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look at the "pegination"

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not even a Web page

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this is awful

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also, unless I am missing something, it is no longer possible to leave comments

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AND

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all the old comments are gone

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there used to be some good comments on there until about a decade ago

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I dislike it when sites make important comments just vanish like they don't matter

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and never existed

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no authors page

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no archives

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I don't want to 'bash' them publicly though

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sometimes they link to us

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they clearly did not optimise for usability or preservation but something like "UX" or marketing

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Jun 26 06:01

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"UX" is a pox

Jun 26 06:38

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Being A Confident Pedestrian gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1035

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Jun 26 07:11

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checking

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were all of RMS' interviews removed or just the RT ones?

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draft

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very thing RT.. and his one time at Alex Jones/DisinfoWar

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*everything

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I had not known about the latter; that was even worse judgement than talking to

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RT. However, the most foolish of all was his going to Redmond; There aren't

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words to describe how stupid that looked even at the time, now that some time

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has passed, it looks even more foolish. That's really too bad, because he

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may not be able to make up for it

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strategically

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Coin-operated SJVN has since then used that to say even RMS is OK with Microsoft

Jun 26 07:38

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and thus anyone who dislikes Microsoft is even 'more extreme' than RMS

Jun 26 07:38

Techrights-sec2

Yep, they will continue to milk that for decades, assuming they are around that

Jun 26 07:39

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long. If RMS kicks off soon, they will even pull not just an "OK with" but

Jun 26 07:39

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a posthumous endorsement out of it like many did with Swartz

Jun 26 07:39

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draft

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ack

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btw there was a good article in popsci or something like that evaluating

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laptops with Linux pre-installed

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checking draft ...

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that's the article I mentioned to you yesterday

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I added that to tuxmachines

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about once a ay I check gulag noise to see what "Linux" news I do not yet have an rss feed for, then I search for feed categry

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and try to cover the gap

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until some time from now when I won't check anymore

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popsci won't cover Linux often

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so even if there is an rss feed for such a category

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how is LF paying journalists to play along?

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it would be a wasste of b/w at both ends

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it is explained in the video

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it pays their employer (site)

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ok that it is explained in the video ought to be mentioned in the texxt

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to encourage listening to the video

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I have added a long footnote as that was technically easier

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I think we must repeat and repoeat the LF info

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in different ways and angles

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even if people get upset at LF they tend to forget and mayeb forgive after a while

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I mentions jperlow in passing

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along with various other things

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I forgot to mention patents in the video

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so compensated in the text later

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ack

Jun 26 08:07

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with lunuke with "LONG footmind-19"

Jun 26 08:08

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*foggymind

Jun 26 08:08

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and with the likes of FOSSForce bought/bribed

Jun 26 08:08

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the number of people capable of touching this subject is very small

Jun 26 08:09

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which is what they want of course

Jun 26 08:09

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never underestimate the power of liars with access to oversized budgets (EPO had BILLIONS, more than LF)

Jun 26 08:09

Techrights-sec2

yes

Jun 26 08:14

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Lunduke hasn't been all right for a very long time now

Jun 26 08:14

schestowitz-TR

if the wife is working, he might be OK

Jun 26 08:15

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see the above link (gemini) about not having a car at these times

Jun 26 08:15

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with gas price

Jun 26 08:15

Techrights-sec2

yes that was a good link

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unfortunately most US communities are designed so that it is physically

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impossible to operate without a car; and if one tries there will be social,

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legal, or dangers to contend with

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taxis would be the next alternative but that is still a form of car usage

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cars are the opposite of freedom

Jun 26 08:27

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and by car, that includes all the "light" trucks that people actually drive

Jun 26 08:27

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while still calling them cars

Jun 26 08:27

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cars, like kids, are a liability

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I have 5 nieces and newphews

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and they are iether miserable right now (in the US) or have learning/development perils

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which begets misery for the parents

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<techrights-news> "This capsule is now self-hosted on an ESP32 development board (ESP32-DevKitC V4) connected to a phone charger and Wi-Fi." gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/self-hosting-on-esp32.gmi

Jun 26 08:33

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both are common, but the former is ubquitous; businesses have maneuvered

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society into being pure misery for most adults and for all kids

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and it's worse for the kids because they have not learned to lie to themselves

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about their situation

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then looking ahead they see only trouble, at best

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we're in a situation now where "TikTok" (chinese business) and other social

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control media companies determine what is culture these days, not the other

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way around

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up until the 1980s the businesses (tv and such) reflected society and society

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and culture were determined by the population sort of organically

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now it's a top-down model

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anyway, the tech part of that is the abuse of addictive models via social

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control media to weaken and steer large volumes of individuals

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ESP32 is quite weak, it can barely handle the encryption necessary for the

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protocol and will crap out on the wireless quite often; though in all fairness

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WiFi is unsuitable even for general purpose computers and would be best

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removed and replaced with a completely different approach

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my pi is still on wired, a 'short leash' literally almost

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1.2 m iirc

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i have other, longer cords

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but the reason isn't wifi being reliable only part of the time (it is actually very

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reliable here since the upgrades)

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the issue is the kernel I think

Jun 26 08:38

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wired is a lot faster

Jun 26 08:50

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if stuff is not moving around physically then wired connections are much less

Jun 26 08:50

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of a hassle and worth the speed increase

Jun 26 08:50

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I already told rianne twice that the pi won't be going back upstairs even when the wifi/kernel thing is tackled and it's wintertime (warmer

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upstairs, I might move back there in October)

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but the reason was not speed; it's just that I configures the scripts and the router for the wired setup, which is treated as separate from

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wifi

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and anyway I've learned to mostly ignore alerts on it and there is no screen attached.

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we used to have an alaer for when irc scrollback over gemini:// did not update

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I don't think this has been a problem for a while now...

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I'm about to hand over at work (9am)

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ack

Jun 26 08:56

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"head of Microsoft Philanthropies" = head of a crime syndicate disguised as a charity, much like the Bill and Lolita Gates Foundation ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-security/3-5-million-cyber-security-jobs-will-open-up-by-2025/92447785 | Source: India Times

Jun 26 08:56

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | ‘3.5 Million Cyber Security Jobs Will Open Up By 2025’, CIO News, ET CIO

Jun 26 08:56

schestowitz-TR

without any additional comments I think that link might not send the right mesage

Jun 26 08:57

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Jun 26 09:00

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their approach to "security" is job security (for them alone) and not actual

Jun 26 09:00

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computer security

Jun 26 09:00

schestowitz-TR

I shgall quote that

Jun 26 09:01

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I am greateful that it has not been too hot so far this year, but we do need more rain to avoid yellowing

Jun 26 09:10

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water shortages became a frequent theme in recent years

Jun 26 09:10

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2018, 2021, maybe this year also

Jun 26 09:10

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in one word, is the oslo shooter an incel loser or a jihadist? the name alone says.

Jun 26 09:48

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jihadist

Jun 26 09:49

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one article I saw said "hate crime" in the headline

Jun 26 09:56

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that is technically correct

Jun 26 09:56

Techrights-sec2

by the way is there a link to the "original" joe rogan clip with RMS?

Jun 26 10:00

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what is the origin / source then?

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no, it was alwasy a cip of the whole

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so iow, I don't even have a link for the original

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I got the clip from yewtu.be

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it's like a spamnil, someone who uploads clips or portions of clips

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hmm suspicious

Jun 26 10:02

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speaking of spamnil, I checked this monring, no clickfraud storm for 3 weeks now

Jun 26 10:03

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maybe if called out on it he will hesitate

Jun 26 10:03

Techrights-sec2

I found the clip in youtube but there is no link to an original it seems

Jun 26 10:04

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like a composite

Jun 26 10:04

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spamnil is only around because of LF money

Jun 26 10:04

schestowitz-TR

go upstream

Jun 26 10:05

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LF is around because of [...] money

Jun 26 10:05

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and just like LF, he does this 'work' (PR/spam) on a 'Mac' with proprietary junk

Jun 26 10:06

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while some sign that says "Linux" hangs behind his back

Jun 26 10:06

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devaluing the brand

Jun 26 10:06

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minor (not important): for two weks now varghese had little output other than phone "reviews"

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nothing indicates he got these as gifts

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the editor is listed as stan beer again (he owns the site afaik)

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he took some shots in his home

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seems modest

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but I wish he would focus on rebuttals to FUD and corporate abuse

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after he attacked RMS I didn't see much good output from him

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seldom, some rebuttals to security FUSD

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and some puff pieces for Debian, which he likes

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<techrights-news> Phoronix continues jumping the shark. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CBL-Mariner-2.0-June-2022

Jun 26 10:29

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro Now Supports Kernel Live Patching, PXE Boot - Phoronix

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<techrights-news> The acronym "FLOSS" is being hijacked https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/28776

Jun 26 13:02

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-isc.sans.edu | InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog - SANS Internet Storm Center

Jun 26 13:02

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spamnil does not know what "coming out" means; don't even try to say he's brown-nosing corporations

Jun 26 13:35

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he might not understand what that means

Jun 26 13:35

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ack

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I see no reason too look at his drivel

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as you said, it can be off-putting and harm the image of things

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s/at/for/

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that is why he is hired, imho

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to get people to sour on the brand

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<techrights-news> After taking Cardano money, plus Dreck Hondahl's new job, the LF nowadays increasingly associates "Linux" with NFT and other scams. by boosting "crypto" crap and cargo cults it lends to this idea that Linux is a "crank" thing...

Jun 26 13:53

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yep

Jun 26 14:16

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again, to get people ot sour on the trademark

Jun 26 14:16

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you will probablt tell me it's holiday

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or was a holiday

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but seriously, even my blog feed barely yeidl anything the past 3-4 days

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very very sparse

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it's partly why I slept so much

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I clean the feeds very fast

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yes it's been getting sparser; it's not just the holiday but the holiday was

Jun 26 14:46

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probably used to time the ramp down

Jun 26 14:46

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a lot of these are not news sites per se but blogs of people

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they too seem to have taken the foot off the pedal

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and without an inflow of information it is difficult to produce output

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the "blank page syndrome" was not an issue eyars ago, there was just a lack of time to cover all the important things

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even the "planets" of distros are reletively stale

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technically everything works

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but nobody is producing

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ack

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that's separate from the general news slowdow in some ways

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private individuals are ramping down, too

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I need to adjust or reconsider a bit how I cover feeds, or add new ones, of new set of filters to run through the general newss sites

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gulag noise was getting far too messy

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I really should have already abandoned it more than a year ago

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it was angst, strife, and timewasting most of the time

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for the mere chanc of finding the silver needle

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until 2019 (IIRC) I also searched for "open source" news and it ended up mainly openwashing, spam/PR, and mindless junk that

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does not even resemble journalism

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it had already gone downhill by then

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if it were not for tuxmachines, I'd likely have adopted another strategy or catch-words

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not that "Linux" gets us good ratio, esp. as there's this parasite called "LF"

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So I get vaccine news and "crypto" news and shit

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even in yewtu.be

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today I searched torvalds

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and got a ton of "crypto" junk from the past week

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Google News has such a low yield of relevant links that I find it hard to

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imagine that many people still use it even out of inertia; I certainly can't

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imagine that new people would begin using it since it is just crap

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the keyword "Linux" is attached to all kinds of crap unrelated to the actual

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topic of Linux, kernels, and similar

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I'm not sure what to say other than to comiserate

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worse yet, you saw LINUX.COM

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you get things like family stories and work police and...

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going under the word "Linux"... somehow

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Dan Allowing (WHiting) has no clue what Linux is

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and somehow he is now editor of that site

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reminds me of blacklash around 2008 when editor of LinuxInsider turned out not to be a Linux user

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*backlash

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nowadays "Linux" Insider produces lots of stenography for LF

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as if did a few days ago, too

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in fact, a high % of its "stories" there are LF fluff

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so that's another "Linux"-themed domain they got under their thumb

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like FOSS "Force"

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ack

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I haven't seen anything relevant at LinuxInsider for years

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it is mostly one man left

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jack

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and he used to do distro reviews and decet material

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now he barely posts once a week

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usually when LF "commissions" something or has event

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he would maybe writ e review about once a month

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I can guess which one pays the salary, however low

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he looks like roughly retirement age

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SJVN had a major operation

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they had to split open his back

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so zemlin can insert big giant Microsoft coins

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they called him "Zoltan"

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back in ~2005-06 Yahoo News wasn't too bad either

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what's left of the remnants of that is just a press releases farm

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worse than worthless

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back then there was far too much news... more than one person could properly keep up with

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even just on a narrow range of topics

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LONG COVID is really something... https://lunduke.substack.com/p/google-pulls-plug-on-sentient-ai

Jun 26 15:08

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lunduke.substack.com | Google pulls plug on "Sentient A.I." after it begins using Arch Linux

Jun 26 15:08

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I don't suppose Lunduke is likely to recover, it it's gone on this log

Jun 26 15:48

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^long

Jun 26 15:48

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maybe he feels compelled to play to a fringe audience

Jun 26 15:48

schestowitz-TR

I've managed to scoop another 8 picks or so from a list of URLs I cannot possibly get in RSS form so check manually once a week

Jun 26 15:50

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mostly search results page or author pages

Jun 26 15:50

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I have code for detecting changes in the page, but RSS does a lot more than flag changes

Jun 26 15:50

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ack

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schestowitz

[16:25] <SaphirJD> One question, would it be possible to manually drop my old nick so i could register it new?

Jun 26 16:28

schestowitz

MinceR: I think you did something like this before?

Jun 26 16:28

schestowitz

for leah?

Jun 26 16:28

MinceR

i have done it for something, yes

Jun 26 16:30

MinceR

i'm not quite sure what worked

Jun 26 16:30

MinceR

because just dropping the account keeps the nick unusable

Jun 26 16:31

MinceR

maybe someone who has access can reconfigure ergo so it doesn't hold on to dropped nicks like that

Jun 26 16:31

MinceR

at least i think it would be an improvement

Jun 26 16:31

SaphirJD

well if it does not work, its ok too

Jun 26 16:32

SaphirJD

i simply keep this nick then

Jun 26 16:33

MinceR

looks like it was nickserv sadrop and nickserv erase

Jun 26 16:33

MinceR

but i'm not sure if there was some additional complication

Jun 26 16:33

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btw, I've just made full backup of ircd

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I'm looking into this

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as far as i can see this network requires sasl authentication if one registers a nick, so dropping it, re-registering it and login with sasl should work then

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gives me a change to make a backup anyway

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*chance

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anyway, my old nick i would love to own again was Saphir - i registered it in 2021

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in our db we have saphir

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and sphirJD

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which one do you want?

SaphirJD

Saphir :)

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the passwors is hashed

Jun 26 16:37

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as it should be

Jun 26 16:37

MinceR

seems to me i'm logging in fine without SASL

Jun 26 16:38

SaphirJD

well for me /nickserv identify password does not work, i only can login over sasl

Jun 26 16:38

schestowitz-TR

there is also sapphir

Jun 26 16:38

SaphirJD

oh my....Also from me, i registered 2 times - but as i was unable to use my accounts as said, i moved away and did not visit here anymore :D

Jun 26 16:39

schestowitz

ircd:/home/ircd/ergo# grep exists ircd.db | wc -l

Jun 26 16:39

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193

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anyway, i really would be thankful if it would be possible to use Saphir again

schestowitz

anyway, with hashes there I cannot send you your password

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nor should I be able to

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so that's OK

SaphirJD

well the simplest method would be to drop the nick as said, that should be possible

SaphirJD

https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/irc/nickserv.go - perhaps this does help, there is the command unregister and erase

Jun 26 16:42

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ergo/nickserv.go at master · ergochat/ergo · GitHub

Jun 26 16:42

SaphirJD

toquote - ERASE deletes all records of an account, allowing it to be re-registered.

Jun 26 16:43

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I'd do it if our irc guru was available online

Jun 26 16:48

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just in case it goes wrong

Jun 26 16:48

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she knows the ins and outs of ergodb

Jun 26 16:48

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ergoirc

Jun 26 16:49

SaphirJD

unrgister and erase shold do no damage, as it just wipes out the specified account, its just the admin variant of the user drop command

Jun 26 16:49

SaphirJD

theoretically even a /msg nickserv drop Saphir should be doing its job :D

Jun 26 16:50

SaphirJD

as an admin must be theoretically be able to do that without requiring the user password

Jun 26 16:50

schestowitz

[17:01] [Notice] -NickServ- Could not ungroup nick

Jun 26 17:01

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anyway, it does not matte rmuch

Jun 26 17:01

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ack

Jun 26 17:04

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"Extreme" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H3GwiZeM9_8

Jun 26 17:24

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Are software patents evil? #askbastian - Invidious

Jun 26 17:24

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he lives in fantasy land

Jun 26 17:24

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shallow people who charge 3000 euros an hour

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300 up

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for shady practices

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wilcommen deutschland

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*kommen

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checking

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ack

Jun 26 17:53

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seems like our nazi 'friend' is now known as "alf"

Jun 26 17:53

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Jun 26 17:56

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nymshifting

Jun 26 17:56

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of cause [sic] !!

Jun 26 17:56

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what is the word for an incel who gets rejectd from the job market rather than women (or both)?

Jun 26 18:01

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not sure, a microsofter?

Jun 26 18:01

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off-topic-ish speculation:

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freom what IU saw of Micosofters

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they're not very bright engineers not very good kids either

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they overcompensate by pursuit of moneyh

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they don't care if the company is evil either

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and in job interviiew type Z looks for type Zs

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so you end up with a bunch of money obsessed drones who aren't even particularly

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good at programming

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nor at other disciplines

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you get a blank stare if you try to explain SF to them

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like RMS tried

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very naive

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all to lose

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nothing to gain

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if he thought Microsoft would take suggestion from RMS

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Jesus: "yo Romans! Did I tell you the story about... ouch!! Stop poking me"

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I remember Assange joking about him being made head of NSA or CIA or something

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we ended up doing private communication about how tactless that "joke" was

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nope

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and dishonest as hell

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on average

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the job selects for and cultivates sociopaths

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their technical skills tend to be minimal as with their general education

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nope

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and dishonest as hell

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on average

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the job selects for and cultivates sociopaths

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their technical skills tend to be minimal as with their general education

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the real damage comes from the marketing arm known as "Microsoft Research"

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the real damage comes from the marketing arm known as "Microsoft Research"

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which dangles chump change in front of starving graduate students in exchange

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which dangles chump change in front of starving graduate students in exchange

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for selling out as well as stamping M$ at the end of the authors' list

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ack

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for selling out as well as stamping M$ at the end of the authors' list

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ack

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ack

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ack

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Gulag goes down a similar route for image restitution

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but not to the same extent

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the problem is also the uni administraors that allow this

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their eyes are a pair of dollar signs

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many are not skilled in sciences

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they are appointed on the basis of pseudoscience diplomas

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like the epo shurning out many fake patents they strive to have many fake graduates

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and their risk, to them, isn't running afoul but getting caught or perception changing

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[03:13] <Source> Or like Alex Weaponized his alcoholism to not be held accountable because it makes him sad and want to drink[03:13]

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* schestowitz rarely drinks

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[03:14] <Source> Alex's friends got together and held an intervention for his addictions

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[03:14] <Source> But they won't do the same thing for something that's about to send him to prison

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[03:15] <Source> And please don't quote anything I've said in here

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[03:15] <schestowitz> I won't

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[03:15] <Source> I am completely open to the idea that Alex has some sort of personality disorder that needs treatment and that can be forgiven

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[03:16] <schestowitz> oh, wait

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[03:16] <Source> but what has been probably the worst part of the situation is the number of people that are bystanders

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[03:16] <schestowitz> a few times I read that alex jones

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[03:16] <schestowitz> so maybe I responded based on this false assumption

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[03:16] <Source> Oh no I haven't been talking about Alex Jones at all since the part about the cyborgs

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[03:16] <Source> I think it's a funny idea with a grain of truth

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[03:19] <Source> You know it's like a humanity is scrambling to get on a life boat that is eternal life

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[03:19] <schestowitz> well, not a new concept

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[03:19] <schestowitz> like kings in egypt with their tombs

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[03:19] <schestowitz> they end up in some museums, at best...

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[03:20] <schestowitz> power for a humsn is temporary

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[03:20] <Source> I'm sure they'll look at cryogenics the same way in the future

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[03:20] <schestowitz> unused wealth is of no use

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[03:21] <Source> What are you by the man that has everything?

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[03:21] <Source> Eternal life

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[03:21] <Source> Eli doesn't even try to hide it 😂

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[03:21] <Source> Elon

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[03:22] <schestowitz> ah

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[03:22] <schestowitz> btw

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[03:22] <schestowitz> watch this video:

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[03:22] <schestowitz> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkix4UzEbjU

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://inv.bp.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=Dkix4UzEbjU

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[03:22] <schestowitz> worth the time

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[03:22] <Source> A Google product ?!!? [03:22] <Source> How shocking[03:23] <Source> You surprise me lol[03:23] <schestowitz> no

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[03:23] <schestowitz> I was going to send another link

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[03:23] <schestowitz> then thought

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[03:23] <schestowitz> OK, give youtube URL

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[03:23] <schestowitz> I boycott youtube

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://inv.bp.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=Dkix4UzEbjU )

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[03:23] <schestowitz> I wrote code to bypass it

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[03:23] <Source> That's cool

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[03:24] <Source> I mean you can kind of do that on DuckDuckGo if they don't have whatever you think is wrong with them

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[03:24] <schestowitz> DDG seems to be quasi proxy of Microsoft

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[03:24] <schestowitz> I said it a decade+ ago

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[03:24] <schestowitz> now we have more solid evidence

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[03:24] <Source> Yeah brave got in trouble recently

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[03:24] <Source> Forgot what they did wrong

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[03:25] <Source> It was really bad though like exposing an IP address or some thing

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[03:25] <schestowitz> With a whistleblower we exposed Startpage http://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Startpage - Techrights

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[03:25] <schestowitz> Brave are dodgy folks

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[03:25] <Source> MobileCoin is live

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[03:25] <schestowitz> all those cryptocurrency charlatans with right-wing leanings or similar