IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, October 07, 2022

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thanks

Oct 07 06:26

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gym brb

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going to go to aldi later, we expect a busy day later

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I put down in notes the topics suggested

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i do not have data to back this up with

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but it 'felt' like tuesday and weds are the busy news day

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by thursday it's already slow news day

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more so friday

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the vulume in the Links files may have affirm this

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if split by day of week

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then weighed by length of file

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then charted

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i could do the same with supplementary links (linux-y sites)

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That rather matches my observations too in recent years. Friday through

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Monday have basically no news. It'd be hard to assess thoroughly because

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the pages linked to have no uniform way of reading the date, if they even

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have the date in a machine readable format or if they have the date at all.

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But perhaps the small subset with machine readable dates could be analyze.

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Their presence in our link lists would be too inaccurate since it can

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take a few days or longer to find them. So landing in the link lists can happen

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days after actual publication, if not weeks or months.

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larabel played a role in the "linuyx breaks your PC" FUD from Microsoft sites

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I firts looked at the mailing list message

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it's an intel bug by intel

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anyway, cliackbait was mentioned here 24 hours ago

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do you find my posts about covid-19 informative or am I wasting my time? :D

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that is based on local data, but I noticed the same trend in the US

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They're informative, confirming what is suspected, but I assume you are writing

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for a much wider audience.

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Probably at least a few other countries too

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<techrights-news> COVID-19 Positivity Rate Soaring in England Even Before October https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/07/september-covid-19-positivity-rate/

Oct 07 08:18

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » COVID-19 Positivity Rate Soaring in England Even Before October

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So the published data is a month behind, and slipping.

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better than nothing

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but it seems clear that if frequency was based on urgency/deaths, we should still receive daily updates

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this is a policial decision

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nothing to do with science

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Yes, it looks like they are doing their utmost to avoid drawing attention to

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the current situation. Certtainly if no current data is available, it is not

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even possible to know the current situation.

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nhs outsourced a lot of the key data not just to OOXML

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but to a Microsoft site that's basically JS

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which is infuriating

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That is partially unrelated to SARS-CoV-2, I would say the outsourcing has

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more to do with certain political agendas to shut down the national /healthcare/

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service and replace it with privatization and "insurance" so that more middlemen

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(several layers in fact) can skim off the money without providing any added

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value

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wait, am working on a good one

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5 ODF files

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ack

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Twenty until fifteen years ago, the benefits of open standards were universally

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known and accepted. Furthermore, they were the direction the world was heading

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but then everything collapse through the orgy of corruption and lies surrounding

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OOXML, which by the way no one uses even today, not even m$ itself.

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OOXML has never been fully defined nor actually implemented by *any* company

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or organization.

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<techrights-news> In 2022, to Date, British Deaths Massively Increased Compared to the Prior Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/07/uk-death-increases/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » In 2022, to Date, British Deaths Massively Increased Compared to the Prior Year

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bbl aldi

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ack

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it is difficult for me to comment on FB

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rianne was using it when we met

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she stopped ~2 after we met

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~2 years

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we met in 2011

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I think FB was not AS evil back then

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those sites tend to get MORE malicious over time

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they are BUSINESSES

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YouTube used to be "ok-ish" around 2011

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Yes, YouTube was ok even for a few years after the sale.

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In recent months it is worse than garbage. It makes even Odysee look ok, and

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that takes some work. :(

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both won't work without JS

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but that's just the edge of the iceberg

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I don't have like... a wiki page with list of reasons to avoid them

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it would change over time, hence wiki

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let's just say it is not our foremost priority

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compared, say, to microsoft layoffs

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you said it was in page 1 of startpage

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I rarely use search engines and when I do it's searx.be these days

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fwiw, there are also good reasons to avoid peertube

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and ipfs for video (latency, lag among the downsides)

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self-hosting videos might not be cheap

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but you don't have to tip-toe like john campbell

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he's not a coward, they just blackmail him by saying he would use a decade of much work

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if they can squeeze the trigger on him

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seems like they already decided he needs to go

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they just look for excuses now

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he's "bad for business" (sponsors)

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ack

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i keep telling rianne that people she watches in librewolf have a boss called "Google"

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and he's a very vicious and demanding boss

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I last told her this morning

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this boss is never pleased, and he very very very much likes $

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he doesn't even like to pay employees their fair share

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and they cannnot express opinions even outside 'work'

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he also tracks them around with their "smart" phones

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for 'security'

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some years ago a worker who producef exercise videos for sweatshop pay rate entered the boss's office and fired

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at some workers

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but that was before the worse notoriety

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google: if you can just not talk about subject x, that would beeee greaaaaat

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same for use of words

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and how subjects get covered

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later they nitpick on who helped produce the video

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so tarqie and chomsky and chris hedges are "bad" people

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the footage was licensed to RT

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*tariq

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john campbell became a ransomware victim

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he must turn on the camera and tell us "happy stories"

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or all his word AND audience will rm -rf /

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with no chance to appeal, let alone a platform to complain in

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ack

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the name "sam varghese" has just been borrowed to issue about half a dozen spamnil-style 'articles'

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and he went along with it

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ack

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he seems to be getting ground down

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and hopefully not heading towards selling out

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I think he is one of the last remaining tech journalists

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<techrights-news> If only teaching paid more than it does … gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/02/11.2

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The budgets for teaching have been slashed for decades with the (so far

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successful) goal of weakening it.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/05/reagan-nation-at-risk-education-policy-trump-bush

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theguardian.com | It didn't start with Trump: how America came to undervalue teachers | Education | The Guardian

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they like to say the "left" welcomes immigrants for their vote

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while one party seems to be actively damaging brains in exchange for votes

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that seems to work reasonably well for those who plunder the country

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while at the same time keeping the population dumb, divided, and voting GOP

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That is one of the goal, damaged brains and inability to think in order to

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harvest uninformed votes based on tribe. Another is to have obedient or

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easily manipluated worker drones that will accept terrible working conditions

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and terrible pay and without health care, all uncomplainingly

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need ideas

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reports say vista 11 market share 2.6%

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what can we "add" to that?

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(news slow; too slow even for many TM pages, let alone original articles)

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The rate of change is important. That and how long it has been declining for.

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Also it is important to point to a way out, even if it is Linux Mint or

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PeppermintOS

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There are a fair number of blog posts, but they are very slow to process as

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is usual. Each writer has their own style so the pith may be anywhere in a

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long post.

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Vista11 only has any market share at all because of the Wintel duopoly and

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the grip (monopoly) has with OEMs.

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If one could go to big box store in your average city and buy off the shelf

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a compute with GNU/Linux pre-installed, that'd be the end of Windows

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It's almost what happened with the Asus EEE. The GNU/Linux versions flew

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off the shelves, but M$ prevented restocking by pressing Asus to stop with

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the GNU/Linux version and then people who bought the Windows version mostly

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returned them so the m$-owned media helped with the FUD by implying that the

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returns were associated with GNU/Linux even though they were due to the

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Windows versions.

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(don't quote any of that, it's written too poorly)

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You have the Asus EEE links somewhere from years ago. I think they might be

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ZDNet links even. It's how I recall it, and briefly there were two articles

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covering that. How do your recollections differ?

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The Asus EEE (linux version) was a very good netbook and quite affordable.

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That was another thing, m$ killed the netbook market by constraining the OEMs'

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abilities to change the specs.

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this is now how I remember it

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*not how

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we have a wiki page with a list of articles

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head of osi at the time suggested that I document what had happened like this

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there were also microsoftr bribes, negative pricing

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but zemlin and the sunshine boyz thank "our diamong sponsor Microsoft"

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bribes are a crime

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I used the Asus EEE with Ubuntu for almost 2 years until the SSD broke

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after wiping the useless and outdated Windows XP that came with it

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little did they know that killing the netbook market just made people move to phones and tablets

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anything to escape Microsoft

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Windows has (had also) many real practical issues

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bloat (higher specs)

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price

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stability

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among others

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you don't hear androiud users saying

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"hang on, I need to reboot first"

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m$ has made the superstition of powercycling and or rebooting the generic

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ritual response to debugging.

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the US has not just been asserting its dominance in terms of software, but also in terms of hardware

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now that the cat is out of the bag and a lot more non-US produced hardware is hitting the market, they are crying wolf

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and Windows is going into the garbage bin of history along with that hardware that isn't being sold anymore

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OTA

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yes, but they tell us the only alternative is China

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rather than nations making their own systems

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like India and China do with free ISAs

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as if only one nation can be h/w and s/w suppliers

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like clown computing, the "client" model

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it's the mindset of colonialism and parentalism

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Microsoft did this patronising thing to a lot of Africannations

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insinuaint they have no engineers

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and have no charge of doing ICT without Microsoft's help

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they could easily make their own distros and deploy Free sofwtare

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they don't need Microsoft

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I wrote some responses to this a long time ago

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IIRC, in relation to South Africa too

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if all goes as planned, maybe I'll publish the copyright troll's letter in xmas

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draft

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checking

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The GPL in and of itself is a clever hack of copyright law and has provided

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great benefit. LT himself has mentioned many times that very thing and

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once, right before he got abused, even stated in a video that it was his best

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decision ever to use the GPLv2.

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I will do a later video on uefi secure [sic] boot as gpl evasion

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and github as anti-gpl weapon

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I've just put this in myh notes as next [topic]

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Yes, UEFI / restricte boot is a means of license evasion / violation.

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ok, done eating for today (still finding discounts)

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will clean rss fees

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btw, john cambell is tring to spin very bad news as OK or even good news

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I guess the boss (Google) wants some positive tone

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the clients (advertisers, not HIS) assess the platform for 'accuracy' (cnsistency with the PR)

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ack

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Serious question: what would it take for FSF, EFF, and OSI to make any kind

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of campaign, big or small, to counter Vista12 together?

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they are not goign to collaborate

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eff is to busy promoting shit

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osi is fighting SF

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and FSF is too afriad to speak out against anything

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right, negative answers aside, what obstacles could be removed, if the

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situation were more favorable?

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i don't know internal politics, but from what I heard (phipps, lxo etc.) there is a coup and they don't have the power to push it back anymore

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and they concedes, which was a mistake

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they even did to rms agsinst us (not succefully) what trolls do against dfc

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it's just boring ol divide and rule

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identify or interject some politics people don't agree on

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then cause strife

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i'd like to think we're not gullible enough to ever fall for it