33167 [17:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Lakka 4.0 release | Tux Machines [17:18] TR News Games: 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, Godot 3.4.4, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162913 [17:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Games: 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, Godot 3.4.4, and More | Tux Machines [17:19] TR News Pepper&Carrot book 4 is now available in shop! https://www.davidrevoy.com/article902/book-4-is-now-available [17:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.davidrevoy.com | Book 4 is now available! - David Revoy [17:20] TR News "For the second year in a row, I proposed some workshops at the feminist hackers assembly at the remote C3. Im sharing them here because I believe they might be useful to others." https://curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html [17:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-curlybracket.net | Workshops about anger, saying NO, and mapping one's capacities and desires [17:21] TR News "eduGAIN is a interfederation joining academic identity federations around the world, including over 4781 identify providers & 3519 service providers. The project was initiated by by the GANT research and education networking community in Europe." https://kushaldas.in/posts/edugain-key-signing-ceremony.html [17:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kushaldas.in | eduGAIN Key Signing Ceremony [17:21] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162914 [17:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines [17:23] TR News Lots of backups and maintenance done today. Techrights posts tonight, for sure... not a priority at the moment due to a failing drive [17:29] TR News Access Nows statement on Myanmar at the U.N. Human Rights Council - Access Now https://www.accessnow.org/united-nations-on-myanmar/ [17:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | Access Now's statement on Myanmar at the U.N. Human Rights Council - Access Now [17:32] TR News GNOME 42 released with the new global dark-style preference | GamingOnLinux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912#comment-33168 [17:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [17:34] TR News "In this video, I am going to show how to install Linux Mint LMDE 5 "Elsie"." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YdF8swNhN3E [17:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yewtu.be | How to install Linux Mint LMDE 5 "Elsie" - Invidious [17:38] TR News Entrapment (Microsoft Mono) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/unity-game-engine-team-announce-3d-platformer-gigaya-free-for-devs-to-tinker-with [17:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unity game engine team announce 3D platformer Gigaya, free for devs to tinker with | GamingOnLinux [17:52] TR News Linux 5.16.17, 5.15.31, 5.10.108, 5.4.187, 4.19.236, 4.14.273, and 4.9.308 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162915 [17:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux 5.16.17, 5.15.31, 5.10.108, 5.4.187, 4.19.236, 4.14.273, and 4.9.308 | Tux Machines [17:57] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Mar 23 [18:02] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [18:02] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [18:06] TR News Links 23/3/2022: GNOME 42 and Alpine 3.15.2 | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/alpine-3-15-2/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/alpine-3-15-2/ [18:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Links 23/3/2022: GNOME 42 and Alpine 3.15.2 | Techrights [18:07] TR News Linux Kernel and Founadation Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162916 [18:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux Kernel and Founadation | Tux Machines [18:08] TR News Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162917 [18:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's leftovers | Tux Machines [18:15] TR News 20 Days After Leaving Twitter Its All Nice and Quiet http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/nice-and-quiet/ [18:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive 20 Days After Leaving Twitter Its All Nice and Quiet [18:28] TR News Two Years After COVID-19 Paralysed the UK (Lockdowns Initiatied) Number of Hospitalisations Approaching What It Was 2 Years Ago http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/covid-19-cases-rising-again/ [18:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Two Years After COVID-19 Paralysed the UK (Lockdowns Initiatied) Number of Hospitalisations Approaching What It Was 2 Years Ago ● Mar 23 [19:07] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [19:11] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [19:14] TR News One of the most beautiful and user friendly Linux distributions gets even better Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162918 [19:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | One of the most beautiful and user friendly Linux distributions gets even better | Tux Machines [19:32] TR News Ubuntu 22.04 Wont Skimp on Wallpapers After All Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162919 [19:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Ubuntu 22.04 Wont Skimp on Wallpapers After All | Tux Machines [19:32] TR News Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162920 [19:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Android Leftovers | Tux Machines [19:37] TR News GNOME 42 Linux DE is here with new dark mode, improved screenshotting, and more http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912#comment-33170 [19:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [19:57] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@ycspytvtgvkdq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Mar 23 [20:01] TR News "Likely most folks browsing Gemini pages (or the simple web 1.0 version of this gemlog) will be familiar with open source software and the community around it, if not be an active participant in working on open source software or an amateur historian on its history and many foibles." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lettuce/learning-open-source.gmi [20:02] TR News "It's been almost two years since I wrote the post about searching for my holy grail - the dual-CPU board Asus P/I-P65UP5[1], which I had between 2003 and 2012 when it burned out. For years the board was nowhere to be found. Then it appeared twice in a period of two weeks: one on eBay, one on a local auction portal." gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2022-03-23_how_i_got_my_holy_grail.txt [20:13] TR News On the Internet, Outsourcing Was All Along a Bubble | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ [20:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | On the Internet, Outsourcing Was All Along a Bubble | Techrights [20:15] TR News Security Self-Sufficiency https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/ [20:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-puri.sm | Security Self-Sufficiency Purism [20:16] TR News It's a lot easier in GNU/Linux with GTK themes https://libreofficemaster.blogspot.com/2022/03/libreoffice-dark-mode-on-windows.html [20:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-libreofficemaster.blogspot.com | LibreOffice Dark Mode on Windows Together with Dark Colibre Icon Theme ~ Mastering LibreOffice [20:17] TR News "Ledger Mode is a package in Emacs for the command line accounting program Ledger. This allows Emacs users to utilize Ledgers powerful features from the comfort of their favorite text editor." https://www.maketecheasier.com/manage-finances-with-ledger-mode-emacs/ [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.maketecheasier.com | How to Manage your Finances with Ledger Mode in Emacs - Make Tech Easier [20:19] TR News Gemini main site now has a backup site? circumlunar.thebackupbox.net [20:21] TR News "It's a bit insane how racist people are being towards Ketanji Brown Jackson" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi [20:44] TR News "please pull the small pile of EDAC updates accumulated in the last round." https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YjhQYeGqsuiXAsSp@zn.tnic/ [20:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lore.kernel.org | [GIT PULL] EDAC updates for 5.18 - Borislav Petkov [20:46] TR News "As you know, Im challenging myself to use the Steam Deck as my only PC, and so far it has been a moderately successful experiment. Ive hosted, recorded and edited a 2-hour video chat on this thing." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/03/23/make-your-twitter-experience-better-with-this-awesome-windows-macos-and-linux-app/ [20:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.forbes.com | Forget TweetDeck, This Open-Source App Is A Better Twitter Experience [20:47] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162921 [20:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines [20:47] TR News Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/23/a-toy-version-of-tls/ [20:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jvns.ca | Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 [20:48] TR News Want A Job At Canonical? Write A 5000 Word Essay?!? - Invidious https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zye7etf_bek [20:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yewtu.be | Want A Job At Canonical? Write A 5000 Word Essay?!? - Invidious [20:52] TR News The Internet and not just the World Wide Web anymore is being stressed to the point where censorship has become far too rampant and social control media is basically all about filtering, not for informations sake but for its owners' financial interests; we need to restructure the Internet to curb suppression and curtail autocracy http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ [20:53] TR News #HowTo write a Vulkan driver in 2022 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162922 [20:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022 | Tux Machines [20:58] TR News Securing Gemini Servers gemini://perplexing.space/2022/securing-gemini-servers.gmi "I like running a boring Linux server using a long term support release, in my case Debian stable." ● Mar 23 [21:00] TR News "Using the most expensive laptop you can find as a thin client to a rented cluster of virtualized machines which themselves are virtualizing still smaller machines which run software intended to virtualize still smaller machines. The workload? Probably capable of running on a raspberry pi." gemini://perplexing.space/2022/cutting-edge-development.gmi [21:03] TR News Old: "I might be impressed with how poorly Github performs if I were not so annoyed." gemini://perplexing.space/2021/github-is-slow.gmi Microsoft Github is also technically crap. Never mind all the other malicious things it does... [21:06] TR News Libera.Chat lost users this past month (see graph) https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat [21:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-netsplit.de | NO TITLE [21:20] TR News Videos: Zorin OS, Canonical, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162923 [21:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Videos: Zorin OS, Canonical, and More | Tux Machines [21:25] TR News "Ive underestimated how nice it is not to be bothered by notifications. Yes, Ive quit more than just Twitter and things are a lot more pleasant now. WOULD RECOMMEND." http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/nice-and-quiet/ [21:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive 20 Days After Leaving Twitter Its All Nice and Quiet [21:26] TR News Same time 2 years ago (when UK went into lockdown) we had 2-3 times FEWER COVID-19 deaths http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/covid-19-cases-rising-again/ [21:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Two Years After COVID-19 Paralysed the UK (Lockdowns Initiated) Number of Hospitalisations Approaching What It Was 2 Years Ago [21:35] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [21:41] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [21:44] TR News These patents aren't even meant to exist, but corrupt EPO management crushes the law https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a675ce6e-ecf3-48f5-87cc-f8d0d0660bbb [21:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-EPO decision T 2314/16: Good news for business-related inventions at the EPO? - Lexology [21:45] TR News How about the priority of saving the EPO from corruption? https://www.mondaq.com/patent/1169398/update-from-the-epo-getting-your-european-priorities-even-straighter [21:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.mondaq.com | Update From The EPO: Getting Your European Priorities (Even) Straighter - Intellectual Property - European Union [21:46] TR News EPO is not European Union https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/two-day-virtual-training-course-how-to-avoid-common-pitfalls-in-combined-european-unionus-patent-applications-march-17-18-2022-301497657.html [21:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.prnewswire.com | Two Day Virtual Training Course: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Combined European Union/US Patent Applications, March 17-18, 2022 [21:46] TR News Those are neither "IP" nor rights https://www.worldipreview.com/news/russia-may-suspend-ip-rights-to-counter-sanctions-22168 [21:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.worldipreview.com | Russia mulls suspension IP rights to counter sanctions [21:48] TR News Another story of fake patents perishing in courts https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-autostore-appeal-u-court-000539261.html [21:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-finance.yahoo.com | UPDATE 2-AutoStore to appeal in U.S. court over patent row with Ocado [21:49] TR News EPO behaves like Vladimir Putin and still has the audacity to say that... https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/prh-joins-other-patent-offices-in-6067822/ [21:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-PRH Joins Other Patent Offices in Expressing Support for Ukraine | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP - JDSupra [21:50] TR News EPO deviates further and further away from the EPC in pursuit of fake growth https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ebb1c326-f784-411a-97ac-c7cc00e65316 [21:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Berggren Series on 2022 EPO Guideline Revisions: Updates on partial priority law - Lexology [21:51] TR News Patent offices simply weaponised; they're neither about science nor innovation https://www.worldipreview.com/news/uspto-stops-fast-track-patent-examinations-from-rospatent-22176 [21:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.worldipreview.com | USPTO stops fast-track patent examinations from Rospatent [21:52] TR News These boards are not independent; they're rubberstamping Office decisions https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1ce5f323-2309-42bf-a456-cfba76b24af8 [21:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-T 1127/16: Is the EPOs approach to claim interpretation at odds with the UK Courts principle of doctrine of equivalents? - Lexology [21:54] TR News This is a lie because UPC is illegal and cannot be started (unless crime managed to triumph, which is unlikely once courts assess the situation) https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/patent/1171698/europe-continues-progress-toward-unitary-patent-and-unified-patent-court [21:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.mondaq.com | Europe Continues Progress Toward Unitary Patent And Unified Patent Court - Intellectual Property - European Union [21:56] TR News IAM, the propaganda machine of rogue and corrupt EPO management, is promoting software patents by surrogate means https://www.iam-media.com/epo-machine-learning-pitfalls [21:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.iam-media.com | Machine-learning patents at the EPO: how to overcome the pitfalls - IAM [21:57] TR News When patent systems morph into something that promote litigation at the expense of innovation https://www.mondaq.com/france/patent/1171148/what-are-patent-prosecution-highway-pph-programmes-and-should-you-be-using-them [21:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.mondaq.com | What Are Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programmes And Should You Be Using Them? - Intellectual Property - France ● Mar 23 [22:02] TR News South Korea announces half a million more people got COVID-19 (positive test). One day. Given the population's size, it's clearly out of control already. Many die, too. [22:03] TR News We were doing a LOT better before we went into lockdown 2 years ago http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/covid-19-cases-rising-again/ [22:06] TR News Yesterday USA crossed the one million deaths threshold for COVID-19. In spring of 2020 some experts predicted 2 million by the time it 'ends'. Seems plausible now. [22:38] TR News EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ [22:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally | Techrights [22:43] *activelow has quit (connection closed) [22:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social [22:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [22:52] *activelow (~activelow@925vru5petmta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [22:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social [22:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [22:57] TR News http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ [22:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | [Meme] Survey Versus Surveillance | Techrights [22:58] TR News [Meme] Survey Versus Surveillance | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ ● Mar 23 [23:01] *psymin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [23:08] TR News GNU Turns 40 Next Year. Heres Cory Doctorows Message to the FSF at 30. | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ [23:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | GNU Turns 40 Next Year. Heres Cory Doctorows Message to the FSF at 30. | Techrights [23:17] TR News "You're a US president. You just botched a major military exfiltration and your approval ratings are in the shit. You also just so happen to have received $3.2 million in campaign contributions from defense contractors." gemini://gemini.panda-roux.dev/log/entry?50 [23:18] TR News Today in #Techrights Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162924 [23:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tuxmachines.org | Today in Techrights | Tux Machines [23:19] TR News Salary Negotiation https://xkcd.com/2597/ [23:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-xkcd: Salary Negotiation [23:20] TR News They've customised pervasive surveillance devices to kids and now pay webspam sites to promote it to children https://www.maketecheasier.com/take-60-off-an-amazon-fire-hd-10-kids-pro-tablet/ [23:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.maketecheasier.com | Take $60 off an Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro Tablet - Make Tech Easier [23:22] TR News Staff of the EPO will have a say without the oppressor watching every move and making lists of 'enemies' http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ [23:25] TR News The EPO survey of SUEPO takes privacy seriously; by joining this survey, staff of the EPO will make the message loud and clear its not some loud minority which is dissatisfied http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ [23:25] TR News Cory Doctorow, who is at the EFF at the moment, sent this message 7 years ago http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ [23:37] TR News "Portmgr has restarted the portmgr-lurker program and has selected the first two lurkers: Stefan Eer. They will join portmgr for the coming months and learn all about its inner workings." https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#2022-03-23:1 [23:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.freebsd.org | FreeBSD News Flash | The FreeBSD Project [23:38] TR News "A couple of days ago, Linux Mint released their latest Linux Mint Debian Edition version 5 codenamed "Elsie." LMDE is Linux Mint's hedge in case anything ever happens to Ubuntu that would force Mint to base off of another distro. 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[00:33] schestowitz > [00:33] schestowitz > Would you be interested in putting out a call for your readers to [00:33] schestowitz > suggest evidence or send emails direct to ACM adding their own personal [00:33] schestowitz > experience? [00:33] schestowitz > [00:33] schestowitz > Do you think there is anything in there that would be a turn-off for [00:33] schestowitz > anybody endorsing it? [00:33] schestowitz > [00:33] schestowitz > The letter was submitted to ACM, BCS and ACS, the latter two already [00:33] schestowitz > acknowledging it [00:33] schestowitz I seem to be getting targeted any time I get involved in this. For now I mostly limit the connection to TuxMachines, which isn't opinionated. [00:40] activelow ACM, BCS, ACS ? 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[17:21] activelow Brexit, Rexit, ... [17:22] activelow reminder, my calculations revealed Euro inflation of ~8% for energy/rents/food for 30years since 1990, compound-interest [17:23] activelow i was blassed with two "currency reforms" (expropriations) since 1990, the inflation data indicates the third expropriation; yet i doubt another such reform would benefit me [17:24] activelow if at all, such will cause civil unrest and chaos i fear [17:25] activelow btw. i noticed the grocery store sortiment changed slightly, some puddings are in stock again in Germany since the Ukraine crisis, which disappeared some years ago [17:26] activelow noodles, bread, meat prices increased alot since the Ukraine crisis, although it's still affordable [17:27] activelow a year ago or two a 500grams noodles were sold for 49cents, now it is 69cents [17:28] activelow anyway, the energy price explosion is excessive, paid in Euros; although i lowered already marginal consumption by another 20% [17:29] activelow they ask for another 57Euros for year 2021; i mean average room temperature is ~16degC, hot water is 14cubic meters per year [17:29] activelow for this i pay almost 900Euros per year [17:29] activelow Euros, not Rubles [17:29] activelow and it isn't neither Ukraine nor Russia at fault [17:30] activelow almost 10% inflation with Energy prices [17:31] activelow i think, even if Russia/Putin wanted to accept it, they couldn't anymore, to see their Euro savings are de-valued 20% in the last 2 years only, for nothing in return except insults and sanctions [17:31] activelow by the glorious EU [17:34] activelow supplying Ukraine with weapons didn't neither "support Ukraine" nor did this "de-escalate" [17:34] activelow anyway, i have another suspicion, which is the conflict was ignited as a "de-population" strategy, along the agenda of "climate change" [17:35] activelow there was some rumors and interviews slightly above noise-floor when this began [17:36] activelow in any case, again it is a coordinated media campaign (in parallel to the violence), to distract, divert, and profiteer [17:36] activelow to comprehend what's happening, German internal politics, and the next federal elections with exploding energy prices [17:37] activelow in recent days i received the annual electricity bill (refund of 150Euros), and the heating/hot-water bill (deficit of 57Euros to pay although i lowered consumption by 20%) [17:38] activelow guess what, a typical consumer in germany, who consumes ~10x the amount and more of energy in comparison to my consumption [17:39] activelow this type of "democratic value" is debated now ahead of the next federal elections in Saarland and Nordrhein-Westphalen [17:39] activelow NRW is the most densily populated area with most voters in Germany; with Gazprom Sponsor involved there in soccer clubs... who terminated their sponsorship [17:40] activelow it is both Ukraine _and_ Russia who were cheated by Germany and EU, and if Germany/EU wanted there had been any Ukraine crisis to begin with [17:46] activelow given the cynical comments with the elections ahead, consider the Ukraine crisis an election battle [17:48] activelow btw. AfD was the only political party which didn't escalate and insisted on sanctions eased [17:48] activelow AfD has the strongest voter-base, by coincidence, where Putin resided as a young officer, in Saxony/Dresden [17:52] activelow in west-germany however, Gazprom sponsor logo was removed from the soccer-club shirts [17:52] activelow nonetheless, _both_ the Ukraine (Burisma-Biddler) pipeline and the Russian Northstream pipeline continued deliveries as usual [17:53] activelow however, now Putin insists on supplies be paid with Rubles, _not_ Euro, _not_ USD [17:53] schestowitz-TR maybe gazprom is the new swastika [17:53] schestowitz-TR i know MinceR might agree [17:53] schestowitz-TR [17:29] for this i pay almost 900Euros per year [17:54] schestowitz-TR farrrrrr too much for a single person [17:54] schestowitz-TR we pay the same for about 2 people [17:54] schestowitz-TR and have 8 PCs running all the time [17:54] MinceR "Z" is the new swastika [17:54] schestowitz-TR technically, if you have two Zs [17:55] activelow yes, and it is mostly "basic fee", which is calculated per square-meter (of a rotten over-priced appartement), which is why even if i lower consumption that doesn't affect the "value" of the Euro paid [17:55] schestowitz-TR you could make a swastika like the peace symbol [17:55] schestowitz-TR assuming kerning/curves [17:55] schestowitz-TR in the glyphs [17:55] schestowitz-TR Nazi Germany: we need living space [17:56] schestowitz-TR Putin's Russia: we are the largest nation of earth, only 150 million peolple, but we need more land [17:56] schestowitz-TR if china made such an argument, I could say, "well..." [17:56] schestowitz-TR India isn't historically aggressive [17:56] schestowitz-TR (that I know of) [17:57] schestowitz-TR also, Germany was invading countries when the economy was in the sewer [17:57] schestowitz-TR hyper-inflation after the Versailles Treaty [17:57] schestowitz-TR Russia's economy wasn't killing people, or barely [17:58] schestowitz-TR not even with COVID-19 [17:58] schestowitz-TR in that respect, what Putler is doing is arguably worse and less justified than Hitler [17:58] schestowitz-TR though it remains to be seen how far the invasion will go [17:58] schestowitz-TR Moldova or Poland might be next [17:59] activelow few minutes ago Burisma-Biddler said "chemical weapons are a real threat", and departed to visit Europe today ● Mar 23 [18:00] schestowitz-TR Who is Biddler? [18:00] schestowitz-TR it rhymes with Hossler [18:00] schestowitz-TR *Hissler [18:00] activelow Biddler Joe [18:00] schestowitz-TR meh [18:00] schestowitz-TR you compare Biden to Hitler? [18:01] schestowitz-TR Seriously?? [18:02] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [18:06] schestowitz-TR I dislike Biden [18:06] schestowitz-TR but to compare him to Hitler for antagonising Hitler is... laughable [18:12] activelow schestowitz-TR> in that respect, what Putler is doing is arguably worse and less justified than Hitler [18:13] schestowitz-TR did Biden invade and bomb Ukraine? [18:13] activelow schestowitz-TR: Burisma-Biddler, and "provide lethal aid to ukraine" was the idea of US military RAND Corp. [18:13] schestowitz-TR no [18:13] schestowitz-TR ukraine was invaded [18:13] schestowitz-TR crimea for example [18:13] schestowitz-TR ukraine has a history with USSR [18:14] schestowitz-TR like famine [18:14] schestowitz-TR and other bad stuff [18:14] activelow the population which lived there already existed, it was the crimea fleet which was secured, which didn't belong into the hands of NATO/USA/Biddler [18:15] activelow even if anyone sided with the Comedian from Kiev, even then the fact remains it was USA influence peddling which escalated the situation, together with the criminal Biddler-Minions of EU [18:16] schestowitz-TR you got the facts all wrong [18:16] schestowitz-TR but you are entitled to have that opinion [18:16] schestowitz-TR and to have it challenged, too [18:17] activelow it's a fact, not an opinion [18:21] activelow anyway, another historical fact is, the regions where the Wehrmacht intervened was already populated by Germans, for hundreds of years (Katherine the great and earlier) [18:21] schestowitz-TR which part is fact? [18:22] activelow and it was the preceeding "red terror", expropriations of farmers, often germans, with excess fatalities [18:23] activelow furthermore the Nazi propaganda didn't attack Russians or Polish or Ukrainians, the Nazi propaganda attacked "Bolshevism"(red terror) [18:26] activelow schestowitz-TR: you see, "social democrats", ask them who Noske was, to order paramilitary troops to shoot at the population, a social "democrat" (democrat == bolshevik) [18:27] activelow and the same type of "democracy" is on the rise again since 1990 in germany, among all so-called "democratic" political parties [18:27] activelow which are all controlled by "atlantic bridge" washington anyway [18:30] activelow anyway, most of the current reporting in Germany is Ilya Ehrenburg style war and hate propaganda [18:30] schestowitz-TR this is revisionism and distortion of history [18:30] activelow schestowitz-TR: it isn't; it is historical facts. [18:30] activelow anyway, recent videos, which i wouldn't know if this was some mediocre Uwe Boll movies [18:30] schestowitz-TR no, not really [18:31] schestowitz-TR not sure what sites you read [18:31] schestowitz-TR or what encyclopedia [18:31] activelow since, i simply do not believe russian military or Putin would order their troops to shoot civilians, i do not believe this [18:31] schestowitz-TR you need to go back to ww1 [18:31] schestowitz-TR and then the revolution in russia [18:31] schestowitz-TR for context [18:32] schestowitz-TR activelow: haha, you know nothing about the red army then [18:32] schestowitz-TR they're not notorious jyst because of propaganda [18:32] schestowitz-TR women in europe killed themselves for fear of being raped [18:33] activelow citing Ilya Ehrenburg again? [18:46] activelow https://www.dw.com/en/putin-unfriendly-states-to-pay-for-russian-gas-in-rubles/a-61234904 [18:46] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Putin: Unfriendly states to pay for Russian gas in rubles | News | DW | 23.03.2022 ● Mar 23 [19:18] click women in japan killed themselves for fear of being raped [19:36] schestowitz-TR when? [19:36] click ww2 [19:36] schestowitz-TR not in korea? [19:37] click korea? [19:37] schestowitz-TR "comfort women" [19:37] schestowitz-TR when japenese invaders made the women there like the army's borthel [19:37] schestowitz-TR *rothel [19:38] click one reason for women in japan killed themselves for fear of being raped [19:39] schestowitz-TR link? [19:40] click what link i saw ir on tv doc [19:40] schestowitz-TR korean women? [19:40] schestowitz-TR or japanese women? [19:40] click japanese [19:40] schestowitz-TR raped by who? [19:40] click they7 throe them selfs of clifs [19:40] schestowitz-TR US GIs? [19:41] click they didnt raped them i think they just suicide [19:42] click with their babes [19:42] schestowitz-TR I need a link [19:42] schestowitz-TR seems too new [19:42] schestowitz-TR and maybe not based on reality [19:42] click ww2? too new? [19:42] schestowitz-TR the japenese massactres babies too [19:42] schestowitz-TR putting them on bionets [19:43] click yes [19:43] schestowitz-TR to scare nations that japan invaded and occupied [19:43] click im talking about japan invasion [19:43] schestowitz-TR ok, so show some link [19:43] click by usa [19:43] schestowitz-TR about japenese women and their babies in suicide wave [19:43] schestowitz-TR "i saw it on tv" isn't a reference [19:44] schestowitz-TR "history" channel has programmes on aliens [19:44] click https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-history-okinawa-idUST29175620070406 [19:44] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Historians battle over Okinawa WW2 mass suicides | Reuters [19:45] schestowitz-TR Okinawa still has a rape issuew [19:45] schestowitz-TR with the US military bases [19:45] click its was live footage [19:46] schestowitz-TR thanks, that link helps [19:47] schestowitz "The army ordered them to commit suicide, said Yoshikazu Miyazato, 58, who plans to publish testimony from survivors on Zamami, where he says suicides accounted for 180 of the 404 civilians -- about half of the islets population -- who died." 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