IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Friday, December 11, 2020

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schestowitz

there are several

schestowitz

as demand grows

Ariadne

yeah this is just the latest one

schestowitz

RHEL seems like a bad idea

schestowitz

with attempts to further... to discourage "free riders"

schestowitz

that's how IBM sees them

schestowitz

systemd might be one example

schestowitz

hard to support/debug it

schestowitz

Ariadne: do you want to have a go at migration this weekend?

Ariadne

yes

schestowitz

cool

Ariadne

we need to do it

schestowitz

yes, I know, I'll make extra time

schestowitz

keep track of hours you spend on it, eventually we'll compensate you for it all (we should!)

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schestowitz

"The CSC has requested the Union to publish this document."

Dec 11 10:08

schestowitz

wow, suepo still needs to help csc issue EPO documents

Dec 11 10:08

schestowitz

the Office censors them

Dec 11 10:08

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Ariadne

hmm, this starlink modem complains about obstructions during parts of the day

Dec 11 10:25

schestowitz

sometimes I forget how awful it was when I used baud-level modems

Dec 11 10:32

Ariadne

oh, starlink is much faster than viasat.

Dec 11 10:32

Ariadne

~70ms ping to the colo

Dec 11 10:32

schestowitz

Nowadays we stream nature videos all day long

schestowitz

using invidious

Ariadne

sometimes up to 100mbps down

Ariadne

usually around 10mbps up

Ariadne

no data cap

Ariadne

viasat is... maybe 12mbps down on a good day, and limited to 600kbps after 60GB transfer

http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2133

Ariadne

of course, starlink is owned by elon musk which is meh

Dec 11 10:34

Ariadne

but

Dec 11 10:34

Ariadne

can't argue with the results

Dec 11 10:34

Ariadne

it goes down sometimes though, i think its because they don't have all satellites covering wyoming yet

Dec 11 10:35

schestowitz

/s/owned/grifted/

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Ariadne

schestowitz: i'd rather he get the FCC funding than charter communications

Dec 11 11:06

Ariadne

he is a dickhead billionaire but he at least delivers

Dec 11 11:06

Ariadne

charter would take the money and then do nothing with it, meanwhile rural internet is still shit :)

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vZS1

schestowitz: I got the new UPS set up. That means the IPFS node should be up pretty much all the time (apart from maintenance).

Dec 11 12:52

chovy

howdy

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tr_guest|90659

Bristows, litigation agenda in the UK, at it again. Perhaps the failure of the UK led them to exploring other pastures http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2020/12/11/neurim-and-flynn-v-mylan-a-case-put-to-bed/

Dec 11 13:10

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | Neurim and Flynn v Mylan - A case put to bed? - Kluwer Patent Blog

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tr_guest|90659

Melatonex advertisement for 3 mg of melatonin as a sleeping aid was dismissed as mere advertising puff

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MinceR

(cat) (audio:unimportant) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2020/09/13/029cc94afb4efa7f.mp4

Dec 11 13:23

MinceR

Dec 11 13:59

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ffn.nodwick.com | Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams - 08/04/2020

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MinceR

http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2134

Dec 11 14:21

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ffn.nodwick.com | Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams - 08/06/2020

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MinceR

https://assets.amuniversal.com/f0b62f30556f01379a54005056a9545d ( https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-05-29 )

Dec 11 15:08

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Never Stop Dreaming - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2019-05-29 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

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MinceR

(cat) https://full.pr0gramm.com/2020/09/12/5a411f62788ed76f.jpg

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MinceR

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eo9jrrAWMAEXMZ_?format=png&name=orig

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MinceR

(audio:important) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ

Dec 11 16:58

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-How Many Holes Does a Human Have? - YouTube

Dec 11 16:58

schestowitz

[12:52] <vZS1> schestowitz: I got the new UPS set up. That means the IPFS node should be up pretty much all the time (apart from maintenance).

schestowitz

Make sure it's a good UPS that doesn't so a oops when you most need it

*schestowitz heard stories about it..

schestowitz

[11:06] <Ariadne> he is a dickhead billionaire but he at least delivers

schestowitz

I recall you boycotting paypal :-)

Dec 11 17:03

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schestowitz

MinceR: the Dilbert one is very clever and simple

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Techrights-sec

No perma link (16:30 UTC)

Techrights-sec

https://www.nbcnews.com/

Techrights-sec

Techrights-sec

Today, NBC News is devoting its homepage to a special collection of reports that show the loomin

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g pain of the coronavirus pandemic and the paths that could lead the country out of it.

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nbcnews.com | How America gave up and how we fight back

Techrights-sec

cybrNaut

i boycott PayPal

cybrNaut

but i don't recall Elon Musk having any part of PayPal though, apart from being chummy with rat-bastard scumbag Peter Thiel, who founded PayPal

Dec 11 17:15

vZS1

schestowitz: I did some testing and it seems to work alright

Dec 11 17:19

vZS1

But only time will tell

schestowitz

let me find the ref

schestowitz

some gentoo guy

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schestowitz

I give up

schestowitz

can't find it easily, it was months ago

vZS1

Okay so

vZS1

PSA

vZS1

The Sun is promoting the Covid vaccine

Dec 11 17:23

vZS1

That's a nope

Dec 11 17:23

vZS1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtviu3xnRd4

schestowitz

which vaccine?

schestowitz

I know of experiments, not vaccine

schestowitz

when the clinical trials are over, in the next decade, I may join

schestowitz

until then, let them blame "grandma" when she does with her placebo

Dec 11 17:25

schestowitz

*dies

Dec 11 17:25

vZS1

Yeah no. I'm not going to take this

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schestowitz

since you brought it up

schestowitz

let me go on a tangent quickly

schestowitz

any time you reject ANY vaccine you risk being labeled anti-vaxxer

schestowitz

that, however, implies that all vaccines ever in existence of even in testing caused no side effects

schestowitz

as you roughly pointed out the other day, we're pro-vaccine and took vaccination

schestowitz

but not once developed in a few months

schestowitz

and then foisted upon a massive test test because "emergency"

schestowitz

I wrote something related to this recently, inc. http://techrights.org/2020/10/10/bill-gates-in-india/

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Conspiracy Theories Have Successfully Distracted From Perfectly Legitimate and Real Scandals of Bill Gates in India, the Fertile Ground for Unethical Mass Experimentation on Humans | Techrights

vZS1

I took several vaccines last year

vZS1

I'm in no way anti-vax

vZS1

I'm just anti-bullshit

MinceR

what if i prefer x86 to VAX? :>

schestowitz

XRevan86: https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/10/rosstat-excess-deaths-in-russia-exceed-138-000-people-since-the-start-of-the-pandemic

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-meduza.io | NO TITLE

http://techrights.org/2010/12/20/pfizer-scandal/

schestowitz

MinceR: VAX is dead

Dec 11 17:36

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vZS1

Weren't MSM/Pfizer made to pay the biggest fine in history for something?

Dec 11 17:38

vZS1

I can't recall where I read that

Dec 11 17:38

vZS1

I found it

Dec 11 17:40

vZS1

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8234533.sm

Dec 11 17:41

vZS1

s/sm/stm

Dec 11 17:42

vZS1

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8234533.stm

Dec 11 17:42

schestowitz

techrights on pfizer:

Dec 11 17:44

schestowitz

Dec 11 17:44

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Wikileaks/Cablegate Sheds Bad Light on Bill Gates’ Rogue Patent Investments | Techrights

schestowitz

"Pharmaceutical company Pfizer, for example, spent $139bn (£112bn) on share buybacks."

http://techrights.org/2019/10/14/the-stupidest-policy-ever/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | “The Stupidest [Patent/Tax] Policy Ever” | Techrights

http://techrights.org/2010/03/22/image-redone-with-cartels/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Gates Foundation Roundup: (Mis)Education With Spin; GAVI, Pfizer, Merck, and the African Ventures | Techrights

http://techrights.org/2009/05/06/the-pharmaceutical-cartel/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The Pharmaceutical Cartel | Techrights

http://techrights.org/2017/09/27/ep-in-court/

schestowitz

schestowitz

Among more...

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | European Patent Expired, But $70,000,000 in ‘Damages’ | Techrights

schestowitz

We never focused too much on them

schestowitz

vZS1: BTW, if you add http/s, the bot will pick up titles and more irc clients will make these clickable

schestowitz

I cannot open then url abobe

vZS1

Ah sorry

schestowitz

second one is ok

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8234533.stm

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-news.bbc.co.uk | BBC NEWS | Business | Pfizer agrees record fraud fine

vZS1

The first one was a typo

schestowitz

I just notice thrice in the row protocol was omitted

schestowitz

BTW, BBC is corrupt

schestowitz

it's repeatedly bribed by Gates

schestowitz

it's also run by loads of 'former' Microsoft UK execs

vZS1

Indeed

schestowitz

They do xbox ads as 'articles' this month

schestowitz

xbox 'for education

vZS1

I just wanted a quick example

schestowitz

not f* raspi

schestowitz

which is made in WaLES

schestowitz

and costs like 10 times less

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/BBC

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | BBC - Techrights

schestowitz

I know TR well enough to link to things to it off the cuff

vZS1

This whole Pfizer thing looks like a big scam

Dec 11 17:48

schestowitz

I don't trust companies thast target old people for hardons

schestowitz

the premium markets

schestowitz

people with money

schestowitz

rather than real needs

schestowitz

fix illnesses in Africa

schestowitz

not much money in it

schestowitz

unless you use them for clinical trials

schestowitz

I will find you a good video on it

schestowitz

Al Jazeera, hang on...

http://techrights.org/2020/06/16/gatesgate-interlude/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Gates Foundation Is Not Helping Africa or Africans. It Exploits Them. | Techrights

schestowitz

here, watch it, it's short

schestowitz

and hits the nail

vZS1

Watching now

schestowitz

webm

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMrHpLd9C4

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Gates Foundation accused of exploiting its leverage in Africa - YouTube

schestowitz

What the lady says there I like because

Dec 11 17:52

schestowitz

it's what I had been saying for many years before this video was made

schestowitz

and I wrote a lot about it http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Gates Foundation Critique - Techrights

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schestowitz

These articles are read a lot this year because in some senses we were years ahead of time

schestowitz

With defectos

schestowitz

people who blasted me for criticising Gates

schestowitz

after some TV shows brainwashed them

schestowitz

Gates-funded

schestowitz

and now they apologise to me, saying I was right all along

schestowitz

many of the links in these 10+ y-o articles are now broken, but Internet Archive should have most of them copied

https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704991.png

vZS1

schestowitz: you know that charity I told you about? After I linked the E2EE piece I didn't hear anything back from them. And today I saw them promoting the new "vaccine".

Dec 11 17:55

vZS1

Something isn't right

Dec 11 17:55

schestowitz

which vaccine?

Dec 11 17:56

schestowitz

you mean the UK taxpayers-funded clinical trials for Gates-invested Pfizer?

Dec 11 17:56

schestowitz

*(grift)

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MinceR

Dec 11 17:59

vZS1

Paul isn't happy

Dec 11 18:00

XRevan86

- Are you Christian, Christian?

XRevan86

- I am not Christian.

XRevan86

- Are you Christian, what's you name?

XRevan86

* your

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz There's a lot of money in COVID-19 vaccines.

Dec 11 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

They have the major world governments funding it and guaranteeing that there's enough doses for their own citizens at no cost to them.

Dec 11 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

In the US, they aren't responsible if it goes horribly wrong. A government compensation fund is.

Dec 11 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

This is better than Viagra for Pfizer.

schestowitz

[18:08] <DaemonFC[m]> They have the major world governments funding

schestowitz

>taxpayers

schestowitz

against their will at times

schestowitz

and they don't get to decide on who's grifting

schestowitz

Pfizer is just dicking around with national budgets

schestowitz

and the more scared the public becomes, the richer they can become (at the public's expense)

schestowitz

plus, politicians may get kickbacks

schestowitz

we know how companies like Pfizer operate... many kickbacks and regulatory moles

DaemonFC[m]

The Republicans are still trying to overturn the election in the courts.

Dec 11 18:22

DaemonFC[m]

Now Texas has tried to go directly to the Supreme Court and ask for a remedy of overturning four other states' elections, which is clearly unconstitutional.

Dec 11 18:22

DaemonFC[m]

The Constitution says that states can appoint electors however they want, period.

Dec 11 18:22

DaemonFC[m]

If they want to have an election, they can, if they want to pass a state law letting the legislature pick electors, they theoretically could, although none of them have ever tried that and it's flat out illegal in many states for the legislature to get involved.

Dec 11 18:23

DaemonFC[m]

Nowhere does it say or even imply that a state that decided how to award its electors is up for review by the Supreme Court, or that another state has standing to challenge their decision.

Dec 11 18:23

schestowitz

vZS1: just checked or grepped tr log for past 5 days

schestowitz

18k hits on txt and ipfs

schestowitz

so it's growing

schestowitz

ipfs:

schestowitz

TotalIn: 57 GB

schestowitz

TotalOut: 23 GB

schestowitz

correct me if I'm wrong, but typically it's me and people who "pin" our CIDs who would serve the shards of data

Dec 11 18:44

schestowitz

or is it more stochastic?

Dec 11 18:44

vZS1

It's people that pin.

Dec 11 18:48

vZS1

Otherwise the objects can get GCd

Dec 11 18:48

schestowitz

so you are among the distribution sources

Dec 11 18:52

schestowitz

thankls

Dec 11 18:52

schestowitz

this month we move http/s to another location/server

Dec 11 18:53

DaemonFC[m]

That's pretty funny. Microsoft put ads and stuff in Solitaire and the other games that used to be free.

Dec 11 18:58

DaemonFC[m]

Wants $10 per month each now.

Dec 11 18:58

psydroid

They've completely lost it

Dec 11 19:01

psydroid

The value of Windows is (now) $0

Dec 11 19:04

psydroid

I noticed they messed with their Snipping Tool too

Dec 11 19:04

MinceR

i thought it was negative

Dec 11 19:04

schestowitz

yeah, worse

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schestowitz

psydroid: something they offer incentives (like money or others) to NOT have something else installed

schestowitz

negative pricing

schestowitz

*sometimes

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schestowitz

IIRC, they got caught doing that against gnu/linux on EEE PC

Dec 11 19:06

DaemonFC[m]

I was reading a review about Microsoft Edge, and someone else noticed how buried the setting to change the search engine was.

Dec 11 19:11

DaemonFC[m]

Ironically, unless you know just where to look, you have to use a search to figure out how to change your search.

schestowitz

Re: Unfettered Freedom Ep. 12

schestowitz

> "Microsoft is starting to change my mind a little bit"

DaemonFC[m]

I don't know what part about freemium games and advertising everywhere is appropriate for a SKU called "Professional Edition".

schestowitz

schestowitz

> Bye, DT.

schestowitz

Indeed, if he said it like that. May depend on context though.

schestowitz

Can you give some context?

schestowitz

Before I delete him from RSS...

MinceR

search to find how to fix the search

MinceR

or just use the browser to download a browser

MinceR

classic microshit

DaemonFC[m]

The funniest thing I saw was a Lenovo assistant saying they included fewer bloatware apps to make your experience better, but they recommend you install a list of bloatware apps that don't do anything much until you pay for them, or default to trial mode.

DaemonFC[m]

"We improved your experience and suggest that you degrade it yourself!"

Dec 11 19:14

psydroid

"Microsoft is making a serious impact on the contents of my wallet, which made me change my mind about the company and its malware"

Dec 11 19:14

schestowitz

btw

DaemonFC[m]

Then there's the "Ransomware Protection" that actual ransomware can trivially bypass if it expects it to be on, but which stops software that legitimately needs to use those folders from writing to them. Windows Store apps get write privileges, but you have to whitelist everything else if Controlled Folder Access is turned on. This breaks, at least, foobar2000 if you installed it outside the store, Fallout games, The

DaemonFC[m]

Elder Scrolls games including Skyrim, and LibreOffice.

schestowitz

this is about DistroTube (DT)

schestowitz

aka Derek Taylor

schestowitz

he mentions Techrights sometimes

schestowitz

but if it's an FSF shirt-wearing lets-out-RMS person who is OK with Microsoft, then it's a noise vector

schestowitz

So I want to know what he said and in what context

schestowitz

I got along with him before

schestowitz

though he's some sort of maniac on politics

schestowitz

like Microsoft

DaemonFC[m]

The whole point of writing to those folders, post-Vista, was that Microsoft implemented User Account Control, which causes an alert if an application tries to write outside a folder the user owns. So the obvious workaround was to use those folders which the user owns, which are now broken by Controlled Folder Access.

http://techrights.org/2020/06/17/microsoft-firearms-cult/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Microsoft Insider: Microsoft is Full of Nationalists and Gun Enthusiasts | Techrights

schestowitz

Microsoft != "liberals"

DaemonFC[m]

Also, neatly bricking competing office suites while leaving their own intact.

DaemonFC[m]

Imagine that.

DaemonFC[m]

While the user can override it and allow LibreOffice to write to the Documents folder, why should they have to?

Dec 11 19:19

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Dec 11 19:22

DaemonFC[m]

Must be why it's not turned on by default. It won't stop ransomware, it breaks probably thousands of legitimate programs, and it seems to be one more piece of bullet point engineering on Microsoft's security kabuki theater list, when all it's doing behind the scenes is glorified NTFS read-only switching.

Dec 11 19:23

DaemonFC[m]

Microsoft vaguely acknowledged that it's useless but that they have no plans to fix the several known ways around it.

Dec 11 19:23

DaemonFC[m]

If there was a Truth in GUIs law, it would be called "Introduce compatibility problems". Or, to quote Microsoft, "The user is supposed to see the problems and suspect that they're bugs in the competitor's version of DOS, and then go out and buy ours.".

Dec 11 19:25

DaemonFC[m]

At some point they'll probably switch it on by default and then the user will be confused by all of the breakage and buy Microsoft Office and use Windows Store apps.

Dec 11 19:25

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DaemonFC[m]

Probably the easiest way to bypass it is look through the registry for the list of apps the user has allowed through and then use a code injection attack on one of them.

Dec 11 19:26

psydroid

They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't see a loss of revenue due to their users switching to alternatives

Dec 11 19:26

DaemonFC[m]

Probably not.

Dec 11 19:27

DaemonFC[m]

The LibreOffice people made some great improvements to OOXML compatibility in version 7.x, and honestly for most people there will no longer be jarring breakage of visual differences if they open up such a file and edit it.

Dec 11 19:28

DaemonFC[m]

So Microsoft has gotten much more aggressive about carpet bombing the user with ads for theirs so that they'll go ahead and buy it and not go looking for something to edit MS Office documents with.

Dec 11 19:29

DaemonFC[m]

The fact that it took Microsoft over a decade to comply with the "Strict" version of their OOXML ISO standard is really ridiculous.

Dec 11 19:30

DaemonFC[m]

If you do a new standard, there's no legitimate reason why your current software doesn't implement it.

Dec 11 19:30

DaemonFC[m]

So the ISO let them shove in a "Transitional" version so that they could Transition to their own standard, a decade later, after polluting the web with garbage that is very poorly documented.

Dec 11 19:31

DaemonFC[m]

I think the obvious reason they never supported the Strict version until lately is they knew it would take a while to convince people to use Office 365.

Dec 11 19:31

DaemonFC[m]

In the mean time, the way to inflict pain and ensure compliance with upgrade fees is to keep doing what they always did. Tweak their formats a bit so that the old version wouldn't be very useful anymore.

Dec 11 19:32

DaemonFC[m]

Office software 20 years ago pretty much did what you needed it to.

Dec 11 19:33

DaemonFC[m]

I mean, obviously people were making documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in 2000.

Dec 11 19:33

DaemonFC[m]

But with these useless upgrades, Microsoft is sitting on a pile of cash and the skulls of (most of) their computer.

Dec 11 19:33

DaemonFC[m]

*competitors

Dec 11 19:34

DaemonFC[m]

I remember when I was younger and my dad was complaining about just having to install new versions of Office.

Dec 11 19:34

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Dec 11 19:34

DaemonFC[m]

Because while Thomson was paying for site licenses for their employees, they were not paying for new versions of Windows that you needed to run them on, and the new computers to run that.

Dec 11 19:35

psydroid

I would expect my employer to pay for my work computer and take care of all the software running on it unless something else was explicitly agreed upon

Dec 11 19:46

DaemonFC[m]

Microsoft has resorted to selling Windows cheaply before. They had a $29 update disc to Windows Me but it would only work if you ran the setup program from Windows 98.

Dec 11 19:47

DaemonFC[m]

So if you needed to reinstall the OS you had to install Windows 98 all over and then wait a couple hours for Windows Me to install over it.

Dec 11 19:48

MinceR

they probably preferred for you to buy Backdoors ME again in that case :>

Dec 11 19:49

DaemonFC[m]

I had a program that started the computer up in DOS and made a snapshot of the whole system, and it could recover the disk to that state in like 10 minutes.

Dec 11 19:49

DaemonFC[m]

So as soon as Me was done and you were finished de-crapifying everything that came from the OEM and updated your drivers, you could make a snapshot.

Dec 11 19:50

DaemonFC[m]

Believe it or not, Microsoft didn't shut down the Windows Me Internet Games server until this summer.

Dec 11 19:52

DaemonFC[m]

Thought it was odd since Me was unsupported after 2006.

Dec 11 19:53

schestowitz

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DaemonFC[m]

So buying that actually didn't gain you any support lifecycle over anything 9x.

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Ariadne: Until pleroma.site is back I'm posting my fediverse stuff in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/11/#latest

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MinceR

XRevan86: https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/12/10/levada-center-youth-support-for-putin-drops-to-20-percent

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: The government enabled Facebook to get as bad and big as they are now.

Dec 11 19:57

DaemonFC[m]

Now they're doing this antitrust thing. Facebook even said they grew this big with the blessing of the FTC approving all of their acquisitions so far.

Dec 11 19:57

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Dec 11 19:57

schestowitz

Facebook has been an extension for spy agencies, among other forces

Dec 11 20:05

schestowitz

it still serves as Microsoft's data repository

Dec 11 20:05

schestowitz

Microsoft gets direct access to all/most of the data

Dec 11 20:05

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Dec 11 20:15

Ariadne

grr, obstructed view again

Dec 11 20:24

oiaohm

DaemonFC[m]: really with OOXML is been a horrible choice at times either open in Libreoffice with broken format or not open in MS Office at all.

Dec 11 20:24

schestowitz

Dec 11 20:34

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Dec 11 20:34

Ariadne

when the modem complains about obstructed view, speeds tank down to ~1mbps

Dec 11 20:37

Ariadne

Dec 11 20:37

Ariadne

i have ordered some bulk outdoor cat7 plenum cable

Dec 11 20:38

Ariadne

hopefully that allows me to position the outdoor part in a better place

Dec 11 20:38

Ariadne

though i think the maximum length for PoE + cat7 is 100m

Dec 11 20:39

XRevan86

schestowitz: Blasphemous survey, no wonder they got the "foreign agent" status %).

Dec 11 20:40

XRevan86

https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/08/10/state-pollsters-will-now-publish-unflattering-survey-data-about-putin-less-often now that's better

Dec 11 20:42

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Dec 11 20:42

schestowitz

Ariadne: so Zoom is out of the question for you :-)

Dec 11 20:45

schestowitz

XRevan86: elected, but not popular

Dec 11 20:45

schestowitz

EPO president is not even elected, it's all rigged

Dec 11 20:45

schestowitz

and so you end up with single-digit approval rate among staff

Dec 11 20:46

schestowitz

XRevan86: technically it's foreign

Dec 11 20:46

schestowitz

riga-based iirc

Dec 11 20:46

schestowitz

because they drove media to exile

Dec 11 20:47

schestowitz

nobody wants to end up on a plane to Germany in a coma

Dec 11 20:47

XRevan86

schestowitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada_Center Levada Centre

Dec 11 20:48

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Dec 11 20:48

XRevan86

The government took control over VTsIOM in 2003, former employees founded Levada Centre

Dec 11 20:49

schestowitz

"It is named after its founder, the first Russian professor of sociology Yuri Levada (1930—2006). The Center traces back its history to 1987 when the All-Union Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) was founded under the leadership of academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya. Being one of the largest Russian research companies[citation needed], the Levada Center regularly conducts its own and commissioned polling and marketing research. "

Dec 11 20:49

schestowitz

This is similar to EPO

schestowitz

how the regime 'steals' the narrative

schestowitz

or takes control of what used to have credibility

XRevan86

You know, 2003, three years about Putin came to power.

https://betanews.com/2020/12/11/open-source-vs-open-core-qa/

XRevan86

The good-old Bolt Tightening

Dec 11 20:52

liberty_box

Dec 11 20:55

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Dec 11 20:55

vZS1

schestowitz: distrotube is noise. Nothing of substance.

Dec 11 21:23

schestowitz

it's hard to find substance these days

Dec 11 21:28

schestowitz

esp. in so-called 'news' sites

schestowitz

i mean, look at today's

schestowitz

no signal, noise only

schestowitz

and howtos