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| schestowitz | MinceR: would you like to be a blogger in TR? | Apr 12 11:56 |
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| schestowitz | I've just asked another person. | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | > When you post your invitation on Groklaw to people there, it would be | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | > nice if the Techrights site could handle a larger volume of messages. | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | > That might mean a migration to other blog software. | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | Back in 2008 we had about 100 comments per day, at least on the good month. In mid 2008 we moved a lot of the core activity to IRC and in 2009 we eliminated SLAPPing by starting to accept comments from registered accounts only. To me, volume of comments does not matter so much (IRC logs are fine as they are). Back in the days I spent hours per day replying to comments, including unpleasant comments which sometimes came from novell. | Apr 12 11:56 |
| schestowitz | com IP addresses. | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | Apr 12 11:57 | |
| schestowitz | > It'd be a bonus if you could work out an endorsement or recommendation | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | > from PJ on her way out. | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | She may not agree with what my belief that we've been defamed more majorly than Groklaw ever was; you see, Groklaw took on one fairly small (but vicious) company. When it took on the big fish (2008 onwards) the likes of Byfield and Novell staff started attacking Groklaw; see for example the backlash it got for doing articles on Mono. I wrote about that. Marbux and I used to exchange many messages and he too got *loads* of defamation | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | for daring to take on IBM. It's some really ugly business and you don't know how serious it is because I try to keep it away from readers' eyes, as PJ once advised me. Basically, I don't feed my attackers; I don't mention all the threats, either (as that can escalate things). | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | > AFAIK Techrights is the only freedom fighter site left. Maybe Slashdot | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | > could be taken back into the fold, but that would require buy-in from | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | > the editors. | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | Peter Brown left the FSF last month. This made me worried as RMS had told me that FSF donations declined (Brown left right after their appeal for donations). The FSF too has been de-legitimises, mostly by the likes of those who tie RMS with rape or sexism -- a fake dispute for sure. | Apr 12 11:57 |
| schestowitz | I would like to invite you to help us in Techrights. I can create a blog account for you to write under a handle of choice and make up for the fact that I spend a lot of my time these days programming (research, post-doc). | Apr 12 11:57 |
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| schestowitz | MinceR: let me know if you want to blog with us | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | The other person is not ready for it yet | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | >>... 2009 we eliminated SLAPPing ... | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | > What's that acronym mean? | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | "A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition." | Apr 12 12:27 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Strategic lawsuit against public participation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .::. Size~: 68.51 KB | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | Apr 12 12:27 | |
| schestowitz | >> by starting to accept comments from | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | >> registered accounts only. To me, volume of comments does not matter so | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | >> much (IRC logs are fine as they are). Back in the days I spent hours per | Apr 12 12:27 |
| schestowitz | >> day replying to comments, including unpleasant comments which sometimes | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> came from novell.com IP addresses. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > If the Groklaw community or part of it could be enticed or sent over, | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > then they could take much of that load. I wouldn't worry about asking | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > for a comparison of you v PJ or Techrights v Groklaw as much as a | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > pointer to those freedom fighters wishing to continue the effort | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > post-Groklaw. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > It'd also be nice to have Grokdocs or Comes v Microsoft ported over to | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > an active site. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | Definitely. Will you help use the Comes archive in Groklaw (massively long pages without page summaries, bad SEO-wise)? We have basic structure in the TR wiki already; Groklaw reused some of my own work (I transcribed the good ones), so we can use theirs too, then do posts about them. I'm low on new material, so now would be a great time to cover Comes again. Doing Comes stuff was the most exciting thing I ever did in TR. There's | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | loads more where it came from... | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> It'd be a bonus if you could work out an endorsement or recommendation | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> from PJ on her way out. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> ... When it took on the big fish (2008 onwards) the | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> likes of Byfield and Novell staff started attacking Groklaw; see for | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> example the backlash it got for doing articles on Mono. ... | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > Hence Byfield's sour slam on Groklaw under the guise of a Eulogy. I | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > used to admire his technical articles but that was years ago before he | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > started what appears to be a grudge against software freedom. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | He still writes good technical articles. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> I would like to invite you to help us in Techrights. I can create a blog | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> account for you to write under a handle of choice ... | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > I have the handle [...], but have not been feeling well enough | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > or articulate enough to resume posting yet. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | Apr 12 12:28 | |
| schestowitz | >> ... and make up for the | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> fact that I spend a lot of my time these days programming (research, | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | >> post-doc). | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | > You truly rock. Be sure to keep hitting the gym, too. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | I use it more than ever now (some days for 4 hours). It's a social thing. | Apr 12 12:28 |
| schestowitz | I will also ask goforbes | Apr 12 12:29 |
| schestowitz | >> Definitely. Will you help use the Comes archive in Groklaw | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > I've transcribed a few dozen so far and recently tried approaching a | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > remote contact with Google in hopes of piquing their interest. I'd like | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > to see Google take up the digitization for several reasons, not the | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > least of which is the potential to scan and digitize similar cases as | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > they come up. | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > I think that many lawsuits will fade away if the public records are made | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > public online, not just on paper. | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | >> (massively | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | >> long pages without page summaries, bad SEO-wise)? | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > To be sure, keywords are needed, if for no other reason than to help | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > compensate for misspellings in the body of the document. Those are | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > low-cost to add. Summaries are much harder to create or be accurate with. | Apr 12 13:00 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | > FWIW, could you spell names correctly, too? Misspelling the names makes | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | > it easier to sort in the search engine, if the misspelling is known or | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | > widely used. Otherwise it helps bury the page it is one. I'm thinking | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | > specifically of Paul "Traul" Allen or Paul "Patent Troll" Allen. | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> We have basic | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> structure in the TR wiki already; Groklaw reused some of my own work (I | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> transcribed the good ones), so we can use theirs too, then do posts | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> about them. I'm low on new material, so now would be a great time to | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> cover Comes again. Doing Comes stuff was the most exciting thing I ever | Apr 12 13:01 |
| schestowitz | >> did in TR. There's loads more where it came from... | Apr 12 13:01 |
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| schestowitz | > IMHO Using Mono/C# is like digital sharecropping. | Apr 12 13:25 |
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| MinceR | schestowitz: i'm not that good at writing | Apr 12 14:35 |
| schestowitz | you are actually | Apr 12 14:35 |
| MinceR | i don't write long stuff | Apr 12 14:36 |
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| schestowitz | > Is it feasible to make the files much smaller? Monophonic with a slower | Apr 12 16:40 |
| schestowitz | > sample rate and lower resolution? | Apr 12 16:40 |
| schestowitz | I have spent the past hour experimenting with audacity and ffmpeg. I ran a series of tests where p[parameters in the encoders are changed and I then listened to the results. The VOIP recording we do is at 16khz, compared to the 128 which we used to encode this in (huge waste of space for no gain in quality). Eventually I found that even without using the command line, e.g. ffmpeg -ab 16k -ar 11025, I could rely on audacity to handle | Apr 12 16:40 |
| schestowitz | both mp3 and ogg to produce files about a quarter of the size they used to be. The only drawback of that is that when we have music tracks (of higher sampling resolution) they lose quality. Since the vast majority of the track is talk, that ought to be worth the compromise and smaller files would also make storage and bandwidth less of an issue. I will ask Tim and Gordon for their opinion. | Apr 12 16:40 |
| Ender_nothome | you can drop the sample rate too | Apr 12 16:51 |
| Ender_nothome | www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com | Apr 12 16:51 |
| Ender_nothome | use this guy as an example | Apr 12 16:51 |
| Ender_nothome | his shows are 11mb large for about 50 minutes of talking | Apr 12 16:51 |
| Ender_nothome | its conspiracy related but the technical details can be copied | Apr 12 16:52 |
| schestowitz | > Are you aware of any particularly good exhibits that have not been | Apr 12 17:16 |
| schestowitz | > transcribed yet? | Apr 12 17:16 |
| schestowitz | If I knew them, I'd do them. But Pam highlighted a few. The trick is knowing what's done and what's not, then get it a lot of exposure (e.g. Slashdot effect). | Apr 12 17:16 |
| schestowitz | Ender_nothome: yes, I've reduced both, but.. | Apr 12 17:17 |
| schestowitz | The GUI does not give as many options as ffmpeg does | Apr 12 17:17 |
| schestowitz | I'll use the GUI because export is not as lossy as converting from one format to another | Apr 12 17:17 |
| schestowitz | I used to make ogg, then convert to mp3 | Apr 12 17:17 |
| schestowitz | It's probably OK when I was over-sampling a poor quality recording | Apr 12 17:18 |
| schestowitz | >> If I knew them, I'd do them. But Pam highlighted a few. The trick is | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | >> knowing what's done and what's not, then get it a lot of exposure (e.g. | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | >> Slashdot effect). | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > I've been picking them at random and have transcribed a few dozen. Not | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > a lot of gems but each has a good point or two if summarized. | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > If there are any that PJ highlighted that are not under way or | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > completed, then I might be able to take a crack at them. | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > Speaking of Slashdot, it would be nice to wrest it back to the FOSS | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | > orientation it used to have. | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | I gave up on it in 2008. | Apr 12 18:22 |
| schestowitz | >>> Speaking of Slashdot, it would be nice to wrest it back to the FOSS | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> orientation it used to have. | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | >> | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | >> I gave up on it in 2008. | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > I gave up on it last year, but if a portion of the Groklaw community | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > moves over to it, it might be possible to effect a change. | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | I don't think the GL community is large enough to have such an effect. | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > I suspect it | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > would be easier to recruit to TechRights instead though. I would | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > propose posting as a Groklaw comment or, better as an article, a few | Apr 12 18:46 |
| schestowitz | > paragraphs on a position statement (like you've done in the last month | Apr 12 18:47 |
| schestowitz | > on TechRights) and a paragraph or two about where the overlap is between | Apr 12 18:47 |
| schestowitz | > Groklaw and TechRights. | Apr 12 18:47 |
| schestowitz | A comment in Groklaw would seem rude as it might seem like poaching and I respect PJ too much to do that (well, actually I never thought at all about attracting GL talent until you and Updegrioe said so). But I suppose I should write a 2011 summary of what we are, what we do, and how people operate. I will not name Groklaw as a target and in general such a page can used generically as a primer to anyone who is new. G. Forbes | Apr 12 18:47 |
| schestowitz | finishes his exams soon and he may help us edit articles. | Apr 12 18:47 |
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| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/directhex/statuses/57911105409916928 | Apr 12 22:21 |
| TechrightsBot | @directhex: @albuxton http://bit.ly/dGa2DR - search on "mono". Background: PyPy dev joined Mono IRC channel, looking for explanation of Mono's new GC. | Apr 12 22:21 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: April 11th, 2011 .::. Size~: 541.41 KB | Apr 12 22:21 |
| schestowitz | The mono boosters found each other... bad neighbourhood. http://twitter.com/verofakto/statuses/57912471540875264 | Apr 12 22:22 |
| TechrightsBot | @verofakto: @directhex @FOSSpatents I guess calling Roy and his friends "nuts" is regarded as lack of time and personal issues ROFL Go #Techrights! | Apr 12 22:22 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/XTZGZoReX/status/57882109989228544 http://twitter.com/directhex/statuses/57882501355548672 | Apr 12 22:24 |
| TechrightsBot | @XTZGZoReX: @directhex Roy who? | Apr 12 22:24 |
| TechrightsBot | @directhex: @XTZGZoReX Professor Doctor the Royal Revend Roy Schestowitz Esquire. Saviour of Software Freedom. | Apr 12 22:24 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57843179826851840 | Apr 12 22:24 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @verofakto But if you've seen Updegrove's piece on Groklaw, he's #BoycottBoy-like: he's sure "PJ" is real but only had electronic communic. | Apr 12 22:24 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57911944996327424\ | Apr 12 22:24 |
| TechrightsBot | Not a tweet? | Apr 12 22:24 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57911944996327424 | Apr 12 22:24 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @verofakto @directhex It's probably hard for #BoycottBoy to find contributors willing to destroy their reputation by being involved with him | Apr 12 22:24 |
| schestowitz | BS. We have many involevd. | Apr 12 22:25 |
| schestowitz | Mono camp seems concerned, http://twitter.com/verofakto/statuses/57909012808740866 they would ignore if they were not concerned, IMHO | Apr 12 22:25 |
| TechrightsBot | @verofakto: @directhex When the going gets rough, #BoycottBoy is forever alone. Otherwise it's one [allegedly] enormous happy family. | Apr 12 22:25 |
| schestowitz | LOL he says PJ is a dude http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57823056885850112 | Apr 12 22:29 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @russellmcormond He's a pro-free software guy with a GNUbies.org email address but tries hard to do a serious journalistic job. | Apr 12 22:29 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57841998782136320 | Apr 12 22:31 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @johnobeto cc: @Enderle There's a Groklaw & TechRights supporter who even admits on his blog that he's, well, mentally somewhat different... | Apr 12 22:31 |
| schestowitz | Character assassin... | Apr 12 22:31 |
| schestowitz | He chats a lot with Enderle this afternoon | Apr 12 22:31 |
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| MinceR | Ender Le | Apr 12 22:33 |
| MinceR | :> | Apr 12 22:33 |
| schestowitz | Yeah :-) | Apr 12 22:35 |
| schestowitz | When I first saw his name I saw he was mocking rob the president and principal CEO founder thing of Enderle Enderle of Enderle Industires one-man operation | Apr 12 22:35 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/_p178/status/57918692989730816 | Apr 12 22:36 |
| TechrightsBot | @_p178: @schestowitz Hey Come check out ClubPenguinSocial, Its a Pretty Cool Network. http://social.clubpenguinfun.co.uk :) | Apr 12 22:36 |
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| schestowitz | His latest tweets are all about us, e.g.: | Apr 12 22:38 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57913132290551808 | Apr 12 22:38 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @verofakto @directhex Just imagine you apply for a job and the company finds out you wrote for TR, and then looks at what else is there. | Apr 12 22:38 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57913530606825473 | Apr 12 22:39 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @verofakto @directhex 'twitter', 'gnufreex' and MadHatter may have nothing to lose in that regard. But they can't contribute anything either | Apr 12 22:39 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57914582957694976 | Apr 12 22:39 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @verofakto @directhex The whole thing looks like a parody of Free Software GNU/Linux/Android activism. Maybe the 20,000th post will admit it | Apr 12 22:39 |
| schestowitz | And this afternoon he was doing anti-Groklaw, seems like he's moving on to attacking us with his mono friends | Apr 12 22:39 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/statuses/57832682171809792 | Apr 12 22:39 |
| TechrightsBot | @FOSSpatents: @Enderle That's shocking. Really. I only had online disagreements with Groklaw and its sectarian group of rabid, hard-core followers. | Apr 12 22:39 |
| schestowitz | For all I can tell, he's only reminding people of our existence, which has the opposite effect to what he intended to do (harm) | Apr 12 22:40 |
| MinceR | i wonder if he thinks that everyone who saw SCO for what it was is "sectarian", "rabid", etc. | Apr 12 22:56 |
| MinceR | and if he thinks that the Linux kernel really contains code owned by SCO | Apr 12 22:57 |
| schestowitz | He spreads Google copyright FUD, too | Apr 12 23:07 |
| schestowitz | The whole "Google stole code" line | Apr 12 23:08 |
| schestowitz | BTW, you must (IMHO) read the Twitter feed of Florian because it reevals | Apr 12 23:19 |
| schestowitz | so much about who he works with, what agenda he has, and how obsessed he | Apr 12 23:19 |
| schestowitz | is with Groklaw, which means that Groklaw is a real risk to that same | Apr 12 23:19 |
| schestowitz | agenda he promotes in Twitter. | Apr 12 23:19 |
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