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schestowitzclear the way to add HTTclear the way to add HTTNov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>> Ok.  Looking ahead to the new system, should we go with Let's Encrypt?Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>> Or are there better options?  What about ZeroSSLNov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>> https://zerossl.com/pricing/Nov 25 07:29
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-zerossl.com | Pricing - ZeroSSLNov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>> or others?Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>> I never heard of any of the others. First I want to see if we canNov 25 07:29
schestowitz>> migrate without issues.Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>>Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz> There were some mentioned in IRC in recent weeks.  I can't recall whichNov 25 07:29
schestowitz> day though.Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz>> BTW, theNov 25 07:29
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz> Thanks! I didn't think they would!Nov 25 07:29
schestowitz> Falun Gong has fuck all to do with Nazis,Nov 25 07:30
schestowitz> blacklists have fuck all to do with racism,Nov 25 07:30
schestowitz> IBM has fuck all to do with community.Nov 25 07:30
schestowitz> In "Rip! A Remix Manifesto" (loaded with great Lessig footage andNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> dialogue, incidentally) Cory Doctorow (also some good footage) callsNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> this the "urinary tract infection model of business". He described theNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> rest more or less the same as he does in his cake/icing article, thoughNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> it is just as true or more true now than when he talked about it moreNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> than 10 years ago.Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> Docu is gratis/CC-NC-SA and highly recommended if you haven't seen it.Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> Done by Brett Gaylor, who then went to work for DOHzilla, you can stillNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> watch it on Yewtu.be.Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> schestowitzNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> > Today, digital systems offer perfect enforcement for theNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> Nov 22 18:40Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> <http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-221120.html#tNovNov 25 07:31
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Sunday, November 22, 2020Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> 22 18:40:40>Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> schestowitzNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> > pettiest, most bullshitty, greediest grifts imaginable."Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> Nov 22 18:40Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> <http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-221120.html#tNovNov 25 07:31
schestowitz> 22 18:40:42>Nov 25 07:31
schestowitz> I suppose what we are meant to do now, is watch if "FSF Forge" helps atNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> all with the GitHub problem that exists in the GNU Project.Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz> Obvious concerns: that it will be capable of helping though make noNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> difference in practice, that GNU devs will continue to put MicrosoftNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> first, that Forge will become the next Gitea-- something that is meantNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> to offer promise though it drags on and on and on.Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz> Or worse, that "Forge" will actually just be another GitHub-developedNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> project that the FSF has decided to sponsor and promote, like Jitsi orNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> IceCat or BBB or Perl... Note that Forge was mentioned months ago, andNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> it could be a year before a single project moves from GitHub to Forge.Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz> But I'm sure you know how much I would love to be wrong. Prove me wrong,Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz> please. Then all I could complain about is how they hate free speech andNov 25 07:33
schestowitz> silence people like their own founder. That would be real progress!Nov 25 07:33
schestowitzI think it was supposed to be ready in some firm by year's end.Nov 25 07:33
schestowitzA month left...Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz*I think it was supposed to be ready in some form by year's end.Nov 25 07:33
schestowitz> More cheerleading for constitutional crises and treason. I hope he'sNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> being sarcastic. If he's serious, it's just really dumb. If he'sNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> sarcastic, it's dark humour.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> DaemonFC[m]Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> Trump got the courts to set new limits to power he wasn't competentNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> enough to use fully.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> DaemonFC[m]Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> But....Biden and his cabinet are.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> Nobody really needs to ban what's left of free software.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> CrystalMathNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> we'll all see how wrong you all were when Biden bans free softwareNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> I believe you are mistaken, and do not understand the real purpose of aNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> Secretary of State.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> If you mean that she wasn't personally stationed at the front line, thenNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> I would agree with that.Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:36
schestowitz> schestowitzNov 25 07:36
schestowitz> HRC is horrible, but it's not her who invaded libya and syriaNov 25 07:36
schestowitzRe: Urban Explorers (France)Nov 25 07:37
schestowitz> https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k_DTXEBFXXU <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=k_DTXEBFXXU>Nov 25 07:37
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:37
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-yewtu.be | URBEX | Abandoned French manor, everything left behind - InvidiousNov 25 07:37
schestowitz> Here's a perfect example of dumb censorship.Nov 25 07:37
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:37
schestowitz> They are in a French manor that was simply abandoned years (possiblyNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> decades) ago.Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> They find a publications from WWII. They flip through to find someNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> contain Nazi Propaganda (there is no evidence the owners were Nazis.Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>>From pictures in frames, one may have even fought them.)Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> *"Unfortunately, we cannot show them."*Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> It would be interesting as fuck if they could let us watching them flipNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> through the magazines. It could get the explorers banned from Youtube,Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> it could possibly even get them into legal trouble in their own countryNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> (they are Dutch and speak some German, I don't know the laws in theNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> Netherlands but Germany is strict.)Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> You can find Nazi propaganda in the Holocaust museum. They're standingNov 25 07:38
schestowitz> directly in front of some with great historical context, but we can't look.Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> Honestly, that's pretty stupid. Censorship rarely cares about context--Nov 25 07:38
schestowitz> only as an occasional exception, not as a rule.Nov 25 07:38
schestowitzRe: Delighted HackingNov 25 07:39
schestowitz> A familiar article, which someone has automatically translated fromNov 25 07:39
schestowitz> English... to English? (Not American to British, BTW)Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz> https://www.agrowknowledge.org/features-thought-about-hazardous/Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz> <https://www.agrowknowledge.org/features-thought-about-hazardous/>Nov 25 07:39
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.agrowknowledge.org | Features Thought About Hazardous – Agrow KnowledgeNov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>   Features Thought About HazardousNov 25 07:39
schestowitz>   <https://www.agrowknowledge.org/features-thought-about-hazardous/>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz> "/GitHub does things that are rather bad totally free software..."/Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:39
schestowitz> "They’re not going to bother enhancing smaller choices usually, they’reNov 25 07:39
schestowitz> going to enhance the biggest one."Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz> "There’s a meme about creepy vans with “/FREE CANDY/” painted on theNov 25 07:40
schestowitz> side, which I took among the images from and modified it so that itNov 25 07:40
schestowitz> stated “/FUNCTIONS/” rather."Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz> "Sweet is nice, and some functions are great too."Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz>Nov 25 07:40
schestowitz> "Long live rms, and delighted hacking."Nov 25 07:40
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schestowitz> Hi Roy,Nov 25 08:44
schestowitz>Nov 25 08:44
schestowitz> I have a new email address, because I screwed-up the password withNov 25 08:44
schestowitz>  It's a long story...Nov 25 08:44
schestowitzNew pgp/sig as well? I think I have the new public key now.Nov 25 08:45
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schestowitz>> I think it was supposed to be ready in some form by year's end.Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz>Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz> Stallman is also supposed to be president...Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz>Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz> I'm sure they're tired of that old chestnut, but regardless of howNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> legitimate the election was, the events leading to resignation were bogus.Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz>Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz> Fraudulent pretense + Legit election = CoupNov 25 08:59
schestowitz>Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz> Nobody is blaming the new president for this, just the traitors. If INov 25 08:59
schestowitz> were president? I would spank the traitors so hard, that 1. I would haveNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> to resign myself and 2. so would they. But that's why they wouldn't makeNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> me president, obviously. They went with a "safe" option. I still thinkNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> it's a hell of a coincidence that it was the treasurer, when bribes wereNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> almost surely a factor. How does one say "he probably knows something"Nov 25 08:59
schestowitz> without implying his responsibility? Either way, it's safer to have theNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> person who knows something as president, rather than having theNov 25 08:59
schestowitz> president asking what the hell happened.Nov 25 08:59
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schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1ZSkt9kAqImTQVShUNov 25 23:23
schestowitz" my mobile browsing experience is usually clicking on firefox's reader mode button so i can read the actual content instead of "your privacy is very important to us" followed by a 500+ item list of preselected tracking companies."Nov 25 23:23
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-chaos.social | guenther: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site my mobile browsing expe…" - chaos.socialNov 25 23:23
schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1YsDC5pfDZh0fJKYyNov 25 23:24
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-noagendasocial.com | Salyer: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site lol!" - No Agenda SocialNov 25 23:24
schestowitz" lol!"Nov 25 23:24
schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1Y9POklvHproRuBguNov 25 23:24
schestowitz"thank you very much, Dr. I bookmarked and then saved this to my Zotero."Nov 25 23:24
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-floss.social | Ade Malsasa Akbar: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site thank you very much, Dr…" - FLOSS.socialNov 25 23:24
schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1XciVm6kClubX2JJwNov 25 23:24
schestowitz"nice mansplaining but I worked there for 18 months 😂 I fucking hate the Linux Foundation but it’s because I actually know how they are"Nov 25 23:24
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-jorts.horse | garden center goth: "@schestowitz@pleroma.site nice mansplaining but I…" - jorts.horseNov 25 23:24
schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1ZVkhfdB2n6iK1amONov 25 23:26
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schestowitz" Democrats couldn't get it done the first try and you know the Rethuglicans won't vote to remove him no matter how strongly they express themselves in regard to his intransigence. They know Trump's base would eat them alive, in some geographic regions literally."Nov 25 23:26
schestowitzhttps://pleroma.site/notice/A1ZVmZYCKzlq6rRIIaNov 25 23:26
schestowitz" Democrats couldn't get it done the first try and you know the Rethuglicans won't vote to remove him no matter how strongly they express themselves in regard to his intransigence. They know Trump's base would eat them alive, in some geographic regions literally."Nov 25 23:26
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-wandering.shop | WanderingBeekeeper: "uspol" - Wandering ShopNov 25 23:26
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