●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, February 16, 2023 ●● ● Feb 16 [01:01] schestowitz-pi it looks like yesterday we published about 600-700 links, likely all-time high [01:01] schestowitz-pi and I'm still merely adapting [01:01] schestowitz-pi i initially planned to do some articles and videos, but none was truly urgent [01:01] schestowitz-pi still to come: major EPO leaks (zoobab/ffii), pensiongate, more on github [01:01] schestowitz-pi it'll be a productive year for syre [01:01] schestowitz-pi *sure [01:59] techrights[sec] quality and relevance are better than quantity with the link curation [01:59] schestowitz-pi yes, this is the objective ● Feb 16 [02:00] schestowitz-pi it also gets clustered and organised [02:00] schestowitz-pi in tuxmachines we have a sort of growing 'library' of coverage for key events [02:02] techrights[sec] Event coverage is important even if m$ has been attacking events for years now [02:02] techrights[sec] via the event organizers and funders. [02:04] schestowitz-pi i still find time to add some "Ed"itorial comments where needed [02:04] schestowitz-pi on patents, FOSS etc. [02:04] schestowitz-pi as that helps contextualise [02:04] schestowitz-pi but all in all, i think Daily Links will become a lot more extensive in the post-quiterss era [02:04] schestowitz-pi rianne still uses quiterss and covers the core issues very quickly [02:04] schestowitz-pi when I'm asleep [02:04] schestowitz-pi usually 6-midnight [02:04] techrights[sec] What does she find most advantageous about QuiteRSS? [02:04] schestowitz-pi probably habits [02:04] schestowitz-pi she still uses thunderbird for rss too [02:04] schestowitz-pi but not much [02:04] schestowitz-pi mozilla ruined that [02:08] techrights[sec] I wish Thunderbird had focused on mail processing instead of chasing everything [02:08] techrights[sec] except mail processing. [02:08] techrights[sec] I haven't checked but I suppose it has a music player built in by now :/ [02:09] schestowitz-pi no, they already killed almost every useful extension for thunderbird [02:09] schestowitz-pi i stopped caring, as I don't use it much anymore [02:09] schestowitz-pi just out of need [02:09] schestowitz-pi but they sucked the fun out of it [02:25] techrights[sec] It's still not got a replacement, though Google as all but banned access. [02:26] schestowitz-pi i reckon email will get used less over time [02:26] schestowitz-pi same for snail mail/post [02:26] schestowitz-pi so just like knode, it'll go away when the protocol dies [02:29] techrights[sec] E-mail, as it was back pre-spam, and certainly pre-embedded HTML is still [02:29] techrights[sec] exceptionally useful. But that is why GAFAM and various supporting agencies [02:29] techrights[sec] aim to kill it. The mail protocols are all but dead. M$ has carved out its [02:29] techrights[sec] market and Google has carved out its market and both appear to use proprietary [02:29] techrights[sec] protocols internally and broken variants of standard protocols on the times [02:29] techrights[sec] they deign to communicate externally. [02:29] schestowitz-pi if they take the advice/choice of Mr. Kink "Google is Your Friend" [02:29] schestowitz-pi then dark times ahead [02:29] schestowitz-pi turns out other senior colleagues really disliked that [02:30] schestowitz-pi and left [02:30] schestowitz-pi thankfully, however, I'm no longer part of "the [or this] system" [02:30] schestowitz-pi so I get to watch from afar [02:47] techrights[sec] https://web.archive.org/web/20041231030825/http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0%2C1283%2C5060%2C00.html [02:47] techrights[sec] The original has been erased / hidden by Conde Nast [02:47] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-web.archive.org | Wired News: Spamming Lawyer Disbarred [02:48] schestowitz-pi conde nast has a business model [02:48] schestowitz-pi it's not journalism [02:54] techrights[sec] :( [02:55] schestowitz-pi blunt [02:55] schestowitz-pi but afaik true [02:55] schestowitz-pi see also News Corp. [02:55] schestowitz-pi thankfully, they too have many layoffs [02:55] schestowitz-pi turns out even the hate and disinformation business cannot thrive in times like these [02:57] schestowitz-pi first layer of credibility is trust and reputation [02:57] schestowitz-pi News Corp did not have that [02:57] schestowitz-pi but compensating by pandering to very bad people worked for a while [02:57] schestowitz-pi as for conde nast, it did many "bill sez"-type 'journalism' [02:57] schestowitz-pi and also attacked RMS and LT a lot [02:57] schestowitz-pi so f* them!! [02:57] techrights[sec] News Corporation went under abuot a decade ago. [02:57] techrights[sec] It was Rupert Murdoch [02:58] schestowitz-pi you mean LT? RMS? I remember the timeline roughly and can comment from memory [02:58] schestowitz-pi tuxmachines also had them catalogued chronologically [02:58] schestowitz-pi i kept telling rianne it would come in handy later on ● Feb 16 [03:02] schestowitz-pi btw, tangentially related: [03:02] schestowitz-pi zdnet and techrepublic reduced editor time to 1 or 2 timesd a week [03:02] schestowitz-pi you can see the publication patterns [03:02] schestowitz-pi cnet is already run by seo bots [03:02] schestowitz-pi spamfarm with some hey hi mildly "edited" by some actual person [03:02] schestowitz-pi watch the contents of their rss feed if you don't believe me [03:02] schestowitz-pi same company, same cms as zdnet et al [03:02] schestowitz-pi they are cashing in before going stale or offline [03:03] schestowitz-pi used to have download.com [03:03] schestowitz-pi in the 1990s boon era [03:03] schestowitz-pi and news.com [03:08] schestowitz-pi 1) publishers come and go all the time (remember Linux Journal?) [03:08] schestowitz-pi 2) people come and go (remember bully de blanc?) [03:08] schestowitz-pi 3) companies rise and fall (novell?) [03:08] schestowitz-pi EPO is falling BTW, you need to see internal and external comments about them. I view UPC as an effort [03:08] schestowitz-pi to ram down INVALID patens down our throats, 'judge' Grabinski colluding with Team Battistelli/Campinos [03:20] schestowitz-TR2 SPOT ON: "In late 2021 Facebook rebranded as Meta during a recorded event in which they tried convincing us that the metaverse was the future of our lives and that they were going to be at the center of it. Now, nearly a year and a half later, the word "metaverse" is little more than a meme." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2023-02-15-is-ai-this-years-metaverse.gmi [03:20] schestowitz-TR2 "So here we are today. ChatGPT has had an explosion of interest unlike anything before and companies are racing each other to be the first to capitalize on it. Notably, both Microsoft and Google are rolling AI chat bots into their search engines. Microsoft already has a public early access version available." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2023-02-15-is-ai-this-years-metaverse.gmi [03:20] techrights[sec] [03:20] techrights[sec] I stopped following CNET a long while ago for that reason, it is painfully [03:20] techrights[sec] obvious about the lack of quality. [03:24] schestowitz-pi afaik, zdnet is still composed by human beings [03:24] schestowitz-pi but poorly [03:24] schestowitz-pi some is "dressed up" press releases [03:25] schestowitz-pi meanwhile, techrepublic is another story [03:25] schestowitz-pi aside from microsoft moles like mary and simon [03:25] schestowitz-pi it has diploma mill spam [03:25] techrights[sec] They churn out only filler these days and it's fooling fewer and fewer people. [03:25] schestowitz-pi sponsored "white papers' [03:25] schestowitz-pi and last week another new form of spam [03:25] schestowitz-pi i saw an "openRAN" spam piece [03:25] schestowitz-pi they are clealy sablling and exploring [03:25] schestowitz-pi cnet is a mix of seo, spam, and CG (not HEY HI) "content" [03:25] schestowitz-pi it'll fail badly [03:25] schestowitz-pi gulag will stop givcing them googlejuice in the name of relevance [03:25] schestowitz-pi and penalise that domain [03:25] schestowitz-pi cnet would even spam football games, upcoming football matches, knowing [03:25] schestowitz-pi many would search for streams. cnet was a TECH site [03:25] schestowitz-pi engadget became spam partner of microsoft, so i started passing over it completely [03:25] schestowitz-pi engadget also started posting more and more 'shopping spam' (long yahoo urls with referrer tokens) [03:25] schestowitz-pi disguised as "articles", "best", and "deals" [03:25] schestowitz-pi f* this shit, the wwww is a mess!! [03:27] techrights[sec] I had been ignoring Egadget too, also for quality reasons [03:29] schestowitz-pi The Register is an odd one [03:30] schestowitz-pi I added the rss feeds for only 2 authors [03:30] schestowitz-pi they became less active [03:30] schestowitz-pi after some initial flurry of postings [03:30] schestowitz-pi sjvn started his own site, AGAIN [03:30] schestowitz-pi maybe 4th time [03:30] schestowitz-pi and it loses momentum already [03:30] schestowitz-pi they think stuff like Google+ and Twitter followers are an RSS feed [03:30] schestowitz-pi rant: rianne on and on for hours with siste on mumble [03:30] schestowitz-pi talking about youtueb "subscribers" and FB "fans" or whatever they call it [03:30] schestowitz-pi they mistake some privatised social control media sites foer popuilarity [03:30] schestowitz-pi so i had to budg in several times to correct [03:30] schestowitz-pi *budge ● Feb 16 [05:02] schestowitz-TR2 GOT FOUR VACCINE DOSES... and ..... "It hurts to look at a screen and type, so logging off for now. See you again soon." https://rubenerd.com/caught-covid/ [05:02] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Failed connect to rubenerd.com:443; No route to host ( status 0 @ https://rubenerd.com/caught-covid/ ) [05:06] schestowitz-pi clean and quarantine things: an hour per week [05:06] schestowitz-pi isolate from people: compromise, for now [05:06] schestowitz-pi he will have days of "downtime" now [05:06] schestowitz-pi not counting long-term harms, which are partly unknown for now (no long-term studies yet) [05:06] schestowitz-pi f* these polciies, and f* BillPR (NPR) [05:06] schestowitz-pi stop shaming people into getting infected and reinfected [05:06] schestowitz-pi boosters tested on mice are of questionable quality [05:06] schestowitz-pi yesterday I studied UK suicide figures [05:06] schestowitz-pi an increase in suicide per week barely 50 per week [05:06] schestowitz-pi so a surplus in deaths (2000-3000 per week) is not due to suicides ● Feb 16 [07:47] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [07:51] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 16 [10:34] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Feb 16 [13:52] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 16 [17:30] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-p7f.jpm.ql99lf.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 16 [21:27] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@d47czkfzvu4iu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 16 [22:57] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) ● Feb 16 [23:50] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [23:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell