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02:35 schestowitz-TR; Hi,
02:35 schestowitz-TR; I have some spare time
02:35 schestowitz-TR; I thought the following might be worth implementing:
02:35 schestowitz-TR; trigger update of latest vids page when a new post gets published
02:35 schestowitz-TR; as part of the existing pipeline
02:35 schestowitz-TR; then, gemini is called to do the same, after http
02:35 schestowitz-TR; caveat: tr-remote-gemini-cron-updater is using key-based access to the SBC
02:35 schestowitz-TR; it does not do the same over http/s
02:35 schestowitz-TR; so I am typing away in ytalk
02:35 schestowitz-TR; thinking some php hackm for calling the back end
02:35 schestowitz-TR; the refresh-gllarry script tuns in userspace
02:35 schestowitz-TR; I will check if wordpress can be chained to a shell script
02:38 schestowitz__[TR]; techrights bin]$ time ./refresh-video-gallery.sh
02:38 schestowitz__[TR]; real 0m0.038s
02:38 schestowitz__[TR]; user 0m0.032s
02:38 schestowitz__[TR]; sys 0m0.016s
02:39 schestowitz__[TR]; so upon some further investigation, one viable option might be to run it every 5 minutes (any downsides? it's not so i/o-intensive), then put a time delay of at least 300 seconds in tr-remote-gemini-cron-updater, just to give it enough time to fetch the latest addition
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04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; Upon the start of a new year:
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; gemini@raspberrypi:~/gemini/tr_text_version $ /home/gemini/bin/gemini-cron-updater.sh
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; Sun 2 Jan 03:54:50 GMT 2022
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; mkdir: cannot create directory ./bulletins/2022/01/: No such file or directory
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; So I've made a note to myself to create a new year's director for:
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; bulletins
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; boycottnovell
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; irc
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; social
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; techbytes
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; I've also made some changes, which the git logs now.
04:19 schestowitz__[TR]; The main changes are in a Perl file. I'm not good at Perl, so likely added poor practices to the file. Could use a fast audit. ;-)
04:50 Techrights-sec2; Tampere might be a wholly owned microsoft subsidiary wit hthe ability to
04:50 Techrights-sec2; mint PhDs in exchange for 3 years of work+marketing. m$ has its own union of
04:50 Techrights-sec2; sort to coordinate attacks, afaik.
05:14 schestowitz-TR; Thanks for hacking on my perl 'hack'
05:14 schestowitz-TR; It's much better now clarity-wise
05:14 Techrights-sec2; np
05:20 Techrights-sec2; the gemini clients don't make a clear distinction between Gemini links
05:20 Techrights-sec2; and ones requiring a non-Gemini, external browser, Without additional
05:20 Techrights-sec2; markings, it is all too easy to accidentally click on one and be subjected
05:20 Techrights-sec2; to not just a pop-up window but a whole application.
05:20 schestowitz-TR; not just ANY application, like 200MB of it!
05:21 schestowitz-TR; last I chedked, in amfora config files you can only specify what to use for http/s but nothing for multimedia
05:21 Techrights-sec2; :/ for a lean browser, yeah
05:21 schestowitz-TR; netsurf is about 32mb blank, older firefox around 200mb
05:24 Techrights-sec2; There's slightly more flexibility in Amfora than that but not much more
05:24 Techrights-sec2; and I'm trying to leave it as close to default as I can. Though I have
05:24 Techrights-sec2; changed my client's colors for extrnal protocol links.
05:24 schestowitz-TR; so have I,. for monitoring I use it a lot
05:24 schestowitz-TR; bill's guardian now writes about "prince andrew" again... I suppose all that googlebombing will play with people's memory
05:31 Techrights-sec2; yes and to completely distract from bill; it looks like the press aims to
05:31 Techrights-sec2; focus on the prince as the sole bad guy; given how few testimonies and witnesses
05:31 Techrights-sec2; were at the trial, I suspect that selection of witnesses was *very* carefully
05:31 Techrights-sec2; curated to leave only the prince exposed; he'll take one for the team and
05:31 Techrights-sec2; being old and royal nothing will happen and then the press will move on
05:31 Techrights-sec2; leaving the actual criminals unaddressed, is one likely outcome of it all.
05:33 schestowitz-TR; all we can do it use these articles to ROPE in what they distract from, or bring up the related bits, ESP. when that's done by Bill-funded 'media' like The Beelb (BBC), guardian, and N- P.R.
05:34 Techrights-sec2; ack
05:34 schestowitz-TR; he thinks he can move on by drowning out tyhe signal with greenwashing puff pieces, but people push back
05:35 Techrights-sec2; I hope that pushback continues; however he continues to buy lots of reputation
05:35 Techrights-sec2; management and revisionism
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; <li>
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; <h5><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html">Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects</a></h5>
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; <blockquote>
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; <p>Six years ago, I wrote a post speaking out against the use of Slack for the instant messaging needs of FOSS projects. In retrospect, this article is not very good, and in the years since, another proprietary chat fad has stepped up to bat: Discord. Its time to revisit this discussion.</p>
06:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html">Please )
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; <p>In short, using Discord for your free software/open source (FOSS) software project is a very bad idea. Free software matters thats why youre writing it, after all. Using Discord partitions your community on either side of a walled garden, with one side thats willing to use the proprietary Discord client, and one side that isnt. It sets up users who are passionate about free software i.e. your most
06:07 schestowitz__[TR]; passionate contributors or potential contributors as second-class citizens.</p></blockquote></li>
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11:48 Techrights-sec2; apropos : gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/02/louis-on-gnu-linux/
11:48 Techrights-sec2; the text he was reading (while drunk?) is frequently pasted all over the place
11:48 Techrights-sec2; by trolls to get mods agitated against FOSS. It has been an ongoing tactic
11:48 Techrights-sec2; for decades.
11:49 schestowitz-TR; did not know, but he did not seem too happy.
11:51 Techrights-sec2; back in an hour or two
13:25 schestowitz__[TR]; "
13:25 schestowitz__[TR]; Hard reckonings
13:25 schestowitz__[TR]; Whether it's my own newfound awareness, or whether changes are happening in the world, increasingly on my radar is e-waste (WEEE) 1, the chemistry of electronic products and the effects of waste on the environment. This year I read much more on chip fabrication, VLSI composition, recycling (or lack of) and got deeper into the problems of hardware monopoly, questionable provenance and insecure supply chains, not just of software but the
13:25 schestowitz__[TR]; gadgets it runs on. A more holistic understanding of tech rights as an ecological and global sociological issue has grown in my mind.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; Surprising myself, I've gone from a Bitcoin disciple to a crypto-dissident. Yes, we need a way to divorce human affairs from the wickedness of the banking elites, but this isn't it. Sometimes you just need the courage to say, oops I made a mistake, back to the drawing board.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; Pondering the trap that is "proof of waste" is depressing. It's one of those tragedies where we think we can solve it by "pushing through". If tomorrow we built enough fusion reactors to eliminate all fossil fuels and provide a surplus of electricity, Bitcoin would adjust its value and expand its activity to burn-off the entire surplus. We have created a monstrous non-intelligent paperclip maximiser. I wonder why we didn't see this coming;
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; that combining unfettered greed with a boundless appetite for energy might create a Godel Sentence for humanity already on the precipice of climate catastrophe.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; Staying the course
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; Another theme I have dealt with this year is "tenacity versus resignation". People have different coping strategies to technological terror, some get mad, some get even, some get the hell out of there. I began the year helping a student write an inspiring story of how he graduated without non-free software. Elsewhere I have encountered learned helplessness.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; With the supermarket boycott, a disappointing number of people said to me "But what's the point Andy? They're all just doing the same". Despite there being absolutely no evidence that other British supermarkets were violating privacy rights there's a pervading sense around tech that a possibility once is a necessity forever, which feeds into a nihilistic refusal to resist even the most tepid incursions by technological abusers.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; What I've learned is that small, polite but resolute gestures make big changes, and that standing intransigently up for principles as an army of one does make the difference. Despite every armchair theorist's wisdom on the intractability of 'network effects' we successfully flipped our whole family communication circle from Whatsapp to Signal in a few weeks.
13:26 schestowitz__[TR]; "
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14:00 schestowitz__[TR]; x https://itwire.com/cio-trends/which-programming-language-and-technologies-should-you-learn-in-2022.html
14:00 schestowitz__[TR]; # utter bullshit, not only are the numbers irrelevant, C# is not part of C/C++
14:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-itwire.com | iTWire - Which programming language and technologies should you learn in 2022
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14:09 schestowitz-TR; weeks ago http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/The-Corona-Times/Ro
14:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/The-Corona-Times/Ro )
14:09 schestowitz-TR; y-s-Birthdays/20211217_140421
14:09 schestowitz-TR; weeks ago http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/The-Corona-Times/Roy-s-Birthdays/20211217_140421
14:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com | 20211217 140421
14:09 Techrights-sec2; nice; looked tasty
14:12 schestowitz__[TR]; x https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/27/22855644/cipher-punk-nft-drop-jillian-york-opensea-tokens
14:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | Messy NFT drop angers infosec pioneers with unauthorized portraits - The Verge
14:12 schestowitz__[TR]; # the verge is usually much better and does not need to stoop to backing
14:12 schestowitz__[TR]; # false allegations against RMS and casting aspersions against JA
14:12 schestowitz__[TR]; Your stance on The Verge is FAR too generous. They're Gates-controlled (or were):
14:13 schestowitz__[TR]; http://techrights.org/2020/07/16/gates-press-sunset/
14:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | The Gates Press (GatesGate) Part VI: Sunsetting for Now | Techrights
14:13 schestowitz__[TR]; BTW, I saw the same article and pointed this out publicly
14:15 Techrights-sec2; too many publications are beholden to bill's money either through m$
14:15 Techrights-sec2; advertising or else, much worse, through their slush fund^W^W foundation
14:15 schestowitz-TR; yes, I just mark these for death or always point out the strings if I link to them
14:18 Techrights-sec2; it's hardd because of the propagana model which works by having a small
14:18 Techrights-sec2; weak carrier signal of decent articles which theu intersperse with disinformation
14:18 Techrights-sec2; and misdirection
14:18 Techrights-sec2; I avoid THe Register and THe Guardian still
14:18 Techrights-sec2; sending them traffic (I marked The Register recrntly) means you help all the othe
14:18 Techrights-sec2; r articleles they publish become more visible
14:18 schestowitz-TR; sending them traffic (I marked The Register recrntly) means you help all the othe
14:18 schestowitz-TR; r articleles they publish become more visible
14:38 Techrights-sec2; Wired and The Register both turned to crap, though were once great.
14:38 Techrights-sec2; WIred used to cover hot topics and policy matters.
14:38 schestowitz-TR; nostalgic and sentimental attachment to something that's long-gone
14:39 Techrights-sec2; nah just complaining about the decline
14:39 schestowitz-TR; see draft
14:40 schestowitz-TR; I expect to link a lot to this kind of index, like the hospital series and Doyen/EQE
14:40 Techrights-sec2; ack
14:45 Techrights-sec2; The direction that Ford may be heading can be as bad or worse than where
14:45 Techrights-sec2; John Deere is now. The peoole forced to buy cars have no choice but to
14:45 Techrights-sec2; accept whatever is pushed on them by the dealers and the dealers promote
14:45 Techrights-sec2; what they are told to promote by the manufacturers.
14:45 Techrights-sec2; That's how the world ended up with everyone commuting to work in what are
14:45 Techrights-sec2; legally and tonnage-wise actually medium sized trucks.
14:50 schestowitz-TR; OK, I have add you as a quote, which I think improves it a lot and gives diversity of opinions
14:57 schestowitz-TR; 'https://smartgrowthamerica.org/bigger-vehicles-are-directly-resulting-in-more-de
14:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-smartgrowthamerica.org | Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking - Smart Growth America
14:57 schestowitz-TR; aths-of-people-walking/
14:57 Techrights-sec2; 'https://smartgrowthamerica.org/bigger-vehicles-are-directly-resulting-in-more-deaths-of-people-walking/
14:58 schestowitz-TR; interesting, never thought of it like that... but we try to walk away from roads when/if possible (parks/canal..)
14:59 schestowitz__[TR]; see Rianne with Goslings months ago: http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/The-Corona-Times
14:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com | The Corona Times
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20:14 schestowitz; > Okay. Well, I think Part 9 is probably ready. I will pause now so you
20:14 schestowitz; > can ingest it if you like - please check links and give it one more
20:14 schestowitz; > SPAG sanity check (spelling and grammar)
20:14 schestowitz; Thanks, I've checked everything and it's ready to go but the server lost connectivity (that did not happen last year) and the admin is AFK :-o so I hope the site will be back online soon. Last year we had better uptime than AWS.
20:53 schestowitz; > please do one last diff, as I picked up a few typos.
20:53 schestowitz; >
20:53 schestowitz; > I will check the main site in an hour
20:53 schestowitz; >
20:53 schestowitz; > Lets chat about your video one day when you have time,
20:53 schestowitz; > it was awesome.
20:53 schestowitz; OK, I will check one para at the time and compare again... when the network is back online ;-)
20:53 schestowitz; Been down for 3 hours already. Worst duration in ~4 years.
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21:37 TechrightsBN; Hello World! I'm TechrightsBN running phIRCe v0.75
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22:16 schestowitz; "I don't know what we can do to work towards Greener Gadgets and tackle World Wide Waste 2021. It's one small part of thinking as a Digital Vegan."
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