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schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228118987378057217Feb 14 00:49
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Only if you’re a weird religious zealot about it.Feb 14 00:49
schestowitz__this has nothing to do with religion. Microsoft destroyed your employer, Danger, so you should know the cost of such a dependence.Feb 14 00:50
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228118826954289152Feb 14 00:50
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: This article should be called “fun with curl”. So many things can be retrieved from the Internet with a simple cons… https://t.co/tE4fniC7qVFeb 14 00:50
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: This article should be called “fun with curl”. So many things can be retrieved from the Internet with a simple cons… https://t.co/tE4fniC7qVFeb 14 00:50
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228119211240673281Feb 14 00:50
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Do you ever stop and think that your crusade against proprietary software and in favor of free softwar… https://t.co/qEYoQ41KZSFeb 14 00:50
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Do you ever stop and think that your crusade against proprietary software and in favor of free softwar… https://t.co/qEYoQ41KZSFeb 14 00:50
schestowitz__"Do you ever stop and think that your crusade against proprietary software and in favor of free software is a substitute for the feeling of emptiness that comes from knowing that we live in a cold and uncaring universe and there is no God?"Feb 14 00:50
schestowitz__Again, this has nothing to do with religion but opposing oppression in the digital realmFeb 14 00:51
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228118445020995585Feb 14 00:51
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz GitHub runs on Linux, as far as I can tell. They’ll even sell you an on-premises version. https://t.co/aro6pnYbV6Feb 14 00:51
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> help.github.com | System overview - GitHub HelpFeb 14 00:51
schestowitz__Hotmail used BSD.... until Microsoft cameFeb 14 00:52
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228118160173195264Feb 14 00:52
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Nobody’s joining your hate-on-Github crusade, no matter how many times you shout in the wind about your Microsoft hate.Feb 14 00:52
schestowitz__You'd be wrong. Some people quit because of Microsoft.Feb 14 00:53
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228114722471342081Feb 14 00:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think they do it to make you mad, personally. 🤪 ZDNet is clickbait garbage to serve ads against. Yo… https://t.co/r3PrmoFLUaFeb 14 00:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think they do it to make you mad, personally. 🤪 ZDNet is clickbait garbage to serve ads against. Yo… https://t.co/r3PrmoFLUaFeb 14 00:53
schestowitz__"Feb 14 00:53
schestowitz__I think they do it to make you mad, personally. Feb 14 00:53
schestowitz__ZDNet is clickbait garbage to serve ads against. You’re trying to hold them to standards of “journalism” that they don’t really care about. They’re making you mad and you can’t do anything to stop them except whine about them.Feb 14 00:54
schestowitz__"Feb 14 00:54
schestowitz__A lot of people are not aware of thatFeb 14 00:54
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/MacDonnchaidh_2/status/1228110258855301120Feb 14 00:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@MacDonnchaidh_2: @schestowitz @Snipper_13 Monarchs can also be elected. Save for instances of Congressional override, the Constituti… https://t.co/N3uxVLWaNSFeb 14 00:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@MacDonnchaidh_2: @schestowitz @Snipper_13 Monarchs can also be elected. Save for instances of Congressional override, the Constituti… https://t.co/N3uxVLWaNSFeb 14 00:54
schestowitz__"Monarchs can also be elected. Save for instances of Congressional override, the Constitution only empowers one person, Trump, to make the law. That is the core of monarchy. That, like Britain, he normally requires prior approval of a legislature = constitutional monarchy."Feb 14 00:54
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/j082298/status/1228086503315824646Feb 14 00:55
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@j082298: @schestowitz https://t.co/keNwOevkpGFeb 14 00:55
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@thenextweb: Why laptops could be facing the end of the line https://t.co/a3hmVbIHn8Feb 14 00:55
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/Crypt0_Wolf/status/1228048397153730562Feb 14 00:56
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Crypt0_Wolf: @schestowitz Only the mainstream internetFeb 14 00:56
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/Crypt0_Wolf/status/1228048195034415107Feb 14 00:56
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Crypt0_Wolf: @schestowitz There's a lot of things wrong with it. Trisquel for lifeFeb 14 00:56
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228127787342393344Feb 14 01:51
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I thought that was more about their support for ICE and the fossil fuel industry than them being proprietary software.Feb 14 01:51
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228127896545284096Feb 14 01:51
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz That’s true. Sorry, I’m in a shitty mood today.Feb 14 01:51
schestowitz__that's ok. when you blast me for being too harsh on Microsoft I have to remind myself you got some paychecks from them. Feb 14 01:52
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228128261546184705Feb 14 01:52
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz That was 20 years ago. I do suspect that Microsoft has already put the GitHub servers inside their Hyp… https://t.co/2A8y0SSlywFeb 14 01:52
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz That was 20 years ago. I do suspect that Microsoft has already put the GitHub servers inside their Hyp… https://t.co/2A8y0SSlywFeb 14 01:52
schestowitz__"Feb 14 01:52
schestowitz__That was 20 years ago. I do suspect that Microsoft has already put the GitHub servers inside their Hyper-V infrastructure, or is planning to. Gotta eat your own dog food.Feb 14 01:52
schestowitz__I don’t think it’s *necessarily* that bad to use their “free” Git hosting service to develop free software.Feb 14 01:52
schestowitz__"Feb 14 01:52
schestowitz__First sample is free, says the drug lord to the "USERS"Feb 14 01:53
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228128698169221120Feb 14 01:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think you’re right about the big picture. Ideally, everyone would take advantage of “free” services… https://t.co/5X4qFHNqAlFeb 14 01:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think you’re right about the big picture. Ideally, everyone would take advantage of “free” services… https://t.co/5X4qFHNqAlFeb 14 01:53
schestowitz__"Feb 14 01:53
schestowitz__I think you’re right about the big picture. Ideally, everyone would take advantage of “free” services that Microsoft, Google, etc. provide, while not being taken advantage of by them. But that’s never how it works.Feb 14 01:53
schestowitz__My big gripe with GitHub is turning FOSS into a numbers game.Feb 14 01:53
schestowitz__"Feb 14 01:53
schestowitz__Gaming the numbers: http://techrights.org/2019/11/11/delete-github/Feb 14 01:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Microsoft’s Abduction of the Voice of Its Opposition Highlights the Urgency of the Movement/Campaign to Delete GitHub | TechrightsFeb 14 01:54
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228128969968369665Feb 14 01:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I do think GitHub is a potential danger in terms of the surveillance capitalism aspect. So is LinkedIn… https://t.co/PUq6dOtIS1Feb 14 01:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz I do think GitHub is a potential danger in terms of the surveillance capitalism aspect. So is LinkedIn… https://t.co/PUq6dOtIS1Feb 14 01:54
schestowitz__"I do think GitHub is a potential danger in terms of the surveillance capitalism aspect. So is LinkedIn, also now owned by Microsoft. That’s why I sometimes get irritated when you focus on whether it’s proprietary software or not. Manipulating people is the new capitalist game."Feb 14 01:54
schestowitz__If it was freesw you'd be able to fork it, export it etc. along with  comments. Right now it's designed to entrap. Like Uber operating at a loss... they want something later.Feb 14 01:55
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/stautistic/status/1228132962446663686Feb 14 01:56
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@stautistic: @jhamby @schestowitz Preying on ignorance is the cornerstone of capitalism. Thankfully the FCC is revisiting Micros… https://t.co/6WFep6tBCpFeb 14 01:56
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@stautistic: @jhamby @schestowitz Preying on ignorance is the cornerstone of capitalism. Thankfully the FCC is revisiting Micros… https://t.co/6WFep6tBCpFeb 14 01:56
schestowitz__"Preying on ignorance is the cornerstone of capitalism. Thankfully the FCC is revisiting Microsoft’s acquisitions back to 2010 among other companies."Feb 14 01:56
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1228234188676984833Feb 14 08:42
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@zoobab: @schestowitz @DavidGlaude @Pour_EVAFeb 14 08:42
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/JulieWebgirl/status/1228215891743006722Feb 14 08:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@JulieWebgirl: Voatz? LOL seems totally legit. https://t.co/0g3oyj1r2RFeb 14 08:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: "Researchers at MIT say the voting app Voatz, which is being used by at least 4 states in the 2020 elections, has m… https://t.co/scOWvq25o7Feb 14 08:43
schestowitz__WareZ and Gam3ZFeb 14 08:43
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/StarchyArchie/status/1228212339775700994Feb 14 08:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@StarchyArchie: @Ninja https://t.co/GFCd1Pm551Feb 14 08:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #bloombergtax ☞ Calling #Fortnite Cash a #VirtualCurrency Was an #IRS Error https://t.co/fvggIOx7IoFeb 14 08:44
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/StarchyArchie/status/1228210810297569280Feb 14 08:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@StarchyArchie: @schestowitz @MeetThePress? no!Feb 14 08:44
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228145347878215681Feb 14 08:46
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz The CIA was perfectly happy to spend money on VMware ESXi, Windows licenses, on-site Atlassian tools,… https://t.co/Gsj0NkGQgyFeb 14 08:46
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz The CIA was perfectly happy to spend money on VMware ESXi, Windows licenses, on-site Atlassian tools,… https://t.co/Gsj0NkGQgyFeb 14 08:46
schestowitz__"The CIA was perfectly happy to spend money on VMware ESXi, Windows licenses, on-site Atlassian tools, dedicated file servers, etc., and then their sysadmin, who “likes Windows” and “doesn’t like” Linux, lets all these young hackers run around and one of them gets disgruntled."Feb 14 08:46
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228144586431721472Feb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz You were talking about GitHub… The CIA was paying Atlassian for a license to use all of their cloud-ba… https://t.co/iPiMW7reWHFeb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz You were talking about GitHub… The CIA was paying Atlassian for a license to use all of their cloud-ba… https://t.co/iPiMW7reWHFeb 14 08:47
schestowitz__"Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__You were talking about GitHub… The CIA was paying Atlassian for a license to use all of their cloud-based proprietary tools: Confluence, Jira, BitBucket, etc., to run on-site.Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__Ironically, if they’d been using the cloud version, their insider threat might have had a harder time.Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__"Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228144287415554048Feb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Unfortunately, the unallocated space in the VMs and the missing VMware snapshot that he deleted left b… https://t.co/z1pEks34e2Feb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Unfortunately, the unallocated space in the VMs and the missing VMware snapshot that he deleted left b… https://t.co/z1pEks34e2Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__"Unfortunately, the unallocated space in the VMs and the missing VMware snapshot that he deleted left behind enough evidence to incriminate him (I think, at least). Very interesting to see how the lawyers and expert witnesses have to explain all the tech terms for the jury."Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228143885127303169Feb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz It seems that Mr. Schulte created some VMware snapshots and connected an Ubuntu VM on his Windows lapt… https://t.co/1gvF426Cm0Feb 14 08:47
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz It seems that Mr. Schulte created some VMware snapshots and connected an Ubuntu VM on his Windows lapt… https://t.co/1gvF426Cm0Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__"It seems that Mr. Schulte created some VMware snapshots and connected an Ubuntu VM on his Windows laptop to some fileservers, using NFS’s terrible default security options (because the admin who “didn’t like Linux” wasn’t concerned with it) to download the files he leaked."Feb 14 08:47
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228143588027949057Feb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Here’s the transcript I read yesterday. The first sysadmin didn’t seem to know as much as the FBI fore… https://t.co/9p3Iqc1j9pFeb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Here’s the transcript I read yesterday. The first sysadmin didn’t seem to know as much as the FBI fore… https://t.co/9p3Iqc1j9pFeb 14 08:48
schestowitz__"Here’s the transcript I read yesterday. The first sysadmin didn’t seem to know as much as the FBI forensic examiner in the second half of the transcript. The CIA admin said he liked Windows & didn’t like Linux. Perhaps that’s why he was incompetent at it: https://twitter.com/alexadobrien/status/1227718906976129024?s=21https://twitter.com/alexadobrien/status/1227718906976129024 …"Feb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@alexadobrien: February 11, 2020 (206 pages) United States of America v. Joshua #Schulte, on trial for espionage and other charges… https://t.co/CjdDuh0QFgFeb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@alexadobrien: February 11, 2020 (206 pages) United States of America v. Joshua #Schulte, on trial for espionage and other charges… https://t.co/CjdDuh0QFgFeb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@alexadobrien: February 11, 2020 (206 pages) United States of America v. Joshua #Schulte, on trial for espionage and other charges… https://t.co/CjdDuh0QFgFeb 14 08:48
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/FormerlyZeus/status/1228143176738717698Feb 14 08:48
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@FormerlyZeus: @schestowitz @jhamby finally the year of linux on the desktop and it's windows.Feb 14 08:48
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228139873216761856Feb 14 08:49
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz That’s true. Did you read any of the transcripts of the trial of the guy who the CIA thinks leaked the… https://t.co/CnaWgLqsgdFeb 14 08:49
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz That’s true. Did you read any of the transcripts of the trial of the guy who the CIA thinks leaked the… https://t.co/CnaWgLqsgdFeb 14 08:49
schestowitz__"That’s true. Did you read any of the transcripts of the trial of the guy who the CIA thinks leaked their Vault 7 secrets? Lots of interesting details about the proprietary, closed-source software the CIA was using in their private malware factory."Feb 14 08:49
schestowitz__https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1228139057487605760Feb 14 08:49
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jhamby: @schestowitz Yeah, I wasn’t too happy about what I learned about them.Feb 14 08:49
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