●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, April 13, 2024 ●● ● Apr 13 [03:26] *jacobk (~quassel@838aynky6btpe.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 13 [05:23] *jacobk has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:31] schestowitz > Thanks for this feedback [05:31] schestowitz > [05:31] schestowitz > I updated it and fixed a couple of other things too [05:31] schestowitz > [05:31] schestowitz > Another mistake: the link tohttps://www.DebianProject.org should have [05:31] schestowitz > been a link tohttps://www.DebianGNULinux.org where their Swiss lawyer [05:31] schestowitz > wrote I am "illegally" distributing a copy of Debian GNU/Linux [05:31] schestowitz I noticed (clicked) that links, but did not change (correct) that. [05:31] schestowitz My wife read almost the whole thing too. Turns out she is a year older than you. ● Apr 13 [06:48] *jacobk (~quassel@32hz32it3ih2k.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 13 [07:05] DaemonFC I had fun today. I got a pressure washer and went after the car with it and some foaming car soap. [07:05] DaemonFC I've been getting by with those waterless car wash sprays they use in California during droughts because the other option is some auto wash that skimps on your soap and leaves all the garbage on your car. [07:05] DaemonFC Some guy they pay $15 an hour pretends to spray your car with the hose a little and runs out to offer "help" you don't need with the credit card machine. It's amazing someone pays for this and not soap. [07:06] DaemonFC It's like, you're a car wash, you had one job. ● Apr 13 [08:05] schestowitz :D [08:06] DaemonFC schestowitz: What is there to get about a credit card machine at a shitty car wash? [08:06] DaemonFC And why does a $16 wash have the "rip me off even more" buttons for add-ons? [08:06] schestowitz some people pay [08:06] schestowitz that's the issue [08:07] schestowitz same with scams over email [08:07] DaemonFC $3 for "salt shield" whatever that is. $2 for hot wax. [08:07] schestowitz it keeps the spammers financially viablle [08:07] DaemonFC I remember when $4-5 was the whole wash, including the wax. [08:07] DaemonFC And people hand drying your car and detailing the interior. [08:07] *DaxSon has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [08:08] DaemonFC schestowitz: I used to buy the Deluxe Wash. It used to be $8 and come with a 5 day rewash guarantee code. [08:08] DaemonFC The place was such a piece of shit that I always ended up driving back around and using the rewash immediately. [08:08] DaemonFC Sometimes even the guy inside would laugh. [08:08] DaemonFC But then they made it $12 and no rewash. [08:09] DaemonFC Usually after two washes in a row, the car was reasonably clean by that point. It shouldn't take two but it did. [08:09] DaemonFC And now they don't even give you two and it's gone up by $4. [08:09] schestowitz https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eB0aROCl530 [08:09] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-yewtu.be | Rose Royce - Car Wash (1976) - Invidious [08:09] DaemonFC They probably got tired of people like me anticipating that the place was shit and took two washes. [08:09] DaemonFC So they "fixed the glitch". [08:10] DaemonFC schestowitz: I'm not even going to do business with an outfit like that. [08:10] DaemonFC In the winter time I usually just drive over to the next town to use a halfway decent car wash now and then. [08:10] DaemonFC And then a couple more times after it starts getting warmer to make sure all the salt is out. [08:11] DaemonFC When you do it by hand you can keep going until the car is actually clean. [08:12] DaemonFC It just pisses me off because there's no way to keep the car clean except wash it every week, and if you use one of those places, they want at least $50 a month for that now. [08:13] schestowitz you nhave a choice: [08:13] schestowitz no car [08:14] DaemonFC It's a steady drip drip drip of blood. If I can do it myself for 7 cents then why do they need $16? [08:14] DaemonFC I mean holy fuck. [08:16] schestowitz holly is a virgin [08:16] DaemonFC These car washes are a license to print money. Just build the thing and spray people's cars with water and charge them $16 goddamned dollars. [08:16] schestowitz but then came rimmer [08:16] DaemonFC Or $21 with wax and "salt shield" which you probably didn't even use. [08:23] *parsifal (~parsifal@uuar9r28yasyu.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:27] DaemonFC The waterless car wash spray has a wax in it. It suggests occasionally using it even after a regular wash if you want to wax the car. There's cheaper ways to wax the car, but at least I know that when I wax the car it gets waxed. [08:32] DaemonFC Australia is basically stupid as fuck. To legitimize their elections, they force everyone to vote or pay a fine, and if you repeatedly don't pay the fine you go to jail. [08:33] DaemonFC So like, you end up with a bunch of people who just don't want to pay fines show up and vote for....someone they really didn't consider that much just so they don't go to jail? [08:33] DaemonFC I mean I know what would happen if they tried that here. [08:34] DaemonFC Black people who didn't want to vote just wouldn't do it, wouldn't pay the fine, and absolutely nothing would happen to them. [08:34] DaemonFC Meanwhile, if I tried that, they'd bring back the death penalty just for me because white. [08:35] DaemonFC That's basically already how car insurance, driver's licenses, and not fleeing the scene of a car accident work out for them. [08:35] DaemonFC So we already know what WOULD happen. [08:37] DaemonFC The current batch of "elected" critters have decided that it's impossible to reform black people to obey the rules so their goal to "overimprisonment" is to just not do shit about it if they don't follow the rules. [08:38] DaemonFC I mean, it makes sense from a certain angle. [08:38] DaemonFC If you're a crooked politician who lives in a gated community behind armed guards where the bus from Chicago doesn't go, you have nothing to lose by cutting your own taxes and letting the fur fly. [08:40] DaemonFC schestowitz: There should be a law that everyone who is in office at the State level should have to live in the South or West side of Chicago. [08:40] DaemonFC Watch how fast things change. ● Apr 13 [09:45] *iNvERSeD_ (~DaxSon@freenode-2ue.6ih.pu7h8v.IP) has joined #techbytes ● Apr 13 [10:05] schestowitz "Whos the bigger cybersecurity risk Microsoft or open source?" [10:05] schestowitz x https://reason.com/volokh/2024/04/11/whos-the-bigger-cybersecurity-risk-microsoft-or-open-source/ [10:05] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-reason.com | Whos the bigger cybersecurity risk Microsoft or open source? [10:14] DaemonFC https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/13/australia/australia-multiple-people-stabbed-intl-hnk/index.html [10:14] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-edition.cnn.com | Bondi Junction: Five dead in mass stabbing at Sydney shopping center | CNN [10:14] DaemonFC Meanwhile, in the gun-free zone. [10:30] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[22:54] schestowitz > [22:54] schestowitz > https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/exploits [22:54] schestowitz > [22:54] schestowitz > I see at some point soon we will have to make a choice; between cheap [22:54] schestowitz > technology made by various forms of slave lanour (including the [22:54] schestowitz > exploitation of unpaid FOSS labour), and secure systems. We won't get [22:54] schestowitz > to have both. [22:54] schestowitz > [22:54] schestowitz > Anyway hope the thesis/picture makes some sense. [22:54] schestowitz > All very best wishes, [22:54] schestowitz Similar problem covered earlier today: [22:54] schestowitz http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/13/Google_FSFE_Child_labor.shtml [22:54] schestowitz Anyway: [22:54] schestowitz Code Exploits http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/04/13/Code_Exploits.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/04/13/Code_Exploits.gmi [22:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cybershow.uk | Code Exploits [22:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights Google, FSFE & Child labor [22:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Code Exploits