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[00:23] schestowitz gemini stats show interest in the shithub series. I have lots more...

[00:24] schestowitz I just need to figure out more ways to make Daily Links etc. more efficient to free up time for videos, articles, I'm already stretching the limits, but I know further improvements can be made

[00:26] Techrights-sec Any ideas for improvements with the scripting?

[00:26] schestowitz If the so-called 'Aye Pee' feeds could be automated, but they need close scrutiny and many come from GulagNoise, so it is not doable

[00:27] Techrights-sec $ cat workflow.txt

[00:27] Techrights-sec ../../Git/Links/links-check-spam-sites.pl $(date +"%F.html") && ../../Git/Links/links-check-camelcase.pl $(date +"%F

[00:27] Techrights-sec .html") && ../../bin/merge-daily-links.sh && ../../bin/links-upload.sh && ../template.sh

[00:28] Techrights-sec Fetchning a second list of links would be no problem but if the quality /

[00:28] Techrights-sec signal-to-noise ratio is low then they should go in a second file and

[00:28] Techrights-sec not the merged file.

[00:29] schestowitz I thought about just giving up completely on some of those feeds, but few examine those matters, so it's risky to let lawyers and frauds dominate 100% of the coverage online

[00:31] schestowitz-TR Also, they eply to me and you can see they're hurt

[00:32] Techrights-sec Agreed, on both parts. It's toilsome but necessary to prevent ceding the

[00:32] Techrights-sec domain 100% to frauds.

[00:32] Techrights-sec Hurt is an unfortunate side effect but if they correct their bullshit, and

[00:32] Techrights-sec lie less often, then it would not happen. Those are mostly pushing lies on

[00:32] Techrights-sec the public, espeially the law firms' blogs I read on occasion.

[00:32] Techrights-sec Speaking of blogs, there seem to be slightly more active blogs than last year.

[00:33] schestowitz-TR my ONLY shift for this week is almost over now (1am)

[00:37] Techrights-sec Congratulations.

[00:37] Techrights-sec One topic that falls victim to time is incidents like Munich. As time passes,

[00:37] Techrights-sec people forget and then they try to fill in the gaps with speculation. Sadly,

[00:37] Techrights-sec that speculation is made up inaccurately by projecting the individual's own

[00:37] Techrights-sec reasonably good values and ethics onto a group which is alien to both.

[00:37] Techrights-sec So the underhanded tricks with the mayor and the insiders and the move of

[00:37] Techrights-sec the headquarters are forgotten and smoothed over by wishful, but wrong, thinking

[00:38] Techrights-sec The counter to that is to keep bringing up the old topics, but it has to be

[00:38] Techrights-sec done in new contexts otherwise the microsofters gain a little by asserting

[00:38] Techrights-sec that the data is "old" and therefore no longer applies, even if the current

[00:38] Techrights-sec situation is much worse than befor.

[00:47] Techrights-sec Back to why "cybersecurity" can't be taught at universities, most now lack a

[00:47] Techrights-sec functional IT department. I have bemoaned the fact that most institutions now

[00:47] Techrights-sec harbor microsoft resellers in place of what was once their IT deparment. But

[00:47] Techrights-sec the vehicle for that was to outsource the skills by outsourcing the activities

[00:47] Techrights-sec and services. When they had in-house teams they attracted, developed, and

[00:47] Techrights-sec retained talent. Once they had outsourced enough people left. When enough

[00:47] Techrights-sec skilled people leave, there comes a point where a threshold is crossed

[00:47] Techrights-sec and those remaining skilled people don't have enough peers to enjoy or beneft

[00:47] Techrights-sec from the work. So they, too, leave. It's a death spiral of sorts. It

[00:47] Techrights-sec begins with outsourcing. So companies like Cisco provide outrageously expensive

[00:47] Techrights-sec and poor quality VPns and such and instead of using WireGuard or OpenVPN, the

[00:47] Techrights-sec talent leaves and are replaced by flunkies who can only play with junk.

[00:47] Techrights-sec However, the choice of VPNs is itself a false dichotomy. It means that

[00:47] Techrights-sec cruchy on the outside but soft on the inside style of network and service

[00:47] Techrights-sec architecure has been adopted replacing the old 1980s zero-trust model. In

[00:47] Techrights-sec the latter, the network (even the LAN) must be consider compromised to begin

[00:47] Techrights-sec with and the services designed sufficiently robustly to cope with that.

[00:47] schestowitz-TR happened where I worked

[00:48] schestowitz-TR but I did the research, not "IT"

[00:49] Techrights-sec Yes, the cost of that was you doing "IT"' job for them. They probably

[00:49] Techrights-sec got partial credit for the positive result even if they fought it actively

[00:49] Techrights-sec and passively to a certain extent.

[00:50] schestowitz-TR tou end up isnatlling everything for yourself and received no suppoort, whuich I suppose yoy paid for

[00:50] schestowitz-TR *you

[00:52] Techrights-sec The world needs a non-M$ Kerberos VI to replace the damaged Kerberos V.

[00:52] Techrights-sec And several other similar technologies, such as dedicated native clients.

[00:52] Techrights-sec RUnning everything through javascript in a web brower coughelectroncough

[00:52] Techrights-sec is inefficient and unsafe.

[00:52] Techrights-sec Yes, installing everything yourself and getting no support. Yet, they somehow

[00:52] Techrights-sec get credit for it working. COnsiduer your company lucky that they don't also

[00:52] Techrights-sec double-bill like some "IT" "service" companies do around here.

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[01:01] Techrights-sec One place the microsoft resellers threatened to withdraw their "support"

[01:01] Techrights-sec I and another faculty member maneuvered them into doing that in such a way

[01:01] Techrights-sec as they ended up being out of the way. They did not know how to counter that

[01:01] Techrights-sec level of independence as they were used to obsequiousness, so it took them

[01:01] Techrights-sec about 18 months to counter. Though the did occasionally find small, petty

[01:01] Techrights-sec ways to intentionally interfere especially at busy times.

[01:01] Techrights-sec What hurts the nation and the economy the worse is that the microsofter poseurs

[01:01] Techrights-sec are considered "IT" in any way shape or form. M$ is not a technology, it

[01:01] Techrights-sec is a form of political control, or even a cult, masqurading as a product line.

[01:01] Techrights-sec Anyway, I'm rambling too much today.

[01:56] psydruid I had implemented zero trust at a friend's office with separate LANs for servers, desktops and home environment and firewalls running and enabled on each system to protect them from one another

[01:57] psydruid When I left for abroad they moved back to Windows but had constant trouble according to someone else I knew and talked to

[01:57] psydruid In the end the business was closed down

[01:58] schestowitz :-)

[01:59] psydruid those people who peddle Microsoft "solutions" don't realise how much damage they are doing by replacing tech that works with something that obviously doesn't work

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[08:07] Techrights-sec Windows kills also businesses. The M$ resellers prioritize Windows over the

[08:07] Techrights-sec survival of the very institution they are ostensibly working in. They

[08:07] Techrights-sec may be on the payroll of the institution they kill but nonetheless have

[08:07] Techrights-sec allegiance only to M$.

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[16:28] *Now talking on #boycottnovell

[16:28] *Topic for #boycottnovell is: TechRights.org | Channel #boycottnovell for http://TechRights.org | Free Software Sentry watching and reporting maneuvers of those who oppose software freedom :: please also join channels #techrights and #boycottnovell-social

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[20:44] schestowitz-TR If you wrote something before this session was rest, I did not see it as I was asleep

[20:44] schestowitz-TR In interesting development, freenode 'reopened'... anony logics and our old channels are still registered there

[20:44] schestowitz-TR so there are now two stale networks with a channell called techrights in them

[20:44] schestowitz-TR aside from the main one

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