●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, March 10, 2023 ●● ● Mar 10 [02:24] schestowitz-pi2 "A post-pandemic trend"? The pandemic is NOT over. There's no "post". Huge numbers of people continue to needlessly die. https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/23093-a-post-pandemic-trend-nearly-half-of-finns-dream-of-moving-to-the-countryside.html [02:24] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Empty reply from server ( status 0 @ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/23093-a-post-pandemic-trend-nearly-half-of-finns-dream-of-moving-to-the-countryside.html ) [02:46] schestowitz-pi2 Australias flu cases up 100-fold in first 2 months of 2023 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-influenza-cases-up-100-fold-in-first-2-months-of-2023 some early studies in 2021 said the COVID-19 vaccines _can_, in fact, weaken the immune system to some viruses [02:46] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Australias flu cases up 100-fold in first 2 months of 2023 | The Straits Times [02:56] schestowitz-pi2 Was it a Finn or migrant Finn? Kids aged 13 don't tend to stab people. https://yle.fi/a/74-20021432 [02:56] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Police suspect 13-year-old of stabbing classmate at Helsinki school | News | Yle Uutiset [02:59] schestowitz-pi2 Probably not a shortage of skills but a desire to LOWER SALARIES https://yle.fi/a/74-20021387 [02:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Finland's foreign worker share doubles in a decade | News | Yle Uutiset ● Mar 10 [03:42] schestowitz-pi2 db Were masks useless? The deceptive interpretation of what science tells us https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/opinions/mask-mandate-cochrane-study-covid-sepkowitz-ctrp/index.html [03:42] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Opinion: Were masks useless? The deceptive interpretation of what science tells us | CNN [03:52] schestowitz-pi2 "The most prominent strain of A.I. encodes a flawed conception of language and knowledge." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html [03:52] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT - The New York Times ● Mar 10 [05:17] schestowitz-pi2 if the wayback machine has old and important documents that are not offline, i think [05:17] schestowitz-pi2 we can and should RE-publish thes [05:33] schestowitz-pi2 i cannot see a link in the redditson video [05:33] schestowitz-pi2 checked all the comments [05:33] schestowitz-pi2 anyway, he needs "material" [05:33] schestowitz-pi2 finds it in a hive controlled by microsofters [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 i don't comment in sites [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 i thought about doing a video about this later [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 but that would just give platform/more audience to the straw man [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 trolling tactics [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 and it would 'feel' like a waste of time [05:36] schestowitz-pi2 putting out fires started by Redmond's arsonists [05:57] schestowitz-pi2 having windows ANYWHERE ruins compatibility [05:57] schestowitz-pi2 because it's not standards-basded [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 my 90s laptop had windows 98 [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 all it gave was a lot of troubke [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 like, when trying to make backups of files [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 it would fail for lousy reasons [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 like "bad" file name, iirc [05:58] schestowitz-pi2 i wrote about it in usenet at the time ● Mar 10 [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 based on what rianne saw [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 it seems like many public sector job openings are theatre [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 they already know who to give the job to [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 and knows the candidates [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 give them a token chat [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 i heard from the university that it was commonly done [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 they hire inhouse or from circles [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 but need to advertise the job [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 iow, rigged from start to finish [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 20 years ago i experienced something like this [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 i went all the way to the south for a job interview [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 but later it turned out they had already agreed to hire someone [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 so i said, what's the point having me travel all the way there? [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 my dad was furious when he heard it and started phoning the company [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 i did not him to, but aged 20, he was protective [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 and that became a major embarassment to them [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 i did receive job offers (that i turtned down/declined) in the "official" channels [06:16] schestowitz-pi2 but i think the ones I got were not through formal interviews [06:17] schestowitz-pi2 glorified "apes" are still apes [06:17] schestowitz-pi2 they don't go by "rules" [06:17] schestowitz-pi2 they go in tribes [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 head of euipo has just been busted for it [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 friend of campinos [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 but will they tackle epo crime? [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 not likely. [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 cover it up? [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 for sure. [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 like i said, glorified apes [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 iow, tribes, not science [06:41] schestowitz-pi2 even in a PATENT office [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 when there is a society rife with corruption [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 it beomes a rewarding experience (but not job, not a business) exposing the corruption [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 in fact, you have little 'competition' [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 except for me and lunduke, who speaks out against LF corruption [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 who in general speaks about OSI and FSFE [06:47] schestowitz-pi2 ok, pocock does too, to some extent.. [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 the non-corrupt can do a 200-part series about a company [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 or 6000-part series about a large org with dissenting insiders [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 uni researchers can also be frauds [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 they milk "students" (usually postgrads), which they bribe with pieces of accredited and glorified [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 stacks of papers [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 of one glorified sheet of paper [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 work for nothing [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 add name as author [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 for having a one-hour meeting per week [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 to "mentor' or "advise" [06:53] schestowitz-pi2 but do none of the actual worek [06:54] schestowitz-pi2 i had one uni boss who worked for gulag at the same time [06:54] schestowitz-pi2 the unis tolerate this because those same companies bribe the faculties [06:54] schestowitz-pi2 sso it becomes like marketing, microsoft reseach with unpaid intern/slaves [06:55] schestowitz-pi2 aka "students" ● Mar 10 [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 just to be clear, my last job was not nepotism [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 it was the employer chasing me and phoning me [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 like gulag had done 3 times over the years [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 even mathworks at one point [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 but i did not have to undergo any formal interview [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 i don't know what the law says [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 but i doubt it forbids private companies just targeting peoplea [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 and hiring them like this [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 it's done a lot in tech companies [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 another approach is staff brings a friend [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 or vouches for someone [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 but then I think they still arrange and set up an interview [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 whether rigged or not [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 in 2023 i don't suppose many companies are aggressivbely recruiting [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 and those who are in the workforce are subjected to abuse [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 with the "you're lazy" (quiet quitting, "great resignation") rhetoric [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 and forcing people to get exposed and infested by a bad virus again and again [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 for which, unlike te flu, we still lack a potent and save vaccine for [07:14] schestowitz-pi2 *safe [07:17] schestowitz-pi2 in the month of February we equipped ourselves with better tools by which to analyse, curate, collate news. I very much doubt I'll reduce focus on TR in the coming decade, be it over WWW or whatever comes along/in tadem/next [07:18] schestowitz-pi2 i would say I'm now 50% more efficient at news or, framed another way, I can curate 50% [07:19] schestowitz-pi2 more news with the same amount of time [07:19] schestowitz-pi2 for TM the ongoing peril is, unlike TR, the limited scope [07:19] schestowitz-pi2 as blogs and sites perish we need to cast the web wider for the same number of relevant stories [07:19] schestowitz-pi2 *cast the net rather, I am not a spider :-) [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 lol. scientists <3 ticktok [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 tiktok is green [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 RTL, which relays propaganda also to bill pretzel gates [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 amid major scandals mconnected to sex smuggling [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 RTL, go back to 'soft' pr0n [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 and stop shilling crap, [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/2039121.html [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 science-and-env [07:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-today.rtl.lu | RTL Today - Climate literacy: Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 yes, tiktok is science-and-env [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 just like bill gates [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 science-and-env [07:25] schestowitz-pi2 did he finish college yet? [07:27] techrights[sec] Broadband Breakfast has also turned to crap. RTL mostly because of the feeds [07:27] techrights[sec] it relaysmutx [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 sites do this when they give up [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 and they try to see how much they can squeeze instead of or before shutting down [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 a key person from BB moved to techdirt [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 and techdirt has not been terrible informative for a while [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 reason.com is becoming rather extremist [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 i mostly skip through it in recent weeks [07:29] schestowitz-pi2 to avoid the shock of the shit they promote [07:29] techrights[sec] Broadband Breakfast has also turned to crap. RTL mostly because of the feeds [07:29] techrights[sec] it relays. BB seems to have sold out to the entities it was supposed to [07:29] techrights[sec] be watching and gaurding against. It's disingenuous propaganda at this point [07:29] techrights[sec] Most dangerously it is about the only site covering the section 230 politics [07:29] techrights[sec] so that causes a big threat. [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 the threat is "reduce" as more and more people give up and stop being the "audience" [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 but the peak "shilling" is when the readers have not _yet_ figured that out [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 many "linux" sites do the same [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 then they stop complelely and vanish [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 like cnet right now and zdnet next... [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 linutoday.com barely published more thsn 4 "Stories" per day [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 and they're old or mere howtos [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 so that site lacks a purpose [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 i would not even check it anymore [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 with phoronix i just scroll through the headlines in case i missed some release [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 that takes only seconds [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 better than quiterss [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 gulag noise for 'linux' is dominated by that lkml->text "generator" [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 aka michael larabel [07:33] schestowitz-pi2 with microsoft thrown in for good measure or, as he said it to me, for "entertainment" [07:36] schestowitz-pi2 in my feeds only one feed habitually spams tiktok [07:36] schestowitz-pi2 it's that music/copyright site [07:36] schestowitz-pi2 i forgot its name [07:36] schestowitz-pi2 the rest are all negatyive stories ● Mar 10 [08:33] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [08:33] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@4kb9ji7tv5hkk.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 10 [09:29] techrights[sec] What remains on porting tm-old to tm-new? [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 as the pages there age traffic goes down [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 and the main component is easier [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 it's /node/1..latest [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 with some variation for related request for a given node [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 as those are the lion's share of remaining page requests [09:29] techrights[sec] Those have been copied already AFAIK [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 there are other sections such as forums, but those are not accessed as much [09:29] schestowitz-pi2 due to various factors [09:33] techrights[sec] /node/1..n are mostly there [09:34] schestowitz-pi2 sorry, i was away for exercise, before that speaking to many ex colleagues [09:34] schestowitz-pi2 do you reckon if the CEO goes to prison billy gates will go visit him? [09:34] schestowitz-pi2 it's closer than the facility jeffrey epstein was in [09:34] schestowitz-pi2 the CEO is in Seattle area/WA somewhere [09:34] schestowitz-pi2 hiding [09:50] schestowitz-pi2 things already heating up at EPO and I have several new documents ● Mar 10 [10:16] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [10:21] techrights[sec] Good that you are able to cover it! [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 we now have [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 1) 2 site migrations [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 2) epo [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 3) sirius [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 4) github [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 ... [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 so i don't worry about lacking material, only time ;-) [10:22] schestowitz-pi2 epo is in deep shit atm. euipo also (connected to epo, former epo VP) [10:23] schestowitz-pi2 which gives me more motivation [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 the euipo (EU!) scandal can curtail upc [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 as for sirius, expect another "book" [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 i was not expecting this, but am unearthing stuff [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 github is already collpsing [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 not just financially, also layoffs [10:33] schestowitz-pi2 rianne is planning to write today about her observations re nepotism in p [10:47] schestowitz-pi2 m in public sector [10:47] schestowitz-pi2 http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sirius_Open_Source&diff=17172&oldid=17171 [10:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Sirius Open Source - Techrights [10:47] schestowitz-pi2 http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source [10:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Crimes of Sirius Open Source - Techrights [10:51] techrights[sec] biab ● Mar 10 [11:11] techrights[sec] back [11:44] schestowitz-pi2 Microsoft itself is worse than ugly, it is criminal. techdirt sprinkles this with the illusion of parity. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/09/the-microsoft-sony-fight-over-the-activision-purchase-is-getting-ugly/ | Source: Techdirt [11:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Microsoft, Sony Fight Over The Activision Purchase Is Getting Ugly | Techdirt [11:53] schestowitz-pi2 truthout today (connected to commondreams) has devoted like 30% of the space [11:53] schestowitz-pi2 to crazy people. maybe they too are being changed from the inside to push [11:53] schestowitz-pi2 self-defeating agenda that alienates readers [11:53] schestowitz-pi2 i will monitor the % over time. [11:53] techrights[sec] Likely ● Mar 10 [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 sorry if judging bt TR is looks like i'm lazy, i'm still super-busy investing in upcoming stories [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 rianne and i have thankfully kept on top of tm [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 i've not checked its back end for ages, planned to back it up against last weekend [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 but ran of time [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 the most important thing is perservrance and preservation [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 as more and more sites go offline the value of tm and tr will grow [12:14] schestowitz-pi2 it's hard to find any info on novell anymore [12:14] techrights[sec] np [12:20] schestowitz-pi2 "Maggie Thatchers rule in Britain was, like the same years in Ronnie Reagans United States, a vicious attempt to move their nations as far right as they could." https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/10/maggie-thatcher-sucked-but-the-music-she-inspired-didnt/ | Source: Counter Punch [12:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Maggie Thatcher Sucked, But the Music She Inspired Didnt - CounterPunch.org [12:26] schestowitz-pi2 tiktok protected by techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/09/the-great-tiktok-moral-panic-continues-as-senators-thune-warner-attempt-a-more-elaborate-ban/ | Source: Techdirt [12:26] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Great TikTok Moral Panic Continues As Senators Thune, Warner Attempt A More Elaborate Ban | Techdirt [12:27] schestowitz-pi2 yet again [12:27] schestowitz-pi2 it's regulation, hence bad, hence we are voice of koch [12:27] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:27] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:30] techrights[sec] I suspect a more sinister motive, that of control and cultura [12:31] schestowitz-pi2 och [12:31] schestowitz-pi2 passive, defeatist populatiomn [12:31] schestowitz-pi2 aka [12:31] schestowitz-pi2 oppopsite of what media now dubs "toxic masculinity" [12:32] techrights[sec] I suspect a more sinister motive, that of control and cultural destruction. [12:32] techrights[sec] Beyond passivity and defeatist, their values, mores, ethics, are /formed/ [12:32] techrights[sec] not re-formed into the mold provided by the controllers of ByteDance\ [12:32] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:33] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [12:33] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@nqkitbgnqjad4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:34] techrights[sec] Name calling works. That's how the world's distros all ended up in systemd [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 it was snowing this morning [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 persistent, stayed mon ground [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 now it's bright and sunny [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 quite the contrast [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 the past few days it was about 0. [12:43] schestowitz-pi2 hopefuly the last such cold wave. ● Mar 10 [14:58] schestowitz-pi2 just recorded 2 videos, short ones [14:58] schestowitz-pi2 i will try to make a time of days to always make some [14:58] schestowitz-pi2 going to write now :-) [14:58] schestowitz-pi2 gonna go to shop at 5pm, it's nice outside [14:58] schestowitz-pi2 5pm is when colour labels come out ● Mar 10 [15:32] techrights[sec] Excellent! ● Mar 10 [17:10] schestowitz-pi2 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/10/Job_Hunting_Experience.shtml [17:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Job Hunting Experience ● Mar 10 [19:39] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) ● Mar 10 [23:54] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@fs5szwspnkxvq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell