●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, September 06, 2022 ●● ● Sep 06 [02:52] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [02:53] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-qun.ka8.8v56c9.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [03:03] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [03:11] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [03:11] *DaemonFC (~chatzilla@knk28s5fqgeha.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [03:17] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [03:20] *DaemonFC (~chatzilla@knk28s5fqgeha.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [03:41] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-d0c.pdm.odb5mq.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [04:20] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) ● Sep 06 [05:01] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:16] *DaemonFC (~chatzilla@knk28s5fqgeha.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [06:08] *k4n30 (~34407d27@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:15] *k4n30 (~34407d27@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has left #boycottnovell [06:18] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:19] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Connection closed) [06:19] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [06:19] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@pmeqtjandsa9n.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [07:44] Techrights-sec The image processor test now has some primitive de-duplication capabilities. [07:44] Techrights-sec MD5 would probably be enough but it uses SHA256. Maybe that is too much space [07:44] Techrights-sec in the db. [07:44] schestowitz-TR2 testing... [07:44] schestowitz-TR2 today btw we get Liz Shell confirmed, our new business supremacist [07:49] schestowitz-TR2 it does not deal with webp [07:49] schestowitz-TR2 another suggestion: as the web is so broken and many image URLs have trailing "?junk" it might help for the wrapped to buffer the input with '' ● Sep 06 [08:38] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: ChatZilla 0.13 [SeaMonkey 2.53.13/20220708150114]) [08:39] Techrights-sec Shell already announce de-investment in services and infrastructure, aka [08:39] Techrights-sec dismantling society. [08:39] Techrights-sec The script hasn't been tested with ? yet, though it /should/ in principle work ● Sep 06 [09:04] schestowitz-TR2 the first test I did was webp, not by choice [09:04] schestowitz-TR2 and then I realised that like my older machines it does not support the format [09:04] Techrights-sec webp? https://developers.google.com/speed/webp [09:04] Techrights-sec The current incarnaton can only handle gif, jpeg, and png [09:04] Techrights-sec Though it can be refitted for other formats. \ [09:04] Techrights-sec Which formats should be supported? [09:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-developers.google.com | An image format for the Web | WebP | Google Developers [09:04] Techrights-sec The current, limited set leaves a nice, lightweight dependency list. [09:04] Techrights-sec SVG is not supported yet either. Should it be? [09:05] Techrights-sec Adding in ImageMagick is a lot heavier and, sometimes, introduces vulnerabilities. [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 no need for any additonal package, your program deals with over 90% of cases [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 I was just unfortunate trying to pick at random a page, only to realise it uses webp [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 I can use the old way, with Features, to add unsupported formats [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 the main downside is, others cannot or won't learn [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 notably rianne and marius [09:06] schestowitz-TR2 but if it works OK most of the time, then fine [09:26] Techrights-sec The details are not finalized yet, so /i/ can still get cleared out during [09:26] Techrights-sec further testing. But do test, please. [09:26] Techrights-sec Looking at Image::Magick now [09:26] Techrights-sec It handles webp just fine. [09:26] schestowitz-TR2 I've meanwhile pushed a little script that assumes current url heirarchy in /i/ [09:26] schestowitz-TR2 *hierarchy [09:27] schestowitz-TR2 are you ok with me adding some images using the new tool, knowing it is still in testing phase? [09:27] schestowitz-TR2 I see you left the ones in ~i top level dir in tact [09:44] Techrights-sec in /i/ the new hierarchy is /i/YYYY/MM/ so the files are grouped by month [09:44] Techrights-sec de-duplication tries to work on a global scale though [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 RANT: just been noticing lately that manyw www "sites" cannot even leave images along [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 they add tracking cruft to the end of the url of the image [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 the www is a lost cause as far as I'm concerned [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 not sure what comes after it exactly [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 but the www is a malicious spying operation that has some "value" [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 not even much of that anymore [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 businesses telling me to "do online" what could be done faster and bette rin person or over the phone is NOT progress [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 and they make long queue, robocalsl etc. to discourage using an actual person to get something done [09:50] schestowitz-TR2 or make the journey by foot longer [09:54] Techrights-sec ack [09:54] Techrights-sec just about set for a new test, adding Image::Magick support now; [09:54] Techrights-sec That coverse GIF, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Have to check about SVG. that [09:54] Techrights-sec will need a little different internal workflow, maybe. [09:54] Techrights-sec New *testing* version now [09:57] Techrights-sec Thinking about SVG support and how to do that, atm [09:58] schestowitz-TR2 with scg there is no need to resize anything [09:58] schestowitz-TR2 just copy the file, toss it in the path [09:58] schestowitz-TR2 the scaling is done not in raster space anyway [09:58] schestowitz-TR2 they're the simplest case to deal with usuallu ● Sep 06 [10:07] Techrights-sec Updated *testing* script available. If this one works, then it should go into [10:07] Techrights-sec Git at this point. [10:07] schestowitz-TR2 using it with success, see past 2-3 pages [10:07] Techrights-sec checking [10:17] Techrights-sec Nice [10:18] Techrights-sec Right but the work flow is built around resizing in that a thumbnail is [10:18] Techrights-sec expected. It looks like the uncomplicated way around that is to use [10:18] Techrights-sec a symlink or a hard link for that. Trying hard link first. [10:29] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 I was expcitng to see names of peole [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 rather than a wall of text for polciies [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 my general view on wikipedia since after I firts found out abotut it in 2003 [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 is, this thing is not really for editiing [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 it's just a circle or friend, some connected to the monarch,m [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 who do their own thing with their page [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 ssome of these pages aren't bad, like pages that explain somke scientific things or places (biuas in thew latter) [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 so I basically though, write your own thing, maybe habitually link to that thing, but eneve participate unless you just correct a typo [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 it's not YOUR thing, youare just a temporary tenant and unless it is your job,n your work will go down the drain [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 some people edit and then make their own copy, which they themselves host [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 I think that's a compeomised [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 ut many articles are ads, [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 cpocock showed that FSFE made an ad there [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 and some fsfe-affiliated people tool [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 it's not too hard [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 *too [11:00] schestowitz-TR2 you can get a frien d to writeanbout you tyo dodge the rules about compsoiign text about onesself [11:04] Techrights-sec ack [11:05] schestowitz-TR2 sorry for ytypos [11:05] schestowitz-TR2 I will sopon post a bunch of links again [11:05] schestowitz-TR2 I try to offload from rianne [11:05] schestowitz-TR2 so she can spend more time preparing for Thurs [11:05] Techrights-sec ack [11:06] schestowitz-TR2 finland https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/06/the-helsingin-sanomat-case-prosecuting-journalists-in-finland/ | Source: Counter Punch [11:06] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Helsingin Sanomat Case: Prosecuting Journalists in Finland - CounterPunch.org [11:15] schestowitz-TR2 I cannot even reall the context anymore, it must have been weeks ago [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 not nice to hear [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 nor is it nice for me to say [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 but glyn became too irreelevant in recent years [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 I think partly because of bad choices [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 for one thing, too much stuff in wteets [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 he did not bother putting these things in "proper" writing [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 either in open dot dot... or whatever it was called [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 then, duting lockdowns, he fetched old notebooks of his from journeys decades ago [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 and typed up essasys or poems he had written ages ago [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 and that new blog had no real gfollowers [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 but that stage twitter was already dominated by boyts [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 to give the merel illusion it was still a livewly platform [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 in the past twitter disseminated visibility to all [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 base don who they followed [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 around the trumpo era tey started funnelling all the users to "engagement" BS [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 whgich meant that the ordinary old users (the originals) were left down some pit or alley [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 among them were glyn and me [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 you could see how within 5 years the "likes" etc. went down [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 even view counts [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 no matter what "followers" count said [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 he alkso told me joindiasdpora dying was no major deal as he was posting elsewhere too [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 but mastodon too is dying [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 his googleplus account turned outn to be a wast eof productivity [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 and meanwhile Linux Journal perished [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 unlike his Gulag-hosted blogspot blog [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 either way, one thing I saw the other day (2 days ago I( think) was Lukew Smith, who keeps getting throwqn into the Google "gulag" [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 (he too calls it that), saying something to the effect of, steop being werb peasnats, get your own site [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 many youtube users learned it the ohard way [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 they put all their eggs in baskets they do not even hold [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 it's easyfor regime to "switch off" people this way [11:24] schestowitz-TR2 later came new terms like shadowbanning, "deploatmrning", "cancel culture", "snowflake"... [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 --- [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 worst thing is, twitter "Exclusives" [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 it's what I call ti when a journalist has some explosive material3~ [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 like wikileaks did [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 and instead of putting that on the site and building a readership/audience there [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 they just uploaded to twitter [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 even if later they add it to their own platform [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 people won't know [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 because first avenue does matter [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 and later on, in various way, twitter put the pillow over the face of Assange, Wikileaks, and many accounts sympathetics to those two [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 IU can give many examples, esp. those I recall very well [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 twitter hide thwm and sometimes locked them, e=i.e. nobody can log into them anymore [11:27] schestowitz-TR2 in effect, archives, "thanks for all the fish" [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 --- [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 here's another thought while I'm at it [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 pardom typos [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 the way I view twitter in 2022 is very didfferent [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 not because of a "Waking up" or eureka moment [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 becaus twitter ITSELF changed [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 not sure if you saw the screenshot I posted last night of Jake [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 if not, have a look [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 even jake regrets what twitter became [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 it's a shithole [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 and I now treat it as a shithole [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 for corporate trolls, brigades, gossip [11:34] schestowitz-TR2 and don't wish to legitimiise it [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 not to take kreline (kremlin like) [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 but when the war rboke out ukraine narrative was spreading like fire in social control media [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 to the point where inciting to kill peoiple was seen as OK [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 when agent smith wrote a decent post in the PCLOS magazine people were infuriated [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 what by? [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 by him saying that calling tfor death of Russians is noit cool [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 this is like the FB experiment about manipulation of emopoi being put to prcitice [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 twitter would certainly ban and cull farms of accounts from "ofrign" nations [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 but is US Navy/Army/AFRICOM/ [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 was to use a farm of 100,000 accounts [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 twitter would likely look the other way [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 they newver ever banned such a farm that was found to be operatede by uk and us govs [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 so you generally know where it leads to [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 you might even claim that china, russia etc. are just tryint to counter or balance out a recognised threat [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 but they are not in control of these platforms [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 ksa bought some influence with the oil cmoney [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 now doeing other stuff like sportwashing as well [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 so they can carry on butchering their own people while showinfg double standatd [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 of course the corporations are ANOTHER realm [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 the above speaks ONLY of govs. [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 not private interests, which only partly overlap the naitonal [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 on the www, assuming no dns culls (clownflare does not count; you never truly depend on it), [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 all domains should be run unabated [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 obut of course the politiciasns then bring up CP and terrorism and nazis and stuff [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 to put an end to DNS neutrality [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 so all in all, same all shit as newspaper era [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 excwept the web is intl in scope so one nation can censor the "paper" of the other country [11:35] schestowitz-TR2 or enticing its poipulation for manipulation and incitement from afar [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 --- [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 the www is not free [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 it's not oipen [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 it's not truly standard based anymore [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 some are too complictaed [11:41] schestowitz-TR2 now we also have ad hoc [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 webp, spdy etc. [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 so in effect it's about threat mitigatiuon ina messy platform [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 like, take TM for examplke [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 we need toms www presence [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 and rss [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 but we juggle weird and competitiong specs [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 rss, atom (which version?), and then some extended variants of them [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 some clients do not support them [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 today in irc a new person came to ask about rss changes [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 I gave an answewr [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 then there's the acms person who had certain ideas in mind for tuxmachines feeds [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 like all links in one [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 (rss and atom do not use the same scema either!) [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 and full text inside the items [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 re censorship [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 you have CAs [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 sudcumb to that [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 and they can revoke certs [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 do not surrender, then the browser get all nasty [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 use web standards, then you have limitations [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 like "can't do this", "can do that" [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 the other day in the opml you gave me some blog talked about whgether people who craft web page still bother checking for validation at all [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 another spoke about writing one's pages by hand (the old way, with text editor) [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 turns out not many validate anymore [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 and when it comes to accessibility it is even worse [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 there are unofficial validators for that too [11:42] Techrights-sec FF is loaded with dodgy CAs, any one of which can authorize a MitM attack. [11:42] Techrights-sec With Javascript payloads, that becomes a very serious matter. [11:42] schestowitz-TR2 like ones that check colour contrasts for colour-blind people [11:44] schestowitz-TR2 --- [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 some total bafoon from the corpoorate troll's twitter thread equated people who speak about mitm in CAs with antivaxxers [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 the extenbt to which labels get misused [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 and all clownflare staff seemed to have blocked me at one point [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 not because I said anything to them [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 but because I wrote some facts about their em,ployers like 8 years ago [11:45] Techrights-sec log4j has been milked not just in the press but politically. m$ lobbyists [11:45] Techrights-sec have used that to gain access to far more politicians than most would suspect [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 the fake sec crowd... [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 carries "mobile" phone to access things [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 says lastpass is cool and trendy [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 pursued paperword (digital mtoilet) from OSI [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 ISO [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 claims "security!" [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 evewn the EPO had a whole due to log4j some months ago [11:45] schestowitz-TR2 *hole [11:46] schestowitz-TR2 I think my post about FSF 2 days ago was 'misused' to FUD them today [11:46] schestowitz-TR2 iun gemini: [11:47] schestowitz-TR2 What is it the Free Software Foundation does, exactly? gemini://blog.snowfrost.garden/2/index.gmi [11:48] schestowitz-TR2 very long, did not read the whole thging [11:48] schestowitz-TR2 poretends it's the FSF's job to speak about Microsoft buzzwords and treat Micrtosoft FUD as a real thing [11:48] schestowitz-TR2 then goes on to blaming FSF for things it has nothing to do with [11:57] Techrights-sec checking [11:57] Techrights-sec It was long and mostly a lot of intentional misinterpretations and M$ talking [11:57] Techrights-sec points. Microsofters cannot be reasoned with. They don't operate in a fact- [11:57] Techrights-sec based mindset. They will attempt to bend any criticism, even constructive [11:57] Techrights-sec criticism, into supporting their anti-Freedom agenda. ● Sep 06 [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 sorry, my mind is not working in an organised fashion today [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 when I went to sleep it was after I had forgotten something I wanted to do [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 and I'm still covering up for rianne, so multi-dimensional thinking [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 so she can study [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 about the FSF, that followed from what we spoke about wre WWW [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 WWW and SF are very closely related things [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 because Net=some commoidty hw and software stacks on top [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 combine this with total faolure of media tro report, study, investigate anything [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 we have a society drifting passively intoo an abyss a [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 and many already conceded to GAFAM on the WWW [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 and some forms of WWW-DRM/EME too [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 on mobile devices, working around such restrictions is hard [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 ans they increasdingly restrict what people can 'sideload' on such devices [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 Gulag with ICBM now does the same to gnu/linux [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 "sigstore" [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 using LF as their "neutral" proxy [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 I'm sure Microsoft too likes the idea [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 it's like "Mirosoft Defender" but one that's controlled by seemignly 'Linuxy' companies [12:02] schestowitz-TR2 like the two which played a big role in taking over and derailing the FS movement [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 --- [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 if you already have a test-level script for images, and if you can consider putting it in some location outside homedirs (I still copy yours to my homedir). [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 then maybe I can alias it [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 I loathe how zsh handles line editing [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 I cannot even "home" and "end [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 I cannot even navigate the line itself [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 to correct it [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 the same data entry behaviour as when adding new pages [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 the only sems to be doing it all oveer again, or backspacing to the typo [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 adding alias :-) [12:05] schestowitz-TR2 cheers [12:08] Techrights-sec ok, it's in /usr/local/bin/ now, tm-scale-and-process-image.pl replacing [12:08] Techrights-sec what was there before [12:08] Techrights-sec chsh can change thedefault shell back to bash [12:08] Techrights-sec or zsh can be configured to modify its behavior, it is much more configurable [12:08] Techrights-sec than bash and more capable too [12:08] Techrights-sec checking... [12:08] Techrights-sec bash is now added, but you'll need to bring your own .profile and/or .bashrc [12:18] schestowitz-TR2 Canonical working for Microsoft https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-22-04-active-directory-jp-webinar [12:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-[] Ubuntu 22.04Active Directory | Ubuntu [12:19] *DaemonFC (~chatzilla@ak8uu6rqh688n.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [12:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:42] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:59] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Sep 06 [13:26] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [13:40] schestowitz " [13:40] schestowitz Contest lack of rewards: Request for Review -> LATEST DEADLINE 26 OCTOBER 2022 [13:40] schestowitz Dear colleagues, [13:40] schestowitz As every year since the introduction of the New Career System in 2015, only part of staff eligible to receive a pensionable salary progression in the form of a step has been rewarded accordingly. Similarly, only part of staff has received a reward in the form of a non-pensionable bonus. [13:40] schestowitz Colleagues who wish to contest a lack of reward can file a Request for Review (RfR) pursuant to Article 109 ServRegs within 3 months from the explicit or implicit communication of a decision which affects you negatively, i.e., in the case of the reward exercise a decision that you would not receive a reward. [13:40] schestowitz An explicit communication is a documented, written communication saying that you would not get a reward, for example an email from your line manager. [13:40] schestowitz An implicit communication is the realisation that you did not get a reward by looking at your pay slip of July 2022. [13:40] schestowitz For most staff, the deadline to file a Request for Review is the 26 October 2022. Beware of the deadline applicable to you! [13:40] schestowitz At this stage, we suggest not to argue at length why you should have had a reward, especially if you do not have a written statement of the motivations for not having received one. [13:40] schestowitz You are entitled to ask for a written explanation, and we propose this to be the main point of the RfR. In the case the RfR is rejected you can bring your arguments forward in the next stage of the litigation path, i.e., when filing an internal appeal. [13:40] schestowitz " [13:57] Techrights-sec The new versions of Ubuntu advertise M$ technologies, products, and services [13:57] Techrights-sec very prominently both during the installation and during the first boot. ● Sep 06 [14:01] schestowitz-TR2 screenshots would or would have helped [14:01] schestowitz-TR2 without them, it is just some OTR words on paper [14:01] schestowitz-TR2 for people to assess whether the promotion is disproportionate [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 today Canonical pushed clown, but AWS [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 something they shill Gulag things [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 I think Canonical's business model is selling Ubuntu users to nasty companies [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 until they run out of users [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 then they need to think of another approach [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 this is what it's called selling out [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 you run out [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 you have an exit strategy [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 there is no vision beyond that [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 anyway, the realm of FS is changing [14:02] schestowitz-TR2 and the threats change too [14:20] Techrights-sec Can someone in IRC fire up Qemu and grab some screenshots from 22.04? [14:21] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 yle gives me blank pages in falkon [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 earlier on even TDF gave me pages that don't work in Falkin [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 the WWW is a fucking JOKE! [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 I have have JS turned out and it uses Blink [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 sooner or later I might just textify everything and if it does not work, then so long [14:24] schestowitz-TR2 I shouldn't have to fire up a 200MB browser to read a headline [14:25] schestowitz-TR2 or a few paragraphs of text with not even hyperlink in them [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 ------ [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 yle has been like this for a long time [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 I have to juggle bretween broweser just to figure what the fuck the link is about [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 the link itself is useless barcode shit [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 and once you get the fuicking page to fucking do something [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 you get a popup instead of an actual page [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 by that stage they already do a lot of spying, you opened 3 bloated browsers [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 and the reporting leaves much to be desired [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 later they wonder why "the media" perishes [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 the news is very slow today [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 so slow that I started opening all those MSM feeds you sent by OPML [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 big mistake! More noise than signal, even when filtered on some topic like "suerveillance" [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 it's like reading oligarchs' PR department [14:44] schestowitz-TR2 and does not resemble reality [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 --- [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 won't do that again [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 I might filter on words like "bsd", "linux", and "raspb" [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 but nothing political in nature [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 this is insane BS, with the few exception here and there [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 gulag noise gave rise that that "gearrise" BS [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 which I think is plagiarised BS with bot [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 at least gulag did muzzle some of the old spam sites [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 but I only see once a day what comes from "linux" [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 for the sole purpose of seeing if there's another rss feed I need adding for another section in some site which [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 habitually covers a relevant topic [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 the www has over 100 million domain, but if you search "linux" in gulag noise you will find that 80%+ of the results [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 are from about half a dozen domains [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 shit like phoronix (barely original, marketing brochures presented as 'articles') [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 the occasional FUD, scripted as if Microsoft's PR department sends the same email to 100 'publishers', [14:49] schestowitz-TR2 hoping to net a spamnil [14:49] Techrights-sec http://techrights.org/2022/09/06/techrights-in-haiku/ [14:49] Techrights-sec :) [14:49] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Techrights in Haiku | Techrights [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 spamnil's thing is dying, but he is in imposter mode [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 like james and sheela Microsoft [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 sooner or later he'll wank himself to the numbers that are 99% bots, himself, his guest, and maybe his mom [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 but remember [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 "Fake it till you make it" [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 also see the kirk video I shared the other day [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 he references a study that mortified him [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 about how 90% of people polled in the US said cheating is OK [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 and then you get those people growing up to run orgs [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 and you basically need to compete against lying and fraud [14:52] schestowitz-TR2 skaniini's employer is under attack by Microsoft vapourware (lies to freeeze interest in the alternative) [14:52] Techrights-sec yes and the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too [14:52] Techrights-sec :) [14:52] Techrights-sec yes and the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too [14:53] schestowitz-TR2 it 'FEELS' like education here is still functioning, thankfully [14:53] schestowitz-TR2 but what do I know? I've no kikds and have not seen it from the insider for decades already [14:53] schestowitz-TR2 not sure what Tories do or did to schools [14:53] schestowitz-TR2 school uniform still a think, but I see kids walking with their heads down [14:53] schestowitz-TR2 you know why [14:55] schestowitz-TR2 Our New Prime Minister: More of the Same https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/06/truss-more-of-the-same/ [14:55] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Our New Prime Minister: More of the Same [14:55] Techrights-sec the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too [14:55] Techrights-sec there , two generations have passed, starting on a third, without basic [14:55] Techrights-sec education. there is not enough knowledge to run a nation any more. look at [14:55] Techrights-sec how most of the "politicians" don't even know (or pretend not to know) the [14:55] Techrights-sec basics of how government works, the different parts with their differing [14:55] Techrights-sec areas of responsiblity, and the official process / work flow. it has become [14:55] Techrights-sec only a shouting contest, run by hostile foreign or corporate interests via [14:55] Techrights-sec social control media. [14:56] schestowitz-TR2 uk 1990s: john major [14:56] schestowitz-TR2 uk 2020: major baffoon johnson ● Sep 06 [15:04] Techrights-sec ack [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 marius liks the aliases and rianne looks forward to the uploader [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 on my account only I've aliased that as "upload" [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 a wrapped (whichever one, maybe bash, maybe the add... program that's a shell which ends in an update) [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 *wrapper [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 would help by removing everything after "?" in the first argument [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 I'd say nearly 30% of all image URLs have trailing cruft [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 even if I add '' [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 it'll result in an ugly filename that has question marks in it [15:08] schestowitz-TR2 and does not end with the file extension [15:09] Techrights-sec nice [15:09] Techrights-sec ok [15:09] Techrights-sec I think so. Most material to the right of the question mark is tracking cruft [15:09] Techrights-sec The filename is made without the trailing cruft, if it is working correctly. [15:09] Techrights-sec If not, then the script needs modification. [15:10] schestowitz-TR2 I've not tried [15:10] schestowitz-TR2 I am already into that habit of removing it manually [15:10] schestowitz-TR2 but, if not, zsh itself is complaining, as I don't include quotes [15:10] schestowitz-TR2 OSI pissing me off again, not sure how to effectively respond without linking [15:10] schestowitz-TR2 those are corrupted orgs and it's very easy to see what agenda and narrative they push (and who for) [15:11] Techrights-sec I should check if one can also point to an image already on TM by its TM URL [15:11] Techrights-sec and let the de-duplication part do its work. [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 wishlist: after a year add search-image [arg] [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 pl/sh [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 you enter a string like Kroah [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 it turns it into case-neutral/insensitive string [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 find | grep [search_term] [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 and returns potential completition [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 with the image [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 e.g. search-image torvalds [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 returns 6 possible html portions to choose from [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 e.g. when there is a new release of RC [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 reuse of existing images would save disk space [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 (I already did this manually a few times under Features) [15:13] schestowitz-TR2 but it takes more steps [15:15] Techrights-sec yep., it works [15:15] Techrights-sec Just put in the TM address for the image and it will get a link pointing to [15:15] Techrights-sec the single image. No need to re-download and waste space as well. [15:15] Techrights-sec e.g. [15:15] Techrights-sec tm-scale-and-process-image.pl https://news.tuxmachines.org/i/2022/09/Topton-2-Bay-NAS-N1-720x680.jpg [15:23] Techrights-sec The -v option will inform you if it was a duplicate or not and then show [15:23] Techrights-sec the link markup. [15:23] Techrights-sec The string search can only deal with the file name at the moment, so if the [15:23] Techrights-sec file name is not informative, then the search results are no good or else [15:23] Techrights-sec very incomplete. I'm not sure there is a good return on effort for adding [15:23] Techrights-sec embedded metadata for any of the images, but it is still an option regardless. [15:24] schestowitz-TR2 I suppose my suggestion was too simple to be worth making a shell script for as find | grep likelt cuts it [15:24] schestowitz-TR2 then paste result in [15:25] Techrights-sec There's no feasible way for grep to work. The file name is in the db however. [15:25] Techrights-sec I suppose the images could be scanned for EXIF data on the way in but relying [15:25] Techrights-sec on other people's metadata is a waste of effort and time. [15:26] schestowitz-TR2 sometimes the filenames say enough and if you have thousands of them, then there are some hits, never mind the many misses [15:27] Techrights-sec At the same time, it is almost certainly not worth the effort to "tag" all [15:27] Techrights-sec incoming images. Though it would be technically feasible to set up that [15:27] Techrights-sec possibility. [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 thinking a step ahead [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 user enters title [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 key word taken from it [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 backend scans for it [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 suggests possible images (after many images were added) [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 the issue here is fair use [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 it's ok to use an image from article you send traffic to [15:29] schestowitz-TR2 dodgy is you use image from one site to promote another [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 another topic, I think, is how Linus surrendered and make Linux a company [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 sort of [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 a decision he'd come to regret [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 he's still young [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 imagine if nils torvalds had some do-nothing charlatan going about in the EP [15:31] schestowitz-TR2 saying, "I'm Nil's boss [sniggers]" [15:32] Techrights-sec Run it like a compan? Into the ground and ask for a bailout? [15:33] schestowitz-TR2 no, into the ground and then start a new job again.... in August. like sheela microsoftr [15:33] schestowitz-TR2 after robbing many people [15:33] schestowitz-TR2 thiis harvard mba sure did her "successful insolvency" at bakkt of shit [15:33] schestowitz-TR2 just months after proudly taking it to nyse [15:33] schestowitz-TR2 "do it again!! do it again!" [15:33] Techrights-sec ack [15:35] schestowitz-TR2 many pension funds left to empty [15:35] schestowitz-TR2 inc. some retired profs' [15:35] schestowitz-TR2 call it bad luck or "investment" in the age of "quiet quitting" and "great resignation" and "slowdown" [15:35] schestowitz-TR2 "just bad luck, buddy..." [15:35] schestowitz-TR2 (try depositing the cash in bermuda next time; ask the banksters in london or nyc about doing a 'foundation' with money in cayman like gates) [15:40] Techrights-sec ack [15:48] schestowitz-TR2 Conflating attacks with actual compromise. Typical Microsoft nonsense. https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/defenders-prepared-cyberattacks-linux-cloud-migration Source: Dark Reading | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.darkreading.com/application-security/defenders-prepared-cyberattacks-linux-cloud-migration [15:48] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.darkreading.com | Defenders Be Prepared: Cyberattacks Surge Against Linux Amid Cloud Migration [15:53] Techrights-sec ack [15:53] Techrights-sec m$ and its minions continue to try to convince the world that all systems are [15:53] Techrights-sec equally vulnerable ● Sep 06 [16:14] schestowitz-TR2 draft [16:14] schestowitz-TR2 I think this line is very important to push [16:14] schestowitz-TR2 as I see bullshit artists trying to distract from it [16:18] schestowitz-TR2 Jack Wallen helps Microsoft spread that lie that "VS Code is one of the most popular open-source IDEs" when it is in fact proprietary software and spyware (many reject it; popularity as a self-fulfilling prophecy/PR tactic?); ZDNet and this sister site are paid by Microsoft to keep pushing such lies. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/deploy-docker-container-vs-code/ [16:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How to deploy a Docker Container with VS Code | TechRepublic [16:22] Techrights-sec checking [16:22] Techrights-sec the rate of decline is important to cite in hard numbers [16:22] schestowitz-TR2 I shall add that, thanks [16:22] schestowitz-TR2 we need to keep REPEATING these things [16:22] schestowitz-TR2 as NOBODY else seems to do it [16:26] Techrights-sec The minions try to hide the decline of their mafia [16:27] schestowitz-TR2 yes, it spoils marketing and premises like "windows is here to stay" [16:27] schestowitz-TR2 and "easy to use" [16:33] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 this sort of thing used to be occasionally covered by gregg/greg kaiser (or similar spelling) at IDG [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 before China fed IDG to the hounds [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 not that much good was lost [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 I thinkm kaiser was in ComputerWorld [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 he'd show how Windows/Microsoft lost market share rapidly [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 I have seen nothing from him in years [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 at least we have the news covered .... by tweets about RMS signs on door [16:35] schestowitz-TR2 that aren't even his signs but pranks [16:35] Techrights-sec There are many writers who have disappeared, about 20 years ago there were [16:35] Techrights-sec some really great ones, even at places like ZDNet [16:35] Techrights-sec ack [16:59] schestowitz-TR2 how easy/hard would it be to make tghe rss feed 100 items long? [16:59] schestowitz-TR2 I'm asking because atm some days we have more than 50 update+new [16:59] schestowitz-TR2 and that can cause a situation of spillover [16:59] schestowitz-TR2 where the updated items don't fall off the list until the following day (midnight) ● Sep 06 [17:00] Techrights-sec :( [17:00] Techrights-sec easy but long [17:00] Techrights-sec IIRC the current is n items OR n days, which ever is the larger set [17:00] Techrights-sec Yes, checking the --help option and the source, if both -d and -n are specified [17:00] Techrights-sec the result is the union of the two sets. So if you have it set to 50 items [17:00] Techrights-sec and 1 day, then there will be at least 50 items in the feed, but more if the [17:00] Techrights-sec last day has more. [17:01] schestowitz-TR2 thanks, it's only a 'problem' for tuxurl-new.sh because it gets very different 50 each time the feed is regenerated [17:01] schestowitz-TR2 after a day has many updated in particular [17:01] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:05] schestowitz-TR2 "Unfortunately, I'll have to start this month's newsletter with sad news. The co-creator of Let's Encrypt, Peter Eckersley, lost his battle with cancer at the age of 43." https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/09/04/RIP_Peter_Eckersley.shtml [17:05] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines RIP, Peter Eckersley (UPDATEDx3)" [17:06] schestowitz-TR2 cancer. [17:07] Techrights-sec The refresh script takes the last two days just to be sure, so the feed will [17:07] Techrights-sec be quite long sometimes. [17:11] Techrights-sec ack [17:11] schestowitz-TR2 EFF lost others due to ehalth reasons lately [17:13] Techrights-sec ack [17:24] schestowitz-TR2 "tricking AVEVA Edge into loading an unsafe DLL." DLL. OBVIOUSLY "DA LUNIX"! https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-249-02 [17:24] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP1 and all prior versions | CISA [17:26] schestowitz-TR2 "authorized user with ADMIN or ENGINEER role rights, to inject an operating system (OS) command" Which OS? Sounds like MICROF~1 WINDOWS to me. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-249-04 [17:26] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | Hitachi Energy TXpert Hub CoreTec 4 | CISA [17:28] Techrights-sec Yes, lots of misdirection. It's the "Microsoft Effect", a variation of [17:28] Techrights-sec "Sour Grapes". The idea the microsofters wish to promote is the idea that [17:28] Techrights-sec since all computers have problems it is not worth even looking at other [17:28] Techrights-sec operating systems. Sort of a false equivalence. [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 just added 3 links to that effect (TM) [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 as tedious as these things are, I think repetition is certainly needed [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 apropos, epo series still "coming soon" [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 you seem to have changed rss feed length [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 thanks, that solved my longstanding "problem" [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 I could explain the problem better, but I think you got what was happening [17:35] schestowitz-TR2 I am not automaticallt relaying updates to irc [17:36] Techrights-sec ack [17:36] Techrights-sec Periodic repetition over time has effect. That script has not changed for [17:36] Techrights-sec some days. [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 if the script has not changed, then perhaps changes at my end helped a bit, will know when I add more items if that tackled it [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 CISA is a fucking joke and disgrace [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 you even see the flaws' reporters [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 usually some corporations that push FUD to make sales [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 CISA itself does nothing [17:37] schestowitz-TR2 CERT either [17:37] Techrights-sec The union of the two sets has been there for weeks, though. [17:41] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:46] Techrights-sec commit 8da6115549917b0062b62b059595f80a4e99028c [17:46] Techrights-sec Date: Tue Jul 26 21:32:31 2022 +0300 [17:46] Techrights-sec create union of sets when -d and -n are used together ● Sep 06 [18:31] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 06 [19:28] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:45] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [19:53] schestowitz-TR2 This site, which is controlled by Microsofters, is trying hard to stigmatise Linux -- not Windows -- as a malware issue; never mind if installing malware on Linux in the first place is hard, whereas Windows itself is malware and it has back doors https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-malware-evades-detection-using-multi-stage-deployment/ [19:53] schestowitz-TR2 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.bleepingcomputer.com | New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment [19:53] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bleepingcomputer.com | New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment [19:53] schestowitz-TR2 this article says "The malware exploits vulnerabilities to elevate its privileges", but how does it get there in the first place (before elevating privileges)? It does not say, and moreover doesn't care as long as they can blame "Linux" for something else https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-malware-evades-detection-using-multi-stage-deployment/ ● Sep 06 [20:21] Techrights-sec ack ● Sep 06 [21:30] *DaemonFC (~chatzilla@wuq97prk5c5sc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [21:31] DaemonFC schestowitz[TR2]: I talked to one of the SeaMonkey developers about the Fedora patches. [21:31] DaemonFC He told me that Fedora has not pursued getting them upstreamed or even notified SeaMonkey that they were patching it for Fedora. [21:32] DaemonFC But he's looking at merging _some_ of it as it pertains to better Web site compatibility. Mostly, this means the patch for better spoofing as Firefox. :P [21:38] schestowitz-TR2 hi DaemonFC [21:38] schestowitz-TR2 is fedora the one to target? [21:38] schestowitz-TR2 seems many big distros are debian based [21:39] schestowitz-TR2 ICBM seems to have driver fedora and planet fedora to incommunicado ● Sep 06 [23:23] starstreak what is going on? [23:26] psydruid Not upstreaming patches as a competitive advantage and as a business model [23:35] schestowitz-TR2 yeah