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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5233688 | Nov 30 18:22 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #freebsd no escape for resistance to #systemd http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg0ODE | Nov 30 18:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.phoronix.com | [Phoronix] FreeBSD Plans For The Next Ten Years [ http://ur1.ca/ixy88 ] | Nov 30 18:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I'm glad to have chosen OpenBSD." | Nov 30 18:22 |
| MinceR | wow | Nov 30 18:24 |
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| schestowitz__ | > http://schestowitz.com/music.htm | Dec 01 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com | Music | Dec 01 02:13 | |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > The link above is what inspired my previous message. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > As to your question...was that my friend Herbert Katz in the wedding video?...I don't know who you saw in the video but below is a picture of Herby 60 years ago with a full head of hair. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > Oh! I almost forgot about the side-by-side shoes at the finale... We had people counting the months on their fingers, as Scott was born 9 months and 28 days after the wedding. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, that is Herbert. So my assumptions about Scott too were more or less on point. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/539247273629073408 | Dec 01 02:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: @schestowitz on the other hands less shopping means less sales and less jobs. | Dec 01 02:40 | |
| schestowitz__ | Jobs that are associated purely with sales (passing of material) are not essential to growth, only extraction | Dec 01 02:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/539248498886328320 | Dec 01 02:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: @schestowitz You said less buying is good. I said less buying affects the whole economy activity level. See Japan.http://t.co/voYgr2WFxu | Dec 01 02:45 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> aparc.fsi.stanford.edu | FSI | Shorenstein APARC - Causes of Japan's Economic Stagnation | Dec 01 02:45 | |
| schestowitz__ | These are artificial, short-term, non-sustainable factors (spendings). More debt, less potential (excerpt for bankruptcy) | Dec 01 02:46 |
| schestowitz__ | Japan, by the way, has some of the world's worst national debts, despite being a financial centre (one of the Big Six) | Dec 01 02:47 |
| schestowitz__ | http://rdwolff.com/content/economic-update-capitalisms-personal-costs | Dec 01 03:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-rdwolff.com | Economic Update: Capitalism's Personal Costs | Professor Richard D. Wolff | Dec 01 03:13 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> Hi, Roy, | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> How is your CVS-fu? I am trying to find the files that were part of | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> this commit: | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/mii/acphy.c?r1=1.7 | Dec 01 11:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cvsweb.openbsd.org | CVS log for src/sys/dev/mii/acphy.c [ http://ur1.ca/iy5xh ] | Dec 01 11:34 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> I can successfully roll back that one file, but then it appears to | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> depend on definitions stored in some other, unspecified file. | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Do you know how to find files changed in a single CVS commit made about | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> a year ago? | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > I have not touched CVS for a very long time. We studied it almost 15 | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > years ago. | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | > Ok. Thanks. I last touched it in 2002 or late 2001 myself and was | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | > never proficient. | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | I mostly use git now. | Dec 01 11:34 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5221455 | Dec 01 11:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Tomahawk Review – A Beautiful, Fresh Music Player for the New Cloud Age http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Tomahawk-Review-465956.shtml | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Couldn't resolve host 'www.softpedia.com' ( status 0 @ http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Tomahawk-Review-465956.shtml ) | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""Tomahawk Review – A Beautiful, Fresh Music Player for the New Cloud SaaS Age"" | Dec 01 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5234886 | Dec 01 11:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #us #politics moving further to the right http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/29/rick-perry-ready-inflict-america-2016.html | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | "yeah ... and an electorate so bamboozled they will vote for something that disenfrancises them o_0 ..." | Dec 01 11:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.politicususa.com | Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016 [ http://ur1.ca/ixzyw ] | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | "The electorate is already disenfranchised." | Dec 01 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237270 | Dec 01 11:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Racist speech can be a gross use of speech, but banning such speech would not make racism go away, merely drive it underground (-> allure) | Dec 01 11:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Public ostracism is much more effective than censorship." | Dec 01 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | Right, because free speech is not the right for an audience | Dec 01 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | This is sad… | Dec 01 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237305 | Dec 01 11:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #facbeook is getting even more evil and greedy http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-facebook-rules-will-sting-entrepreneurs-1417133694?mod=rss_Technology | Dec 01 11:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> online.wsj.com | New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs - WSJ [ http://ur1.ca/iy654 ] | Dec 01 11:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Cry me a river." | Dec 01 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237293 | Dec 01 11:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Cannon fodder is starving http://www.projectcensored.org/active-duty-veteran-military-families-must-use-food-pantries-meet-basic-needs/ #war #exploitation #classwar #imperialism #wealthgap | Dec 01 11:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.projectcensored.org | Active Duty and Veteran Military Families Must Use Food Pantries to Meet Basic Needs – Validated Independent News [ http://ur1.ca/iy659 ] | Dec 01 11:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | A lot of them were misled by war mongering rich people | Dec 01 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5238281 | Dec 01 11:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 8 Linux Microsoft Paint Alternatives http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/11/8-linux-microsoft-paint-alternatives.html #graphics #gnu #linux | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | The omission of Pinta by that article is really quite unfortunate."" | Dec 01 11:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.everydaylinuxuser.com | 8 Linux Microsoft Paint Alternatives « Everyday Linux User [ http://ur1.ca/iy65i ] | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Dr. Roy wouldn't like it anyway as it's written with #mono" | Dec 01 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | Pinta development is abandoned unless I missed some news in the past 4 years | Dec 01 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | Last version is 1.5 from May 2014 | Dec 01 11:49 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5238281 | Dec 01 11:49 |
| schestowitz__ | I recall someone adopting it after it was abandoned, but have not followed things since | Dec 01 11:49 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5245635 | Dec 03 02:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #mozilla #firefox is now officially eavesdropping for #microsoft unless settings altered http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/firefox-34-makes-it-official-google-is-out-yahoo-is-in.html http://techrights.org/2014/11/28/microsoft-firefox/ | Dec 03 02:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.eweek.com | Firefox 34 Makes It Official: Google Is Out, Yahoo Is In [ http://ur1.ca/iyoib ] | Dec 03 02:51 | |
| schestowitz | "You've been FUDing for days about #mozilla, haven't you?" | Dec 03 02:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Mozilla Will Relay Firefox User Input (Even Keystrokes) to Microsoft and the NSA Through Yahoo in the US | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/ixaf0 ] | Dec 03 02:51 | |
| schestowitz | "Google, Microsoft, what's the difference these days?' | Dec 03 02:51 |
| schestowitz | "Exaggeration" | Dec 03 02:51 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | Google does not go out of their way to attack software freedom. Microsoft does."" | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Couldn't resolve host 'www.forbes.com' ( status 0 @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ ) | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | Probably because M$ is the only group with any interest in pointing that fact out. Obviously the average FOSS advocate on the Internet doesn't have any interest in pointing out the obvious, they're more concerned with being anti whatever M$ is doing. | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | As far as Google not "attacking" software freedom, you don't have to be active to be contributing to the problem. Being "neutral" is as much a strategy or position as "attack" or "defend". In any case, the whims of companies change like the seasons. Google's position on network neutrality has been all over the map in the last ten years, it just depends on what the economic outcome will be for Google. In 2006 you couldn't have found a | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | bigger net neutrality advocate, but since Google has become a player in the phone, ISP, and video markets they sing different tunes these days. Their ToS for Google Fiber is stricter than many other ISPs, completely disallowing individuals from running so much as a Minecraft server from home. They didn't utter a word in 2012 & 2013 when AT&T blocked FaceTime and Hangouts over their cell network. Google and Verizon paved the way in 2010 | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | for the kind of private agreements we see going on between Internet companies that compromise neutrality in various ways over wireless networks while maintaining the status quo over wired networks that have neutrality in name only (usually circumvented by ToS, court rulings, etc). | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | For heavens sake, it took a well-publicized doozy of a bug and a whole lot of public pressure for Google to even contribute money to an FOSS project that is vital to their gigantic success--OpenSSL! And even then, it took M$ announcing a contribution to the project to do it! Until this year I probably made more financial contributions to FOSS projects than Google did. | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | http://50.80.140.55/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_02_22_free_speech_alley/ | Dec 03 02:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-50.80.140.55 | ./2007_02_22_free_speech_alley [ http://ur1.ca/iyoiy ] | Dec 03 02:53 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | Show me where Google has created a barrier to anyone's software freedom, Jesse. Google is not just a big gnu/linux user, they are also a good community member through upstream patching, native projects, and summer of code initiatives to improve other projects. | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft, on the other hand, is a huge hypocrite that seeks to own all free software and destroy all economic competition. While they make extensive use of free software through Facebook, Yahoo and Akamai, they continue to sabotage gnu/linux technically, politically, judicially and in retail. Their history with SCO, Novell, Yahoo, and Nokia speaks for itself without even mentioning Google and Android. The x86 world is laced with | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft's toxic non standards such as ACPI, Vista DRM and UEFI. These not only make their own software work poorly, they make it difficult for anyone else to use the hardware. The company spends billions on PR to create a hostile environment for free software advocates, users and companies. They have also launched massive copyright and software patent lawsuits against companies that use free software, with Android being the last and | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | most prominent but least successful example. There are several examples of Microsoft lobbyists being deployed to thwart government migrations to free software, which Massachusetts and Munich being the best known. The company spends money to have people on the ground everywhere and uses them to thwart free software use and advocacy. Would you believe that I had to spend weeks begging for permission to set up a booth in LSU's "Free Speech | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | Alley" to hand out GNU/Linux because the Microsoft representative told LSU I could not? It was only because I kept asking questions that I found out and was finally invited to spend an hour sitting outside his office only to have the meeting cancelled and be granted permission. Microsoft really, really hates your freedom. | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:53 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535 | Dec 03 03:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown | Business | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/iv9g8 ] | Dec 03 03:16 | |
| schestowitz | https://plus.google.com/u/0/113579520393333767984/posts/hwaHzvNmkGa | Dec 03 03:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | No one should use Windows and other non free software for banking. [ http://ur1.ca/iyops ] | Dec 03 03:16 | |
| schestowitz | "I'm just having the first Linux development boxes installed in one similar environment, as we speak..." | Dec 03 03:17 |
| schestowitz | "You link to a diaspora post which links to a story entitled "RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown" which says nothing about Windows at all." | Dec 03 03:17 |
| schestowitz | "+Nate Berry basically the person posting it on Diaspora has added that information in his post. Perhaps he has insider information from some source? I suppose he's our only source, or does +Will Hill know more?" | Dec 03 03:17 |
| schestowitz | "+Sakari Maaranen I often have problems with that particular poster and have said so in the past." | Dec 03 03:17 |
| schestowitz | "Roy Schestowitz is a sound and careful researcher. He's not always right, but always worth quoting. The fines are reason enough to link this news. We can be sure he's right about the underlying banking infrastructure. His prediction may not be right, which is why he made it conditionally. It may be based on inside information or from prior examples like the London Stock Exchange melt down. I'll ask him. " | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | +Sakari Maaranen +Will Hill | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | I have no idea where the person on Diaspora got the notion that the failure was Windows related-it wasn't. It was improperly managed job scheduling software. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system_problems | Dec 03 03:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.m.wikipedia.org | 2012 RBS Group computer system problems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqf ] | Dec 03 03:18 | |
| schestowitz | There is no disagreement with the summary cause from Wikipedia that I am aware of, and given that I work in IT just down the road from two of their main IT buildings it is reasonably likely I would have heard any such discussion. | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | Thanks, +Alan Peery, that's very interesting. Have you talked to the RBS technical staff who were blamed for corrupting the update to CA-7? That system might be IBM but it's easy to imagine the update was corrupted on someone's Windows desktop. Inside information would be nice. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | Roy is good at finding that kind of information. I don't have an answer back from him yet but in 2013 he seemed to think the incident was a direct consequence of using Windows, | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/irc-log-techrights-10042013.html | Dec 03 03:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: April 10th, 2013 [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqm ] | Dec 03 03:19 | |
| schestowitz | I'll keep digging until I find something. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | "While it doesn't reveal the names of the operating systems or softwares used (we know it was CA-7), the official finding does specifically say "mainframe" which suggests it isn't Windows its being run on. Also, it lays out fairly clearly how the problem occurred a problem happened during an upgrade of CA-7 which had fallen out of support to version 2, and the IT staff didn't test the process or have a plan in place for a disaster. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/final-notices/2014/rbs-natwest-ulster (start at page 7 bottom)" | Dec 03 03:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fca.org.uk | FCA Final Notice 2014: Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc and Ulster Bank Ltd - Financial Conduct Authority [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqs ] | Dec 03 03:19 | |
| schestowitz | "I don't expect an answer from Roy soon because it's past midnight in Manchester. In April, he said he was guessing based on observations as a customer - the place was lousy with Microsoft." | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | I don't expect an answer from Roy soon because it's past midnight in Manchester. In April, he said he was guessing based on observations as a customer - the place was lousy with Microsoft. | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | "infrastructure is very Microsoft-reliant, even if the articles about it don’t say so. I know this as a customer for 13 years (RBS and NatWest are connected)." | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/category/vista-9/ | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | As of | Dec 03 03:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Vista 9 | Techrights | Dec 03 03:20 | |
| schestowitz | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/rbs_natwest_what_went_wrong/ | Dec 03 03:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.co.uk | RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part • The Register [ http://ur1.ca/iyor9 ] | Dec 03 03:20 | |
| schestowitz | no one at the bank was talking, which is an outrage. The register notes that RBS had fired tens of thousands of employees and hired cheap, remote staff in India. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | When asked to confirm that the CA-7 software lay behind the problems seen last week, RBS refused to confirm what software exactly was involved. The RBS spokesman stated that "the software error occurred on a UK-based piece of software" but declined to give details on where the staff overseeing the software were based. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | It's reasonable to assume that Microsoft infrastructure and off shoring is an explosive combination. CA-7 is said to be common, but the bank won't even own up to that detail. The only way to really know is to get an insider report or a proper report is published with the fines. There should be no secrets because the bank is mostly owned by the public. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Deepwater Horizon is a good example of Microsoft culpability and cover up. Garbage like Exchange, Outlook and Windows on desktops as well as NT at the drill head on blinded operators at critical times and hampered rescue operations. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2011/09/17/deepwater-horizon-final-report-spares-microsoft/ | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Despite getting testimony from the rig's IT staff about these problems, the final report and almost all press reports never mentioned Microsoft. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Deepwater Horizon Final Report Spares Microsoft | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/gv6n9 ] | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | "Thanks +Nate Berry, that's just the kind of report we need, but the devil is in the details. Do we really know it was CA-7? Other sources mention other batching software. More importantly, how exactly did the upgrade get screwed up? The natural suspects are human error, transmission problems and storage problems. In a place that uses Microsoft infrastructure for communications and data storage, all three problems can be caused by | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft. I'll read be reading the report. " | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Oh for goodness sake, here's a direct link to the PDF they are serving through some nasty IE only or Flash/Silverlight required pdf viewer, | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | http://www.fca.org.uk/static/documents/final-notices/rbs-natwest-ulster-final-notice.pdf | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Talk about lousy with Microsoft! Written with Microsoft Word 2010. The regulator too lives in PRISM. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | "FYI - I was reading the report without a problem on the page I linked to and I'm running Firefox on Arch with no silverlight plugin." | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Roy seems to have some sort of inside information. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535 | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | Of course, he can't identify the source. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown | Business | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/iv9g8 ] | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | "Thanks +Will Hill. Then I guess we have to accept that there is a researcher who maintains such claim. It would take more detective work though to be certain. Now it's a question of can we trust Roy. Trust is not the same as evidence." | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | "Roy is amazingly honest and forthright. In eight years of Techrights he's never censored a comment or failed to correct himself. If he's wrong it's because someone lied to him." | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | "My problem is that while his "articles" always contain a lot of links, they are usually links to other things he has written in the past and much less often to third party sources confirming the information. I've run across this issue several times where he references things he's written in the past which in turn reference earlier things he has written each time with some associated spin. He may be honest, I have no way to know, but | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | its exactly tricks like the post you referenced above which suggest he is not." | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | You have to pick through Roy's stuff long and hard to find examples of a "trick" like this. While he's got a PhD from English university, I've been told his first language is German. Most of the things people pick on him for are simple misunderstandings that come from his prolific output. They guy reads and writes at an incredible pace. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | He's changed his reporting style to address the other criticism you have. If you carefully follow his citations, you will land at a supporting article. He claims that he makes an archive copy of everything he cites, but he can't republish most of them. Now he is quoting what he thinks are the important parts of articles in his write up. That combats link rot and makes his own citations better. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | My trust for Roy was built by following the links and seeing that his opinion and summary are almost always correct. When there are problems, and someone tells him, he corrects them. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | Roy has critics who are much less than fair. Microsoft people have been caught trolling his comments sections without identifying themselves. Because he never deletes his comments, you can still find them and read them. In hindsight, the trolls are transparently bad. What's more, you see the pattern of the trolling, where a gang of sock puppets will jump one in many articles. Besides name calling, the usual method is to hair split | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | and intentionally misinterpret what Roy writes. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | One particularly nasty attack was an ambush interview by +Jono Bacon. Jono had been fed a lot of nonsense by detractors and was rude about it. He did not give Roy advanced warning and then was not specific in his criticisms, so questions were all big fluffy accusations and impossible to answer. Combined with Google bombed, anonymous attack blogs, Roy suffered a lot of reputation damage. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | +Will Hill hardly an ambush interview, it was simply a researched interview. Back then I felt Roy was a deeply controversial figure and caused a lot of unnecessary controversy. I called him on it with evidence and research. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | Roy had plenty of warning about the interview, I told him we would get into some of the controversy, and I didn't make fluffy accusations, I called him on very specific actions of his. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | Since then Roy and I have become friends. We often don't agree (and I feel like he sees things from only one perspective), but I am sure he would say the same about me. :-) | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | "It looks like he suddenly updated his site (finally) and he's now using Drupal. I have to admit that gives me something more to like about him at least." | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | "I hate to bother you, but here's why I've been asking questions. Some people have interpreted what you wrote here in a way you might not agree with and the conversation has devolved to the usual, mostly unfair, criticisms." | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5245967 | Dec 03 03:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@willhill@joindiaspora.com: Hey, @{Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ; schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113579520393333767984/posts/hwaHzvNmkGa">some folks over on G+ are dumping on you</a> over their interpretation/misinterpretation of <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535">this message from 9 days ago</a>. It's nothing serious, but it always catches me by surprise and I thought I'd pass it on. While | Dec 03 03:25 | |
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| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:25 | |
| schestowitz | Hey, Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) , some folks over on G+ are dumping on you over their interpretation/misinterpretation of this message from 9 days ago. It's nothing serious, but it always catches me by surprise and I thought I'd pass it on. | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | While I'm unsure of their motives, a change to your writing style helps diffuse one of the criticisms. Your citations have always been excellent, but they don't seem to be good enough for some people. Recently, you started quoting the most important parts of the articles you cite one after the other at the end of your article. I think this will help combat link rot and make a better argument for people who either don't click through or | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | are unable to keep enough of the salient points in mind when doing so. I think you started doing articles that way to save write up time. | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5244850 | Dec 03 03:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Why developers love and hate PHP http://www.infoworld.com/article/2852329/php/reasons-for-developers-to-love-hate-php.html #php | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Why developers love and hate PHP | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/iyovg ] | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| schestowitz | "PHP is not a bad language. The problem is that there are a lot of bad PHP programmers and bad frameworks. But fortunately nowadays the framework Laravel has come to save the PHP development and make it funnier." | Dec 03 03:34 |
| schestowitz | "@Edward +42 !!! https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_ce1ff2b106c43a34af02.png" | Dec 03 03:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5241284 | Dec 03 03:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: New #Manjaro Linux. "The Linux kernel used on the 0.8.11 installation media is the 3.16 series." http://manjaro.org/2014/12/01/manjaro-0-8-11-released/ | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| schestowitz | "355 fucking packages later..." | Dec 03 03:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> manjaro.org | Manjaro 0.8.11 released! | Manjaro Linux [ http://ur1.ca/iyovm ] | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237365 | Dec 03 03:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Promoting #libreoffice (libre as in freedom) through #facebook is not good marketing http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/11/30/user-support/ | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> standardsandfreedom.net | Supporting LibreOffice users everywhere [ http://ur1.ca/iyovs ] | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| schestowitz | "I think it's important to reach outside of the community already familiar with LibreOffice to find new possible users! Facebook users might not be so tech savvy but they can really benefit from LibreOffice, so we ought to help them." | Dec 03 03:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5219821 | Dec 03 03:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Downing of a plane over #ukraine almost never referred to as terrorism b/c perpetrators not Arab. Doesn't match the stigma/agenda/flavour. | Dec 03 03:35 | |
| schestowitz | "Does anybody remember that MH17 black boxes could have been in the Russian Federation FSB hands for a quite time?" | Dec 03 03:36 |
| schestowitz | "The Dutch investigators said from day one when they found them that no one has tampered with the Black Boxes." | Dec 03 03:36 |
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| schestowitz | >>>> Maybe a bit of a publicity opportunity. | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Probably that, too. I am more surprised to see all the Swedish | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> participants. That's the country where Bill Gates personally invented | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> the Internet. | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | > (sarcasm but reflects the common attitude even the last time I was there) | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >> > I wonder if they are expats or still often in-country. | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | >> > Huh? That's new to me. | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | > The list is at the bottom of the page. | Dec 03 20:09 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5241994 http://www.kinolorber.com/5brokencameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdoS9j2vnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdoS9j2vnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqdxQHc7YbM | Dec 04 07:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: CompuLab launches Utilite2: Tiny ARM-based Ubuntu/Android PChttp://liliputing.com/2014/12/compulab-launches-utilite2-tiny-arm-based-ubuntuandroid-pc.html #android #ubuntu #linux | Dec 04 07:09 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> liliputing.com | CompuLab launches Utilite2: Tiny ARM-based Ubuntu/Android PC - Liliputing [ http://ur1.ca/iylcu ] | Dec 04 07:09 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.kinolorber.com | 5 Broken Cameras | Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary Feature [ http://ur1.ca/iz51f ] | Dec 04 07:09 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | "Five Broken Cameras" screened to Israeli youth - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/iz51g ] | Dec 04 07:09 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Israel Is A Racist State | Joel Northam | Resistance Report Segment - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/iz51h ] | Dec 04 07:09 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | "Israel doesn't do anything evil." Pot, meet kettle. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Stop that stupidity already. Not all Palestinians and Gazans are terrorists. Just like not all Israelis are racist assholes. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | I still can't understand where all your hatred comes from. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | I know this is premature as I've yet to see the film myself, but have you seen Five broken cameras? Here's how some Israeli students reacted to seeing it. From what I have learned, it is supposed to be a very intimate look into what it is like to live and grow inside the walled city. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | I'm very disappointed in your one-sided view of Palestinians, like all of them are the scum of the Earth. You should know people can't choose on which side of the wall they are born into. Do you really think the kids there deserve the hatred they get from the Israelis? | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | After all, I do think Israel is the only "democratic" country I know where little kids actually *want to join the army just to go abroad to kill arabs". Do their parents force feed these things into their heads or something? | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Oh, they want to kill Israelis too? Ah, I love it when people play with semantics. "Freedom from the river to the sea" means "kill all Israelis", while it never even says so. It most likely just means freedom for all Palestinians. But hey, I could be wrong and you could be right. Let's say I want freedom for all Finnish people too from coast to coast. You know, take a map, deal? (Yes I know we aren't persecuted, but let's still do that, | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | just for a measure... Freedom can mean so many things, after all.) | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | I know some Arabs call for the eradication for the state of Israel, but even that can be bent to mean they want to kill every Jew, with some twist of logic. I kind of understand theirs, though. In the Palestinians' eyes the Israelis illegally came and stole their lands and homes. But let's not let that cloud our judgement. If Russia invaded Finland, we'd be crying the same. Oh, and I believe the Russians would be quite eager enough to | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | call us all terrorists and bomb us every once in a while. It would be in their right, right? Just like they are doing in Kazachstan, or like China does to the Uighurs. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Oh, but we are not Muslims... Would that change things? It's ok to be racist (or anti-semitist) towards Muslims? | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | And don't start with the Balfour declaration. I know fully well about the magical paper that as a consolation for their ill fate with the Germans, creates a country for those poor, sad and unfortunate Jews who have no country of their own, and don't fit anywhere because they seem have a chronic victim syndrome. Just so that they could in their part, do the same atrocities to the Arabs the Nazis did to them. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Hmm... Maybe the State of Israel is every bit as racist as they claim those who boycott them are. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | And yes, I still think all the religions from the Middle-East are full of shit, just like all the other religions and superstitions are. "God's chosen people", "one true God", "one nation under God" are all bullshit. Furthermore acts of killing for any God should be considered illegal and crimes against humanity. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | That's my lost sleep for tonight. | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 04 07:10 |
| schestowitz | "get a history book, find out, which side refused the un-decision and started a war against whom with the slogan "we send the jews into the sea" 3 years after the shoa, oh and it would be nice 2 find a quote from me which says that i would see the palestinians as "the scum of the earth" or where i claim that "all palestinians are terrorists", israel is still sourounded by enemies which want 2 terminate the jewish state (even fatah is | Dec 04 07:18 |
| schestowitz | still talking about it) or u read the hamas charta (which is very obvious antisemitic, except u belive in "the elders of zyon" 2, oh and "god" is not mentioned in the israelian declaration of indenpendence, in opposite 2 every arabian state, the non-jewish israelian citizens are more free then every minority in the arabian countries. i would like u 2 compare that with statements from hamas, hezbullah, abbas, iran and is or assad" | Dec 04 07:18 |
| schestowitz | "maybe i check the facts which are mentioned in that speech by ur own, u will find out they r all true (and thats a "right winger" speaking, not a leftist zionist;)" | Dec 04 07:18 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5249432 | Dec 04 07:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "New research suggests that we learned to metabolize alcohol by eating spoiled fruit" http://www.salon.com/2014/12/02/we_can_drink_booze_because_our_ancestors_were_starving/ #science #drugs | Dec 04 07:25 | |
| schestowitz | "Pretty obvious isn't it?" | Dec 04 07:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.salon.com | We can drink booze because our ancestors were starving - Salon.com [ http://ur1.ca/iyy7n ] | Dec 04 07:25 | |
| schestowitz | "I don't care for the word "learned" in the secondary heading. Life forms learn, DNA has random mutations and evolves." | Dec 04 07:25 |
| schestowitz | "Random mutation doesn't seem to be the main driving force of evolution. In simulations, cross-breeding appears to be a stronger mechanism for adaptation. Then there's epigenetics which comes closer to "learning". And that's just according to our current, limited understanding of evolution." | Dec 04 07:25 |
| schestowitz | "And none of that has anything to do with "learning". It's animist language applied to scientific notion." | Dec 04 07:25 |
| schestowitz | "I agree with Cameron. I would say our species "adapted" to catabolize ethanol. But, however rigorous, anthropomorphism is part of us. We just have to stay alert." | Dec 04 07:26 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5250261 | Dec 04 08:05 |
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| schestowitz | "I loooove it !!! :)" | Dec 04 08:05 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5194523 | Dec 05 01:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #kubuntu machine at lounge now without #microsoft (Yahoo) #firefox and other #mozilla software. #rekonq only. | Dec 05 01:42 | |
| schestowitz | |Ok, this one is interesting to me. Is there any reason you're avoiding #firefox?| | Dec 05 01:42 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5252000 | Dec 05 01:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Meet Devuan, the Debian fork born from a bitter systemd revolt http://www.pcworld.com/article/2854717/meet-devuan-the-debian-fork-born-from-a-bitter-systemd-revolt.html | Dec 05 01:42 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 01:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.pcworld.com | Meet Devuan, the Debian fork born from a bitter systemd revolt | PCWorld [ http://ur1.ca/izf6w ] | Dec 05 01:42 | |
| schestowitz | Right, but Debian wasn't competing with Debian. Besides which, now Debian does, and distro branding is more competitive. | Dec 05 01:42 |
| schestowitz | Are you taking sides in the fork argument Roy? I think I'm still on the fence. | Dec 05 01:43 |
| schestowitz | 'I'm not crazy about forks, but without them, arguing about freedom in FOSS would be harder | Dec 05 01:43 |
| MinceR | with so many GNU/Linux distributions being turned into systemd/Linux distributions, we need more GNU/Linux distributions (like devuan) | Dec 05 08:09 |
| schestowitz | 'I'm not crazy about forks, but without them, arguing about freedom in FOSS would be harderhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/5215084 | Dec 05 08:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Total #nonsense from #theverge claiming that #prism company is enabling #encryption (there's back door access) http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7239221/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-with-textsecure | Dec 05 08:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code | The Verge [ http://ur1.ca/iwvhz ] | Dec 05 08:22 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:22 |
| schestowitz | Encrypted so the provider can’t read it? Whatsapp: NO. | Dec 05 08:22 |
| schestowitz | Seriously, I find no sense in encrypting Whatsapp. Its owner it's Facebook!! | Dec 05 08:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:22 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 05 08:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 05 08:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.forbes.com | How Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election - Forbes [ http://ur1.ca/iv2nx ] | Dec 05 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Google's job is to organize information. That's what a search engine does. If that is inherently dangerous because the US government is out of control, I think we have a big problem. | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Can you show me one piece of hardware made by Google with digital locks or non free software that's designed to keep users from replacing the software? If you can, I'll agree that Google has done something to keep users from having software freedom. I don't like their non free software, and I don't think they should do that to people, but I'm not convinced they are an enemy of software freedom then way Microsoft is. It is unfair to | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | pretend the two are moral equivalents. | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Google is doing a lot of things; many are good, some are bad. But to be influenced by "Scroogled" and to deduce that Google is all evil while forgetting all the positives (too many to name here) is to be Microsoft's "useful idiot" | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | >>> Sometime in the last 5 years, this quote (or very close to it) has | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> disappeared from the net: | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> - external or internal - is akin to trying to install | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> job is permitted. | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> It was by Prof Gene Spafford, do you have a source handy? | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >> > I've not heard it before and I don't find it particularly insightful, | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | >> > but it's quotable. | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | > It's not that insightful but memorable, especially considering who it | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | > was allegedly from and his credentials. I found a digitized book with | Dec 05 08:30 |
| schestowitz | > it and an archived mailing list message, but it's not on his web pages. | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > He did take money from M$ from 2003-2005 if not longer though. I used | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > the quote around 2007 or 2008 but cannot find the official source any more. | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | OT: I see a lot of anti-Google in forums like Diaspora. I worry that "Scroogled" is quietly working, changing minds by messing with journalists and inciting. | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, M$ has the people (volunteers in many cases) and money (for the | Dec 05 08:49 |
| schestowitz | > time being) to repeat lies long enough and often enough that they get | Dec 05 08:49 |
| schestowitz | > accepted as fact. It's like the anti-RMS work they do, too. | Dec 05 08:49 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 05 09:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 05 09:30 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.forbes.com | How Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election - Forbes [ http://ur1.ca/iv2nx ] | Dec 05 09:30 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | @Roy - I don't consider that Microsoft, Google, Apple or Amazon are entirely evil, just more dangerous than helpful. All have done useful things at times, but I wouldn't consider any of them benevolent. | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | Google's real power resides in their centralization of users activity onto their (proiprietary) infrastructure, and influence of what information people get. I'd wager that these factors will actually be able to control people far more effectively in the future than mere code obfuscation and restrictions on modification / distribution of client software. | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | Whether you use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or IE with Google services, they still record everything about you and control the output of what you see. | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | Granted that the other players named above are trying to do the exact same thing, but largely their efforts are clumsier than Google who seems to be leading the way in this respect. But hey, they pay for GSoC, so that makes up for it all, right? | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | It's not just about GSOC. | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | "Interesting how an opinion that MS and Google are both dangerous gets people labelled as Microsoft shills." | Dec 05 09:30 |
| schestowitz | It's not just Google that I criticise. I can say that Facebook does only the evils of Google, and takes them further (like face tagging, mood-altering 'experiments' etc.). | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5215084 | Dec 05 09:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Total #nonsense from #theverge claiming that #prism company is enabling #encryption (there's back door access) http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7239221/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-with-textsecure | Dec 05 09:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code | The Verge [ http://ur1.ca/iwvhz ] | Dec 05 09:32 | |
| schestowitz | "If it's end-to-end encryption, with software vetted to EFF's satisfaction, then how does the provider read it?" | Dec 05 09:32 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261260 | Dec 06 21:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #BioShock Infinite coming to Linux in early 2015 http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a614850/bioshock-infinite-coming-to-linux-in-early-2015.html http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bioshock-infinite-looks-set-for-a-linux-release-updated.4668/ fantastic. #gnu #linux | Dec 06 21:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | "The game has already appeared in my Linux library, I'm currently downloading it (a chunk of 15 GB). I'd be very surprised if I could already start it, though." | Dec 06 21:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.digitalspy.com | BioShock Infinite coming to Linux in early 2015 - Gaming News - Digital Spy [ http://ur1.ca/j17qy ] | Dec 06 21:56 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | BioShock Infinite Looks Set For A Linux Release (CONFIRMED) | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/j17qz ] | Dec 06 21:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I see many titles coming to Linux. I hope also Need for speed to be ported in linux too.' | Dec 06 21:56 |
| schestowitz__ | "Just as I thought, the executable is missing, so the game won't start.' | Dec 06 21:56 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5262605 | Dec 06 22:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Many in #manchester care about football not because of sports but because of the city's prestiage, so this matters: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/matches/2014-2015/epl.html/newcastle-vs-chelsea | Dec 06 22:14 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.premierleague.com | Newcastle v Chelsea Match Report | Barclays Premier League [ http://ur1.ca/j0y15 ] | Dec 06 22:14 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Love this for two reasons. Chelsea got beat. And they got beat by Newcastle which is my partner's team. :)" | Dec 06 22:14 |
| schestowitz__ | Now just 3 points ahead of the team across the road from us | Dec 06 22:15 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5259935 | Dec 06 23:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Tony Blair names Henry Kissinger as his role model." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/12/you-couldnt-make-it-up/ war criminals admiring one another | Dec 06 23:21 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Now, that's (almost) funny ...." | Dec 06 23:21 |
| schestowitz__ | "What a fucking asshole!" | Dec 06 23:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.craigmurray.org.uk | Craig Murray » Blog Archive » You Couldn’t Make It Up [ http://ur1.ca/j189f ] | Dec 06 23:21 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Like they say: water finds its own level" | Dec 06 23:21 |
| schestowitz__ | Offensive to water | Dec 06 23:21 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261941 | Dec 06 23:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Threat is Not Over: #Microsoft Bribes Against Linux Adoption and in Favour of Extortion Against #Linux http://techrights.org/2014/12/06/bribes-against-linux/ | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | "sneaky bastards" | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | "This surpriseth me not at all" | Dec 06 23:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The Threat is Not Over: Microsoft Bribes Against Linux Adoption and in Favour of Extortion Against Linux | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/j189l ] | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5257288 | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | "What, Bill and Steve are not going to buy Windows phones anymore?" | Dec 06 23:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "The truth is that the world does not need Windows Phone. " http://www.infoworld.com/article/2855039/windows-phone-os/windows-phone-heading-back-to-deaths-door.html | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Windows Phone is heading back to death's door | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/j189n ] | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think they ever used it | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261345 | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #TrendMicro is associating #freesw with #crime - well. Trend Micro. Enough said. http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139849:Open-source-attracts-cyber-criminals&catid=69 http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Trend_Micro | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | "cyber-criminals like NSA ?" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.itweb.co.za | Open source attracts cyber criminals | ITWeb [ http://ur1.ca/j189u ] | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Trend Micro - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/ip39p ] | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | NSA uses Fedora | Dec 06 23:23 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5257342 | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Use #Tor Browser, get your computer blacklisted http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2014/12/04/use-tor-browser-get-your-computer-blacklisted/ | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Using TOR, my computer is blacklisted on sechat.org too !" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.linuxbsdos.com | Use Tor Browser, get your computer blacklisted | LinuxBSDos.com [ http://ur1.ca/izpja ] | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | "isn't #statusnet open source? so the code for that must be somewhere in that maybe with a comment as to why ;)" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| schestowitz__ | The shrtener is part of the company, whose FOSS project is GNU Social (its new successor) as per Identi.ca | Dec 06 23:24 |
| schestowitz__ | #shortener | Dec 06 23:25 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/kravietz2/status/541373816006778880 | Dec 06 23:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@kravietz2: @schestowitz just email content@three.co.uk & mobileadvice@bbfc.co.uk tell them it's incorrectly blocked, will reclassify | Dec 06 23:33 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5262333 | Dec 06 23:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The "no alternative" (to #assassination by #drone strikes) defence http://theweek.com/article/index/272948/the-problem-with-hating-killer-drones complete BS. Non-lethal alternatives exist. | Dec 06 23:34 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> theweek.com | The problem with hating killer drones - The Week [ http://ur1.ca/j18c6 ] | Dec 06 23:34 | |
| schestowitz__ | "It's interesting to see how the US an a handful other countries have to kill while other don't." | Dec 06 23:34 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5263594 | Dec 06 23:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #anaconda in #fedora has gotten a lot better http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2014/12/02/fedora-21-install-anaconda-installer-efficient-super-quick/ | Dec 06 23:35 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blogs.dailynews.com | So I did a Fedora 21 install, and the Anaconda installer was efficient and super quick | Click [ http://ur1.ca/j18cb ] | Dec 06 23:35 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Does that mean Fedora can now be installed on a existing btrfs partition?" | Dec 06 23:35 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5233688 | Nov 30 18:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #freebsd no escape for resistance to #systemd http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg0ODE | Nov 30 18:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.phoronix.com | [Phoronix] FreeBSD Plans For The Next Ten Years [ http://ur1.ca/ixy88 ] | Nov 30 18:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I'm glad to have chosen OpenBSD." | Nov 30 18:22 |
| MinceR | wow | Nov 30 18:24 |
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| schestowitz__ | > http://schestowitz.com/music.htm | Dec 01 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com | Music | Dec 01 02:13 | |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > The link above is what inspired my previous message. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > As to your question...was that my friend Herbert Katz in the wedding video?...I don't know who you saw in the video but below is a picture of Herby 60 years ago with a full head of hair. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | > Oh! I almost forgot about the side-by-side shoes at the finale... We had people counting the months on their fingers, as Scott was born 9 months and 28 days after the wedding. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, that is Herbert. So my assumptions about Scott too were more or less on point. | Dec 01 02:13 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/539247273629073408 | Dec 01 02:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: @schestowitz on the other hands less shopping means less sales and less jobs. | Dec 01 02:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | Jobs that are associated purely with sales (passing of material) are not essential to growth, only extraction | Dec 01 02:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/fcassia/status/539248498886328320 | Dec 01 02:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@fcassia: @schestowitz You said less buying is good. I said less buying affects the whole economy activity level. See Japan.http://t.co/voYgr2WFxu | Dec 01 02:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> aparc.fsi.stanford.edu | FSI | Shorenstein APARC - Causes of Japan's Economic Stagnation | Dec 01 02:46 | |
| schestowitz__ | These are artificial, short-term, non-sustainable factors (spendings). More debt, less potential (excerpt for bankruptcy) | Dec 01 02:46 |
| schestowitz__ | Japan, by the way, has some of the world's worst national debts, despite being a financial centre (one of the Big Six) | Dec 01 02:47 |
| schestowitz__ | http://rdwolff.com/content/economic-update-capitalisms-personal-costs | Dec 01 03:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-rdwolff.com | Economic Update: Capitalism's Personal Costs | Professor Richard D. Wolff | Dec 01 03:13 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> Hi, Roy, | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> How is your CVS-fu? I am trying to find the files that were part of | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> this commit: | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/mii/acphy.c?r1=1.7 | Dec 01 11:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cvsweb.openbsd.org | CVS log for src/sys/dev/mii/acphy.c [ http://ur1.ca/iy5xh ] | Dec 01 11:35 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> I can successfully roll back that one file, but then it appears to | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> depend on definitions stored in some other, unspecified file. | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Do you know how to find files changed in a single CVS commit made about | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> a year ago? | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > I have not touched CVS for a very long time. We studied it almost 15 | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > years ago. | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | > Ok. Thanks. I last touched it in 2002 or late 2001 myself and was | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | > never proficient. | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | I mostly use git now. | Dec 01 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5221455 | Dec 01 11:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Tomahawk Review – A Beautiful, Fresh Music Player for the New Cloud Age http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Tomahawk-Review-465956.shtml | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Couldn't resolve host 'www.softpedia.com' ( status 0 @ http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/Tomahawk-Review-465956.shtml ) | Dec 01 11:37 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""Tomahawk Review – A Beautiful, Fresh Music Player for the New Cloud SaaS Age"" | Dec 01 11:37 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5234886 | Dec 01 11:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #us #politics moving further to the right http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/29/rick-perry-ready-inflict-america-2016.html | Dec 01 11:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | "yeah ... and an electorate so bamboozled they will vote for something that disenfrancises them o_0 ..." | Dec 01 11:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.politicususa.com | Rick Perry Getting Ready to Inflict Himself on America in 2016 [ http://ur1.ca/ixzyw ] | Dec 01 11:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | "The electorate is already disenfranchised." | Dec 01 11:38 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237270 | Dec 01 11:39 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Racist speech can be a gross use of speech, but banning such speech would not make racism go away, merely drive it underground (-> allure) | Dec 01 11:39 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Public ostracism is much more effective than censorship." | Dec 01 11:39 |
| schestowitz__ | Right, because free speech is not the right for an audience | Dec 01 11:39 |
| schestowitz__ | This is sad… | Dec 01 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237305 | Dec 01 11:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #facbeook is getting even more evil and greedy http://online.wsj.com/articles/new-facebook-rules-will-sting-entrepreneurs-1417133694?mod=rss_Technology | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> online.wsj.com | New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs - WSJ [ http://ur1.ca/iy654 ] | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Cry me a river." | Dec 01 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237293 | Dec 01 11:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Cannon fodder is starving http://www.projectcensored.org/active-duty-veteran-military-families-must-use-food-pantries-meet-basic-needs/ #war #exploitation #classwar #imperialism #wealthgap | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.projectcensored.org | Active Duty and Veteran Military Families Must Use Food Pantries to Meet Basic Needs – Validated Independent News [ http://ur1.ca/iy659 ] | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | A lot of them were misled by war mongering rich people | Dec 01 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5238281 | Dec 01 11:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 8 Linux Microsoft Paint Alternatives http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/11/8-linux-microsoft-paint-alternatives.html #graphics #gnu #linux | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.everydaylinuxuser.com | 8 Linux Microsoft Paint Alternatives « Everyday Linux User [ http://ur1.ca/iy65i ] | Dec 01 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | The omission of Pinta by that article is really quite unfortunate."" | Dec 01 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | "Dr. Roy wouldn't like it anyway as it's written with #mono" | Dec 01 11:43 |
| schestowitz__ | Pinta development is abandoned unless I missed some news in the past 4 years | Dec 01 11:43 |
| schestowitz__ | Last version is 1.5 from May 2014 | Dec 01 11:50 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5238281 | Dec 01 11:50 |
| schestowitz__ | I recall someone adopting it after it was abandoned, but have not followed things since | Dec 01 11:50 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5245635 | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #mozilla #firefox is now officially eavesdropping for #microsoft unless settings altered http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/firefox-34-makes-it-official-google-is-out-yahoo-is-in.html http://techrights.org/2014/11/28/microsoft-firefox/ | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.eweek.com | Firefox 34 Makes It Official: Google Is Out, Yahoo Is In [ http://ur1.ca/iyoib ] | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | "You've been FUDing for days about #mozilla, haven't you?" | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Mozilla Will Relay Firefox User Input (Even Keystrokes) to Microsoft and the NSA Through Yahoo in the US | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/ixaf0 ] | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | "Google, Microsoft, what's the difference these days?' | Dec 03 02:52 |
| schestowitz | "Exaggeration" | Dec 03 02:52 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | Google does not go out of their way to attack software freedom. Microsoft does."" | Dec 03 02:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Couldn't resolve host 'www.forbes.com' ( status 0 @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ ) | Dec 03 02:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | Probably because M$ is the only group with any interest in pointing that fact out. Obviously the average FOSS advocate on the Internet doesn't have any interest in pointing out the obvious, they're more concerned with being anti whatever M$ is doing. | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | As far as Google not "attacking" software freedom, you don't have to be active to be contributing to the problem. Being "neutral" is as much a strategy or position as "attack" or "defend". In any case, the whims of companies change like the seasons. Google's position on network neutrality has been all over the map in the last ten years, it just depends on what the economic outcome will be for Google. In 2006 you couldn't have found a | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | bigger net neutrality advocate, but since Google has become a player in the phone, ISP, and video markets they sing different tunes these days. Their ToS for Google Fiber is stricter than many other ISPs, completely disallowing individuals from running so much as a Minecraft server from home. They didn't utter a word in 2012 & 2013 when AT&T blocked FaceTime and Hangouts over their cell network. Google and Verizon paved the way in 2010 | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | for the kind of private agreements we see going on between Internet companies that compromise neutrality in various ways over wireless networks while maintaining the status quo over wired networks that have neutrality in name only (usually circumvented by ToS, court rulings, etc). | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | For heavens sake, it took a well-publicized doozy of a bug and a whole lot of public pressure for Google to even contribute money to an FOSS project that is vital to their gigantic success--OpenSSL! And even then, it took M$ announcing a contribution to the project to do it! Until this year I probably made more financial contributions to FOSS projects than Google did. | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | http://50.80.140.55/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_02_22_free_speech_alley/ | Dec 03 02:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-50.80.140.55 | ./2007_02_22_free_speech_alley [ http://ur1.ca/iyoiy ] | Dec 03 02:54 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | Show me where Google has created a barrier to anyone's software freedom, Jesse. Google is not just a big gnu/linux user, they are also a good community member through upstream patching, native projects, and summer of code initiatives to improve other projects. | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft, on the other hand, is a huge hypocrite that seeks to own all free software and destroy all economic competition. While they make extensive use of free software through Facebook, Yahoo and Akamai, they continue to sabotage gnu/linux technically, politically, judicially and in retail. Their history with SCO, Novell, Yahoo, and Nokia speaks for itself without even mentioning Google and Android. The x86 world is laced with | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft's toxic non standards such as ACPI, Vista DRM and UEFI. These not only make their own software work poorly, they make it difficult for anyone else to use the hardware. The company spends billions on PR to create a hostile environment for free software advocates, users and companies. They have also launched massive copyright and software patent lawsuits against companies that use free software, with Android being the last and | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | most prominent but least successful example. There are several examples of Microsoft lobbyists being deployed to thwart government migrations to free software, which Massachusetts and Munich being the best known. The company spends money to have people on the ground everywhere and uses them to thwart free software use and advocacy. Would you believe that I had to spend weeks begging for permission to set up a booth in LSU's "Free Speech | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | Alley" to hand out GNU/Linux because the Microsoft representative told LSU I could not? It was only because I kept asking questions that I found out and was finally invited to spend an hour sitting outside his office only to have the meeting cancelled and be granted permission. Microsoft really, really hates your freedom. | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 02:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535 | Dec 03 03:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown | Business | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/iv9g8 ] | Dec 03 03:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://plus.google.com/u/0/113579520393333767984/posts/hwaHzvNmkGa | Dec 03 03:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | No one should use Windows and other non free software for banking. [ http://ur1.ca/iyops ] | Dec 03 03:17 | |
| schestowitz | "I'm just having the first Linux development boxes installed in one similar environment, as we speak..." | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | "You link to a diaspora post which links to a story entitled "RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown" which says nothing about Windows at all." | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | "+Nate Berry basically the person posting it on Diaspora has added that information in his post. Perhaps he has insider information from some source? I suppose he's our only source, or does +Will Hill know more?" | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | "+Sakari Maaranen I often have problems with that particular poster and have said so in the past." | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | "Roy Schestowitz is a sound and careful researcher. He's not always right, but always worth quoting. The fines are reason enough to link this news. We can be sure he's right about the underlying banking infrastructure. His prediction may not be right, which is why he made it conditionally. It may be based on inside information or from prior examples like the London Stock Exchange melt down. I'll ask him. " | Dec 03 03:18 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | +Sakari Maaranen +Will Hill | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | I have no idea where the person on Diaspora got the notion that the failure was Windows related-it wasn't. It was improperly managed job scheduling software. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_Group_computer_system_problems | Dec 03 03:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.m.wikipedia.org | 2012 RBS Group computer system problems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqf ] | Dec 03 03:19 | |
| schestowitz | There is no disagreement with the summary cause from Wikipedia that I am aware of, and given that I work in IT just down the road from two of their main IT buildings it is reasonably likely I would have heard any such discussion. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | Thanks, +Alan Peery, that's very interesting. Have you talked to the RBS technical staff who were blamed for corrupting the update to CA-7? That system might be IBM but it's easy to imagine the update was corrupted on someone's Windows desktop. Inside information would be nice. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | Roy is good at finding that kind of information. I don't have an answer back from him yet but in 2013 he seemed to think the incident was a direct consequence of using Windows, | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/irc-log-techrights-10042013.html | Dec 03 03:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: April 10th, 2013 [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqm ] | Dec 03 03:19 | |
| schestowitz | I'll keep digging until I find something. | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:19 |
| schestowitz | "While it doesn't reveal the names of the operating systems or softwares used (we know it was CA-7), the official finding does specifically say "mainframe" which suggests it isn't Windows its being run on. Also, it lays out fairly clearly how the problem occurred a problem happened during an upgrade of CA-7 which had fallen out of support to version 2, and the IT staff didn't test the process or have a plan in place for a disaster. | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | http://www.fca.org.uk/your-fca/documents/final-notices/2014/rbs-natwest-ulster (start at page 7 bottom)" | Dec 03 03:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fca.org.uk | FCA Final Notice 2014: Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, National Westminster Bank Plc and Ulster Bank Ltd - Financial Conduct Authority [ http://ur1.ca/iyoqs ] | Dec 03 03:20 | |
| schestowitz | "I don't expect an answer from Roy soon because it's past midnight in Manchester. In April, he said he was guessing based on observations as a customer - the place was lousy with Microsoft." | Dec 03 03:20 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | I don't expect an answer from Roy soon because it's past midnight in Manchester. In April, he said he was guessing based on observations as a customer - the place was lousy with Microsoft. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | "infrastructure is very Microsoft-reliant, even if the articles about it don’t say so. I know this as a customer for 13 years (RBS and NatWest are connected)." | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/category/vista-9/ | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | As of | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Vista 9 | Techrights | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/25/rbs_natwest_what_went_wrong/ | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.co.uk | RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part • The Register [ http://ur1.ca/iyor9 ] | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | no one at the bank was talking, which is an outrage. The register notes that RBS had fired tens of thousands of employees and hired cheap, remote staff in India. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | When asked to confirm that the CA-7 software lay behind the problems seen last week, RBS refused to confirm what software exactly was involved. The RBS spokesman stated that "the software error occurred on a UK-based piece of software" but declined to give details on where the staff overseeing the software were based. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | It's reasonable to assume that Microsoft infrastructure and off shoring is an explosive combination. CA-7 is said to be common, but the bank won't even own up to that detail. The only way to really know is to get an insider report or a proper report is published with the fines. There should be no secrets because the bank is mostly owned by the public. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Deepwater Horizon is a good example of Microsoft culpability and cover up. Garbage like Exchange, Outlook and Windows on desktops as well as NT at the drill head on blinded operators at critical times and hampered rescue operations. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2011/09/17/deepwater-horizon-final-report-spares-microsoft/ | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | Despite getting testimony from the rig's IT staff about these problems, the final report and almost all press reports never mentioned Microsoft. | Dec 03 03:21 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Deepwater Horizon Final Report Spares Microsoft | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/gv6n9 ] | Dec 03 03:21 | |
| schestowitz | "Thanks +Nate Berry, that's just the kind of report we need, but the devil is in the details. Do we really know it was CA-7? Other sources mention other batching software. More importantly, how exactly did the upgrade get screwed up? The natural suspects are human error, transmission problems and storage problems. In a place that uses Microsoft infrastructure for communications and data storage, all three problems can be caused by | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft. I'll read be reading the report. " | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | Oh for goodness sake, here's a direct link to the PDF they are serving through some nasty IE only or Flash/Silverlight required pdf viewer, | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | http://www.fca.org.uk/static/documents/final-notices/rbs-natwest-ulster-final-notice.pdf | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | Talk about lousy with Microsoft! Written with Microsoft Word 2010. The regulator too lives in PRISM. | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | "FYI - I was reading the report without a problem on the page I linked to and I'm running Firefox on Arch with no silverlight plugin." | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | Roy seems to have some sort of inside information. | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535 | Dec 03 03:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:22 | |
| schestowitz | Of course, he can't identify the source. | Dec 03 03:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | RBS prepares to be fined tens of millions pounds over IT breakdown | Business | The Guardian [ http://ur1.ca/iv9g8 ] | Dec 03 03:22 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | "Thanks +Will Hill. Then I guess we have to accept that there is a researcher who maintains such claim. It would take more detective work though to be certain. Now it's a question of can we trust Roy. Trust is not the same as evidence." | Dec 03 03:22 |
| schestowitz | "Roy is amazingly honest and forthright. In eight years of Techrights he's never censored a comment or failed to correct himself. If he's wrong it's because someone lied to him." | Dec 03 03:23 |
| schestowitz | "My problem is that while his "articles" always contain a lot of links, they are usually links to other things he has written in the past and much less often to third party sources confirming the information. I've run across this issue several times where he references things he's written in the past which in turn reference earlier things he has written each time with some associated spin. He may be honest, I have no way to know, but | Dec 03 03:23 |
| schestowitz | its exactly tricks like the post you referenced above which suggest he is not." | Dec 03 03:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | You have to pick through Roy's stuff long and hard to find examples of a "trick" like this. While he's got a PhD from English university, I've been told his first language is German. Most of the things people pick on him for are simple misunderstandings that come from his prolific output. They guy reads and writes at an incredible pace. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | He's changed his reporting style to address the other criticism you have. If you carefully follow his citations, you will land at a supporting article. He claims that he makes an archive copy of everything he cites, but he can't republish most of them. Now he is quoting what he thinks are the important parts of articles in his write up. That combats link rot and makes his own citations better. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | My trust for Roy was built by following the links and seeing that his opinion and summary are almost always correct. When there are problems, and someone tells him, he corrects them. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | Roy has critics who are much less than fair. Microsoft people have been caught trolling his comments sections without identifying themselves. Because he never deletes his comments, you can still find them and read them. In hindsight, the trolls are transparently bad. What's more, you see the pattern of the trolling, where a gang of sock puppets will jump one in many articles. Besides name calling, the usual method is to hair split | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | and intentionally misinterpret what Roy writes. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | One particularly nasty attack was an ambush interview by +Jono Bacon. Jono had been fed a lot of nonsense by detractors and was rude about it. He did not give Roy advanced warning and then was not specific in his criticisms, so questions were all big fluffy accusations and impossible to answer. Combined with Google bombed, anonymous attack blogs, Roy suffered a lot of reputation damage. | Dec 03 03:24 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | +Will Hill hardly an ambush interview, it was simply a researched interview. Back then I felt Roy was a deeply controversial figure and caused a lot of unnecessary controversy. I called him on it with evidence and research. | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | Roy had plenty of warning about the interview, I told him we would get into some of the controversy, and I didn't make fluffy accusations, I called him on very specific actions of his. | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | Since then Roy and I have become friends. We often don't agree (and I feel like he sees things from only one perspective), but I am sure he would say the same about me. :-) | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | ' | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | "It looks like he suddenly updated his site (finally) and he's now using Drupal. I have to admit that gives me something more to like about him at least." | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | "I hate to bother you, but here's why I've been asking questions. Some people have interpreted what you wrote here in a way you might not agree with and the conversation has devolved to the usual, mostly unfair, criticisms." | Dec 03 03:25 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5245967 | Dec 03 03:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@willhill@joindiaspora.com: Hey, @{Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) ; schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}, <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113579520393333767984/posts/hwaHzvNmkGa">some folks over on G+ are dumping on you</a> over their interpretation/misinterpretation of <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5206535">this message from 9 days ago</a>. It's nothing serious, but it always catches me by surprise and I thought I'd pass it on. While | Dec 03 03:26 | |
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| schestowitz | " | Dec 03 03:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It looks like #rbs #natwest etc. (massive in #uk banking) is FINALLY dumping #microsoft #windows (on which it relied) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/16/rbs-fines-over-it-breakdown | Dec 03 03:26 | |
| schestowitz | Hey, Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) , some folks over on G+ are dumping on you over their interpretation/misinterpretation of this message from 9 days ago. It's nothing serious, but it always catches me by surprise and I thought I'd pass it on. | Dec 03 03:26 |
| schestowitz | While I'm unsure of their motives, a change to your writing style helps diffuse one of the criticisms. Your citations have always been excellent, but they don't seem to be good enough for some people. Recently, you started quoting the most important parts of the articles you cite one after the other at the end of your article. I think this will help combat link rot and make a better argument for people who either don't click through or | Dec 03 03:26 |
| schestowitz | are unable to keep enough of the salient points in mind when doing so. I think you started doing articles that way to save write up time. | Dec 03 03:26 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5244850 | Dec 03 03:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Why developers love and hate PHP http://www.infoworld.com/article/2852329/php/reasons-for-developers-to-love-hate-php.html #php | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Why developers love and hate PHP | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/iyovg ] | Dec 03 03:34 | |
| schestowitz | "PHP is not a bad language. The problem is that there are a lot of bad PHP programmers and bad frameworks. But fortunately nowadays the framework Laravel has come to save the PHP development and make it funnier." | Dec 03 03:34 |
| schestowitz | "@Edward +42 !!! https://diasp.org/uploads/images/scaled_full_ce1ff2b106c43a34af02.png" | Dec 03 03:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5241284 | Dec 03 03:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: New #Manjaro Linux. "The Linux kernel used on the 0.8.11 installation media is the 3.16 series." http://manjaro.org/2014/12/01/manjaro-0-8-11-released/ | Dec 03 03:35 | |
| schestowitz | "355 fucking packages later..." | Dec 03 03:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> manjaro.org | Manjaro 0.8.11 released! | Manjaro Linux [ http://ur1.ca/iyovm ] | Dec 03 03:35 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5237365 | Dec 03 03:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Promoting #libreoffice (libre as in freedom) through #facebook is not good marketing http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/11/30/user-support/ | Dec 03 03:35 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> standardsandfreedom.net | Supporting LibreOffice users everywhere [ http://ur1.ca/iyovs ] | Dec 03 03:35 | |
| schestowitz | "I think it's important to reach outside of the community already familiar with LibreOffice to find new possible users! Facebook users might not be so tech savvy but they can really benefit from LibreOffice, so we ought to help them." | Dec 03 03:35 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5219821 | Dec 03 03:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Downing of a plane over #ukraine almost never referred to as terrorism b/c perpetrators not Arab. Doesn't match the stigma/agenda/flavour. | Dec 03 03:36 | |
| schestowitz | "Does anybody remember that MH17 black boxes could have been in the Russian Federation FSB hands for a quite time?" | Dec 03 03:36 |
| schestowitz | "The Dutch investigators said from day one when they found them that no one has tampered with the Black Boxes." | Dec 03 03:36 |
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| schestowitz | >>>> Maybe a bit of a publicity opportunity. | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Probably that, too. I am more surprised to see all the Swedish | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> participants. That's the country where Bill Gates personally invented | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> the Internet. | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > (sarcasm but reflects the common attitude even the last time I was there) | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >> > I wonder if they are expats or still often in-country. | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | >> > Huh? That's new to me. | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > The list is at the bottom of the page. | Dec 03 20:10 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5241994 http://www.kinolorber.com/5brokencameras/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdoS9j2vnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYdoS9j2vnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqdxQHc7YbM | Dec 04 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: CompuLab launches Utilite2: Tiny ARM-based Ubuntu/Android PChttp://liliputing.com/2014/12/compulab-launches-utilite2-tiny-arm-based-ubuntuandroid-pc.html #android #ubuntu #linux | Dec 04 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> liliputing.com | CompuLab launches Utilite2: Tiny ARM-based Ubuntu/Android PC - Liliputing [ http://ur1.ca/iylcu ] | Dec 04 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.kinolorber.com | 5 Broken Cameras | Academy Award Nominee Best Documentary Feature [ http://ur1.ca/iz51f ] | Dec 04 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | "Five Broken Cameras" screened to Israeli youth - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/iz51g ] | Dec 04 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Israel Is A Racist State | Joel Northam | Resistance Report Segment - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/iz51h ] | Dec 04 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | "Israel doesn't do anything evil." Pot, meet kettle. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Stop that stupidity already. Not all Palestinians and Gazans are terrorists. Just like not all Israelis are racist assholes. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | I still can't understand where all your hatred comes from. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | I know this is premature as I've yet to see the film myself, but have you seen Five broken cameras? Here's how some Israeli students reacted to seeing it. From what I have learned, it is supposed to be a very intimate look into what it is like to live and grow inside the walled city. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | I'm very disappointed in your one-sided view of Palestinians, like all of them are the scum of the Earth. You should know people can't choose on which side of the wall they are born into. Do you really think the kids there deserve the hatred they get from the Israelis? | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | After all, I do think Israel is the only "democratic" country I know where little kids actually *want to join the army just to go abroad to kill arabs". Do their parents force feed these things into their heads or something? | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Oh, they want to kill Israelis too? Ah, I love it when people play with semantics. "Freedom from the river to the sea" means "kill all Israelis", while it never even says so. It most likely just means freedom for all Palestinians. But hey, I could be wrong and you could be right. Let's say I want freedom for all Finnish people too from coast to coast. You know, take a map, deal? (Yes I know we aren't persecuted, but let's still do that, | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | just for a measure... Freedom can mean so many things, after all.) | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | I know some Arabs call for the eradication for the state of Israel, but even that can be bent to mean they want to kill every Jew, with some twist of logic. I kind of understand theirs, though. In the Palestinians' eyes the Israelis illegally came and stole their lands and homes. But let's not let that cloud our judgement. If Russia invaded Finland, we'd be crying the same. Oh, and I believe the Russians would be quite eager enough to | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | call us all terrorists and bomb us every once in a while. It would be in their right, right? Just like they are doing in Kazachstan, or like China does to the Uighurs. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Oh, but we are not Muslims... Would that change things? It's ok to be racist (or anti-semitist) towards Muslims? | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | And don't start with the Balfour declaration. I know fully well about the magical paper that as a consolation for their ill fate with the Germans, creates a country for those poor, sad and unfortunate Jews who have no country of their own, and don't fit anywhere because they seem have a chronic victim syndrome. Just so that they could in their part, do the same atrocities to the Arabs the Nazis did to them. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Hmm... Maybe the State of Israel is every bit as racist as they claim those who boycott them are. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | And yes, I still think all the religions from the Middle-East are full of shit, just like all the other religions and superstitions are. "God's chosen people", "one true God", "one nation under God" are all bullshit. Furthermore acts of killing for any God should be considered illegal and crimes against humanity. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | That's my lost sleep for tonight. | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 04 07:11 |
| schestowitz | "get a history book, find out, which side refused the un-decision and started a war against whom with the slogan "we send the jews into the sea" 3 years after the shoa, oh and it would be nice 2 find a quote from me which says that i would see the palestinians as "the scum of the earth" or where i claim that "all palestinians are terrorists", israel is still sourounded by enemies which want 2 terminate the jewish state (even fatah is | Dec 04 07:19 |
| schestowitz | still talking about it) or u read the hamas charta (which is very obvious antisemitic, except u belive in "the elders of zyon" 2, oh and "god" is not mentioned in the israelian declaration of indenpendence, in opposite 2 every arabian state, the non-jewish israelian citizens are more free then every minority in the arabian countries. i would like u 2 compare that with statements from hamas, hezbullah, abbas, iran and is or assad" | Dec 04 07:19 |
| schestowitz | "maybe i check the facts which are mentioned in that speech by ur own, u will find out they r all true (and thats a "right winger" speaking, not a leftist zionist;)" | Dec 04 07:19 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5249432 | Dec 04 07:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "New research suggests that we learned to metabolize alcohol by eating spoiled fruit" http://www.salon.com/2014/12/02/we_can_drink_booze_because_our_ancestors_were_starving/ #science #drugs | Dec 04 07:26 | |
| schestowitz | "Pretty obvious isn't it?" | Dec 04 07:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.salon.com | We can drink booze because our ancestors were starving - Salon.com [ http://ur1.ca/iyy7n ] | Dec 04 07:26 | |
| schestowitz | "I don't care for the word "learned" in the secondary heading. Life forms learn, DNA has random mutations and evolves." | Dec 04 07:26 |
| schestowitz | "Random mutation doesn't seem to be the main driving force of evolution. In simulations, cross-breeding appears to be a stronger mechanism for adaptation. Then there's epigenetics which comes closer to "learning". And that's just according to our current, limited understanding of evolution." | Dec 04 07:26 |
| schestowitz | "And none of that has anything to do with "learning". It's animist language applied to scientific notion." | Dec 04 07:26 |
| schestowitz | "I agree with Cameron. I would say our species "adapted" to catabolize ethanol. But, however rigorous, anthropomorphism is part of us. We just have to stay alert." | Dec 04 07:26 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5250261 | Dec 04 08:06 |
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| schestowitz | "I loooove it !!! :)" | Dec 04 08:06 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5194523 | Dec 05 01:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #kubuntu machine at lounge now without #microsoft (Yahoo) #firefox and other #mozilla software. #rekonq only. | Dec 05 01:43 | |
| schestowitz | |Ok, this one is interesting to me. Is there any reason you're avoiding #firefox?| | Dec 05 01:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5252000 | Dec 05 01:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Meet Devuan, the Debian fork born from a bitter systemd revolt http://www.pcworld.com/article/2854717/meet-devuan-the-debian-fork-born-from-a-bitter-systemd-revolt.html | Dec 05 01:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 01:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.pcworld.com | Meet Devuan, the Debian fork born from a bitter systemd revolt | PCWorld [ http://ur1.ca/izf6w ] | Dec 05 01:43 | |
| schestowitz | Right, but Debian wasn't competing with Debian. Besides which, now Debian does, and distro branding is more competitive. | Dec 05 01:43 |
| schestowitz | Are you taking sides in the fork argument Roy? I think I'm still on the fence. | Dec 05 01:43 |
| schestowitz | 'I'm not crazy about forks, but without them, arguing about freedom in FOSS would be harder | Dec 05 01:44 |
| MinceR | with so many GNU/Linux distributions being turned into systemd/Linux distributions, we need more GNU/Linux distributions (like devuan) | Dec 05 08:10 |
| schestowitz | 'I'm not crazy about forks, but without them, arguing about freedom in FOSS would be harderhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/5215084 | Dec 05 08:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Total #nonsense from #theverge claiming that #prism company is enabling #encryption (there's back door access) http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7239221/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-with-textsecure | Dec 05 08:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code | The Verge [ http://ur1.ca/iwvhz ] | Dec 05 08:23 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Encrypted so the provider can’t read it? Whatsapp: NO. | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | Seriously, I find no sense in encrypting Whatsapp. Its owner it's Facebook!! | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 05 08:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 05 08:24 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.forbes.com | How Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election - Forbes [ http://ur1.ca/iv2nx ] | Dec 05 08:24 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | Google's job is to organize information. That's what a search engine does. If that is inherently dangerous because the US government is out of control, I think we have a big problem. | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | Can you show me one piece of hardware made by Google with digital locks or non free software that's designed to keep users from replacing the software? If you can, I'll agree that Google has done something to keep users from having software freedom. I don't like their non free software, and I don't think they should do that to people, but I'm not convinced they are an enemy of software freedom then way Microsoft is. It is unfair to | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | pretend the two are moral equivalents. | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 08:24 |
| schestowitz | Google is doing a lot of things; many are good, some are bad. But to be influenced by "Scroogled" and to deduce that Google is all evil while forgetting all the positives (too many to name here) is to be Microsoft's "useful idiot" | Dec 05 08:25 |
| schestowitz | >>> Sometime in the last 5 years, this quote (or very close to it) has | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> disappeared from the net: | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> - external or internal - is akin to trying to install | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> job is permitted. | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> It was by Prof Gene Spafford, do you have a source handy? | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >> > I've not heard it before and I don't find it particularly insightful, | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | >> > but it's quotable. | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > It's not that insightful but memorable, especially considering who it | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > was allegedly from and his credentials. I found a digitized book with | Dec 05 08:31 |
| schestowitz | > it and an archived mailing list message, but it's not on his web pages. | Dec 05 08:32 |
| schestowitz | > He did take money from M$ from 2003-2005 if not longer though. I used | Dec 05 08:32 |
| schestowitz | > the quote around 2007 or 2008 but cannot find the official source any more. | Dec 05 08:32 |
| schestowitz | OT: I see a lot of anti-Google in forums like Diaspora. I worry that "Scroogled" is quietly working, changing minds by messing with journalists and inciting. | Dec 05 08:32 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, M$ has the people (volunteers in many cases) and money (for the | Dec 05 08:50 |
| schestowitz | > time being) to repeat lies long enough and often enough that they get | Dec 05 08:50 |
| schestowitz | > accepted as fact. It's like the anti-RMS work they do, too. | Dec 05 08:50 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5202481 | Dec 05 09:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/11/18/how-facebook-is-shaping-who-will-win-the-next-election/ #facebook is #propaganda through #surveillance and #censorship | Dec 05 09:31 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.forbes.com | How Facebook Is Shaping Who Will Win The Next Election - Forbes [ http://ur1.ca/iv2nx ] | Dec 05 09:31 | |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | @Roy - I don't consider that Microsoft, Google, Apple or Amazon are entirely evil, just more dangerous than helpful. All have done useful things at times, but I wouldn't consider any of them benevolent. | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | Google's real power resides in their centralization of users activity onto their (proiprietary) infrastructure, and influence of what information people get. I'd wager that these factors will actually be able to control people far more effectively in the future than mere code obfuscation and restrictions on modification / distribution of client software. | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | Whether you use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or IE with Google services, they still record everything about you and control the output of what you see. | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | Granted that the other players named above are trying to do the exact same thing, but largely their efforts are clumsier than Google who seems to be leading the way in this respect. But hey, they pay for GSoC, so that makes up for it all, right? | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | " | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | It's not just about GSOC. | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | "Interesting how an opinion that MS and Google are both dangerous gets people labelled as Microsoft shills." | Dec 05 09:31 |
| schestowitz | It's not just Google that I criticise. I can say that Facebook does only the evils of Google, and takes them further (like face tagging, mood-altering 'experiments' etc.). | Dec 05 09:32 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5215084 | Dec 05 09:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Total #nonsense from #theverge claiming that #prism company is enabling #encryption (there's back door access) http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/18/7239221/whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-with-textsecure | Dec 05 09:33 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption using TextSecure code | The Verge [ http://ur1.ca/iwvhz ] | Dec 05 09:33 | |
| schestowitz | "If it's end-to-end encryption, with software vetted to EFF's satisfaction, then how does the provider read it?" | Dec 05 09:33 |
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| *Topic for #techbytes set by ThistleWeb!~gordon@unaffiliated/thistleweb at Wed Jan 5 20:55:35 2011 | Dec 06 10:27 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261260 | Dec 06 21:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #BioShock Infinite coming to Linux in early 2015 http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a614850/bioshock-infinite-coming-to-linux-in-early-2015.html http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bioshock-infinite-looks-set-for-a-linux-release-updated.4668/ fantastic. #gnu #linux | Dec 06 21:57 | |
| schestowitz__ | "The game has already appeared in my Linux library, I'm currently downloading it (a chunk of 15 GB). I'd be very surprised if I could already start it, though." | Dec 06 21:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.digitalspy.com | BioShock Infinite coming to Linux in early 2015 - Gaming News - Digital Spy [ http://ur1.ca/j17qy ] | Dec 06 21:57 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | BioShock Infinite Looks Set For A Linux Release (CONFIRMED) | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/j17qz ] | Dec 06 21:57 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I see many titles coming to Linux. I hope also Need for speed to be ported in linux too.' | Dec 06 21:58 |
| schestowitz__ | "Just as I thought, the executable is missing, so the game won't start.' | Dec 06 21:58 |
| *schestowitz__ (~schestowi@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has left #techbytes ("Konversation term") | Dec 06 21:58 | |
| *schestowitz__ (~schestowi@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes | Dec 06 22:05 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5262605 | Dec 06 22:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Many in #manchester care about football not because of sports but because of the city's prestiage, so this matters: http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/matchday/matches/2014-2015/epl.html/newcastle-vs-chelsea | Dec 06 22:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.premierleague.com | Newcastle v Chelsea Match Report | Barclays Premier League [ http://ur1.ca/j0y15 ] | Dec 06 22:16 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Love this for two reasons. Chelsea got beat. And they got beat by Newcastle which is my partner's team. :)" | Dec 06 22:16 |
| schestowitz__ | Now just 3 points ahead of the team across the road from us | Dec 06 22:16 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5259935 | Dec 06 23:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Tony Blair names Henry Kissinger as his role model." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/12/you-couldnt-make-it-up/ war criminals admiring one another | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Now, that's (almost) funny ...." | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | "What a fucking asshole!" | Dec 06 23:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.craigmurray.org.uk | Craig Murray » Blog Archive » You Couldn’t Make It Up [ http://ur1.ca/j189f ] | Dec 06 23:22 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Like they say: water finds its own level" | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | Offensive to water | Dec 06 23:22 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261941 | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Threat is Not Over: #Microsoft Bribes Against Linux Adoption and in Favour of Extortion Against #Linux http://techrights.org/2014/12/06/bribes-against-linux/ | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | "sneaky bastards" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| schestowitz__ | "This surpriseth me not at all" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The Threat is Not Over: Microsoft Bribes Against Linux Adoption and in Favour of Extortion Against Linux | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/j189l ] | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5257288 | Dec 06 23:23 |
| schestowitz__ | "What, Bill and Steve are not going to buy Windows phones anymore?" | Dec 06 23:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "The truth is that the world does not need Windows Phone. " http://www.infoworld.com/article/2855039/windows-phone-os/windows-phone-heading-back-to-deaths-door.html | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Windows Phone is heading back to death's door | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/j189n ] | Dec 06 23:23 | |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think they ever used it | Dec 06 23:23 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5261345 | Dec 06 23:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #TrendMicro is associating #freesw with #crime - well. Trend Micro. Enough said. http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139849:Open-source-attracts-cyber-criminals&catid=69 http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Trend_Micro | Dec 06 23:24 | |
| schestowitz__ | "cyber-criminals like NSA ?" | Dec 06 23:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.itweb.co.za | Open source attracts cyber criminals | ITWeb [ http://ur1.ca/j189u ] | Dec 06 23:24 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Trend Micro - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/ip39p ] | Dec 06 23:24 | |
| schestowitz__ | NSA uses Fedora | Dec 06 23:24 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5257342 | Dec 06 23:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Use #Tor Browser, get your computer blacklisted http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2014/12/04/use-tor-browser-get-your-computer-blacklisted/ | Dec 06 23:24 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Using TOR, my computer is blacklisted on sechat.org too !" | Dec 06 23:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.linuxbsdos.com | Use Tor Browser, get your computer blacklisted | LinuxBSDos.com [ http://ur1.ca/izpja ] | Dec 06 23:24 | |
| schestowitz__ | "isn't #statusnet open source? so the code for that must be somewhere in that maybe with a comment as to why ;)" | Dec 06 23:24 |
| schestowitz__ | The shrtener is part of the company, whose FOSS project is GNU Social (its new successor) as per Identi.ca | Dec 06 23:26 |
| schestowitz__ | #shortener | Dec 06 23:26 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/kravietz2/status/541373816006778880 | Dec 06 23:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@kravietz2: @schestowitz just email content@three.co.uk & mobileadvice@bbfc.co.uk tell them it's incorrectly blocked, will reclassify | Dec 06 23:34 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5262333 | Dec 06 23:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The "no alternative" (to #assassination by #drone strikes) defence http://theweek.com/article/index/272948/the-problem-with-hating-killer-drones complete BS. Non-lethal alternatives exist. | Dec 06 23:35 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> theweek.com | The problem with hating killer drones - The Week [ http://ur1.ca/j18c6 ] | Dec 06 23:35 | |
| schestowitz__ | "It's interesting to see how the US an a handful other countries have to kill while other don't." | Dec 06 23:35 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5263594 | Dec 06 23:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #anaconda in #fedora has gotten a lot better http://blogs.dailynews.com/click/2014/12/02/fedora-21-install-anaconda-installer-efficient-super-quick/ | Dec 06 23:36 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blogs.dailynews.com | So I did a Fedora 21 install, and the Anaconda installer was efficient and super quick | Click [ http://ur1.ca/j18cb ] | Dec 06 23:36 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Does that mean Fedora can now be installed on a existing btrfs partition?" | Dec 06 23:36 |
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