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[09:09] schestowitz-TR "Teaching assistants are paid $24,000 per year" https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/16/ucs-student-workers-cant-afford-california/ | Source: Scheerpost

[09:09] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-UC's Student Workers Can't Afford California - scheerpost.com

[09:09] schestowitz-TR says how much education is valued

[09:13] Techrightssec Exactly

[09:13] Techrightssec Then if they win the academic lottery they can advance to being part-time

[09:13] Techrightssec "adjunct" faculty, working three jobs just to stay afloat. Then if lightning

[09:13] Techrightssec strikes twice in the same spot, they get a tenure track job and the false hope

[09:13] Techrightssec of a permanent job, still at low pay unless they are able to pivot into

[09:13] Techrightssec administration.

[09:13] schestowitz-TR not a uniquely US problem anymore

[09:23] Techrightssec Not nice the Bologne Process, which is fancy clothes for the destruction of

[09:23] Techrightssec higher education on the other side of the Atlantic:

[09:23] Techrightssec https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/inclusive-and-connected-higher-education/bologna-process

[09:23] Techrightssec It had fancy marketing and a lot of hangers-on.

[09:23] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-education.ec.europa.eu | The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area | European Education Area

[09:29] Techrightssec Three years is not enough to either specialize in a topic nor to gain a well-

[09:29] Techrightssec rounded experience. The failure is then double if trying to do both.

[09:31] schestowitz-TR introducing lesser skilled people into a workplace typically helps bring wages down, over time

[09:31] schestowitz-TR same with introducing women where not many women are suitably qualified

[09:31] schestowitz-TR but it's unpopular to say that

[09:34] Techrightssec

[09:34] Techrightssec That appears to be one of the goals. Now there are two or three academic

[09:34] Techrightssec generations of half-educated people flooding the market and vying for

[09:34] Techrightssec jobs including university jobs

[09:34] Techrightssec It's not like the universities have a separate supply chaing.

[09:34] Techrightssec Introducing unqualified but certified individuals means that the individual

[09:34] Techrightssec in question knows that they are in over their head and keep their job only

[09:34] Techrightssec at the whim of the decision makers. As a result there is no pushback against

[09:34] Techrightssec other stupidity.

[09:34] Techrightssec

[09:37] schestowitz-TR two words: jim. zemlin

[09:37] schestowitz-TR one word: spamnil.\

[09:37] schestowitz-TR they could instead keep carla schroder or jack wallen onboard

[09:37] schestowitz-TR vastly more qualified

[09:37] schestowitz-TR imagine being carla and they choose spamnil over you

[09:37] schestowitz-TR she called LF "poo"

[09:37] schestowitz-TR maybe she write "shit" and then changed that to something more polite.

[09:37] schestowitz-TR deep inside many people know what LF really is

[09:37] schestowitz-TR but there is concern that speaking out about it woukd seem "unprofessional"

[09:37] schestowitz-TR or anti-corporations, lessening the % of netting another 6-figure salary

[09:38] schestowitz-TR if this job candidate can tolerater the shit of the LF, he will tolerate our antics and keep quiet too. -company recruiter

[09:39] Techrightssec LF wants to avoid competent writers likely for similar reasons as above.

[09:39] Techrightssec Ideally it looks like its goal is to collapse the brand as quickly as possible.

[09:39] Techrightssec Also they have to make LT appear irrelevant so he can be shoved out the door too

[09:39] Techrightssec CoC violation for criticizing a corporation.

[09:39] Techrightssec CoCs were never, not even for a minute, about anything else than that.

[09:40] schestowitz-TR rather, it's about allowing corporations to weaponise something (borad, vague, anything) against people who get

[09:40] schestowitz-TR marked for removal

[09:40] schestowitz-TR seen it firsthand earlier this month ;-)

[09:40] Techrightssec The weapon is less important than the targets: the leadership and control of

[09:40] Techrightssec the various, key FOSS projects.

[09:40] Techrightssec They'd weaponize hairstyle when they can.

[09:42] schestowitz-TR "he didn't shave often enough. we caught him in his desk with stubble."

[09:42] schestowitz-TR (apropos, today, this morning, after 5+ years, I reminded myself why I quit using shaving foam)

[09:43] Techrightssec hygiene ...

[09:44] schestowitz-TR says a boss who drives a car that emits 3 times the gases of a normal car

[09:44] schestowitz-TR for vanity purposes alone

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[10:10] Techrightssec ack

[10:10] Techrightssec s/car/suv(truck)/

[10:10] Techrightssec https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abk7b/bidens-new-fuel-economy-standards-still-allow-cars-to-pollute-more-if-theyre-not-called-cars

[10:10] Techrightssec https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/

[10:10] Techrightssec https://www.fleetmanagementweekly.com/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-and-so-are-their-front-blind-zones-children-are-paying-th

[10:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.vice.com | Bidens New Fuel Economy Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More If Theyre Not Called Cars

[10:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-me.engin.umich.edu | CAFE Standards Could Mean Bigger Cars, Not Smaller Ones Mechanical Engineering

[10:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fleetmanagementweekly.com | America's Cars & Trucks are Getting Bigger and So Are Their Front Blind Zones. Children are Paying the Price - Fleet Management WeeklyFleet Management Weekly

[10:10] Techrightssec e-price/

[10:10] Techrightssec https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-are-front-blind-zones-children-rcna52109

[10:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nbcnews.com | America's cars and trucks are getting bigger, and so are their front blind zones. Children are paying the price.

[10:11] schestowitz-TR That's OK as long as they are not embroyes anymore

[10:11] schestowitz-TR *embryos

[10:12] Techrightssec yep

[10:39] Techrightssec ack

[10:39] schestowitz-TR It's 2022 and some dumb sites like Spamnil's still use the misleading misnomer "serverless". How repulsive and objectionable that liars

[10:39] schestowitz-TR and charlatans are treated like the more "repesctable" 'web3' 'bros'.... because corporate media officially recognises their buzzwords

[10:39] Techrightssec ack

[10:39] schestowitz-TR . We're in for some painful reckoning when people realise "clown computing" does not exist; it's a ruinous buzzword enshrining a trap.

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[12:40] schestowitz-TR "Personally, I seek very little social interaction in the real world; the everyday family life is quite enough." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1205

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[13:09] schestowitz-TR should I rebut the 3 POS 'articles' in "Linux" sites about WSL 1.0 (w00t! 1) or would that just give it more

[13:09] schestowitz-TR publicity than it's worth? I think after the 3 I saw it stopped

[13:09] schestowitz-TR betanews, itsfoss (idiot took over), and brad linder

[13:09] schestowitz-TR I'd rather see it going away

[13:09] schestowitz-TR countdown to phoronix doing a puff piece about it....

[13:10] Techrightssec ack

[13:14] Techrightssec WSL spam is thick on many sites these days.

[13:14] schestowitz-TR I reckon I can ignorew it and cover something else?

[13:14] schestowitz-TR left out from Daily Links, as it is WINDOWS news

[13:14] schestowitz-TR just hijacking a brand

[13:15] Techrightssec Probably rebut the concept of WSL. There are certainly some technical short

[13:15] Techrightssec comings in addition to the loss of freedom and security

[13:16] schestowitz-TR I think the 1.0 thing is RER-announcing it to get people to give it another look

[13:16] schestowitz-TR as very few use it and sites quit mentioning it

[13:16] schestowitz-TR I reckon it will be mothball not too long from now

[13:16] Techrightssec Yes, brand hijacking. It's marketed as "being able to run Linux" which

[13:16] Techrightssec at least with the first version, it is not.

[13:16] Techrightssec It's definitely a talking point being pushed by m$ marketeerts.

[13:16] Techrightssec ^marketeers.

[13:17] schestowitz-TR if the googlebombing stops, I'll carry on ignoring

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[13:40] schestowitz-TR this re-affirms what we've all been seeing for years

[13:40] schestowitz-TR sites that behave like this deserve no users at all

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[13:55] Techrightssec That's usually how it works afaik

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[14:49] schestowitz-TR otaX3

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[15:59] schestowitz-TR otaX3

[15:59] schestowitz-TR DONE

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[16:15] schestowitz-TR covid-19 tests in the uk has sunk to new lows and it's winter already. gov strategy: pretend we don't see it

[16:24] Techrightssec ack

[16:24] Techrightssec If they don't check, they can then confirm that the number of verified cases

[16:24] Techrightssec has gone down. :/

[16:24] schestowitz-TR draft

[16:34] Techrightssec checking

[16:34] Techrightssec Mastodon and Pleroma etc are social control media not a publishing platform

[16:34] Techrightssec like gemini, so a comparison would be irrelevant.

[16:34] Techrightssec s/videos on/videos about/

[16:35] schestowitz-TR typo fixed

[16:35] schestowitz-TR yes, I will add a footnote

[16:41] Techrightssec excellent

[16:44] schestowitz-TR was anything changed in tm-new?

[16:44] schestowitz-TR rianne tried twice to add a page and it gives a .PM complaint

[16:44] Techrightssec updated the packages but not the scripts

[16:44] Techrightssec checking

[16:44] Techrightssec At what stage does it give an error?

[16:44] schestowitz [y/N] y

[16:44] schestowitz Waiting for database to unlock ...lock acquired

[16:44] schestowitz Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_generic" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/TuxMachines/ReadOn.pm line 27.

[16:44] schestowitz Creating temporary directories and files

[16:44] schestowitz Creating static XHTML and GemText hierarchies

[16:44] schestowitz Updating SSI files

[16:44] schestowitz Writing the RSS feed for HTTP

[16:44] schestowitz Writing the Atom feed for Gemini

[16:44] schestowitz Writing the Gemini index

[16:44] schestowitz Pinging via MQTT

[16:45] schestowitz Erasing temporary directories and their files.

[16:48] Techrightssec Just checked. It can add, modify, and delete records.

[16:48] Techrightssec HOwever the error described is that there is a bad URL in the 'ReadOn' link.

[16:48] Techrightssec Perhaps a check should be added to ensure that there is something there.

[16:48] Techrightssec But if the record can be edited to ensure that there is a valid

[16:48] Techrightssec URL in the href element it should be good.

[16:48] Techrightssec Perhaps the URL is outside the quotes?

[16:48] schestowitz-TR rianne made a mistake

[16:48] schestowitz-TR she put the title in the URL

[16:48] schestowitz-TR sorry, our error

[16:49] Techrightssec np

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[17:11] Techrightssec The non-bot traffic for tm-new has been increasing. I see however that

[17:11] Techrightssec one of the clients (FB?) mangles the URLs resulting in 404 errors. They

[17:11] Techrightssec are not paying attention to the fact that URLs are case sensitive.

[17:12] schestowitz-TR nothing can save "meta"

[17:12] schestowitz-TR btw, the earlier article on twitter mentions someone rianne knows in person

[17:12] schestowitz-TR i didn't know till i sent it to her

[17:13] Techrightssec ack

[17:14] schestowitz-TR I haev just added anothger draft. 13 pages of pdf. NOT my area of expertise, but very relevant to daemonFC and us.

[17:19] Techrightssec Per the discussion about sub-minimum wages for working in academia:

[17:19] Techrightssec "Mr. Robbins teaches at several universities around Manhattan. "

[17:19] Techrightssec https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/realestate/nyc-harlem-west-side-apartment.html

[17:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Harlem or Upper West Side? Two Longtime Renters Test 20 Years Worth of Savings on a New Apartment. - The New York Times

[17:19] schestowitz-TR [16:20] https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/academic-publishing-and-the-death

[17:19] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia

[17:19] schestowitz-TR [16:20] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia

[17:19] schestowitz-TR [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> Academic Publishing sucks on MANY levels

[17:19] schestowitz-TR [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it's exploitative

[17:19] schestowitz-TR [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it was not always like that

[17:29] Techrightssec Not just the publishing. It's the wages (not salary) and hours too.

[17:29] Techrightssec They're not getting quality work if the dude has to juggle three jobs to get

[17:29] Techrightssec by economically.

[17:29] Techrightssec Then that just goes to show that the goal is not to provide quality education

[17:29] Techrightssec or research but to simply go through the motions and siphon money out through

[17:29] Techrightssec charades.

[17:29] Techrightssec He's probably working hard but multi-tasking four tasks (three jobs

[17:29] Techrightssec plus transportation) does not make for an efficient result.

[17:29] Techrightssec There is a lot of overhead for multi-tasking, especially in people, but also

[17:29] Techrightssec in computers.

[17:29] Techrightssec Then there are the journals themselves which are churning out lots of filler

[17:29] Techrightssec in addition to extorative pricing to buy back the work the universities and

[17:29] Techrightssec faculty provided them for free.

[17:31] schestowitz-TR after two years as a postdoc I pulled the plug

[17:31] schestowitz-TR actually after 6 months or less

[17:31] schestowitz-TR but then I just worked both my current job and the older job in paralell

[17:31] schestowitz-TR *llel

[17:31] schestowitz-TR did you see the draft

[17:31] schestowitz-TR I fixed something

[17:42] Techrightssec checking

[17:42] Techrightssec The body of the post ought to mention a little about what is in the open

[17:42] Techrightssec letter to support the link rather than relying 100% on the hope that the

[17:42] Techrightssec link will get clicked and the PDF handled.

[17:43] schestowitz-TR good suggestion

[17:43] schestowitz-TR I've added a long paragraph and checked it over several times for clatity

[17:43] schestowitz-TR final (3rd) video will cover the WSL BS (without linking)

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[17:46] Techrightssec ack

[17:47] schestowitz-TR thanks for the irc suggestions on that

[17:47] schestowitz-TR it helps guide what's covered and how

[17:47] schestowitz-TR itsfoss and phoreonix are explained in passing

[17:47] schestowitz-TR in the epo video, i still casually mention the copyright trolling

[17:47] Techrightssec Great

[17:48] Techrightssec it's apparently a common tactic

[17:53] schestowitz-TR the claimant is from same place as Campinos' boss

[17:53] schestowitz-TR the timing of the letter same as OOXML "finish the job" but for UPC

[17:53] Techrightssec ack

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