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| r_schestowitz | >> away in Liverpoool today until 8pm | Sep 21 03:21 |
| r_schestowitz | > Ok. We're out doing a major series of errands during the middle of the | Sep 21 03:21 |
| r_schestowitz | > day. Among other things the dishwasher's pump died and the whole thing | Sep 21 03:22 |
| r_schestowitz | > is several decades old and cannot be repaired further, or so they say. | Sep 21 03:22 |
| r_schestowitz | Many new items are nowadays being made to discourage repairs. | Sep 21 03:22 |
| r_schestowitz | Re: heroes of free software | Sep 21 03:24 |
| r_schestowitz | > a list of traitors to free software would be counterproductive-- not just politically, but conceptually. we want a fair culture, not a paranoid one. | Sep 21 03:24 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:24 |
| r_schestowitz | > but as one of our heroes falls (in the public opinion, but not among his countless supporters) i think its time techrights had a page listing heroes to free software and free culture. | Sep 21 03:24 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > just to get things started: | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > richard stallman (gnu) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > bruce perens (dfsg, debian) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > denis roio (dynebolic, dyne.org, devuan) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > alexandre oliva (linux-libre) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > we cant put you, its your wiki. but if enough people nominate you later, why not? | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > lawrence lessig (cc, cc0) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > jimmy wales and larry sanger (wikipedia) | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > brendan eich (javascript) i know you wont want this one. im still going to recommend it, not only for political reasons. mozilla is crap without him. | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > you can add people who are doing any kind of work for these causes, not just coders. | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | > they dont have to be famous figures-- heroes often arent. | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | If this list can be made longer, we'll add to the wiki. Also case sensitive. | Sep 21 03:25 |
| r_schestowitz | >>>>>> away in Liverpoool today until 8pm | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>>>> Ok. We're out doing a major series of errands during the middle of the | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>>>> day. Among other things the dishwasher's pump died and the whole thing | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>>>> is several decades old and cannot be repaired further, or so they say. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>>> Many new items are nowadays being made to discourage repairs. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> Someone who we knew who used to work in an appliance store said that the | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> major appliances are now actually engineered to last only 4 or 5 years. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> Someone else, who was involved in a lawsuit against Apple over crappy | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> hardware, said much the same thing. They won the lawsuit by the way but | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> still buys Apple as a compromise at work. I don't. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> ps /var/ on TR hits 94% today | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> Yes, but mostly because we got a lot of traffic. DB size does not grow | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> that rapidly. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> CentOS 8 will come out soon. IBM is at least still serious about it. I | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> want to wait and see.... | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> three things to do: | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> 1) upgrade | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> 2) ssl | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> 3) partition sizes | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | > It'd be most practical to do that all at once, or at least in rapid | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | > succession. Would it be best to hire kaniini for that? | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> one option: set up a new, larger VM with centos8, copy across /home to | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> it for testing. | Sep 21 08:05 |
| r_schestowitz | >> | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | >> Debian meanwhile signals a move away from systemd monopoly for init | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | > I hope so, but what I read made it look like they were doubling down on | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | > the systemd stupidity. | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | Yes, let's wait a while longer. Without logs at all we're at about 88% disk usage. | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> The issue of decades of transmigration is not being addressed in Kashmir | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | >>> either. | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | >> Some stand to benefit from particular issues being perpetually present. | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | >> | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | > All seem to be dodging the underlying facilitator: overpopulation. | Sep 21 08:06 |
| r_schestowitz | https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Human-population-growth-since-prehistoric-times-an-example-of-a-steep-exponential_fig11_266211170 | Sep 21 08:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.researchgate.net | 13: Human population growth since prehistoric times; an example of a... | Download Scientific Diagram | Sep 21 08:06 | |
| r_schestowitz | > the rss url would be great, cheers. | Sep 21 08:32 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 21 08:32 |
| r_schestowitz | > https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-connection-between-Jeffrey-Epstein-and-Richard-Stallman-What-would-have-motivated-Richard-Stallman-to-make-comments-about-Jeffrey-Epstein/ | Sep 21 08:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.quora.com | What is the connection between Jeffrey Epstein and Richard Stallman? What would have motivated Richard Stallman to make comments about Jeffrey Epstein? - Quora | Sep 21 08:32 | |
| r_schestowitz | There's a strong connection between J Epstein and Gates. RMS BS distracts from that. | Sep 21 08:32 |
| r_schestowitz | If you subscribe to http://techrights.org/wiki//index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom then you can also catch mistakes/typos of mine. I'll do the same for you. Good to even 4 eyes on the ball and we should really expand our wiki because a lot of people do read and use it. | Sep 21 08:32 |
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| r_schestowitz | https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84 | Sep 21 09:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-medium.com | A reflection on the departure of RMS - Thomas Bushnell, BSG - Medium | Sep 21 09:15 | |
| r_schestowitz | X https://www.wired.com/story/inside-bills-brain-outliers/ | Sep 21 09:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.wired.com | 'Inside Bill's Brain' Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' Theory | WIRED | Sep 21 09:19 | |
| r_schestowitz | # bill sez | Sep 21 09:19 |
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| r_schestowitz | https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/462384-microsoft-to-provide-free-updates-for-voting-systems-running | Sep 21 09:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thehill.com | Microsoft to provide free updates for voting systems running Windows 7 through 2020 | TheHill | Sep 21 09:20 | |
| r_schestowitz | https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm3xn/chef-sugar-author-deletes-code-sold-to-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement | Sep 21 09:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.vice.com | 'Everyone Should Have a Moral Code' Says Developer Who Deleted Code Sold to ICE - VICE | Sep 21 09:22 | |
| r_schestowitz | # just days after stabbing RMS Vice tries this? | Sep 21 09:22 |
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