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MinceR | (audio:important) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINHjxsPOEg | Dec 15 00:02 |
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GNUmoon | Looks like Google was down and no one could access their electronic life: https://downdetector.com/status/google/news/354514-problems-at-google/ | Dec 15 00:05 |
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MinceR | looks like my "electronic life" does not depend on google | Dec 15 00:05 |
GNUmoon | +1 | Dec 15 00:06 |
XRevan86 | MinceR: I opened my eyes wide. | Dec 15 00:08 |
schestowitz | good downtime means "SRE" is overhyped | Dec 15 00:10 |
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schestowitz | I did it! I quit Twitter | Dec 15 03:05 |
schestowitz | logged out and all | Dec 15 03:05 |
schestowitz | it's just a bot now | Dec 15 03:05 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/12/14/goodbye-twitter-2020/ | Dec 15 03:06 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Thanks for All the Fish and Goodbye, Twitter | Techrights | Dec 15 03:06 | |
MinceR | nic | Dec 15 03:06 |
MinceR | e | Dec 15 03:06 |
schestowitz | that ought to also clear up some space/time, making way for better tasks (not checking a bunch of nonsense) | Dec 15 03:06 |
schestowitz | twitter was already getting really bad with the qanon drones | Dec 15 03:06 |
schestowitz | complete nutcases | Dec 15 03:06 |
schestowitz | and people who respond with one word | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | like in FB | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | no really intelligent discussion can happen there | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | it's design to click-farm | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | *designed | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | you cannot even edit things there... in 2020 | Dec 15 03:07 |
schestowitz | fact-checking non-existent or afterthought... which is why "Cheetos Nazi" and his cultists thrive there | Dec 15 03:08 |
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search_social | we also thrive on the fediverse just fyi | Dec 15 03:32 |
schestowitz | no | Dec 15 03:33 |
schestowitz | social control media as a modality is wrong | Dec 15 03:33 |
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schestowitz | BTW, I'm waiting for my fediverse account to come back | Dec 15 03:33 |
schestowitz | hardware issue crashed pleroma.site 2 weeks ago | Dec 15 03:33 |
search_social | fediverse single sign on | Dec 15 03:34 |
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schestowitz | in 2019 I was VERY hesitant to join identi.ca | Dec 15 03:35 |
schestowitz | tony manco (tmanco, made early bots for us) pressed me to join | Dec 15 03:35 |
schestowitz | later I mirrored that account in Twitter using ping.fm and similar | Dec 15 03:35 |
schestowitz | not defunct | Dec 15 03:35 |
schestowitz | looking back, I spent weeks if not months on those platforms | Dec 15 03:36 |
schestowitz | some are offline now | Dec 15 03:36 |
schestowitz | it's outsourcing many people's work | Dec 15 03:36 |
schestowitz | prior to that we were all active in blogs | Dec 15 03:36 |
schestowitz | which were controlled by individuals | Dec 15 03:36 |
schestowitz | not platforms or pods or instances with hundreds of people you barely know or care about | Dec 15 03:36 |
MinceR | https://i.imgur.com/nDBpiDl.jpg | Dec 15 03:37 |
XRevan86 | > I don't think that Debian supports any release for 8 years to any degree. | Dec 15 03:37 |
XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: You're forgetting about Debian ELTS, Debian's old as dirt are still being supported by Freexian. | Dec 15 03:37 |
search_social | technically speaking blogs are controlled by your hosting provider not you | Dec 15 03:38 |
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MinceR | what if my blog is on freenet or gnunet? :> | Dec 15 03:41 |
search_social | is it mirrored between freenet servers? | Dec 15 03:42 |
search_social | do we have an open source cloudflare? | Dec 15 03:43 |
MinceR | i think freenet does that automatically | Dec 15 03:43 |
schestowitz | MinceR: it's good they convert tweets to images. No cruft. | Dec 15 03:50 |
schestowitz | no comments, JS, Css etc. | Dec 15 03:50 |
MinceR | :) | Dec 15 03:51 |
schestowitz | [03:38] <search_social> technically speaking blogs are controlled by your hosting provider not you | Dec 15 03:51 |
schestowitz | Not necessarily | Dec 15 03:51 |
schestowitz | social control media platforms are a pain to maintain | Dec 15 03:51 |
schestowitz | and if you have other users you have higher uptime expectations/requirements | Dec 15 03:51 |
MinceR | until you get something that was re-screenshot, re-captioned and re-encoded in JPEG 50 times and you can barely read it :> | Dec 15 03:51 |
schestowitz | you can run wordpress or drupal from a RaPi at home | Dec 15 03:51 |
MinceR | well, then you become your own hosting provider :> | Dec 15 03:52 |
schestowitz | yeah | Dec 15 03:52 |
schestowitz | for low-traffic blogs the ISP would be OK | Dec 15 03:52 |
schestowitz | we cannot do this with techrights | Dec 15 03:52 |
MinceR | one of the nice things about it is that you could choose to have your blog on a more conventional host and also host a mirror of it at home | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | I look to me left now, techrights did 462kb/sec since Sunday | Dec 15 03:53 |
MinceR | sort of like what you're doing with IPFS | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | tuxmachines even more | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | sometimes it's like 3mb/sec | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | esp. if we post videos | Dec 15 03:53 |
MinceR | yeah, video is difficult | Dec 15 03:53 |
MinceR | i wonder how well peertube works | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | I tired it a lot last week | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | I recommended it | Dec 15 03:53 |
MinceR | :) | Dec 15 03:53 |
schestowitz | blender is dabbling in it | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | debian project gave its spare (unused) Google 'donations' to it | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | peertube works better for popular videos | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | with few peers it'll buffer a lot | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | esp. hd-level | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | but otherwise it's nice to know we can load-balance among peers | Dec 15 03:54 |
schestowitz | Google and ISPs might not like that | Dec 15 03:55 |
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schestowitz | upstream strain | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | aspberrypi:~ $ ipfs stats bw | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | Bandwidth | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | TotalIn: 63 GB | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | TotalOut: 26 GB | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | Techrights at 90gb now just for ipfs reqs | Dec 15 03:55 |
schestowitz | and some people have pinned it also, so that'll be additional traffic | Dec 15 03:55 |
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schestowitz | Ariadne: when can you put aside a timeslot for attempting migration? | Dec 15 03:56 |
schestowitz | I figured, in case we struggle we can also just dump the VMs into the new hypervisor 'as-is' | Dec 15 03:56 |
schestowitz | but seeing what happened to centos.... you know...?\ | Dec 15 03:56 |
schestowitz | my friend says he likes alpine, devuan and openbsd | Dec 15 03:57 |
Ariadne | i have time this week, we're just in crunch time at work to make alpine 3.13 a reality | Dec 15 03:57 |
schestowitz | for servers, but you specialise in Alpine | Dec 15 03:57 |
schestowitz | Ariadne: cool, thank you | Dec 15 03:57 |
schestowitz | the critical bits are wordpress @ TR and Drupak @ TM | Dec 15 03:57 |
Ariadne | though the parts i am responsible for are complete | Dec 15 03:57 |
schestowitz | the rest are less urgent because their traffic is generally a lot less | Dec 15 03:58 |
schestowitz | some people still moan about their "modern" browsers getting angry because read-only sites lack TLS cert | Dec 15 03:58 |
schestowitz | (which I think is almost a non-issue) | Dec 15 03:59 |
schestowitz | Ariadne: BTW, href said the sites he runs will be back later this week. Meanwhile, I've made and improved my own suckless alt http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/ | Dec 15 03:59 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts | Dec 15 03:59 | |
Ariadne | that is just a website | Dec 15 04:00 |
Ariadne | you should implement activitypub | Dec 15 04:00 |
Ariadne | if you want a suckless activitypub server, there is honk actually. | Dec 15 04:00 |
schestowitz | that would make it less suckless :-) | Dec 15 04:00 |
schestowitz | it was nice when we had it archives through irc over viera | Dec 15 04:01 |
schestowitz | that should resume when href is done with recovery and db import, which he says takes ages | Dec 15 04:01 |
Ariadne | yes | Dec 15 04:01 |
schestowitz | days | Dec 15 04:01 |
Ariadne | pleroma.site database is huge | Dec 15 04:01 |
Ariadne | that instance federates with everyone | Dec 15 04:01 |
Ariadne | there's hundreds of millions of objects in the database | Dec 15 04:02 |
schestowitz | I quit twitter | Dec 15 04:02 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/12/14/goodbye-twitter-2020/ | Dec 15 04:02 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Thanks for All the Fish and Goodbye, Twitter | Techrights | Dec 15 04:02 | |
schestowitz | Many people don't know about this... it's today | Dec 15 04:02 |
schestowitz | no more web pages | Dec 15 04:02 |
Ariadne | i might give epicyon a go | Dec 15 04:02 |
schestowitz | twitter is not a web site anymore | Dec 15 04:02 |
schestowitz | FSF should quit also | Dec 15 04:03 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2014/03/16/richard-stallman-social/ | Dec 15 04:03 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Richard Stallman on Google+ and Twitter | Techrights | Dec 15 04:03 | |
schestowitz | but RMS isn't there now | Dec 15 04:03 |
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DaemonFC[m] | There used to be a Fedora Legacy project to make sure that got security updates for several years, but it was abandoned. | Dec 15 05:11 |
schestowitz | yeah... | Dec 15 05:12 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/08/09/aws-fedoraproject/ | Dec 15 05:12 |
schestowitz | task: | Dec 15 05:12 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | It Looks Like Red Hat’s (IBM) Fedora Project May be ‘Outsourced’ to Amazon’s Datacentres | Techrights | Dec 15 05:12 | |
schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: check what other sites have moved to aws | Dec 15 05:12 |
DaemonFC[m] | IT doesn't really surprise me that Microsoft plans to implement Manifest version 3. | Dec 15 05:28 |
DaemonFC[m] | They obviously don't have to, because they have their own extensions store, but yeah... | Dec 15 05:28 |
DaemonFC[m] | I wonder if anyone except Vivaldi will fight that. | Dec 15 05:29 |
schestowitz | two proprietary pieces of junk | Dec 15 05:35 |
schestowitz | I saw ECT writing about it | Dec 15 05:35 |
schestowitz | we need to take back the Web or throw it away | Dec 15 05:35 |
schestowitz | because it became not only proprietary but DRMed | Dec 15 05:35 |
schestowitz | the last major browser that's freesw, firefox, is dying | Dec 15 05:36 |
schestowitz | also becoming less free as in freedom | Dec 15 05:36 |
schestowitz | so maybe the web in general is a lost cause now | Dec 15 05:36 |
schestowitz | like whatever Microsoft wanted to replace it, Microsoft protocols for sharing around MS Office objects | Dec 15 05:36 |
schestowitz | https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1338700530386780160 | Dec 15 05:38 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@iridesce57: @schestowitz A Verilux floor lamp behind my office chair helped here | Dec 15 05:38 | |
*psydroid is in favour of throwing the web away and using a lean replacement that would also instantly make older machines viable for browsing that replacement again | Dec 15 05:43 | |
search_social | gopher? | Dec 15 05:51 |
schestowitz | I looked into it last month | Dec 15 05:51 |
schestowitz | it has its problems too | Dec 15 05:51 |
schestowitz | I looked into about 6 alternatives | Dec 15 05:52 |
schestowitz | spent hours on it | Dec 15 05:52 |
schestowitz | for now, ipfs seems to best suit our needs | Dec 15 05:52 |
search_social | or just html with js disabled? | Dec 15 05:53 |
schestowitz | I have just scripted qupzillz to open some pages every x minutes to show me changes | Dec 15 05:53 |
schestowitz | search_social: it's like going to a steak eatery and order veg | Dec 15 05:53 |
schestowitz | http://groklaw.net/ still offline :/ | Dec 15 05:54 |
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schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/red-hat | Dec 15 05:54 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Red Hat Layoffs - TheLayoff.com | Dec 15 05:54 | |
schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/17y7dQRz | Dec 15 05:54 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.thelayoff.com | Let's double - post regarding Red Hat layoffs | Dec 15 05:54 | |
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schestowitz | He said he'd double sales. Did not say he'd kill #centos to get there. | Dec 15 05:54 |
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smnthermes | > [02:29:07] DaemonFC[m]: I wonder if anyone except Vivaldi will fight that. | Dec 15 13:24 |
smnthermes | Brave and Opera (proprietary) | Dec 15 13:24 |
schestowitz | How "open" is brave? | Dec 15 13:25 |
schestowitz | not a rhetorical question BTW | Dec 15 13:25 |
schestowitz | iirc, they use shithub | Dec 15 13:25 |
schestowitz | and, there may be other issues. Blink is freesw afaik, and I suppose eme isn't 'supported' by brave | Dec 15 13:25 |
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MinceR | afaik it's free software, but they use shithub | Dec 15 13:40 |
MinceR | well, at least as free as chromium is, anyway | Dec 15 13:40 |
schestowitz | x https://hitconsultant.net/2020/12/14/microsoft-deploys-covid-19-vaccine-management-platform/ | Dec 15 13:42 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-hitconsultant.net | Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform | Dec 15 13:42 | |
schestowitz | # profiteering, surveillance | Dec 15 13:42 |
schestowitz | MinceR: it's a new sort of threar | Dec 15 13:50 |
schestowitz | MinceR: similar to systemd | Dec 15 13:50 |
schestowitz | the "you have the code" line | Dec 15 13:50 |
schestowitz | openwashing to make RHEL | Dec 15 13:50 |
schestowitz | and keep other distros behind | Dec 15 13:51 |
schestowitz | with edgy new releases and version inflations every month or so | Dec 15 13:51 |
schestowitz | so RHEL is always ahead, like chrome is | Dec 15 13:51 |
schestowitz | and to compile something like chromium or systemd you'd need a powerful machine | Dec 15 13:51 |
schestowitz | I took ages to get all the systemd files | Dec 15 13:51 |
schestowitz | I think tens of thousands for the repo | Dec 15 13:52 |
schestowitz | it's madness | Dec 15 13:52 |
schestowitz | not lines of code, FILES | Dec 15 13:52 |
schestowitz | nobody can properly study that and if it doesn't compile, too bad, good luck... | Dec 15 13:52 |
schestowitz | I think cubexyz once mentioned here what it takes to compile chromium (disk space, time, RAM) | Dec 15 13:53 |
DaemonFC[m] | <schestowitz "and, there may be other issues. "> It is. It asks if you want to use Widevine and then fetches it. | Dec 15 14:00 |
schestowitz | where from? | Dec 15 14:04 |
MinceR | and what if you say "no"? :> | Dec 15 14:05 |
DaemonFC[m] | From Google, obviously. | Dec 15 14:09 |
DaemonFC[m] | They were mostly annoyed with how long it took Google to approve them to license Widevine. | Dec 15 14:09 |
vZS1 | If people here don't mind documenting the build process for their favourite pieces of software, I don't mind serving the instructions over IPFS. | Dec 15 14:18 |
vZS1 | schestowitz: a lot of the time they keep some of the build automation a secret, to deliberately make building yourself very difficult. | Dec 15 14:20 |
vZS1 | No license can save you from that | Dec 15 14:21 |
vZS1 | I spend most of my time trying to weave source together, to paint a coherent picture of what's going on. | Dec 15 14:23 |
DaemonFC[m] | <MinceR "and what if you say "no"? :>"> I think it is still an option in the settings but it doesn't keep pestering you like Firefox. | Dec 15 14:23 |
vZS1 | This is one of the primary threats to user freedom. | Dec 15 14:23 |
schestowitz | true | Dec 15 14:24 |
DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: I think I just like Schwarzenegger movies a little too much. Whenever I'm playing an RPG and someone asks for a password, I like to say "Sure. Here's my password." and shoot them with a grenade launcher. | Dec 15 14:25 |
vZS1 | Think about how many programming languages and build systems there are. Now, in top of those legitimate engineering complexity, we have to deal with obfuscated builds (I like to call this obfusbuild, like obfuscated JavaScript obfuscript). | Dec 15 14:25 |
MinceR | DaemonFC[m]: lol | Dec 15 14:25 |
DaemonFC[m] | Mandy was laughing yesterday while I was playing New Vegas. | Dec 15 14:27 |
DaemonFC[m] | So these assholes were shooting at me and then taking cover behind a rock, so I was like "Okay, you have a rock and I have an orbital laser satellite. Shaboomboom!". | Dec 15 14:28 |
DaemonFC[m] | Fallout 4 just got really unbalanced and dumb. | Dec 15 14:28 |
DaemonFC[m] | There's waaaaaaaay too many mini-nukes all over the place. | Dec 15 14:29 |
DaemonFC[m] | Even a person who is terrible at video games can lob a mini nuke at literally everything. | Dec 15 14:29 |
DaemonFC[m] | In New Vegas, you can get mini nukes, but they're usually not just random loot and they cost quite a few bottlecaps at Gun Runners. | Dec 15 14:30 |
DaemonFC[m] | Not only that, but if you're not very experienced with explosives, you'll pretty much always end up nuking yourself. | Dec 15 14:31 |
DaemonFC[m] | IIRC, the only thing Fallout 4 did to balance the mini nukes was that they have an item weight. In New Vegas, you can carry as much ammunition as you can loot or buy. | Dec 15 14:32 |
DaemonFC[m] | In New Vegas, the missile launcher is better than the nukes because it always has the range to get away from you before it blows up. | Dec 15 14:33 |
DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: John handed me Fallout 4 on his PS4 and I think they really dumbed it down. Weapons are always in the default condition, VATS is so accurate that you never really need to use manual aim in real time unless you're just out of action points, and nukes are everywhere. To the point where after the Chinese submarine captain hands you those tags that can call in a nuclear strike, it's not even really much of a supe | Dec 15 14:35 |
DaemonFC[m] | weapon. | Dec 15 14:35 |
DaemonFC[m] | The downside to VATS was always that it's not perfect. It's part of an RPG. It uses bullet time to slow things down and then it tells you what the odds are of scoring a hit, and it generates a random number based on factors to determine if it's a critical hit. | Dec 15 14:36 |
DaemonFC[m] | 4 turned it into "Right bumper. Kill this son of a bitch. A button.". | Dec 15 14:37 |
DaemonFC[m] | I think things are getting dumber to make people who can't strategize think they're really smart. | Dec 15 14:38 |
DaemonFC[m] | Not just in video games, but in video games. | Dec 15 14:38 |
MinceR | video games in general are getting incredibly dumb | Dec 15 14:38 |
MinceR | they can sell them to more stupid people that way | Dec 15 14:38 |
DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, then they sell them at insane prices on Steam. I ran into this one they advertised called Haven, and it's more like a sci fi anime on rails than a video game. | Dec 15 14:39 |
DaemonFC[m] | Everyone was complaining that it's just a really awful game with good visuals. | Dec 15 14:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | They want $30 for it. | Dec 15 14:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | I got far enough along in the story to go "Okay so this is basically Firefly only these two teenagers ran off in a spaceship to escape their planet so this guy can kind of insinuate that they can lay around and fuck all day and live off the only plant that grows here apparently. NEXT!". | Dec 15 14:41 |
DaemonFC[m] | Perhaps unsurprisingly, the title screen says it was funded by some part of the French government. | Dec 15 14:42 |
DaemonFC[m] | And that's the thing. A lot of these "indie" games are even surprisingly more crap, somehow, than the ones from the big studios. | Dec 15 14:43 |
DaemonFC[m] | 30,000 bugs and all. | Dec 15 14:43 |
DaemonFC[m] | The big studios put in just enough work that you won't go "I got completely screwed on that and I will never give them money again.". | Dec 15 14:44 |
DaemonFC[m] | Somehow, the planet in Haven was familiar as the one Rick Sanchez goes to take a shit on in Rick & Morty. | Dec 15 14:45 |
DaemonFC[m] | That's exactly what it looks like. | Dec 15 14:46 |
DaemonFC[m] | It was basically an entire game of press F to pay respects. | Dec 15 14:46 |
thddx | i loathe steam | Dec 15 14:49 |
thddx | but have an ashamedly large library | Dec 15 14:50 |
thddx | damn you factorio | Dec 15 14:50 |
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vZS1 | I play mostly indie games. | Dec 15 14:55 |
vZS1 | There are a lot of good indie games around. | Dec 15 14:55 |
MinceR | (cat) https://ircz.de/p/20071674 | Dec 15 14:58 |
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MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704639.jpg | Dec 15 15:13 |
DaemonFC[m] | I replied to CDC on Twitter asking why people in their 90s in a nursing home are considered more essential for the vaccine than people who work in grocery stores. | Dec 15 15:50 |
DaemonFC[m] | It seems like wasting vaccines on people who are actuarially dead already anyway is sort of a bad idea, to me, if you have to triage. | Dec 15 15:50 |
MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704424.jpg | Dec 15 15:55 |
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vZS1 | vaccine := experiment | Dec 15 15:58 |
vZS1 | They're experimenting on the elderly and infirm. | Dec 15 15:58 |
MinceR | missing ; | Dec 15 15:59 |
MinceR | also, they have more to benefit from it | Dec 15 15:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | Well, as a matter of policy that's debatable. | Dec 15 15:59 |
MinceR | getting infected is more risky for them, while long term side effects wouldn't trouble them for as long | Dec 15 15:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | They're dying in droves, but that's mostly because they're old and frail and about to die of something anyway. | Dec 15 15:59 |
vZS1 | With the elderly, it's mostly risk management, I guess. Might as well try a prototype on them. | Dec 15 16:01 |
DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, if the vaccine turns out to be a major disaster, then they don't have to live with that for long, I guess. | Dec 15 16:02 |
vZS1 | There are multiple prototypes being rolled out in the UK. Pfizer isn't the only provider. | Dec 15 16:03 |
vZS1 | There's one from Oxford. | Dec 15 16:03 |
vZS1 | I forgot where the third one is from | Dec 15 16:03 |
vZS1 | I deliberately say prototypes because that's what it is, at this stage. | Dec 15 16:04 |
DaemonFC[m] | The Oxford one seems more dodgy than the others. | Dec 15 16:08 |
MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704307.jpg | Dec 15 16:19 |
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DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: I noticed that there's a goal in New Vegas called Demise of the Machines. | Dec 15 16:41 |
DaemonFC[m] | Obvious Terminator reference, I guess. | Dec 15 16:41 |
MinceR | :> | Dec 15 16:42 |
DaemonFC[m] | You make progress on it by killing robots. | Dec 15 16:42 |
DaemonFC[m] | Pretty easy with lots of armor piercing 5 mm rounds for the minigun and a nice set of T-51b power armor. | Dec 15 16:42 |
MinceR | (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/25/eaefe04636113bd7.jpg | Dec 15 16:42 |
DaemonFC[m] | My character has 100 level on guns but only a 15 on energy weapons, so I stick to bullets. | Dec 15 16:45 |
MinceR | :> | Dec 15 16:46 |
DaemonFC[m] | 15 is where the game started him on energy weapons. He can pick one up and shoot it, but probably won't do any good with it. | Dec 15 16:46 |
DaemonFC[m] | I never really liked the energy weapons on Fallout. | Dec 15 16:46 |
DaemonFC[m] | They're not really all that great once you get bad guys in power armor, which deflects most of the energy. | Dec 15 16:47 |
DaemonFC[m] | Power armor can deflect as much laser and plasma energy as it can radiation, so with T-45d armor that's 10% and with T-51b it's 40%. | Dec 15 16:48 |
DaemonFC[m] | T-45d isn't as advanced because it was obsolete before the war with China. | Dec 15 16:49 |
DaemonFC[m] | The T-51b model was the US Army's latest stuff by the time of the nuclear exchange. | Dec 15 16:49 |
DaemonFC[m] | Fallout 4 introduced the T-60 model with the explanation that the reason it was not in the previous games is because it was a prototype. | Dec 15 16:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | I wasn't really happy with the way the T-60 model worked. | Dec 15 16:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | You have to find these gigantic batteries to power it with and when they're spent, the armor doesn't work. | Dec 15 16:54 |
DaemonFC[m] | I don't think it balances the game out much because there are places where you can recharge the fusion cores you have at. | Dec 15 16:55 |
MinceR | sounds like the wh40k tabletop rpg-s | Dec 15 16:55 |
MinceR | except there if you are a tech-priest/explorator, you can recharge them from your own implants :> | Dec 15 16:56 |
DaemonFC[m] | Well, the Commonwealth Wasteland (what's left of Massachusetts) has this area that's extremely hazardous called the Glowing Sea. | Dec 15 16:58 |
DaemonFC[m] | If you go in there, the radiation will kill you after about 2 minutes if you're not in a set of power armor. | Dec 15 16:58 |
MinceR | also except obviously for the ones where you can actually play adeptus astartes, but i've never played those | Dec 15 16:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | The whole point is that you have to stay out of that area until you're at a high enough level that you have power armor. | Dec 15 16:59 |
MinceR | :) | Dec 15 16:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | But, like with the ghouls and shit, that's not how radiation works. | Dec 15 16:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | It doesn't just linger like that for over 200 years after some nuclear missiles fall. | Dec 15 16:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | New Vegas has some grinding, but it's easy enough to figure out where to go and where not to. | Dec 15 17:00 |
DaemonFC[m] | Last playthrough I leveled up faster by using some mini nukes on some deathclaws. | Dec 15 17:01 |
DaemonFC[m] | They are incredibly hard to kill, usually, and at low levels you're not going to be able to control the launcher very well, but what you can do is ambush them from above. | Dec 15 17:05 |
DaemonFC[m] | If they don't notice and attack you, all you have to do is wait for them to walk below and fire a nuke at them. The fact that you're firing it down into a valley means that gravity will carry it far enough away that it won't kill you when it goes off. | Dec 15 17:06 |
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MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704054.jpg | Dec 15 17:21 |
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MinceR | (audio) https://i.imgur.com/XE5OcS8.mp4 | Dec 15 17:42 |
XRevan86 | MinceR: Oh no, an actual fake %) | Dec 15 17:44 |
XRevan86 | MinceR: This is India | Dec 15 17:45 |
MinceR | :> | Dec 15 17:45 |
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schestowitz | [15:50] <DaemonFC[m]> I replied to CDC on Twitter asking why people in their 90s in a nursing home are considered more essential for the vaccine than people who work in grocery stores. | Dec 15 17:55 |
schestowitz | If the vaccine pushes them over the edge, "old age" will be blamed | Dec 15 17:55 |
schestowitz | better for the stats | Dec 15 17:56 |
schestowitz | [15:58] <vZS1> They're experimenting on the elderly and infirm. | Dec 15 17:58 |
schestowitz | My dad took the flu shot months ago but refuses to participate in COVID experiments | Dec 15 17:58 |
schestowitz | my in-laws are the same, not interested.... will keep distance for protection | Dec 15 17:58 |
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MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bread-and-circuses | Dec 15 18:08 |
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vZS1 | schestowitz: I'd rather contract Covid than subject myself to an experiment. I'm in none of the critical groups. | Dec 15 18:41 |
vZS1 | But coupled with isolation, hygiene, and wearing a mask, I'm not too worried. | Dec 15 18:42 |
vZS1 | I feel like Covid numbers are inflated | Dec 15 18:46 |
vZS1 | A lot of people probably died with Covid instead of from Covid | Dec 15 18:46 |
vZS1 | Insurance companies don't need to foot the bill | Dec 15 18:46 |
vZS1 | Governments use it as an excuse to implement "Emergency measures". | Dec 15 18:47 |
DaemonFC[m] | This isn't the first time I've wondered if something worse is actually going on that they won't admit to or if it's mostly just an excuse for a power grab. | Dec 15 18:50 |
DaemonFC[m] | Or both, I guess. Both works. | Dec 15 18:50 |
DaemonFC[m] | The virus is worse than they admit and they'll admit that it's bad enough to grab more powers for themselves. | Dec 15 18:51 |
DaemonFC[m] | Remember how the Soviets handled Chernobyl. They needed a high enough death toll to admit to, but not high enough to reflect reality, so they said something like 400 people died, and that's the number they stuck with, even though it was probably something like 12,000 (or more). | Dec 15 18:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | As far as deaths go, the Coronavirus in the US is hundreds of times worse than Chernobyl. About the only way it's not as bad is that there won't be lethal amounts of radiation there for tens of thousands of years. | Dec 15 18:53 |
DaemonFC[m] | Remember that the housing for that reactor is all that's between us and the goddamned thing spewing radiation that's every bit as bad as it was in 1986. | Dec 15 18:54 |
DaemonFC[m] | And the temporary one almost collapsed before it could be dismantled and replaced with one that will probably last 200-300 years. | Dec 15 18:55 |
DaemonFC[m] | And by that time, if there are still people, someone is going to have to figure out what to do with it all over again. | Dec 15 18:55 |
DaemonFC[m] | All because the Soviets built a chintzy nuclear power plant with corners cut off of all the corners and had the KGB cover up the problems they knew existed all along, and then proceeded with an insane "safety test" using people that weren't trained for it, to disable several safety systems, each of which would have prevented the disaster. At the same time, because why not. | Dec 15 18:56 |
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DaemonFC[m] | It was a disaster that required bad luck, stupidity, and improper design, and it all came together. | Dec 15 18:58 |
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DaemonFC[m] | You know, like, you stop a car going downhill with one finger, if you react quickly enough, then at some point you just have to jump out of the way. | Dec 15 18:58 |
DaemonFC[m] | That's exactly what happened with the Coronavirus, and Trump managed to bungle something that would have been so easy to contain if he acted on what we know he knew on January 25th. | Dec 15 18:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | It's a bombshell like finding out about President Bush and the FBI's August 2001 memo. | Dec 15 18:59 |
DaemonFC[m] | Like, what part of virus that kills old people did he not understand was bad for his re-election? | Dec 15 19:00 |
DaemonFC[m] | If he wanted to stay in office so badly, he'd have had at least a quarter of a million more old voters and an economy that might not have been in the toilet. | Dec 15 19:01 |
DaemonFC[m] | I don't think we'd be discussing a president Biden at all if Trump hadn't totally shit the bed on the Coronavirus. | Dec 15 19:01 |
DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: I noticed that just because you can still get a version of Windows 10 that doesn't limit you to Windows Store apps (S Mode), doesn't mean that it will be easy to run "classic" ones. | Dec 15 19:03 |
DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft has implemented something that's sort of like Gatekeeper on the Mac. | Dec 15 19:03 |
DaemonFC[m] | If you install a program the tradition way and it's signed by a developer that got a signing key, Windows will just go ahead and install it. | Dec 15 19:04 |
DaemonFC[m] | If you get "untrusted publisher" or an application that "hasn't been downloaded very often" according to Microsoft ("Low Reputation"), it will block it and bring up a dialog saying it protected your computer. If you click "Learn More", there is a "Run anyway." option. | Dec 15 19:05 |
MinceR | (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/25/68486ead61b20b87.jpg | Dec 15 19:05 |
DaemonFC[m] | You can turn off "smartscreen" to stop Windows from blocking "low reputation apps", which apparently includes PeaZip. | Dec 15 19:05 |
DaemonFC[m] | Which is under the GPLv3 and hosted on GitHub. | Dec 15 19:05 |
XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: They didn't get their signing key from Microsoft? Now that's just embarassing. | Dec 15 19:06 |
DaemonFC[m] | Doesn't Microsoft charge them to do this? | Dec 15 19:07 |
schestowitz | [18:46] <vZS1> A lot of people probably died with Covid instead of from Covid | Dec 15 19:07 |
DaemonFC[m] | So they have to come up with money every year or something just to give you software at no charge? | Dec 15 19:07 |
schestowitz | That is always the case, but still, if you look at excess death you cannot deny it's a fatal thing | Dec 15 19:07 |
DaemonFC[m] | JWZ complained about Apple charging like $199 a year to be an App Store publisher. | Dec 15 19:07 |
DaemonFC[m] | They lean on you hard to not give away apps that don't make them any money. | Dec 15 19:08 |
schestowitz | focus on that number alone, then you see overwhelmed hospitals (also something we can measure) cause additional deaths | Dec 15 19:08 |
schestowitz | I can give you more links | Dec 15 19:08 |
XRevan86 | schestowitz: People just trip and fall through windows a lot this year, nothing to worry about. | Dec 15 19:08 |
schestowitz | governments always like extra powers regardless, they don't need COVID for that | Dec 15 19:08 |
DaemonFC[m] | Windows Store apps have a lot of downsides, for both publisher and user. | Dec 15 19:08 |
schestowitz | vZS1: yesterday for example: "With Sweden’s hospitals overflowing and the bodies piling up in morgues, its neighbors #Norway and #Denmark have offered to step in with emergency aid." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/14/pers-d14.html | Dec 15 19:09 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.wsws.org | Sweden’s “herd immunity” policy produces disaster - World Socialist Web Site | Dec 15 19:09 | |
XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: "both" – you forgot about the more important side of this relationship. | Dec 15 19:09 |
schestowitz | so you cannot write it off as hype and inflated, not fair to the VICTIMS and their loved ones | Dec 15 19:09 |
DaemonFC[m] | For example, it's difficult to extend them or change their settings, because they kind of live walled off from the system. | Dec 15 19:09 |
DaemonFC[m] | There's a lag in getting updates, and you can't decline the update or revert to a version you liked better. | Dec 15 19:09 |
DaemonFC[m] | On Linux, a bunch of idiots got together and decided that native packages don't work well and there needed to be some screwball decision where apps came in that don't integrate with the system and are ten times bigger. | Dec 15 19:10 |
DaemonFC[m] | Even though native packages work fine and nobody has ever had problems with that. | Dec 15 19:11 |
DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft is really arm wrestling people to use the Windows Store, and nobody really wants to do that. So you hit them with fake security warnings and stuff. | Dec 15 19:11 |
DaemonFC[m] | Make it seem like there's automatically something wrong with getting a package and clicking on it. | Dec 15 19:12 |
vZS1 | > so you cannot write it off as hype and inflated | Dec 15 19:12 |
vZS1 | I didn't say that | Dec 15 19:12 |
vZS1 | I was just saying that some bodies are having a field day because of it | Dec 15 19:12 |
DaemonFC[m] | Then if that wasn't funny enough, there's some registry bit you can set that unhides the old EdgeHTML version of Microsoft Edge, and calls it Edge Legacy. | Dec 15 19:13 |
DaemonFC[m] | Legacy. It had a very long legacy of like 4 years, you know. ;) | Dec 15 19:13 |
vZS1 | Even if there is a pandemic, people shouldn't stop being critical of authorities | Dec 15 19:13 |
vZS1 | And there is a pandemic | Dec 15 19:13 |
vZS1 | I have followed every government lockdown instruction | Dec 15 19:14 |
vZS1 | But I refuse to be a guinea pig for a prototype vaccine. | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | BTW | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | hours ago... | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | our restrictions were loosened | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | tier 2 now | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | so some places will reopen, if this survived this long | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | many did not | Dec 15 19:15 |
DaemonFC[m] | "Additionally, we will be ending support for the legacy version of the Microsoft Edge desktop app on March 9, 2021, in favor of the new Microsoft Edge. This means that the legacy version of the desktop app will no longer receive security updates." | Dec 15 19:15 |
schestowitz | like some places we really liked | Dec 15 19:15 |
DaemonFC[m] | That sounds an awful lot like it's going to be removed at some point. | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | "apps" are like that | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | I have no "apps" | Dec 15 19:16 |
vZS1 | London is entering tier 3 tomorrow | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | never go for anything that has "apps" instead of SOFTWARE | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | vZS1: yes, I've heard | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | south wales is also soaring cases-wise | Dec 15 19:16 |
schestowitz | maybe bristol also, have not checked closely | Dec 15 19:16 |
vZS1 | A friend told me. I don't watch the "news" | Dec 15 19:17 |
schestowitz | I've just recorded a quick video about linux.com | Dec 15 19:17 |
vZS1 | I look up the official government website for directives | Dec 15 19:17 |
schestowitz | these take very little time to make | Dec 15 19:17 |
DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: It looks like they're going to successfully call a Recall Election for California Governor Gavin Newsom. | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | vZS1: RMS said the same | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | I stopped tracking even just the "numbers" | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | after 6-7 months | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | I get on with my life | Dec 15 19:18 |
DaemonFC[m] | Whether he survives it or not is an aside. It will be embarrassing and a distraction during a disaster, but self-inflicted. | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | trauma and panic are OK initially, perhaps... | Dec 15 19:18 |
vZS1 | There's enough propaganda on the government website. I don't need any more from the "news". | Dec 15 19:18 |
DaemonFC[m] | He locks down the state and then has a maskless dinner with dozens of people at an upscale restaurant. | Dec 15 19:18 |
schestowitz | Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • 𝓣𝓾𝔁 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145454 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:19:28 | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | SUSE statement on Amnesia:33 vulnerabilities | SUSE Communities ⇨ https://www.suse.com/c/suse-statement-on-amnesia33-vulnerabilities/#respond •●• #suse | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:22:27 | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-SUSE statement on Amnesia:33 vulnerabilities | SUSE Communities | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | #Multimedia and #Graphics in Linux • 𝓣𝓾𝔁 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145455 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | Multimedia and Graphics in Linux | Tux Machines | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:26:54 | Dec 15 19:19 |
schestowitz | "2020: A year like no other" Yeah... you killed #centos https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-shares-―-special-edition-year-open-source-2020 #ibm #redhat ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:27:48 | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.redhat.com | Red Hat Shares ― Special edition: This year in open source (2020) | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | There's no #redhat anymore; it speaks like #ibm now https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-better-subscription-management-experience-part-1-simple-content-access ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.redhat.com | Building a better subscription management experience part 1: Simple Content Access | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:28:52 | Dec 15 19:19 |
schestowitz | GNU/Linux Devices and #Arduino • 𝓣𝓾𝔁 𝓜𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145456 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest ☞ | Dec 15 19:19 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | GNU/Linux Devices and Arduino | Tux Machines | Dec 15 19:19 | |
schestowitz | posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:31:49 | Dec 15 19:19 |
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vZS1 | I lived through 2 military coups and a genocide, I'm not really one to panic. | Dec 15 19:19 |
DaemonFC[m] | Politically, that has to be worse than just not doing a damned thing to begin with. | Dec 15 19:20 |
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schestowitz | sorry, my bad | Dec 15 19:20 |
schestowitz | I selected too many lines | Dec 15 19:20 |
schestowitz | and pasted not one but many | Dec 15 19:20 |
DaemonFC[m] | I mean, the way this looks is that Governor Newsom will destroy the state's finances and economy, cause mass job losses, and then doesn't take the virus seriously at all. | Dec 15 19:20 |
DaemonFC[m] | Goes out to a fancy restaurant, which....How the hell was that even open if the state is under a lockdown order banning restaurants? | Dec 15 19:21 |
vZS1 | schestowitz: LWN.net is another one to be careful of. It's turned into a puff piece outlet for GAFAM. Nothing of substance to hackers anymore. | Dec 15 19:22 |
DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: CNN: "Trump threatens that he won't leave office!", "Coronavirus death toll skyrockets!", "13 million lose unemployment benefits at the end of the month!"...... Also CNN, "33 stocking stuffers you can buy on Amazon right now!". | Dec 15 19:22 |
schestowitz | LWN is still good | Dec 15 19:22 |
schestowitz | nobody is perfect | Dec 15 19:22 |
vZS1 | I disagree | Dec 15 19:22 |
schestowitz | they did a piece on Pocock which was nasty | Dec 15 19:23 |
schestowitz | and sometimes they push fluff | Dec 15 19:23 |
schestowitz | but compared to other sites they're mostly OK.... mostly | Dec 15 19:23 |
vZS1 | It's just regurgitated patch notes | Dec 15 19:23 |
DaemonFC[m] | What's on your holiday list for the unemployed people who are dying and could possibly be ruled over by a dictator that is threatening to suspend the constitution? | Dec 15 19:23 |
schestowitz | I cannot think of many sites more credible than them... in that particular domain | Dec 15 19:23 |
DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft Edge can give you coupons. They're almost like having a job, and heat this winter. | Dec 15 19:24 |
DaemonFC[m] | Save 5% on junk while you're being evicted. | Dec 15 19:24 |
vZS1 | schestowitz: anyone can just regurgitate patch notes. That's just noise. People are just better off aggregating the original patch notes. | Dec 15 19:26 |
schestowitz | 5-6 times per week they do articles | Dec 15 19:27 |
schestowitz | I think you refer to their daily picks | Dec 15 19:27 |
MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/see-yourself | Dec 15 19:27 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - See Yourself | Dec 15 19:27 | |
vZS1 | It applies to everything they write | Dec 15 19:29 |
vZS1 | The upstream patch notes + development conversations are where people should go instead of lwn "news" | Dec 15 19:31 |
DaemonFC[m] | Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously twice that Biden won the election, electors have already voted, Mitch McConnell said congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden, and they're building a stage for the inauguration, and Trump is still whining and claiming that it was all rigged. Of course, few point out he said the election that he won in 2016 was rigged too. He said it was rigged and he'd lose | Dec 15 19:31 |
DaemonFC[m] | because it was rigged. | Dec 15 19:31 |
vZS1 | They bolt on their own agenda | Dec 15 19:31 |
vZS1 | Cheeto Hitler got away scott free after impeachment. If anyone rigged anything, it's him. | Dec 15 19:32 |
DaemonFC[m] | Well, he is being removed from office, but yeah, he got an extra year after the impeachment that he did not deserve. | Dec 15 19:37 |
DaemonFC[m] | And they hurried to make the most of it before he lost. | Dec 15 19:37 |
DaemonFC[m] | And several pieces in such a big hurry that they were thrown out by the courts for not following basic standards of legal regulation-making. | Dec 15 19:38 |
DaemonFC[m] | The courts didn't throw out Public Charge and the new fee hikes for immigration benefits and H1-B visa bans on grounds where they could absolutely never come up again. | Dec 15 19:38 |
DaemonFC[m] | They simply decided that they weren't legally created by the standards of the Administrative Procedures Act and that an Acting Homeland Security Secretary doesn't have the authority to make new regulations. | Dec 15 19:39 |
DaemonFC[m] | The same standard by which Trump was foiled on those regulations could haunt Biden for years if he has to hobble around on Acting Secretaries. | Dec 15 19:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | The Trump Administration was so disorganized and dysfunctional that it was the source of almost all of its own policy defeats. | Dec 15 19:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | The Democrats didn't really manage to do shit. | Dec 15 19:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | At the state level, they really moved their asses to certify Biden's electors before the courts could stop them. | Dec 15 19:41 |
DaemonFC[m] | The guy gets by on being unscrupulous and not a hell of a lot else. | Dec 15 19:49 |
DaemonFC[m] | He's not very smart. He has a terrible temper and a toxic personality. All of the people who had to do his dirty work would piss him off at some point and get fired. | Dec 15 19:50 |
DaemonFC[m] | But the courts mostly upheld what he managed to get done. So if he had been smart and not foul tempered, he could have done far worse. | Dec 15 19:50 |
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CrystalMath | vZS1: the impeachment was bullcrap | Dec 15 20:20 |
CrystalMath | there is no way, and i mean no way, that russia had anything to do with Trump | Dec 15 20:21 |
CrystalMath | i calculate the chance of russia interfering in american elections to be exactly 0 | Dec 15 20:21 |
CrystalMath | they say that there's no such thing as truly impossible events, but Putin would be more likely to quantum tunnel through hyperspace than to interfere with american elections in 2016 | Dec 15 20:22 |
CrystalMath | that's how i feel about it | Dec 15 20:22 |
CrystalMath | there's no crazier bullcrap than "russia elected Trump" | Dec 15 20:22 |
CrystalMath | no qanon nonsense was ever that insane | Dec 15 20:22 |
CrystalMath | when Trump pardons Assange, you will know that you were fed lies, and that he was actually good | Dec 15 20:27 |
CrystalMath | maybe Snowden too, that's also talked about | Dec 15 20:27 |
CrystalMath | the whole world besides a bunch of idiots in america was TERRIFED of Hillary Clinton | Dec 15 20:28 |
CrystalMath | of course nobody wanted her to win, except a bunch of idiot americans | Dec 15 20:28 |
MinceR | ah, once again, gut feelings defeat facts and reason | Dec 15 20:37 |
schestowitz | Trump fights the "elites" and "deep state" :-) | Dec 15 20:39 |
schestowitz | not black people and stuff | Dec 15 20:39 |
schestowitz | but the rich and the army | Dec 15 20:39 |
schestowitz | :-) | Dec 15 20:39 |
schestowitz | it's libel to suggest otherwise | Dec 15 20:39 |
schestowitz | https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/14/alternative-facts-alternate-electors-stephen-miller-pushes-absurd-new-strategy-face | Dec 15 20:41 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.commondreams.org | From 'Alternative Facts' to 'Alternate Electors': Stephen Miller Pushes Absurd New Strategy in Face of Trump Loss | Common Dreams News | Dec 15 20:41 | |
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MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cantor | Dec 15 21:12 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cantor | Dec 15 21:12 | |
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DaemonFC[m] | https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/tech/facebook-france-africa-troll/index.html | Dec 15 21:22 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Facebook accuses people tied to French military of running troll accounts - CNN | Dec 15 21:22 | |
DaemonFC[m] | A French Troll and a Russian Troll walk into a German Troll Bar..... | Dec 15 21:22 |
DaemonFC[m] | I'm kind of stunned that CNN front page posted that Pornhub has deleted about 3/4th of the porn | Dec 15 21:28 |
DaemonFC[m] | After major credit card companies cut them off because New York accused them of hosting rape and CP videos. | Dec 15 21:29 |
DaemonFC[m] | It seems the government has a big interest in internet porn after mostly ignoring it for decades. | Dec 15 21:29 |
DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: Steve Jobs would have liked this, I'm sure. | Dec 15 21:30 |
DaemonFC[m] | This time it's the government knocking around a private company and not Apple (at least visibly). | Dec 15 21:30 |
MinceR | ah, i thought it was because of his false morality | Dec 15 21:30 |
DaemonFC[m] | Corporations are trying to "clean up the loose ends" on the web, to get rid of porn and piracy shove in DRM. | Dec 15 21:31 |
DaemonFC[m] | Pretty soon the only things left will be Disney+ and Code of Conduct Reddit at this rate. | Dec 15 21:32 |
DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: The far right is laughing about that superyacht that his widow is screwing around with a black guy on. | Dec 15 21:32 |
DaemonFC[m] | He spent a ton of money on it and never got to use it. | Dec 15 21:33 |
MinceR | he still got off too lightly | Dec 15 21:34 |
MinceR | after fucking the IT industry | Dec 15 21:34 |
DaemonFC[m] | I'm not convinced that the Mac is much more reliable than Windows 10, actually. | Dec 15 21:35 |
DaemonFC[m] | After reading what some of them say about it, unfiltered. | Dec 15 21:35 |
MinceR | :> | Dec 15 21:35 |
DaemonFC[m] | But they go right on using it. | Dec 15 21:35 |
DaemonFC[m] | Say whatever you want about Windows, at least it doesn't have that pretentious snob vibe to it. | Dec 15 21:36 |
DaemonFC[m] | And I mean, fuck, even Microsoft Edge is a better default browser than Safari. | Dec 15 21:36 |
MinceR | microshit hipsters do have that pretentious snob vibe to them, though | Dec 15 21:37 |
MinceR | they copied it from their second favorite cult | Dec 15 21:37 |
MinceR | https://ircz.de/p/20080450 | Dec 15 21:38 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4802610) | Dec 15 21:38 | |
DaemonFC[m] | There are hipsters who like Microsoft? | Dec 15 21:38 |
MinceR | yes, unfortunately | Dec 15 21:38 |
MinceR | i still remember 2 hungarian microshit hipsters i encountered on irc | Dec 15 21:39 |
DaemonFC[m] | https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Deathclaw_(Fallout:_New_Vegas) | Dec 15 21:40 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fallout.fandom.com | Deathclaw (Fallout: New Vegas) | Fallout Wiki | Fandom | Dec 15 21:40 | |
DaemonFC[m] | These things are all over the Lonesome Road add-on. | Dec 15 21:40 |
DaemonFC[m] | But they're really not that bad compared to some of the other stuff I'm coming across. | Dec 15 21:41 |
DaemonFC[m] | That guy that hacked into the eyebot did mention that those tunneler things will end up in the wasteland itself eventually and not even the deathclaws would be safe from them. | Dec 15 21:41 |
DaemonFC[m] | Even with T-51b power armor and a minigun I'm glad I brought a lot of stimpaks. | Dec 15 21:43 |
DaemonFC[m] | An average deathclaw can take three entire VATS barrages of 5mm armor piercing bullets. | Dec 15 21:43 |
DaemonFC[m] | Which is enough to run you out of Action Points even with the associated perks that I have. | Dec 15 21:45 |
DaemonFC[m] | Sometimes there's 2-3 of them at once. | Dec 15 21:45 |
DaemonFC[m] | I have the VATS perks and the center mass one that does 15% more damage for torso shots. | Dec 15 21:46 |
MinceR | do you have the Bloody Mess perk though? | Dec 15 21:46 |
DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, I do. | Dec 15 21:51 |
DaemonFC[m] | So sometimes you just get exploding deathclaw. | Dec 15 21:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | :) | Dec 15 21:52 |
MinceR | :) | Dec 15 21:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | I sent one of them flying over a freeway overpass. | Dec 15 21:52 |
DaemonFC[m] | But it was dead before it was thrown over. | Dec 15 21:53 |
DaemonFC[m] | There's moments in this game where you have to laugh about things. | Dec 15 21:53 |
DaemonFC[m] | The Fallout Wiki says that in the alt-world history, when the invasion of mainland China started, many of the Chinese soldiers would surrender as soon as they saw American troops in T-51b and carrying miniguns. | Dec 15 21:54 |
DaemonFC[m] | I can kind of see why you would. | Dec 15 21:54 |
DaemonFC[m] | If one person in power armor with a minigun can lay waste to three deathclaws easily enough, then soldier with a rifle? | Dec 15 21:55 |
DaemonFC[m] | No chance. | Dec 15 21:55 |
schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: can you proofread something for/with us? | Dec 15 22:04 |
MinceR | (cat) https://full.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/24/fa6bdb4e43fb9de7.jpg | Dec 15 22:05 |
schestowitz | MinceR: maybe you? | Dec 15 22:07 |
MinceR | yeah, i cantry | Dec 15 22:08 |
MinceR | s/nt/n /t | Dec 15 22:08 |
MinceR | argh, can't type | Dec 15 22:08 |
MinceR | will i find errors if i can't even type? :> | Dec 15 22:08 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/12/15/publication-2020/ | Dec 15 22:08 |
schestowitz | cheers | Dec 15 22:08 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | On Our Publication Strategy and Platform | Techrights | Dec 15 22:08 | |
schestowitz | sometimes double words.. "a a" | Dec 15 22:08 |
schestowitz | I wrote done instead of down | Dec 15 22:09 |
schestowitz | those sorts of thingd | Dec 15 22:09 |
MinceR | 'cash cows' -> 'cash cow' | Dec 15 22:10 |
MinceR | i'm not sure if "misleading the public by intention" is correct | Dec 15 22:12 |
CrystalMath | schestowitz: name even once instance of Trump fighting against black people | Dec 15 22:13 |
MinceR | that's all i've found | Dec 15 22:14 |
MinceR | (seems to me "intentionally misleading the public" would be more correct) | Dec 15 22:15 |
vZS1 | schestowitz: I watched the video on linux.com; it was a good video. | Dec 15 22:15 |
vZS1 | What are you using to record the videos? | Dec 15 22:16 |
schestowitz | gtk-recordmydesktop | Dec 15 22:18 |
schestowitz | MinceR: thanks, I will swap the phrases | Dec 15 22:18 |
MinceR | np | Dec 15 22:18 |
schestowitz | I write all my articles in a single pass | Dec 15 22:18 |
schestowitz | then read through twice | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | headlines 5 times | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | summary 3 times | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | body once | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | it's the only way to keep the site publishing fast... | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | when I say twice I mean first while typing it | Dec 15 22:19 |
schestowitz | then ghostreading | Dec 15 22:20 |
schestowitz | vZS1: we'll try to do 1-2 videos per day | Dec 15 22:20 |
schestowitz | lots of topics to cover that way, but for speed there's no preparation, just record, upload, link | Dec 15 22:20 |
schestowitz | we can do collaborations, with some chat application inside the frame | Dec 15 22:21 |
schestowitz | and in the background browser/similar | Dec 15 22:21 |
schestowitz | mumble is, afaik, still audio only for many participants | Dec 15 22:21 |
vZS1 | That'd effectively be a podcast | Dec 15 22:28 |
vZS1 | I can join in on the "podcasts" on the weekends. | Dec 15 22:29 |
MinceR | https://ircz.de/p/20080339 | Dec 15 22:31 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4800151) | Dec 15 22:31 | |
vZS1 | Holy water one got me | Dec 15 22:33 |
MinceR | :) | Dec 15 22:38 |
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schestowitz | MinceR: vZS1 http://techrights.org/2020/12/15/support-assange/ | Dec 15 22:55 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Support Julian Paul Assange | Techrights | Dec 15 22:55 | |
schestowitz | can you have a quick look? | Dec 15 22:55 |
MinceR | sure | Dec 15 22:56 |
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vZS1 | > “health and safety | Dec 15 22:59 |
vZS1 | Missing the closing quote | Dec 15 22:59 |
schestowitz | ty | Dec 15 23:00 |
schestowitz | I changed the summary slightly, for clarify | Dec 15 23:00 |
amreo[m] | Hi! I'm wondering. How does schestowitz avoid to being corrupted? | Dec 15 23:00 |
MinceR | i can't see anything other than that | Dec 15 23:01 |
vZS1 | Yeah. Rest seems fine | Dec 15 23:01 |
amreo[m] | Can I help the website by pin | Dec 15 23:04 |
amreo[m] | Can I help the website by pinning the whole site? | Dec 15 23:04 |
vZS1 | I'm off for the night. Gn all. | Dec 15 23:04 |
schestowitz | vZS1: thanks | Dec 15 23:04 |
schestowitz | amreo[m]: it's not impossible, but you know the tricks | Dec 15 23:05 |
schestowitz | usually coercion | Dec 15 23:05 |
schestowitz | blackmail or bribes | Dec 15 23:05 |
schestowitz | 14 December 2010 (10 years ago): The #FBI Paid #OpenBSD Developers For Backdoors? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw | Dec 15 23:05 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The FBI Paid OpenBSD Developers For Backdoors? - Phoronix | Dec 15 23:05 | |
schestowitz | "This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon the same..." | Dec 15 23:05 |
schestowitz | the gmane link is broken now as they disbanded | Dec 15 23:06 |
schestowitz | amreo[m]: yes, by all means pin the site | Dec 15 23:06 |
schestowitz | we need more nodes | Dec 15 23:06 |
amreo[m] | How can I pin the whole website? Are only the IRC logs pinned? http://techrights.org/ipfs/ | Dec 15 23:08 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights Full IPFS Index | Dec 15 23:08 | |
schestowitz | the important ones are at the bottom of the page | Dec 15 23:08 |
schestowitz | http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt | Dec 15 23:08 |
schestowitz | you can grep or tail them | Dec 15 23:08 |
schestowitz | techrights-2020-10-26 to present | Dec 15 23:09 |
schestowitz | those don't include attachments, e.g. videos, images | Dec 15 23:09 |
MinceR | https://ircz.de/p/20073116 | Dec 15 23:09 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4793465) | Dec 15 23:09 | |
amreo[m] | Why don't you setup a IPFS collaborative cluster? https://cluster.ipfs.io/documentation/collaborative/ | Dec 15 23:10 |
-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cluster.ipfs.io | Collaborative Clusters - Pinset orchestration for IPFS | Dec 15 23:10 | |
schestowitz | I did not know about it | Dec 15 23:11 |
schestowitz | can you help with it? | Dec 15 23:11 |
amreo[m] | I'm not expert of IPFS or ipfs-cluster but I think I can try to help you | Dec 15 23:16 |
schestowitz | thank you | Dec 15 23:17 |
schestowitz | vZS1 is our ipfs guru | Dec 15 23:17 |
schestowitz | maybe if you hang around here for longer coordinating the setup of such a thing would be simpler | Dec 15 23:18 |
schestowitz | it's still way above my head... I don't know many of the technical details | Dec 15 23:18 |
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