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schestowitz | > Your one-stop-shop rebuttal. People would learn more from just watching this, without watching the film: https://invidio.us/watch?v=cDqZVjAiAvs | May 25 05:39 |
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | Planet of the Humans: DEBUNKED | In Depth - Invidious | May 25 05:39 | |
schestowitz | > | May 25 05:39 |
schestowitz | > There's a shorter debuking video which is alright, but this is higher-quality in every way. | May 25 05:39 |
schestowitz | Thanks, we'll to watch this soon | May 25 05:39 |
schestowitz | Rianne says it's not even Moore's film and he just put his name on it... | May 25 05:39 |
schestowitz | > Hey, how are you doing today? | May 25 05:40 |
schestowitz | Hello world | May 25 05:40 |
schestowitz | All your bases are belong to US | May 25 05:40 |
schestowitz | >> Rianne says it's not even Moore's film and he just put his name on it... | May 25 05:46 |
schestowitz | > That practically makes Gibbs a clone then. Because when you watch it, it's very easy to forget you're watching Gibbs, not Moore. He even narrates like Moore, if that's him narrating (I believe it is.) I went in expecting something different. The thing that pissed me off the most was how much this was like all his other films. | May 25 05:46 |
schestowitz | > Is this the same guy who did anti-Wikileaks 'films'? | May 25 05:46 |
schestowitz | > Ok, but I would like very much to get the automated link harvesting | May 25 06:05 |
schestowitz | > migrated up to the server sooner than later for when something happens. | May 25 06:05 |
schestowitz | > That way human intervention is not needed and error less likely. | May 25 06:05 |
schestowitz | > Assuming we'll move the TR site to something like 3 containers, this and the git server might be better off on the TODO list than implemented immediately and I doubt CPAN will work well on this rusty centos thing. It might even break something on the existing VM. | May 25 06:05 |
schestowitz | >> Assuming we'll move the TR site to something like 3 containers, this and | May 25 06:11 |
schestowitz | >> the git server might be better off on the TODO list than implemented | May 25 06:11 |
schestowitz | >> immediately and I doubt CPAN will work well on this rusty centos thing. | May 25 06:11 |
schestowitz | >> It might even break something on the existing VM. | May 25 06:11 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > I would advise against anything outside the normal package manager. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > Unfortunately most of the useful modules are not in the ancient CentOS | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > repository, not even the EPEL add-on. Time is of essence, however. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | On my old (now dead) machine I had something semi-working and I lack the tools, code etc. to rebuild that. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | >> I wanted to quit email a decade ago | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > I did quit, mostly. I only took it back up for certain things. You would have fewer stories without it. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | > You condemn most or all of the alternatives, uncluding the best ones. If you used your pm feature on D* that would work for most things, though not for most types of attachments. It also does incredibly poorly with code. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | That was 10 years ago. | May 25 06:12 |
schestowitz | Can we add https://thegrayzone.com/feed ? | May 25 06:19 |
schestowitz | I see it as Omidyar-less Intercept, and one without attacks on journalism that doesn't serve Omidyar. | May 25 06:19 |
schestowitz | I know some of the people there, not sure who owns it etc. | May 25 06:19 |
schestowitz | x https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunday-times-rich-list-cbxfbprqf | May 25 06:21 |
schestowitz | = | May 25 06:21 |
schestowitz | x https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunday-times-rich-list-bill-gates-net-worth-fxsj38ndj | May 25 06:21 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thetimes.co.uk | The Sunday Times Rich List 2020 | The Sunday Times | May 25 06:21 | |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thetimes.co.uk | Bill Gates net worth — Sunday Times Rich List 2020 | The Sunday Times | May 25 06:21 | |
schestowitz | >> On my old (now dead) machine I had something semi-working and I lack the | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | >> tools, code etc. to rebuild that. | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > I'd recommend the RPi4 equipment listed a few weeks ago. You could | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > replace two machines with one the size of a pack of cards. It'll run | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > python, perl, shell scripts, C, or whatever. Raspbian has almost the | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > full set of Debian packages. | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > This would require buying more things however; I'd rather use what I already have until it cannot be salvaged anymore. | May 25 06:23 |
schestowitz | > "cororations" should be "corporations". Damn spell-checker. | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | It's OK, I'll correct in-line. | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | Thanks, working on it.... | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > Just noticed: ".became" applications... | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > I don't know how that dot got there. | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > Hi Roy, | May 25 06:26 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 06:27 |
schestowitz | > I'm submitting here a piece that was suggested by figos. Maybe not | May 25 06:27 |
schestowitz | > exactly what he had in mind, but that's because I got to write it! Here | May 25 06:27 |
schestowitz | > it is: | May 25 06:27 |
schestowitz | " | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | these two are worth fixing: | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | "I'm against these things being used to as bait" | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | should be "I'm against these things being used as bait" | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | "want you try to force you to--" | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | should be "want to try to force you to--" | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | if you find one higher up than those, feel free to fix it-- i found it but now i cant. its not as bad as those two. cheers. | May 25 06:38 |
schestowitz | " | May 25 06:38 |
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acer-box__ | https://twitter.com/DommeBoer/status/1264911757925142533 | May 25 14:36 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DommeBoer: @zoobab I notice old Unix tricks failing. The 'ps' flags are gone in my distribution, and "cd var usr" stopped working years ago... | May 25 14:36 | |
acer-box__ | "I notice old Unix tricks failing. The 'ps' flags are gone in my distribution, and "cd var usr" stopped working years ago..." | May 25 14:37 |
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schestowitz | lid argument for locali | May 25 17:54 |
schestowitz | https://pleroma.site/notice/9vHnbOtVwSF1xtwUpk | May 25 17:54 |
schestowitz | "Seems the problem fixed itself?" | May 25 17:54 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pleroma.site | Pleroma | May 25 17:54 | |
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schestowitz | >>> I'd recommend the RPi4 equipment listed a few weeks ago. You could | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >>> replace two machines with one the size of a pack of cards. It'll run | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >>> python, perl, shell scripts, C, or whatever. Raspbian has almost the | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >>> full set of Debian packages. | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >>> | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >> This would require buying more things however; I'd rather use what I | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >> already have until it cannot be salvaged anymore. | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > Buying new things would be a down side but there is also the matter of | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > greatly reduced energy consumption. Electricity in the UK is just over | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > 50% from fossil fuels: | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35912 | May 25 18:09 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:09 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.eia.gov | Coal power generation declines in United Kingdom as natural gas, renewables grow - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) | May 25 18:09 | |
schestowitz | Re: Hello, we are alive and kicking | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > Dear friends and colleagues, | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > We are writing to you, as a signatory of the Speak Up for Assange | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > statement, with a update on events concerning Julian Assange’s court case. | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > Also, thanks again for joining us in the statement. So far there are | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > 1471 of us from 99 countries. It really matters that people are speaking | May 25 18:10 |
schestowitz | > up at this time. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > We publicised the statement on 20 February this year shortly before a | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > process hearing in a London district court on Mr Assange’s possible | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > extradition. The hearing was appalling. Only a few journalists were able | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > to attend and even they couldn’t hear much of the proceedings. Mr | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Assange was locked in a glass cage with limited access to his lawyers. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Craig Murray’s reports are worth reading: https://tinyurl.com/vuhwngp. | May 25 18:11 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.craigmurray.org.uk | Your Man in the Public Gallery - Assange Hearing Day 1 - Craig Murray | May 25 18:11 | |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Despite Covid-19 and Mr Assange’s frail health, Judge Vanessa Baraitser | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > had refused to allow bail nor compassionate release. He has had little | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > opportunity to meet his lawyers or family. Fortunately, with the main | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > extradition hearing rapidly approaching, the judge relented and moved | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > back the hearing date to 7 September 2020. A court location has yet to | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > be determined. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Meanwhile Mr Assange’s partner and the mother of his two young children, | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > lawyer Stella Moris, decided to go public after Baraitser announced that | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > her identity would not be protected. Stella published an op-ed on El | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Pais, here in English: | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > https://tinyurl.com/ybpna6sp She is on Twitter: @StellaMoris1 | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-english.elpais.com | WikiLeaks: Why Julian Assange must urgently be freed | News | EL PAÍS in English | May 25 18:11 | |
schestowitz | > What can we do? | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Most important is to stay interested in the case. Injustice occurs (and | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > dreadful precedents are set) when no one is watching. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > We can speak up as journalists (eg an opinion piece in our publication) | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > and we can use our journalistic skills and privileges to expose, | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > publicise and explain what is happening to Mr Assange. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > If you know journalists and people in journalism-related roles who would | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > like to make a stand, we have left the signature gathering for our | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > statement open so they can still join us (see here | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > https://speak-up-for-assange.org). If you haven’t seen it, some | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > colleagues made a moving video where some of you speak about the issue. | May 25 18:11 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-speak-up-for-assange.org | Speak up for Assange – International journalist statement in defence of Julian Assange | May 25 18:11 | |
schestowitz | > You are welcome to share and use it as well as other resources that you | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > can find here: https://speak-up-for-assange.org/contact/. | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:11 |
schestowitz | > Wishing you well, | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > Serena Tinari, Nicky Hager, Blaž Zgaga | May 25 18:12 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-speak-up-for-assange.org | Resources – Speak up for Assange | May 25 18:12 | |
schestowitz | > Is this the same guy who did anti-Wikileaks 'films'? | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > Unlikely. Moore is for all his faults, an Assange supporter. (Hillary as well. UGH. Did he not get the memo about her wanting to "drone" Assange? Equal-opportunity bullshit opportunist.) Gibbs? Unlikely-- I couldn't find anything, plus Moore is an Assange supporter. But then again-- Hillary. So who knows? The debunking guys? I couldn't find anything. | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > But wow, are they ever obsessed with Elon Musk. He wouldn't have to be kidnapped by these guys to find a creepy room covered in magazine pictures of him, they probably have an episode where they film it and show it to the world. ("Look, I've even got his picture on the pillow that I go to sleep on at night!") With that said, their debunking video was extremely watchable, and the only thing that came off as creepy was their various | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | Musk-themed video thumbnails. Which we should probably assume are just ironic or silly. | May 25 18:12 |
schestowitz | > Do you have a credence based on your scientific background as to whether Oxford is on the path to coming up with a vaccine to halt the Coronavirus spread? | May 25 18:15 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | > I realize you don’t have access to the hard information and the actual lab work being done but you probably have spoken to your peers in science and read much the lay public never sees and have gone to other sources not readily available to others and of course there is the media...while at times, much of the info revealed by the U.K. and U.S. media is not fully accurate, some of it is. | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | > So, with all that being said...at this point would you rate Oxford as having a 60/40 percentage of a successful outcome? | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | I have not heard of any British uni doing work on it. I'm sure some do, I know some company we work with is researching COVID, but I have too little/few details. | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | I think COVID panic has helped distract from systemic collapse which was inevitable even without COVID. Now they blame the collapse on "CHINA!" | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | Like they blamed Trump on "RUSSIA" for 4 years... | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | The system is rigged, the game is is almost over. | May 25 18:16 |
schestowitz | >> Can we add https://thegrayzone.com/feed ? | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> I see it as Omidyar-less Intercept, and one without attacks on | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> journalism that doesn't serve Omidyar. | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> I know some of the people there, not sure who owns it etc. | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | >> | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | > Ok. I've added it. The summaries are a little short though. | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | > It should show up next time the script is run. | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | Cheers, I seem to recall something I did not like about that site, but can't name it anymore... | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | Hopefully they're worthy of traffic. OffGuardian became awful really fast. | May 25 18:17 |
schestowitz | > What is the expected duration of the internship? | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > Keep in mind that there is not just technology-based war going globally | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > on but also political(religio). | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | We have not spoken about duration. | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | The posts will be purely about tech, so I can ignore other aspects. Unless they creep in... | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | >> that site is more of a hoover of OTHER people's code | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > "it certainly does SUCK!" -- waynes world | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:18 |
schestowitz | > "Dr. Roy, I am glad we have conspiracy theorists even when they are often wrong. I think it's part of our societal evolution. It's good to have people looking in all directions to help protect 'the herd.' Conspiracy theorists r a check against real conspiracies. #canaryinacoalmine" | May 25 18:19 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:19 |
schestowitz | > | May 25 18:19 |
schestowitz | > I lean towards agreement. Remember Sturgeon's law, of course: 90% of everything is crap. | May 25 18:19 |
schestowitz | In social control media like GAB they push that up to 99% ;-) | May 25 18:19 |
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