IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Tuesday, December 29, 2020

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.cnx-software.com | GPIO screw terminal HAT for Raspberry Pi adds LEDs and GPIO markings

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Teminal Screw HAT would make wiring easy.

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It also has LEDs for each pin.

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It'd need an accomanying breadboard for the most part.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/Breadboarding/

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Biden has now picked some ICT team members based on those who

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were involved in his campaign. That is why it was such a bad

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incident that microsofters were allowed in then.

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.olimex.com | Breadboarding

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They will fuck things up for years to come as a result of that.

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Microsoft is not a company but state franchise or monopoly, worldwide, they want to float ashore for espionage

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that was also true under Trump (MS bailout, Gates favours, TikTok), so let's not treat it like a depression NEW issue

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Just like the economy will continues to tank, except for a handful of people who steal capital of future generations (national debt growing)

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*continue

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Broken feed today: https://danielmiessler.com/feed/

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Hopefully it will be repaired soon.

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Yes, M$ is about espionage.

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It's the easiest way to ensure back doors into all government and business

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board rooms.

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The US at least has been in and out of economic depression since little Bush.

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 500 @ https://danielmiessler.com/feed/ )

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There has been only covering up about that as the problem builds to

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ultimate collapse which cannot be hidden.

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Next to go will be pension funds and other writeoffs like savers' accounts, except those with offshore money (we know whose)

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Fucking LARPers running both business and government.

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Yeah pension funds have already been hit several times. I know of several

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who had put away a tremendous amount which now have only an adequate sum

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to survive on. If that goes down further, there will be some belt tightening.

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This past week I initiated process for emptying my 'future' (prospective) savings. They DONT MAKE THAT EASY! I'm about to give up today, it's just pissing me off to be honest, that's why I set it aside for xmas since November.

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It's important to have something but I have no clue what. If one has enough

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then one can diversify and minimize the losses, but the way things are set

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upt currently there can only be losses all-around.

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I once asked a colleague why he was not saving a pension and what he would do.

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Half seriously he replied take up sky-diving and other dangerous hobbies.

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money is just a promise on paper, whether it's a banknote, a bank statement or some wasteful letter from a financial "instrument" like pension 'company'

https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1343836304178610178

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ZDNet and Tehcrepublic are both owned by the same mass marketing company.

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the articles only serve as a carrier for their signal.

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: @fcassia @lproven @schestowitz @mmasnick @robilad yes, thanks, RT'd few days ago

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https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/1343775140946055169

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: #NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND #SHA1 WRITTEN INTO #BREXIT AGREEMENT https://t.co/2lupYdas3P cc/@glynmoody @lproven… https://t.co/wd8zYZUAK3

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> hackaday.com | Netscape Communicator And SHA-1 Written Into Brexit Agreement | Hackaday

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: #NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND #SHA1 WRITTEN INTO #BREXIT AGREEMENT https://t.co/2lupYdas3P cc/@glynmoody @lproven… https://t.co/wd8zYZUAK3

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#NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND #SHA1 WRITTEN INTO #BREXIT AGREEMENT

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/28/netscape-communicator-and-sha-1-written-into-brexit-agreement/

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cc/@glynmoody

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#NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND #SHA1 WRITTEN INTO #BREXIT AGREEMENT

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/28/netscape-communicator-and-sha-1-written-into-brexit-agreement/

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cc/@glynmoody

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#NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR AND #SHA1 WRITTEN INTO #BREXIT AGREEMENT

https://hackaday.com/2020/12/28/netscape-communicator-and-sha-1-written-into-brexit-agreement/

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https://twitter.com/RoxaneCrystal/status/1343709971796508672

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@RoxaneCrystal: @schestowitz The CPUC also hasn't answered the State Court of Appeal about their Bagley-Keene violations...is silen… https://t.co/sHcX9BUWnf

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@RoxaneCrystal: @schestowitz The CPUC also hasn't answered the State Court of Appeal about their Bagley-Keene violations...is silen… https://t.co/sHcX9BUWnf

https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1343548898321850371

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "Unlike Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Canada's laws governing animal welfare have barely evolved over the las… https://t.co/4mTN1YVScQ

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: "Unlike Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Canada's laws governing animal welfare have barely evolved over the las… https://t.co/4mTN1YVScQ

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""Unlike Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Canada's laws governing animal welfare have barely evolved over the last century" #canada's shame... #animalabuse|

https://twitter.com/Grown_UpWoman/status/1343547309557211139

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Grown_UpWoman: @schestowitz It will fall flat as every other such initiative has.

https://twitter.com/buzz8051/status/1343534997496606721

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@buzz8051: 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/z3K87sNq0G

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #Salon #Finance ☞ 50-year study of #taxcuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down" https://t.co/iXf18yorCx

https://twitter.com/jayzengland/status/1343532209748267010

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jayzengland: about damn time !! https://t.co/cI50Y9lGRi

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #Telegraph #CivilRights ☞ #Police will be banned from 'digital strip searches' of rape victims https://t.co/aOl3rXgc69

https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1343526777763848194

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: #copyright maximalists always want more, more more - and the public loses every single time... https://t.co/gNBs1PTMZ8

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights ☞ #EU Study Proposes New 'Anti-Piracy Act' to Effectively Tackle Onl… https://t.co/cZ9bYayKaZ

https://twitter.com/Flavia0847/status/1343519547152867328

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Flavia0847: A corporate decision? https://t.co/k6ClDUYw1M

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Waltons #monopoly #opioids ☞ DOJ Charges Walmart With Illegally Dispensing and Distributing Opi… https://t.co/Ueg261LpVU

https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1343494822737264640

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: How are the masses advantaged by patents again? Oh wait, they aren’t 🤣 https://t.co/2gSMRmQfeX

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Even after buying #redhat #ibm continues to act a lot like a #patentTroll shaking down every company imaginable. Se… https://t.co/8KkbP6q9k8

https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1343284231859015684

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@iridesce57: @schestowitz Our only instance is a VM running XP for Quickbooks

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I am uploading a video about systemd at the moment; is the quality OK and clarity being improved over time? Still one take, no script, hence very fast (except upload).

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In the previous video the inset moving images of you talking were not flowing

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they weren't jerky just had a very low frame rate it looked like.

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Yes, I am aware, but it's not crucial as we don't do real-time stuff and async sound/image is compensated for. I worry more about compression tbh. The files can be vastly smaller.

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The black&white images help reduce size.

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I'm not sure of the algorithms otherwise, maybe reduced complexity of patterns

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could help.

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the systemd video is up now. at one point you can hear rianne's samsung s2 (yes, early 2012) ringing

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finishing rC3 video above. will check in about xxxxx min

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Much improved. Though the screen shots of the browser window are not so exciting

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I'm not sure what to propose instead. I've been kind of used to slides + voiceover

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So that will influence my experience of the videos.

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Latest content was rather good. Decent audio quality too.

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The large mouse pointer was good. Maybe slightly smaller would be even better.

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This is my normal/standard pointer; before it, I was losing my position among the screens.

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xxxxxxxxxxxx spoke with someone who used to have a scientific background. They

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joined into Facebook this year, blaming the pandemic for doing so.

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Now they claimed vigorously that Trump won the election and hold another

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dozen debunked opinions like that. Facebook is a pathogen.

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There is a lot of really stupidly wrong disinformation churning on Facebook,

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and people really swallow it despite lack of evidence or even a preponderance

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of counter evidence.

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I have just done another video about conspiracy crap, namely the Gates BS

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Gates has a lot to gain by letting the social control media crazies

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make strawmen out of all his flaws.

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Falsehoods promoted in #phoronix today: “Windows Subsystem for Linux remaining strong” https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-2020-Highlights no, it’s a #failure - see http://techrights.org/2020/05/06/wsl2-usage-numbers/ #wsl #wsl2

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.phoronix.com | Ubuntu Had A Stellar 2020 From Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To Continued WSL, Cloud Popularity - Phoronix

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Only About 150,000 People Worldwide Use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) | Techrights

BrexitL https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/hallitus-ja-valtio/ordering-goods-from-the-united-kingdom-your-goods-must-undergo-customs-clearance-as-of-1-january.html

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.epressi.com | Ordering goods from the United Kingdom? Your goods must undergo customs clearance as of 1 January - ePressi

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"In 1999, the programmer and activist Richard Stallman led one related to a lawsuit the company filed against Barnes & Noble to protect a patent covering “1-click” ordering, which he worried would stifle competition in e-commerce." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/amazon-abstainers.html

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost) - The New York Times

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I'm always worried for Phoronix of late. I do hope he can hang on without

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selling out.

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^hang on AND NOT sell out.

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He can do it, but time really are hard in places.

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I am merely observing for now...

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going offline as groklaw did is arguably even worse

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He does accept Flattr payments.

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Groklaw could have done it a lot more gracefully. A heads up before they

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eliminated comments would have helped with the archiving. I was getting

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the idea to scrape the site but then noticed the comments were unavailable

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at least those nested down were gone.

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I mistakenly though they were having technical difficulties, but I guess

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not. I presume PJ did it silently to avoid hearing complaints up front.