●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Sunday, April 04, 2021 ●● ● Apr 04 [01:06] schestowitz https://twitter.com/AdrienneGT/status/1378445800683012106\ [01:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AdrienneGT: "It's Hard to Remove a Man Based On a Lie": Roy Schestowitz of #TechRights & @TuxMachines on the #Microsoft + https://t.co/eqa9yESqRm [01:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AdrienneGT: "It's Hard to Remove a Man Based On a Lie": Roy Schestowitz of #TechRights & @TuxMachines on the #Microsoft + https://t.co/eqa9yESqRm [01:06] schestowitz " [01:06] schestowitz "It's Hard to Remove a Man Based On a Lie": [01:06] schestowitz Roy Schestowitz of #TechRights & @TuxMachines [01:06] schestowitz on the #Microsoft + #Google + #IBM sponsored attack on #Stallman intended to destroy the #FreeSoftware Movement! [01:06] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2021/04/03/fsf-strong/ [01:06] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Its Hard to Remove a Man Based on a Lie | Techrights [01:06] schestowitz #RiseUpForRMS #RMSUnderSiege #GNU #Linux @FSF [01:06] schestowitz " [01:07] schestowitz https://twitter.com/TheDailyLama__/status/1378365826248568832 [01:07] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@TheDailyLama__: @Shellseeker629 Strange, yesterday they were still irking on my laptop, but not my phone ● Apr 04 [09:17] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [09:17] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [09:50] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [09:51] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 04 [10:46] schestowitz > Sorry, I didn't realize that list stripped images from messages. [10:46] schestowitz > [10:46] schestowitz > The image was a graph showing the very high rate at which fossil fuel [10:46] schestowitz > emissions must fall. It's a very frightening image and also one of [10:46] schestowitz > highest confidence known facts about the climate emergency. [10:46] schestowitz > [10:46] schestowitz > Stop flying. There's a reason Greta Thunberg sailed both ways [10:46] schestowitz > across the Atlantic. There's no sane alternative. [10:46] schestowitz > [10:46] schestowitz > -t [10:46] schestowitz > [10:46] schestowitz > [10:46] schestowitz > On 2021-04-03 19:54, Thomas Lord wrote: [10:46] schestowitz >> Good programmers inevitably learn, somewhere along the way, the [10:46] schestowitz >> following lesson: [10:46] schestowitz >> When you encounter a very hard problem to solve, don't spend all [10:46] schestowitz >> your time just on the problem. Also question whether it really [10:46] schestowitz >> needs to be solved - or if a better approach avoids the problem in [10:46] schestowitz >> the first place. [10:46] schestowitz >> Libre Planet is built on the following intolerable premise: People [10:46] schestowitz >> should fly from around the world to Boston, once a year, to [10:46] schestowitz >> connect [10:46] schestowitz >> free software activists and enthusiasts in a social setting [10:46] schestowitz >> conducive to sharing presentations, meeting, and having informal [10:46] schestowitz >> discussions. [10:46] schestowitz >> Only one part of that premise is no longer tolerable, at all, in [10:46] schestowitz >> 2021: the travel it requires. Air travel is, with perhaps very [10:47] schestowitz >> rare [10:47] schestowitz >> exceptions, wildly, intolerably socially irresponsible. The rate [10:47] schestowitz >> at [10:47] schestowitz >> which fossil fuel emissions must now fall is so rapid, it not [10:47] schestowitz >> compatible with widespread air travel, and it is not compatible [10:47] schestowitz >> with [10:47] schestowitz >> current levels of energy demand. [10:47] schestowitz >> This same problem, in addition to the pandemic's discouragement of [10:47] schestowitz >> large "meatspace" conferences, effects not only Libre Planet, but [10:47] schestowitz >> everyone on the planet. Few are no fly-in conferences are [10:47] schestowitz >> anything [10:47] schestowitz >> but extremely irresponsible in 2021. It's just a fact. [10:47] schestowitz >> [10:47] schestowitz >> Image [10:47] schestowitz >> [10:47] schestowitz >> It will be hard to replace the Libre Planet conference but perhaps [10:47] schestowitz >> not *too* hard 64Good programmers inevitably learn, somewhere [10:47] schestowitz >> along [10:47] schestowitz >> the way, the following lesson: [10:47] schestowitz >> When you encounter a very hard problem to solve, don't spend all [10:47] schestowitz >> your time just on the problem. Also question whether it really [10:47] schestowitz >> needs to be solved - or if a better approach avoids the problem in [10:47] schestowitz >> the first place. [10:47] schestowitz >> Libre Planet is built on the following intolerable premise: People [10:47] schestowitz >> should fly from around the world to Boston, once a year, to [10:47] schestowitz >> connect [10:47] schestowitz >> free software activists and enthusiasts in a social setting [10:47] schestowitz >> conducive to sharing presentations, meeting, and having informal [10:47] schestowitz >> discussions. [10:47] schestowitz >> Only one part of that premise is no longer tolerable, at all, in [10:47] schestowitz >> 2021: the travel it requires. Air travel is, with perhaps very [10:47] schestowitz >> rare [10:47] schestowitz >> exceptions, wildly, intolerably socially irresponsible. The rate [10:47] schestowitz >> at [10:47] schestowitz >> which fossil fuel emissions must now fall is so rapid, it not [10:47] schestowitz >> compatible with widespread air travel, and it is not compatible [10:47] schestowitz >> with [10:47] schestowitz >> current levels of energy demand. [10:47] schestowitz >> This same problem, in addition to the pandemic's discouragement of [10:47] schestowitz >> large "meatspace" conferences, effects not only Libre Planet, but [10:48] schestowitz >> everyone on the planet. Few are no fly-in conferences are [10:48] schestowitz >> anything [10:48] schestowitz >> but extremely irresponsible in 2021. It's just a fact. [10:48] schestowitz >> It will be hard to replace the Libre Planet conference but perhaps [10:48] schestowitz >> not *too* hard. We have software like jitsi. We have telephony [10:48] schestowitz >> systems. [10:48] schestowitz >> So forth. [10:48] schestowitz >> Perhaps Libre Planet should evolve into an annual "big event" [10:48] schestowitz >> online [10:48] schestowitz >> but also an ongoing series of smaller online events. I don't [10:48] schestowitz >> know. [10:48] schestowitz >> People with a clearer picture of the needs should discuss that. [10:48] schestowitz >> For now, it is enough to say that a conference premised on [10:48] schestowitz >> air-travel [10:48] schestowitz >> is in and of itself an astonishing anti-social proposition in [10:48] schestowitz >> 2021, [10:48] schestowitz >> and [10:48] schestowitz >> from now on. [10:48] schestowitz >> Of course online conferences also need behavioral guidelines, but [10:48] schestowitz >> there is no point squabbling over those until we begin to have [10:48] schestowitz >> some [10:48] schestowitz >> permanent online conference infrastructure in place. And until [10:48] schestowitz >> that [10:48] schestowitz >> infrastructure is in place, Libre Planet should do the right thing [10:48] schestowitz >> and [10:48] schestowitz >> take no further steps that would encourage air travel. ● Apr 04 [11:23] schestowitz
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    Project Monterey returns to haunt IBM and Red Hat
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    In the complaint, filed in the district court of the Virgin Islands division of St Thomas and St John, Xinuos alleged that IBM then took unlawful steps to improve its market position and safeguard its business from competition.

    • [11:51] *rianne_ has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [11:51] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 04 [12:04] schestowitz > Can you ask RMS who controls the mail server for gnu.org right now? [12:04] schestowitz > [12:04] schestowitz > Can he get the censorship problem under control? [12:04] schestowitz > [12:04] schestowitz > Or can he set up an alternative domain? He could use my eurofsf.org [12:04] schestowitz > [12:04] schestowitz > The archives show very clearly that some participants are being censored: [12:04] schestowitz > [12:04] schestowitz > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2021-04/threads.html [12:04] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | gnu-misc-discuss (thread) [12:04] schestowitz > [12:05] schestowitz > The threads continue because of CC to other participants. Other victims [12:05] schestowitz > may not be using CC so we would not see any trace of them. If somebody [12:05] schestowitz > replies to the CC, we can see the outline of a body in the archive, [12:05] schestowitz > "Message not available" [12:05] schestowitz A better question to RMS might be, who gave instructions to do this? ● Apr 04 [13:06] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [13:07] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [13:17] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [13:18] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [13:29] *rsheftel1000168 is now known as rsheftel ● Apr 04 [14:57] -NickServ-acer-box__!~acer-box@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:9ed2:1eff:feb6:a8e1 has just authenticated as you (schestowitz) [14:57] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [14:57] *Techrights-sec2 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [14:57] *acer-box has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [14:57] *libertybox has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [14:57] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:9ed2:1eff:feb6:a8e1) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 04 [15:10] *libertybox (~schestowi@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:9ed2:1eff:feb6:a8e1) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 04 [16:20] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [16:20] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [16:37] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [16:38] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [16:44] schestowitz > Its live. [16:44] schestowitz > https://wtfmitchel.medium.com/nationalism-as-a-service-naas-1f23f53a968a [16:44] schestowitz > [16:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-wtfmitchel.medium.com | Monopolies claim to be left-leaning, but are they? | Medium [16:44] schestowitz Very good article! [16:44] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/ [16:44] schestowitz I found just a missing space somewhere, added [sic] to Santa Clause. [16:44] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Microsoft: Nationalism As A Service (NaaS) | Techrights ● Apr 04 [23:03] -glguy-[global notice] We'll be restarting services in 5 minutes for maintenance. We expect the downtime to be brief, but you might want to grab ops on your channels. Additional updates will be sent as wallops (umode +w). Sorry for any inconvenience! [23:08] *ChanServ has quit (shutting down) [23:13] *ChanServ (ChanServ@services.) has joined #techbytes [23:13] *niven.freenode.net gives channel operator status to ChanServ