●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, December 12, 2021 ●● ● Dec 12 [00:20] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Dec 12 [04:44] *Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer) ● Dec 12 [05:33] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Dec 12 [06:48] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [07:03] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:04] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:37] *techrights_guest|48 (~b6015387@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techbytes [07:53] *techrights_guest|48 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) ● Dec 12 [08:18] *techrights_guest|62 (~67ac9d8a@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techbytes [08:20] *techrights_guest|62 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) [08:33] schestowitz
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    FreeBSD on Slimbook -- 14 months of updates
    [08:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/12/11/slimbook.html">FreeBSD ) [08:33] schestowitz
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    I wont say anything about FreeBSD on laptops in general, but on this laptop it manages acceptable, but no more than that. For now, it will keep running openSUSE, just like the kids laptops around here.

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    Firefox 95 On POWER
    [08:36] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://www.talospace.com/2021/12/firefox-95-on-power.html">Firefox ) [08:36] schestowitz
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    Firefox 95 is released, [08:36] schestowitz screenshot at right. The big new feature, besides speculative AOT JIT which doesn't apply to us yet, is RLBox, which compiles certain third-party libraries into safe WebAssembly, and then compiles them back into C, so they can be compiled a third time into pre-sanitized native code. This has obvious security benefits and the performance impact shouldn't be especially large, but it adds yet another build-time [08:36] schestowitz prerequisite: the WASI SDK. This kind of really sucks because now you have to have a third toolchain (it builds one whether you like it or not) besides clang and our preferred compiler, gcc. Pending internal package support, some distros have chosen simply to disable this for the immediate future, even including Fedora.

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    Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata
    [08:48] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.schneier.com | Law Enforcement Forensics Tools Against Smart Phones - Schneier on Security [08:48] schestowitz
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    A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story and its been written about elsewhere.

    • ● Dec 12 [09:00] schestowitz x https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/health/covid-vaccine-africa.html [09:00] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nytimes.com | As Vaccines Trickle into Africa, Zambias Challenges Highlight Other Obstacles - The New York Times [09:00] schestowitz # distracting by spreading falsehoods about bill; no mention of patents [09:01] schestowitz = [09:01] schestowitz x https://www.pcworld.com/article/559001/the-future-of-esports-is-microsoft-excel-and-its-on-espn.html [09:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.pcworld.com | Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend | PCWorld [09:01] schestowitz x https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/11/22829228/excel-pros-financial-modeling-world-cup [09:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theverge.com | Watch these Excel pros duke it out in a financial modeling competition - The Verge [09:01] schestowitz # libreoffice at least can script in python [09:01] schestowitz [09:01] schestowitz [09:01] schestowitz [09:01] schestowitz = [09:01] schestowitz x https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/josh-duggar-found-guilty-child-sex-abuse-image-trial-rcna7788 [09:01] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.nbcnews.com | Josh Duggar found guilty in child sex abuse image trial [09:24] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:58] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@774nwuxzfj494.irc) has joined #techbytes [09:58] *tech_exorcist has quit (connection closed) [09:58] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@e56aqnyrpnfiu.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [12:42] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:50] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes [12:51] *tech_exorcist has quit (Quit: rebooting) [12:57] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@p8rtddpu2pbba.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [13:26] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #techbytes [13:49] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Dec 12 [17:16] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:29] schestowitz
  • zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "EU wants to extend Design rights to GUIs. Recipe for disaster. It's in the European Parliament resolution on IP and COVID19 recovery." | nitter
    [17:29] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://nitter.eu/zoobab/status/1469988123623014403">zoobab ) [17:30] schestowitz https://twitter.com/jvantill/status/1469956290797613058 [17:30] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jvantill: @schestowitz Polio can strike again? [17:30] schestowitz
  • Tracy Smith (@EnsconceTruth): "Key communicator network wins again!!!!! I tried for years to expose them but their network is emence and woven into just about every corner of this state, oh not to memtion ID, OR, CA." | nitter
    [17:31] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 429 @ https://nitter.eu/EnsconceTruth/status/1469842591738994694"> ) [17:31] schestowitz https://twitter.com/sskras/status/1469784731885711364 [17:31] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@sskras: @schestowitz Very, very interesting duel and the read. Thanks! [17:36] schestowitz http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/changed-changed-utterly-or-not-germanys.html?showComment=1638969805366#c7807115277683359130 [17:36] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Changed, changed utterly - or not? Germany's new coalition states its intentions regarding digitalisation and innovation - The IPKat [17:36] schestowitz " [17:36] schestowitz Nice write-up. Many thanks, Frau Corke. [17:36] schestowitz But let's factor in the background, that the three Parties of the Traffic Light Coalition need at this point to Big Up what they agree on and keep stumm about the myriad topics on which they disagree. In the ara of "innovation" for example, consider genetic engineering. The lifesaving Pfizer vaccine was invented in Germany but a horrible lot of Green Party members (especially here in Bavaria) want nothing at all to do with biotech and in consequence [17:36] schestowitz are active vaccine-deniers. Living in cosmopolitan Munich though, I'm optimistic, that the Ampel will be successful, and will heal rifts in society rather than aggravating them. Germans think it vitally important for the grown ups to set a good example to the children. Will the new Government set a good example. One really does hope so. [17:36] schestowitz " [17:59] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@zvy9y8s293m5q.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [18:06] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #techbytes [18:57] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [19:26] *DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Dec 12 [20:11] *tech_exorcist has quit (connection closed) [20:12] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@ejbn8z296rjbk.irc) has joined #techbytes [20:36] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@zvy9y8s293m5q.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [21:03] *tech_exorcist has quit (connection closed) [21:04] *tech_exorcist (~tech_exorcist@svp6nvmiuarba.irc) has joined #techbytes [21:18] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:22] *tech_exorcist has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:56] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@zj7ff6e5edb5q.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Dec 12 [22:12] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes [22:26] *psydroid3 has quit (connection closed) [22:30] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [22:31] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@t25x9hgy9xhrc.irc) has joined #techbytes