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| techrights[sec]_ | I think the UTF-8 is fixed in the fulltext index; no UI for the fulltext index | Apr 17 01:04 |
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| techrights-news | Microsoft Bing Hides News Regarding Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/16/joseph-cantrell-censored-by-microsoft/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/16/joseph-cantrell-censored-by-microsoft/ | Apr 17 01:15 |
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| techrights-news | [Meme] Recruiting to Steal | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/16/sirius-saving-face/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/16/sirius-saving-face/ | Apr 17 02:58 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> One ethical approach would be to link to stories there in tuxmachines | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> and techrights daily links | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> https://danielpocock.com/world-ip-day-bribery-corruption-wipo/ is | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> already in techrights daily links. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Ethical? We are talking about WIPO remember | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes, but SEO behaviours would not be good. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Apr 17 03:24 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Do you know any other blogs I can syndicate on there? | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> Groklaw. But it's dead now :/ | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> Not many good blogs left for this, maybe SUEPO.org? | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Done | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Good. They could use more publicity. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Would you consider creating links to it from the front page, even for a | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> week or so? | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> It would seem off-topic. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Do you know anybody else who would be keen to push it up the search | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> results? | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> Put some original (local) stories there, then I can link to these. I can | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> see the RSS feed there is not local. It's | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> https://planet.freertc.org/rss20.xml | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Thanks for spotting that, it is fixed | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I hope the latest story is relevant | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Adding to Techtights and TuxMachines. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> I have an interesting picture connecting Francis Gurry, Debian and I at | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> University of Melbourne and a few other things too. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> In regards to your pension blogs, I personally used one of the custom | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> SIPP providers in the UK. I think there is now free choice of pension | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> no matter who you work for. Therefore, if it is a defined-contribution | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> policy, and if the purported balance is large enough to justify the fees | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> of a SIPP, you can write to Standard Life and demand that they transfer | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> to a SIPP and make a complaint if they fail to comply. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> I think you misunderstood what happened. Standard Life received not a | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> penny. See | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Did Standard Life ever send you a statement showing the purported | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > balance of the account or even a statement showing a nil balance? | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | No, but all of us assumed it was just being silent. All of us. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> I will make a video about this shortly. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Furthermore, Australian pension tax is the opposite of the UK. In | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Australia, workers pay a small tax on contributions to the pension and | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> when they retire, they withdraw the funds tax free. This is the | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> opposite of the UK, where people pay 0% tax on contributions and after | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> retirement, you pay income tax on the annuity. This creates an | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> interesting situation: you can claim tax deductions for pension | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> contributions in the UK, migrate to Australia, transfer the SIPP to an | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> Australian fund, withdraw the whole balance in cash tax free and retire | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> by the beach. So you pay no tax on the contributions (benefit from the | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> UK law) and pay no tax on the withdrawal (Australian law). Obviously | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> this is really bad for people who migrate in the opposite direction as | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >>> they pay tax on both the contributions and the retirement annuity. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> A friend of mine for 20+ years died this year and he warned me not to | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> take a pension as at as those ponzi schemes. Maybe it was a sage advice, | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> but instead I took the advice of my uncle who is a judge. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > It requires careful choice of pension. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > If you die then the accumulated assets can be transferred to spouse and | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > children so it is not a complete waste. This becomes part of succession | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > planning. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > The big problem for the UK is the lack of any good conversion from | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > pension balance to annuity. Switzerland still has fixed conversion rates, | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > like the UK defined-benefit schemes that many companies got rid of. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > I think you can still get defined-benefit in the UK if you become a | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > politician or a soldier. | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 17 03:24 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | pung | Apr 17 03:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *ping | Apr 17 03:47 |
| techrights[sec]_ | pong | Apr 17 03:48 |
| techrights[sec]_ | checking | Apr 17 03:48 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | see latest in world.ip.day or latest in TM (same) | Apr 17 03:48 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | careful not to be de-platformed for highting the iss | Apr 17 03:48 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | careful not to be de-platformed for highting the issue | Apr 17 03:48 |
| techrights[sec]_ | """ | Apr 17 03:50 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Debian claims to be a community run by volunteers. Where does this money come from? Why is it being given to la | Apr 17 03:50 |
| techrights[sec]_ | wyers and the tribunal? Why doesn't Debian give money to the Developers who created it? | Apr 17 03:50 |
| techrights[sec]_ | """ | Apr 17 03:50 |
| techrights[sec]_ | pocock shows a screenshot from IRC, | Apr 17 03:50 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | btw, i've just contacted now:pensions, now working on 3 leads at the same time, colleague took over one | Apr 17 03:51 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as victims, we can progress along some lines | Apr 17 03:51 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | standard life triued victim-blaming | Apr 17 03:51 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | akin to saying to a rape victim, | Apr 17 03:51 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "why didn't you sense he'd rape you after the date?" | Apr 17 03:51 |
| techrights[sec]_ | too bad he closes with the misleading phrase "Intellectual Property" | Apr 17 03:52 |
| techrights[sec]_ | About "ariadne's" posts in IRC, does he have anything to back up those assertions at all? Pocock disagrees wit | Apr 17 03:52 |
| techrights[sec]_ | h themm | Apr 17 03:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Gulag (Stephanie Taylor) | Apr 17 03:52 |
| techrights[sec]_ | h themm | Apr 17 03:53 |
| techrights[sec]_ | statements. | Apr 17 03:53 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i see the same corporatre mafia culture and ritual defamation in EPO | Apr 17 03:54 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | probably WIPO too | Apr 17 03:54 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | iirc, it resulted in suicides, too | Apr 17 03:54 |
| techrights[sec]_ | In the screenshot, you and adrianne are having separate conversations not to | Apr 17 03:57 |
| techrights[sec]_ | each other apparently. He is talking about Debian and you are talking about | Apr 17 03:57 |
| techrights[sec]_ | the EPO | Apr 17 03:57 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | yes, i preferred not to comment | Apr 17 03:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | pocock urged me later on, saying i should have refuted | Apr 17 03:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but what do i know??? | Apr 17 03:58 |
| techrights[sec]_ | I was going to say something like that just now too but am not skilled enough | Apr 17 03:58 |
| techrights[sec]_ | at tracking all of the intrigue. | Apr 17 03:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he added suepo et al to the rss feed\ | Apr 17 04:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i will try to dive with him intp to wipo (un) abuse | Apr 17 04:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they front for... you know what | Apr 17 04:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | watchtroll is back to attacking judges this week | Apr 17 04:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | won't link | Apr 17 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | biab, catching up with rrrrr, which is super useful as html and also as processed list | Apr 17 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | wish we did this years ago | Apr 17 04:01 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | btw, the new coffee blend better than the serbian one | Apr 17 04:01 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Open source continues to grow β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Open_source_continues_to_grow.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Open_source_continues_to_grow.gmi β | Apr 17 05:45 |
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| techrights-news | Links 16/04/2023: Trisquel GNU/Linux 11.0 Reviewed and World IP (International Propaganda) Day 2023 Approaching | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/trisquel-gnu-linux-11-0-reviewed/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/trisquel-gnu-linux-11-0-reviewed/ | Apr 17 07:56 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | rianne says is "excited" if you give a talk | Apr 17 08:05 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and she says it opens up more | Apr 17 08:05 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so basically very positive | Apr 17 08:05 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i've been up after oversleeping, but productive thus far | Apr 17 08:05 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.gmi β | Apr 17 08:05 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Good example of "hey said, she said" pseudo'journalism' https://www.axios.com/2023/04/16/lindsey-graham-pentagon-leak-classified-intelligence | Apr 17 08:12 |
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| techrights[sec]_ | Many of the new sites have very few new articles per day any more, even | Apr 17 08:32 |
| techrights[sec]_ | discounting the weekend as the same can be said of the weekdays too | Apr 17 08:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i am nearly done now with all of sunday's yield | Apr 17 08:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Rather than parrot what each official SAID about Pentagon leaks, how about you actually INVES | Apr 17 08:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | TIGATE the facts of what happened and report everything based on discreet inside sources? That's how journalism | Apr 17 08:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | used to be done, not quoting tweets for "shock's value" and clicks... we still don't know the full story about | Apr 17 08:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the leaks. | Apr 17 08:33 |
| techrights-news | IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 16, 2023 | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/irc-log-160423/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/irc-log-160423/ | Apr 17 08:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> New example of click-bait: both headline and summary don't tell the actual number. https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/australia-man-lucas-helmke-beats-world-record-with-insane-number-of-push-ups/ NY Times clickbait (provocative headline, no details) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/opinion/this-is-too-important-to-leave-to-microsoft-google-and-facebook.html | Apr 17 08:51 |
| techrights[sec]_ | tax agency's pages 100% blocked by javascript: | Apr 17 09:00 |
| techrights[sec]_ | https://vero.fi/sv/privatpersoner/skattekort-och-skattedeklaration/ | Apr 17 09:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | you made a mistake ;-) | Apr 17 09:01 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | you assumed it is a web site | Apr 17 09:01 |
| techrights[sec]_ | and one of the major parties' chairman selection was just announced via Facebook | Apr 17 09:02 |
| techrights[sec]_ | :( | Apr 17 09:02 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's just some proprietary program you retrieve from that ip address/domain | Apr 17 09:02 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Well the contents of the tax agency's junk sure look like a web site and | Apr 17 09:03 |
| techrights[sec]_ | ]not a web app but apparently they've turned to shit | Apr 17 09:03 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Yes, it has become a proprietary program interposed betweeen the browser | Apr 17 09:03 |
| techrights[sec]_ | and the IP address | Apr 17 09:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not a new problem | Apr 17 09:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | isaw that with flash in the late 90s | Apr 17 09:04 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or shockwave | Apr 17 09:04 |
| techrights[sec]_ | It's kind of new in that it has become so damn pervasive and now interposes | Apr 17 09:05 |
| techrights[sec]_ | itself in front of essential government services | Apr 17 09:05 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | oliva has an article coming about tis | Apr 17 09:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i saw a draft | Apr 17 09:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | maybe you did too | Apr 17 09:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | not yet | Apr 17 09:10 |
| techrights[sec]_ | The problem is that the batch of frauds, poseurs, and charlatans have | Apr 17 09:10 |
| techrights[sec]_ | cultivated not just a gullible market but another round of students | Apr 17 09:10 |
| techrights[sec]_ | to market their bullshit against naive and ignorant officials falsely chasing | Apr 17 09:10 |
| techrights[sec]_ | novel changes for the sake of change | Apr 17 09:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it does not take long to develo | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they use frameworks | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | bloated frameworks | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but those introduce new problame, esp. for the client end | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they really need to keep it all at the server end | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and keep it free software | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but the contractors want vendor lockin | Apr 17 09:12 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so they get paid even after they complete the project | Apr 17 09:12 |
| techrights[sec]_ | It's not faster to develop, it's just that they think that is the only way | Apr 17 09:22 |
| techrights[sec]_ | to do it now | Apr 17 09:22 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Then the site is more or less locked into the development team which mashed | Apr 17 09:22 |
| techrights[sec]_ | together all the javascripts. | Apr 17 09:22 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Yes, the site has to come back to the same contractor basically forever. | Apr 17 09:22 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Today's ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄ HowTos β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/today_s_howtos.1.gmi β | Apr 17 09:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> With rising Covid-19 cases, health experts urge Malaysians to mask up β https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/with-rising-covid-19-cases-health-experts-urge-malaysians-to-mask-up | Apr 17 09:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> NYTimes 'news': Christians celebrate Christians holidaysβ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/world/europe/16-ukraine-kyiv-easter-celebrations-war.html | Apr 17 09:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | many much worse examples in nyt today (sunday) | Apr 17 09:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | blank page syndrome | Apr 17 09:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | total bs 'articles' | Apr 17 09:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | about... nothing | Apr 17 09:31 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Dont Jump Into Spring Cleaning. Take It Slow. | Apr 17 09:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Japanese Island Where the Wild Things Are | Apr 17 09:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | With Cheers and Tears, Phantom of the Opera Ends Record Broadway Run | Apr 17 09:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and i already deleted better examples... | Apr 17 09:32 |
| techrights[sec]_ | """ | Apr 17 11:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | ... announced his bid during a Facebook live stream broadcast on Monday morning. | Apr 17 11:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | """ | Apr 17 11:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | https://yle.fi/a/74-20027397 | Apr 17 11:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Irresponsible politicians feeding propaganda and disinformation by supporting | Apr 17 11:06 |
| techrights[sec]_ | such channels with their announcement. | Apr 17 11:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | drumpf said many things in twitter, inc.announcements for the WH, until his account was removed (de facto) | Apr 17 11:07 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in a few eyars all responses to him too will be removed | Apr 17 11:07 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the whole ste will be offline | Apr 17 11:07 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Yes cancelling is one risk but the an actual threat which has been realized | Apr 17 11:08 |
| techrights[sec]_ | repeatedly is that FB and Twitter and Tiktok etc are vehicles for disinformation | Apr 17 11:08 |
| techrights[sec]_ | and propaganda and by posting to FB the politicians are essentially endorsing | Apr 17 11:08 |
| techrights[sec]_ | said propaganda and disinformation | Apr 17 11:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Humans in China became like pandas. No interest in child-bearing. β https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/have-more-children-04162023122511.html | Apr 17 11:09 |
| techrights[sec]_ | No economic possibilities or time for it with the 996 culture killing off any | Apr 17 11:17 |
| techrights[sec]_ | possibility of even considering it. | Apr 17 11:17 |
| techrights[sec]_ | https://www.firstpost.com/world/chinas-996-work-culture-has-claimed-another-techies-life-all-you-need-to-know-a | Apr 17 11:17 |
| techrights[sec]_ | bout-it-10365121.html | Apr 17 11:17 |
| techrights[sec]_ | https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/muffins | Apr 17 11:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they cultivate toxic life stsyles and work places | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and then wonder when people reject the lifestyle and workplace | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | daycare in the uk for even one kid can be as high as one's salary (990/m) | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so for prospects of savings you need several breadwinner | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *winners | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | my sister still does a job she has hated for at least a decade | Apr 17 11:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | mostly java at GE | Apr 17 11:21 |
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| *wael__ (~quassel@9xkr6pdp2c5xu.irc) has joined #tuxmachines | Apr 17 11:22 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | taking photos of old payslips with pension parts... | Apr 17 11:26 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Oh my. Good thing you keep paper copies of records. Just think if you two had\ | Apr 17 11:35 |
| techrights[sec]_ | been tricked into going "paperless" | Apr 17 11:35 |
| techrights[sec]_ | IMAP is not allowed any more, microsofters call it a security risk and | Apr 17 11:35 |
| techrights[sec]_ | allpw only web-mail so that nothing may be archived | Apr 17 11:35 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | imagine bring forced to get these on company email | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | over IMAP | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for the "environment" | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and then they stop sending these | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | (that too happened!) | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and then they lock you out of email (i knew how to onfigure it to save locally) | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 3~ | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | criminals do not like it when mail gets archived | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | except by the criminals | Apr 17 11:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | jabber also kept copies of all comms | Apr 17 11:36 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Did you read I Cringley's analysis of m$ byzantine document management? | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | It is designed to prevent *any* long term retention of records even in | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | the face of subpoenas | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | The routing is by design set to take far longer than the records are retained | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | with lots of barriers and obstacles and delays so that by the time the | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | order reaches the right department, the records are gone even from the | Apr 17 11:39 |
| techrights[sec]_ | backups. | Apr 17 11:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | find found a gold mine of pamphlets and letters | Apr 17 11:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this will be good... | Apr 17 11:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it will eat the "big fish", too | Apr 17 11:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | standard life | Apr 17 11:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *rianne found | Apr 17 11:52 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Nice | Apr 17 11:59 |
| techrights[sec]_ | biab (coffee) | Apr 17 11:59 |
| techrights[sec]_ | back | Apr 17 12:10 |
| techrights-news | Would you work for this man? https://www.engadget.com/former-twitter-execs-sue-company-over-unpaid-legal-fees-164002614.html | Apr 17 12:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | just got new mail | Apr 17 12:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | post | Apr 17 12:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | will prepare 4 or 5 posts now | Apr 17 12:39 |
| techrights-news | NOW: Pensions Finally Sends the Letters It Has Been Promising (in Vain) for Several Months Regarding Fraud at Sirius βOpen Sourceβ | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/now-pensions-assurance/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/now-pensions-assurance/ | Apr 17 13:11 |
| techrights[sec]_ | maybe the reference number ought to be blocked out too? | Apr 17 13:14 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Overall though the letter is a claim that 1) they never got the money | Apr 17 13:14 |
| techrights[sec]_ | and 2) beccause they never got the money, it is not their problem. | Apr 17 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i will show evidence to weaken this narrative | Apr 17 13:15 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Yes, I figured that, they do have /some/ money at least | Apr 17 13:15 |
| techrights-news | The Role of Integrity Financial Management Ltd. in Facilitating Fraud at Sirius βOpen Sourceβ | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/fraud-at-sirius-open-source-with-integrity-financial-management/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/fraud-at-sirius-open-source-with-integrity-financial-management/ | Apr 17 13:26 |
| techrights-news | [Meme] Standard Life: We Donβt Know Who All Those GNU/Linux Engineers Are (But You Know, Standard Life; We Were All on Your System) | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/standard-life-sham-pension/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/standard-life-sham-pension/ | Apr 17 13:48 |
| techrights-news | [Meme/Facts] Drowning in Marketing Material and Assurances (From Sirius, Standard Life, Integrity Financial Management Ltd.) While Payslips Say We Pay Into a Pension Every Month | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/sirius-payslips-pension-fraud/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/sirius-payslips-pension-fraud/ | Apr 17 14:31 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Graphical Frontends for ImageMagick β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Graphical_Frontends_for_ImageMagick.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Graphical_Frontends_for_ImageMagick.gmi β | Apr 17 14:54 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Junction β application/browser chooser β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Junction_application_browser_chooser.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Junction_application_browser_chooser.gmi β | Apr 17 14:55 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): ππΆπΉ ππ’π€π©πͺπ―π¦π΄: Google Android Leftovers β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Android_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Android_Leftovers.gmi β | Apr 17 14:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | backing up TM filesystem (new), then will do TR with ionice | Apr 17 15:24 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | have not fallen behind just yet | Apr 17 15:24 |
| techrights[sec]_ | Spin and lies | Apr 17 15:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | now doing TR, this might take a whole | Apr 17 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the FS includes DB dumps | Apr 17 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | will do my main HDD soon (bubi) | Apr 17 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | safety first | Apr 17 15:43 |
| techrights-news | Sirius crimes explained in depth, now with plenty of hard evidence presented http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source | Apr 17 15:57 |
| techrights-news | Elizabeth Chamberlain: The Future of the Right to Repair and Free Software | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/future-of-the-right-to-repair/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/future-of-the-right-to-repair/ | Apr 17 16:07 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/ | Apr 17 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | talks are finally starting to trickle out | Apr 17 16:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i've just added one | Apr 17 16:08 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.1.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.1.gmi β | Apr 17 17:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Perl Programming Updates, News, Challenges β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Perl_Programming_Updates_News_Challenges.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Perl_Programming_Updates_News_Challenges.gmi β | Apr 17 17:44 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Perl Programming Updates, News, Challenges β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Perl_Programming_Updates_News_Challenges.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Perl_Programming_Updates_News_Challenges.gmi β | Apr 17 17:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a lot more manual work was needed for this in the past | Apr 17 18:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the time freed up can now be used to track and respond to patent news | Apr 17 18:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | among other things | Apr 17 18:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i.e. all those programs are generally a net gain | Apr 17 18:06 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): The Firefox snap: Updates and Upgrades β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/The_Firefox_snap_Updates_and_Upgrades.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/The_Firefox_snap_Updates_and_Upgrades.gmi β | Apr 17 18:12 |
| techrights-news | Windows in Asia: All-Time Lows for Microsoft | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/operating-system-market-share-asia/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/operating-system-market-share-asia/ | Apr 17 18:20 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Crises at Spyware Companies QuaDream and Microsoft β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Crises_at_Spyware_Companies_QuaDream_and_Microsoft.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Crises_at_Spyware_Companies_QuaDream_and_Microsoft.gmi β | Apr 17 18:38 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Jens Schmalzing (jensen) & Debian accidental death β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Jens_Schmalzing_jensen_Debian_accidental_death.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Jens_Schmalzing_jensen_Debian_accidental_death.gmi β | Apr 17 18:39 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Security_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Security_Leftovers.gmi β | Apr 17 18:39 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Shows/Audio: Lunduke Big Tech Show and LINUX Unplugged β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Shows_Audio_Lunduke_Big_Tech_Show_and_LINUX_Unplugged.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Shows_Audio_Lunduke_Big_Tech_Show_and_LINUX_Unplugged.gmi β | Apr 17 18:40 |
| techrights-news | Expect loads of updates soon on crimes of the company that pretends to be "Open Source" leader http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source | Apr 17 18:40 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Apple-ification at Mozilla resulted in app-ification of Firefox (snaps and all) and it ends up proprietary with DRM. Death of the open Web and death of modern GNU/Linux/UNIX/BSD distros with truly Free browsers. | Apr 17 18:47 |
| techrights[sec]_ | excellent | Apr 17 18:48 |
| techrights[sec]_ | btw the UTF-8 stuff in the full-text works now, but remains under the hood for | Apr 17 18:48 |
| techrights[sec]_ | now | Apr 17 18:48 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): The Firefox snap: Updates and Upgrades β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/The_Firefox_snap_Updates_and_Upgrades.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/The_Firefox_snap_Updates_and_Upgrades.gmi β | Apr 17 18:48 |
| techrights-news | Links 17/04/2023: Top-Level Microsoft Exits and Worse | Techrights β http://techrights.org/2023/04/17/top-level-microsoft-exits/ | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/04/17/top-level-microsoft-exits/ | Apr 17 18:53 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Crises at Spyware Companies QuaDream and Microsoft β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Crises_at_Spyware_Companies_QuaDream_and_Microsoft.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Crises_at_Spyware_Companies_QuaDream_and_Microsoft.gmi β | Apr 17 18:53 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Jens Schmalzing (jensen) & Debian accidental death β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Jens_Schmalzing_jensen_Debian_accidental_death.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Jens_Schmalzing_jensen_Debian_accidental_death.gmi β | Apr 17 18:54 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Security_Leftovers.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Security_Leftovers.gmi β | Apr 17 18:54 |
| techrights-news | β² πΏππ πΈπππππππ ⨦ (NEW): Shows/Audio: Lunduke Big Tech Show and LINUX Unplugged β¨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Shows_Audio_Lunduke_Big_Tech_Show_and_LINUX_Unplugged.shtml | βΎ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/04/17/Shows_Audio_Lunduke_Big_Tech_Show_and_LINUX_Unplugged.gmi β | Apr 17 18:54 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Tech industry is now toxic. A bunch of pretenders and imposters (sometimes frauds, too) pretending to be "big shots". Talking down on actual geeks like they're "fucking shit", worthless, clueless. Ego of MBAs ruins the industry, conjoined with the marketing industry foisting buzzwords at the expense of substance and science. | Apr 17 18:57 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | gn, back around midngiht | Apr 17 18:59 |
| techrights[sec]_ | ok | Apr 17 18:59 |
| techrights[sec]_ | afk soon too | Apr 17 18:59 |
| *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@q3vt778tphfai.irc) has joined #tuxmachines | Apr 17 21:08 | |
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