IRC: #techrights @ FreeNode: Wednesday, December 30, 2020

schestowitz

"Agent"

schestowitz

Like a gas

schestowitz

on the doorknob

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/19764237

schestowitz

that's a "Foreign Agent"

Dec 30 01:53

schestowitz

chemical agents on your doorknob

Dec 30 01:53

schestowitz

gift from Vladimir Putin

Dec 30 01:53

XRevan86

More typically English: Give me a person and I'll find a way to convict them.

Dec 30 01:54

XRevan86

schestowitz: You mean a powder.

Dec 30 01:55

schestowitz

:-)

Dec 30 01:58

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Dec 30 02:50

Techrights-sec

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I think if a company, school, or association were to bulk order, they

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would have no problem getting the localized keyboards

Techrights-sec

As a one-off, and an expensive option at that, one can get the extra

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keyboard and swap the top layer of hardware. But that's only viable if

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "I’ve been ogling the new Raspberry Pi 400: a single-board computer built into an 80s-style computer-in-a-keyboard case." https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/raspberry-pi-keyboard-distribution.html

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights--> www.ctrl.blog | The official Raspberry Pi accessory distributor conundrum

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one also needs a spare keyboard for something else.

schestowitz

can a bunch of stickers not overcome this?

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Dec 30 04:05

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: You wouldn't happen to know how to get a birth certificate from the philippines?

Dec 30 04:38

schestowitz

Manila has the records

Dec 30 04:41

schestowitz

Tondo cannot be far from the bureau, though you might be required to then certify it

Dec 30 04:42

DaemonFC[m]

There's something called PSA Serbilis

Dec 30 04:52

schestowitz

still broken feed at URL: "https://danielmiessler.com/feed/"

Dec 30 05:40

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 500 @ https://danielmiessler.com/feed/ )

Dec 30 05:40

DaemonFC[m]

They want my fedex number.

Dec 30 05:44

DaemonFC[m]

Ugh.

Dec 30 05:44

DaemonFC[m]

With that, you can ship anything to anyone and bill it to the victim.

Dec 30 05:44

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: can you read with me quickly a covid post?

Dec 30 05:56

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: don't worry too much about the details. If you and Mandy love each other and they see it in the interview or get a sense of it, you will be fine. Key thing is, no criminal record or "burden on the state"

Dec 30 05:57

schestowitz

they would fail you on technicalities like these only if they need something to latch onto to justify rejection

Dec 30 05:57

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: let me know if you can proofread...

Dec 30 05:57

DaemonFC[m]

yeah

schestowitz

thanks!

DaemonFC[m]

Sorry, was about the house.

http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/covid19-and-human-rights/

schestowitz

-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

schestowitz

quick

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-solarwinds-hackers-goal-was-the-victims-cloud-data

DaemonFC[m]

beating the US ‘to market’ or simply jumping the gun.

Dec 30 06:33

DaemonFC[m]

by simply jumping the gun might read better

Dec 30 06:33

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Dec 30 06:34

DaemonFC[m]

(including Russia’a)

Dec 30 06:34

DaemonFC[m]

Russia's

Dec 30 06:34

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Dec 30 06:35

DaemonFC[m]

"if we’re to use this label sparingly, then only 38% of Russians are not ‘antivaxxers’"

Dec 30 06:37

DaemonFC[m]

Should read "then certainly 38% of Russians are not 'antivaxxers'".

Dec 30 06:37

DaemonFC[m]

"Too little is still (un)known about it."

Dec 30 06:38

DaemonFC[m]

"Too much remains uncertain." maybe?

Dec 30 06:38

schestowitz

I will add that

Dec 30 06:40

schestowitz

to clarify

Dec 30 06:40

schestowitz

thanks, I amended all as you advised

Dec 30 06:41

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DaemonFC[m]

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 404 @ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-solarwinds-hackers-goal-was-the-victims-cloud-data )

DaemonFC[m]

Also Microsoft: Put more data in the cloud!

schestowitz

:-D

schestowitz

hmmm... typo or article removed?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-solarwinds-hackers-goal-was-the-victims-cloud-data/

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Microsoft: SolarWinds hackers' goal was the victims' cloud data

schestowitz

oh, missing "/" (trailing)

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/covid-19-what-is-the-new-variant-of-coronavirus/

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schestowitz

Dec 30 08:12

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.sciencefocus.com | New COVID-19 strain UK: What is the new coronavirus variant? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Dec 30 08:12

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Dec 30 09:48

XRevan86

https://letsencrypt.org/2020/12/21/extending-android-compatibility.html

Dec 30 10:39

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-letsencrypt.org | Extending Android Device Compatibility for Let's Encrypt Certificates - Let's Encrypt - Free SSL/TLS Certificates

Dec 30 10:39

schestowitz

Yes, I saw that

Dec 30 10:54

schestowitz

damage control

Dec 30 10:54

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Dec 30 11:09

amreo[m]

Hi. Today schestowitz has written "

Dec 30 11:09

amreo[m]

Microsoft is telling us (even confirming) Azure layoffs, in spite of Microsoft pretending to have found an alternative and promising future in Clown Computing. They literally join or come to our primary IRC channel, trying to interject damage-limiting PR." in a article about the china migration. Where can I find microsoft messages?

Dec 30 11:09

schestowitz

schestowitz

it's in IRC logs from last week

schestowitz

I cannot find that too quickly

schestowitz

it is also outside my scrolling buffer now

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1377697/california-nurse-tests-positive-over-a-week-after-receiving-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-abc

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Dec 30 11:47

liberty_box

Dec 30 11:57

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-newsinfo.inquirer.net | California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine -- ABC | Inquirer News

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vZS1_2

schestowitz: "However, with the transition to moz.build files, you may soon see non-Make build backends, such as Tup or Visual Studio."

From: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/build-overview.html

vZS1_2

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org | Build System Overview — Firefox Source Docs documentation

vZS1_2

_Visual Studio_

schestowitz

vZS1_2: I looked for you earlier

schestowitz

re Brave adding ipfs support

schestowitz

built in

vZS1_2

That's been there for a while (Brave IPFS support)

vZS1_2

I know people who were involved in the alpha

schestowitz

vZS1_2

Don't know what they were up to but they were sharing their experience of it

vZS1_2

Seemed to work pretty well for them

vZS1_2

From what I've been told

schestowitz

I've just mentioned the mozilla thing

schestowitz

vZS1_2: there's a new article about it

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/brave-ipfs.html

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.ctrl.blog | Brave adds support for IPFS distributed P2P websites

vZS1_2

> I've just mentioned the mozilla thing

Dec 30 12:09

vZS1_2

Where?

Dec 30 12:09

vZS1_2

IMO, Brave users get the benefits but that doesn't really do much in the big picture. HTTP gateways to IPFS are basically how most people will begin using IPFS.

Dec 30 12:14

vZS1_2

IPFS websites are already possible as long as you just use HTTP gateways in your hrefs

Dec 30 12:15

vZS1_2

IPFS "news" is heavily web-centric

Dec 30 12:17

vZS1_2

It really should be more about file sharing

Dec 30 12:17

vZS1_2

The desktop client is a great way to share files for any operating moving around a lot of files

vZS1_2

No upload limits

vZS1_2

etc

vZS1_2

Beats sending email attachments for sure

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/21/edff42bf100a643a.jpg

vZS1_2

s/operating/operation

Dec 30 12:19

vZS1_2

I like to think of IPFS as a P2P ftp

Dec 30 12:20

vZS1_2

Ditch the bloated web junk

Dec 30 12:20

vZS1_2

Keep hypertext limited in scope

Dec 30 12:20

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Dec 30 12:21

vZS1_2

There's also both CLI and GUI options for IPFS and that's helped them a lot

Dec 30 12:22

vZS1_2

Bittorrent is annoying because there is no clean CLI option for people that need to automate it

Dec 30 12:22

vZS1_2

I think the biggest problem IPFS might face is their approach to the DHT

Dec 30 12:23

vZS1_2

It's a single, huge, DHT

Dec 30 12:23

vZS1_2

Bittorrent breaks it up into smaller DHTs (last time I checked)

Dec 30 12:23

vZS1_2

Things seem to be going alright for both though

Dec 30 12:26

vZS1_2

It's suspected that P2P traffic makes up about a third(?) of internet traffic

Dec 30 12:26

vZS1_2

Might see that going up with IPFS in the picture

Dec 30 12:27

vZS1_2

IPFS also serves as a great alternative to sites like Imguar and pastebin

Dec 30 12:28

vZS1_2

s/Imguar/Imgur

Dec 30 12:28

vZS1_2

Don't have to install unnecessary junk

Dec 30 12:29

vZS1_2

Just a single platform for sharing arbitrary files

Dec 30 12:29

schestowitz

brb

Dec 30 12:32

schestowitz

did a video

Dec 30 12:32

vZS1_2

I'm gonna dump a few things here and head back to work

Dec 30 12:33

vZS1_2

For DHT differences, we have "Mainline DHT" for BitTorrent and "libp2p" for IPFS.

Dec 30 12:33

vZS1_2

Also, Firefox build system seems to be lurching towards MS lockin.

Dec 30 12:34

vZS1_2

Mainline DHT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT

Dec 30 12:34

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-en.wikipedia.org | Mainline DHT - Wikipedia

Dec 30 12:34

vZS1_2

libp2p: https://github.com/libp2p/libp2p

Dec 30 12:35

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-GitHub - libp2p/libp2p: A modular and extensible networking stack which solves many challenges of peer-to-peer applications.

Dec 30 12:35

MinceR

Dec 30 12:43

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Dec 30 12:47

MinceR

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2020/11/21/4522f76c0d8e0b20.jpg

Dec 30 12:59

scientes

I need a controller

Dec 30 13:35

MinceR

atmel?

Dec 30 13:38

scientes

no, n64 simulator

Dec 30 13:38

MinceR

ah, gamepad

Dec 30 13:39

DaemonFC[m]

That was an odd controller.

Dec 30 13:47

DaemonFC[m]

I suppose the Switch Pro controller might be easier to map to that than some others.

Dec 30 13:47

DaemonFC[m]

It has a Z button in the same spot.

Dec 30 13:47

MinceR

i got a SteelSeries Stratus Duo

Dec 30 13:48

DaemonFC[m]

You can't really adf ipfs to Chrome, Edge, or Vivaldi if it requires modifying the network stack.

scientes

yeah its all about ajility

scientes

so i need a gamepag

DaemonFC[m]

I guess I could talk to the Vivaldi developers about adding ipfs from the Brave code.

DaemonFC[m]

I filed the proposal to bring in brave adblock and that was incorporated soon after.

DaemonFC[m]

Vivaldi was unhappy about manifest v3 and looking for a solution that didn't involve an affected extension.

Dec 30 13:51

DaemonFC[m]

Even Edge blocks most web ads and trackers in the strict tracking protection settings.

Dec 30 13:52

scientes

this higen is lame cause its slow

Dec 30 13:53

DaemonFC[m]

It's comparable to Firefox. Chrome is the only major browser without that level of tracker blocking available.

Dec 30 13:53

DaemonFC[m]

Hogan's goal was a cycle accurate emulator that would avoid bugs in SNES programs caused by less accurate emulators.

psydroid

did you try bsnes or mednafen?

scientes

no but i got toshi

scientes

yoshi

DaemonFC[m]

As such that core is the only emulator capable of avoiding major bugs in about a dozen official titles, about 3 unplayable on other emulators, and numerous small glitches on others.

Dec 30 13:55

DaemonFC[m]

In general it might not matter as much as the slowdown does if you're running titles that are well supported by snes9x, which isn't terrible with accuracy and can run on old Pentium 4 systems with XP just fine, even.

Dec 30 13:56

DaemonFC[m]

I left my last computer that ran Windows XP at the old house.

Dec 30 13:56

scientes

you would think that a project not updated in a number of years would run fine on a current CPU

scientes

they must be using odd instructions

DaemonFC[m]

I was keeping it around to have a real computer with XP.

DaemonFC[m]

Emulators are always quirky and it didn't have an internet connection so the security holes piling up didn't really matter.

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Dec 30 13:59

DaemonFC[m]

There was some more article churn about Windows Corr OS and Windows 10 X, but that's been going on for years and the platform sounds depressingly bad and years too late to matter even if it was a real thing.

Dec 30 14:05

DaemonFC[m]

Cutting Windows 10 down to the point where it can only run UWP. Been there. Done that. They called it Windows RT and it was a disaster. They lost a lot of money.

Dec 30 14:06

DaemonFC[m]

An unmitigated disaster at that.

Dec 30 14:07

DaemonFC[m]

I ran into some people on Amazon forums when it existed who swore up and down that the Nokia X was a great platform and now that Microsoft had it they would keep it, then the same about Windows Phone and Windows 8 RT.

Dec 30 14:08

DaemonFC[m]

The problem with these devices is they have no legacy and legacy is all Windows is good at. Without applications your computer doesn't do much and if all Microsoft can come at you with is Edge and Office 365, that's an immediate nonstarter.

Dec 30 14:09

DaemonFC[m]

Microsoft had a marketing campaign for Windows 10 and they blew it. The rollout and the aggressive forced updates were notorious for being broken and costing people productivity and making any sort of respectable uptime on a home PC impossible.

Dec 30 14:10

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Dec 30 14:11

DaemonFC[m]

Then Microsoft tried turning this into a "feature" of Windows 10 Pro to sell more of those licenses dangling that you could pause updates for a while. Then that situation became untenable and we're back to where you can hold out on two major versions ago with security patches if you want to, even on the Home version.

Dec 30 14:12

DaemonFC[m]

That's pretty bad when everyone knows your software is bad and you try extortion to let them delay updates that might seriously break something obvious because there was no testing on that build.

Dec 30 14:13

DaemonFC[m]

The Feedback Hub has no actual actionable feedback even if anyone at Microsoft was reading it and has turned into an Alt-Nazi forum that goes unmoderated.

Dec 30 14:13

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Dec 30 14:14

psydroid

Intel must be getting worried about being tied to a burning software platform as its most prominent added value apart from its own problems with people leaving and being so far behind on production processes

Dec 30 14:17

MinceR

(no audio) https://i.imgur.com/8XZypml.mp4

Dec 30 14:40

scientes

MinceR, if that was made into a loop it would be hard to know when it looped

Dec 30 14:43

MinceR

the looping is noticeable >> https://i.imgur.com/8XZypml.gifv

Dec 30 14:47

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-i.imgur.com | Imgur

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Dec 30 15:19

DaemonFC[m]

Intel really has nothing other than Windows to cling to, but Microsoft is equally stuck with x86 and neither of them want to admit it.

Dec 30 15:28

DaemonFC[m]

Microsoft desperately wants a clean break that it can't honestly expect to have if nobody will compile ARM-native programs.

Dec 30 15:29

DaemonFC[m]

Nobody actually cares what's inside a Mac or how poorly it runs applications.

Dec 30 15:29

DaemonFC[m]

Most people buy them and they use them as a $4,000 Chromebook with a really awful window manager.

Dec 30 15:30

DaemonFC[m]

Seriously, the Mac is so hideously bad both on a technical and usability level that the price tag is just impossible to explain. It's worse than Windows 10 ever was.

Dec 30 15:31

DaemonFC[m]

It's not like you even pay $4,000 for a laptop and then have a laptop that never crashes and has a fast processor with gobs of memory.

Dec 30 15:31

DaemonFC[m]

Every single week, JWZ posts to his blog about how his Mac shits itself and corrupts the screen or the coreaudio service which has been around for years is still so broken that every once in a while it hangs itself and the OS doesn't notice and bother to restart it. The only visible problem is that no media plays with the built-in codec framework.

Dec 30 15:32

DaemonFC[m]

I mean, these rival the worst horror stories and aggravations of any other OS.

Dec 30 15:33

MinceR

(cat) https://hugelolcdn.com/i/719657.jpg

Dec 30 15:33

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: Maricel "needs the $600 check" because even with a six figure income it's not like they could have predicted that some disaster might strike and have any actual savings. In fact, even after the disaster, they go right on living like nothing awful is happening and they spend $600 so three people can have Apple earbuds that'll get lost or broken.

Dec 30 15:34

DaemonFC[m]

The exact reason the government caps the income qualifications for the payments is that people making under $75,000 a year are the most likely to need the help.

Dec 30 15:35

DaemonFC[m]

The rest would just drive up the cost of the spending package and either shove it in a bank account or buy airpods.

Dec 30 15:35

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Dec 30 15:36

DaemonFC[m]

I think there really needs to be limits on who gets the checks because the government is now running $6-7 trillion dollar annual deficits and nothing it does is going to get the economy started again, until the virus is quashed, and that will be at least another year, if we're very lucky and everything goes well.

Dec 30 15:36

DaemonFC[m]

Of course, the Maricels will be complaining that they pay taxes as punishment for being successful and living the real life.

DaemonFC[m]

My god, that's the most let them eat cake thing ever, but it's just totally lost on them.

scientes

MinceR, you mean felis catus

scientes

you have to use the latin names on this channel

scientes

if you want to be understood

Dec 30 15:38

scientes

not those barbaric common names

Dec 30 15:38

schestowitz

[15:34] <DaemonFC[m]> schestowitz: Maricel "needs the $600 check"...

schestowitz

be careful

MinceR

i don't have to

schestowitz

she might come after your(s) and Mandy's check

scientes

if anyone asks you live in a box

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, well, she played her last card when she withdrew the affidavit.

schestowitz

She and Mark must be desperate, seeing they borrowed so much from speculation/presumed 'future'

scientes

and subsist off of morning dew and the tear of orphans

DaemonFC[m]

Swamped with debt and treading water is the smell I'm getting from all of this, and I know more than I'll post here.

Dec 30 15:41

DaemonFC[m]

But like many people, they just never learn. More goes out than comes in. They could live well within their means, but it's never enough.

Dec 30 15:41

DaemonFC[m]

I do all these little grocery rebates on my phone and in the last month I've gotten back over $87. They say you can give them your bank login, like that's going to happen.

Dec 30 15:42

DaemonFC[m]

I just cash them out for Walmart gift cards and buy more groceries.

Dec 30 15:42

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: can you test browser compat for me?

Dec 30 15:42

schestowitz

which OS do you have and browser?

schestowitz

it's for video compat I need testing

schestowitz

FLAC/Ogg

schestowitz

[15:41] <DaemonFC[m]> Swamped with debt and treading water

schestowitz

even literally

schestowitz

all that money wasted on "Expensive water" will be regretted

schestowitz

could be used to purchase edible goods, instead, when times get rough and she gets back to Tondo Lifestyle(TM).

Dec 30 15:44

MinceR

also, i prefer "Felis silvestris catus"

Dec 30 15:44

MinceR

since it's descended from Felis silvestris lybica

Dec 30 15:44

DaemonFC[m]

Android, Linux, Windows.

MinceR

and can interbreed with all of Felis silvestris, afaik

DaemonFC[m]

All the usual suspects.

schestowitz

can you try http://techrights.org/2020/12/30/how-to-freesw-video/ ?

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-techrights.org | How We Record Videos With Very Low-Budget Gear and Only Free (Libre) Software | Techrights

DaemonFC[m]

Flac in an Ogg container should even work with Edge or IE 11 on Windows 10 with the media codecs.

schestowitz

it's still uploading the video, but should work for what's uploaded already

schestowitz

in Firefox I get no picture, just audio

Dec 30 15:46

schestowitz

FF ESR, Debian Buster

Dec 30 15:46

DaemonFC[m]

Audio works on Firefox, but no video

Dec 30 15:46

DaemonFC[m]

Edge is pretty much Chrome-compatible. Microsoft could have continued pouring money into fixing all of the bugs that Google deliberately puts into their products, but they didn't think there was a point any longer.

Dec 30 15:47

DaemonFC[m]

It's even less different from Chrome than Vivaldi is.

Dec 30 15:47

DaemonFC[m]

That's interesting.

Dec 30 15:49

DaemonFC[m]

The video plays on Edge, but not Firefox.

Dec 30 15:49

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Dec 30 15:49

scientes

ahhhhhh

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, just audio in Firefox.

scientes

that is why Eor is a donkey

DaemonFC[m]

84.0.1 on Windows 10

scientes

donkeys are solidatary unlike horses

DaemonFC[m]

I don't know what codecs they use.

DaemonFC[m]

The platform ones usually.

DaemonFC[m]

So that's strange, because Microsoft does not restrict access to those codecs from any applications.

Dec 30 15:52

schestowitz

so basically this one is broken for Firefox

Dec 30 15:52

schestowitz

in Falkon the videos did not play in their previous form

schestowitz

but play OK now

scientes

I want a unicorn for christmas

schestowitz

some media player work with this, some do not

schestowitz

in Falkon it now works, but not Firefox, so the compatibility got sort ot reversed

DaemonFC[m]

Firefox reports that it supports Ogg Theora.

Dec 30 15:54

DaemonFC[m]

I think that's the video codec here.

Dec 30 15:54

DaemonFC[m]

VP9 should work on anything recent except for Safari.

Dec 30 15:54

scientes

I wonder if people ride zebras

scientes

that is an epic mount

DaemonFC[m]

AV1 should work on really new browsers, including Safari I think because they're an AOM member now.

schestowitz

In konqueror it does not play

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DaemonFC[m]

The trouble with AV1 is that it's so new it's hard to play properly on older computers, even with dav1d.

DaemonFC[m]

My 2016 laptop could barely handle it in standard definition with dav1d.

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DaemonFC[m]

And it was not a bad laptop at the time.

schestowitz

seems to boil down to balance and who gets shafted, or which browsers

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DaemonFC[m]

To trade file size you have to massively increase encode/decode complexity.

schestowitz

I cannot yet find a format that works well across OSes and browses... the patent mess has not helped, software patents that is

DaemonFC[m]

And there's simply no way around it. So when they say efficient, it's more of a tradeoff. Less CPU/GPU efficient for a larger data reduction.

Dec 30 15:57

DaemonFC[m]

If people still had large storage locally and weren't streaming, the demand for more computationally complex video codecs wouldn't be there.

Dec 30 15:57

DaemonFC[m]

I think h264 would have been the last one and the focus would have been on just making the best possible encoder for that.

Dec 30 15:58

DaemonFC[m]

It's still not a bad codec. It's patented though. Apple jammed it onto the web and actively resisted open media codecs, but the other browser vendors made sure that nothing newer than that was supported from MPEG. Apple has a lot of patents in the h264 pool, not as many on HEVC, and even less on VVC.

Dec 30 15:59

DaemonFC[m]

So now that h264 patents are closer to sunset, they have less reason to actively refuse web compatibility and lower streaming bandwidth requirements that modern open codecs provide.

Dec 30 16:00

DaemonFC[m]

They won, but since patents only last a set number of years and Apple is not even innovative enough to get a lot of patents these days (really says something, right?), they didn't come back for another round.

Dec 30 16:01

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Dec 30 16:02

DaemonFC[m]

I'm honestly surprised that Microsoft didn't do a major push for Windows phones years before they did. They don't see anything coming. It's pathetic.

Dec 30 16:03

DaemonFC[m]

The Xbox got off the ground because they had unlimited money to subsidize it back then until there just wasn't much competition anymore.

Dec 30 16:03

DaemonFC[m]

They only compete in that sector of the market against one other console.

Dec 30 16:03

DaemonFC[m]

<schestowitz "I cannot yet find a format that "> AV1 unless it's pretty old.

Dec 30 16:05

DaemonFC[m]

Anything older than a year or two and you start having major web compatibility problems these days.

Dec 30 16:05

DaemonFC[m]

It's not a stable platform. The web platform might as well just be each release of Chrome now.

schestowitz

avi seems not suitable for video embeds

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schestowitz

maybe webm will be more widely supported

schestowitz

but it's a very google-ish thing

schestowitz

ogg is not

scientes

WebM VP9 is what you want

DaemonFC[m]

WebM with VP9 should work in anything not Safari.

schestowitz

i wonder if ogg's money is still in ibm ('red hat')

DaemonFC[m]

You'd have to host h264 or AV1 to deal with Safari.

schestowitz

ok, maybe I'll change to webm then

DaemonFC[m]

Yes, the FFMpeg project criticized VP8 severely.

scientes

VP9 comes from Real Media people who were bought out by Google

scientes

and when Google released VP9 is immediately obsoleted Theora (ogg video)

scientes

or actually I think it is VP8

DaemonFC[m]

Probably the harshest point was that the specification is the C source code, so bugs in the C source code are the specification and cannot be fixed.

scientes

VP9 is what they are now pushing

scientes

but I think it got folded into av1

DaemonFC[m]

Safari supports VP9, but only as part of WebRTC.

Dec 30 16:11

DaemonFC[m]

So they have a codec and they enforce an artificial restriction to avoid <video> working with it.

Dec 30 16:11

scientes

The Heavenly Llama is said to drink water from the ocean and urinates as it rains.

scientes

nice

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MinceR

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.giantitp.com | 1221 Trouble Approaching - Giant in the Playground Games

https://i.imgur.com/rhJ1foj.jpg

MinceR

Dec 30 16:15

scientes

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/BSF-Republic_day.jpeg

Dec 30 16:19

DaemonFC[m]

+410 dead of COVID today so far with 4 states and DC reporting.

Dec 30 16:25

DaemonFC[m]

The news was reporting a dip in cases. I was like "Oh, yes, precisely because of Christmas, half as many people died. Great reporting. I'm sure it won't like, just go back up...."

Dec 30 16:27

DaemonFC[m]

Half the states didn't even report on Christmas or the day before or after, and that's probably why Pennsylvania alone is reporting 310 today.

Dec 30 16:27

DaemonFC[m]

They're clearing their backlogs at their own pace which will keep the daily count well above 3,000 on its own for quite some time.

Dec 30 16:28

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Dec 30 16:32

DaemonFC[m]

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/12/trumps-border-wall-where-does-it-stand/

Dec 30 16:33

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Trump's Border Wall: Where Does It Stand? - FactCheck.org

Dec 30 16:33

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: yes

Dec 30 16:33

DaemonFC[m]

Next to the Rio Grande, but in a few years, swept away by the Rio Grande.

Dec 30 16:34

DaemonFC[m]

Your tax dollars at work.

Dec 30 16:34

schestowitz

leg count at the morgue

Dec 30 16:34

schestowitz

"ok, carl, john, and jack walk into a basketball court full of bags...

Dec 30 16:35

schestowitz

john says,

Dec 30 16:35

schestowitz

"how are we going to count them and spilt them among days to make our state NOT look like a death zone?"

Dec 30 16:36

schestowitz

jack: let's start with the obese bags

Dec 30 16:36

schestowitz

carl: yes, it'll clear space to the 200 we're adding here later today

Dec 30 16:36

schestowitz

all-time highs in UK

schestowitz

case-wise https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/C77D/production/_116296015_uk_daily_cases_with_ra_28dec-nc.png

schestowitz

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.bbc.co.uk | Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area? - BBC News

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Dec 30 16:49

schestowitz

DaemonFC[m]: look out for excess deaths in the US

schestowitz

those are death certificate counts

schestowitz

and differences between those and projections

schestowitz

it's difficult to spin or fake those

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Dec 30 17:01

DaemonFC[m]

I paid that PSA Serbilis for Mandy's birth certificates and then emailed them our fedex account number.

Dec 30 17:10

DaemonFC[m]

God, how awful.

Dec 30 17:10

DaemonFC[m]

I just hope we actually get the documents and that nobody uses that number for fraud.

Dec 30 17:11

DaemonFC[m]

I really don't know why they can't just bill you for the delivery themselves.

Dec 30 17:11

DaemonFC[m]

Everything involving a foreign country is weird and shifty it seems.

Dec 30 17:11

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Dec 30 17:12

schestowitz

what's the service?

schestowitz

fetch and certify birth cert?

schestowitz

I think you need power of attorney for that

DaemonFC[m]

Two certified copies of his birth certificate.

DaemonFC[m]

I just listed it as a self-request.

schestowitz

did you check who they are?

schestowitz

like scientes said, under every rock lurks a rockhead :-)

DaemonFC[m]

https://psa.gov.ph/

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-psa.gov.ph | Philippine Statistics Authority | Republic of the Philippines

schestowitz

ah, ok, they are an official agency

DaemonFC[m]

They linked to this: https://www.psaserbilis.com.ph

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.psaserbilis.com.ph | PSA Serbilis Home Page

schestowitz

seems legit, she said, he said..

DaemonFC[m]

So I applied for the document there, since it was linked to from the gov.ph site.

Dec 30 17:16

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, schestowitz I was really skeptical of the .com.ph thing so I went looking for a .gov.ph and clicked on the apply for documents link, and it took me to that.

Dec 30 17:16

schestowitz

rianne says make sure there is "Red ribbon"

Dec 30 17:17

DaemonFC[m]

Well, I already paid them.

Dec 30 17:17

DaemonFC[m]

Mandy doesn't even know what the hell is going on in his own country, much less this one.

Dec 30 17:17

schestowitz

lots of dutertards there

schestowitz

think of them like Trump vpters

DaemonFC[m]

Apparently there's just tons of bureaucratic overlap there.

schestowitz

"not traditional politician"

schestowitz

"let's vote a thug and criminal in"

schestowitz

"because, hey, what can possibly go awry?"

DaemonFC[m]

Mom and dad.

schestowitz

exactly

schestowitz

and gradma tincan

schestowitz

*grandma

DaemonFC[m]

And then somehow making America great means a million coronavirus deaths and double or maybe even triple the unemployment he inherited from Obama.

DaemonFC[m]

The worst national conditions, maybe ever, certainly since the Depression.

schestowitz

they will keep redefining unemployment

schestowitz

to keep 'plebs' in line

schestowitz

to appease the peasants

schestowitz

after a year unemployment will be 0%

schestowitz

because no reason to bother looking for a job anymore

schestowitz

no job openings left

schestowitz

perfect. no unemployment because "no job seeker"

schestowitz

or just one person working in a household

schestowitz

which will pull the kids back in

schestowitz

and grandma

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, that's what happened after the last recession.

schestowitz

can live on grand's PENSION... while she or the pension lasts

DaemonFC[m]

Unemployment spiked to like almost 20% and then drifted down, and amazingly at about the same rate as the labor force participation rate dropped.

schestowitz

this is sad

DaemonFC[m]

The stats are there, they publish them, but you have to know what they mean.

schestowitz

I don't mean to joke or 'humoirise' it too much

schestowitz

let alone in a humorous tone

schestowitz

I am being serious and sarcastic at the same time

DaemonFC[m]

And that's what's happening now, Roy.

schestowitz

yup

DaemonFC[m]

Trump inherited nearly 66% labor force participation, and that's not great.

schestowitz

here also, increasingly

schestowitz

but we "got brexit done" yay!

DaemonFC[m]

But it's 61.8% now, according to BLS.

schestowitz

so... "independent!" or something..

DaemonFC[m]

So unemployment goes down because another 4.2% of the working age population ran out of unemployment checks and gave up on applying.

schestowitz

when did BLS last update it?

DaemonFC[m]

Late last month I think.

schestowitz

that's like an additional 10-20 million out of work and capable of WORK!

DaemonFC[m]

Yes it is, Roy!

schestowitz

wow

schestowitz

shit

schestowitz

depression, guns, suicides.

schestowitz

get ready for the freak show

DaemonFC[m]

So, if you took the pre-2008 recession figure of something like 72% participation, and applied it to what's going on right now....

DaemonFC[m]

Close to 30% out of work.

schestowitz

I heard of some new mass shooting last night. a 'depressed' vet

schestowitz

they don't call them hopeless

schestowitz

they classify them as "medical condition"

schestowitz

"nothing to worry about, just some poor sick white ol man"

DaemonFC[m]

U6 is the broadest definition of unemployment and that was over 14% last time I looked.

schestowitz

"stay away from "sick" people... you will be safe"

DaemonFC[m]

And to be counted in that, you still have to be applying for jobs.

DaemonFC[m]

So this is clearly a very sick jobs market and the fact that Mandy is doing as well as he is despite that is really something.

Dec 30 17:26

DaemonFC[m]

Then on the radio, they were complaining that 20% of job applicants test positive for marijuana and won't be hired because they smoked a substance that is legal in Illinois and was sold to them by the state.

Dec 30 17:26

schestowitz

what came first?

DaemonFC[m]

20%, they won't even consider because of pot, because the federal drug free workplace laws are still there.

schestowitz

unemployment?

schestowitz

drugs?

schestowitz

I mean, come on, are listeners that dumb?

schestowitz

If you work 8 to 7 you don't have time to find drug dealers and smoke shit

schestowitz

you go to bed

DaemonFC[m]

Well, the legality of marijuana in Illinois changed but I can't imagine that the number of people using it did much.

schestowitz

and make money the next day

schestowitz

causality explanation reversed

schestowitz

"many homeless are there before they used all the money for booze"

schestowitz

reality: they use the booze once homeless to forget about their condition

schestowitz

BTW, pot isn't so bad. Never did it myself, but...

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, well, once you have no government documents and you're living in a cardboard box, with a system that doesn't want you to get back out from under that....

schestowitz

the rich and powerful drink lots of wine

schestowitz

afaik, wine does more harm to your body than pot you ingest rather than smoke

DaemonFC[m]

Yeah, rich people do all kinds of drugs.

DaemonFC[m]

They don't have to piss in a cup.

schestowitz

and don't get em started on 'anti-depressants'... they say it's medicinal

DaemonFC[m]

Only people who work are subjected to this.

DaemonFC[m]

It's a means by which to degrade people.

DaemonFC[m]

Nothing else, really.

schestowitz

Yes, let me get my medicinal, pharmacy-prescribed cider and beer :-)

schestowitz

tent cities must have grown a lot

schestowitz

last year I read LA has 50,000 homeless

schestowitz

and growing, obviously

DaemonFC[m]

Then if you get convicted of a misdemeanor and end up on probation, they make you piss in a cup, even if there was no conceivable connection between the crime and drugs.

DaemonFC[m]

It's all a way to degrade and humiliate you, and to make it easier to end up in their vile clutches once again, a second shot to get you for something materially irrelevant.

schestowitz

victim-shaming

schestowitz

same for whistleblowers

schestowitz

many people think Daniel Pocock is a troll

schestowitz

just because he exposed some really nasty people and rogue institutions

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: They let you out of probation eventually, if they have to.

schestowitz

I heard this as recently as last night

schestowitz

probation is part of the shaming

schestowitz

you're not full citizen

DaemonFC[m]

But they make it intentionally difficult to fulfill the "contract" by peppering it with all sorts of silly things that nobody else would get in trouble over.

schestowitz

you're human conditionally :-)

DaemonFC[m]

The judge can even make it a crime for someone who is illiterate to not obtain a GED.

Dec 30 17:33

DaemonFC[m]

They can go back to jail because they couldn't even read the test.

Dec 30 17:33

DaemonFC[m]

This is barbaric.

Dec 30 17:33

DaemonFC[m]

The system failed them and then punishes them because the system failed them.

Dec 30 17:34

DaemonFC[m]

No doubt they'll be punished again because of the system failing them again, and again, and again.

Dec 30 17:34

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: I got out because I was smart enough to look and see what was required and then figure out a way to check the boxes off.

Dec 30 17:35

DaemonFC[m]

Even as it aggravated them, they noticed...... They noticed that I agreed to some conditions that I knew it would be easy to weasel out of, but it was right there what you had to do.

Dec 30 17:36

DaemonFC[m]

I agree to see my doctor, he prescribes the exact same meds and tells them that I don't need any other treatment.

Dec 30 17:37

DaemonFC[m]

She was pissed.

Dec 30 17:37

DaemonFC[m]

I stop paying the car and wait a few months to turn it over to Kia so that John loses a bunch of money in fees to get it back. She goes, "I know you're doing this and it doesn't look good that you're putting the victim in your case through that.".

Dec 30 17:38

DaemonFC[m]

I said, "That's odd, I don't recall there being anything in the probation agreement regarding disposition of a vehicle.".

Dec 30 17:38

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: So I drove the car downstate and abandoned it at a dealer with an empty tank of gas and no insurance and no plates.

Dec 30 17:39

DaemonFC[m]

They charged John for the car sitting on their lot at like $250 a day for several days, my missed payments, the late fees, a repo charge, a re-delivery fee, and then he had to insure and plate it before they would hand it back.

Dec 30 17:40

DaemonFC[m]

It doesn't come close to what he put me through and I only wish I could have done worse.

Dec 30 17:40

DaemonFC[m]

If anything, probation has the effect of pissing you the hell off and encouraging you to figure out a way to get revenge.

Dec 30 17:41

DaemonFC[m]

That's all it does. I wasn't sorry. I got less sympathetic to the other parties the more I went in there, and all it did was make me more bitter than ever.

DaemonFC[m]

It has the total complete and polar opposite effect of MRT.

schestowitz

not he's not employed

schestowitz

no flights

schestowitz

so that's another bankruptcy

schestowitz

for Luis and PedoJohn

schestowitz

TSA never replied to me complaint

schestowitz

they'd beep and run after you for taking a sandwich to a plane

DaemonFC[m]

Whatever happens to him it's not enough. It's really not. And if they cared about anything reprehensible that he's done they'd have him shot.

schestowitz

but don't mind it when people report pedophiles working inside the TSA

DaemonFC[m]

Oh he would come home and brag about how much he liked patting down the teenagers.

Dec 30 17:44

DaemonFC[m]

Not legal age ones either.

Dec 30 17:45

DaemonFC[m]

Sexually assaulting 14-15 year olds, younger even.

Dec 30 17:45

DaemonFC[m]

I'm sitting there going "If I leave I have to file bankruptcy. How the fuck did this happen?".

Dec 30 17:45

DaemonFC[m]

And when he finally pushed me to the point of speaking up for myself, it becomes "Aggravated assault" pled down to "disorderly conduct".

Dec 30 17:46

DaemonFC[m]

Don't ever raise your voice at someone. If your relationship has fallen apart, get the money out of the bank, get the cats, get your clothes, and disappear while they are at work.

Dec 30 17:47

DaemonFC[m]

It's what happened anyway, plus criminal charges.

Dec 30 17:47

DaemonFC[m]

There's so few people in this world who you can trust it's probably a fraction of 1%.

Dec 30 17:48

DaemonFC[m]

And the other 99.something will find those people who are so broken and misguided that they will actually step out in front of a bus to save them instead of the other way around, and they take advantage.

Dec 30 17:49

DaemonFC[m]

There are very few functional marriages. Marical+Mark are codependency, debt, and a criminal enterprise.

Dec 30 17:50

DaemonFC[m]

It's some kind of white collar crime going on and I have no idea what it is, but my spidey sense tells me that "Why the fuck else would you shuffle around so much cryptocurrency?".

Dec 30 17:51

DaemonFC[m]

Money laundering, of course. Illegal transactions, probably.

Dec 30 17:51

DaemonFC[m]

But when you're a white collar criminal, the state doesn't really have it out for you as much

Dec 30 17:51

DaemonFC[m]

I think that the reason they haven't filed Chapter 13 and are working 70+ hour weeks to keep up with the debt instead is that there's probably something really awful that an accountant, like a bankruptcy trustee, would flush out.

Dec 30 17:53

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: They were bragging about all the hours they work.

Dec 30 17:59

DaemonFC[m]

Talk about eating shit and saying you like it and I'll have some more, please.

Dec 30 17:59

DaemonFC[m]

40 hours a week is too many for people to have to work to have some sort of comfort at our current level of technology.

Dec 30 18:00

DaemonFC[m]

_Never_ being home to "enjoy" anything you're buying is insanity.

Dec 30 18:00

schestowitz

yeah, I know that

DaemonFC[m]

In fact, this is nuts, for national policy, that 20-30 million are chronically unemployed at this point, and others are working 40-70 hours a week.

schestowitz

I know some people like that

schestowitz

it's a paradox, innnnit?

schestowitz

the more you work, the more money you more

DaemonFC[m]

Other countries take care of this by reducing the full time workweek to 34 hours and raising the wages so you live fine on that.

schestowitz

the more money you make, the bigger the home (I know it's an oversimplification)

schestowitz

now put the two TOGETHER

schestowitz

and you have a paradox

schestowitz

people with the biggest houses use their houses the least

schestowitz

and so you have these 'white elephant' homes

schestowitz

expensive to maintain, no practical use

DaemonFC[m]

Well, Obamacare was designed to lower the workweek, but all it really did was discourage productivity and make health insurance unaffordable.

schestowitz

just there

schestowitz

a white elepahant

DaemonFC[m]

Because to make more money, you spent $5 for each additional dollar or so that you made on health insurance.

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DaemonFC[m]

Because the money for the insurance won't come in from the government anymore.

schestowitz

yeah

schestowitz

well, this month I do extra shift

schestowitz

but they're taxed a lot

DaemonFC[m]

And all of the focus is keeping monthly premiums from looking like a total disaster.

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schestowitz

the more shifts, the more they're taxed

schestowitz

so no incentive to do more than full time really

DaemonFC[m]

So it's great that you can get a policy for $462, but then you look at the policy and it's certainly not the kind of policy you had 20 years ago.

Dec 30 18:04

schestowitz

unless I want 66% the salary for additional hours

Dec 30 18:04

DaemonFC[m]

You're talking $3,000 deductibles and shitty doctors who will agree to bad compensation, and they don't pay for certain drugs, and so on.

Dec 30 18:04

DaemonFC[m]

So not only can you just barely afford the premiums, but then you go to use the insurance, find out that all your claims are out of pocket anyway on top of the premiums, and then you file bankruptcy because of all the premiums and deductibles.

Dec 30 18:05

DaemonFC[m]

This is utter insanity and it is a terrible law.

DaemonFC[m]

Nobody will fix it, there's no consensus on repeal.

DaemonFC[m]

So we're stuck in the mud spinning our tires and nobody wins except the insurance companies.

DaemonFC[m]

Which.....was the point all along.

DaemonFC[m]

And many people are thrilled with the idea of divided government because they've grown so used to the fact that when the government does something it just means more headaches, so they split the election and make it so that the two parties don't want to give each other much and all that passes are the budget and a couple other things.

Dec 30 18:07

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Dec 30 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

It's really not so hard to see how Biden was elected in the same election that made Republicans in Congress more powerful than before.

Dec 30 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

I just don't think people want things going too far one way or the other and don't tolerate it for very long when they see what they're getting from one party control.

Dec 30 18:08

DaemonFC[m]

The problem is that it comes in waves, and so by the time you can vote your way out of the mess the damage is done, and then things return to the center for a while, and then the other party gets in and does what they want for a while. Never ends.

Dec 30 18:09

DaemonFC[m]

So, especially the stock market. Right?

Dec 30 18:10

DaemonFC[m]

They see the results of the election and go woohoo, log jam!

Dec 30 18:10

DaemonFC[m]

Anyway...

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: It says your legal spouse can request your birth certificate, but under the laws of the Philippines we're not married and I'm just some guy.

DaemonFC[m]

Because the Dutertards.....

DaemonFC[m]

Iglesia is an entire religion of them.

DaemonFC[m]

And while they're only a few percent, they COMMAND all of their followers to vote for Duterte.

Dec 30 18:12

DaemonFC[m]

When I did go to church, I can tell you that it was lopsided in favor of the Republican Party, but in no actual Christian church in America, does the Republican Party get 100% of the vote.

Dec 30 18:12

DaemonFC[m]

They can get 77-78% of Evangelicals, but they don't get 100%.

Dec 30 18:13

DaemonFC[m]

And for the most part, nobody is up there commanding you to vote a certain way or for a particular person.

Dec 30 18:13

schestowitz

religion is politics

schestowitz

disguised as "for divine something"

DaemonFC[m]

The history of anti-Catholic sentiment in the US is so bad that many states put anti-Catholic amendments into their constitutions, even.

schestowitz

it's a powerful form of religion that can claim to be "offended' and censor critics based on invoking "holy" BS

schestowitz

imagine a republican party that says this and that is holy and you insult x, y...

DaemonFC[m]

For most Protestants, "Catholic" is up there with "Atheist" or "devil worshiper" or and not quite as bad as "Muslim".

DaemonFC[m]

There's nothing close to any sort of generalized agreement about Christianity, so it can't be called a single religion.

DaemonFC[m]

And they can't all be right.

DaemonFC[m]

Even if you are willing to stipulate that someone may be right, most of them are wrong, and maybe even damning themselves for all eternity even though they are very devout.

Dec 30 18:16

DaemonFC[m]

So my mom church hops over the years, not even realizing the irony that if she died at any particular moment there's no agreement even among Protestants that she would have gone to heaven.

Dec 30 18:17

DaemonFC[m]

And each time she lands somewhere, they're right and everyone else is cuckoo, until next time.

Dec 30 18:17

DaemonFC[m]

Everyone alive is circling the drain, but as people get closer, they start going oh fuck oh fuck what about all that horrible shit I did. Time to get everything in order.

Dec 30 18:19

DaemonFC[m]

And so they don't run around panicking, they tend to get religious.

Dec 30 18:19

DaemonFC[m]

Young people don't tend to care about religion and it's not because they're so smart. It's the same reason they don't fear taking other risks, like unprotected sex or speeding.

Dec 30 18:20

schestowitz

many holidays and traditions were built around religions

Dec 30 18:21

schestowitz

pagan staff, costumes

DaemonFC[m]

Of course they were.

schestowitz

religion at that level is social uniformity and identity

schestowitz

I have no problem with those

DaemonFC[m]

At immigration they might ask things like which holiday is most important in your house.

schestowitz

we have the xmas tree lit up now

DaemonFC[m]

I don't see any of them as terribly important.

DaemonFC[m]

Each year, you get older.

DaemonFC[m]

Most of them are from religions I'm not a member of, corporate cesspits, or both.

schestowitz

you can make something uop

schestowitz

make up a holiday

schestowitz

to have fun with the immigration people

schestowitz

kittykittycatcat

schestowitz

"We feed stray cats" holiday

Dec 30 18:24

DaemonFC[m]

Talk about Grav-Mass and how Richard Stallman made me take an active interest in it.

Dec 30 18:24

DaemonFC[m]

It is Sir Isaac Newton's birthday and all.

Dec 30 18:24

schestowitz

my phd supervisor was also born that day

Dec 30 18:25

schestowitz

it's not like you get birthday cakes

Dec 30 18:25

DaemonFC[m]

What gifts did you exchange for each other's birthday?

Dec 30 18:26

DaemonFC[m]

Oh, we don't really do that. We may go out to eat somewhere.

Dec 30 18:26

DaemonFC[m]

You honestly can blame the Coronavirus for a lot of bad shit.

Dec 30 18:27

DaemonFC[m]

"Oh, Mandy has friends from work but we can't go do anything with them because they could cough on us and we'd die.".

Dec 30 18:27

schestowitz

the peaks of life... having a MEAL

schestowitz

and "COKE!"

schestowitz

the ads here say you MUST have a COKE to have a REAL Xmas

schestowitz

no xmas would be xmas without ddt in the water you drink xmas day...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/luke-letlow-dead-heart-attack-covid-19

DaemonFC[m]

It's part of Maricel's "real life" no doubt.

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DaemonFC[m]

Now Google is severely messing up Gmail on Firefox.

Dec 30 19:00

DaemonFC[m]

Dec 30 19:04

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.foxnews.com | Rep.-elect Luke Letlow died from heart attack after procedure related to coronavirus | Fox News

Dec 30 19:04

DaemonFC[m]

schestowitz: I have no idea why Mandy thought it was a good idea to come to the United States.

Dec 30 19:19

DaemonFC[m]

It doesn't sound like life was actually going horribly in the Philippines.

Dec 30 19:19

DaemonFC[m]

He had a condo that he split bills with a roommate for, and good weather all the time and a steady job.

Dec 30 19:19

DaemonFC[m]

Instead he comes over to a country that is falling apart, of course no way to know THIS would happen, but he must have known what his sister was like.

Dec 30 19:20

DaemonFC[m]

I would have just stayed the fuck out of that, honestly.

Dec 30 19:20

DaemonFC[m]

The same sort of people got in power in the US for long enough to really screw things up, and they managed to brainwash my parents into thinking THIS is great.

Dec 30 19:21

DaemonFC[m]

We'll never be finished paying for the mess that Trump made.

Dec 30 19:22

DaemonFC[m]

Even if Biden wanted to and had a Congress cooperate with everything that we must do (which he doesn't and won't), it would take many years and lots more carnage.

Dec 30 19:23

DaemonFC[m]

Trump said "This American carnage ends here and it ends now!" and then presided over the lowest manufacturing index since the 70s and the worst pandemic since 1918, most of which was preventable.

Dec 30 19:24

DaemonFC[m]

The Consumer Confidence index is falling rapidly.

Dec 30 19:28

DaemonFC[m]

At this pace it'll probably be where it was at during the Great Recession in another few months, tops.

Dec 30 19:29

DaemonFC[m]

I can't even imagine how it would be at 88.6 with 42% of restaurants in Indiana on schedule to fail by March despite no indoor dining bans.

Dec 30 19:29

DaemonFC[m]

I'd imagine the situation for restaurants is worse in Illinois.

Dec 30 19:30

DaemonFC[m]

Restaurants are always a terrible business to get into, schestowitz

Dec 30 19:30

DaemonFC[m]

Half of them fail within the first 6 months.

Dec 30 19:30

DaemonFC[m]

People get loans and then open up and find out that there's not as much market demand as they thought there was or that their restaurant is failing to distinguish itself and is just fighting over the same customers as the other 50 of them in the next 5 blocks.

Dec 30 19:31

DaemonFC[m]

So, we were in a restaurant bubble.

Dec 30 19:31

DaemonFC[m]

It's not all about the virus. It's about unemployment in general leading to a drop in disposable income, which already wasn't fantastic.

Dec 30 19:33

MinceR

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/09/14/pax-2

Dec 30 19:34

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.penny-arcade.com | Penny Arcade - Comic - Zone Defense

Dec 30 19:34

DaemonFC[m]

People must eat, but they all go to the store, and that's a system that was set up to be dangerously efficient and all it took was one day's panic buying to clean the shelves of everything at every store in April.

Dec 30 19:34

DaemonFC[m]

I thought for sure there was going to be rioting over food at some point.

Dec 30 19:35

DaemonFC[m]

They say they got it under control, but they're misleading people still.

Dec 30 19:35

DaemonFC[m]

I was at Walmart today and they were completely out of store brand minute rice and store brand butter, just to name a couple of things.

Dec 30 19:35

DaemonFC[m]

The spice aisle looks pretty bad and that's been consistent for several months.

Dec 30 19:36

DaemonFC[m]

People had started making their way into the brand name butter. I had a rebate for one of them on my phone so I tossed it in the cart and took the rebate.

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Dec 30 19:40

MinceR

https://xkcd.com/2315/

Dec 30 19:47

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-xkcd: Eventual Consistency

Dec 30 19:47

DaemonFC[m]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uk-hit-with-worst-recession-in-300-years-amid-covid-surge/ar-BB1cfpWj

Dec 30 19:49

-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-www.msn.com | U.K. hit with worst recession in 300 years amid COVID surge

Dec 30 19:49

schestowitz

MSN?!

Dec 30 19:51

DaemonFC[m]

Now they're removing statues of Abraham Lincoln in Boston.

Dec 30 19:52

DaemonFC[m]

Because racism.

Dec 30 19:52

schestowitz

distractrion

schestowitz

your economy is tanking

schestowitz

and media incites race fueds

schestowitz

over f'ing statues

schestowitz

focus on the real news

schestowitz

*feuds

Dec 30 19:54

DaemonFC[m]

I can't imagine that the UK is facing the worst recession in 300 years while our economy is "doing well nothing to see here".

Dec 30 19:58

schestowitz

Don't link to Microsoft "SN", it is trash

Dec 30 20:00

schestowitz

provoocative nonsense

schestowitz

100 years ago people had no hot baths

schestowitz

worse issues than this

schestowitz

MSN is pure trash

schestowitz

I don't even want to see their trash, with vaccine PR for bill and who knows what else

schestowitz

like telling blacks the statues need to be removed and other sectarian crap