IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, March 09, 2022

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beginning of new day, March 9

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01:13 schestowitz; [18:56] Hmm... I remember all that drama with TJ holowaychuck leaving the NPM scene

01:13 schestowitz; [18:56] Wondering if that was related to Microsoft acquiring NPM

01:13 schestowitz; [18:57] A bit off topic but that whole event seemed strange

01:13 schestowitz; [18:58] Yeah so Alex and I talked a bit about copilot

01:13 schestowitz; [18:58] The way he originally described it to me it sounded like code audit software

01:13 schestowitz; [18:58] anything I can find out about plans of copilot

01:13 schestowitz; [18:58] or NPM

01:13 schestowitz; [18:58] would help

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] it's shrouded in mystery

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] Microsoft is trying to swallow all the code

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] and repos (NPM)

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b

=> ↺ https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b

01:13 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Farewell Node.js. Leaving node.js land | by TJ Holowaychuk | Medium

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] So this was a pretty big event

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] At that point in time TJ had written like 60% of the no JS projects that everyone uses

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] Mostly by himself

01:13 schestowitz; [18:59] Some people thought he wasn't a real person for a long

01:13 schestowitz; [19:00] Time

01:13 schestowitz; [19:00] hmmm

01:13 schestowitz; [19:00] Like they thought he was a collective

01:13 schestowitz; [19:00] Completely unrelated to anything I know about Alex

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] still interesting

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] TJ is just a legend and influenced my personal coding style

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] npm is a piece for Microsoft's supply chain plan

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] they hired from NSA for GitHub

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] they can even plant back doors in downloads

01:13 schestowitz; [19:01] There was another issue with the guy who originally wrote node

01:14 schestowitz; [19:01] node ja

01:14 schestowitz; [19:01] Node js

01:14 schestowitz; [19:02] He wrote it then quit

01:14 schestowitz; [19:02] Joyent hired him

01:14 schestowitz; [19:02] I know that company

01:14 schestowitz; [19:02] Ryan Dahl

01:14 schestowitz; [19:03] Apparently thinks writing node JS was a mistake

01:14 schestowitz; [19:03] Interesting he's also from Rochester

01:14 schestowitz; [19:03] Alex is from there

01:14 schestowitz; [19:03] They're about the same age

01:14 schestowitz; [19:04] Oh wait, just went to school there

01:14 schestowitz; [19:05] Npm was acquired by github before the microsoft acquisition

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] I thought the opposite?

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] Can you check?

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] happened about a year after

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] I am almost certain

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] But not sure

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] unless you know something I don't...

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] But this is my recollection based on being a JavaScript person

01:14 schestowitz; [19:06] like, if they agreed on it upfront

01:14 schestowitz; [19:07] June 2018 ish is MSGItHub

01:14 schestowitz; [19:07] Oh ok. Thanks for the correction

01:14 schestowitz; [19:09] Yeah tj's complaints about node mostly seemed technical but who knows

3 AM, March 9

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noon, March 9

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4 PM, March 9

16:28 schestowitz; "

16:28 schestowitz; Publication on behalf of the The Hague Staff Representatives (LSCTH).

16:28 schestowitz; Dear colleagues,

16:28 schestowitz; #BreakTheBias, is this years campaign theme of the International Womens Day. Bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. A visible episode to the world was a striking gender bias towards the President of the European Commission.

16:28 schestowitz; Last year, the President of the European Commission, Ms. von der Leyen visited Ankara to discuss how to resume coordination with Turkey on vital issues. Instead of a chair next to the countrys president, Ms. von der Leyen was relegated to a nearby sofa. Later she shared her thoughts:

16:28 schestowitz; My visit to Turkey showed how far we still have to go before women are treated as equals. Always. Everywhere.

16:28 schestowitz; My story made headlines. But there are so many stories of women, most of them far more serious, that go unobserved.

16:28 schestowitz; We have to make sure these stories are also told!

16:28 schestowitz; ("5:34 PM 26 apr 2021Twitter Web App")

16:28 schestowitz; Ms. Von der Leyens call for womens rights goes beyond the quest for equality, it recognizes that anonymous women have stories to be told, concerns to be addressed and dreams to be fulfilled. Everywhere. However, up to now the requested Workplace Gender Equality Diagnosis, the impact of the Childcare and Education Reform on our colleagues lives and careers, are just promises. The real obstacles and common concerns are not addressed by the

16:28 schestowitz; administration, colleagues are not listened to, and your staff representatives' input seems to be superfluous. Our womens worries are being renegaded to a sofa. Where are the stories of women being told?

16:28 schestowitz; The staff representation would not think of a better way of celebrating International Womens Day than giving voiceless women the chair at the negotiations table. Always.

16:28 schestowitz; Staff Representation takes action, strives to break the bias, gives you a voice.

16:28 schestowitz; Contact us on dhstcom@epo.org and tell us your story.

16:28 schestowitz; In these tragic days of war in Europe, in this international womens day our thoughts go out to the women of Ukraine.

16:28 schestowitz; Your Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH)

16:28 schestowitz; "

5 PM, March 9

17:54 schestowitz; [16:53] activelow is by far the craziest person in the channel. By a lot.

6 PM, March 9

18:19 schestowitz; > I am able to access my weblog. All is normal as if it never happened. Every day it was down, I tried to get it in at least a dozen times. I even gave it 4 tries this morning.on the 5th attempt it opened.

18:19 schestowitz; >

18:19 schestowitz; > Overlooking the weblog with a critical eye, as if I were an outsider, I like what I see as to the quality, so I will continue what I have been doing for the past 22 years. It all happened once before but in that instance it returned in one daythis time It took about a week.

18:19 schestowitz; I did a video about this incident and other incident some hours ago:

18:19 schestowitz; http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/

=> http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/

18:19 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | The Internet is Breaking and We Need Contingencies | Techrights

18:36 schestowitz; "See their other new/open Linux positions here. It's great to see them ramping up their Linux staff given their hardware successes of recent years and with their chief competitor Intel already being the most significant contributor to the Linux kernel and numerous other open-source projects..."

8 PM, March 9

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