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| schestowitz | >>>>> Yet Saudi money was fine for the MIT Media Lab? | Sep 12 07:39 |
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| schestowitz | >>>> I saw that said... | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | >>> Saudi money is all over the place and no questions are raised. Though | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | >>> they well should be, especially after the most recent murders. | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | >> There's a similar issue with, e.g. Chinese money, Russia money, | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | >> ultra-zionist money and so on. | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, China is tearing through Europe with its money and buying | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > acceptance of its politics as a result. Africa gets it worse, China is | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > making enormous investments in infrastructure, except that it's not. It | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > is making the African countries take out massive loans with that | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > infrastructure as collateral so they will end up in Chinese hands | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > quickly if they default. If they do not default, everything including | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > the broadcast material is oriented towards China so it will be theirs | Sep 12 07:39 |
| schestowitz | > withing two generations any way. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > The Saudi money is (or was) different. It was just one family which | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > except for ties to Bush and others was rather weak. It has, however, | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > been a profoundly damaging influence on the world both through the | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > environmental damage caused by the acquisition of the petrodollar and by | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > the cultural and societal damage caused by targeted infusions of that | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > same petrodollar back into EU / US. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> The underlying issue is this system that garbours bribery; of press, | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> academia, government... | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, there's too much to say on that. We are in an era of yellow | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > journalism and whatever the corresponding academic equivalent is. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> I now have confidence nothing goes missing from the cron job, or almost | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> nothing. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> Yesterday I refactored my RSS feeds accordingly. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | >> I am working right now and again tomorrow, so not many articles from me... | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | I only noticed it didn't pick up this: | Sep 12 07:40 |
| schestowitz | Fees on Electric Cars, Inspired by Koch Network, Are Unfairly Penalizing Drivers, Says Consumer Reports https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/09/11/koch-alec-fees-electric-cars-penalize-drivers-consumer-reports | Sep 12 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.desmogblog.com | Fees on Electric Cars, Inspired by Koch Network, Are Unfairly Penalizing Drivers, Says Consumer Reports | DeSmogBlog | Sep 12 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15463433#829249c08b350137e58c0cc47a07853c\ | Sep 12 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: He was an opponent of #privacy Hardly a champion of the #internet Then again, this is Arse Technically Pedophile. Won't "speak ill of the dead"... won't speak about its child-raping staff. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/the-supreme-court-loses-its-cryptographer/ | Sep 12 07:42 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> arstechnica.com | Justice John Paul Stevens, dead at 99, promoted the Internet revolution | Ars Technica | Sep 12 07:42 | |
| schestowitz | groklaw being one of the better websites about legal decisions on the internet, i would certainly put more than zero stock in that. | Sep 12 07:42 |
| schestowitz | i couldnt find anything (else) to support the notion online, but perhaps i can find something now. (especially if its on techrights.) | Sep 12 07:42 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:42 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | He was an opponent of #privacy | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | Hardly a champion of the #internet | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | fair enough-- he did have some good points, even progressive ones. but that just goes to show you, progressives dont always give a shit about privacy or free speech (i lied, i dont know if he is actually considered progressive or not. but the part about some good, arguably progressive points is true. i read about him and first assumed “good riddance” but i kept reading. no word yet on his career overall, just saying.) | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | David | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | David - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | He was an opponent of #privacy | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | Links to documentation of this? And of your allegations of sexual abuse? Not saying you’re wrong or right; just want evidence instead of allegations. Especially, when, as far as you’ve let me know, the allegations are yours alone. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | some quotes: | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | “anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.” | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | “It is offensive . . . to the very notion of a free society that in the context of everyday public discourse a citizen must first inform the government of her desire to speak to her neighbors and then obtain a permit to do so.” | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | from the washington compost: “He also taught us that nobody is below the law. Not the reviled detainees at Guantanamo Bay — he led the court in rejecting the Bush administration’s attempt to establish a law-free zone of absolute executive power in the isolated island prison.” | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | from the daily beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-roberts-sides-with-supreme-courts-liberals-to-save-your-digital-privacy “The conservative justice bucked right-wingers and said police must get a warrant before searching cellphone location data.” | Sep 12 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thedailybeast.com | John Roberts Sides With Supreme Court’s Liberals to Save Your Digital Privacy | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | he sounds like a good guy. he honestly sounds like the sort of person that might have made a few bad decisions, he has even gone on record of some of the decisions he regrets making. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | i cant find his anti-privacy rulings. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | i read about him and first assumed “good riddance” | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | i cant find what i was reading, either. but it certainly wasnt the quotes i just posted. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | but i kept reading. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15437009#70ce6cc089050137e59c0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Heck, forget about #impeachment He should have been arrested before the campaign, this rapist and criminal Also, shame on the Electors who blessed this ethnic cleanser in spite of, e.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/american-football/2016/08/30/donald-trump-tells-colin-kaepernick-to-leave-the-us-over-nfl-nat/ | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.telegraph.co.uk | Donald Trump tells Colin Kaepernick to leave the US over NFL national anthem protest | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | Heck, forget about #impeachment no, i make it a point to never obey the traitor pelosi | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15441046#c876c49089500137e58c0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: HELLO, #NETGEAR IDENTIFY as SELF LETMEIN https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47117 #security | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | NETGEAR WiFi Router JWNR2010v5 / R6080 - Authentication Bypass - Hardware webapps Exploit | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | Sep 12 07:43 | |
| schestowitz | FF5. | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | ' | Sep 12 07:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/14110433#6687964087830137ad9452540039b762 | Sep 12 07:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@lonki@joindiaspora.com:  | Sep 12 07:44 | |
| schestowitz | "Used to be a SIGINT station of the East-Germans." | Sep 12 07:44 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15431108#3aa6150088590137e59c0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Harmful forms of #freespeech which probably violate actual laws -Calls for harm ("I'll kill you"; "someone should kill you") -Calls for self-harm ("drinking bleach might help cure you") The hard part is drawing lies around that | Sep 12 07:44 | |
| schestowitz | The hard part is drawing lies around that | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | particularly when medical ethics has a lot of that sorted out (more or less, obviously we dont put laws on stone tablets anymore) though the medical industry is not always ethical (and sometimes pursues money over ethics) | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | a tradition of ethics doesnt do all the work for you, of course. | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | Ted | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | Ted - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | drawing lines ? | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | drawing lines ? | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | another way of saying “making clear distinctions” or putting things into obvious categories around the ideas | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | Ted | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | Ted - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | I should have written as follows: | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊), did you mean to write lines instead of lies? | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | oh! i misread his post, then yours. | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | i think he meant lines. lies could work too, but it would be a weird thing to say. | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | for a minute there, i just assumed english wasnt your first language and you hadnt heard the idiom. though youve never said anything to give me that idea before. | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15431108#3aa6150088590137e59c0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | yes, I meant lines and I'm catching up | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15216702#136d5fa074110137254c0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@harryhaller@nerdpol.ch reshared: Write more accessible #Markdown images with this one simple trick https://blog.justinwflory.com/2019/06/markdown-accessible-images/ for a decade and a half I always added "alt" to everything (for blind people) | Sep 12 07:45 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.justinwflory.com | Write more accessible Markdown images with this one simple trick - Justin W. Flory's Blog | Sep 12 07:45 | |
| schestowitz | This is swell - but what markdown images really need is: | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | height= | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | width= | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | align=“center” | Sep 12 07:45 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:46 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15533161#b00e33c091e401371a760050563e145e | Sep 12 07:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Have you thanked a sysadmin today? https://opensource.com/article/19/7/have-you-thanked-sysadmin-today I'm one of them, often working 1am-9am shifts | Sep 12 07:46 | |
| schestowitz | "Yes! :)" | Sep 12 07:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> opensource.com | Have you thanked a sysadmin today? | Opensource.com | Sep 12 07:46 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15479494 | Sep 12 07:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@harryhaller@nerdpol.ch: a distro that’s out of washington, brussels and westminster's reach. :) > @{schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}<sub> - [original post](/posts/35d9c8d08c9a0137344a0218b72fdf43 "2019-07-19 21 | Sep 12 07:46 | |
| schestowitz | "a distro that’s out of washington, brussels and westminster’s reach. :)' | Sep 12 07:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> betanews.com | Debian-based deepin 15.11 Linux distribution now available for download | Sep 12 07:46 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:47 |
| schestowitz | meh. I don’t care for anything ‘cloud’. no matter whose cloud it is. | Sep 12 07:47 |
| schestowitz | “After Signing in Deepin ID in Control Center, you can sync system settings to the cloud automatically, including network settings, sound settings, mouse settings, update settings, power settings, corner settings, theme, wallpaper, launcher, and dock. You can choose to turn off the specified options or all of them. With this feature, you can move to and work on another computer seamlessly. Note: This feature is only available for users with | Sep 12 07:47 |
| schestowitz | Deepin ID location in Mainland China at present. It will be released for users in other regions soon,” says The deepin Development Team. | Sep 12 07:47 |
| schestowitz | That's a known gripe for many | Sep 12 07:47 |
| schestowitz | Do you have any comments about the telegra.ph @Roy | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | }? | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | I ask because some messages are posted which connect to telegr.ph. | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | At the moment, I block telegra.ph (i.e. don’t allow), as I do with FB and others. | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | see also: Telegram’s blogging platform Telegraph is super simple and anonymous | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15477422#39f539e09b4d0137ad9a52540039b762 | Sep 12 07:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Two days ago I joined #telegram (installed via F-Droid). It was an interesting experience, immediatly I was contacted by people who had shared their addressbook with "the cloud" and thus were notified by the "heavily encrypted" telegram servers." http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20190718-social-media/ | Sep 12 07:48 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> layer-acht.org | 20190718-social-media | Sep 12 07:48 | |
| schestowitz | https://mashable.com/2016/11/23/telegram-telegraph-blogging/?europe=true&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed | Sep 12 07:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mashable.com | Telegram's blogging platform Telegraph is super simple and anonymous | Sep 12 07:48 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2f8a34d09b1601373725047d7b62795e | Sep 12 07:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Sep 12 07:48 | |
| schestowitz | Telegram is generally untrustworthy unless you're somewhere like Iran | Sep 12 07:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15931265#cf37e1d0b40c0137098b7a163ef10931 | Sep 12 07:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How this #opensource code could help stop #deforestation https://www.fastcompany.com/90398939/we-could-help-prevent-deforestation-by-simply-reprogramming-logging-machines #CodeofConscience | Sep 12 07:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.fastcompany.com | How this open-source code could help stop deforestation | Sep 12 07:49 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | Program it to cut down the trees on the CEO’s estate. | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 4 days ago | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | Seriously, I saw a similar logging machine operating on some forest property near my home. It does take an operator (one), but it replaces several loggers with chain-saws. Also it is huge, heavy (compacting soil), and makes much larger openings in the forest than does a human with a chain-saw (assuming he or she is only cutting selected trees). | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | Theodotos Andreou | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | Theodotos Andreou - 4 days ago | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | I don’t see this as a very efficient way of protecting trees. | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 4 days ago | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | ^Nope. | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:49 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15723506#1416ec40a3ec0137e65a002590d8e506 | Sep 12 07:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How to Check Which #Debian Version are you Running http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127091 #gnu #linux #howto | Sep 12 07:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | How to Check Which Debian Version are you Running | Tux Machines | Sep 12 07:50 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Lsb_release -a | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - 25 days ago | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | No LSB modules are available. | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Distributor ID:Devuan | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Description:Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii) | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Release:2.0 | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Codename:ascii | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Alexander - 25 days ago | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | When you run stable, you damn well know which one it is :D | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | zebulon_1er@diaspora.psyco.fr - 25 days ago | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | @Alessandro Ebersol ;) | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | $ Lsb_release -a | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | bash: Lsb_release : unknown command | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | $ lsb_release -a | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | No LSB modules are available. | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Distributor ID:Debian | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Description:Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch) | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Release:9.9 | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Codename:stretch | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I’m still in Stretch… I prefer waiting a bit before upgrading to Debian 10. | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | trademarks arent supposed to create confusion-- it would definitely lead to confusion on the stock exchange, if “‘going down’ is up by 9 points” | Sep 12 07:50 |
| schestowitz | "trademarks arent supposed to create confusion-- it would definitely lead to confusion on the stock exchange, if “‘going down’ is up by 9 points”" | Sep 12 07:51 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15636904#195d2a30 | Sep 12 07:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How can this be a #trademark ? Totally ridiculous. Laughable even. What next? #trademarks on "bless you" and "good morning"? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/going-down-is-trade-mark-that-causes.html | Sep 12 07:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> ipkitten.blogspot.com | 'Going down' is a trade mark that causes a bad influence on morality, says the Beijng High Court in China - The IPKat | Sep 12 07:51 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15660441#cd0ac6c09e3f0137b1cb0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 07:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How to measure the health of an #opensource community http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126814 #freesw #sharing #collaboration | Sep 12 07:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | How to measure the health of an open source community | Tux Machines | Sep 12 07:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | bound to devolve into circular arguments-- another proxy for corporations arguing why corporate code is better code. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | not a new idea: https://antitrust.slated.org/halloween/halloween6.html | Sep 12 07:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-antitrust.slated.org | Halloween Document 6 | Sep 12 07:52 | |
| schestowitz | Fortunately, Rick Moen, a well-known Linux activist, managed to recover them from his Netscape cache – and found the copyright notice reproduced above. In view of Gartner’s protestations that Microsoft had nothing to do with funding the research, the next lines in the notice are especially interesting: | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | Editorial supplied by Microsoft is independent of GartnerGroup analysis and in no way should this information be construed as a GartnerGroup endorsement of Microsoft’s products and services. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | So. At first blush, these “Gartner Group” reports seem to have been a warm personal gesture from Microsoft Corporation to itself. That theory would fit both the copyright and the contents, which exactly repeats Microsoft marketing cant that we’ve seen before – including such trademarks of the genre as the (unsupported and, according to IDC, false) assertion that Linux is taking seats mainly from other Unix shops. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | However, the Gartner Group insists that Microsoft did not write the reports. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | perhaps similar metrics could be useful, but lets not kid ourselves about the objectivity. this is inevitably going to be a very long-winded, abstract way of “proving” that you shouldnt care about what matters to you, and that you should care about what matters to corporations. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | theyre not going to keep reproducing metrics that dont support their corporate, monopolistic rhetoric. it will last as long as it suits that purpose. | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 07:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news2.rss?preview=true | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | >> Will take more work. Something is weird with the feed. | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | > By the way, as you may have seen, I have a work-around now. | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | > I should go and double check all the other feeds too now. If a site has | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | > a feed *and* the articles are well-structured, adding new sites takes | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | > only 10 to 20 minutes, including testing. | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | Once done, it can, over time, help put thousands of links in the site. It's sad just how few sites I nowadays trust. Sometimes I link to sites I don't trust, only because no other source covers a topic.... | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | Sadder: good sites are more likely to perish due to lack of resources ($). | Sep 12 07:56 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15855709#b2cdcef0ad9c01378d25002590d8e506 | Sep 12 08:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Man wants pig to bite apple (while spinning the stake) https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/49297-microsoft-wants-linux-to-get-exfat http://techrights.org/2019/08/30/the-exfat-deception/ | Sep 12 08:11 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:11 |
| schestowitz | I’ve read about it. | Sep 12 08:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> fudzilla.com | Microsoft wants Linux to get exFAT | Sep 12 08:11 | |
| schestowitz | The truth is not what they told. | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 08:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | A Closer Look at the ‘Trojan Horse’ That is exFAT Inside Linux | Techrights | Sep 12 08:12 | |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 12 days ago | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz | If You use the Microshaft ex fat code, If You use it in a commercial venture, You have to pay Microshaft ransom tax. | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz | They already sign deals with all the major OEMs. This does not cancel these deals. | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15557916#451264b0948b0137e5ae0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 08:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Man hole planning https://i.redd.it/fk1bo0y6a2931.jpg | Sep 12 08:12 | |
| schestowitz | https://share.naturalnews.com/uploads/images/scaled_full_ef29a45179b3f944aceb.png | Sep 12 08:12 |
| schestowitz | dude i have to sign an oath to read a paper? it means their paper is shit | Sep 12 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Marius Dan Christian CRACIUNESCU | Sep 12 08:14 |
| schestowitz | Marius Dan Christian CRACIUNESCU - about a month ago | Sep 12 08:14 |
| schestowitz | or ~shit | Sep 12 08:14 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15602381#13dccae098ca0137803f2a0000053625 | Sep 12 08:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@mihaikamik@framasphere.org reshared: #NSA and #microsott officials should have been sentenced to prison https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/26/marcus-hutchins-sentenced-kronos/ it's them who made the back doors http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA | Sep 12 08:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techcrunch.com | Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero,’ sentenced to supervised release – TechCrunch | Sep 12 08:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and the NSA - Techrights | Sep 12 08:14 | |
| schestowitz | Come right out and say it… ;-) | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | Linux and Windows??? :o | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | These “People” are being intentionally dumb. And that is a generous assessment. | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | shills, yay | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | Good grief, I can see where this is going… straight into the dumper. | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | That’s where it started! ;-) | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | oiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days ago | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | @tomgrz LOL | Sep 12 08:15 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15937699#61f225a0b4cc013709797a163ef10931 | Sep 12 08:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who trust #microsoft with #gnu #linux would not cope too well in nature. #DarwinAward | Sep 12 08:15 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15715950#82f8dd40a3210137b1c70cc47a07853c | Sep 12 08:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Poor sign design | Sep 12 08:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- Photo by schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_b32a1945ac85e0e0a594.jpeg | Sep 12 08:16 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | she just doesnt like pac man | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | David - 26 days ago | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | Someone doesn’t know how women pee. | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz |  | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 26 days ago | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | Someone doesn’t know how women pee. | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | british women can hold their own (so to speak) | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | lol | Sep 12 08:16 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15721887#58ed8ac0a3d80137e612002590d8e506 | Sep 12 08:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Probably the largest "distribution" of #linux so far https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1162696126916677632 | Sep 12 08:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@JonErlichman: On this day in 2005: Google confirms its acquisition of startup Android Android’s smartphone market share: (worldw… https://t.co/rWs7T6bZlW | Sep 12 08:17 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | dont take candy from google | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 25 days ago | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Speaking about it, how is Microshaft in its jihad against Google ? Or they gave up on destroying Google ? | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 25 days ago | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | maybe they ♥ google now | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 25 days ago | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | Yup, love destroys more than simple hate. | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:17 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | So don’t get malicious files. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | how do you know which ones are malicious? | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | repeat question for people who are less savvy. how do they know which ones are malicious? | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | This would appear to be a serious shortcoming in Libre Office. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | all office suites have this issue, i am confident there are similar vulnerabilities in openoffice. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | i believe i disagree with roy on the severity of this, this is a real security problem. they can fix it, but if i were in charge of a large office with libreoffice (or any office suite) i would have a security policy that banned macros in the workplace. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | of course i would not ban similar workflows for people that knew what they were doing, but i would demand all macros in office suites be disabled. im prepared to defend that logic if someone thinks its “as foolish as…” some analogy they come up with. i think the fact that this is in libreoffice of all things finally proves that macros in rich text documents are a bad idea-- the design is bad, you can fix one vulnerability but someone | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | else will find another. thats my take on it. what clinches it is that libreoffice has already patched behaviour like this, and it is still a problem. it will be again. whatever people are using macros for (worded that way due to people varying considerably) it would be better to do it another way. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | by the way, there is a very relevant video on language development at brown university (suitable for the uninitiated, but at least 60 minutes long) on youtube that everyone developing libreoffice should watch. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | This is a non problem, just uninstall Librelogo and you are good to go. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | This is a non problem, just uninstall Librelogo and you are good to go. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | it isnt a non-problem: | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | this is a more important vulnerability than its being made out to be. i understand enough to see how i could run into this as a real problem. imagine that you arent talking about a single computer, but a room full of them. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | its not exactly trivial to tell which documents are malicious. possible-- yes, trivial, no. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | youre already wrong about uninstalling librelogo. you ultimately need macros disabled as well. right, on multiple machines. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | there are several ways this can turn into a serious problem. its being treated superficially because roy and i both know that a number of companies are trumping up any freesw-related vulnerability like its bigger than it is, but this really does spell doom imo for certain common features of libreoffice. seriously. and id rather it didnt. but it really doesnt take much for this to turn into the free sw equivalent of “i love you” / melissa | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | in the future. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | stop thinking of every free sw user as savvy. thanks to canonical (no really, thank you) thats no longer how it is. and we dont want it to be-- ive already given away computers to several people helpless to fix this, id have to fix it on every single machine. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | every single machine. for most people that scales well. not for everybody. not at all. someday, maybe not this year, this could turn into a real problem. and im already thinking that far ahead. | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 08:20 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 2 months ago | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | Macros are not worth the risk. | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about a month ago | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | Macros are not worth the risk. | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | and if this was not across every office suite (it now is) or if libreoffice managed to fix this the first time (they didnt) then no problem, however this is actually a design pattern and result that are both too close to microsoft office– | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | the feature, and the outcome. which convinces me that it should be off by default. that should be the new design. short of that, theyre just being irresponsible. | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - about a month ago | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | Yep. | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | They made LO feature-compatible also in the security sense | Sep 12 08:21 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15546951#0fd557e093810137e5900cc47a07853c | Sep 12 08:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Running a malicious program does malicious things. Opening malicious documents with malicious scripts can also do malicious things. So don't get malicious files. https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/libreoffice-vulnerability.html | Sep 12 08:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> thehackernews.com | Just Opening A Document in LibreOffice Can Hack Your Computer (Unpatched) | Sep 12 08:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15550678#f1a531c09403013716597a163ef10931 | Sep 12 08:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who have empathy are a 'disease', tell us the world's 'strongmen' | Sep 12 08:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- Photo by schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_94ff1784215f68ae4b86.jpg | Sep 12 08:22 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:22 |
| schestowitz | Sep 12 08:22 | |
| schestowitz | Yet it is difficult not to laugh at these dangerous characters. Until it impacts yourself, I guess. | Sep 12 08:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:22 |
| schestowitz | "People who have empathy are a ‘disease’ as are people who hate microsoft, im told" | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15463417#d59626d08b4d01374b2d0cc47a07853c | Sep 12 08:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who nowadays go to college to study #journalism won't work in the field they studied unless they become spammers and PR agents, who drown out what's left of >actual< journalism. It's all corrupt. Almost all of it. | Sep 12 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Sep 12 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | It’s all corrupt. Almost all of it. lots and lots of shills. also microsoft, apple (likely google, at a guess) giving the press the monopoly/cult treatment. | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Sep 12 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | Hired guns. | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15926865#71da1da0b3b3013734ec7a163eb51328 | Sep 12 08:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: RMS made a mistake https://twitter.com/taotetek/status/1169928609806655488 see http://techrights.org/2019/09/07/rms-microsoft-trap/ @fsf #freesw #freedom #gnu #linux #rms | Sep 12 08:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@taotetek: Microsoft inviting RMS to speak at their campus while they are using GNU/Linux to build services they sell to ICE w… https://t.co/jp8HzUgBkL | Sep 12 08:25 | |
| schestowitz | " | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | you know, there’s something I don’t get here… | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | why should his speaking to any audience whatsoever be regarded as his supporting whatever the audience did before? that’s utter nonsense! if he set out to change the world, by definition he’s attempting to get any audience he addresses to behave differently from whatever they did before. if Microsoft opened the door for him to address its associates, why should he not have taken the opportunity? because someone might spin it and turn it | Sep 12 08:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft’s Takedown Plot – Part II: Stallman Appears to Have Fallen Into Microsoft’s Trap | Techrights | Sep 12 08:25 | |
| schestowitz | into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft? where’s the news in someone’s doing that? some people make a living of spinning stuff into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft, and they wouldn’t do more or less of it because of one speech. now, what’s new here is that instead of pretending RMS is irrelevant, and that nobody listens to him or is even interested in what he has to say, the spinning is that | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | he’s so relevant that even Microsoft is trying to take advantage of him, while disparaging him because he must be out of his mind to address Microsofties. sure he won’t change Microsoft’s stance with one speech, but if some people there listen and take to heart a bit of what he says, and act in line with it even inside Microsoft, that’s already a positive movement. success of a political movement like ours builds up as a sum of such | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | small movements. let’s not get distracted by all the spinning, shall we? | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | Emmanuel Florac | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | Emmanuel Florac - 5 days ago | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | 👍 @Alexandre Oliva | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - a day ago | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | why should his speaking to any audience whatsoever be regarded as his supporting whatever the audience did before? | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | because people are silly. youre not wrong (at all) but even the people that know better realise that people who dont know better exist. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | stallman has failed THOSE people who dont know better. that isnt necessarily worthy of blame but its worthy of consideration. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | ive made my position as clear as possible: http://techrights.org/2019/09/06/rms-track-record/ | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | though its not unreasonable (for countless reasons) to say that anything microsoft agrees to is part of a strategy to do harm to free software. as a rule, thats a bit paranoid. for microsoft its really not. (never letting your kids go outside is paranoid, refusing to drop them off at a cannibals house isnt.) | Sep 12 08:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Guest Post: Getting Stallman Wrong Means Getting The 21st Century Wrong | Techrights | Sep 12 08:25 | |
| schestowitz | if he set out to change the world, by definition he’s attempting to get any audience he addresses to behave differently from whatever they did before. if Microsoft opened the door for him to address its associates, why should he not have taken the opportunity? because someone might spin it and turn it into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft? | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | thats the argument, yes. and they might manage it. im on the fence about whether that makes it an idea worth avoiding. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | either way there is greater benefit in trying to figure out their intentions than trying to figure out if stallman is somehow to blame. i dont think he is. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | where’s the news in someone’s doing that? | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | the narrative points to ancient foes-- even as a joke you cant deny that. people keep quoting venkman from ghostbusters talking about what happens if they turn the containment unit off. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | some people make a living of spinning stuff into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft, and they wouldn’t do more or less of it because of one speech. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | they might, actually. | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | now, what’s new here is that instead of pretending RMS is irrelevant, and that nobody listens to him or is even interested in what he has to say, the spinning is that he’s so relevant that even Microsoft is trying to take advantage of him | Sep 12 08:25 |
| schestowitz | this is how narcissists (microsoft for one example) do business. they throw every fact out of the window whenever it suits their purposes, including ones they have stated a million times themselves. | Sep 12 08:26 |
| schestowitz | sure he won’t change Microsoft’s stance with one speech, but if some people there listen and take to heart a bit of what he says, and act in line with it even inside Microsoft, that’s already a positive movement. success of a political movement like ours builds up as a sum of such small movements. | Sep 12 08:26 |
| schestowitz | of note is that microsoft is a cult an absolute corporate cult. but again-- maybe he will bring a softie to his side. probably not for the first time. | Sep 12 08:26 |
| schestowitz | i thought bill gates was AWESOME when i was 6. i didnt know him that well. | Sep 12 08:26 |
| schestowitz | ' | Sep 12 08:26 |
| schestowitz | Alex: I used to think the same way you do until I fully graped how these things work. Esp. seeing how WikiLeaks tolerating RT as a platform got interpreted as "Wikileaks works for Russia" (or similar). | Sep 12 08:26 |
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