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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:12 |
| schestowitz | Yep... it's Tons of fun here. I'm on the East Side [Redmond, next to Kirkland, where the Older Living home is.] | Mar 18 03:12 |
| schestowitz | There is a great deal of tension and we Still have almost nothing in the way of test kits. | Mar 18 03:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:12 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t6h6y5smiXmCHkJjk | Mar 18 03:12 |
| schestowitz | "WTF china's fault!? You gotta be kidding. And by the way, china has already sent help to italy but... yes, let's collectively blame china ;D" | Mar 18 03:12 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | "'@schestowitz The attacks on open source are ramping up and most techies are still scared to say something that might sound like a conspiracy theory. It's also about employers not hiring those who do. Much of this happens with a lot of diversity flag waving, so that people speaking up about a critical exploit can be discarded as narrow-minded bigots. It's horrendous to see this happen to volunteers who have dedicated their whole life | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | to an organization, often simply out of love." | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t6FYuNfO0qI4ZbBqq | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | Meanwhile, in Germany... | Mar 18 03:13 |
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| schestowitz | https://9gag.com/gag/arowvnV | Mar 18 03:13 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:13 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t5JWzw7xqWVNp6P32 | Mar 18 03:14 |
| schestowitz | "* on desktop" | Mar 18 03:14 |
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| schestowitz | "I don't know anyone who's chomping at the bit to download an app to watch #YouTube videos. Just saying." | Mar 18 03:14 |
| schestowitz | http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36663/ | Mar 18 03:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lxer.com | LXer: I see Schestowitz is still publishing click bait nonsense: The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Apparently, as Per Latest IRS Disclosure, About 95% Companies-Funded | Mar 18 03:16 | |
| schestowitz | "Why should I check the accuracy of the claims, if I have to click through multiple articles (of yours) to get to the source material? That's a rabbit-hole, no telling how far I'll be going before I find a way out." | Mar 18 03:16 |
| schestowitz | In this particular article there are many links to original sources, such as IRS filings | Mar 18 03:16 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t4QAAZmkGoqF4kmoq | Mar 18 03:17 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:17 |
| schestowitz | "#covid-19 es solo el gatillo/aguja para pinchar la burbuja | Mar 18 03:17 |
| schestowitz | No es posible devolver la deuda nacional (pasada como beneficencia a las cuentas en paraísos fiscales de las elites.)" | Mar 18 03:17 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/objects/c0ebe911-4c3b-4d5e-82f4-4b666829863e | Mar 18 03:17 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t4DgLc3woXyKnpezY | Mar 18 03:18 |
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| schestowitz | "We're going to have a 9/11 for every day of 2020." | Mar 18 03:18 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t4DVqHJau8cFw7Ols | Mar 18 03:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 18 03:18 | |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:18 |
| schestowitz | the only question is | Mar 18 03:18 |
| schestowitz | how much will we know? Will john hopkins university have the numbers? Or will a million or more silently die without the rest of the world ever hearing about it? | Mar 18 03:18 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:18 |
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| schestowitz | "@schestowitz Buy an #HP printer if you're quite happy to be tracked. https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots" | Mar 18 03:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.eff.org | List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Mar 18 03:20 | |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t2VEiBNqmOR5FPBtw | Mar 18 03:21 |
| schestowitz | " It is said over 10k people were tested for SARS-CoV-2 and only 63 were diagnosed positive to the moment. From my experience, physicians are prone to avoiding meticulous examination of clients w/o evident symptoms of the new disease." | Mar 18 03:21 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | remote working | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | @schestowitz I think they're discovering what I did when I started working from home in the summer of 2018. 😂 | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | I think those chance "creativity encounters" are mostly a myth, and watercaller chat can still be achieved on a private slack channel or IRC. | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | The solitude and cabin fever can be cured by making sure you get out the house and go for a walk at least once a day. Also being able to shut the door on your workspace stops you from overworking. | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:22 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t1IeDAiHFRbs8xcmW | Mar 18 03:25 |
| schestowitz | "I don't think it had anything to do with ethnicity so much as the fact that it stayed more or less contained to Africa, where they probably had no business interests." | Mar 18 03:25 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t1G2CnN1qnrnAn9wO | Mar 18 03:25 |
| schestowitz | "The article says nothing about the fakery. Just that the Asian companies are out-packing the European one on patent filing." | Mar 18 03:25 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t1DT5swWqeOJiWoWO | Mar 18 03:25 |
| schestowitz | " I thought you were going to say because you have to be home all day long with them for three weeks!" | Mar 18 03:25 |
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| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9t0AsaB8XdZYUPXZya | Mar 18 03:26 |
| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:26 |
| schestowitz | "...but #merkel reckons most people will have it eventually (she's a doctor of science) " | Mar 18 03:26 |
| schestowitz | To me this is the key. And the reason why I fear politicians and not real scientist are at the driver seat. | Mar 18 03:26 |
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| schestowitz | " | Mar 18 03:26 |
| schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9szshb476ddmsZrqj2 | Mar 18 03:27 |
| schestowitz | "results [sic] 😂" | Mar 18 03:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | Mar 18 03:28 | |
| schestowitz | Re: Tux machines | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > I am a fan of the TuxMachines website, one of my almost daily visits in | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > the linux world. I ran across this unknown backup software that I | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > thought you folks would like to review and maybe more everyday users | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > like me would appreciate as it has a nice UI. Similar in scope to Borg | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > and Restic but with a appimage to get started. Anyhow thanks again for | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > the TM. | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | > https://kopia.io/ | Mar 18 04:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-kopia.io | Kopia | Mar 18 04:53 | |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | Thanks for the kind words. | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | I've just taken a look at the site. They seem to have source code, but there's also some proprietary stuff there that I can see. Is this assessment correct? | Mar 18 04:53 |
| schestowitz | Re: The pandemic | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > What I see is... COVD19 is going to take a financial and economic toll that is astronomical and may exceed the cost some of our wars. | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > There will be many bankruptcies, much fraud with the money the government allocates for help and before it’s over there will be disruptions in society never seen before. | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > Other than that...everything will be O.K. | Mar 18 04:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > *I love all things Irish and that’s why today’s blog posts are all | Mar 18 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > about the Irish holiday. * | Mar 18 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > *harveytobkes.com <http://harveytobkes.com/>* | Mar 18 04:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ http://harveytobkes.com/>* ) | Mar 18 04:58 | |
| schestowitz | Also my mom's birthday today :-) | Mar 18 04:58 |
| schestowitz | >>> TM was offline both for SSH and HTTP this morning. I gave it a restart. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | >> I noticed that too at my end and you beat me to it. By the time I logged | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | >> in it was already rebooted, so well done! | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > No problem. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | >> I will try to write a lot today. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > Excellent. The topics and detail are very important as too few or, in | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > some cases, no others cover the topics. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | >> Covid curiousity takes up a lot of time. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > SARS-CoV-2 is a big disturbance and a lot of problematic actions will | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > take place using it as cover and distraction. Some stuff won't show up | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > at all, others stuff will just be blip and then forgotten immediately. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | Like the npm and bill gates news. | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | No analysis of it (proper) I was able to find... | Mar 18 05:00 |
| schestowitz | > sorry, this one has more typos that usual. feel free to put it up as-is-- feel very, very free to correct what you notice. theres even an "of" where i meant "over". | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | > basically i wrote it, felt tired, and said "fuck it." you know i usually go to more trouble than that. but i extend the same option to you. | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | > nonetheless, sorry about the typos. | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | I had to do lots of work on that one. But I understand. Sure, it's better to proofreading before sending. | Mar 18 05:32 |
| schestowitz | There are signs that some people try to "cancel" us too, but they have not much to base this on. Be polite online as they're using your language to leverage guilt by association (against us as a site). | Mar 18 05:32 |
| roy-on-ted-box | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17437157#e8eba5c047e70138d41e08002785b8a8 | Mar 18 05:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: I've gotten in contact with 2 very kind people from the FSF. Given the attacks on several Free/Open Source institutions lately I'm not ruling out nefarious intents designed to cause a rift. I will get to the bottom of it. | Mar 18 05:48 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | "Which “attacks” are you referring-to?" | Mar 18 05:48 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Takeover attempts and destruction. LF, OSI etc. | Mar 18 05:48 |
| roy-on-ted-box | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17427553#58e86b5046fa01384e107a163ef10931 | Mar 18 05:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: I still don't know who at FSF to contact about their servers spewing/hammering me with over 10,000 emails in just 2 days. Two of my accounts; I wonder whose else... everyone's? | Mar 18 05:49 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | " | Mar 18 05:49 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Mar 18 05:49 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | Maybe their servers will be blocked by the ISP for propagating spam? | Mar 18 05:49 |
| roy-on-ted-box | " | Mar 18 05:49 |
| roy-on-ted-box | They are still not explaining what happened. But I keep chasing John and Zoe. | Mar 18 05:49 |
| roy-on-ted-box | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17419073#cc29863046510138ea522a0000053625 | Mar 18 05:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 2,400+ new messages from @FSF (to each account, over 5,000 now in total). Did they have server breach or were only my own accounts there targeted? Still no word from them... not good. | Mar 18 05:50 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | "board of directors is probably not aware of it. what are they supposed to do when nobody keeps them informed? maybe theyre more likely to hear from members than the staff." | Mar 18 05:50 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Zoe related to John | Mar 18 05:50 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Zoe relayed to John | Mar 18 05:50 |
| roy-on-ted-box | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17411233#d3b2245045f3013826987a163eb51328 | Mar 18 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Over the past hour I got about 200 emails from the FSF, originating from request over a Tor connection. If it's not a targeted attack of some kind, what is it? Is someone else out there 'spammed' at the moment? | Mar 18 05:51 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | " | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | not me. what’s the spam about? | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Iron Bug | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Iron Bug - 6 days ago | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) I did not get any spam either. | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Alexandre Oliva | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Alexandre Oliva - 6 days ago | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | @Roy, | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | FSF staff requests you to send some sample of the messages you received to sysadmin at fsf org for investigation. | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | Thanks in advance, | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | " | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | I sent that some days ago and the volume was reduce. I am still waiting for an explanation though. | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | I sent that some days ago and the volume was reduced. I am still waiting for an explanation though. | Mar 18 05:51 |
| roy-on-ted-box | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17348763#9fd54c503f210138b1137a163ef10931 | Mar 18 05:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #FSF Canary http://techrights.org/2020/03/02/fsf-canary/ #gnu #rms #freesw #freedom | Mar 18 05:52 | |
| roy-on-ted-box | "Parroting the canary?" | Mar 18 05:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | FSF Canary | Techrights | Mar 18 05:52 | |
| schestowitz | >>> By the way, in today's batch there will be: | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >>> https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/ | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >> I hope much bigger scandals than this led to his escape from Microsoft. | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >> Time will tell | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >> | Mar 18 05:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thenation.com | Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself) | The Nation | Mar 18 05:53 | |
| schestowitz | > Maybe there will be a return to his 1990s status in the public eye. :> | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | >> Seattle is a mess right now, so I doubt the record will be sent. | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | > It won't be sent. Seattle will use the chaos to cover for him. So it | Mar 18 05:53 |
| schestowitz | > would be good to know just how much has Bill's software been integrated | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > into the PD and what level of access and control over the contained data | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > M$ has granted itself through EULAs and other licensing. | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique#2020 | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > It'd be interesting if any of the mainstream "news" sources have the | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > guts to point out to the public that he is responsible for the sad state | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > of their computers. In directly, he has made bad engineering acceptable | Mar 18 05:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Gates Foundation Critique - Techrights | Mar 18 05:54 | |
| schestowitz | > in general and that will be his main legacy. This "Microsoft" way of | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > thinking has resulted in a general acceptance and expectation of | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | > technical failure, even in non-M$ products. | Mar 18 05:54 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/namelyliberty/status/1236528217139204097 | Mar 18 05:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@namelyliberty: For the record. #PedoMansion https://t.co/gXqKdGUppf | Mar 18 05:56 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@namelyliberty: For the record. #PedoMansion https://t.co/gXqKdGUppf | Mar 18 05:56 | |
| schestowitz | Did the PD send anything on the said date? | Mar 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz | Now they can use Covid chaos to not even reply | Mar 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz | in the news: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/ | Mar 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz | he left Microsoft on Friday amid chaos | Mar 18 05:56 |
| schestowitz | >> Would it be OK if we reprinted this translation in techrights as well? | Mar 18 07:16 |
| schestowitz | > Hello, | Mar 18 07:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:16 |
| schestowitz | > Sure. | Mar 18 07:16 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:16 |
| schestowitz | > https://maslinux.es/culture-cancel/ | Mar 18 07:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-maslinux.es | Culture Cancel – masGNULinuX | Mar 18 07:16 | |
| schestowitz | I think the message below too can be processed into an article about those tactics... (they try to cancel me over a decade ago and failed). | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > Be polite online as they're using your language to leverage guilt by association (against us as a site). | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > examples (links or anonymous quotes) would be useful. liars lie, its what they do. also im not polite. me pretending to be polite is like george carlin pretending to be polite. it undermines who i really am, and it will fool nobody anyway. | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what." [I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/706825-it-s-now- | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | very-common-to-hear-people-say-i-m-rather | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > "The motivation for this article is actually about watching people push others around with lies right now. Stallman is the most prominent example in the Free software community, Chapter 6 has come more wildly true than I even anticipated, and is the one that talks about the importance of attacking Stallman directly." http://techrights.org/2019/11/04/weapon-of-bullies/ | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.goodreads.com | Quote by Stephen Fry: “It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm r...” | Mar 18 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | > "However, we have moved past attacking just Stallman and now his supporters are being attacked." | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > "While Viva Frei explains (definitely start at 5:28 if you want to get to what he’s really talking about) that cancel culture induces fear in innocent and intelligent people, and how it is stifling, suppressive **and incredibly demanding.**" http://techrights.org/2020/03/14/cancel-culture-and-freesw/ | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > if you go back to the acta protests, and follow from there, you realise that monopolies always have the same "wishlists" (watch the pre-acta rip: a remix manifesto. the wishlists were the same prior to nafta as they were 10 years later.) | Mar 18 07:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Lies Are the Favourite Weapon of Bullies | Techrights | Mar 18 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > these wishlists are about power and control-- "lets us have everything." this is also what narcissists want. they want EVERYTHING. if you give them what they demand-- they just ask for more. if you stop suppplying them, they turn everything you gave previously under duress as some "lie" designed to "trick" them into trusting you. no matter what they do, now matter what you comply with-- youre the baddie and theyre never pleased with | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | anything. | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:19 |
| schestowitz | > they want people to polite, while they lie and steal. | Mar 18 07:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Cancel Culture and the Handbook for Destroying the Free Software Movement | Techrights | Mar 18 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > what actually happens? | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > people start to worry more about whether theyre polite enough, and they worry less about whether the "polite" people are lying and stealing-- or in the example of ibm, participating in the holocaust. | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > they worry about maintaining the myth: http://techrights.org/2019/08/15/professionalism-myth/ | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > but what matters is that the wishlist is fulfilled. they get us to change, but they never change. | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | The Myth of ‘Professionalism’ | Techrights | Mar 18 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | > A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > don't know where I am." | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > The woman below replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude." | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > "You must be an engineer," said the balloonist. "I am," replied the woman, | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > "How did you know?" | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is, technically | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information, and the fact | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > you've delayed my trip." | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > The woman below responded, | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > -> "You must be in Management." <- | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > -> "Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > You made a promise which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > beneath you to solve your problems. | Mar 18 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault." <- | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > as said in the guarding and rescusing the fsf titanic, these people will: | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > 1. pretend to care about you or other people | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > 2. misquote you and speak for you and gaslight you | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > 3. use smear tactics and try to intimidate you, even as a response for anything they dislike about you at all | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > 4. constantly accuse you of things they are doing themselves | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > tell linus what he can do to change these people and their strategy. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > tell stallman what he can do change them. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > then tell me what to do, im all ears. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > (please dont think that im unappreciative of this information, i do like to stay abreast of it. but expect me to challenge all expectations that are based on their gaslighting and hypocrisy. its much too late to be polite now.) | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > i WOULD back off from techrights if you think it will help. im not joking about that. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > thats what stallman did for the fsf, i would do it for you. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > but will it help? no, because theyre still dishonest. they make demands which are unreasonable, they promise to be less demanding if you do what they say. and even that is a lie. | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog#Interpretations | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > here are some examples of george carlin being polite: | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia | Mar 18 07:21 | |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=tVlkxrNlp10 George Carlin - List of people who ought to be killed | Mar 18 07:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | George Carlin - List of people who ought to be killed - Invidious | Mar 18 07:21 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE George Carlin --- Religion is Bullshit | Mar 18 07:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | George Carlin --- Religion is Bullshit - Invidious | Mar 18 07:21 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=KLODGhEyLvk Life Is Worth Losing - Dumb Americans - George Carlin | Mar 18 07:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | Life Is Worth Losing - Dumb Americans - George Carlin - Invidious | Mar 18 07:21 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY George Carlin on soft language | Mar 18 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://invidio.us/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY ) | Mar 18 07:21 | |
| schestowitz | > what do you get if you take the impolite out of carlin? you get not carlin. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > if i were going to be sarcastic (but only to make a point) id suggest creating a code of conduct for techrights. freebsd has one you can adapt to your needs-- but i think you should get mincer to help with the tweaking, hes the only man for the job. (im trying to think if thats sexist or not.) | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > food for thought: if they replaced the constitution with a code of conduct, trump would be cancelled already. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > or, given that debian already has a code of conduct, he might be made into a king. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > jesus spent his life loving people and making personal sacrifices, but he knew what kind of assholes he was dealing with. all the love in the universe wont keep people from getting nailed to a cross if society allows it. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > being nice does protect some people, but its no guarantee of anything. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=6X0MDBqyYZQ "crappy day hey thatd be easy, no trouble at all, a crappy day-- just get up!" -- george carlin "have a nice day" | Mar 18 07:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | George Carlin - Have a nice day.flv - Invidious | Mar 18 07:22 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > https://invidio.us/watch?v=6nuTNB0RtNM stereophonics-- i think its stuart cable on drums, but it could be tom baker | Mar 18 07:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | Stereophonics - Have A Nice Day - Invidious | Mar 18 07:22 | |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > tl,dr; haters gonna hate, cancel cultures gonna cancel. if you want to know the best response to these people, ill simply quote sir winston leonard spencer-churchill, who is famous for saying: | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > https://stronglang.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/g6857_u3848_sir_winston_churchill.jpg | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > but stephen fry put it pretty well too. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > "The latest salvo has been fired by Peter Hitchens himself, who has penned a 1400-word account of his encounter with Fry at Christopher's memorial on a Daily Mail blog, which supports Mr Walker of the Telegraph, talking of 'Mr Fry’s boorish behaviour' towards him." | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-frys-furious-rebuttal-of-telegraph-story-reignites-feud-with-peter-hitchens | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > i dont know at what point the world turned into a bunch of aunties, but i said a while ago that all this thought policing will only make the most toxic people (the nazis, the true chauvanists, the actual sociopaths) more extreme as they become further and artificially isolated from society. now experts are backing this notion up, i linked or reposted about that recently. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thedailybeast.com | Stephen Fry's Furious Rebuttal of Telegraph Story Reignites Feud With Peter Hitchens | Mar 18 07:22 | |
| schestowitz | > these people are like the christians who go around deciding which church members are worthy of jesus. theyre mccarthyists. theyre narcissists and hypocrites. they will always have and bring misery wherever they go. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > these people can continue their reign of mediocrity, they can murder people in cold blood, but they wont stop people from resisting. how do i know? this: https://torrentfreak.com/and-when-even-the-death-penalty-doesnt-deter-copying-what-then-110807/ | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > these people always lose. theyre the bottom-feeders of the world. if we didnt shit on them, they would starve to death. but either way, i dont intend to spend the rest of my life clenching. it isnt natural, and it helps no one. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-torrentfreak.com | And When Even The Death Penalty Doesn't Deter Copying -- What Then? * TorrentFreak | Mar 18 07:22 | |
| schestowitz | > imo the difference between a good asshole and an evil one is the intent and truth behind the alleged rudeness-- a good asshole has good intentions, and tries to assist the truth. the rest of the assholes, you know what theyre like. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > on that note, i give you my word-- that i will (as always) strive to be more polite than coraline ada ehmke, john sullivan behind closed doors, molly and chris lamb, adolf hitler and jono bacon. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | > but the media will always have their own idea of who is nice and who is terrible-- just like donald trump has his own idea. and we are in a very real position to do something constructive about their delusions of grandeur, by not giving a fuck whatsoever. | Mar 18 07:22 |
| schestowitz | And BTW, the context of what I'm allowing to is tweets, I think around the FOSS Force account. | Mar 18 07:25 |
| schestowitz | Something about "this guy banned from LQ" hence techrights as a whole is bad. | Mar 18 07:25 |
| schestowitz | I responded and challenged that BS. | Mar 18 07:25 |
| schestowitz | >> I think the message below too can be processed into an article about those tactics... | Mar 18 07:27 |
| schestowitz | > i tend not to write articles until i cant get other things done because the article idea wont leave me alone. | Mar 18 07:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:27 |
| schestowitz | > lately i feel like im being redundant in my messages-- which isnt always the bad thing it obviously sounds like-- though im still conditioned to not like it. | Mar 18 07:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > occasionally i will stop writing something because it just feels redundant or boring to me. | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > other times, i feel like its redundant after its submitted. im happy to say that i can practically always find something new that was worth addressing, but i feel like if you want to fight cancel culture head on, two things are necessary. | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > one is to make people more aware of narcissism, cult tactics and how corporations overlap with those. thats a long-term campaign. we are talking months to years. | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > the other is to give people a way to reconnect. thats obviously a longer-term campaign. even when given ways to do it, people have more excuses not to. | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | > without the second part, the first part doesnt do much. | Mar 18 07:28 |
| schestowitz | If you decide to tidy up and tighten these links/reference, you might also want to take a look at the latest attacks on Daniel Pocock. It got pretty nasty lately... | Mar 18 07:28 |
| MinceR | lol @ CoC | Mar 18 07:57 |
| schestowitz | > Something about "this guy banned from LQ" hence techrights as a whole is bad. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > yeah, some moderator at lq gave me an infraction for inciting blah blah blah, but i wasnt doing that. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > not only did i feel i was unfairly reprimanded, it turned out the response was farther along the scale than most pepople would have received. so i told him to suck my balls and i havent returned there. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > i was actually pretty respected there until that incident. i havent returned, maybe the ghost of ian paisley denounces me as the antichrist and sinead oconnor rips up pictures of me now. i couldnt tell you. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > but be assured i dont care about these people. theyre bullies, theyre not honest, and ive been on the losing side of such people for so much of my life, theyre starting to remind me of an old piece of chewing gum thats lost its flavour. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > i feel more honoured to be attacked by these people than have their respect. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > they all want the same thing. they want to own everything and everybody. i hope the fact that theyre attacking means they were actually hurt. theyre certainly not making the world a better place. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | >> the context of what I'm allowing to is tweets | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > twitter is like a large screen, 4k-resolution tour of trumps rectum. i worry when lunduke and i agree on something, but perhaps our reasons are different. | Mar 18 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > you might also want to take a look at the latest attacks on Daniel | Mar 18 08:06 |
| schestowitz | > Pocock. It got pretty nasty lately... | Mar 18 08:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:06 |
| schestowitz | > i follow what you post about him closely, and i follow his mailing list | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > very closely. | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > debian has had this problem for half a decade, all thats changed is | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > their becoming more obvious about it. daniel has exposed a great deal, | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > and im grateful to him. its a terrible shame he likes systemd, as thats | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > part of the problem. nonetheless hes doing good work, and thats why they | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > attack him. | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > i was raised by people like this. ive dated people like this. | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > if you think being attacked by them is bad, being friends with them is | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > far worse. this isnt to negate whats happening with pocock. or stallman. | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > or linus. or raymond. or adrienne. | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > minds" -- einstein | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 18 08:07 |
| schestowitz | > *martin luther king cheated on his wife!* | Mar 18 08:07 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/Kelly00831498/status/1240301721382871040 | Mar 18 18:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Kelly00831498: @schestowitz that was helpful. thank you for sharing it... | Mar 18 18:21 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1240294725661360144 | Mar 18 18:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@j082298: @schestowitz https://t.co/sX2Mt2NFnL | Mar 18 18:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SheenaParish: @HEDJ_Weddings @risetoflyy Or does it get its name from who owns the patent, Pirbright Institute, owned by the Crown https://t.co/WAswjwFhao | Mar 18 18:21 | |
| islc | schestowitz__: hi, I've read some article on techrights and it said in the footer to join the IRC channels... assuming you are not a bot what are you doing here talking apparently to yourself, ie. how does this channel work what am I missing | Mar 18 18:35 |
| islc | schestowitz__: how is bytes channel different from rights one? haven't seen that in the topics | Mar 18 18:58 |
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