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| techrights[sec] | People /still/ don't see ByteDance for what it is, even in spite of | Mar 02 06:20 |
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| techrights[sec] | the CBS 60 Minutes segement covering it. | Mar 02 06:20 |
| techrights[sec] | https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/S0bgsSTHv87osLyzWtLXib0kgmTYBc1B/ | Mar 02 06:20 |
| techrights[sec] | https://theglobalherald.com/news/tiktok-in-china-versus-the-united-states-60-minutes/ | Mar 02 06:20 |
| techrights[sec] | It's not a privacy matter, it's more health matter. More than that, it | Mar 02 06:20 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Watch 60 Minutes: The question about TikTok - Full show on CBS | Mar 02 06:20 | |
| techrights[sec] | is a culture, value, mores, and customs matter. The kids which have been | Mar 02 06:20 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-theglobalherald.com | TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes - The Global Herald | Mar 02 06:20 | |
| techrights[sec] | programmed by ByteDance via Tiktok may speak English natively but are not | Mar 02 06:20 |
| techrights[sec] | American | Mar 02 06:20 |
| techrights[sec] | It (ByteDance) does need to be banned. | Mar 02 06:21 |
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| techrights[sec] | More precisely it is psychological warfare, out to harm and destroy. | Mar 02 07:42 |
| techrights[sec] | It gets ignore because it is "on a phone" | Mar 02 07:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no wonder thy hire lobbyists, rebranded, and bought puff pieces lately | Mar 02 07:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> "This reflects a loss of 4,638,508 sites, 240,148 domains and 13,907 computers". The Web is shrinking. Many sites go offline. ☞ https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2023/02/28/february-2023-web-server-survey.html | Mar 02 07:51 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.netcraft.com | February 2023 Web Server Survey | Netcraft News | Mar 02 07:51 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i think i got into the rhythm and am posting more articles, linsk etc. | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | while culling bad ones | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i must admit: it's MENTALLY DIFFICULT to not have RSS reader in the routine | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for the sole reason that I used one for 20 years | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | now, I always feel like I "need to check out RSS feeds" | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but remind myself rssoql/thunderbird/quiterss are no more | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *rssowl (iirc, the first one I used) | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so everything goes through kate by defauly | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | editor and command lane | Mar 02 09:37 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *line | Mar 02 09:38 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | kate has a command lne component too, but I prefer terminals detached | Mar 02 09:38 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | vonick has about 20 terminals, two for password management | Mar 02 09:38 |
| techrights[sec] | The new work flow cuts way down on unscheduled surfing, at least for me. | Mar 02 09:38 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in a sense, the programs have turned the www into gemini | Mar 02 09:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or plain text with mild formatting | Mar 02 09:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | mind as in, just some formatting and hypertext, href | Mar 02 09:42 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that in itself can be more readable then a web page because i don't need to click or hover on links | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i can see right there in the text where they'd go | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | years ago I did wonder if I could quickly extrtact richer text than what I got off quiterss (uses blink or simi | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | lar) | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | today i configured the desk to dim down all screens except one when afk | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | turns out we pay for power almost half what some other couples pay | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but i want to stretch it further so that never again i'll do a job i don't like for companies I cannot trust | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i'd work casually, upon needs, there's a new report saying for "Software Development" 40% of workers | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | will one day be "remote" | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the important thing is to keep the skills and practice them | Mar 02 09:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | m | Mar 02 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the unlterior goal is to transition from "i earn, you earn" to "i work all year long, you are free to do projec | Mar 02 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ts" | Mar 02 09:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | iow, competing over salaries vs. competing over freedom/happiness (very few jobs mean "freedom") | Mar 02 09:47 |
| techrights[sec] | The push for new PCs is about getting TPM2.0 out among the population in | Mar 02 09:55 |
| techrights[sec] | great enough concentrations as to be able to force more software compliance | Mar 02 09:55 |
| techrights[sec] | Less freedom becomes even theorertically possible with each step in that | Mar 02 09:55 |
| techrights[sec] | direction. | Mar 02 09:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | TPM2 is being pushed by Club Gulagboy into Linux | Mar 02 09:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Torvalds can no longer speak his mind out | Mar 02 09:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that's "hate" | Mar 02 09:56 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> "reason: Because a Chinese company owns TikTok — a smart phone app for creating and sharing short videos — the Chinese government may be using it to spy" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/02/the-proposed-tiktok-ban-goes-too-far-the-current-tiktok-ban-doesnt-go-far-enough/ | Source: Counter Punch | Mar 02 09:59 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Proposed TikTok Ban Goes Too Far. The Current TikTok Ban Doesn't Go Far Enough. - CounterPunch.org | Mar 02 09:59 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the worst part about brexit and cambridge analytica is... PRIVACY? | Mar 02 09:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | some computing freedom might "always" be possib | Mar 02 10:20 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but "powers that be" will keep it niche, with things like Chrome OS to neutralise | Mar 02 10:20 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it as means of compromise | Mar 02 10:20 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Windows is still bleeding (see TR post) | Mar 02 10:20 |
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| techrights[sec] | Yes, Windows is declining, they're way below the point where they can | Mar 02 10:32 |
| techrights[sec] | demand monopoly rents. Thus the overwhelming majority of their income | Mar 02 10:32 |
| techrights[sec] | from Windows has vanished. Their only other traditional area of income | Mar 02 10:32 |
| techrights[sec] | has been their monopoly rents from the productivity software via their | Mar 02 10:32 |
| techrights[sec] | control of the ever-changing proprietary formats it spreads and exploits. | Mar 02 10:32 |
| techrights[sec] | There have been a lot "bill sez" lately | Mar 02 10:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the corporate media is of course all over this | Mar 02 10:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | reporting the "facts" | Mar 02 10:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or bagging money from "bill h. sez" and microSoft | Mar 02 10:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i hope more people nowadays know how to respond to the billness puff pieces | Mar 02 10:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | even if almost no site allows comments anymore | Mar 02 10:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the criminal will be gone in a decade or two | Mar 02 10:33 |
| techrights[sec] | Hopefully sooner | Mar 02 10:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | With the Lord Mayor of Manchester https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/03/02/lord-mayor-of-manchester/ | Mar 02 10:52 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » With the Lord Mayor of Manchester | Mar 02 10:52 | |
| techrights[sec] | checking | Mar 02 11:24 |
| techrights[sec] | Good photos | Mar 02 11:24 |
| techrights[sec] | Quite an honor that the lordmayor was there | Mar 02 11:24 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | apparently it's quite the exception (they said) | Mar 02 11:25 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and they also did the group photo | Mar 02 11:25 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | mike is rianne's referee | Mar 02 11:25 |
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| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Sometimes it seems like Techdirt isn't just running Microsoft ads but it also habitually lobbying for GAFAM interests, including for Microsoft, while bagging "deregulation" Koch money ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/01/microsoft-inks-10-year-deal-to-bring-xbox-games-to-nintendo-consoles/ | Mar 02 12:58 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Microsoft Inks 10 Year Deal To Bring Xbox Games To Nintendo Consoles | Techdirt | Mar 02 12:58 | |
| techrights[sec] | What happened? He used to be quite good on /tech/ matters? | Mar 02 13:02 |
| techrights[sec] | However, I stopped reading the site ages ago as fewer and fewer of the articles | Mar 02 13:10 |
| techrights[sec] | were either good or relevant, unlike when he started out. | Mar 02 13:10 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | techdirt history | Mar 02 13:13 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 90s: short pists by young man, some links to long articles outside | Mar 02 13:13 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *posts | Mar 02 13:13 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 2000s: longer posts by one man, very high volume, focusing on copyrights | Mar 02 13:13 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 2010: a team of people, many covering politics, don't always agree with them | Mar 02 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 2015: bad words in headlines, koch money (shiva "help"), pushing to deregulate everything | Mar 02 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "leave FB alone"... leave tiktok alone... microsoft doing better now | Mar 02 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i am still in love with the old techdirt | Mar 02 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so it has ok karma, like sjvn had until ~3 years ago | Mar 02 13:14 |
| techrights[sec] | I forgot about the Koch money :( | Mar 02 13:14 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this is where T.D. and reason.com go off the rails | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | except. reason is worse | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it attacks net neutrality and some decent politicians | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | esp. in the past 2 weeks | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i stopped even staring at it | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as it published some truly disgusting thing | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so i feel more gulty linking to that domain | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *thingsa | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *things | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | (reason.com taks koch money, reasons means whatever kochs call "freedom"... libertarian think tanks) | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Federalist Society.. same ones pushing for patent maximalists while at the same time shouting | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "DEF | Mar 02 13:29 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i was just thinking | Mar 02 14:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | (and hoping) that rather than or not only | Mar 02 14:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | banningtiktokfor kids' use | Mar 02 14:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they will compel politicians to not use FB etc. for "privacy" reasons | Mar 02 14:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no high-profile people active in social control media | Mar 02 14:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | can help wean billions off it | Mar 02 14:16 |
| techrights[sec] | Weaning billions of it would be a good thing but as long as they are distracted | Mar 02 14:22 |
| techrights[sec] | by the strawman of privacy they will not address the even more severe problem | Mar 02 14:22 |
| techrights[sec] | of maniuplation and intentional damage to mental and physical health. | Mar 02 14:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it is currently about whose manipulation | Mar 02 14:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not the manipulation itself | Mar 02 14:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and certainly not a matter of public health | Mar 02 14:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | like the "residue" or "side effects" of "info" ny algorithms | Mar 02 14:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | misframed as "by peer" | Mar 02 14:23 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes and it appears they'd really prefer to keep attention off the manipulation. | Mar 02 14:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | twitter timeline (not sure about other sucj sites) | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 1) people to follow, chronology and subs honours | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | nothing "injected" from outside who you follow, no "algo" | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 2)manipulationstarting | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 3) shadowbanning | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | there are many other aspects | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it sort of peaked around 2015, i think | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it manipulated less | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | after 2016 lots of mass culls | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and optimising for "engagement" | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ads | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | sort of like gulag youtube in more recent years | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in 2010 i watched lots of youtube | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it only presented to me new stuff from channels i had subscribed to | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this limited "provocation" and time-wasting | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | youtube quality was also higher back then | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | now a lot of youtube is the "bitchute of tiktok" | Mar 02 14:46 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | iow, people crapflooding youtube with useless crap they make for the "opium" platform | Mar 02 14:46 |
| techrights[sec] | The biggest turning point against Twitter was the move to aglorithmic sorting | Mar 02 14:47 |
| techrights[sec] | of messages away from chronological order. | Mar 02 14:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.gmi ∎ | Mar 02 15:09 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday | Mar 02 15:09 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ACLU: banning TikTok would ‘violate the First Amendment’ ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/02/aclu-banning-tiktok-would-violate-the-first-amendment/ | Mar 02 15:27 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.jurist.org | ACLU: banning TikTok would 'violate the First Amendment' - JURIST - News | Mar 02 15:27 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Lithuania won’t ban TikTok from official devices ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1925533/lithuania-won-t-ban-tiktok-from-official-devices | Mar 02 15:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.lrt.lt | Lithuania won’t ban TikTok from official devices - LRT | Mar 02 15:36 | |
| techrights[sec] | Someone has infiltrated the ACLU and inverted them? | Mar 02 15:36 |
| techrights[sec] | They're taking the opposite stance, one against the public health of the nation. | Mar 02 15:36 |
| techrights[sec] | s/the/an/ | Mar 02 15:36 |
| techrights[sec] | s/an/a/ | Mar 02 15:36 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we're at the cusp of debate consensus being soldified | Mar 02 15:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and i think it already gravitates towards | Mar 02 15:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | tiktok=militarised=ban it | Mar 02 15:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and any other claim would seem insane | Mar 02 15:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | this is where they rebrand, lobby, and buy "happy stories" | Mar 02 15:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | critical time | Mar 02 15:39 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes, there is currently a flood of "happy" stories about social control media | Mar 02 15:40 |
| techrights[sec] | going on. It'd say, without much evidence, that it sure seems related to the | Mar 02 15:40 |
| techrights[sec] | ongoing debate about ByteDance | Mar 02 15:40 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i saw the link above hours before you had sent it | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | seeing it now again as I am catching up | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the weekend is, near so i can complete the catchup | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we're going to the library soon | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 12 min walk | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | rianne drops off her resume there | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | then I check the tesco 200m from there | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they are showing her around | Mar 02 15:43 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we're trying to establish a plan to 67 | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | wherein we are mostly free and happy | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no more 24/7 shifts | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they are building a massive arena across the road from here, next to the stadium | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | that too can open up some "walking distance" opportunities | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | like a few hours a night | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | my sleep, diet, family life improve, aside from online activities | Mar 02 15:44 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | next to rianne sat a young gentleman from HK, tall and maybe 25 years old | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i think they managed to "suck" some talent out of PRC | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | after that in the restaurant chinese... btw... | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | a friend noted that had hire some guy form HK | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | who said that over there they worked 8am till 8pm | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | at the office | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | some stayed in the office till 11pm | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 6 times a week | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | sounds no better than japan and s korea | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | now he can work from home 4 hours a day and is very pleased | Mar 02 15:47 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they do highway engineering and such | Mar 02 15:47 |
| techrights[sec] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system | Mar 02 15:48 |
| techrights[sec] | aka modern slavery | Mar 02 15:48 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | 996 working hour system - Wikipedia | Mar 02 15:48 | |
| techrights[sec] | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-23/tang-ping-lying-flat-generation-rejecting-chinas-work-culture/100477716 | Mar 02 15:50 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.abc.net.au | 'Lying flat': The millennials quitting China's '996' work culture to live 'free of anxiety' - ABC News | Mar 02 15:50 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for full time work i am "done" | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | casual? ok | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | things will come by, over time, but i don't need to hoard | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | living large => slavery | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | opposite => more personal freedom | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we still have (some level of) national insurance to "fall back" on | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no eye-watering hospital bills | Mar 02 15:52 |
| techrights[sec] | Exactly | Mar 02 15:52 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | btw, look up microsoft github 996 | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and "censorship" | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | many people forgot about this | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | also "gvreat cannon of china" (ddos, iirc via brwoser extensions) | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | in china, gulag search is small | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and bing is not small | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | because his billness made a pact with .... his kind of people | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | from what i recall, when not cheating on his wife with lolita express | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he may have gone with some adults of chinese lineage | Mar 02 15:55 |
| techrights[sec] | Yes, a distraction; | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but I am not sure | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the latter is mostly used as a distraction from his complicity in outright | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | crimes | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and maxwell is back in the news again, pleading her innocent while india media | Mar 02 15:55 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | is in "spread buttcheeks, publish bill sez" | Mar 02 15:55 |
| techrights[sec] | "bill sez" puff pieces do double service: they distract and they launder | Mar 02 15:58 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | they're done for a fee | Mar 02 15:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i think more people now resist this BS | Mar 02 15:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | Young Chinese feeling 'political depression' amid hopelessness about future ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/political-depression-02282023090024.html | Mar 02 16:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.rfa.org | Young Chinese feeling 'political depression' amid hopelessness about future — Radio Free Asia | Mar 02 16:02 | |
| techrights[sec] | nder | Mar 02 16:06 |
| techrights[sec] | One can hope, but there was a time 20 - 25 years ago when /everyone/ knew | Mar 02 16:06 |
| techrights[sec] | what Bill was about. | Mar 02 16:06 |
| techrights[sec] | https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE | Mar 02 16:06 |
| techrights[sec] | *All* the tech magazines and any newspaper which even had a tech column knew | Mar 02 16:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://y.com.sb/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE | Mar 02 16:06 | |
| techrights[sec] | about him. | Mar 02 16:06 |
| techrights[sec] | If the same situation were today, he'd be described "as a meme" | Mar 02 16:06 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> y.com.sb | Homer Simpson and Bill Gates buy out - Invidious | Mar 02 16:06 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the library is nice, connected to a school | Mar 02 17:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | lots of PCs there | Mar 02 17:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so i assume a lot of activity is people "online" | Mar 02 17:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the books are "modern" or contemporary ventilation OK | Mar 02 17:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | sanitary | Mar 02 17:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | back to the news now... | Mar 02 17:00 |
| techrights[sec] | https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221016-let-it-rot-once-flourishing-middle-class-faces-end-of-chinese-dream | Mar 02 17:01 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.france24.com | ‘Let it rot’: Once-flourishing middle class faces end of ‘Chinese Dream’ | Mar 02 17:01 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> Many in Hong Kong continue to wear masks despite end of mandate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/many-in-hong-kong-keep-wearing-masks-despite-end-of-945-day-long-mandate | Mar 02 17:03 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Many in Hong Kong continue to wear masks despite end of mandate | The Straits Times | Mar 02 17:03 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | we were the only ones in the library wearing masks | Mar 02 17:03 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> That seems like a smart move from Japan. Why the negative tone? Because this paper is owned and controlled by PAP and its ilk? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-s-birth-rate-plunges-to-a-record-low-in-7th-year-of-decline | Mar 02 17:07 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Japan’s birth rate plunges to a record low in 7th year of decline | The Straits Times | Mar 02 17:07 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | cphpost publishing spam, as do some other sites, might need to add a filter for these to my scripts as even just scrolling past them is unnecessary distraction (notice URL): https://cphpost.dk/2023-03-02/sponsored/a-new-fitness-supplement-sarms/ | Mar 02 17:10 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cphpost.dk | A New Fitness Supplement: SARMs - The Post – The Post | Mar 02 17:10 | |
| techrights[sec] | checking | Mar 02 17:21 |
| techrights[sec] | It'd be hard to filter from the feed itself though there is /sponsor/ in the | Mar 02 17:21 |
| techrights[sec] | URL path | Mar 02 17:21 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's the first time i see them do this | Mar 02 17:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | techdirt has that, the-scientist has loads of these | Mar 02 17:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | aap in michaelwest is not a solved issue | Mar 02 17:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | algorithmically, not with the gui in quiterss ("filter") | Mar 02 17:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but i still have an abundance of "signal" | Mar 02 17:23 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | with 1000+ feeds and two ways to see them | Mar 02 17:23 |
| techrights[sec] | Let me check on the Michael West links... | Mar 02 17:24 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | you've fixed it already, i follow that via "merged" | Mar 02 17:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | today i did lots of catching up with stories | Mar 02 17:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | phipps just covered FRAND/SEP in OSI's site | Mar 02 17:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | rianne added this despite it being OSI | Mar 02 17:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he's still the least sinister person in OSI | Mar 02 17:26 |
| techrights[sec] | I thought the automated script now skips the AAP posts there | Mar 02 17:26 |
| techrights[sec] | FRAND is pure toxic waste | Mar 02 17:26 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | yes, it is fixed there | Mar 02 17:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but i use two modes, even three | Mar 02 17:27 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the falkon stuff is best for "sweeping" | Mar 02 17:28 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it shows only headlines and is concise | Mar 02 17:28 |
| techrights[sec] | and amounts to shilling for software patents | Mar 02 17:28 |
| techrights[sec] | In -merged AAP posts are culled from Michael West's feed. | Mar 02 17:28 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | <techrights-news> The title here is misinformation which serves Microsoft https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/pop-os-new-text-editor/ | Mar 02 17:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.linuxtoday.com | Pop!_OS Is Working on a New Text Editor Based on Vim, VS Code | Mar 02 17:36 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | "Based on Vim, VS Code" | Mar 02 17:37 |
| techrights[sec] | The python script cannot process content. That'd be a waste of time and | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | effort each time it was run unless there was some major change to the work | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | flow such that it would make sense. | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | It's slow as it is and making a full HTTP request for each item in the feed | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | would take tens of minutes to complete each time. That's just fetching. | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | Then parsing the HTML would slow that down further. | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | A more serious problem is that there were 202 links in the latest post | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | containing links. Regardless of what's in them, that's way too many for | Mar 02 17:38 |
| techrights[sec] | a single post. | Mar 02 17:38 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | what's a good number or "sweet spot"? | Mar 02 17:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | 100? | Mar 02 17:39 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i try to focus on technical things and judge by importance, i.e. no sport, gossip... | Mar 02 17:39 |
| techrights[sec] | I'm not sure. Maybe 100 or less for now. | Mar 02 17:57 |
| techrights[sec] | The thing is that there are quotes included along with the titles so | Mar 02 17:57 |
| techrights[sec] | even 100 is a lot to wade through. Quality is better than quantity. | Mar 02 17:57 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ok, i will finalise my current batch | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's mostly gnu/linux | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | if we have MOAR of those links, the better | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as they're not so easy to find anymore | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and you can see sites like linuxtoday slowing down to like 4 posts per day, half of which howtos | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and missing some very important news of the day | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the quality, i think, is in the topology and clustering | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | both in TM and TR | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | other sites lack the tools and workflow to organise them similarly | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | some tried and gave up | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and we have 3 people working on it, if not more if you count marius | Mar 02 17:59 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so emergent news can come within <1 hour, almost real time | Mar 02 18:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | even when we're outside the house | Mar 02 18:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the problem witn long Daily Links is, | Mar 02 18:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the entaiol a lag between breaking news and appearance in TR | Mar 02 18:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | so breaking them down into smaller batches means latency is lower | Mar 02 18:00 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | biab, finalising | Mar 02 18:00 |
| techrights[sec] | ity. | Mar 02 18:06 |
| techrights[sec] | Given the work flow as it is, there is not a way to shorten the cycle that I | Mar 02 18:06 |
| techrights[sec] | can think of. | Mar 02 18:06 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | with the new cms we can tailor-make and change workflowsf | Mar 02 18:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | for irc, links, short posts, in-depth | Mar 02 18:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but the transition takes planning | Mar 02 18:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | today rianne did a "blog" in TM | Mar 02 18:08 |
| techrights[sec] | I think so. | Mar 02 18:08 |
| techrights[sec] | Nice. | Mar 02 18:08 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | eeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.gmi ∎ | Mar 02 18:09 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines — Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday | Mar 02 18:09 | |
| schestowitz-pi2 | you might also say she is gemlogging now | Mar 02 18:09 |
| techrights[sec] | Which one? It is not distinguished by title. | Mar 02 18:10 |
| techrights[sec] | Checking | Mar 02 18:15 |
| techrights[sec] | Excellent! | Mar 02 18:15 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | the important thing is that she's almost always happy | Mar 02 18:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | it's all about perspective | Mar 02 18:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | and it helps keep oneself focused, motivated | Mar 02 18:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | no social control media | Mar 02 18:16 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | not comparing to anyone | Mar 02 18:16 |
| techrights[sec] | Great news. | Mar 02 18:17 |
| techrights[sec] | Social control media is about dissatisfaction by exploiting negative emotions. | Mar 02 18:17 |
| techrights[sec] | Happiness is inversely proportional to exposure to it. | Mar 02 18:17 |
| techrights[sec] | there are other factors in happiness, of course, but exposure to social control | Mar 02 18:17 |
| techrights[sec] | media is a guaranteed path to misery | Mar 02 18:17 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | is it fair to say "happy" people buy less? | Mar 02 18:18 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | or is another work more suitable here? | Mar 02 18:18 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | *word | Mar 02 18:18 |
| techrights[sec] | Probably | Mar 02 18:20 |
| techrights[sec] | Fear and jealousy are usually the main emotions used to drive advertising and | Mar 02 18:20 |
| techrights[sec] | thus sales. | Mar 02 18:20 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | social control media is for people who want to show, not do | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | esp. the facebook branch | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i think tiktok rewards westerners for mischivious, unruly behaviour | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | sort of like youtube | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | had a chat about it with mike yesterday | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | people making a "scene", giving the cops extra job | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | just so that they can cause drama and make videos | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | provocation | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | re "fear and jealousy", they are connected in the sense that the latter is relatd to "social anxiety" | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | class consciousness | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | fear of losing connection due to perceived "poverty" ('failure') | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but that's going into psychological philosophy | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | ryan has been clinically sad lately | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | he chats with me more privately sometimes | Mar 02 18:22 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | same with trmanco | Mar 02 18:22 |
| techrights[sec] | The "mischevious" aspect of tiktok is actually highly destructive to the | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | individual and society, on purpose. ByteDance is a propganda company, and | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | up front about that. The damage to the individual is both physical and to | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | the psyche. It's warfare. Psychological warfare but warfare nonetheless. | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | Worse, it is aimed at pre-teens | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | and thus the real damage escapes the attention of ignorant adults who dismiss | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | the attack as "just a phone" or "just playing on the phone" | Mar 02 18:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i did not watch the documentary, only read articlkes about it (at the time) | Mar 02 18:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | if they actually do call it spinach and opium, then it sounds like they | Mar 02 18:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | justify this by recalling the opium wars I and II by the british | Mar 02 18:32 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | but that was so long ago | Mar 02 18:32 |
| techrights[sec] | With enough exposure, they become culturally removed from the preceding | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | generations and no longer culturally part of the nation they reside in despite | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | speaking the local language(s). | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | A more recent article called it digital fentanyl, as a nod to both the harm | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | and to the origin. If ByteDance is digital fentanyl, then M$ is digital | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | krokodil. :( | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | People might make some money selling it, but anyone on the receiving end is | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | worse off and for businesses the injection will prove very harmful if not | Mar 02 18:33 |
| techrights[sec] | outright fatal. | Mar 02 18:33 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | at the library i spoke to one staffer, who was nice and helpful | Mar 02 18:35 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | i checked their computer terminals but could not figure out the OS | Mar 02 18:35 |
| schestowitz-pi2 | as there is just a login screen | Mar 02 18:35 |
| techrights[sec] | Likely Vista10 there unless they are modern and use LTSP | Mar 02 18:57 |
| techrights[sec] | the latter is increasingly rare though. | Mar 02 18:57 |
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