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schestowitzMy sincere thoughts on LJ: this is crude and written quickly (I spoke about this with Rianne)Aug 10 05:44
schestowitzspeaking as a community, LJ's demise is really bad. Same for Linux.com (and LF at large)Aug 10 05:44
schestowitzfrom a 'selfish' POV, if we cannot save the above, we can at least fill the vacuum leftAug 10 05:44
schestowitzboth as activists and arhivistsAug 10 05:44
schestowitzit means less 'competition' (I don't like to think in these terms)Aug 10 05:45
schestowitz'linux today' may be the next one to fall. maybe open source dot com. maybe even lxerAug 10 05:45
schestowitzI could explain why, but that's not what's importantAug 10 05:45
schestowitzMicrosoft will googlebomb this 'vacuum'Aug 10 05:45
schestowitzthen what?Aug 10 05:45
schestowitzi think only Microsoft delights at thisAug 10 05:45
schestowitzyesterday I learned that also MSDN had just collapsedAug 10 05:45
schestowitzwe're at war over narratives here, and it's them who are lying.Aug 10 05:45
schestowitz> On 8/10/19 7:28 AM, Roy Schestowitz wrote:Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>> Lars Noodén wrote on 09/08/2019 14:42:Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>>> I've been letting wget below run while I am mostly outside painting partAug 10 05:46
schestowitz>>> of the house.Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>>Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>> are you ok with me trying to turn this into a blog post?Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> .Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> If it's tidied up.  There should also be a simple example like the oneAug 10 05:46
schestowitz> in the other message:Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> $ wget --continue --page-requisites --timeout=30 \Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>     --directory-prefix=./test.a/ \Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>     https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-uae-war-themselves-yemen-1453371Aug 10 05:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.newsweek.com | Saudi Arabia and UAE Are At War with Themselves in YemenAug 10 05:46
schestowitz> . . .Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> $ lynx --dump \Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>     https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-uae-war-themselves-yemen-1453371 \Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>     > test.bAug 10 05:46
schestowitz>Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> $ du -bs ./test.?Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> 250793./test.aAug 10 05:46
schestowitz> 15385./test.bAug 10 05:46
schestowitz>Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz> Maybe a more tech-related URL would be appropriate.Aug 10 05:46
schestowitzwe're not apolitical, so this url is fine.Aug 10 05:46
schestowitz>> BTW, Rich F. replied to me to say he no longer works for PIA. I told himAug 10 05:50
schestowitz>> to use his contacts with ex colleagues to save the LJ site's archives.Aug 10 05:50
schestowitz> Rick's awesome but I think he's fully retired now.  I suspect he cashedAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> out some of his cryptocurrencies.  I considered getting in on Bitcoin asAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> a joke back in early 2009 but then as now I considered it a frivolousAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> waste of electricity.  From a monetary perspective, given the highAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> transaction costs, in both money and electricity, it is just speculationAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> for the sake of speculation: pure gambling.Aug 10 05:50
schestowitz>Aug 10 05:50
schestowitz> I really hope that, in the worst case, that LJ  gets archived as aAug 10 05:50
schestowitz> static site and someone with a little loose change keeps the domain going.Aug 10 05:50
schestowitzI made a typo: Rich.Aug 10 05:50
schestowitzWell, he IS rich now. :-)Aug 10 05:50
schestowitzAnd yes, he said he had retired.Aug 10 05:50
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schestowitz"Aug 10 10:31
schestowitzBTW, Rich F. replied to me to say he no longer works for PIA. I told him to use his contacts with ex colleagues to save the LJ site's archives.Aug 10 10:31
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schestowitzhttps://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=sv&u=https://femtejuli.se/2019/08/09/nasta-stridsfraga-hemlig-dataavlasning/Aug 10 10:31
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-translate.google.com | Google TranslateAug 10 10:31
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schestowitzhttps://www.techrepublic.com/article/3-things-you-dont-know-about-open-source/Aug 10 10:31
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.techrepublic.com | 3 things you don't know about open source - TechRepublicAug 10 10:31
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schestowitzhttps://securityboulevard.com/2019/08/activate-your-shield-against-open-source-invasions/Aug 10 10:31
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 502 @ https://securityboulevard.com/2019/08/activate-your-shield-against-open-source-invasions/ )Aug 10 10:31
schestowitz# these are the m$ shills' talking pointsAug 10 10:31
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schestowitzhttps://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3080296/facebook-wants-to-licence-publishers-headlines-and-previewsAug 10 10:31
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theinquirer.net | Facebook wants to licence publishers' headlines and previewsAug 10 10:31
schestowitz# they do so to establish a precedent for pay-only access and eliminateAug 10 10:31
schestowitztraditional access, thus becoming a^wthe gateway for newsAug 10 10:31
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schestowitz> 2 filesAug 10 12:52
schestowitz Aug 10 12:52
schestowitz> plaintext, fig attached (we could upload this to techrights with the other fig code, that would be awesome. this will actually let people run it.)Aug 10 12:52
schestowitz> next article will be a simple tutorial.Aug 10 12:52
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