●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, July 12, 2025 ●● ● Jul 12 [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:03] btw [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:04] does twitter still have you suspended [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:04] ? [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:04] Not unless i delete the main tweet with all the retweets that got ranked on Google [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:04] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29816098 [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:05] Some ximian employee confirmed Nat and Alex bromance [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:06] any evidence to that effect would help [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:06] <-- betsy (~.irc) has left this server (connection closed). [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:19] Do you think the hackernews post was the viral trigger? [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:19] A lot of those ppl used your website to try to discredit me. [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:22] You can just search for techrights [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:22] On the post [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:24] itp 5 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:24] 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. [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:24] 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 [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:24] 10 minute walk from the office). [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:24] Even after Alex was let go, he and Nat remained fast friends. [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:25] Do you think the hackernews was the source of the increased traffic? [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:26] don't kno [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:26] it does not matter much [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:26] just keep on going [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:27] I guess, I'm curious [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:27] I can't see my impact [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:27] I feel like I'm shouting into the void. [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:28] no, they want you to think that [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:28] it's a tactic [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:29] I'm trying to say I'd love to see some stats [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:38] past 44 hours 10.08m hits [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:38] but that's for all site combined, http/s only [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:38] Oh wow [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:38] No idea you had that much traffic [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:38] if you have a gemini client you can check: [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:39] gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:39] it shows by article [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:40] Ok, installing now [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:40] How much is that increased per usual? [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:41] usually 20% less [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:41] but that's for ~50k pages [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:44] Interesting [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:47] [23:38:18] schestowitz: past 44 hours 10.08m hits [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:47] Do you mean million or megabytes? [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] 323gb in past 44 hours [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] but that includes videos [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] we are an unconventional operation [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] no clownflare, social control media etc. [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] Ok, not how I think about those things [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:48] we are very robust to censorship [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:49] Pageviews is more my speed [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:49] I did get a client for gemini [02:58] schestowitz[TR3] [05:49] spiders spoil the broth [02:58] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Hacker News ● Jul 12 [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/08/worst/ [03:26] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-taxpolicy.org.uk | The UKs worst libel lawyers want to prevent libel reform [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] " [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 Wilsons letter to you did mention defamation, it does not see to bear t [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. [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 dont make it harder for the ordinary individual to take action against untrue stories about them told by the tabloids. [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] Like you, I would not touch Property 118s scheme with a barge-pole. But unlike some of your other exposes I dont think their technical case is unarguableand 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 [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] can claim a defence of reasonable comment or truth? If Ive remembered this correctly, then I think that puts the onus/burden back onto you. [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] I realise that, having bravely and successfully dealt with the threats from Zahawis lawyers (which cant 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. [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. [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] Reply [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] Dan says: [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] 9 November 2023 at 5:43pm [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] Thanks, thats 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). Its pretty common for someone to damage someone elses business by stating an opinion that its no good [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] , and that doesnt give rise to a defamation claim. Otherwise film critics would be in a spot of bother. I suspect Brett Wilson hadnt realised quite what was going on until they saw my reply, at which point they stopped acting. [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] You may be interested in our report today on property118s implementation. It has one or two minor problems. [03:26] schestowitz[TR3] " ● Jul 12 [04:53] *KindOne has quit (connection closed) [04:55] *KindOne (~KindOne@23xffjdf3phbn.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jul 12 [08:04] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). 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