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MinceRhttps://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/death-2May 03 00:02
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DeathMay 03 00:02
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-viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Linux 5.6.9 and 5.4.37 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/137129 [https://pleroma.site/objects/c642adb0-f553-44c3-9d0a-4f3671b5298c]May 03 00:23
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DaemonFC[m]Manufacturing jobs lost, COVID-19, Asian wasps that rip the heads off of honey bees and feed the thorax of the worker drones to their young, and my in-laws.May 03 02:16
DaemonFC[m]The United States these days is like a portal to Hell opened up and dumped out all the worst stuff.May 03 02:16
schestowitzDaemonFC[m]: people I know become ridiculousMay 03 02:48
schestowitzlike... racist and nuttyMay 03 02:48
schestowitzlooking for someone to blameMay 03 02:48
schestowitzif not our governments, then others'May 03 02:48
cubexyznuttier than I remember certainlyMay 03 02:48
schestowitzthis is what happens when people with a mortgage become unemployed or on the brinkMay 03 02:48
schestowitzif you lose your job, it's one thingMay 03 02:49
schestowitzbut here you have whole sectors obliteratedMay 03 02:49
schestowitzso they cannot even pursue a similar job elsewhereMay 03 02:49
schestowitzand can barely make ends meetMay 03 02:49
schestowitzsome people could not make ends meet in AptilMay 03 02:49
schestowitzAprilMay 03 02:49
schestowitzMarch might be OK if they worked half of itMay 03 02:49
cubexyzbanks are offering mortage payment defferals, and I assume there will be rent defferals as wellMay 03 02:51
cubexyzs/defferal/deferral/May 03 02:51
DaemonFC[m]For a while.May 03 02:52
schestowitzyes, I got email about that yesterdayMay 03 02:52
schestowitzthey call it "Holiday"May 03 02:52
DaemonFC[m]They have to keep the peasants from revolting until they have some idea of what to do.May 03 02:52
schestowitznot deferralMay 03 02:52
schestowitzhey, it's not like people go on holiday now... not even domesticMay 03 02:52
schestowitzand we have "BANK holidays"May 03 02:52
schestowitzDaemonFC[m]: exactlyMay 03 02:53
schestowitzus covid19 death toll set to pass 70,000 around MondayMay 03 03:01
schestowitzmaybe 100,000 by mid-MayMay 03 03:01
schestowitzeven sooner if they "reopen Hell... I mean, Murica'May 03 03:01
schestowitzBBC or whatever polled/surveyed peopleaMay 03 03:02
schestowitzand it found that people would not return to shops even if they opened, except for essentialsMay 03 03:02
schestowitzthe confidence is gone, esp. with these high daily death tollsMay 03 03:02
schestowitzUS reported 1700 dead yesterday, weekend figuresMay 03 03:03
schestowitzUK around 600, which is appalling May 03 03:03
schestowitzbut we're used to sucking at thisMay 03 03:03
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/1239965154999062529May 03 03:04
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@schestowitz: Looking through the window throughout the day I still see many youngsters coming back from school (on foot). Is it… https://t.co/kCRyqYfrGgMay 03 03:04
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@schestowitz: Looking through the window throughout the day I still see many youngsters coming back from school (on foot). Is it… https://t.co/kCRyqYfrGgMay 03 03:04
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/17997796#2def8f106f1101384e347a163ef10931May 03 03:11
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #covid19 didn't crash the economy The economy was shit with sugary sprinkles covering it For at least 12 years~ COVID-19 just scraped off those sprinkles May 03 03:11
schestowitz"Like a nice big party balloon."May 03 03:11
schestowitzAn even better analogy!May 03 03:11
schestowitzhttps://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/workers-must-risk-infection-or-losing-unemployment-payments/article_435dba48-8b30-11ea-861d-0f2b725dcdbf.htmlMay 03 03:15
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Workers must risk infection or losing unemployment payments | News | theoaklandpress.comMay 03 03:15
DaemonFC[m]schestowitz: So I got Mandy that new iPhone SE.May 03 03:40
DaemonFC[m]He was demanding an iPhone. I said "Okay, but it's going to be the SE because it's insane to spend more than that on a phone, and you need to take care of it because whatever shape it's in is how you're going to use it for several years.".May 03 03:41
DaemonFC[m]I don't get it. You can get a better Android for the money, but oh well.May 03 03:41
DaemonFC[m]He's happy and his sister has one less tentacle on this household.May 03 03:42
schestowitzwhy even use a 'phone'?May 03 04:13
schestowitzLaptops are vastly betterMay 03 04:13
schestowitzand people are barely mobile anymoreMay 03 04:14
schestowitzthe sister seems like a shallow social climbers, thinking people will value her  and her "class" based on some shitty gadgets she carries... like people who carry around paper bags with "Designer" names on themMay 03 04:15
-viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: Red Hat Puff Pieces, Many Composed or Paid for by Red Hat (Marketing as 'News') http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/137130 [https://pleroma.site/objects/7a2e9f22-190e-4c14-a9b9-7f620a9eeed2]May 03 04:17
schestowitzhttps://www.osnews.com/story/131612/microsoft-edge-is-becoming-the-browser-you-didnt-know-you-needed/May 03 04:28
schestowitz"The only thing that has me excited about the new Edge is that Windows will finally have a proper default browser that isn’t either complete garbage (Internet Explorer) or ignored by every web developer ever (the old Edge)."May 03 04:28
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed – OSnewsMay 03 04:28
schestowitzAriadne: sudoers this weekend maybe?May 03 04:36
cubexyzmicrosoft edge is pretty exclusionary isn't it?May 03 04:38
cubexyzno BSD, no Linux, no OSX, etcMay 03 04:38
schestowitzhttps://productivityland.com/best-firefox-add-ons-extensions/May 03 04:41
schestowitzall pure rubbishMay 03 04:41
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-productivityland.com | The 14 Best Mozilla Firefox Add-ons, Apps & Extensions of 2020May 03 04:41
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schestowitzno good reason to choose FIrefox anymore, they've killed or made obsolete all the good extensions it used to haveMay 03 04:42
schestowitzcubexyz: the above links to some crap paid-for Microsoft puff pieceMay 03 04:42
schestowitzpart of their ad (spam) campaign for the 'new' browserMay 03 04:42
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cubexyzcan't see anyone else using reasoning like that, except M$ of courseMay 03 04:43
psydreadalso their xCloud gaming platform only works on Android so far with no Linux support planned ever, so they are basically giving that market up to Google with Stadia and Valve with SteamMay 03 05:01
psydreadI have seen a lot of people recently who are vehemently against Stadia taking off and being a solution in the market right now as opposed to being something that may one day be available if it doesn't turn out to be vapourwareMay 03 05:01
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DaemonFC[m]> the sister seems like a shallow social climbers, thinking people will value her  and her "class" based on some shitty gadgets she carries... like people who carry around paper bags with "Designer" names on themMay 03 06:33
DaemonFC[m]Bingo.May 03 06:33
DaemonFC[m]schestowitz: Yeah, he uses a Chromebook and it's weird. Android would have been the natural fit.May 03 06:34
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DaemonFC[m]I did the iPhone SE because it put the argument to bed relatively cheaply and it got some "This actually isn't terrible!" reviews.May 03 06:36
DaemonFC[m]It does have their fastest CPU and 3 GB of RAM, which is surprising considering it's a budget Apple phone.May 03 06:36
DaemonFC[m]Plus Samsung does some really nutty shit with Android.May 03 06:37
DaemonFC[m]They managed to break my VPN functionality in a "security" update.May 03 06:38
DaemonFC[m]Really pissed me off.May 03 06:38
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DaemonFC[m]schestowitz: Yeah, it really send me off the rails when she demanded twice as much money as what we had agreed on for his school.May 03 06:39
DaemonFC[m]I told her now she gets nothing unless he gets his green card, "So ya better hope he gets one!".May 03 06:39
DaemonFC[m]They're not just social climbers, they accumulated so much debt that they're broke now and trying to hit us up.May 03 06:40
DaemonFC[m]It's like Greece asking Puerto Rico for a bailout.May 03 06:40
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DaemonFC[m]---May 03 06:47
DaemonFC[m]I never, for the life of me, thought I'd see that not going to the gym might save your life and that eating pizza that had "been cooked in a 500 degree oven and sealed before you pick it up with a QR code" was health food.May 03 06:47
DaemonFC[m]I think that the president of Little Caesars is doing a better job regarding COVID-19 than the President of America.May 03 06:47
DaemonFC[m]That's disconcerting.May 03 06:47
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MinceR(cat) (audio:music) https://i.imgur.com/o5UEKvJ.mp4May 03 14:16
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/19101530May 03 14:29
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4054068)May 03 14:29
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/20032017May 03 15:05
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4449357)May 03 15:05
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XRevan86MinceR: That's dumb.May 03 16:02
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MinceRhttps://ircz.de/p/20031680May 03 16:22
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4440945)May 03 16:22
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OswellSo many people in here that hate Microsoft - so much *win*May 03 18:31
*Oswell watches 'Sality' botnet grow, because Windows 10 has so much *Win* built in!May 03 18:32
Oswellany product that still includes flash player from Adobe is bound to be an unbounded success!May 03 18:34
XRevan86Windows still includes Flash Player for ActiveX?May 03 18:34
OswellYepMay 03 18:34
XRevan86I wonder how that will change after the assiest of browsers switches to Chromium.May 03 18:34
XRevan86in the Windows distribution itselfMay 03 18:35
OswellYou cant even get rid of active X - on XP you could turn it off, on windows 10 that feature is erm...May 03 18:35
OswellEdge is Chromium, nobody likes it, google and privacy etc...May 03 18:35
OswellBut I guess it's an improvement on IE..May 03 18:36
XRevan86Though apparently they've put a switch in there that allows it to switch to EdgeHTML (or MSHTML?), so I guess that makes Flash Player for ActiveX kinda relevant?May 03 18:36
XRevan86Oswell: When Google Chrome is deemed the more privacy-centric browser, one can tell something's gone terribly wrong.May 03 18:37
XRevan86than Chromium EdgeMay 03 18:37
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OswellMy bad bloody PC turned itself off @ XRevan86May 03 18:40
XRevan86Oswell: heating?May 03 18:40
Oswellnah battMay 03 18:40
Oswellforgot to plug it in :PMay 03 18:40
XRevan86If ActiveX Flash Player survives Шin10 20H1, I'd find that amusing.May 03 18:41
XRevan86(I assume they'll bundle Chromium Edge with this one)May 03 18:41
OswellDid you see the news in Forbes magazine about Xiamei? They're LTE phones bypass the private browsing altogether and now Haiwei are going we're going to do our own phone without google.. News for Haiwei, its already been done, its called the Pine Phone from /e/ OSMay 03 18:42
oiaohmXRevan86: Highly like ActiveX flash player include by windows is used in some legacy applications outside browser.May 03 18:42
XRevan86oiaohm: Really? That's so insane…May 03 18:42
Oswelloiaohm, nah government still uses it when you do, multiple choice questions like your license renewal at the DMVMay 03 18:43
Oswellits all flash player presentation.. so high tech!May 03 18:43
oiaohmXRevan86: where are talking enterprise internal applications one of the most stupid ones I have found using the ActiveX flash player was to look up and display the network printer status in office.May 03 18:43
XRevan86Oswell: Huawei has been doing gapps-free phones ever since Google showed them the door.May 03 18:43
XRevan86And for the Chinese market they've been doing that since forever.May 03 18:44
OswellXRevan86 good for them! Google's strangle hold on the android eco-system and there collaboration with Microsoft whilst they apparently love us Open Source guys is there own downfallMay 03 18:45
oiaohmOswell: remember USA cloud act.May 03 18:45
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Oswellwe love open source, hold on whilst I poke in some proprietary google blobs!May 03 18:45
XRevan86Oswell: Incidentally, Huawei no longer allows bootloader unlocking.May 03 18:45
schestowitzwah?May 03 18:46
schestowitzphones?May 03 18:46
XRevan86schestowitz: Android devices.May 03 18:46
schestowitzahMay 03 18:46
OswellXRevan86 there loss, most open source systems still unlock the bootloader, mac's are a great exampleMay 03 18:46
schestowitzmany other OEMs did that beforeMay 03 18:46
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XRevan86I think Meizu also doesn't allow bootloader unlocking.May 03 18:46
Oswellschestowitz I love your blog! :)May 03 18:46
schestowitztechrigths wrote about it in 2010May 03 18:47
schestowitziirc, it was motorola as the latest back thenMay 03 18:47
oiaohmOswell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act   There are governement at play here.May 03 18:47
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | CLOUD Act - WikipediaMay 03 18:47
schestowitzOswell: thank you, thanks very muchMay 03 18:47
XRevan86Xiaomi forces the user to go through hell before giving the key, still infinitely better than Huawei and Meizu, of course.May 03 18:47
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oiaohmIts not just google working with Microsoft May 03 18:47
schestowitzOswell: you can suggest topics to coverMay 03 18:47
oiaohmIts the USA government behind them both.May 03 18:47
oiaohmAnd you have china on the other side as well.May 03 18:47
schestowitzfor the first time in a year I 'ran out' of things to write/readMay 03 18:47
oiaohmWe really do have a new form of cold war that is really wanting as much control as possible.May 03 18:48
Oswellyeah @ schestowitz motorola is also the latest victim to MS FUD Debian dropped PPC support claiming its an unmaintained architecture thats whilst IBM sell Power9 PPC with all the trimmings for the penguin fans!May 03 18:48
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XRevan86Oswell: Um, Debian still has PPCMay 03 18:48
schestowitzdoes it?May 03 18:49
schestowitzI thought it had dropped itMay 03 18:49
OswellYes and no, upto SID if you want SystemD if you prefer SysV go with 7.11May 03 18:49
schestowitzmaybe I;m mistaking it with another ditrosMay 03 18:49
schestowitzdebian dropped many archs in recent yearsMay 03 18:49
XRevan86ppc64el is an officially supported Debian architecture.May 03 18:50
OswellPowerPC was the best, I still remember all the Mac fans going *F-InTel* we're not upgrading from Snow-Leopard - when they introduced intel microcodeMay 03 18:50
XRevan86schestowitz: There's BE PPC, maybe that's the one.May 03 18:51
psydreadI run debian ppc64 sid from ports on my Powermac G5May 03 18:51
XRevan86As far as I know, ppc64le works on everything ppc64 worked on.May 03 18:51
Oswelllol psydread we're in the same boat then, I use 7.11 with bastille and grSecurity on my g4May 03 18:51
psydreadit's unofficially kept up to date as wellMay 03 18:51
XRevan86* ppc64elMay 03 18:51
XRevan86psydread: Why not ppc64el then?May 03 18:51
psydreadppc64le works on POWER8 and upMay 03 18:52
Oswellmoney @ XRevan86May 03 18:52
XRevan86psydread: Ah, so there is a catch.May 03 18:52
psydreadPPC970 is POWER4+May 03 18:52
psydreadyesMay 03 18:52
Oswellif you want a ppc64el your looking at 7k to 24k depends what you want to spendMay 03 18:52
oiaohmCurrent apple are coming more hell.May 03 18:52
XRevan86> whilst IBM sell Power9May 03 18:52
XRevan86Not with that though ;)May 03 18:52
Oswellapple shot itself in the foot, I mean seriously now you get your apple with EFI and the only reason EFI is in there is in case you decide you want to replace the BSD code base with Windows 10May 03 18:54
Oswellfuck that!May 03 18:54
XRevan86Oswell: Have you heard that Apple wants to go ARM now?May 03 18:54
OswellYes @ XRevan86 but it's not going to be cheap for them..May 03 18:54
XRevan86"the BSD code base" – there's almost nothing BSD in thereMay 03 18:55
Oswellit depends if you use MacPortsMay 03 18:55
oiaohmOswell: t2 chipMay 03 18:55
XRevan86Pull in some BSD stuff and then suddenly macOS is *BSDMay 03 18:55
Oswellyou can replace Aqua with GnomeMay 03 18:55
XRevan86macOS is also GNU, it has bash 3.xMay 03 18:55
oiaohmModern day x86 intel computer from apple you follow the power management controls out of the x86 chip and most of them dead end on the board.May 03 18:56
Oswellbrb, chip-shop im hungryMay 03 18:56
oiaohmWhat should be connected to the x86 chip is connected to the t2.May 03 18:56
XRevan86Oswell: Without X11 or xdg? hah.May 03 18:56
oiaohmYou can guess why windows run bad on modern day x86 machines for power usage right.May 03 18:56
oiaohmwhen its apple.May 03 18:57
oiaohmHeck why Linux does as well.May 03 18:57
XRevan86Oswell: I'd indeed like to see macOS with GNOME that isn't duck-taped together and completely miserable.May 03 19:00
XRevan86Or isn't stripped down all the way to Darwin.May 03 19:01
XRevan86Good luck with running anything macOS (Cocoa) on that.May 03 19:01
XRevan86https://nitter.net/LineageAndroid/status/1256821056100163584May 03 19:04
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-nitter.net | LineageOS (@LineageAndroid): "Around 8PM PST on May 2nd, 2020 an attacker used a CVE in our saltstack master to gain access to our infrastructure. We are able to verify that: - Signing keys are unaffected. - Builds are unaffected. - Source code is unaffected. See http://status.lineageos.org for more info." | nitterMay 03 19:04
psydreadI think the worst part about Apple hardware is the fact that it's abandoned after a while so you are either stuck running an outdated operating system or better off switching to Linux, if you can keep the hardware from breaking in the first placeMay 03 19:12
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DaemonFC[m]That's also what happens to most Android phones.May 03 19:45
DaemonFC[m]Some vendor ship a version behind and then never update it at all.May 03 19:45
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DaemonFC[m]Samsung manages to fuck shit up worse than it arrived to them from upstream.May 03 19:46
DaemonFC[m]The only good argument about Apple is they push their own software to it so at least you know what you're getting, but they do much less than Android phones and they're meant as a toy device for people who can't use a computer and/or disgusting social climbers.May 03 19:47
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DaemonFC[m]Also, Samsung makes "security changes" to the underlying Linux kernel that don't actually secure anything and manage to cause more bugs, and Google stepped in to scream at them for that.May 03 19:49
DaemonFC[m]The general state of "smart" phones on both sides is consumer level trash that would never be as reliable as Free and Open Source Software, which has backdoors for spy agencies and which make it impossible for the user to plug all of the privacy leaks.May 03 19:52
DaemonFC[m]That's why we need a bigger market for Purism and other companies who are trying to do the right thingMay 03 19:52
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psydreadIronically I am using an old Samsung smartphone and a tablet that were handed down to me by my mom, but I also know that those will be the last ones now that alternatives with entirely free software stacks are becoming availableMay 03 20:02
XRevan86Well, technically not entirely, but at a considerably higher level.May 03 20:02
XRevan86"considerably" is an understatementMay 03 20:03
XRevan86at a significantly higher levelMay 03 20:03
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Oswell@ psydread, defo better off switching to linuxMay 03 20:21
*Oswell waits for Windows 10 on the PowerPC.. Oh wait never going to happen.. :PMay 03 20:23
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psydreadOswell: I have two phones with Mediatek SoCs that I have put TWRP on and that I am free to play with, but that would mean I have to somehow reverse engineer some drivers and port them to the mainline kernel, which might take quite a while ...May 03 20:24
XRevan86Шindows 10? On my RISC-V? It's just as likely as you'd think.May 03 20:24
OswelllolMay 03 20:24
Oswellmmm, those chips where nice... BBQ sauce too.. damn I was hungry.May 03 20:25
NarratorOswell: intel or arm ?May 03 20:27
psydreadthe funny thing is that Windows runs on ARM now and they sent a mole from Microsoft Research to the OpenPOWER Summit last yearMay 03 20:27
*Oswell spends his waking hours looking at Google's patent with the Pirbright institute for HCoV-2019 and then marvels at Cryptome and the Leak of the document saying America preparedness for Covid19 - then glances at the £20.00 british money with a Covid19 symbol.May 03 20:27
psydreadso they might want to port it to RISC-V as wellMay 03 20:27
psydreadbut I doubt anyone would even want thatMay 03 20:27
Oswell@ psydread, they can try, it'll still be shi*May 03 20:28
Oswellat least with Linux if you remove a browser, it's gone, can't do that with internet exploderMay 03 20:28
psydreadit's shit even on x86, so I don't think there will be much demand for it on other architecturesMay 03 20:29
Narratoreast shit one milion flies can't be wrong ...May 03 20:30
Narrator... eat ...May 03 20:30
Oswelllol, looking east... yeah that was on this youtube video, hold up now where was itMay 03 20:30
Oswellhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEezFMDuAsUMay 03 20:31
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Windows 10 hidden Illuminati & Satanic Signs - YouTubeMay 03 20:31
Oswellthat fucking DES algorithm and the fact it trunk's as Lucifer.. Should have been retired Years ago, it on a list of Algorithms you should never trust or use... according to there own standards...May 03 20:32
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Narratorwhen we talk about shit some important things could vanish ;-)May 03 20:34
OswellI wish systemD and redhat would vanishMay 03 20:35
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Narratorevery joke about theory of conspiracy blurs our vision of reality ;-)May 03 20:36
Narratortrust me;-)May 03 20:36
Oswellit's not a joke, https://cryptome.org/2020/03/crimson-contagion.pdf where does the contagion start??May 03 20:37
Oswelloh in china... so why hold a preparedness summit and then call it wuflu and blame the chinese?May 03 20:38
Oswellconspiracy is scary when the conspiracy theorists are correctMay 03 20:38
Narratori think so tooMay 03 20:39
Oswellat least we know where china and russia stand, they love Linux too..May 03 20:39
Oswell;)May 03 20:39
DaemonFC[m]ZIP supports DES and Triple DES, but yeah it should be considered deprecated. I really hope nothing supports making new archives with that.May 03 20:40
Narratorthere is no differencesMay 03 20:40
XRevan86Oswell: Russia likes Microsoft too, it's a love-hate relationship.May 03 20:40
Narratorall hardware is compromised May 03 20:40
OswellRed Flag Linux && Astra Linux. approved for information upto the level of Top Secret.. Shame they weren't using at SPY central.May 03 20:40
Narratorsoftware is not so importantMay 03 20:41
Oswellyeah I know, you can pwn people with a graphic's card driver, in fact thats probably the next best thing... May 03 20:41
OswellPlug and Play botnetsMay 03 20:41
DaemonFC[m]"The electronic payment industry uses Triple DES and continues to develop and promulgate standards based upon it, such as EMV.[23]"May 03 20:41
*DaemonFC[m] head desksMay 03 20:41
DaemonFC[m]I suppose that since each use generates a one time code that's useless later it doesn't matter as much.May 03 20:42
OswellI like how SFS and peter guttman pointed out the failing's in Microsofts encryption long before it became an issueMay 03 20:43
Oswellwhy have I got microsoft keys in my apple CPU, what is that for, in case I need to recover my apple encryption keys with Win 10?May 03 20:44
OswellI dont think so...May 03 20:44
DaemonFC[m]Well, with Microsoft, they introduce a product and you know it's not secure based on track record.May 03 20:44
DaemonFC[m]They dumped well over 8,000 security updates into XP over 18 years and it wasn't secure.May 03 20:44
XRevan86Oswell: I wondered my you chose Astra and not MSVS as an example, but then I spelt it outMay 03 20:44
*Oswell nodsMay 03 20:44
XRevan86* why youMay 03 20:45
OswellI've got apples TPM in a Zip for the G series somewhere out in the shed, proprietary info, it got leaked >:)May 03 20:46
XRevan86https://archive.org/details/os-mcbc-linux-3.0-r12 "mcbc" – heh.May 03 20:47
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-archive.org | ОС МСВС 3.0 R12 : ВНИИНС : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMay 03 20:47
XRevan86This operating system has the best defences against coverage in the Western media :)May 03 20:48
XRevan86Highest level of security right there.May 03 20:48
Oswelllet me guess Western Digital HDD's <<Sarcasm>>May 03 20:49
Oswell;) jus fuckin with youMay 03 20:50
Oswellbbl, smoke..May 03 20:51
XRevan86Deal with the smoke, sure.May 03 20:52
Oswellahh, so much better, lungs feel so much more clean... I had the gastroenteritis excuse my bad spelling... May 03 20:57
Oswelland the mild flu symptoms, thing is about haptic disease if that was the plan as a cure all to socialism, it wont work, because having worked for the bent establishment, I got the HBV jabs working for the NHS, which are not mandatory, so if they think a bit of flu will silence us about microsofts business practice, they're dreaming!May 03 20:58
Oswell**Linux && OpenBSD** till we die.. Amen!May 03 20:59
Oswellpeace to you all, im off to smoke more and think less..May 03 20:59
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DaemonFC[m]> ahh, so much better, lungs feel so much more clean... I had the gastroenteritis excuse my bad spelling... May 03 21:03
DaemonFC[m]Disinfectant in the lungs!May 03 21:03
DaemonFC[m]Trump is always so right. He just has a knack for these things, and "people" apparently say he should be a doctor because he "totally gets it".May 03 21:03
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XRevan86Smoke to clean the lungs? Irony as it is.May 03 21:16
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