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schestowitz> from elsewhere...May 11 07:00
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 caredMay 11 07:00
schestowitz> * i got boredMay 11 07:00
schestowitz> * it doesnt supply enough information for an informed boycott to be possibleMay 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
schestowitzmade a backup of files and DBsMay 11 07:53
schestowitzNeeded offsite of these, got them now:May 11 07:53
schestowitzroy@vonick:~/Downloads$ ls 20*May 11 07:54
schestowitz2019:May 11 07:54
schestowitz01  02  03  04  05  06  07  08  09  10  11  12May 11 07:54
schestowitz2020:May 11 07:54
schestowitz01  02  03  04  05May 11 07:54
schestowitzroy@vonick:~/Downloads$ du -sh 20*May 11 07:54
schestowitz711M    2019May 11 07:55
schestowitz115M    2020May 11 07:55
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schestowitz>> I'd rather write nothing about BIllG than write anything which laterMay 11 08:56
schestowitz>> turns out to be less than accurate. The old articles are read a lotMay 11 08:56
schestowitz>> these days.May 11 08:56
schestowitz> Reassuring.  Note the parallels in tactics used to promote 5G theseMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> days.  The debate has been ignored and the media's attention has shiftedMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> to the chaos created by disinformation and crackpottery spread viaMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> facebook by groups paid for by various interests.  One example there isMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> that the impact on weather radar is abandoned in favor of how stupid itMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> is to think that radio waves cause virus outbreaks.  That's some seriousMay 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, forMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> many years now.  Lately it is many orders of magnitude worse though.  IMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> am concerned that there's a reason for that, otherwise they would notMay 11 08:56
schestowitz> spend the money.May 11 08:56
schestowitzKeeping the population dumb contributes to this agenda.May 11 08:56
schestowitztldr; they make heavy use of this fallacy:May 11 09:11
schestowitzhttps://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 – EffectiviologyMay 11 09:11
schestowitz"May 11 09:39
schestowitz"We were forced by a crazy, Microsoft connected journalist turned failedMay 11 09:39
schestowitzxxxxxxx store owner, turned medical administrator for the xxxxxx clinic.May 11 09:40
schestowitzShe brought in some real assholes who installed performance killing spywareMay 11 09:40
schestowitzon FDA approved systems against the vendor's recommendation.  TheirMay 11 09:40
schestowitzsloppiness and refusal to remove the spyware got them kicked out, andMay 11 09:40
schestowitzultimately doomed the administrator, but not before she fired my wonderfulMay 11 09:40
schestowitzfree software aware IT person and caused an insurmountable rift between theMay 11 09:40
schestowitzdoctors that nearly ruined the practice.  The IT successors, chosen by theMay 11 09:40
schestowitzcrazy administrator, eliminated our free software infrastructure and putMay 11 09:40
schestowitzeverything on Microsoft IIS.  They claimed it was required by the medicalMay 11 09:40
schestowitzrecords system they put in place, xxxxx, but they could have set up aMay 11 09:40
schestowitzdummy server for that crap.  Outlook, of course, is unusable and causesMay 11 09:40
schestowitzproblems all the time through crap size limits, spam filtering legitimateMay 11 09:40
schestowitzmail, refusal to work with decent clients, etc.  Lots of drama and ruin cameMay 11 09:40
schestowitzfrom all of this, and we are just a tiny xxxxxxxx center with one or twoMay 11 09:40
schestowitzdoctors.May 11 09:40
schestowitz"May 11 09:40
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