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●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 17, 2023 ●● ● Feb 17 [01:35] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [01:38] *morena (~morena@dcr8zc6ge3cuw.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [01:55] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@nyfk6mdkjqjck.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [01:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [01:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 17 [02:08] *morena (~morena@dcr8zc6ge3cuw.irc) has left #boycottnovell [02:22] schestowitz-pi trouble in youtubeland [02:22] schestowitz-pi chief resigns [02:22] schestowitz-pi good!! [02:50] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [02:54] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 17 [03:24] schestowitz-TR2 Time to update your cable? https://dissociatedpress.net/2023/02/16/time-to-update-your-cable/ [03:24] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dissociatedpress.net | Time to update your cable?: Dissociated Press ● Feb 17 [04:53] schestowitz-pi > https://learn.opsec.institute/ [04:53] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-learn.opsec.institute | Grugq's OPSEC Institute [04:53] schestowitz-pi > [04:53] schestowitz-pi > https://medium.com/@thegrugq [04:53] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thaddeus t. grugq Medium [04:53] schestowitz-pi I don't like him and don't trust him for things he did and said in the past (cannot recall all of them). [04:54] schestowitz-pi Title Topic Deadline Action [04:54] schestowitz-pi Draft Act [04:54] schestowitz-pi Key performance indicators for the Digital Decade policy programme 2030 [04:54] schestowitz-pi <https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13743-Key-performance-indicators-for-the-Digital-Decade-policy-programme-2030_en> Digital economy and society [04:54] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ec.europa.eu | Have your say [04:54] schestowitz-pi 13/03/2023 Published for feedback ● Feb 17 [05:43] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [05:43] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@nyfk6mdkjqjck.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 17 [06:14] techrightssec gm ● Feb 17 [07:13] schestowitz-pi you said something about "testing...." [07:13] schestowitz-pi but i did not manage to read it before the session got reset [07:13] schestowitz-pi I've made little progress on the pension [07:13] schestowitz-pi a lack of progress is something, but I'd rather get answers [07:13] schestowitz-pi other people look into it as well [07:41] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:44] techrightssec testing a short script for impor [07:44] techrightssec testing a short script for improved connectivity [07:44] techrightssec seems to work [07:52] schestowitz-TR2 Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis (Brain and Heart Damage) After BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/02/17/mrna-vaccination-brain-damage/ [07:52] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Multifocal Necrotizing Encephalitis and Myocarditis (Brain and Heart Damage) After BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19 [07:54] schestowitz-pi [07:54] schestowitz-pi the only good thing about not quitting in 2019 is that we managed to work from home and avoid this chaos [07:54] schestowitz-pi ● Feb 17 [08:00] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@dvr29nxk32t9i.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:03] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [08:07] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:30] schestowitz-pi there seems to be a pattern forming across sector [08:30] schestowitz-pi private and public [08:30] schestowitz-pi big snd small [08:30] schestowitz-pi i did a video about this [08:30] schestowitz-pi going to leave home in a bit [08:30] schestowitz-pi 5 tasks to do outside ahead of rianne's ceremony [08:30] schestowitz-pi will be away about 2-3 hours [08:30] schestowitz-pi i generally think we left at the right time [08:30] schestowitz-pi seeing what was happening months later [08:30] schestowitz-pi if i had left in 20211 to get another position [08:30] schestowitz-pi those other jobs would not be safe either [08:30] schestowitz-pi or uncertainty exploited to get people to work a lot harder [08:30] schestowitz-pi for less pay (inflation) [08:31] techrightssec Yes, there is a more exploitation than ever. [08:32] schestowitz-pi this is somewhat proportional to job security [08:32] schestowitz-pi "my worker will leave if I do this" -> i respect the worker [08:32] schestowitz-pi "my worker is sesperate to keep this job" -> got him/her by the b0ls [08:34] techrights[sec] The market conditions at the moment should strongly favor the workers [08:34] techrights[sec] but their is extreme collusion against them by both emplyers and media [08:35] schestowitz-pi to expand: (naturally) [08:35] schestowitz-pi work hard and save when the econoy is ok [08:35] schestowitz-pi take sabbatical when SHTF [08:45] techrights[sec] s/their/there/ [08:47] schestowitz-pi i managed to improve frame rate and sound quality for videos [08:47] schestowitz-pi with no extra gadgets [08:47] schestowitz-pi back in 2-3 hours [08:47] schestowitz-pi youtube will sink [08:47] schestowitz-pi its new chief is an advertising person [08:47] schestowitz-pi shows what they have plans for that "platform" [08:47] techrights[sec] Good [08:47] techrights[sec] acck [08:47] techrights[sec] Yep. The further they get from tech, which is where there core is, the more [08:47] techrights[sec] they will lose. MBAs burn money, anwyay. So YT is toast now. [08:47] techrights[sec] It was probably toast before, but this move ensures it. [08:47] techrights[sec] = [08:48] schestowitz-pi youtube revenue is DOWN [08:48] schestowitz-pi AFTER all that ad blitz [08:48] schestowitz-pi they put off "creators" and "users" alike [08:48] schestowitz-pi it's like this with all social control media, inc. twitter [08:48] schestowitz-pi get in people's way and they will walk away [08:49] techrights[sec] YT has been unwachable for months because of adds, I basically avoid it now [08:50] techrights[sec] even when something otherwise interesting might have been posted to it. [08:50] techrights[sec] Their abuse of "creators" has become legendary now, No one in their right [08:50] techrights[sec] mind will try entering that market and their is only some much more time left [08:50] techrights[sec] in which YT can milk the established "creators" before they leave too, and not [08:50] techrights[sec] just through normal attrition. [08:50] schestowitz-pi YT has been unwachable for months because of adds, I basically avoid it now [08:50] schestowitz-pi even when something otherwise interesting might have been posted to it. [08:50] schestowitz-pi Their abuse of "creators" has become legendary now, No one in their right [08:50] schestowitz-pi mind will try entering that market and their is only some much more time left [08:50] schestowitz-pi in which YT can milk the established "creators" before they leave too, and not [08:50] schestowitz-pi just through normal attrition. [08:50] schestowitz-pi bbl [08:50] techrights[sec] People are walking away from YT both the viewers and the "creators" [08:54] schestowitz-pi chief "resigns" (walks away) [08:54] schestowitz-pi one of the company's very early employees [08:54] schestowitz-pi youtube DID try, MANY times, to set up PAID "programs" [08:54] schestowitz-pi like "red" [08:54] schestowitz-pi they never worked [08:54] schestowitz-pi they could not "monetise" it [08:54] schestowitz-pi same for twitter [08:54] schestowitz-pi they shrank a lot in 2018 after they had tiaghtened screwed [08:54] schestowitz-pi the monetary boost lasted only wuarters, not a year [08:54] schestowitz-pi *tightene screws [08:54] schestowitz-pi and now musk has another go at killing off APIs [08:54] schestowitz-pi now he's just milking it to boost his own 'ads' (tweets) [08:54] schestowitz-pi bad RoI for 44 billion bucks, partly paid by HeadChoppers Inc. [08:54] schestowitz-pi "impulsive buying" ● Feb 17 [10:37] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Feb 17 [11:36] schestowitz-pi back and thinking aloud in ytalk: [11:36] schestowitz-pi so maybe the future is not social control multimedia [11:36] schestowitz-pi tiktok apparently has some revenue, but no idea is the goal is to make money or to 'retart' peopl;e [11:36] schestowitz-pi twitter will be reduced to niche by year's end, FB executives are leaving [11:36] schestowitz-pi the web became very JS-intensive [11:37] schestowitz-pi I saw that in firefox for a few days, it was truly, awful, you can barely open any page without popup [11:37] schestowitz-pi overlaps and animations all over the place [11:37] schestowitz-pi mobile device sales slowing, but likely for purely economic reasons [11:37] schestowitz-pi gemini has been slowing lately, sad to say... [11:37] techrights[sec] Tiktok is a weapon, the costs are covered... [11:37] techrights[sec] It's not about communication or entertainment, those are just bait on the hook [11:37] techrights[sec] The purpose was covered quite clearly by 60 Minutes last year. [11:38] schestowitz-pi ok, so let's assume not only the "chinese one" is digital opium war [11:41] techrights[sec] Twitter is vagule similar in that a main purpose is maniuplation of mass opinion [11:41] techrights[sec] I was just thinking about that. There has been limited support for Gemini [11:41] techrights[sec] clients among the various distros. [11:44] schestowitz-pi what's left of "tech" 'media' barely covers it either [11:44] schestowitz-pi self-fulfilling prophecy [11:44] schestowitz-pi nytimes seems to have been hijacked by angry men who reject biological sciences [11:44] schestowitz-pi ny times did other bad things, which i noted in irc [11:44] schestowitz-pi nader lost interest in that paper and wrote about it last month [11:44] schestowitz-pi we need to think of to curate what's left [11:44] schestowitz-pi i must be honst [11:44] schestowitz-pi i am slowed this the past 2 days because I am adapting to a new workflow [11:44] schestowitz-pi which includes firefox [11:44] schestowitz-pi it'll be ironed out over time [11:44] schestowitz-pi i've also just moved one task out of the rasp400 because for some reason one pi connection over ssh to the other [11:44] schestowitz-pi pi can lead to network timeouts more than once a day [11:44] schestowitz-pi and i got tired of logging back in again [11:45] techrights[sec] The "tech media" covers basically nothing any more. [11:45] techrights[sec] Again, the emphasis needs to be on quality and relevance. [11:45] techrights[sec] It's so hard to find items which are both good and relevant that there is no [11:45] techrights[sec] reason to risk adding more chaff. [11:48] schestowitz-pi i agree we need not add more feeds [11:48] schestowitz-pi i cannot keep up with what we have already and need to keep time free to write/record and house chores [11:48] schestowitz-pi regarding the ssh trick, it would not be applicable for this task as it needs to keep a file open in nano [11:48] schestowitz-pi so unless gnu screen runs, it's a workaround at best [11:48] schestowitz-pi i put that session back where it was before: "bubi" [11:48] schestowitz-pi i have a lot less mental clutter since leaving that awful job, that had gotten worse in 2022 [11:49] schestowitz-pi draft [11:54] techrights[sec] Casting a wider net is fine, only if it brings is more relevant articles from [11:54] techrights[sec] outside. [11:54] techrights[sec] checkinfg [11:54] techrights[sec] s/botched/botched attempt at a/ [11:57] schestowitz-pi since my last opml backup I've not added many additional rss feeds, and those that I added were [11:57] schestowitz-pi not important (hence I did not bother copy the opml dump to another drive) [11:57] schestowitz-pi the weirdest thing is that in a planet with 8 billion people if someone asks me, what's a good site [11:57] schestowitz-pi for news, I have to pause and cannot answer [11:57] schestowitz-pi and if there's something happening in the uk news-wise I STILL do not know which site I can bear [11:57] schestowitz-pi opening! [11:57] schestowitz-pi i don't think it's me who's at fault but the press or society [11:57] techrights[sec] maybe vendetta is a more appropriate term than "witch hunt" there [11:57] techrights[sec] Only a few main Indian sites have feeds. When they cover tech , they [11:57] techrights[sec] cover apsects missed in the EU and US [11:59] schestowitz-pi i reckon even librarian or columnists are abused this year [11:59] schestowitz-pi some unionised and went on strike [11:59] schestowitz-pi that tells me enough ● Feb 17 [12:13] techrights[sec] few libraries are stocked with libarr [12:13] techrights[sec] libarians any more, the management cuts costs (and thus service) by [12:13] techrights[sec] using assistants so a fair bit of domain expertise ends up missing from [12:13] techrights[sec] the working and service environments [12:13] techrights[sec] The ongoing anti-union activities continue there as in other disciplines and [12:13] techrights[sec] fields of work. [12:13] techrights[sec] Many libraries have been closed as the management 1) stops collection management [12:13] techrights[sec] and/or 2) stops staffing the faclilities. Without staff, the UN definition [12:13] techrights[sec] of library is not fulfilled. Without collection management, the UN definition [12:13] techrights[sec] of library is not fulfilled. The result is when either or both are missing [12:13] techrights[sec] is something other than a library even if politicians encourage confusion [12:13] techrights[sec] with one. [12:15] schestowitz-pi many us libraries are called after a politician who was a frequqentflyer of lolita express [12:15] schestowitz-pi because he was the world's expert on every topic! [12:27] techrights[sec] That too. But in some states, over 90% of the buildings which were once [12:27] techrights[sec] libraries are unstaffed and thus no longer libraries. Then there is the [12:27] techrights[sec] question of whether the collections are maintained in any way. Those [12:27] techrights[sec] have been heavily politicized and even more heavily attacked by "both" sides [12:27] techrights[sec] of the aisle. [12:27] techrights[sec] The worse damage done by that frequent flyer is what he has done to colleges [12:27] techrights[sec] and universities' abilities to teach computing let alone computer science. [12:27] techrights[sec] They sell out for chump change / peanuts by eliminating their very ability [12:27] techrights[sec] to do science. [12:28] techrights[sec] -either learning or teaching or research or any combination of the three [12:28] techrights[sec] Common MBA quote: "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" [12:28] techrights[sec] Said to basically everyone by them. [12:28] techrights[sec] https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chanc [12:28] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chanc ) [12:28] techrights[sec] e/ [12:28] techrights[sec] https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2023/02/research-says-top-1-of-rich-are.html [12:28] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.digitalinformationworld.com | Research says the top 1% of the rich are actually not that smart / Digital Information World [12:44] techrights[sec] They figure since he stole some printouts from the trash and his mom set him [12:44] techrights[sec] up with a meeting at IBM he must therefore know a lot about computers. [12:44] techrights[sec] Not true. ● Feb 17 [13:18] schestowitz-pi At some point the images change from being something relevant and informative [13:18] schestowitz-pi to being just arbitrary, unknown people in an arbitrary photograph. [13:18] techrights[sec] At some point the images change from being something relevant and informative [13:18] techrights[sec] to being just arbitrary, unknown people in an arbitrary photograph. [13:19] schestowitz-pi in cemetaries the people who have loved ones become just piles of bones with a rock on top, so to [13:19] schestowitz-pi "save space" they're passed to mass graves [13:19] schestowitz-pi nobody likes to think about such eventualities [13:19] schestowitz-pi in egypt they made pyramids to secure more time in their resting place [13:19] schestowitz-pi but some museums plundered those too [13:20] techrights[sec] Some countries have rental fees and if they are not renewed every few generations the graves disinterred and the [13:20] techrights[sec] , the stone removed and recycled, and the plot used [13:20] techrights[sec] for a fresher corpse. [13:23] schestowitz-pi rianne was just watching some youtube video of a funeral [13:23] schestowitz-pi someone filming and uploading to youtube [13:23] schestowitz-pi not so respectful [13:23] schestowitz-pi hours ago I was thinking of the filimg ban in the allegiance ceremony [13:23] schestowitz-pi makes perfect sense to me [13:23] schestowitz-pi or else it starts changing the behavious of people in that ceremony [13:23] schestowitz-pi and it would not be pretty [13:23] schestowitz-pi *filming ban [13:23] schestowitz-pi some people in youtube still run a video of themselves in selfie mode [13:23] schestowitz-pi they don't care about the rules [13:23] schestowitz-pi they want "likes" or something [13:24] techrights[sec] Definitely [13:24] techrights[sec] That's coming up the Wednesday after next! [13:24] techrights[sec] Speaking of videos, are the FOSDEM 2023 talks available anywhere? I'm not finding a playlist in the infamous Yu [13:24] techrights[sec] ouTube though there seem to be some scattered [13:24] techrights[sec] accounts with relevant videos. [13:25] techrights[sec] https://www.youtube.com/@fosdemtalks/playlists [13:25] techrights[sec] vs https://youtu.be/K1R7oK2piUM [13:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-FOSDEM - YouTube [13:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=K1R7oK2piUM [13:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> invidious.namazso.eu | Our Mad Journey of Building a Vector Database in Go - Weaviate at FOSDEM 2023 - Invidious ● Feb 17 [14:30] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:49] schestowitz-pi with me, in this state of flux, it's a bit like this: [14:49] schestowitz-pi start at the top of full html file, scroll downwards, add what's relevant, find cutoff dates by checking [14:49] schestowitz-pi for dupes [14:49] schestowitz-pi a lot of feeds i can quickly skip/skmp [14:49] schestowitz-pi because they're mostly **** [14:49] schestowitz-pi but source diversity can help [14:49] schestowitz-pi recently, with firefox, I find stories i like [14:49] schestowitz-pi then search by title/url in the html file [14:49] schestowitz-pi so i don't have to open a so-called 'web page' (JS bomb) [14:49] schestowitz-pi at some stage the workflow can be programmed a bit [14:49] schestowitz-pi to avoid switching between applications [14:49] schestowitz-pi sna maybe to retrieve both the outlines and the "bodies" in one pass [14:49] schestowitz-pi right now I spent a lot of time arguing about nord stream [14:49] schestowitz-pi i think irc is still important, if on topic in suitable channels [14:49] schestowitz-pi many sites envy irc [14:49] schestowitz-pi because they never get the same "interaction" via "tweets" or blog comments [14:49] schestowitz-pi long term, we'll have some "bigstories"(r), right now I'm adapting because [14:49] schestowitz-pi the news sites are dying and we need another approach ● Feb 17 [15:53] techrightssec There are a lot of shortcomings with the script but I am still amazed at [15:53] techrightssec how much more efficient it is to use than QuiteRSS was. [15:56] schestowitz-pi btw, if you look at the past week's Daily links, you will see URLs also inside blockquotes sometimes [15:56] schestowitz-pi the script that parses these at the end wipes off the whitespace near <strong> ot <a> and I've [15:56] schestowitz-pi not investigated why [15:56] schestowitz-pi the fix might be like a few characters in perl [15:56] schestowitz-pi in tuxmachines there's no such issue [15:56] schestowitz-pi so the stuff there has some in-line links too, which i think improves matters [15:56] schestowitz-pi sometimes a bit of formatting as well [15:56] schestowitz-pi in quiterss there was not even a "view source" option, iirc ● Feb 17 [16:07] techrights[sec] Which entry would be an example of the missing whitespace? [16:07] techrights[sec] That script has not changed in a long while so changes in the source HTML [16:07] techrights[sec] coming in from the remote sites can break things. [16:07] techrights[sec] A URL would be the easiest way to identify the offending entries. [16:07] schestowitz-pi "Kushal Das: SamNet Vinterkonferensen 2023" in http://techrights.org/2023/02/16/youtube-crisis/ [16:07] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 16/02/2023: YouTube Crisis and Tesla Mass Recalls | Techrights [16:30] techrights[sec] More details needed. [16:30] schestowitz-pi see "Simon Ser: Status update, February 2023" in http://techrights.org/2023/02/17/tokodon-23-02-0/ from one minute ago [16:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 17/02/2023: Tokodon 23.02.0 and Tails 5.10 | Techrights [16:32] schestowitz-pi look around the URLs, as the white space gets removed when i finalise [16:32] schestowitz-pi i reckon it's what tries to precede a link with site name [16:32] schestowitz-pi and does not restrict itself to <h5>element</h5> ● Feb 17 [20:58] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@2gfht465jvcky.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Feb 17 [21:02] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [21:32] *Moocher5254 has quit (Quit: https://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. Anywhere.) ● Feb 17 [23:07] techrights[sec] I'm not sure where that one is coming from since it is not in the manual links [23:07] techrights[sec] or the automated links or the supplementary links. How is it being acquired [23:07] techrights[sec] and edited. I suspect that the spaces are lost early on. [23:07] techrights[sec] There are no spaces just linebreaks and they might be processed incorrectly and [23:07] techrights[sec] actual spaces needed instead. [23:07] techrights[sec] Which script is all that for, rss-since? [23:12] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [23:16] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-kjv.pm4.i4ua3j.IP) has joined #boycottnovell