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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/pyroom-review-495526.shtml doesn't say if it's #freesw | Nov 01 06:41 | |
| schestowitz | "It is; installing it from the Trisquel reps as I type this. Many thanks!" | Nov 01 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.softpedia.com | PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor - Softpedia | Nov 01 06:41 | |
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| schestowitz | > Hello Roy, | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > Thank you for sending me this. It's interesting to see you have David | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > Allen Green on your side. | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > I spoke to my editor and we are willing to run a story on this. We will, | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > however, respect your request, so please do let us know once we can | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | > publish something. | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | Thank you, I appreciate this. | Nov 02 21:02 |
| schestowitz | Merpel, in the mean time, wrote about ILO vs EPO... probably worth covering also. | Nov 02 21:02 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/661349625799032832 | Nov 03 07:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@iridesce57: @schestowitz syrian child dies from military crossfire - - crickets | Nov 03 07:27 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/laurelrusswurm/status/661353835634532352 | Nov 03 07:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@laurelrusswurm: @RavenXV Isn't doing *this* type of thing (mass surveillance) part of the MO of Authoritarian/Despotic Rulers? @alastairsloan @schestowitz | Nov 03 07:28 | |
| schestowitz | It's "to protect democracy" when "we" do it | Nov 03 07:28 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/cluedupcity/status/661392649841188864 | Nov 03 07:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@cluedupcity: i was trying to arrange a group https://t.co/5f0P4C7Oxn … but silly rag sunday times reporter slandered me! https://t.co/aGC1jgWU5w | Nov 03 07:28 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: So it looks like #talktalk is going to be sued pretty badly, #classaction in fact. No wonder they waste money on TV 'ads' (damage control). | Nov 03 07:29 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/brianlee_me/status/661448492305510401 | Nov 03 07:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@brianlee_me: what does it mean to be a humanist? https://t.co/EieZmWmF4t https://t.co/OdF5pquTHK | Nov 03 07:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.humanistdemocracy.co.uk | Humanist Democracy | | Nov 03 07:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: @laurelrusswurm @RavenXV @alastairsloan It's "to protect democracy" when "we" do it | Nov 03 07:49 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/661469505571409921 | Nov 03 09:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Belgian and Dutch politicians are now hamming on #epo for its violations and abuses. Article on their way... | Nov 03 09:19 | |
| schestowitz | typo of hammering | Nov 03 09:19 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Twpalovi/status/661473491443720192 | Nov 03 09:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Twpalovi: @schestowitz Ah, interesting... | Nov 03 09:25 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6766709 | Nov 03 11:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #google is now forcing (hostage situation/ransom) to consent to new #privacy violating policy or be denied access to #chromeOS i.e. one's PC | Nov 03 11:27 | |
| schestowitz | "Google search did it to me too." | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "so why are you using google search!? or chrome!?" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | ohoh you are spying on me :) | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Who use Chrome nowadays ? | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Maybe someone who likes and trusts illusions , no ? | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Why using Google search when I can search through my awesome YaCy or http://searx.me/ which erases meta-data on the request. | Nov 03 11:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-searx.me | searx | Nov 03 11:27 | |
| schestowitz | #FreedomNow | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "@Dr.Roy, see if you can’t document that behavior, please." | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | I'll try to grab a screenshot next time | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | > Interesting. Hopefully after he has called their bluff, they fold. | Nov 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz | We hope that this letter to the EPO's goons will put an end to it, yes... some journalists already want to write about it, but wait for my go-ahead if so... | Nov 03 11:49 |
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| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/2015/11/03/merpel-on-ilo/ | Nov 03 19:34 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:34 |
| schestowitz | >> > careering -> careening | Nov 03 19:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster” | Techrights | Nov 03 19:35 | |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | > Never mind. It's a new use to me of the word career. | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | To me too. But I was quoting Merpel anyway. Techrights might soon be in headlines for EPO's censorship campaign. Merpel knows about it, and has been involved since the start. They are very careful what they write now... | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | >>> Interesting. Hopefully after he has called their bluff, they fold. | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > We hope that this letter to the EPO's goons will put an end to it, | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > yes... some journalists already want to write about it, but wait for my | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > go-ahead if so... | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > It's not my place to forward anything on the matter and I don't write | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > much these days, so I will continue to stay quiet on the matter. I do | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > very much appreciate the update though. It was exceedingly worrying the | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > other week when the one article disappeared, though when last I checked | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > it was back. | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | maybe you were logged in at the time. The article is still unpublished (for now) | Nov 03 19:41 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764931 | Nov 04 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: When politicians say they want "safe harbour" (sounds good) they mean mass #surveillance http://www.cityam.com/227702/in-search-of-a-new-safe-harbour-the-eus-push-for-new-data-transfer-regulation-with-the-us-may-be-part-of-the-problem http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=35071d16-148e-4ae7-bbc7-827a588d3aa0 | Nov 04 06:46 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | Tell me about Roy. | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | Why does he spam the pods? | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cityam.com | In search of a new Safe Harbour: The EU's push for new data transfer regulation with the US may be part of the problem | City A.M. [ http://ur1.ca/o7yo1 ] | Nov 04 06:46 | |
| schestowitz | "I get you’re trying to establish trust, but you can’t just dump all these links and think nobody’s going to figure out what’s going on." | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.lexology.com | EU round-up: Safe Harbor 2.0 and upcoming national challenges - Lexology [ http://ur1.ca/o7yo2 ] | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | Depends if they subscribe | Nov 04 06:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777526 | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: We said we came to #iraq for WoMD and not for oil. We said we'd bring them democracy and not ISIS or other never-ending excuses for war $ | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "Sounds alot like an illegal invasion and self righteousness. Should be punishable by death at war crimes tribunals. …or Karma …" | Nov 04 06:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6774596 | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Turn nearly any laptop into a #Chromebook for free http://www.zdnet.com/article/turn-most-any-laptop-into-a-chromebook-for-free/ #gnu #linux | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "Why should I do this? What’s the advantage over a “normal” Linux distribution?" | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.zdnet.com | Turn nearly any laptop into a Chromebook for free | ZDNet [ http://ur1.ca/o8ef4 ] | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "I believe because it’s Google. Meaning it has some name. I’ll start by knowing it, then I’ll see if I recommend it." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | "I would rather pay for my news and know that the content I get is valid and well researched than deal with the ad funded method currently used. You have no way of telling who paid for what news content, and the content is nothing more than whatever will get the most people watching." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773388 | Nov 04 06:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #torvalds uses a curse word. At least a dozen news/media articles about it. Why? Because that's what sells and media wants to sell. #linux | Nov 04 06:48 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | that and they hate your freedom." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Freedom give us AdBlock | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764435 | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Android device updates: Google posts Marshmallow factory images for Nexus 6P and 5X http://www.greenbot.com/article/2999465/android/android-device-updates-google-posts-marshmallow-factory-images-for-nexus-6p-and-5x.html #android #linux #google #6p | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.greenbot.com | Android device updates: Google posts Marshmallow factory images for Nexus 6P and 5X | Greenbot [ http://ur1.ca/o8ef8 ] | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | Ted | Nov 04 06:49 |
| schestowitz | Currently, it looks like MicroSoft is taking some hits. | Nov 04 06:49 |
| schestowitz | http://map.norsecorp.com | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-map.norsecorp.com | Norse Attack Map | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6765460 | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: About 4 years ago Joe Biden called #assange "high-tech terrorists", so I think we know where the Empire is going. #china #russia scapegoats. | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6767089 | Nov 04 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 15 degrees in November in #manchester - cannot quite recall climate like this. At least it has been a very dry autumn. | Nov 04 06:50 | |
| schestowitz | "Is that hot or cold?" | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | Reasonably warm | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6766709 | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | "cheers" | Nov 04 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 04 06:51 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6762015 | Nov 04 06:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Microsoft gets closer to very shady companies for income http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/taser-international-and-microsoft-corp-announce-partnership-to-deliver-a-trusted-cloud-platform-for-law-enforcement-20050464 like the #nsa ties http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA | Nov 04 06:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft’s email hosting is much vaster than Hotmail. Besides MSN, Yahoo, and other direct ownership names, there are a dozen or so others and many more “sharing” contracts with ISPs. | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | Those holdings will capture a lot of police email as will ownership of Microsoft Windows, but both of those are dicey at best. Think how much easier it would be for Microsoft to know everything the local police are doing than by hosting their data where they can run searches on it all day long. | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | I think Microsoft email is on the way out. People hate everything Microsoft touches and eventually move to some reasonable institution or Google. Try watching someone use Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL one day. They have all the reliability and dependability of Facebook. Email is sticky and Scroogle scares people but there’s no keeping people on that Microsoft garbage forever. | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> news.thomasnet.com | TASER International and Microsoft Corp. Announce Partnership to Deliver a Trusted Cloud Platform for Law Enforcement [ http://ur1.ca/o7yn8 ] | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | Windows is also on the way out for similar reasons. | Nov 04 06:53 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and the NSA - Techrights | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773464 | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Oh, noes, think about all the money (man-made concept) lost... https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/661309077922971648 | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | "That reminds me of something I saw years ago at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/shareholder-value/" | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: #Climatechange could have a significant impact on our economy - https://t.co/TMCxN2TocQ something of an understatement | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ritholtz.com | Creating Shareholder Value | The Big Picture [ http://ur1.ca/o8efi ] | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | Good point | Nov 04 06:53 |
| schestowitz | "Sadly, I must agree. They’re not really concerned with stopping the terrorists whose actions create cover for greater power grabs." | Nov 04 06:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773435 | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: One must conclude that #uk government does not target terrorists who are potent threat but dissidents who don't view themselves as threat | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6757232 | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Open-Source Robotic Arm Exceeds 1200% of Initial Crowdfunding Goal http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/5895/open-source-robotic-arm-exceeds-1200-of-initial-crowdfunding-goal #sharing culture on the rise | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | "So, sharing should be mandatory? Is it still sharing if it’s mandatory?" | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> electronics360.globalspec.com | Open-Source Robotic Arm Exceeds 1200% of Initial Crowdfunding Goal | IHS Electronics360 | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | "voluntary, but legally facilitated" | Nov 04 06:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6775012 | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People in Sweden are hiding cash in their microwaves because of a fascinating — and terrifying — economic experiment http://business.financialpost.com/business-insider/people-in-sweden-are-hiding-cash-in-their-microwaves-because-of-a-fascinating-and-terrifying-economic-experiment | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | ‘Credit Suisse says the rule of thumb in Scandinavia is: “If you have to pay in cash, something is wrong.”’ | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | I say: if you depend on banks for your daily life something is fucked. | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> business.financialpost.com | People in Sweden are hiding cash in their microwaves because of a fascinating — and terrifying — economic experiment | Financial Post [ http://ur1.ca/o89nr ] | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764277 | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/pyroom-review-495526.shtml doesn't say if it's #freesw | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | "It is; installing it from the Trisquel reps as I type this. Many thanks!' | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | "7yo is really enjoying this and so am I–thanks, Roy." | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.softpedia.com | PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor - Softpedia | Nov 04 06:55 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777516 | Nov 04 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: After bombing the * out of #libya we'll pretend to teach them #democracy http://www.ibtimes.com/us-consulting-firm-builds-open-source-mobile-voter-registration-system-libya-2167475 http://wraltechwire.com/durham-based-development-firm-caktus-group-open-sources-voter-registration-software/15057853/ #openwashing | Nov 04 07:42 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.ibtimes.com | US Consulting Firm Builds Open Source Mobile Voter Registration System For Libya | Nov 04 07:42 | |
| schestowitz | "and #openwashing it too! | Nov 04 07:42 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> wraltechwire.com | Durham-based development firm Caktus Group open sources voter registration software :: Editor's Blog at WRAL TechWire | Nov 04 07:42 | |
| schestowitz | very doubtful that by Open Source they mean Free stack | Nov 04 07:43 |
| schestowitz | "Doctors buy what is offered to them and have little choice about things. The problem is monopoly and that the IT profession lacks the backbone to stand up for itself." | Nov 04 07:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6775269 | Nov 04 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Vista10 Looking Worse and Behaving Worse Over Time; People Reject It, So Microsoft Will Force People to Get It http://techrights.org/2015/11/03/unwanted-incarnation-of-windows/ | Nov 04 07:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Vista 10 Looking Worse and Behaving Worse Over Time; People Reject It, So Microsoft Will Force People to Get It | Techrights | Nov 04 07:43 | |
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| schestowitz | > https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110126/14484212842/dailydirt-dealing-with-zero-negative-population-growth.shtml | Nov 04 09:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.techdirt.com | DailyDirt: Dealing With Zero (Or Negative) Population Growth | Techdirt | Nov 04 09:33 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | > Recently Europe has decided to promote rampant human trafficking / | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | > people smuggling. However, that merely results in transmigration. As | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | > far as I see there is not a refugee crisis, nothing has changed in that | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | > regard in recent decades, what I see is a smuggling crisis. | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | I believe in quality control, either for one's children or immigration. I sometimes worry more about parents incapable of raising children properly than about people moving from one land to another. | Nov 04 09:33 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1/status/661840179745980416 | Nov 04 09:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SleepyPenguin1: The snooper's charter will call on firms to keep your internet data for a year @schestowitz https://t.co/gJYR0ufV88 | Nov 04 09:42 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.independent.co.uk | Snooper's Charter calls on communications firms to store clients' phone and internet data for a year | News | Lifestyle | The Independent | Nov 04 09:42 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/hicksfilosopher/status/661842771020353536 | Nov 04 09:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@hicksfilosopher: @schestowitz thnx for making me laugh | Nov 04 09:51 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6775269 | Nov 04 14:10 |
| schestowitz | "If it is any consolation, I was in a medical clinic recently and the computers were all running Ubuntu, so some inroads are being made!" | Nov 04 14:10 |
| schestowitz | GE dumped XP for Linux, someone who works there told me... for CT scanners at least | Nov 04 14:10 |
| MinceR | finally | Nov 04 15:20 |
| schestowitz | about a year ago | Nov 04 16:42 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | They are now firing workers... | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > Dear Mr Schestowitz, | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > I have been following you on Twitter for a while in recent times. There | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > I go by another name, for security reasons that might be purely delusional. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > As you might easily see from the chaotically edited profile I have here | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > in LinkedIn, I am an EPO veteran, so to say. The emphasis I try | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > discretely to give to some of my professional activities, including the | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > free-lance and the staff representation, might give you an inkling about | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > the terms in which my relation with this peculiar organization is. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > I also am aware that I might be very likely spied upon (actually I had | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > compelling evidence of that in the recent past) and that contacts with | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > "negative" elements, such as you or the likes of Mr Florian Müller, for | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > that matter, might even cast a more negative light on me and probably | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > expose me even more to practices that are no short of criminal. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > But in the end, since as of today, I had to conclude that my monthly | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > wage has been completely suspended since October and that happened | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > without any notification, I do not think that this type of contacts can | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > really cause more damage to me than what is already being done. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > So I'd appreciate if we could join our networks and be in contact. I am | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > ready to suggestions you might have to keep all this under a relative | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > safe confidentiality, provided that it is possible. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Looking forward to your answer, have my | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | ME: | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I am aware that my readers were made visible by IP/cookie (e.g. by following links to epo.org), that would provide grounds for suspicion and retribution. If BB is now punishing union organisers, then perhaps it's worth making the media aware of it, and publish accordingly. Maybe one day there will be a class action lawsuit against an EPO executive; media coverage about illegal firings and such would help. If you a willing to publicise | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | your case, I offer my full dedication and capacity for it. It sure looks like, unless there is some backlash, there might be more like your on the way. | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Regards, | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Roy | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/pinguinpatje/status/661969759177719808 | Nov 04 18:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@pinguinpatje: Hmmm wie zouden dat zijn? https://t.co/DIoX0gCGRe | Nov 04 18:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Belgian and Dutch politicians are now hamming on #epo for its violations and abuses. Article on their way... | Nov 04 18:15 | |
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| schestowitz | > Roy, | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > I fear that my latest two messages went out unencrypted. The encryption | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > software's settings apparently got mixed by the coexistence of two | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > separate keys for the same address, and defaulted to "no encryption", | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > and I hadn't noticed before it was too late. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > What's done is done. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > Your 2004 key is back as the default encryption rule. I do hope Mrs. May | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > won't be reading. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > Can you confirm that they indeed arrived unencrypted? I can't really | Nov 04 20:40 |
| schestowitz | > tell for sure. | Nov 04 20:40 |
| schestowitz | Yes, both have arrived and I am planning to respond when I finish some urgent articles... | Nov 04 20:40 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6780904 | Nov 05 00:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #uk government does not protect the public from terrorists (mass #surveillance not the way). It protects the rulers from the public. | Nov 05 00:18 | |
| schestowitz | That is the purpose of all governments! :-) | Nov 05 00:18 |
| schestowitz | In practice, not in theory | Nov 05 00:18 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6781014 | Nov 05 00:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Microsoft" and "Love" don't belong in the same sentence. These sociopaths, as I only recently found out, tried to get me fired from my job | Nov 05 00:18 | |
| schestowitz | "What happened?" | Nov 05 00:18 |
| schestowitz | I will try to write about this tomorrow | Nov 05 00:18 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/nilecoy/status/662063205355642880 | Nov 05 00:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@nilecoy: @schestowitz check out my slick new foxconn phone | Nov 05 00:27 | |
| schestowitz | Oh, nice "apple" logo... | Nov 05 00:27 |
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| schestowitz | "Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part in there while they may give back the changes for now so no extinguish there yet... That is what a lot of people are uncomfortable with that and the outright killing of the *nix method of doing one thing and doing it well not everything and the God damn kitchen sink thrown in for what is supposed to be an init system." | Nov 05 01:55 |
| schestowitz | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/02/1549201 | Nov 05 01:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/02/1549201 ) | Nov 05 01:55 | |
| schestowitz | Red Hat.. | Nov 05 01:55 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | "Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part" | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | There is no embrace and extend. The projects that you are angry about were created by RedHat in the first place, and are maintained by RedHat developers. That's a fact. As is the fact that one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel was written by a RedHat employee. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | RedHat *is* Linux. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | I'm sorry you use a shitty distribution whose developers piggyback off RedHat's contributions. That's nothing to be ashamed of in itself as the list includes profitable organizations, such as Oracle and VMWare. But the decision to include systemd was made by your distribution maintainers, not by RedHat. If systemd is so offensive to you, there's always one of the *BSD's, which by the way, have all of this software in ports, and have managed | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | to work around the systemd requirement. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | The list of companies that are FOSS friendly is very, very short. RedHat is on that list, along with iXSystems, Thinkpenguin, and m:tier. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | RedHat *is* Linux. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | Oh you poor thing. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | By your own admission, RedHat is only 1/6th Linux. Red Hat, like everyone else, is freeloading off the contributions of others. Don't pretend that Red Hat develops all, or even most of the code."" | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | Debian does more AFAIK | Nov 05 01:56 |
| MinceR | did, until it committed suicide | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | The obvious rebuttal is systemd. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | Except by making a large number of vital projects dependent on systemd. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | "Except by making a large number of vital projects dependent on systemd." | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | What, the vital projects that RedHat themselves created, whose developers are on the RedHat payroll? Again, your problem is with your distribution's package maintainers. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD has the latest Gnome, does *not* have systemd, and I'd venture to say, works better on your laptop out of the box than whatever Linux you are using. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:58 |
| MinceR | translation: redcrap hasn't coerced anybody into adopting systemd, except it did. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | "There are a number of projects that RedHat didn't create, but merely took over the maintenance for such as udev. Others they have maintained and transitioned to a dependency on systemd later such as D-Bus. And notice the use of the word, "dependent". These aren't projects that merely support systemd, but projects that require systemd in order to function." | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: it did | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | but then some say, it's for the better... | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | In other words, RedHat has created a large number of unnecessary systemd dependencies. Here's an interesting example [soylentnews.org] of those dependencies in action: | Nov 05 01:58 |
| MinceR | the sooner gnu/linux dies, the better? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | The reason I believe it is bad design is, that it makes the combination of projects more difficult to maintain, more complex to understand (because of the new cross-links), and it makes it more difficult to swap one of the component projects with a newer, better version that is not under the same umbrella. How am I going to use syslogd-ng or rsyslogd or [even better future syslogd], if everything under the systemd umbrella is rewritten to | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | only log to libsystemd-journal0? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | An example: does your company ever need to print? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups depends on cups-daemon | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon depends on libsystemd0 (apparently all those libs are now joined together into libsystemd0 (since version 215); I hadn't noticed that. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon also recommends on colord (recommends are often installed automatically) | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | colord depends on libsystemd0 | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | colord depnds on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | libpolkit-gobject-1-0 depends on libsystemd0 | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon also recommends (not depends) avahi-daemon | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | avahi-daemon depends on dbus | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | dbus depends on libsystemd0, do you know why? because it used to depend on libsystemd-journal0, do you know why? Because nifty binary logging, that's why. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | I can tell you from my own experience that it's already not trivial to *not* install systemd. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Interesting that it got derailed into a system debate there.. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | HOWTO | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | How to stress test a BS meter: | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - this is package A, it depends on package X and not on functionally equivalent packages Y, Z... that have been distributed since forever. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | *BS meter already pulsing an unsettling orange/brown* | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - uh, ok, it depends on it to perform what? | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - for logging purpos... | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | *BS meter goes BLAM!* | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | systemd is not at all surprising once you factor in that, by thriving on services and assistance, RH has no incentive in producing transparent, stable systems and opaque, unstable systems tend do be buggy. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | No. OpenBSD has made it's own systemd shim [undeadly.org]. That does nothing to stave off the encroachment on the ports. GNOME could keep moving into systemd territory until even a shim is not enough. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Yes, they have competent port maintainers but you're wrong about the GNOME port if you are somehow implying that they've removed the nasty bits for their ports collection. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Red Hat is just doing what M$ itself outlined in the Halloween Documents [catb.org]. That is to say, they are finding a way to decommoditize the GNU/Linux distros. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Ah! | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | GNOME could keep moving into systemd territory until even a shim is not enough. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | So what's the problem exactly? No one's forcing you to use Gnome, and it's a piece of crap anyway. Why everyone seems to think Gnome is the de-facto standard Linux desktop environment is beyond me. It's the absolute worst of all of them. Who cares what they require? | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs). | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs). | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Ditto for XFCE, and I haven't used LXDE in years, but I imagine they are in the same boat as well. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | "Unfortunately, earlier this year it was revealed that Plasma 5 was/is going to depend on systemd, as David Edmunson explained [davidedmundson.co.uk]. If that changed, I'll be glad to hear it; last I was aware, it was the main reason PCLinuxOS was refraining from upgrading to KDE 5." | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Wow, I didn't know that | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | I sometimes wonder if the systemd encroachment is nothing more than the systemd guys doing a "because we can". | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | On the other hand, some folks just don't like change such as init scripts - sorry to offend anyone, but the flexibility of scripts is not something you want in a system directory. And I have written many for my systems!!! | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Lennard Poettering may not have the charm to wash over the community, but he is no fool - his blog makes a great deal of sense , where internet postings simply rant. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Read about the BTRFS/systemd deployment model being developed - this would allow linux to reflect any combination of distribution applications natively. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | And ultimately, if Linux is to survive, having it hide under Android skins is not the way. It is critical that is makes inroads onto the desktop, otherwise we will have future generations lost to proprietary lockin-gloss.... | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | NetworkManager to PulseAudio - Jeebus and while we're at it we can add gtk3, avahi, dbus and udev, gnome oh and systemd, no not the init system the other bits, | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | What you associate with FOSS desktop others have been stripping out actively and see the the Freedesktop as an anti-pattern. Redhat definitely deserves to be on the list, a social endrun to make all distributions redhat derivatives is nothing short of disgusting. That you can apologize and divert the blame is disingenuous in the extreme. I'm sure everyone can decide where they have a problem. The packaging is not a matter of competence but | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | one of an agenda. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| MinceR | didn't KDE announce around february that they'll depend on systemd in 6 months? | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " endrun to make all distributions redhat derivatives is nothing short of disgusting" | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Well said | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: yes | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | but I didn't know about PCLOS | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Except that GTK+ is used in Gnome3, which is absolute worst desktop environment available on Linux. It's a terrible toolkit to work with, and is so crappy that the low-resource LXDE has switched to Qt. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | That's great that RH contributed to the kernel (but only 1/6 of it, so don't pretend like the majority of it is from RH) and is open-source and doesn't sell personal data and all, but it'd be nice if they didn't employ the arrogant Gnome developers and keep pushing the markedly inferior Gnome desktop. It isn't helping Linux adoption at all, in fact quite the opposite. Just look at how many people switched to Cinnamon and MATE and Xcfe when | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Gnome3 came out; Gnome has succeeded in fragmenting the Linux desktop even more than it already was. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:01 |
| MinceR | if only they did that 1 version earlier, they'd have the last usable version of kde | Nov 05 02:02 |
| MinceR | 3.x | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to NetworkManager to PulseAudio to one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel. RedHat became a billion dollar company, and they did it without | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | offshoring their cash (based in RTP), without selling your personal data, and while managing to release the source code to their work. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | You make a lot of outstanding points. Yes, the Red Hat of the mid 2000's was a great company. They made many contributions to the ecosystem that have made Linux so usable today. Not only that, but you also forgot to mention KVM, DRM, and a host of other under-the-hood changes that they've made, plus their long-standing support of the Linux Foundation. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Unfortunately, when they hit $1B (I distinctly remember reading that article on the green site), everything went downhill from there. And a small part of me wondered at the time if it was the beginning of the end - profits and growth inevitably corrupt, and unfortunately, this is just what happened with Red Hat as well. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | The thing is, there's open source, and then there's open source. It's one thing to release all the source code and run as an open company. It's another to do all of that, but stick the proverbial middle finger to your users and say, if you don't like it, too bad, get the fuck on board anyway. It has been their approach to Gnome 3, GTK3, systemd, and whatever they intend to fuck up next. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | It would be wonderful if Red Hat actually gave a damn about their consumers and users, but instead they have been taken over by a horde of ideologues who are of the opinion that if you disagree, then you can take a hike. Indeed, there's absolutely no reason why systemd needs to absorb udev, and Red Hat easily have the resources to make it POSIX compliant (or establish a new POSIX-like standards interface that other Unixes could conform to if | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | POSIX in its own is not good enough anymore). But clearly, user freedom is something they now see as an obstacle rather than a goal, because all of their horrid design decisions could be easily averted with a sensibly designed fork which they certainly don't want. And even more clear it is that they want to be Linux, period. You can see that attitude from the way that they act like systemd _is_ the kernel command line (see the Kay Sievers | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | fiasco). And then you can see Red Hat's takeover of Debian - now that they're systemd-constrained, I expect them to adopt RPM and ditch .deb and apt any day now. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In any case, you can see clearly that there are two Red Hats here - there's the Good Red Hat (circa pre-2012) and everything that they've done since. Frankly, I think the world would be better off if Red Hat didn't exist anymore. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | You have an issue with systemd, but your issue lies with your downstream distribution, not with RedHat. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Now this is flatly untrue. It's the only reason that they keep absorbing components that could otherwise exist on their own, the most significant being udev. As mentioned above, there's no reason why they couldn't architect systemd properly, but the fact is that it's in their interest not to, and that interest is primarily in forcing people to adopt it. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | And don't forget that Red Hat had 50% of the say in Debian adopting it. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In fact, SystemD has shown which distributions are the real creators, and exposed the fraudulent distros that just repackage and re-skin the work of others. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | And once again, any distro that doesn't use systemd these days has to go through days of effort to uncouple things which, once again, Lennart could have architected properly, but has a clear interest in avoiding. Making your system decoupled is purely obvious design advantage which they have explicitly chosen to forego in order to make it difficult not to adopt systemd. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Now this is news to me. I would say that this is something I have to research, but I have no interest in going back to Gnome anymore, since I have seen how hostile they are to configurability, and giving users no way of changing their poorly designed defaults. But I suppose I might as well look into this anyways, for general edification... | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | -- | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In developed societies, "copyright infringement" is merely the sharing and partaking in culture. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | Umm, who would like to think that, when everything we know about Windows 10 suggests they're as evil as ever? | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | s/as evil as/more evil than/ | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | "Maybe you editors wanna add a bit about who this Abel Avram person is?" | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to NetworkManager to PulseAudio to one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel. RedHat became a billion dollar company, and they did it without | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | offshoring their cash (based in RTP), without selling your personal data, and while managing to release the source code to their work. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | You make a lot of outstanding points. Yes, the Red Hat of the mid 2000's was a great company. They made many contributions to the ecosystem that have made Linux so usable today. Not only that, but you also forgot to mention KVM, DRM, and a host of other under-the-hood changes that they've made, plus their long-standing support of the Linux Foundation. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Unfortunately, when they hit $1B (I distinctly remember reading that article on the green site), everything went downhill from there. And a small part of me wondered at the time if it was the beginning of the end - profits and growth inevitably corrupt, and unfortunately, this is just what happened with Red Hat as well. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | The thing is, there's open source, and then there's open source. It's one thing to release all the source code and run as an open company. It's another to do all of that, but stick the proverbial middle finger to your users and say, if you don't like it, too bad, get the fuck on board anyway. It has been their approach to Gnome 3, GTK3, systemd, and whatever they intend to fuck up next. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | It would be wonderful if Red Hat actually gave a damn about their consumers and users, but instead they have been taken over by a horde of ideologues who are of the opinion that if you disagree, then you can take a hike. Indeed, there's absolutely no reason why systemd needs to absorb udev, and Red Hat easily have the resources to make it POSIX compliant (or establish a new POSIX-like standards interface that other Unixes could conform to if | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | POSIX in its own is not good enough anymore). But clearly, user freedom is something they now see as an obstacle rather than a goal, because all of their horrid design decisions could be easily averted with a sensibly designed fork which they certainly don't want. And even more clear it is that they want to be Linux, period. You can see that attitude from the way that they act like systemd _is_ the kernel command line (see the Kay Sievers | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | fiasco). And then you can see Red Hat's takeover of Debian - now that they're systemd-constrained, I expect them to adopt RPM and ditch .deb and apt any day now. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In any case, you can see clearly that there are two Red Hats here - there's the Good Red Hat (circa pre-2012) and everything that they've done since. Frankly, I think the world would be better off if Red Hat didn't exist anymore. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | You have an issue with systemd, but your issue lies with your downstream distribution, not with RedHat. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Now this is flatly untrue. It's the only reason that they keep absorbing components that could otherwise exist on their own, the most significant being udev. As mentioned above, there's no reason why they couldn't architect systemd properly, but the fact is that it's in their interest not to, and that interest is primarily in forcing people to adopt it. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | And don't forget that Red Hat had 50% of the say in Debian adopting it. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In fact, SystemD has shown which distributions are the real creators, and exposed the fraudulent distros that just repackage and re-skin the work of others. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | And once again, any distro that doesn't use systemd these days has to go through days of effort to uncouple things which, once again, Lennart could have architected properly, but has a clear interest in avoiding. Making your system decoupled is purely obvious design advantage which they have explicitly chosen to forego in order to make it difficult not to adopt systemd. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Now this is news to me. I would say that this is something I have to research, but I have no interest in going back to Gnome anymore, since I have seen how hostile they are to configurability, and giving users no way of changing their poorly designed defaults. But I suppose I might as well look into this anyways, for general edification... | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | -- | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In developed societies, "copyright infringement" is merely the sharing and partaking in culture. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | oops | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "Eh... Why would anyone use .NET?" | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "For like anything?" | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "Companies that are married to SQL Server, Visual Studio, or Excel are good candidates. Lots in the financial industry." | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | "Management invariably get convinced to mandate "industry standard" software by the guy who needs it for his resume." | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | "My father developed a closed-source Windows application in Delphi in about 1996 that he still continues to develop and is deployed in several commercial environments. He uses an open source database backend. There was some specialist hardware (not rocket science stuff, just not consumer mass market) that needed to be controlled. Very simple stuff with about two commands (up and down). The only interface to this hardware was through 400MB of | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | NET libraries. Yes, that's right, 400MB, to make something go up and down. He had to spend a long time researching how to speak to the .NET garbage from his native-code Delphi. It works, but this library is about 100 times the size of his application. I got off the Windows treadmill in 1996 and never looked back.' | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | From the article: | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | contributions to our open source code. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | You can imagine how disappointing this has been to us; we had hoped our initial | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | business model of OSS with proprietary extensions (like our debugger and | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | interface builder integration) would work. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | But in light of the low contributions and behavior of competitors, we decided | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | to stop automatically releasing changes to the core of RoboVM as open source. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | -Zechner | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | Their product is for make money fast phone app coders. Culturally they're not sharers. A hundred clones of any good concept, winner takes all, professional sports shaped revenue chart, screw the users flood the thing with ads and pay to play. I'm not expecting their product to be used to develop FOSS products. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | Its not exactly emacs users we're talking about, at least culturally. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | I took a quick look at their github page. It seems that the developers chose to release their code under the Apache 2.0 license, which is a non-copyleft license. So it should not be a surprise to anyone when competitors use that | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | code in proprietary products, and do not contribute anything back: that is exactly what permissive licenses are intended to allow! | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | "That's what they are intended to allow *legally*, but normally the non copyleft guys assume some common interest sharing, or else they take their ball and go home, or the project dies. Your assumption of "copyleft would have stopped this" is probably accurate, but there are certainly successful products using non copyleft licenses, that don't end up having their source code "embraced and extended" underneath them. With so much of the | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | industry buttering their bread with proprietary pieces, you would expect bad actors to get shunned to some degree by mainstream proprietary companies- if you make the world hostile to open source, then everyone says fuck it and goes full RMS, and then you have to bake your own pie 100% of the time." | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | It's at least as accurate to say that RoboVM's owners killed the freedom of RoboVM by selling it to Xamarin w/o extracting a promise to keep the source open. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Reminds me of Monty whining about Oracle "hijacking" MySQL, after he and his cofounders sold the company for 1 billion USD. The best things in life are free, right, Monty? | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | "From the headline, it sounds like Android is no longer open source, but actually it's RoboVM.' | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | It looks like Microsoft hasn't reformed as some would like to think, but has moved its embrace, extend, extinguish policy to the mobile platform. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | What this really should say is: | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Company that does some business with Microsoft is Evil! Somehow this is Microsoft's fault! | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Seriously, this move has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with Xamarin. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | "And it has nothing to do with the "freedom of Android" since Android doesn't even use RoboVM." | Nov 05 02:07 |
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| schestowitz | PLUS LEAKED PDF - encrypted | Nov 05 12:27 |
| schestowitz | got some good info today... | Nov 05 12:27 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > Do you have a copy in static HTML files for some EPO streisand effect? | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > I would love to host a mirror here: | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > http://filez.zoobab.com | Nov 05 13:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-filez.zoobab.com | Index of / | Nov 05 13:56 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > I know wordpress is MySQL based, so mirroring is not easy. | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe some scrapbook shots are enough? | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > Best, | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | Do you want to mirror everything or something else? I'm not sure what you need, but I would love to help... | Nov 05 13:56 |
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| schestowitz | "yep" | Nov 05 18:28 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6780904 | Nov 05 18:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #uk government does not protect the public from terrorists (mass #surveillance not the way). It protects the rulers from the public. | Nov 05 18:28 | |
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| schestowitz | >>>>> >>>> Hi, | Nov 05 20:47 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:47 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Do you have a copy in static HTML files for some EPO streisand effect? | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> I would love to host a mirror here: | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> http://filez.zoobab.com | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> I know wordpress is MySQL based, so mirroring is not easy. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Maybe some scrapbook shots are enough? | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Best, | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > Do you want to mirror everything or something else? I'm not sure what | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > you need, but I would love to help... | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Just the controversial EPO articles that BB does not want to see. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > Your offer is very relevant for reasons I can disclose in a few weeks. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > You'll see... :-) | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | > Keeping Champagne in the fridge then... | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | That's for when Battistelli steps down, which is likely how it'll end. | Nov 05 20:48 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6778387 | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "That was such a click-bait fluff article. Ugh." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "The Brits had slaves, , Hitler had the concentration camps, America had slaves AND has Guantanamo Bay… All hail the fearless leader lol" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777530 | Nov 06 07:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 06 07:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #obama said he'd pull out of #iraq but has just sent more troops there. Said he'd close Gitmo and free ~100 innocents. Now drones 1000s. | Nov 06 07:38 | |
| schestowitz | "So, does Obama lack the power to fulfill his promises or were his words naive, or worse, disingenuous? I’ve often wondered about this." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "His words are not his won, written by a third party." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "But when he was campaigning, did he believe what he was saying?" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "probably…and then he realized who was pulling the strings…hence all the gray hair so quickly…" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | Advisors told him what to say to get elected and seize power for them. They work on groups and poll them to see what the public wants to HEAR. | Nov 06 07:39 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6783608 | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How #JebBush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/your_little_brother_is_not_the_ultimate_authority_on_this_how_jeb_bush_cheated_america_helped_deliver_the_presidency_to_w/ Basically it looks like there was a coup in 2000 | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | "It’s pretty much true. I was living in Florida at the time." | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.salon.com | “Your little brother is not the ultimate authority”: How Jeb Bush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W - Salon.com | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6784670 | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patents http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/garbage-media-coverage/ | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 07:40 |
| schestowitz | Simon Phipps has some useful things to say, | Nov 06 07:40 |
| schestowitz | https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimonPhipps/posts/c636Vp4kKbf | Nov 06 07:41 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 07:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects | Techrights | Nov 06 07:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | Microsoft's Azure and Red Hat bury the hatchet http://wmk.me/1kspZhP | Nov 06 07:41 | |
| schestowitz | Almost the same as what he blogged | Nov 06 07:41 |
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| schestowitz | l http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/microsoft-red-hat-patent-agreement/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/04/red-hat-sells-out/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/04/red-hat-deal-with-microsoft/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/garbage-media-coverage/ | Nov 06 12:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Red Hat’s Deal With Microsoft Resurrects Fears of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux and Introduces ‘Triple-Dipping’ of Fees | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662600466589700096 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662601967026466816 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662603526179303424 | Nov 06 12:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz I'm concerned RH in bed with MS, another Novell in the making ??? | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Nokia ??? I don't follow. U r telling me the deal is like the Nokia one ??? It's even worse, then. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Gonna read your article, to get the gist of it. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662603810490195969 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662604362578042880 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662604839009021952 | Nov 06 12:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Btw, did you read this: https://t.co/0xugFqBbkI ??? A very good analysis of the sad state of affairs in Linux development. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> uselessd.darknedgy.net | ProSystemdAntiSystemd | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Very good. Gonna check them out. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Man, after reading it, really feels like Linux development has been hi-jacked by a sect of reckless kids... | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| schestowitz | Welcome to the business world | Nov 06 12:25 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662605080689041408 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662605229486141441 | Nov 06 12:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz But, indeed, feels it's not the Linux I came aboard in 2003. Changed so much, it's no more what it used to be. | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz And, sadly, feels like Linux peaked in 2002 ~ 2005, afterwards, is only going downhill. | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/gonzalosangil/status/662570949980491776\ | Nov 06 12:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gonzalosangil: More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | #… https://t.co/Agwp1sM3BS https://t.co/JPDzvQfAvT | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> gonzalosangil.wordpress.com | More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | # ! Time… | gonzalosangil | Nov 06 12:27 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gonzalosangil: More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | #… https://t.co/Agwp1sM3BS https://t.co/JPDzvQfAvT | Nov 06 12:27 | |
| schestowitz | > "free (from supervision) reign that’s virtually impossible t..." | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > -> free (from supervision) rein that’s virtually impossible t... | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/2015/11/06/disappearing-the-boards/ | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | I'm not too sure, I had to look it up: | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | http://www.educationbug.org/a/reign-vs-rein.html | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | When I speak about "Sun King" (what his staff calls him) I use terms that allude to royalty. | Nov 06 12:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management | Techrights | Nov 06 12:30 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.educationbug.org | Reign vs rein - Education Bug | Nov 06 12:30 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662608550657658880 | Nov 06 12:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Yeah, billions walk in, sanity walks out, only greed remains... | Nov 06 12:35 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/drtocqueville/status/662610484252819456 | Nov 06 12:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@drtocqueville: @schestowitz Its too bad that #PRISMSOFT reveals its #desparate attempt to avoid #irrelevance | Nov 06 12:43 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662610932800057344 | Nov 06 12:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Wonder how many of the crackers wear hats... | Nov 06 12:43 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Messgorough/status/662612217452486656 | Nov 06 12:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Messgorough: @schestowitz @agente_smithe @retroDoomer Utterly agree, hence another reason why @Raspberry_Pi started giving W10 at their behest. | Nov 06 12:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786211 | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #linux Kernel Self Protection Project http://lwn.net/Articles/663361/ | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> lwn.net | Kernel Self Protection Project [LWN.net] | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | in german: | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | http://www.golem.de/news/linux-kernel-sicherheit-soll-deutlich-verbessert-werden-1511-117337.html | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.golem.de | Linux: Kernel-Sicherheit soll deutlich verbessert werden - Golem.de | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786124 | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | self-hosting | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | Internet providers’ residential terms of service are not friendly toward this concept, and in my area even their small business offerings come with woefully anemic upstream speeds. | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | The infrastructure is organized around the principle of omnipotent providers and passive receivers. | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | True, but one can host in one's home LAN | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People need #freesw and self-hosting (no silly 'cloud' nonsense) to assure their #privacy - media doesn't seem to want to promote this. | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662628902934872068 | Nov 06 14:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: RT @schestowitz: #Google reportedly wants to design its own #Android chips https://t.co/zmZz66COPi pulling a #samsung | Nov 06 14:13 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | Google reportedly wants to design its own Android chips | The Verge | Nov 06 14:13 | |
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| schestowitz | >>> By the way, DN will have an allegedly exclusive interview with Edward | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Snowden published at 14:00 UTC: | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> http://www.dn.se/ | Nov 06 17:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dn.se | Nyheter - DN.SE | Nov 06 17:23 | |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> I'll be offline around then for a while but you might want to check it | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> out. It might be in Swedish but Google translate does a fairly good job | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> of translating it. Hopefully they link to the original in English. | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > Whether live or offline, in the form of articles with sound bites, it | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > ought to be OK. I think Denmark is used for data collection from the | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > East, just like Sweden and to a lesser degree (due to fear of | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > restriction from Putin) Finland. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > Snowden didn't write anything in Twitter yesterday, so he might be | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > preparing for something or working on something. His feed wasn't so bad | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > as it helped tackle UK repressions this week. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | > http://fokus.dn.se/intervju-edward-snowden | Nov 06 17:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fokus.dn.se | Edward Snowden i Intervju med Dagens Nyheter - DN Fokus | Nov 06 17:24 | |
| schestowitz | > http://fokus.dn.se/edward-snowden-english/ | Nov 06 17:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fokus.dn.se | Edward Snowden interview with Dagens Nyheter - DN Fokus | Nov 06 17:24 | |
| schestowitz | >> Yes, I still see a lot of that. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > Should I change my words then or not? | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe just mark it as a pun? | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | I guess I feel OK with how I phrased it. For now... | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 17:30 |
| schestowitz | A letter came in today. It seems like the EPO dumped their lawyers who sent me the bullying letters, perhaps realising that these did not comply with protocols and only caused an embarrassment to the EPO. | Nov 06 17:30 |
| schestowitz | It looks as though the EPO is now approaching another firm; it's not clear if anything will come out of it, but for the time being, I shall carry on writing as usual. | Nov 06 17:30 |
| MinceR | :) | Nov 06 17:31 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786124 | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People need #freesw and self-hosting (no silly 'cloud' nonsense) to assure their #privacy - media doesn't seem to want to promote this. | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | Two ways to start self-hosting which doesn’t require expert knowledge of networking are #freedombox and #yunohost OS. | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | -https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox ) | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | -https://yunohost.org/#/ | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://yunohost.org/#/ ) | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | Another alternative if you don’t want to self-host your email, you can join the #fripost association. | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | https://fripost.org/english/ | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fripost.org | Fripost – den fria e-postföreningen | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: TBH, I'm tired of having to use email | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | I never successfully quit it | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I tried in 200 | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | 2010 | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I too have a low upstream speed in my home, but I have noticed that more than bandwidth the slowness in my web pages is due to the server. Also I seldom use heavy graphics or videos in my servers, that would be very slow. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I have a “server” with 4 AMD cores and 15 Gb. of RAM, and the speed (or slowness) of my sites is almost the same in my local network than outside home, except the drupal portal that has a nice but heavy picture slideshow. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | Loading a page of Dokuwiki or Horde takes two seconds local over wireless, double being outside, that’s fine to me. I would improve a lot response times with a real server but I’m unwilling to pay more for electricity and hardware. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | The important data: I’m supposedly have 10 Mbps downstream that I do not believe to be true, and like a half or third of that as upstream."" | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6785883 | Nov 06 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ### The Chutzpah of a #Police Union in Santa Ana, #California source: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/the-chutzpah-of-a-police-union-in-orange-county-california/400502/ > On-duty police officers appear to be eating edible pot products—OC Weekly transcribes words they spoke while egging one another on. (“Those candy bars are pretty good,” one said. “I kinda feel light-headed | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | "The US is exceptional." | Nov 06 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theatlantic.com | A Santa Ana Police Union Blocks Video of the Raid at Sky High Holistic Pot Dispensary - The Atlantic | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Santa Ana pot shop raid sparks investigation - YouTube | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786343 | Nov 06 17:44 |
| schestowitz | "was this a ham handed effort in stopping china from demanding access to code to sell in their country?" | Nov 06 17:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 06 17:44 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for the update. If they get better lawyers, those should | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > understand proceeding is not a good idea. | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | Later tonight I will post a polite expose about the current head of the notorious I.U. (the "gestapo" as it's known in EPO). He happens to be British, so I need to be gentle with my words. | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > yes, probably best to be cautious in the light of events. | Nov 06 18:03 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 20:09 |
| schestowitz | I am a lot more careful when mentioning individuals now, and more soft-spoken. This was published just 10 minutes ago: | Nov 06 20:09 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2015/11/06/investigative-unit-pd-0-6/ | Nov 06 20:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/o8slu ] | Nov 06 20:09 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6788005 | Nov 07 07:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Wallhack! New see-through-wall scanner perfect for firefighters, smart homes… and the NSA? https://www.rt.com/news/320422-wi-fi-nsa-scan/ #police use #xray vans | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | First thought on this topic - what kinds of affordable wall materials could impede the flow of such wavelengths?" | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.rt.com | Wallhack! New see-through-wall scanner perfect for firefighters, smart homes… and the NSA? — RT News | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 07 07:17 |
| schestowitz | "Court precedent says this is illegal in the US. Meaning mainly that one could challenge evidence gained through these means." | Nov 07 07:17 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6788252 | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Condy Rice-affiliated #prism "to come" corporation calls its conference "Dropbox Open" http://www.cloudwards.net/news/dropbox-open-dropbox-hatches-enterprise-plans-10829/ like "BP Green" Forum | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | "Dropbox trustfully plans of Cloud … just sucks :)" | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cloudwards.net | Dropbox Open: Dropbox Hatches Enterprise Plans | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787058 | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials http://motherboard.vice.com/read/teen-hackers-who-doxed-cia-chief-are-targeting-more-government-officials #NothingToHide | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | "Good for them! Someone needs to do something to stop these insane people." | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> motherboard.vice.com | Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials | Motherboard | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787826 | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Watch the infamous false dichotomy: "tension between security and privacy." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/05/theresa-may-investigatory-powers-bill-surveillance #surveillance increases risk from State | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | "" | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | Theresa May’s investigatory powers bill is a step in the right direction | Keir Starmer | Comment is free | The Guardian | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | "A balance like 0% privacy/0% security?" | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | "^ exactly!" | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787042 | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | "This is a WAR CRIME." | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | Business as usual | Nov 07 07:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: U.S. Plane Shot Victims Fleeing Doctors Without Borders Hospital: Charity http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-plane-shot-victims-fleeing-doctors-without-borders-hospital-n457871 no accident then... | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.nbcnews.com | U.S. Plane Shot Victims Fleeing Doctors Without Borders Hospital: Charity - NBC News | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786101 | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #ProtonMail recovers from DDoS punch after being extorted http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/protonmail-recovers-from-ddos-punch-after-being-extorted-3628907/ pseudo #privacy | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "Not yet … :(" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.computerworlduk.com | ProtonMail recovers from DDoS punch after being extorted | Security | Computerworld UK | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "Still not loading the start page…" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | "immer kaputt" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | "Protonmail is like encryption for the commercial crowd" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777530 | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #obama said he'd pull out of #iraq but has just sent more troops there. Said he'd close Gitmo and free ~100 innocents. Now drones 1000s. | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "The public seems to like what Bernie is saying now." | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | He'd be surrounded by Hawks (Democrats) if elected | Nov 07 07:21 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/HOLZERTRON/status/662935379868123136 | Nov 07 10:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@HOLZERTRON: @schestowitz REPETITION IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN | Nov 07 10:15 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6789266 | Nov 07 11:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #BigData refusal: nuclear disarmament movement of 21st century https://boingboing.net/2015/11/03/big-data-refusal-the-nuclear.html #surveillance refusal an important step for #democracy | Nov 07 11:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> boingboing.net | Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century / Boing Boing | Nov 07 11:16 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662968707719692289 | Nov 07 12:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz I was not drunk, but haters like you have their heads under the sand and keep regurgitating the same tired old BS. Wach auf! | Nov 07 12:33 | |
| schestowitz | Microsoft loves Linux? If you really believe this, then I have some land on Mars to sell you... | Nov 07 12:33 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662971559699591168 | Nov 07 12:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz Then you don't understand what it means to be Cloud first. @Azure monetizes storage and compute, regardless of what the OS is. | Nov 07 12:36 | |
| schestowitz | But at the same time Microsoft, as a whole, attacking GNU, Linux etc. | Nov 07 12:37 |
| schestowitz | *is | Nov 07 12:37 |
| schestowitz | Cloud first is Amazon. Microsoft is like a distant third... | Nov 07 12:38 |
| schestowitz | Cloud first is just some marketing buzzword from Microsoft, which still loses a lot of money in many divisions | Nov 07 12:38 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662972766874828800 https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662973254324228096 | Nov 07 12:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz Those are just your twisted conspiracy theories. You are ignoring facts like the recent deal with Red Hat and spreading FUD. | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz You have just proven you are ignorant about @Azure. Real critics get their facts straight first. | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/hgfernan/status/662973517877653504 | Nov 07 12:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@hgfernan: #SeguirSábado @Mackellsud @alvfig @coisasdogeek @eliaspraciano @Darkwings1Mr @schestowitz @brigserman @sapo2025 @ro7_so67 | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| schestowitz | Microsoft troll: https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/663007802420367360 | Nov 07 15:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @WinObs Look at what this idiot wrote: https://t.co/LhGO1bpGKM Makes a living being a troll, I guess. But it must be a meager living. | Nov 07 15:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported | Techrights | Nov 07 15:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/662987711146520576 | Nov 07 15:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@FOSSpatents: @schestowitz FSF and satellites like SFLC should reject donations from pro-patent companies like RHAT so they can speak out against dealings | Nov 07 15:23 | |
| schestowitz | >> Dear Rhys and Nathan | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | >> > ... | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | > How did it go? Friday has come and gone. I presume they had no answer. | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | A letter came in Friday. It seems like the EPO dumped their lawyers who | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | sent me the bullying letters, perhaps realising that these did not | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | comply with protocols and only caused an embarrassment to the EPO. | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | It looks as though the EPO is now approaching another firm; it's not | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | clear if anything will come out of it, but for the time being, I shall | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | carry on writing as usual. | Nov 07 15:38 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764277 | Nov 01 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/pyroom-review-495526.shtml doesn't say if it's #freesw | Nov 01 06:41 | |
| schestowitz | "It is; installing it from the Trisquel reps as I type this. Many thanks!" | Nov 01 06:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.softpedia.com | PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor - Softpedia | Nov 01 06:41 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/661469505571409921 | Nov 03 09:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Belgian and Dutch politicians are now hamming on #epo for its violations and abuses. Article on their way... | Nov 03 09:19 | |
| schestowitz | typo of hammering | Nov 03 09:19 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Twpalovi/status/661473491443720192 | Nov 03 09:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Twpalovi: @schestowitz Ah, interesting... | Nov 03 09:25 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6766709 | Nov 03 11:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #google is now forcing (hostage situation/ransom) to consent to new #privacy violating policy or be denied access to #chromeOS i.e. one's PC | Nov 03 11:27 | |
| schestowitz | "Google search did it to me too." | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "so why are you using google search!? or chrome!?" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | ohoh you are spying on me :) | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Who use Chrome nowadays ? | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Maybe someone who likes and trusts illusions , no ? | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | Why using Google search when I can search through my awesome YaCy or http://searx.me/ which erases meta-data on the request. | Nov 03 11:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-searx.me | searx | Nov 03 11:27 | |
| schestowitz | #FreedomNow | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet" | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | "@Dr.Roy, see if you can’t document that behavior, please." | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | I'll try to grab a screenshot next time | Nov 03 11:27 |
| schestowitz | > Interesting. Hopefully after he has called their bluff, they fold. | Nov 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz | We hope that this letter to the EPO's goons will put an end to it, yes... some journalists already want to write about it, but wait for my go-ahead if so... | Nov 03 11:49 |
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| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/2015/11/03/merpel-on-ilo/ | Nov 03 19:34 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:34 |
| schestowitz | >> > careering -> careening | Nov 03 19:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster” | Techrights | Nov 03 19:34 | |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | > Never mind. It's a new use to me of the word career. | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | To me too. But I was quoting Merpel anyway. Techrights might soon be in headlines for EPO's censorship campaign. Merpel knows about it, and has been involved since the start. They are very careful what they write now... | Nov 03 19:35 |
| schestowitz | >>> Interesting. Hopefully after he has called their bluff, they fold. | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > We hope that this letter to the EPO's goons will put an end to it, | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > yes... some journalists already want to write about it, but wait for my | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | >> > go-ahead if so... | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > It's not my place to forward anything on the matter and I don't write | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > much these days, so I will continue to stay quiet on the matter. I do | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > very much appreciate the update though. It was exceedingly worrying the | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > other week when the one article disappeared, though when last I checked | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | > it was back. | Nov 03 19:41 |
| schestowitz | maybe you were logged in at the time. The article is still unpublished (for now) | Nov 03 19:41 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764931 | Nov 04 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: When politicians say they want "safe harbour" (sounds good) they mean mass #surveillance http://www.cityam.com/227702/in-search-of-a-new-safe-harbour-the-eus-push-for-new-data-transfer-regulation-with-the-us-may-be-part-of-the-problem http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=35071d16-148e-4ae7-bbc7-827a588d3aa0 | Nov 04 06:46 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | Tell me about Roy. | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | Why does he spam the pods? | Nov 04 06:46 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cityam.com | In search of a new Safe Harbour: The EU's push for new data transfer regulation with the US may be part of the problem | City A.M. [ http://ur1.ca/o7yo1 ] | Nov 04 06:46 | |
| schestowitz | "I get you’re trying to establish trust, but you can’t just dump all these links and think nobody’s going to figure out what’s going on." | Nov 04 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.lexology.com | EU round-up: Safe Harbor 2.0 and upcoming national challenges - Lexology [ http://ur1.ca/o7yo2 ] | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | Depends if they subscribe | Nov 04 06:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777526 | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: We said we came to #iraq for WoMD and not for oil. We said we'd bring them democracy and not ISIS or other never-ending excuses for war $ | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "Sounds alot like an illegal invasion and self righteousness. Should be punishable by death at war crimes tribunals. …or Karma …" | Nov 04 06:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6774596 | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Turn nearly any laptop into a #Chromebook for free http://www.zdnet.com/article/turn-most-any-laptop-into-a-chromebook-for-free/ #gnu #linux | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "Why should I do this? What’s the advantage over a “normal” Linux distribution?" | Nov 04 06:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.zdnet.com | Turn nearly any laptop into a Chromebook for free | ZDNet [ http://ur1.ca/o8ef4 ] | Nov 04 06:47 | |
| schestowitz | "I believe because it’s Google. Meaning it has some name. I’ll start by knowing it, then I’ll see if I recommend it." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | "I would rather pay for my news and know that the content I get is valid and well researched than deal with the ad funded method currently used. You have no way of telling who paid for what news content, and the content is nothing more than whatever will get the most people watching." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773388 | Nov 04 06:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #torvalds uses a curse word. At least a dozen news/media articles about it. Why? Because that's what sells and media wants to sell. #linux | Nov 04 06:48 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | that and they hate your freedom." | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | Freedom give us AdBlock | Nov 04 06:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764435 | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Android device updates: Google posts Marshmallow factory images for Nexus 6P and 5X http://www.greenbot.com/article/2999465/android/android-device-updates-google-posts-marshmallow-factory-images-for-nexus-6p-and-5x.html #android #linux #google #6p | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | "#Google is the #Darknet | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.greenbot.com | Android device updates: Google posts Marshmallow factory images for Nexus 6P and 5X | Greenbot [ http://ur1.ca/o8ef8 ] | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | Ted | Nov 04 06:49 |
| schestowitz | Currently, it looks like MicroSoft is taking some hits. | Nov 04 06:49 |
| schestowitz | http://map.norsecorp.com | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-map.norsecorp.com | Norse Attack Map | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6765460 | Nov 04 06:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: About 4 years ago Joe Biden called #assange "high-tech terrorists", so I think we know where the Empire is going. #china #russia scapegoats. | Nov 04 06:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6767089 | Nov 04 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 15 degrees in November in #manchester - cannot quite recall climate like this. At least it has been a very dry autumn. | Nov 04 06:50 | |
| schestowitz | "Is that hot or cold?" | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | Reasonably warm | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6766709 | Nov 04 06:50 |
| schestowitz | "cheers" | Nov 04 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 04 06:51 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6762015 | Nov 04 06:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Microsoft gets closer to very shady companies for income http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/taser-international-and-microsoft-corp-announce-partnership-to-deliver-a-trusted-cloud-platform-for-law-enforcement-20050464 like the #nsa ties http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA | Nov 04 06:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft’s email hosting is much vaster than Hotmail. Besides MSN, Yahoo, and other direct ownership names, there are a dozen or so others and many more “sharing” contracts with ISPs. | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | Those holdings will capture a lot of police email as will ownership of Microsoft Windows, but both of those are dicey at best. Think how much easier it would be for Microsoft to know everything the local police are doing than by hosting their data where they can run searches on it all day long. | Nov 04 06:52 |
| schestowitz | I think Microsoft email is on the way out. People hate everything Microsoft touches and eventually move to some reasonable institution or Google. Try watching someone use Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL one day. They have all the reliability and dependability of Facebook. Email is sticky and Scroogle scares people but there’s no keeping people on that Microsoft garbage forever. | Nov 04 06:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> news.thomasnet.com | TASER International and Microsoft Corp. Announce Partnership to Deliver a Trusted Cloud Platform for Law Enforcement [ http://ur1.ca/o7yn8 ] | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | Windows is also on the way out for similar reasons. | Nov 04 06:53 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and the NSA - Techrights | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773464 | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Oh, noes, think about all the money (man-made concept) lost... https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/661309077922971648 | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | "That reminds me of something I saw years ago at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/11/shareholder-value/" | Nov 04 06:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: #Climatechange could have a significant impact on our economy - https://t.co/TMCxN2TocQ something of an understatement | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ritholtz.com | Creating Shareholder Value | The Big Picture [ http://ur1.ca/o8efi ] | Nov 04 06:53 | |
| schestowitz | Good point | Nov 04 06:53 |
| schestowitz | "Sadly, I must agree. They’re not really concerned with stopping the terrorists whose actions create cover for greater power grabs." | Nov 04 06:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6773435 | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: One must conclude that #uk government does not target terrorists who are potent threat but dissidents who don't view themselves as threat | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6757232 | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Open-Source Robotic Arm Exceeds 1200% of Initial Crowdfunding Goal http://electronics360.globalspec.com/article/5895/open-source-robotic-arm-exceeds-1200-of-initial-crowdfunding-goal #sharing culture on the rise | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | "So, sharing should be mandatory? Is it still sharing if it’s mandatory?" | Nov 04 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> electronics360.globalspec.com | Open-Source Robotic Arm Exceeds 1200% of Initial Crowdfunding Goal | IHS Electronics360 | Nov 04 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | "voluntary, but legally facilitated" | Nov 04 06:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6775012 | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People in Sweden are hiding cash in their microwaves because of a fascinating — and terrifying — economic experiment http://business.financialpost.com/business-insider/people-in-sweden-are-hiding-cash-in-their-microwaves-because-of-a-fascinating-and-terrifying-economic-experiment | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | ‘Credit Suisse says the rule of thumb in Scandinavia is: “If you have to pay in cash, something is wrong.”’ | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | I say: if you depend on banks for your daily life something is fucked. | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> business.financialpost.com | People in Sweden are hiding cash in their microwaves because of a fascinating — and terrifying — economic experiment | Financial Post [ http://ur1.ca/o89nr ] | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6764277 | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/linux/pyroom-review-495526.shtml doesn't say if it's #freesw | Nov 04 06:55 | |
| schestowitz | "It is; installing it from the Trisquel reps as I type this. Many thanks!' | Nov 04 06:55 |
| schestowitz | "7yo is really enjoying this and so am I–thanks, Roy." | Nov 04 06:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.softpedia.com | PyRoom Review - A Surprisingly Fun Distraction-Free Text Editor - Softpedia | Nov 04 06:55 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6775269 | Nov 04 14:10 |
| schestowitz | "If it is any consolation, I was in a medical clinic recently and the computers were all running Ubuntu, so some inroads are being made!" | Nov 04 14:10 |
| schestowitz | GE dumped XP for Linux, someone who works there told me... for CT scanners at least | Nov 04 14:10 |
| MinceR | finally | Nov 04 15:20 |
| schestowitz | about a year ago | Nov 04 16:42 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | They are now firing workers... | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > Dear Mr Schestowitz, | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > I have been following you on Twitter for a while in recent times. There | Nov 04 18:05 |
| schestowitz | > I go by another name, for security reasons that might be purely delusional. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > As you might easily see from the chaotically edited profile I have here | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > in LinkedIn, I am an EPO veteran, so to say. The emphasis I try | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > discretely to give to some of my professional activities, including the | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > free-lance and the staff representation, might give you an inkling about | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > the terms in which my relation with this peculiar organization is. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > I also am aware that I might be very likely spied upon (actually I had | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > compelling evidence of that in the recent past) and that contacts with | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > "negative" elements, such as you or the likes of Mr Florian Müller, for | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > that matter, might even cast a more negative light on me and probably | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > expose me even more to practices that are no short of criminal. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > But in the end, since as of today, I had to conclude that my monthly | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > wage has been completely suspended since October and that happened | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > without any notification, I do not think that this type of contacts can | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > really cause more damage to me than what is already being done. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > So I'd appreciate if we could join our networks and be in contact. I am | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > ready to suggestions you might have to keep all this under a relative | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > safe confidentiality, provided that it is possible. | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | > Looking forward to your answer, have my | Nov 04 18:06 |
| schestowitz | ME: | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I am aware that my readers were made visible by IP/cookie (e.g. by following links to epo.org), that would provide grounds for suspicion and retribution. If BB is now punishing union organisers, then perhaps it's worth making the media aware of it, and publish accordingly. Maybe one day there will be a class action lawsuit against an EPO executive; media coverage about illegal firings and such would help. If you a willing to publicise | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | your case, I offer my full dedication and capacity for it. It sure looks like, unless there is some backlash, there might be more like your on the way. | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Regards, | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | Roy | Nov 04 18:11 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/pinguinpatje/status/661969759177719808 | Nov 04 18:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@pinguinpatje: Hmmm wie zouden dat zijn? https://t.co/DIoX0gCGRe | Nov 04 18:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Belgian and Dutch politicians are now hamming on #epo for its violations and abuses. Article on their way... | Nov 04 18:15 | |
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| schestowitz | > Roy, | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > I fear that my latest two messages went out unencrypted. The encryption | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > software's settings apparently got mixed by the coexistence of two | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > separate keys for the same address, and defaulted to "no encryption", | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > and I hadn't noticed before it was too late. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > What's done is done. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > Your 2004 key is back as the default encryption rule. I do hope Mrs. May | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > won't be reading. | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 04 20:39 |
| schestowitz | > Can you confirm that they indeed arrived unencrypted? I can't really | Nov 04 20:40 |
| schestowitz | > tell for sure. | Nov 04 20:40 |
| schestowitz | Yes, both have arrived and I am planning to respond when I finish some urgent articles... | Nov 04 20:40 |
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| schestowitz | "Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part in there while they may give back the changes for now so no extinguish there yet... That is what a lot of people are uncomfortable with that and the outright killing of the *nix method of doing one thing and doing it well not everything and the God damn kitchen sink thrown in for what is supposed to be an init system." | Nov 05 01:55 |
| schestowitz | https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/02/1549201 | Nov 05 01:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/02/1549201 ) | Nov 05 01:55 | |
| schestowitz | Red Hat.. | Nov 05 01:55 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | "Apparently you missed the embrace and extend part" | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | There is no embrace and extend. The projects that you are angry about were created by RedHat in the first place, and are maintained by RedHat developers. That's a fact. As is the fact that one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel was written by a RedHat employee. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | RedHat *is* Linux. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | I'm sorry you use a shitty distribution whose developers piggyback off RedHat's contributions. That's nothing to be ashamed of in itself as the list includes profitable organizations, such as Oracle and VMWare. But the decision to include systemd was made by your distribution maintainers, not by RedHat. If systemd is so offensive to you, there's always one of the *BSD's, which by the way, have all of this software in ports, and have managed | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | to work around the systemd requirement. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | The list of companies that are FOSS friendly is very, very short. RedHat is on that list, along with iXSystems, Thinkpenguin, and m:tier. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | RedHat *is* Linux. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | Oh you poor thing. | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | By your own admission, RedHat is only 1/6th Linux. Red Hat, like everyone else, is freeloading off the contributions of others. Don't pretend that Red Hat develops all, or even most of the code."" | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | Debian does more AFAIK | Nov 05 01:56 |
| MinceR | did, until it committed suicide | Nov 05 01:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | The obvious rebuttal is systemd. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | Except by making a large number of vital projects dependent on systemd. | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:57 |
| schestowitz | "Except by making a large number of vital projects dependent on systemd." | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | What, the vital projects that RedHat themselves created, whose developers are on the RedHat payroll? Again, your problem is with your distribution's package maintainers. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD has the latest Gnome, does *not* have systemd, and I'd venture to say, works better on your laptop out of the box than whatever Linux you are using. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:58 |
| MinceR | translation: redcrap hasn't coerced anybody into adopting systemd, except it did. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | "There are a number of projects that RedHat didn't create, but merely took over the maintenance for such as udev. Others they have maintained and transitioned to a dependency on systemd later such as D-Bus. And notice the use of the word, "dependent". These aren't projects that merely support systemd, but projects that require systemd in order to function." | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: it did | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | but then some say, it's for the better... | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | In other words, RedHat has created a large number of unnecessary systemd dependencies. Here's an interesting example [soylentnews.org] of those dependencies in action: | Nov 05 01:58 |
| MinceR | the sooner gnu/linux dies, the better? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | The reason I believe it is bad design is, that it makes the combination of projects more difficult to maintain, more complex to understand (because of the new cross-links), and it makes it more difficult to swap one of the component projects with a newer, better version that is not under the same umbrella. How am I going to use syslogd-ng or rsyslogd or [even better future syslogd], if everything under the systemd umbrella is rewritten to | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | only log to libsystemd-journal0? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | An example: does your company ever need to print? | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups depends on cups-daemon | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon depends on libsystemd0 (apparently all those libs are now joined together into libsystemd0 (since version 215); I hadn't noticed that. | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon also recommends on colord (recommends are often installed automatically) | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | colord depends on libsystemd0 | Nov 05 01:58 |
| schestowitz | colord depnds on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | libpolkit-gobject-1-0 depends on libsystemd0 | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | cups-daemon also recommends (not depends) avahi-daemon | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | avahi-daemon depends on dbus | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | dbus depends on libsystemd0, do you know why? because it used to depend on libsystemd-journal0, do you know why? Because nifty binary logging, that's why. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | I can tell you from my own experience that it's already not trivial to *not* install systemd. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Interesting that it got derailed into a system debate there.. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | HOWTO | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | How to stress test a BS meter: | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - this is package A, it depends on package X and not on functionally equivalent packages Y, Z... that have been distributed since forever. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | *BS meter already pulsing an unsettling orange/brown* | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - uh, ok, it depends on it to perform what? | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | - for logging purpos... | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | *BS meter goes BLAM!* | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | systemd is not at all surprising once you factor in that, by thriving on services and assistance, RH has no incentive in producing transparent, stable systems and opaque, unstable systems tend do be buggy. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | No. OpenBSD has made it's own systemd shim [undeadly.org]. That does nothing to stave off the encroachment on the ports. GNOME could keep moving into systemd territory until even a shim is not enough. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Yes, they have competent port maintainers but you're wrong about the GNOME port if you are somehow implying that they've removed the nasty bits for their ports collection. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Red Hat is just doing what M$ itself outlined in the Halloween Documents [catb.org]. That is to say, they are finding a way to decommoditize the GNU/Linux distros. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | Ah! | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | GNOME could keep moving into systemd territory until even a shim is not enough. | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | So what's the problem exactly? No one's forcing you to use Gnome, and it's a piece of crap anyway. Why everyone seems to think Gnome is the de-facto standard Linux desktop environment is beyond me. It's the absolute worst of all of them. Who cares what they require? | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs). | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 01:59 |
| schestowitz | KDE for one doesn't require systemd, and never will because KDE actually cares about running on non-Linux platforms (esp. the BSDs). | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Ditto for XFCE, and I haven't used LXDE in years, but I imagine they are in the same boat as well. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | "Unfortunately, earlier this year it was revealed that Plasma 5 was/is going to depend on systemd, as David Edmunson explained [davidedmundson.co.uk]. If that changed, I'll be glad to hear it; last I was aware, it was the main reason PCLinuxOS was refraining from upgrading to KDE 5." | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Wow, I didn't know that | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | I sometimes wonder if the systemd encroachment is nothing more than the systemd guys doing a "because we can". | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | On the other hand, some folks just don't like change such as init scripts - sorry to offend anyone, but the flexibility of scripts is not something you want in a system directory. And I have written many for my systems!!! | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Lennard Poettering may not have the charm to wash over the community, but he is no fool - his blog makes a great deal of sense , where internet postings simply rant. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | Read about the BTRFS/systemd deployment model being developed - this would allow linux to reflect any combination of distribution applications natively. | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | And ultimately, if Linux is to survive, having it hide under Android skins is not the way. It is critical that is makes inroads onto the desktop, otherwise we will have future generations lost to proprietary lockin-gloss.... | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | NetworkManager to PulseAudio - Jeebus and while we're at it we can add gtk3, avahi, dbus and udev, gnome oh and systemd, no not the init system the other bits, | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | What you associate with FOSS desktop others have been stripping out actively and see the the Freedesktop as an anti-pattern. Redhat definitely deserves to be on the list, a social endrun to make all distributions redhat derivatives is nothing short of disgusting. That you can apologize and divert the blame is disingenuous in the extreme. I'm sure everyone can decide where they have a problem. The packaging is not a matter of competence but | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | one of an agenda. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| MinceR | didn't KDE announce around february that they'll depend on systemd in 6 months? | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " endrun to make all distributions redhat derivatives is nothing short of disgusting" | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Well said | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: yes | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | but I didn't know about PCLOS | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Except that GTK+ is used in Gnome3, which is absolute worst desktop environment available on Linux. It's a terrible toolkit to work with, and is so crappy that the low-resource LXDE has switched to Qt. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | That's great that RH contributed to the kernel (but only 1/6 of it, so don't pretend like the majority of it is from RH) and is open-source and doesn't sell personal data and all, but it'd be nice if they didn't employ the arrogant Gnome developers and keep pushing the markedly inferior Gnome desktop. It isn't helping Linux adoption at all, in fact quite the opposite. Just look at how many people switched to Cinnamon and MATE and Xcfe when | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | Gnome3 came out; Gnome has succeeded in fragmenting the Linux desktop even more than it already was. | Nov 05 02:01 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:01 |
| MinceR | if only they did that 1 version earlier, they'd have the last usable version of kde | Nov 05 02:02 |
| MinceR | 3.x | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to NetworkManager to PulseAudio to one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel. RedHat became a billion dollar company, and they did it without | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | offshoring their cash (based in RTP), without selling your personal data, and while managing to release the source code to their work. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | You make a lot of outstanding points. Yes, the Red Hat of the mid 2000's was a great company. They made many contributions to the ecosystem that have made Linux so usable today. Not only that, but you also forgot to mention KVM, DRM, and a host of other under-the-hood changes that they've made, plus their long-standing support of the Linux Foundation. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Unfortunately, when they hit $1B (I distinctly remember reading that article on the green site), everything went downhill from there. And a small part of me wondered at the time if it was the beginning of the end - profits and growth inevitably corrupt, and unfortunately, this is just what happened with Red Hat as well. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | The thing is, there's open source, and then there's open source. It's one thing to release all the source code and run as an open company. It's another to do all of that, but stick the proverbial middle finger to your users and say, if you don't like it, too bad, get the fuck on board anyway. It has been their approach to Gnome 3, GTK3, systemd, and whatever they intend to fuck up next. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | It would be wonderful if Red Hat actually gave a damn about their consumers and users, but instead they have been taken over by a horde of ideologues who are of the opinion that if you disagree, then you can take a hike. Indeed, there's absolutely no reason why systemd needs to absorb udev, and Red Hat easily have the resources to make it POSIX compliant (or establish a new POSIX-like standards interface that other Unixes could conform to if | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | POSIX in its own is not good enough anymore). But clearly, user freedom is something they now see as an obstacle rather than a goal, because all of their horrid design decisions could be easily averted with a sensibly designed fork which they certainly don't want. And even more clear it is that they want to be Linux, period. You can see that attitude from the way that they act like systemd _is_ the kernel command line (see the Kay Sievers | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | fiasco). And then you can see Red Hat's takeover of Debian - now that they're systemd-constrained, I expect them to adopt RPM and ditch .deb and apt any day now. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In any case, you can see clearly that there are two Red Hats here - there's the Good Red Hat (circa pre-2012) and everything that they've done since. Frankly, I think the world would be better off if Red Hat didn't exist anymore. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | You have an issue with systemd, but your issue lies with your downstream distribution, not with RedHat. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Now this is flatly untrue. It's the only reason that they keep absorbing components that could otherwise exist on their own, the most significant being udev. As mentioned above, there's no reason why they couldn't architect systemd properly, but the fact is that it's in their interest not to, and that interest is primarily in forcing people to adopt it. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | And don't forget that Red Hat had 50% of the say in Debian adopting it. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In fact, SystemD has shown which distributions are the real creators, and exposed the fraudulent distros that just repackage and re-skin the work of others. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | And once again, any distro that doesn't use systemd these days has to go through days of effort to uncouple things which, once again, Lennart could have architected properly, but has a clear interest in avoiding. Making your system decoupled is purely obvious design advantage which they have explicitly chosen to forego in order to make it difficult not to adopt systemd. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | Now this is news to me. I would say that this is something I have to research, but I have no interest in going back to Gnome anymore, since I have seen how hostile they are to configurability, and giving users no way of changing their poorly designed defaults. But I suppose I might as well look into this anyways, for general edification... | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | -- | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | In developed societies, "copyright infringement" is merely the sharing and partaking in culture. | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | Umm, who would like to think that, when everything we know about Windows 10 suggests they're as evil as ever? | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | s/as evil as/more evil than/ | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | ' | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | "Maybe you editors wanna add a bit about who this Abel Avram person is?" | Nov 05 02:03 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | RedHat does not deserve to be on this list. Everything they do is open-source and GPL, to a fault; new installs of Fedora need external repos for even multimedia codecs and freetype rendered fonts. RedHat has developed almost everything we have come to associate with a FOSS desktop, from GTK+ to NetworkManager to PulseAudio to one out of every six lines in the Linux kernel. RedHat became a billion dollar company, and they did it without | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | offshoring their cash (based in RTP), without selling your personal data, and while managing to release the source code to their work. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | You make a lot of outstanding points. Yes, the Red Hat of the mid 2000's was a great company. They made many contributions to the ecosystem that have made Linux so usable today. Not only that, but you also forgot to mention KVM, DRM, and a host of other under-the-hood changes that they've made, plus their long-standing support of the Linux Foundation. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Unfortunately, when they hit $1B (I distinctly remember reading that article on the green site), everything went downhill from there. And a small part of me wondered at the time if it was the beginning of the end - profits and growth inevitably corrupt, and unfortunately, this is just what happened with Red Hat as well. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | The thing is, there's open source, and then there's open source. It's one thing to release all the source code and run as an open company. It's another to do all of that, but stick the proverbial middle finger to your users and say, if you don't like it, too bad, get the fuck on board anyway. It has been their approach to Gnome 3, GTK3, systemd, and whatever they intend to fuck up next. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | It would be wonderful if Red Hat actually gave a damn about their consumers and users, but instead they have been taken over by a horde of ideologues who are of the opinion that if you disagree, then you can take a hike. Indeed, there's absolutely no reason why systemd needs to absorb udev, and Red Hat easily have the resources to make it POSIX compliant (or establish a new POSIX-like standards interface that other Unixes could conform to if | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | POSIX in its own is not good enough anymore). But clearly, user freedom is something they now see as an obstacle rather than a goal, because all of their horrid design decisions could be easily averted with a sensibly designed fork which they certainly don't want. And even more clear it is that they want to be Linux, period. You can see that attitude from the way that they act like systemd _is_ the kernel command line (see the Kay Sievers | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | fiasco). And then you can see Red Hat's takeover of Debian - now that they're systemd-constrained, I expect them to adopt RPM and ditch .deb and apt any day now. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In any case, you can see clearly that there are two Red Hats here - there's the Good Red Hat (circa pre-2012) and everything that they've done since. Frankly, I think the world would be better off if Red Hat didn't exist anymore. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | You have an issue with systemd, but your issue lies with your downstream distribution, not with RedHat. RedHat hasn't coerced anybody into accepting its initial system. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Now this is flatly untrue. It's the only reason that they keep absorbing components that could otherwise exist on their own, the most significant being udev. As mentioned above, there's no reason why they couldn't architect systemd properly, but the fact is that it's in their interest not to, and that interest is primarily in forcing people to adopt it. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | And don't forget that Red Hat had 50% of the say in Debian adopting it. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In fact, SystemD has shown which distributions are the real creators, and exposed the fraudulent distros that just repackage and re-skin the work of others. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | And once again, any distro that doesn't use systemd these days has to go through days of effort to uncouple things which, once again, Lennart could have architected properly, but has a clear interest in avoiding. Making your system decoupled is purely obvious design advantage which they have explicitly chosen to forego in order to make it difficult not to adopt systemd. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | OpenBSD, for example, is moving right along with the latest Gnome, working perfectly, and without systemd, because they have competent package maintainers. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | Now this is news to me. I would say that this is something I have to research, but I have no interest in going back to Gnome anymore, since I have seen how hostile they are to configurability, and giving users no way of changing their poorly designed defaults. But I suppose I might as well look into this anyways, for general edification... | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | -- | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | In developed societies, "copyright infringement" is merely the sharing and partaking in culture. | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | oops | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "Eh... Why would anyone use .NET?" | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "For like anything?" | Nov 05 02:04 |
| schestowitz | "Companies that are married to SQL Server, Visual Studio, or Excel are good candidates. Lots in the financial industry." | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | "Management invariably get convinced to mandate "industry standard" software by the guy who needs it for his resume." | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | "My father developed a closed-source Windows application in Delphi in about 1996 that he still continues to develop and is deployed in several commercial environments. He uses an open source database backend. There was some specialist hardware (not rocket science stuff, just not consumer mass market) that needed to be controlled. Very simple stuff with about two commands (up and down). The only interface to this hardware was through 400MB of | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | NET libraries. Yes, that's right, 400MB, to make something go up and down. He had to spend a long time researching how to speak to the .NET garbage from his native-code Delphi. It works, but this library is about 100 times the size of his application. I got off the Windows treadmill in 1996 and never looked back.' | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | From the article: | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in | Nov 05 02:05 |
| schestowitz | commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | contributions to our open source code. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | You can imagine how disappointing this has been to us; we had hoped our initial | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | business model of OSS with proprietary extensions (like our debugger and | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | interface builder integration) would work. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | But in light of the low contributions and behavior of competitors, we decided | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | to stop automatically releasing changes to the core of RoboVM as open source. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | -Zechner | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | Their product is for make money fast phone app coders. Culturally they're not sharers. A hundred clones of any good concept, winner takes all, professional sports shaped revenue chart, screw the users flood the thing with ads and pay to play. I'm not expecting their product to be used to develop FOSS products. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | Its not exactly emacs users we're talking about, at least culturally. | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | I took a quick look at their github page. It seems that the developers chose to release their code under the Apache 2.0 license, which is a non-copyleft license. So it should not be a surprise to anyone when competitors use that | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | code in proprietary products, and do not contribute anything back: that is exactly what permissive licenses are intended to allow! | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:06 |
| schestowitz | "That's what they are intended to allow *legally*, but normally the non copyleft guys assume some common interest sharing, or else they take their ball and go home, or the project dies. Your assumption of "copyleft would have stopped this" is probably accurate, but there are certainly successful products using non copyleft licenses, that don't end up having their source code "embraced and extended" underneath them. With so much of the | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | industry buttering their bread with proprietary pieces, you would expect bad actors to get shunned to some degree by mainstream proprietary companies- if you make the world hostile to open source, then everyone says fuck it and goes full RMS, and then you have to bake your own pie 100% of the time." | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | It's at least as accurate to say that RoboVM's owners killed the freedom of RoboVM by selling it to Xamarin w/o extracting a promise to keep the source open. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Reminds me of Monty whining about Oracle "hijacking" MySQL, after he and his cofounders sold the company for 1 billion USD. The best things in life are free, right, Monty? | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | "From the headline, it sounds like Android is no longer open source, but actually it's RoboVM.' | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | It looks like Microsoft hasn't reformed as some would like to think, but has moved its embrace, extend, extinguish policy to the mobile platform. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | What this really should say is: | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Company that does some business with Microsoft is Evil! Somehow this is Microsoft's fault! | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | Seriously, this move has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with Xamarin. | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 05 02:07 |
| schestowitz | "And it has nothing to do with the "freedom of Android" since Android doesn't even use RoboVM." | Nov 05 02:07 |
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| schestowitz | PLUS LEAKED PDF - encrypted | Nov 05 12:27 |
| schestowitz | got some good info today... | Nov 05 12:27 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > Do you have a copy in static HTML files for some EPO streisand effect? | Nov 05 13:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > I would love to host a mirror here: | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > http://filez.zoobab.com | Nov 05 13:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-filez.zoobab.com | Index of / | Nov 05 13:56 | |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > I know wordpress is MySQL based, so mirroring is not easy. | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe some scrapbook shots are enough? | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | > Best, | Nov 05 13:56 |
| schestowitz | Do you want to mirror everything or something else? I'm not sure what you need, but I would love to help... | Nov 05 13:56 |
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| schestowitz | >>>>> >>>> Hi, | Nov 05 20:47 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:47 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Do you have a copy in static HTML files for some EPO streisand effect? | Nov 05 20:47 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> I would love to host a mirror here: | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> http://filez.zoobab.com | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> I know wordpress is MySQL based, so mirroring is not easy. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Maybe some scrapbook shots are enough? | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>>>> >>>> >> Best, | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > Do you want to mirror everything or something else? I'm not sure what | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> >>> > you need, but I would love to help... | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Just the controversial EPO articles that BB does not want to see. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > Your offer is very relevant for reasons I can disclose in a few weeks. | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | >> > You'll see... :-) | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | > Keeping Champagne in the fridge then... | Nov 05 20:48 |
| schestowitz | That's for when Battistelli steps down, which is likely how it'll end. | Nov 05 20:48 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6778387 | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "That was such a click-bait fluff article. Ugh." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "The Brits had slaves, , Hitler had the concentration camps, America had slaves AND has Guantanamo Bay… All hail the fearless leader lol" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777530 | Nov 06 07:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 06 07:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #obama said he'd pull out of #iraq but has just sent more troops there. Said he'd close Gitmo and free ~100 innocents. Now drones 1000s. | Nov 06 07:38 | |
| schestowitz | "So, does Obama lack the power to fulfill his promises or were his words naive, or worse, disingenuous? I’ve often wondered about this." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "His words are not his won, written by a third party." | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "But when he was campaigning, did he believe what he was saying?" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | "probably…and then he realized who was pulling the strings…hence all the gray hair so quickly…" | Nov 06 07:38 |
| schestowitz | Advisors told him what to say to get elected and seize power for them. They work on groups and poll them to see what the public wants to HEAR. | Nov 06 07:39 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6783608 | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How #JebBush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/your_little_brother_is_not_the_ultimate_authority_on_this_how_jeb_bush_cheated_america_helped_deliver_the_presidency_to_w/ Basically it looks like there was a coup in 2000 | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | "It’s pretty much true. I was living in Florida at the time." | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.salon.com | “Your little brother is not the ultimate authority”: How Jeb Bush cheated America & helped deliver the presidency to W - Salon.com | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6784670 | Nov 06 07:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patents http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/garbage-media-coverage/ | Nov 06 07:40 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 07:40 |
| schestowitz | Simon Phipps has some useful things to say, | Nov 06 07:40 |
| schestowitz | https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SimonPhipps/posts/c636Vp4kKbf | Nov 06 07:41 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 07:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects | Techrights | Nov 06 07:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | Microsoft's Azure and Red Hat bury the hatchet http://wmk.me/1kspZhP | Nov 06 07:41 | |
| schestowitz | Almost the same as what he blogged | Nov 06 07:41 |
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| schestowitz | l http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/microsoft-red-hat-patent-agreement/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/04/red-hat-sells-out/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/04/red-hat-deal-with-microsoft/ http://techrights.org/2015/11/05/garbage-media-coverage/ | Nov 06 12:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | More Information Emerges About the Microsoft-Red Hat Patent Agreement | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Red Hat’s Deal With Microsoft Resurrects Fears of Software Patents Against GNU/Linux and Introduces ‘Triple-Dipping’ of Fees | Techrights | Nov 06 12:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662600466589700096 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662601967026466816 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662603526179303424 | Nov 06 12:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz I'm concerned RH in bed with MS, another Novell in the making ??? | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Nokia ??? I don't follow. U r telling me the deal is like the Nokia one ??? It's even worse, then. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Gonna read your article, to get the gist of it. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662603810490195969 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662604362578042880 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662604839009021952 | Nov 06 12:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Btw, did you read this: https://t.co/0xugFqBbkI ??? A very good analysis of the sad state of affairs in Linux development. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> uselessd.darknedgy.net | ProSystemdAntiSystemd | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Very good. Gonna check them out. | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Man, after reading it, really feels like Linux development has been hi-jacked by a sect of reckless kids... | Nov 06 12:25 | |
| schestowitz | Welcome to the business world | Nov 06 12:25 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662605080689041408 https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662605229486141441 | Nov 06 12:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz But, indeed, feels it's not the Linux I came aboard in 2003. Changed so much, it's no more what it used to be. | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz And, sadly, feels like Linux peaked in 2002 ~ 2005, afterwards, is only going downhill. | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/gonzalosangil/status/662570949980491776\ | Nov 06 12:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gonzalosangil: More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | #… https://t.co/Agwp1sM3BS https://t.co/JPDzvQfAvT | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> gonzalosangil.wordpress.com | More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | # ! Time… | gonzalosangil | Nov 06 12:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gonzalosangil: More #Information Emerges About the #Microsoft-#RedHat #Patent #Agreement | Techrights | #… https://t.co/Agwp1sM3BS https://t.co/JPDzvQfAvT | Nov 06 12:27 | |
| schestowitz | > "free (from supervision) reign that’s virtually impossible t..." | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > -> free (from supervision) rein that’s virtually impossible t... | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/2015/11/06/disappearing-the-boards/ | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | I'm not too sure, I had to look it up: | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | http://www.educationbug.org/a/reign-vs-rein.html | Nov 06 12:30 |
| schestowitz | When I speak about "Sun King" (what his staff calls him) I use terms that allude to royalty. | Nov 06 12:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management | Techrights | Nov 06 12:30 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.educationbug.org | Reign vs rein - Education Bug | Nov 06 12:30 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662608550657658880 | Nov 06 12:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Yeah, billions walk in, sanity walks out, only greed remains... | Nov 06 12:35 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/drtocqueville/status/662610484252819456 | Nov 06 12:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@drtocqueville: @schestowitz Its too bad that #PRISMSOFT reveals its #desparate attempt to avoid #irrelevance | Nov 06 12:43 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662610932800057344 | Nov 06 12:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: @schestowitz Wonder how many of the crackers wear hats... | Nov 06 12:43 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Messgorough/status/662612217452486656 | Nov 06 12:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Messgorough: @schestowitz @agente_smithe @retroDoomer Utterly agree, hence another reason why @Raspberry_Pi started giving W10 at their behest. | Nov 06 12:50 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786211 | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #linux Kernel Self Protection Project http://lwn.net/Articles/663361/ | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> lwn.net | Kernel Self Protection Project [LWN.net] | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | in german: | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | http://www.golem.de/news/linux-kernel-sicherheit-soll-deutlich-verbessert-werden-1511-117337.html | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.golem.de | Linux: Kernel-Sicherheit soll deutlich verbessert werden - Golem.de | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786124 | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | self-hosting | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | Internet providers’ residential terms of service are not friendly toward this concept, and in my area even their small business offerings come with woefully anemic upstream speeds. | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | The infrastructure is organized around the principle of omnipotent providers and passive receivers. | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 14:12 |
| schestowitz | True, but one can host in one's home LAN | Nov 06 14:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People need #freesw and self-hosting (no silly 'cloud' nonsense) to assure their #privacy - media doesn't seem to want to promote this. | Nov 06 14:12 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/agente_smithe/status/662628902934872068 | Nov 06 14:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@agente_smithe: RT @schestowitz: #Google reportedly wants to design its own #Android chips https://t.co/zmZz66COPi pulling a #samsung | Nov 06 14:13 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theverge.com | Google reportedly wants to design its own Android chips | The Verge | Nov 06 14:13 | |
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| schestowitz | >>> By the way, DN will have an allegedly exclusive interview with Edward | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> Snowden published at 14:00 UTC: | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> http://www.dn.se/ | Nov 06 17:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dn.se | Nyheter - DN.SE | Nov 06 17:23 | |
| schestowitz | >>> >> | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> I'll be offline around then for a while but you might want to check it | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> out. It might be in Swedish but Google translate does a fairly good job | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >>> >> of translating it. Hopefully they link to the original in English. | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > Whether live or offline, in the form of articles with sound bites, it | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > ought to be OK. I think Denmark is used for data collection from the | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > East, just like Sweden and to a lesser degree (due to fear of | Nov 06 17:23 |
| schestowitz | >> > restriction from Putin) Finland. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > Snowden didn't write anything in Twitter yesterday, so he might be | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > preparing for something or working on something. His feed wasn't so bad | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > as it helped tackle UK repressions this week. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | > http://fokus.dn.se/intervju-edward-snowden | Nov 06 17:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fokus.dn.se | Edward Snowden i Intervju med Dagens Nyheter - DN Fokus | Nov 06 17:24 | |
| schestowitz | > http://fokus.dn.se/edward-snowden-english/ | Nov 06 17:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fokus.dn.se | Edward Snowden interview with Dagens Nyheter - DN Fokus | Nov 06 17:24 | |
| schestowitz | >> Yes, I still see a lot of that. | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | >> > Should I change my words then or not? | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe just mark it as a pun? | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | I guess I feel OK with how I phrased it. For now... | Nov 06 17:24 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 17:30 |
| schestowitz | A letter came in today. It seems like the EPO dumped their lawyers who sent me the bullying letters, perhaps realising that these did not comply with protocols and only caused an embarrassment to the EPO. | Nov 06 17:30 |
| schestowitz | It looks as though the EPO is now approaching another firm; it's not clear if anything will come out of it, but for the time being, I shall carry on writing as usual. | Nov 06 17:30 |
| MinceR | :) | Nov 06 17:31 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786124 | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People need #freesw and self-hosting (no silly 'cloud' nonsense) to assure their #privacy - media doesn't seem to want to promote this. | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | Two ways to start self-hosting which doesn’t require expert knowledge of networking are #freedombox and #yunohost OS. | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | -https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox ) | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | -https://yunohost.org/#/ | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://yunohost.org/#/ ) | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | Another alternative if you don’t want to self-host your email, you can join the #fripost association. | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | https://fripost.org/english/ | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-fripost.org | Fripost – den fria e-postföreningen | Nov 06 17:33 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: TBH, I'm tired of having to use email | Nov 06 17:33 |
| schestowitz | I never successfully quit it | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I tried in 200 | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | 2010 | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I too have a low upstream speed in my home, but I have noticed that more than bandwidth the slowness in my web pages is due to the server. Also I seldom use heavy graphics or videos in my servers, that would be very slow. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | I have a “server” with 4 AMD cores and 15 Gb. of RAM, and the speed (or slowness) of my sites is almost the same in my local network than outside home, except the drupal portal that has a nice but heavy picture slideshow. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | Loading a page of Dokuwiki or Horde takes two seconds local over wireless, double being outside, that’s fine to me. I would improve a lot response times with a real server but I’m unwilling to pay more for electricity and hardware. | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | The important data: I’m supposedly have 10 Mbps downstream that I do not believe to be true, and like a half or third of that as upstream."" | Nov 06 17:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6785883 | Nov 06 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ### The Chutzpah of a #Police Union in Santa Ana, #California source: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/the-chutzpah-of-a-police-union-in-orange-county-california/400502/ > On-duty police officers appear to be eating edible pot products—OC Weekly transcribes words they spoke while egging one another on. (“Those candy bars are pretty good,” one said. “I kinda feel light-headed | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | "The US is exceptional." | Nov 06 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theatlantic.com | A Santa Ana Police Union Blocks Video of the Raid at Sky High Holistic Pot Dispensary - The Atlantic | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Santa Ana pot shop raid sparks investigation - YouTube | Nov 06 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786343 | Nov 06 17:44 |
| schestowitz | "was this a ham handed effort in stopping china from demanding access to code to sell in their country?" | Nov 06 17:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post? | Nov 06 17:44 | |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > Thanks for the update. If they get better lawyers, those should | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > understand proceeding is not a good idea. | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | Later tonight I will post a polite expose about the current head of the notorious I.U. (the "gestapo" as it's known in EPO). He happens to be British, so I need to be gentle with my words. | Nov 06 17:46 |
| schestowitz | > yes, probably best to be cautious in the light of events. | Nov 06 18:03 |
| schestowitz | MinceR: | Nov 06 20:09 |
| schestowitz | I am a lot more careful when mentioning individuals now, and more soft-spoken. This was published just 10 minutes ago: | Nov 06 20:09 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2015/11/06/investigative-unit-pd-0-6/ | Nov 06 20:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV | Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/o8slu ] | Nov 06 20:09 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6788005 | Nov 07 07:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Wallhack! New see-through-wall scanner perfect for firefighters, smart homes… and the NSA? https://www.rt.com/news/320422-wi-fi-nsa-scan/ #police use #xray vans | Nov 07 07:16 | |
| schestowitz | First thought on this topic - what kinds of affordable wall materials could impede the flow of such wavelengths?" | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.rt.com | Wallhack! New see-through-wall scanner perfect for firefighters, smart homes… and the NSA? — RT News | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 07 07:17 |
| schestowitz | "Court precedent says this is illegal in the US. Meaning mainly that one could challenge evidence gained through these means." | Nov 07 07:17 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6788252 | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Condy Rice-affiliated #prism "to come" corporation calls its conference "Dropbox Open" http://www.cloudwards.net/news/dropbox-open-dropbox-hatches-enterprise-plans-10829/ like "BP Green" Forum | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | "Dropbox trustfully plans of Cloud … just sucks :)" | Nov 07 07:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cloudwards.net | Dropbox Open: Dropbox Hatches Enterprise Plans | Nov 07 07:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787058 | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials http://motherboard.vice.com/read/teen-hackers-who-doxed-cia-chief-are-targeting-more-government-officials #NothingToHide | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | "Good for them! Someone needs to do something to stop these insane people." | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> motherboard.vice.com | Teen Hackers Who Doxed CIA Chief Are Targeting More Government Officials | Motherboard | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787826 | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Watch the infamous false dichotomy: "tension between security and privacy." http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/05/theresa-may-investigatory-powers-bill-surveillance #surveillance increases risk from State | Nov 07 07:18 | |
| schestowitz | "" | Nov 07 07:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theguardian.com | Theresa May’s investigatory powers bill is a step in the right direction | Keir Starmer | Comment is free | The Guardian | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | "A balance like 0% privacy/0% security?" | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | "^ exactly!" | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6787042 | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | "This is a WAR CRIME." | Nov 07 07:19 |
| schestowitz | Business as usual | Nov 07 07:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: U.S. Plane Shot Victims Fleeing Doctors Without Borders Hospital: Charity http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-plane-shot-victims-fleeing-doctors-without-borders-hospital-n457871 no accident then... | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.nbcnews.com | U.S. Plane Shot Victims Fleeing Doctors Without Borders Hospital: Charity - NBC News | Nov 07 07:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6786101 | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #ProtonMail recovers from DDoS punch after being extorted http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/protonmail-recovers-from-ddos-punch-after-being-extorted-3628907/ pseudo #privacy | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "Not yet … :(" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.computerworlduk.com | ProtonMail recovers from DDoS punch after being extorted | Security | Computerworld UK | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "Still not loading the start page…" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | "immer kaputt" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | "Protonmail is like encryption for the commercial crowd" | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6777530 | Nov 07 07:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #obama said he'd pull out of #iraq but has just sent more troops there. Said he'd close Gitmo and free ~100 innocents. Now drones 1000s. | Nov 07 07:20 | |
| schestowitz | "The public seems to like what Bernie is saying now." | Nov 07 07:20 |
| schestowitz | He'd be surrounded by Hawks (Democrats) if elected | Nov 07 07:21 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/HOLZERTRON/status/662935379868123136 | Nov 07 10:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@HOLZERTRON: @schestowitz REPETITION IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN | Nov 07 10:15 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/6789266 | Nov 07 11:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #BigData refusal: nuclear disarmament movement of 21st century https://boingboing.net/2015/11/03/big-data-refusal-the-nuclear.html #surveillance refusal an important step for #democracy | Nov 07 11:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> boingboing.net | Big Data refusal: the nuclear disarmament movement of the 21st century / Boing Boing | Nov 07 11:16 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662968707719692289 | Nov 07 12:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz I was not drunk, but haters like you have their heads under the sand and keep regurgitating the same tired old BS. Wach auf! | Nov 07 12:33 | |
| schestowitz | Microsoft loves Linux? If you really believe this, then I have some land on Mars to sell you... | Nov 07 12:33 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662971559699591168 | Nov 07 12:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz Then you don't understand what it means to be Cloud first. @Azure monetizes storage and compute, regardless of what the OS is. | Nov 07 12:36 | |
| schestowitz | But at the same time Microsoft, as a whole, attacking GNU, Linux etc. | Nov 07 12:37 |
| schestowitz | *is | Nov 07 12:37 |
| schestowitz | Cloud first is Amazon. Microsoft is like a distant third... | Nov 07 12:38 |
| schestowitz | Cloud first is just some marketing buzzword from Microsoft, which still loses a lot of money in many divisions | Nov 07 12:38 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662972766874828800 https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/662973254324228096 | Nov 07 12:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz Those are just your twisted conspiracy theories. You are ignoring facts like the recent deal with Red Hat and spreading FUD. | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @schestowitz You have just proven you are ignorant about @Azure. Real critics get their facts straight first. | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/hgfernan/status/662973517877653504 | Nov 07 12:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@hgfernan: #SeguirSábado @Mackellsud @alvfig @coisasdogeek @eliaspraciano @Darkwings1Mr @schestowitz @brigserman @sapo2025 @ro7_so67 | Nov 07 12:44 | |
| schestowitz | Microsoft troll: https://twitter.com/GaborFari/status/663007802420367360 | Nov 07 15:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GaborFari: @WinObs Look at what this idiot wrote: https://t.co/LhGO1bpGKM Makes a living being a troll, I guess. But it must be a meager living. | Nov 07 15:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported | Techrights | Nov 07 15:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/662987711146520576 | Nov 07 15:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@FOSSpatents: @schestowitz FSF and satellites like SFLC should reject donations from pro-patent companies like RHAT so they can speak out against dealings | Nov 07 15:23 | |
| schestowitz | >> Dear Rhys and Nathan | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | >> > ... | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | > How did it go? Friday has come and gone. I presume they had no answer. | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | A letter came in Friday. It seems like the EPO dumped their lawyers who | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | sent me the bullying letters, perhaps realising that these did not | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | comply with protocols and only caused an embarrassment to the EPO. | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | It looks as though the EPO is now approaching another firm; it's not | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | clear if anything will come out of it, but for the time being, I shall | Nov 07 15:38 |
| schestowitz | carry on writing as usual. | Nov 07 15:38 |
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