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| schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1760275 | Jul 01 08:26 |
| TechrightsSocial | @serjvolkov@diasp.eu reshared:  #apple #mac #macintosh #ipod #iphone #ipad #imac #islave #foxconn #exploitation #sweatshop | Jul 01 08:26 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1758771 | Jul 01 08:38 |
| TechrightsSocial | @linux@joindiaspora.com: Potential Good News For #NVIDIA Optimus On #Linux http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyOTQ linus@linux:~$ finger /usr/bin/nvidia-settings | Jul 01 08:38 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: [Phoronix] Potential Good News For NVIDIA Optimus On Linux .::. Size~: 17.57 KB | Jul 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | "hopefully they have learnt their lesson" | Jul 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1758661 | Jul 01 08:38 |
| TechrightsSocial | @linux@joindiaspora.com: #Intel Ivy Bridge On #Linux Two-Month Redux http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_ivybridge_redux&num=1 avoid Intel, is's an abusive company | Jul 01 08:38 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: [Phoronix] Intel Ivy Bridge On Linux Two-Month Redux .::. Size~: 21.16 KB | Jul 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | "+1 AMD" | Jul 01 08:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1758568 | Jul 01 08:39 |
| TechrightsSocial | @linux@joindiaspora.com: Google’s profit on every Nexus 7 #tablet sold: $0 http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/28/nexus-7-sales-profit-cost-google-android/ #linux #android | Jul 01 08:39 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Nexus 7 sales: Profit for Google on each tablet sold is $0 .::. Size~: 58.16 KB | Jul 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | "Backend profits are more than frontend in nearly any business. I'm sure Google gets rewarded handsomely enough for allowing others to quietly look into one of the largest databases on Earth of where people are, what they're doing, who they're doing it with, why and what they're thinking." | Jul 01 08:39 |
| schestowitz | nice new vid from Seth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeMoOJpvUlU&feature=plcp | Jul 01 10:16 |
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| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, Roy, | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > The techrights bot stopped working about 10:00 utc. | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > Also, the other day daemonfc was trolling Jono. I was away from the | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > keyboard when it happened and could not intervene. If he is going to | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > give shit to Jono, he should do it on topic and not make up | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > offensiveness. We need Jono to come to our side, so that Ubuntu does | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | > not head further down an undesirable path. | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | Jono gets grief sometimes, he realises he need to ignore particular people. | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | Thanks for looking after the bot, I've just uploaded 3+ weeks of IRC logs. I delivered a long report (at work) yesterday, so in the coming days I should have more time to post more in Techrights, my Other Half permitting (she takes up about 5 hours a day). | Jul 01 13:15 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 13:15 |
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| MinceR | what's the chance of jono coming to our side? | Jul 01 18:23 |
| schestowitz | "I tried to explain to you how my mind interprets the word "Love". Words are just words and they mean different things to different people. To some people, "communism" and "activism" are negative words. To some, "Hawaii" is a place of total paradise. It depends on the context in which those things are advertised or shown to us. ~me | Jul 01 18:43 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: not a binary condition | Jul 01 18:44 |
| schestowitz | he could become more sypathetic | Jul 01 18:44 |
| schestowitz | then, we have a better chance of having an effect on Canonical's choices | Jul 01 18:45 |
| schestowitz | alienating jono or ubuntu is counter-productive, they're not Microsoft | Jul 01 18:45 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1759193 | Jul 01 18:45 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ### whatever you do, never stop dreaming ~ darren johnson | Jul 01 18:45 |
| TechrightsSocial | Photo by ramil_rodaje@diasp.org: https://diasp.org/uploads/images/thumb_medium_e730d692c553fff499c1.JPG | Jul 01 18:45 |
| schestowitz | "Rain or shine now. http://50.80.140.147/photoalbum/chron/2012/20120618-bikestandisback/ " | Jul 01 18:45 |
| schestowitz | "Google doesn't show as many results any more, but when I do this with "atheists" it resturns angry, mean and stupid..." | Jul 01 18:46 |
| schestowitz | "How ironic @Bugs :)" | Jul 01 18:46 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1757380 | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #humor #funny #lol #religion #christianity | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | Photo by ryuken@diasp.de: https://diasp.de/uploads/images/thumb_medium_dd014228629922eb9602.jpg | Jul 01 18:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1759103 | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Adobe Trash is dying, or maybe will deform to something Web compliant http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-flash-for-android-41-jelly-bean-users/11433 (No Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users) | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: No Flash for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, users | ZDNet .::. Size~: 116.12 KB | Jul 01 18:47 |
| schestowitz | "Here's just hoping it completes it's death throes before Linux users who prefer a more open browser than Chrom(ium) are left out in the cold without a version current enough to run stuff online." | Jul 01 18:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1753388 | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Gnome 2 (aka MATE), Welcome back to #Fedora http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/gnome-2-aka-mate-welcome-back-to-fedora-10026503/ #gnu #linux | Jul 01 18:47 |
| schestowitz | "It would probably help if it was written with an accent over the "e". eg é" | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Gnome 2 (aka MATE), Welcome back to Fedora | ZDNet UK .::. Size~: 57.5 KB | Jul 01 18:47 |
| schestowitz | "https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1753388" | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Gnome 2 (aka MATE), Welcome back to #Fedora http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/gnome-2-aka-mate-welcome-back-to-fedora-10026503/ #gnu #linux | Jul 01 18:47 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Gnome 2 (aka MATE), Welcome back to Fedora | ZDNet UK .::. Size~: 57.5 KB | Jul 01 18:48 |
| schestowitz | "Exactly, Bugs_Bane, but it would be probobly hard to ensure it in normal, non hispanic keyboard layouts, encoding, etc." | Jul 01 18:48 |
| schestowitz | "It would probably help if it was written with an accent over the "e". eg é" | Jul 01 18:48 |
| schestowitz | "It's a spiritual gate of the Shinto religion." | Jul 01 18:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1758663 | Jul 01 19:01 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: #humor #grammarnazi #lol | Jul 01 19:01 |
| TechrightsSocial | Photo by ryuken@diasp.de: https://diasp.de/uploads/images/thumb_medium_f10189a20a9fa1723331.jpg | Jul 01 19:01 |
| schestowitz | "I thought this was probably photoshopped bunk, but I tried it... and it's true! o_O" | Jul 01 19:01 |
| FurnaceBoy | "it's true"? as in it *is* bunk? | Jul 01 19:01 |
| *FurnaceBoy didn't follow the link :) | Jul 01 19:01 | |
| schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: I have a question | Jul 01 19:04 |
| schestowitz | comparing twitter today to 1 and 2 years ago: | Jul 01 19:04 |
| schestowitz | did you see a decrease in activity and engagement, i.e. retweets, replies, etc?? | Jul 01 19:05 |
| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/95039380 https://identi.ca/notice/95039440 | Jul 01 19:06 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Ellie Kesselman (elliek)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:01:44 UTC - Identi.ca: Thank you! Very good article, despite ZDNet source (sometimes they are okay ;o) Future of Flash will be not be on mobile devices. | Jul 01 19:06 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Ellie Kesselman (elliek)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:06:52 UTC - Identi.ca: Flash's future on Chrome browser will be x86/64, only, no Android. Yet even there, HTML5 video works so well, is superior to Flash! | Jul 01 19:06 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/prithvi5/status/219088703564423168 | Jul 01 19:07 |
| TechrightsSocial | @prithvi5: @schestowitz please #google make this happen and fast. | Jul 01 19:07 |
| schestowitz | ij identica everyone knows everyone in the same area | Jul 01 19:07 |
| schestowitz | in twitter it'\s broader but it seems like people communicate less | Jul 01 19:08 |
| schestowitz | diaspora is better in that regard, a more cohesive community | Jul 01 19:08 |
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| schestowitz | Today was my first time since 2010 that I don't have a mental burden of having to do my academic job. It feels great, it is so liberating in a way that I forgot (how it feels to be freer). | Jul 01 19:26 |
| FurnaceBoy | schestowitz: dunno. it could be that old-timers get fatigue. but i also notice that some people are equally active. for me, no, my routine has made it impossible to be very active there. | Jul 01 20:02 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1758047 | Jul 01 23:21 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: If you are not a terrorist, worry not about drones (unless you live in the 'wrong' country) because only "we" have them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_on_Pakistan_by_the_United_States_of_America | Jul 01 23:21 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Drone attacks in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .::. Size~: 803.35 KB | Jul 01 23:21 |
| schestowitz | "Last i heard there were 67 drone bases in the US. That number is no doubt higher by now." | Jul 01 23:21 |
| schestowitz | FurnaceBoy: the debate with zealos had just been woken up again | Jul 01 23:22 |
| schestowitz | to quote some of it (minutes ago) | Jul 01 23:22 |
| schestowitz | "Haha! Sounds like God is one giant (circumcised) dick." | Jul 01 23:22 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1752690 | Jul 01 23:23 |
| TechrightsSocial | @whirli@joindiaspora.com: #Circumcision ruling condemned by #Germany 's #Muslim and #Jewish leaders - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/27/circumcision-ruling-germany-muslim-jewish _"But another wrote: 'As a circumcised Jew, I can only add the following: did the state prosecutors in Cologne … have nothing better to do than … interfere in our thousands of years of Jewish religious law? No way, and that's why we need to act de | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:23 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Circumcision ruling condemned by Germany's Muslim and Jewish leaders | World news | guardian.co.uk .::. Size~: 218 KB | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | I'd say he/she/it is a dickhead those little jews and muslims could have been born ready-circumcised and we wouldn't have to discuss since days..... | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | Ohh btw. here in Berlin the Jewish hospital and the biggest hospital-group have stopped all circumcisions. And the even cancelled those that where already scheduled. So the change works fine. | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | zealot (LOL): "Yep, they could. Actually Odom (Adam) was. The foreskin reflects the general concealment, which was also part of the failure with the tree of knowledge. Do your homework before engaging in sarcasm ;)" | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | " Do your homework" | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | Yeah... read about garden of Eden :-) | Jul 01 23:23 |
| schestowitz | "Yea right. I call bullshit." | Jul 01 23:24 |
| schestowitz | "Kind of like that God of yours. All I'm saying he doesn't sound very bright for an omnipotent being that has supposedly created the world." | Jul 01 23:24 |
| schestowitz | "Also, why not consider him oppressive with all those humbug rules (commandments) of his?" | Jul 01 23:25 |
| schestowitz | "Do you think you have a choice to adhere to earthly laws as opposed to your god's laws? Without repercussions?" | Jul 01 23:25 |
| schestowitz | "Well? Do you have a choice or not? Which is it? You are claiming it's oppression to stop you from mutilating children, but consider God not oppressive at all for forcing you to do so in the first place. That my friend is some true double think if any." | Jul 01 23:25 |
| schestowitz | "You said God is not oppressive, because "oppression" would force you to do things, you had no choice. So do you have a choice to not mutilate children without repercussions, as stated by your God?" | Jul 01 23:25 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:26 |
| schestowitz | Still waiting... | Jul 01 23:26 |
| schestowitz | btw. concerning anthropomorphism, I think the major purveyors of such language are the believers themselves. They and their holy books portray god having feelings like anger, and love, though mostly anger and malice. God is also depicted having a sword. Oh, and we are supposedly created in his image. Yea but that doesn't matter because it's "dated" knowledge or only believers can anthropomorphize or any other excuse you might | Jul 01 23:26 |
| schestowitz | come up with. Only when I use anthropomorphic language is it wrong and philosophical and you are not interested, so that you can cleverly avoid any... | Jul 01 23:26 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:26 |
| schestowitz | "Here's the thing, you didn't answer my question. You answered about the choice you had relating to local laws, but you didn't answer about your choice at all. I will re-iterate: Without outer threats, "oppression" or force majeure, can you disregard any part of Halacha (e.g. the law on circumcision) by free will, without any repercussions? That's where the question of choice lies." | Jul 01 23:27 |
| schestowitz | "Don't you? You wouldn't have a choice only if you wouldn't be potentially be able to make it. I.e. if you would be a robot or a program." | Jul 01 23:27 |
| schestowitz | "Obligated, huh? I don't see much choice there. I'm sorry, but I find your religion oppressive. And so that you know, you really didn't give me much to chew on." | Jul 01 23:28 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:28 |
| schestowitz | I have no idea why you brought robots into the discussion. Also, what kind of repercussions does disregarding the child mutilation commandments have? Or eating other than kosher meat? Do you lose your place in heaven or something? I bet it ultimately has something to do with the afterlife. | Jul 01 23:28 |
| schestowitz | So, you are saying the religious text are not supposed to be taken literally? | Jul 01 23:28 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 01 23:28 |
| schestowitz | it's amazing to me how far a zealot would go to defend barbarism | Jul 01 23:29 |
| schestowitz | a civilizes man would adxmit defat and stop the barbaric practice... | Jul 01 23:29 |
| schestowitz | "You are saying you are obliged to mutilate children of 8 weeks old, now you are saying it doesn't matter and you have a choice of not mutilating. So why don't you stop mutilating them then? What stops you?" | Jul 01 23:29 |
| schestowitz | If you can stop it any time by free will and without any fear of repercussions, why bother continue when the world around you condemns the practice? If it clearly isn't needed for your religious beliefs, why do it? You told us it was a matter of choice after all. Your god isn't dictating what you can and can't do."" | Jul 01 23:29 |
| schestowitz | "If your god does dictate what you can and can't decide for yourself, your god and religion is oppressive. That's not nonsense." | Jul 01 23:30 |
| schestowitz | Debating people who cite scriptures for backing is an exercise in futility; to an outside observer who has average IQ (and is not a zealot) it's clear who won the debate the first time one tries to counter fact using desert dogma | Jul 01 23:39 |
| schestowitz | vhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/1713830 | Jul 01 23:40 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ### Jitsi ( previously SIP Communicator) is an audio/video and chat communicator ( #Skype replacement) https://jitsi.org/ #jitsi #foss #linux #gnu #voip #sip | Jul 01 23:40 |
| TechrightsSocial | Photo by rsandu@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_f9fc584fda8b813d9e61.png | Jul 01 23:40 |
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| schestowitz | "Thanks for the heads up Bash VI. Will do!" | Jul 01 23:40 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1717972 | Jul 01 23:40 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: brdcst.it was rendered quite dysfunctional a few months ago when a software update had been applied. | Jul 01 23:40 |
| schestowitz | "just moved to Hootsuite. Horribly proporietary, but seems to do more than dlvr.it" | Jul 01 23:41 |
| schestowitz | "@Jorge - Using software =/= forking it." | Jul 01 23:44 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1753946 | Jul 01 23:44 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Shuttleworth created #ubuntu Linux distro based on a Debian fork&founded Canonical. The vision was a Linux for humans" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/mark_shuttleworth_live_chat/ | Jul 01 23:44 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: Ubuntu Shuttleworth: Space nerd, penguin, millionaire - live on The Reg • The Register .::. Size~: 24 KB | Jul 01 23:44 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1742273 | Jul 01 23:45 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Ubuntu 12.10 Prepares To Improve Linux Performance http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1210_ups&num=1 #ubuntu #gnu #linux | Jul 01 23:45 |
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| schestowitz | "Hahaha... If to most people "Linux" meant just a kernel, then the FSF (who in most things I admire greatly) and their more zealous followers wouldn't be constantly trying to force everyone to stop using it to refer to a whole operating system, as they do now. Sound familiar?" | Jul 01 23:45 |
| schestowitz | "^ I'm confused.... but in general agreement that the Gimp (with single window mode ftw!) is awesome! :D" | Jul 01 23:45 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/1661135 | Jul 01 23:46 |
| TechrightsSocial | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Can Ubuntu Be What Everyone Would Use? http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/167513/index.html #ubuntu #gnu #linux | Jul 01 23:46 |
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| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/Ynys_Prydein/statuses/219558189035831296 | Jul 01 23:48 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Twitter / Ynys_Prydein: Is the UK GOVT. aiding cr .::. Size~: 77.87 KB | Jul 01 23:48 |
| schestowitz | http://twitter.com/fredmanglis/statuses/219468606608637952 http://twitter.com/EzoeRyou/statuses/219549509783535616 | Jul 01 23:50 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Twitter / fredmanglis: RT @satipera American Dron .::. Size~: 78.06 KB | Jul 01 23:50 |
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