●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, October 17, 2022 ●● ● Oct 17 [00:07] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@freenode-4qorus.am6e.nqgd.t29qgt.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [00:08] *Techrights-sec has quit (Connection closed) [00:09] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@freenode-4qorus.am6e.nqgd.t29qgt.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [00:10] *Techrights-sec has quit (Connection closed) ● Oct 17 [01:06] schestowitz-TR CDC Data: US Deaths About 25% Higher This Winter Than Last Winter Before COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/17/cdc-data-on-us-deaths/ [01:06] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive CDC Data: US Deaths About 25% Higher This Winter Than Last Winter Before COVID-19 ● Oct 17 [02:08] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:08] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:16] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [02:16] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@22agg6qj8dxhg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [04:57] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 17 [07:58] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@h635kpe3hju7k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [09:34] *psydruid has quit (Quit: Gateway shutdown) [09:35] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [10:29] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Oct 17 [12:21] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:26] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:47] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [13:09] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:09] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [13:12] techrights-sec It looks like Jake has published recently: [13:12] techrights-sec https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/197416841/20220325_Appelbaum_hf.pdf [13:12] techrights-sec """Thank you again Christian Grothoff for encouraging me to think critically about society, about the role of Fre [13:12] techrights-sec e Software, ...""" [13:12] schestowitz-TR the change was over 2k in value [13:15] techrights-sec That's a noticable amount [13:17] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:18] techrights-sec Yet basically no network / media coverage of the topic. [13:18] schestowitz-TR the cdc thing? [13:21] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-rr8.u5c.bjapj4.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [13:22] techrights-sec yes [13:23] schestowitz-TR "pendemic is over" -- commander in chief [13:24] techrights-sec and the papers run mostly opinion pieces, e.g. [13:24] techrights-sec https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/health/covid-pandemic-data.html [13:24] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | The Inadequacy of the Stories We Told About the Pandemic - The New York Times [13:25] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:25] schestowitz-TR with election coming they will downplay the same pandemic they talked about all the time when they could blame tr [13:25] schestowitz-TR ump for deaths [13:25] schestowitz-TR but anyway, they also politicise climate change [13:25] schestowitz-TR so that's 'normal' [13:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [13:39] techrights-sec ack [13:49] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:49] *parsifal (~parsifal@8vte7vm6885eu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:50] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [13:50] *parsifal (~parsifal@8vte7vm6885eu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:56] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Oct 17 [14:03] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:21] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:25] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [14:25] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [14:26] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@22agg6qj8dxhg.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:26] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [14:36] techrights-sec Maybe an invitation-only IRC channel is the way forward. [14:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [14:39] schestowitz-TR parler sold to another idiot [14:39] schestowitz-TR I think the bubble implodes fast [14:39] schestowitz-TR and those become pet projects [14:39] schestowitz-TR influence experiments [14:39] schestowitz-TR rather than media [14:40] techrights-sec I just saw that. One can hope that it implodes but the sale will unfortunately [14:40] techrights-sec infuse more idiots with money to keep going. [14:48] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [15:22] techrights-sec Kayne will pump more money and resources into it to try to recover his [15:22] techrights-sec costs. [15:28] schestowitz-TR he didn't grow up rich [15:28] schestowitz-TR people like him can go bankrupt fast [15:28] schestowitz-TR aside from this, the other week I read he truly deteriorated to abuse and racism [15:29] schestowitz-TR not that it was the first time [15:29] schestowitz-TR the racism and the abuse against ex and partner [15:29] schestowitz-TR in the us I guess bad vehaviour had its crowd and is fahionable [15:29] schestowitz-TR musk is similar [15:29] schestowitz-TR gates [15:29] schestowitz-TR KSA [15:29] schestowitz-TR all sorts of sociopaths looking for a circle to be liked in [15:29] schestowitz-TR while they do trulyt even things and need to refect (if they are capable of introspecation at all) [15:29] schestowitz-TR many diaspora and mostodon cliques are just circle-jerks [15:29] schestowitz-TR some would not even interoperate with othersa [15:29] schestowitz-TR apropos, this relates to what happens in IRC [15:29] schestowitz-TR invite-only would never work, for a number of reason just off the top of the head [15:29] schestowitz-TR politics got offloaded to another channel, long overdue [15:29] schestowitz-TR today was very noise around 8-10am when I left the home [15:29] schestowitz-TR quiet since then [15:29] schestowitz-TR (btw, speaking of people "pump[ing] more money and resources", freenode and andrew lee is a good example [15:29] schestowitz-TR and a simila baby-like mindset [15:29] schestowitz-TR calacanis had some [15:29] schestowitz-TR or @jack (add) [15:29] schestowitz-TR (ass)torba with gab, trump with truth social [15:29] schestowitz-TR cult of personalities [15:34] techrights-sec Probably similar in approach. [15:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [15:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:40] schestowitz-TR oh, wow! [15:40] schestowitz-TR great news [15:40] schestowitz-TR "users" push back against EPO [15:40] schestowitz-TR so the work done exposing the issues pays off, even if very much belatedly [15:45] techrights-sec Excellent news there. [15:46] schestowitz-TR I aid it out loud almost 10 times already rianne posts news from the living room next door [15:46] schestowitz-TR *said [15:46] schestowitz-TR progress with large ors and corporations can seem slow [15:46] schestowitz-TR *orgs [15:52] techrights-sec ack [15:52] techrights-sec Congratulations on the forward movement! [15:55] schestowitz-TR there seems to be a friedman scandal brewing [15:56] schestowitz-TR I'm told, [15:56] schestowitz-TR it seems like shouting at the wall [15:56] schestowitz-TR because they always try to make it seem or feel it doesn't hurt them [15:56] schestowitz-TR corporations and orgs are the same [15:56] schestowitz-TR but the "fucking president" tamper tamntrum and learning almost all staff reads TR (which is why he lost his cool [15:56] schestowitz-TR ) [15:56] schestowitz-TR helps morale [15:56] schestowitz-TR TIL the thread against me was connected to an employer asking for explanation [15:56] schestowitz-TR *threat (from m*g) ● Oct 17 [16:00] schestowitz-TR r [16:00] schestowitz-TR e friedman [16:00] schestowitz-TR there seems to be reputation laundering going on atm [16:00] schestowitz-TR and I'm told stories I can't yet publish because stronger proof is needed [16:00] schestowitz-TR writing damning words is easy [16:00] schestowitz-TR proving them under pressure requires a lot of evidence a priori [16:00] schestowitz-TR so I slow things down a bit and have ~4000 lines in notes [16:00] schestowitz-TR that one lawyer sent me a letter reveals just how closely they monitor the series [16:00] schestowitz-TR after I published court docs he pissed off [16:00] schestowitz-TR never wrote again [16:11] techrights-sec Good work. [16:11] techrights-sec :) [16:11] schestowitz-TR oh, wow [16:11] schestowitz-TR out of curiousity I put in gulag.com the title of the acan news [16:11] schestowitz-TR phoronix is 2 days late [16:11] schestowitz-TR the title is in many place, inc. hacker[sic] noise [16:11] schestowitz-TR but tuxmahcines is ranked second, after the original [16:11] schestowitz-TR and that's the _new_ domain [16:12] schestowitz-TR so it established good reputation [16:12] schestowitz-TR within 2 months [16:12] schestowitz-TR if that's true, we can expect monthly growth for the new (sub)site each month [16:12] schestowitz-TR but I don't check that [16:12] schestowitz-TR last checked about 2 weeks ago, it was up about 37% in a month [16:12] schestowitz-TR the drupakl site still is busy, due to the archives [16:33] techrights-sec ack ● Oct 17 [17:02] *starstreak has quit (Quit: Leaving) [17:05] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:05] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [17:06] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [17:11] *parsifal (~parsifal@8vte7vm6885eu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:18] schestowitz-TR wow, if you put the title of Lunduke on ads/spam [17:18] schestowitz-TR as is [17:18] schestowitz-TR in Google [17:18] schestowitz-TR tuxmachines is #1 results [17:18] schestowitz-TR not the original [17:27] techrights-sec Interesting [17:31] techrights-sec grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/17/state-tv-journalist-who-denounced-ukraine-war-flees-russi [17:31] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/17/state-tv-journalist-who-denounced-ukraine-war-flees-russi ) [17:31] techrights-sec a-marina-ovsyannikova [17:33] schestowitz-TR i hope that many well-educated and principled russians come to the uk and are welcomed here [17:33] schestowitz-TR but we have idiots like liz trump [17:33] schestowitz-TR and look what they did to assange [17:33] schestowitz-TR because we are the "poodle" or bush, carlyle group etc. [17:33] schestowitz-TR *of [17:34] techrights-sec There's not quite a news blackout on Assange, but close. I think the goal [17:34] techrights-sec is to get the public's eye to move on and, if he happens to die in the mean [17:34] techrights-sec time, that's ok with them, then once it is quiet enough deport him [17:34] techrights-sec --- [17:34] techrights-sec It would boost the UK [17:34] techrights-sec There's not quite a news blackout on Assange, but close. I think the goal [17:34] techrights-sec is to get the public's eye to move on and, if he happens to die in the mean [17:34] techrights-sec time, that's ok with them, then once it is quiet enough deport him [17:36] schestowitz-TR he cannot produce anything from prison [17:36] schestowitz-TR not even a notepad, let alone access to news or his site [17:36] schestowitz-TR just keeping him there is about as effective as him being clinically dead [17:36] schestowitz-TR except he's a living cautionary take [17:36] schestowitz-TR *tale [17:36] schestowitz-TR I last thought of it this morning [17:36] schestowitz-TR they can demonstrate what happens when you "cross the line" and expose war crimes [17:36] schestowitz-TR that's "espionage" and it kills you even without due process [17:39] techrights-sec Or Ian Murdock, Gary Kildall, etc [17:40] schestowitz-TR meanwhile the Gates PR people have managed to classify any narrative about Kildall a "conspiracy theory" [17:40] schestowitz-TR a few years ago when many had been trying to figure out the past [17:42] techrights-sec Kildall's book has been heavily redacted and some chapters remain unpublished. [17:42] techrights-sec ... key chapters [17:42] techrights-sec Bill's PR team and hired reputation launderers try to reframe any opposition [17:42] techrights-sec as cranks and the facts as "conspiracy theories". Well a conspiracy is when [17:42] techrights-sec two or more get together to conspire, which is what Bill has lived by ... [17:47] techrights-sec Bill's PR team and hired repuration launderers seem to use a lot of strawmen [17:47] techrights-sec to achieve their goals. [17:47] techrights-sec Few can figure out the past any more due to lost publications, erased web sites, [17:47] techrights-sec and lots and lots of chaff. [17:47] techrights-sec The string "AARD" turns up nothing relevant or authoritative. [17:47] techrights-sec in the search engines. [17:47] schestowitz-TR in searx if I enter aard microsoft [17:47] schestowitz-TR wikipedia is top mresults [17:47] schestowitz-TR techrights in page 1 too [17:47] schestowitz-TR aard is a short acronym and means more in languages tgar have the double aa [17:47] schestowitz-TR it's also an old story [17:47] schestowitz-TR things get deranked with age [17:48] techrights-sec Wikipedia is the playground of marketeers and politicians not facts. [17:48] techrights-sec Anything left in a Wikipedia entry is going to consist of nearly pure spin. [17:48] techrights-sec Yes, Google in particular kills older entries. [17:50] schestowitz-TR that's why we should encourage people to use internal site searches [17:50] schestowitz-TR many don't [17:50] schestowitz-TR the google search bars are everywhere [17:50] schestowitz-TR even voice-nenabled [17:50] schestowitz-TR btw, how is search for TM coming along? we've not done commits latel [17:50] schestowitz-TR the site is stable as is, but... [17:52] techrights-sec ack [17:52] techrights-sec The prototype search seemed not so viable. Though I have seen quite a few [17:52] techrights-sec mentions of FTS5 [17:54] techrights-sec at other projects. [17:56] schestowitz-TR apropos, i looked up that ccc thing in a search engine and know what hgappendd there [17:56] schestowitz-TR I remember in twitter he used to entertain this idea he was saving egypt and even put arabic words in his profile [17:56] schestowitz-TR no tact! [17:59] schestowitz-TR in the encryption community we've long had this burden and a need to distance ourselves from terrorists [17:59] schestowitz-TR as it was being stigmatised as such [17:59] schestowitz-TR that's like pinochet showing up in a CIA "publis outreach" [17:59] schestowitz-TR *public ● Oct 17 [18:02] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:06] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:10] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:14] techrights-sec For the search, it might be feasible to figure it out for TR and then [18:14] techrights-sec retro fit it back into TM ... possibly. [18:14] techrights-sec For TR, it will be important to do the date differently. There was not [18:14] techrights-sec time to fix it in TM. The date internal date representation should [18:14] techrights-sec be an integer comprized of the UNIX epoch. That'll bring in the 2038 problem [18:14] techrights-sec I expect, but will allow for a lot more flexibility regarding how to process [18:14] techrights-sec and manipulate the date. Postgresql has a date structure but SQLite3 has [18:14] techrights-sec only an integer, but it does not have to be a 32-bit integer all the time [18:15] schestowitz-TR got 3 items re EPO [18:15] schestowitz-TR OTA [18:17] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:27] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:28] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [18:42] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@awtezbru2rbma.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [19:04] schestowitz-TR recorded 2, didn't go too well without planning, but the text will matter more [19:04] schestowitz-TR it'll take severl more days for any new covid info/data to arrive [19:04] schestowitz-TR we thought about going to a spacious gym, but it's not worth the risk [19:04] schestowitz-TR people with kids and office job have no chance or properly isolating [19:04] schestowitz-TR and the banksters today act as though there's no virus [19:04] schestowitz-TR not a single mask in sight, no distance [19:36] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [19:43] schestowitz-TR ota [19:43] schestowitz-TR sorry, I meant draft [19:43] schestowitz-TR the ota is due to the video being processed still [19:44] techrights-sec ack [19:44] techrights-sec checking [19:44] techrights-sec if it is a problem that it is behaving like a for-profit, it might be important [19:44] techrights-sec to remind first what it really is in a few words; otherwise (some) people [19:44] techrights-sec will think "profit" == "good" [19:44] techrights-sec And as usual, please expand all acronyms the first time they occur, not just with a link. It is important to bac [19:44] techrights-sec k up claims of support for Gemini with [19:44] techrights-sec actual actions, in this case expanded acronyms. :) [19:44] techrights-sec why did the EPO/EPO publish "divefsity fluff"? to distract from what? [19:44] techrights-sec Which set of laws allow EPO / EPO management to be held accountable? [19:44] schestowitz-TR thanks, answering now inside the text (made a meme in the meantime) [19:58] techrights-sec np ● Oct 17 [20:29] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@pupsf4x2uvcgu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Oct 17 [21:44] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [21:45] schestowitz "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." [21:45] schestowitz https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/31-arrested-for-stealing-cars-hacking-keyless-tech [21:45] schestowitz APP!!!!! [21:45] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.europol.europa.eu | 31 arrested for stealing cars by hacking keyless tech | Europol ● Oct 17 [23:20] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)