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| schestowitz-pi2 | the changes in feedlist worked correctly | Apr 09 02:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this will make life a lot easier, esp. grouping by source with one's naked eye | Apr 09 02:12 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | saved ~120 today, worth the sunny trip | Apr 09 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | checked some golf clubs, they want 3 per club and they're way too light | Apr 09 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | found cricket club, but they are all "soft" | Apr 09 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "modern" things are made 'safe' | Apr 09 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | hollow and stringy | Apr 09 09:46 |
| techrights[sec] | yes that can happen especially as there is vastly increased competition for | Apr 09 09:58 |
| techrights[sec] | discounted food. As mentioned, around here the discount is no longer 50% | Apr 09 09:58 |
| techrights[sec] | but now only 30% since quite a few years back. | Apr 09 09:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | bad news: | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | vendor of elderflower boxes ran out, same for oat drinks, piper crisps, not found protein products | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for a month, but we have backlog anyway | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | got fresh veg on way back at tesco, for noodle dishes | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the fear is that, over time, many good vendors will run out of good suppliers | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and then the real cost of food, soaring prices, will impact us too | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we bought lots of special teas to last us eof years, expiery 2025 | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's not just food, today I hauled 72 rolls of toilet paper, 11 pence each | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and soemtimes toiletries etc. rianne tried to finf decent new headphones but failed | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the planes no longer provider any, "coz covid" | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | of course they have people crammed like sardines, but saving money on headphones is a lot more "risk" | Apr 09 10:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | like the idiots here that say "no cash" in places where they make food BY HAND and place is on ceramics | Apr 09 10:02 |
| techrights[sec] | The rolls have much fewer sheets on them nowadays. The spindle in the center | Apr 09 10:03 |
| techrights[sec] | is huge compared to just a few years ago. | Apr 09 10:03 |
| techrights[sec] | Air planes and especially air ports have very little with actual travel to do | Apr 09 10:03 |
| techrights[sec] | It is mosly about breaking people's will and getting them used to violations | Apr 09 10:03 |
| techrights[sec] | of both rights and human dignity. | Apr 09 10:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | good point, i forgot about the inner radius | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | toothpaste tubes used to last long when i was a kid | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but cannot recall how many ml was 'standard' | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe 150? | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the smaller they make these, the greater the pollution/waste | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | more plastic products, less "product" | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | colgate started experimenting with 75ml tubes | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i saw one months ago (first time) | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | today i saw a bag of coffee, 450grams | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the ones i have are still 500grams | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | of course we took 6km of buckwehat again, while it lasts... | Apr 09 10:11 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *kg | Apr 09 10:11 |
| techrights[sec] | The toothpaste tubes are tiny and very empty relative to not long ago too | Apr 09 10:12 |
| techrights[sec] | Coffee here is no longer sold 500g at a time but 425g and even 400g at a time | Apr 09 10:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so ccommon a trick nowadays that they coined a catchy name for it | Apr 09 10:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | helsinkitimes shitposting friday | Apr 09 10:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 75% of articles are junk | Apr 09 10:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe slow news, i'll try to skip non-tech sites or skim very very fast | Apr 09 10:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so make time to write/record | Apr 09 10:14 |
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| techrights[sec] | Yes it HT is a very low-quality site, almost as bad as TheLocal | Apr 09 10:31 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | in recent months my gut feeling was that HT was boosting the hard right | Apr 09 11:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but it was a feeling, choice of words and topics | Apr 09 11:29 |
| techrights[sec] | That's the impression I have but also without hard data | Apr 09 11:29 |
| techrights[sec] | It's a long term activity, I'm not sure who controls HT anyway | Apr 09 11:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's a small niche site | Apr 09 11:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a lot of it is he said, she said, he tweeted, yle said, this other person/site/org said | Apr 09 11:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but not any independent jounrnalism | Apr 09 11:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that site could be run by a couple | Apr 09 11:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or a small office funded by some "philanthropist" | Apr 09 11:31 |
| techrights[sec] | It looks rather like HT was founded to push an agenda, but which one(s) and why? | Apr 09 11:56 |
| techrights-news | IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 08, 2023 | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/09/irc-log-080423/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/09/irc-log-080423/ | Apr 09 12:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 2 weeks ago it did 3 or 4 "worker shortage" bs pieces _in a row_ | Apr 09 12:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | which i found a tad suspicious | Apr 09 12:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | shortages can be overcome by education, training, other means | Apr 09 12:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that narrative is used to manipulate wages, too | Apr 09 12:00 |
| techrights[sec] | Mostly it can be overcome by paying a livable wage, which has not been happening | Apr 09 12:04 |
| techrights[sec] | in most of the fields with shortages. The rest can be done by providing | Apr 09 12:04 |
| techrights[sec] | humane working conditions which make up the rest. So between humane working | Apr 09 12:04 |
| techrights[sec] | conditions and livable wages, there'd be no "worker shortages" | Apr 09 12:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a) like pump and dump fakecoins, workers' salaries can be gamed by hype/panic | Apr 09 12:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | b) today we spoke about how oftetimes the nhs in 2020 or later has students next to gp or specialist | Apr 09 12:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | being trained, it's ok because you get "2 in 1" | Apr 09 12:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | c) many workers don't mind the wage if 1) job easy 2) ok conditions 3) respsect | Apr 09 12:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i did not mine sirius paying little as long as 1-3 was fine | Apr 09 12:04 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes 1, 2, and 3 are essential but there is a push by employers and other interests against all three. Thus any n | Apr 09 12:07 |
| techrights[sec] | ews articles focus only on wages if even that | Apr 09 12:07 |
| techrights[sec] | There was a cleaners' strike the other week that got no coverage anywhere | Apr 09 12:07 |
| techrights[sec] | in any of the languages. | Apr 09 12:07 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a lot of robotics of "hey hi", with media collusion" got weaponised to tell people they have no future | Apr 09 12:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and should thus learn toa ccept longer working hours, lower salary, or both | Apr 09 12:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i saw 2+ articlea about the cleaners' strike in english, iirc,or maybe i conflate that with another | Apr 09 12:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | rant: i am surrounded by bitter and thus potentially hostile people | Apr 09 12:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and so need to "lay low" and be forgotten about, ime | Apr 09 12:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's generally hard to find a reason to get angry about something or somebody you know nothing about | Apr 09 12:10 |
| techrights[sec] | Probably conflated with another strike or two, thhere have been many lately | Apr 09 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | all have terrible working conditions yet the news, if it covers the strikes at | Apr 09 12:24 |
| techrights[sec] | all, focus on wages instead and make it seem like the demands are greedy | Apr 09 12:24 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | same at epo, if you can recall 2015 press coverage | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they focuses on wages | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not legality | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not how workers were treated | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not the science | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | etc etc | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i said to my boss a year ago | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or 15 months ago | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's not about money | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not asking for a raise | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | just dignity etc. | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he didn't even bother replying | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | there was no way to reply | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | did you see the url i pasted in this morning? | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | mailing list | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | btw: i keep saying, don't take raises | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | when a company or person gives you a raise | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's _usuaulyl_ not a gift | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they want something in reutnr | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | andn they can keep bringing up the _raise_ | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | over time experience may mean you do the same things quicker | Apr 09 12:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so your raise is more leeway and time to chill | Apr 09 12:27 |
| techrights[sec] | The lack of dignity goes back to the air travel problem, the major role that | Apr 09 12:28 |
| techrights[sec] | airports play now is to break people of the expectation of basic human dignity | Apr 09 12:28 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes | Apr 09 12:28 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe i am too young, but as a kid i remember workers in officer | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not open offices with class and metal | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | last night in bed i recalled a bank branch from around 1995 | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | there used to be many around, some ample | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and the booths, the seating space, the smell | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | those don't exist anymore | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and the bankers cannot be spoke to without colleagues hearing, the phone might | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | interrup at any time, the service sometimes boils down to, | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "you need to do this online" | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so as a customer i can see how it deteriorated | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and from across the desk i can see their job too getting rather awful | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "come with me to the office" is old language | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in 2002-2006 i worked in Manchester Computing and had my OWN office | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | with 3 machines | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or 4 | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | then in 2005/'6 they started asking me to attend the reception | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | open space with many dicks and unwanted interactions | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i handed in my resignation after escaping reception to the office became | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no longer "acceptable" | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i kept doing it and it was only "tolerated" temporarily | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i was not really needed at reception | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it was about making me less productive and more miserable | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no other purpose | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the "boss" was a total dick! i could not believe he was made by boss! hilarious! | Apr 09 12:34 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | total dick, totallyy stupid and immature | Apr 09 12:34 |
| techrights[sec] | In DK and SE there were offices. I had one briefly in NO also but none in FI | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | I would just sit in lobbies between lectures or, occasionally, the cafe. | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | That's usually the kind they bring in. At one job I coordinated the Netware | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | services and desktop systems for 18 small institutions and the directors, with | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | two exceptions, were pedantic, petulant, and greedy. The vice directors in | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | contrast were great and well-respected all around including for academic | Apr 09 12:39 |
| techrights[sec] | performance. I bet that has all changed for the worse by now. | Apr 09 12:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | must have | Apr 09 12:40 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | until i started working from home conditions just deteriorated, _in spiute_ of seniority | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | mind you, months ago i was shocked to see when a kernel hacking superstar had been placed by netflix | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | before he left to intel (pot to the pen/kettle) | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they have people who need to focus on pointer sna dstuff work across the desk from another person with messy desk, | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | shit chair, one screen, and barely any room to walk | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so they might pay 200k/annum programmer to sit in 2k office | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and expect positive results | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | oh, he had a blackboard near him | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and maybe some shared "meeting room" somewhere down the hall | Apr 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he's aussie, brendan something | Apr 09 12:41 |
| techrights[sec] | I also set up the web services (within the main institution's Apache + AFS) for | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | them and their newspaper. It ended up being one of the first online newspapers | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | in the world. I could never get the photos though, they gave lip about that | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | at first, clearly misunderstanding a lot of things about copyright but the | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | main problem was that at the publication deadline they put it all in a sack | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | and threw it over the fence figuratively. So it was 'only' a matter of | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | having them make an extra 3.5" floppy for the web site. | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | Here they've been getting rid of the space, often because they in all foolishness sold off the buildings they once | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | owned and can no longer afford the new rent. | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | A sound working environment is a prerequisite to getting any work done. | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | In FI it was necessary to do all work at home and time on-site was basically | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | a waste except when actually lecturing. They had nothing, not just a lack | Apr 09 12:45 |
| techrights[sec] | of office spacem but *no* fucking infrastructure not even e-mail or file sharing | Apr 09 12:45 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | side story: as phd student, around 2004/5 they SPLIT an office to share some narrow "office" between two lecturers | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | /readers/profs | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i forgot one's name | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but it showed that over time their office space, or room allocated to them, got worse | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as students, we all needed to share an office | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | only the RAs got offices with a - gasp - windows on one side! | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *window | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | pedant: who gives a damn about an office! SALARY! | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that's like saying who needs a decent meal when you can have cola and a bag of chips | Apr 09 12:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | to survive on | Apr 09 12:46 |
| techrights[sec] | ng | Apr 09 12:51 |
| techrights[sec] | The printers kind of worked a bit though and I ran a minor samizdat for a while | Apr 09 12:51 |
| techrights[sec] | printing certain manuals and other FOSS documentation to help in the classroom | Apr 09 12:51 |
| techrights[sec] | and lab. | Apr 09 12:51 |
| techrights[sec] | Many egos are boosted only by tearing others down and m$ plays to that. | Apr 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | story: i came to the conclusion a lot is about ego-stgatus | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | about 20 yehars ago | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i went to interview (3 days) in blackburn | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for programming position | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the "boss" did not like the "standing" and "seating" role | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he needed to pretend to be more "senior" | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | like what brand car you have in the car lot | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | bear with me... | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe it's a british csulture thing (british: crisps, not chips) | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but keeping people in a bad office is a status symbol | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | you _cannot_ have better perceived working conditions | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | like your own office with 3 computers | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | if you only [sic] support vpn and dial users (profs working from home 20 years ago) | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so something needed to change | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and to drive me away | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | of course they shut down the whole role a year after i left | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | nobody would do this job for conditions like this | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *these | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not suitably qualified person who can also suppport bsd and gnu/linux users | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and write decent documentation etc. | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "it's just a low-level employee because [reasons]" | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - bad car | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - no tie | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - smaller office | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - no office | Apr 09 12:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | nothing related to qualifications, performance etc. | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | status symbol and handshakes or other ape-like rituals | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they stigmatise the people they want to oppress | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and "first, attack the morale" | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | inducing guild method | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | give impossible task | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | then express disappointed | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | guilt is a powerful factor, aside from fear, which can be related | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | TheLiar was called "evil evil man" by a colleague | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | apparently did a lot worse to him, behind the scenes | Apr 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | while threatening not to talk to peers/colleagues | Apr 09 12:56 |
| techrights[sec] | It's about anything except actual results it seems. | Apr 09 12:57 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | results is collective and holistic | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | these people care about | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - own salary | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | - own image/future prospect | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in that regard, they induce a conflict of interest upon a broader org | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a good executive branch does something to prevent this | Apr 09 12:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as that rewards lying, tearing down others, blame-shifting etc. | Apr 09 12:58 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | side note: stress and salary unrelated facets | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | elthough they can be invesrsely correlated | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | many high-ly-paid people i know are working long hours, have stress, and more obligations, 24/7 sometimes | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but they are immersed on a corpoorate if not extra-curricular culture that celebrates only one facet a | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and disregards another until catastrophe strikes like divorse, breakdown, bankruptcy due to keeping up | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | appearance with endless spendingg | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *divorce | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | some people don't understand this point until they are near retirement and then it's too late | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | checked the table for life expectancy by nation today | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | japan is top in almost all 4 tables i saw, different assessors/sources | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but i think genetics too plays a role | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not just tech. advacement | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and wealth | Apr 09 13:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Umpire under pressure to lift wages for low-paid staff https://michaelwest.com.au/umpire-under | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | -pressure-to-lift-wages-for-low-paid-staff/ | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | some people have kids and mortgage | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | to them, this is survival, not greed | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | if discount rates change from 50% to 30% | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | due to growing demand for them | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i.e. more "competition" | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the situation will worsen | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | pushing more people over the brink | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | causing a competition self-feeding loop | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | wherein people might be forced to work for almost nothing | Apr 09 13:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and pay for things no matter the price | Apr 09 13:55 |
| techrights[sec] | Because my backup scripts here use --link-dest the size of the backups often | Apr 09 14:50 |
| techrights[sec] | goes down at the beginning of each month | Apr 09 14:50 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | backups, ime, can get a lot smaller if you isolate files that change a lot | Apr 09 15:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | then you back up just a small subset of the whole very often | Apr 09 15:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or gather many misc. file in one place before periodically "filing" them in the right place | Apr 09 15:02 |
| techrights[sec] | These are home directory backups so there are lots of miscellaneous files | Apr 09 15:03 |
| techrights[sec] | and repetition reduces size over time. Each month's core hardlinks to the | Apr 09 15:03 |
| techrights[sec] | previous month, and then each day within a month hardlinks to that month's | Apr 09 15:03 |
| techrights[sec] | core. I have to say that I am rather pleased with the results. | Apr 09 15:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | my backup routines hardly improved since 2005 | Apr 09 15:04 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | ththanks, rrrrr | Apr 09 15:28 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | db | Apr 09 16:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | made small tweaks to script | Apr 09 16:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | will improve over time | Apr 09 16:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | then push | Apr 09 16:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | very slow (meaningful) news | Apr 09 16:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | https://gnunet.org/en/news/2023-04-0.19.4.htm | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i checked gnunet in 2020 and 2021 | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe 2022 | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's insinuated you have to be willing to hack around | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | to get it to work | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and I also don't know how many people use it | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "Please be aware that this project is still in an early alpha stage when it comes to running software its not an | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | easy task to rewrite the whole Internet! We are happy to get your helping hand anytime! Further information is av | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ailable in our handbook. If you have any queries about the installation or the usage, please get in touch! | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | " | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | https://www.gnunet.org/en/install.html | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it is aavailable for alpine as binary | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/gnunet | Apr 09 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> FOSSForce very quiet lately | Apr 09 16:09 |
| techrights[sec] | no idea about gnunet | Apr 09 16:09 |
| techrights[sec] | This will be a slow news weekend and next week too. A big question is whether | Apr 09 16:09 |
| techrights[sec] | the news flow will recover afterwards or if this will be just another ramping | Apr 09 16:09 |
| techrights[sec] | down of overall production. | Apr 09 16:09 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | icymi, "influencers" are crushed from all directions this year | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they realise they're not workers of the companies that control the platform they depend on | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i added a bunch of links re youtube | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | extrtacted from 12k rrrrr items for the week | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we need to be prepared for a post-web/webapp era | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | atm many lose sleep over realisation #of twitter "followers" is not a popularity contest | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i constantly need to remind sister all his toil at her job is not hers but theirs | Apr 09 16:17 |
| techrights[sec] | They're trained monkeys dancing for the algorithm and any crumbs it might | Apr 09 16:17 |
| techrights[sec] | release to them. | Apr 09 16:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | yes, rianne spends a lot of time in librewolf->youtube (too much) | Apr 09 16:19 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and many of these people built things on the assumption youtube is a job | Apr 09 16:19 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and that it'll stay predictable for many years to come | Apr 09 16:19 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | what they perceive as audience google views as collective "eyeballs" for ads | Apr 09 16:19 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Youtube's monetization is negligible and arbitrarily revoked | Apr 09 16:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | If you have time to read, I would recommend getting a paper copy of | Apr 09 16:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, it covers a lot | Apr 09 16:22 |
| techrights[sec] | Youtube's monetization is negligible and arbitrarily revoked | Apr 09 16:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | of topics highly relevant to TR | Apr 09 16:22 |
| techrights[sec] | If you have time to read, I would recommend getting a paper copy of | Apr 09 16:22 |
| techrights[sec] | Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, it covers a lot | Apr 09 16:22 |
| techrights[sec] | of topics highly relevant to TR | Apr 09 16:22 |
| techrights[sec] | Checking | Apr 09 16:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Checking | Apr 09 16:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | LWN has just removed the paywall on the article about her talk | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this past thurs. | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i am going to actually _read_ it now | Apr 09 16:31 |
| techrights[sec] | back in some hours | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | hang on | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | https://lwn.net/Articles/927278/ | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | reading... very interesting | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but... so far focuses on books and audiobooks | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "The current system is "designed to isolate us from one another", so that we have that "hollow emptiness inside of | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | us" and we will want to fill it with ever-more production and consumption. That's not a bug of the system, it's a | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | feature, she said. Building community and understanding how others' fights fit in with your own are "the first bi | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | tes toward eating the elephant". She said that she is grateful for everyone who is working on the many different p | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | arts of the problem, including by attending the conference to see where those parts are and how they fit together. | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | There was a lengthy round of applause for Giblin and her talk. | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | " | Apr 09 16:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | " | Apr 09 16:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "Google and Apple have chokepoints on software that they permit to run on their devices. Sony and Microsoft have s | Apr 09 16:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | imilar chokepoints over their gaming consoles. The fact that general-purpose PCs, especially those running Linux, | Apr 09 16:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | don't have such chokepoints is likely seen as a bug by corporations who would almost certainly love to change that | Apr 09 16:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | . | Apr 09 16:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | " | Apr 09 16:33 |
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