●● IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 ●● ● Dec 15 [00:02] MinceR (audio:important) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RINHjxsPOEg [00:02] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-not because you're a rabbit - YouTube [00:02] *pav5088 has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [00:02] *psymin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:05] GNUmoon Looks like Google was down and no one could access their electronic life: https://downdetector.com/status/google/news/354514-problems-at-google/ [00:05] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Problems at Google on 14 December 2020 | Downdetector [00:05] MinceR looks like my "electronic life" does not depend on google [00:06] GNUmoon +1 [00:08] XRevan86 MinceR: I opened my eyes wide. [00:10] schestowitz good downtime means "SRE" is overhyped [00:39] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [02:22] *oiaohm has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [02:23] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [02:26] *oiaohm has quit (Excess Flood) [02:26] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [02:28] *oiaohm has quit (Excess Flood) [02:29] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [03:01] *zoobab has quit (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) [03:05] schestowitz I did it! I quit Twitter [03:05] schestowitz logged out and all [03:05] schestowitz it's just a bot now [03:06] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2020/12/14/goodbye-twitter-2020/ [03:06] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Thanks for All the Fish and Goodbye, Twitter | Techrights [03:06] MinceR nic [03:06] MinceR e [03:06] schestowitz that ought to also clear up some space/time, making way for better tasks (not checking a bunch of nonsense) [03:06] schestowitz twitter was already getting really bad with the qanon drones [03:06] schestowitz complete nutcases [03:07] schestowitz and people who respond with one word [03:07] schestowitz like in FB [03:07] schestowitz no really intelligent discussion can happen there [03:07] schestowitz it's design to click-farm [03:07] schestowitz *designed [03:07] schestowitz you cannot even edit things there... in 2020 [03:08] schestowitz fact-checking non-existent or afterthought... which is why "Cheetos Nazi" and his cultists thrive there [03:21] *zoobab (zoobab@5.226.149.169) has joined #techrights [03:32] search_social we also thrive on the fediverse just fyi [03:33] schestowitz no [03:33] schestowitz social control media as a modality is wrong [03:33] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [03:33] schestowitz BTW, I'm waiting for my fediverse account to come back [03:33] schestowitz hardware issue crashed pleroma.site 2 weeks ago [03:34] search_social fediverse single sign on [03:34] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [03:35] schestowitz in 2019 I was VERY hesitant to join identi.ca [03:35] schestowitz tony manco (tmanco, made early bots for us) pressed me to join [03:35] schestowitz later I mirrored that account in Twitter using ping.fm and similar [03:35] schestowitz not defunct [03:36] schestowitz looking back, I spent weeks if not months on those platforms [03:36] schestowitz some are offline now [03:36] schestowitz it's outsourcing many people's work [03:36] schestowitz prior to that we were all active in blogs [03:36] schestowitz which were controlled by individuals [03:36] schestowitz not platforms or pods or instances with hundreds of people you barely know or care about [03:37] MinceR https://i.imgur.com/nDBpiDl.jpg [03:37] XRevan86 > I don't think that Debian supports any release for 8 years to any degree. [03:37] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: You're forgetting about Debian ELTS, Debian's old as dirt are still being supported by Freexian. [03:38] search_social technically speaking blogs are controlled by your hosting provider not you [03:38] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [03:40] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [03:41] MinceR what if my blog is on freenet or gnunet? :> [03:42] search_social is it mirrored between freenet servers? [03:43] search_social do we have an open source cloudflare? [03:43] MinceR i think freenet does that automatically [03:50] schestowitz MinceR: it's good they convert tweets to images. No cruft. [03:50] schestowitz no comments, JS, Css etc. [03:51] MinceR :) [03:51] schestowitz [03:38] technically speaking blogs are controlled by your hosting provider not you [03:51] schestowitz Not necessarily [03:51] schestowitz social control media platforms are a pain to maintain [03:51] schestowitz and if you have other users you have higher uptime expectations/requirements [03:51] MinceR until you get something that was re-screenshot, re-captioned and re-encoded in JPEG 50 times and you can barely read it :> [03:51] schestowitz you can run wordpress or drupal from a RaPi at home [03:52] MinceR well, then you become your own hosting provider :> [03:52] schestowitz yeah [03:52] schestowitz for low-traffic blogs the ISP would be OK [03:52] schestowitz we cannot do this with techrights [03:53] MinceR one of the nice things about it is that you could choose to have your blog on a more conventional host and also host a mirror of it at home [03:53] schestowitz I look to me left now, techrights did 462kb/sec since Sunday [03:53] MinceR sort of like what you're doing with IPFS [03:53] schestowitz tuxmachines even more [03:53] schestowitz sometimes it's like 3mb/sec [03:53] schestowitz esp. if we post videos [03:53] MinceR yeah, video is difficult [03:53] MinceR i wonder how well peertube works [03:53] schestowitz I tired it a lot last week [03:53] schestowitz I recommended it [03:53] MinceR :) [03:54] schestowitz blender is dabbling in it [03:54] schestowitz debian project gave its spare (unused) Google 'donations' to it [03:54] schestowitz peertube works better for popular videos [03:54] schestowitz with few peers it'll buffer a lot [03:54] schestowitz esp. hd-level [03:54] schestowitz but otherwise it's nice to know we can load-balance among peers [03:55] schestowitz Google and ISPs might not like that [03:55] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [03:55] schestowitz upstream strain [03:55] schestowitz aspberrypi:~ $ ipfs stats bw [03:55] schestowitz Bandwidth [03:55] schestowitz TotalIn: 63 GB [03:55] schestowitz TotalOut: 26 GB [03:55] schestowitz Techrights at 90gb now just for ipfs reqs [03:55] schestowitz and some people have pinned it also, so that'll be additional traffic [03:56] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [03:56] schestowitz Ariadne: when can you put aside a timeslot for attempting migration? [03:56] schestowitz I figured, in case we struggle we can also just dump the VMs into the new hypervisor 'as-is' [03:56] schestowitz but seeing what happened to centos.... you know...?\ [03:57] schestowitz my friend says he likes alpine, devuan and openbsd [03:57] Ariadne i have time this week, we're just in crunch time at work to make alpine 3.13 a reality [03:57] schestowitz for servers, but you specialise in Alpine [03:57] schestowitz Ariadne: cool, thank you [03:57] schestowitz the critical bits are wordpress @ TR and Drupak @ TM [03:57] Ariadne though the parts i am responsible for are complete [03:58] schestowitz the rest are less urgent because their traffic is generally a lot less [03:58] schestowitz some people still moan about their "modern" browsers getting angry because read-only sites lack TLS cert [03:59] schestowitz (which I think is almost a non-issue) [03:59] schestowitz Ariadne: BTW, href said the sites he runs will be back later this week. Meanwhile, I've made and improved my own suckless alt http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/ [03:59] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts ● Dec 15 [04:00] Ariadne that is just a website [04:00] Ariadne you should implement activitypub [04:00] Ariadne if you want a suckless activitypub server, there is honk actually. [04:00] schestowitz that would make it less suckless :-) [04:01] schestowitz it was nice when we had it archives through irc over viera [04:01] schestowitz that should resume when href is done with recovery and db import, which he says takes ages [04:01] Ariadne yes [04:01] schestowitz days [04:01] Ariadne pleroma.site database is huge [04:01] Ariadne that instance federates with everyone [04:02] Ariadne there's hundreds of millions of objects in the database [04:02] schestowitz I quit twitter [04:02] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2020/12/14/goodbye-twitter-2020/ [04:02] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Thanks for All the Fish and Goodbye, Twitter | Techrights [04:02] schestowitz Many people don't know about this... it's today [04:02] schestowitz no more web pages [04:02] Ariadne i might give epicyon a go [04:02] schestowitz twitter is not a web site anymore [04:03] schestowitz FSF should quit also [04:03] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2014/03/16/richard-stallman-social/ [04:03] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Richard Stallman on Google+ and Twitter | Techrights [04:03] schestowitz but RMS isn't there now [04:09] *Techrights-sec has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [04:10] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights [04:54] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [04:55] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [05:11] DaemonFC[m] There used to be a Fedora Legacy project to make sure that got security updates for several years, but it was abandoned. [05:12] schestowitz yeah... [05:12] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2020/08/09/aws-fedoraproject/ [05:12] schestowitz task: [05:12] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | It Looks Like Red Hats (IBM) Fedora Project May be Outsourced to Amazons Datacentres | Techrights [05:12] schestowitz DaemonFC[m]: check what other sites have moved to aws [05:28] DaemonFC[m] IT doesn't really surprise me that Microsoft plans to implement Manifest version 3. [05:28] DaemonFC[m] They obviously don't have to, because they have their own extensions store, but yeah... [05:29] DaemonFC[m] I wonder if anyone except Vivaldi will fight that. [05:35] schestowitz two proprietary pieces of junk [05:35] schestowitz I saw ECT writing about it [05:35] schestowitz we need to take back the Web or throw it away [05:35] schestowitz because it became not only proprietary but DRMed [05:36] schestowitz the last major browser that's freesw, firefox, is dying [05:36] schestowitz also becoming less free as in freedom [05:36] schestowitz so maybe the web in general is a lost cause now [05:36] schestowitz like whatever Microsoft wanted to replace it, Microsoft protocols for sharing around MS Office objects [05:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1338700530386780160 [05:38] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@iridesce57: @schestowitz A Verilux floor lamp behind my office chair helped here [05:43] *psydroid is in favour of throwing the web away and using a lean replacement that would also instantly make older machines viable for browsing that replacement again [05:51] search_social gopher? [05:51] schestowitz I looked into it last month [05:51] schestowitz it has its problems too [05:52] schestowitz I looked into about 6 alternatives [05:52] schestowitz spent hours on it [05:52] schestowitz for now, ipfs seems to best suit our needs [05:53] search_social or just html with js disabled? [05:53] schestowitz I have just scripted qupzillz to open some pages every x minutes to show me changes [05:53] schestowitz search_social: it's like going to a steak eatery and order veg [05:54] schestowitz http://groklaw.net/ still offline :/ [05:54] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 503 @ http://groklaw.net/ ) [05:54] schestowitz https://www.thelayoff.com/red-hat [05:54] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Red Hat Layoffs - TheLayoff.com [05:54] schestowitz https://www.thelayoff.com/t/17y7dQRz [05:54] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.thelayoff.com | Let's double - post regarding Red Hat layoffs [05:54] *tdemin_ (~tdemin@lan.tdem.in) has joined #techrights [05:54] schestowitz He said he'd double sales. Did not say he'd kill #centos to get there. ● Dec 15 [06:26] *tdemin_ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [06:46] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [06:51] *oiaohm has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [06:51] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [06:59] *oiaohm has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) ● Dec 15 [07:00] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:03] *oiaohm_ (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:04] *oiaohm has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [07:06] *oiaohm_ has quit (Excess Flood) [07:07] *oiaohm_ (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:09] *oiaohm_ has quit (Excess Flood) [07:11] *oiaohm_ (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:14] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:16] *mhoaio (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #techrights [07:17] *oiaohm_ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [07:18] *oiaohm has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [07:20] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [07:20] *mhoaio is now known as oiaohm [07:20] *oiaohm has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [07:20] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [07:21] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [07:41] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [07:49] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [08:10] *Magma (dfe1636b@gateway/web/cgi-irc/kiwiirc.com/ip.223.225.99.107) has joined #techrights [08:12] *Magma has quit (Client Quit) [08:32] *notanamber (~luca@host-79-6-210-200.business.telecomitalia.it) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [09:24] *CrystalMath has quit (Quit: May we live long and die out | http://vhemt.org/) [09:27] *inky (~inky@141.136.76.18) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [10:04] *tdemin_ (~tdemin@lan.tdem.in) has joined #techrights [10:36] *tdemin_ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) ● Dec 15 [11:03] *Blukunfando has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [11:48] *mmu_man (~revol@vaf26-2-82-244-111-82.fbx.proxad.net) has joined #techrights ● Dec 15 [13:24] smnthermes > [02:29:07] DaemonFC[m]: I wonder if anyone except Vivaldi will fight that. [13:24] smnthermes Brave and Opera (proprietary) [13:25] schestowitz How "open" is brave? [13:25] schestowitz not a rhetorical question BTW [13:25] schestowitz iirc, they use shithub [13:25] schestowitz and, there may be other issues. Blink is freesw afaik, and I suppose eme isn't 'supported' by brave [13:36] *xvx (~xvx@185.48.63.105) has joined #techrights [13:40] MinceR afaik it's free software, but they use shithub [13:40] MinceR well, at least as free as chromium is, anyway [13:42] schestowitz x https://hitconsultant.net/2020/12/14/microsoft-deploys-covid-19-vaccine-management-platform/ [13:42] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-hitconsultant.net | Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform [13:42] schestowitz # profiteering, surveillance [13:50] schestowitz MinceR: it's a new sort of threar [13:50] schestowitz MinceR: similar to systemd [13:50] schestowitz the "you have the code" line [13:50] schestowitz openwashing to make RHEL [13:51] schestowitz and keep other distros behind [13:51] schestowitz with edgy new releases and version inflations every month or so [13:51] schestowitz so RHEL is always ahead, like chrome is [13:51] schestowitz and to compile something like chromium or systemd you'd need a powerful machine [13:51] schestowitz I took ages to get all the systemd files [13:52] schestowitz I think tens of thousands for the repo [13:52] schestowitz it's madness [13:52] schestowitz not lines of code, FILES [13:52] schestowitz nobody can properly study that and if it doesn't compile, too bad, good luck... [13:53] schestowitz I think cubexyz once mentioned here what it takes to compile chromium (disk space, time, RAM) ● Dec 15 [14:00] DaemonFC[m] It is. It asks if you want to use Widevine and then fetches it. [14:04] schestowitz where from? [14:05] MinceR and what if you say "no"? :> [14:09] DaemonFC[m] From Google, obviously. [14:09] DaemonFC[m] They were mostly annoyed with how long it took Google to approve them to license Widevine. [14:18] vZS1 If people here don't mind documenting the build process for their favourite pieces of software, I don't mind serving the instructions over IPFS. [14:20] vZS1 schestowitz: a lot of the time they keep some of the build automation a secret, to deliberately make building yourself very difficult. [14:21] vZS1 No license can save you from that [14:23] vZS1 I spend most of my time trying to weave source together, to paint a coherent picture of what's going on. [14:23] DaemonFC[m] "> I think it is still an option in the settings but it doesn't keep pestering you like Firefox. [14:23] vZS1 This is one of the primary threats to user freedom. [14:24] schestowitz true [14:25] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: I think I just like Schwarzenegger movies a little too much. Whenever I'm playing an RPG and someone asks for a password, I like to say "Sure. Here's my password." and shoot them with a grenade launcher. [14:25] vZS1 Think about how many programming languages and build systems there are. Now, in top of those legitimate engineering complexity, we have to deal with obfuscated builds (I like to call this obfusbuild, like obfuscated JavaScript obfuscript). [14:25] MinceR DaemonFC[m]: lol [14:27] DaemonFC[m] Mandy was laughing yesterday while I was playing New Vegas. [14:28] DaemonFC[m] So these assholes were shooting at me and then taking cover behind a rock, so I was like "Okay, you have a rock and I have an orbital laser satellite. Shaboomboom!". [14:28] DaemonFC[m] Fallout 4 just got really unbalanced and dumb. [14:29] DaemonFC[m] There's waaaaaaaay too many mini-nukes all over the place. [14:29] DaemonFC[m] Even a person who is terrible at video games can lob a mini nuke at literally everything. [14:30] DaemonFC[m] In New Vegas, you can get mini nukes, but they're usually not just random loot and they cost quite a few bottlecaps at Gun Runners. [14:31] DaemonFC[m] Not only that, but if you're not very experienced with explosives, you'll pretty much always end up nuking yourself. [14:32] DaemonFC[m] IIRC, the only thing Fallout 4 did to balance the mini nukes was that they have an item weight. In New Vegas, you can carry as much ammunition as you can loot or buy. [14:33] DaemonFC[m] In New Vegas, the missile launcher is better than the nukes because it always has the range to get away from you before it blows up. [14:35] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: John handed me Fallout 4 on his PS4 and I think they really dumbed it down. Weapons are always in the default condition, VATS is so accurate that you never really need to use manual aim in real time unless you're just out of action points, and nukes are everywhere. To the point where after the Chinese submarine captain hands you those tags that can call in a nuclear strike, it's not even really much of a supe [14:35] DaemonFC[m] weapon. [14:36] DaemonFC[m] The downside to VATS was always that it's not perfect. It's part of an RPG. It uses bullet time to slow things down and then it tells you what the odds are of scoring a hit, and it generates a random number based on factors to determine if it's a critical hit. [14:37] DaemonFC[m] 4 turned it into "Right bumper. Kill this son of a bitch. A button.". [14:38] DaemonFC[m] I think things are getting dumber to make people who can't strategize think they're really smart. [14:38] DaemonFC[m] Not just in video games, but in video games. [14:38] MinceR video games in general are getting incredibly dumb [14:38] MinceR they can sell them to more stupid people that way [14:39] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, then they sell them at insane prices on Steam. I ran into this one they advertised called Haven, and it's more like a sci fi anime on rails than a video game. [14:40] DaemonFC[m] Everyone was complaining that it's just a really awful game with good visuals. [14:40] DaemonFC[m] They want $30 for it. [14:41] DaemonFC[m] I got far enough along in the story to go "Okay so this is basically Firefly only these two teenagers ran off in a spaceship to escape their planet so this guy can kind of insinuate that they can lay around and fuck all day and live off the only plant that grows here apparently. NEXT!". [14:42] DaemonFC[m] Perhaps unsurprisingly, the title screen says it was funded by some part of the French government. [14:43] DaemonFC[m] And that's the thing. A lot of these "indie" games are even surprisingly more crap, somehow, than the ones from the big studios. [14:43] DaemonFC[m] 30,000 bugs and all. [14:44] DaemonFC[m] The big studios put in just enough work that you won't go "I got completely screwed on that and I will never give them money again.". [14:45] DaemonFC[m] Somehow, the planet in Haven was familiar as the one Rick Sanchez goes to take a shit on in Rick & Morty. [14:46] DaemonFC[m] That's exactly what it looks like. [14:46] DaemonFC[m] It was basically an entire game of press F to pay respects. [14:49] thddx i loathe steam [14:50] thddx but have an ashamedly large library [14:50] thddx damn you factorio [14:52] *psymin (~psymin@fsf/member/psymin) has joined #techrights [14:54] *CrystalMath (~coderain@reactos/developer/theflash) has joined #techrights [14:55] vZS1 I play mostly indie games. [14:55] vZS1 There are a lot of good indie games around. [14:58] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/20071674 [14:58] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4760692) ● Dec 15 [15:13] MinceR https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704639.jpg [15:50] DaemonFC[m] I replied to CDC on Twitter asking why people in their 90s in a nursing home are considered more essential for the vaccine than people who work in grocery stores. [15:50] DaemonFC[m] It seems like wasting vaccines on people who are actuarially dead already anyway is sort of a bad idea, to me, if you have to triage. [15:55] MinceR https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704424.jpg [15:56] *tdemin_ (~tdemin@lan.tdem.in) has joined #techrights [15:58] vZS1 vaccine := experiment [15:58] vZS1 They're experimenting on the elderly and infirm. [15:59] MinceR missing ; [15:59] MinceR also, they have more to benefit from it [15:59] DaemonFC[m] Well, as a matter of policy that's debatable. [15:59] MinceR getting infected is more risky for them, while long term side effects wouldn't trouble them for as long [15:59] DaemonFC[m] They're dying in droves, but that's mostly because they're old and frail and about to die of something anyway. ● Dec 15 [16:01] vZS1 With the elderly, it's mostly risk management, I guess. Might as well try a prototype on them. [16:02] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, if the vaccine turns out to be a major disaster, then they don't have to live with that for long, I guess. [16:03] vZS1 There are multiple prototypes being rolled out in the UK. Pfizer isn't the only provider. [16:03] vZS1 There's one from Oxford. [16:03] vZS1 I forgot where the third one is from [16:04] vZS1 I deliberately say prototypes because that's what it is, at this stage. [16:08] DaemonFC[m] The Oxford one seems more dodgy than the others. [16:19] MinceR https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704307.jpg [16:33] *notanamber has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [16:41] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: I noticed that there's a goal in New Vegas called Demise of the Machines. [16:41] DaemonFC[m] Obvious Terminator reference, I guess. [16:42] MinceR :> [16:42] DaemonFC[m] You make progress on it by killing robots. [16:42] DaemonFC[m] Pretty easy with lots of armor piercing 5 mm rounds for the minigun and a nice set of T-51b power armor. [16:42] MinceR (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/25/eaefe04636113bd7.jpg [16:45] DaemonFC[m] My character has 100 level on guns but only a 15 on energy weapons, so I stick to bullets. [16:46] MinceR :> [16:46] DaemonFC[m] 15 is where the game started him on energy weapons. He can pick one up and shoot it, but probably won't do any good with it. [16:46] DaemonFC[m] I never really liked the energy weapons on Fallout. [16:47] DaemonFC[m] They're not really all that great once you get bad guys in power armor, which deflects most of the energy. [16:48] DaemonFC[m] Power armor can deflect as much laser and plasma energy as it can radiation, so with T-45d armor that's 10% and with T-51b it's 40%. [16:49] DaemonFC[m] T-45d isn't as advanced because it was obsolete before the war with China. [16:49] DaemonFC[m] The T-51b model was the US Army's latest stuff by the time of the nuclear exchange. [16:52] DaemonFC[m] Fallout 4 introduced the T-60 model with the explanation that the reason it was not in the previous games is because it was a prototype. [16:52] DaemonFC[m] I wasn't really happy with the way the T-60 model worked. [16:54] DaemonFC[m] You have to find these gigantic batteries to power it with and when they're spent, the armor doesn't work. [16:55] DaemonFC[m] I don't think it balances the game out much because there are places where you can recharge the fusion cores you have at. [16:55] MinceR sounds like the wh40k tabletop rpg-s [16:56] MinceR except there if you are a tech-priest/explorator, you can recharge them from your own implants :> [16:58] DaemonFC[m] Well, the Commonwealth Wasteland (what's left of Massachusetts) has this area that's extremely hazardous called the Glowing Sea. [16:58] DaemonFC[m] If you go in there, the radiation will kill you after about 2 minutes if you're not in a set of power armor. [16:59] MinceR also except obviously for the ones where you can actually play adeptus astartes, but i've never played those [16:59] DaemonFC[m] The whole point is that you have to stay out of that area until you're at a high enough level that you have power armor. [16:59] MinceR :) [16:59] DaemonFC[m] But, like with the ghouls and shit, that's not how radiation works. [16:59] DaemonFC[m] It doesn't just linger like that for over 200 years after some nuclear missiles fall. ● Dec 15 [17:00] DaemonFC[m] New Vegas has some grinding, but it's easy enough to figure out where to go and where not to. [17:01] DaemonFC[m] Last playthrough I leveled up faster by using some mini nukes on some deathclaws. [17:05] DaemonFC[m] They are incredibly hard to kill, usually, and at low levels you're not going to be able to control the launcher very well, but what you can do is ambush them from above. [17:06] DaemonFC[m] If they don't notice and attack you, all you have to do is wait for them to walk below and fire a nuke at them. The fact that you're firing it down into a valley means that gravity will carry it far enough away that it won't kill you when it goes off. [17:14] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [17:16] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [17:20] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [17:21] MinceR https://hugelolcdn.com/i/704054.jpg [17:21] *tdemin_ has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [17:31] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [17:42] MinceR (audio) https://i.imgur.com/XE5OcS8.mp4 [17:44] XRevan86 MinceR: Oh no, an actual fake %) [17:45] XRevan86 MinceR: This is India [17:45] MinceR :> [17:48] *gde33 (~gde333@84-106-154-98.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl) has joined #techrights [17:55] schestowitz [15:50] I replied to CDC on Twitter asking why people in their 90s in a nursing home are considered more essential for the vaccine than people who work in grocery stores. [17:55] schestowitz If the vaccine pushes them over the edge, "old age" will be blamed [17:56] schestowitz better for the stats [17:58] schestowitz [15:58] They're experimenting on the elderly and infirm. [17:58] schestowitz My dad took the flu shot months ago but refuses to participate in COVID experiments [17:58] schestowitz my in-laws are the same, not interested.... will keep distance for protection ● Dec 15 [18:00] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [18:03] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [18:08] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bread-and-circuses [18:08] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bread and Circuses [18:41] vZS1 schestowitz: I'd rather contract Covid than subject myself to an experiment. I'm in none of the critical groups. [18:42] vZS1 But coupled with isolation, hygiene, and wearing a mask, I'm not too worried. [18:46] vZS1 I feel like Covid numbers are inflated [18:46] vZS1 A lot of people probably died with Covid instead of from Covid [18:46] vZS1 Insurance companies don't need to foot the bill [18:47] vZS1 Governments use it as an excuse to implement "Emergency measures". [18:50] DaemonFC[m] This isn't the first time I've wondered if something worse is actually going on that they won't admit to or if it's mostly just an excuse for a power grab. [18:50] DaemonFC[m] Or both, I guess. Both works. [18:51] DaemonFC[m] The virus is worse than they admit and they'll admit that it's bad enough to grab more powers for themselves. [18:52] DaemonFC[m] Remember how the Soviets handled Chernobyl. They needed a high enough death toll to admit to, but not high enough to reflect reality, so they said something like 400 people died, and that's the number they stuck with, even though it was probably something like 12,000 (or more). [18:53] DaemonFC[m] As far as deaths go, the Coronavirus in the US is hundreds of times worse than Chernobyl. About the only way it's not as bad is that there won't be lethal amounts of radiation there for tens of thousands of years. [18:54] DaemonFC[m] Remember that the housing for that reactor is all that's between us and the goddamned thing spewing radiation that's every bit as bad as it was in 1986. [18:55] DaemonFC[m] And the temporary one almost collapsed before it could be dismantled and replaced with one that will probably last 200-300 years. [18:55] DaemonFC[m] And by that time, if there are still people, someone is going to have to figure out what to do with it all over again. [18:56] DaemonFC[m] All because the Soviets built a chintzy nuclear power plant with corners cut off of all the corners and had the KGB cover up the problems they knew existed all along, and then proceeded with an insane "safety test" using people that weren't trained for it, to disable several safety systems, each of which would have prevented the disaster. At the same time, because why not. [18:58] *tr_guest|4877 (59f67add@gateway/web/cgi-irc/kiwiirc.com/ip.89.246.122.221) has joined #techrights [18:58] DaemonFC[m] It was a disaster that required bad luck, stupidity, and improper design, and it all came together. [18:58] *tr_guest|4877 has quit (Client Quit) [18:58] DaemonFC[m] You know, like, you stop a car going downhill with one finger, if you react quickly enough, then at some point you just have to jump out of the way. [18:59] DaemonFC[m] That's exactly what happened with the Coronavirus, and Trump managed to bungle something that would have been so easy to contain if he acted on what we know he knew on January 25th. [18:59] DaemonFC[m] It's a bombshell like finding out about President Bush and the FBI's August 2001 memo. ● Dec 15 [19:00] DaemonFC[m] Like, what part of virus that kills old people did he not understand was bad for his re-election? [19:01] DaemonFC[m] If he wanted to stay in office so badly, he'd have had at least a quarter of a million more old voters and an economy that might not have been in the toilet. [19:01] DaemonFC[m] I don't think we'd be discussing a president Biden at all if Trump hadn't totally shit the bed on the Coronavirus. [19:03] DaemonFC[m] schestowitz: I noticed that just because you can still get a version of Windows 10 that doesn't limit you to Windows Store apps (S Mode), doesn't mean that it will be easy to run "classic" ones. [19:03] DaemonFC[m] Microsoft has implemented something that's sort of like Gatekeeper on the Mac. [19:04] DaemonFC[m] If you install a program the tradition way and it's signed by a developer that got a signing key, Windows will just go ahead and install it. [19:05] DaemonFC[m] If you get "untrusted publisher" or an application that "hasn't been downloaded very often" according to Microsoft ("Low Reputation"), it will block it and bring up a dialog saying it protected your computer. If you click "Learn More", there is a "Run anyway." option. [19:05] MinceR (cat) https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/25/68486ead61b20b87.jpg [19:05] DaemonFC[m] You can turn off "smartscreen" to stop Windows from blocking "low reputation apps", which apparently includes PeaZip. [19:05] DaemonFC[m] Which is under the GPLv3 and hosted on GitHub. [19:06] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: They didn't get their signing key from Microsoft? Now that's just embarassing. [19:07] DaemonFC[m] Doesn't Microsoft charge them to do this? [19:07] schestowitz [18:46] A lot of people probably died with Covid instead of from Covid [19:07] DaemonFC[m] So they have to come up with money every year or something just to give you software at no charge? [19:07] schestowitz That is always the case, but still, if you look at excess death you cannot deny it's a fatal thing [19:07] DaemonFC[m] JWZ complained about Apple charging like $199 a year to be an App Store publisher. [19:08] DaemonFC[m] They lean on you hard to not give away apps that don't make them any money. [19:08] schestowitz focus on that number alone, then you see overwhelmed hospitals (also something we can measure) cause additional deaths [19:08] schestowitz I can give you more links [19:08] XRevan86 schestowitz: People just trip and fall through windows a lot this year, nothing to worry about. [19:08] schestowitz governments always like extra powers regardless, they don't need COVID for that [19:08] DaemonFC[m] Windows Store apps have a lot of downsides, for both publisher and user. [19:09] schestowitz vZS1: yesterday for example: "With Swedens hospitals overflowing and the bodies piling up in morgues, its neighbors #Norway and #Denmark have offered to step in with emergency aid." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/14/pers-d14.html [19:09] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.wsws.org | Swedens herd immunity policy produces disaster - World Socialist Web Site [19:09] XRevan86 DaemonFC[m]: "both" you forgot about the more important side of this relationship. [19:09] schestowitz so you cannot write it off as hype and inflated, not fair to the VICTIMS and their loved ones [19:09] DaemonFC[m] For example, it's difficult to extend them or change their settings, because they kind of live walled off from the system. [19:09] DaemonFC[m] There's a lag in getting updates, and you can't decline the update or revert to a version you liked better. [19:10] DaemonFC[m] On Linux, a bunch of idiots got together and decided that native packages don't work well and there needed to be some screwball decision where apps came in that don't integrate with the system and are ten times bigger. [19:11] DaemonFC[m] Even though native packages work fine and nobody has ever had problems with that. [19:11] DaemonFC[m] Microsoft is really arm wrestling people to use the Windows Store, and nobody really wants to do that. So you hit them with fake security warnings and stuff. [19:12] DaemonFC[m] Make it seem like there's automatically something wrong with getting a package and clicking on it. [19:12] vZS1 > so you cannot write it off as hype and inflated [19:12] vZS1 I didn't say that [19:12] vZS1 I was just saying that some bodies are having a field day because of it [19:13] DaemonFC[m] Then if that wasn't funny enough, there's some registry bit you can set that unhides the old EdgeHTML version of Microsoft Edge, and calls it Edge Legacy. [19:13] DaemonFC[m] Legacy. It had a very long legacy of like 4 years, you know. ;) [19:13] vZS1 Even if there is a pandemic, people shouldn't stop being critical of authorities [19:13] vZS1 And there is a pandemic [19:14] vZS1 I have followed every government lockdown instruction [19:15] vZS1 But I refuse to be a guinea pig for a prototype vaccine. [19:15] schestowitz BTW [19:15] schestowitz hours ago... [19:15] schestowitz our restrictions were loosened [19:15] schestowitz tier 2 now [19:15] schestowitz so some places will reopen, if this survived this long [19:15] schestowitz many did not [19:15] DaemonFC[m] "Additionally, we will be ending support forthe legacy version of the Microsoft Edge desktop app on March 9, 2021, in favor of the new Microsoft Edge. This means that the legacy version of the desktop app will no longer receive security updates." [19:15] schestowitz like some places we really liked [19:16] DaemonFC[m] That sounds an awful lot like it's going to be removed at some point. [19:16] schestowitz "apps" are like that [19:16] schestowitz I have no "apps" [19:16] vZS1 London is entering tier 3 tomorrow [19:16] schestowitz never go for anything that has "apps" instead of SOFTWARE [19:16] schestowitz vZS1: yes, I've heard [19:16] schestowitz south wales is also soaring cases-wise [19:16] schestowitz maybe bristol also, have not checked closely [19:17] vZS1 A friend told me. I don't watch the "news" [19:17] schestowitz I've just recorded a quick video about linux.com [19:17] vZS1 I look up the official government website for directives [19:17] schestowitz these take very little time to make [19:18] DaemonFC[m] schestowitz: It looks like they're going to successfully call a Recall Election for California Governor Gavin Newsom. [19:18] schestowitz vZS1: RMS said the same [19:18] schestowitz I stopped tracking even just the "numbers" [19:18] schestowitz after 6-7 months [19:18] schestowitz I get on with my life [19:18] DaemonFC[m] Whether he survives it or not is an aside. It will be embarrassing and a distraction during a disaster, but self-inflicted. [19:18] schestowitz trauma and panic are OK initially, perhaps... [19:18] vZS1 There's enough propaganda on the government website. I don't need any more from the "news". [19:18] DaemonFC[m] He locks down the state and then has a maskless dinner with dozens of people at an upscale restaurant. [19:19] schestowitz Todays #HowTos | #UNIX http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145454 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | today's howtos | Tux Machines [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:19:28 [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-schestowitz.com | Social Control Media Posts [19:19] schestowitz SUSE statement on Amnesia:33 vulnerabilities | SUSE Communities https://www.suse.com/c/suse-statement-on-amnesia33-vulnerabilities/#respond #suse | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:22:27 [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-SUSE statement on Amnesia:33 vulnerabilities | SUSE Communities [19:19] schestowitz #Multimedia and #Graphics in Linux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145455 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | Multimedia and Graphics in Linux | Tux Machines [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:26:54 [19:19] schestowitz "2020: A year like no other" Yeah... you killed #centos https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-shares--special-edition-year-open-source-2020 #ibm #redhat [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:27:48 [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.redhat.com | Red Hat Shares Special edition: This year in open source (2020) [19:19] schestowitz There's no #redhat anymore; it speaks like #ibm now https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-better-subscription-management-experience-part-1-simple-content-access [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.redhat.com | Building a better subscription management experience part 1: Simple Content Access [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:28:52 [19:19] schestowitz GNU/Linux Devices and #Arduino http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/145456 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines | more in http://schestowitz.com/2020/12/15/#latest [19:19] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.tuxmachines.org | GNU/Linux Devices and Arduino | Tux Machines [19:19] schestowitz posted Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 01:31:49 [19:19] *schestowitz has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [19:19] vZS1 I lived through 2 military coups and a genocide, I'm not really one to panic. [19:20] DaemonFC[m] Politically, that has to be worse than just not doing a damned thing to begin with. [19:20] *schestowitz (~schestowi@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techrights [19:20] schestowitz sorry, my bad [19:20] schestowitz I selected too many lines [19:20] schestowitz and pasted not one but many [19:20] DaemonFC[m] I mean, the way this looks is that Governor Newsom will destroy the state's finances and economy, cause mass job losses, and then doesn't take the virus seriously at all. [19:21] DaemonFC[m] Goes out to a fancy restaurant, which....How the hell was that even open if the state is under a lockdown order banning restaurants? [19:22] vZS1 schestowitz: LWN.net is another one to be careful of. It's turned into a puff piece outlet for GAFAM. Nothing of substance to hackers anymore. [19:22] DaemonFC[m] schestowitz: CNN: "Trump threatens that he won't leave office!", "Coronavirus death toll skyrockets!", "13 million lose unemployment benefits at the end of the month!"...... Also CNN, "33 stocking stuffers you can buy on Amazon right now!". [19:22] schestowitz LWN is still good [19:22] schestowitz nobody is perfect [19:22] vZS1 I disagree [19:23] schestowitz they did a piece on Pocock which was nasty [19:23] schestowitz and sometimes they push fluff [19:23] schestowitz but compared to other sites they're mostly OK.... mostly [19:23] vZS1 It's just regurgitated patch notes [19:23] DaemonFC[m] What's on your holiday list for the unemployed people who are dying and could possibly be ruled over by a dictator that is threatening to suspend the constitution? [19:23] schestowitz I cannot think of many sites more credible than them... in that particular domain [19:24] DaemonFC[m] Microsoft Edge can give you coupons. They're almost like having a job, and heat this winter. [19:24] DaemonFC[m] Save 5% on junk while you're being evicted. [19:26] vZS1 schestowitz: anyone can just regurgitate patch notes. That's just noise. People are just better off aggregating the original patch notes. [19:27] schestowitz 5-6 times per week they do articles [19:27] schestowitz I think you refer to their daily picks [19:27] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/see-yourself [19:27] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - See Yourself [19:29] vZS1 It applies to everything they write [19:31] vZS1 The upstream patch notes + development conversations are where people should go instead of lwn "news" [19:31] DaemonFC[m] Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously twice that Biden won the election, electors have already voted, Mitch McConnell said congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden, and they're building a stage for the inauguration, and Trump is still whining and claiming that it was all rigged. Of course, few point out he said the election that he won in 2016 was rigged too. He said it was rigged and he'd lose [19:31] DaemonFC[m] because it was rigged. [19:31] vZS1 They bolt on their own agenda [19:32] vZS1 Cheeto Hitler got away scott free after impeachment. If anyone rigged anything, it's him. [19:37] DaemonFC[m] Well, he is being removed from office, but yeah, he got an extra year after the impeachment that he did not deserve. [19:37] DaemonFC[m] And they hurried to make the most of it before he lost. [19:38] DaemonFC[m] And several pieces in such a big hurry that they were thrown out by the courts for not following basic standards of legal regulation-making. [19:38] DaemonFC[m] The courts didn't throw out Public Charge and the new fee hikes for immigration benefits and H1-B visa bans on grounds where they could absolutely never come up again. [19:39] DaemonFC[m] They simply decided that they weren't legally created by the standards of the Administrative Procedures Act and that an Acting Homeland Security Secretary doesn't have the authority to make new regulations. [19:40] DaemonFC[m] The same standard by which Trump was foiled on those regulations could haunt Biden for years if he has to hobble around on Acting Secretaries. [19:40] DaemonFC[m] The Trump Administration was so disorganized and dysfunctional that it was the source of almost all of its own policy defeats. [19:40] DaemonFC[m] The Democrats didn't really manage to do shit. [19:41] DaemonFC[m] At the state level, they really moved their asses to certify Biden's electors before the courts could stop them. [19:49] DaemonFC[m] The guy gets by on being unscrupulous and not a hell of a lot else. [19:50] DaemonFC[m] He's not very smart. He has a terrible temper and a toxic personality. All of the people who had to do his dirty work would piss him off at some point and get fired. [19:50] DaemonFC[m] But the courts mostly upheld what he managed to get done. So if he had been smart and not foul tempered, he could have done far worse. ● Dec 15 [20:05] *cubexyz has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [20:05] *vZS1 has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) [20:05] *cubexyz (~cubeman@maxhost.org) has joined #techrights [20:10] *BifrostBot[m] has quit (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) [20:10] *BifrostBot[m] (bifrostmat@gateway/shell/matrix.org/x-dkajkqhmmvzllpir) has joined #techrights [20:13] *vZS1 (~vZS1@host-92-20-231-81.as13285.net) has joined #techrights [20:20] CrystalMath vZS1: the impeachment was bullcrap [20:21] CrystalMath there is no way, and i mean no way, that russia had anything to do with Trump [20:21] CrystalMath i calculate the chance of russia interfering in american elections to be exactly 0 [20:22] CrystalMath they say that there's no such thing as truly impossible events, but Putin would be more likely to quantum tunnel through hyperspace than to interfere with american elections in 2016 [20:22] CrystalMath that's how i feel about it [20:22] CrystalMath there's no crazier bullcrap than "russia elected Trump" [20:22] CrystalMath no qanon nonsense was ever that insane [20:27] CrystalMath when Trump pardons Assange, you will know that you were fed lies, and that he was actually good [20:27] CrystalMath maybe Snowden too, that's also talked about [20:28] CrystalMath the whole world besides a bunch of idiots in america was TERRIFED of Hillary Clinton [20:28] CrystalMath of course nobody wanted her to win, except a bunch of idiot americans [20:37] MinceR ah, once again, gut feelings defeat facts and reason [20:39] schestowitz Trump fights the "elites" and "deep state" :-) [20:39] schestowitz not black people and stuff [20:39] schestowitz but the rich and the army [20:39] schestowitz :-) [20:39] schestowitz it's libel to suggest otherwise [20:41] schestowitz https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/14/alternative-facts-alternate-electors-stephen-miller-pushes-absurd-new-strategy-face [20:41] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.commondreams.org | From 'Alternative Facts' to 'Alternate Electors': Stephen Miller Pushes Absurd New Strategy in Face of Trump Loss | Common Dreams News [20:43] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) ● Dec 15 [21:12] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cantor [21:12] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.smbc-comics.com | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cantor [21:19] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [21:22] DaemonFC[m] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/tech/facebook-france-africa-troll/index.html [21:22] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Facebook accuses people tied to French military of running troll accounts - CNN [21:22] DaemonFC[m] A French Troll and a Russian Troll walk into a German Troll Bar..... [21:28] DaemonFC[m] I'm kind of stunned that CNN front page posted that Pornhub has deleted about 3/4th of the porn [21:29] DaemonFC[m] After major credit card companies cut them off because New York accused them of hosting rape and CP videos. [21:29] DaemonFC[m] It seems the government has a big interest in internet porn after mostly ignoring it for decades. [21:30] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: Steve Jobs would have liked this, I'm sure. [21:30] DaemonFC[m] This time it's the government knocking around a private company and not Apple (at least visibly). [21:30] MinceR ah, i thought it was because of his false morality [21:31] DaemonFC[m] Corporations are trying to "clean up the loose ends" on the web, to get rid of porn and piracy shove in DRM. [21:32] DaemonFC[m] Pretty soon the only things left will be Disney+ and Code of Conduct Reddit at this rate. [21:32] DaemonFC[m] MinceR: The far right is laughing about that superyacht that his widow is screwing around with a black guy on. [21:33] DaemonFC[m] He spent a ton of money on it and never got to use it. [21:34] MinceR he still got off too lightly [21:34] MinceR after fucking the IT industry [21:35] DaemonFC[m] I'm not convinced that the Mac is much more reliable than Windows 10, actually. [21:35] DaemonFC[m] After reading what some of them say about it, unfiltered. [21:35] MinceR :> [21:35] DaemonFC[m] But they go right on using it. [21:36] DaemonFC[m] Say whatever you want about Windows, at least it doesn't have that pretentious snob vibe to it. [21:36] DaemonFC[m] And I mean, fuck, even Microsoft Edge is a better default browser than Safari. [21:37] MinceR microshit hipsters do have that pretentious snob vibe to them, though [21:37] MinceR they copied it from their second favorite cult [21:38] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/20080450 [21:38] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4802610) [21:38] DaemonFC[m] There are hipsters who like Microsoft? [21:38] MinceR yes, unfortunately [21:39] MinceR i still remember 2 hungarian microshit hipsters i encountered on irc [21:40] DaemonFC[m] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Deathclaw_(Fallout:_New_Vegas) [21:40] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-fallout.fandom.com | Deathclaw (Fallout: New Vegas) | Fallout Wiki | Fandom [21:40] DaemonFC[m] These things are all over the Lonesome Road add-on. [21:41] DaemonFC[m] But they're really not that bad compared to some of the other stuff I'm coming across. [21:41] DaemonFC[m] That guy that hacked into the eyebot did mention that those tunneler things will end up in the wasteland itself eventually and not even the deathclaws would be safe from them. [21:43] DaemonFC[m] Even with T-51b power armor and a minigun I'm glad I brought a lot of stimpaks. [21:43] DaemonFC[m] An average deathclaw can take three entire VATS barrages of 5mm armor piercing bullets. [21:45] DaemonFC[m] Which is enough to run you out of Action Points even with the associated perks that I have. [21:45] DaemonFC[m] Sometimes there's 2-3 of them at once. [21:46] DaemonFC[m] I have the VATS perks and the center mass one that does 15% more damage for torso shots. [21:46] MinceR do you have the Bloody Mess perk though? [21:51] DaemonFC[m] Yeah, I do. [21:52] DaemonFC[m] So sometimes you just get exploding deathclaw. [21:52] DaemonFC[m] :) [21:52] MinceR :) [21:52] DaemonFC[m] I sent one of them flying over a freeway overpass. [21:53] DaemonFC[m] But it was dead before it was thrown over. [21:53] DaemonFC[m] There's moments in this game where you have to laugh about things. [21:54] DaemonFC[m] The Fallout Wiki says that in the alt-world history, when the invasion of mainland China started, many of the Chinese soldiers would surrender as soon as they saw American troops in T-51b and carrying miniguns. [21:54] DaemonFC[m] I can kind of see why you would. [21:55] DaemonFC[m] If one person in power armor with a minigun can lay waste to three deathclaws easily enough, then soldier with a rifle? [21:55] DaemonFC[m] No chance. ● Dec 15 [22:04] schestowitz DaemonFC[m]: can you proofread something for/with us? [22:05] MinceR (cat) https://full.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/24/fa6bdb4e43fb9de7.jpg [22:07] schestowitz MinceR: maybe you? [22:08] MinceR yeah, i cantry [22:08] MinceR s/nt/n /t [22:08] MinceR argh, can't type [22:08] MinceR will i find errors if i can't even type? :> [22:08] schestowitz http://techrights.org/2020/12/15/publication-2020/ [22:08] schestowitz cheers [22:08] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | On Our Publication Strategy and Platform | Techrights [22:08] schestowitz sometimes double words.. "a a" [22:09] schestowitz I wrote done instead of down [22:09] schestowitz those sorts of thingd [22:10] MinceR 'cash cows' -> 'cash cow' [22:12] MinceR i'm not sure if "misleading the public by intention" is correct [22:13] CrystalMath schestowitz: name even once instance of Trump fighting against black people [22:14] MinceR that's all i've found [22:15] MinceR (seems to me "intentionally misleading the public" would be more correct) [22:15] vZS1 schestowitz: I watched the video on linux.com; it was a good video. [22:16] vZS1 What are you using to record the videos? [22:18] schestowitz gtk-recordmydesktop [22:18] schestowitz MinceR: thanks, I will swap the phrases [22:18] MinceR np [22:18] schestowitz I write all my articles in a single pass [22:19] schestowitz then read through twice [22:19] schestowitz headlines 5 times [22:19] schestowitz summary 3 times [22:19] schestowitz body once [22:19] schestowitz it's the only way to keep the site publishing fast... [22:19] schestowitz when I say twice I mean first while typing it [22:20] schestowitz then ghostreading [22:20] schestowitz vZS1: we'll try to do 1-2 videos per day [22:20] schestowitz lots of topics to cover that way, but for speed there's no preparation, just record, upload, link [22:21] schestowitz we can do collaborations, with some chat application inside the frame [22:21] schestowitz and in the background browser/similar [22:21] schestowitz mumble is, afaik, still audio only for many participants [22:28] vZS1 That'd effectively be a podcast [22:29] vZS1 I can join in on the "podcasts" on the weekends. [22:31] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/20080339 [22:31] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4800151) [22:33] vZS1 Holy water one got me [22:38] MinceR :) [22:38] *TTwrs (~TTwrs@c-67-169-185-154.hsd1.ca.comcast.net) has joined #techrights [22:55] schestowitz MinceR: vZS1 http://techrights.org/2020/12/15/support-assange/ [22:55] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Support Julian Paul Assange | Techrights [22:55] schestowitz can you have a quick look? [22:56] MinceR sure [22:57] *TTwrs has quit (Quit: Leaving) [22:58] *amreo[m] (amreomatri@gateway/shell/matrix.org/x-fnzpjznpnbxaxfbk) has joined #techrights [22:59] vZS1 > health and safety [22:59] vZS1 Missing the closing quote ● Dec 15 [23:00] schestowitz ty [23:00] schestowitz I changed the summary slightly, for clarify [23:00] amreo[m] Hi! I'm wondering. How does schestowitz avoid to being corrupted? [23:01] MinceR i can't see anything other than that [23:01] vZS1 Yeah. Rest seems fine [23:04] amreo[m] Can I help the website by pin [23:04] amreo[m] Can I help the website by pinning the whole site? [23:04] vZS1 I'm off for the night. Gn all. [23:04] schestowitz vZS1: thanks [23:05] schestowitz amreo[m]: it's not impossible, but you know the tricks [23:05] schestowitz usually coercion [23:05] schestowitz blackmail or bribes [23:05] schestowitz 14 December 2010 (10 years ago): The #FBI Paid #OpenBSD Developers For Backdoors? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODkxMw [23:05] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-The FBI Paid OpenBSD Developers For Backdoors? - Phoronix [23:05] schestowitz "This is also probably the reason why you lost your DARPA funding, they more than likely caught wind of the fact that those backdoors were present and didn't want to create any derivative products based upon the same..." [23:06] schestowitz the gmane link is broken now as they disbanded [23:06] schestowitz amreo[m]: yes, by all means pin the site [23:06] schestowitz we need more nodes [23:08] amreo[m] How can I pin the whole website? Are only the IRC logs pinned? http://techrights.org/ipfs/ [23:08] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | Techrights Full IPFS Index [23:08] schestowitz the important ones are at the bottom of the page [23:08] schestowitz http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt [23:08] schestowitz you can grep or tail them [23:09] schestowitz techrights-2020-10-26 to present [23:09] schestowitz those don't include attachments, e.g. videos, images [23:09] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/20073116 [23:09] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-ircz.de | IRCZ makes your life worth living Post object (4793465) [23:10] amreo[m] Why don't you setup a IPFS collaborative cluster? https://cluster.ipfs.io/documentation/collaborative/ [23:10] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-cluster.ipfs.io | Collaborative Clusters - Pinset orchestration for IPFS [23:11] schestowitz I did not know about it [23:11] schestowitz can you help with it? [23:16] amreo[m] I'm not expert of IPFS or ipfs-cluster but I think I can try to help you [23:17] schestowitz thank you [23:17] schestowitz vZS1 is our ipfs guru [23:18] schestowitz maybe if you hang around here for longer coordinating the setup of such a thing would be simpler [23:18] schestowitz it's still way above my head... I don't know many of the technical details