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● Jan 25
[00:21] schestowitz-TR i wrote that post when i waas super-tired
[00:21] schestowitz-TR just before bedtime
[00:21] schestowitz-TR because i wnated to put it out there asap
[00:21] schestowitz-TR knowing how much damage that does
[00:42] techrigthssec quality is preferable to quantity, the text itself is missing a description\
[00:42] techrigthssec of what has happened
[00:42] techrigthssec using up a good title like that without accompanying information misses a good
[00:42] techrigthssec opportunity
[00:43] schestowitz-TR ack
[00:46] techrigthssec The other day you mentioned some modifications to tm-new as far as summaries go.
[00:46] techrigthssec Can you describe the changes needed? It was something about monthly summmaries.
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[00:48] schestowitz-TR yes. pseudocode:
[00:48] schestowitz-TR 1. retrieve from db where month=$month
[00:49] schestowitz-TR 2. select title, url, description
[00:49] schestowitz-TR 3. /
[00:49] schestowitz-TR 4. likely sorted by time
[00:49] schestowitz-TR this way all the description I type in by hand will be picked up by search engines and moreover it'll
[00:49] schestowitz-TR be easily to navigate past months' work
[00:49] techrigthssec Got it.
[00:50] schestowitz-TR i am aiming to finish rss, do daily links by 2am
[00:50] schestowitz-TR then write about iso wrt nhs data
[00:50] schestowitz-TR before 2:40 (bulletin)
● Jan 25
[01:03] techrigthssec ack
[01:12] techrigthssec It used to be that the search engines were aware of and used the description
[01:12] techrigthssec metadata.
[01:23] techrigthssec I guess not any more.
● Jan 25
[02:00] schestowitz-TR draft
[02:00] techrigthssec Checking
[02:00] techrigthssec "ISO" needs to be expanded to "ISO 9000 Certification" or whatever at least
[02:00] techrigthssec once, preferably at the start -- if that's what you are refering to.
[02:00] techrigthssec Otherwise, it's not clear how ISO the organization relates to Sirius
[02:00] schestowitz-TR added at the top
[02:01] techrigthssec I'd say use "ISO 9000 Certification" throughout the post even in the DIlbert
[02:01] techrigthssec caption. It's very confusing otherwise IMO
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec Gloating about "ISO" as in ISO 9000 certification...
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec ISO 9000 certificatoin needs to be ...
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec Explaining ISO 9000 certification in ...
[02:09] techrigthssec """
[02:09] techrigthssec etc
[02:09] techrigthssec There are 2 problems to track; one is the scam of the ISO 9000 certification;
[02:09] techrigthssec The other is the destruction of ISO as an organization by M$
[02:27] techrigthssec s/mass muster/pass muster/
[02:27] techrigthssec s/ISO allows personal/ISO 9000 certification allows/
[02:27] techrigthssec etc
[02:27] techrigthssec to differentiate between the specific certification and the organization
[02:27] techrigthssec granting the certificate
● Jan 25
[04:51] schestowitz-TR grieving today
[04:51] schestowitz-TR trying to find MIA flights
[04:51] schestowitz-TR falkon does not work with any airline site I am trying
[04:51] schestowitz-TR absurd
[04:51] schestowitz-TR i cannot even see prices
[04:51] schestowitz-TR gosh, librewolf does not work either
[04:51] schestowitz-TR seems like they blcok every non-Google browser
[04:51] schestowitz-TR firefox works
[04:51] schestowitz-TR no way I am paying 2500 pounds for a return flight to Miami
[04:51] schestowitz-TR total ripoff!
[04:51] schestowitz-TR they don't even care if someone died!! they exploit that.
[04:51] schestowitz-TR [me very angry!]
● Jan 25
[05:36] psydruid British Airways has return flights from Heathrow to Miami from 750
[05:36] schestowitz-TR not a day's notice
[05:37] psydruid I put today's date in my search
[05:38] psydruid they have another flight in the afternoon
[05:38] schestowitz-TR i see...
● Jan 25
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[06:56] schestowitz-TR spoke to some cousins, I think I will send an essay for them to read
● Jan 25
[07:00] schestowitz-TR hem to read
[07:00] schestowitz-TR don't mean to sound alarming, but I think deaths are "accelerating" a bit, both based on stats and direct
[07:00] schestowitz-TR experience (relatives). Some people lose a year. Some loses 10 years. Some even 50 years. That's tragic.
[07:00] schestowitz-TR nobody wants to end up an epitaph or obituary like swarz, he died so younf
[07:00] schestowitz-TR the time wasted in conde nasty [sic] can be recovered some other way
[07:00] schestowitz-TR but 60 odd years were thrown away
[07:00] techrigthssec Increased deaths are quite likely given the decreased caution.
[07:08] schestowitz-TR i heard ambulances or police a few times overnight
[07:08] schestowitz-TR from the stats that I saw (maybe not discussed as much as the work-blaming ambulance driver dtrikes)
[07:08] schestowitz-TR there are many distress calls from homes
[07:08] schestowitz-TR as people die in their homes
[07:08] schestowitz-TR not waking up or collapsing
[07:08] schestowitz-TR and disscussions about this get to be ridiculed as "anti-vaxx"
[07:08] schestowitz-TR *worker-blaming
[07:16] techrigthssec The blame shifting distracts from the reality of who has been intentionally
[07:16] techrigthssec underfunding and understaffing the NHS
[07:16] techrigthssec and why.
[07:20] schestowitz-TR I ranted about "the media" in IRC/TR-bot earlier tonight, but that's not a new problem
[07:20] schestowitz-TR the media is becoming an oppressive voice, and wikipedia is a close second
[07:20] schestowitz-TR obscructing critics of very bad orgs/people
[07:20] schestowitz-TR one can hope gemini and other "alt" things will undo this damage/trends somehow
[07:20] schestowitz-TR because it makes no sense that media read by 90% of people is working against their interestsw
[07:20] schestowitz-TR when their capacity to disseminate their own narrative is 10 times bigger, in theory...
[07:20] schestowitz-TR social contgrol media helped created conglemerates at the expense of millions of personal voices/blogs
[07:20] schestowitz-TR youtube is part of that
[07:20] schestowitz-TR culling many people
[07:20] schestowitz-TR they seduced many people out of their own platforms with "likes" and fake "friends" (fake status)
[07:20] schestowitz-TR and now many realised that if they on their deathbed
[07:20] schestowitz-TR the last thing they'd say is, "gee!! I wish I had more twitter 'followers'..."
[07:21] techrigthssec Wikipedia has been a propaganda engine for years after it became a playground
[07:21] techrigthssec for marketeers.
[07:23] schestowitz-TR I try NOT to link to wikipedia these days
[07:23] schestowitz-TR but then again the www as a whole is trash
[07:23] schestowitz-TR jumped the shark
[07:23] schestowitz-TR many web sites don't eevn show up without overlay saying "WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY"
[07:23] schestowitz-TR or airlines that insist you use spyware with SYSTEM-level access
[07:23] techrigthssec It's usually avoidable.
[07:23] techrigthssec There was a good blog post recently about the advantages of "owning" your own
[07:23] techrigthssec domain name.
[07:23] techrigthssec Most sites are no longer web sites, but instead javascript "apps" served over
[07:23] techrigthssec http
● Jan 25
[08:19] schestowitz-TR Azure LAYOFFS. "Simple: Cloud cost is way high. Customers are moving back to premise to improve cost." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kQvvViD#replies
[08:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thelayoff.com | Layoffs are still happening - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs
[08:20] schestowitz-TR they need staff that knows how to do this, not memoprise fucking proprietary GUIs
[08:20] schestowitz-TR maybe the media can come up with words like "onprem" or "clown-native" or...
[08:20] schestowitz-TR to make the old sound new
[08:20] techrigthssec ack
[08:41] schestowitz-TR So will Microsoft refund that 22 BILLION DOLLARS in Biden graft, seeing that HoloLens is now dead? https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-has-laid-off-entire-teams-behind-virtual-mixed-reality-and-hololens see http://techrights.org/2022/02/04/the-united-states-government-should-quit-bailing-out-microsoft-at-taxpayers-expense/
[08:41] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.windowscentral.com | Microsoft has laid off entire teams behind Virtual, Mixed Reality, and HoloLens | Windows Central
[08:41] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | The United States Government Should Quit Bailing Out Microsoft at Taxpayers Expense | Techrights
[08:42] techrigthssec Very important question.
● Jan 25
[09:00] psydruid https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/surface-and-windows-revenue-tanks-39-in-latest-microsoft-earnings-report
[09:00] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.windowscentral.com | Surface and Windows revenue tanks 39% in latest Microsoft earnings report | Windows Central
[09:01] psydruid Death by a thousand cuts
[09:01] schestowitz :)
[09:47] schestowitz-TR gym time
[09:48] techrigthssec ack
● Jan 25
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[10:44] schestowitz-TR New Record Low: Only One Linux Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks | Techrights http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/zdnet-went-dry/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/25/zdnet-went-dry/
[10:44] schestowitz-TR [TechrightsSocial] techrights.org | New Record Low: Only One Linux Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks | Techrights
[10:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | New Record Low: Only One Linux Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks | Techrights
[10:44] schestowitz-TR Steven Vaughan-Nichols gradually exiting ZDNet? https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-linux-kernel-smb-security-flaw-revealed
[10:44] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com | New Linux kernel SMB security flaw revealed | Open Source Watch
[10:44] schestowitz-TR [TechrightsSocial] opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com | New Linux kernel SMB security flaw revealed | Open Source Watch
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● Jan 25
[11:50] schestowitz-TR How is this content? http://news.tuxmachines.org/test.shtml
[11:50] schestowitz-TR The script can start from an arbitrary date but defaults to one month ago.
[11:50] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines posts since 2022-12-26
[11:53] techrigthssec How is this content? http://news.tuxmachines.org/test.shtml
[11:53] techrigthssec The script can start from an arbitrary date but defaults to one month ago.
[11:53] schestowitz-TR that looks great
[11:53] schestowitz-TR i will ask other half as well
[11:53] schestowitz-TR struggling emotionally atm because I am writing about my friend
[11:53] schestowitz-TR and many things come back to me
[11:58] schestowitz-TR rianne just took a look
[11:58] schestowitz-TR feedback is positive
[11:58] schestowitz-TR she thinks monthly archives would help mher a lot
[11:58] schestowitz-TR locating older pages she is updating
[11:58] schestowitz-TR i assume it's as easy to putput such pages to gemini/gemtext, as the format is similar
[11:58] schestowitz-TR and that makes indexing easier for crawlers
● Jan 25
[12:03] schestowitz-TR i have just checked
[12:03] schestowitz-TR fair point
[12:03] schestowitz-TR i think that with gemini the main way to navigate to old pages is go back, back, back, back...
[12:03] schestowitz-TR linear navigation only
[12:03] schestowitz-TR the summaries only ever showed up in the front page
[12:04] techrigthssec No need for gemtext since it is for the search engine indexes and the gemtext
[12:04] techrigthssec have the summaries anyway
[12:22] techrigthssec Any suggestion for file name?
[12:41] schestowitz-TR does it need a file name with extension, or can a directory with index be created?
[12:41] schestowitz-TR maybe ~/year/month/ ?
● Jan 25
[13:41] techrigthssec Either way is good
[13:41] techrigthssec It's a rolling date period based on the latest N days, so it's a single file
[13:41] techrigthssec since it contains only redundant information
[13:46] schestowitz-TR sorry, was away
[13:46] schestowitz-TR finished writing a rushed tribute to Harv
[13:46] schestowitz-TR and got message from ONS
[13:46] schestowitz-TR posted an update on that as well
[13:46] schestowitz-TR I guess if the archive is done irregularly, like once a day, or once a month, then the large file can
[13:46] schestowitz-TR be split and filed semi-manually? I guess it would become a strain on the server if the site ages a lot
[13:46] schestowitz-TR and also lots of manual work
[13:47] techrigthssec np
[13:47] techrigthssec It's fully redundant and would not add anything other than the attempt at
[13:47] techrigthssec feeding the search engines. The material already exists in the established
[13:47] techrigthssec pages so it would just be adding complexity for what looks like zero gain.
[13:47] techrigthssec The single file will probably be an advantage but leaving old copies around
[13:47] techrigthssec will not help as far as I understand the current problem with the search engines
[13:49] schestowitz-TR it can help to be able to check a page with weeks-old pages sometimes
[13:49] schestowitz-TR for those who try to avoid dupes
[13:49] techrigthssec It's parked here: news.tuxmachines.org/summary.shtml and updated by cron
[13:54] schestowitz-TR rianne says "thnk you"
[13:54] schestowitz-TR she will use it, it is useful in checking for risk of dupes
[13:54] schestowitz-TR the summaries help catch some extra keywords, e.g. "mx linus"
[13:54] schestowitz-TR *linus
[13:54] schestowitz-TR >linux
[13:54] schestowitz-TR thanks! for me too it is practically useful.
[13:54] schestowitz-TR I want to think TM will live another 20 years, but doubt www will survive this long
[13:54] schestowitz-TR 20 years is a long time in tech
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[14:41] techrigthssec New protocols can arise during that time
[14:41] techrigthssec The crucial period is can the WWW survive past the attempt to inflict HTTP/3 on
[14:41] techrigthssec it
[14:43] schestowitz-TR what i experienced today in airline sites was neauseating
[14:43] schestowitz-TR and it only gets worse over time
[14:43] schestowitz-TR I remember the days of everything as "windows software
[14:43] schestowitz-TR "
[14:43] schestowitz-TR WINE had not been around yet
[14:43] schestowitz-TR tax software, quicken, etc.
[14:43] schestowitz-TR we're getting there, escept the browser is the OS
[14:43] schestowitz-TR heck, there is an OS now called after the browsee
[14:43] schestowitz-TR not firefoxos
[14:47] techrigthssec The problem with the browser has two parts. One is that businesses are using
[14:47] techrigthssec the browser as a half-assed VM. The second is that they completely eschew
[14:47] techrigthssec open standards and core functionality.
[14:48] schestowitz-TR notes to self: write in a timeless way: ideas, concepts, not brands. storage in simple, generic form.
[14:48] schestowitz-TR programs: keep them simple, no big frameworks like rust or adobe trash. make many backups, ensure format
[14:48] schestowitz-TR shifting is widely available upon need, even decades later (images, videos, latex...)
[14:48] schestowitz-TR yes
[14:59] schestowitz-TR we need to always been several steps ahead, technologically and beyond
[14:59] schestowitz-TR as in, a step ahead in things covered and the underlying tech
[14:59] schestowitz-TR ahead != newer
[14:59] schestowitz-TR the "latest" ofte gets left behind
[14:59] schestowitz-TR like clown
[14:59] schestowitz-TR the wave of layoffs quietly killed off not only jobs but also APIs and so-called (not) "ecosystems"
[14:59] schestowitz-TR many will get "burned" and some, as a result, "burned out"
[14:59] schestowitz-TR google's war on gpl (linux) has failed again and they throw in the towel
[14:59] schestowitz-TR if they lose money, it is doomed to fail for financial reasons
[14:59] schestowitz-TR many videos in 'free' hosting sites will vanish as the economy sinks
[14:59] schestowitz-TR nobody wants to be left holding the bills
[14:59] schestowitz-TR and people don't want to watch 5 ads in a 5-minute video
[14:59] schestowitz-TR (bonus: in an economic downturn people buy only essensial, advertising moot)
● Jan 25
[15:07] schestowitz-TR today you sent a url from hillel (seen it in rss too, and others had said the same re bloated s/w - those
[15:07] schestowitz-TR things typically go away and perish sooner. drm and hd over the net = uneconomic
[15:14] schestowitz-TR cory read a lot of books while on holiday
[15:14] schestowitz-TR we only saw some of the reviews he wrote about these
[15:14] schestowitz-TR some seems like eff-recommended gender stuff
[15:14] schestowitz-TR but I think watching corporate media like CBS has its risks
[15:14] schestowitz-TR too much risk of intyentional bias projecting from up above in the corporate chain of command
[15:36] techrigthssec Right. However, it is the only service to date which has picked up on ByteDance
[15:36] techrigthssec ack
[15:37] schestowitz-TR 60 Minutes did some awful things before
[15:37] schestowitz-TR but I cannot give you examples because I forgot
[15:37] schestowitz-TR that was yars ago, back when NSA was still talked about
[15:37] schestowitz-TR and wikileaks was publishing loads of juicy leaks
[15:37] schestowitz-TR btw, if you reead the latest (this afternoon) ons stuff, it seems like we might be close tom agreement
[15:37] schestowitz-TR that nothing wrong was done and thus the data is ok
[15:37] schestowitz-TR keeping their feet to the fire is crucial because recently it was confirmed that had relayed intentional
[15:37] schestowitz-TR propaganda by cooking up some numbers
[15:37] schestowitz-TR they need to understand they are watched closely
[15:38] techrigthssec ack
● Jan 25
[16:27] schestowitz-TR TikTok https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tiktok-election-gen-z-voters/ | Source: The Nation
[16:27] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thenation.com | The Growing Political Power of TikTok | The Nation
[16:36] schestowitz-TR literacy https://truthout.org/articles/media-literacy-for-young-people-is-crucial-but-rarely-taught-in-schools/ | Source: TruthOut
[16:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-truthout.org | Media Literacy for Young People Is Crucial But Rarely Taught in Schools - Truthout
[16:37] schestowitz-TR the two above, combined -> diaster
[16:43] schestowitz-TR "had many likes in it" != legit
[16:43] techrigthssec Source evaluation is no longer taught anywhere AFAIK
[16:43] techrigthssec Absolutely
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