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| schestowitz | > Dear Sir | Nov 24 01:46 |
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| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:46 |
| schestowitz | > This morning i read your article on TechRights regarding Purism and | Nov 24 01:46 |
| schestowitz | > i would like to add the problems i am having. | Nov 24 01:46 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:46 |
| schestowitz | > Last Tuesday after reading many articles about the Librem 5, i decided | Nov 24 01:46 |
| schestowitz | > to ask for a refund on my ‘pre-ordered’ phone as i feel somethings dont | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > feel right. | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > The communication was cordial making sure they had the right credit card | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > details to my account and was told it would take 2 - 15 days. | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > On Thursday i checked my Purism account to still find my order was | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > ‘active’ and awaiting shipping, so i emailed again asking for | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > confirmation, only to receive a very cavalier response saying ‘we’ll | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > sort it in a couple of days!’ | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > As you can imagine this was a red rag with my reply being rather angry | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > reminding them i wasnt a backer but a pre-order and interest will expected. | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > As of today my order is still active and i dont hold much hope that | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > anything will happen soon. | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > So info i did find strange was on the Purism forum, an early backer | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > 350th (he screen shot his place) received his email asking what batch he | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > would like, which he put Aspen, Birch and Chestnut, only to receive a | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > reply he would be in Evergreen? I cant believe there is only 350 units | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > being produced for the first 4 batches??? This stinks! | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | > Many Thanks | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | Hi, | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | If I write about this, it will probably be obvious whose order it concerns. Would you still be OK if I wrote about it? | Nov 24 01:47 |
| schestowitz | Nov 24 01:51 | |
| schestowitz | Irony: https://t.co/y5onZMJ5fp | Nov 24 01:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@StartPageSearch: "Thanks to facial recognition technology, a sprawling, privacy-wrecking surveillance apparatus now surrounds us.… https://t.co/wRzBHiZUgE | Nov 24 01:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@StartPageSearch: "Thanks to facial recognition technology, a sprawling, privacy-wrecking surveillance apparatus now surrounds us.… https://t.co/wRzBHiZUgE | Nov 24 01:51 | |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16453072#10cb4e30efff013752df0cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The #linuxfoundation is very belatedly coming under massive fire today, and it's not even for the most worthy reasons http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Foundation | Nov 24 02:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Linux Foundation - Techrights | Nov 24 02:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | RMS warns against defending him to the point of criticising the FSF as GNU depends on it. | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | id love to read that one. | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | last i heard, the gnu situation wasnt stable. even with techrights, which does more than any other source i can think of, news about this stuff is spotty at best. im not saying YOU arent doing enough, just that im not sure its enough for people to know whats going on with gnu/fsf. THAT TOO IS LARGELY THE FAULT OF THE FSF FOR BEING DERELICT IN THIS. | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about 17 hours ago | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | we shouldnt need an investigative news service just to keep track of what the fuck is going on with gnu, but that seems to be the requirement. | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | if you hadnt told me just now, i wouldnt know. | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | FSF will hopefully not become FSFE after the leader leaves | Nov 24 02:11 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16580933#7b937050f00f013731aa4061862b8e7b | Nov 24 02:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: ● NEWS ● #YouTube Promised to Label State-Sponsored Videos But Doesn’t Always Do So https://www.propublica.org/article/youtube-promised-to-label-state-sponsored-videos-but-doesnt-always-do-so does not do this for Western nations. #alphabet #google #imperialism | Nov 24 02:13 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.propublica.org | YouTube Promised to Label State-Sponsored Videos But Doesn’t Always Do So — ProPublica | Nov 24 02:13 | |
| schestowitz | They should label oligarch/corporate funded videos too! Why would the oligarchs get away with it? | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - about 15 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | the protests were engineered by Western powers | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Yes they were. | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - about 15 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Western oligarchs managed to “privatize” most of the “state propaganda”, so they can overwhelm every media platform with their own narratives whilst obscuring it’s agenda. | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about 15 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | @Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | the protests were engineered by Western powers | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Yes they were. | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | what should we do with this? | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | i mean, china is trying to control hong kong more and more, right? i dont like american interference with things like this, but at the same time i dont think what china is doing is right. | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - about 12 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | @freemedia@share.naturalnews.com I don’t support protests by far-right organizations that go against the working class best interests and that promote violence towards immigrants, wherever they are. | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - about 12 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Hong Kong father of two ‘burned alive’ after chasing protesters at MTR station in grisly act of violence police classify as attempted murder | South China Morning Post | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - about 11 hours ago | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | Not an exact thing but it usually works as a rule of thumb: far-left protestors usually attack banks and corporate stores like the yellow vests in France while far-right protestors attack public infrastructure that serves the working class like in Venezuela, they burn down buses, metro stations… | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:13 |
| schestowitz | https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3037243/hong-kong-father-two-burned-alive-after-chasing | Nov 24 02:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.scmp.com | Hong Kong father of two ‘burned alive’ after chasing protesters at MTR station in grisly act of violence police classify as attempted murder | South China Morning Post | Nov 24 02:13 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16224149#535506c0cf7c013752810cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Bunnie Huang is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXISikHLiw #openhardware #hacking #activism | Nov 24 02:16 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:16 |
| schestowitz | yeah, he is. im generally pleased when his name comes up. like perens, hes one of the VERY few people whose names you can pair with the words “open source” without me cringing. | Nov 24 02:16 |
| schestowitz | i still wish he was on our side, but imo hes extremely useful to our side. | Nov 24 02:16 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | “From an Academic Researcher to an Open Source Activist” by bunnie Huang | Bitmark Talk - YouTube | Nov 24 02:16 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16545067#e1a327d0ecaa0137528d0cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: New: #BluestarLinux 5.3.11 Run Through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gKpk_jxE5A In this video, we are looking at Bluestar Linux 5.3.11. | Nov 24 02:17 | |
| schestowitz | "#systemd" | Nov 24 02:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Bluestar Linux 5.3.11 Run Through - YouTube | Nov 24 02:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16022602#abd35ea0bcab0137098b7a163ef10931 | Nov 24 02:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Manjaro 18.1.0 #XFCE Run Through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5ZO78lhwk | Nov 24 02:22 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | I’ve been using XFCE more than MATE recently. I still prefer MATE, but XFCE performs better on the hardware-spec-limited systems I’m working with. And XFCE is slick enough, if you don’t want to mess with the panels much. | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 2 months ago | Nov 24 02:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Manjaro 18.1.0 XFCE Run Through - YouTube | Nov 24 02:22 | |
| schestowitz | I still install the MATE Terminal, even on XFCE. | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 2 months ago | Nov 24 02:22 |
| schestowitz | New XFCE… Well, GTK2 was better. | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 2 months ago | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | As long as it works well on old hardware, I don’t really care. | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | Alessandro Ebersol - 2 months ago | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | A little more heavy on resources, and, without some eye candy, that was trivial in GTK2. | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16572007#498fbe50ef6e013752870cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft is fighting against #gnu #linux at #huawei https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-21/microsoft-granted-u-s-license-to-export-software-to-huawei because #microsoftloveslinux http://techrights.org/2019/09/28/microsoft-against-gnu-linux/ @sjvn | Nov 24 02:24 | |
| schestowitz | "The fact that Microsoft doesn’t want Huawei to get away with using their patents for free doesn’t automatically extend to a hatred of Linux. People need to stop treating Android like it is a Linux product and need to remind themselves that Google, a multi-billion-dollar corporation is behind it and rarely credits Linux in any way. We also need to remind ourselves that Google uses Android to spy on all of its users." | Nov 24 02:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.bloomberg.com | Bloomberg - Are you a robot? | Nov 24 02:24 | |
| schestowitz | This is not about patents | Nov 24 02:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft ‘Loves Linux’ So Much That It Lobbies Huawei Against GNU/Linux | Techrights | Nov 24 02:24 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16572075#b57606c0ef6d013752870cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:24 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: People who say that #microsoftloveslinux are traitors to #gnu #linux if they use it; but usually they don't. Usually they're career #microsoft boosters, whose business model is spreading lies for the rich. | Nov 24 02:24 | |
| schestowitz | "Only trust the FSF. :)" | Nov 24 02:24 |
| schestowitz | it's not even clear who runs the FSF these days | Nov 24 02:25 |
| schestowitz | for the right amount of money, this guy wouldve cheered on adolf hitler. | Nov 24 02:25 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16571214#2153b630ef1c0137528d0cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Jim #zemlin : Go #MICROSOFT !! #entryism #BuyThemAll #GitHub | Nov 24 02:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- Photo by schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_022d4617483fd2a31a6c.png | Nov 24 02:25 | |
| schestowitz | "for the right amount of money, this guy wouldve cheered on adolf hitler." | Nov 24 02:25 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16559350#2df8bfa0ef0d01371ea17a163ef10931 | Nov 24 02:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Swapnil of #zemlinPAC turned linux dot com into #microsoft #propaganda site. This is the goal: https://www.linux.com/news/unsw-to-open-source-its-microsoft-classroom-platform-on-github/ See http://techrights.org/2019/10/30/linux-com-is-a-microsoft-site/ | Nov 24 02:25 | |
| schestowitz | "Inbreeding concentrates all the good $$ genes." | Nov 24 02:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.linux.com | UNSW to open source its Microsoft classroom platform on GitHub - Linux.com | Nov 24 02:26 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Linux.com is a Microsoft Site | Techrights | Nov 24 02:26 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16571514#e25fe800ef1b013752b10cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Web Site Which Exposed Microsoft Crimes is Gone From the Web, But Copies Still Exist http://techrights.org/2019/11/22/comes-v-microsoft-wayback-machine/ #microsoft #antitrust #billgates #crime #deletionism | Nov 24 02:26 | |
| schestowitz | "i would strongly recommend making a local mirror." | Nov 24 02:26 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Web Site Which Exposed Microsoft Crimes is Gone From the Web, But Copies Still Exist | Techrights | Nov 24 02:26 | |
| schestowitz | techrtights has copies of many important documents. Also https://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/index.html | Nov 24 02:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-antitrust.slated.org | Comes v. Microsoft | Nov 24 02:28 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16554477#c8af1c30edc80137528f0cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Microsoft and #IBM Are the #PatentTrolls , They Won't Protect Us From Trolls http://techrights.org/2019/11/20/red-hat-and-microsoft-trolls/ #gnu #linux | Nov 24 02:29 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | It’s a good reason to avoid using Redhat going forward. I imagine that Fedora is untouched but without actually looking at the code, who really knows? It might be a good idea to start moving to distributions which get the FSF’s seal of approval. | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz |  | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 3 days ago | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | It might be a good idea to start moving to distributions which get the FSF’s seal of approval. | Nov 24 02:29 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and IBM Are the Patent Trolls, They Won’t Protect Us From Trolls | Techrights | Nov 24 02:29 | |
| schestowitz | very few of which avoid systemd: | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | guix 2. hyperbola | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | neither of which are ready for the mainstream. | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | dont get me wrong, im very happy hyperbola exists-- especially since trisquel has failed so spectacularly. | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz |  | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | Rabid Raven - 3 days ago | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | I tried Trisquel around 2012 or 2013 and thought it was pretty good. Any reason it failed? | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | Fedora failed me when I last used it (f14 at work) | Nov 24 02:29 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16562828#90edd7d0ee4d013777d7002590d8e506 | Nov 24 02:30 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Microsoft and #IBM Are the Patent Trolls, They Won’t Protect Us From Trolls http://techrights.org/2019/11/20/red-hat-and-microsoft-trolls/ | Nov 24 02:30 | |
| schestowitz | "bad times …" | Nov 24 02:30 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16562821#7befc1b0ee90013752c30cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft loves #linux so much that it would definitely come to the funeral http://techrights.org/2019/03/12/microsoft-foxconn/ | Nov 24 02:31 | |
| schestowitz | "Unless you change the patent system completely - which would benefit the world in general - Microsoft is in the right here." | Nov 24 02:31 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft is Complaining About Android and Chrome OS (GNU/Linux) Vendor Not Paying for Microsoft Patents (Updated) | Techrights | Nov 24 02:31 | |
| schestowitz | C’mon Bill, put it out there… | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 4 days ago | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | The ironic thing is that they dare not take any of this to court. They would likely lose their threat racket. | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | C’mon Bill, put it out there… | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 4 days ago | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | The ironic thing is that they dare not take any of this to court. They would likely lose their threat racket. | Nov 24 02:53 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16554407#e8101b50ed9401371e9f7a163ef10931 | Nov 24 02:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoftloveslinux http://techrights.org/2019/03/12/microsoft-foxconn/ | Nov 24 02:53 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16532162#6104e870eb8c013752a30cc47a07853c | Nov 24 02:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Of course the #microsoft #github 'apps' are #proprietarysoftware just like everything at GitHub. #deletegithub | Nov 24 02:54 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | i actually think its better if microsoft keeps its own development on github, so we always have due warning that the code is from microsoft. | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | whats wrong with microsoft code? the same thing as always! | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | we spent years having people chide us for turning our noses up at microsoft code. now gnome wants money to defend themselves after using it! we fucking told you so, didnt we? | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | “oh thats not nice,” oliva says. | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | its fucking relevant is what it is. imo nobody should give gnome a cent unless they are willing to say “yes-- you told us so!” because its fun to be right? we didnt want to be right! its important to LEARN this lesson. by all means-- do bail out gnome! but dont let the smug idiots run off and do the same stupid thing again (at our fucking expense) without “we told you so!” because mark my words, in a year or two the assholes we just | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | bailed out will be calling us “neckbeards” and “zealots” again-- FUCK YOU, youre getting SUED by zealots, you stupid smarmy hipster shits. | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 02:54 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16540403#654f8ee0ec4b01371ea37a163ef10931 | Nov 24 03:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: That's like #microsoft employees who believe their cult leader #billgates is doing "charity" when in reality he's a serial criminal avoiding tax (fake 'charity') and hanging out with serial pedophiles, whom he loves https://twitter.com/promethe42/status/1196132999072493569 | Nov 24 03:09 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@promethe42: Google should start by paying its taxes before asking employees to donate to non profit organizations. This is not… https://t.co/dQL2MsRrat | Nov 24 03:09 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | If the wealthy paid their fair share of taxes, the unfortunate would not be dependent upon charity. | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | Trocatintas - 5 days ago | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | And if there weren’t any “wealthy” to begin with we would all be “better-off”. | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 5 days ago | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | Hypothetically. | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:09 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16536841#24bea960ebfa01371ea37a163ef10931 | Nov 24 03:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft #github : we're OPEN! For business! Give us all your OPEN SOURCESSS!! Yes, we're #proprietarysoftware and we spread #propaganda in which we claim to represent "Open Source", but give us all your hard work/labour. http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Delete_Github | Nov 24 03:12 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | Give us your python, your C , | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | Your lambda functions yearning to be free, | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | The text wrenched off your CRT. | Nov 24 03:12 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Delete Github - Techrights | Nov 24 03:12 | |
| schestowitz | Send these, the homeless, commented code, to me: | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | I lift my lamp beside The Monopoly!” | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | Nice poem | Nov 24 03:12 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16532203#eaead000eb8b013752a30cc47a07853c | Nov 24 03:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: This 'article' is 100% #Microsoft ad complete with all the 'right' Microsoft lies. How much does Microsoft pay this site? https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/11/qa-inside-microsofts-embrace-githubs-strong-open-source-community-msignite/ | Nov 24 03:13 | |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | silicon angle has an angle. | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | tomgrz - 6 days ago | Nov 24 03:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> siliconangle.com | Q&A: Inside Microsoft's embrace of GitHub's strong open-source community - SiliconANGLE | Nov 24 03:13 | |
| schestowitz | “embrace”, extend, … | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | The embrace itself becomes a strangle… | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | "open source" an open door for intruders | Nov 24 03:13 |
| schestowitz | jgay: "i mean hopefully rms will step down from gnu before it is destroyed" | Nov 24 06:50 |
| schestowitz | 2 days ago: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-221119.html#tNov%2022%2021:42:01 | Nov 24 06:50 |
| schestowitz | Is Joshua in bad terms with you? | Nov 24 06:50 |
| schestowitz | Or on a less personal/'gossipy' angle, how can we in Techrights help GNU, FSF and Free software? Growing tensions and secrecy cause a lot of confusion. Seeing what happened to FSFE after its founder had left, I worry about the FSF. 3 out of 8 Board members are out in one month. There's a no-speak policy, too. | Nov 24 06:50 |
| schestowitz | (to RMS) | Nov 24 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Friday, November 22, 2019 | Nov 24 06:50 | |
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| schestowitz | >>> I notice it days later. The correct files had been uploaded, but the | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> blog post did not link to the correct files because the file I sent was | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> wrong. Every 2 days at the gym I check the files uploaded and once a | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> week I check that we didn't miss a day by accident, so at least there | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> are safeguards. | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >>> See Att. | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >> Check out what J Gay told me last night around 9PM: | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | >> http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-221119.html | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | > The logs have no data-time stamps but do you mean his comments about RMS | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | > or his 'small' comment about Gates? If I follow the context correctly, | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | > the latter appears to be that "it [isn't] just talk" | Nov 24 07:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Friday, November 22, 2019 | Nov 24 07:47 | |
| schestowitz | jgay became rms-hostile and sometimes he seems a bit like a Microsoft apologist. | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | he also says "open source", not FS. | Nov 24 07:47 |
| schestowitz | > I've fixed the typo in the Security heading. | Nov 24 07:54 |
| schestowitz | Much overlap with what you put under "proprietary" | Nov 24 07:54 |
| schestowitz | Should we refactor and maybe put security under proprietary? Or put both under some new heading? | Nov 24 07:54 |
| schestowitz | Well, "security" was always a bit of a misfit under leftovers because there's FOSS and Linux stuff in there. | Nov 24 07:54 |
| schestowitz | >>> I've fixed the typo in the Security heading. | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | >> Much overlap with what you put under "proprietary" | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > I usually try to keep it empty unless there is something actually | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > relevant but maybe that discipline has slid recently. | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | >> Should we refactor and maybe put security under proprietary? Or put both | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | >> under some new heading? | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe. It'll be something to think about. If security is defined as | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > confidentiality, availability, and integrity of systems and data then | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > most of what mainstream media foist off as security is actually humbug | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | > and snake oil. Perhaps it would be well to add those categories. ;) | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | We need a (sub)category for FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | Lots of that lately, see comments in http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130683 | Nov 24 08:05 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Patches and FUD/Drama | Tux Machines | Nov 24 08:05 | |
| schestowitz | The taxonomy has not kept up with the times. | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | Maybe "openwashing" could use refactoring too, for the >kinds< of fakes. I'll be digging openwashing stuff later today (after work) | Nov 24 08:05 |
| schestowitz | Category-wise, we have: | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Security | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Proprietary | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Linux Foundation | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Pseudo-Open Source | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Openwashing | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Confidentiality | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Privacy/Surveillance | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Integrity/Availability | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | How about this...? | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Integrity/Availability | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Proprietary | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Pseudo-Open Source | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Openwashing | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Privatisation/Privateering | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Linux Foundation | Nov 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz | Entrapment (Microsoft/GitHub) | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Security | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Privacy/Surveillance | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Confidentiality | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | FSF | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | FSFE | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | GNU Projects | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Licensing/Legal | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Devices/Embedded | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Open Hardware/Modding | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Programming/Development | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Perl | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Python | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | Bash | Nov 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/16172590#ffc83580f08b01371e917a163ef10931 | Nov 24 08:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #LinuxFoundation Firing All #GNU #Linux -Oriented Journalists and Giving Jobs to #Microsoft http://techrights.org/2019/10/06/whose-foundation/ http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Foundation #deletegithub | Nov 24 08:43 | |
| schestowitz | "We must not let them grab the ground under our feet." | Nov 24 08:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Linux Foundation: Firing All GNU/Linux-Oriented Journalists and Giving Jobs to Microsoft | Techrights | Nov 24 08:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Linux Foundation - Techrights | Nov 24 08:43 | |
| schestowitz | >> We need a (sub)category for FUD/Fear-Mongering/Dramatisation | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | > Sounds good, but where should it be placed in the existing structure? | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | >> Lots of that lately, see comments in http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130683 | Nov 24 08:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Patches and FUD/Drama | Tux Machines | Nov 24 08:48 | |
| schestowitz | > TM never displays any comments. | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | They're strung together not as comments per se. | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | Can you see the meme in the page? | Nov 24 08:48 |
| schestowitz | >> The taxonomy has not kept up with the times. | Nov 24 08:49 |
| schestowitz | > It's a moving target based on the combination of what is available for | Nov 24 08:49 |
| schestowitz | > us to link to and what we actually want to link to from that subset. | Nov 24 08:49 |
| schestowitz | Some products died, like LiMO | Nov 24 08:49 |
| schestowitz | >> But nobody controls this sort of tech 'fashion'... it'll get worse in | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> years to come. Many now replace actual journalism with selfie-mode | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> "speaking to my phone" for YouTube/FarceBook "live"... | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> A digital ashtray like G+... | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> Notice how many 'mainstream' news sites go offline. Less competition for | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >> Techrights, I guess, but also mote broken links for Techrights | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | >>> outwards<. I hope IA survives another 1-2 decades. | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, they are important but not everything is archived and there is no | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > reasonable way to search the archive. I've gone through some of my | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > material from 10 years ago and nearly /every/ link is now dead and in | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > many cases even the site is gone. But even ones that are still around | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > have become nasty, like ZDNet, and purge inconvenient material so that | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > it is no longer accessible. I guess IA will be around only as long as | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | > it is hard to search. | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | For public sites in the UK we have the National Archive. I once did some work for FSA redirection to the NA for pages that were no longer available (missing due to CMS shuffles). | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | The Web is really bad when it comes to certain things. One day we'll be mocked for the cats, the memes and the loads of junk on social control media. Not that I'm sure future generations (what's left of them) will be better off. | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | Maybe in the so-called Internet of Things people will be treated as... THINGS. To be spied on, spoon-fed BS, and censored more heavily than anything we can presently imagine. For "national security" of course... for "our safety"... because "nazis" and "terrorists" and "pedos" and "pirates". | Nov 24 08:54 |
| schestowitz | I've meanwhile been told that "Alpine is dine" and maybe we can get help with it. Also at HV level... | Nov 24 08:54 |
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| schestowitz | https://linuxsecurity.com/features/features/nextcry-ransomware-targets-nextcloud-linux-servers-and-remains-undetected | Nov 24 20:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxsecurity.com | NextCry Ransomware Targets NextCloud Linux Servers and Remains Undetected Features | Nov 24 20:59 | |
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