●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Friday, February 19, 2021 ●● ● Feb 19 [01:54] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [01:54] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) ● Feb 19 [02:04] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [02:04] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 19 [03:54] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [03:54] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) ● Feb 19 [04:06] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [04:07] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [04:51] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [04:56] *acer-box (~acer-box@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:cf0:c078:a3f8:ed4b) has joined #boycottnovell [04:56] *acer-box has quit (Changing host) [04:56] *acer-box (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [04:56] *ChanServ gives channel operator status to acer-box ● Feb 19 [05:04] schestowitz__ https://twitter.com/SVTrimaran/status/1362592591343091712 [05:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@SVTrimaran: @DrHastreis This is apparently someone else's computer at bill gates house with child porn found? https://t.co/eyieQUYQSs [05:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Release: Police Report About Arrest of Bill Gates Engineer for Pedophilia (Detained at Residence of Bill Gates) | Techrights [05:04] schestowitz__ https://twitter.com/Curiell/status/1362513623889764353 [05:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Curiell: Microsoft will carry on robbing taxpayers while totally avoiding accountability for anything. https://t.co/xXLX6L5RqM [05:04] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Microsoft is Already Bribing the Likely Next US President (Having Also Paid the Trump Campaign) to Ensure Microsoft Can Get Away With Crimes and Receive Bailouts from Taxpayers | Techrights [05:15] schestowitz__ > Hi Roy :-) and thank you, and others, very much for kind words. Also [05:15] schestowitz__ > very kind of your wife to want to gift/pay me. No need to feel guilty, [05:15] schestowitz__ > although I understand that I too would naturally want to pay/gift [05:15] schestowitz__ > something back ... I honestly can't think of anything personally [05:15] schestowitz__ > gift-wise at this point, but will give it some more thought. Painting [05:15] schestowitz__ > animals/nature is one of my favourite subjects too, so it'll be fun to [05:15] schestowitz__ > see which wildlife your wife chooses! [05:16] schestowitz__ > Thanks again, [05:16] schestowitz__ She's still thinking about it :-) [05:16] schestowitz__ Thanks very much. [05:19] schestowitz__ SPAM: [05:19] schestowitz__ Re: PITCH: Banning e2e Encryption Could Be The End of Data Privacy [05:19] schestowitz__ > Hi Roy, [05:19] schestowitz__ > [05:19] schestowitz__ > The US, UK and Australia are once again calling Facebook to halt its [05:19] schestowitz__ > plan to roll out end-to-end encryption across its messaging products. [05:19] schestowitz__ > Governments say that e2e encryption will stop the law to investigate [05:19] schestowitz__ > crimes. However, giving access to the private communications of millions [05:19] schestowitz__ > of users could be the largest overnight violation of privacy in history. [05:19] schestowitz__ > [05:19] schestowitz__ > According toIna Miranda [05:19] schestowitz__ > , [05:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 999 @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ina-miranda-3b06561a/ ) [05:19] schestowitz__ > CTO at Treasure [05:19] schestowitz__ > . [05:19] schestowitz__ > It is interesting to see that the same governments that are driving hard [05:19] schestowitz__ > on data privacy are also coming down hard on Big Tech not to fully [05:19] schestowitz__ > encrypt messaging platforms. It's a double standard. The government [05:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-treasure.cloud | Treasure.cloud - Cloud Storage With a Privacy-First Approach [05:19] schestowitz__ > seems to be using the example of paedophilia to capture the collective [05:19] schestowitz__ > emotion, fear and anger of the public - how can one not be moved and [05:19] schestowitz__ > concerned by the safety of our children? On the topic of capturing and [05:19] schestowitz__ > prosecuting criminals, our view is this is merely a bandaid that [05:19] schestowitz__ > addresses the symptoms, not the problem itself. Public safety and [05:19] schestowitz__ > privacy need not be mutually exclusive. [05:19] schestowitz__ > [05:19] schestowitz__ > Ina Miranda [05:19] schestowitz__ > has [05:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 400 @ https://t.publicize.co/f/a/SmSfSz0iq_niQPc4doc-rA~~/AAIlaAA~/RgRiD8InP0QxaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGlua2VkaW4uY29tL2luL2luYS1taXJhbmRhLTNiMDY1NjFhL1cDc3BjQgpgLaeOLmBMmW-tUhFyQHNjaGVzdG93aXR6LmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~>has ) [05:20] schestowitz__ > 15 years of experience in tech and more than 4 years in the [05:20] schestowitz__ > cybersecurity industry. She would love to contribute a *non-promotional* [05:20] schestowitz__ > guest articles to TechRights addressing these possible topics: [05:20] schestowitz__ > [05:20] schestowitz__ > -What is it with politicians banning encryption? And why is it [05:20] schestowitz__ > considered a double standard for Big Tech? [05:20] schestowitz__ > [05:20] schestowitz__ > -What will happen to social media platforms if governments decide to ban [05:20] schestowitz__ > e2e encryption? [05:20] schestowitz__ > [05:20] schestowitz__ > -How can users prepare for a ban on e2e encryption and make sure their [05:20] schestowitz__ > data is save [05:20] schestowitz__ > [05:20] schestowitz__ > These are just starting points. Please let me know if you are [05:20] schestowitz__ > interested. Ina is also available for an expert interview on the matter. [05:42] schestowitz__ >>> git clone ssh://git@git-tr/home/git/tr-git/ Git [05:42] schestowitz__ >>> cd Git [05:42] schestowitz__ >>> [05:42] schestowitz__ >>> Right now everything is all in one lump. As I learn more about Git, it [05:42] schestowitz__ >>> will get divided up appropriately. [05:42] schestowitz__ >> :-) [05:43] schestowitz__ >> [05:43] schestowitz__ >> roy@vonick:~/Git$ ls [05:43] schestowitz__ >> Gemini IRC Links README Unit-files [05:43] schestowitz__ >> [05:43] schestowitz__ > Excellent! [05:43] schestowitz__ > [05:43] schestowitz__ > When I figure out how to keep a separate branch, I will then add the [05:43] schestowitz__ > backup scripts. They unfortunately contain passwords. Maybe the [05:43] schestowitz__ > credentials could be in a separate file covered by .gitignore. [05:43] schestowitz__ Great stuff. We recently got complimented/congratulated on our technical work by a GNU developer. [05:43] schestowitz__ Tonight I work hard on a 5-part EPO publication that is important. ● Feb 19 [06:00] schestowitz__ > Excellent. Too few cover the EPO even though software is critical to [06:00] schestowitz__ > the functioning of the EU and the EPO is, for all practical purposes, an [06:00] schestowitz__ > external entity. [06:00] schestowitz__ You will see what it's about very soon. [06:13] schestowitz__ http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2021/02/12/survey-epo-working-conditions-continue-to-deteriorate/ [06:13] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-patentblog.kluweriplaw.com | Survey: EPO working conditions continue to deteriorate - Kluwer Patent Blog [06:13] schestowitz__ " [06:13] schestowitz__ It is certainly worth looking at the full results of the study. There are just so many red flags indicating increased psychological stress amongst EPO staff. [06:13] schestowitz__ The EPO management can say what they like about working conditions, but it is how the staff experience those conditions that really matters. On literally every measure, the long term trend is negative, sometimes profoundly so. Yet the AC fiddles whilst Rome burns. [06:13] schestowitz__ MaxDrei [06:14] schestowitz__ February 17, 2021 at 9:42 am [06:14] schestowitz__ Nonsense Parker writes persuasively. I liken what has happened at the EPO with what has happened to the British National Health Service. In both cases, a real scandal. [06:14] schestowitz__ Politicians are in thrall to the market and to business consultants. These international accountancy firms explain to them that the market is the way to get value for money. These consultancy firms are parasites, like the Herpes Simplex virus. They make sure that, once they have wormed their way into an organisation, it becomes impossible for the organisation to rid itself of the parasite because all management [06:14] schestowitz__ systems have become dependent on the parasitical consultancy services firm. Money for old rope, from then on, till the organisation fails and the vampire consultants move on to the next host body. [06:14] schestowitz__ Of course, the humans that work for these management consultancies have no appreciation of what it is other than money that drives a public servant (such as a medical doctor or a judge, or a Patent Office Examiner or a Formalities Officer, or an IT support person) towards career excellence, towards trying their hardest, every day. The consultants truly know the price of everything. They really do have no idea at all, it seems to [06:14] schestowitz__ me, of the value of anything. Not my job, Im sure they would say, to ascribe a value to anything. Rather, they would say, Pilate-style, its their client (here the Administrative Council) that has to make those decisions. [06:14] schestowitz__ Perhaps C19 has some benefit in that it is reminding us all that there are some aspects of the general welfare of a decent human society that politicians and preening managers cannot solve with mere accounting techniques, that these accounting obscenities are damaging rather than nurturing human society. [06:14] schestowitz__ The Constitution of the United States of America invokes as a goal the general welfare of society. How about that? I just dont know how to bring our elected politicians around to a more sophisticated view of what nourishes the general welfare of our society here in Europe. 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Prepare the vomit pouch. [17:01] schestowitz__ Some obligatory SJVN (LF is a customer) puff pieces in the pipeline for sure [17:06] *acer-box has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [17:06] *acer-box (~acer-box@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:cf0:c078:a3f8:ed4b) has joined #boycottnovell [17:16] *acer-box has quit (Changing host) [17:16] *acer-box (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [17:16] *ChanServ gives channel operator status to acer-box [17:18] *TechrightsBN has quit (*.net *.split) [17:21] *TechrightsBN (~b0t@techrights.org) has joined #boycottnovell [17:24] Techrights-sec I added a few words about updating, to the Gemini start page, but in general [17:24] Techrights-sec it would help to run gemin-cron-update.sh before announcing an new article. [17:24] Techrights-sec That ensures that the RSS feed is read into Gemini first. [17:25] schestowitz__ Yes, I have indeed been aware of it, but for the time being I assume not so many people will follow >INTO GEMINI< .... >FROM SOCIAL CONTROL MEDIA< (WWW), so it'll be worth the CPU effort (script) more so in the future... maybe can even narrow update windows further [17:32] Techrights-sec Should it be every hour? [17:32] schestowitz__ I suppose it can do no harm if update cycles are short (about 1 minute) [17:34] Techrights-sec That would hammer the HTTP server when asking for RSS feeds. [17:34] Techrights-sec There is something not right about the RSS feeds. They seem generated [17:34] Techrights-sec on the fly rather than generated upon update and then saved to a static [17:34] Techrights-sec file. [17:34] Techrights-sec Best to update manually. I can make a script or icon for that, if [17:34] Techrights-sec it would be helpful. 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