IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 17, 2021

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> Reaching out with the open source contribution to bare metal as a

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> service news slated to cross the wire tomorrow in the event you can

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> write a short news item on the announcement.

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> Happy to help further upon request.

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> Thanks,

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> MK

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> UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL AUGUST 17

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> Spectro Cloud Announces Open Source Contribution That Makes Bare Metal

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> Kubernetes Accessible and Manageable For The Enterprise

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> New Spectro Cloud open source project bridges the gap between bare

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> metal environments and modern Kubernetes management platforms

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> Latest contribution to the open source community allows any team to

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> use Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Cluster API to easily

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> provision and manage Kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers,

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> leveraging Canonical’s Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) interface

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> The project allows organizations to increase performance of

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> containerized applications and reduce cost and performance overhead

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> from hypervisors without compromising manageability

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/13/u-s-newsroom-employment-has-fallen-26-s

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what statistics are available for the number of investigative reporters

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employed in the 2020s as opposed to the 1990s? What fraction are left?

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When and how much were the declines?

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I don't know as I only started following the media closely in the 2000s

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ince-2008/

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It seems to be accelerating:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/21/a-third-of-large-u-s-newspapers-experie

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nced-layoffs-in-2020-more-than-in-2019/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pewresearch.org | U.S. newsroom employment has fallen 26% since 2008 | Pew Research Center

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But I'm not finding the older data, which might show that the current trends

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pewresearch.org | More large U.S. newspapers had layoffs in 2020 than in 2019 | Pew Research Center

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are longer and worse than shown above.

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Yep: *ouch*

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-trends-in-newspaper-publishing-and-other-me

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-trends-in-newspaper-publishing-and-other-me )

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dia-1990-2016.htm

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It is like I suspected.

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455000 in 1990

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85000 in 2020 (rounded up)

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So not even 20% remain. No wonder there is no coverage of anything

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(oops not quite the same data, so not relevant for /direct/ comparison)

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(but it could be normalized)

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/06/almost-60-of-us-newspaper-jobs-

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/06/almost-60-of-us-newspaper-jobs- )

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vanish-in-26-years

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It's also just for the one country, not globally.

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was there anything before the pew research link? I cannot scroll that far up

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Yes, it was a speculation about the decline in the number of investigative

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reporters. I was then able to find some data for the US

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However, I would speculate further that the decline is global and maybe

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worst in Europe.

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I need to increase window size. I missed everything before https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/13/u-s-newsroom-employment-has-fallen-26-s

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pewresearch.org | U.S. newsroom employment has fallen 26% since 2008 | Pew Research Center

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Pick a size. Is 80x49 ok?

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Let's try taller

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I just hope I did not miss something important. I was asleep.

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No, just a few lines.

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/pine64-pinenote-e-ink-tablet-running-linux">PineNote is a $399 E-ink Tablet that Runs Linux</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/08/pine64-pinenote-e-ink-tablet-running-linux">PineNote )

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<p>The PineNote has a 10.1-inch e-ink panel with a 60Hz refresh rate, a resolution of 1404×1872, and the ability to display 16 levels of greyscale. The e-ink panel is covered by scratch resistant and glare reducing hardened glass. </p>

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<p> Both regular touch and EMR pen input are supported by the capacity glass layer. Pine64 will sell an EMR stylus designed for the device, though any pen that supports Wacom’s EMR standard and is supported by the Linux kernel could be compatible (they expect a list of compatible devices to appear online closer to the PineNote’s ‘regular’ release).</p></blockquote></li>

https://twitter.com/hhmakhijani/status/1427531957315850240

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@queglay: @schestowitz Where is the mention of the relationship with the NSA?

https://twitter.com/SyS_Config/status/1427332226895777806

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@SyS_Config: @schestowitz Full Stop! Thanx to You I downloaded Latest Linux Mint Rel. Uma..after learning Win 10 doesnt suppor… https://t.co/04A4qd0CDt

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@SyS_Config: @schestowitz Full Stop! Thanx to You I downloaded Latest Linux Mint Rel. Uma..after learning Win 10 doesnt suppor… https://t.co/04A4qd0CDt

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Full Stop! Thanx to You I downloaded Latest Linux Mint Rel. Uma..after learning Win 10 doesnt support DVD CD burners on my Dell precision 4800, last Full Classic keyboard making it useless for vid work.Tell the others its game over. cya on the other side

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https://linuxmint.com

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxmint.com | Main Page - Linux Mint

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https://twitter.com/ravinderram4/status/1427285544707399684

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@ravinderram4: @schestowitz download iso and make bootable. simple it is

https://twitter.com/kittyhundal/status/1427279452015312904

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@kittyhundal: So the Israeli gov has turned the Israeli population into the world's lab rats for Covid "vaccinations" which would… https://t.co/XMlLxBottW

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@kittyhundal: So the Israeli gov has turned the Israeli population into the world's lab rats for Covid "vaccinations" which would… https://t.co/XMlLxBottW

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So the Israeli gov has turned the Israeli population into the world's lab rats for Covid "vaccinations" which would make the Palestinians the world "controls".

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The Palestinians dodged a bullet IMHO.

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accidentally pressed ctrl-c in the wrong window ... again######

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there ought to be a way to trap such signals

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anyway, going by employment numbers shown here:

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/employment-trends-in-newspaper-publishing-and-other-me

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dia-1990-2016.htm

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the field did peak 2000-2001 and has been in serious decline since

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Another thing to examine would be ownership of media firms.

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Consolidation has gotten way out of control since a few decades back

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and is absolutely ridiculous now.

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was something typed prior to the accidental keypresses? Or a long silence?

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probably something but not important. I was working on the above.

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Newspapers have been in decline since the early 1990s. But overall

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journalism employment peaked in July 2000, with a slight plateau before

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and after.

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Did you read articles from last year about the role of defunding by hedge funds and the like?

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Yes, but cannot recall the details.

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speaking in a cruse and self-serving/selfish manner, I suppose techrights can benefit from it only by identifying the more glaring gaps, then filling them without any competition, e.g. re EPO

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*cude

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*crude

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To a certain extent. However, it seems that the volume of news has been

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replaced by a similar or larger amount of disinformation. So it is

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hard to reach anyone thses days. If one is just counting remaining

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news sources then TR stands out. If one also takes into account all the

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disinformation sites posing as news sites then TR (and the others remaining)

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get diminished by the noise.

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or maybe we are very wrong and Microsoft DOES love Linux. BTW, Cimpanu was fired it seems...

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M$ hates Linux and FOSS more than ever.

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I saw the note that Cimpanu was fired. Maybe ZDNet is on the way out?

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Two decades ago they were actually decent, but not for a long time. THe

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last one there was SJVN and once he flipped, there was no reason to

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click on a ZDNet article ever again. For my part it has only happened

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M$ hates Linux and FOSS more than ever.

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I saw the note that Cimpanu was fired. Maybe ZDNet is on the way out?

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Two decades ago they were actually decent, but not for a long time. THe

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last one there was SJVN and once he flipped, there was no reason to

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click on a ZDNet article ever again. For my part it has only happened

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a few times since then and even then only by accident.

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a few times since then and even then only by accident.

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The "articles" are junk there nowadays.

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The "articles" are junk there nowadays.

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FOSS Force became Byfield, and rarely even that (no posts in ages)

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The more noise M$ makes about Azure the worse it is probably positioned.

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Tragic

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Byfield was anti-ODF if I recall correctly. Being against Open Standards,

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is in someways even worse than being only against FOSS.

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nowadays he only uses the site to attack RMS, i.e. the ONLY thing "FOSS Force" as a site is used for it attacking the F in its name

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Yes, as mentioned and discussed many times, there are a lot of people who

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have issues with RMS or anyone else who throw around the F-word.

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The Moglen video linked the other day really dug in on that. RMS and FSF

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have done all the heavy lifting in regards to Freedom, while many others

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have sold out or sold short for small amounts of money.