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| schestowitz | Hi again Roy :-) I've started to draft an art idea or two, so will get those to you some time next week. In the meantime, just a final note to Figosdev, and, although brief, it's a little more personal, so may be best not published. If there are some non-personal chunks you'd like to add into other articles, please feel free. I'd be very grateful if it could be passed onto him, and my email address, if he wishes to respond. | Nov 27 01:43 |
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| schestowitz | PS I saw your 'good news' article, too, along with catching up on articles I'd missed recently; good stuff! | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | To Figosdev | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | Thanks for your response, and, overall, for taking the time to discuss things, particularly as you reference working for 4 hours on this! I too am putting in the hours, so I hope that communication, even if I have some issues, comes over as well as possible. Also, thank you for the links. :-) | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | My suggestions had the focus that maybe the new space could start taking form now, e.g. more people involved, working together, getting more active. But I see more clearly now that, regarding the BSD move, this could be more about a developer focus, with a view to rebuilding GNU at a later time. | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | If BSD requires some work to make it freedom-respecting, that's off-putting to me, and no different to the system I'm using; a simple clean system that I can feel capable regarding basic maintenance, and need to check and clean up a bit initially. Using a more complex harder-to-maintain system would add risk, and I'm done with jumping through yet more burning hoops day in day out! Also, not good graphics tablet support on BSD. I've made | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | many efforts about free software and linux, far more than the average person, as many of us have, and you can't put a price on a clean conscience, so at least there's that, and continuing to champion free software! | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | It seems to have come back round to referencing using the same resources that are scattered/contradictory, or complex handbooks, + some YT vids, all as before, which I don't see as rebuilding advocacy or education. And of course the ever-stated 'learn to code', which is a main reason I've increasingly gone more offline and away from any Linux discussions/involvement. Coders are one kind of person, artists are another, doctors are | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | another; all matter equally. I'm sure you know this, but Linux is a very miserable place when nobody tends to have that attitude, never mind say it. Thrive 2: "Ignoring your own standards, as well as taking rules too seriously, can compromise the integrity of your community." I must state again, I'm not a coder, and, no matter how hard I've tried to master more difficult stuff, it doesn't work. Not able; not my journey. I can't abandon | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | my way of being to fit in with another's way of being. The donations, bug fix reports, helping other users, promoting the right things, feeding back, many different contributions ... where would devs be without that glue? The same as where would users be without good devs who code? All of it's great. In my bones I'm not a 'linux person' or 'tech person', but, again, will always champion people's right to freedom, choice, privacy, | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | happiness, wellbeing. I'm also not sure why you're referencing grannies, as I'm early 50's, lol. | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | Certainly not 'promoting centralisation' through wishing for one good place, so people know where to go, and have clear well-organised access to important tools. Is TechRights 'promoting centralisation' also, as everything's gathered there? Are they too 'working in the same way as Github'? Of course not. Name any famous battle and I'll underline the point that not gathering forces in one place can very easily lose the battle; at the | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | least, if there's a co-ordinated pincer movement in battle, there is one main leader, directing the various groups within the one manoevre. Otherwise, it's game over. | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | You reference RMS being afraid to rock the boat, which is surprising, and I'd want to hear it directly from RMS before fully believing that, incase some chinese whispers are going on! "If he's afraid to, few care as much as he does" ... that doesn't mean others should just throw in the towel; that would be a travesty and a sorry excuse to use. He's elderly, and fought like a wildcat for 30 years ... I'm sure there are younger people | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | with 30 years of similar fight in them, so, unfortunately, I need to say this isn't a good message to put out there, and also to please consider the backdrop to people reading articles ... this year, more than any, people already aware about free software, and new people, don't need 'poking', and that could end up putting people off reading guest articles! | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | Can I just say how surprised I am there's no free software baby monitor?! Tech people play all day with big Pi/hobby projects etc, but nobody wants to make a baby monitor that respects freedom?! Compromising is 'okay', but I should hit myself over the head with a hammer day in day out, trying to do things I can't do, to champion the 'cause', sacrificing sanity, health and happiness?! That's far too big an ask. Also, to add to the ' | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | things that really surprise me', and referencing 'not enough devs', an article in the last year or two said there are 10,000+ devs on Linux, granted many working on servers, but where have they all gone ... big tech? | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | Attempting to wind down a bit of a charged response, and to clarify what to carry forward. Again, not trying to attack or judge you personally; no ill will intended. People can get things 100% right, and the most critical thing while waiting for the numbers to increase, for others to get aware and active, is us all keeping on keeping on, with a clean conscience. That's my first re-affirmation. I also see even clearer that an offline non | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | updated backup machine is very important, especially as the wayland-pushers bash on, most likely knowing graphics people will get messed up along the way! Bypassing that is necessary. Being as careful as possible on the main machine, switching off the ethernet whenever possible, reading what updates are doing; always key. | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | The world is a better place for the 'lurkers for freedom' being around, as it also is when devs do what they're best at too, so it's great that we both champion what matters. If you want to email me, even if that's just 'thanks, bye', or not (I won't be offended), I've asked Roy to give you my email, as of course you are entirely free to (not) reply, to disagree, to wrap things up as you wish, but I've asked Roy not to publish this, as | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | it's obvious I'm a bit peed off with things, and I think we're doing different facets of the same cause anyway. Trying to continue to combo two differing facets of the same thing can end up diluting things, and I'm sure we're both busy, so it's best to power on and get some good stuff done! We're all mighily peed off at big tech, spineless users/devs supporting that, and what's happening out there, already, so there's more than enough | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | to deal with! | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | I've appreciated dialoguing, and it has brought things clear, which was my initial hope. And it's wonderful that you referenced Perl 6 possibly leaving github at some point! This is the right direction, so a great note to sign off on. | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | All the best, Mogz | Nov 27 01:43 |
| schestowitz | ( response to Figosdev's 2nd letter) | Nov 27 01:44 |
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| schestowitz | > Ok. In that case, finished versions of the scripts ought to be moved | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | > read-only, executable to /usr/local/bin/ or /usr/local/sbin/ and be | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | > owned by root there. | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | >> Also, Raspi is updated by me every now and then, | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | >> but I don't trust it with top level things. | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | > Then the fetching should go the other way. Rather than entering the TR | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | > password on the RPi, TR should fetch the data from the RPi. | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | If we rebuild the server side, then it's worth doing. | Nov 27 08:00 |
| schestowitz | >> cp $IRCDATE.html /home/links/ipfs/$ISODATE.html | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | >> to avoid risk of breaking something | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks! | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > By the way, the public component of SSH key pairs can contain a forced | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > command. If the key is made into an SSH certificate, then the command | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | > cannot be changed without invalidating the key. | Nov 27 08:01 |
| schestowitz | I don't mind running it manually for now because I check some things manually (yesterday I noticed an encoding issue and corrected the culprit) regardless and also get social control media text as part of the output | Nov 27 08:03 |
| schestowitz | Re: I'm not able to register on tuxmachines.org | Nov 27 08:04 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, I will. | Nov 27 08:04 |
| schestowitz | On what topics? | Nov 27 08:04 |
| schestowitz | > Can you summarize what happened with the vote in Germany yesterday? It | Nov 27 08:45 |
| schestowitz | > was mentioned in several posts, but I am not able to read between the | Nov 27 08:45 |
| schestowitz | > lines to know the final vote and what comes next. | Nov 27 08:45 |
| schestowitz | The latest Daily Links has a bunch of posts from EPO and Team UPC about it. | Nov 27 08:45 |
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| schestowitz | > That was quick! | Nov 27 09:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 27 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > Is there any way that the extra line that pads each couple of lines | Nov 27 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > could be added back in? I really think they help. | Nov 27 09:52 |
| schestowitz | I did not remove it, it's how wordpress handles the text. | Nov 27 09:52 |
| schestowitz | >> (notice there's git there now). | Nov 27 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 27 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > Excellent. I'm still a novice with Git, but this will help a lot. | Nov 27 09:53 |
| schestowitz | I hope Git as a whole just goes away and gives way for something better and not so infiltrated. | Nov 27 09:53 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 27 18:42 |
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| schestowitz | Nov 27 18:43 | |
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