ur reckless, corrupt regime (there’s a reason why Borisnaro gets canned) seems to have adopted the “herd immunity” mentality/pathology. Yes, “COVID coming soon! To you too!”

“COVID FOR EVERYONE!”

Is there any sincere effort to curb the spread and protect people?

No.

Are people here still keeping distance and wearing mask?

No. Few do. Usually older and more vulnerable people. But to be protected they need other people to wear maskS and not spread droplets etc. That’s not happening.

The government is one step away not from actively discouraging inter-personal distance and masks (which harms the spying agenda).

For those of us wishing to know how bad things really are there’s ONS, not NHS. It suggests that an average classroom now has one person infected. Not a recovered person but an actively-infected person. An infection vector. This is crazy. This is not acceptable.

Now watch this:

We were meant to have full data updates available “Wednesday at 4pm commencing on 6 July 2022″ (and every week after that). So why is the portal being neglected, as shown above (promise) and below (reality)? We’re intentionally left in the dark as COVID-19 spins out of control across the nation (all my siblings and my parents got infected already… despite trying to avoid it; my mom got infected more than once).

This is what the official portal looks like right now:

That’s 9 days ago already. Promise broken. The “new normal” is nihilism and mass death.

t is no secret that I turned 40 just several months ago. I said it openly several times. I’m not ashamed of it. I think I’ve accomplished a lot over the past 20 years (the first 20 were mostly spent growing up and developing educationally).

Back in the old days, well before exceedingly toxic political discourse, wars/conflicts, a serious pandemic and high inflation (or dare we say hyperinflation; it’s almost 20% per annum in Estonia! Even a large economy like The Netherlands saw 12% inflation!) I thought to myself, “when can I retire?”

The decision not to have kids goes a long, long way back. Seeing the direction the world has taken, it was the right decision (for me anyway).

Over the past few years I thought about part timing, as I’ve worked full time for nearly a decade already (maybe a full decade this summer) and I’ve been at the same employer for 11.5 years (milestone coming soon, some time this summer, August 12 being the exact date if I recall correctly).

I still wish to more extensively focus on freedom-fighting activism in the digital realm. It’s a lot more important, not from a “legacy” point of view; it’s just a lot more satisfying and personally rewarding than working for clients. It’s a community effort rather than a corporate objective.

This post isn’t a “Why I Left Sirius” post (or “Leaving the Job To Do Techrights Full Time”); I still need a job, I need to save money, and my wife does too. I’m not resigning. But I might have more free time.

The decisions aren’t only mine. It’s personal. Some I cannot talk about.

But we both made a decision earlier this year; whatever the outcome, we need to focus on our sites, notably Tux Machines (just turned 18) and Techrights (turning 16 this year). Those sites are important for many reasons, to a lot of people. These people want to emancipate themselves from proprietary shackles, not working for proprietary software companies (or with proprietary tools) all day long.

At the same time, professional life has changed somewhat. Back when I joined this company we used OpenLDAP (broadly used, not underused), Jabber (self-hosted) etc. But a lot of our Free software-centric workforce left (yes, brain drain), so now there’s Gulag (Google disservices/spyware), AWS (NSA tandemocracy), Slack (Saleforce ‘surveillance capitalism’), LastPass (outsourcing passwords to untrustworthy parties) and some other proprietary junk. The name of the company is still the same, we generally support Free software, but the tooling isn’t compatible with the mission (like deploying Moodle on Microsoft/Azure, which is proprietary ‘surveillanceware’; Moodle is good, but putting it on Microsoft servers can lead to misuse of pupils’ data). If one wants to spread Free software to loan sharks, surveillance and military outfits (or even criminals like Bill Gates), then fine… good luck with that.

That Bill Gates did this under an NDA (that I did not sign) is strange enough, especially considering the timing. Many mysterious things happened around that time, including corporate bullying. Being an NDA, it’s shrouded in secrecy, leaving one always guessing, at best… about all sorts of hypothetical possibilities… not a suitable working condition for a company that’s open or transparent.

If things worsen in terms of pay, in terms of skills (we think we can see where this is going) we’re advancing not real computer skills but dependence (people can do more than just pick up the phone).

When I joined in early 2011 we had some high-profile people on board, even Debian Developers (back when becoming a DD meant something, nowadays an increasingly political decision and vetting deficiencies give room for state actors). That’s no longer the case.

Meanwhile, my workload associated with personal projects has increased to the point where I can hardly travel (too many activities require physical access inside the home). We still need to renovate the sites (upgrading things in the process), I want to sleep better, I need to become more active in and around IRC, and I wish to produce more articles and videos. I used to aim for a dozen a day, but when working full time it’s just too difficult to maintain that as a daily pace (as opposed to occasional “bursts” or “marathons”).

When I started writing in the non-personal sites, third-party sites, and this site (and in various other sites) I was still a student. Then, I was partly employed. Over the past decade it has been full time work, so a lot of potential (e.g. to write) was not fulfilled. I left social control media almost 5 months ago, freeing up a lot of time. The next stage might be reducing the number of hours per week that I work. Maybe a long overdue change. Maybe not even that… the decision is not purely mine.

Personal autonomy and freedom are connected to self-determination in digital realm, more so over time. Many decisions were made without consulting the staff, the technical people, choosing trends and brands over substance and fake (perceived, shallow) security over real security. I spoke openly and candidly about it. It’s the moral thing to do.

We’re made it!

didn’t think we’d get here, but here we are. The “over 9,000″ jokes seem like only yesterday (I can still recall the IRC conversation about exceeding 9,000 blog posts) and since then, one grand (1,000) at the time, we kept climbing higher.

We have a large trove of material left to publish, but we’re pacing it down somewhat so as to not overwhelm readers. It’s strategic, too.

This past week we worked on developing a new CMS (a very simple one, but also very lightweight). We can’t wait to take it live. It’s probably safe to say that Techrights will still be around a decade from now; if the World Wide Web perishes, we still have IRC, IPFS, Gemini, and daily plain-text bulletins that can be dispatched in all sorts of ways. In a way, we’ve already secured our future.

This post will be the 33,999^th one. Next up is the “real” 34k.

From the latest available NHS data:

Something to keep in mind now that patent profiteers try to convince us that all we’re missing is babies, toddlers, and kids receiving products that are barely tested (proper clinical trials can take a decade if not longer). Risk of coronavirus death and risk of side effects disproportional here.

Deaths:

We’re not defeating COVID-19 but surrendering to COVID-19

They’re selling more and more shots (overpriced, patented), not striving to actually contain the virus.

Oh look! MOAR SALES!

OOTBALL is back in a few weeks (envision all those packed stadiums with working class “superspreaders”), Borisnaro is going to leave (without any accountability or any fines whatsoever), and today’s COVID-19 numbers, which shockingly enough have been relegated to a weekly release (it was daily only a few months ago), reveal a grim outlook. We’ll all see them and I shall show them here later today…

Notice what the coronavirus portal is boasting about instead of a return to daily data disclosures:

We have added visualisations for spring booster vaccinations in England for people aged 75 and over. Visualisations can be found on the Vaccinations page for England and regions and local authorities in England.

Vaccination uptake for England, shown for people aged 75 and over and 5-year age groups above 75, has been added. These are calculated for population surveillance purposes using the current living population on the NIMS system. All data are displayed by date of vaccination.

Well, “spring booster” is used here mostly as a euphemism for placebo. Research (extensively carried out at the end last year; I wrote about it back then) has shown that a fourth — or fifth, sixth etc. — jab has no real advantage. Endless repetition is “insanity” … “hoping for better outcomes” (to paraphrase). Maybe it gives people more confidence, which in turn puts them at greater risk of getting infected/re-infected. They get a false sense of safety. I saw that with my mother, who had received a fourth dose and not only got infected; she then got re-infected (after a fourth shot). She thinks she’s invulnerable, so she exposes itself; and repeatedly ends up in bed for a couple of days. She thinks this is freedom.

The above figure (added by the NHS) isn’t for the public but for the greedy, for-profit AstraZeneca, which broke its promise, just like Bill Gates had done (he profits from the patent monopolies on work funded by the British public). They just keep selling and selling. They fail to actually improve their “product”. They want us to think that giving jabs to toddlers and babies (very extremely low mortality rate) would help; we already know people who got these vaccines are still highly infectious. It’s common knowledge, not an open secret.

A friend has just reminded me that these boosters are about 25 euros per person per dose. So we’re talking about around 100 euros per citizen (production costs are in the cents!). It’s graft, it’s theft, as those people actually paid for the research and development. Now all this capital flows, due to patents, into the bank accounts of Bill Gates and his class. And it barely solves the issue.

Data is late to arrive this Friday. More to come soon. Still waiting…

Notice the pace or the rate of increase so far this month. From the above:

04-07-2022	1,911 <- Highest since April 12th
03-07-2022	1,795
02-07-2022	1,374
01-07-2022	1,326

This summer has thus far been worse than summer of 2020 and summer of 2021. More deaths, more people in hospital, not just far more cases (despite little testing). Testing levels are lowest in 2 years. No wonder Borisnaro provokes and shifts attention to Ukraine. Did “bodies pile up high” in his illegal parties?