IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, April 13, 2024
3 AM, April 13
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05:31 schestowitz; > Thanks for this feedback
05:31 schestowitz; >
05:31 schestowitz; > I updated it and fixed a couple of other things too
05:31 schestowitz; >
05:31 schestowitz; > Another mistake: the link tohttps://www.DebianProject.org should have
05:31 schestowitz; > been a link tohttps://www.DebianGNULinux.org where their Swiss lawyer
05:31 schestowitz; > wrote I am "illegally" distributing a copy of Debian GNU/Linux
05:31 schestowitz; I noticed (clicked) that links, but did not change (correct) that.
05:31 schestowitz; My wife read almost the whole thing too. Turns out she is a year older than you.
6 AM, April 13
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07:05 DaemonFC; I had fun today. I got a pressure washer and went after the car with it and some foaming car soap.
07:05 DaemonFC; I've been getting by with those waterless car wash sprays they use in California during droughts because the other option is some auto wash that skimps on your soap and leaves all the garbage on your car.
07:05 DaemonFC; Some guy they pay $15 an hour pretends to spray your car with the hose a little and runs out to offer "help" you don't need with the credit card machine. It's amazing someone pays for this and not soap.
07:06 DaemonFC; It's like, you're a car wash, you had one job.
8 AM, April 13
08:05 schestowitz; :D
08:06 DaemonFC; schestowitz: What is there to get about a credit card machine at a shitty car wash?
08:06 DaemonFC; And why does a $16 wash have the "rip me off even more" buttons for add-ons?
08:06 schestowitz; some people pay
08:06 schestowitz; that's the issue
08:07 schestowitz; same with scams over email
08:07 DaemonFC; $3 for "salt shield" whatever that is. $2 for hot wax.
08:07 schestowitz; it keeps the spammers financially viablle
08:07 DaemonFC; I remember when $4-5 was the whole wash, including the wax.
08:07 DaemonFC; And people hand drying your car and detailing the interior.
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08:08 DaemonFC; schestowitz: I used to buy the Deluxe Wash. It used to be $8 and come with a 5 day rewash guarantee code.
08:08 DaemonFC; The place was such a piece of shit that I always ended up driving back around and using the rewash immediately.
08:08 DaemonFC; Sometimes even the guy inside would laugh.
08:08 DaemonFC; But then they made it $12 and no rewash.
08:09 DaemonFC; Usually after two washes in a row, the car was reasonably clean by that point. It shouldn't take two but it did.
08:09 DaemonFC; And now they don't even give you two and it's gone up by $4.
08:09 schestowitz; https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eB0aROCl530
08:09 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-yewtu.be | Rose Royce - Car Wash (1976) - Invidious
08:09 DaemonFC; They probably got tired of people like me anticipating that the place was shit and took two washes.
08:09 DaemonFC; So they "fixed the glitch".
08:10 DaemonFC; schestowitz: I'm not even going to do business with an outfit like that.
08:10 DaemonFC; In the winter time I usually just drive over to the next town to use a halfway decent car wash now and then.
08:10 DaemonFC; And then a couple more times after it starts getting warmer to make sure all the salt is out.
08:11 DaemonFC; When you do it by hand you can keep going until the car is actually clean.
08:12 DaemonFC; It just pisses me off because there's no way to keep the car clean except wash it every week, and if you use one of those places, they want at least $50 a month for that now.
08:13 schestowitz; you nhave a choice:
08:13 schestowitz; no car
08:14 DaemonFC; It's a steady drip drip drip of blood. If I can do it myself for 7 cents then why do they need $16?
08:14 DaemonFC; I mean holy fuck.
08:16 schestowitz; holly is a virgin
08:16 DaemonFC; These car washes are a license to print money. Just build the thing and spray people's cars with water and charge them $16 goddamned dollars.
08:16 schestowitz; but then came rimmer
08:16 DaemonFC; Or $21 with wax and "salt shield" which you probably didn't even use.
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08:27 DaemonFC; The waterless car wash spray has a wax in it. It suggests occasionally using it even after a regular wash if you want to wax the car. There's cheaper ways to wax the car, but at least I know that when I wax the car it gets waxed.
08:32 DaemonFC; Australia is basically stupid as fuck. To legitimize their elections, they force everyone to vote or pay a fine, and if you repeatedly don't pay the fine you go to jail.
08:33 DaemonFC; So like, you end up with a bunch of people who just don't want to pay fines show up and vote for....someone they really didn't consider that much just so they don't go to jail?
08:33 DaemonFC; I mean I know what would happen if they tried that here.
08:34 DaemonFC; Black people who didn't want to vote just wouldn't do it, wouldn't pay the fine, and absolutely nothing would happen to them.
08:34 DaemonFC; Meanwhile, if I tried that, they'd bring back the death penalty just for me because white.
08:35 DaemonFC; That's basically already how car insurance, driver's licenses, and not fleeing the scene of a car accident work out for them.
08:35 DaemonFC; So we already know what WOULD happen.
08:37 DaemonFC; The current batch of "elected" critters have decided that it's impossible to reform black people to obey the rules so their goal to "overimprisonment" is to just not do shit about it if they don't follow the rules.
08:38 DaemonFC; I mean, it makes sense from a certain angle.
08:38 DaemonFC; If you're a crooked politician who lives in a gated community behind armed guards where the bus from Chicago doesn't go, you have nothing to lose by cutting your own taxes and letting the fur fly.
08:40 DaemonFC; schestowitz: There should be a law that everyone who is in office at the State level should have to live in the South or West side of Chicago.
08:40 DaemonFC; Watch how fast things change.
9 AM, April 13
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10:05 schestowitz; "Whos the bigger cybersecurity risk Microsoft or open source?"
10:05 schestowitz; x https://reason.com/volokh/2024/04/11/whos-the-bigger-cybersecurity-risk-microsoft-or-open-source/
10:05 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-reason.com | Whos the bigger cybersecurity risk Microsoft or open source?
10:14 DaemonFC; https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/13/australia/australia-multiple-people-stabbed-intl-hnk/index.html
10:14 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-edition.cnn.com | Bondi Junction: Five dead in mass stabbing at Sydney shopping center | CNN
10:14 DaemonFC; Meanwhile, in the gun-free zone.
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18:25 psydruid; Microsoft infiltrating open source is the bigger cybersecurity risk
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22:54 schestowitz; > Hi Roy,
22:54 schestowitz; >
22:54 schestowitz; > This one mixes together a lot of things I've been thinking about over
22:54 schestowitz; > the past few years, and I'm starting to join the dots.
22:54 schestowitz; >
22:54 schestowitz; > https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/exploits
22:54 schestowitz; >
22:54 schestowitz; > I see at some point soon we will have to make a choice; between cheap
22:54 schestowitz; > technology made by various forms of slave lanour (including the
22:54 schestowitz; > exploitation of unpaid FOSS labour), and secure systems. We won't get
22:54 schestowitz; > to have both.
22:54 schestowitz; >
22:54 schestowitz; > Anyway hope the thesis/picture makes some sense.
22:54 schestowitz; > All very best wishes,
22:54 schestowitz; Similar problem covered earlier today:
22:54 schestowitz; http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/13/Google_FSFE_Child_labor.shtml
22:54 schestowitz; Anyway:
22:54 schestowitz; Code Exploits http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/04/13/Code_Exploits.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/04/13/Code_Exploits.gmi
22:54 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cybershow.uk | Code Exploits
22:54 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Techrights Google, FSFE & Child labor
22:54 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Code Exploits