●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Thursday, April 22, 2021 ●● ● Apr 22 [01:50] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [01:50] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) ● Apr 22 [02:18] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [02:19] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 22 [06:11] schestowitz > Hello, [06:11] schestowitz > [06:11] schestowitz > Were writing to let you know that your account has been suspendedand [06:11] schestowitz > will remain suspendeddue to multiple or repeat violations of our rules [06:11] schestowitz > . [06:11] schestowitz > [06:11] schestowitz > We dont allow the following behaviors on Twitter: [06:11] schestowitz > [06:11] schestowitz > * Creating serial and/or multiple accounts with overlapping uses [06:11] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-twitterinc.secure.force.com | NO TITLE [06:11] schestowitz So I guess they don't like that tuxmachines links to tuxmachines.org and then my personal account is also linking to tuxmachines.org. [06:11] schestowitz Because that is the only thing I can think of. [06:11] schestowitz This isn't new though! It has been like this for 8 years! [06:11] schestowitz > * Evading a permanent suspension by creating or using another account [06:12] schestowitz Never did that!! False accusation. [06:12] schestowitz > * Cross-posting Tweets or links across multiple accounts [06:12] schestowitz Again, maybe they allude to tuxmachines. [06:12] schestowitz > * Aggressive following, particularly through automated means [06:12] schestowitz No such thing ever done! [06:12] schestowitz > Please do not reply to this email or send us new appeals for this [06:12] schestowitz > account as we wont monitor them. [06:12] schestowitz Complete nonsense. False accusation. [06:12] schestowitz So I think they now use the tuxmachines account as an excuse for saying I post to tuxmachines from the official account and also from my own. [06:12] schestowitz Ridiculous! [06:20] schestowitz > Hi Roy [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > Thanks for the updates. Please inform me about their response. [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > Regarding your decision about Twitter. First, I do not wish to exercise [06:20] schestowitz > any pressure and I know that there is a lot of pressure in activist [06:20] schestowitz > work, and I speak from personal experience. [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > At the general level of discussion, Twitter is the most politically [06:20] schestowitz > influential social medium and the hashtags connect all interested [06:20] schestowitz > parties. If you abandon Twitter, then the gap will be filled by the [06:20] schestowitz > known propagandists. In this respect, although your posts may be copies [06:20] schestowitz > of your techrights posts, it is their announcement on Twitter that [06:20] schestowitz > brings them within a centralised forum for wider dissemination, [06:20] schestowitz > readership and impact. [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > I do not currently have any serious updates on the patent front, I get [06:20] schestowitz > news and discussions from various corners and from my discussions with [06:20] schestowitz > Benjamin who is based in Brussels, but there is nothing new that you [06:20] schestowitz > haven't heard in the past. But serious issues can emerge in the future [06:20] schestowitz > and the general issue with Twitter and your posts regards the daily [06:20] schestowitz > fight for information and impressions. If there is no pressure from you, [06:20] schestowitz > Benjamin or others, on a frequent basis, then law firms, big companies [06:20] schestowitz > and uniformed civil servants will easily sell whatever they want. You [06:20] schestowitz > can ask the following question, that I also ask myself: if you do not do [06:20] schestowitz > what you do, who else is going to do it. [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > As I said, please do not see this email as an effort from me to exercise [06:20] schestowitz > any pressure, as there are always personal and professional [06:20] schestowitz > circumstances that we do not know. I just think that your presence on [06:20] schestowitz > Twitter is generally needed, especially in the current period. [06:20] schestowitz > [06:20] schestowitz > Best wishe [06:29] schestowitz >> catching up with email now, will fact-check and publish something... [06:29] schestowitz >> [06:29] schestowitz > Everybody is asking me about it [06:29] schestowitz > [06:29] schestowitz > As I was a mentor and administrator in GSoC and a mentor in Outreachy, [06:29] schestowitz > ethical concerns limit what I can write or publish myself. ● Apr 22 [08:20] schestowitz = [08:20] schestowitz x https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/red-hat-embraces-tableau-blueprint-and-tableau-online-deepens-data-culture [08:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tableau.com | Red Hat embraces Tableau Blueprint and Tableau Online, deepens data culture [08:20] schestowitz = [08:20] schestowitz old: [08:20] schestowitz https://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top [08:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-daringfireball.net | Daring Fireball: On Top [08:20] schestowitz = [08:20] schestowitz x https://www.aviationanalysis.net/microsoft-enables-linux-gui-applications-on-windows-10-for-developers/ [08:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.aviationanalysis.net | Microsoft enables Linux GUI applications on Windows 10 for developers [08:20] schestowitz "lots and lots of M$ hardware spam in many channels, won't link" [08:20] schestowitz x https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/006402.html [08:20] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.orbitalfox.eu | [users] Noob-friendly solutions for co-writing a gemini site? [08:21] schestowitz WTH!! [08:21] schestowitz Microsoft everything [08:21] schestowitz Polluting Gemini?! [08:31] Techrights-sec Happy Earth Day [08:31] Techrights-sec shall we try Mumble now? [08:31] schestowitz yes, but very quickly, I'm at work till 9am [08:34] Techrights-sec move to the TR channel [08:34] Techrights-sec I'm not getting sound nor seeing an indication that you've triggered your mic [08:34] Techrights-sec ok I see the mic active but no sound [08:34] schestowitz I can hear you, I need to relearn the GUI [08:40] Techrights-sec Are you sure your sound is on? I tried every possible combination, rechecked everything [08:41] Techrights-sec do you have time for a soundcheck with SIP? [08:41] Techrights-sec yes, i can hear mumble making notification soun [08:41] Techrights-sec I will doub;e check by logging in a second time from another machine [08:46] schestowitz seems like mumble or murmur won't pick up my mic [08:46] schestowitz even tried alsa and oss, not just LP-Audio [08:51] schestowitz I've tried dozens of combination, giving up for the day. Hoping I didn't miss anything important in ytalk all these days... [08:52] Techrights-sec ok, that's probably something in the configuration [08:52] Techrights-sec sound is problematic these days and I know very, very, very little about it [08:52] Techrights-sec Can we test SIP ? [08:52] Techrights-sec and come back to Mumble on some other day? [08:52] Techrights-sec ok I see the disconnection from mumble [08:52] Techrights-sec (and heard the notifications) ● Apr 22 [09:09] schestowitz > I wonder if ytalk can hang? I see that you're connected there and have [09:09] schestowitz > written a few lines. I've not used it much the last few days though. [09:09] schestowitz > [09:09] schestowitz > "Happy Earth Day" [09:09] schestowitz > [09:09] schestowitz >> Mumble connects OK, I can test that later when nobody here is asleep. [09:09] schestowitz > Ok. Let's give it a try once noise can be made. [09:09] schestowitz > [09:09] schestowitz >> Regarding TM, it's a bit like cat and mouse... but we'll cope. Maybe [09:09] schestowitz >> we're targeted as (AFAIK) we're the biggest site of this kind. [09:09] schestowitz > Biggest and probably best of its kind. The coverage is not only very [09:09] schestowitz > thorough but very, very fast. [09:09] schestowitz Fast with clustered updates attached to comments. No other site does the latter. ● Apr 22 [10:36] schestowitz
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    PhD students willfully committed known malicious changes to mainline Linux
    [10:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 400 @ https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/04/22/phd-students-willfully-committed-known-malicious-changes-to-mainline-linux/">PhD ) [10:36] schestowitz
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    So their work at to be reverted with 190 reversions so far. It also means future commits from the University of Minnesota will be rejected from mainline Linux by default.

    • ● Apr 22 [16:18] *asusbox has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [16:18] *rianne__ has quit (Quit: Ex-Chat) [16:20] *asusbox (~rianne@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:8b5:7:8cf4:58d) has joined #boycottnovell [16:20] *rianne (~rianne@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:8b5:7:8cf4:58d) has joined #boycottnovell [16:21] Techrights-sec https://nitter.cc/zoobab/status/1385205641501941761#m [16:21] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.cc | zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "Sen. Tillis Asks Biden Administration to Oppose WTO Waiver Proposal [Ed: Tillis is a front for the patent cartel and litigation 'industry', so of course he's willing to cause the deaths of millions of people just for the sake of patent profiteering] http://techrights.org/2021/04/22/mesa-21-0-3-available/" | nitter ● Apr 22 [18:06] schestowitz lupa hammering on gemini today, but thats OK [18:08] Techrights-sec It's good that TR gets into the index. [18:08] Techrights-sec I hope that the search engine soon allows more than 10k-1 pages in the [18:08] Techrights-sec index. [18:08] schestowitz working on some code/coding, my tuxcode scripts today, to better automate some stuff related to that site. I now know better which reqs to block to restrict ddos impact... but it's far from complete, I just hope to leave that mess behind and focus on what matters [18:10] Techrights-sec Yes, the articles, especially on either EPO or sw patents, are why (IMO) the [18:10] Techrights-sec DDoS attacks are aimed at TR. [18:14] schestowitz BTW, I cannot think of a way to integrate mumble and webcamoid if that ever became a route for doing multi-participant video. Not just mumble but anything audio like SIP.... I think JACK can do mixing, but I lack experience with those sorts of things and letting the microphone pick up someone's voice would have terrible results [18:16] Techrights-sec I know nothing about JACK or ALSA or PA or really any audio. I just [18:16] Techrights-sec cargo cult it until it works and then hope for the best and try [18:16] Techrights-sec not to change anything [18:16] schestowitz but having said all that, my experience doing techbytes is that when you have more than 1 participant, it's a burden to set up, sometimes edit, and the more participants the worse... waiting, choosing time etc. [18:18] schestowitz we used mumble a bit for techbytes towards the end and it was generally good. I think Gordon did too (the Scottish podcast he did with cavey). It's very solid software, I just need to think of use cases, over time... [18:20] Techrights-sec scheduling is exponentially harder, among other aspects, when having [18:20] Techrights-sec multiple participants [18:20] Techrights-sec With people far away, the latency can vary so it is *very* important [18:20] Techrights-sec to have each participant on a separate audio track and then mix the [18:20] Techrights-sec audio separately. That more or less precludes video unless the same [18:20] Techrights-sec is done for the video feeds. Otherwise some or all participants [18:20] Techrights-sec do not have synchronized audio with video. [18:20] Techrights-sec Going audio-only makes that worlds easier. [18:24] Techrights-sec I haven't looked into recording with Mumble. It woul be essential [18:24] Techrights-sec for it to do multiple channels/ [18:25] schestowitz IIRC, Tim recorded us on it a few times and it worked ok [18:38] Techrights-sec Downmixing might be the most practical option at the moment. As mentioned [18:38] Techrights-sec I gave multichannel a try and it was able to put each participant into [18:38] Techrights-sec FLAC files. [18:39] Techrights-sec The metadata included is quite minimal, it just includes [18:39] Techrights-sec the handle nothing more. [18:39] Techrights-sec The file name includes the date and time tough. [18:39] Techrights-sec ^though [18:40] schestowitz mumble would be good for web conferences and office work that involves collaborations [18:40] schestowitz I know you are a private person, but if you choose to we can occasionally record discussions about breaking/recent/hot news [18:41] Techrights-sec Yes, it would be excellent for collaborative work. [18:41] Techrights-sec It's also designed to be easy to split groups up into subteams and [18:41] Techrights-sec have some able to talk to all the subteams without the subteams [18:41] Techrights-sec interfering with each other. [18:42] Techrights-sec I don't tend to have such lively hot takes that it would be interesting [18:42] Techrights-sec or time effective. I have to think things through a lot these days [18:42] Techrights-sec to come to conclusions and I seem to have misplaced my telephone voice. [18:42] Techrights-sec If it's not recorded I don't mind brainstorming or other discussions [18:42] schestowitz makes sense, just what I was expecting [18:43] Techrights-sec I found a way to get audio alerts but now need to find a more powerful [18:43] Techrights-sec power supply for the speakers so they can be heard from further away [18:43] Techrights-sec than the desk [18:44] schestowitz how strong is the encryption for murmur/mumble? When I checked ages ago it was strong enough to count as real e2ee. [18:46] Techrights-sec https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Features#Encryption [18:46] Techrights-sec OCB-AES128 [18:46] Techrights-sec The weak point might be the TOFU model, but it is not unique in that regard [18:46] Techrights-sec and TOFU is a point of discussion in a lot of projects including Gemini. [18:46] Techrights-sec It's easy enough to send the fingerprint out of band first though. [18:46] Techrights-sec ^certificate fingerprint, that is [18:46] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.mumble.info | Features - Mumble Wiki [18:48] schestowitz I have just attempted to remove the TM access restriction and within minutes the load went up. Reverted back to the restricted mode, so it may be premature to leave it fully exposed to any request. I found some of the offending requests. [18:49] schestowitz The abuse started around February but got a lot worse in recent days, though the magnitude can be partly controlled, using means I can disclose privately and not in irc or ytalk [18:50] Techrights-sec Ok. Good. It would be great if the offending IP addresses could be blocked at [18:50] Techrights-sec the kernel by nftables. There's a way to do it within Apache also, that [18:50] Techrights-sec maight be a good work-around. [18:50] Techrights-sec ack [18:51] schestowitz git commit tuxurl.sh [18:51] schestowitz [master ed02280] more tricks [18:51] schestowitz 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) [18:51] schestowitz rewrite Desktop-Utils/tuxurl.sh (81%) [18:54] schestowitz git commit preview.sh [18:54] schestowitz [master ab0f9ee] still rough [18:54] schestowitz 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) [18:54] schestowitz create mode 100755 Desktop-Utils/preview.sh [18:56] schestowitz if you want a challenge, making the latter work with command line parameter line time, duration, filename can improve workflow, as right now I edit the shell file and then run it from the cli on desktop 8 [18:56] schestowitz I've lacked the time looking for video portions in youtube since it became JS-only no-go zone and I rarely click youtube URLs anymore [18:58] Techrights-sec ok I'll take a look at the script. I'm still novice at Git though [18:58] Techrights-sec and will have to look up a lot. [18:58] schestowitz you only need to know about 4 commands 90% of the time... and it's similar to svn and cvs, which I used also ● Apr 22 [19:05] Techrights-sec I think after the commit, it must be pushed too [19:05] Techrights-sec yes, I forgot to push. done now. [19:25] Techrights-sec They should be shortened to 78 char IMO [19:26] schestowitz it's more of a hack than a program, with tons of redundant stuff in there, reused from a program it was based on (for one user only... although rianne uses a derivative of it for android leftovers) [19:35] Techrights-sec Took some preliminary looks at preview.sh, tried to tweak the lines [19:35] Techrights-sec in preparation for actual changes. [19:35] Techrights-sec Does it still work? [19:36] schestowitz Almost all the lines would be spurious in this particular script as the only substitution is actual does is for #tuxmachines and maybe very few others, as all addresses from from the tuxmachines domain [19:37] Techrights-sec I think after the commit, it must be pushed too [19:37] Techrights-sec tuxurl.sh has some really long run-on lines. [19:37] Techrights-sec They should be shortened to 78 char IMO ● Apr 22 [22:29] Techrights-sec https://nitter.cc/RubyRed02614435/status/1385324644920557570#m [22:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.cc | Ru_Dawg (@RubyRed02614435): "techrights.org/2020/05/06/na" | nitter