●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 ●● ● Jan 14 [01:59] schestowitz[TR2] the ssg??? [01:59] schestowitz[TR2] static site generator ● Jan 14 [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] " [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] Anyway, I see in the news that Dilbert's author has died. [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] I really, really wish I had saved the last three strips where he [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] kept going on about he who controls Bytedance's Tiktok controls the world. [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] With the lead time between drawing and publication, his cancellation would [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] have started almost exactly timed with those strips getting to the newspapers. [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] He helped add fuel to the fire, but the cancellation had started already. [03:01] schestowitz[TR2] " [03:02] schestowitz[TR2] good people die faster ● Jan 14 [04:20] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0 [04:20] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0 ) [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] "That might be true for some cases, but not for me. If I overestimated my abilities, wouldn't it make sense for a team lead to make sure that I received all the resources necessary so that I could succeed? Instead, I had team leads "forget" to give me these resources on numerous occasions, and instead I was given them by technical teams. [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] And yet, this team lead would constantly ask me to be on projects with him, then take credit for my work. Doesn't sound like I was overestimating my abilities. It sounds to me like he didn't want me to succeed independently. [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] 9 hours ago by Anonymous [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Reply [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @14p+1ked3sgr0 [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] +2 [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] What will be the demographics on this next one about to kick off? [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] 10 hours ago by Anonymous [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Reply [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] Post ID: @14f+1ked3sgr0 [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] 0 [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] Def Met team has god like talents [04:21] schestowitz[TR2] " ● Jan 14 [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] > Hey Roy, [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] > Got your key fine using wget [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] > please confirm decrypt [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] > regards, [05:14] schestowitz[TR2] ACK [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >>> The microSD card on the main RPi here seems to have burned out finally. [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >>> [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >>> I'm replacing it and restoring from scattered backups, but that may [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >>> take hours. I hope I can do it before the scheduled power outage. [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >> [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] >> That's one of the reasons I got a laptop (used) for those tasks. [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] > [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] > This is a RPi4. The RPi5 can use an SSD. [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] > [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] > Regardless, I think it's back up and running. [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] "Hi, Roy, [05:18] schestowitz[TR2] I think things are back online here. I had to pull two temperature sensors. Those will get tested separately and maybe reinstalled as summer approaches. " [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598991 [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] teekert 16 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] It really should be like that indeed. Where is RMS? Is he working on GPLv4? [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] twoodfin 16 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] If model training is determined to be fair use under US copyright laweither legislated by Congress or interpreted by Federal courtsthen no license text can remove the right to use source code that way. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] RobotToaster 11 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] > then no license text can remove the right to use source code that way. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] At least in the US. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] Quite what happens if another country ordered, say chatGPT, to be released under the AGPL since it was trained on AGPL code, who knows. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] trashb 14 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] You can follow him on https://stallman.org/ What is he doing? I believe still giving talks and taking stance on current day political issues. Additionally I believe the last few years where quite turbulent so I assume he is taking life at his own pace. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] oblio 15 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] RMS is probably greatly behind the technical news at this point. I mean, he's surfing the web via a email summary of some websites. Even if he doesn't condone of how the internet is evolving, he can't really keep up with technology if he doesn't "mingle". [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] He's also 72, we can't expect him to save everyone. We need new generations of FOSS tech leaders. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] Imustaskforhelp 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] I am gen-z and I am part of the foss community (I think) and one of the issues about new generations of FOSS tech leaders is that even if one tries to do so. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] Something about Richard stallman really is out of this world where he made people care about Open source in the first place. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] I genuinely don't know how people can relicate it. I had even tried and gone through such phase once but the comments weren't really helpful back then on hackernews [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558430 (Ask HN: Why are most people not interested in FOSS/OSS and can we change that) [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] teekert 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] As much as RMS meant for the world, hes also a pretty petty person. Hes about freedom but mostly about user freedom, not creators freedom. I also went through such a phase but using words like evil is just too black and white. I dont think he is a nice person to be around.l, judging from some podcasts and videos. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] trashb 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] If there is one thing Stallman knows well is the way he uses words and I can assure you if he calls something "evil" that is exactly the word he meant to use. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] > user freedom, not creators freedom [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] In his view users are the creators and creators are the users. The only freedom he asks you to give up is the freedom to limit the freedom of others. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] reply [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] teekert 13 hours ago | root | parent | next [] [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] RMS asks you to give something up: Your right to share a thing you made, under your conditions (which may be conditions even the receiving party agree on), nobody is forced in this situation, and then he calls that evil. I think that is wrong. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] I love FOSS, don't get me wrong. But people should be able to say: I made this, if you want to use it, it's under these condition or I won't share it. [05:20] schestowitz[TR2] Again, imho the GPL is a blessing for humanity, and bless the people that choose it freely." [05:20] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video] | Hacker News [05:21] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-stallman.org | Richard Stallman's Personal Page [05:22] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Ask HN: Why are *most* people not interested in FOSS/OSS and can we change that | Hacker News [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] > Hi Dr. Schestowitz and Mrs. Schestowitz, [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] > [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] > Im not sure theres much else to say beyond [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] > thank you - thank y'all for continuing to cover [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] > our event and for supporting LibreTech! [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] This kind message from you, too, we'll respond to in due course. We're busy covering some big scandals this month. [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] best wishes, ● Jan 14 [12:45] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:49] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@mrbj7bcsm3aye.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 14 [15:27] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] he did say something rather bad but it got buried [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] I suspect that aside from that he was worried about what had happened [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] to gary trudeau and doonesbury and intended to ride out cheeto's tenure [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] by kissing ass instead of being a gadfly [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/scott-adams-dilbert-creator-dies-rcna253792 [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] "Why did Dilbert get cancelled? If you believe the news, it [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] was because I'm a big ol' racist," according to Adams' website. [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] "If you look into the context, the point that got me cancelled [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] is that CRT, DEI and ESG all have in common the framing that [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] White Americans are historically the oppressors and Black [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] Americans have been oppressed, and it continues to this day. I [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] recommended staying away from any group of Americans that [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] identifies your group as the bad guys, because that puts a [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] target on your back." [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] but, again, that all happened right before his panels about Bytedance's Tiktok [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] were going to press. [15:54] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nbcnews.com | Scott Adams, 'Dilbert' creator and conservative commentator, dies at 68 [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] ^quote [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] The strip's site got pulled down before anyone it seems read his final panels [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] I must have been one of the few. [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] And, as mentioned, I regret not saving the last three. [15:55] schestowitz[TR2]
  • Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical Dilbert Comic Strip, Dies at 68
    His chronicles o [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.
    • [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] he said something about Cheeto, but to paint him as just "racist" based on that seems highly selective [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] i think it weas the pedestal thing [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] i put the strip in daily links [15:55] schestowitz[TR2] culd be like "dalai lama pedo" thing [15:55] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.html ) [15:56] schestowitz[TR2] cpc finger on "rage cycles" ● Jan 14 [17:47] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 14 [18:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [18:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:11] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 14 [19:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes [19:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 14 [22:34] *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe [22:49] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/)