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| psydroid | https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg | Jan 03 00:37 |
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| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-invidious.snopyta.org | The Memory Sinkhole - Unleashing An X86 Design Flaw Allowing Universal Privilege Escalation - Invidious | Jan 03 00:37 | |
| psydroid | most of you will probably already be familiar with these things, but I've never really dug into them | Jan 03 00:38 |
| schestowitz | yeah | Jan 03 00:40 |
| schestowitz | today we'll release some internal intel stuff | Jan 03 00:40 |
| schestowitz | I am progreamming the LEDs on the pi to show status for ipfs | Jan 03 00:41 |
| schestowitz | ./monitor-net5501-tr.sh: 40: ./monitor-net5501-tr.sh: doas: not found | Jan 03 00:48 |
| schestowitz | I've set it up to alert when ipfs index is being updated, 3 times a day, but cannot quite find what's needed to get site monitoring set up to alert about downtime with LEDs | Jan 03 00:49 |
| psydroid | I think doas is a BSD command | Jan 03 00:50 |
| schestowitz | it seems so, yes | Jan 03 00:50 |
| schestowitz | the script was put on some bsd before, iirc | Jan 03 00:50 |
| schestowitz | openbsd probably | Jan 03 00:50 |
| schestowitz | anyway, it's not crucials | Jan 03 00:50 |
| schestowitz | but those LEDs are bright enough to take me up in case of downtimes | Jan 03 00:51 |
| schestowitz | due to coronavirus I cannot get a soldering kit to set up the buttons as well, but LEDs are more important for now | Jan 03 00:51 |
| schestowitz | "Roly and his brother haven't even got a computer or smart [sic] phone." https://bkhome.org/news/202101/roly-86-and-brother-88-still-powering-on.html | Jan 03 00:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-bkhome.org | Roly 86 and brother 88 still powering on | Jan 03 00:54 | |
| MinceR | https://ircz.de/p/2007180 | Jan 03 01:02 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4762523) | Jan 03 01:02 | |
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| schestowitz | I've spent some time trying to get email on the server (SMTP) going again but still cannot figure it out, so giving up for now | Jan 03 02:31 |
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| Ariadne | somebody is slamming techrights right now | Jan 03 03:37 |
| Ariadne | i'm using this as an opportunity to do some performance tuning | Jan 03 03:37 |
| Ariadne | namely bye bye mod_php | Jan 03 03:37 |
| schestowitz__ | I think that's just backup | Jan 03 03:38 |
| schestowitz__ | it's this time slot, more or less | Jan 03 03:38 |
| Ariadne | ah | Jan 03 03:38 |
| Ariadne | well | Jan 03 03:38 |
| Ariadne | either way | Jan 03 03:38 |
| schestowitz__ | :-) | Jan 03 03:38 |
| Ariadne | i'm reworking apache a bit | Jan 03 03:38 |
| schestowitz__ | cool | Jan 03 03:39 |
| schestowitz__ | I was just uploading Intel slides | Jan 03 03:39 |
| schestowitz__ | and then DB dump started, causing timeouts | Jan 03 03:40 |
| schestowitz__ | "The requested URL /wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA was not found on this server." | Jan 03 03:41 |
| schestowitz__ | I assume that's apache being changed | Jan 03 03:41 |
| Ariadne | yes | Jan 03 03:41 |
| schestowitz__ | at the moment many wiki URLs redirect to the wiki's front page - something in the existing configs I assume (work in progress, soooo... just sayin') | Jan 03 03:49 |
| Ariadne | most likely something in the .htaccess needs to be tweaked | Jan 03 03:51 |
| schestowitz__ | I will check... | Jan 03 03:54 |
| Ariadne | oh i see | Jan 03 03:55 |
| Ariadne | i can fix that | Jan 03 03:56 |
| schestowitz__ | cheers | Jan 03 03:56 |
| schestowitz__ | just to avoid broken links and all | Jan 03 03:56 |
| schestowitz__ | index.php/wiki page title | Jan 03 03:56 |
| Ariadne | yeah | Jan 03 03:56 |
| Ariadne | just need to adjust fastcgi for it | Jan 03 03:56 |
| schestowitz__ | it's not ideal, but we strive to be backward compat to avoid link rot | Jan 03 03:56 |
| schestowitz__ | Ariadne: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/yuck-hri.png | Jan 03 04:03 |
| Ariadne | ok | Jan 03 04:09 |
| schestowitz__ | I know it's work in progress; right now all wiki links go to wordpress (page not found) | Jan 03 04:11 |
| schestowitz__ | I forgot how it was set up more than a decade ago for this wiki | Jan 03 04:11 |
| Ariadne | getting closer | Jan 03 04:14 |
| schestowitz__ | :D | Jan 03 04:15 |
| schestowitz__ | I think you did it | Jan 03 04:16 |
| Ariadne | not quite | Jan 03 04:18 |
| schestowitz__ | reverted? | Jan 03 04:18 |
| Ariadne | i fucking hate apache | Jan 03 04:19 |
| schestowitz__ | it's not easy, but many manuals are built for just that | Jan 03 04:20 |
| Ariadne | the site is a lot faster now | Jan 03 04:20 |
| schestowitz__ | when I said you did it I meant everything seemed to work for a while, maybe the old settings were restored, I did not check | Jan 03 04:20 |
| Ariadne | wiki is "working" but its putting an additional index.php in the URL | Jan 03 04:21 |
| schestowitz__ | the wiki feels a lot faster | Jan 03 04:22 |
| schestowitz__ | wordpress needs to dynamically load a lot of links, so it'll never be faster until cached and made static, which we don't want. Not while things are being added | Jan 03 04:23 |
| schestowitz__ | going to take a nap now, I'm exhausted | Jan 03 04:26 |
| Ariadne | got it | Jan 03 04:28 |
| Ariadne | schestowitz__: on techrights server, there is now /var/www/php-fpm/www-slow.log | Jan 03 04:31 |
| Ariadne | it will tell us what is slow | Jan 03 04:31 |
| Ariadne | haha | Jan 03 04:57 |
| Ariadne | i managed to speed up wordpress | Jan 03 04:57 |
| Ariadne | shitttttttt | Jan 03 04:58 |
| Ariadne | i wonder why this feed=rss is really slow | Jan 03 05:00 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wave-computing-and-mips-technologies-reach-agreement-to-exit-bankruptcy-1029922010 | Jan 03 05:34 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-markets.businessinsider.com | Wave Computing and MIPS Technologies Reach Agreement to Exit Bankruptcy | Markets Insider | Jan 03 05:34 | |
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| schestowitz__ | Ariadne: holy FAST, batman | Jan 03 06:56 |
| schestowitz__ | wordpress | Jan 03 06:56 |
| schestowitz__ | like we outsourced to clownflare or something | Jan 03 06:57 |
| schestowitz__ | 866GB of traffic in past 48 hours | Jan 03 07:09 |
| schestowitz__ | apachetop says | Jan 03 07:09 |
| schestowitz__ | anyway, I did some stress-testing, I've never seen wordpress working this fast before on the site | Jan 03 07:09 |
| schestowitz__ | seems like slamming is done on tuxmachines now, as a day ago... but it relents after a while | Jan 03 07:10 |
| Ariadne | yeah i’m pretty good at optimizing wordpress | Jan 03 07:17 |
| Ariadne | it will be even better once we rebuild on top of alpine and nginx | Jan 03 07:18 |
| Ariadne | i’m going to look at slow queries | Jan 03 07:18 |
| Ariadne | and see about adding some additional indexes to media wiki | Jan 03 07:18 |
| Ariadne | the media wiki rss feed does an unbounded query for changes | Jan 03 07:24 |
| Ariadne | it’s very annoying | Jan 03 07:25 |
| Ariadne | we need to fix that and we should add cache too | Jan 03 07:25 |
| Ariadne | download the URI to a scratch file only if mtime is more than 60 | Jan 03 07:25 |
| Ariadne | seconds old | Jan 03 07:25 |
| schestowitz__ | just recorded a video that mentions this | Jan 03 08:18 |
| schestowitz__ | uploading now | Jan 03 08:18 |
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| Ariadne | cool | Jan 03 09:21 |
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| schestowitz__ | will start publishing Intel material today, now that server-related 'flux' is through | Jan 03 09:48 |
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| vZS1 | schestowitz: gm | Jan 03 09:50 |
| vZS1 | Will take a look at the IPFS video you did | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | thanks | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | I had your initials in the first take | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | so I had to redo the video | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | I mention this in the coming (soon) video | Jan 03 09:51 |
| Ariadne | we should do the same things to tuxmachines container too | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | first time I had to re-record a video | Jan 03 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | happened a second time the same day... when I did one about IA and Groklaw | Jan 03 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | because for a few seconds my kate editor was accidentally shown | Jan 03 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | Ariadne: yes, if possible | Jan 03 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | tuxmachines is generally less heavy | Jan 03 09:52 |
| Ariadne | i was thinking about doing a podcast type thing | Jan 03 09:52 |
| Ariadne | dunno | Jan 03 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | it's easy | Jan 03 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | I just get used to it, I found the software that works well, webcamoid | Jan 03 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | some people later told me to try obs | Jan 03 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Mogz says kazam | Jan 03 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | it's faster and easier to do videos than text | Jan 03 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | but text gets indexed and all | Jan 03 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | so never doing videos on their own | Jan 03 09:54 |
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| schestowitz__ | vZS1: ipfs is now fully automated | Jan 03 09:55 |
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| schestowitz__ | it's done from 3 accounts and 2 machines | Jan 03 09:55 |
| schestowitz__ | using cron jobs | Jan 03 09:55 |
| schestowitz__ | then it gives me reports to audit, to make sure it was done correctly and the RasPi LEDs light up to remind me of he cron jobs running | Jan 03 09:55 |
| schestowitz__ | same for bulletins, vZS1, and IRC logs | Jan 03 09:56 |
| schestowitz__ | so if I was on holiday and away from home, those would still get generated | Jan 03 09:56 |
| vZS1 | Sounds like you've got a nice system going now | Jan 03 09:59 |
| vZS1 | Consider using a video editor to avoid re-recording entire videos | Jan 03 10:00 |
| vZS1 | You can split up videos into sections and such and make it easier to edit (also to make corrections to old videos) | Jan 03 10:00 |
| vZS1 | I had a look at the video | Jan 03 10:10 |
| vZS1 | Good stuff | Jan 03 10:10 |
| vZS1 | schestowitz__: re: video editor. Consider flowblade. It's exclusive to GNU/Linux and works quite well. | Jan 03 10:11 |
| Ariadne | i used to do devstreams with OBS | Jan 03 10:12 |
| Ariadne | unfortunately my internet in the middle of nowhere is not sufficient to do devstreams | Jan 03 10:12 |
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| schestowitz__ | [10:00] <vZS1> Consider using a video editor to avoid re-recording entire videos | Jan 03 10:26 |
| schestowitz__ | That would add to the pipeline and take time | Jan 03 10:27 |
| schestowitz__ | I do in one take without any written script, usually a handful (at most) of mental notes | Jan 03 10:27 |
| schestowitz__ | so I don't sound like a dumb parrot, it's more spontaneous | Jan 03 10:27 |
| vZS1 | Fair enough | Jan 03 10:30 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2021/01/03/happy-new-leaks/ | Jan 03 10:30 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Happy New Leaks | Techrights | Jan 03 10:30 | |
| schestowitz__ | you are mentioned here, vZS1 | Jan 03 10:30 |
| schestowitz__ | also the work by Ariadne | Jan 03 10:30 |
| schestowitz__ | I am working on the Intel stuff now | Jan 03 10:30 |
| vZS1 | Watching now | Jan 03 10:40 |
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| vZS1 | schestowitz__: video cuts off at the end | Jan 03 10:57 |
| vZS1 | 25:18 | Jan 03 10:57 |
| vZS1 | When you are talking about pricing based on excluding competition | Jan 03 10:58 |
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| vZS1 | I'm guessing there's more to it because it ended abruptly? | Jan 03 10:59 |
| vZS1 | Good video though | Jan 03 10:59 |
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| schestowitz__ | it ended too soon because it was still uploading | Jan 03 11:01 |
| schestowitz__ | I published before upload was done | Jan 03 11:01 |
| schestowitz__ | I guess it refreshed (page) it would get the full file | Jan 03 11:01 |
| vZS1 | Ah | Jan 03 11:01 |
| vZS1 | I'll refresh and try again | Jan 03 11:02 |
| schestowitz__ | Just checked | Jan 03 11:02 |
| schestowitz__ | the whole thing is there now | Jan 03 11:02 |
| schestowitz__ | upload speeds are apalling | Jan 03 11:02 |
| schestowitz__ | appalling because I'm throttled I assume | Jan 03 11:03 |
| schestowitz__ | they would flag "p2p" because of the pi | Jan 03 11:03 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm going to record one about Intel now | Jan 03 11:03 |
| vZS1 | Check what your upload speed is in some sort of test service | Jan 03 11:04 |
| vZS1 | It's unlikely you're flagged | Jan 03 11:04 |
| vZS1 | Great art by Mogz | Jan 03 11:06 |
| vZS1 | Looking forward to the leaks | Jan 03 11:11 |
| vZS1 | I'm working on the IPFS stuff again today. Good progress so far. | Jan 03 11:12 |
| vZS1 | I need to iron out the hacks to get rid of potential bugs | Jan 03 11:13 |
| vZS1 | So it will take a while | Jan 03 11:13 |
| schestowitz__ | just done the Intel video | Jan 03 11:22 |
| schestowitz__ | 10 minutes | Jan 03 11:22 |
| schestowitz__ | one of about 10 parts | Jan 03 11:22 |
| vZS1 | Someone told me yesterday that "coin exchanges" are silently delisting "privacy coins" like XMR (Monero). | Jan 03 11:26 |
| vZS1 | Idk if TR would like anything on that topic | Jan 03 11:26 |
| vZS1 | But it's a pretty big move against privacy. Because all the other coins don't care for privacy apart from the ones designed around privacy. | Jan 03 11:28 |
| vZS1 | I've been looking into the topic sporadically | Jan 03 11:29 |
| vZS1 | schestowitz__: I'll keep making notes on this and will share at a later date. I think it's concerning from a general privacy standpoint. | Jan 03 11:33 |
| schestowitz__ | I am not familiar enough with Monero | Jan 03 11:35 |
| schestowitz__ | so if something gets published about it, that would better come from someone with a clue and firsthand experience | Jan 03 11:35 |
| *schestowitz__ never did cryptocoins personally | Jan 03 11:35 | |
| vZS1 | I think the details aren't that important. It's more about surveillance. | Jan 03 11:38 |
| vZS1 | USA IRS offered a $625k bounty for "cracking Monero". Now the silent delisting of the popular privacy coins. | Jan 03 11:39 |
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| vZS1 | This is all a part of the war on privacy | Jan 03 11:40 |
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| vZS1 | I think it's important TR at least mentions these developments (even if only in passing) | Jan 03 11:41 |
| vZS1 | I just wanted to draw attention to it | Jan 03 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1: can you proofread the leak coverage with us? | Jan 03 11:41 |
| vZS1 | Sure. | Jan 03 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1: we mentioned the war on privacy recently | Jan 03 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/war-on-privacy-during-covid/ | Jan 03 11:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The War on Privacy, Bolstered by COVID Hysteria | Techrights | Jan 03 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | there was more on privacy | Jan 03 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/08/07/privacy-spun-as-public-health-hazard/ | Jan 03 11:42 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Our Collective Privacy is Under Unprecedented Attacks and Privacy is Now Conflated With Bad Hygiene, Not Just Criminality | Techrights | Jan 03 11:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | you're not the only one noticing it | Jan 03 11:42 |
| schestowitz__ | covid is another excuse the media uses to malign privacy-aware people | Jan 03 11:43 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/12/26/covid19-boxing-day/ | Jan 03 11:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Boxing People | Techrights | Jan 03 11:43 | |
| vZS1 | Will watch/read as I have my tea | Jan 03 11:43 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/11/01/11-million-people-after-patient-zero/ | Jan 03 11:43 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | [Meme] Contact-Tracing Ploy (Mission Creep/Mass Surveillance) is Only Effective When Dealing With Patient Zero and Few Others, Not Millions | Techrights | Jan 03 11:43 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/say-no-to-contact-tracing-apps/ | Jan 03 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Reminder: Absolutely Do Not Install Contact-Tracing ‘Apps’ (They Solve Nothing) | Techrights | Jan 03 11:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/covid19-and-human-rights/ | Jan 03 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | COVID-19 is a Real Crisis, It Kills a Lot of Humans, But Don’t Let It Kill Human Rights Too | Techrights | Jan 03 11:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/11/06/contact-tracing-poem/ | Jan 03 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The Contact-Tracing/Data-Trading Poem | Techrights | Jan 03 11:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2020/11/06/linux-foundation-computer-virus/ | Jan 03 11:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | [Meme] Linux Foundation and Microsoft/NSA Do Surveillance Together | Techrights | Jan 03 11:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | this one is sickening | Jan 03 11:44 |
| schestowitz__ | that last one | Jan 03 11:44 |
| schestowitz__ | Linux becoming "TRUSTED BRAND" for spies | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | and they use terms like "confidential computing" | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | companies like FB that steal your data | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | "confidential computing" | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | eavesdropping spun as confidential | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | totally misusing terminology | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I complained a lot about it in 2018 | Jan 03 11:45 |
| schestowitz__ | and passing of stolen data from one GAFAM member to another is "OPENNESS" | Jan 03 11:46 |
| schestowitz__ | They "openly" pass things like audio recordings of people | Jan 03 11:46 |
| schestowitz__ | the one I need proofreading of is still uploading, eta 13 mins | Jan 03 11:47 |
| schestowitz__ | I'll let it finish before I hit "publish" | Jan 03 11:47 |
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| vZS1 | Let me get on my computer. I can't really do much on my phone because it's awkward | Jan 03 11:48 |
| schestowitz__ | all phones ar | Jan 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz__ | *are | Jan 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz__ | and now with lockdowns you can only have face-to-face comms with spouse, kids etc. | Jan 03 11:49 |
| schestowitz__ | the rest is PRISMed, ENIGMAed etc | Jan 03 11:49 |
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| schestowitz__ | GCHQ has been recording pretty much everything for nearly 15 years | Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz__ | they have a relatively new branch in Heron House just opposite Town Hall | Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz__ | unmarked, but anyone with a clue will be able to find out what's going on behind those doors and ordinary windows... probably Windows too (the PCs) | Jan 03 11:50 |
| schestowitz__ | so privacy is now "against health" | Jan 03 11:51 |
| schestowitz__ | "In England, three quarters of the population are now under new, higher "tier four" measures. Other areas were moved up to tier three." | Jan 03 11:52 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 | Jan 03 11:52 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area? - BBC News | Jan 03 11:52 | |
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| schestowitz__ | Protest now a crime? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53166816 | Jan 03 11:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid in Scotland: What are the latest lockdown rules? - BBC News | Jan 03 11:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | Assange decision out tomorrow, reportedly | Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Can't protest | Jan 03 11:53 |
| schestowitz__ | You would get arrested | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | Scotland also | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-levels/pages/protection-levels-by-area/ | Jan 03 11:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Coronavirus (COVID-19): local protection levels - gov.scot | Jan 03 11:54 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55521747 | Jan 03 11:54 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News | Jan 03 11:54 | |
| schestowitz__ | [11:53] <schestowitz__> Protest now a crime? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53166816 | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | [11:53] <schestowitz__> Assange decision out tomorrow, reportedly | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | [11:53] <schestowitz__> Can't protest | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | [11:54] <schestowitz__> You would get arrested | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | [11:54] <schestowitz__> Scotland also | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | [11:54] <schestowitz__> https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-levels/pages/protection-levels-by-area/ | Jan 03 11:54 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-55030622 | Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-54862791 | Jan 03 11:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid: Thirteen arrests at Liverpool anti-lockdown demo - BBC News | Jan 03 11:56 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid: Organiser of Stroud anti-lockdown protest fined £10k - BBC News | Jan 03 11:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-54945624 | Jan 03 11:56 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid: Police in Liverpool arrest 16 at anti-lockdown protest - BBC News | Jan 03 11:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | the bill gates-funded BBC calls them "covidiots" | Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz__ | collectively | Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz__ | they would probably call assange proponents that, too | Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz__ | or not accurately tell what they gathered FOR | Jan 03 11:56 |
| schestowitz__ | I saw some newer BBC articles to that effect last night | Jan 03 11:57 |
| schestowitz__ | Cannot find it at the moment | Jan 03 11:57 |
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| schestowitz__ | #protest banned https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53935543 #uk #england #scotland ☞ | Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz__ | http://schestowitz.com/2021/01/02/ | Jan 03 11:58 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Coronavirus in Scotland: House party law to break up 'super spreaders' - BBC News | Jan 03 11:58 | |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts | Jan 03 11:58 | |
| schestowitz__ | 'super spreaders' - BBC News | Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz__ | The same language used to refer to Trump | Jan 03 11:58 |
| schestowitz__ | so you might be a fascist for gathering to protest Assange being kidnapped by the US for exposing war crimes | Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz__ | that'd the sort of message they tell the public | Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz__ | those "Dirty" assange supporters | Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz__ | just stay home and use your "social control media" with #HASHTAGS | Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz__ | that'll #FreeAssange ... RIGHT.... | Jan 03 11:59 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1: OK, upload finished. | Jan 03 12:00 |
| schestowitz__ | Find typos/errors in http://techrights.org/2021/01/03/inteleaks-dx/ | Jan 03 12:00 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | InteLeaks – Part II: the GNU Linux Developer Experience at Intel Under Siege | Techrights | Jan 03 12:00 | |
| vZS1_2 | Reading now | Jan 03 12:07 |
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| vZS1_2 | schestowitz__: there's a lot of static in the sound | Jan 03 12:12 |
| vZS1_2 | Text in the article looks alright | Jan 03 12:12 |
| schestowitz__ | yes, I need better equipment | Jan 03 12:14 |
| schestowitz__ | it's just the laptop's mic | Jan 03 12:14 |
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| vZS1_2 | I didn't notice it when I was listening on my phone. | Jan 03 12:15 |
| vZS1_2 | But it's prominent on desktop | Jan 03 12:15 |
| schestowitz__ | yeah, it's a shame | Jan 03 12:16 |
| schestowitz__ | I plan to buy something soon | Jan 03 12:16 |
| schestowitz__ | sound editing for noise reduction is a cheap non-solution | Jan 03 12:16 |
| vZS1_2 | Plenty of good mics out there, many on a budget. | Jan 03 12:16 |
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| vZS1_2 | Nothing looks out of place in the new video. | Jan 03 12:25 |
| schestowitz__ | no script | Jan 03 12:26 |
| schestowitz__ | but I generally saw some things related to this, so it flows OK | Jan 03 12:26 |
| schestowitz__ | one part per day should be enough | Jan 03 12:26 |
| vZS1_2 | It's also good for comprehension. Too much at once is kind of hard to cope with. | Jan 03 12:27 |
| schestowitz__ | I am still not sure about order | Jan 03 12:28 |
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| schestowitz__ | so I go through it chronologically for the most part | Jan 03 12:28 |
| vZS1_2 | Probably for the best | Jan 03 12:28 |
| vZS1_2 | You can always just post a new video about anything you'd like to follow up wit | Jan 03 12:29 |
| vZS1_2 | s/wit/with | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | Dear Richard Stallman, | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | I'd like to begin this message by thanking Mr. xxxxxx for taking the time to explain to me a bunch of things I wasn't previously aware of and could therefore just _speculate_ about. Mr. xxxxxxxx is a very good person and one whom I can trust almost eternally. It's not easy for me to trust anybody; experiences in recent years have shown that even those whom you think you can trust can turn around and stab good (well-meaning) folks in | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | the back, especially if there are financial rewards/gains associated with it. I suspect that another economic depression -- no matter its underlying causes -- will only deepen such mistrust. Add a bunch of things like mortgages and expensive "lifestyles" on top of it, and then betrayal becomes far too alluring. I keep myself from being corrupted by sticking to a very modest/low-cost life and keeping a job (for financial independence) | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | me to RMS the other day | Jan 03 12:29 |
| schestowitz__ | but I'm open to mentioning cryptocoin privacy under attack | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | RMS has long spoken about it | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | at least 8 years | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | he told me about it in person iirc | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | how bitcoin was missing the point re privacy | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | he said it to them in a conference | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | with annie machon in it | Jan 03 12:30 |
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| schestowitz__ | that has not been revolved since | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | bitcoin gives no privacy | Jan 03 12:30 |
| schestowitz__ | gnu taler does | Jan 03 12:30 |
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| schestowitz__ | but I don't know or understand taler well enough to explain it in a video | Jan 03 12:31 |
| vZS1_2 | I think it's just enough to mention the lack of privacy in most cryptocoins and the attacks on the ones that provide privacy (or attempt to provide it, at least). | Jan 03 12:32 |
| vZS1_2 | It's doesn't need to be a technical discourse | Jan 03 12:32 |
| vZS1_2 | s/It's/It | Jan 03 12:32 |
| schestowitz__ | I saw an article about it last week | Jan 03 12:33 |
| schestowitz__ | but I forgot what publication | Jan 03 12:34 |
| schestowitz__ | maybe PIA's | Jan 03 12:34 |
| schestowitz__ | something about regulation of currencies that are digital and privacy aspects | Jan 03 12:34 |
| schestowitz__ | in the US or maybe the EU | Jan 03 12:34 |
| vZS1_2 | XMR (Monero) is a good example because it's the one most people who know about crypto currencies are aware of | Jan 03 12:34 |
| schestowitz__ | Monero is under another FUD attack | Jan 03 12:35 |
| schestowitz__ | I did a video about it yesterday or Fridat | Jan 03 12:35 |
| schestowitz__ | they try to say it's not secure | Jan 03 12:35 |
| schestowitz__ | because people can misconfigure things or choose goodmorning1234 as password | Jan 03 12:35 |
| schestowitz__ | Friday http://techrights.org/2021/01/01/security-parity-fud/ | Jan 03 12:35 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Here Comes Again the False Parity (Comparing GNU/Linux Security to That of Platforms With NSA Back Doors) | Techrights | Jan 03 12:35 | |
| schestowitz__ | Monero in the titles | Jan 03 12:36 |
| vZS1_2 | Monero is generally a sound system. We went over the proxy attacks in a previous article. Just another case of that | Jan 03 12:36 |
| vZS1_2 | The problem with security is that doing it right takes education. And lay people don't like following strict instructions that seem overzealous | Jan 03 12:38 |
| vZS1_2 | It's a struggle I cope with daily | Jan 03 12:38 |
| vZS1_2 | My clients trust my instructions, however, so they just follow along. But to the general computer user it seems like pedantry | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | Turns out there's FUD against me also | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | some people target RMS | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | and incite him against me | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | but it didn't work | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | My message is based partly on what I heard from Mr. xxxxxx. I think it's overdue. I think I should have written something months ago (but I just didn't know enough; it was an enigma). | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | I've got myself a cup of coffee so I can write in greater length (greater than usual). Please don't mind typos or any unintended ambiguities (which can happen without me even realising). My message is intended to be cordial, and not out of/due to pretense. Every person is misunderstood sometimes, by _someone_... (intentions are also nuanced and subtle) | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:39 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | No need to reply, as I know it's a relatively long message. | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | Happy new year and happy hacking. | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | I had to spend a long time clarifying things | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | basically dispel lies told about Techrights | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | mostly accusations by proxy | Jan 03 12:40 |
| schestowitz__ | Canonical has had that done | Jan 03 12:41 |
| schestowitz__ | Jono Bacon and ilk | Jan 03 12:41 |
| schestowitz__ | like accusing someone who linked to techrights of being part of the site | Jan 03 12:41 |
| schestowitz__ | very typical | Jan 03 12:41 |
| schestowitz__ | and then bringing that up on TwitTV (FLOSS Weekly) | Jan 03 12:41 |
| schestowitz__ | so we need to be careful who we're seen to be associated with | Jan 03 12:42 |
| vZS1_2 | It's good to take precautions. | Jan 03 12:42 |
| schestowitz__ | hence my carelessness being null afaik | Jan 03 12:42 |
| vZS1_2 | You'll probably even deal with people falsely claiming to be a part of TR and spreading more nonsense | Jan 03 12:42 |
| schestowitz__ | inc. limiting accounts I give and access to our server | Jan 03 12:42 |
| schestowitz__ | we had some spies/moles have a go on us | Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz__ | on.. at | Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz__ | over a decade ago | Jan 03 12:43 |
| vZS1_2 | Limiting access (to only what's necessary) is always sound policy | Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz__ | that I actually know of | Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz__ | and not mentioning who's who | Jan 03 12:43 |
| schestowitz__ | or who has access to what | Jan 03 12:44 |
| vZS1_2 | That as well. | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | as it can enable in-between disruptions | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | wikileaks had that done to them | Jan 03 12:44 |
| vZS1_2 | I've always advocated for projects with decoupled participants | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | sigi even had access to their irc server | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | they entrusted a young teen and fbi asset | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | and convicted pedo | Jan 03 12:44 |
| schestowitz__ | after he burned Assange et al they put him in prison | Jan 03 12:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I supposed they already knew a lot about him when they used him as a mole/asset | Jan 03 12:45 |
| vZS1_2 | At the beginning of this year, I helped out an extremely disruptive project. I made sure all of them communicated in a way that kept their identities as obfuscated as possible. They got on with the work well and achieved their objectives. | Jan 03 12:45 |
| schestowitz__ | btw, assange decision tomorrow | Jan 03 12:45 |
| schestowitz__ | cannot protest outdoors | Jan 03 12:46 |
| vZS1_2 | Woops. s/this year/last year | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | you can get arrested. coz "corona" | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | "strains" | Jan 03 12:46 |
| vZS1_2 | Have to get used to it no longer being 2020 | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | yeah, it confuses me also | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | more so than most year | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | we had a 2021 bug | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | in postgres | Jan 03 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | some lousy script a cheapo dba put together in 2015 | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | created 1600 tablespaces | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | she was an oracle db person | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | so treated postgres like oracle | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | and now we have a messy DB | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | which broken in 0:00/1/1/2021 | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | *broke | Jan 03 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | the scripting was awful | Jan 03 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | barely legible | Jan 03 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | I saw the code last night, with hardcoded dates | Jan 03 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | let's being 2038 17 years sooner :-) | Jan 03 12:48 |
| vZS1_2 | Designing and implementing robust date handling isn't easy. | Jan 03 12:48 |
| vZS1_2 | That's why I don't hack that stuff by hand, ever.# | Jan 03 12:49 |
| vZS1_2 | Which is why I recommended GNU date(1), the other day. It works. KISS | Jan 03 12:50 |
| schestowitz__ | it does work | Jan 03 12:50 |
| schestowitz__ | until 2038 :-) | Jan 03 12:50 |
| schestowitz__ | or until they fix it, which I think they did | Jan 03 12:51 |
| schestowitz__ | maybe not downstream | Jan 03 12:51 |
| vZS1_2 | Probably because of Unix epoch time | Jan 03 12:53 |
| vZS1_2 | Need pretty big number types to handle it | Jan 03 12:54 |
| vZS1_2 | UET is generally what a lot of UNIX-inspired programs use, under the hood. | Jan 03 12:54 |
| vZS1_2 | And that's in seconds | Jan 03 12:54 |
| vZS1_2 | It's a lot of seconds. lol | Jan 03 12:54 |
| vZS1_2 | I don't know where the "issue" is, though. I haven't really looked into the source of date(1). | Jan 03 12:56 |
| vZS1_2 | I suspect it's probably not specific to date(1). Because it's a bit odd to implement your own numerical code for userspace. | Jan 03 12:57 |
| vZS1_2 | It might be a defect in the C libraries used, as well. | Jan 03 13:00 |
| vZS1_2 | A lot of C code doesn't support arbitrary number lengths | Jan 03 13:00 |
| vZS1_2 | One reason I like Raku is that the mathematical side is solid. You have support for arbitrary number lengths baked into the language | Jan 03 13:02 |
| schestowitz__ | what's the status for CI? | Jan 03 13:02 |
| vZS1_2 | Work in progress | Jan 03 13:02 |
| vZS1_2 | Maybe not going to be done this week | Jan 03 13:02 |
| schestowitz__ | i meanr rust ci | Jan 03 13:03 |
| schestowitz__ | *meant | Jan 03 13:04 |
| vZS1_2 | I don't understand the question | Jan 03 13:04 |
| schestowitz__ | are they moving everything away from msft? | Jan 03 13:04 |
| vZS1_2 | I don't really know what Rust team is up to with their ShitHub CI, if that is relevant. | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | sorry | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | I mean raku | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | rust is too infiltrated already | Jan 03 13:05 |
| vZS1_2 | Ah okay | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | by GAFAM | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | rust is done | Jan 03 13:05 |
| vZS1_2 | I haven't checked up on Raku in over a month | Jan 03 13:05 |
| schestowitz__ | stick a fork in it or let it burn | Jan 03 13:05 |
| vZS1_2 | I contact a few people in Raku maybe once a year. But that's about it. | Jan 03 13:06 |
| vZS1_2 | We'll be seeing much more of Rust | Jan 03 13:06 |
| vZS1_2 | Whether we like it or not | Jan 03 13:06 |
| vZS1_2 | Firefox is actively moving away from C++ to Rust | Jan 03 13:07 |
| vZS1_2 | Clownflare is actively promoting Rust | Jan 03 13:07 |
| vZS1_2 | Clownflare "workers" use JS and Rust, by default | Jan 03 13:08 |
| vZS1_2 | "workers" = "serverless" | Jan 03 13:08 |
| vZS1_2 | I see Rust as primarily a MS tool to combat C(++). | Jan 03 13:09 |
| vZS1_2 | Because C(++) is "infected" by GPL. | Jan 03 13:10 |
| vZS1_2 | This is less GAFAM and more just M, from my analysis. | Jan 03 13:10 |
| vZS1_2 | From a strategic POV, it doesn't make much sense for G to promote Rust. They already have Go. | Jan 03 13:11 |
| vZS1_2 | Go is pretty much a direct competitor to Rust, for all practical purposes. | Jan 03 13:11 |
| vZS1_2 | And Go is G's current flagship | Jan 03 13:11 |
| vZS1_2 | In the language department | Jan 03 13:11 |
| schestowitz__ | argh | Jan 03 13:12 |
| schestowitz__ | another posting of WSL spam into tuxmachines... | Jan 03 13:12 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 13:12 |
| schestowitz__ | Hi, | Jan 03 13:12 |
| schestowitz__ | I have just unpublished a Windows story at http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/146083 | Jan 03 13:12 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 403 @ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/146083 ) | Jan 03 13:12 | |
| schestowitz__ | We try to focus on GNU/Linux in tuxmachines and this story is basically promoting Microsoft's attack on GNU/Linux (WSL is E.E.E.). Better to focus on pro-Free software, not pro-Microsoft as this is what readers of the site are after. | Jan 03 13:12 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Jan 03 13:12 |
| vZS1_2 | In the corporate software world, Go and Rust are always in competition. | Jan 03 13:12 |
| vZS1_2 | We all know much much MS hates GPL. The other big monopolies at least tolerate GPL or use loopholes to circumvent intentions behind GPL. | Jan 03 13:15 |
| vZS1_2 | s/much much/how much/ | Jan 03 13:15 |
| schestowitz__ | yeah | Jan 03 13:15 |
| schestowitz__ | GoLang and the Android frameworks | Jan 03 13:16 |
| schestowitz__ | but either way, Google's 'YOU AXE' (UX) sucks | Jan 03 13:16 |
| schestowitz__ | they oversimplify things | Jan 03 13:16 |
| schestowitz__ | while leaving the gore like spying obfuscated in the background | Jan 03 13:16 |
| schestowitz__ | see page source of google.com | Jan 03 13:16 |
| vZS1_2 | spying is baked into the Go net/http module of the stdlib | Jan 03 13:17 |
| vZS1_2 | Under the name of "metrics" | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | science | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | metrics | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | data | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | what next? | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | "sharing" | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | "share your data science metrics to us" :_) | Jan 03 13:17 |
| vZS1_2 | It sends metadata in the form of unspecified headers, by default, last time I checked | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | vs code also does spying | Jan 03 13:17 |
| vZS1_2 | I had to speficially highlight this to a client, the last time they used Go. | Jan 03 13:17 |
| schestowitz__ | "telemetry" | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | and I heard msvs compiles code to spy, too | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | even code not meant to do this | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | this was barely covered in the media since the scandal broke out | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | the 'media' | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | marketing companies | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | with web sites that say "news" | Jan 03 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | and "editor in chief" | Jan 03 13:18 |
| vZS1_2 | Another reason GIAFAM hates GNU software is there's no "telemetry" or "metrics" baked in, by default | Jan 03 13:20 |
| vZS1_2 | We must remember, Google and Facebook are advertising companies, fundamentally. | Jan 03 13:20 |
| vZS1_2 | This impacts their bottom line harder than anything else | Jan 03 13:21 |
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| vZS1_2 | I never see this point mentioned but it's extremely important | Jan 03 13:22 |
| vZS1_2 | TR is pretty much the only place the "metrics" and "telemetry" gets exposed | Jan 03 13:22 |
| vZS1_2 | There's not many people that specialise in privacy, in the engineering sphere, so these issues to unreported, a lot of the time. | Jan 03 13:24 |
| vZS1_2 | s/to unreported/go unreported/ | Jan 03 13:25 |
| vZS1_2 | I can send you concrete examples at some point, as hard evidence. | Jan 03 13:25 |
| vZS1_2 | I need to find where I put my notes on it. | Jan 03 13:25 |
| schestowitz__ | it's related to the "ux" idiocy | Jan 03 13:28 |
| schestowitz__ | did you ever read those 'research' 'papers' of theirs? | Jan 03 13:28 |
| schestowitz__ | sometimes they do surveys | Jan 03 13:28 |
| schestowitz__ | sometimes observations | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | now all the rage is "telemetry" | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | measuring minds | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | like it's a science | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | fb tinkered with people's posts and timelines | Jan 03 13:29 |
| vZS1_2 | When they telemetry they really mean surveillance | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | they then called it "research" or "experimentrs" | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | after getting caught | Jan 03 13:29 |
| vZS1_2 | s/they telemetry/they say telemetry/ | Jan 03 13:29 |
| schestowitz__ | saying they measured "emotions" and stuff | Jan 03 13:30 |
| schestowitz__ | so common sense is killed by that pseudo-science | Jan 03 13:30 |
| schestowitz__ | of american-style multi-choice questions and answers | Jan 03 13:30 |
| schestowitz__ | and "Data science" | Jan 03 13:30 |
| schestowitz__ | they even made job titles to that effect | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | I've seen this buzzword degeneracy quite a bit. It's become more rapid over the last few years | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | except SRE etc. | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | "data scientists" | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | NSA has long called them "analysts" | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | program -> algorithm -> AI | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | basically spies | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | or | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | HEY HI | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | who listen to your talks with the girlfriend and "mom" | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | As you like to call it | Jan 03 13:31 |
| schestowitz__ | "ANAL-ysists" | Jan 03 13:31 |
| vZS1_2 | server -> cloud | Jan 03 13:32 |
| schestowitz__ | even some EPO staff now called it "hey hi" | Jan 03 13:32 |
| vZS1_2 | statistics -> data science | Jan 03 13:32 |
| schestowitz__ | many are calling or painting DBs as blockchains | Jan 03 13:32 |
| schestowitz__ | but over the past year that hype pattern quieted down a bit | Jan 03 13:33 |
| schestowitz__ | not sure why | Jan 03 13:33 |
| vZS1_2 | they just shifted focus | Jan 03 13:33 |
| vZS1_2 | To Bitcoin | Jan 03 13:33 |
| vZS1_2 | Merkle tree -> blockchain -> Bitcoin | Jan 03 13:33 |
| vZS1_2 | I haven't really seen much people calling arbitrary DBs a "blockchain" | Jan 03 13:35 |
| schestowitz__ | in patents | Jan 03 13:38 |
| schestowitz__ | one example http://techrights.org/2018/12/05/patenting-blockchain/ | Jan 03 13:38 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’ | Techrights | Jan 03 13:38 | |
| schestowitz__ | wow, techrights got SOOOOOO much faster thanks to the work by Ariadne! :-) | Jan 03 13:38 |
| vZS1_2 | Interesting | Jan 03 13:42 |
| schestowitz__ | we will soon do more EPO leaks | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | but they're on long holiday atm | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | I need topics to cover | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | news is slow tbh | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | covering microsoft stuff can give them 'mindshare' | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | even if it is critical | Jan 03 13:43 |
| schestowitz__ | maybe I can do one about the layoffs | Jan 03 13:44 |
| schestowitz__ | hmm.. let me see what I can go with | Jan 03 13:44 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_-_Layoffs | Jan 03 13:45 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Microsoft - Layoffs - Techrights | Jan 03 13:45 | |
| vZS1_2 | On Friday, I realised that one of the filenames in the IPFS bot's script was hardcoded. I fixed that in my newest iteration | Jan 03 13:54 |
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| vZS1_2 | I used a varible for that specific filename everywhere else. That one instance just slipped past me | Jan 03 13:55 |
| vZS1_2 | Seeing hardcoded paths gives me anxiety | Jan 03 13:55 |
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| vZS1_2 | schestowitz__: what's I'm doing for the tmp file name is that I'm naming the tmp file after the SHA1 of the index file. | Jan 03 13:57 |
| vZS1_2 | So it'll be /tmp/SHA1 | Jan 03 13:57 |
| vZS1_2 | That way, nothing else should wipe that by accident | Jan 03 13:57 |
| vZS1_2 | That's one of the biggest dangers when working with tmp files in a shared-user system | Jan 03 13:57 |
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| vZS1_2 | s/shared-user/multi-user/ | Jan 03 13:58 |
| vZS1_2 | I'm using SHA1 so that it will be easy to grab things from Git, if we ever need to. Because Git uses SHA1 | Jan 03 13:58 |
| vZS1_2 | s/what's I'm/what I'm/ | Jan 03 14:01 |
| Techrights-sec | https://pluralistic.net/feed/ | Jan 03 14:03 |
| schestowitz__ | seems good, the page source also | Jan 03 14:04 |
| Techrights-sec | ok I'll add it in for tomorrow | Jan 03 14:05 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1_2: is that script widely deployed? | Jan 03 14:15 |
| vZS1_2 | > schestowitz__ vZS1_2: is that script widely deployed? | Jan 03 14:16 |
| vZS1_2 | No idea | Jan 03 14:16 |
| vZS1_2 | Just you and I, afaik. | Jan 03 14:16 |
| vZS1_2 | I haven't shared it with anyone | Jan 03 14:17 |
| vZS1_2 | I've come up with a lot of improvements. | Jan 03 14:20 |
| vZS1_2 | The first iteration was just a dirty hack | Jan 03 14:20 |
| vZS1_2 | Now just implementing those improvements and thinking about them | Jan 03 14:21 |
| Techrights-sec | hmm. It's a little hard since the pages contain many topics | Jan 03 14:22 |
| Techrights-sec | and the title is a generic, uniformative summary. | Jan 03 14:22 |
| Techrights-sec | maybe it will need manual monitoring | Jan 03 14:22 |
| schestowitz__ | maybe at your side? I focus on gnu/linux and patents | Jan 03 14:22 |
| vZS1_2 | >Techrights-sec maybe it will need manual monitoring | Jan 03 14:24 |
| vZS1_2 | I noticed that the items tend to have "tags" | Jan 03 14:25 |
| vZS1_2 | You can filter based on those | Jan 03 14:25 |
| vZS1_2 | "category" | Jan 03 14:26 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, I havce it in my manual feeds | Jan 03 14:26 |
| vZS1_2 | That's the word | Jan 03 14:26 |
| vZS1_2 | You can filter based on categories | Jan 03 14:26 |
| Techrights-sec | In theory it would not be hard to split up the document, | Jan 03 14:27 |
| Techrights-sec | however the script is very simple and treats each XHTML file | Jan 03 14:27 |
| Techrights-sec | as a unit. | Jan 03 14:27 |
| vZS1_2 | The RSS spec isn't very complicated | Jan 03 14:28 |
| vZS1_2 | The nesting doesn't run very deep | Jan 03 14:28 |
| vZS1_2 | And most XML tags are optional | Jan 03 14:29 |
| vZS1_2 | There's probably already RSS parser libraries out there | Jan 03 14:29 |
| vZS1_2 | That's the best place to look, first. | Jan 03 14:29 |
| vZS1_2 | In your language of choice | Jan 03 14:29 |
| vZS1_2 | Maybe https://pypi.org/project/feedparser/ | Jan 03 14:32 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pypi.org | feedparser · PyPI | Jan 03 14:32 | |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1_2: I will do a video on monero, in passing | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | it'll be about privacy etc. | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | the microsoft layoffs one is uploding now | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | I forgot something I wanted to say (mental note) midway | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | and cannot recall it | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | but it doesn't matter | Jan 03 14:33 |
| schestowitz__ | I have to squeeze things in without repeating too much | Jan 03 14:33 |
| vZS1_2 | >schestowitz__ vZS1_2: I will do a video on monero, in passing | Jan 03 14:34 |
| vZS1_2 | Good stuff | Jan 03 14:34 |
| schestowitz__ | without too many details | Jan 03 14:36 |
| MinceR | https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqr8ZhBUcAAxY_D?format=jpg&name=orig | Jan 03 14:45 |
| MinceR | (no audio) https://i.imgur.com/F3I307a.mp4 | Jan 03 14:59 |
| XRevan86 | Another installment in the series "even vehicles can benefit from having a limb" | Jan 03 15:00 |
| MinceR | :) | Jan 03 15:03 |
| vZS1_2 | schestowitz__: I like the term "privacy tax". That's a good way to put one of the attack vectors. | Jan 03 15:05 |
| vZS1_2 | A dedicated article on this would be nice, since you seem to have plenty of concrete examples. | Jan 03 15:05 |
| vZS1_2 | Came acrss the term in "http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/war-on-privacy-during-covid/" | Jan 03 15:06 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | The War on Privacy, Bolstered by COVID Hysteria | Techrights | Jan 03 15:06 | |
| vZS1_2 | s/acrss/across/ | Jan 03 15:06 |
| schestowitz__ | recorded | Jan 03 15:20 |
| schestowitz__ | 20 minutes | Jan 03 15:20 |
| schestowitz__ | also listened to ensure no bad things got in | Jan 03 15:20 |
| schestowitz__ | 20+20 mins | Jan 03 15:20 |
| schestowitz__ | at the start I did not listen/review | Jan 03 15:20 |
| schestowitz__ | over time it takes extra effort | Jan 03 15:20 |
| vZS1_2 | A lot of extra work when dealing with videos. | Jan 03 15:21 |
| vZS1_2 | But it should help TR with reach | Jan 03 15:21 |
| schestowitz__ | [15:05] <vZS1_2> schestowitz__: I like the term "privacy tax". That's a good way to put one of the attack vectors. | Jan 03 15:22 |
| schestowitz__ | it's possible I picked the term from elsewhere, but I probably came up with it independently | Jan 03 15:22 |
| vZS1_2 | Tbh, you might want to just skip the camera and go with stills. Use the camera only when necessary? Should save bandwidth, too. | Jan 03 15:22 |
| schestowitz__ | like not using Nector card and stuff | Jan 03 15:22 |
| schestowitz__ | or "Smart" meters | Jan 03 15:22 |
| schestowitz__ | I mention how we pay MORE for not having one | Jan 03 15:22 |
| vZS1_2 | Yes, I have listened to the entire video. | Jan 03 15:23 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1_2: I will improve over time | Jan 03 15:23 |
| schestowitz__ | but I insist on one take | Jan 03 15:23 |
| vZS1_2 | This isn't about takes though. | Jan 03 15:23 |
| schestowitz__ | and if there's something like a password showing, redo all over again | Jan 03 15:23 |
| vZS1_2 | It might be worth doing a reader survey in 6 months | Jan 03 15:24 |
| vZS1_2 | Ask people how they read/watch/listen to TR | Jan 03 15:24 |
| vZS1_2 | Ask for suggestions on things like format, site accessibility, etc. We implement these things but it's the people on the other end that can really tell us if it's working or not for them. | Jan 03 15:25 |
| Techrights-sec | The RSS feed is fine, but the target pages themselves are combining | Jan 03 15:25 |
| Techrights-sec | several topics and posts into a single page. | Jan 03 15:25 |
| schestowitz__ | [15:24] <vZS1_2> It might be worth doing a reader survey in 6 months | Jan 03 15:25 |
| schestowitz__ | sounds like "data science" | Jan 03 15:26 |
| schestowitz__ | which is typically unscientific | Jan 03 15:26 |
| schestowitz__ | only surveys the self-electing, those choosing to give away information about themselves | Jan 03 15:26 |
| vZS1_2 | It's more for getting ideas than using it to reshape TR | Jan 03 15:28 |
| vZS1_2 | You don't need to follow up on every reply | Jan 03 15:28 |
| vZS1_2 | The goal here isn't a scientific study | Jan 03 15:29 |
| vZS1_2 | >Techrights-sec The RSS feed is fine, but the target pages themselves are combining | Jan 03 15:31 |
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| vZS1_2 | > Techrights-sec several topics and posts into a single page. | Jan 03 15:31 |
| vZS1_2 | That's a bummer. Pretty much need manual filtering, there. | Jan 03 15:32 |
| vZS1_2 | schestowitz__: I recall you said you are planning to get a better camera. Might want to resize the output to save space. Video racks up the byte count. | Jan 03 15:37 |
| Techrights-sec | https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#retro | Jan 03 15:37 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: 16 Dec 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow | Jan 03 15:37 | |
| scientes | this is extremely interesting https://web.archive.org/web/20101219070813/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/16/the-cultural-genome-google-books-reveals-traces-of-fame-censorship-and-changing-languages/ | Jan 03 15:44 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-web.archive.org | The cultural genome: Google Books reveals traces of fame, censorship and changing languages | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine | Jan 03 15:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1_2: video on monero up soon | Jan 03 15:53 |
| schestowitz__ | mentioned towards the end | Jan 03 15:53 |
| schestowitz__ | next one will be about FSF and stuff | Jan 03 15:53 |
| schestowitz__ | I will drop some more clues here... | Jan 03 15:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Have not written the article yet, might not do a video, either. Depends if there's something like a Web page to show | Jan 03 15:53 |
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| vZS1_2 | schestowitz__: I shared the "The War on Privacy, Bolstered by COVID Hysteria" TR piece with someone. They have an interest in this area and is sharing with other groups. | Jan 03 16:00 |
| vZS1_2 | Hopefully that helps boost TR readership a bit | Jan 03 16:01 |
| schestowitz__ | thanks! | Jan 03 16:01 |
| vZS1_2 | I got told "but they are aware of the issue; why should I share?" | Jan 03 16:01 |
| schestowitz__ | I have another one ready soon. waiting for video to finish. The file compression is a lot better when we use webm. | Jan 03 16:01 |
| schestowitz__ | esp. when we show pages with little motion, then it stops wasting bits | Jan 03 16:02 |
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| vZS1_2 | To which I replied there's a lack of _journalism_ about this. I also explained about what we have now is propaganda and surveillance fascism | Jan 03 16:02 |
| vZS1_2 | That was received quite well | Jan 03 16:03 |
| vZS1_2 | Re: webm. That's all good news. | Jan 03 16:05 |
| schestowitz__ | it's chosen for broader browser support | Jan 03 16:09 |
| schestowitz__ | I refrained because... Google | Jan 03 16:09 |
| schestowitz__ | but ogg theora support is lacking in some systems and browsers | Jan 03 16:09 |
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| XRevan86 | https://smbc-comics.com/comic/captcha-3 | Jan 03 16:16 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Captcha | Jan 03 16:16 | |
| MinceR | (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/20/204459ebd0a6fc44.jpg | Jan 03 16:20 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1_2: http://techrights.org/2021/01/03/julian-assange-decision-and-covid/ | Jan 03 16:24 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Julian Assange Decision Reportedly Due Tomorrow, But Protests Not Allowed and Privacy is Conflated With Criminality | Techrights | Jan 03 16:24 | |
| schestowitz__ | just now | Jan 03 16:24 |
| schestowitz__ | typos can still be corrected | Jan 03 16:24 |
| vZS1_2 | Let's hope, for all our sakes, the home secretary has as little influence here as possible. | Jan 03 16:29 |
| vZS1_2 | An enemy of privacy | Jan 03 16:29 |
| vZS1_2 | Remember the draft I sent a while ago? The anti-encryption one. All done with the blessing of this home secretary | Jan 03 16:30 |
| vZS1_2 | Former tobacco lobbyist | Jan 03 16:30 |
| schestowitz__ | lol | Jan 03 16:32 |
| schestowitz__ | smoking something while making laws | Jan 03 16:32 |
| schestowitz__ | he's on some real crack | Jan 03 16:32 |
| vZS1_2 | Priti Patel is female | Jan 03 16:33 |
| schestowitz__ | ah, her | Jan 03 16:37 |
| schestowitz__ | I thought she had left already | Jan 03 16:37 |
| schestowitz__ | they often put racial minorities in this role to diguise Tory racism | Jan 03 16:38 |
| schestowitz__ | inc. Brexit | Jan 03 16:38 |
| schestowitz__ | which is an attack even on Europeans | Jan 03 16:38 |
| schestowitz__ | French, Poles, Italians, Romanians | Jan 03 16:38 |
| schestowitz__ | see the past people in this role | Jan 03 16:38 |
| vZS1_2 | Pretty common | Jan 03 16:39 |
| vZS1_2 | Chancellor and Home Secretary have all been of Indian descent to disguise Tory racism | Jan 03 16:40 |
| vZS1_2 | Those are the "top two" in the administration | Jan 03 16:40 |
| vZS1_2 | Below the PM themselves | Jan 03 16:41 |
| schestowitz__ | After IBM, Google and Microsoft maybe Apple will also pull that card | Jan 03 16:43 |
| schestowitz__ | "we can't be racist for bombing and internment contractss" | Jan 03 16:43 |
| schestowitz__ | "we have this dude talk for us" | Jan 03 16:43 |
| schestowitz__ | [bonus point if also female] | Jan 03 16:43 |
| schestowitz__ | because then chauvinist culture becomes an impossibility | Jan 03 16:44 |
| schestowitz__ | I just did an article on us and RMS | Jan 03 16:44 |
| schestowitz__ | wanna proofread? | Jan 03 16:44 |
| vZS1_2 | Sajid Jaavid, Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak | Jan 03 16:44 |
| vZS1_2 | s/Jaavid/Javid/ | Jan 03 16:44 |
| schestowitz__ | totally not racist | Jan 03 16:44 |
| schestowitz__ | (the Tories) | Jan 03 16:44 |
| schestowitz__ | and Brexit is nothing to do with xenophobia | Jan 03 16:45 |
| schestowitz__ | "britain first!' | Jan 03 16:45 |
| vZS1_2 | >schestowitz__ wanna proofread? | Jan 03 16:47 |
| vZS1_2 | Can do | Jan 03 16:47 |
| schestowitz__ | thanks! | Jan 03 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | just a mo | Jan 03 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2021/01/03/15-years-of-techrights/ | Jan 03 16:50 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Speaking Out for the Many (Against the Few Who Control Most of the Mass Media) | Techrights | Jan 03 16:50 | |
| vZS1_2 | "History will be distorted is honest" | Jan 03 16:53 |
| vZS1_2 | s/is/if/ | Jan 03 16:53 |
| schestowitz__ | thanks, corrected | Jan 03 17:04 |
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| vZS1_2 | Don't see anything else | Jan 03 17:06 |
| schestowitz__ | I'll post daily Links now | Jan 03 17:07 |
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| schestowitz__ | done | Jan 03 17:26 |
| schestowitz__ | http://techrights.org/2021/01/03/septor-2021/ | Jan 03 17:26 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Links 3/1/2021: Septor 2021, Whisker Menu 2.5.1, Bleachbit 4.2.0, Wine 6.0-RC5 and Wine-Staging 6.0-RC5 | Techrights | Jan 03 17:26 | |
| schestowitz__ | pleroma.site is still down | Jan 03 17:26 |
| schestowitz__ | so viera bot is not fed any updates... | Jan 03 17:26 |
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| schestowitz__ | 45k video requests in techrights this past week. It’s all self-hosted, so bandwidth usage is high. | Jan 03 17:31 |
| schestowitz__ | > Extremely sorry 😔 | Jan 03 17:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > I'll make sure that. | Jan 03 17:40 |
| schestowitz__ | It's OK, it's just that it was the second WSL story in a week and I know actual GNU/Linux users view that as a hostile takeover. | Jan 03 17:40 |
| vZS1_2 | Heading off for now. Cya later. | Jan 03 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RUGvhg1GWI | Jan 03 17:49 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Chelsea vs Manchester City 0-3 - All Goals & Highlights - 2021 - YouTube | Jan 03 17:49 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ND1VsPFP4 | Jan 03 17:51 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Chelsea vs Manchester City 0-3 Extended Highlights & Goals 20201 HD - YouTube | Jan 03 17:51 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/12/lessons-from-sweden-about-going-cashless/ | Jan 03 18:25 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-stop.zona-m.net | Lessons from Sweden about going cashless | Stop at Zona-M | Jan 03 18:25 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | ReactOS merged some actual Windows source code recently. | Jan 03 19:03 |
| XRevan86 | DaemonFC[m]: huh | Jan 03 19:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Apparently, Microsoft open sourced the storage subsystem and some drivers from Windows 10 and ReactOS was able to replace their old storage system that was basically NT 4 compatible with some kludges for their implementation of the NT 5.2 stuff. | Jan 03 19:04 |
| DaemonFC[m] | As a result, the NTFS and fastfat drivers from Windows itself now work in ReactOS. | Jan 03 19:05 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I was going over the merged code from Microsoft's GitHub repos. | Jan 03 19:06 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Most of it seems to be based on Windows 7 and Windows 10 initial release based on the copyright headers and comments and the age of the files in the repo. | Jan 03 19:07 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft hasn't been updating it though. | Jan 03 19:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The most recent file date is 5 years ago. | Jan 03 19:08 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's a source dump. | Jan 03 19:08 |
| MinceR | https://full.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/21/3f3522fa02ef2a6b.jpg | Jan 03 19:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I'm not really sure what to make of them open sourcing bits and pieces of Windows and then hardly bothering to update most of it. | Jan 03 19:09 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've heard some people say they pirated the Windows 10 LTSC for their desktop because it's not bloated with UWP. | Jan 03 19:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Other than some built-in applications, developers don't seem to care about it at all and it's mostly just taking space. | Jan 03 19:10 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The Windows Calculator is built on it, but it's just a frontend. The win32calc.exe from Windows 10 LTSC is a classic application that uses the same code on the back end. | Jan 03 19:11 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I think all that's really missing are things like currency conversion. | Jan 03 19:12 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So if ReactOS needs a calculator, they can use the backend stuff from Microsoft and not the UWP interface to it. | Jan 03 19:13 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The odd part of the Windows calculator is that the one from Windows XP and Vista could handle incredibly large numbers but the calculator would freeze up until the result was ready. | Jan 03 19:14 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So instead of fixing that, Microsoft just capped the largest possible number it could work on again in Windows 7. | Jan 03 19:15 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's impossible to debug a practically infinite amount of possibilities, and with rounding you'll never get correct answers for particularly complex calculations. Just hopefully ones that are correct enough that they're useful. | Jan 03 19:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | As I was playing that new Super Mario game with Mandy last night I was considering how Nintendo games always work and there's no weirdness and crashing and things that make the game so broken that you can't finish it. | Jan 03 19:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Then I realized it's really because they're not so ambitious and complicated that it's impossible to play test or regression test the actual product. | Jan 03 19:19 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Consider that the games most likely to crash on the Switch are all third party and open world RPGs are the worst. | Jan 03 19:20 |
| scientes | > | Jan 03 19:22 |
| scientes | In ten years the proportion of Swedes using cash has fallen from 40 to 9%. | Jan 03 19:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | To make and advertise a huge game with potentially hundreds of hours of gameplay, they have to autogenerate content and put in a scripting language and write AI scripts, daily routines, and quest goals for many hundreds of NPCs. Then the game nears the deadline and nobody knows how it all fits together. | Jan 03 19:22 |
| scientes | that doesn't make any sense | Jan 03 19:22 |
| scientes | even *I* have some kroners laying around somewhere | Jan 03 19:22 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And even the patches can introduce more problems because they go to solve a very specific complaint and it collides with something else. Or the game throws an exception and crashes. | Jan 03 19:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I don't think many people use cash anymore. | Jan 03 19:23 |
| DaemonFC[m] | A lot of people who do just leave their small change in the tray at the self checkouts at Walmart. | Jan 03 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I grab handfuls of it and throw it in my back pocket and use hand sanitizer near the exit. | Jan 03 19:24 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've got some jars of change from that. | Jan 03 19:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Just sitting there for months. | Jan 03 19:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | What do you do when it accumulates $20 or $30 worth? Toss it back in the machine when you grocery shop. | Jan 03 19:25 |
| DaemonFC[m] | schestowitz The interview notice says you can call USCIS and say you think you were exposed to COVID and they'll reschedule. No penalty. | Jan 03 19:26 |
| scientes | however this article explains why I couldn't see any reason to work in the US https://stop.zona-m.net/2020/12/when-algorithms-meet-debt.../ | Jan 03 19:27 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-stop.zona-m.net | When algorithms meet debt... | Stop at Zona-M | Jan 03 19:27 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | I've considered it. At the rate it takes then for a new appointment it could stall them for eight or nine more months where they couldn't make any negative decision. | Jan 03 19:27 |
| scientes | there are just too many vultures | Jan 03 19:27 |
| scientes | trying to steal anything and everything | Jan 03 19:28 |
| scientes | I saw it over and over and the way to avoid it is to not work | Jan 03 19:28 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's a tough one. On one hand it gives me almost another year with Mandy where they can't do anything and maybe Biden rolls back some Trump bullshit. | Jan 03 19:29 |
| DaemonFC[m] | On the other one, we have an appointment now that's unlikely to be a major disaster and rip the band-aid off. | Jan 03 19:29 |
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| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | This intel article is a complete waste of time | Jan 03 19:29 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | No information at all | Jan 03 19:30 |
| scientes | link? | Jan 03 19:30 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | Somehow it's all about Microsoft | Jan 03 19:30 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Oh here's another one. | Jan 03 19:30 |
| scientes | well 99% of news is not news but propoganda | Jan 03 19:30 |
| scientes | more like 99.9% | Jan 03 19:30 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | If you want an interesting story about what's going wrong at Intel it's their fab process | Jan 03 19:31 |
| scientes | and most of it is written by people without the technical expertise to even know that what they are writing is propoganda | Jan 03 19:31 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Intel and Microsoft. Sitting in a tree. Kissing. First comes patents, then comes legacy, then comes Intel with a demand letter. | Jan 03 19:31 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | And the decision to not use TMSC | Jan 03 19:31 |
| scientes | which can be evidenced about how the US media constantly talks of "hackers" | Jan 03 19:31 |
| scientes | in #debian-arm they said that at debconf taiwan they toured TMSC | Jan 03 19:31 |
| scientes | well Intel is virtically integrated | Jan 03 19:31 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | I'm talking about this article | Jan 03 19:31 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | http://techrights.org/2021/01/02/in-the-beginning/ | Jan 03 19:31 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | InteLeaks – Part I: In the Insides of Intel… | Techrights | Jan 03 19:31 | |
| scientes | so that would be why they wouldn't want to use TMSC | Jan 03 19:31 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | Totally pointless spam | Jan 03 19:32 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Seriously, Intel has gotten so awful that Apple bails and they have to use demand letters to assert patents on x86 compatibility. | Jan 03 19:32 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | Try to actually wite something useful next time | Jan 03 19:32 |
| scientes | Sjsajzjaiwjxj, if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all | Jan 03 19:34 |
| Sjsajzjaiwjxj | Same could be said for "doctor" Roy schestowitz | Jan 03 19:34 |
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| scientes | I don't see libel there | Jan 03 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Vertical integration is highly overrated when you're a company that can barely manage to do a die shrink given 10 years. | Jan 03 19:36 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Each year, Intel says they're just "refining" their current process. | Jan 03 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | And they aren't technically lying because their 10 nm die shrink was not very good at the beginning and the yield was far lower than it should have been. | Jan 03 19:37 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So what they really mean is that after a few years on this process, they've gotten yields up which compare to where TSMC was at the beginning. | Jan 03 19:38 |
| DaemonFC[m] | The yield matters because if you're getting a bunch of defective processors that you either can't sell or have to be sold as an inferior part for pennies to make a Chromebook, you're not realizing the profit margins you should have. | Jan 03 19:39 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I love Archer. Cyril is like "Hey, these are pretty good fakes. I mean not good enough to deposit in a bank but good enough..." Archer: "To spend in a deli on a pack of gum and walk out with $999.50 in change?". | Jan 03 19:40 |
| psydroid | Techrights must have struck some nerves with the articles about Intel, but they are actually rather late and might as well have been written 20 years ago | Jan 03 19:40 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Counterfeiting to undermine an enemy's economy is as old as time. The British did it to us during the Revolutionary War. | Jan 03 19:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Of course, the reason that Dollar collapsed was because Congress was just printing a bunch of them to fund the war. The counterfeiting hardly made a dent compared to that. | Jan 03 19:43 |
| DaemonFC[m] | They say the North Koreans are making really good counterfeit $100s, but I really doubt that's where they're coming from. | Jan 03 19:44 |
| scientes | Intel has some amazing engineering | Jan 03 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Consider that there are elements within our own government who want to have unlimited funding that absolutely cannot ever be traced. | Jan 03 19:44 |
| scientes | and I respect their virtical integration | Jan 03 19:44 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's probably the CIA cranking out Superdollars. | Jan 03 19:44 |
| scientes | they definitely have some identity problems considering that moore's law is over | Jan 03 19:45 |
| scientes | but they have Altera FPGAs now | Jan 03 19:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Google didn't think enough of FPGAs to do much with those. | Jan 03 19:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Microsoft made a big PR stink about FPGAs and AI to fool people who respond well to buzzwords. Investors. | Jan 03 19:45 |
| DaemonFC[m] | You can reprogram them to handle a specific task, but then you can't really run general purpose software on them at that point. | Jan 03 19:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | So if you're going to do a specialized repetitive task and not really much of anything else, they work fine. | Jan 03 19:47 |
| DaemonFC[m] | Google built up their infrastructure on x86 CPUs and Linux for the most part. | Jan 03 19:49 |
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| vZS1 | > Sjsajzjaiwjxj: This intel article is a complete waste of time | Jan 03 21:01 |
| vZS1 | Ah yes. An overview that introduces a series is what you base your judgement on | Jan 03 21:02 |
| DaemonFC[m] | https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/fauci-vaccinations-are-ramping-up-in-a-glimmer-of-hope/ar-BB1craXe?ocid=BingNews | Jan 03 21:17 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.msn.com | Fauci: Vaccinations are ramping up in a `glimmer of hope' | Jan 03 21:17 | |
| DaemonFC[m] | 500,000 vaccinations per day in the US now. | Jan 03 21:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | That's up from roughly 200,000 in most of December. | Jan 03 21:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | I have us on the registry for Illinois for when it's our turn. | Jan 03 21:18 |
| DaemonFC[m] | It's an unknown factor, but what I do know is that everyone seems to be getting sick or hospitalized all at once. | Jan 03 21:19 |
| psydroid | I think it's them expressing their discomfort with knowing what is going to come and having to deal with the backlash their internal struggles are going to cause when they have been exposed to a wider audience | Jan 03 21:20 |
| MinceR | (audio:important) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/21/b7c00696bb2badcb.mp4 | Jan 03 21:20 |
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| vZS1 | psydroid: sounds about right | Jan 03 21:27 |
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| MinceR | https://full.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/20/0bfc588c40d3c5e7.jpg | Jan 03 21:38 |
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| MinceR | (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/20/57b390cc5871f5b6.jpg | Jan 03 22:00 |
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| MinceR | (no audio?) https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/20/648b63d11a92edf5.mp4 | Jan 03 22:34 |
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| Ariadne | jesus schestowitz__ replace your smoke detector battery | Jan 03 23:10 |
| Ariadne | every video you can hear it chirping along | Jan 03 23:11 |
| MinceR | lol | Jan 03 23:19 |
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| schestowitz__ | yes, I know | Jan 03 23:27 |
| schestowitz__ | DaemonFC[m]: Microsoft 'news' article selling Gates products | Jan 03 23:32 |
| vZS1 | I somehow stumbled upon some Polish abortion rights activists that were having issues with their literature distribution. | Jan 03 23:45 |
| vZS1 | Explained IPFS to them and they seem quite keen | Jan 03 23:46 |
| vZS1 | They said they'll get in touch with me later to set up an IPFS-based site for them | Jan 03 23:46 |
| MinceR | nice | Jan 03 23:51 |
| XRevan86 | Poland knows what a spiritual skriepa is. | Jan 03 23:51 |
| XRevan86 | https://youtu.be/VatQvr-iysM?t=11 | Jan 03 23:53 |
| -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Духовные скрепы - YouTube | Jan 03 23:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | lxer.com/ down again | Jan 03 23:56 |
| schestowitz__ | like half a dozen long downtimes this past 3 weeks | Jan 03 23:56 |
| schestowitz__ | no idea why | Jan 03 23:56 |
| schestowitz__ | no explanation | Jan 03 23:56 |
| schestowitz__ | vZS1: you would think an EU member states would make such views easily expressible | Jan 03 23:57 |
| XRevan86 | Poland went the way of a spiritual skriepa. | Jan 03 23:58 |
| vZS1 | s/expressible/repressible | Jan 03 23:58 |
| vZS1 | (: | Jan 03 23:58 |
| XRevan86 | So has Hungary, so not unprecedented. | Jan 03 23:58 |
| MinceR | you would think the EU takes its own alleged principles seriously | Jan 03 23:59 |
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