●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, February 27, 2023 ●●

● Feb 27

[01:20] schestowitz-pi2 running ddos protection now

● Feb 27

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 i think I found a solution!

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 open firefox locally on another machine, bringing in the feeds megafile over ssh

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 then I have a 3-screen setup for handling feeds

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 and the graphics are all rendered locally

● Feb 27

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[07:03] schestowitz-pi2 it is like a miracle

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 the fish starts to eat a little today

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 we moved her to the hospital exactly a week ago

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 and she did not eat or poo since then

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 now she swims better

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 and it looks like the little parasite we saw is off her body

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 the body is not thin

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 and she looks health

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 she no longer swims vertically or diagonally, just slowly and horizontally

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 if she regains her appetiate and starts pooing again, we can moved her from the epsom hospital to

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 meet the new "kids"

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 but i don't want to get my expectations too high just yet

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 on tuesday i was about to discard her as she looked dead already

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 and last water change she was collapsing to her side, then woke up among impact

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 she only bited the freshly0-entered food at the top now, but barely

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 like bolimic

[07:04] schestowitz-pi2 /s/o/u/

[07:06] techrights[sec] sftp -i key roy@192.168.0.11/home/roy/Documents/megafile.html

[07:06] techrights[sec] The SFTP client can fetch individual files easily, as part of a script.

[07:06] techrights[sec] There is also a -b optino which can read a batch of SFTP commands

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[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 going to try the ssh thing now, or in a moment, as a laptop fell offline

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 rianne did not plug the unit in the socket

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 so it went to sleep

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 one of the upsides of being "pulse"-like-connected to irc

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 you know when connections are lost

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 based on what leaves irc

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 many homes in us losing power atm

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 some for days

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 rich portland home lost it for 6 dsyd

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 no linux kernel work for almost a a week

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 in cold places, inc. some us states, no power can lead to death

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 def. in most of canada

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 that can kill a lot more than a terror attack would

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 and is totally preventable without enough financial investmenta

[07:11] schestowitz-pi2 and polical will

[07:11] techrights[sec] The power outages there seem due to malfeasance.

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[07:27] techrights[sec] The political will would be needed to rein in the various corporations involved

[07:27] techrights[sec] in not maintaining the lines proplerly.

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 rianne has two lots, but they are in cities where there are even more fundamental isues

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 for instance, some water is sourced from pumping (underground wells)

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 not clean enoug for drinking, low water pressure (need to buy motor for good current), and sometimes

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 lots of air instead of water

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 due to insufficient capacity

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 this has ruined some nearby "high-profile" projects/developments

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 you can make a nice house

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 but you cannot just "buy" access to good water infra

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 set aside electricity

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 that's another issue, which impacts connectivity

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 making a country work well starts with good infra

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 the manchester infra is relatively robust

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 we're considered a strategic city for northern england

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 so i expect this to stay that way for decades

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 btw, manchester did (at the end) bring that trophy home

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 even i watched the goals, which is against my post-qatar 'policy'

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 but such games are very rare (final) and it was 3-min long

[07:33] schestowitz-pi2 youtube is becoming a thing to avoid not out of principles but out of pure pragmatism

[07:44] techrights[sec] Youtube is impractical to watch any more.

[07:44] techrights[sec] I notice that more sites have ceased writeups and articles and are starting

[07:44] techrights[sec] to merely link to AP or Reuters or other wireservice.

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 kent's (uni) is CNN

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 and some few oithers

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 umich went on weekend-long pause

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 and stated that upfrontg

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 emory is on and off

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 like active one day, inactive the next

[07:48] schestowitz-pi2 i have one friend from emory, but he's british-irish

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 as for michael west, he's drowning in aap

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 he dliuted his own site

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 and now he popsts things that contradict his (and his colleagues') general message

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 just to maintain traffic

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 in effect doing no real service

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 just offering some web space and hosting to AP

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 there was another example I had in mind but forgot about

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 muktware (now known as 'tfir') is lots of copy-pasted press releases

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 mindly etited by monika

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 former colleague of spamnil

[07:49] schestowitz-pi2 when he was paid to actually write things, not relay trash for bad and/or very obscure companies

● Feb 27

[08:24] schestowitz-pi2 cure companies

[08:24] schestowitz-pi2 in your links under overpop is a common smear debunked, i put in editorial comments before

[08:24] schestowitz-pi2 a note to say media conflates the term "infertility" with something else, to shame people to make consumers

[08:26] techrights[sec] checking

[08:26] techrights[sec] Yes, there is propaganda pushing for further overpopulation.

[08:26] techrights[sec] However, the "propganda" catageory is generally about propaganda rather than

[08:26] techrights[sec] specific examples of it.

[08:26] techrights[sec] Or of it getting debunked.

[08:26] techrights[sec] old: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820362116

[08:26] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 503 @ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820362116 )

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 if it was a health issue, it would be treated as such

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 i know someone who had 9 babies and 9 dead babies

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 hardly an accomplishment

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 18 with 50% "success rate" since

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 mid teens

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 she still said "CONDON" [sic] in her 80s

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 can't even say it right

[08:29] schestowitz-pi2 illiterate

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 in the old days, many kids helped artound the farm

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 now it is child labour

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 and you cannot discpline a kid

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 that's a crime

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 in the old days, more kids meant more warriors for the village, or more girls to make

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 future warriors

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 but human population was like 8 million, not 8 billions, and weapons were carried by limbs

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 "cannon fodder"

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 kids can still help the parents, like i used to do laundry and such (housework)

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 the prooblem is when kids are sold outside the family as labourers

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 or worse, as sex objects

[08:41] schestowitz-pi2 (happens, not covered much in the media for various reasons)

[08:44] schestowitz-pi2 biab, gym

[08:44] schestowitz-pi2 fish swimming a bit more, bites the flakes a little

● Feb 27

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[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 i plan to do coverage of CAs

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 seeing that many people 'borrow' the ideas

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 and another to suggest alternatives to github

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 maybe another part in the 2021- series

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 just need more 'beef' for these

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 the fish started swimming more vigorously at times

[09:53] schestowitz-pi2 a good sign

● Feb 27

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 good news: 2 days ago i wrote that gemini growth was slowing down

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 but in the 2 days since then geminispace became busier again

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 not sure why

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 it sometimes happens

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 it sometimes happens when the media promotes it somewhere

[10:40] schestowitz-pi2 like spiegel

[10:43] schestowitz-pi2 gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi about 10 new capsules since that video

● Feb 27

[11:03] schestowitz-pi2 re scotus, eff did cover the issue in prior years

[11:04] schestowitz-pi2 now it's like fsf, hardly saying or even doing much

[11:04] schestowitz-pi2 i might add, that's kind of like mozilla too (SF, overlap)

[11:05] schestowitz-pi2 theory: it pays better to not say anything, i.e. not piss off anyone "important"

[11:05] schestowitz-pi2 then, donations will come from those who prefer for you to be inactive

[11:05] schestowitz-pi2 and for firefox to bleed to death

[11:06] schestowitz-pi2 on one machine i cannot install any theme or extension in firefox

[11:06] schestowitz-pi2 seems like a very basic bug

[11:06] schestowitz-pi2 eff did cover section 260 before

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● Feb 27

[12:24] techrights[sec] EFF did cover Section 230 before but there is very important activity going

[12:24] techrights[sec] on now that ought to be tracked.

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 EFF stopped covering it

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 so it's probably not so important ^_^

[12:26] techrights[sec] :/

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 same for EPO and swpats

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 last year they issued a bizarre face-saving statement

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 to the effect of, we cannot cover everything

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 me: you hardly cover ANYTHING anymore

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 they are not understaffed except willfully

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 btw, their finances turned sour years ago

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 go see the Charity Navigator

[12:26] schestowitz-pi2 I think I took screenshots of that

[12:47] techrights[sec] They lost their donation base when they stopped with following their charter

[12:47] techrights[sec] They cover basically nothing for the money they have had

[12:47] schestowitz-pi2 "lie back, do nothing"

[12:47] schestowitz-pi2 -corporate interests

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 out of curiousity, knowing that posting style changed somewhat in TM

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 with in-line stuff or in-blockquote stuff, i checked the gemtext versions of pages

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 they all seem OK

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 coping with the additional stuff

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 thought about doing a video about carpet, footrest, mice, cameras and peripherals

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 how to manage these in this office

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 which used to be the dining room

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 other than that, it's only semi articles

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 incomplete ideas

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 it does not help that in foss-o-sphere there is little original reporting

[12:52] schestowitz-pi2 it's more like an echo chamber

[12:53] schestowitz-pi2 phoronix is unappealing

[12:53] schestowitz-pi2 i stopped even clicking

[12:53] techrights[sec] I haven't checked Phoronix on purpose fora while. The headlines show up in \some searches somehow, perhaps m$

[12:53] techrights[sec] SEO, but the headlines have indicated trash

[12:53] techrights[sec] content only.

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 lkmlgit +50 ----+++++ something.c

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 ----->>>

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 Google Noise - 'Linux': something something Linux 6.3 - Phoronix

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 sorry, won't click

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 MIGHT click on lkml/git if it was more easily accessible and now just a mesh of numbers

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 something with email domains in the URL

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 for a number of months, in 2022 for the most part, I used phoronix as a vessel to see the original

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 messages in MLs about what was changed and who by

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 skipped the middeleman

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 but many links were gitlab, which didn't render at all in quiterss (JS always turned off)

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 or, worse yet, microsoft crap (github)

[12:57] schestowitz-pi2 so many links were not usable either

● Feb 27

[13:01] techrights[sec] The most recent batch of links weighed in at around 170 links. That's

[13:01] techrights[sec] a lot, way too many for a single page IMHO

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 yes, there is always this difficulty and dilemma

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 due to link clustering esp. for tuxmachines

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 the cutoff determines where the clustering stops

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 i needed some more howos and stuch

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 to avoid stuff like generic "today's leftovers"

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 better if everything left over can be retrofitted into a group

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 still refining this process over time

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 it's a never-ending optimisation

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 as the goalposts too are moving

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 if you can think if better workflows, that will def. help

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 i know where the weaknesses are

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 this is one of them

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 atm i try to come up with "worthy" topic

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 not to shitpost for quota's sake

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 i stopped doing memes for now

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 they are not a priority

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 poems i stopped years ago

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 there is suff going on behind the sceenes

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 github, epo, upc, wipo/iana

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 and irc, even if disruption abated somewhat, is still a source of distraction

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 i seriously think of removing phoronix out of my sight completely, but that would not leave much

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 for kernel space

[13:07] schestowitz-pi2 i could do a video to show firefox failing to get extensions on kdeneon, but that's a bug, not intentional

[13:31] techrights[sec] Is Thierry Breton leading another attack against Net Neutr

[13:32] schestowitz-pi2 i aw that koch-funded reason foundation (reason.com) does

[13:32] schestowitz-pi2 *saw

[13:32] schestowitz-pi2 did not notice EC/EU

[13:34] techrights[sec] It is elsewhere too

[13:34] techrights[sec] Times of India has it

[13:34] techrights[sec] There are some good papers in India and they tend to cover EU and US better

[13:34] techrights[sec] than the US papers and about as good as the EU ones.

[13:35] techrights[sec] Though some of that comes from the wire feed services which the US-based

[13:35] techrights[sec] sites tend to ignore.

[13:36] schestowitz-pi2 they have a conflict of interest

[13:36] schestowitz-pi2 as "established" media

[13:39] schestowitz-pi2 if you see

[13:39] schestowitz-pi2 draft

[13:39] schestowitz-pi2 can you suggest the next section/s?

[13:40] techrights[sec] The spin is to label double-dipping/double-billing as "fair share" and

[13:40] techrights[sec] that gets parroted a lot now.

[13:40] techrights[sec] checking

[13:40] techrights[sec] Nice

[13:40] techrights[sec] Let's Encrypt was a good step but only one step in a direction. Unfortunately

[13:40] techrights[sec] Mozilla and Google have headed that off by preventing self-signed certificates.

[13:43] techrights[sec] .

[13:43] techrights[sec] s/jar of worms/can of worms/

[13:43] techrights[sec] An additional topic might be about use of the "AI" to strip both attribution

[13:43] techrights[sec] and licensing from various creative works, ranging from software to art and

[13:43] techrights[sec] literature.

[13:51] schestowitz-pi2 ok, drafting

[13:51] schestowitz-pi2 added to thge draft

[13:51] schestowitz-pi2 anything else?

[13:51] schestowitz-pi2 5 is a nicer number than 4

[13:55] techrights[sec] Here is the source code aspect,

[13:55] techrights[sec] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai-github-copilot-class-action-lawsuit-ai-copyright-v

[13:55] techrights[sec] iolation-training-data

[13:55] techrights[sec] but the same applies to all the works it is used to rip off

[13:55] techrights[sec] Each violation is a violation and due a large fine independently of any other

[13:55] techrights[sec] violations.

[13:55] techrights[sec] Thinking

[13:55] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | The lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI that could change the rules ofAIcopyright - The Verge

[13:55] techrights[sec] Maybe ongoing net neutrality and the disingenuous and misleading labels for

[13:55] techrights[sec] opposition to it and attempts at double-billing?

[13:55] techrights[sec] https://www.tofugu.com/japan/number-four-superstition/

[13:55] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tofugu.com | The Number Four: Why Do Japanese People Fear It?

● Feb 27

[14:03] schestowitz-pi2 what would br the "replace" angle?

[14:03] techrights[sec] checking

[14:03] techrights[sec] needs to counter?

[14:03] techrights[sec] needs to counteract?

[14:03] techrights[sec] needs to bloc?

[14:03] techrights[sec] ^block

[14:04] schestowitz-pi2 post finalised soon, working on point 5 now

[14:28] techrights[sec] ok

[14:28] techrights[sec] s/for Gemini Protocol/for the Gemini Protocol/

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[14:42] schestowitz-pi2 post finalised soon, working on point 5 now

[14:42] schestowitz-pi2 ok, first pass complete

[14:42] schestowitz-pi2 going to catch up with tm, then do a final read

[14:42] techrights[sec] s/crypto/cryptocurrency/ in that one context

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● Feb 27

[15:20] schestowitz-pi2 lxo will work with us oin articles soon

[15:20] schestowitz-pi2 finalising

[15:20] schestowitz-pi2 found anc corrected many typos

[15:20] techrights[sec] Excellent

● Feb 27

[16:06] schestowitz-pi2 the best passenger cabin is a living room

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 and you can help yourself to whatever drink you want

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 i'm going to job to tesco around the corner in a few moments

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 way to do exercise and maybee get lucky with discounts

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 last time we got 4 alpro (oats) for quarter original price

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 good to blend with rye flake -- very filling, good for weight reduction

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 *jog

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 it's very empty there at this time and i still wear a mask just in case

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 they recently (this month) replaced the shelves with much higher ones so that they can stock more items

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 yesterday we bought many very good masks for dirt cheasp

[16:07] schestowitz-pi2 stores are offloading them

[16:07] techrights[sec] Good, having more in stock is a plus, as far as I

[16:08] schestowitz-pi2 we have about 20 kg of various good grain

[16:08] schestowitz-pi2 food can last maybe 4 months without replenishing

[16:08] schestowitz-pi2 we didn't find a bat ;/ only gold clubs

[16:08] schestowitz-pi2 not heavy enough

[16:09] schestowitz-pi2 *golf

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 firefox just wasted all my ram

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 and ti would not allow me to install any extensions

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 inc. ad blockers

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 goodbye, firefox

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 the software you made is thankfully compatible with falkon

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 i had not thought of trying, just went to firefox

[16:21] schestowitz-pi2 and took a lot of s*** for that

[16:21] techrights[sec] Too bad

● Feb 27

[17:34] schestowitz-pi2 More Korean women have wisened up https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-korean-women-think-marriage-childbirth-unneccessary-survey

[17:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | More South Korean women think marriage, childbirth unneccessary: Survey | The Straits Times

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