IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, February 06, 2023

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don't worry

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i do TONS of backups

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and tidying up

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local machines

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want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity

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There seem to be fewer with each passing week

Feb 06 04:33

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That's on an absolute level. On a relative level, relevant articles are

Feb 06 04:33

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even more rare

Feb 06 04:33

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not many new articles

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don't worry

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i do TONS of backups

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and tidying up

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local machines

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want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity

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i actually want to discuss this:

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a) [to keep tidy] all google rss feeds - blogspot, youtube etc. -seem to block rss downloaders

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this is ok, f* google

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b) yes, fewer new items over time

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c) (B) is a reason to adapt some more

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d) some sites temporarily try to make a comeback, like foss force last month

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e) twitter is dyng. maybe feb 14th tuxmachines will become inactive there. xrevan was not sure if disapora

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api impacted

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a) google's new way of hiding the destination RSS links is unacceptable and

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dangerous

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e) probably, best to plan for the possibility

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c) what kind of adaptations? It's hard to wade through blogs even as RSS and

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even harder to discover them.

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the lifeblood of TM is good, notable stories re bsd and gnu/linux

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e.g. reviews (very rare these days, low roi)

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casting the net wider is one option

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that i have nearly exhausted

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with the hardware crash i lost only months' worth of new feeds in opml

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i made backups to bubi after adding many

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backups of the opml dump

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opml files are the best bet, i think

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when i find a new site and it is on topic i try to add it

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unless the ratio of signal/noise is very bad

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like some that veer way off topic or post something like tweets as "posts"

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sparkfun??

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using those blogs up and distracts from the real feeds

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cisa is also very template-like

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one upside of ditching quitrrss is that in blockquote i now have "proper" html

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with some links and styling

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Yes, reviews have more or less vanished but that is ok because it is mostly

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from the uniformly high quality of desktop distros and systems

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Yes

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sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers

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it kept filling up my 'inbox'

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to the point where i knew it wasn't as 'full' as I had gotten accustomed to

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this enlightened me as to a new trouble ahead

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spending far too much effort and time separatinh wheat from chaff

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while adding/posting almost nothing

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after 20 years of posting from rssowl thunderbird, quiterss we do need 'fresh' thinking

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and social control media is waning

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it was sort of 'replacing' feeds for a lot of people

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they even called it newsfeeds or "timelines"

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curated by a-holes

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sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers

Feb 06 04:54

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and their algorithms

Feb 06 04:54

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youtube seems to be breaking itself again

Feb 06 05:09

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i cannot play ANYTHING infalkon

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not even via invidious instances

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youtube tells me to reboot my pc!

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when rianne wakes up i can check what it does to librewolf

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which blocks all youtube ads

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wait, restarting falkon itself restored some sanity

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but still, on rianne's librewolfsetup all newer videos - recent eyars -

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won't play

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we reckon it's some drm

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or some anti-invidious mechanism

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making life hard for those who want to dodge the youtube ui, ads, drm

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It has too many ads most of the time. When there are ads they often are

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longer than the video itself and break it up to the point of being unwatchable

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youtube is no longer a web site but has become a javascript "app

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alphabet releases fin' results days ago

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youtube revenue is DOWN

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12 month period apart

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so the past 12 months' ad blitz did not result in higher income

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it seems to be scaring people away

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maybe they can say advertisers... downturn etc etc

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this is GOOD news

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unless you are "vested" in Google 'subscribers'

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lunduke stopped again uploading to yutube, which he had protested against years ago

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his videos did not get many views anyway

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hundreds

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I use an mpv frontend for YouTube on my laptop

Feb 06 05:16

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what is ti called?

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i use mpv by default

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QMPlay2, it's on shithub

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after I came across it on Haiku

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does it work like mpv --something youtube id/url?

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I don't know, it's a GUI

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in repo also?

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probably not

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q as in qt?

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yes

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i used some guis for youtube in the past

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they keep breaking

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yutube breaks them

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then the developer gives up

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project abandoned/forked

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It was a waste of time for him there but then also he doesn't cover much of \

Feb 06 05:20

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interest any more. He did a few *really* good ones a long while back but they

Feb 06 05:20

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turn out to have been anomalies

Feb 06 05:20

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i see unduke a lot in kate

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but nothing worth anything this past week

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some satire about shitGPT

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that was not even remotely funny

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and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust

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Mentioning it by name seeds the alogorithms with it and keeps it visible, sadly

Feb 06 05:23

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yesm, exactly

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daemonfcis mentioning it again in techrights

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and his blog

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at this very moment

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/football/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-refuses-to-answer-question-spt-intl/index.html

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"On recent results alone, the club is in crisis."

Feb 06 07:01

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Feb 06 07:01

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Jurgen Klopp refuses to answer journalist's question after Wolves loss | CNN

Feb 06 07:01

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i see unduke a lot in kate

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but nothing worth anything this past week

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some satire about shitGPT

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that was not even remotely funny

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and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust

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msft cut a lot of marketing staff

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and soon the shitgpt pr spam will run dry too

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and nobody will remeber any microsoft product promosing this pixie dust

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Yes that is an additional advantage of them cutting.

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I hope that what's left of the media can reinvent itself without m$ money but

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those that were once indpendent of m$ money, and thus influence, have been

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bought and shut down or else paid by M$

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Feb 06 10:21

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crude draft

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do you consent to then generla direction?

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www become so shitty

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that going back to quiterss 'felt' wrong

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i sarted posting links to indivious videos

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some were not evengood

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like "linux" gamer

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valve spam

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i stopped

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your call but will check anyway

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Might bowdlerize some of the pejoratives for the one gimmick software

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By hand? Does the script not help?

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s/classic spam/egregious spam/ ??

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i will change the text and clarify

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thanks!

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it was a fast rough type

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