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| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:03] <schestowitz> btw | Jul 12 02:58 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:04] <schestowitz> does twitter still have you suspended | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:04] <schestowitz> ? | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:04] <Source> Not unless i delete the main tweet with all the retweets that got ranked on Google | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:04] <Source> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29816098 | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:05] <Source> Some ximian employee confirmed Nat and Alex bromance | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:06] <schestowitz> any evidence to that effect would help | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:06] <-- betsy (~.irc) has left this server (connection closed). | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:19] <Source> Do you think the hackernews post was the viral trigger? | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:19] <Source> A lot of those ppl used your website to try to discredit me. | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:22] <Source> You can just search for techrights | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:22] <Source> On the post | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:24] <Source> itp 5 hours ago | root | parent | next [–] | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:24] <Source> I can't speak to any current events, but I was an employee of Ximian, formerly Helix Code, from 2000 to 2004. I also lived with Alex for a year around 2001 and/or 2002, when we lived just down the street from Nat. | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:24] <Source> Nat and Alex were always exceptionally close, which I always found confusing. Alex was intense, passionate, charismatic, but also had troubled and troubling relationships with people, _particularly_ women. Alex was, if I remember correctly, let go from Ximian when he failed to arrive to work every day by noon for one week straight (we lived a 5 to | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:24] <Source> 10 minute walk from the office). | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:24] <Source> Even after Alex was let go, he and Nat remained fast friends. | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:25] <Source> Do you think the hackernews was the source of the increased traffic? | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:26] <schestowitz> don't kno | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:26] <schestowitz> it does not matter much | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:26] <schestowitz> just keep on going | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:27] <Source> I guess, I'm curious | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:27] <Source> I can't see my impact | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:27] <Source> I feel like I'm shouting into the void. | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:28] <schestowitz> no, they want you to think that | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:28] <schestowitz> it's a tactic | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:29] <Source> I'm trying to say I'd love to see some stats | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:38] <schestowitz> past 44 hours 10.08m hits | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:38] <schestowitz> but that's for all site combined, http/s only | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:38] <Source> Oh wow | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:38] <Source> No idea you had that much traffic | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:38] <schestowitz> if you have a gemini client you can check: | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:39] <schestowitz> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:39] <schestowitz> it shows by article | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:40] <Source> Ok, installing now | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:40] <Source> How much is that increased per usual? | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:41] <schestowitz> usually 20% less | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:41] <schestowitz> but that's for ~50k pages | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:44] <Source> Interesting | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:47] <Source> [23:38:18] schestowitz: past 44 hours 10.08m hits | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:47] <Source> Do you mean million or megabytes? | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <schestowitz> 323gb in past 44 hours | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <schestowitz> but that includes videos | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <schestowitz> we are an unconventional operation | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <schestowitz> no clownflare, social control media etc. | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <Source> Ok, not how I think about those things | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:48] <schestowitz> we are very robust to censorship | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:49] <Source> Pageviews is more my speed | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:49] <Source> I did get a client for gemini | Jul 12 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | [05:49] <schestowitz> spiders spoil the broth | Jul 12 02:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Hacker News | Jul 12 02:58 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/08/worst/ | Jul 12 03:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-taxpolicy.org.uk | The UK’s worst libel lawyers want to prevent libel reform | Jul 12 03:26 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | " | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Dan, I was entirely with you up until your very last paragraph about Brett Wilson. While I think you have the better case that you have not defamed Property 118, I do think that you need to be careful to distinguish genuine SLAPPs (i.e. an abuse of process designed to intimidate) from “normal” defamation proceedings (or here pre-proceedings). While Brett Wilson’s letter to you did mention defamation, it does not see to bear t | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | he other hallmarks of a SLAPP: they were not threatening immediate action against you; they were trying to engage on a technical level by having sought the opinion of a well-respected KC (which they shared despite privilege); and it did not feel like someone with big pockets trying to misuse the process to intimidate you. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | While SLAPPs are pernicious and I agree entirely with your other examples, we also need to recognise that the press has not always behaved well and has on occasion defamed ordinary individuals. So, in objecting to SLAPPs, we also need to make sure that we don’t make it harder for the ordinary individual to take action against untrue stories about them told by the tabloids. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Like you, I would not touch Property 118’s scheme with a barge-pole. But – unlike some of your other exposes – I don’t think their technical case is unarguable…and I think that your coverage of them does risk stepping over into the territory where your words lower their reputation in the eyes of the ordinary person on the street. My knowledge of libel is out of date, but I believe that that does amount to libel unless you | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | can claim a defence of reasonable comment or truth? If I’ve remembered this correctly, then I think that puts the onus/burden back onto you. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I realise that, having bravely and successfully dealt with the threats from Zahawi’s lawyers (which can’t have been at all pleasant for you), you may be pre-disposed to see other such threats through the same lens. But this one did feel different. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | I say all of this out of concern for you. The line can be narrow and I would hate to see all the good work you have been doing spoiled by your getting overly confident and inadvertently stepping over it. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Reply | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Dan says: | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 9 November 2023 at 5:43pm | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Thanks, that’s kind. For me it was a SLAPP because it was technically hopeless to think that you could bring a defamation action against an expert (or group of experts) expressing a view on a technical point of law – these days there is an “honest opinion” defence (replacing the old “fair comment” defence). It’s pretty common for someone to damage someone else’s business by stating an opinion that it’s no good | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | , and that doesn’t give rise to a defamation claim. Otherwise film critics would be in a spot of bother. I suspect Brett Wilson hadn’t realised quite what was going on until they saw my reply, at which point they stopped acting. | Jul 12 03:26 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | You may be interested in our report today on property118’s implementation. It has one or two minor problems. | Jul 12 03:26 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <li> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-16-released/">KDE Frameworks 6.16 Is Out, Here’s What’s New</a></h5> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>Nearly a month after its previous 6.15 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.16, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms. </p> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 12 11:03 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/kde-iso-image-writer-gets-a-makeover/">KDE ISO Image Writer Gets a Makeover</a></h5> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <blockquote> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p>Over the last few weeks, KDE ISO Image Writer—a cross-platform utility known for turning raw Linux ISO files into bootable USB drives—has been working through a ground-up user-interface rewrite. </p> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | <p> App’s lead contributor reports that much of the classic QtWidgets codebase is now being ported to QML, bringing the application in line with the current KDE design language. </p> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </blockquote> | Jul 12 11:03 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | </li> | Jul 12 11:03 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE Frameworks 6.16 Is Out, Here’s What’s New | Jul 12 11:03 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | KDE ISO Image Writer Gets a Makeover | Jul 12 11:03 | |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | <li><h5><a href="http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/07/pitfalls-of-cell-therapy-manufacturing.html?showComment=1752231038207#c8171651044987352983">I think problems with selecting from 2 lists, gene...</a></h5><blockquote>I think problems with selecting from 2 lists, generalising, etc are common to many types of subject matter, not just cell manufacture processes. One feels the injustice of it when one realises the applicant/patentee | Jul 12 13:46 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | had little choice and options in doing what they did, and the EPO added matter test essentially requires a billion scenarios to be predicted for future amendments!!! However I also</blockquote></li> | Jul 12 13:46 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Jul 12 13:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Pitfalls of cell therapy manufacturing IP - A case study (T 0868/23) - The IPKat | Jul 12 13:46 | |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzjcq54r | Jul 12 18:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzjcq54r ) | Jul 12 18:38 | |
| schestowitz[TR3] | "OL “difficult but necessary”, | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | 11 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | | no reactions | Reply | Jul 12 18:38 |
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| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft has laid off approximately 15,000 employees over the past two months. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Company president Brad Smith said AI was not the primary cause, but rising capital costs and strategic realignments drove the decision. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Microsoft spent around $80 billion on capital investments in its last fiscal year, mostly to scale AI infrastructure. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Smith acknowledged that operating costs, mostly employee-related, had to be cut to fund long-term AI priorities. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | He defended the layoff process as “difficult but necessary”, disputing claims of impersonal notifications. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Layoffs were business-driven, not based on individual performance, and came with above-industry severance. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Smith emphasized that laid-off employees remain highly qualified and encouraged others to hire them. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | The job cuts sparked internal concerns about whether Microsoft is still living up to its values. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Despite the cuts, Microsoft committed $4 billion to global AI workforce development through its new Elevate program. | Jul 12 18:38 |
| schestowitz[TR3] | Smith acknowledged the contrast, saying it's about “prioritizing the future,” even if it doesn’t ease the personal toll. | Jul 12 18:38 |
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