IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, March 10, 2022

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but any rough ETA for account migration feature released and distributed to pods?

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No, no rough ETA. We're thinking in the timespans of many months, not weeks.

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As a side note, the @schestowitz account still cannot export its data, should that be treported by email?

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We're aware, no need to report! You'll get an email when it's ready.

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what is your take on

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osi jumping into the let;'s ban ruissia wagon

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with italo and "ethical" source trolls?

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worth doing video about?

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[SUEPO] Safeguard your rights against the zero adjustment of salaries and pensions in 2022

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Dear colleagues,

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The new salary adjustment procedure has caused a loss of purchasing power for all staff and pensioners of the EPO. Its application for 2022 has even resulted in a freeze of salaries and pensions. Looking at the rising cost of living, this zero adjustment - visible in the salary slips and pension statements for January 2022 - is all the more significant.

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The Central Bureau of SUEPO considers the salary adjustment procedure and its implementation for 2022 illegal. Please find in the attachment a model Request for Review (RfR) for active staff and a model RfR for pensioners so that you can safeguard your rights. Even if you already opposed the adjustment in January 2021 using the templates provided by SUEPO, it is advisable to take action again now. The exception clause causing the zero adjustment

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has been applied for the first time.

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DOWNLOAD RfR for active employees

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DOWNLOAD RfR for pensioners

Mar 10 14:16

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In order to safeguard your rights, you should file the RfR by 15 March 2022 by following the instructions below:

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ota

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draft

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recent articles or videos were so effective

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that we now get ad hominem trolls in irc

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typical

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they can't come with anything better, so it shows where to hit them harder again

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Spafford and many others also backed down over the years and one of the more

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harmful turns has been the folding of the EFF.

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when I see eff links I nowadays get all cynical and/or scepticasl

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because either they hit thew wrong issue

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or take a position which does not make sense

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or both

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ack

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I figure they were planning on deposing Barlow when he up and died anyway.

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think began to sour while he was still there and healthy

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wrong HR decisions

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then, friend-brings-a-friend magnifies the issue

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YEs, infiltration that way.

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For the most part, the EFF appears rudderless. That was probably one of the

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goals, so that it stopped addressing the purposes it was founded for.

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Or, as one can see in the FSF, there is fear associating with tackling key issues

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but let me set that aside for a moment

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and try to trace back the modus operandi

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I think you hire some people who do not care about the org

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they can be branded as enriching

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e.g. to the image

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but not of substance associated with goals

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nor qualified

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then they bring in money nfrom the wrong party

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like mozilla or LF

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then yoiu become depoendent on that money

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or else you lose staff, so they fight to keep the money

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this gives them power

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e.g. Wim wanting to say why he quit Microsoft

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surely oracles did not offer him more moneyu

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they could do that to prevent him leaving

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so he saw something at microsoft

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but now, inside LF board, if he speaks out

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Microsoft can turn around and asay, remove wim

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or we stop paying linux foundaitoon and retaliate in other nways to

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e.g. through shithub

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linus was never supposed to let these chaions of idiots form power around kernel.oirg

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not it is too late

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they have him by the b0lls

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sounds about right

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LT can *maybe* still take his trademark and walk. It'd be a big deal and a lot

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of work but maybe less of a problem for him than if he stays on and continues

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being marginalized further every month.

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the media would blast him (you can imagine poissible angles)

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he does not control the media

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so it would undermine whatever his reasons (stated)

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and goals

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the media can misrepresent him

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maybe some "old" thing or "man" thing

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with RMS they can choose more political angles

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With MIT, they had a lot of their own dirt to distract from not just Bill's

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LT was reduced to almost clerical role, "Release Manager"

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he does not pay a big role in decisions

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things like rust are for gulag and its proxy groups to make

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LT just signs off

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Nope. That was a reason for their deposing him.

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Rubberstamp mostly, if things are as they look.

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I keep forgetting (should memorise this) the proxy group created to paint rust as a "security" thing

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as nobody would oppose security, esp. not when media portrays even local priv escalation

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like the equivalent of Windows botnets

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"security" has been the go-to excuse of microsofters, especially when they

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do a search-and-destroy campaign against non-M$ software from the desktops

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of work environments.

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gemini has not been updating since many hours ago. Trying manually for a

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second time. The first manual attempt failed with "Could not find feed at URL: "http://techrights.org/feed/"

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i have just changed trafffic shaping mode to make it easier to complete

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do you have video topic suggestions? (I might as well ask)

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thanks

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not at the moment, there was a video link yesterday about software

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patents in the 3D community. It was long but it is full of mistakes and

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misframings, so might provide fodder for a long time.

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There was another one by Braxman which was very well done and showed a rather

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thorough understanding of copyright, software freedom, and licensing, but

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he appeared to intentionally misuse terminology. Perhaps that was to reach

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a different audience.

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The M$ clown show, OSI, can be observed in action these days. Similar

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astroturfers and their catspaws are still trying to derail the FSF.

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.. as seen on the LibrePlanet list among other places.

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The braxman one is really quite good if one listens to the definitions he

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expands on. Therefore I think he has misapplied the terminology intentionally

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but not out of malice.

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ack

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no need to address either directly but the can be used to find point to address

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indpendently

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I will check the links, which I saw in passing

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doing a video bout a video is VERY difficult

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I think I do not even need to explain why :-D

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Evern doing an article about a video is hard, unless the video is split into

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many tiny portions

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btw, do you use gemini to keep abrast of posts in irc?

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I try to use it for that

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I am linking to gemini more often now, building the "planet" little by little to see what

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capsulkes I like and update habitually

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mostly I wait for the logs

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iurc was a massively important investment for us

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if you look aroiund at blogs, esp. patent and linux ones, they barely get comments anymore

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and social contreol media no longer makes up for it

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those are dead ends and make it hard to have meaningful conversations due to delays and UI shittiness

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yes, people realize the others had turned to shilling

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the readers fully abandoned them at that point

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it looks like the patent lobby is putting in a minimal investment in say-for-pay

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articles without expectation of wide promulgation or readership

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yesk, that is another important factor

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I recalled last week

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when you publish a lonf piece and expect less thaqn 100 people to see it

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you would barely even bother

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They probably do not reach even that many nowadays.

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I'm not quite sure the purpose those servce anymore, maybe just placeholders/

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yesk, that is another important factor

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I recalled last week

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when you publish a lonf piece and expect less thaqn 100 people to see it

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you would barely even bother

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go now to linux.com

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http/https

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click on any of the latest stories

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see the eye at top right

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refresh page

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so no, it's not even a low count due to caching

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pathetic!

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Unappealing titles there.

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one has some shilling for the anti-foss entity snyk

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yes, I mentioned them by nmame re "security" "census" or whatever they called it

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OSI did one recently

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then LF

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then Red Hat... also ona Mac

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you might think these are long reports

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large file, many pages

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but after some forward it's justa mindless shopping list

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cheaply-produced utter junk

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someone in lxer.com commented on it

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*foreword

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not worth the time it took to skim through it :(

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Yes, there is not really any content in the Linux.com "articles" they look

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like corporate filler.

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they hardly even get their money's or time's worth off it anymore

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let's now assume the people who now run something foundatiion care

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for that something

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I recently did an animated meme of zemlin with gates foundation on him

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saying go away, linux users

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to them, we are the econoy, microsoft is the friend

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they only count what smells like cash

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Which is stupid since they could be doing great things with the site in regards

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to advancing the kernel. However, the LF has changed goals and is about

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representing corporate interests within the kernel and not only fails to

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advance or promote the kernel but actively harms it.

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Yes they promote even hostile interests within the kernel, instead of advancing

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the kernel or promoting it to the corporate world.

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short term cash with strings attached instead of boatloads of cash from

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independence.

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they never ever respond to FUD against Linux

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or patent threats against it

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BUT WAIT

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Worst yet: they promote NON-Linux kernekls

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and perlow wrote a blog post, a long one, to justify this!

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based on the cimin, the heckler/troll in irc todqay and last night

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was connected to the gulagtube "influencer circlejerk

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The 'Linux' games has just done a video together

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with thwe anti-RMS lobby

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for the lols I opened tfir at gulagtube, seeing video from 7 days ago with 14 views

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go "swap"

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BBB

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I meant "the Linux Gamer"

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who now shills Windows too

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Games?

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Waste of time.

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Which games?

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Has he sold out recently? He was quite good until a few weeks ago and then

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suddenly he was pushing Windows and not making appealing videos any more.

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He did quite mysteriously acquire a whole building...

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not only that; like micro larabel he foolishly bragged about it

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based on thje timing of the troll in irc

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I reckon it might be him

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but I cannot prove it

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It'd be hard to prove.

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but doable

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not easy

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takes time

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not privacy-respecting

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the irc logs and mibbit suffix show ip

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i think he is based near maine

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I do not want to check

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it is n ot honourablea

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and he was being evasive

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reminds me of mister wsl, sho still wrote to me in twitter

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to shill wsl even though he quit working on it

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he used to come to our irc channels with mysterious names

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"quit"

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microsofters never leave the cult