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| schestowitz | >> Let's fight | Nov 09 02:18 |
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| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 02:18 |
| schestowitz | > Fight all you like, the game is over. | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > Not in the world, only in the former USA. Not officially-- just | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > completely. There will be no more real corporate reform, except crumbs | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > from the table reform-- The People have abdicated. That's it. The whole | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > thing is a giant corporation now. Might as well call it the MSA. The | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > only difference is it isn't just one corporation. GSA, ISA, ASA, FSA, | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | > MSA-- but not USA. | Nov 09 02:19 |
| schestowitz | assange-in-the-eyes-of-biden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF8WRFw5sHQ | Nov 09 02:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Assange a high-tech terrorist: Biden - YouTube | Nov 09 02:19 | |
| schestowitz | > https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/06/task-sleepy-joe-put-liberal-america-right-back-sleep | Nov 09 02:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.commondreams.org | The Task of 'Sleepy Joe' Is To Put Liberal America Right Back To Sleep | Common Dreams Views | Nov 09 02:25 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/11/06/task-sleepy-joe-put-liberal-america-right-back-sleep> | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > I've been saying this for more than a year. It's not limited to Biden | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > but it most certainly applies. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > I'm more annoyed by Common Dreams coverage of events than yours. I do | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > think you're playing at more than one thing, but mostly you remain the | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > least annoying "source" of coverage I know, and you know how picky I am. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > I'm also pleased by this link, but during the actual election I finally | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > took CD off my "RSS list" after 17 years. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | I did not even know you follow it. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | I know RMS does. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | I started following it ages ago. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | Look up their IRS filing. I last did years ago. | Nov 09 02:25 |
| schestowitz | https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/203368194 | Nov 09 02:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-projects.propublica.org | Common Dreams Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica | Nov 09 02:25 | |
| schestowitz | >> Re: Schestowitz's Law | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | >> "_____________ may claim to be a liberating and democratising force, | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | >> but that's assuming it does what it says on the tin." | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | >> (Originally referring to Let's Encrypt, but works for countless | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | >> relevant examples) | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | At least no "law" is named after me that protects nazis from being called nazis. | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | > This is why I keep insisting that Free Software is a _practice_ not a | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | > _property_. I am writing more on this, now. | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | Excellent. I spent so much time on RasPi setup and IPFS lately. Next week we're locked down, so lots of time to resume publishing things... not just coding and sysadmin stuff. | Nov 09 02:29 |
| schestowitz | https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/comments/jqhce5/hacker_news_large_corporations_arent_going_to/ | Nov 09 02:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.reddit.com | Hacker News: Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Community : NoFilterNews | Nov 09 02:31 | |
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| schestowitz | Re: New essay | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > I'm working on a new essay and it is just about complete. I'll send it | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > along to both of you tomorrow for editing. | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > It is important to me that this piece (in particular) be as high-quality | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > as is possible. When each of you has read it and gotten back to me with | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > any comments or suggestions, I will shortly thereafter submit the | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > piece. The proposed title is: "Free Software Freedom Is Not Linux". If | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > this title is too close in resemblance to previous titles, let me know. | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 09:18 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks much, | Nov 09 09:18 |
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| schestowitz | > All set with the log in. The key was done correctly but the default | Nov 09 09:42 |
| schestowitz | > file name is 'authorized_keys', without a leading dot and with a 'z' | Nov 09 09:42 |
| schestowitz | > instead of an 's'. Any file name can be used if sshd_config is updated | Nov 09 09:43 |
| schestowitz | > accordingly, however. | Nov 09 09:43 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 09:43 |
| schestowitz | > I can read the files so I'll look at the automation bit soon. | Nov 09 09:43 |
| schestowitz | > This worked OK, only a couple of XHTML validation errors in there, which I've corrected (table stuff) | Nov 09 09:43 |
| schestowitz | after midnight I need to run two scripts from each machine and in turn I'll integrate to make that one from each machine (one step rather than 2, 1 at a time) | Nov 09 09:43 |
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| schestowitz | >> Not sure why, but truthout started returning empty body (blockquotes). | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | >> Can that be corrected somehow? | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > Insurmountable errors in their page. It is neither XHTML nor HTML. | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fjoe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election%2F | Nov 09 13:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-validator.w3.org | Showing results for https://truthout.org/articles/joe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election/ - Nu Html Checker | Nov 09 13:56 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > It would be important to them to fix that. We are not the only ones | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > affected and it certainly is going to limit their availability at least | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > a little. | Nov 09 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > PS. It would help if you also contact them: | Nov 09 13:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 13:57 |
| schestowitz | > info@truthout.org | Nov 09 13:57 |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Nov 09 13:58 |
| schestowitz | RSS feeds of the site have not been functioning properly lately and the pages too have issue in them? | Nov 09 13:58 |
| schestowitz | https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fjoe-biden-declared-winner-of-2020-presidential-election%2F | Nov 09 13:58 |
| schestowitz | Can you please look into that? | Nov 09 13:58 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1325726262195875840 | Nov 09 17:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are… https://t.co/AJxw1h8qov | Nov 09 17:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are… https://t.co/AJxw1h8qov | Nov 09 17:37 | |
| schestowitz | ""there has been internal bickering over the suits with some members of the president's legal team feeling they are "pointless" and "meritless." "" | Nov 09 17:37 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/theincitement/status/1325720401356353536 | Nov 09 17:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@theincitement: @schestowitz Don't like your freedom of speech being violated? Care about humanitarian issues? Join https://t.co/h4wsxlJziM. | Nov 09 17:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theincitement.com | Incitement | Nov 09 17:37 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/AnyDadInAmerica/status/1325718030106697729 | Nov 09 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AnyDadInAmerica: @schestowitz https://t.co/X8ZJvOZHIj | Nov 09 17:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@AnyDadInAmerica: @schestowitz https://t.co/X8ZJvOZHIj | Nov 09 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MoreSocialism/status/1325641760639479808 | Nov 09 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MoreSocialism: @schestowitz This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've bee… https://t.co/fjyqs2IjWY | Nov 09 17:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MoreSocialism: @schestowitz This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've bee… https://t.co/fjyqs2IjWY | Nov 09 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:38 |
| schestowitz | This guy is out of his element talking about Java. You never implement finalizers in Java. They've been deprecated. In fact, if you're doing greenfield development, don't actually use Java. Use Scala or Kotlin. | Nov 09 17:38 |
| schestowitz | And Java is mature, you just don't want to make your own DI framework | Nov 09 17:38 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:38 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/entubao/status/1325578503245459458 | Nov 09 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@entubao: @angsuman @schestowitz neither the linux community from themselves | Nov 09 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1325508224985014272 | Nov 09 17:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz in ftp as well? "lftp> mirror" command makes mirroring easy. | Nov 09 17:39 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Tebrizli_Baybek/status/1325464101405995008 | Nov 09 17:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Tebrizli_Baybek: @schestowitz See the Difference We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. But they disrespect our… https://t.co/bWmEeTo2If | Nov 09 17:39 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Tebrizli_Baybek: @schestowitz See the Difference We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. But they disrespect our… https://t.co/bWmEeTo2If | Nov 09 17:39 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | See the Difference | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | We respect their #churches, we save them, renovate them. | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | But they disrespect our #mosques, they destroy them and they turn our holy places into #pigsty. | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | This is #Armenian doing, the mentality and their true nature... | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:39 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/esdaniel/status/1325419986207256577 | Nov 09 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@esdaniel: @schestowitz Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if… https://t.co/3hKY86tUr8 | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@esdaniel: @schestowitz Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if… https://t.co/3hKY86tUr8 | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | "Tip for longtime KDEers, do check your logs [journalctl -f for example] re: Qt errors, especially if compositor crashes regularly, that's where you'll find things needing fixing to ensure KWin runs smoothly. There's still quite a few 'deprecation warnings' you can ignore." | Nov 09 17:40 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1325414423025102853 | Nov 09 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @schestowitz Expect a re-post of the STRONGER patent act. | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/DeadPoetUnion11/status/1325397738771542021 | Nov 09 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DeadPoetUnion11: @schestowitz Is Hunter Biden going to jail? 🤔 | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/DeadPoetUnion11/status/1325395491887050752 | Nov 09 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DeadPoetUnion11: @schestowitz Good, death to America! | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/0xCEDE/status/1325385161240956928 | Nov 09 17:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@0xCEDE: @schestowitz Nah, but it's a good start. | Nov 09 17:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A11X8mxKffz0dViQMK | Nov 09 17:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-shitposter.club | Pleroma | Nov 09 17:44 | |
| schestowitz | " I agree with her, but it seems like she should have seen this coming" | Nov 09 17:44 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A11R7PuQH3vP8vJjRA | Nov 09 17:44 |
| schestowitz | " I am just testing out how Mastodon works. Thanks for understanding. :)" | Nov 09 17:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://masthead.social/@JK_AIMV/105180457047107990 ) | Nov 09 17:44 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A11Bi3Tp1s1r1pK7Vo | Nov 09 17:44 |
| schestowitz | " thunderbird 78+ has deprecated extensions along with enigmail.... encryption is now native in tb, but still very buggy... seamonkey, evolution, claws to the rescue :)" | Nov 09 17:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-todon.nl | Ξινόμηλο: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site thunderbird 78+ has dep…" - Todon.nl | Nov 09 17:44 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A10rU0eojFXZ8XUXbc | Nov 09 17:45 |
| schestowitz | "I think that the public sector should take responsibility for the freedom of software. free software is in fact a common resource and a public property." | Nov 09 17:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site I think that the public…" - Mastodon Italia Social | Nov 09 17:45 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0zISvMlE0e6snphbc | Nov 09 17:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freespeechextremist.com | Pleroma | Nov 09 17:46 | |
| schestowitz | "Linus: "Daaad, don't tell them about my convos with the NSA"" | Nov 09 17:46 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0yyY0cN80YBXHHYYK | Nov 09 17:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site The interesting thing i…" - Mastodon Italia Social | Nov 09 17:46 | |
| schestowitz | "The interesting thing is that the social media have allowed a previously isolated unease to emerge in an organised and shared way on the net. It can't be ignored" | Nov 09 17:46 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0whNQ14GpdPaKHIJc | Nov 09 17:47 |
| schestowitz | " The internet was by definition decentralised before these drifts. The problem is that these monopolies push their vision, produce software (maybe open source) and pollute everything... especially minds." | Nov 09 17:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mastodon.uno | notanamber: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site The internet was by def…" - Mastodon Italia Social | Nov 09 17:47 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wWAj6UtQwXWWYxWa | Nov 09 17:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-masto.1146.nohost.me | LPS: "@kzimmermann@fosstodon.org @schestowitz@pleroma.s…" - Mastodon | Nov 09 17:47 | |
| schestowitz | "QmTBSq4ieTiACMUoQdJQ1eHhZub1Y9gxwiQdAu8xXwxdFd" | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wQrCaX3sE3PCTxJ2 | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "Mirroring #TechRights's "hello world" post throug…" - Fosstodon | Nov 09 17:48 | |
| schestowitz | Mirroring #TechRights's "hello world" post through #IPFS | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | Hash is: QmPb4WopVrVwxiYszrYvMdGnRYzTACZmdEsZ5si1HnEJdM | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | Keep it up @schestowitz ! | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0wQ6hdhnQjg6AnHUW | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site GREAT move towards prot…" - Fosstodon | Nov 09 17:48 | |
| schestowitz | GREAT move towards protecting your content against #censorship and arbitrary takedowns. | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | I'ma mirror this. | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:48 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0w7YR0XKOgXUlz0IS | Nov 09 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mathstodon.xyz | pretentious7: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site he's going to flee righ…" - Mathstodon | Nov 09 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | he's going to flee right? Like, he has to. | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | The people you spit on going up are the same ones you meet going down. | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vWHw68mivkh3sFJA | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | "best linux kernel distro fluff piece" | Nov 09 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxrocks.online | NixiИ: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site best linux kernel distr…" - LinuxRocks.Online | Nov 09 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vJXhHQLYz5xvKwBU | Nov 09 17:49 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://ps.s10y.eu/@how/105163732930019309 ) | Nov 09 17:49 | |
| schestowitz | this link is broken | Nov 09 17:50 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/11/06/youtube-dl-meme-eff/ | Nov 09 17:50 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 09 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | [Meme] EFF Fails to Learn an Important Lesson | Techrights | Nov 09 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vIf6vRIQgXZn1b6G | Nov 09 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-floss.social | Ade Malsasa Akbar: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site this is important. I sa…" - FLOSS.social | Nov 09 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | " this is important. I saved this immediately to my Zotero. Thanks, Dr." | Nov 09 17:50 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vHFhnFV3G6R8W2UK | Nov 09 17:50 |
| schestowitz | "thanks anyway, Dr." | Nov 09 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-floss.social | Ade Malsasa Akbar: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site thanks anyway, Dr." - FLOSS.social | Nov 09 17:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/A0vBcV2YTxrBoqA2vw | Nov 09 17:51 |
| schestowitz | "one more for John Deere and his #DRM tractors to suck on" | Nov 09 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fosstodon.org | Klaus J Zimmermann: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site one more for John Deere…" - Fosstodon | Nov 09 17:51 | |
| schestowitz | >> I did not even know you follow it. | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | >> I know RMS does. | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > I was a peace activist (and technologist) before I was a Free Software | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > activist. I was very much a fan of DOS and FreeDOS until I was able to | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > become proficient with other systems. I also used VB 1.0 when it was | Nov 09 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > new, but I never had enough interest past the first few hours. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > When people were switching to 95 I was using 3.x as long as I could. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > When people were switching to XP I was using 98-- there were lots of | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > things I disliked about XP, but having to call Microsoft to "activate" | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > your computer when that was never a thing before was beyond the pale. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > The only way I obtained an XP machine was one fell into my lap. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Soon enough it was running Xubuntu, but those were early days of having | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > a fully functional Free Software platform, complete with browser, etc. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Common Dreams was one of the better websites-- founded in 1997 and quite | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > well known by the time I started doing activism during Junior's first | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > term. I had taught myself HTML just a few years earlier. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Democrats are just as invested in war as Republicans. That's true | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > whether you're talking about the party, or people who work for | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Rand/Honeywell/Raytheon who elected Biden. I knew someone who did | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > weapons design for Honeywell-- he didn't want to work for Raytheon | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > because they were too creepy. You meet lots of interesting people as a | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > peace activist. I met Stan Goff (he's got a Wikipedia page) and read his | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > book-- and someone from the Manhattan Project, though the latter was | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > before I was an activist, it was more of a family field trip. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > I don't have Stan Goff's book anymore, I gave it to a veteran sniper | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > with PTSD. You meet a lot of guys from the war in Vietnam who are peace | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > activists. | Nov 09 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Sure, elect them for 4 years, THEN say they're criminally unfit. Repeat | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > every 4 years. | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > If this plan were software, I'd rather run Clippy. If it were medicine, | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > it would be "let it make lots of people sick first, THEN recall." We | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > already know it's bad. So if you were an M.D. would you proscribe the | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > lesser of two poisons, knowing the patient would die from either one? | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > RIIAn would. Simple rule: don't elect KNOWN traitors. Seriously, how | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > hard is that? It works a lot better than "elect them, THEN tell the | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > public they're bad." | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > And just what do you expect the public to do after they know better? You | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > give them two unacceptable options, that's the only level they work on-- | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > pick something that sets the world back further every time, but not as | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > further back as the other guy. | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > It means the world will always go backwards. But you get to pick the | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > speed! Broken, stupid, worthless-- bullshit. But people keep lining up | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > to support it. At least now, they'll know they're fucked. But most | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > people have such a vested interest, they won't even know. Because if | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > they're fucked no matter what-- hey, what's the actual point of knowing? | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > So we have half a solution. Nobody (ever) bothers with the first half-- | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > so we just keep repeating the second. And nothing (ever) improves, | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > except in relation to the previous. Like a stock market plummet, every | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > 8-12 years, with little climbs partway back on the way to doomsday. Oh, | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > what a lovely war... People elect war criminals, then expect progress. | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > There's got to be a word for that, but there aren't any nice ones. | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > schestowitz | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > I never liked Biden and still don't. | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > Nov 08 08:35 | Nov 09 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > <http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-081120.html#tNov 08 08:35:09> | Nov 09 18:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Sunday, November 08, 2020 | Nov 09 18:09 | |
| schestowitz | > schestowitz | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > I mentioned his RIAA connections and views on Assange etc. | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Nov 08 08:35 | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > <http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-081120.html#tNov 08 08:35:11> | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > schestowitz | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Let's fight; it seems safe now (Trump has no leeway). | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Also, you can call it journalism-- but if people never learn from the | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > part of their mistake that perpetuates it, they'll always be getting | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > half of the story: | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Here's why nobody should elect Biden again. <- sure, let's run this. | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Unless there's somebody worse. <- oh, he's all set then | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Here's why nobody should have elected him in the first place <- nope, | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > this is the most important one. Let's skip it. | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | > Whole thing is a lie. | Nov 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz | >> The constitution is very clear that you can't pardon future crimes. | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > Oh please, RIAAn talking about the Constitution is like Josh Simmons | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > talking about the GPL. He just went on a self-righteous rampage in | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > favour of a person who wrote over it in crayon. | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > It takes 2/3 of states to nullify the Constitution. But with half the | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > country supporting Trump and half supporting a person who wrote his own | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > fascist Constitution (which both traitor parties replaced the real one | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > with in 2001) it's safe to say that 90% of the country supports ending | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > the Constitution. | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > Referring to it when you just confirmed a 90% vote to (unofficially, but | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > effectively) eliminate it isn't just hypocritical, it's delusional. | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > The People have spoken, and although it's not the process that actually | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > removes the Constitution officially, what The People have said loud and | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > clear is: "90% of us do not care if POTUS disregards the Constitution | Nov 09 18:11 |
| schestowitz | > entirely." | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > That was the last call, and The People do not care about the | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > Constitution-- except as a glorified hall pass. 90% don't. So it's done. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > They ended it. It exists only historically. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | >> he knows your first name | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > It's how he is normally addressed in chat-- nearly, as often, or more | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > often than he is called by his handle. If I thought he was a threat to | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > free software I'd try to discover his last name, but only to find it in | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > other news stories. I don't bother with smalltime traitors to larger | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > causes, like the country itself, because there are millions and it will | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > never change anything. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > In fact I've settled on RIAAn, since he's so eager to see them in power | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > again. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > Free Software is derived from Free Speech. RIAAn doesn't care about | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > freedom, he only hates Microsoft. That part's nice, but he still | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > welcomes fascism as long as it's on his side. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > Fascism is always like that. Hitler (fuck you Mike) didn't say "Okay | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > everybody, here's what we're gonna do! Everybody who falls out of favour | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > with me, dies!" | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > He said "You're all wonderful people, these people are terrible, we are | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > going to take care of this." | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > RIAAn is wonderful people, and he has no problem with any solution as | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > long as he's not considered part of the problem. He's a fascist and a | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > former softie-- but he's still a giant unapologetic corporate whore. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > Have the RIAA, Microsoft, and Amazon run against a Republican, and he | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > will order a ballot from Amazon to put Richard Gabriel and Bill Gates in | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > the White House. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > But even that doesn't make me call him a traitor, it only makes me call | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > him an idiot. | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > The Democrats are willing to fix an election to keep it between Reps and | Nov 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz | > Dems, just as Microsoft is willing to do antitrust violations to keep it | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > between Microsoft and Apple. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > The part where he cheerfully celebrates the loss of the right to vote to | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > third parties is what makes him a cheerleader for treason. The part | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > where he supports the ender of the Constitution so enthusiastically is | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > what makes him a fascist and a complete and total hypocrite. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > But what really matters now is Biden second, and the fact that his | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > supporters just ended the USA first. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > It's never about Trump or Biden, it's about the damage they leave in | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > place that nobody ever cleans up. America has spent 20 years dying, | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > thanks to Biden. Now it's gone, and the idiot traitor Dems are getting | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > out the cake and streamers. I haven't voted for a Republican since 2001, | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > but I wouldn't vote for Biden if he were the last politician on Earth. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > Because if you do, then voting doesn't serve its purpose. It shouldn't | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > just select the best person available. It should also keep out the worst | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > known traitors. It does neither, and opportunists like RIAAn with no | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > principles-- who mistakenly believe that any party is somehow OWED votes | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > that voters don't want to give-- are the reason it doesn't work. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > It's not YOUR fucking vote unless someone wants to vote for you. The | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > Democratic party are a bunch of electoral rapists-- but rape isn't a | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > capital crime. People who don't like the words "electoral rape" can opt | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > for it's old fashioned name: treason. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > Then again, if we agree not to pick on his corporate fascism by calling | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > him RIAAn we can poke at his racism instead-- and call him "a Ryan". | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > But I don't think he's really racist. I do think he's really a traitor | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > that kneels mouth open for corporate rule. | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > I know he's useful to you, and I don't have any goal of changing your | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > mind (I'd sooner expect you to defend him) and I'm not asking you to | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > take sides (I'd sooner expect you to take his-- or none at all). But | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > simply put, I'm disgusted, and until I get bored with saying so (I will) | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > whenever he says something fucking stupid I'm going to have to work hard | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > not to mention it. It's not going to improve, and believe it or not I do | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > eventually walk away from matters that are hopeless. Linux being a prime | Nov 09 18:13 |
| schestowitz | > example. I intend to walk away from America as well, because it has no | Nov 09 18:14 |
| schestowitz | > more of a future than Linux does. But I'm still going to say why it | Nov 09 18:14 |
| schestowitz | > doesn't, before I leave. It's the biggest local news in 244 years. | Nov 09 18:14 |
| schestowitz | In spite of its name, the EUIPO is mainly dealing with trademarks. Where the work force able to deal with patents should come within the EUIPO? That a UP is a patent granted by the EPO should not be forgotten. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | One of the reasons for creating the UPC is that its promoters wanted to keep the influence of the CJEU a small as possible. Completely doing without was not possible, so that the UPC foresees the possibility to file requests for preliminary rulings to the CJEU, Art 21 UPCA. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | @ Peter Parker | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | If I am not mistaken, even in the USA the members of the judiciary, not the prosecutors, are appointed for life time. Could you please cite one country, beside autocratic regimes, in which appointments to the judiciary is not for life time? | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | In an interesting decision of March 2018, the German Constitutional Court decided that judges might be appointed for a given length of time, but under two strict conditions: | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | 1) They have to be civil servants appointed for life time; | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | 2) The can only be appointed once. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | Even the members of the CJEU are originally judges in the various contracting states and are appointed lifetime, so when they period ends, they go back as national judges. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | That we do not accept chancellors or presidents for life time is for a different reason, as otherwise they would end up as dictators or autocrats. It is not to guarantee their independence, whereas the latter is a necessary condition for a judge. The difference between the offices is more than gradual, unless you confuse the issues and ignore what is called separation of powers. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | In democratic societies, judges are not free to do as they like, but they are controlled by their peers. And the system works, even if it not always perfect. In principle the executive cannot and should not interfere in those proceedings, be it only to respect the separation of powers. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | That quite few EPO examiners are technical members is correct, but there is (or was) also an input from the profession. Those people have applied for a job as member of the boards, and not for a job as examiner. A guaranteed fall-back to examiner status is thus not even possible. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | The member dismissed for alleged misconduct has been reintegrated as examiner and immediately transferred to The Hague “in the interest of the Office”. So any former examiner becoming member of the boards knows the sanction should he misbehave or not show the expected performance. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | The same applies to legal members of the boards. While some come from inside the EPO, and mainly from DG5, lots of them come from outside, being lawyers specialised in IP or even national judges. They have also not applied for a job as lawyer at the EPO. For those people a guaranteed fall-back to lawyer status at the EPO is thus not even possible. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | What you consider as a compromise is thus not even legally foreseen and only obfuscates the problem of lack of independence. | Nov 09 18:17 |
| schestowitz | http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2020/11/03/a-few-thoughts-on-trust-and-judicial-independence/#comments | Nov 09 18:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | A few thoughts on trust and judicial independence - Kluwer Patent Blog | Nov 09 18:17 | |
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