●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 07, 2022 ●● ● Apr 07 [00:47] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [02:36] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 07 [03:54] *schestowitz_log_ has quit (Connection closed) [03:54] *schestowitz_log_ has quit (connection closed) ● Apr 07 [04:26] *schestowitz_log_ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [04:27] *schestowitz_log_ (~schestowi@joseon-vcq322.am6e.nqgd.t29qgt.IP) has joined #techbytes [04:27] *schestowitz_log_ has quit (Changing host) [04:27] *schestowitz_log_ (~schestowi@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [04:27] *schestowitz_log__ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [06:46] *spazzz has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:46] *spazzz (~spazz@urifce6zxwtdi.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [08:16] schestowitz
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    New Steam Games With Native Linux Clients 2022-04-05 Edition
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    Between 2022-03-29 and 2022-04-05 there were 26 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 293 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 8.9 % of total released titles. Heres a quick pick of the most interesting ones: [...]

    • [08:16] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-boilingsteam.com | New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-04-05 Edition - Boiling Steam [08:16] schestowitz
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    2 ways to remove duplicate lines from Linux files
    [08:16] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.networkworld.com | 2 ways to remove duplicate lines from Linux files | Network World [08:16] schestowitz
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    There are many ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file on Linux, but here are two that involve the awk and uniq commands and that offer slightly different results.

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    Victory! FinFisher shuts down
    [08:42] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.accessnow.org | Victory! FinFisher shuts down - Access Now [08:42] schestowitz
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    Yesterday, Monday March 28, 2022, Netzpolitik reported that notorious German spyware purveyor FinFisher shut down operations and filed for insolvency. The surveillance technology company has a long history of selling its products to authoritarian regimes that surveil human rights defenders and journalists.

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    Years of civil society advocacy led to FinFishers collapse.

    • [08:47] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [09:07] *asusbox has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:07] *asusbox (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [10:38] *Despatche has quit (connection closed) [10:38] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [11:46] schestowitz " [11:46] schestowitz Take part in the fifth edition of the Technologia survey, an independent questionnaire. Your opinion is very important and of great significance, ultimately it affects your workplace. [11:46] schestowitz The staff survey is available until April 15 only! Register now to take part in the survey. [11:46] schestowitz For background information and details please continue reading here. [11:46] schestowitz Thank you very much for your trust and support. [11:46] schestowitz " ● Apr 07 [12:10] schestowitz " [12:10] schestowitz On 30 March 2022, EPO staff was invited to participate in a DG4 All Together online event. In the meeting, Mr Campinos and Ms Simon (VP4) self-celebrated their achievements and consistently mixed environmental and societal sustainability with financial sustainability in an attempt to shed a positive light on their cuts on career and salaries. During the Q&A session , staff took the opportunity to express their concerns about the reward exercise [12:10] schestowitz excluding at least 40% of staff from any career progression. [12:10] schestowitz [12:10] schestowitz In this paper, you can find how our top management reacted. [12:10] schestowitz [12:10] schestowitz After 4 years at the EPO, Mr Campinos would be well-advised to listen to his new EPO staff on the many pitfalls of the New Career System which has no equivalent among other international organisations and treats EPO staff as third class civil servants. Despite having closed the alleged gap of the Financial Study 2019, management continues to allege financial sustainability to continue to make unjustified cuts on staffs [12:10] schestowitz career and salaries regardless of their efforts instead of working on the sustainability of the workforce, the most valuable asset of the EPO. [12:10] schestowitz [12:10] schestowitz The more staff will produce, the less staff will get [12:10] schestowitz [12:10] schestowitz SUEPO calls for a continuation of the Work-to-Rule actions [12:10] schestowitz " ● Apr 07 [13:50] schestowitz-TR "I signed the rms letter because of my personal experiences with rms prioritising his own interests over the free software community in ways that harmed them" ● Apr 07 [14:08] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [14:38] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@vbku88433t7ju.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [15:39] *Disconnected (Network is unreachable). [15:49] *Now talking on #techbytes [15:49] *Topic for #techbytes is: Welcome to the official channel of the TechBytes Audiocast [15:49] *Topic for #techbytes set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:21:34 2021 [15:49] *rianne_ (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:49] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:49] *schestowitz (~roy@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:49] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +q #techbytes schestowitz [15:49] *asusbox (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:50] *liberty_box (~liberty@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:50] *schestowitz_log_ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:50] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:50] *libertybox (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:50] *schestowitz_log__ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:51] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:51] *qa2 (~sid145515@frp6gv52kp9fi.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:51] *rianne (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [15:53] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techbytes [15:53] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +a #techbytes MinceR ● Apr 07 [16:12] *Disconnected (). [16:21] *Now talking on #techbytes [16:21] *Topic for #techbytes is: Welcome to the official channel of the TechBytes Audiocast [16:21] *Topic for #techbytes set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:21:34 2021 [16:21] *rianne_ (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:21] *asusbox (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:21] *schestowitz (~roy@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:21] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +q #techbytes schestowitz [16:21] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:21] *schestowitz_log__ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:21] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:22] *liberty_box (~liberty@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:22] *rianne (~rianne@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:22] *libertybox (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:23] *schestowitz_log_ (~schestowitz_log@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:24] *spazzz (~spazz@urifce6zxwtdi.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:24] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [16:36] *leah (~leah@wrh2nipuzrd3y.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [17:28] *schestowitz-TR has quit (connection closed) [17:28] *schestowitz-TR (~acer-box@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 07 [18:28] schestowitz Re: techrights.org SSL certificate [18:28] schestowitz > Dr. Schestowitz, [18:28] schestowitz > [18:28] schestowitz > I can sympathize with issues with the CA model for sure. I can't say I [18:28] schestowitz > agree with TOFU either, to be honest. [18:28] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > For a few reasons, I hope that you do decide to shift the browser- [18:29] schestowitz > accessible view of your content to being offered through a CA-signed [18:29] schestowitz > cert served by your HTTP server. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > I get the gemini tie-in; the concern with using a self-signed cert for [18:29] schestowitz > HTTPS on the main site though is related to browser-based users not [18:29] schestowitz > using gemini finding your publications through links on other sites. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > Most of them won't close their browsers, install gemini, learn how to [18:29] schestowitz > use it, and continue reading. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > They just won't be able to access the site in many cases and of they [18:29] schestowitz > that can will get a (in my opinion) misleading security alert that [18:29] schestowitz > requires them to click an acceptance to proceed. On some browsers it [18:29] schestowitz > talks about scary attackers doing hacker things while they do it. I [18:29] schestowitz > disagree with that practice, as in -most- cases it is misinforming [18:29] schestowitz > their users. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > Standard web browsers, and publications intended for them, are intended [18:29] schestowitz > for that trust model. This also, unless it's changed again since I [18:29] schestowitz > last understood it, affects (stops) how content indexers interface with [18:29] schestowitz > the site, which could significantly harm your exposure/visibility, such [18:29] schestowitz > as that provided by google's crawlers etc. I do not express that [18:29] schestowitz > selflessly - I often need to refer to your publications during some of [18:29] schestowitz > my own...adventures. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > I am not familiar with what services you use to manage your [18:29] schestowitz > publication; I assume it's Apache or some other HTTPD serving content [18:29] schestowitz > shared with a gemini service that is grabbing the same content source? [18:29] schestowitz > If so, I guess it may be possible to have one serving the gemini [18:29] schestowitz > preference and one serving the CA-signed cert? [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > I'd get on IRC to see where I might be of assistance but those libera [18:29] schestowitz > folks are watching their registration logs like a hawk and I'd need to [18:29] schestowitz > buy a new domain and setup an email system to even get through their [18:29] schestowitz > psychological filters. Understandably, they have officially declared [18:29] schestowitz > me "Persona Non-Grata" at Libera due to the Freenode fiasco last year. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > I may build a solution that assists with my IRC privacy at some time in [18:29] schestowitz > the next year or two if I can find the time between work and other [18:29] schestowitz > projects. [18:29] schestowitz > [18:29] schestowitz > Take care, [18:29] schestowitz Try http://gemini.techrights.org [18:30] schestowitz Or https://gemini.techrights.org [18:30] schestowitz At this moment we advocate changes to Internet stuff, not just software stuff. [18:30] schestowitz We try to at least lead by example. [18:30] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for Techrights [18:30] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Peer reports incompatible or unsupported protocol version. ( status 0 @ https://gemini.techrights.org ) [18:31] schestowitz >>> Accusations of "swatting" is why gnu.org set a ban. [18:31] schestowitz >> "swatting" is a prank without any justification, usually exaggerating [18:31] schestowitz >> the threat, e.g. "Molly is cultivating anthrax" so the police arrive in [18:31] schestowitz >> funny suits [18:31] schestowitz >> [18:31] schestowitz >> Asking people to make a factual report of harassment is simply good [18:31] schestowitz >> advice. I would give the same advice to any victim or witness: file a [18:31] schestowitz >> police report. If the victim was a woman there would be hundreds of [18:31] schestowitz >> comments telling her to call the police. [18:31] schestowitz >> [18:31] schestowitz >> Nobody at gnu.org has raised this with me. Nonetheless, I stand by [18:32] schestowitz >> that, her behavior crossed the line of criminal harassment and people [18:32] schestowitz >> who witness harassment can file reports about it. [18:32] schestowitz >> [18:32] schestowitz >> The Debian RMS vote was also harassment. Try to imagine how it would [18:32] schestowitz >> feel if you were a victim of such a vote. If you were never in that [18:32] schestowitz >> position then it is hard to understand that the vote was a crime. [18:32] schestowitz > Did you ever raise these points with anybody at GNU? [18:32] schestowitz > [18:32] schestowitz > Who told you that this is the reason for gnu.org censoring? [18:32] schestowitz > [18:32] schestowitz > What exactly did the Debian mafia do to pressure your own reporting on [18:32] schestowitz > techrights, for example, was it a DDoS, blackmail or something else? [18:32] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2022/01/30/toothless-tigers-slapp/ [18:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Toothless Tiger Threatens Bloggers, Says Its Defamatory to Say That It Threatens Bloggers | Techrights [18:32] schestowitz Re: This should make you smile [18:32] schestowitz > https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-22-04-has-arrived-and-its-one-of-the-best-releases-from-canonical-yet/?ftag=TRE-03-10aaa6b&bhid=%7B%24external_id%7D&mid=%7B%24MESSAGE_ID%7D&cid=%7B%24contact_id%7D&eh=%7B%24CF_emailHash%7D [18:32] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Ubuntu 22.04 beta has arrived and it's one of the best releases from Canonical yet | ZDNet [18:32] schestowitz > [18:33] schestowitz Thanks, I saw that days ago. [18:33] schestowitz You were in fact an EARLY ADOPTER! 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