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| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://betanews.com/2020/05/31/linux-lite-5-five/">Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 5.0 'Emerald' is here to replace Microsoft Windows on your PC</a></h5> | Jun 01 06:42 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jun 01 06:42 |
| schestowitz | <p>Thankfully, there is another option -- switch to Linux. Yes, modern Linux-based operating systems will be supported (unlike the now-obsolete Windows 7) and most will run great on aging hardware (unlike Windows 10). Linux Lite is one of the best Linux distributions for Windows-switchers, as it is lightweight, modern, and familiar.</p></blockquote></li> | Jun 01 06:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-betanews.com | Ubuntu-based elementary OS 5.0 'Juno' Beta 2 Linux distro now available | Jun 01 06:43 | |
| schestowitz | >> quick and dirty, but generally works... I am the sole user of these | Jun 01 07:24 |
| schestowitz | >> files at the moment. | Jun 01 07:24 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 07:24 |
| schestowitz | > The one with xdotool is interesting. For the other one, I'd propose the | Jun 01 07:24 |
| schestowitz | > attached refactoring. sed is not the best for working with XHTML though. | Jun 01 07:24 |
| schestowitz | I've merged your changes with mine as I made/added about 8 additional lines since I last sent the file for backup. It's good to know that in case something happens (no reason to worry; I'm well) we at least have this stuff in circulation. | Jun 01 07:25 |
| schestowitz | I said in advance it's quick and dirty and always work in progress (GUIs change; esp. the WWW stuff and it's never robust enough because there are 'moving parts' like server slowness, timeout, edge cases). It improves a little over time. If I post about 300 dents a day, then there's technical debt associated with not doing it right. | Jun 01 07:25 |
| schestowitz | Nothing is automated; this is just assistive technology to reduce chances of error. I check everything in the tooling twice or more. There are also sounds in the IRC client to help me double-check it's done right. | Jun 01 07:25 |
| schestowitz | I won't miss Lunduke's site. He had a good run for a while, but like FOSSForce there's no steam left. | Jun 01 07:25 |
| schestowitz | As for the intern, no word from him in a week; like he just suddenly vanished with no stated reason. If I heard nothing back in the coming week, I'll disable his account for peace of mind. Another absolute time-waster! | Jun 01 07:25 |
| schestowitz | >> I'm concerned about journalism more and more, still, because the summer | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> will be used as an additional excuse to slash reporter jobs. That's no | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> different than other summers but there's already so little left and much | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> of what's left is really poorly done. | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | > PS. There's not so much tech coverage in all of that. I've been trying | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | > to avoid the drive towards other topics beyond some other civil rights | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | > stuff. | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | The 'main stories' are consistent across MSM most of the time (latest selective outrage). Sport and entertainment aside... | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | If the above feeds are added, I think it'll deviate from whatever MSM hopes to distract from. | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | antiwar.com might be better these days. I deleted is before of Justin's pro-Trump crap, but he died years ago from cancer. Still unsure about that site... | Jun 01 07:33 |
| schestowitz | > One angle I don't think is being covered here (in general) and I think it needs to be-- but with tact and finesse, is that software in general (even GNU) is moving towards digital fascism. | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > So many people claim to be anti-fascist, but they use plainly and undeniably fascist software. They claim to be anti-fascist, but they use Github. Who do they think they're kidding. | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > And I realise they haven't thought about it. They haven't made the connection, because even among tech people-- a lot of tech is treated like magic, like dogma. Like an exception. Like it's politically neutral. | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > But treating something as politically neutral is pretty dangerous when the politics are fascist, isn't it? The GNU project is descending into fascism. That is going to sound perfectly nuts, of course. Change my mind. | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | > I think it's time to help people learn the connection. Not just to spell it out, but to spell it out if necessary. You kind of get only one shot to do it right, or it will be dismissed entirely. That's not entirely true either, but treating it as true will help the first time around. | Jun 01 08:16 |
| schestowitz | At the moment the GNU Project is the only if not best tool we have to combat eco-socio 'fascism' (however one defines it). BSDs aside... | Jun 01 08:16 |
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| schestowitz | >>> I'll take a look at it, but it has been one of the sites which I have | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> ignored. | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> By the way, speaking of lack of tech coverage, microsofter Zach W has | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> infiltrated TechCrunch apparently: | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> "When Zack Whittaker, a reporter for TechCrunch, | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> asked about..." | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> - | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> https://www.thenation.com/article/society/national-guard-defense-department-protests/ | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >> Ha, well that was ages ago, at least 2013. | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 08:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thenation.com | Exclusive: The US Military Is Monitoring Protests in 7 States | The Nation | Jun 01 08:46 | |
| schestowitz | > In what way has he shown himself reformed or openly repented what he had | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | > been doing against the ICT sector and against business in general? | Jun 01 08:46 |
| schestowitz | He blocked me in Twitter, than unblocked me, but that's it... | Jun 01 08:47 |
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| schestowitz | >>> In what way has he shown himself reformed or openly repented what he had | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | >>> been doing against the ICT sector and against business in general? | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | >> He blocked me in Twitter, than unblocked me, but that's it... | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | > Depending on his tasks within M$ he probably saw some awful stuff. He | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | > could bring that out in the light when denouncing it. Even a complaint | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | > about the NSA or non-disparagement which he signed would be a start. | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | > clausOtherwise he is just going to stay complicit in what they continue | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | > to do. | Jun 01 08:55 |
| schestowitz | He was only a young and low-lev3l intern at Microsoft UK. | Jun 01 08:55 |
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