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[04:00] schestowitz-pi2 [JAMA Health Forum] Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/health/long-covid-health-consequences/index.html

[04:00] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds | CNN

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[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 sorry, got distracted as I needed to reboot a machine

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 x org can be sensitive to dragging of windows

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 maybe the GPU

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 a reboot after 50 days

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 gonna post daily links shortly

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 the workflow is now vastly better

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 but I'm not so used to it yet

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 tomorrow the fish will have been in the hospital for 2 whole weeks

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 still swimming sometimes, but not most of the time

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 today will be a busy day and we leave hom in an hour (foods)

[05:08] schestowitz-pi2 should I relay your remarks on the article?

[05:15] schestowitz-pi2 i agree

[05:20] schestowitz-pi2 i agree

[05:20] schestowitz-pi2 there are some bits left about it in logs, with names and places removed

[05:20] schestowitz-pi2 i did redact as best i could

[05:20] schestowitz-pi2 the wipo protest site also

[05:20] schestowitz-pi2 and sirius

[05:35] techrights[sec] checking

[05:36] schestowitz-pi2 it was past midnight today, so next log cycle

[05:36] schestowitz-pi2 it is logged by the machine i needed to reboot

[05:36] schestowitz-pi2 i need to make an inventory of what to start on it

[05:36] schestowitz-pi2 some cannot be automated

[05:37] schestowitz-pi2 as it's cli processes

[05:37] schestowitz-pi2 like tails-irc.sh

[05:37] schestowitz-pi2 *tail

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[05:54] techrights[sec] Letting reddit frame m$ as a 'religious' choice is an attack, an attempt at

[05:54] techrights[sec] removing the debate from the realm of facts and ethics over to that of

[05:54] techrights[sec] opinions and preferences. Objectively, m$ is a bad choice in several meanings

[05:54] techrights[sec] of the word.

[05:54] techrights[sec] m$ does act as a cult but Andy does not let that distract him from ethical

[05:54] techrights[sec] objections which top off technical, econimic, and legal reasons to avoid m$

[05:55] schestowitz-pi2 yes, i mentioned a lot the reddit angle

[05:55] schestowitz-pi2 gonna leave in 30 mins

[05:55] schestowitz-pi2 racing to finish some tasks first

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[09:41] schestowitz-pi2 saved about 100gbp again

[09:41] schestowitz-pi2 lisa and her van were back again

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 missing last week

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 not expired, just orphaned cargo

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 got 8 large packs of protein bars -- those are very expensive and very good diet

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 gonna catch up now

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[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 i cluster wires into 'braids

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 with twisted metal strips

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 and try to put them away from sight

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 some can be made to go near or beneath items

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 so that they are barely visible

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 cords don't bother me

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 today i saw a nice-looking "gaming" mouse for 5 quid

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 didn't take it at the end

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 as i don't know the brand

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 and it might turns out to last 2 months, not 2 years

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 or 2 weeks

[11:46] schestowitz-pi2 no return policy

[11:55] schestowitz-pi2 on another topic, the new workflow is very pleasing and it's getting simpler for me to grasp mentally

[11:55] schestowitz-pi2 after 20 years of more or less the same thing every day

[11:55] schestowitz-pi2 when returning home we typically put in supermarkets' sites the items we found to assess the savings

[11:55] schestowitz-pi2 the high-protien products are best bang/buck or bang/wdight

[11:55] schestowitz-pi2 we must have "saved" about 150 pounds on just the protiein bars

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 most of them fit inmy backpack

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 but i took all there was in stock

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 some days there's none to be found, irrepsective of price

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 and vendors come and go

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 or start sucking, depending on their supplier's

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 so you need to recognise the faces of people, there are hundreds of stalls

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 no persistent slot at times

[11:56] schestowitz-pi2 we now have a reserve of about 50kg in pasta, grain etc.

[11:56] techrights[sec] Excellent!

● Mar 05

[12:00] schestowitz-pi2 we stock up not on the cheap stuff, just heavily discounted premium products

[12:00] schestowitz-pi2 and in a decade we saw one mouse, only once, and he left on his own

[12:00] schestowitz-pi2 we very very seldon let food spoil. very rare. rianne has a mental overview of the inventory.

[12:00] schestowitz-pi2 and can be creative in mixing it. buckwheat and kabanos today (very east european)

[12:00] schestowitz-pi2 she even found vegetarian kabanos, i think they're like 80-90% off original price

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/

[12:02] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-berthub.eu | The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code - Bert Hubert's writings

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 i look at this a third time

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 tbh, i am not familr enough with it to say something insightful

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 but we covered the similar "supply chain" plot

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 *ploy

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 in the US

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 where they try to complicate things for Free s/w

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 in the name of "protecting" us

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 and mention log4j a lot

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 because 2021 is just 2 months ago ;-)

[12:02] schestowitz-pi2 and heartbleed was last week

[12:03] schestowitz-pi2 found by google engineer

[12:03] schestowitz-pi2 advertised by microsofters

[12:03] schestowitz-pi2 for fud's wortth

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[12:10] techrights[sec] RMS and Perens are needed for input, but the former was cancelled, perhaps

[12:10] techrights[sec] in preparation for all the politics which are now in the works.

[12:10] techrights[sec] Without RMS, the rest at the FSF need to step up, if they have an interest

[12:10] techrights[sec] in maintaining software Freedom.

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 any person who can maintain the goal

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 and get "shit done"

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 will be described as extremist

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 "religious"

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 unfit for the role

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 "NOT GOOD FOR FUND RAISING"

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 I'd not even submit a talk to libreplanet

[12:15] schestowitz-pi2 and in a prior article I explained why

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 (i don't counder myself to be outlandish, but in a cowardly society any "misfit" or "outlier" stands out)

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 in reddit, from what you showed me, saying that gnu/linux works better than osux gets you ['flagged]

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 bakkt="success story" that zemlin brags about in his talk even AFTER the collapse (ponzi)

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 putting gnu on 100 million servers and desktops is "SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS"

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 in the eyes of people who control panels, news, politicians, etc.

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 and hold jimmy by the b0lls while stuffing him with potatoes

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 KabanOS

[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 look up "kaban"

[12:16] techrights[sec] Yes, reddit only masquerades as a tech forum and is a severe source of

[12:16] techrights[sec] misinformation, disinformation, and FUD against FOSs of all stripes, but

[12:16] techrights[sec] especially against GNU and GNU.Linux

[12:18] schestowitz-pi2 this is the source of [Reseach] that Breddit Robertson keeps bragging about

[12:18] schestowitz-pi2 while uttering all the talking points against what saner users want

[12:18] schestowitz-pi2 and posing as leet because "arch" and "tilting WM"

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 in a war of words the rules are different

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 money can win, but not always

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 it gets to the point where paying t o win on ideas

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 it too much and too risky (blowback)

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 in the case of patents, pieter said that raising the lobbying bills of evil forces to the point

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 where they walk away from the table is the only war

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 *way

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 bar transformation of the political system

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 team upc does a ton of lobbying, we don't

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 they also control the media

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 tons of propaganda outlets disguised as news site

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 *sites

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 reddit is passing the labour costs to people like Breddit

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 who are using youtube to relay the BS

[12:24] techrights[sec] Same for YouTube, you will get demonetized for promoting GNU/Linux and maybe

[12:24] techrights[sec] even banned.

[12:24] techrights[sec] Quite few sites fit that description.

[12:24] techrights[sec] Yes that seems to be were he get a lot of BS from

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 reddit already wweeded out all the "greybeards" and "neckbeards" who can give a substantial

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 response and counter-point

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 which leaves idiots with "social justice warrior" as a reddit flair

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 to turf the space

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 after failing onen phd and exploring anotrher... in a completely unrelated discpline

[12:27] techrights[sec] Precisely

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 i noticed that about reddit in 2007 already

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 not 2017

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 novell turfing

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 against BN

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 and microsofters joining them

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 ganging up in comments

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 for bagel bill and ron hovsepian

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 whomm I've not received letters from in a long time

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 must have taken a short break from his home swimming session

[12:29] schestowitz-pi2 to ask some attorney to pester with me

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 speaking of which, the 'founder' of sirius is working 16-hour shifts now

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 trying to save the company all in his own

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 while clients are fleeing

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 and debt cannot be repaid

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 serves him right... karma

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 the current pension provider was repeatedly warned not to do anything he asks for

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 while we still investigate the prior one

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 standard life must be handling pensions of like 10 million people

[12:32] schestowitz-pi2 so it's a potentially huge scandal

[12:43] techrights[sec] Wow.

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 my friend whom you saw in the photograph spoke in length about this

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 50% of his salay goes to pension

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 he had about 4-5 pensions already, one for each past employer

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 he's vested in standard life

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 to retire in 3.5 years (55)

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 he told me to accuse them of "theft"

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 but that's just semantics

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 I said to their managers something to that effect twice already

[12:45] schestowitz-pi2 my colleagues don't even get as far as the management

[12:47] techrights[sec] I suspect that there might be a very specific term or phrase which will

[12:47] techrights[sec] launch major action against them if it is raised, but a big question is

[12:47] techrights[sec] what (legally speaking) that actual phrase is. In many cases you have to

[12:47] techrights[sec] use the exact term, I expect, if it is like dealing with banks or airlines.

[12:47] techrights[sec] Of by a bit in the phrasing and they won't lift a finger and they certainly

[12:47] techrights[sec] won't ever volunter information.

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 yes, this was brought up in the car this paast weds

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 and it's even worse when the person calling is a widow

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 or a child

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 and there is even less certainty or hard proof to press with

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 so he gave his partner a list of all the pension

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 i kept all the paperwork

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 from hem and payslip

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 that's not enoigh

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 *enough

[12:49] schestowitz-pi2 when a colleague asked the company, sirius

[12:50] schestowitz-pi2 they did not even reply!

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[14:09] schestowitz-pi2 "Fizz, a social media app where members of the Emory University community can anonymously publish text posts, polls and photos." https://emorywheel.com/sga-presidential-candidates-respond-to-title-ix-misogyny-discourse-on-fizz/ APP??

[14:09] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-emorywheel.com | SGA presidential candidates respond to Title IX, misogyny discourse on Fizz | The Emory Wheel

[14:34] techrights[sec] gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/05/windows-share-lockdowns/

[14:34] techrights[sec] It would be useful in such posts to remind about the role that monopoly rents

[14:34] techrights[sec] play and that they are now way below the market threshold at which they

[14:34] techrights[sec] are possible. In other words, the balloon is deflating.

[14:34] techrights[sec] Rapidly

[14:34] techrights[sec] Look for another .gov bailout / handout soon.

[14:34] techrights[sec] How much longer before the nations cannot avoid addressing the EPO?

[14:34] techrights[sec] It is complicated by Germany's conflict of interest in regards to income.

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 got epo material

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 will do daily links quickly

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 and leap to epo

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 catching up, sorry for that

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 i did think about mentioning the monopoly rents in that post ^_^

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 but did not at the end

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 i think TR does show some positive news for us

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 to keep morale higher

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 as for epo, what makes me hopeful is the dissent

[14:35] schestowitz-pi2 maybe a breaking point soon

[14:36] techrights[sec] It's often ignore and more often not even recognized.

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 epo staff are, in general, smart people

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 most are examiners

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 which makes them easy to work 'for

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 or 'with'

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 i'm hopeful that all this union-busting ("Bringing Teams Together")

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 will make the whole house of cards collapse

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 stakeholders are upset

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 Team UPC spent a lot on "lobbying" and bribing/grooming media

[14:39] schestowitz-pi2 and we'll 'crash' their fake 'court'

[14:39] techrights[sec] As far as the management component there at the EPO goes, there needs to be

[14:39] techrights[sec] 100% turn over with no connection at all between the incoming and outgoing

[14:39] techrights[sec] management.

[14:39] techrights[sec] The staff are mostly good as far as I can tell but not the management

[14:41] schestowitz-pi2 no, a lot of the important staff left years ago

[14:41] schestowitz-pi2 and isn't coming back

[14:41] schestowitz-pi2 now there are many type Zs

[14:41] schestowitz-pi2 and they are not to blame

[14:41] schestowitz-pi2 they just want to make a living

[14:41] libertybox_ https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/GinaMacina60/status/1632374614184669187#m

[14:41] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Gina Macina (@GinaMacina60): "Wikileaks/CableGate reveals Bill Gates Microsoft worked closely with governments. Microsoft gives them access to source code. US embassy cables: China uses access to Microsoft source code to help plot cyber warfare, US fears http://techrights.org/2010/12/06/microsoft-topsec-in-china/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632374614184669187" | La Contre-Voie

[14:41] libertybox_ https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/Wireshark777/status/1632291190795272192#m

[14:41] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | mojo #1776 #Free Assange (@Wireshark777): "http://techrights.org/2019/12/17/gates-secrets-gatekeeper/ https://theirishsentinel.com/2020/08/10/depopulation-through-forced-vaccination-the-zero-carbon-solution/" | La Contre-Voie - nitter

[14:42] schestowitz-pi2 hilly-billy attracting attention to himself again

[14:42] schestowitz-pi2 there is a price to be paid

[14:45] techrights[sec] Ah

[14:45] techrights[sec] Then maybe the whole thing needs a starting over, fresh from the beginning.

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[15:03] techrights[sec] A strong reason to harp on about monopoly rents is to kill the myth that m$

[15:03] techrights[sec] makes its money from OEM "sales" of Windows or MSO. The sales drive the

[15:03] techrights[sec] monopoly in the case of Windows and the monopoly in turn provides income

[15:03] techrights[sec] (though not necessarily enough to make a profit) With MSO, it is the monopoly

[15:03] techrights[sec] on the file formats which drive the monopoly rents

[15:03] techrights[sec] (though again not necessarily enough to make a profit there either)

[15:03] techrights[sec] Either way, there is a myth falsely glorifying the company and their products

[15:03] techrights[sec] It goes along with the conflation of common with popular. M$ may be common

[15:04] techrights[sec] but it is certainly not popular and is indeed the reason that most people

[15:04] techrights[sec] absolutely hate "computers" since they have no experience with real operating

[15:04] techrights[sec] systems or real software.

[15:12] schestowitz-pi2 can i reuse and edit your words for a later post?

[15:12] schestowitz-pi2 btw, zdnet is next after cnet

[15:12] schestowitz-pi2 layoffs, management canned, spam

[15:12] schestowitz-pi2 zdnet very quiet lately

[15:12] schestowitz-pi2 the clock is ticking on them

[15:50] techrights[sec] Paraphrasing or expanding would be best if possible,

[15:50] techrights[sec] I would not be surprised if ZDNet finally went away, they have been deinvesting

[15:50] techrights[sec] for ages. For all practical purposes there is nothing left now.

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 the genral approach is

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 1) collect info

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 2) improve arguments

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 3) change the public debate

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 4) media joins our side

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 5) opponents perish or change behaviour

[15:57] schestowitz-pi2 for EPO we're trying (4)

[15:58] schestowitz-pi2 some media DID cover the latest EPO scandals

[15:58] schestowitz-pi2 EPO is a monopoly and not accounrable

[15:58] schestowitz-pi2 working on epo post atm

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[17:00] schestowitz-pi2 the fish has died

[17:00] schestowitz-pi2 after 2 weeks

[17:00] schestowitz-pi2 but i was expecting this, due to lack of eating

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