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| schestowitz | >> *You wrote*: It's really good considering how the WWW has changed. | Jul 07 01:03 |
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| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 01:03 |
| schestowitz | > What was the change that caused a drop-off in weblog traffic? | Jul 07 01:03 |
| schestowitz | things like facebook | Jul 07 01:03 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1147546132345524224 | Jul 07 04:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: @schestowitz Nader is making a comeback | Jul 07 04:43 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1147546239258382336 | Jul 07 04:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: @schestowitz See his piece on whistleblowers? | Jul 07 04:43 | |
| schestowitz | he writes every week;I link to everything | Jul 07 04:43 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jlboul/status/1147550872626454529 | Jul 07 04:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jlboul: @schestowitz AG like made appearance @ request of U.S. Senators from Alaska. Local U.S. attorneys & state District… https://t.co/CoUV4KUQFn | Jul 07 04:45 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jlboul: @schestowitz AG like made appearance @ request of U.S. Senators from Alaska. Local U.S. attorneys & state District… https://t.co/CoUV4KUQFn | Jul 07 04:45 | |
| schestowitz | "AG like made appearance @ request of U.S. Senators from Alaska. Local U.S. attorneys & state District Attorneys need resources, not be ignored by government." | Jul 07 04:45 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/arturormk/status/1147567139857022978 | Jul 07 04:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@arturormk: @schestowitz So how is China different from, say, the West? In the West these days you can only utter phrases from… https://t.co/MfrEBgAkNW | Jul 07 04:47 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@arturormk: @schestowitz So how is China different from, say, the West? In the West these days you can only utter phrases from… https://t.co/MfrEBgAkNW | Jul 07 04:47 | |
| schestowitz | "So how is China different from, say, the West? In the West these days you can only utter phrases from a list of pre-approved politically correct things to say. Punishment for not toeing the line goes from having your social media accounts blocked to losing your job." | Jul 07 04:47 |
| schestowitz | China seems a lot more sensitive in that regard | Jul 07 04:47 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MrIvanJohnson/status/1147622221675974656 | Jul 07 04:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MrIvanJohnson: @schestowitz 👍 #DeleteFacebook https://t.co/J3py1oBlhF | Jul 07 04:48 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@ttmygh: Exclusive: Britons abandon Facebook as usage plummets by more than a third https://t.co/T06VKaKNPY via @telegraphtech | Jul 07 04:48 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1147650395121958912 | Jul 07 04:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: Hey guys, want to see @schestowitz flip over tables?!... https://t.co/OaTS8XysUG | Jul 07 04:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.windowscentral.com | Microsoft wants to join private Linux security developer board | Windows Central | Jul 07 04:49 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1147712966491398145 | Jul 07 04:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: @schestowitz Yeah I’ll just go sit in the corner 🤣 | Jul 07 04:51 | |
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| schestowitz | >> I can't figure out why this line fails. It works ok when run from the | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | >> cli... :/// | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | >> wanna have a go? | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | >> crontab -e -u root | Jul 07 20:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > Since the line was complicated, I wrapped it into a shell script and | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > just have cron call the shell script. That is usually the recommended | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > way of addressing anything more than the simplest of commands. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > See /usr/local/sbin/disk-usage.sh | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | echo ' / or /tmp and /var ought not exceed 80%. \ | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | Run /root/clear-archives.sh if that happens. \ | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | About once a year run /root/clean-irc-logs.sh' | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I'm tidying up a bunch of things (forgot how many) as I don't have a compulsion to keep up with politics, so I have spare time. I also make offsite DB at this moment. I have not remotely backed up /root in a very long time and I think some stuff there needs backing up. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I was thinking, should we set up alerts for TM as well? Since we don't have nagios, can get du stuff piped over ssh from TM to TR. I checked your cronjobs for boycottn. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I'm going to tidy up some old cruft I have on /root | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> I can't figure out why this line fails. It works ok when run from the | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> cli... :/// | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> wanna have a go? | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> crontab -e -u root | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > Since the line was complicated, I wrapped it into a shell script and | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > just have cron call the shell script. That is usually the recommended | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > way of addressing anything more than the simplest of commands. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > See /usr/local/sbin/disk-usage.sh | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | echo ' / or /tmp and /var ought not exceed 80%. \ | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | Run /root/clear-archives.sh if that happens. \ | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | About once a year run /root/clean-irc-logs.sh' | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I'm tidying up a bunch of things (forgot how many) as I don't have a compulsion to keep up with politics, so I have spare time. I also make offsite DB at this moment. I have not remotely backed up /root in a very long time and I think some stuff there needs backing up. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I was thinking, should we set up alerts for TM as well? Since we don't have nagios, can get du stuff piped over ssh from TM to TR. I checked your cronjobs for boycottn. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | I'm going to tidy up some old cruft I have on /root | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> Since the line was complicated, I wrapped it into a shell script and | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> just have cron call the shell script. That is usually the recommended | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> way of addressing anything more than the simplest of commands. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> See /usr/local/sbin/disk-usage.sh | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> Ha. We edited the cron job at the same time, so my changes got deleted, | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | >> I'll add them from memory to the external file. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > Sorry. I thought crontab(1) used a lock file. :( Many other system | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > utilities do. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | usually vi should say something about lock files; I think nano is very stubborn about those things. | Jul 07 20:06 |
| schestowitz | > im extremely reluctant to do so, for several reasons. | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > but i think youre a prisoner of assumptions here. this is about as complicated as signing up for email. its free, and theyre a highly-respected non-profit co-founded by a guy who invented one of the precursors to the web (brewster kahle, wais) | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > 1. https://archive.org/account/login <- click sign up for free | Jul 07 20:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-archive.org | Log in the Internet Archive | Jul 07 20:10 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > 2. enter email | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > 3. enter screenname (try techrights) | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > 4. enter password | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > i would say signing up for email is a bigger hassle. this is a deeply non-technical process by contemporary standards. | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | done | Jul 07 20:10 |
| schestowitz | > uploading is similarly trivial. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > archive.org tries to get metadata with uploads. they only get what you give them, though some fields are mandatory. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > like a library catalog, there are obvious fields like date, tags, title. the upload page is not designed for comfort, but once youve done it a couple times its fairly painless. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > bonus: if you upload a .zip file of related files, you can access the contents of that .zip file without downloading the whole thing. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > i recommend avoiding hierarchical zips. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > here is a backup of the free media alliance website: | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > not a lot of metadata. takes about a minute to fill out and upload. i didnt even produce the .zip archive, neocities did it for me. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > click "zip" and it downloads the whole file. click "view all" instead, and you get this: | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > click "view contents" and you can download individual files from the website. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > this is just an example of what happens automatically when you upload a .zip archive. | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | Now I'm just logged in. Not sure what to do from here that would be any more useful than them automatically archiving the site already | Jul 07 20:13 |
| schestowitz | > finally, i dont have (in my possession) a full archive of techrights anyway. | Jul 07 20:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:14 |
| schestowitz | > this is a place you can upload that, and then i can retrieve it from there. but so can others (as you used to make that available to the public.) the idea is to make that possible again. | Jul 07 20:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:14 |
| schestowitz | > as a bonus though-- you will have a copy of techrights in the library of alexandria (that is not the archives only location-- they have servers in california as well. you should definitely check out the wikipedia article. the archive is a truly incredible resource.) | Jul 07 20:14 |
| schestowitz | >>> proper backup. | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >>> Tomorrow, I'll make an additional RSA SSH key and a matching script to | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >>> run from here. | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >> More people now read articles I wrote a very long time ago, due to the | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >> "MS loves Linux" stuff (and similar). It helps that many other sites | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >> vanished since then, which lets us better control the 'narrative'. E.g. | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | >> MS-Novell stuf... | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 07 20:51 |
| schestowitz | > Adding TLS to the HTTP server would increase the site's credibility and | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | > rating. | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | I had a go at it (you can find old stuff under letsencrypt on /root) | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | Main issue is the old centos version | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | even with certbot (eff) it was tricky | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | wanna have a go at it? if it works ok, can repeat for TM (people keep asking me about it every month) | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | years ago I was backing up some 'missing' things (for offsite backup) under /home/boycottn/root_scripts/root | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | I've just moved securedrop from /home to /root as it serves no purpose on /home | Jul 07 20:52 |
| schestowitz | > You might save some space and electricity and run two of them off of a | Jul 07 20:53 |
| schestowitz | > Raspberry Pi model 4 B. They can handle two rather high resolution | Jul 07 20:53 |
| schestowitz | > displays concurrently. | Jul 07 20:54 |
| schestowitz | Our electric bill is already quite low. year I spend literally hour on the phone combating their sales reps. prices negotiable. We pay 30 a month for water, about 50 for electricity and gas (we checked again earlier today). | Jul 07 20:54 |
| schestowitz | There are always 4 laptops running here. 6 displays. | Jul 07 20:54 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GerritASmit/status/1148235545698623493 | Jul 08 15:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GerritASmit: Aaaand ... No @Nextclouders!!! https://t.co/sdQ22vW0HV | Jul 08 15:55 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Site called #fossmint offers alternatives to Google They're not FOSS, they're #proprietarysoftware Number 2 is… https://t.co/zg1eG7ELsc | Jul 08 15:55 | |
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| schestowitz | > Please do something. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > 2 days back when i was reading techright links mail, i came across a | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > news from India. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > "Hindu Woman Raped, Given Death Threats For Not Converting To Islam In | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > Ahmednagar" | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > This site is a fake news site for the fascists. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > I searched in the net and found that No major newspapers did not | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > reported it. Only fake news sites reported this news. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > You can see https://www.altnews.in/ a fact checking site shows how far | Jul 10 04:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.altnews.in | Home - Alt News | Jul 10 04:58 | |
| schestowitz | > these fake news sites goes. This particular news is not there now. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > I have a humble request to you. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > Please, please please do not share any religious tainted news from | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > India. 90% times it can be fake news. why spreading hate in tech news site? | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > Regards, | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > jagadees | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > India. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | Thanks for pointing this out. I did not know. Will avoid these sites from now on... | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | [23:10] <tessier_> How's the new hosting working out? Hope all is well with you. | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | [04:28] <schestowitz> yrah, it has gone OK | Jul 10 04:58 |
| schestowitz | > not here to divert too much attention. this is a followup, i wont mention it too much: | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > 1. wiki | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > 2. articles | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > 3. pictures and pdfs | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > 4. other media (audio, video) | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > 5. other items? | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:02 |
| schestowitz | > trying to keep this simple, rather than complex (more to talk about, more to think about) | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > what i think we want: zip files not exceeding 2gb | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > what they contain: the above items, listed in order of priority (first the wiki, then the articles, then the pics, etc.) | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > before tools are created for you to run, what is the best way to get the wiki and article: | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > 1. parse the database (doable) | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > 2. run a script to download the wiki pages from your own server | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > lets put the entire wiki as a zip file on the internet archive so anybody can download the wiki. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > you tell me what you want it to do, ill create a script (so you dont have to take the time) for you to run. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > i will write it in fig-- its less work. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > you can have the python2 output and the fig source. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > that way you can modify the fig source, or you can use the python2 script that it compiles to. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > dont you use mediawiki? it may even have a feature that produces a single archive for you. if it does, you can upload that to the internet archive. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > if you are out of town, this will probably have to wait. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | > all the best. consider this non-urgent. cheers. | Jul 10 05:03 |
| schestowitz | >>> The site in question is "swarajyamag.com" I'll remove it from the feeds | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> pending further investigation as to its nature. If that one was in | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> error, then apologies. | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> Fascism in all its forms, including centuries-old quasi religious | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> violent supremacist movements, is a major threat to human rights and, | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> IMO, continued human existence. Hiding under a dirty cloak of | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> "religion" does not make it any less harmful to civilization. | Jul 10 06:07 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> I do try to give India proper coverage because there is a lot happening | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> there, both in regards to free and open source software specifically and | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> rights in general. As a result of trying to improve this coverage I | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> have spotted, and avoided, fake news before. I've also forwarded news | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> about fake news being spotted and debunked. It's a difficult situation | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> because so few news sites remain globally and so many groups and even | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> institutions are fully devoted to spreading falsehoods. So while I aim | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >>> for perfection, it is not yet attained. | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | >> That happens to everyone sometimes. | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > I'll keep "swarajyamag.com" out of the feeds. However, www.altnews.in | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > does not mention either it or "Ahmednagar" in any way, and there is no | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > search function ... | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > Quite a few of these incidents are quite complicated and not easily | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > compressed into the sound bites desired by social control media users. | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > Case in point is this one which I've been following for a week: | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > " But around the same time the footage surfaced, | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > Rocky posted a pair of videos to his Instagram account. | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > One shows Rocky and members of his entourage, primarily | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > a security guard, asking a pair of young men to stop | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > following the group. Rocky captioned the clip: “SO A FEW | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > DRUG ADDICTS ARE NOT MY FANS , WE DONT KNOW THESE GUYS | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > AND WE DIDNT WANT TROUBLE , THEY FOLLOWED US FOR 4 | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > BLOCKS , AND THEY WERE SLAPPING GIRLS BUTTS WHO PASSED , | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > GIVE ME A BREAK.”" | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/asap-rocky-arrest-and-detainment-in-sweden-explained.html | Jul 10 06:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.vulture.com | NO TITLE | Jul 10 06:08 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > "Fellow A$AP Mob member A$AP Ferg says on Instagram that | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > Rocky is “locked up in solitary confinement with no | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > visit or phone call privileges.”" | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > https://pitchfork.com/news/why-asap-rocky-was-arrested-in-sweden-for-assault-and-what-happens-next/ | Jul 10 06:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-pitchfork.com | Why A$AP Rocky Was Arrested in Sweden for Assault and What Happens Next | Pitchfork | Jul 10 06:08 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > "Our sources say it's standard practice for the U.S. | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > Embassy to be immediately alerted when an American is | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > arrested -- but that never happened -- instead, police | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > are refusing to let the U.S. Embassy rep meet with A$AP | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > or his team. " | Jul 10 06:08 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.tmz.com/2019/07/01/asap-rocky-arrested-street-fight-video-stockholm-sweden/ | Jul 10 06:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tmz.com | A$AP Rocky's Swedish Arrest Becoming Human Rights Issue | Jul 10 06:08 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:09 |
| schestowitz | > It has quickly developed into a small, but international, human rights | Jul 10 06:09 |
| schestowitz | > scandal. However, it has its roots in another larger scandal which goes | Jul 10 06:09 |
| schestowitz | > unaddressed and even covered up. it was obvious from the first report | Jul 10 06:09 |
| schestowitz | > what he had run into. I expect the case to get bigger. | Jul 10 06:09 |
| schestowitz | > certbot /is/ in the repository, but its existence there is only a | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > technicality since it has broken dependencies: | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Error: Package: policycoreutils-python-2.5-17.1.el7.x86_64 (base) | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Requires: policycoreutils = 2.5-17.1.el7 | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > Installed: policycoreutils-2.5-22.el7.x86_64 (@base) | Jul 10 06:30 |
| schestowitz | > policycoreutils = 2.5-22.el7 | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Available: policycoreutils-2.5-17.1.el7.x86_64 (base) | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > policycoreutils = 2.5-17.1.el7 | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Error: Package: audit-libs-python-2.7.6-3.el7.x86_64 (base) | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Requires: audit-libs(x86-64) = 2.7.6-3.el7 | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Installed: audit-libs-2.8.1-3.el7.x86_64 (@base) | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > audit-libs(x86-64) = 2.8.1-3.el7 | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Available: audit-libs-2.7.6-3.el7.x86_64 (base) | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > audit-libs(x86-64) = 2.7.6-3.el7 | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > There is manual route given by the EFF but I learned my lesson about | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > trying stuff like that long ago and won't touch it. This was a dead | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > simple task on OpenBSD and Devuan/Ubuntu/Debian. I'm not sure why, | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > after all these decades, Red Hat (now CentOS) has to /still/ be so | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > difficult. I will look a little deeper at the dependency problems. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > Apache2's mod_ssl seems to be available, the step we are stuck on is | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > getting the acme client installed via certbot so that we can get a | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > certificate. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | A part of me grins inside because last year I too tried these things and found them tricky to the point of aborting. Not grinning in a malicious way (definitely not physically grinning), just realising that indeed it's not as easy as I first thought. For a lot of people with their CLOWN COMPUTING hosting adding https support is probably just some jumper at the GUI/panel somewhere. Oddly enough I never bothered to even research how it's done | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | in cpanel. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | Hours ago: | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > by the way, in the most recent post i told sjvn to go fuck himself. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > his "linux desktop, with great success comes great failure" article is the biggest lie hes ever told his readers, and i told him so. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > he says the community is more to blame than microsoft, and that microsoft is quite chummy with linux. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > i told him he knows this isnt true, and that people can read zdnet if they want to be lied to. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > ive hated this guy for years, but i never had a reason to say "Fuck you" to his face. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > if linus can say it to nvidia, im not going to hold myself back saying it to this guy. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > i dont feel like a war with zdnet, its like wrestling with a pig-- in the pigs own shit. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > but i will say fuck you to sjvn. its the only "Correct response" to bullshit of this level. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > cheers. | Jul 10 06:31 |
| schestowitz | Stuff like this is why I'm ready to abandon "CC" in my RSS feeds and instead focus on articles about Linux. | Jul 10 06:32 |
| schestowitz | http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36598/ | Jul 10 07:05 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lxer.com | LXer: Then, would risk cumulation be a better option ?: These are the most insecure programming languages | Jul 10 07:05 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | Jul 08, 2019 | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | 2:34 AM EDTlate to the party, but i'd like to add something to the initial question. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | in as much the code that makes up a language compiler or runtime is insecure, that potentially also makes the language it is running insecure. but, if you fix a problem in a language runtime, then that fix applies to all programs that are using that language runtime. that way, the effect of making code secure in a language runtime is multiplied. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | for example, in C you can create an array of a fixed size, and you can't easily extend it. you have to allocate new memory, and copy that array, you have to watch out that you only read as much data as the array size, etc. that's grossly simplified and probably only half accurate, but that's the point. it's not trivial. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | in python, creating an array is trivial, because the python developers already thought about how to make the array extensible. they did the hard work for us, so that the rest of us don't have to worry about the details. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | the downside sometimes is performance. if you need to send data at lightning speed, maybe a python array will not do. or maybe you want to do some uncommon operation on that array that python does not support. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | so it's simplifying the language, to make it easier to avoid mistakes. bufferoverflows are unheared of for example, because in python buffers can't overflow. they can in C, and if the python runtime has a bufferoverflow issue, it will affect you, until it is fixed, then you get the benefit without patching your own python code. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | (python is just an example here, replace any other language, ruby, php, javascript, pike, smalltalk, lisp, whatever) | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | greetings, eMBee. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | skelband | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | Jul 09, 2019 | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | 12:20 PM EDTWas having an interesting discussion with one of my colleagues the other day about Rust. Rust is an interesting language to get into, and it has quite a steep learning curve. It does seem quite difficult to write code in Rust but it occurs to me that the reason for that is that it makes you consider object life cycle and ownership all of the time and like an annoying person continually points out your shortcomings in this regard. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | I kinda think that's the point. As a C and C++ programmer, you are only really on the ball regarding these important concepts part of the time and that's where the bugs creep in. Proper, secure and correct programming should be hard and Rust is difficult because it makes you do the donkey work. | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:05 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15389261#02a7f17084850137ec407a163ef10931 | Jul 10 07:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Will snakes bite? Of course. Thankfully we already have #wikileaks publications to show how they do this. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/will-corporate-democrats-team-up-to-block-warren-and-sanders/ | Jul 10 07:06 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.truthdig.com | Will Corporate Democrats Team Up to Block Warren and Sanders? - Truthdig | Jul 10 07:06 | |
| schestowitz | The 2016 election was how I personally came to value Wikileaks. Where else can one find the truth? | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | Jul 10 07:06 | |
| schestowitz | David - about 15 hours ago | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | https://cryptome.org/ | Jul 10 07:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cryptome.org | Cryptome | Jul 10 07:06 | |
| schestowitz | Jul 10 07:06 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - about 15 hours ago | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | Thanks! | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | I've long said they might be the next shutdown target after WL. | Jul 10 07:06 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15240602#dbfa5e9075fd0137ec367a163ef10931 | Jul 10 07:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: With #Regolith , #i3 Tiling Window Management Is Awesome, Strange and Easy http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125087 #gnu #linux | Jul 10 07:07 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | With Regolith, i3 Tiling Window Management Is Awesome, Strange and Easy | Tux Machines | Jul 10 07:07 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | iirc it correctly, | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | yeps. friends have been pointing it out. found myself almost tempted to add its repos to my ubuntu stratum in bedrock. | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 19 days ago | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Never liked Tiling Window Management. And I remember the days of TWM on Solaris. Just as soon as I could, I went to the DCE window manager - which was very much like xfce is today. | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 19 days ago | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | The closest Thing to window managers to me is IceWM. | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Simple and effective | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 19 days ago | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Anyone remember those nice-n-heavy motif 3-D frames around the tom’s window manager windows? Those where the days. :-) | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) - 19 days ago | Jul 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Looking Glass? | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 19 days ago | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | CDE was circa 2000, Looking Glass was much later. | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15312846#433627b07ce1013732a5047d7b62795e | Jul 10 07:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Which Is The Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux? https://itsubuntu.com/which-is-the-best-tiling-window-managers-for-linux/ short and sometimes ripoff from other sites, I think. #gnu #linux | Jul 10 07:08 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | i3 for sure | Jul 10 07:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> itsubuntu.com | Which Is The Best Tiling Window Managers For Linux? | Itsubuntu.com | Jul 10 07:08 | |
| schestowitz | Rudolf Goldman | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | Rudolf Goldman - 10 days ago | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | i3 | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch - 9 days ago | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | awesome | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | ' | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15339490#af5eaf207f8d01374b2d0cc47a07853c | Jul 10 07:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: When a colleague (Ph.D.) told me in 2004 there was this 'astronaut' guy making a #debian derivative I was skeptical; why would a billionaire adventurist do this? 15 years later I'm still skeptical. #ubuntu #canonical | Jul 10 07:08 | |
| schestowitz | ' | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | community: why did you put spyware in ubuntu? | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | shuttleworth: dont trust us? erm, we have root. that means you trust us. | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | community: yes, it means we trusted you up until now-- what changed? other than you changing the subject and sidestepping the question? why should we trust you now? | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | shuttleworth: LOOK EVERYBODY, NEW FEATURES! | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | community: wait, wasnt it a “new feature” we were just complaining about? #antifeatures | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:08 |
| schestowitz | "BUT MA BUSINESS MODELS! POOR ME" | Jul 10 07:09 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15336753#599542107f2e0137e5780cc47a07853c | Jul 10 07:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: US officials are talking about banning end-to-end #encryption again https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3078217/us-officials-are-talking-about-banning-end-to-end-encryption-again they cannot ban #freesw | Jul 10 07:09 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theinquirer.net | US officials are talking about banning end-to-end encryption again | Jul 10 07:09 | |
| schestowitz | article v makes it possible to actually ban politicians. | Jul 10 07:09 |
| schestowitz | just saying. every year, people complain that things are broken. and every year, article v just sits there, probably wondering if people have forgotten it. | Jul 10 07:09 |
| schestowitz | “wikiusa, the constitution any 2/3 of states can edit!” | Jul 10 07:09 |
| schestowitz | ' | Jul 10 07:09 |
| schestowitz | just to answer your question: the people. | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Text | Jul 10 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | who is stopping them? arguably, the media. i tell people if they want freedom, disconnect the television. no cable tv, no antenna. its a damned good start! | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 5 days ago | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | The path to a Positive Progress is a negative: “No”. | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 5 days ago | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | if thats yours, its impressive. it sounds iconic. | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15356047#5dd00500810a0137fe6f0cc47a07853c | Jul 10 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Unlike #amash all of #gop (the WHOLE lot) fails to see what's wrong with supporting crimes, including rape. The US is ruled by criminals (or crime supporters) now. Who can liberate the country (with "freedom and democracy")? | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15213728#39675e0073a40137ec327a163ef10931 | Jul 10 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: US Navy killed Americans, too https://truthout.org/articles/navy-contaminates-local-groundwater-and-sewer-system-in-maryland/ | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> truthout.org | Navy Contaminates Local Groundwater and Sewer System in Maryland | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | This has happened in Westfield Massachusetts also. But the Air Force will take no responsibility. | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 22 days ago | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | https://www.masslive.com/news/2017/01/aquifer_contamination_in_westf.html | Jul 10 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.masslive.com | Water contamination in Westfield draws visit from MassDEP - masslive.com | Jul 10 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:10 |
| schestowitz | All this to secure oligarchs' worldwide domination.... by force | Jul 10 07:11 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15314140#4c0fe5b07d0f0137254e0cc47a07853c | Jul 10 07:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Truly difficult to convert #opml v.2 to #html both online and offline. Still no luck! Boy, has the war on #RSS achieved so much! What proportion of people still use RSS? | Jul 10 07:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | love rss, one of the best technologies ever made. | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | heck, id rather get rid of html than rss. | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | the only reason i dont use it more is that it isnt built in (as it should be) to more platforms like diaspora and hubzilla. i would love to add rss feeds to either of those. hubzilla probably has it somewhere-- man, does that thing ever need a manual. i was happily using wordpress.com for rss reading until they did one too many things to fuck up wordpress.com (i simply cant stand them anymore.) | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 10 days ago | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | p.s. have you written an article on the war on rss? (i dont doubt i can find it if you have, though if you havent you should.) | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | yes, I wrote about that, not sure when though... | Jul 10 07:12 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15360205#b41a75e0815d0137fe700cc47a07853c | Jul 10 07:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: What an awful idea! Or ID. Any photo uploaded this this #espionage engine is automatically scanned and analysed for who's in it (IDs), who with, the perceived mood, the place etc. #facebook is imperial #surveillance (do not give it any photos!) https://vitux.com/upload-photos-to-instagram-directly-from-your-ubuntu-desktop/ | Jul 10 07:13 | |
| schestowitz | "ubuntu <3 facebook" | Jul 10 07:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> vitux.com | Upload Photos to Instagram directly from your Ubuntu Desktop | Jul 10 07:13 | |
| schestowitz | "Ugh that’s sickening" | Jul 10 07:13 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15176776#a3758ee0704d01373d822986f53bbfc6 | Jul 10 07:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: We received this anonymous letter and have published it as a follow-up to “Reader's Claim That Rules Similar to the #CodeofConduct (CoC) Were 'Imposed' on #LibrePlanet and the @FSF “ http://techrights.org/2019/06/13/a-line-in-the-sand/ | Jul 10 07:13 | |
| schestowitz | "just thought it dovetailed a bit." | Jul 10 07:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Guest Post: Notes on Free Speech, and a Line in the Sand | Techrights | Jul 10 07:13 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272948#b429cde079290137ec347a163ef10931 | Jul 10 07:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: To make matters worse, #fossbytes spreads a lot of misinformation >purely for hits<. Really terrible journalism and not even offering links/sources. Hours ago: "Facebook Posts Can Diagnose Your Illness Faster Than Doctors" | Jul 10 07:14 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | “Facebook Posts Can Diagnose Your Illness Faster Than Doctors” | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | Sound just like the title of an Onion piece. A really funny one. | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | after they go after fb for antitrust over their ad policy and entry into cryptocurrency-- perhaps they can go after them for practicing medicine without a license. | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:14 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15360466#a4d7be20816101373a4e0218b72fdf43 | Jul 10 07:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: This would never work unless they criminalised 'possession' of #freesw but go ahead and explain this to a senile racist rapist and neonazi https://news.softpedia.com/news/donald-trump-now-wants-to-ban-end-to-end-encryption-526567.shtml | Jul 10 07:15 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> news.softpedia.com | Donald Trump Now Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption | Jul 10 07:15 | |
| schestowitz | That did not stop the FCC from doing similar things to wifi. They know what they are doing. Monsters are in charge. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | David | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | David - 5 days ago | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Looks like it’s about trackers, tracker apps, Apple, and Facebook. So no effect on me. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Electric Watusi | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Electric Watusi - 4 days ago | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | For example, the DHS “is internally divided,” Politico notes, as the agency is aware of the security implications that banning end-to-end encryption could generate. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | I wish them luck on this one. You can’t ban end to end encryption without creating exceptions for business (like, uhm, VPNs). The moment that happens, I’m now a business, very much a money losing business but still a business. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Pushing for regulations against end-to-end encryption is described as a decisive step in the efforts of intelligence agencies and law enforcement in the United States to access devices and data belonging to criminals and terrorists. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Or data just belonging to every day citizens. I refuse to be monitored. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 4 days ago | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Having read the article and the ProPublica source, I’m not sure how stupid the Trump administration really is. They are complaining about encryption on devices with known software and hardware backdoors. It might be that they are still trying to convince people to trust their crappy spyPhones again. It might also be that the Trump administration is so dick in the face that they would advertise the fact that you can’t trust off the shelf | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | computing by making laws against privacy. | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 07:15 |
| schestowitz | "https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272830#9ccc517079230137253e0cc47a07853c | Jul 10 08:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 4 of the Best Lightweight Operating Systems for #RaspberryPi https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-lightweight-operating-systems-raspberry-pi/ #raspi #gnu #linux | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.maketecheasier.com | NO TITLE | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | one #systemd, one #chromeos, kano (is it discontinued? they promote windows now and one (fully?) proprietary os. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | “best”? far from it. didnt even mention devuan. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | Debian and Devuan do not run natively on the Pi. You need a Big Black Box Binary Large Object. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | i dont think anything runs natively on the pi, by those standards. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | when the first ones (ever) were shipping, i was talking to a sales rep about it. i made a comment about this very thing, at which point he started becoming condescending and obnoxious. i still havent purchased one. of the sbcs on the market i want to buy the one that is the closest to libre-- if i can afford it. preferably for less than usd 100. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | As I recall there is one, based upon the Allwinner A20 (not very powerful). It was featured at the FSF LibrePlanet convention in Boston. Let me see if I can find it… | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | Hmmm, couldn’t find it - but just as good is the BeagleBoard Black: | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian | Jul 10 08:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-elinux.org | Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack Debian - eLinux.org | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| schestowitz | https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ghi-electronics-llc/BBB01-SC-505/BBB01-SC-505-ND/6210999 | Jul 10 08:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/ghi-electronics-llc/BBB01-SC-505/BBB01-SC-505-ND/6210999 ) | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | Ah, here it is: the Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | I saw this at LibrePlanet: | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/ | Jul 10 08:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.olimex.com | Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK - Open Source Hardware Board | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | I saw this at LibrePlanet: | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | how recently? i dont think these boards last long (in terms of availability.) the pi does-- its got a larger business so more availability (but the pi is just not what i want.) | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | I saw this just a couple of months ago in Boston. These A20 boards have been around for years, and will continue to be. The Beagleboard has a long-term committment also. The main problem with these pieces of technology is their limited power, in terms of CPU and memory resources. You can run a small web server, but not a large database. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch - 13 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | It’s silly that the RasPi is so popular but not even fully open source… There are alternatives though: | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | http://linuxgizmos.com/introduction-to-catalog-of-125-linux-hacker-boards/ | Jul 10 08:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxgizmos.com | Introduction to catalog of 125 Linux hacker boards | Jul 10 08:27 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 13 days ago | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | no board is fully free/open but some are very close-- a lot closer than raspi. | Jul 10 08:27 |
| schestowitz | raspi could try to move in that direction, but they are too cozy with their suppliers to even consider it. | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | tomix@diasporing.ch - 13 days ago | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, unfortunately… Users should care more about this aspect of that device (which is great, no doubt, but with removing those blobs could be even better). | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 13 days ago | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | agreed-- free software, free culture, free hardware | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 12 days ago | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | The one I mentioned is put together BLOB free, and runs Debian. But no GUI. | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | The BeagleboneBlack can also be run BLOB free, I believe, but have not researched it. | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/ | Jul 10 08:28 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.olimex.com | Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK - Open Source Hardware Board | Jul 10 08:28 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 08:28 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1148714392793448448 | Jul 10 09:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: @schestowitz Sooner rather than later... | Jul 10 09:23 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/craigthomler/status/1148871974866714625 | Jul 10 10:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@craigthomler: People in the US are joining caravans to Canada to access life saving medicine at reasonable prices. #auspol https://t.co/dKcjv8tyK3 | Jul 10 10:24 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: When #patents support #cartels that kill. Or cause people to flee to other countries just to survive. https://t.co/2bfVcIWxbO | Jul 10 10:24 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/sam_et_max/status/1148892928275832832 | Jul 10 11:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@sam_et_max: Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics, Including Free Software Proponents… https://t.co/kwA12CiyCb | Jul 10 11:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@sam_et_max: Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics, Including Free Software Proponents… https://t.co/kwA12CiyCb | Jul 10 11:06 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics, Including Free Software Proponents http://techrights.org/2019/06/20/microsoft-bullying/ … via seb | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | J'ai pas vérifié mais c'est en accord avec le MS des années 90/2000. Je suis content que VSCode et WSL existent mais je n'ai aucune illusion | Jul 10 11:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics, Including Free Software Proponents | Techrights | Jul 10 11:06 | |
| schestowitz | Translated from French by Microsoft | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics, Including Free Software Proponents http://techrights.org/2019/06/20/microsoft-bullying/ … via seb | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | I did not check but it is in agreement with the MS of the 90s/2000s. I'm glad that VSCode and WSL exist but I have no illusions | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | ' | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Sheikh_al_Touar/status/1148886505152307201 | Jul 10 11:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Sheikh_al_Touar: Why Social Control Media is a Threat to (Software) Freedom #media #freedomofpress #Software #freesoftware… https://t.co/fu08jr05kE | Jul 10 11:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Sheikh_al_Touar: Why Social Control Media is a Threat to (Software) Freedom #media #freedomofpress #Software #freesoftware… https://t.co/fu08jr05kE | Jul 10 11:06 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | More | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | Why Social Control Media is a Threat to (Software) Freedom #media #freedomofpress #Software #freesoftware #softwarelibre #swpat #PressFreedom | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 10 11:06 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Sheikh_al_Touar/status/1148886505152307201 | Jul 10 11:08 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Supraball/status/1148888704037072896 | Jul 10 11:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Supraball: @schestowitz This news is made up btw | Jul 10 11:08 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1149016528056176640 | Jul 10 20:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@stautistic: @schestowitz Medium has done similar for me 🤣 | Jul 10 20:08 | |
| schestowitz | > I've included this one in the links but do note the quote it includes: | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > https://thegeekherald.com/p/googles-fuchsia-os-sneak-peek/ | Jul 10 21:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thegeekherald.com | Google's Fuchsia OS sneak-peek! - The Geek Herald | Jul 10 21:14 | |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > /Lars | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > = | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/935903-you-can-satisfy-some-of-the-people-all-the-time | Jul 10 21:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.goodreads.com | Quote by John Lydgate: “You can satisfy some of the people all the time...” | Jul 10 21:14 | |
| schestowitz | > = | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2foutlook%2f2019%2f07%2f07%2fwhy-julian-assange-is-unlikely-find-refuge-supreme-court%2f%3f | Jul 10 21:14 |
| schestowitz | > # blocked by javascript | Jul 10 21:15 |
| schestowitz | > = | Jul 10 21:15 |
| schestowitz | > x https://coingeek.com/wikileaks-reportedly-sitting-on-46-million-in-crypto/ | Jul 10 21:15 |
| schestowitz | > = | Jul 10 21:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.washingtonpost.com | - The Washington Post | Jul 10 21:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-coingeek.com | Wikileaks reportedly sitting on $46 million in crypto - CoinGeek | Jul 10 21:15 | |
| schestowitz | > Can you please log in to xxx and follow handover process on there for | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | > xxx for the shift. | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | > We couldn’t locate you this morning for handover. No one is using Jabber | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | > now so xxxx is a company requirement. | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | I was on Slack using Rianne's account. | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | I''ve been doing that since we settled on that... | Jul 10 21:17 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/simon_ball46/status/1149049464755298305 | Jul 10 21:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@simon_ball46: #WOW #BillGates https://t.co/HA8V9UqT6K #jihadi #Linux https://t.co/6rxtSx5S8L | Jul 10 21:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Bill Gates Said He Was on a “Jihad” Against GNU/Linux, But GNU/Linux Users/Developers Engaged in Self-Defense Are Foul-Mouthed ‘Microsoft Haters’? | Techrights | Jul 10 21:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@linuxtoday: If Microsoft is Still Attacking Even Its Very Own Partners, Why Believe It Will Treat GNU/Linux Any Better? https://t.co/sBNFy3mNSA | Jul 10 21:22 | |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://thegeekherald.com/p/googles-fuchsia-os-sneak-peek/">Google’s Fuchsia OS sneak-peek!</a></h5> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://thegeekherald.com/p/googles-fuchsia-os-sneak-peek/">Google’s ) | Jul 10 21:29 | |
| schestowitz | <p>Well, Google’s Fuchsia isn’t something new. It came into picture through a GitHub repository which was later moved to Google’s source repository. However, the source code is still public to see, Thus the intent behind moving the repository remains a mystery. </p></blockquote></li> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | <li> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://hackaday.com/2019/07/09/the-saga-of-32-bit-linux-why-going-64-bit-raises-concerns-over-multilib/">The Saga Of 32-Bit Linux: Why Going 64-Bit Raises Concerns Over Multilib</a></h5> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-hackaday.com | The $1 Infrared Solution For Your Pc | Hackaday | Jul 10 21:29 | |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | <p>Given this trend, you’d think Ubuntu announcing last month that they’d no longer be providing 32-bit versions of packages in their repository would hardly be newsworthy. But as it turns out, the threat of ending 32-bit packages caused the sort of uproar that we don’t traditionally see in the Linux community. But why? </p></blockquote></li> | Jul 10 21:29 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/john_bokma/status/1149053609809780737 | Jul 10 21:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@john_bokma: @schestowitz https://t.co/92zuYZ551v | Jul 10 21:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.forbes.com | Huawei's HongMeng OS Is Not '60% Faster' Than Android And iOS, Despite Media Reports | Jul 10 21:44 | |
| schestowitz | yeah, wife posted this in tuxmachines since... | Jul 10 21:44 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125753 | Jul 10 21:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Android Leftovers | Tux Machines | Jul 10 21:44 | |
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| schestowitz | https://www.minds.com/media/995832883986464768?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:995832883986464768:0:0:0:995865674031726592 | Jul 12 05:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.minds.com | People speak of #LabourAntisemitism while ignoring the fact that the right wing has the exact same thing, including Tories #toryGraph #brexit #dogwhistle | Jul 12 05:13 | |
| schestowitz | "Being concerned about Soros' undue influence and loads of money being spent to influence national policies the world over isn't anti-Semitism.' | Jul 12 05:13 |
| schestowitz | https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/996129780950114304?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:996129780950114304:0:0:0:996231758427774976 | Jul 12 05:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.minds.com | Don't buy the faulty Raspberry Pi 4 -- get a different Linux-compatible single-board computer instead | Jul 12 05:14 | |
| schestowitz | "This doesn't seem like a very big deal - seems the worst case is you'd have to buy an official charger... In which case the pi 4 and the charger is still cheaper than the other boards mentioned." | Jul 12 05:14 |
| schestowitz | >>> ... As mentioned, I think the fundamental premise of the LF is wrong: | Jul 12 05:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> it's currently about representing the members' interests inside Linux | Jul 12 05:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> rather than advancing Linux itself and representing it to the world. | Jul 12 05:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> That would be a very hard situation to turn around now that it has been | Jul 12 05:28 |
| schestowitz | >>> allowed to develop for so long. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | >> https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1149257125169946624 | Jul 12 05:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: Always learn lessons from past experiences: "don't try to fix existing organizations. Start new ones. It's sad yet… https://t.co/AXA2FMKrMW | Jul 12 05:29 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: Always learn lessons from past experiences: "don't try to fix existing organizations. Start new ones. It's sad yet… https://t.co/AXA2FMKrMW | Jul 12 05:29 | |
| schestowitz | > Yes, I was thinking of that as an option as one way of 'turning around' | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > the situation. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > For a new foundation to have any relevance, it falls nearly 100% on | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > Linus being willing to pull up stakes and move to it. He still owns the | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > trademark but is probably still uninterested in the bureaucracy. And | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > all of that will involve a lot of money. I presume the current group | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | > has him tightly by the mortgage and college bills. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | Serious question (not to be answered spontaneously): | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | where do we take TM and TR? | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | do we support Linux? | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | what about other OSes? | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | what article/tweet (or similar microblogging) ratio? | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | in diaspora I'm thousands of replies behind (not managing to keep up anymore, I get about 100 replied per day there), partly because I try to write >articles< more | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | replying to everything can take a lot of time (hours per day) and I also have a job to keep up with (nighttimes, like now) | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | what to write >about<? | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | I'm also about 550 items behind on political feeds. I've lost will or drive to even look at them and maybe that's a good thing because with momentum comes addition of sorts... | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | In IRC we almost doubled the number of people.... esp. since we started covering LF stuff (not suggesting this alone is the correlation) | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | EPO is quieting down. I really have to scrape deep to find material. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | suggestions welcome... I'm open to change. we have the trust and the readership in our sites (28 years and going if you combine their lifetime), but the direction needs tweaking somewhat | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | btw, the daily links and the way they're sent? very, very helpful. It's not likely we're missing some critical news. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | last point: I really don't know what to do about the IBM/RHT thing. Or rather, not sure... that too needs to be clearly defined and time will tell (depending on what IBM does) | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | times of flux... software moves >fast<. If you don't move with it, you end up a relic like esr, michael tieman, phipps (hardly even blogs anymore) and lots of defunct publishers alike... | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | this weekend I have garden work and other duties, but I'm off work, so 2 options: | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | 1. catch up with politics | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | 2. write loads of articles | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | leaning towards (2), but must carefully think topics of foremost interest. | Jul 12 05:29 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15393904#bbf2750084bc0137e58c0cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #UK ISPs Vilify #Mozilla For Trying To Secure The #Internet https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190708/07360742536/uk-isps-vilify-mozilla-trying-to-secure-internet.shtml #firefox | Jul 12 05:30 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techdirt.com | UK ISPs Vilify Mozilla For Trying To Secure The Internet | Techdirt | Jul 12 05:30 | |
| schestowitz | the isps are villains and monopolies calling mozilla out for choosing a different monopoly over theirs. | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | its laughable. | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | this will move traffic from one form of corporate surveillance to a different one. the isps arent wrong, but theyre saying this for purely selfish, hypocritical reasons. | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | gigatux | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | gigatux - 2 days ago | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | So why would mozillas DoH be another form of control? | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 days ago | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | why would mozillas DoH be another form of control? | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | because it puts all dns through a privately controlled single point of failure. | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/ | Jul 12 05:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-hacks.mozilla.org | A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog | Jul 12 05:30 | |
| schestowitz | this will harm privacy and assist surveillance, its a non-solution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cispa | Jul 12 05:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act - Wikipedia | Jul 12 05:30 | |
| schestowitz | and it gives cloudflare (a single company instead of several isps) control over your dns. the isps are a monopoly, cloudflare is a monopoly. this isnt progress-- in some ways its even worse (we shouldnt stay with the isps either. moving to cloudflare wont help.) | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | Mozilla said CF was only used experimentally and would not be the final thing | Jul 12 05:30 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, right. Like hell they were going to loose Steam. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 17 days ago | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | what fucks me off is theyre going to act like people were exaggerating, when it was canonical, not the people who talked about their decision that were rash. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | theres no honesty about it. canonical has no respect for users at all-- which should be obvious from 1. the unity lens 2. the idiotic comments and runaround shuttleworth gave in response. that guys a dick. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | “Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update.” | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | yeah, dipshit-- its precisely that trust that is being questioned. its not like you sign a lifetime contract for trusting someone that fucks around with your setup and sells your data. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | it was a circular argument, a subtle change of subject and a complete insult to the intelligence of anybody that trusted canonical. shuttleworth weaseled his way out of what should be an apology, because he only cares about canonical-- he doesnt give a shit about the people that made canonical viable, or he wouldnt betray them and lie to them. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, right. Like hell they were going to loose Steam. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 17 days ago | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | what fucks me off is theyre going to act like people were exaggerating, when it was canonical, not the people who talked about their decision that were rash. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | theres no honesty about it. canonical has no respect for users at all-- which should be obvious from 1. the unity lens 2. the idiotic comments and runaround shuttleworth gave in response. that guys a dick. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | “Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update.” | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | yeah, dipshit-- its precisely that trust that is being questioned. its not like you sign a lifetime contract for trusting someone that fucks around with your setup and sells your data. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | it was a circular argument, a subtle change of subject and a complete insult to the intelligence of anybody that trusted canonical. shuttleworth weaseled his way out of what should be an apology, because he only cares about canonical-- he doesnt give a shit about the people that made canonical viable, or he wouldnt betray them and lie to them. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272685#c46116d07912013737040218b72fdf43 | Jul 12 05:32 |
| schestowitz | I agree to that.. | Jul 12 05:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Ubuntu Changed their stand http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125143?page=1#comment-20804 | Jul 12 05:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Ubuntu 19.10 Dropping 32-bit Support Leaves Developers Fuming | Tux Machines | Jul 12 05:32 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15253759#b46da800771f013714ed005056264835 | Jul 12 05:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Ubuntu 19.10 Dropping 32-bit Support Leaves Developers Fuming http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/125143 #gnu #linux #canonical | Jul 12 05:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Ubuntu 19.10 Dropping 32-bit Support Leaves Developers Fuming | Tux Machines | Jul 12 05:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Gone are the days when Ubuntu would run on anything. Trying to find a good distro that’ll run on 32-bit hardware is getting more and more difficult as time goes on. | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Space Force☮🍄 | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Space Force☮🍄 - 20 days ago | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Time to switch | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Stef | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Stef - 20 days ago | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | Debian continue support the 32 bits harware. | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15322107#772789707de70137ec207a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Trump Is the Perverse Personification of #AmericanExceptionalism https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-the-perverse-personification-of-american-exceptionalism/ "The U.K., the U.S’s closest ally over the past century, has borne much of this stunning breach of protocol." | Jul 12 05:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> truthout.org | Trump Is the Perverse Personification of American Exceptionalism | Jul 12 05:46 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | Europe seems less and less likely to follow along with the Trump administration’s war mongering. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | Europe seems less and less likely to follow along with the Trump administration’s war mongering. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | good if its true. ive always been disgusted at how the rest of the world follows usa into war crimes. after that they say “blah blah, the americans are criminals” well stop following usa into illegal wars, then! what do you think is going to happen? #money | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | i dislike france a lot (latest reason, copyright directive) but to their credit, they took a lot of criticism for staying out of iraq (what everybody should have done, tony blair) | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iran-stand-nuclear-threat-europe-china-work-bypass/story?id=64021813 | Jul 12 05:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-abcnews.go.com | Iran may stand down on nuclear threat after Europe, China work to bypass US sanctions - ABC News | Jul 12 05:46 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | https://www.rt.com/news/462944-eu-channel-iran-sanctions-bypass/ | Jul 12 05:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.rt.com | Special EU channel to allow trade with Iran, circumvent US sanctions is now operational - statement — RT World News | Jul 12 05:46 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | interesting links | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | I really like the sound of the phrase “Trump Is the Perverse Personification of AmericanExceptionalism” - has the right ring to it. Trump is perverse, a pervert, but is he perverse as an American? Hmmm… | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | is he perverse as an American? | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | before you go further, remember that hitler, mussolini and putin all were / are european. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | Got me there. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | im still shocked at all the things clinton did while in office, but all anybody cared about was 1. fellatio 2. lying about that 3. attacking iraq to distract the press (the clintons are warmongers.) | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | i think obviously, out of those the latter is the worst part. but for some reason, for the first few months of the bush administration, i thought jr gave us the dmca. i forgot, or didnt know that clinton set up the routine way to censor the internet without a fee. but he was in office for 8 years-- he screwed up a lot of stuff we dont hear much about. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | of course thats when the patriot act was written, and when someone else took office, less than a year passed before we were at war with everything suspicious, including ourselves. now the author of that bill to be at war with the entire world wants to be president, the ap is supporting him (as they did hillary, as they helped hitler in 1933) and the dnc will ensure that he wins the primaries. warren will certainly have my gratitude if she can | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | keep him out. he looks pretty untouchable, i guarantee hillary would support biden over warren. why? she has never cared about anything, except power. shes even more fake than trump (i know you wont believe that, im sure trump isnt far behind. and thats a pretty terrible thing to say about almost anybody-- even him.) | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | I’ve often complained that Bill Clinton was one of the very worst presidents we have ever had in power. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | I’m worried now about Harris. She has Obama redux written all over her. | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:46 |
| schestowitz | https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/01/the-real-college-inequality-democrats-have-yet-to-address/ | Jul 12 05:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.counterpunch.org | The Real College Inequality Democrats Have Yet to Address | Jul 12 05:47 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15337338#b61571d07f3e0137e57e0cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #trump the criminal plays dirty. That's just what happens when a con man holds office. https://www.newsweek.com/fake-biden-campaign-website-being-run-secretly-trump-campaign-operative-report-1446693 | Jul 12 05:47 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.newsweek.com | Fake Biden Campaign Website Being Run Secretly By Trump Campaign Operative: Report | Jul 12 05:47 | |
| schestowitz | fair point, but whoever has the job of taking the real joe biden and trying to make him sound worse than he is, really has their work cut out for them. | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - 8 days ago | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | How many candidates have Newsweek come out in their defense? Certainly not Tulsi Gabbard, also victim of a similar smear website. | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | Maybe Newsweek should have addressed the other “unfavorable policy positions” because they are all sourced and look very compelling. | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | Joe Biden for President 2020 | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | https://diasporing.ch/uploads/images/scaled_full_f26e0425774ea92a75be.jpg | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15403376#1cc7913085b20137ec407a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Bruce #perens (second #debian leader... after the founder... and "Mr. Open Source" or OSD) called #zemlinpac an "infringers' club" (referring to #gpl and companies like VMware and Microsoft). The 'foundation' and #oin alike. | Jul 12 05:47 | |
| schestowitz | "I was just thinking, there has been no instance of Microsoft in my house for about 10 years. My wife and kids have the good sense to use either Apple or Linux." | Jul 12 05:47 |
| schestowitz | Even longer here... | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15396944#7330615085220137e57a0cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: But... but #ibm is a #proprietarysoftware company taking over a #freesw one. How is that....? Never mind... https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/132656/the-future-is-open-linux-unplugged-309/ | Jul 12 05:48 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.jupiterbroadcasting.com | The Future is Open | LINUX Unplugged 309 | Jupiter Broadcasting | Jul 12 05:48 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15396944#7330615085220137e57a0cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | no, you see, this is a little fish eating a big fish-- from the inside! | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | #shitopensourcesays #openbullshit | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | ' | Jul 12 05:48 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15335234#d3b0c2207f140137ad8a52540039b762 | Jul 12 05:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Can't trust them with anything, so trust them with your savings, spendings etc. too? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/01/facebucks-are-last-thing-world-needs | Jul 12 05:49 | |
| schestowitz | "a lot of people in China pay with their mobile… China is the new role model… if you write something bad here they will hack your BIOS ;)" | Jul 12 05:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.commondreams.org | Facebucks Are the Last Thing the World Needs | Common Dreams Views | Jul 12 05:49 | |
| schestowitz | "Social credit? Lol" | Jul 12 05:49 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15401835#9c186fc0856f0137ec3e7a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Corporate #propaganda for #proprietarysoftware disguised as a "news" site https://insidesap.com.au/sap-hana-on-power-accelerates-with-p9/ | Jul 12 05:50 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> insidesap.com.au | SAP HANA on Power Accelerates with P9 - Inside SAP | Jul 12 05:50 | |
| schestowitz | Perversely, I wish IBM success with their PowerPC CPUs. The larger the ecosystem, the better. And Intel needs to be taken down. | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - a day ago | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | But yeah, the article is a marketing exercise. | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | dt@pluspora.com | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | dt@pluspora.com - a day ago | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | @tomgrz Intel has some competition from Arm coming. | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | Things like this… | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/18/ampere_shipping | Jul 12 05:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.co.uk | Watt the heck is this? A 32-core 3.3GHz Arm server CPU shipping? Yes, says Ampere • The Register | Jul 12 05:50 | |
| schestowitz | Some tweaks to windows: | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHG7bj-CEI | Jul 12 05:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Intel is in serious trouble. ARM is the Future. - YouTube | Jul 12 05:50 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - about 22 hours ago | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, I’ve seen this develop over the last 2 or three years. RISC is not dead! | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:50 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15403574#0ad9d5f085b00137ec3e7a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Complete chaos and system breakdown in #windows #zeroday galore https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47096 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47102 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47100 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47092 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47099 | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Due to Integer Overflow in readTTCDirectory | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - NULL Pointer Dereferences in OpenType Font Handling While Accessing Empty dynarrays | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - Out-of-Bounds Read in OpenType Font Handling Due to Undefined FontName Index | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - a day ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | This day has been coming for a while. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - Stack Corruption in OpenType Font Handling Due to Incorrect Handling of blendArray | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | Microsoft DirectWrite / AFDKO - Stack Corruption in OpenType Font Handling While Processing CFF Blend DICT Operator | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - a day ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | Almost immediately after David Cutler presented Microsoft with a modern, relatively secure operating system with NT, they began to corrupt it. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | https://blog.codinghorror.com/showstopper/ | Jul 12 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-blog.codinghorror.com | Showstopper! | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about 23 hours ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | david cutler? i thought it was originally joint research between microsoft and ibm. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - about 23 hours ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | No, NT was designed by a chief engineer from DEC. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about 23 hours ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | No, NT was designed by a chief engineer from DEC. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | the dec team was the side that microsoft hired. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | it was joined by former os/2 devs. this is slightly different from what i heard, though not completely different from what either of us said. (they were ibm developers. what i dont know is if ibm hired them to work on it.) | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - about 22 hours ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT | Jul 12 05:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Windows NT - Wikipedia | Jul 12 05:51 | |
| schestowitz | Yeah, Microsquish partnered with IBM at first, but them seem to have made little progress until they bought some talent from DEC. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation led by Dave Cutler to build Windows NT, and many elements of the design reflect earlier DEC experience with Cutler’s VMS[21] and RSX-11, but also an unreleased object-based operating system developed by Dave Cutler for DEC Prism.[22] The team was joined by selected members of the disbanded OS/2 team | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about 22 hours ago | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | cool. | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:51 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15322369#08080f907dee013725700cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Even #scotus does not believe in #democracy or the concept of all votes being equal https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/supreme-court-gives-free-rein-partisan-gerrymandering | Jul 12 05:52 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.brennancenter.org | Supreme Court Gives Free Rein to Partisan Gerrymandering | Brennan Center for Justice | Jul 12 05:52 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Text | Jul 12 05:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia | Jul 12 05:52 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | weve spent the past few decades (or more) leaning too much on scotus to be the final word on the constitution anyway-- people forget that the constitution is what gives them their jobs. it has more authority than they do-- and it is supposed to. | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | The Supreme Court is now in the business of selling-out the Constitution. It’s their job. | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | But I agree completely. The Constitution is not just “words on paper” and it is not just “what the Supreme Court says it is”. It is a document that is available to each of us, along with the well-documented history behind it, dating from the Magna Carta. That history also includes the many absurd rulings that the “Supreme” court has made in the past… | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | 100% exactly | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:52 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15364057#aaf034e081b20137ec207a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: For a (mostly) browser company #mozilla has become a little... strange https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/07/05/mozillas-latest-research-grants-prioritizing-research-for-the-internet/#firefox | Jul 12 05:53 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.mozilla.org | Mozilla's Latest Research Grants: Prioritizing Research for the Internet - The Mozilla Blog | Jul 12 05:53 | |
| schestowitz | OK, so what’s up with that? | Jul 12 05:53 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:53 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 6 days ago | Jul 12 05:53 |
| schestowitz | “research” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data #surveillance | Jul 12 05:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Big data - Wikipedia | Jul 12 05:53 | |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 6 days ago | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | research (into big data / surveillance) is what facebook does. while facebook becomes about “philanthropy” mozilla will become about “research” while both head in increasingly similar directions. | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | WHY? what pushes mozilla to do that? | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | same thing as the linux foundation-- corporate corruption, it would seem. we should not allow mozillas webservers to connect. google also does “research.” every second of every day. | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 4 days ago | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | Yep. I have no need for my mozilla to telephone home. Therefore I do not want that behavior, and do not intend to allow it. There is nothing good there for me. | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15357300#d690433081300137ec2e7a163ef10931 | Jul 12 05:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: I like what he says... His wife looks good... He 'supports the troops'... He said he'd be "tough on crime" #ThingsAreNotWhatTheySeem | Jul 12 05:55 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- Photo by schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_35ba554788fe0a5cb1be.png | Jul 12 05:55 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | “Crime”? Not war-crime. Not police brutality. Not corporate malfeasance. Not treasonous destruction of our constitutional state. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | i said when they were running, we are either going to get a blonde from new york with a bad hairpiece that cares about nothing but money and power, or we are going to get trump. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | i wasnt speaking as a fan of either. he gutted and shelved tpp, and im grateful to the people who elected him for that. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | both parties played a broken election system thats based entirely on gerrymandering, dubious democratic primaries and above all, lobbying that should be banned in the same particular context (and used to be!) hillary had google (presumably) taking care of that for her. couldnt tell you who trump had in charge-- but what got him elected was hillary screwing over bernie. other than that, bernie would be president right now. i was fine with that, | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | too. but no matter who takes office, we always get the corporations. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | You know your democracy is totally fubar when you really cannot vote for either reprehensible candidate. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | ^But the odds of that happening are really quite high when you have only two political parties in power. It’s not much more difficult to fully corrupt two parties than it is only one. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | its not just the number though. the rules on funding were gradually relaxed until it was nearly possible for corporations to buy candidates-- legally. | Jul 12 05:55 |
| schestowitz | https://invidio.us/watch?v=c5mfz_mmXUE ← rebooting democracy, lawrence lessig (the 45 minutes from 15:00 to 1:00 are the lecture) | Jul 12 05:56 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 05:56 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:56 |
| schestowitz | ^Just to make the process easier. | Jul 12 05:56 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-invidio.us | Lawrence Lessig - Rebooting Democracy - Invidious | Jul 12 05:56 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15337240#e6ef70407f3701374b310cc47a07853c | Jul 12 05:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #mozilla sales strategy isn't aiming for the right wing https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/07/02/mozilla-joins-brief-for-protection-of-lgbtq-employees-from-discrimination/ | Jul 12 05:58 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.mozilla.org | Mozilla joins brief for protection of LGBTQ employees from discrimination - The Mozilla Blog | Jul 12 05:58 | |
| schestowitz | '" | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | javascript was written by a religiously homophobic netscape/mozilla employee who had to step down because people kept protesting against him donating money to a homophobic cause. | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | mozilla has sold out so much, i can hardly think this is anything except more #rainbowwashing. | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | if that seems unfair, consider this-- does mozilla care about privacy? no, it has telemetry. free software? no, it supports drm with one hand and pointlessly laments it with the other. e-waste/environment? no, its a mountain of bloat and it keeps getting worse. so why would it care about lgbtq rights? mozilla doesnt care about anything, anymore. but it will certainly say it does, because thats the business it is in. its just another | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | corporation, with different tax rules. it doesnt “care”. i wouldnt be so harsh if it had not abandoned its mission. “mozilla. meet the technology company that puts people before profit.” #mozillacloudcontrol | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | Jul 12 05:58 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 7 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | That step down probably made things worse for Mozilla. He was opposed to DRM and soon after he left Mozilla reversed direction and approved EME. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | We can easily judge the sincerity of any company’s commitment to human rights. If they abuse their customers with non free software, they don’t really believe in freedom of any kind. Microsoft, for example, has made big shows of women’s rights, LBGTQ rights, etc, while systematically discriminating against women working for Microsoft, promoting vile misogynist video games, and selling everyone’s private papers to the NSA, FBI, and so | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | on. It should be obvious when they demand the ability to screw people that their advocacy of rights is a shit show to make people think favorably of the company. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 6 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | That step down probably made things worse for Mozilla. He was opposed to DRM and soon after he left Mozilla reversed direction and approved EME. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | perhaps the whole thing was started by people who wanted to undermine the freedom of mozilla then. it certainly has gotten a lot worse / more useless as free (as in freedom) software, no matter how you define it. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) #freerichard #speculationofcourse | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 6 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | The story was certainly amplified by the Microsoft press, but I can’t say how the campaign started and I would not say that people were not sincere in their outrage. At the time, I thought people should accept his apology and ask for meaningful change instead of revenge. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 6 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | I would not say that people were not sincere in their outrage. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | oh they were, its really more a question of whether it was strategically leaked or not. “leaked” not being the best word, because it was actually public information. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | was it found by someone offended? or by someone who found it to be an opportunity? we will not likely ever know, unless we find out something somehow that we were never likely to-- probably because of a leak. i figure the trail is dead, so its idle speculation probably. i wouldnt rule it out, though-- not when we know what we do these days. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 3 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | It was strategically amplified, and that is a mechanism of control publishers have. Society constantly produces messages of all sorts. Publishers have the power to promote the messages they like and quash those they don’t like. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | The internet started to erode this power, Facebook has made things worse than they were before the internet. Google’s organic search results were particularly revealing and have been under constant attack - link farms, DMCA takedown, and outright censorship. Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are also publisher targets, with the EU censors going so far as to call an Internet Archive film collection, “terrorist material”. Facebook is the | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | ultimate censor and controller, able to manipulate each individual’s worldview from a collected history of opinions. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 3 days ago | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | with the EU censors going so far | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | yeah, they need to be HEAVILY HEAVILY criticised for that. | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | personally, ive stopped buying things from the eu. its not 100%, its just as often as possible which is most of the time. and i bought plenty of things from the uk, france, italy, germany, portugal… but i wont until the eu decides to stop attacking the internet. still not convinced it is a force for good. well aware of the good it claims to do. but theyre bowing so much to corporations, why should anybody be convinced? (either way, stop | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | attacking the internet, europe! unless you want a war…) | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 05:59 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15393822#c7aff14084cd01372ca909a37ac6b2db | Jul 12 06:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Russian #Internet #astroturfing -- same thing that the #uk and #trumpland are doing, but theirs is evil, 'ours' is benign, benevolent, very much "necessary" https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190709/07271142541/once-again-russian-internet-propaganda-efforts-shown-to-be-much-bigger-than-originally-believed.shtml | Jul 12 06:00 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 06:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techdirt.com | Once Again, Russian Internet Propaganda Efforts Shown To Be Much Bigger Than Originally Believed | Techdirt | Jul 12 06:00 | |
| schestowitz | since this started, ive said (in various places) that i think every country with the power to do this (with the budget, with the experts) does this. | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | its funny when people are outraged that russia is one of them. all powerful countries have propaganda aimed at other countries. | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | but america openly stepped up its propaganda after the 9/11 attacks. they basically had retired propaganda programs that were said (in newspapers and other news) to be under consideration for reactivation. that means, of course, that they were already reactivated. i think its obvious weve had weaponised “fake news” sources ever since-- your tax dollars at work! | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 days ago | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_controversies | Jul 12 06:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | The New York Times controversies - Wikipedia | Jul 12 06:00 | |
| schestowitz |  | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - 2 days ago | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims | RealClearInvestigations | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 06:00 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272962#8605b92079290137ec347a163ef10931 | Jul 12 06:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #StallmanWasRight about a lot of things, but his response to #microsoft #entryism is wrong because it's far to passive and submissive. #fsf is under attack and it's too mum to actually tackle the problem, correct false narratives. | Jul 12 06:00 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272962#8605b92079290137ec347a163ef10931 | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | Dr. Roy, you are right. Evil must be confronted, not ignored. It will not go away - far from it… | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 17 days ago | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | hear, hear! | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | the fsf is important-- but this is the most important thing that can be said about the fsf at this time. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 17 days ago | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | also if you want this kind of passivity from the tech press, you have to pay for it. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | im not saying the fsf should accept bribes, but why is it remaining silent all these years, for free? | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | i asked in #fsf on irc.freenode.net, and got trolled by a fsf member called Tea. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:24:05] <Digit> so, some say fsf are not doing enough about m$… e.g. https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15272962 what response is there to this, and to m$? | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:28:56] <Tea> What is that in response to? | Jul 12 06:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #StallmanWasRight about a lot of things, but his response to #microsoft #entryism is wrong because it's far to passive and submissive. #fsf is under attack and it's too mum to actually tackle the problem, correct false narratives. | Jul 12 06:09 | |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:31:57] <Digit> i think it’s to M$'s e.e.e./entryism in general, but you’d have to ask “Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)” to be sure. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:35:14] <Tea> You can just call it MS, it’s okay | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:35:27] <Tea> Without knowing what’s being commented on, I don’t think anyone can tell you what response there is | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:40:52] <Digit> not helpful. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:08] *** Tea is Joe (tea@fsf/member/tea) | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | *** Tea is on channel(s): #fsf-members #fsf | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | *** Tea is/was on server weber.freenode.net (US) | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | *** Tea is using a secure connection | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | *** Tea has been idle for 00:06.41, on since 2019-06-24 22:04:07 | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:09] *** Tea is logged in as Tea | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:14] <Tea> I know, that’s what I’m saying | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:20] <Tea> There’s not enough information here | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:40] <Digit> no, i’m saying you’re not being helpful. nonsense about s/M$/MS/. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:42:54] <Digit> detracts from the point. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:43:36] <Tea> It works both ways | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 16:43:43] <Tea> But yeah, there’s not enough information in your link | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | we’ll see if better (less aggravating/trolling) responses come. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | there might not be enough information. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | however, the fsf constantly promotes parodies of things like “microsoft” and tea could be a troll, as you said. | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | It works both ways | Jul 12 06:09 |
| schestowitz | not really. at any rate, tea wasnt helpful. this doesnt really say much. you would need a book or two to “prove” that the fsf has problems right now, to someone truly neutral/sceptical about it. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Librethreat_Database#Code_of_Conduct | Jul 12 06:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Librethreat Database - Techrights | Jul 12 06:10 | |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 17:05:29] <pehjota> “M$” detracts from the point and suggests that MSFT is the only company that cares about “$”. But to the point, yeah, lacking context, so I can only answer generally: Microsoft is by far not the only threat to freedom. Gone are the simple times when we could only complain about Windows and Office. Threats now come from Apple, Google, IBM, Intel, Amazon, Facebook, Tesla, … | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | o_O | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | whataboutism fallacy to shift attention. starting to think the dr’s right. fsf have a problem. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | [2019-06-26 17:06:55] <pehjota> And not everything done by any of those companies, including Microsoft, is evil. They’re big companies with different business units doing different things, some good, some bad. It’s all gray areas now, so we have to be more specific in calling out bad actions (not just one poster child bad actor). | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | @Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊), could you provide link/quote to the specific " his response to #microsoft #entryism " you’re referring to, for these folk? | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | M$” detracts from the point and suggests that MSFT is the only company that cares about “$” | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | thats bullshit. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | it means they only care about profit-- i dont care what kind of rhetorical jujitsu pehjota is subscribed to, but hes creating a strawman and being obtuse. its not his job to tell you how to talk. https://freemedia.neocities.org/your-community.html | Jul 12 06:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freemedia.neocities.org | free media alliance | Jul 12 06:10 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | hes the one detracting from the fucking point when he avoids discussion by nitpicking your choice of terms instead. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | this is the kind of nonsense the fsf occupies itself with these days instead of fighting the war on free software http://techrights.org/2019/04/18/mention-the-war/ | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | “Mention the War” (of Microsoft Against GNU/Linux) | Techrights | Jul 12 06:10 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | not everything done by any of those companies, including Microsoft, is evil. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | hes a fucking open source shill. this is open source rhetoric, hes definitely trolling. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft is by far not the only threat to freedom. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | hes avoiding talking about microsofts problems simply by saying its not only microsoft. theres no point talking to this guy, he doesnt care about the problem at all. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | also hes strawmanning. microsoft is an example-- hes making your argument out to be “only about microsoft” – you never said that. because its a strawman. hes trying to (dishonestly) “prove” that you dont know what youre talking about. hes trolling. you wont get anything from him, hes not being honest. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Google is pretty-much pure evil. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | There can be no excuse for reading and monetizing people’s emails. | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:10 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | obtuse | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | the very word that’s been on my mind regarding those responses from those two responders. wondered if it was deliberate. though, didnt want to (be the first to) say, remembering, as per the scene in shawshank, how the obtuse may respond to such accusations/queries. :3 | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Google is pretty-much pure evil. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Google’s brand is perhaps simply about raw power. Like with these other companies, the real power is the power they have over the industry and the users of their products. But their brand is about the smaller amount of power they “share” with users (much like the smaller amount of money that many philanthropists spend on good causes, while helping to destroy the world and everything good in it.) | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2019/06/11/changing-the-names/ | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Chapter 9: Ownership Through Branding — Change the Names, and Change the World | Techrights | Jul 12 06:11 | |
| schestowitz | @Digit | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | irc is full of trolls. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | entryism is a topic roy covers all the time: https://share.naturalnews.com/tags/entryism the canned response is that he exaggerates. there are plenty of hard facts in these articles, but people choose to make their responses about his tone. thats exactly what happened to you in irc as well. its not disputed that microsoft is about profit. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-share.naturalnews.com | #entryism | Jul 12 06:11 | |
| schestowitz | heck, the (less free-software-oriented) person that founded the open source initiative said 20 years ago: http://www.catb.org/~esr/not-the-osi/halloween-rant.html | Jul 12 06:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.catb.org | The Halloween Documents: An Appreciation | Jul 12 06:11 | |
| schestowitz | “Sleazy behavior, covered by utterly brilliant marketing, has been a pattern in Microsoft’s business practices since they were a garage outfit running on subsidies from Bill Gates’s wealthy parents.” | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Google’s brand is perhaps simply about raw power. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Exactly. They claim that they empower their users, but the relationship is almost totally asymmetrical. There is literally nothing that they offer that cannot be obtained elsewhere, it is solely their pervasiveness (and invasiveness) which keeps them (and us) in place. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | so far, the result is (if i may so parody the OP): #DrRoyWasRight about a lot of things, but his summation was weaker than befitting of how dire the situation seems, with apparant psyop shills infiltrating fsf, spreading M$ defensive mud in the form of logical fallacies. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | adds a sting to the associate membership i just had auto-renewed days ago. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | his summation was weaker than befitting of how dire the situation seems, with apparant psyop shills infiltrating fsf, spreading M$ defensive mud in the form of logical fallacies. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | people are constantly saying hes exaggerating. its a lot of work to prove he isnt, though i dont think he is. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | the shills are nothing new. thats what open source is. its certainly what it is now. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | adds a sting to the associate membership i just had auto-renewed days ago. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | should have joined the boycott (i dont think anybody is going to boycott really, but its symbolic. it wont hurt them.) https://freemedia.neocities.org/2019-floss-boycott.html | Jul 12 06:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-freemedia.neocities.org | free media alliance | Jul 12 06:11 | |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 16 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | One of the ironic things about “Open Source” licenses, such as the MIT license is that any project can be easily forked and put under GNU. The problem is a lack of manpower, and a compelling rational. It is the rational that is under attack. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | permissive licenses dont bother me. im aware of the argument against them, the gpl is a reasonable response to that, but the gpl is a tedious license (for hobbyists) in many ways. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | im not anti-gpl, gpl is probably necessary for many things. for important projects especially. i use #cc0 for most of my code personally. | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | for me, a vibrant public domain is something we should all be working towards. stallmans rhetoric about the public domain is acceptable, but cc0 lets us do something right now. so even if gpl is needed for some things (the kernel, the gnu project) i still dont think it is necessary for everything. its a strategic response to monopolies. even the fsf makes exceptions (the difference is where the line is drawn.) | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:11 |
| schestowitz | Myself, personally, would prefer to use only GPL’d software - but it is not pervasive enough. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | theres nothing wrong with using permissive free software. it is free software. the fsf says it is. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | the fsf has never looked too hard for free software solutions where a good one already exists. so if openbsd has a permissive-licensed secure shell, that meets the needs of the fsf, theyre not going to make their own just to have a gpld version. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | Yep - too tepid an approach. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | or put another way, even the fsf is practical sometimes. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | you gain pretty much nothing from waiting around for a gpl version of openssh. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | if there were a reason, the fsf would produce one. but instead they use the same developer resources for other things that matter more than gpl purity. i always use a gpl-compatible license, i think thats important. but not everything needs to be copyleft. you dont necessarily gain anything in real terms from doing that. what is “too tepid” about using openssh? its not a compromise that actually affects anything. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, I am not “waiting”, but I am hoping. The FSF needs to be more aggressive about “sharing”. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | I think we are talking at tangents - the GNU license has some important quasi-political implications that transcend mere “use”. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | the GNU license has some important quasi-political implications that transcend mere “use”. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | they are not binding. are you suggesting that their inclusion will educate people about free software? | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | part of the problem the fsf has is theyve accomplished so much of what they set out to do. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | they have a free operating system. ok-- now what? | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | certainly there are new threats, but ive watched smaller communities fall apart when theyve accomplished their primary/collaborative goal and dont know what to do next. a larger community is more difficult. they can just keep working to make money and spread a message, and theyre certainly doing that-- but for what? | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | some ideas: | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | https://archive.org/details/figosdev_users_Fsf2/page/n3 | Jul 12 06:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-archive.org | fsf_2.0_first_draft_odt_pdf : figosdev : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | Jul 12 06:12 | |
| schestowitz | “find a way to double the fsf’s success, with less than twice as much funding” (sept 2018) | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/double-the-movement-inspire-someone-to-explore-free-software | Jul 12 06:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.fsf.org | Double the movement: Inspire someone to explore free software — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software | Jul 12 06:12 | |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | the gnu gpl version 1 is a delightful and insightful read, that expediently educated and enthused me about the importance of free software. subsequent versions got increasingly lawyerish, and tl;dr (i admit, i dont recall ever reading through all of gpl3). | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | as for that article linked… at the risk of participating in the derailing and rat-holing of this comments thread, i’ll just say, it’s a muddle marred heavily by several misconceptions and conflations, as much as its cathartic venting, and not really all that helpful, even if i do agree with much of it, albeit without using the same conflations and misconceptions. but it’s still not really helping get clarity on fsf’s stance, i dont | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | think. nor clarity even, in raising the call for a boycott of fsf, as seems its intent, as you mention. seems a lot of cathartic noise obfuscating what could be boiled down to something much more concise and poignant… it was tl;dr for me, giving up about half way. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | i imagine this thread will likewise be tl;dr for many now. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | part of the problem the fsf has is theyve accomplished so much of what they set out to do. | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | they have a free operating system. ok-- now what? | Jul 12 06:12 |
| schestowitz | woah, woah, woah, woah. woah! | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | that’s like the rhetoric we hear from those who think science has discovered all there is to discover. no, no, no, no. NO! | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | there is still SO MUCH to do. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | as a socio-liberty advocacy sorta movement thingy, we’re not even 1% done. how many people are even aware of free software? even the local people in your life… how many of them are well versed in free software, such that they can educate others on what the 4 freedoms of free software are, and why they’re important? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | but for what? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | everybody’s freedom. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | how many people are even aware of free software? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | how about a better question-- why arent they aware of it? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | because the fsf is more than three decades old. there are lots of people working to make people less aware of free software-- to keep them from becoming aware. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | imo the fsf should talk about that. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | it’s a muddle marred heavily by several misconceptions and conflations | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | a more honest critique would be more useful. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | what misconceptions, what conflations? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | the fsf has an answer for everything, but the answer is usually “you dont understand free software, come back later.” | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | im a former fsf member, im a free software author, ive created a gnu/linux distro, and ive spent years emailing rms. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | if youre implying theres something you know about free software that i dont, thats always possible-- but lets hear it. dont hold it up (in a closed folder) like microsofts patent portfolio-- open it up and lets get down to business. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | otherwise, whats the point of the comment? all you did was pooh-pooh it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh | Jul 12 06:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Pooh-pooh - Wikipedia | Jul 12 06:13 | |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | how about a better question-- why arent they aware of it? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | not sure what’s the benefit of question oneupmanship there. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | both questions have merit. can barely get to one without the other though. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | a more honest critique would be more useful. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | what misconceptions, what conflations? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | sorry, nope, said more than i wanted to already. not willing to dive back into that drivel and do an off-topic line-by-line critique of it. rather dislike your insinuation of dishonesty on my part too. not cool. no grounds for that afaics. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | the fsf has an answer for everything, but the answer is usually “you dont understand free software, come back later.” | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | we’re doing petty adhominems on the fsf now are we? wow. this thread’s fallen far. i thought we were here to help the fsf. now my benefit-of-the-doubt rose-tinted glasses are well and truly shattered. ;p | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | im a former fsf member, im a free software author, ive created a gnu/linux distro, and ive spent years emailing rms. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | nice argument from authority. ;p (if that’s what that was… idk what else such self-pomp could be here, feel free to correct me if there’s some other reason i overlooked) | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | if youre implying theres something you know about free software that i dont, thats always possible-- but lets hear it. dont hold it up (in a closed folder) like microsofts patent portfolio-- open it up and lets get down to business. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | otherwise, whats the point of the comment? | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | oh, was that linked diatribe your writing? is that why you’re now on the attack all defensive? afaiwa i made no such assertion of knowing something you dont, but it’s plain to me that we all know stuff others dont, and so it seems to me like a dick shill move to play that card then. the point of my comment i thought was self contained. not sure what else to add to it, that would be of benefit here, without worsening/compounding this | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | drivelsome derailment we’re increasingly getting lost in. which was the point. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | “it’s dead, jim”. :( | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | poo-poohing was already done in your introduction of it anyway, so, what’s the quibble about me likewise being dismissive of it. noise. | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | and sorry if i slipped into any snippy/rude/inapropriate crap there. got riled up today from many directions. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | I’ve found (in my long life) that there are often many needless complications thrown into relatively simple concepts. The concept here, under the GPL licenses, is sharing - and even more to the point, required sharing. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | The FSF should stress that sharing must be required, and make clear to all why this is so. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | The FSF should stress that sharing must be required, and make clear to all why this is so. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | its difficult to make that clear when people have valid counterexamples. its certainly and i think unquestionably true, up to a point. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | but for the record, youre doing a fine job of honing and clarifying your point-- hopefully you continue to try (not because it needs to be more clear, but because the world needs free software advocates and youre clearly dedicated to the task.) | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | and sorry if i slipped into any snippy/rude/inapropriate crap there. got riled up today from many directions. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | @Digit digit, thanks very much. i wasnt expecting that and its more appreciated than you know. for the record i wasnt trying to be dismissive of anything-- but if i came across that way, ill apologise too. disagreements are a hallmark of the free exchange of ideas. but i wasnt trying to be a dick or anything. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 15 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | i think one of the most likely misunderstood things i said was “shouldve joined the boycott.” that probably came across as far more insensitive or uncaring than was intended. youd probably have to take my word for it, even though i knew what i meant. i can say what wasnt intended by it: sarcasm, mocking, anything of the sort. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | if there was place for agreement, it was meant that way. when i said it, i just assumed (too easily) that my intention would be understood. in hindsight i should have probably skipped it. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | honing and clarifying your point-- hopefully you continue to try | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | & | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | the world needs free software advocates | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | something for us all. i managed to successfully explain free software to my mum recently. after years of failing. recipes. recipes was the key analogy she could get. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | when i said it, i just assumed (too easily) that my intention would be understood. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | i get snagged by that a lot. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | recipes is one of my favourites too. i watched a video of stallman cooking once, talking about how software could have followed the same model that recipes do. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | recipes are copyrighted, but only the wording-- not the contents. if software worked that way, you could copy any source code just be rewriting it. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | theres no way to copyright a ham on rye, only the specific wording of the instructions. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | as for how to help people understand, i prefer to teach everybody how to code. that took a lot of iterations. i tried with python, with basic, with logo, with javascript. finally created a language for the task https://www.bitchute.com/video/TZrOvl48wjjd/ | Jul 12 06:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.bitchute.com | fig arrays | Jul 12 06:14 | |
| schestowitz | as for getting people into free software, the easiest way is to just get computers people dont want, put a free operating system on them, and give the machine away to someone. giving it back doesnt usually work, i tried that. the person donating rarely wants it back. | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | btw, if we can get back on topic… | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | https://stallman.org/microsoft.html | Jul 12 06:14 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-stallman.org | Reasons not to use Microsoft | Jul 12 06:14 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:14 |
| schestowitz | its a good list, if a short one. wikipedias criticism of microsoft article is a good one too (under a free license at that) | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | friends dont let friends use microsoft (or they only let them, under protest.) | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | Digit | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | Digit - 11 days ago | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | stuff like http://techrights.org/2019/06/29/ousting-linus-torvalds/ points to stallman being right, and egg on torvalds’ sell-out face. n_n the embrace happened. the extend well under way. now we see the extinguish creeping in. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | would hate to see a limp response to microsoft lead fsf/gnu to the same folly. the linux foundation’s fail here may take many of the freedomists down with them, so prominent linux (the kernel) being in our world. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | The Campaign to Oust Linus Torvalds and Other Microsoft Critics at the ‘Linux’ Foundation | Techrights | Jul 12 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 11 days ago | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | would hate to see a limp response to microsoft lead fsf/gnu to the same folly. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | it wont be the same-- the tendency of open source (sic) to sell out or divide or co-opt was noted by one of osis founders as long as 20 years ago. this was bound to happen, as open source never had any intention of being different than this. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | that said, though free software will resist this a lot more than open source does, i dont think theyre invulnerable to this. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | theres a handy way for free software to deny the problem and allow it to happen more: | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | all they have to do is say “thats open source, not free software, so what happens to it isnt actually our problem.” its one of those falsehoods that makes a lot of leeway because its based on something true. free software and open source are different, and this is happening to open source. but it will also hurt free software, and that is why it is a falsehood. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | i think the fsf will fare better than open source. i think they are leaning on that likelihood too heavily. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | apathy is a problem. denial is a problem. infiltration (as being documented) is a problem. im still certain it wont be “as bad” as with the linux foundation, but i think we stand to lose a lot regardless. they shouldnt be downplaying that threat. its worse (will be) if people think its alright-- its better (will be) if people realise the problem is real. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | ive long been a fan of techrights in this regard. effectively techrights is a radar screen of possible problems (and current ones.) if the fsf puts everything outside their “scope” and says the problem is next door, dont bother (in so many words) then i say just because its “over there” doesnt mean it isnt on the way. theyre not acting like readiness is an interest or priority. theyre (maybe a little too) confident their playbook will | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | work even when unrevised, while the monopolies keep updating theirs. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | Belatedly caught up with this. Not sure who "tea" is, but it's not a spokesperson of the FSF. I think the FSF is aware of the problem, but is somewhat ill-equipped to cope with it. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15297018#54bb55607b2d0137250a0cc47a07853c | Jul 12 06:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #System76 / #PopOS team should learn to work with their upstreams https://blogs.gnome.org/seb128/2019/06/27/system76-pop-os-team-should-learn-to-work-with-their-upstreams/ #gnu #linux | Jul 12 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 12 06:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blogs.gnome.org | System76 / Pop! OS team, not upstreaming your patches isn’t going to benefit your users – seb128's blog | Jul 12 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | gnome shouldnt talk about cooperation, all they do is create #opensilos and incompatibility-- then demand other people clean up after them. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | this is open source talk-- when open source talks about “cooperation” they mean “they should do things our way.” its the same as when hollywood complains canada is a “pirate nation” because they wont adopt draconian copyright expansion-- heck, theyre talking a page right out of webminks book. paint all differences as superficial and selfish. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | we can play up their hacker style as social ineptitude, their adherence (where it exists) to standards and interoperability as a refusal to evolve, their playful culture as a refusal to grow up and be professional, and their self-reliance and independence as being non-team-players http://techrights.org/2019/06/06/damning-with-faint-praise/ | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Chapter 6: Damning With Faint Praise — Take the Right Examples of Free Software and Exploit Them for Everything | Techrights | Jul 12 06:15 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | HECK they said the same thing about devuan, but devuan offered to work with upstream first– | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | they covered this on the front page of the without-systemd wiki, before devuan had a website or a first release. | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 14 days ago | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | step 1: do everything differently (hijack projects) | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | step 2: demand everybody else conform | Jul 12 06:15 |
| schestowitz | what gnome does to the free software ecosystem is eee-lite. they might as well create their own ooxml. | Jul 12 06:15 |
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| schestowitz | I think I liked gnome better 18 years ago than now. They made it too simplistic. | Jul 12 06:15 |
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| schestowitz | >>>> This one was short-lived. I think due to backup cron job. The site's | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>>> own. I rarely get these alerts as a result, but the site does get slow | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>>> at these times and can be tricky to edit. | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>> It didn't trigger here so it must have fallen within the 6 minute window | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>> for my scripts. | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Any further nice'ing? Any tricks like suspending the dump and then | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>>> resuming? (I made a script for this ages ago) | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>> Maybe ionice(1) in addition to regular nice(1)? | Jul 13 10:05 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> $ ionice -h | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> ionice - sets or gets process io scheduling class and priority. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> Usage: | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> ionice [OPTION] -p PID [PID...] | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> ionice [OPTION] COMMAND | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> Options: | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -c, --class <class> scheduling class name or number | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> 0: none, 1: realtime, 2: best-effort, 3: idle | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -n, --classdata <num> scheduling class data | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> 0-7 for realtime and best-effort classes | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -p, --pid=PID view or modify already running process | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -t, --ignore ignore failures | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -V, --version output version information and exit | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> -h, --help display this help and exit | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>>> I worry we might turn away visitors at these times, due to speed if not | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>>> timeout. It's an area where we can improve. With TM there are slowdowns | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>>> too, but never too long when there's a dump. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >>> I'll try adding ionice to my rsync(1) scripts. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | >> I never used or even heard about it before. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > Ok, I've added now it to ~/bin/get_dbs_for_tr.sh on TM. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > I guess we'll see later today if it makes an improvement. | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > I've also added ionice(1) to my locale backup scripts which fetch from | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > TR. Everything is backed up to TR in ~/bin/ | Jul 13 10:06 |
| schestowitz | > times of flux... software moves >fast<. If you don't move with it, you | Jul 13 12:02 |
| schestowitz | > end up a relic like esr, michael tieman, phipps (hardly even blogs | Jul 13 12:02 |
| schestowitz | > anymore) and lots of defunct publishers alike... | Jul 13 12:02 |
| schestowitz | Yep. | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > this weekend I have garden work and other duties, but I'm off work, so 2 | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > options: | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > 1. catch up with politics | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > 2. write loads of articles | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > leaning towards (2), but must carefully think topics of foremost interest. | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | "I'd lean towards the articles because, among other things, there is so | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | little original content that what is written has a higher impact. | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | Outreach on social control media is important but that's a burden more | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | easily distributed." | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | "However, tidying things like HTTPS (I'm still on that) will also improve | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | impact. Having things in order technically enhances the appeal to | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | technically-mined people, I think." | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | Yes, some of the geeky types keep bringing that up. I'll focus on doing articles. When I run out of html (pre)prepared ones I'll use politics (RSS) to keep the timeline going. The more gets piled up there, the better in the sense that I can slice by topic, e.g. search headlines for "torture" in the "cia" folder. It's more streamlined by topic/theme so easier to manage mentally and technically (otherwise clutter). Then I can also ping the | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | torture whistleblowers about it, as I do (they're mates of mine online). | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | Recently I looked at Iran as a matter of high priority as I've tried to prevent a war to the extent I can (small). Prior to that Venezuela. | Jul 13 12:03 |
| schestowitz | > last point: I really don't know what to do about the IBM/RHT thing. Or | Jul 13 14:31 |
| schestowitz | > rather, not sure... that too needs to be clearly defined and time will | Jul 13 14:31 |
| schestowitz | > tell (depending on what IBM does) | Jul 13 14:31 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Adrixan/status/1150042302372548608 | Jul 13 15:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Adrixan: A long list of threats against free/opensource software posed by software giants - https://t.co/nUPHT1Icnd | Jul 13 15:33 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Librethreat Database Entries: How Proprietary Software Giants Seek to Destroy Free/Open Source Software | Techrights | Jul 13 15:33 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1149986947189870592 | Jul 13 16:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: just move to #preprints https://t.co/0deQptSf0X | Jul 13 16:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: University of California Loses Access to New Content in #Elsevier Journals https://t.co/b7VYC30wyU @glynmoody | Jul 13 16:32 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/GerritASmit/status/1150087963889602560 | Jul 13 19:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@GerritASmit: @schestowitz And we have hypes. | Jul 13 19:19 | |
| schestowitz | yes, like blockchains | Jul 13 19:19 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/nomibwave/status/1150102581529608193 | Jul 13 19:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@nomibwave: cc @eff @matthew_d_green @schestowitz https://t.co/NCaSZPt2xK | Jul 13 19:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Dinosn: On Facebook's pictures watermarking https://t.co/HxjzWDEOLO | Jul 13 19:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/BrideOfLinux/status/1150110184427200512 | Jul 13 20:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@BrideOfLinux: The only example here goes all the way back to the Vista days when Ballmer was in charge: More People Are Coming Ou… https://t.co/OYMv27dddY | Jul 13 20:03 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@BrideOfLinux: The only example here goes all the way back to the Vista days when Ballmer was in charge: More People Are Coming Ou… https://t.co/OYMv27dddY | Jul 13 20:03 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 13 20:03 |
| schestowitz | More | Jul 13 20:03 |
| schestowitz | The only example here goes all the way back to the Vista days when Ballmer was in charge: More People Are Coming Out: Microsoft Tried to Get Them Fired for Standing in Microsoft's Way (the 'One Microsoft Way') | Jul 13 20:03 |
| schestowitz | " | Jul 13 20:03 |
| schestowitz | No, Microsoft did this to me under Nadella | Jul 13 20:03 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/bkrobins/status/1150122030743871489 | Jul 13 20:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@bkrobins: #FreeAssange #FreeManning your 1st Amendment Rights Depend On It. https://t.co/AhAS2hUINW | Jul 13 20:30 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: #SF Protest Against #Twitter Blocking of Tweets To Free Julian #Assange and #ChelseaManning https://t.co/PYIPU5OAkG | Jul 13 20:30 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/bkrobins/status/1150122030743871489 | Jul 13 20:30 |
| schestowitz | "We need a broad coalition against software patents, in the US and in the EU. Time to start something from scratch?" | Jul 13 20:30 |
| schestowitz | I think techrights is active enough in that area and is not defunct | Jul 13 20:30 |
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