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| DaemonFC[m] | They're worthless. The FSF and the cancel culture that got rid of Stallman can go fuck themselves. | Nov 17 00:00 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | But it was pretty bad under Stallman too. | Nov 17 00:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He laid the groundwork for these idiots to take over and depose him. | Nov 17 00:00 |
| schestowitz | Deb Icaza and de Raadt also | Nov 17 00:01 |
| schestowitz | I guess next up will be almost-retired Guido Van Icaza | Nov 17 00:01 |
| MinceR | :> | Nov 17 00:02 |
| schestowitz | with a virtual ceremony and clap-clap by Ballmer | Nov 17 00:02 |
| schestowitz | After that.., Stormy Peters | Nov 17 00:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Steve Ballmer said that he was "absolutely correct" to call Linux and the GPL "Communism" at the time. | Nov 17 00:02 |
| schestowitz | Because two men in two years in a row is sexist | Nov 17 00:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But that "things have changed". We all know what that means. | Nov 17 00:03 |
| schestowitz | after Stormy Peters they can award a person who sports a penis again | Nov 17 00:03 |
| schestowitz | anything else would be "intolerant" | Nov 17 00:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Windows has some sort of incompetent subsystem, and people on Reddit are pitching it as "Why would you ever run Linux on the hardware?". | Nov 17 00:03 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: What changed? | Nov 17 00:03 |
| schestowitz | Reddit is a trollfest | Nov 17 00:03 |
| schestowitz | with Microsoft paid trolls | Nov 17 00:04 |
| schestowitz | PAID | Nov 17 00:04 |
| XRevan86 | Corporate involvement in the Linux Foundation? | Nov 17 00:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | WSL2 is still so bad that all you'd do is laugh at it. | Nov 17 00:04 |
| schestowitz | not hearsay | Nov 17 00:04 |
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| schestowitz | e.g. techrights.org/2013/06/09/reddit-infiltrated/ | Nov 17 00:04 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2013/06/09/reddit-infiltrated/ | Nov 17 00:04 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Microsoft Crime Persists: AstroTurfing a Regular Practice, Reddit Full of Paid Microsoft AstroTurfers | Techrights | Nov 17 00:04 | |
| schestowitz | fing firfox.. | Nov 17 00:04 |
| schestowitz | 'helping' me by shortening URLs | Nov 17 00:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The takeover, the burrowing, the people on the inside like mjg59 who impose non-Free binaries to get their shit to work with Linux so that nobody tries to bypass it and use the computer freely. | Nov 17 00:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He's a goddamned mole and they give the fucker an award for it. | Nov 17 00:05 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: http://techrights.org/2020/05/06/wsl2-usage-numbers/ | Nov 17 00:05 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Only About 150,000 People Worldwide Use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) | Techrights | Nov 17 00:05 | |
| psydroid | I haven't seen WSL3 news yet | Nov 17 00:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The first thing the computer starts is a non-Free binary and the user isn't supposed to know that, but they give mjg59 an award. | Nov 17 00:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then from there, the kernel starts breaking itself because herp derp security from some imaginary threat. | Nov 17 00:06 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2014/03/25/uefi-secure-boot-and-fsf/ | Nov 17 00:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | My Disagreement With the FSF Over UEFI ‘Secure Boot’ | Techrights | Nov 17 00:06 | |
| schestowitz | he canceled RMS too | Nov 17 00:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Don't worry, ZDNet will invent one! | Nov 17 00:06 |
| schestowitz | "post-RMS FSF" | Nov 17 00:06 |
| schestowitz | So RoyWasRight about mjg59 | Nov 17 00:06 |
| schestowitz | even back then.. | Nov 17 00:06 |
| schestowitz | ;-) | Nov 17 00:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Kernel Lockdown breaks a lot of basic functionality. | Nov 17 00:07 |
| schestowitz | BTW, Intel was a top FSF sponsor that year | Nov 17 00:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I mean the kind of stuff that Linus would start launching nuclear weapons over on mailing lists if it was those Open Source Security idiots. | Nov 17 00:07 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/07/30/wontboot/ | Nov 17 00:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Karma or Hubris? Is #TorvaldsWasRight a Thing Now? | Techrights | Nov 17 00:08 | |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/09/20/hijacking-linux/ | Nov 17 00:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | [Meme] How to Hijack Linux and Free Software to Make Them Proprietary and Microsoft-Controlled | Techrights | Nov 17 00:08 | |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/07/30/uefi-secure-boot-award/ | Nov 17 00:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | UEFI ‘Secure Boot’ is Just a Security Mess, as Techrights Predicted All Along, and FSF Should Not Have Given That Award | Techrights | Nov 17 00:09 | |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/07/30/wontboot-meme/ | Nov 17 00:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | [Meme] It Was Only a Matter of Time All Along | Techrights | Nov 17 00:09 | |
| schestowitz | mjg59 in a few of these memes | Nov 17 00:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://opensource.com/article/19/11/coreboot-system76-laptops | Nov 17 00:10 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-System76 introduces laptops with open source BIOS coreboot | Opensource.com | Nov 17 00:10 | |
| schestowitz | but... we're only being proven more right ove rtime | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | about him, aboyt uefi | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | about red hat and intel | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | their objectives only sometimes overlap ours | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | but often diverse | Nov 17 00:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | More models are using this now, which fixes a huge litany of functional problems that he only excuses or refuses to acknowledge. | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | freedom isn't profitable | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | and that's where they disagree with us | Nov 17 00:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When this laptop bites it or I just get itchy, I'm just going to buy something with Coreboot. | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | so azure, msvs, github, uefi 'secure boot' | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | they don't care | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | their board doesn't care | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | money? | Nov 17 00:10 |
| schestowitz | then do it! | Nov 17 00:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | No, they long ago gave up caring about desktop Linux users, at all. | Nov 17 00:11 |
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| schestowitz | war means money, too http://techrights.org/2020/06/06/regime-change-in-haiti/ | Nov 17 00:11 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Chairman of the Board of Red Hat Explains He Was Introduced to GNU/Linux When It Helped His Regime Change in Haiti | Techrights | Nov 17 00:11 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | These people don't even use it themselves. | Nov 17 00:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's all Windows and Macs. | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | yup | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | but LINUX | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | good brand | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | let's use it | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | Mix that in headlines | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | with Edge | Nov 17 00:11 |
| schestowitz | With Azure | Nov 17 00:12 |
| schestowitz | With Windows 10 | Nov 17 00:12 |
| schestowitz | With MSVS | Nov 17 00:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Someone on Reddit asked if I thought all was lost and we should move to BSD operating systems or something. | Nov 17 00:12 |
| schestowitz | "code" | Nov 17 00:12 |
| schestowitz | LINUX something something... our proprietary product | Nov 17 00:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I said I certainly hoped not, but that running Linux had gotten harder, not easier, since Microsoft started to "love" it. | Nov 17 00:12 |
| schestowitz | how's >that< for a headline? :-) | Nov 17 00:12 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | There's actually a term in Politics for what mjg59and his buddies are doing. | Nov 17 00:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Ratfucking. | Nov 17 00:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're ratfucking Linux. | Nov 17 00:14 |
| schestowitz | esr used that term | Nov 17 00:14 |
| schestowitz | first time I saw it tbh | Nov 17 00:15 |
| schestowitz | I smell a .... | Nov 17 00:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's much easier to damage and discredit from the inside. | Nov 17 00:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Make it look like an accident. | Nov 17 00:16 |
| schestowitz | you don't have to tell me | Nov 17 00:16 |
| schestowitz | they had a few runs at us | Nov 17 00:16 |
| schestowitz | mostly failed afaik | Nov 17 00:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59actually said at one point it was the fault of "Linux kernel developers" (which ones?) for not implementing support for Intel's undocumented standards. | Nov 17 00:17 |
| schestowitz | mjg59 came to this channel after I had challenged him for falsely, shamelessly associating us... with "rape" | Nov 17 00:17 |
| schestowitz | which is a very serious and unbacked allegations | Nov 17 00:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | A year and a half in, they had never even publicly asked Intel for the documents, as far as I know. | Nov 17 00:17 |
| schestowitz | *allegation | Nov 17 00:17 |
| schestowitz | [23:53] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett - YouTube | Nov 17 00:17 |
| schestowitz | This is classic concern-trolling | Nov 17 00:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And a month after Lenovo was threatened with investigation and released the BIOS update, Intel came and documented it and dumped the code to make it work, out of the blue. | Nov 17 00:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Goddamned miracle. | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | like Lunduke's (Microsoft employee) "Linux Sucks" | Nov 17 00:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Total coincidence. | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | You declare a problem | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | overstates it | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | then say it's inevitable | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | "the future is here," | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | It's here | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | we lost | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | don't fight | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | we are hopeless | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | might as well "get on with the show" | Nov 17 00:18 |
| schestowitz | like all the people who told RMS he'd never pull it off | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | but he did | Nov 17 00:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: Well, the issue here is that that landmine was defused after a year and a half of damage, but.... | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | learned helpelessness | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | induced pessimism | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | ddefeatism | Nov 17 00:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They can always make more. | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | they already did | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | they do all the time | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | some success, some fail | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | to try to stall gnu/linxu domination in laptops/desktops | Nov 17 00:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | System76 shipping Coreboot instead means at least you don't have to fight them on their own turf, so I think people should probably start buying those. | Nov 17 00:19 |
| schestowitz | as they already lost DEVELOP~1 DEVELOP~1 DEVELOP~1DEVELOP~1v | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | OOXML pushers were the same | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | "it's here" | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | we need to adopt it | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | same for exFAT | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | shoved it right up Linux's arse | Nov 17 00:20 |
| schestowitz | Tso opposes | Nov 17 00:21 |
| psydroid | doesn't Red Hat "love" Linux and money more? | Nov 17 00:21 |
| schestowitz | but the friend of Garrett had said Tso is a rape something | Nov 17 00:21 |
| schestowitz | so who the heck cares with Tso thinks, right? | Nov 17 00:21 |
| schestowitz | Torvalds shivering, recalling that harrowing month of "manners training" | Nov 17 00:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/wisconsin-recount-estimated-cost/index.html | Nov 17 00:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Wisconsin recount would cost Trump campaign $7.9 million - CNNPolitics | Nov 17 00:21 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | This is just throwing good money after bad. No matter what, he loses. | Nov 17 00:21 |
| schestowitz | one month he makes the world's most used kernel, the next he's in some classes after Zemlinsoft told him to be a "good boy" | Nov 17 00:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He may as well just transfer it to his PAC instead and use that to sabotage Biden's presidency and prop up Republicans who will still carry out Trump's bidding. | Nov 17 00:22 |
| *zjmc_ (~jmc@184.75.221.203) has left #techrights | Nov 17 00:23 | |
| schestowitz | Day of rage | Nov 17 00:24 |
| schestowitz | Trump riling up the believers | Nov 17 00:24 |
| schestowitz | in youtube vids about "voter fraud" | Nov 17 00:24 |
| schestowitz | voter fraud does exist | Nov 17 00:25 |
| schestowitz | but not at those scales | Nov 17 00:25 |
| schestowitz | a few rogue ballots don't add up to thousands or millions without it going above the radar | Nov 17 00:26 |
| psydroid | https://jamesallworth.medium.com/intels-disruption-is-now-complete-d4fa771f0f2c | Nov 17 00:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-jamesallworth.medium.com | Intel’s Disruption is Now Complete | by James Allworth | Nov, 2020 | Medium | Nov 17 00:26 | |
| schestowitz | Intel put me on conference call | Nov 17 00:27 |
| psydroid | no more Intel->no more UEFI->ultimate joy | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | with their managers | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | because of my criticism of UEFI 'secure boot' | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | they did not convince me | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | I have the thing recorded still | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | on external drive | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | if I ever wanted to dig that up | Nov 17 00:27 |
| schestowitz | I wrote about it back then | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | but never released the audio | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | iirc, it was cut into many bits | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | I used some freesw to record it | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | maybe audacity | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | and then it crashed or something | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | but there were buffer failed still at hand | Nov 17 00:28 |
| schestowitz | seaming them together would take ages | Nov 17 00:29 |
| schestowitz | I literally put a microphone next to a landline headset | Nov 17 00:29 |
| schestowitz | so the quality of the audio wasn't good either and it's hard to hear me | Nov 17 00:29 |
| schestowitz | They only did this to one more person | Nov 17 00:30 |
| schestowitz | Jamie from ZDNet | Nov 17 00:30 |
| schestowitz | their only writer who actuallyt supported Linux | Nov 17 00:30 |
| schestowitz | before they got rid of him, because of course... | Nov 17 00:30 |
| schestowitz | he kept complaining there about uefi | Nov 17 00:30 |
| schestowitz | it was getting in his way every time he was testign distros | Nov 17 00:31 |
| schestowitz | so intel wanted to squash him too | Nov 17 00:31 |
| schestowitz | I think with him they succeeded at getting a puff piece | Nov 17 00:31 |
| schestowitz | and then he vanished from zdnet | Nov 17 00:31 |
| schestowitz | maybe not the same year | Nov 17 00:31 |
| psydroid | Intel tried to hire me twice, but I don't want to work there because they are hostile towards their clients and even their own employees | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | larry dignan, zdnet editor, fired more like him | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | paula rooney | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | dana blankenhord | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | They kept sjvn | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | "call me crazy" sjvn | Nov 17 00:32 |
| schestowitz | who says "call me crazy" | Nov 17 00:32 |
| psydroid | I remember them from the days when I did read ZDNet | Nov 17 00:33 |
| schestowitz | when he says Windows will be Linux | Nov 17 00:33 |
| schestowitz | and they censor his articles | Nov 17 00:33 |
| schestowitz | when he writes 'too' negatively about Microsoft | Nov 17 00:33 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/09/10/sjvn-senior-moment/ | Nov 17 00:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | One Year Later Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ Libel Against Richard Stallman Remains Online and Uncorrected at ZDNet | Techrights | Nov 17 00:33 | |
| schestowitz | wife and I call him "VonVon" | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | total idiot in her views | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | and our associates really hate him | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | more than me... I don't hate him at all... I just totally lost respect for him | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | he hangs around with LF SPAMnil now | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | and the rest of LF gang | Nov 17 00:34 |
| schestowitz | does PR for them | Nov 17 00:34 |
| psydroid | isn't he really old now? | Nov 17 00:35 |
| schestowitz | would be late 60s, I think | Nov 17 00:35 |
| schestowitz | the beard makes him look older | Nov 17 00:35 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2019/10/08/torvalds-age/ | Nov 17 00:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Corporate Disciplining Bad for One’s Health | Techrights | Nov 17 00:36 | |
| schestowitz | this is VonVon (SJVN) and Linus | Nov 17 00:36 |
| schestowitz | they look almost the same age | Nov 17 00:36 |
| schestowitz | Torvalds must have lives on pringles on something since they punished him... pringles and Cokwe | Nov 17 00:37 |
| schestowitz | Coke | Nov 17 00:37 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Transferring my current music library to my phone. | Nov 17 00:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Takes forever because it's WavPack files. | Nov 17 00:47 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: I've repeatedly asked Intel to document their AHCI/RAID passthrough mode | Nov 17 00:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But I found that backing out all five hundred and eleventy bazillion of Intel's fuck-up mitigations sped up the encoder for WavPack by about 3 warp factors. | Nov 17 00:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | :/ | Nov 17 00:47 |
| mjg59 | "The real problem here is that Intel do very little to ensure that free operating systems work well on their consumer hardware - we still have no information from Intel on how to configure systems to ensure good power management, we have no support for storage devices in "RAID" mode and we have no indication that this is going to get better in future. If Intel had provided that support, this issue would | Nov 17 00:47 |
| mjg59 | never have occurred. Rather than be angry at Lenovo, let's put pressure on Intel to provide support for their hardware." | Nov 17 00:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So making another pass over them has resulted in....some space savings. Which are always nice. | Nov 17 00:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: But you fail to address the meat of the subject here. | Nov 17 00:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Rather than focusing on Intel's stupid fucking moronic "RAID" mode, focus on the facts. | Nov 17 00:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's pointless, Lenovo is the one that hid AHCI, and then they wrote yet more code to flip it back every reboot even if you used EFI shell to change it anyway. | Nov 17 00:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then the separate fact that it adds nothing to the user experience at all and if your argument is that Windows 10 starts losing its shit and blue screening more than it normally does if some idiot gets in there and fucks with the shit, then wouldn't hiding it in the firmware menu be enough so that only a person who would know why they wanted to change the setting could do it? | Nov 17 00:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Therefore, why the EXTRA code? | Nov 17 00:50 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Raw device access is the only thing that makes sense, and even Intel's engineers admitted it at one point, although they didn't mention that it was such a bad idea, Lenovo made it the law. | Nov 17 00:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's what I usually like saying about the government. "It was such a bad idea that they made it the law.". | Nov 17 00:53 |
| MinceR | intel did plenty dick moves on their own | Nov 17 00:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You know, the kind of stupidity that nobody would have cooperated with voluntarily gets made so you don't have a choice. | Nov 17 00:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They did. It's a team effort. | Nov 17 00:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The usual suspects all had a hand in it, and all of this handwringing to try to avoid blaming the whole bunch of them is very interesting. | Nov 17 00:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But mostly this is Lenovo and Microsoft's fault and it was a corrupt bargain. | Nov 17 00:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They entered into it in exchange for vendor rebate kickbacks for locking the customer into Windows once they realized how bad Windows 10 was. | Nov 17 00:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And mjg59 is completely silent there. | Nov 17 00:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then, like Windows 10 S Mode, you have to pass it so you can find out what's in it. It's meant as an ambush after the user already has it at home and unboxed. | Nov 17 00:56 |
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| psydroid | my uncle returned a Lenovo laptop over the "RAID" (Intel RST) mode last year | Nov 17 00:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then they probably just groan and use Windows 10 because resistance is difficult and there's not too many "Don't fuck with me, fellas!" people, like me, out there. | Nov 17 00:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | psydroid: The BIOS update took care of the affected systems, and you don't even have to use that now. | Nov 17 00:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Linux should just work. | Nov 17 00:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But I never put it back because it adds pointless complexity and potential bugs to the situation. | Nov 17 00:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The correct answer is most often the simpler one. | Nov 17 00:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: takes advantage of that by asserting that Intel and Lenovo are just a bunch of total fucking retards, when they've proven over and over again that, yeah, they're that, but they're vicious and scheming too! | Nov 17 00:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Like their pals over at Apple and Microsoft. | Nov 17 00:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Their "best people" are always the lawyers, never the engineers. | Nov 17 01:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Intel has had some spectacularly bad products before but nothing even holds a candle to their recent stuff. | Nov 17 01:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So they use patents and lawyers and dirty tricks and vendor kickbacks, just like Microsoft. | Nov 17 01:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In fact, they even threatened Microsoft. | Nov 17 01:01 |
| psydroid | I just listen to that video he posted and even though I didn't really pay attention, it sounded more like beating around the bush avoiding the real issue of why UEFI was needed in the first place and then finding workarounds for the buggy mess it is | Nov 17 01:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft's SEC report that I showed schestowitz even admitted, although in a roundabout way, that money comes in from vendors, and a lot of it just goes right back out as bribes to put things in "S Mode". | Nov 17 01:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Their thinking is that users won't try to bust out of the confinement and then they can have developers pay a 30% tax to use the Windows store, which rebounds on the consumer anyway. | Nov 17 01:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They see "giving away copies" of Windows as long as it defaults to only running apps in the store as an "investment" in fleecing the consumer even worse later. | Nov 17 01:03 |
| MinceR | > why UEFI was needed | Nov 17 01:04 |
| MinceR | people were realizing that there were non-shit OSes available for PCs | Nov 17 01:04 |
| MinceR | so the redmond mafia needed a way of locking PCs into the uhmerican government-approved duopoly of crapOS and Backdoors | Nov 17 01:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then, to avoid being sued or bad PR, they let you turn it into a real copy of Windows 10 Home, but not before trying to scare the bejesus out of you. Suddenly, the "most secure Windows ever" will become riddled with malware and corrupt settings and all of the things we've come to expect. | Nov 17 01:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because it's really that fragile. | Nov 17 01:05 |
| MinceR | "the most secure windows ever", now with built-in keylogger | Nov 17 01:06 |
| MinceR | this industry disgusts me | Nov 17 01:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I just got an unexpected package. | Nov 17 01:06 |
| psydroid | I would say that those "users" moved to Android and iOS, as they were never true computer users in the first place | Nov 17 01:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's addressed to my apartment but not to me. | Nov 17 01:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It says "IRHYTHM STOCK -ICC QUARANTINE". | Nov 17 01:07 |
| mjg59 | Ok well at least we're at the point where you're no longer accusing me of not criticising Intel | Nov 17 01:25 |
| mjg59 | Or publicly asking for them to release docs | Nov 17 01:25 |
| mjg59 | There's a clear explanation for how this could happen without maliciousness on Lenovo's part | Nov 17 01:26 |
| mjg59 | The explanation is simply that they didn't care | Nov 17 01:26 |
| mjg59 | They made choices that made it more difficult for users to get the system into an unsupported state that could potentially cause hardware damage | Nov 17 01:26 |
| MinceR | if that was the goal, they could have accomplished it much more simply by selling customers slabs of stone instead of an alleged PC | Nov 17 01:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The only distribution that was stupid enough to potentially cause an adverse reaction due to another one of their uEFI bugs was Ubuntu with the Intel-SPI driver they built from staging. | Nov 17 01:27 |
| mjg59 | And if Intel had done their fucking job and documented how the hardware works then there'd have been a driver and Linux would have worked fine | Nov 17 01:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They don't care if it has bugs. Nobody at Microsoft, Intel, or Lenovo cares. By the time you figure it out, you're home with it, and they still assume they're going to get you again anyway. | Nov 17 01:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It takes a long time to get out of a mindset where you're just going to keep putting one over on people because they have no options. | Nov 17 01:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So I agree to that much, but this went above and beyond not wanting to field support calls because some idiot found their way into BIOS Setup. | Nov 17 01:28 |
| mjg59 | Like how Intel's refusal to document DPTF means that a large number of laptops run slower under Linux than Windows | Nov 17 01:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nobody is going to open EFI shell and tell it to put the storage controller in a different mode by accident. | Nov 17 01:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even if they could conceivably hit a key and go "Oh what's this? Maybe I'll just play around with stuff at random.". | Nov 17 01:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So why the extra code? | Nov 17 01:29 |
| mjg59 | Because if you just remove the option then you still need to write something that sets the appropriate mode in the first place | Nov 17 01:30 |
| mjg59 | And the easiest thing to do there is just hardware it in the init code | Nov 17 01:30 |
| mjg59 | Rather than figure out how to set the default properly | Nov 17 01:30 |
| mjg59 | Firmware is not written with great care and attention | Nov 17 01:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Or you could just assume that it's where you put it and if the user goes to EFI shell and says different, they must know why they're doing that. | Nov 17 01:31 |
| mjg59 | You can't simultaneously complain about uefi being poorly implemented and then cite a poor implementation as evidence of conspiracy | Nov 17 01:31 |
| MinceR | "Firmware is not written with great care and attention" -- that should be hewlett-packard's motto | Nov 17 01:31 |
| mjg59 | Why would they even think about a user doing that? | Nov 17 01:31 |
| MinceR | UEFI itself is a result of conspiracy | Nov 17 01:32 |
| MinceR | it involved at least intel and microshit | Nov 17 01:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because about 5% will take the laptop home and try to put Linux on it somehow, statistically. | Nov 17 01:32 |
| mjg59 | Firmware developers do not consider that | Nov 17 01:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And then they'll end up with returns or what happened when I opened one up and went "Nope, don't need Windows 10. Nope nope nope.". | Nov 17 01:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 1 in 20 returning your product or yelling and swearing at you is not a blip. | Nov 17 01:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You need to anticipate that, if nothing else. | Nov 17 01:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And I think they learned something here. | Nov 17 01:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I haven't heard about any new Lenovo PCs that don't let you install Linux. Maybe if they're REALLY new some distributions won't have a driver for something quite yet. | Nov 17 01:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But no hard blocks on it. | Nov 17 01:34 |
| mjg59 | The difference between "Our assumptions about support tradeoffs didn't match reality" and "We conspired with Microsoft to screw over Linux" is meaningful | Nov 17 01:34 |
| mjg59 | And, again, if Intel had done their job then Linux would have worked fine | Nov 17 01:34 |
| mjg59 | Because the failure here was that Linux didn't have a driver for it | Nov 17 01:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If they shipped a damned laptop that wasn't full tilt crazy then they'd have never heard from any of their customers about it in the first place. | Nov 17 01:35 |
| mjg59 | Despite hardware having shipped in this mode for years previously | Nov 17 01:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They certainly wouldn't have had to start banning hundreds of people on their forums. :) | Nov 17 01:35 |
| MinceR | not forcing this bullshit "RAID" mode would have worked too | Nov 17 01:35 |
| mjg59 | Yeah, it's clear that not forcing that mode was a problem | Nov 17 01:35 |
| mjg59 | But there's a reason that mode exists | Nov 17 01:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, because Windows has a storage driver that doesn't load the power policy. | Nov 17 01:36 |
| MinceR | it exists because the way Backdoors manages drivers is ass-backwards | Nov 17 01:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Sounds like a don't ask, don't tell to me. | Nov 17 01:36 |
| MinceR | so they had to lie to Backdoors that it was a different device so they could get it to load a custom driver | Nov 17 01:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If Microsoft wanted to know how to do this, Intel would tell them. | Nov 17 01:36 |
| MinceR | it's a horrible mess, not engineering | Nov 17 01:36 |
| mjg59 | Right, if you ship in AHCI mode you have no way to force the use of the Intel driver over the generic driver | Nov 17 01:36 |
| mjg59 | If Intel would document their power management policy then even the generic AHCI driver in Windows could do the right thing here | Nov 17 01:37 |
| MinceR | that's hilarious if true | Nov 17 01:37 |
| MinceR | because fixing that would have been a lot simpler and easier than this unholy mess | Nov 17 01:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There was also no way to install Windows 10 from a clean ISO, remember? | Nov 17 01:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So the only way to fix it if something fucked up was hope the built in recovery tools that never work, work. | Nov 17 01:37 |
| mjg59 | There's a genuine reason why laptops that can never have more than one disk in them ship in this mode by default | Nov 17 01:37 |
| mjg59 | The XPS13 does, if you don't have the Linux SKU | Nov 17 01:38 |
| mjg59 | Well, did until they went nvme | Nov 17 01:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Linux would still work on the others though, afaik. | Nov 17 01:38 |
| mjg59 | You had to change the option | Nov 17 01:38 |
| mjg59 | It wouldn't out of the box | Nov 17 01:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, at least they didn't HIDE IT. | Nov 17 01:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So if I ran into that problem I'd just google "no storage device dell xps 13 linux" or something. | Nov 17 01:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And I'd be on my way. | Nov 17 01:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm pretty terrified of what's out there to the point where I want a newer laptop but I don't want to buy anything. | Nov 17 01:40 |
| MinceR | i suspect intel's and microshit's problem with properly documenting intel's shit was that that way competing OS-es could have just as easily supported intel's shit | Nov 17 01:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because it's all a pig in a poke and some work, many don't. | Nov 17 01:40 |
| MinceR | remember, intel was willing to design a "windows only" SoC for microshit for the sole purpose of fucking over users | Nov 17 01:40 |
| mjg59 | Intel are fine with Linux, but certain teams within Intel are extremely afraid to publish details | Nov 17 01:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Bay FAIL was a disaster even with Windows. | Nov 17 01:41 |
| MinceR | maybe the 32bit UEFI implementation also had to do with them | Nov 17 01:41 |
| MinceR | which, again, only existed to make it harder to run a real OS on certain intel-based devices | Nov 17 01:41 |
| mjg59 | 32 bit UEFI was vendors wanting to ship 2GB Windows tablets | Nov 17 01:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Wasn't that the first system they marooned people on an unsupported Windows 10 that didn't even get security patches anymore? | Nov 17 01:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It won't be the last. | Nov 17 01:41 |
| MinceR | why, did 64bit UEFI require more than 2GB RAM to function? | Nov 17 01:41 |
| mjg59 | Yes | Nov 17 01:41 |
| mjg59 | Well | Nov 17 01:41 |
| mjg59 | To be able to actually launch anything | Nov 17 01:42 |
| MinceR | it wouldn't surprise me, considering what an unholy bloated mess it is | Nov 17 01:42 |
| mjg59 | 64 bit Linux needs more RAM than 32 bit Linux | Nov 17 01:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Not a lot more, really. | Nov 17 01:42 |
| mjg59 | Turns out that doubling the length of pointers takes more RAM | Nov 17 01:42 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Python on 64 bit consumes around 50% more RAM than on 32 bit | Nov 17 01:42 |
| MinceR | pretty sure it can boot with less than 2GB RAM though | Nov 17 01:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I was probably one of the first people to move over to 64-bit Linux in 2005 or so. | Nov 17 01:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That was on a system with maybe 2 GB. | Nov 17 01:42 |
| MinceR | and the boot firmware is supposed to free most of RAM once it's done | Nov 17 01:43 |
| mjg59 | Anyway, that's why 32 bit UEFI on 64 bit CPUs exists | Nov 17 01:43 |
| mjg59 | It's almost 100% on devices that had small amounts of RAM | Nov 17 01:43 |
| MinceR | (or let whatever it booted use it any way it wants to, anyway) | Nov 17 01:43 |
| MinceR | that's a hilarious idea too | Nov 17 01:43 |
| mjg59 | You can't boot 32 bit Windows on 64 bit UEFI | Nov 17 01:43 |
| mjg59 | So the amount of RAM used by the firmware is irrelevant | Nov 17 01:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Why does that even still exist? | Nov 17 01:43 |
| MinceR | let's design devices to run the world's most bloated "operating system" with so little RAM we have to fuck with the boot firmware so it will fit! | Nov 17 01:44 |
| mjg59 | MinceR: Capitalism is a hell of a drug | Nov 17 01:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Windows 10 32-bit. Ugh. | Nov 17 01:44 |
| MinceR | this isn't capitalism, this is plain old organized crime | Nov 17 01:44 |
| mjg59 | Anyway, Linux runs fine on them now | Nov 17 01:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You'd really think that Windows Vista would have been the end of the line for 32-bit x86 Windows. | Nov 17 01:44 |
| MinceR | it has nothing to do with ownership of the means of production | Nov 17 01:44 |
| mjg59 | Even in 64 bits | Nov 17 01:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | By 2009 the platform was very much obsolete. | Nov 17 01:45 |
| MinceR | and if we had a genuine free market, microshit would have gone bust long ago | Nov 17 01:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Here we are, 15 YEARS after the last 32-bit x86 processor that anyone cares about came off the line, and we're still talking about 32-bit Windows. | Nov 17 01:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | OEMs skimping on RAM to save 10 cents. | Nov 17 01:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | This is backpeddling. 4 GB of RAM on any OS in 2020 is a fucking joke. | Nov 17 01:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can blow right past that on Linux with all but the most minimal desktop environment and applications. | Nov 17 01:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So, like, what chance does a Windows 10 device have? None. That's why everyone on the reviews say this is really really slow. | Nov 17 01:47 |
| MinceR | mostly thanks to the "modern" web | Nov 17 01:47 |
| mjg59 | Walmart will sell you a laptop with 2GB of RAM today | Nov 17 01:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, a Chromebook probably. | Nov 17 01:47 |
| mjg59 | No | Nov 17 01:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Actually, I bought a $179 Chromebook with 4 GB in April. | Nov 17 01:48 |
| mjg59 | Windows 10 | Nov 17 01:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So, uhhh. | Nov 17 01:48 |
| MinceR | lol | Nov 17 01:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | What are you talking about, actually? | Nov 17 01:48 |
| mjg59 | And so thermally limited that it's only capable of running at half speed | Nov 17 01:48 |
| mjg59 | https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/we-bought-walmarts-140-laptop-so-you-wouldnt-have-to/ | Nov 17 01:48 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-arstechnica.com | We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to | Ars Technica | Nov 17 01:48 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Chrome OS is the only system that anyone knows what the fuck you're talking about that will still be decent with 4 GB of RAM. | Nov 17 01:48 |
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| MinceR | sounds like a laptop the sole purpose for which is to demonstrate that you either need more than 2GB RAM, or you need to ditch Backdoors | Nov 17 01:48 |
| mjg59 | Hardware vendors will cut any corners available to them to skimp on hardware to hit a price point | Nov 17 01:49 |
| mjg59 | So 32 bit UEFI was entirely unsurprising | Nov 17 01:49 |
| MinceR | pretty sure any _decent_ GNU/Linux distro will do fine with 4GB RAM if you don't weigh it down with a shitty DE or the "modern" web | Nov 17 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's a system that's designed to show off Windows 10 with the minimum specs published by Microsoft. | Nov 17 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | How does that EVER end? | Nov 17 01:49 |
| mjg59 | No conspiracies needed | Nov 17 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You know, 10 minutes to boot up. Out of memory when it does. | Nov 17 01:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: You'd think that for $1300 there wouldn't be too many compromises. Apple can get away with charging 4x that for a system that's half as good. | Nov 17 01:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But few others could. | Nov 17 01:50 |
| MinceR | well, at least with crApple you also don't get proper cooling | Nov 17 01:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Apple gets away with a lot, including a HIG that makes no sense at all. | Nov 17 01:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | One button mice that cost $200. | Nov 17 01:51 |
| MinceR | and a system that already won't boot a real OS | Nov 17 01:51 |
| MinceR | because "security" | Nov 17 01:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Perversions that only the head of IBM or the Linux foundation would enjoy using. | Nov 17 01:51 |
| mjg59 | T2 Macs can have secure boot entirely disabled | Nov 17 01:52 |
| MinceR | you can also get a "unibody" that blows hot air onto the part that's supposed to be one piece but is actually glued together so it falls apart | Nov 17 01:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yes, I've read that. That's the only Secure Boot setting you need. OFF | Nov 17 01:52 |
| MinceR | and a power connector that overheats and catches fire | Nov 17 01:52 |
| mjg59 | M1 Macs will have the ability to enable booting alternative OSes | Nov 17 01:52 |
| MinceR | you really get a lot for your money with crApple | Nov 17 01:52 |
| MinceR | not things any sane person would desire, but things. | Nov 17 01:53 |
| mjg59 | (Although this was only determined this week) | Nov 17 01:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Especially with this fucking stupid break drivers AND userspace Linux Lockdown bullshit you like so much. | Nov 17 01:53 |
| MinceR | i wonder if they'll let you sideload applications onto M1 macs | Nov 17 01:53 |
| MinceR | they were already screwing with third-party applications (like xonotic) before, but afaik it wasn't official | Nov 17 01:53 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: That's why shim's designed to let you disable that if you need it | Nov 17 01:54 |
| mjg59 | MinceR: There's no difference between ARM and x86 for third party apps on MacOS at the moment | Nov 17 01:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even if you can't turn off allegedly secure but designed by the same retards that fucked everything else up boot? | Nov 17 01:54 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Yes | Nov 17 01:54 |
| MinceR | so they don't dare make that change yet | Nov 17 01:55 |
| mjg59 | shim is explicitly designed to ensure that it's always possible to disable secure boot | Nov 17 01:55 |
| MinceR | i guess they'll still update crapOS for x86 a few times | Nov 17 01:55 |
| MinceR | and lock it down only once x86 support is gone | Nov 17 01:55 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: So, you might have noticed that with most OEMs the first and last firmware you get is what it came with. | Nov 17 01:56 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | So when there's tons of security vulnerabilities that completely bypass secure boot, they just pile up on the user, never get fixed, and that's that. | Nov 17 01:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So why would anyone leave it on? | Nov 17 01:56 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Because they use systems where they do get vendor updates? | Nov 17 01:57 |
| MinceR | because microshit marketroids keep telling them it's "secure" | Nov 17 01:57 |
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| MinceR | and most people are so stupid that if someone spends a lot of money on ads claiming falsehoods, they'll believe them | Nov 17 01:57 |
| mjg59 | Obviously you can't implement something secure on an insecure foundation | Nov 17 01:58 |
| mjg59 | But if you have a secure foundation, you can | Nov 17 01:58 |
| MinceR | then maybe your boot firmware shouldn't be as complex as possible | Nov 17 01:58 |
| MinceR | and maybe your means of keeping your boot firmware unaltered shouldn't depend on potentially fragile cryptography but hardware switches | Nov 17 01:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So if you have one of those theoretical systems where the vendor that doesn't care about bugs is fixing bugs, Secure Boot works. | Nov 17 01:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well thank you for clarifying that. | Nov 17 01:59 |
| mjg59 | I've got like 4 of those within reach | Nov 17 01:59 |
| mjg59 | No, 5 | Nov 17 01:59 |
| MinceR | but claiming that locking users into Backdoors or crapOS is "secure" is a ludicrous claim anyway | Nov 17 01:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Which vendor is actually fixing their systems? | Nov 17 01:59 |
| mjg59 | Lenovo, Dell, HP at least | Nov 17 01:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Lenovo never updated the BIOS for this thing other than the "Linux only" one. | Nov 17 02:00 |
| MinceR | “We really haven’t done everything we could to protect our customers. Our products just aren’t engineered for security.” – Brian Valentine, Microsoft | Nov 17 02:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So if you count that, where its just the original image with the AHCI shown, then yeah. | Nov 17 02:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Sure. Okay. | Nov 17 02:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In 4 years, they've never fixed a goddamned thing. | Nov 17 02:00 |
| MinceR | well, the HP "Pro"Book i've used at work which had broken Legacy Boot was pretty old | Nov 17 02:00 |
| MinceR | yet they didn't fix it | Nov 17 02:01 |
| MinceR | and seeing how the firmware in that POS behaved, i doubt HP could even ever fix it | Nov 17 02:01 |
| MinceR | since they obviously had no clue about what they were doing | Nov 17 02:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've never seen an OEM fix anything or if they do it's a one and done a few months past hitting the shelf. | Nov 17 02:01 |
| mjg59 | MinceR: That quote's from 2002, which was the year Microsoft's trustworthy computing initiative started | Nov 17 02:01 |
| MinceR | LOL | Nov 17 02:01 |
| mjg59 | Since then Microsoft's legitimately made meaningful improvements to their security | Nov 17 02:01 |
| MinceR | are you going to plug Treacherous Computing now? | Nov 17 02:02 |
| mjg59 | Things like Credential Guard are well designed features | Nov 17 02:02 |
| MinceR | that's hilarious | Nov 17 02:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer say Trust Me. | Nov 17 02:02 |
| mjg59 | No, that's Trusted Computing | Nov 17 02:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Very Trustworthy individuals. | Nov 17 02:02 |
| mjg59 | Completely unrelated to Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative | Nov 17 02:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Lots of truth coming from that direction, let me tell you. | Nov 17 02:02 |
| MinceR | so, since you're the resident Treacherous Computing shill, please explain to me how having an Endorsement Key on the TPM enhances security | Nov 17 02:02 |
| MinceR | (not DRM, security.) | Nov 17 02:02 |
| mjg59 | It allows you to prove your identity to a remote site | Nov 17 02:03 |
| mjg59 | For most users this isn't a benefit | Nov 17 02:03 |
| MinceR | how? | Nov 17 02:03 |
| mjg59 | For corporate users, it is | Nov 17 02:03 |
| MinceR | it is bound to the identity of your TPM, not you | Nov 17 02:03 |
| MinceR | and it can be read from the TPM after de-capping it | Nov 17 02:03 |
| mjg59 | In combination with a platform certificate you verify that the machine has a specific serial number that was issued to a specific user | Nov 17 02:03 |
| MinceR | you'd be better served by a real keypair on a real smart card if you wanted that | Nov 17 02:03 |
| MinceR | who cares about the serial number of the machine? we're talking about proving the identity of a user here | Nov 17 02:04 |
| mjg59 | If you get a request from a machine associated with one user but which is authenticating as another user, you refuse the request | Nov 17 02:04 |
| mjg59 | Read up on Beyondcorp | Nov 17 02:05 |
| MinceR | i'm not buying it | Nov 17 02:05 |
| mjg59 | Outside that: | Nov 17 02:05 |
| mjg59 | You use the EK to establish an AK while you're in a trusted state | Nov 17 02:05 |
| mjg59 | The public half of the AK goes on your phone | Nov 17 02:06 |
| MinceR | apparently one big improvement in security on microshit products is that Backdoors10 finally ships with a keylogger built in | Nov 17 02:06 |
| MinceR | oh wait, that's actually the opposite of security | Nov 17 02:06 |
| mjg59 | On boot, before you type in your password, your laptop generates a signed PCR quote and pushes it over Bluetooth to your phone | Nov 17 02:06 |
| smnthermes | Interesting read: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html | Nov 17 02:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-madaidans-insecurities.github.io | Linux | Madaidan's Insecurities | Nov 17 02:06 | |
| MinceR | and why would i want to involve my phone in security, when phones are even less secure than PCs? | Nov 17 02:06 |
| mjg59 | And your phone then tells you whether your OS has been modified before you type anything in | Nov 17 02:06 |
| MinceR | Bluetooth... great | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | Now someone needs to compromise both your phone and your laptop | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | The transport layer here is entirely irrelevant | Nov 17 02:07 |
| MinceR | so all the attacker needs to do is break into the BT connection | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | It doesn't need to be trusted | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | No | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | All you could do by breaking the BT connection is DoS the process | Nov 17 02:07 |
| mjg59 | You verify the communication is signed with the AK | Nov 17 02:07 |
| MinceR | and the attacker doesn't even need to modify your OS, since it's full of holes anyway | Nov 17 02:08 |
| mjg59 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FobfM9S9xSI | Nov 17 02:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-"TPM based attestation - how can we use it for good?" - Matthew Garrett (LCA 2020) - YouTube | Nov 17 02:08 | |
| MinceR | not only do microshit and crApple not care about the security of their OSes at all (outside advertisements, anyway), they also serve the NSA | Nov 17 02:08 |
| mjg59 | Oh, this is all using Linux | Nov 17 02:08 |
| MinceR | of course if you have to rely on BT to boot, you'll have to have BT enabled on your PC when booting | Nov 17 02:18 |
| MinceR | so how do i prevent an attacker from using BT to send keystrokes with which to implement an attack? | Nov 17 02:19 |
| MinceR | say, i switch to a root shell to do whatever, and suddenly they send a sequence of commands to change the root password and clear the console | Nov 17 02:19 |
| MinceR | maybe also ping a server the attacker runs so they know when to exploit this | Nov 17 02:20 |
| mjg59 | At this point you don't run enough of the Bluetooth stack to pair with arbitrary devices | Nov 17 02:20 |
| mjg59 | The kernel simply won't set up HID | Nov 17 02:20 |
| mjg59 | You can disable it again afterwards | Nov 17 02:21 |
| MinceR | well, if you have the connection key for one device, you can just send keyboard events over that, can't you? | Nov 17 02:21 |
| MinceR | i mean, does the BT stack mind if the phone also starts acting as a keyboard? | Nov 17 02:22 |
| mjg59 | Just don't include the BT_HIDP driver in your initramfs | Nov 17 02:23 |
| mjg59 | And then the kernel literally doesn't have support for it | Nov 17 02:23 |
| MinceR | i see | Nov 17 02:23 |
| mjg59 | The phone can do what it wants, the kernel will ignore it | Nov 17 02:23 |
| mjg59 | But thanks, that's a good question | Nov 17 02:24 |
| MinceR | np | Nov 17 02:24 |
| MinceR | it's something that's keeping me from enabling BT on my PCs | Nov 17 02:25 |
| MinceR | (it's an issue on phones too, but i don't trust my phones for security anyway) | Nov 17 02:25 |
| mjg59 | That's a legitimate stance | Nov 17 02:25 |
| MinceR | well, at least that's a non-DRM and non-windows-enforcing use for the EK, even if it is distastefully centralized for my taste | Nov 17 02:30 |
| MinceR | also, whatever authority issued that EK could have a copy of it and they could potentially break this scheme if they wanted to | Nov 17 02:30 |
| MinceR | or someone who breaks into their systems or forces their compliance | Nov 17 02:30 |
| MinceR | oh, and hopefully the TPM wasn't made by infineon, whose crypto library was found to generate weak keys or something... | Nov 17 02:31 |
| mjg59 | For the local state attestation stuff, having a private copy of the EK only works if you're in a position to spoof the AK certification | Nov 17 02:32 |
| mjg59 | The EK doesn't get used again after that | Nov 17 02:32 |
| mjg59 | Of course, a backdoored TPM could lie to you | Nov 17 02:32 |
| mjg59 | And generate a backdoored AK | Nov 17 02:32 |
| MinceR | what if they redid the AK-generation part? | Nov 17 02:32 |
| mjg59 | But a backdoored TPM could just lie in its quote anyway | Nov 17 02:33 |
| mjg59 | User has to re-trigger the AK generation to enroll a new public half on the phone | Nov 17 02:33 |
| mjg59 | So yeah if you can force the user to do that and have control of EKpriv you're able to spoof them | Nov 17 02:33 |
| mjg59 | But bootstrapping trust without any existing trust is basically impossible | Nov 17 02:34 |
| mjg59 | The goal isn't to make it impossible, it's to increase the number of people that have to be subverted | Nov 17 02:34 |
| mjg59 | Ideally to the point where it's more expensive than compromising you is worth | Nov 17 02:34 |
| MinceR | i see | Nov 17 02:34 |
| mjg59 | Anyway, thanks for the feedback | Nov 17 02:35 |
| MinceR | np | Nov 17 02:35 |
| mjg59 | I really do care about making use of this technology in ways that don't lock people down and which still provide additional security | Nov 17 02:35 |
| mjg59 | I don't think most people need to worry about the sort of attack that's blocked by this specific stuff | Nov 17 02:35 |
| mjg59 | But there are activists and journalists who do | Nov 17 02:35 |
| mjg59 | And I want to be able to give them a free software solution | Nov 17 02:36 |
| MinceR | seems to me this should work without an EK too, though | Nov 17 02:37 |
| MinceR | you could just use a random number (possibly generated on the TPM or smart card or token) | Nov 17 02:37 |
| mjg59 | Yeah, like I said the EK side of things is more useful when you want to be able to tie machine identity to user identity more strongly | Nov 17 02:37 |
| mjg59 | And that's basically only in corporate scenarios | Nov 17 02:37 |
| MinceR | and should probably work with a smartcard or token instead of a TPM | Nov 17 02:37 |
| mjg59 | Sometimes you really do care about the device identity, and don't want it to be easy to move that to a different machine | Nov 17 02:38 |
| MinceR | right, when the attacker would replace your machine or its innards | Nov 17 02:38 |
| mjg59 | For example, if you want to restrict access to systems that contain customer data to devices that you know are running your security tooling | Nov 17 02:38 |
| MinceR | still, they could extract the TPM and put it in the new machine | Nov 17 02:39 |
| mjg59 | So an attacker who gets user creds can't just access that from any machine | Nov 17 02:39 |
| MinceR | i probably skipped a lot of steps there anyway | Nov 17 02:39 |
| mjg59 | Yeah, but again it's not about making it impossible, it's about making it more expensive than it currently is | Nov 17 02:39 |
| mjg59 | Decapping a TPM and reading stuff out isn't super cheap | Nov 17 02:39 |
| mjg59 | And you're not going to have time to do it while someone's going through airport security | Nov 17 02:40 |
| MinceR | well, a lot of this stuff assumes a motivated attacker with lots of resources anyway | Nov 17 02:40 |
| mjg59 | Sure | Nov 17 02:40 |
| mjg59 | But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora is the sort of stuff I have to worry about | Nov 17 02:40 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Operation Aurora - Wikipedia | Nov 17 02:40 | |
| mjg59 | They've got better in the past 10 years, we also need to improve our baseline | Nov 17 02:41 |
| mjg59 | If we don't do anything to make things harder, they win | Nov 17 02:41 |
| mjg59 | And people literally die | Nov 17 02:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Coreboot might have an actual secure version of Secure Boot. I don't know. Does it? | Nov 17 02:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It could be a feature if the user actually had any control over who to trust. | Nov 17 02:43 |
| mjg59 | Not currently | Nov 17 02:43 |
| mjg59 | Eh it depends what you mean | Nov 17 02:43 |
| mjg59 | Chromebook-style Secure Boot, yes | Nov 17 02:43 |
| MinceR | chromebook-style sounds good to me | Nov 17 02:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, the way Secure Boot actually works, in practice, is that OEMs completely remove control of it from the user except on off and pre-trust Microsoft even if you don't actually trust Microsft. | Nov 17 02:44 |
| mjg59 | For UEFI it's still not fully secure - variable updates aren't verified, so anyone can add new trusted keys | Nov 17 02:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So that's not helpful. | Nov 17 02:44 |
| MinceR | their approach seemed much more reasonable than the UEFI/TC superbloated house of cards approach | Nov 17 02:44 |
| mjg59 | I would very much prefer a solution that involved less firmware code than is in UEFI | Nov 17 02:44 |
| mjg59 | But I work with what I have | Nov 17 02:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So, for a user that wants control it's increasingly a "just turn it off" thing. | Nov 17 02:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's not secure and, worse, it's breaking your computer. | Nov 17 02:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you need out of tree kernel modules, it breaks your computer. | Nov 17 02:47 |
| MinceR | a "just buy a device without it" would be even better, but we don't have a free market | Nov 17 02:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you want to hibernate, it breaks your computer. | Nov 17 02:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you want to toggle a kernel setting, it probably breaks your computer. | Nov 17 02:48 |
| MinceR | i bought a used pre-UEFI pre-IME laptop, but it's old :> | Nov 17 02:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trying to do any more than the bare minimum to get Linux working at all with this abomination is way too far. | Nov 17 02:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, I too had a computer that was somewhat sane. Circa 2009-ish. Phenom II based. | Nov 17 02:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | None of this user doesn't control anything shit. | Nov 17 02:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If the user is an idiot they will manage to install malware. | Nov 17 02:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Case closed. | Nov 17 02:49 |
| MinceR | and if i wanted to carry my secure daily driver machine everywhere with me, that one's too heavy for that | Nov 17 02:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If the user is on Windows, it's a race between malware and system corrupting itself. | Nov 17 02:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Plan to reinstall every year, minimum. | Nov 17 02:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Which is a problem if you can't do a clean install because of LOL NO VO. | Nov 17 02:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: So it's not just Linux users who would have eventually had this issue. In fact, there were how to guides to slipstream the Intel RST driver, which Intel doesn't even provide btw. You have to get it as an "update" and extract it to a folder on a Windows 10 USB stick, and then hit F8 like it's 2002 all over again. | Nov 17 02:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm sure this is a "Grandma will figure that out." issue. | Nov 17 02:51 |
| MinceR | :> | Nov 17 02:51 |
| MinceR | just like the issue of how to turn off Restricted Boot on a Backdoors logo compliant machine :> | Nov 17 02:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Secure Boot would be the least of your problems on a Lenovo Yoga eventually. | Nov 17 02:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because Windows will completely fuck everything up requiring the OEM to re-image it, and you only get 12 months of warranty, and they may not even honor that. | Nov 17 02:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And that's how most people would see this problem. That or "Buy another computer. This one's broken.". | Nov 17 02:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I guess, flip side is that you can take it to a PC repair shop that knows what the hell is going on and pay them $150. That's also something a garden variety user might do. | Nov 17 02:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | No matter how mjg59tries to spin it, this is a user nightmare and it decreases reliability and increases cost of ownership. | Nov 17 02:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Any reputable company that wanted to protect their brand would never, EVER, have done this. | Nov 17 02:55 |
| mjg59 | I'm not saying it was a good decision | Nov 17 02:55 |
| mjg59 | I'm saying that it's an understandable decision | Nov 17 02:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Understandable in the context of making every one of your customers hate you and say we're not doing that again. | Nov 17 02:57 |
| mjg59 | Pretty clearly not every one of their customers | Nov 17 02:58 |
| MinceR | clearly customers don't care | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, the ones who understand what the hell just happened. | Nov 17 02:59 |
| MinceR | most of them, i mean | Nov 17 02:59 |
| MinceR | the industry is suffering for crApple syndrome | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And in the wake of their crapware-reinstalling BIOS and their Superfish scandal, meh. | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Par for the course I guess. | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Fuck Lenovo. | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: They actually had to pay me a settlement of like $150 on this computer, btw. | Nov 17 02:59 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because it had some other privacy violating piece of shit that I blew away years ago when I got rid of Windows. | Nov 17 03:00 |
| MinceR | have they learned from it though? | Nov 17 03:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I guess not. | Nov 17 03:00 |
| MinceR | s/for/from/ | Nov 17 03:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They just keep doing it and then paying the settlement. | Nov 17 03:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Hey, hell, I'm fine with that. | Nov 17 03:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | $150 out of the blue. Okay. | Nov 17 03:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Pretty sure it was spying on other people, plus on top of Windows it can't get much worse. | Nov 17 03:03 |
| oiaohm | DaemonFC[m]: the fun with windows is even with windows 10. You print a document and its a game of dice if the document will print or the windows printer que will crash. | Nov 17 03:10 |
| MinceR | ah yes, the Year of Windows on the Desktop | Nov 17 03:11 |
| oiaohm | The big different using Linux is setting up printers could be a pain but once you got them printing no magic issues. | Nov 17 03:11 |
| oiaohm | As in the most regular defect you start noticing not there. | Nov 17 03:12 |
| oiaohm | Also the other one is I printed that I will just stop that print and you are on Linux and its already gone. | Nov 17 03:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even with Apple sabotaging CUPS, things aren't THAT bad. | Nov 17 03:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think the guy that was maintaining CUPS at Apple resigned or something. | Nov 17 03:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Maybe that will slow them down at removing things that it could already do because their users are far too fucking stupid to figure out web interface and such. | Nov 17 03:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm always very skeptical when they say they actually created an interface where a piece of hardware, a printer no less, configures itself. | Nov 17 03:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In fact, between the sad and sorry state of the drivers, the printers themselves, and the ink cartridge fuckery, I just send print jobs to FedEx and pick them up when I drop Mandy off at work. | Nov 17 03:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 13 cents a page is nothing compared to the 7 levels of hell that is dealing with an HP printer. | Nov 17 03:32 |
| kingoffrance | well the all-in-one "configure itself" means listening on x different interfaces y different protocols | Nov 17 03:33 |
| kingoffrance | i mean sure, its "configured" if you are against the concept of a firewall | Nov 17 03:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: Since Okular supports PDFs with fillable forms, I can even kick documents back and forth with immigration. It's really a nightmare all of the unnecessary questions those forms ask. | Nov 17 03:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Doing it by hand would be quite awful. | Nov 17 03:34 |
| kingoffrance | (not referring to cups, referring to modern printers) | Nov 17 03:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <kingoffrance "i mean sure, its "configured" if"> Well, with the state of the art firewall in my Netgear modem, I can open ports for all of the latest internet standards, including MSN Messenger. | Nov 17 03:35 |
| *kingoffrance pictures web app wanting to open ports | Nov 17 03:35 | |
| kingoffrance | dont give them ideas | Nov 17 03:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MSN wasn't as bad as Skype. | Nov 17 03:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Early versions of MSNP were even submitted as IETF drafts, oddly. | Nov 17 03:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's some sites that have things configured so that you can just keep using the program with their server standing in for MSN or AOL Instant Messenger or whatever. | Nov 17 03:37 |
| kingoffrance | yeah game stuff is similar didnt blizzard get mad over a battle.net clone or something long ago? | Nov 17 03:39 |
| kingoffrance | old stuff i mean, lots of things are unusuable without a server running | Nov 17 03:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I miss Tiberian Sun, although the lack of anti-cheat was glaring. | Nov 17 03:40 |
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| MinceR | DaemonFC[m]: evince does too | Nov 17 03:43 |
| MinceR | kingoffrance: well, with the wonderful train wreck known as UPnP, it can theoretically even get your router to make port forwards to itself | Nov 17 03:44 |
| kingoffrance | yeah couldnt think of the name thats what i meant :) | Nov 17 03:44 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I'm going to get Mandy some clothes on Black Friday. | Nov 17 04:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They say there's not going to be one and then they do it anyway in the middle of the third wave. | Nov 17 04:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because Capitalism. | Nov 17 04:33 |
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| scientes | <vZS1> I feel like the word "documentation" also got 1984ed | Nov 17 06:09 |
| scientes | oh, he left | Nov 17 06:09 |
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| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: #Android Leftovers • 🅃🅄🅇 🄼🄰🄲🄷🄸🄽🄴🅂 ☞ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/144445 [https://pleroma.site/objects/e77f1c10-ea3d-4b8b-93db-1066561da8ea] | Nov 17 07:12 | |
| schestowitz | > https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/ | Nov 17 07:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-github.blog | Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back - The GitHub Blog | Nov 17 07:26 | |
| schestowitz | > <https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/> | Nov 17 07:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 17 07:26 |
| schestowitz | > GitHub does not stand for developers, it stands for Microsoft. | Nov 17 07:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 17 07:26 |
| schestowitz | > This is the biggest lie yet. | Nov 17 07:26 |
| schestowitz | Re: A huge lie | Nov 17 07:26 |
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| scientes | no shit | Nov 17 07:33 |
| psydroid | <DaemonFC[m] "Yeah, I too had a computer that "> I still have 3 AM2 desktops with Athlon64 (X2) and Phenom X4 processors for occasional use, but I'm moving more and more workloads towards more powerful and more open ARM hardware with hopefully more affordable RISC-V and POWER options becoming available over the next few years as well | Nov 17 07:38 |
| scientes | the new x86_64 chips have much better SIMD | Nov 17 07:40 |
| scientes | but of course computers spend most of their time waiting for user input, and compiling javascript | Nov 17 07:40 |
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| psydroid | I do have laptops with Skylake and Kaby Lake (and even a few with Atom Celeron) processors, but those all have the dreaded UEFI stuff | Nov 17 07:50 |
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| -viera/#techrights-Tux Machines: The Real Richard Stallman is Not Coming Back • 🆃🅴🅲🅷🆁🅸🅶🅷🆃🆂 ☞ http://techrights.org/2020/11/17/real-rms/ [https://pleroma.site/objects/79a9afa6-6735-42b6-8816-b1f6b2ce06cb] | Nov 17 08:11 | |
| scientes | psydroid, I am just saying that free software is a long road | Nov 17 08:16 |
| scientes | FPGAs are much more flexible | Nov 17 08:17 |
| scientes | but I am struggling to get into them | Nov 17 08:17 |
| schestowitz | a bit of a straw man, imho | Nov 17 08:22 |
| schestowitz | btw, i think risc-v has its issues | Nov 17 08:22 |
| schestowitz | pertaining mostly to covert control | Nov 17 08:22 |
| schestowitz | but for many practical purposes it's the best we have at the moment, afaik | Nov 17 08:22 |
| schestowitz | raspi is another | Nov 17 08:22 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/09/12/raspi-freedom/ | Nov 17 08:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Richard Stallman Still Works to Improve the Freedom of the Widely-Used RasPi (Produced in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) | Techrights | Nov 17 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | it is already practical | Nov 17 08:23 |
| schestowitz | soon it might also be free | Nov 17 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft ALREADY tried to undermine it, as it did OLPC, by infiltrating the raspi foundation | Nov 17 08:23 |
| schestowitz | to push vista10 on raspi, obviously... | Nov 17 08:23 |
| schestowitz | I think raspi managed to escape that suicidal path about 3 years ago | Nov 17 08:24 |
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| schestowitz | hi all | Nov 17 08:40 |
| schestowitz | reagrding IRC logs | Nov 17 08:40 |
| schestowitz | is it worth producing text-only logs? | Nov 17 08:40 |
| schestowitz | plain text? | Nov 17 08:40 |
| schestowitz | I'm leaning towards, "no", as there's little gain except for people who dislike html | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | roy@vonick:~$ html2text -width 70 irc-log-techrights-201020.html | head -n 90 | tail -n 20 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | MinceR it's nice to see that someone has brought CUPS back from the dead 20 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 02: | Nov 17 08:41 |
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| schestowitz | Oct | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | MinceR i wonder if the things the cupertino mafia broke in it will be fixed too 20 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 02: | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 42 | Nov 17 08:41 |
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| schestowitz | schestowitz link? 20 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 02: | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 44 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | Oct | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | schestowitz Apple does not need printing anymore anyway... in the name of the environment they 20 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | only include the handset and you can use the old plotter from the 1980s 02: | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 45 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | Oct | Nov 17 08:41 |
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| schestowitz | 02: | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | 48 | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | Oct | Nov 17 08:41 |
| schestowitz | there might also be better converters of IRC logs into text | Nov 17 08:42 |
| schestowitz | this one is a warping of the html output, using pypy | Nov 17 08:42 |
| schestowitz | so basically a two-step indirection | Nov 17 08:42 |
| schestowitz | but for ipfs text or plain text format may be preferable and more accessible | Nov 17 08:43 |
| schestowitz | due to whitespaces the file size for html and plain text (as above) is roughly the same | Nov 17 08:43 |
| schestowitz | which means that server storage requirements would double in the long run | Nov 17 08:43 |
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| vZS1 | You can just view them in a browser | Nov 17 08:51 |
| vZS1 | But I wouldn't be against a plaintext version as well | Nov 17 08:51 |
| vZS1 | Just read the article on RMS by fig. That was a nice start to the morning | Nov 17 08:52 |
| schestowitz | devi's advocate: | Nov 17 08:52 |
| vZS1 | I didn't know RMS promoted GitHub | Nov 17 08:52 |
| schestowitz | just paste/upload raw IRC logs | Nov 17 08:52 |
| vZS1 | He should know better than that | Nov 17 08:52 |
| schestowitz | but they're less readable than other possible forms | Nov 17 08:53 |
| schestowitz | they're more machine readable | Nov 17 08:53 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: he does not promote github | Nov 17 08:53 |
| schestowitz | and the article says as much | Nov 17 08:53 |
| schestowitz | he was early in warning against it | Nov 17 08:53 |
| schestowitz | but the tools he now promotes may be github-hosted | Nov 17 08:53 |
| vZS1 | Did I misread the article | Nov 17 08:53 |
| vZS1 | Hold on | Nov 17 08:53 |
| vZS1 | Let me check again | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | in 2015 he already said avoid GitHub | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | two alternatives to zoom etc. are github-hosted | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | and we really need to tell everyone to abandon it | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | I keep telling curl's lead dev | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | [07:07] <schestowitz> https://pleroma.site/notice/A1HW7rOLhcKIg9hkFk | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | [07:07] [Notice] -TechrightsBN to #boycottnovell- mastodon.social | Daniel Stenberg: "@guenther@chaos.social they're not connected in a…" - Mastodon | Nov 17 08:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-mastodon.social | Daniel Stenberg: "@guenther@chaos.social they're not connected in a…" - Mastodon | Nov 17 08:54 | |
| schestowitz | [07:07] <schestowitz> GitHub is always compromised because it is controlled by a third party with very strong ties to the NSA and the RIAA | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | He has just had his Twitter account compromised | Nov 17 08:54 |
| schestowitz | and then someone asked about 'his' github account | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | these people should know better | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | curl can be accused of being 'piracy'-enabing tool | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | ipfs can be accused of all sorts of things | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | terrorism, child pr0n etc. | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | and then taken down, its main repo | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | they play with fire | Nov 17 08:55 |
| vZS1 | > The FSF tells him to promote GitHub, and he does. They give him a platform, as long he says exactly what they’re saying already. | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | ipfs is about dweb | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | github is the very antithesis of it | Nov 17 08:55 |
| schestowitz | centralised AND proprietary | Nov 17 08:56 |
| schestowitz | new FSF pres uses shithub | Nov 17 08:56 |
| schestowitz | same with the latest board members | Nov 17 08:56 |
| schestowitz | those are unhelpful if our goal (or the FSF's goal) should be to get people OFF shithub | Nov 17 08:56 |
| schestowitz | which is only a GROWING threat | Nov 17 08:56 |
| schestowitz | and OSI seems to converge with github | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | majority of OSI budget is now funnelled into github lockin | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | and Microsoft group | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | which is hysterically alarming | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | OSI is basically a zombie at this point | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | it has not a single employee | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | it's GM is "interim" | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | the only salaried staff is "interim" | Nov 17 08:57 |
| vZS1 | A lot of them have been bought out | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | Deb Icaza | Nov 17 08:57 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: if they don't sell out, they get ousted | Nov 17 08:58 |
| schestowitz | then replaced by people who do sell out | Nov 17 08:58 |
| vZS1 | Yep | Nov 17 08:58 |
| vZS1 | That's the GAFAM MO | Nov 17 08:58 |
| schestowitz | political entryism and cult atctics | Nov 17 08:58 |
| schestowitz | happens a lot in British govt. | Nov 17 08:58 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft works to remove people who suggest we have sovereignty over our tech | Nov 17 08:58 |
| vZS1 | This is why I say we have a loose federation of projects helping each other | Nov 17 08:58 |
| schestowitz | I've not yet seen Google doing that | Nov 17 08:59 |
| vZS1 | Instead of a centralised operation | Nov 17 08:59 |
| schestowitz | I have many examples from British govt. | Nov 17 08:59 |
| schestowitz | seen things over the years | Nov 17 08:59 |
| schestowitz | people lost their job | Nov 17 08:59 |
| schestowitz | for no good reason other than not appeasing US tech empire | Nov 17 08:59 |
| schestowitz | they get painted as zealots or something | Nov 17 08:59 |
| vZS1 | They can't remove you from an organisation that doesn't exist | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | and then people elsewhere get paid (bought) | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: figos once made a good point | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | (he authored that article) | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | he said | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | once you become a foundation | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | you can get bought | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | companies buy a "share" | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | and then they steer the project | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | that's what seemingly happened to OSI and then FSF | Nov 17 09:00 |
| vZS1 | Pretty much | Nov 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz | I forgot LF | Nov 17 09:01 |
| vZS1 | That's why I stay away from foundations | Nov 17 09:01 |
| vZS1 | I have my own project | Nov 17 09:01 |
| vZS1 | I help out others when I can | Nov 17 09:01 |
| vZS1 | It works well for me | Nov 17 09:01 |
| psydroid | scientes, I worked with Cyclone III recently and I should have Quartus installed on this machine, but for some reason I can't find it anymore | Nov 17 09:05 |
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| scientes | the FPGA I bought didn't include the JTAG cable | Nov 17 09:05 |
| scientes | and it is a non-standard plug | Nov 17 09:06 |
| scientes | cause it is smaller to fit on a m.2 board | Nov 17 09:06 |
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| vZS1 | And plug in an RSS/Atom generation tool, while I'm at it. | Nov 17 09:10 |
| scientes | <scientes> <vZS1> I feel like the word "documentation" also got 1984ed | Nov 17 09:12 |
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| scientes | its because with the internet we are going so *fast* that we don't need documentation | Nov 17 09:12 |
| vZS1 | ETA ~2 weeks | Nov 17 09:16 |
| vZS1 | So I'll catch ya later | Nov 17 09:16 |
| vZS1 | Got to get chopping | Nov 17 09:17 |
| schestowitz | https://fair.org/home/drawing-all-the-wrong-lessons-from-medias-election-2020-failures/ | Nov 17 09:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fair.org | Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures — FAIR | Nov 17 09:21 | |
| vZS1 | Btw | Nov 17 09:21 |
| vZS1 | http://jemarch.net/pokology-20201115.html | Nov 17 09:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-jemarch.net | Applied Pokology - GNU poke development news | Nov 17 09:21 | |
| vZS1 | This looks like it'll help find out what's hiding in binary blobs | Nov 17 09:22 |
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| scientes | I'm cold | Nov 17 10:09 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: it's already in Daily Links and bulltins | Nov 17 10:26 |
| schestowitz | but I didn't look too deep into it | Nov 17 10:26 |
| schestowitz | scientes: literally? illness? | Nov 17 10:26 |
| schestowitz | months ago you were sweating like a hog? Are you somewhere south of Russia? | Nov 17 10:27 |
| *scientes has never seen a hog sweat | Nov 17 10:27 | |
| schestowitz | Hog: I sweat like a HUMAN! | Nov 17 10:31 |
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| schestowitz | task: | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | for all | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | ZDNet used to have a writer called Jamie | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | he had a sort of blog | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | community gnu/linux | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | did not have his own site | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | he vanished after a while | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | his surname is very common | Nov 17 10:44 |
| schestowitz | so there must be loads of brits with his name | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | but.. | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | if someone can find us his email address | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | I want to speak to him | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | to find out why he stopped writing there, and altogether vanished | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | he would be about retirement age | Nov 17 10:45 |
| schestowitz | https://www.zdnet.com/blog/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff/ https://www.zdnet.com/blog/jamies-mostly-linux-stuff/ | Nov 17 10:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Jamie's Mostly Linux Stuff | ZDNet | Nov 17 10:46 | |
| schestowitz | Jamie Watson | Nov 17 10:46 |
| schestowitz | that's his name | Nov 17 10:46 |
| schestowitz | "jamie watson zdnet email" | Nov 17 10:46 |
| schestowitz | nets nothing really | Nov 17 10:47 |
| schestowitz | https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-email-phone-scam/ | Nov 17 10:47 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-New email / phone SCAM | ZDNet | Nov 17 10:47 | |
| schestowitz | he had nothing published since sept. last year | Nov 17 10:47 |
| schestowitz | 14 months | Nov 17 10:47 |
| schestowitz | cbs went bust last december | Nov 17 10:47 |
| schestowitz | the parent company of zdnet | Nov 17 10:47 |
| schestowitz | then the site became massive anti-linux propaganda apparatus | Nov 17 10:48 |
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| schestowitz | " | Nov 17 11:55 |
| schestowitz | The 2020 Staff Survey is now complete. Thanks to all of you who participated despite all the difficulties generated by the current pandemic! | Nov 17 11:55 |
| schestowitz | Some (worrying) preliminary results are available in English and French. | Nov 17 11:55 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 17 11:55 |
| schestowitz | “A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. | Nov 17 12:09 |
| schestowitz | Trump’s presidency.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html | Nov 17 12:09 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nytimes.com | Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program - The New York Times | Nov 17 12:09 | |
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| MinceR | (cat) https://ircz.de/p/20081652 | Nov 17 13:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4828233) | Nov 17 13:36 | |
| MinceR | https://hugelolcdn.com/i/699142.jpg | Nov 17 13:46 |
| schestowitz | gives you chicken wings | Nov 17 13:50 |
| MinceR | :) | Nov 17 13:52 |
| schestowitz | and watermelons or something | Nov 17 13:54 |
| MinceR | (no audio) https://i.imgur.com/I6imMa4.mp4 | Nov 17 14:13 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: What is that? | Nov 17 14:17 |
| MinceR | rainbow | Nov 17 14:18 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: What causes it to appear? | Nov 17 14:20 |
| MinceR | water droplets in the air | Nov 17 14:20 |
| MinceR | some of the clouds suggest it's raining | Nov 17 14:21 |
| schestowitz | how did it become 360 circular? | Nov 17 14:28 |
| MinceR | the viewpoint is high enough from that tower so that the ground doesn't obscure the lower half | Nov 17 14:30 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: thanks for all you're done lately. I will do an article now about IPFS | Nov 17 14:34 |
| schestowitz | later I will add relevant stuff to the top menu. | Nov 17 14:34 |
| schestowitz | earlier on I noticed distrotube now does gopher | Nov 17 14:35 |
| vZS1 | Yw | Nov 17 14:35 |
| schestowitz | seems like the WWW fatigue rapidly grows | Nov 17 14:35 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft ShitHub takedowns will help dweb | Nov 17 14:35 |
| vZS1 | Definitely | Nov 17 14:35 |
| schestowitz | the idea that we cannot let other firms kill everything at one "point of failure" | Nov 17 14:35 |
| schestowitz | and thus it's not worth even TRYING | Nov 17 14:35 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/143596#comment-27162 | Nov 17 14:36 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | Single Points of Failure and Proprietary Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) | Tux Machines | Nov 17 14:36 | |
| schestowitz | Microsoft running like headless chicked now | Nov 17 14:36 |
| schestowitz | *chicken | Nov 17 14:36 |
| vZS1 | I already built a simple HTTP server with Go today | Nov 17 14:36 |
| vZS1 | 3 simple files served | Nov 17 14:36 |
| vZS1 | Homepage, ipfs CID index, and RSS feed | Nov 17 14:37 |
| vZS1 | I'll hack on this over the next week or two | Nov 17 14:37 |
| schestowitz | "If #microsoft #github was standing up for developers, it would have told #RIAA to eff off while coming up with a better policy framework to deal with bogus #DMCA claims." https://bsd.network/@bill/105221670407420409 | Nov 17 14:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-bsd.network | 💀Undead Bill💀: "If github was standing up for developers, it woul…" - BSD Network | Nov 17 14:38 | |
| schestowitz | vZS1: cheers, I will get into advocacy | Nov 17 14:38 |
| schestowitz | I read a lot about it | Nov 17 14:38 |
| schestowitz | as I want to understand what I recommend/write about | Nov 17 14:38 |
| schestowitz | it's not easy | Nov 17 14:38 |
| schestowitz | now I can pipe with ipfs cat CID | kate whatever | Nov 17 14:38 |
| schestowitz | so those objects being arbitrary streams is powerful | Nov 17 14:39 |
| vZS1 | I'm going to using my own outlet to publish about the technical stuff | Nov 17 14:39 |
| schestowitz | even more so than web browsers | Nov 17 14:39 |
| schestowitz | I wonder if server-side serving from ipfs as stream would be fast enough | Nov 17 14:39 |
| schestowitz | but that would sort of miss the point, being one central access point | Nov 17 14:40 |
| vZS1 | I can chuck my RSS feed at you, once it's ready | Nov 17 14:40 |
| schestowitz | which then connects to peers to serve | Nov 17 14:40 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: ok, good | Nov 17 14:40 |
| schestowitz | you could promote it through us | Nov 17 14:40 |
| schestowitz | crossposting with outward links | Nov 17 14:40 |
| schestowitz | some people have done that before, it helps them get indexed and find readers | Nov 17 14:41 |
| vZS1 | Thanks. I'll definitely use that privilege. | Nov 17 14:41 |
| vZS1 | I'm abandoning Reddit | Nov 17 14:41 |
| vZS1 | I haven't posted the in 2 months | Nov 17 14:41 |
| schestowitz | good | Nov 17 14:41 |
| schestowitz | reddit is horrible | Nov 17 14:41 |
| schestowitz | really, really horrible | Nov 17 14:41 |
| vZS1 | I've been working on an alternative way to spread publications | Nov 17 14:41 |
| schestowitz | you'll realise this only AFTER leaving | Nov 17 14:41 |
| vZS1 | It's almost ready now | Nov 17 14:42 |
| schestowitz | the addiction/habit can be blinding | Nov 17 14:42 |
| vZS1 | I just wanted to share my work with you. Because we're on the same side | Nov 17 14:42 |
| schestowitz | cheers | Nov 17 14:42 |
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| vZS1 | Re: GitHub standing up for developers | Nov 17 14:48 |
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| vZS1 | Sure have a lot of delusional devs out there | Nov 17 14:48 |
| vZS1 | #deleteGitHub is one of our key objectives | Nov 17 14:49 |
| vZS1 | If people don't leave centralised development platforms, we're all doomed | Nov 17 14:51 |
| vZS1 | The people that control the infra control the ecosystem | Nov 17 14:51 |
| schestowitz | and the people | Nov 17 14:54 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/06/15/confessions-of-scott-guthrie/ | Nov 17 14:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The Story About Microsoft’s Plan for GitHub Says a Lot About the Motivations and the Lies Told to Us for Over Half a Decade | Techrights | Nov 17 14:55 | |
| schestowitz | will ipfs_howto.txt be published elsewhere? | Nov 17 14:56 |
| schestowitz | or can I use that as basis for manual to readers? | Nov 17 14:57 |
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| smnthermes | > [notice] Tux Machines: Qt 3D Changes in Qt 6 | Nov 17 15:01 |
| smnthermes | Qt 6? *sigh* | Nov 17 15:01 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Delete_Android_Apps_on_Github | Nov 17 15:08 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Delete Android Apps on Github - Techrights | Nov 17 15:08 | |
| schestowitz | see yubico | Nov 17 15:08 |
| schestowitz | smnthermes: soon proprietary parhaps | Nov 17 15:09 |
| schestowitz | *perhaps | Nov 17 15:09 |
| schestowitz | unless they change their minds | Nov 17 15:09 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: before github we had the sourceforge mess patching installers with crap ware. There has been a long term problem where to get good hosting. | Nov 17 15:14 |
| oiaohm | for open source projects | Nov 17 15:14 |
| schestowitz | soruceforge also sucks | Nov 17 15:14 |
| schestowitz | next question :-) | Nov 17 15:14 |
| schestowitz | > There has been a long term problem where to get good hosting. | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | This question itself represents the problem | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | it assumes must must outsource the hosting | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | it's like saying, if not McDolands, where to eat? | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | McDonalds | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | as if cooking at home isn't a possibility anymore | Nov 17 15:15 |
| schestowitz | processed and prepared food isn't the sole choice | Nov 17 15:15 |
| oiaohm | Self hosting with the current tools is not really practical for everyone either. | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | distributed development across the Internet can be done internally within the project | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | like replicated setup on some developers' private machines or low-powered servers | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: nonsense | Nov 17 15:16 |
| oiaohm | The tools for doing distributed development are not really developed well. | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | if you cannot manage a project with some tools | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | then your code | Nov 17 15:16 |
| schestowitz | the technical work | Nov 17 15:16 |
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| schestowitz | will likely suck too | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | it doing git by email, the way lkml is done, is too hard for you | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | then go away | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | as your code won't be any better | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | the access barrier can weed up time wasters who cannot code | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | unlike github | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | this is why Torvalds rejects "PRs" from Microsoft GitHub | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | drive-bt crap | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | *by | Nov 17 15:17 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: that's FUD >>The tools for doing distributed development are not really developed well. | Nov 17 15:18 |
| oiaohm | lkml still has servers that have agreed to keep archives. This is help for when emails get eaten somewhere by some server. | Nov 17 15:18 |
| schestowitz | but it works | Nov 17 15:18 |
| schestowitz | and thousands of developers use it | Nov 17 15:18 |
| schestowitz | most projects don't have that scale | Nov 17 15:18 |
| schestowitz | with a dedicated staff member | Nov 17 15:18 |
| schestowitz | I forgot his name | Nov 17 15:19 |
| oiaohm | Issue is scale has got the lkml the extra bits it need that it works. | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | maybe Ukrainian | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | for a project with 10 coders you can use a rapi | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | even gitlab would run on that | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | or gitea/gog | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | you can back it up and replicate to other nodes | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | it's not too hard | Nov 17 15:19 |
| schestowitz | and you have control over the whole chain then | Nov 17 15:20 |
| vZS1 | schestowitz: I'm going to do a full piece on IPFS. | Nov 17 15:20 |
| vZS1 | So I'd appreciate if you just kept the how-to internal | Nov 17 15:21 |
| oiaohm | As you have found with ipvs there is a horrible steep learning curve. This is what I mean we don't have the tools well developed in this area. | Nov 17 15:21 |
| oiaohm | Its something that need to be made simpler that a person with less skills wanting to start a project can get functional self hosting up in seconds that in fact works. | Nov 17 15:21 |
| vZS1 | You can write your own stuff based off it though | Nov 17 15:22 |
| schestowitz | yes, that's what I thought, but it's too early | Nov 17 15:23 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: that has nothing to do with ipfs | Nov 17 15:23 |
| schestowitz | ipfs is different and for different purposes | Nov 17 15:23 |
| schestowitz | it's about censorship resistance, load-balancing, prevservation | Nov 17 15:24 |
| schestowitz | distributed development is inherently different, people commit to a server they jointly own and control | Nov 17 15:24 |
| schestowitz | they can even set up replication for it | Nov 17 15:25 |
| MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sapiens | Nov 17 15:46 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sapiens | Nov 17 15:46 | |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: the problem is having a server they jointly own particularly when a project is new and starting out. So those starting projects look to sourceforge/github..... as it is the lowest skill required. Also does not have trouble with ISPs that say no personal servers. | Nov 17 15:49 |
| oiaohm | The tools to make it easy don't exist. We have distributions for firewalls and that kind of stuff preconfigured but we don't have something that comes out the box configured for this is you starting a personal project on your own server p2p to the other developers. | Nov 17 15:50 |
| oiaohm | It a gap that need to be filled. | Nov 17 15:51 |
| MinceR | maybe there could be a GNU/Linux (or BSD) distro that would set up a home server running Tor hidden services and/or I2P sites | Nov 17 15:52 |
| oiaohm | Something like that setup for software development with issue reporting and so on could give a very small barrier to entry for those going self server software development. | Nov 17 15:53 |
| oiaohm | Its always simple to forgot the learning curve problem. | Nov 17 15:54 |
| schestowitz | learning curve can be good | Nov 17 15:54 |
| schestowitz | if you look for high-quality contributors | Nov 17 15:54 |
| oiaohm | and bad. | Nov 17 15:54 |
| schestowitz | and not a bunch of trolls shitposting and writing "hello world" programs | Nov 17 15:54 |
| schestowitz | code is not social control media | Nov 17 15:54 |
| schestowitz | and if there's a lesson to be learned from 'social' media | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | is that it encourages and rewards | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | harmful rumours and junk | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | we don't want that in code | Nov 17 15:55 |
| oiaohm | Issue reporting to learn what is not working with your program learning curve being too high cuts that information off as well. | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | mozilla shows what happens when they repel geeks | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | oiaohm: give downloadable source and binaries | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | not everyone must participate | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | Linux is hard to participate in | Nov 17 15:55 |
| schestowitz | yet it's amazingly popular | Nov 17 15:56 |
| schestowitz | which debunks what you say | Nov 17 15:56 |
| schestowitz | many of the most widely used programs are NOT on shithub | Nov 17 15:56 |
| schestowitz | and they're doing fine | Nov 17 15:56 |
| oiaohm | Linux you have redhat and other collecting issues from end users and taking it up stream. | Nov 17 15:56 |
| oiaohm | That requires quite a bit of growth to get to that point. | Nov 17 15:56 |
| schestowitz | no shithub | Nov 17 15:57 |
| oiaohm | Early Linux some of the reason it took so long was poor reporting of issues. | Nov 17 15:57 |
| schestowitz | ok, you're partly trolling now | Nov 17 15:57 |
| schestowitz | I'll get back to work | Nov 17 15:57 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: No I was around Linux in 1992. | Nov 17 15:58 |
| oiaohm | That not trolling. | Nov 17 15:58 |
| oiaohm | There were cases of issues being lost in the early system. | Nov 17 15:58 |
| oiaohm | when distributions started and started their issue trackers those issues started getting up stream more effectively. | Nov 17 15:58 |
| oiaohm | There are bugs in the Linux kernel developer basically plasted over by the distribution bug systems. | Nov 17 15:59 |
| oiaohm | schestowitz: You may not like lot of project that had old systems like the Linux still that have enough resources have mirgated to their own gitlabs. The is some serous problems with the Linux kernel development model mostly masked over by other layers like distributions the Linux has collected over the years. | Nov 17 16:03 |
| oiaohm | A new project starting out with the core Linux kernel system is going to run into some serous problems. | Nov 17 16:03 |
| oiaohm | Its not like github model is 100 percent wrong. | Nov 17 16:04 |
| oiaohm | Its not 100 percent right either. | Nov 17 16:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Gitlab works fine for issue tracking. | Nov 17 16:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And you can self host a Free Software version of it. | Nov 17 16:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Amazing that GNOME chose to do that. | Nov 17 16:14 |
| oiaohm | setting that up as a small project starting out is not that simple. | Nov 17 16:15 |
| oiaohm | This is the curve problem. | Nov 17 16:16 |
| oiaohm | If that can be made simpler using third party hosting as primary will come lot less appealing. | Nov 17 16:17 |
| MinceR | (cat) https://ircz.de/p/20081640 | Nov 17 16:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4827663) | Nov 17 16:17 | |
| oiaohm | https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Foundation-Servo Hmm really what is going to be left of importance at mozilla. | Nov 17 16:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Mozilla Punts Servo Web Engine Development To The Linux Foundation - Phoronix | Nov 17 16:19 | |
| MinceR | lol | Nov 17 16:20 |
| smnthermes | Oh | Nov 17 16:23 |
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| schestowitz | lol | Nov 17 16:23 |
| schestowitz | [16:14] <DaemonFC[m]> Amazing that GNOME chose to do that. | Nov 17 16:25 |
| schestowitz | KDE also has its own CI pipeline and code management systems | Nov 17 16:25 |
| schestowitz | and they do just fine | Nov 17 16:25 |
| schestowitz | millions of users, many contributors | Nov 17 16:25 |
| MinceR | not sure about that :> | Nov 17 16:25 |
| vZS1 | I'm building a bug tracker on top of IPFS as well. Just give me time. (; | Nov 17 16:25 |
| MinceR | they went for style over substance with 4.x and systemd with 5.x | Nov 17 16:25 |
| schestowitz | not because of code management | Nov 17 16:27 |
| schestowitz | more to do with mobile and android | Nov 17 16:27 |
| schestowitz | so they try to catch up with those things | Nov 17 16:27 |
| schestowitz | like the new pinephone | Nov 17 16:27 |
| vZS1 | I'm pissing a lot of people off with my work. I must be doing something right. | Nov 17 16:29 |
| vZS1 | I have a kind of gauge. The more ZDnet, TheRegister, and the like shit talk something, the more I pay attention to that thing | Nov 17 16:30 |
| vZS1 | Because they're mouthpieces for GAFAM | Nov 17 16:30 |
| vZS1 | You know they're being paid to trash talk people and projects | Nov 17 16:30 |
| vZS1 | It's a great litmus test | Nov 17 16:30 |
| MinceR | :) | Nov 17 16:31 |
| vZS1 | Giving away their hand without realising it | Nov 17 16:32 |
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| MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/time-travel-2 | Nov 17 16:53 |
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| XRevan86 | https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Experimental-WebP2 oh come on | Nov 17 17:01 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format - Phoronix | Nov 17 17:01 | |
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| DaemonFC[m] | The KDE LTS series seems to be fairly stable. | Nov 17 17:05 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | WebP2. Because nobody adopted the last one so here's another. | Nov 17 17:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Google will never put out a successful standard like MP3 or JPEG because nobody has time to adopt and standardize and accept a format before Google breaks the bitstream. | Nov 17 17:06 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | You can open files from the 90s just fine, and newer software creates more highly optimized files that still work on all the hardware in the interim. | Nov 17 17:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you make an MP3 on the latest LAME encoder, an RCA stereo from 1998 would still play it and so would Windows 95. | Nov 17 17:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | An exceptionally hardy standard, if not the absolute best one. | Nov 17 17:09 |
| smnthermes | WebM seems sucessful though | Nov 17 17:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And with these new formats, it's fire and forget. | Nov 17 17:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nobody is really upstream supporting Vorbis even though it could be more. | Nov 17 17:09 |
| MinceR | or because MPEG LA members are just going to sabotage it anyway | Nov 17 17:09 |
| MinceR | as crApple did with webm | Nov 17 17:10 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | MPEG LA "arranged a deal" with Google. Over those formats. | Nov 17 17:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So they'll be feasting on patent royalties until the cows come home. | Nov 17 17:36 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: WebM is just a container | Nov 17 17:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because those VP8 and 9 codecs already apparently infringe on at least some of their patent pool. | Nov 17 17:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And some is enough to extract concessions. | Nov 17 17:37 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: The formats are: VP8, VP9, AV1 | Nov 17 17:37 |
| MinceR | well, not exactly | Nov 17 17:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | This ridiculous codec proliferation is nuts. | Nov 17 17:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | My laptop can hardware decode VP9, but not AV1. | Nov 17 17:37 |
| MinceR | webm is a container (matroska) and particular codecs | Nov 17 17:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So thermonuclear meltdown so that you can get marginally better compression. | Nov 17 17:37 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: right | Nov 17 17:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're in on this with the hardware companies because you're supposed to go hmm this is terrible time for a new computer. | Nov 17 17:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And that dav1d decoder at least tries to make the best of a bad situation. | Nov 17 17:38 |
| MinceR | not just marginally better compression, but also trying to get out of the MPEG LA mafia's stranglehold on our video and audio | Nov 17 17:38 |
| MinceR | and on the web | Nov 17 17:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't get what the win is here. | Nov 17 17:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It infringes on the same patents VP9 would and perhaps more. | Nov 17 17:39 |
| MinceR | though the "open web" is already dead, thanks to TBL and the likes of crApple, microshit and NETFUCKS | Nov 17 17:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: Well, the glass half full version goes that Widevine is at least better than Flash and Silverlight. | Nov 17 17:39 |
| MinceR | bittorrent and mpv are a lot better than all of those | Nov 17 17:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because those were competing with a lot of the web platform that can be done in a browser whether you have DRM on or off. | Nov 17 17:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | A success of, especially Silverlight, would have been a disaster that was 10 times bigger than Widevine. | Nov 17 17:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You couldn't really implement it on Linux, and Microsoft had that fake patent covenant where they say they won't sue a "conforming implementation", whatever that is. | Nov 17 17:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But no promise that they won't seed the patents to a troll who would, as they have done before. | Nov 17 17:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They even tried doing that with OpenGL, with the patents they got when SGI went under. | Nov 17 17:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You could have just as easily called Vulkan OpenGL 5.x, but marketing. | Nov 17 17:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Legacy OpenGL has a lot of stuff that piled up that no longer makes much or any sense on modern hardware. | Nov 17 17:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft made a similar leap with DirectX 12 but left the name alone. | Nov 17 17:43 |
| XRevan86 | I really like Microsoft, the last years they haven't done a single thing that could be considered malicious, a true champion of good practices. | Nov 17 17:43 |
| XRevan86 | https://windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-nagging-users-with-microsoft-edge-recommendations/ | Nov 17 17:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.windowslatest.com | NO TITLE | Nov 17 17:43 | |
| MinceR | lol | Nov 17 17:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Calling it Vulkan opens up the possibility of removing OpenGL entirely some day. | Nov 17 17:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Emulating it on top of Vulkan like DirectX on Vulkan does now. | Nov 17 17:44 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: It's called Zink. | Nov 17 17:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Or like MoltenGL and MoltenVK do on Macs. | Nov 17 17:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Free up transistor count. Reduce complexity and size of graphics drivers. | Nov 17 17:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm glad that 3dfx's position that OpenGL was bloated and terrible is finally resurfacing. | Nov 17 17:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 20 years after they went bankrupt. | Nov 17 17:47 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: OpenGL ES is not that bloated though. | Nov 17 17:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It certainly didn't get more efficient. Hardware was just getting better to the point that it could brute force its way past the inefficiencies. | Nov 17 17:47 |
| XRevan86 | OpenGL changed a lot in these 20 years. | Nov 17 17:48 |
| XRevan86 | But it's still more programmer-friendly than hardware-friendly, and that limits its application. | Nov 17 17:51 |
| XRevan86 | It makes more sense to have something programmer friendly implemented on top of something hardware friendly. | Nov 17 17:51 |
| XRevan86 | But maybe we'll see something better than OpenGL in this regard too. Something lower-level-ish but not quite. | Nov 17 17:56 |
| CrystalMath | i hate shaders | Nov 17 17:58 |
| CrystalMath | and GLSL | Nov 17 17:58 |
| CrystalMath | idk, i just hate opengl | Nov 17 18:04 |
| CrystalMath | when i do 3D, i just do it manually | Nov 17 18:04 |
| CrystalMath | i code my own transforms, and it's 100% software-rendered | Nov 17 18:04 |
| CrystalMath | that eliminates the advantage of having hardware acceleration, so that people without it (like me) aren't discriminated | Nov 17 18:05 |
| MinceR | lol | Nov 17 18:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The whole thing about GLSL being optional (and versioned so many times) and the fixed function pipeline being mandatory even though it was a holdover from the late 90s was really stupid. | Nov 17 18:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So there's that. | Nov 17 18:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | At least the shader language is part of the baseline spec in Vulkan. | Nov 17 18:15 |
| CrystalMath | MinceR: see, i'm doing affirmative action towards not having 3D acceleration :) | Nov 17 18:22 |
| MinceR | affirmative action is bigotry | Nov 17 18:24 |
| CrystalMath | meh, OpenGL is bigotry | Nov 17 18:26 |
| CrystalMath | just write your own 3D engine | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | with its own modelview and projection matrices | Nov 17 18:27 |
| XRevan86 | on top of cairo | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | maybe | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | cairo may be a bit much | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | i would just do a standard X pixmap | Nov 17 18:27 |
| XRevan86 | on top of curses | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | :P | Nov 17 18:27 |
| CrystalMath | that exists actually | Nov 17 18:28 |
| CrystalMath | ttyquake! | Nov 17 18:28 |
| CrystalMath | but | Nov 17 18:28 |
| CrystalMath | i would just render to an X pixmap | Nov 17 18:28 |
| CrystalMath | then XCopyPlane() | Nov 17 18:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | skip.....for now -Microsoft | Nov 17 18:31 |
| psydroid | https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1328127497129533443 | Nov 17 18:41 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@jhamby: I don’t care about Andy Rubin one way or the other, since I never knew him personally, but because he’s almost a de… https://t.co/ZDPPRPPW9b | Nov 17 18:41 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@jhamby: I don’t care about Andy Rubin one way or the other, since I never knew him personally, but because he’s almost a de… https://t.co/ZDPPRPPW9b | Nov 17 18:41 | |
| schestowitz | lol... hamby | Nov 17 18:42 |
| schestowitz | from Microsoft/Google | Nov 17 18:42 |
| schestowitz | Sanger | Nov 17 18:42 |
| schestowitz | Danger | Nov 17 18:42 |
| schestowitz | Don't ask him about back doors http://techrights.org/2020/02/20/no-back-doors-to-see-here-move-along/ | Nov 17 18:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Former Microsoft Employees Don’t Like Talking About Past and Present Microsoft Back Doors (Designed for Spy Agencies) | Techrights | Nov 17 18:42 | |
| schestowitz | he'll go crazy | Nov 17 18:42 |
| psydroid | lol | Nov 17 18:42 |
| MinceR | stranger danger? | Nov 17 18:46 |
| schestowitz | larry sagner | Nov 17 18:51 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | People on Windows don't even want to use Edge, so Microsoft resorts to sleazy high pressure vacuum machine sales tactics. and they still don't switch. So why would anyone put it on their Linux system, trust Microsoft's signing key, and then add a repo where Microsoft could install anything they want later? | Nov 17 19:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I mean, really, this is "open up the door and the sales guy throws dirt all over your carpet and then offers to clean it up" type stuff. | Nov 17 19:04 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | But it's really more like that episode of I Love Lucy where she schemes to make money as a vacuum machine salesperson and then throws the dirt all over this guy's carpet and then the stupid vacuum can't even pick any of it up and just grinds it further into the carpet. That's the sort of product Microsoft's web browser always is. | Nov 17 19:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: ^ | Nov 17 19:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you had a reputable product that speaks for itself as far as quality, you barely need advertising, because people would just buy it and then tell their friends how good it is, and that's the sort of "money can't buy" advertising that you need, which is how Firefox got popular before Mozilla threw it all away and canned the engineers. | Nov 17 19:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's a reason why Apple pummels people with advertising instead of just letting their products stand on their own. | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: until the pgp alternatives dump github | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | they are no better than pgp | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | or gnupg | Nov 17 19:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The advertising drives up the sales price because psychologists design the stuff to appeal to people's base instincts. Greed. Wanting to make neighbors jealous. Etc. | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | imho, hosting with an NSA code host | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | is no better than some of the things gnupg is accused of | Nov 17 19:09 |
| schestowitz | if not worse | Nov 17 19:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "Personalization", makes you have an emotional attachment to an inanimate object. | Nov 17 19:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And I'm all about customization. But come on..... | Nov 17 19:10 |
| vZS1 | Gnupg develops in its own servers, I believe | Nov 17 19:10 |
| vZS1 | Sequoia is on GitLab | Nov 17 19:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can't really customize your iPhone. | Nov 17 19:10 |
| schestowitz | ah | Nov 17 19:10 |
| schestowitz | gitlab | Nov 17 19:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can make it say "Good Morning, Dave." ;) but you can't sideload programs. | Nov 17 19:10 |
| vZS1 | Nettle is on self-hosted GitLab | Nov 17 19:11 |
| schestowitz | the company gitlab | Nov 17 19:11 |
| schestowitz | rather than the software gitlab | Nov 17 19:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So it's "marketing personalization". You can't truly make it yours. | Nov 17 19:11 |
| schestowitz | am looking into these | Nov 17 19:11 |
| vZS1 | Nettle isn't PGP though | Nov 17 19:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Dark psychology is everywhere at Microsoft and Apple. | Nov 17 19:11 |
| vZS1 | It's a generic crypto library | Nov 17 19:11 |
| vZS1 | In C | Nov 17 19:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They pressure and they scheme and they appeal to people's vanity and selfishness. | Nov 17 19:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Like a Vegas casino. | Nov 17 19:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Psychologists design casinos too. Every bit of them. They're designed to make everyone feel special. | Nov 17 19:12 |
| vZS1 | Sequoia uses Nettle as the crypto back-end. The PGP goes on top of the crypto primitives | Nov 17 19:13 |
| vZS1 | PGP is just a message format | Nov 17 19:13 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: need to get people off Windows | Nov 17 19:13 |
| schestowitz | and NOT adding PPAs of Microsoft to gnu/linux | Nov 17 19:13 |
| schestowitz | it's an ongoing issue to tackle | Nov 17 19:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, but the need really surfaced with XP, in my opinion. | Nov 17 19:13 |
| schestowitz | same with deletegithub etc | Nov 17 19:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | With the Product Activation. Even at 17 years old I heard that was coming and I was pissed. | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | vZS1: thanks for these pointers | Nov 17 19:14 |
| vZS1 | Yw | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | I am going to write some things soon | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | today/tonight: more epo and upc though, more urgent | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | zoobab: did you see bristows | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | "SMEs" | Nov 17 19:14 |
| schestowitz | de gov says SMEs love UPC :-) | Nov 17 19:15 |
| schestowitz | Germany self-nuking by saying that SMEs love UPC | Nov 17 19:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/us/politics/giuliani-trump-election-pay.html | Nov 17 19:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nytimes.com | Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work - The New York Times | Nov 17 19:15 | |
| vZS1 | Germany is no better than any other nation state | Nov 17 19:15 |
| vZS1 | They all want to spy on people | Nov 17 19:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | $20,000 a day to play into the racist mobster's fantasy that he may turn this around somehow. | Nov 17 19:16 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Despite his lawsuits going splat quicker than you can even write articles about it. | Nov 17 19:16 |
| vZS1 | > schestowitz: today/tonight: more epo and upc though, more urgent | Nov 17 19:19 |
| vZS1 | Once I get my infrastructure sorted, I'm going to get back to writing as well. | Nov 17 19:19 |
| vZS1 | Going to do a lot on public education about the internet, privacy, and security | Nov 17 19:20 |
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| vZS1 | Not so much rights, as I'll leave that up to you | Nov 17 19:20 |
| XRevan86 | https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmeduza.io%2Ffeature%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2Fv-gosdume-obsudili-zakon-o-neprikosnovennosti-putina-kommunisty-vystupili-protiv-im-predlozhili-sdat-mandaty-a-volodin-rasskazal-chto-proizoshlo-kogda-politiki-perecherknuli-pobedy-stalina | Nov 17 19:20 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-translate.google.com | Google Translate | Nov 17 19:20 | |
| XRevan86 | I just hate this irony. | Nov 17 19:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/17/shelton-fed-mcconnell/ | Nov 17 19:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.washingtonpost.com | Judy Shelton’s Fed nomination in jeopardy after Republican senator Charles Grassley quarantines due to coronavirus - The Washington Post | Nov 17 19:21 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trump is trying to put some crank who thinks we should return to the gold standard on the Fed. | Nov 17 19:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "Shelton’s support narrowed after Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said he would immediately quarantine. Three other GOP senators oppose her confirmation." | Nov 17 19:21 |
| XRevan86 | that those people, who try to defend the rule of law against Putin, are not allowed to immigrate to the US for being totalitarians or something | Nov 17 19:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't think that Grassley really needs to quarantine. | Nov 17 19:21 |
| vZS1 | I'll focus on the technical side of things. | Nov 17 19:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think that they don't want to confirm her and they also don't want to take any heat for failing to do so. | Nov 17 19:22 |
| XRevan86 | There are whole layers of irony in this text, I hope it'll get translated. | Nov 17 19:23 |
| XRevan86 | https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/11/17/russian-senate-commission-proposes-legislation-on-labeling-election-candidates-foreign-agents that's also a good one | Nov 17 19:23 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-meduza.io | NO TITLE | Nov 17 19:23 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/16/south-dakota-nurse-coronavirus-deniers/?itid=pr_hybrid_experimentrandom_with_top_mostshared_1_na-ans_1 | Nov 17 19:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.washingtonpost.com | South Dakota nurse Jodi Doering says dying patients deny coronavirus is real - The Washington Post | Nov 17 19:24 | |
| XRevan86 | schestowitz: Meduza fixed Atom/RSS. | Nov 17 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "Doering said she has covid-19 patients who need 100-percent-oxygen breathing assistance and who will also swear they don’t have the illness that has ended the lives of nearly a quarter-million people in the United States since February. | Nov 17 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | “I think the hardest thing to watch is that people are still looking for something else and a magic answer and they do not want to believe covid is real,” Doering told CNN in an interview Monday. | Nov 17 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | “Their last dying words are, ‘This can’t be happening. It’s not real,’” Doering said, adding that some patients prefer to believe that they have pneumonia or other diseases rather than covid-19, despite seeing their positive test results." | Nov 17 19:24 |
| XRevan86 | Don't know when, I just checked and it's there. | Nov 17 19:25 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ | Nov 17 19:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.worldometers.info | United States Coronavirus: 11,588,630 Cases and 253,177 Deaths - Worldometer | Nov 17 19:26 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | ILLinois | Nov 17 19:26 |
| *XRevan86 is very pissed at that US policy, being barred not even for doing anything incriminating. | Nov 17 19:26 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | 525 dead today with only 16 states reporting so far. | Nov 17 19:26 |
| XRevan86 | but then again, not really out of character | Nov 17 19:27 |
| schestowitz | Today, after 14 months of silence https://www.zdnet.com/article/hands-on-with-the-raspberry-pi-400-pleased-and-impressed/ | Nov 17 19:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Hands-on with the Raspberry Pi 400: Pleased and impressed | ZDNet | Nov 17 19:27 | |
| schestowitz | just HOURS after we mentioned his silence here | Nov 17 19:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'll probably take the vaccine. | Nov 17 19:27 |
| schestowitz | XRevan86: meduza rss started working again yesterday | Nov 17 19:28 |
| schestowitz | *the English one | Nov 17 19:28 |
| XRevan86 | The English one, yes. | Nov 17 19:28 |
| schestowitz | [19:24] <XRevan86> schestowitz: Meduza fixed Atom/RSS. | Nov 17 19:28 |
| schestowitz | ah | Nov 17 19:28 |
| schestowitz | beat me to it | Nov 17 19:28 |
| XRevan86 | I am glad that the Communist party still does worthy things for a change. Even if they're literally powerless and that has no practical effect (while being the second largest party). | Nov 17 19:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-election-recount-nears-completion-with-results-to-come/D5OXYX2ILFFX5KOGP72OAM3AI4/ | Nov 17 19:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ajc.com | Georgia recount: Election workers try to finish count before deadline | Nov 17 19:30 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | They did find 2,600 ballots in a Georgia county that weren't counted the first time around. | Nov 17 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They had an optical scanning error. | Nov 17 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They figure it would give Trump, at most, probably another 800 votes. | Nov 17 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Won't change the result but will give him ammunition to say rigged election, unfortunately. | Nov 17 19:30 |
| XRevan86 | Not really a party that could handle power though, it'd just crumble under its own internal disagreements. | Nov 17 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But most counties say that their totals are either the same or with differences in the single digit numbers. | Nov 17 19:31 |
| XRevan86 | "Is it authoritarian or is it libertarian?" Yes. | Nov 17 19:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even if you gave Trump the benefit of every possible doubt in Georgia, it would fail to even take away 10% of Biden's lead. | Nov 17 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's one audit allowed under the law and then they certify the results. | Nov 17 19:36 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: I don't think they planned this through, they acted fast. | Nov 17 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even if they were going to audit it again, it's not like they'll take away another 1,000 votes from Biden's lead, if they even get there with the one audit. | Nov 17 19:37 |
| XRevan86 | Or maybe the only thing they wanted is to throw some "illegitimacy" onto the new administration. | Nov 17 19:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The first audit is a double check and you get almost 100% of the oopses figured out. | Nov 17 19:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So they're not going to do a second audit to get 1% of the difference the first one made. | Nov 17 19:38 |
| schestowitz | Trump lost | Nov 17 19:39 |
| schestowitz | old news(TM) | Nov 17 19:39 |
| schestowitz | the coup is the news | Nov 17 19:39 |
| schestowitz | like him trying to start a a war | Nov 17 19:40 |
| XRevan86 | 2020 coups: Putin, Lukashenko, Trump | Nov 17 19:40 |
| XRevan86 | any other I missed? | Nov 17 19:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Even if he somehow got a million votes thrown out in this insane Pennsylvania lawsuit, it wouldn't matter. | Nov 17 19:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He gave up in Nevada and Arizona, and Georgia's Secretary of State WILL certify the results on the 20th. | Nov 17 19:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's still more electoral votes than Biden needs. | Nov 17 19:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Wisconsin state government told the Trump campaign that Wednesday by 5 PM is the only time they will accept a recount request, and that will cost Trump's campaign $8 million dollars up front. | Nov 17 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So it'll cost $8 million, they double check it real quick, and then they still certify that Biden won. | Nov 17 19:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | This is absolutely pointless. | Nov 17 19:42 |
| MinceR | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/blank | Nov 17 19:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Blank | Nov 17 19:44 | |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: you may be missing the more pressing news | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | “A range of senior advisers dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike. The advisers — including Vice President Mike Pence; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Christopher C. Miller, the acting defense secretary; and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — warned that a strike against Iran’s facilities could easily escalate into a broader conflict in the last weeks of Mr. | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | Trump’s presidency.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/us/politics/trump-iran-nuclear.html | Nov 17 19:55 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.nytimes.com | Trump Sought Options for Attacking Iran to Stop Its Growing Nuclear Program - The New York Times | Nov 17 19:55 | |
| schestowitz | he wants chaos | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | and if he enters war he can delay things | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | indefinitely | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | it's an old trick | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | the "wartime president" | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | apparently gave Bush his second term | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | he cannot win fairly | Nov 17 19:55 |
| schestowitz | the coup requires extraordinary circumstances | Nov 17 19:56 |
| schestowitz | and he still has a month until the electoral college does its thing | Nov 17 19:56 |
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| MinceR | https://i.imgur.com/n8IXLNj.png | Nov 17 20:44 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: That's cultural appropriation. | Nov 17 20:45 |
| MinceR | :> | Nov 17 20:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He's trying to start a war because if he leaves office having plunged the middle east into chaos, Biden won't be able to do anything but that. | Nov 17 20:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't think it's about staying in office, I think it's about sabotaging the next administration into having to deal with a war nobody wanted. | Nov 17 20:46 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | The sanctions on Iran aren't working. They're having an effect, which is to predictably prop up a regime that might have been dealt with internally by civil unrest and demanding elections and stuff. | Nov 17 20:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But people who are starving aren't trying to throw the bastards out when they hate you more and see a stable regime as at least maybe being able to fend off an external attack. | Nov 17 20:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't think that we're to the point of Belarus or anything. | Nov 17 20:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If we were, then the election would have been "Oh everyone voted for Trump don't you know. Like 90%, even.". | Nov 17 20:49 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: Belarus' regime is something like a junta. | Nov 17 20:50 |
| MinceR | cheeto hitler would need a few more terms to do that, it seems | Nov 17 20:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He is trying to "question" an election that he obviously didn't have enough control over to completely rig. | Nov 17 20:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And so we're not like Belarus, but it's not a far shot from it either. | Nov 17 20:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | MinceR: With two more years before another major election, I think that many states will expand vote by mail and will plan on the delays at the post office. I think the delays will go down under Biden because they can start implementing new policies and put some of the mail sorters back together. | Nov 17 20:51 |
| XRevan86 | For that Trump would need a military/forces apparatus that would be willing to go off the cliff with him. | Nov 17 20:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But states that want to do mail elections can expand the window to request a ballot and receive it, and plan for it better. | Nov 17 20:52 |
| XRevan86 | then it'd be like Belarus' | Nov 17 20:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think that Illinois needs to go through the budget line by line now that this progressive tax measure failed. | Nov 17 20:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They need to move municipal elections to either the federal presidential or midterm years, for starters. | Nov 17 20:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That could save the counties over $20 million per year on average over the next 10 years. | Nov 17 20:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's not chump change. | Nov 17 20:53 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Lake County's total budget is about $560 million per year. | Nov 17 20:54 |
| XRevan86 | Apparently the population doesn't even believe the propaganda one bit, so it's pretty much just taking it hostage. | Nov 17 20:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So you save a couple hundred thousand a year. What's wrong with that? | Nov 17 20:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nobody wants to change it because it's how they got elected, of course. | Nov 17 20:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If you bring more voters in, they may decide that they don't like you that much. You face a different electorate. | Nov 17 20:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Besides, it's their money you're wasting anyway. So what the hell? | Nov 17 20:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Republican prosecutor, Mike Nerheim, was the victim of being a Republican downballot from Trump on a presidential year. | Nov 17 20:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If this was 2018, he would have skated to another term. | Nov 17 20:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Because the electorate in Lake County that threw out some Republicans from Congress was still more conservative than the one that came out this year and ended him. | Nov 17 20:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There were Mike Nerheim re-election signs every 10 feet from each other in the county, it seemed | Nov 17 20:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Billboards, radio ads, a barrage of Facebook ads I heard. | Nov 17 20:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You didn't hear a peep from Eric Rinehart and he still won by a big margin. | Nov 17 20:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can spend and spend and a bad candidate is still a bad candidate. | Nov 17 20:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He not only had to run with Trump on the ballot. He had to run with the most disastrous crime stats in Lake County history and a pile up of prosecutorial failures that turned at least dozens of them loose to commit new crimes. | Nov 17 21:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can spend money and blame it all on Chicago as the news says all of the offenders, almost, had Lake County addresses. | Nov 17 21:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nobody was buying it. | Nov 17 21:01 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I'm not reading this as a failure to campaign. He was good at campaigning, not so much at doing his job, so he did better than he should have in the end, anyway. | Nov 17 21:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm seeing this as a county of close to 700,000 people, which was absolutely horrified with what was going on even before Burn, Loot, and Murder sacked and pillaged their way down Lewis Avenue in Waukegan, and completely picked several entire Walmart supercenters to the bone. | Nov 17 21:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | These are the fucking assholes that mjg59 Social Justice Warrior is on Reddit to defend. | Nov 17 21:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The people who have to live down the block from these criminals have....differing opinions than the folks who live in some ivory tower. | Nov 17 21:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And as Bernie Sanders once said, "Nobody cares about your damned emails.". | Nov 17 21:06 |
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| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Uh I just spent 5 years living in downtown Oakland | Nov 17 21:11 |
| mjg59 | I'm not sure what ivory towers you think I'm hanging around in | Nov 17 21:11 |
| mjg59 | Three shootings on my block in the time I was there | Nov 17 21:11 |
| schestowitz | with kingly salary | Nov 17 21:11 |
| schestowitz | helps save even moar (!) $ | Nov 17 21:11 |
| mjg59 | I was literally a block from West Oakland, where the Black Panthers were founded | Nov 17 21:12 |
| schestowitz | tell us when you become a gnu volunteer | Nov 17 21:12 |
| schestowitz | with a salary enough just for food and rent | Nov 17 21:12 |
| schestowitz | mjg59: I get it | Nov 17 21:12 |
| schestowitz | you are African American | Nov 17 21:12 |
| schestowitz | Like those people who identity as such but are Irish or whatever | Nov 17 21:12 |
| mjg59 | schestowitz: I was correcting Ryan's misconception that I'm somehow unaware of the direct impact of BLM | Nov 17 21:13 |
| schestowitz | some billionaires identity as "philanthropist" | Nov 17 21:13 |
| mjg59 | Or have never lived somewhere impacted by poverty and social unrest | Nov 17 21:13 |
| schestowitz | they are so philanthropic that they worry about tax | Nov 17 21:13 |
| schestowitz | because that tax might "hurt" their "philanthropy" | Nov 17 21:13 |
| schestowitz | so stop taxing them :-) | Nov 17 21:13 |
| schestowitz | antiracist posting is cost-free http://techrights.org/2020/06/14/linux-foundation-with-zero-african-american-employees-in-a-country-where-13-4-identify-as-african-american-boasts-about-its-support-for-the-black-community/ | Nov 17 21:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Linux Foundation, With Zero African-American Employees (in a Country Where 13.4% Identify as African-American), Boasts About Its “Support for the Black Community” | Techrights | Nov 17 21:14 | |
| schestowitz | ireland unrest wasn't so much due to race | Nov 17 21:14 |
| schestowitz | it was about the British | Nov 17 21:14 |
| schestowitz | and catholicism | Nov 17 21:14 |
| schestowitz | more like sectarian violence | Nov 17 21:14 |
| schestowitz | rather than a race issue | Nov 17 21:14 |
| mjg59 | I have no idea what the relevance of this is, but actual religion had little to do with the history of the troubles (there were catholics and protestants on both sides of the independence movement) | Nov 17 21:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnpBPA7TBRs | Nov 17 21:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-DR EVIL - I'm one crazy mofo - YouTube | Nov 17 21:15 | |
| schestowitz | IBM: we are "Commuinity" | Nov 17 21:15 |
| mjg59 | Religion was just a proxy for ethnic background | Nov 17 21:15 |
| schestowitz | https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-invention-network-linux-patent-protection-group-turns-15/ | Nov 17 21:15 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Open Invention Network Linux patent protection group turns 15 | ZDNet | Nov 17 21:15 | |
| schestowitz | patents are "community | Nov 17 21:15 |
| schestowitz | software patents are "Safe" | Nov 17 21:16 |
| schestowitz | Love, ZDNret | Nov 17 21:16 |
| schestowitz | *ZDNet | Nov 17 21:16 |
| schestowitz | people are arses to each other | Nov 17 21:17 |
| schestowitz | they will always find excuses ro fight | Nov 17 21:17 |
| schestowitz | religion and ethnics are surrogates | Nov 17 21:17 |
| schestowitz | in the US it's politics | Nov 17 21:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're worried that if they pay taxes, the Useless Eaters will get food stamps and that will interfere with their plans to commit philanthropic genocide. | Nov 17 21:17 |
| schestowitz | I care about how people treat the planet and species, less what book they follow etc. | Nov 17 21:17 |
| schestowitz | if you help bomb people for money, I'll fight you | Nov 17 21:18 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: something like that | Nov 17 21:18 |
| schestowitz | many of the super-rich are closeted proponents of eugenics | Nov 17 21:18 |
| schestowitz | or depopulation based on their selection criteria | Nov 17 21:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Not very closeted either. | Nov 17 21:18 |
| schestowitz | the selection process may vary | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | some say use contraception | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | some abortion | Nov 17 21:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In the closet with the door hanging wide open. Like Gates. | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | some don't even do it pre-birth | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | but while you're still alive | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | by shortening lives | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | or by forced sterilisation | Nov 17 21:19 |
| schestowitz | apropos, IBM http://techrights.org/2020/08/16/ibm-powered-purges/ | Nov 17 21:19 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The Full Story (With References) of IBM’s Role in a Purge of Black People and Mixed-Race Couples | Techrights | Nov 17 21:20 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yes, in Stargate SG-1, the Aschen plan to take over Earth was to make 90% of the humans sterile by promising a vaccine that would double life span. | Nov 17 21:20 |
| schestowitz | Watson supported Hitler a decade later. It brought him lots of money. | Nov 17 21:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Everyone rushed to take it and then it was too late. | Nov 17 21:20 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/01/26/advocates-of-population-control/ | Nov 17 21:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Isn't it a bit odd that they have no experience at all with Coronavirus vaccines. | Nov 17 21:21 |
| schestowitz | who? | Nov 17 21:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then they cooked something up over 6 months that's "94.5% effective and very safe". | Nov 17 21:21 |
| schestowitz | they improve and act like one on TV | Nov 17 21:21 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Opinion: If You Advocate Population Control and You Are Yourself Doubling in One Single Generation, Then You Might be Hypocritical | Techrights | Nov 17 21:21 | |
| schestowitz | and they pay the TV statiobns | Nov 17 21:21 |
| schestowitz | so the broadcaster play along with this 'theatrical' act | Nov 17 21:21 |
| schestowitz | scripted "segments" | Nov 17 21:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | People with 5 kids be all like "World's full....Get off her!". | Nov 17 21:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | :) | Nov 17 21:22 |
| schestowitz | Ted has 5 | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | Warren 4 | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | Gates 3 | Nov 17 21:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | "But I have better genes so I'm just trying to compensate for all of the unchecked breeding from the out of wedlock single moms in the inner city!" | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | average 4 | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | doubling in 20 odd years | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | very sustainable | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | the likelihood of early death in this class is very small | Nov 17 21:23 |
| schestowitz | one kid should be enough for them | Nov 17 21:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Gonad the Barbarian's obituary said he had 18 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren when he died 3 years ago. | Nov 17 21:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | At 59! | Nov 17 21:24 |
| schestowitz | they want heir, spare, and hare | Nov 17 21:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So there is some truth there, schestowitz | Nov 17 21:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They're all criminals. | Nov 17 21:24 |
| schestowitz | Genghis Ginad | Nov 17 21:24 |
| schestowitz | Gonad | Nov 17 21:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | None of them work. They all produce meth and shit. | Nov 17 21:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Occasional armed robbery. | Nov 17 21:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Lots of check fraud. | Nov 17 21:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I mean, and there's now DOZENS more because of him. | Nov 17 21:25 |
| schestowitz | Maybe your mom took some meth off them | Nov 17 21:25 |
| schestowitz | judging by some of the crap Madame Harome believes | Nov 17 21:25 |
| schestowitz | Harmone | Nov 17 21:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Demons, long hair, and colloidal silver. | Nov 17 21:25 |
| schestowitz | Trump voter(tm) | Nov 17 21:26 |
| schestowitz | how's that for a tattoo | Nov 17 21:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Well, of course she is. | Nov 17 21:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | If that's not bad enough, my dad is even crazier than that. | Nov 17 21:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Voted Trump too. | Nov 17 21:26 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Filled his "study" up with porn and Deepak Chopra books. | Nov 17 21:27 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Liked to attend seances, donates to Scientology. | Nov 17 21:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Likes incense and Dungeons and Dragons. | Nov 17 21:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You know, my mom, when she wants to insult me, just calls me Carl. | Nov 17 21:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I told her "GRANDMA!". | Nov 17 21:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | She stopped calling me Carl, at least. | Nov 17 21:29 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: There's some real characters in my family. I don't know how I didn't end up just like them, honestly. Can't be all genes. | Nov 17 21:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You know? | Nov 17 21:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But if you believe what eugenicists like Bill Gates are putting out, then bad genes mean bad children. | Nov 17 21:31 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | The only thing separating them from any run down schmuck with a pair of khakis and a Walmart time clock badge is their parents were rich. | Nov 17 21:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Started them off with the best education opportunities and lots of money and social connections. | Nov 17 21:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | When you start at the free throw line, it's a hell of a lot easier. | Nov 17 21:32 |
| schestowitz | [21:27] <DaemonFC[m]> Filled his "study" up with porn and Deepak Chopra books. | Nov 17 21:32 |
| schestowitz | Chopra LOL | Nov 17 21:32 |
| schestowitz | I fought with him online | Nov 17 21:32 |
| schestowitz | like a decade ago | Nov 17 21:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz: The big difference between making a lot of money and making a modest amount of money is that with a modest amount of money, you can't afford mistakes and inefficiencies in your operations. | Nov 17 21:33 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: no need to bed for VC >> <DaemonFC[m]> When you start at the free throw line, it's a hell of a lot easier. | Nov 17 21:33 |
| schestowitz | *beg | Nov 17 21:33 |
| DaemonFC[m] | We live better than some of our family members who have twice (or more) income. | Nov 17 21:33 |
| vZS1 | The situation with Ireland might get tense again with all the Brexit madness | Nov 17 21:33 |
| schestowitz | Brexshit | Nov 17 21:34 |
| vZS1 | We already lost one young journalist not long ago | Nov 17 21:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I agree completely with Nancy Pelosi about that. | Nov 17 21:34 |
| schestowitz | maybe poltician also | Nov 17 21:34 |
| schestowitz | (Cox) | Nov 17 21:34 |
| vZS1 | People are quick to forget | Nov 17 21:34 |
| vZS1 | Possibly there too, yes. Jo Cox. | Nov 17 21:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | No US-UK trade deal if they renege on their agreement with Northern Ireland. | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | DaemonFC[m]: Pelosi net worth is very high | Nov 17 21:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | In fact, I'd go further and have the Treasury sanction them for it. | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | oh, brexit would be hurt indeed by biden win | Nov 17 21:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's the same sort of attitude as China has about Hong Kong, just take over and then poison them to death. | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | i ddin't even pause to think of that | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | brexit was publicly promoted by trump | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | a CANDIDATE trump | Nov 17 21:35 |
| schestowitz | with his pseudo-populism | Nov 17 21:36 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I would come down on them for violating the Good Friday accord (even though that didn't go nearly far enough for autonomy), and I would come down hard. | Nov 17 21:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And I really really hope the Democrats do that. | Nov 17 21:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You think just Brexit is going to ruin your finances. | Nov 17 21:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Wait until the sanctions start. | Nov 17 21:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Sanctions are better suited to inflict upon people who were used to an abundance in the first place. | Nov 17 21:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Who still have elections. | Nov 17 21:38 |
| MinceR | 17 215205 < XRevan86> For that Trump would need a military/forces apparatus that would be willing to go off the cliff with him. | Nov 17 21:45 |
| MinceR | maybe that's what the whole polarization deal is about | Nov 17 21:45 |
| XRevan86 | MinceR: No, that's not enough at all. | Nov 17 21:46 |
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| XRevan86 | MinceR: You need something more… concrete. | Nov 17 21:48 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | Playing around with the Snap of Chromium. | Nov 17 22:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't see what all the fuss is about. It works and behaves identically to before. | Nov 17 22:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | With the bonus of being sandboxed by snap. | Nov 17 22:11 |
| MinceR | finally you can chromium while depending not only on google, but also canonical | Nov 17 22:11 |
| MinceR | and maybe also ibm | Nov 17 22:12 |
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| vZS1 | For most software, you can just make a new user and group and just build the source in there. Keep the stuff in that user's home directory. | Nov 17 22:30 |
| vZS1 | If you mess up, you can just try again. | Nov 17 22:30 |
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| schestowitz | you end up trusting orgs and people based on track record | Nov 17 22:32 |
| schestowitz | those with clean track records don't wish to tarnish that | Nov 17 22:32 |
| schestowitz | those who have a past that's rogue, like Microsoft, will never be trusted | Nov 17 22:32 |
| schestowitz | but they can bribe the media to pretend otherwise | Nov 17 22:32 |
| schestowitz | e.g. Microsoft "fights fort developers" | Nov 17 22:32 |
| vZS1 | I don't even trust myself most of the time. I do a lot of dumb stuff | Nov 17 22:33 |
| schestowitz | meaning, Microsoft fights to keep devs coding for GITHUB... i.e. for itself | Nov 17 22:33 |
| schestowitz | just published http://techrights.org/2020/11/17/government-of-germany-upc-lies/ | Nov 17 22:33 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The Stench Follows and Spreads: Another UPC Lie Now Followed by Lies From the Government of Germany | Techrights | Nov 17 22:33 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Georgia says it will certify Biden's win by Friday, which means the 16 electoral votes are locked in. | Nov 17 22:34 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Trump campaign pretty much pulled out of Georgia. | Nov 17 22:34 |
| schestowitz | so he can start a war | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | or golf | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | or shoot himself with a revolver | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | after raping his daughter or something | Nov 17 22:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The sooner the states certify their results, the sooner this charade that Trump will sue his way back into the White House is finished. | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | either way, he won't leave the WH east | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | easy | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | he'll cause more trouble, somehow | Nov 17 22:35 |
| schestowitz | "there's always a way..." | Nov 17 22:36 |
| vZS1 | Don't forget all the junk they bundle in to spy on you | Nov 17 22:37 |
| vZS1 | Telemetry | Nov 17 22:38 |
| vZS1 | UX | Nov 17 22:38 |
| vZS1 | I wrote the skeleton of my http server today in 41 lines of Go. Going to use other tools to generate the pages (files). | Nov 17 22:39 |
| vZS1 | I built the ipfs bot for the TR node in well under 100 lines of shell code | Nov 17 22:40 |
| vZS1 | What we have in our hands in the wholesale duping of users | Nov 17 22:41 |
| vZS1 | on our hands is* | Nov 17 22:41 |
| vZS1 | All thes | Nov 17 22:42 |
| vZS1 | All these frameworks are just a way for GAFAM to absorb your work into their ecosystem | Nov 17 22:43 |
| vZS1 | Screw compatibility. Build what works for you | Nov 17 22:43 |
| vZS1 | Follow standards that really matter. Not bullshittery | Nov 17 22:44 |
| vZS1 | TCP and UDP are standards. Some half-baked data structure built on top of JSON isn't | Nov 17 22:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, Phoronix did an article where he benchmarked Windows 10 with the default telemetry and the most you could turn it off. | Nov 17 22:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It was like an 8% drag on the system in the default state. | Nov 17 22:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | 8% to run all the spyware. | Nov 17 22:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Obviously no user would want 8% of their computer's performance to go away so Microsoft could spy on them, but that's what happens. | Nov 17 22:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And 8% is basically the CPU performance difference between this year's CPU and next year's of the same price point. | Nov 17 22:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So Windows is downgrading your CPU to last year's model with the spyware. | Nov 17 22:52 |
| vZS1 | Don't forget all the bandwidth | Nov 17 22:52 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The electric company says I'm using about 7 kilowatt hours per day. | Nov 17 22:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's actually not too bad. | Nov 17 22:54 |
| vZS1 | I turn off everything after I'm done | Nov 17 22:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's still a fuckton of Linux tunables on power consumption that are off by default but which have worked fine for years now on Skylake. | Nov 17 22:54 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: Any comment on that? | Nov 17 22:55 |
| vZS1 | The only thing that stays on are stuff like the fridge, my Rpi, couple other microcontrollers | Nov 17 22:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You run powertop autotune and flip them on at boot and it all works fine. | Nov 17 22:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And the difference is like 30% better power consumption than the Linux defaults. | Nov 17 22:55 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I guess nobody at Intel is worried about, you know, user experience or the environment or anything. | Nov 17 22:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | On Ubuntu, they have powertop, but no systemd service for it, so I straight up copied the one from Fedora. | Nov 17 22:56 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Obviously, 30% less power means I pay Communist Edision 30% less to run my laptop. | Nov 17 22:57 |
| DaemonFC[m] | *Edison | Nov 17 22:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There's no other way to put what's going on with energy in Illinois than Communism, really. | Nov 17 22:58 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The state gave ComEd $2.3 billion dollars in one go with the Future Energy Jobs Act, then once the ink was dry, ComEd threatened to shut down two of the nuclear reactors the state "saved" unless there was a second bailout bill, back to back. | Nov 17 23:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-exelon-nuclear-plants-shut-down-20200828-qmk6z3d5mrgipeahb56vugq3za-story.html | Nov 17 23:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.chicagotribune.com | Without another bailout, Exelon plans to close two Illinois nuclear plants next year - Chicago Tribune | Nov 17 23:00 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then after it came to light that a lot of that was direct cash bribes to Speaker Mike Madigan and other Democrats, (still no indictments....hmmmm), ComEd pointed out how much lower your energy bill was after they took it from you out of the tax money the state doesn't actually have, and thus borrowed at 6% like usual. | Nov 17 23:01 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Of course they want to invest in technologies that have an unintended side effect of lowering CO2 emissions. | Nov 17 23:03 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The trick is to get you to pay for the investments so that they can keep the money they save by not generating that amount of power. | Nov 17 23:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | By that logic, the state should have paid for my car repair bills because I picked up a few miles per gallon in the process. | Nov 17 23:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Wish I could do some of that there lobbying I keep hearing about. | Nov 17 23:04 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Because they *don't* work in all cases and they cause data corruption in the cases they don't work | Nov 17 23:06 |
| mjg59 | Because, again, Intel won't tell us how to figure out and apply the appropriate policy | Nov 17 23:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've never experienced any data corruption on this system with it all on. | Nov 17 23:07 |
| vZS1 | DaemonFC[m]: if you want to look for the stats without relying on tools, have a look at "Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-power" in the Linux Git repo | Nov 17 23:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Although I think forcing panel self refresh does taint the kernel. Oh well. | Nov 17 23:07 |
| vZS1 | A lot of the stuff there isn't in a lot of tools because they're fairly new data objects | Nov 17 23:08 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: Right. It'll work fine on most systems. And on the ones it doesn't work, it'll appear to be fine until suddenly your data is gone. | Nov 17 23:08 |
| vZS1 | Quite a few DOs from 2020 | Nov 17 23:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Uh, Windows causes a lot of data corruption because it crashes all the time and that's just what it does. | Nov 17 23:08 |
| mjg59 | So we can't do it by default | Nov 17 23:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'd say Linux has been remarkable compared to that. | Nov 17 23:08 |
| mjg59 | I tried multiple times to come up with an implementation that worked for everybody | Nov 17 23:08 |
| mjg59 | And I failed | Nov 17 23:09 |
| mjg59 | So we stick to the safe defaults | Nov 17 23:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <mjg59 "DaemonFC: Right. It'll work fine"> Well, 4 years, dozens of kernel versions later... Nope. No corruption. | Nov 17 23:09 |
| mjg59 | Congratulations, you have one of the systems where it's fine | Nov 17 23:09 |
| mjg59 | Unless you swap out your SSD, in which case there's a chance it'll stop being fine | Nov 17 23:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The only time I had to do anything at all untowards to my system was when Fedora pulled in those bad kernels. | Nov 17 23:10 |
| mjg59 | Don't really know what else to say here | Nov 17 23:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The ones where Intel backed out GPU power management completely for an entire series. | Nov 17 23:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So, that was a big factor in ditching Fedora. | Nov 17 23:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They don't even care if it's broken. They'll knowingly ship crap and tell you oh well. | Nov 17 23:10 |
| mjg59 | Panel self refresh won't tend to cause data corruption, but if it's on and the panel doesn't actually support it then you'll just get a screen that'll randomly go blank | Nov 17 23:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Of course that was late last year so Kubuntu 20.04 wasn't even branched at the time iirc. | Nov 17 23:11 |
| mjg59 | So it's only enabled when the panel explicitly says it's supported and claims to have timing parameters that match the spec | Nov 17 23:11 |
| mjg59 | Some panels lie about that and will work fine if you force it on | Nov 17 23:11 |
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| mjg59 | But we can't do that by default | Nov 17 23:11 |
| mjg59 | We can't change the ASPM policy by default because some network hardware will start corrupting packets | Nov 17 23:11 |
| mjg59 | So we go with whatever the firmware set in the first place | Nov 17 23:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | <mjg59 "Panel self refresh won't tend to"> Last time I had screen glitches was kernel 4.8 which was fine because it also didn't have a driver for my wifi until 4.9. | Nov 17 23:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | At the time, PSR also didn't work, (at least with Wayland, it froze after GDM loaded, but with X it didn't.) Now it seems to work either way, but I'm on KDE where I'm on X again anyway due to that. | Nov 17 23:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | But oh well because Wayland is junk. | Nov 17 23:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | For practical, daily use, it's junk. | Nov 17 23:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nobody cares what it can do if it ruins Wine and a bunch of other stuff too. | Nov 17 23:13 |
| MinceR | https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/microsoft-pluton-security-chip-intel-amd-qualcomm/ | Nov 17 23:14 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Microsoft reveals Pluton, a custom security chip built into Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors – TechCrunch | Nov 17 23:14 | |
| MinceR | as if we didn't have enough hardware backdoors already | Nov 17 23:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Again, Fedora knowingly ships broken junk and then includes an X11 session "for no particular reason and because Wayland works great". | Nov 17 23:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | These Fedora people are like listening to Chicago politicians. | Nov 17 23:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | All we need is another tax increase in the middle of the fires and looting and we'll be a world class city again. | Nov 17 23:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There really is a big difference between Illinois and Chicago, I've learned. | Nov 17 23:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | At least nobody in Waukegan (yet) has promised a city stimulus check to illegal immigrants funded by a property tax increase. | Nov 17 23:17 |
| DaemonFC[m] | mjg59: Should really consider Chicago. He can practice what he preaches. While they're raising the bridges to slow down Burn, Loot, and Murder, and Kim Foxx (recently re-elected by Burn, Loot, and Murder voters) lets them go, he can pay taxes that are spiraling out of control. | Nov 17 23:18 |
| MinceR | fits cancerd pretty well | Nov 17 23:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | For all sorts of Social Justice Warrior-ey things. | Nov 17 23:19 |
| MinceR | more broken junk to go with the rest of the broken junk | Nov 17 23:19 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | I wonder who'll buy the Trump building out of the bankruptcy sale. | Nov 17 23:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Maybe they finally will get his name off it. | Nov 17 23:20 |
| MinceR | i've read that it would just go to deutsche bank | Nov 17 23:20 |
| MinceR | who are also assholes | Nov 17 23:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Yeah, they're the ones who propped up this loser to begin with. | Nov 17 23:20 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Made it look like he knew anything about running a business that makes money. | Nov 17 23:20 |
| MinceR | they're also the ones who pay the useless overpaid suits who decided that people who work from home should be taxed better to punish them for not having to deal with some of the shit in life | Nov 17 23:21 |
| MinceR | i think deutsche bank should be taxed extra instead | Nov 17 23:21 |
| MinceR | they can apparently afford to come up with useless bullshit like this | Nov 17 23:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I supported Bernie Sanders in two primaries, back to back, watched him lose twice. | Nov 17 23:21 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Clinton was such a weak candidate that it not only made Sanders look like he had a lot of relative support, but it also made Trump win in a photo finish despite how awful he is. | Nov 17 23:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't really care if my decision is popular or if I'm backing someone that I think most people will agree with. | Nov 17 23:23 |
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| XRevan86 | It was a good try by Bernie, but the party just didn't like him. | Nov 17 23:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think that the majority is frequently wrong and disastrously so, and there is a mountain of evidence to support that. | Nov 17 23:23 |
| mjg59 | DaemonFC[m]: The violent crime and homicide rates in Oakland are higher than they are in Chicago. What, exactly, do you think I haven't experienced? | Nov 17 23:26 |
| CrystalMath | MinceR: here in Serbia (and also in Kosovo) we have Lake Trump | Nov 17 23:27 |
| CrystalMath | MinceR: it's a lake right on the border | Nov 17 23:28 |
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| CrystalMath | it was named after the man who was a great intermediary, and helped us establish air travel between Belgrade and Pristina, as well as resolve many major disputes | Nov 17 23:28 |
| CrystalMath | and yes i'm talking about US president Donald J. Trump | Nov 17 23:29 |
| CrystalMath | the same man who made the US energy-independent for the first time since 1957 | Nov 17 23:29 |
| CrystalMath | the first US president to visit North Korea | Nov 17 23:29 |
| CrystalMath | the president who pardoned black people who were unfairly arrested | Nov 17 23:30 |
| CrystalMath | the republican who got more republican votes than any republican before him | Nov 17 23:31 |
| CrystalMath | err | Nov 17 23:31 |
| CrystalMath | more BLACK votes | Nov 17 23:31 |
| CrystalMath | i messed up that sentence worse than Biden | Nov 17 23:31 |
| CrystalMath | the republican who got more african american votes than any republican before him | Nov 17 23:31 |
| CrystalMath | (to clarify) | Nov 17 23:32 |
| CrystalMath | the president who reduced the unemployment rate, built up a strong economy, pulled troops out of many foreign nations | Nov 17 23:35 |
| CrystalMath | how can i not say that Trump was the greatest president the US had in the last 30 years? | Nov 17 23:35 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935934885/senate-blocks-president-trumps-controversial-nominee-to-the-federal-reserve-boar | Nov 17 23:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.npr.org | Senate Blocks President Trump's Controversial Nominee To The Federal Reserve Board : NPR | Nov 17 23:35 | |
| CrystalMath | and that's crappy, Judy Shelton is a wonderful candidate | Nov 17 23:36 |
| CrystalMath | she supports the gold standard | Nov 17 23:37 |
| CrystalMath | as do i | Nov 17 23:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The US could sell all the gold in Fort Knox and not pay off 1% of the debt with it. | Nov 17 23:41 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trump piled on more to the debt than every president from George Washington to Barack Obama, and it only took him 1 term. | Nov 17 23:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Creditors are openly concerned about the US falling into sovereign default because of Trump. | Nov 17 23:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So they may not lend soon anyway. | Nov 17 23:42 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The last thing we need is another crank who will be around for 14 years after Trump is gone. | Nov 17 23:43 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | After the recess, Senator Elect Mark Kelly (D-AZ) will take his seat. | Nov 17 23:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So he'll be seated in December, not January. | Nov 17 23:45 |
| CrystalMath | fiat currency is crap | Nov 17 23:45 |
| CrystalMath | the gold standard is absolutely needed | Nov 17 23:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So the Republicans will be down one seat very soon. | Nov 17 23:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | There isn't enough gold in the entire world to represent the American economy. | Nov 17 23:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Much less the global economy | Nov 17 23:46 |
| CrystalMath | maybe because a lot of that economy is a lie | Nov 17 23:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Nixon suspended Bretton Woods because it was killing us. | Nov 17 23:46 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Other countries were demanding our gold reserves and it would have all been gone before the 1970s were out if he hadn't stopped them. | Nov 17 23:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It was also increasingly becoming outdated anyway. | Nov 17 23:47 |
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| DaemonFC[m] | We're not living in some kind of medieval barter economy. | Nov 17 23:48 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The gold standard was mostly over long before the Nixon Shock. | Nov 17 23:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | FDR realized it had to stop. | Nov 17 23:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | FDR was popular enough that he would have kept winning elections as long as he lived. | Nov 17 23:49 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Trump didn't have a majority of the popular vote the first time and lost both the popular and electoral vote this time around. | Nov 17 23:50 |
| CrystalMath | FDR was crap | Nov 17 23:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | He's Republican Carter at this point. | Nov 17 23:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Except he's not even a generally decent guy. | Nov 17 23:50 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They'll get over Trump fast. | Nov 17 23:50 |
| MinceR | RepliCarter? | Nov 17 23:51 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They say they won't, but in 2024 they won't even want to talk about him anymore. | Nov 17 23:51 |
| CrystalMath | then you won't see me talking about republicans, either | Nov 17 23:54 |
| CrystalMath | i never cared for fascist Mitt Romney, nor Bush the butcher | Nov 17 23:54 |
| CrystalMath | if there's nobody like Trump there's no hope for the US | Nov 17 23:54 |
| CrystalMath | oh, and i forgot McCain the criminally insane (and now deceased) | Nov 17 23:55 |
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