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| schestowitz | > Whenever you have the time and inclination it would be nice to see a | Jan 06 06:10 |
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| schestowitz | > graph of the weblog traffic figures for 2019. | Jan 06 06:10 |
| schestowitz | See attached, almost 5 million hits last year. | Jan 06 06:10 |
| schestowitz | I'm also making another backup of the site now, just in case (the host has its own backups too). | Jan 06 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > I have been reading articles singing the praises of facial recognition. | Jan 06 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > Do you still think the system has flaws that will prevent it from | Jan 06 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > becoming the gold standard for quick I.D. | Jan 06 06:11 |
| schestowitz | It won't work for large crowds, only small ones, or verifying a known person's ID. | Jan 06 06:11 |
| schestowitz | > I'm looking at the early version of the distro which will eventually be | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | > Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It has ZFS support despite the license. It looks | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | > like the global trend is to just ignore copyright when it applies to | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | > copyleft these days. On the technical side, systemd breaks the ability | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | > to set the network time. | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | I think that | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | 1) a lot of stuff is being broken | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | 2) we're sold on "simplicity" e.g. "apps" | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | 3) the user is losing control | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | 4) the business model shifts to spying | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | GNU/Linux needs a response to monopolists like IBM, not just Windows/Microsoft. | Jan 06 06:13 |
| schestowitz | Linux Foundation Failing to Support Big and Important Free Software Projects Which Seek Assistance | Jan 06 07:15 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2020/01/06/curl-and-the-linux-foundation/ | Jan 06 07:15 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Linux Foundation Failing to Support Big and Important Free Software Projects Which Seek Assistance | Techrights | Jan 06 07:15 | |
| schestowitz | > Ok. That was fast. The one set of monitoring scripts did not even | Jan 06 07:17 |
| schestowitz | > trigger here. | Jan 06 07:18 |
| schestowitz | Turned out I did receive an email alert. And by the time I attempted to salve the system it had already struggles for half an hour. | Jan 06 07:18 |
| schestowitz | I saw a similar issue in the weekend/Friday, but I was at home and could shake off the unwanted httpd connections fast enough. | Jan 06 07:18 |
| schestowitz | We had a similar situation some months ago. Then too I could not really flush the connections; the system acted weird until a reboot. | Jan 06 07:18 |
| schestowitz | >> 1) a lot of stuff is being broken | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | >> 2) we're sold on "simplicity" e.g. "apps" | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > With complex monoliths being falsely sold as the simplicity. | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | >> 3) the user is losing control | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > That seems to be their goal. | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | > | Jan 06 07:20 |
| schestowitz | >> 4) the business model shifts to spying | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | >> GNU/Linux needs a response to monopolists like IBM, not just | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | >> Windows/Microsoft. | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > Very much so. At the risk of creeping featurism, the license needs to | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > address and eliminate excessive complexity. I think that can be done by | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > interpreting freedom #1, the freedom to study how the program works, and | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > change it because access to the source code is a precondition for that. | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | > Access is impaired in direct proportion to complexity. | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | Maybe the 4F need Four Amendments, e.g. for obfuscation. it also poses a security/back doors threat. | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | I like to keep all things simple/command line as they're very portable across systems. I still do everything with simple text files (utf8). I use a Palm PDA (older than what Lunduke intends to use) with SD card. | Jan 06 07:21 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/seannalexander/status/1214105488046080001 | Jan 06 09:58 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@seannalexander: @schestowitz @adymitruk What | Jan 06 09:58 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/seannalexander/status/1214105628341424128 | Jan 06 09:58 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@seannalexander: @schestowitz @adymitruk Apt Remove this-opinion | Jan 06 09:58 | |
| schestowitz | you need sudo or my password ;-) | Jan 06 09:58 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/tweets_quotable/status/1214121737685618688 | Jan 06 10:00 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@tweets_quotable: @schestowitz #AOC Calls Trump a 'Monster' for His Actions As she sits among the members of her HIT SQUAD and wonde… https://t.co/31pEzLm9kL | Jan 06 10:00 | |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@tweets_quotable: @schestowitz #AOC Calls Trump a 'Monster' for His Actions As she sits among the members of her HIT SQUAD and wonde… https://t.co/31pEzLm9kL | Jan 06 10:00 | |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 06 10:00 |
| schestowitz | #AOC Calls Trump a 'Monster' for His Actions | Jan 06 10:00 |
| schestowitz | As she sits among the members of her HIT SQUAD and wonders how best to collect the Iran Bounty on Trump's head, only predictably they lacked the math skills between them to divvy up the money. (Curse you knowing stuff she cried) | Jan 06 10:00 |
| schestowitz | " | Jan 06 10:00 |
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