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schestowitz | > from elsewhere... | May 11 07:00 |
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schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | >> You don't want to focus on a few really critical ones - to make your point clear? | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > thats exactly how it started, and: | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > * nobody cared | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > * i got bored | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > * it doesnt supply enough information for an informed boycott to be possible | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > the data is fascinating, but the big picture is the big picture here. | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > the big picture is the sheer breadth of the ecosystem that is compromised, not the tiniest detail of the compromise of certain little things. the latter quickly becomes boring and insignificant to everybody. | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > **the gnu c library** contains both perl and python scripts. perhaps nothing is more interesting than that. | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > but what makes it a key example is the fact that it could be (i want to check this, but there are 300+ dimensions to cover-- something im thinking about this week) in practically every gnu project-- at least every gnu project that uses c. the real significance of a single "key" project-- **what makes it key**, is the sheer breadth of things that rely on it. | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:00 |
schestowitz | > so the next natural question is "but how many projects need it" | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | > "basically, all of them." | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | > | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | > if you want it to really sink in, it needs the oh-f--- factor, not the buzz of extra places after the decimal that dont contribute anything to the total sum. | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | > the tinier details certainly matter to verification, but they dont do much for general awareness, which is the goal here. | May 11 07:01 |
schestowitz | made a backup of files and DBs | May 11 07:53 |
schestowitz | Needed offsite of these, got them now: | May 11 07:53 |
schestowitz | roy@vonick:~/Downloads$ ls 20* | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | 2019: | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | 2020: | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | 01 02 03 04 05 | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | roy@vonick:~/Downloads$ du -sh 20* | May 11 07:54 |
schestowitz | 711M 2019 | May 11 07:55 |
schestowitz | 115M 2020 | May 11 07:55 |
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schestowitz | >> I'd rather write nothing about BIllG than write anything which later | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | >> turns out to be less than accurate. The old articles are read a lot | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | >> these days. | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > Reassuring. Note the parallels in tactics used to promote 5G these | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > days. The debate has been ignored and the media's attention has shifted | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > to the chaos created by disinformation and crackpottery spread via | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > facebook by groups paid for by various interests. One example there is | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > that the impact on weather radar is abandoned in favor of how stupid it | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > is to think that radio waves cause virus outbreaks. That's some serious | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > propaganda kung fu there. Bill's team has been using saturate, diffuse, | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > and confuse tactics against all media, not just what they bribe, for | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > many years now. Lately it is many orders of magnitude worse though. I | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > am concerned that there's a reason for that, otherwise they would not | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | > spend the money. | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | Keeping the population dumb contributes to this agenda. | May 11 08:56 |
schestowitz | tldr; they make heavy use of this fallacy: | May 11 09:11 |
schestowitz | https://effectiviology.com/straw-man-arguments-recognize-counter-use/ | May 11 09:11 |
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-effectiviology.com | Strawman Arguments: What They Are and How to Counter Them – Effectiviology | May 11 09:11 | |
schestowitz | " | May 11 09:39 |
schestowitz | "We were forced by a crazy, Microsoft connected journalist turned failed | May 11 09:39 |
schestowitz | xxxxxxx store owner, turned medical administrator for the xxxxxx clinic. | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | She brought in some real assholes who installed performance killing spyware | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | on FDA approved systems against the vendor's recommendation. Their | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | sloppiness and refusal to remove the spyware got them kicked out, and | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | ultimately doomed the administrator, but not before she fired my wonderful | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | free software aware IT person and caused an insurmountable rift between the | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | doctors that nearly ruined the practice. The IT successors, chosen by the | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | crazy administrator, eliminated our free software infrastructure and put | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | everything on Microsoft IIS. They claimed it was required by the medical | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | records system they put in place, xxxxx, but they could have set up a | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | dummy server for that crap. Outlook, of course, is unusable and causes | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | problems all the time through crap size limits, spam filtering legitimate | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | mail, refusal to work with decent clients, etc. Lots of drama and ruin came | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | from all of this, and we are just a tiny xxxxxxxx center with one or two | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | doctors. | May 11 09:40 |
schestowitz | " | May 11 09:40 |
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