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| schestowitz | >>>>>> Are the above topics you have in-depth knowledge about? The main issue | Oct 14 02:25 |
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| schestowitz | >>>>>> is, I want to stick to topics I won't get wrong on the underlying facts. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> Being a generalist, I'd have to say no. I would even need more | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>>> specialization to just become a jack-of-all-trades. :\ | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Reviewing your suggestion again, I don't know BSDs too well. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> Upon second look, you mentioned Intel. Not only am I not familiar with | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> the fine details; I didn't even know >anything< about this (the problem | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> you allude to). So better stay away from such topics. Reporting badly in | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> one topic would taint the site in general. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > That would be the Intel Management Engine. It is built from Minix and | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > Minix uses NetBSD utilities for its userspace. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Here's a question: should we explore the Gates scandal? Or have we done | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>> enough? I see it's already discussed a lot online. RMS 'bought him a | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>>> month'... got people 'off his scent'... | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>> Probably it is enough for a little while. I saw something in NYT about | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >>> it yesterday. But definitely keep an eye on the media coverage. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> Some people sent me E-mails about it. Lots of links to techrights since | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> then, esp. the raid in the Gates mansion. There's even a | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> "Billgateisapedohile" hashtag circulating. | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:25 |
| schestowitz | >> I'll keep an eye to ensure people don't "forget and move on"... | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> I compared that to Michael Jackson in last night's microblogging. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> We need media to unearth more >new< facts. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > Or more feasibly, publish and bring attention to new facts as they are | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > unearthed. Waggoner-Edstrom and the others are probably working hard to | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > shush the sources and potential sources. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> SaaS (extortion as a service) could use a little more attention maybe. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> It's not just Ecuador losing access to garbage like Adobe but the many | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> people over the recent years that have lost all their data due to | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> billing errors and other SNAFUs. Some of the links I have sent in the | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> last two years cover blog entries about such. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> Clown computing. The term Fog Computing, which I used years ago, got | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> hijacked. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> SaaS is a subset of this whole mindset. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> As for openwashing, I think I can more quickly tackle that in Daily | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Links. More quickly. As we have limited resources. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> Yes. Agreed. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> Christine Hall asked me not to add too many "Ed" to links, esp. if it's | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> self-explanatory and reader can deduce what they need to. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. But with Windows TCO I do feel the need to rub it in. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Another question: id it worth broadening the scope of TM? It already | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> covers Python a lot. Should we add Perl or whatever they plan to call it | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>>> next? Maybe some other esoteric OSes? | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> The successor to perl will be called Raku, according to Larry Wall. It | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> might be very good to try to cover Raku. All the language designers are | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> talented and some are very talented but Larry Wall is genius and seems | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> to have been able to surround himself with similar people. So good | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> things can come of Raku. The hard part is that for reasons we don't | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> need to go into but you are already aware of Python is being pushed and | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> Perl is being removed from the base of a lot of OSes and distros and | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >>> there will be similar resistance to Raku. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> I'm not sufficiently familiar with Perl to write meaningful articles | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | >> about it. | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > I've used it for over 25 years, but, like with nearly everything, I am a | Oct 14 02:26 |
| schestowitz | > permanewb there too. | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >>>> Should I cover US patents more (as before)? Maybe return to | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >>>> covering Microsoft closely as we did a decade ago? | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >>> The US patents need to be touched on periodically until there is general | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >>> acknowledgement from industry of their complete and irrevocable demise. | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >>> Same for the nasty cult M$. | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >> Maybe do more blog posts that are shorter? Akin to BoingBoing? | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | > Only for certain topics. The length of most articles you do seems to be | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | > rather optimal. | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | > Both of his “Science” advisors were Epsteinites, one of which is shacked up with Steve Sinofsky, the other was the backup executor of his will. Even Nathan Myrvold got caught hanging out with him. Such a small world... | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | Wow. I was just about to do an article about Myrvold. | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | Watch this space... | Oct 14 02:27 |
| schestowitz | >> That sounds good. | Oct 14 02:30 |
| schestowitz | >> Thanks for everything you do. | Oct 14 02:30 |
| schestowitz | >> | Oct 14 02:30 |
| schestowitz | > from time to time im going to ask you (not too often) if you consider techrights an organisation that promotes free software. i think it acts like one. i mean in the sense that "free software force" is an organisation. they seem to think they are, as do i. | Oct 14 02:30 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 02:30 |
| schestowitz | > the article is already sent, if you havent already found it im sure you will. | Oct 14 02:30 |
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| schestowitz | > you know i do go back and read it and make adjustments, and i even use a spellchecker. | Oct 14 05:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 05:01 |
| schestowitz | > so dont ask me how "plumbling" got in there. im reading it again now. one always seems to get through somehow, and im always grateful when you fix it. | Oct 14 05:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 14 05:01 |
| schestowitz | > i didnt intend to write the precise article you requested, and i dont think i managed to. however, i set out to write quite a different article than this one, and this is the one that came out of it. i think it does cover a bit of what you wanted, actually. cheers. | Oct 14 05:01 |
| schestowitz | I noticed and fixed the above typo on my own :-) | Oct 14 05:01 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/surveillabuse/status/1183811760484171776 | Oct 14 20:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@surveillabuse: @NicolaSturgeon Speak out. Defend human rights. Defend truth. https://t.co/fv7zIGfQdb | Oct 14 20:18 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: @wikileaks This is what every current and former Prime/Foreign/other minister on this planet should have said | Oct 14 20:18 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/TallElfin/status/1183814937929347072 | Oct 14 20:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@TallElfin: @schestowitz I don't know how it works where you are, but telling people that a place you really like is better tha… https://t.co/2WYnd3CdQb | Oct 14 20:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@TallElfin: @schestowitz I don't know how it works where you are, but telling people that a place you really like is better tha… https://t.co/2WYnd3CdQb | Oct 14 20:19 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 14 20:19 |
| schestowitz | I don't know how it works where you are, but telling people that a place you really like is better than $City and "half the cost" here in the States, Especially on the coasts, is a death sentence for your charming little hamlet. | Oct 14 20:19 |
| schestowitz | I'd be careful (unless you're Trying to kill it). | Oct 14 20:19 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 14 20:19 |
| schestowitz | I see what you mean | Oct 14 20:19 |
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