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[06:23] Techrights-sec http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-061022.html#tOct%2006%2000:03:56

[06:23] Techrights-sec ^ topic ?

[06:23] Techrights-sec http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-061022.html#tOct%2006%2000:07:52

[06:23] Techrights-sec ^ topic ?

[06:23] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 06, 2022

[06:23] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, October 06, 2022

[06:26] schestowitz-TR thanks

[06:26] schestowitz-TR gym brb

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● Oct 07

[07:00] Techrights-sec np

[07:01] schestowitz-TR going to go to aldi later, we expect a busy day later

[07:01] schestowitz-TR I put down in notes the topics suggested

[07:13] schestowitz-TR i do not have data to back this up with

[07:13] schestowitz-TR but it 'felt' like tuesday and weds are the busy news day

[07:13] schestowitz-TR by thursday it's already slow news day

[07:13] schestowitz-TR more so friday

[07:13] schestowitz-TR the vulume in the Links files may have affirm this

[07:13] schestowitz-TR if split by day of week

[07:13] schestowitz-TR then weighed by length of file

[07:13] schestowitz-TR then charted

[07:13] schestowitz-TR i could do the same with supplementary links (linux-y sites)

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[07:43] Techrights-sec That rather matches my observations too in recent years. Friday through

[07:43] Techrights-sec Monday have basically no news. It'd be hard to assess thoroughly because

[07:43] Techrights-sec the pages linked to have no uniform way of reading the date, if they even

[07:43] Techrights-sec have the date in a machine readable format or if they have the date at all.

[07:43] Techrights-sec But perhaps the small subset with machine readable dates could be analyze.

[07:43] Techrights-sec d

[07:43] Techrights-sec Their presence in our link lists would be too inaccurate since it can

[07:43] Techrights-sec take a few days or longer to find them. So landing in the link lists can happen

[07:43] Techrights-sec days after actual publication, if not weeks or months.

[07:52] schestowitz-TR larabel played a role in the "linuyx breaks your PC" FUD from Microsoft sites

[07:52] schestowitz-TR I firts looked at the mailing list message

[07:52] schestowitz-TR it's an intel bug by intel

[07:52] schestowitz-TR anyway, cliackbait was mentioned here 24 hours ago

[07:52] Techrights-sec :(

● Oct 07

[08:01] schestowitz-TR do you find my posts about covid-19 informative or am I wasting my time? :D

[08:01] schestowitz-TR that is based on local data, but I noticed the same trend in the US

[08:01] Techrights-sec They're informative, confirming what is suspected, but I assume you are writing

[08:01] Techrights-sec for a much wider audience.

[08:01] Techrights-sec Probably at least a few other countries too

[08:18] schestowitz-TR COVID-19 Positivity Rate Soaring in England Even Before October https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/07/september-covid-19-positivity-rate/

[08:18] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive COVID-19 Positivity Rate Soaring in England Even Before October

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[08:22] Techrights-sec So the published data is a month behind, and slipping.

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[08:23] schestowitz-TR better than nothing

[08:23] schestowitz-TR but it seems clear that if frequency was based on urgency/deaths, we should still receive daily updates

[08:23] schestowitz-TR this is a policial decision

[08:23] schestowitz-TR nothing to do with science

[08:24] Techrights-sec Yes, it looks like they are doing their utmost to avoid drawing attention to

[08:24] Techrights-sec the current situation. Certtainly if no current data is available, it is not

[08:24] Techrights-sec even possible to know the current situation.

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[08:28] schestowitz-TR nhs outsourced a lot of the key data not just to OOXML

[08:28] schestowitz-TR but to a Microsoft site that's basically JS

[08:28] schestowitz-TR which is infuriating

[08:51] Techrights-sec That is partially unrelated to SARS-CoV-2, I would say the outsourcing has

[08:51] Techrights-sec more to do with certain political agendas to shut down the national /healthcare/

[08:51] Techrights-sec service and replace it with privatization and "insurance" so that more middlemen

[08:51] Techrights-sec (several layers in fact) can skim off the money without providing any added

[08:51] Techrights-sec value

[08:51] schestowitz-TR wait, am working on a good one

[08:51] schestowitz-TR 5 ODF files

[08:52] Techrights-sec ack

[08:52] Techrights-sec Twenty until fifteen years ago, the benefits of open standards were universally

[08:52] Techrights-sec known and accepted. Furthermore, they were the direction the world was heading

[08:52] Techrights-sec but then everything collapse through the orgy of corruption and lies surrounding

[08:52] Techrights-sec OOXML, which by the way no one uses even today, not even m$ itself.

[08:52] Techrights-sec OOXML has never been fully defined nor actually implemented by any company

[08:52] Techrights-sec or organization.

● Oct 07

[09:03] schestowitz-TR In 2022, to Date, British Deaths Massively Increased Compared to the Prior Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/07/uk-death-increases/

[09:03] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive In 2022, to Date, British Deaths Massively Increased Compared to the Prior Year

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● Oct 07

[10:00] schestowitz-TR bbl aldi

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[12:20] Techrights-sec ack

[12:25] schestowitz-TR it is difficult for me to comment on FB

[12:25] schestowitz-TR rianne was using it when we met

[12:25] schestowitz-TR she stopped ~2 after we met

[12:25] schestowitz-TR ~2 years

[12:25] schestowitz-TR we met in 2011

[12:25] schestowitz-TR I think FB was not AS evil back then

[12:25] schestowitz-TR those sites tend to get MORE malicious over time

[12:25] schestowitz-TR they are BUSINESSES

[12:25] schestowitz-TR YouTube used to be "ok-ish" around 2011

[12:25] Techrights-sec Yes, YouTube was ok even for a few years after the sale.

[12:25] Techrights-sec In recent months it is worse than garbage. It makes even Odysee look ok, and

[12:25] Techrights-sec that takes some work. :(

[12:27] schestowitz-TR both won't work without JS

[12:27] schestowitz-TR but that's just the edge of the iceberg

[12:27] schestowitz-TR I don't have like... a wiki page with list of reasons to avoid them

[12:27] schestowitz-TR it would change over time, hence wiki

[12:27] schestowitz-TR let's just say it is not our foremost priority

[12:27] schestowitz-TR compared, say, to microsoft layoffs

[12:27] schestowitz-TR you said it was in page 1 of startpage

[12:27] schestowitz-TR I rarely use search engines and when I do it's searx.be these days

[12:30] schestowitz-TR fwiw, there are also good reasons to avoid peertube

[12:30] schestowitz-TR and ipfs for video (latency, lag among the downsides)

[12:30] schestowitz-TR self-hosting videos might not be cheap

[12:30] schestowitz-TR but you don't have to tip-toe like john campbell

[12:30] schestowitz-TR he's not a coward, they just blackmail him by saying he would use a decade of much work

[12:30] schestowitz-TR if they can squeeze the trigger on him

[12:30] schestowitz-TR seems like they already decided he needs to go

[12:30] schestowitz-TR they just look for excuses now

[12:30] schestowitz-TR he's "bad for business" (sponsors)

[12:35] Techrights-sec ack

[12:42] schestowitz-TR i keep telling rianne that people she watches in librewolf have a boss called "Google"

[12:42] schestowitz-TR and he's a very vicious and demanding boss

[12:42] schestowitz-TR \

[12:42] schestowitz-TR I last told her this morning

[12:42] schestowitz-TR this boss is never pleased, and he very very very much likes $

[12:42] schestowitz-TR he doesn't even like to pay employees their fair share

[12:42] schestowitz-TR and they cannnot express opinions even outside 'work'

[12:42] schestowitz-TR he also tracks them around with their "smart" phones

[12:42] schestowitz-TR for 'security'

[12:42] schestowitz-TR some years ago a worker who producef exercise videos for sweatshop pay rate entered the boss's office and fired

[12:42] schestowitz-TR at some workers

[12:42] schestowitz-TR but that was before the worse notoriety

[12:42] schestowitz-TR google: if you can just not talk about subject x, that would beeee greaaaaat

[12:42] schestowitz-TR same for use of words

[12:42] schestowitz-TR and how subjects get covered

[12:42] schestowitz-TR later they nitpick on who helped produce the video

[12:42] schestowitz-TR so tarqie and chomsky and chris hedges are "bad" people

[12:42] schestowitz-TR the footage was licensed to RT

[12:42] schestowitz-TR *tariq

[12:42] schestowitz-TR john campbell became a ransomware victim

[12:42] schestowitz-TR he must turn on the camera and tell us "happy stories"

[12:42] schestowitz-TR or all his word AND audience will rm -rf /

[12:42] schestowitz-TR with no chance to appeal, let alone a platform to complain in

[12:43] Techrights-sec ack

● Oct 07

[15:03] schestowitz-TR the name "sam varghese" has just been borrowed to issue about half a dozen spamnil-style 'articles'

[15:03] schestowitz-TR and he went along with it

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[15:17] Techrights-sec ack

[15:17] Techrights-sec he seems to be getting ground down

[15:17] Techrights-sec and hopefully not heading towards selling out

[15:17] Techrights-sec I think he is one of the last remaining tech journalists

[15:43] schestowitz-TR If only teaching paid more than it does gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/02/11.2

[15:53] Techrights-sec The budgets for teaching have been slashed for decades with the (so far

[15:53] Techrights-sec successful) goal of weakening it.

[15:53] Techrights-sec https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/05/reagan-nation-at-risk-education-policy-trump-bush

[15:53] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theguardian.com | It didn't start with Trump: how America came to undervalue teachers | Education | The Guardian

[15:54] schestowitz-TR they like to say the "left" welcomes immigrants for their vote

[15:54] schestowitz-TR while one party seems to be actively damaging brains in exchange for votes

[15:54] schestowitz-TR that seems to work reasonably well for those who plunder the country

[15:54] schestowitz-TR while at the same time keeping the population dumb, divided, and voting GOP

[15:56] Techrights-sec That is one of the goal, damaged brains and inability to think in order to

[15:56] Techrights-sec harvest uninformed votes based on tribe. Another is to have obedient or

[15:56] Techrights-sec easily manipluated worker drones that will accept terrible working conditions

[15:56] Techrights-sec and terrible pay and without health care, all uncomplainingly

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[16:15] schestowitz-TR need ideas

[16:15] schestowitz-TR reports say vista 11 market share 2.6%

[16:16] schestowitz-TR what can we "add" to that?

[16:16] schestowitz-TR (news slow; too slow even for many TM pages, let alone original articles)

[16:17] Techrights-sec The rate of change is important. That and how long it has been declining for.

[16:17] Techrights-sec Also it is important to point to a way out, even if it is Linux Mint or

[16:17] Techrights-sec PeppermintOS

[16:17] Techrights-sec There are a fair number of blog posts, but they are very slow to process as

[16:17] Techrights-sec is usual. Each writer has their own style so the pith may be anywhere in a

[16:17] Techrights-sec long post.

[16:17] Techrights-sec Vista11 only has any market share at all because of the Wintel duopoly and

[16:17] Techrights-sec the grip (monopoly) has with OEMs.

[16:22] Techrights-sec

[16:22] Techrights-sec If one could go to big box store in your average city and buy off the shelf

[16:22] Techrights-sec a compute with GNU/Linux pre-installed, that'd be the end of Windows

[16:22] Techrights-sec It's almost what happened with the Asus EEE. The GNU/Linux versions flew

[16:22] Techrights-sec off the shelves, but M$ prevented restocking by pressing Asus to stop with

[16:22] Techrights-sec the GNU/Linux version and then people who bought the Windows version mostly

[16:22] Techrights-sec returned them so the m$-owned media helped with the FUD by implying that the

[16:22] Techrights-sec returns were associated with GNU/Linux even though they were due to the

[16:22] Techrights-sec Windows versions.

[16:22] Techrights-sec (don't quote any of that, it's written too poorly)

[16:22] Techrights-sec You have the Asus EEE links somewhere from years ago. I think they might be

[16:22] Techrights-sec ZDNet links even. It's how I recall it, and briefly there were two articles

[16:22] Techrights-sec covering that. How do your recollections differ?

[16:23] Techrights-sec The Asus EEE (linux version) was a very good netbook and quite affordable.

[16:23] Techrights-sec That was another thing, m$ killed the netbook market by constraining the OEMs'

[16:23] Techrights-sec abilities to change the specs.

[16:27] schestowitz-TR this is now how I remember it

[16:27] schestowitz-TR *not how

[16:27] schestowitz-TR we have a wiki page with a list of articles

[16:27] schestowitz-TR head of osi at the time suggested that I document what had happened like this

[16:27] schestowitz-TR there were also microsoftr bribes, negative pricing

[16:27] schestowitz-TR but zemlin and the sunshine boyz thank "our diamong sponsor Microsoft"

[16:28] schestowitz-TR bribes are a crime

[16:33] psydruid I used the Asus EEE with Ubuntu for almost 2 years until the SSD broke

[16:33] psydruid after wiping the useless and outdated Windows XP that came with it

[16:34] psydruid little did they know that killing the netbook market just made people move to phones and tablets

[16:34] psydruid anything to escape Microsoft

[16:37] schestowitz-TR Windows has (had also) many real practical issues

[16:37] schestowitz-TR bloat (higher specs)

[16:37] schestowitz-TR price

[16:37] schestowitz-TR stability

[16:37] schestowitz-TR among others

[16:37] schestowitz-TR you don't hear androiud users saying

[16:38] schestowitz-TR "hang on, I need to reboot first"

[16:41] Techrights-sec m$ has made the superstition of powercycling and or rebooting the generic

[16:41] Techrights-sec ritual response to debugging.

● Oct 07

[18:26] psydruid the US has not just been asserting its dominance in terms of software, but also in terms of hardware

[18:26] psydruid now that the cat is out of the bag and a lot more non-US produced hardware is hitting the market, they are crying wolf

[18:27] psydruid and Windows is going into the garbage bin of history along with that hardware that isn't being sold anymore

[18:35] schestowitz-TR OTA

[18:35] schestowitz-TR yes, but they tell us the only alternative is China

[18:35] schestowitz-TR rather than nations making their own systems

[18:35] schestowitz-TR like India and China do with free ISAs

[18:35] schestowitz-TR as if only one nation can be h/w and s/w suppliers

[18:36] schestowitz-TR like clown computing, the "client" model

[18:36] schestowitz-TR it's the mindset of colonialism and parentalism

[18:36] schestowitz-TR Microsoft did this patronising thing to a lot of Africannations

[18:36] schestowitz-TR insinuaint they have no engineers

[18:37] schestowitz-TR and have no charge of doing ICT without Microsoft's help

[18:37] schestowitz-TR they could easily make their own distros and deploy Free sofwtare

[18:37] schestowitz-TR they don't need Microsoft

[18:37] schestowitz-TR I wrote some responses to this a long time ago

[18:37] schestowitz-TR IIRC, in relation to South Africa too

● Oct 07

[19:21] schestowitz-TR if all goes as planned, maybe I'll publish the copyright troll's letter in xmas

[19:21] schestowitz-TR draft

[19:21] Techrights-sec checking

[19:28] Techrights-sec The GPL in and of itself is a clever hack of copyright law and has provided

[19:28] Techrights-sec great benefit. LT himself has mentioned many times that very thing and

[19:28] Techrights-sec once, right before he got abused, even stated in a video that it was his best

[19:28] Techrights-sec decision ever to use the GPLv2.

[19:28] schestowitz-TR I will do a later video on uefi secure [sic] boot as gpl evasion

[19:28] schestowitz-TR and github as anti-gpl weapon

[19:28] schestowitz-TR I've just put this in myh notes as next [topic]

[19:28] Techrights-sec Yes, UEFI / restricte boot is a means of license evasion / violation.

[19:33] schestowitz-TR ok, done eating for today (still finding discounts)

[19:33] schestowitz-TR will clean rss fees

[19:33] schestowitz-TR btw, john cambell is tring to spin very bad news as OK or even good news

[19:33] schestowitz-TR I guess the boss (Google) wants some positive tone

[19:33] schestowitz-TR the clients (advertisers, not HIS) assess the platform for 'accuracy' (cnsistency with the PR)

[19:42] Techrights-sec ack

[19:59] Techrights-sec Serious question: what would it take for FSF, EFF, and OSI to make any kind

[19:59] Techrights-sec of campaign, big or small, to counter Vista12 together?

● Oct 07

[20:00] schestowitz-TR they are not goign to collaborate

[20:00] schestowitz-TR eff is to busy promoting shit

[20:00] schestowitz-TR osi is fighting SF

[20:00] schestowitz-TR and FSF is too afriad to speak out against anything

[20:00] Techrights-sec right, negative answers aside, what obstacles could be removed, if the

[20:00] Techrights-sec situation were more favorable?

[20:04] schestowitz-TR i don't know internal politics, but from what I heard (phipps, lxo etc.) there is a coup and they don't have the power to push it back anymore

[20:04] schestowitz-TR and they concedes, which was a mistake

[20:04] schestowitz-TR they even did to rms agsinst us (not succefully) what trolls do against dfc

[20:04] schestowitz-TR it's just boring ol divide and rule

[20:04] schestowitz-TR identify or interject some politics people don't agree on

[20:04] schestowitz-TR then cause strife

[20:04] schestowitz-TR i'd like to think we're not gullible enough to ever fall for it

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[20:45] Techrights-sec ack

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[23:18] schestowitz-TR our eye on the friendman leads to various other potential scandal

[23:18] schestowitz-TR I think we have a network of leaks and whispers now

[23:18] schestowitz-TR to last for a long time

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