●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 ●●

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[04:21] schestowitz-TR2 Upside of Microsoft SPAM machine for HEY HI (while LAYING OFF many in the "marketing" department/FUD teams): oversight or lack of FUD against GNU/Linux. They threw 99% of the efforts into this lie that "SEARCH ENGINES ARE DEAD" ("oh, here, use a chatbot that lies instead")

[04:22] schestowitz-pi psydruid: they are the wheel in the rodent's cage

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[04:53] schestowitz-pi2 it looks like the router just rebooted itself after patch applied last night

[04:53] schestowitz-pi2 this time the ssh connection stayed alive and the ip address did not change

[04:53] schestowitz-pi2 hopefully that's not just a matter of luck

[04:53] schestowitz-pi2 as that saves a lot of time/trouble

● Feb 22

[05:45] techrights[sec] If m$ is unable to spam the search engines, they will likely counter the loss

[05:45] techrights[sec] by trying to become the front-end (e.g. with their wonky LLM) or by , as you

[05:45] techrights[sec] point out, starting a whisper campaign against search engines in general.

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 doctorow's essay on this echoes my thoughts because

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 what people should satrive for are actual web pages

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 composed by domain experts

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 like fish enthusiasts

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 not some wordmachine

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 btw, i took a look at linux.com

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 as LF was eerily quiet this month

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 and not just because i abandoned quiterss

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 wtf happened to linux.com???????????????????

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 they should free up the dns space

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 and let someone else run such an important domain

[05:47] schestowitz-pi2 if they're unwilling or incapable of doing so themeslves

[05:48] techrights[sec] I suspect that the VCcode spam is part of that whisper campaign, as it's so new.

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[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 vscode

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 1) proprietary

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 2) spyware

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 3) controlled by Microsoft

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 4) pushed GPL violations (copilot)

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 5) github etc.

[05:49] schestowitz-pi2 kate does all the important stuff coders need, inc. git integration

[05:50] techrights[sec] Yes, Linux.com should hand it over to non-m$ community leaders.

[05:50] techrights[sec] VSCode is just another attempt to become a^wthe bottleneck in all development.

[05:50] techrights[sec] Kate is excellent, Geany is excellent. Either obviate any perceived benefits

[05:50] techrights[sec] that m$ garbage might have talked up but all without the disadvantagees of the

[05:50] techrights[sec] m$ gargabe.

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● Feb 22

[06:10] schestowitz-TR2 Green Party respond to successful four-day week trial | The Green Party https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2023/02/21/green-party-respond-to-successful-four-day-week-trial/ Source: Green Party UK | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2023/02/21/green-party-respond-to-successful-four-day-week-trial/

[06:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.greenparty.org.uk | Green Party respond to successful four-day week trial | The Green Party

[06:10] techrightssec ^garbage

[06:11] schestowitz-TR2 this would be a step in a good direction

[06:11] schestowitz-TR2 but oligarchy would use it

[06:11] schestowitz-TR2 for wage reduction

[06:11] schestowitz-TR2 and might not like people having spare time

[06:12] schestowitz-TR2 as they can use it toorganise

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 one theme i'd like to explore (interjecting a bit, don't mind the above),

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 is what happened to "the news"

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 news cycles

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 news on the web

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 ownership

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 as it seems to be an unexplored or barely expllored problem

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 linux.com is part of a borader trend here

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 and that has little to do with "advertising industry" or ad blocking etc

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 the subject has come up in the US, partly because of Sanders,

[06:14] schestowitz-pi2 as if they fail to fund the media oligarchs will control the narrative all across the board

[06:54] schestowitz-pi2 i linked to that hours ago, spoke with wife about what this would have meant to us

[06:54] schestowitz-pi2 had there been no vendatta

[06:54] schestowitz-pi2 and they did the separation "properly"

[06:54] schestowitz-pi2 anyway, this is the us, not the uk

[06:54] schestowitz-pi2 i am not familiar with the law here because the media does not cover this much

● Feb 22

[08:27] schestowitz-pi2 sam varghese is vanishing again

[08:27] schestowitz-pi2 biab, exercise

● Feb 22

[09:36] techrights[sec] http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-210223.html#tFeb%2021%2020:57:59

[09:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

[09:36] techrights[sec] What is the fallout from Gemany's corruptin and fraud regarding the refusal to

[09:36] techrights[sec] acknowledge the death of the Unified Patent Court>

[09:36] techrights[sec] ?

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 it is not just germany

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 it's a national thing

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 a class thing

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 an occupational thing

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 belenux, oligarchy, patent lawyers...

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 a multifaceted conflict of interest exemplifies

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 death of properly function system ('democracy' unfit a label for this)

[09:38] schestowitz-pi2 *functioning

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 yes, the remark about mozilal is maybe a tad too harsh but not far from the truth

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 money and scum like gulagboy tuen everything to shit

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 like stuffing pluton this week into linux

[09:42] schestowitz-pi2 brown-nosing microsoft

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● Feb 22

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 the page does not say Microsoft

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 not even a sponsor

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 where can it be shown?

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 i also see microsoft stefaono there

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 lots of speakers in total

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 microsoft is a racist-sexist trap

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 checking who else is there

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 there are at least 2 or 3 micromoles there

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 but on on a % level, they are not much

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 how many keynotes in total

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 3 if you count MS MVP

[12:04] schestowitz-pi2 not counting several ex-Microsoft there

[12:06] schestowitz-pi2 can you check if in past years they also had MSFT spakers

[12:06] schestowitz-pi2 and/or microsoft as sponsor?

[12:06] schestowitz-pi2 this is not enough of a smoking gun's smoke

[12:06] schestowitz-pi2 given the ratio of microsoft

[12:06] schestowitz-pi2 and microsoft not listed as sponsor

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[12:14] schestowitz-pi2 wait, I know how I can approach this, as a side note

[12:14] schestowitz-pi2 i usualyl pounce at these things, this time I can envision the comeback, but I already have a related

[12:14] schestowitz-pi2 draft and can merge the issues

● Feb 22

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 excelent that we've now established a timeline and when it started

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 going to make a post out of this later

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 the new workflow is a lot more efficient

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 but what's time consuming now it wading through and choosing more news picks

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 that's ok though, but must allocate more time to do aricles

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 by setting time limits/boundaries/squotas

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 got some topics to cover, but none urgent

[13:02] schestowitz-pi2 seems like FUD capacity at Microsoft has gone down

[13:03] schestowitz-pi2 companies in panic, with layoffs avoided at all costs to save face

[13:04] techrights[sec] Layoffs there are usually hidden in various ways.

[13:16] schestowitz-pi2 ryan's latest blog post, basxed on irc, was liked by rianne and by me

[13:16] schestowitz-pi2 worth a read

[13:16] schestowitz-pi2 not for TR, but covers some OK points

[13:16] schestowitz-pi2 without casual racism

[13:24] techrights[sec] checking

[13:24] techrights[sec] ack

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[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/sponsor/open-source-watch

[13:56] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.socallinuxexpo.org | Open Source Watch | 20x

[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 sjvn

[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 "media partner" is like at EPO

[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 take the money from the sponsors

[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 e.g. black duck this year

[13:56] schestowitz-pi2 and pass it to sjvn to do some "requested" (by sponsors) puff pieces

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● Feb 22

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 es

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 i did manage to produce some posts today

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 some were 'urgent'

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 the fish we put in the hospital is not doing well

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 but my hopes for her were not high

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 going to focus on catching up with links now

[16:50] schestowitz-pi2 other than that, all is quiet and calm on the eastern front

[16:52] techrights[sec] M$ infiltration of and destruction of the conferences is an important topic.

[16:52] techrights[sec] It goes all the way back to the incidents covered in the Plaintiff's Exhibits

[16:52] techrights[sec] from Comes v M$ when they bragged about killing two Macintosh conferences.

[16:52] techrights[sec] A very similar thing is going on here.

[16:53] schestowitz-pi2 i plan to maybe do a video about this tomorrow, in the same batch as epo videos

[16:53] schestowitz-pi2 it's called "killing with kindness"

[16:53] schestowitz-pi2 kindness = "microsoft loves linux"

[16:55] techrights[sec] 'smile while pulling the trigger'

[16:55] techrights[sec] Wasn't it Christine Hall who said something about "microsoft loves linux"

[16:55] techrights[sec] :: "I love chicken"

[16:56] schestowitz-pi2 yes, but many said similar things

[16:56] schestowitz-pi2 similar analogies

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