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[00:23:33] <chromas> Whatever happened to bitchx? That was the best-named irc client
[00:45:16] <schestowitz[TR]> https://techrights.org
[00:45:17] <systemd> ^ 03Susan G Kleinmann, MIT Lincoln Laboratory & Debian women role model;
[00:45:42] <schestowitz[TR]> > There's a guy who wants to upload something called "BitchX". It's a patched
[00:45:42] <schestowitz[TR]> > IRC client. Should I make him change the name?
[01:13:22] <chromas> lol
[01:13:58] <chromas> Pretty recent post for something that's been around for at least 20 years
[01:15:00] <chromas> Didn't Debian Women turn out to be mostly just Debian dev's girlfriends?I remember a post about that
[01:15:53] <chromas> They didn't remove people who moved on, ostensibly to keep the member count higher
[01:20:19] <schestowitz[TR]> https://web.archive.org
[01:20:19] <systemd> ^ 03mollydb - Overview
[01:20:25] <schestowitz[TR]> "I don't know how to code, but I do have blue hair."
[01:22:58] <chromas> Randi Harper? :D
[01:39:00] <AlwaysNever> techrights.org: bullshit nicely packaged
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[03:06:26] <schestowitz[TR]> seems like a lot of the xz commotion serves to distract from Exchange, and most users don't use that version of xz anyway https://techrights.org https://techrights.org
[03:06:27] <systemd> ^ 03[Meme] You Need to Scroll Down a Lot to See Who Pays Me...
[03:06:28] <systemd> ^ 03What the Media Overlooks in xz: Microsoft Staff 'Discovered' the Issue in a Microsoft Platform Just Before Easter and in Time to Distract From Exchange Blunder
[04:18:42] <chromas> Wasn't the exchange thing a couple weeks ago?
[04:19:52] <ted-ious> schestowitz[TR]: You have an insecure link to your pgp key on your homepage.
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[04:24:35] <t3> =submit https://blog.netbsd.org
[04:24:37] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03NetBSD Blog" (5p) -> https://soylentnews.org
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[07:17:57] <Ingar> chromas: BitchX was superceded by irssi which was superceded by weechat
[07:18:11] <Ingar> BitchX-baby!
[07:18:30] <Ingar> (best default kick message ever)
[07:18:51] <chromas> weechat's pretty nice, but as far as I can tell, people who like irssi wouldn't want to use such a pampered baby client with all the fixins built-in
[07:19:11] <Ingar> they do, I'm one
[07:19:22] <chromas> you like both irssi and weechat?
[07:19:36] <Ingar> I used irssi before I used weechat
[07:19:44] <chromas> heresy!
[07:19:45] <Ingar> and BitchX before that
[07:19:50] <chromas> String him up with the others!
[07:19:55] <Ingar> I even portd my BitchX theme to irssis
[07:20:25] <chromas> should make a gui version for wayland
[07:20:28] <chromas> bitchland
[07:20:37] <Ingar> :-D
[07:22:40] <chromas> (the X11 version of course would be renamed bitchx)
[07:23:54] <Ingar> read between the lines, MS doesn't want you to run on-premise exchange
[07:24:27] <Ingar> not to mention exchange is a dungheap
[07:25:00] <chromas> That's fine. I don't want to run exchange anyhow
[07:25:37] <Ingar> I"m all set to drop windows once win 10 is end of life
[07:25:53] <Ingar> well, not really, but no choice
[07:33:59] <chromas> I'm Windows-free
[07:34:09] <chromas> But I don't have to run Solidworks or whatever people need Windows for
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[07:49:08] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[07:49:09] <systemd> ^ 03The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!!
[07:49:31] <chromas> Just in case you want to read in video form
[07:50:04] <ted-ious> Why does bad have to be all caps?
[07:52:11] <chromas> - The developer was possibly Chinese, according to some logs, but was committing from somewhere in Indonesia (probably a proxy).
[07:52:11] <chromas> - He has more than 750 commits on xz and has also participated in other open source projects. In the case of XZ, it has been in the project for 2 years, so even if initially, versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are the affected ones, this could go back up to 5.4.
[07:52:44] <chromas> also as AlwaysNever pointed out earlier, xz was shit to start with
[07:53:27] <chromas> "Now that's a thriller plot right there... A black hat stands up a bunch of sockpuppet accounts to harass their own teammate into quitting and handing the keys to them so they can do some world-ending hacker shit."
[07:54:46] <ted-ious> I wish the nsa would offer a ten million dollar reward for this guy dead or alive.
[07:55:15] <ted-ious> That would be much better than using their budget to put backdoors into hardware and software.
[07:55:56] <ted-ious> After a few guys got caught and bad things happened to them the rest would have to think very seriously about a different career.
[07:57:00] <chromas> you...want them to offer a reward for a guy doing what they're currently spending the would-be reward money on?
[07:57:58] <ted-ious> I want them to stop spending their money on trying to put backdoors in things and instead spend it on catching guys who put backdoors in things.
[07:58:18] <chromas> Turn in one of their own
[07:58:33] <ted-ious> As far as I'm concerned if the nsa guys can catch the bad guys themselves let them have the reward money.
[07:59:01] <chromas> or if he's Chinese then I guess shut down the competition, like when they complained that Huawei was on their turf
[07:59:22] <ted-ious> As long as the bad guys are punished severely enough that nobody in their right mind would try to scam us by doing both sides with a partner.
[07:59:36] <ted-ious> I don't care if he really is chinese.
[07:59:56] <chromas> well if he's not chinese (or russian) then he's probably nsa
[08:00:29] <ted-ious> If somebody kidnaps him and extradites him to the usa they deserve to get the reward.
[08:00:59] <chromas> apparently the repo was shut down and the official maintainer came back
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[08:03:21] <chromas> "The best part of this is the only time Arch reports on something is when it doesn't effect them, never chance Arch, never change."
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[08:08:28] <ted-ious> This brody guy's voice is annoyingly over dramatic but actually watching him is speak is even worse.
[08:09:58] <chromas> lol
[08:10:15] <chromas> probably why he's a wayland shill
[08:10:57] <chromas> also Brodie's kinda of a stereotypical stoner-jock name
[08:23:35] <ted-ious> He talks like a ritalin snorter not a stoner-jock.
[09:04:51] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[09:04:52] <systemd> ^ 03I Was WRONG About 'man' Pages & 'info' Pages
[09:53:21] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[09:53:22] <systemd> ^ 03What Modern Metal Guitar Sounds Like To Non-Metal Listeners
[09:54:08] <chromas> "You might be laughing now but I was in a band that actually made me do exactly this for the entirety of every song. I was the lead guitarist."
[10:01:42] <ted-ious> Couldn't they just have the drummer play that part instead?
[10:09:55] <chromas> Then what would the guitarist do?
[10:11:49] <ted-ious> Collect unemployment? :)
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[17:18:34] <progo> With that little amount of expression, a band member singing and playing another instrument could play the lead guitar riff with a synth and a foot pedal
[19:17:19] <AlwaysNever> ted-ious: regarding your comment on NSA not doing enough, do not discard this to be a false flag NSA-backed operation with carefully planted breadcrumbs pointing to China
[19:18:03] <AlwaysNever> Why would Jia Tan, a Chineese soundin name, use a Malaysia-proxy? Because he was not really in China?
[19:19:47] <janrinok> 22.8% of Malaysia's population are
[19:20:03] <janrinok> ethnic Chinese.
[19:24:24] <AlwaysNever> ain't such a think as ethnic Chinese, you mean Mandarin?
[19:25:51] <requerdanos> Why couldn't some of them be cantonese?
[19:44:49] <Ingar> I ate carrots
[22:25:30] <chromas> =g cibo matto beef jerky
[22:25:31] <systemd> https://www.youtube.com - Beef Jerky - YouTube
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[22:28:52] <chromas> (the connection is eating carrots)
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[23:07:14] <chromas> https://medium.com
[23:07:15] <systemd> ^ 03eXtreme Go Horse Methodology (XGH)
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[23:11:28] <chromas> apparently there are different translations
[23:11:59] <chromas> one has number 6 as "Always commit before updating. If shit happens, your part will always be correct... and your colleagues can go fuck themselves."