●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 ●● ● Mar 23 [00:32] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [00:32] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [02:05] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [02:06] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [02:17] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [02:18] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [02:25] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [02:25] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes [02:35] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [02:36] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes [02:49] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [02:50] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [02:56] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [02:57] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [04:00] *rianne__ has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [04:01] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [06:09] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [06:09] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [06:10] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [06:12] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [06:14] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [06:59] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [07:00] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [07:01] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes [07:36] schestowitz > Thank you. [07:36] schestowitz > [07:36] schestowitz > My detractors are raging again. [07:36] schestowitz I responded to it in a 20-minute video 10 minutes ago. It's a WebM file. [07:36] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2021/03/23/still-libeling-rms/ [07:36] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Microsoft-Connected (and Funded) Sites Still Distort What Happened and What Richard Stallman Actually Said | Techrights [07:36] schestowitz WebM (direct): [07:36] schestowitz http://techrights.org/videos/rms-in-msm.webm [07:36] *TechBytesBot has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) ● Mar 23 [08:40] schestowitz some colleague tried to assign to me some DRM crap ^_^ [08:40] schestowitz " [08:40] schestowitz Tried to work on this. I spent a lot time re-reading the whole ticket, now I now have access to their systems (through a Ubuntu VM kindly set up by James; much appreciated!). [08:40] schestowitz To recapitulate, the College is using some form of DRM system or provider of a system with DRM in it. That system, in turn, imposes restrictions on access to "content" and uses access/ID management to deny people access to files. At the moment it is possible for multiple people to share sessions, so they want us to reconfigure the system and said there would be impact... some time at the end of December 2019. We've not heard of such [08:40] schestowitz issues since. Peter offered to look into this in conjunction with updates (2 in 1 so to speak), but we lacked some details, such as explanatory image rather than some opaque winmail binary blob. [08:40] schestowitz At the moment I have access to the machines (test and production). However, the nature of the changes needed to be applied is far from clear to me, set aside ways of actually testing the change in a "real world" context. For that to happen we might need test "client sides" too. [08:40] schestowitz "After a lot of back and forth with emails I believe that this is the WSkey for EZproxy" [08:40] schestowitz " [08:41] schestowitz This was discussed several times over a year ago when xxxx tried to get me to do things I lack practice and experience with, whereupon I said it would be safer for an associate (xxxx) with relevant skillset to apply the changes and avert potential downtime. [08:41] schestowitz To summarise, while I do have access to the systems over VPN (I did some work to that effect earlier this month), most of what I can do towards resolving this ticket -- which is probably obsolete by now -- is 'beating the bushes', hoping for luck (might be OK on a test machine but not user-facing service at a time of pandemic when people work/study from home). [08:44] schestowitz If someone handed to me a list of steps to follow (not the testing, the actual task that implements the change), I can definitely follow that and even do it over and over again. The main issue is, my knowledge of EZproxy is absolute "none" and finding random pages on the World Wide Web is no substitute to actual experience. [08:55] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [08:55] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [08:57] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [08:59] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [09:30] schestowitz
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    Interview with curl creator and Swedish software developer Daniel Stenberg
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    Why did you choose an open-source model for curl?

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    There was never any alternative or doubt in my mind that it would be open source already when I first started working on the code in the projects that used other names before they would become curl. The term open source wasnt coined until early 1998, just before the first curl release. Before that it was just code.

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    [Old] Community @ Mozilla: People First, Open Source Second
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    All this has led to a personal crisis of faith. Do openness and transparency inherently lead to bad outcomes? Should I continue to advocate for it in my position? As I mentioned above, the opportunity to work in the open with the community is the main thing that brought me to Mozilla if I cant find a way of incorporating this viewpoint into my work, what am I even doing here?

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    Trying to answer these questions, I went back to the manifesto that I just skimmed over in my early days. Besides openness what are Mozillas values, really, and do I identify with them? Immediately I was struck by how much it felt like it was written explicitly for the present moment (even aside from the addendums which were added in 2018). Many points seem to confront problems were grappling with [09:31] schestowitz now which I was only beginning to perceive ten years ago.

    • ● Mar 23 [11:23] schestowitz https://twitter.com/xblahsf/status/1374292039248932864 [11:23] schestowitz "// i am back ,, hhhh" [11:23] schestowitz https://twitter.com/ingo_keck/status/1374287859830681601 [11:23] schestowitz " [11:23] schestowitz MS first invited him into a pro MS event and he went. http://techrights.org/2019/09/07/rms-microsoft-trap/ [11:23] schestowitz When that was not enough to alienate the community, hit pieces were put into the media against him, using false claims and quotes cut and out of context: https://sterling-archermedes.github.io [11:23] schestowitz " [11:24] schestowitz https://twitter.com/DhruvGovil/status/1374155637970542593 [11:24] schestowitz "I'm sure the #Stallman Stans will be overjoyed by the return of their creepy Messiah, but this is a dissapointing move by the #FSF and the #OpenSource community is worse off for it" [11:27] schestowitz https://twitter.com/theaspect/status/1374118336582258688 [11:28] *TechBytesBot (~b0t@techrights.org) has joined #techbytes [11:28] TechBytesBot Hello World! I'm TechBytesBot running phIRCe v0.75 ● Mar 23 [12:10] schestowitz x https://www.computerworld.com/article/3612430/microsoft-we-need-to-have-a-talk.html [12:10] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.computerworld.com | Microsoft, we need to have a talk | Computerworld [12:10] schestowitz # also to mention proper desktop alternatives ● Mar 23 [14:32] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [14:32] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes ● Mar 23 [17:25] schestowitz > Hi Roy, [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > I was not spamming you and this was the first time that I can see that [17:25] schestowitz > Ive ever reached out to you. If Ive reached out to you on other [17:25] schestowitz > occasions, I apologize. [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > With that said, Im happy to remove you from our list. [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > Thanks, [17:25] schestowitz > [17:25] schestowitz > Stephen ● Mar 23 [23:09] schestowitz [23:06] SJWs are signing an open letter against RMS [23:09] schestowitz [23:06] https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/7669.html [23:09] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-diziet.dreamwidth.org | diziet | Signing the open letter about RMS [23:09] schestowitz [23:06] When the CSAIL list incident blew up I was horrified to read the [23:09] schestowitz [23:06] stories of RMS's victims. We have collectively failed those people [23:09] schestowitz [23:06] and I am glad to see that many of us are working to make a better [23:09] schestowitz [23:07] community. [23:09] schestowitz [23:07] (that's one signatory's message) [23:09] schestowitz [23:07] https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ [23:09] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-rms-open-letter.github.io | rms-open-letter.github.io [23:09] schestowitz [23:07] "He has shown himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other serious accusations of impropriety. " [23:09] schestowitz [23:08] wonder what the "ableist" is based on [23:09] schestowitz [23:08] "transphobic" is easy [23:19] schestowitz [23:10] ah, it's about "In 2015 and 2016 RMS made three posts on his website about Downs syndrome." [23:19] schestowitz [23:10] idiot natalists [23:19] schestowitz [23:11] but SJWs are not supposed to be natalists [23:19] schestowitz [23:11] they accuse of him "autism" [23:19] schestowitz [23:11] and now say he's against those people [23:19] schestowitz [23:11] make up your minds, trolls