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schestowitz>>>>> Yet Saudi money was fine for the MIT Media Lab?Sep 12 07:39
schestowitz>>>> I saw that said...Sep 12 07:39
schestowitz>>> Saudi money is all over the place and no questions are raised.  ThoughSep 12 07:39
schestowitz>>> they well should be, especially after the most recent murders.Sep 12 07:39
schestowitz>> There's a similar issue with, e.g. Chinese money, Russia money,Sep 12 07:39
schestowitz>> ultra-zionist money and so on.Sep 12 07:39
schestowitz> Yes, China is tearing through Europe with its money and buyingSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> acceptance of its politics as a result.  Africa gets it worse, China isSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> making enormous investments in infrastructure, except that it's not.  ItSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> is making the African countries take out massive loans with thatSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> infrastructure as collateral so they will end up in Chinese handsSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> quickly if they default.  If they do not default, everything includingSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> the broadcast material is oriented towards China so it will be theirsSep 12 07:39
schestowitz> withing two generations any way.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz> The Saudi money is (or was) different.  It was just one family whichSep 12 07:40
schestowitz> except for ties to Bush and others was rather weak.  It has, however,Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz> been a profoundly damaging influence on the world both through theSep 12 07:40
schestowitz> environmental damage caused by the acquisition of the petrodollar and bySep 12 07:40
schestowitz> the cultural and societal damage caused by targeted infusions of thatSep 12 07:40
schestowitz> same petrodollar back into EU / US.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> The underlying issue is this system that garbours bribery; of press,Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> academia, government...Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz> Yes, there's too much to say on that.  We are in an era of yellowSep 12 07:40
schestowitz> journalism and whatever the corresponding academic equivalent is.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> I now have confidence nothing goes missing from the cron job, or almostSep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> nothing.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>>Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> Yesterday I refactored my RSS feeds accordingly.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>>Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz>> I am working right now and again tomorrow, so not many articles from me...Sep 12 07:40
schestowitz> Ok.Sep 12 07:40
schestowitzI only noticed it didn't pick up this:Sep 12 07:40
schestowitzFees on Electric Cars, Inspired by Koch Network, Are Unfairly Penalizing Drivers, Says Consumer Reports https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/09/11/koch-alec-fees-electric-cars-penalize-drivers-consumer-reportsSep 12 07:40
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.desmogblog.com | Fees on Electric Cars, Inspired by Koch Network, Are Unfairly Penalizing Drivers, Says Consumer Reports | DeSmogBlogSep 12 07:40
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15463433#829249c08b350137e58c0cc47a07853c\Sep 12 07:42
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: He was an opponent of #privacy Hardly a champion of the #internet Then again, this is Arse Technically Pedophile. Won't "speak ill of the dead"... won't speak about its child-raping staff. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/the-supreme-court-loses-its-cryptographer/Sep 12 07:42
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:42
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> arstechnica.com | Justice John Paul Stevens, dead at 99, promoted the Internet revolution | Ars TechnicaSep 12 07:42
schestowitzgroklaw being one of the better websites about legal decisions on the internet, i would certainly put more than zero stock in that.Sep 12 07:42
schestowitzi couldnt find anything (else) to support the notion online, but perhaps i can find something now. (especially if its on techrights.)Sep 12 07:42
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:42
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzHe was an opponent of #privacySep 12 07:43
schestowitzHardly a champion of the #internetSep 12 07:43
schestowitzfair enough-- he did have some good points, even progressive ones. but that just goes to show you, progressives dont always give a shit about privacy or free speech (i lied, i dont know if he is actually considered progressive or not. but the part about some good, arguably progressive points is true. i read about him and first assumed “good riddance” but i kept reading. no word yet on his career overall, just saying.)Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz DavidSep 12 07:43
schestowitzDavid - 2 months agoSep 12 07:43
schestowitzHe was an opponent of #privacySep 12 07:43
schestowitzLinks to documentation of this? And of your allegations of sexual abuse? Not saying you’re wrong or right; just want evidence instead of allegations. Especially, when, as far as you’ve let me know, the allegations are yours alone.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 07:43
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 07:43
schestowitzsome quotes:Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz“anonymous pamphleteering is not a pernicious, fraudulent practice, but an honorable tradition of advocacy and of dissent. Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.”Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz“It is offensive . . . to the very notion of a free society that in the context of everyday public discourse a citizen must first inform the government of her desire to speak to her neighbors and then obtain a permit to do so.”Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzfrom the washington compost: “He also taught us that nobody is below the law. Not the reviled detainees at Guantanamo Bay — he led the court in rejecting the Bush administration’s attempt to establish a law-free zone of absolute executive power in the isolated island prison.”Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzfrom the daily beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-roberts-sides-with-supreme-courts-liberals-to-save-your-digital-privacy “The conservative justice bucked right-wingers and said police must get a warrant before searching cellphone location data.”Sep 12 07:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.thedailybeast.com | John Roberts Sides With Supreme Court’s Liberals to Save Your Digital PrivacySep 12 07:43
schestowitzhe sounds like a good guy. he honestly sounds like the sort of person that might have made a few bad decisions, he has even gone on record of some of the decisions he regrets making.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzi cant find his anti-privacy rulings.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 07:43
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 07:43
schestowitzi read about him and first assumed “good riddance”Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzi cant find what i was reading, either. but it certainly wasnt the quotes i just posted.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzbut i kept reading.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15437009#70ce6cc089050137e59c0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Heck, forget about #impeachment He should have been arrested before the campaign, this rapist and criminal Also, shame on the Electors who blessed this ethnic cleanser in spite of, e.g. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/american-football/2016/08/30/donald-trump-tells-colin-kaepernick-to-leave-the-us-over-nfl-nat/Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.telegraph.co.uk | Donald Trump tells Colin Kaepernick to leave the US over NFL national anthem protestSep 12 07:43
schestowitzSep 12 07:43
schestowitzHeck, forget about #impeachment no, i make it a point to never obey the traitor pelosiSep 12 07:43
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15441046#c876c49089500137e58c0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: HELLO, #NETGEAR IDENTIFY as SELF LETMEIN https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47117 #securitySep 12 07:43
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.exploit-db.com | NETGEAR WiFi Router JWNR2010v5 / R6080 - Authentication Bypass - Hardware webapps ExploitSep 12 07:43
schestowitzSep 12 07:43
schestowitzFF5.Sep 12 07:43
schestowitz'Sep 12 07:43
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/14110433#6687964087830137ad9452540039b762Sep 12 07:44
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@lonki@joindiaspora.com: ![Hartz 2019](https://pixelfed.social/storage/m/586797eda70505ed4fbe3e1ff8acff81afc35f9b/57048cc85f1124d9ed762c8f4f7f0ee24f2ed3d0/tSOaSmNQmDMGDY54rNN2uBr4PRGZCgXOfrtaTGBh.jpeg "Hartz")Sep 12 07:44
schestowitz"Used to be a SIGINT station of the East-Germans."Sep 12 07:44
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15431108#3aa6150088590137e59c0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:44
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Harmful forms of #freespeech which probably violate actual laws -Calls for harm ("I'll kill you"; "someone should kill you") -Calls for self-harm ("drinking bleach might help cure you") The hard part is drawing lies around thatSep 12 07:44
schestowitzThe hard part is drawing lies around thatSep 12 07:45
schestowitzparticularly when medical ethics has a lot of that sorted out (more or less, obviously we dont put laws on stone tablets anymore) though the medical industry is not always ethical (and sometimes pursues money over ethics)Sep 12 07:45
schestowitza tradition of ethics doesnt do all the work for you, of course.Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz TedSep 12 07:45
schestowitzTed - 2 months agoSep 12 07:45
schestowitzdrawing lines ?Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 07:45
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 07:45
schestowitzdrawing lines ?Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzanother way of saying “making clear distinctions” or putting things into obvious categories around the ideasSep 12 07:45
schestowitz TedSep 12 07:45
schestowitzTed - 2 months agoSep 12 07:45
schestowitzI should have written as follows:Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz@Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊), did you mean to write lines instead of lies?Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 07:45
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 07:45
schestowitzoh! i misread his post, then yours.Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzi think he meant lines. lies could work too, but it would be a weird thing to say.Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzfor a minute there, i just assumed english wasnt your first language and you hadnt heard the idiom. though youve never said anything to give me that idea before.Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15431108#3aa6150088590137e59c0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:45
schestowitzyes, I meant lines and I'm catching upSep 12 07:45
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15216702#136d5fa074110137254c0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:45
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@harryhaller@nerdpol.ch reshared: Write more accessible #Markdown images with this one simple trick https://blog.justinwflory.com/2019/06/markdown-accessible-images/ for a decade and a half I always added "alt" to everything (for blind people)Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:45
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.justinwflory.com | Write more accessible Markdown images with this one simple trick - Justin W. Flory's BlogSep 12 07:45
schestowitzThis is swell - but what markdown images really need is:Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzheight=Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzwidth=Sep 12 07:45
schestowitzalign=“center”Sep 12 07:45
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:46
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15533161#b00e33c091e401371a760050563e145eSep 12 07:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Have you thanked a sysadmin today? https://opensource.com/article/19/7/have-you-thanked-sysadmin-today I'm one of them, often working 1am-9am shiftsSep 12 07:46
schestowitz"Yes! :)"Sep 12 07:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> opensource.com | Have you thanked a sysadmin today? | Opensource.comSep 12 07:46
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15479494Sep 12 07:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@harryhaller@nerdpol.ch: a distro that’s out of washington, brussels and westminster's reach. :) >![avatar](https://camo.nerdpol.ch/camo/7030d74faf20ade81f99f36fe1c1b018d20f053b/68747470733a2f2f6a6f696e64696173706f72612e636f6d2f75706c6f6164732f696d616765732f7468756d625f736d616c6c5f38353664643963633433306432653239363630662e6a706567) @{schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}<sub> - [original post](/posts/35d9c8d08c9a0137344a0218b72fdf43 "2019-07-19 21Sep 12 07:46
schestowitz"a distro that’s out of washington, brussels and westminster’s reach. :)'Sep 12 07:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> betanews.com | Debian-based deepin 15.11 Linux distribution now available for downloadSep 12 07:46
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:47
schestowitzmeh. I don’t care for anything ‘cloud’. no matter whose cloud it is.Sep 12 07:47
schestowitz“After Signing in Deepin ID in Control Center, you can sync system settings to the cloud automatically, including network settings, sound settings, mouse settings, update settings, power settings, corner settings, theme, wallpaper, launcher, and dock. You can choose to turn off the specified options or all of them. With this feature, you can move to and work on another computer seamlessly. Note: This feature is only available for users withSep 12 07:47
schestowitzDeepin ID location in Mainland China at present. It will be released for users in other regions soon,” says The deepin Development Team.Sep 12 07:47
schestowitzThat's a known gripe for manySep 12 07:47
schestowitzDo you have any comments about the telegra.ph @RoySep 12 07:48
schestowitz}?Sep 12 07:48
schestowitzI ask because some messages are posted which connect to telegr.ph.Sep 12 07:48
schestowitzAt the moment, I block telegra.ph (i.e. don’t allow), as I do with FB and others.Sep 12 07:48
schestowitzsee also: Telegram’s blogging platform Telegraph is super simple and anonymousSep 12 07:48
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15477422#39f539e09b4d0137ad9a52540039b762Sep 12 07:48
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "Two days ago I joined #telegram (installed via F-Droid). It was an interesting experience, immediatly I was contacted by people who had shared their addressbook with "the cloud" and thus were notified by the "heavily encrypted" telegram servers." http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20190718-social-media/Sep 12 07:48
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> layer-acht.org | 20190718-social-mediaSep 12 07:48
schestowitzhttps://mashable.com/2016/11/23/telegram-telegraph-blogging/?europe=true&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feedSep 12 07:48
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-mashable.com | Telegram's blogging platform Telegraph is super simple and anonymousSep 12 07:48
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/2f8a34d09b1601373725047d7b62795eSep 12 07:48
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Not a Diaspora post?Sep 12 07:48
schestowitzTelegram is generally untrustworthy unless you're somewhere like IranSep 12 07:48
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15931265#cf37e1d0b40c0137098b7a163ef10931Sep 12 07:49
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How this #opensource code could help stop #deforestation https://www.fastcompany.com/90398939/we-could-help-prevent-deforestation-by-simply-reprogramming-logging-machines #CodeofConscienceSep 12 07:49
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.fastcompany.com | How this open-source code could help stop deforestationSep 12 07:49
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:49
schestowitzProgram it to cut down the trees on the CEO’s estate.Sep 12 07:49
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 07:49
schestowitztomgrz - 4 days agoSep 12 07:49
schestowitzSeriously, I saw a similar logging machine operating on some forest property near my home. It does take an operator (one), but it replaces several loggers with chain-saws. Also it is huge, heavy (compacting soil), and makes much larger openings in the forest than does a human with a chain-saw (assuming he or she is only cutting selected trees).Sep 12 07:49
schestowitz Theodotos AndreouSep 12 07:49
schestowitzTheodotos Andreou - 4 days agoSep 12 07:49
schestowitzI don’t see this as a very efficient way of protecting trees.Sep 12 07:49
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 07:49
schestowitztomgrz - 4 days agoSep 12 07:49
schestowitz^Nope.Sep 12 07:49
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:49
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15723506#1416ec40a3ec0137e65a002590d8e506Sep 12 07:50
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How to Check Which #Debian Version are you Running http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/127091 #gnu #linux #howtoSep 12 07:50
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | How to Check Which Debian Version are you Running | Tux MachinesSep 12 07:50
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzLsb_release -aSep 12 07:50
schestowitzSep 12 07:50
schestowitzTrocatintas - 25 days agoSep 12 07:50
schestowitzNo LSB modules are available.Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzDistributor ID:DevuanSep 12 07:50
schestowitzDescription:Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii)Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzRelease:2.0Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzCodename:asciiSep 12 07:50
schestowitzSep 12 07:50
schestowitzAlexander - 25 days agoSep 12 07:50
schestowitzWhen you run stable, you damn well know which one it is :DSep 12 07:50
schestowitzSep 12 07:50
schestowitzzebulon_1er@diaspora.psyco.fr - 25 days agoSep 12 07:50
schestowitz@Alessandro Ebersol ;)Sep 12 07:50
schestowitz$ Lsb_release -aSep 12 07:50
schestowitzbash: Lsb_release : unknown commandSep 12 07:50
schestowitz$ lsb_release -aSep 12 07:50
schestowitzNo LSB modules are available.Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzDistributor ID:DebianSep 12 07:50
schestowitzDescription:Debian GNU/Linux 9.9 (stretch)Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzRelease:9.9Sep 12 07:50
schestowitzCodename:stretchSep 12 07:50
schestowitzYes, I’m still in Stretch… I prefer waiting a bit before upgrading to Debian 10.Sep 12 07:50
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:50
schestowitztrademarks arent supposed to create confusion-- it would definitely lead to confusion on the stock exchange, if “‘going down’ is up by 9 points”Sep 12 07:50
schestowitz"trademarks arent supposed to create confusion-- it would definitely lead to confusion on the stock exchange, if “‘going down’ is up by 9 points”"Sep 12 07:51
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15636904#195d2a30Sep 12 07:51
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How can this be a #trademark ? Totally ridiculous. Laughable even. What next? #trademarks on "bless you" and "good morning"? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/going-down-is-trade-mark-that-causes.htmlSep 12 07:51
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> ipkitten.blogspot.com | 'Going down' is a trade mark that causes a bad influence on morality, says the Beijng High Court in China - The IPKatSep 12 07:51
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15660441#cd0ac6c09e3f0137b1cb0cc47a07853cSep 12 07:52
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How to measure the health of an #opensource community http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126814 #freesw #sharing #collaborationSep 12 07:52
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | How to measure the health of an open source community | Tux MachinesSep 12 07:52
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzbound to devolve into circular arguments-- another proxy for corporations arguing why corporate code is better code.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitznot a new idea: https://antitrust.slated.org/halloween/halloween6.htmlSep 12 07:52
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-antitrust.slated.org | Halloween Document 6Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzFortunately, Rick Moen, a well-known Linux activist, managed to recover them from his Netscape cache – and found the copyright notice reproduced above. In view of Gartner’s protestations that Microsoft had nothing to do with funding the research, the next lines in the notice are especially interesting:Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzEditorial supplied by Microsoft is independent of GartnerGroup analysis and in no way should this information be construed as a GartnerGroup endorsement of Microsoft’s products and services.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzSo. At first blush, these “Gartner Group” reports seem to have been a warm personal gesture from Microsoft Corporation to itself. That theory would fit both the copyright and the contents, which exactly repeats Microsoft marketing cant that we’ve seen before – including such trademarks of the genre as the (unsupported and, according to IDC, false) assertion that Linux is taking seats mainly from other Unix shops.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzHowever, the Gartner Group insists that Microsoft did not write the reports.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitzperhaps similar metrics could be useful, but lets not kid ourselves about the objectivity. this is inevitably going to be a very long-winded, abstract way of “proving” that you shouldnt care about what matters to you, and that you should care about what matters to corporations.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitztheyre not going to keep reproducing metrics that dont support their corporate, monopolistic rhetoric. it will last as long as it suits that purpose.Sep 12 07:52
schestowitz"Sep 12 07:52
schestowitz>>> https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news2.rss?preview=trueSep 12 07:56
schestowitz>> Will take more work.  Something is weird with the feed.Sep 12 07:56
schestowitz> By the way, as you may have seen, I have a work-around now.Sep 12 07:56
schestowitz>Sep 12 07:56
schestowitz> I should go and double check all the other feeds too now.  If a site hasSep 12 07:56
schestowitz> a feed *and* the articles are well-structured, adding new sites takesSep 12 07:56
schestowitz> only 10 to 20 minutes, including testing.Sep 12 07:56
schestowitzOnce done, it can, over time, help put thousands of links in the site. It's sad just how few sites I nowadays trust. Sometimes I link to sites I don't trust, only because no other source covers a topic....Sep 12 07:56
schestowitzSadder: good sites are more likely to perish due to lack of resources ($).Sep 12 07:56
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15855709#b2cdcef0ad9c01378d25002590d8e506Sep 12 08:11
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Man wants pig to bite apple (while spinning the stake) https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/49297-microsoft-wants-linux-to-get-exfat http://techrights.org/2019/08/30/the-exfat-deception/Sep 12 08:11
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:11
schestowitzI’ve read about it.Sep 12 08:11
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> fudzilla.com | Microsoft wants Linux to get exFATSep 12 08:11
schestowitzThe truth is not what they told.Sep 12 08:12
schestowitzSep 12 08:12
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | A Closer Look at the ‘Trojan Horse’ That is exFAT Inside Linux | TechrightsSep 12 08:12
schestowitzAlessandro Ebersol - 12 days agoSep 12 08:12
schestowitzIf You use the Microshaft ex fat code, If You use it in a commercial venture, You have to pay Microshaft ransom tax.Sep 12 08:12
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:12
schestowitzThey already sign deals with all the major OEMs. This does not cancel these deals.Sep 12 08:12
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15557916#451264b0948b0137e5ae0cc47a07853cSep 12 08:12
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Man hole planning https://i.redd.it/fk1bo0y6a2931.jpgSep 12 08:12
schestowitzhttps://share.naturalnews.com/uploads/images/scaled_full_ef29a45179b3f944aceb.pngSep 12 08:12
schestowitzdude i have to sign an oath to read a paper? it means their paper is shitSep 12 08:14
schestowitz Marius Dan Christian CRACIUNESCUSep 12 08:14
schestowitzMarius Dan Christian CRACIUNESCU - about a month agoSep 12 08:14
schestowitzor ~shitSep 12 08:14
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15602381#13dccae098ca0137803f2a0000053625Sep 12 08:14
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@mihaikamik@framasphere.org reshared: #NSA and #microsott officials should have been sentenced to prison https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/26/marcus-hutchins-sentenced-kronos/ it's them who made the back doors http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSASep 12 08:14
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techcrunch.com | Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero,’ sentenced to supervised release – TechCrunchSep 12 08:14
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and the NSA - TechrightsSep 12 08:14
schestowitzCome right out and say it… ;-)Sep 12 08:15
schestowitz oiche@pod.redfish.caSep 12 08:15
schestowitzoiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitzLinux and Windows??? :oSep 12 08:15
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 08:15
schestowitztomgrz - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitzThese “People” are being intentionally dumb. And that is a generous assessment.Sep 12 08:15
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:15
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitzshills, yaySep 12 08:15
schestowitz oiche@pod.redfish.caSep 12 08:15
schestowitzoiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitzGood grief, I can see where this is going… straight into the dumper.Sep 12 08:15
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 08:15
schestowitztomgrz - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitzThat’s where it started! ;-)Sep 12 08:15
schestowitz oiche@pod.redfish.caSep 12 08:15
schestowitzoiche@pod.redfish.ca - 3 days agoSep 12 08:15
schestowitz@tomgrz LOLSep 12 08:15
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15937699#61f225a0b4cc013709797a163ef10931Sep 12 08:15
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who trust #microsoft with #gnu #linux would not cope too well in nature. #DarwinAwardSep 12 08:15
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15715950#82f8dd40a3210137b1c70cc47a07853cSep 12 08:16
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Poor sign designSep 12 08:16
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schestowitz"Sep 12 08:16
schestowitzshe just doesnt like pac manSep 12 08:16
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schestowitzDavid - 26 days agoSep 12 08:16
schestowitzSomeone doesn’t know how women pee.Sep 12 08:16
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schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 26 days agoSep 12 08:16
schestowitzSomeone doesn’t know how women pee.Sep 12 08:16
schestowitzbritish women can hold their own (so to speak)Sep 12 08:16
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:16
schestowitzlolSep 12 08:16
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15721887#58ed8ac0a3d80137e612002590d8e506Sep 12 08:17
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Probably the largest "distribution" of #linux so far https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1162696126916677632Sep 12 08:17
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@JonErlichman: On this day in 2005: Google confirms its acquisition of startup Android Android’s smartphone market share: (worldw… https://t.co/rWs7T6bZlWSep 12 08:17
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:17
schestowitzdont take candy from googleSep 12 08:17
schestowitz Alessandro EbersolSep 12 08:17
schestowitzAlessandro Ebersol - 25 days agoSep 12 08:17
schestowitzSpeaking about it, how is Microshaft in its jihad against Google ? Or they gave up on destroying Google ?Sep 12 08:17
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:17
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 25 days agoSep 12 08:17
schestowitzmaybe they ♥ google nowSep 12 08:17
schestowitz Alessandro EbersolSep 12 08:17
schestowitzAlessandro Ebersol - 25 days agoSep 12 08:17
schestowitzYup, love destroys more than simple hate.Sep 12 08:17
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:17
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzSo don’t get malicious files.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzhow do you know which ones are malicious?Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzrepeat question for people who are less savvy. how do they know which ones are malicious?Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 08:20
schestowitztomgrz - 2 months agoSep 12 08:20
schestowitzThis would appear to be a serious shortcoming in Libre Office.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:20
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 08:20
schestowitzall office suites have this issue, i am confident there are similar vulnerabilities in openoffice.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzi believe i disagree with roy on the severity of this, this is a real security problem. they can fix it, but if i were in charge of a large office with libreoffice (or any office suite) i would have a security policy that banned macros in the workplace.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzof course i would not ban similar workflows for people that knew what they were doing, but i would demand all macros in office suites be disabled. im prepared to defend that logic if someone thinks its “as foolish as…” some analogy they come up with. i think the fact that this is in libreoffice of all things finally proves that macros in rich text documents are a bad idea-- the design is bad, you can fix one vulnerability but someoneSep 12 08:20
schestowitzelse will find another. thats my take on it. what clinches it is that libreoffice has already patched behaviour like this, and it is still a problem. it will be again. whatever people are using macros for (worded that way due to people varying considerably) it would be better to do it another way.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:20
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 08:20
schestowitzby the way, there is a very relevant video on language development at brown university (suitable for the uninitiated, but at least 60 minutes long) on youtube that everyone developing libreoffice should watch.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz Alessandro EbersolSep 12 08:20
schestowitzAlessandro Ebersol - 2 months agoSep 12 08:20
schestowitzThis is a non problem, just uninstall Librelogo and you are good to go.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:20
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 2 months agoSep 12 08:20
schestowitzThis is a non problem, just uninstall Librelogo and you are good to go.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzit isnt a non-problem:Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzthis is a more important vulnerability than its being made out to be. i understand enough to see how i could run into this as a real problem. imagine that you arent talking about a single computer, but a room full of them.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzits not exactly trivial to tell which documents are malicious. possible-- yes, trivial, no.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzyoure already wrong about uninstalling librelogo. you ultimately need macros disabled as well. right, on multiple machines.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzthere are several ways this can turn into a serious problem. its being treated superficially because roy and i both know that a number of companies are trumping up any freesw-related vulnerability like its bigger than it is, but this really does spell doom imo for certain common features of libreoffice. seriously. and id rather it didnt. but it really doesnt take much for this to turn into the free sw equivalent of “i love you” / melissaSep 12 08:20
schestowitzin the future.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzstop thinking of every free sw user as savvy. thanks to canonical (no really, thank you) thats no longer how it is. and we dont want it to be-- ive already given away computers to several people helpless to fix this, id have to fix it on every single machine.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitzevery single machine. for most people that scales well. not for everybody. not at all. someday, maybe not this year, this could turn into a real problem. and im already thinking that far ahead.Sep 12 08:20
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 08:20
schestowitztomgrz - 2 months agoSep 12 08:21
schestowitzMacros are not worth the risk.Sep 12 08:21
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:21
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about a month agoSep 12 08:21
schestowitzMacros are not worth the risk.Sep 12 08:21
schestowitzand if this was not across every office suite (it now is) or if libreoffice managed to fix this the first time (they didnt) then no problem, however this is actually a design pattern and result that are both too close to microsoft office–Sep 12 08:21
schestowitzthe feature, and the outcome. which convinces me that it should be off by default. that should be the new design. short of that, theyre just being irresponsible.Sep 12 08:21
schestowitz tomgrzSep 12 08:21
schestowitztomgrz - about a month agoSep 12 08:21
schestowitzYep.Sep 12 08:21
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:21
schestowitzThey made LO feature-compatible also in the security senseSep 12 08:21
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15546951#0fd557e093810137e5900cc47a07853cSep 12 08:21
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Running a malicious program does malicious things. Opening malicious documents with malicious scripts can also do malicious things. So don't get malicious files. https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/libreoffice-vulnerability.htmlSep 12 08:21
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> thehackernews.com | Just Opening A Document in LibreOffice Can Hack Your Computer (Unpatched)Sep 12 08:21
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15550678#f1a531c09403013716597a163ef10931Sep 12 08:22
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who have empathy are a 'disease', tell us the world's 'strongmen'Sep 12 08:22
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schestowitzYet it is difficult not to laugh at these dangerous characters. Until it impacts yourself, I guess.Sep 12 08:22
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:22
schestowitz"People who have empathy are a ‘disease’ as are people who hate microsoft, im told"Sep 12 08:23
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15463417#d59626d08b4d01374b2d0cc47a07853cSep 12 08:23
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who nowadays go to college to study #journalism won't work in the field they studied unless they become spammers and PR agents, who drown out what's left of >actual< journalism. It's all corrupt. Almost all of it.Sep 12 08:23
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:23
schestowitzSep 12 08:23
schestowitzIt’s all corrupt. Almost all of it. lots and lots of shills. also microsoft, apple (likely google, at a guess) giving the press the monopoly/cult treatment.Sep 12 08:23
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schestowitzHired guns.Sep 12 08:23
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schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15926865#71da1da0b3b3013734ec7a163eb51328Sep 12 08:25
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: RMS made a mistake https://twitter.com/taotetek/status/1169928609806655488 see http://techrights.org/2019/09/07/rms-microsoft-trap/ @fsf #freesw #freedom #gnu #linux #rmsSep 12 08:25
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@taotetek: Microsoft inviting RMS to speak at their campus while they are using GNU/Linux to build services they sell to ICE w… https://t.co/jp8HzUgBkLSep 12 08:25
schestowitz"Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzyou know, there’s something I don’t get here…Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzwhy should his speaking to any audience whatsoever be regarded as his supporting whatever the audience did before? that’s utter nonsense! if he set out to change the world, by definition he’s attempting to get any audience he addresses to behave differently from whatever they did before. if Microsoft opened the door for him to address its associates, why should he not have taken the opportunity? because someone might spin it and turn itSep 12 08:25
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft’s Takedown Plot – Part II: Stallman Appears to Have Fallen Into Microsoft’s Trap | TechrightsSep 12 08:25
schestowitzinto something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft? where’s the news in someone’s doing that? some people make a living of spinning stuff into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft, and they wouldn’t do more or less of it because of one speech. now, what’s new here is that instead of pretending RMS is irrelevant, and that nobody listens to him or is even interested in what he has to say, the spinning is thatSep 12 08:25
schestowitzhe’s so relevant that even Microsoft is trying to take advantage of him, while disparaging him because he must be out of his mind to address Microsofties. sure he won’t change Microsoft’s stance with one speech, but if some people there listen and take to heart a bit of what he says, and act in line with it even inside Microsoft, that’s already a positive movement. success of a political movement like ours builds up as a sum of suchSep 12 08:25
schestowitzsmall movements. let’s not get distracted by all the spinning, shall we?Sep 12 08:25
schestowitz Emmanuel FloracSep 12 08:25
schestowitzEmmanuel Florac - 5 days agoSep 12 08:25
schestowitz👍 @Alexandre OlivaSep 12 08:25
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comSep 12 08:25
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - a day agoSep 12 08:25
schestowitzwhy should his speaking to any audience whatsoever be regarded as his supporting whatever the audience did before?Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzbecause people are silly. youre not wrong (at all) but even the people that know better realise that people who dont know better exist.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzstallman has failed THOSE people who dont know better. that isnt necessarily worthy of blame but its worthy of consideration.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzive made my position as clear as possible: http://techrights.org/2019/09/06/rms-track-record/Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzthough its not unreasonable (for countless reasons) to say that anything microsoft agrees to is part of a strategy to do harm to free software. as a rule, thats a bit paranoid. for microsoft its really not. (never letting your kids go outside is paranoid, refusing to drop them off at a cannibals house isnt.)Sep 12 08:25
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Guest Post: Getting Stallman Wrong Means Getting The 21st Century Wrong | TechrightsSep 12 08:25
schestowitzif he set out to change the world, by definition he’s attempting to get any audience he addresses to behave differently from whatever they did before. if Microsoft opened the door for him to address its associates, why should he not have taken the opportunity? because someone might spin it and turn it into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft?Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzthats the argument, yes. and they might manage it. im on the fence about whether that makes it an idea worth avoiding.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzeither way there is greater benefit in trying to figure out their intentions than trying to figure out if stallman is somehow to blame. i dont think he is.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzwhere’s the news in someone’s doing that?Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzthe narrative points to ancient foes-- even as a joke you cant deny that. people keep quoting venkman from ghostbusters talking about what happens if they turn the containment unit off.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzsome people make a living of spinning stuff into something bad for Free Software and good for Microsoft, and they wouldn’t do more or less of it because of one speech.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitzthey might, actually.Sep 12 08:25
schestowitznow, what’s new here is that instead of pretending RMS is irrelevant, and that nobody listens to him or is even interested in what he has to say, the spinning is that he’s so relevant that even Microsoft is trying to take advantage of himSep 12 08:25
schestowitzthis is how narcissists (microsoft for one example) do business. they throw every fact out of the window whenever it suits their purposes, including ones they have stated a million times themselves.Sep 12 08:26
schestowitzsure he won’t change Microsoft’s stance with one speech, but if some people there listen and take to heart a bit of what he says, and act in line with it even inside Microsoft, that’s already a positive movement. success of a political movement like ours builds up as a sum of such small movements.Sep 12 08:26
schestowitzof note is that microsoft is a cult an absolute corporate cult. but again-- maybe he will bring a softie to his side. probably not for the first time.Sep 12 08:26
schestowitzi thought bill gates was AWESOME when i was 6. i didnt know him that well.Sep 12 08:26
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schestowitzAlex: I used to think the same way you do until I fully graped how these things work. Esp. seeing how WikiLeaks tolerating RT as a platform got interpreted as "Wikileaks works for Russia" (or similar).Sep 12 08:26
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