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beginning of new day, July 3

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1 AM, July 3

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5 AM, July 3

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05:24 Techrights-sec2; does TM's database need repairing again?

05:24 Techrights-sec2; 220703 3:50:39 [ERROR] Got error 127 when reading table './drupal/node_revisions'

05:24 schestowitz-TR; 0/

05:24 schestowitz-TR; seems possble

05:24 schestowitz-TR; did you just check logs or was ther wan incident?


6 AM, July 3

06:58 Techrights-sec2; checked logs but there have been temporary skips in the monitoring

06:58 Techrights-sec2; not sure of the reason because the HTTP daemon seems active and responding

06:58 Techrights-sec2; during those outages


7 AM, July 3

07:00 schestowitz-TR; do you want to try your revised script?

07:00 schestowitz-TR; it's quiet so a little downtime right how would have minimal effect

07:00 schestowitz-TR; that table is not a critical one, and maybe it's marked as crashed

07:00 schestowitz-TR; the site itself has been working OK

07:00 schestowitz-TR; I did have httpd restarted maybe 2 times this past week

07:00 schestowitz-TR; due to load surge at DB level

07:00 schestowitz-TR; (the usual)

07:03 Techrights-sec2; can we try the script later today, I am busy afk mostly for the next few hours

07:03 Techrights-sec2; I would want to give the script process full attention not multitask (at best)

07:05 schestowitz-TR; today is 4th of july "eve" so new is not slow

07:05 schestowitz-TR; news is DEAD

07:05 schestowitz-TR; overnight while alseep only 3 new items in my feed!

07:05 schestowitz-TR; so I expect TM will be super-slow the whole day

07:05 schestowitz-TR; good day to test things

07:05 schestowitz-TR; and "tidy up" the DB, not just now but any time of the day

07:05 schestowitz-TR; I am here trying to come up with topics, having pretty much exhausted feed I can add (for now)

07:05 schestowitz-TR; I thought about improiving the irce server, but it's precarious and would be risky to tinker with

07:05 schestowitz-TR; short of a test box

07:16 schestowitz-TR; checked daily backups of TM at both ends

07:16 schestowitz-TR; running new repair script

07:16 schestowitz-TR; checking outcome

07:16 schestowitz-TR; it did need repairing

07:16 schestowitz-TR; locking was not an issue this time

07:32 schestowitz-TR; 1) on TR, all 3 GZ files for today are OK

07:32 schestowitz-TR; 2) on TM, db repair script update 27th of June

07:32 schestowitz-TR; 3) on TR, the TM backups not compressed for a few days now, maybe by intention

07:32 schestowitz-TR; 4) on TM DB repair, the tables affected seem cache relatd

07:32 schestowitz-TR; 5) I've been tail -f'ing the db logs for a while, all OK

07:32 schestowitz-TR; did full backup of TM -> TR

07:32 schestowitz-TR; this time it compressed OK

07:32 schestowitz-TR; theory: since 29-06-2022 when dumping the DB it failed in the middle due to the DB issue

07:32 schestowitz-TR; judging by the size of the dump, it is likely OK, but the repair process seemed a little

07:32 schestowitz-TR; aggressive

07:32 schestowitz-TR; though not in tables that scare me, hopefully I won't see any odd bahvious

07:32 schestowitz-TR; going to run repair again (downtimes), thjen make local backup

07:38 schestowitz-TR; all good, I have more confidence in it now, well spooted (noticing this issue), we were having bad backups for 4 days already

07:38 schestowitz-TR; the culprits were "revisions" and search index, now it >seems< ok, but fingers crossed. if something is terrible broken, it would become

07:38 schestowitz-TR; apparent fast

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8 AM, July 3

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9 AM, July 3

09:34 schestowitz-TR; a) saw your two links re newsrooms dying (we need to outlive these) b) rianne and I post links OK

09:34 schestowitz-TR; c) IO monitor mysql log all the time now having: d) studied the past 2 year's errors and events

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10 AM, July 3

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10:38 schestowitz-TR; not a single entry in teh mysql.log file sicne 6am when I repaired the DB

10:38 schestowitz-TR; IMHO, the DB is in tenable state

10:38 schestowitz-TR; but I hope it does not break within 2 daya again, as it did the last time

10:38 schestowitz-TR; repaired 26th, then issues on the 28th

10:38 schestowitz-TR; which you spotted 4 days later

10:38 schestowitz-TR; from the site's front end everything seemed OK

10:38 schestowitz-TR; but backups were failing

10:38 schestowitz-TR; the most important DB table is "nodes"

10:38 schestowitz-TR; comments are also important

10:38 schestowitz-TR; in case we even wanted to export the thing, e.g. to static pages

10:38 schestowitz-TR; [09:40] <techrights-news> Running a site for 20 years is difficult for technical reasons, like technical debt and difficult "upgrade" routes, which cost a lot of time if not money. Software needs to "slow da fuck down!"

10:38 schestowitz-TR; [09:41] <techrights-news> Running very old sites and keeping them online for many years would, at some point, involve DBA skills

10:39 Techrights-sec2; ack

10:43 schestowitz-TR; this is the only DB in TR and TM which we were not even able to relocate to the dedicated DB server

10:43 schestowitz-TR; because, I think, the storage engine and DB are "too old"

10:43 schestowitz-TR; as soon as you "write" to the new (remote) DB it goes into a bad state and panics

10:43 schestowitz-TR; kaniini and I repeated this at least 3 times with slight variations

10:43 schestowitz-TR; and it was a repeatable issue

10:43 schestowitz-TR; don't be upset if I suggest moving TM first ;-)

10:43 schestowitz-TR; it's still a small task then TR

10:43 schestowitz-TR; but I don't wants to "modernise" the front end

10:43 schestowitz-TR; that typically just means bloat and more undesirable things

10:43 schestowitz-TR; susan openly complained that when moving from drupal 4->5 and/or 5->6 many things stopped working

10:43 schestowitz-TR; you need to give up on a lot of functionality as each "major" (x.0) release is like a

10:43 schestowitz-TR; new CMS

10:44 schestowitz-TR; and Drupal pushes out a new "major" one every 3 or so years

10:44 schestowitz-TR; job creation the "broken windows" way

10:44 schestowitz-TR; for us and others who can support Drupal

10:46 Techrights-sec2; ack

10:46 Techrights-sec2; np

10:46 Techrights-sec2; as long as the move starts and goes smoothly, either order is fine

10:49 schestowitz-TR; I often wonder what thought process led techdirt to a) move to wordpress b) move to wordpress.COM

10:49 schestowitz-TR; the SLAPPers can now hammer away at automttic

10:49 schestowitz-TR; and to them, a private company, masnick is just "dirt"

10:49 schestowitz-TR; sometimes the threatening letters (or words) are sent to kaniini, not to me

10:49 schestowitz-TR; it's a method

10:49 schestowitz-TR; pocock was threatened by the host too, after they had received complaints

10:49 schestowitz-TR; even the new host, in iceland, sometimes sighs a bit with its lawyers

10:49 schestowitz-TR; he uses ipfs and asked me about gemini, but those are no panaceas

10:49 Techrights-sec2; yes there are several major disadvantages to moving away from self-hosting

10:49 Techrights-sec2; they try everything they think they /might/ be able to get away with

10:49 Techrights-sec2; especially not IPFS

10:55 schestowitz-TR; you asked me how ipfs works

10:55 schestowitz-TR; I think I totally get it and why it would never work for more than a few small files

10:55 schestowitz-TR; without "accelerators" ("bros" selling their "services")

10:55 schestowitz-TR; and why I might turn it on for just the nightly "ipfs add", then shut it off for 23 hours

10:55 schestowitz-TR; with dht being the primary 'force' (waste) you distribute "maps"/merkle tress/chains with

10:55 schestowitz-TR; hashes and swarms pass these around

10:55 schestowitz-TR; those tell you which nodes have which hashes

10:55 schestowitz-TR; now, you can imagine what happens when you and millions of others have thousands of hashes each

10:55 schestowitz-TR; and the storage/cpu/ram issues aside, the "bus" is the network

10:55 schestowitz-TR; nice experiment (papers in the wastebasket), but poorly thought out for scale

10:55 schestowitz-TR; it still takes quite a bit of time just to add 1 )(or 5) new objects every night

10:55 schestowitz-TR; to make a new chain of hashes

10:55 schestowitz-TR; my hope was that patience would tackle performance issues and that more people

10:55 schestowitz-TR; would "PIN" our hashed data

10:55 Techrights-sec2; yes

10:58 schestowitz-TR; i think the above issues will merit debates in the coming years because of media hype and subversion

10:58 schestowitz-TR; also, those relates to the dynamic of free press and how lawyers/poliicians are being

10:58 schestowitz-TR; manipulated into impeding it online

10:58 schestowitz-TR; now that print press is mostly obsolete

10:58 schestowitz-TR; so they don't need to worry about paper distribution as much

10:58 schestowitz-TR; social control media is already rotting away, which I am extremely happy to see

10:58 schestowitz-TR; turns out, selling sex for being on a platform is a thing now (FBInstagram/OnlyFans)

10:58 Techrights-sec2; I too get the impression that it was not fully thought out and that the

10:58 Techrights-sec2; coding started far too soon and got ahead of the planning

10:58 Techrights-sec2; ack

10:58 Techrights-sec2; there have been several articles over the months about at least one instance


11 AM, July 3

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11:01 schestowitz-TR; a lot of it is connections, not sex. Like Trump spewinfg out Twitetr ToS violations every day for 4 years minus 2 weeks as POTUS

11:01 schestowitz-TR; blockchains are very dumb to hype up

11:01 schestowitz-TR; they're not even a new thing

11:01 schestowitz-TR; maybe the term is

11:01 schestowitz-TR; they do the same with "HEY HI"

11:01 schestowitz-TR; "ML" is very very old

11:01 schestowitz-TR; "clown" is just "mainframe"

11:01 schestowitz-TR; 1950s?

11:05 schestowitz-TR; sorry to be going off in a tangent, but while you were afk and this buffer was already full of info on TM BD I did not wantg

11:05 schestowitz-TR; to add more re the closure of newsrooms (100 a year in the US) due to "recession" (downplaying severity)

11:05 schestowitz-TR; Netcraft shows millions of domains and sites perishing

11:05 schestowitz-TR; the domain registration cartels (I pay 42 pounds every 2 years PER DOMAIN) have probably given people qualm

11:05 schestowitz-TR; about saying online. Those are not servers but WEB servers and domains.

11:05 schestowitz-TR; I can probably still find online the old BBC program (maybe predates Gates bribes) on how the Web had become too

11:05 schestowitz-TR; centralised, with the lion's share of traffic going into few "masters"

11:05 schestowitz-TR; in the past 3-4 years there were talks about making data portable across sites, but that was alwats limited to GAFAM

11:05 schestowitz-TR; as is http/spfy (/3) is de factor bus for "clown" and "social control media" and "webapps"

11:06 schestowitz-TR; *as if ... de facto

11:14 schestowitz-TR; we rianne and I work just a 40-hour block (weekend+break), I will probably code more towards things that I think

11:14 schestowitz-TR; help tackle at least some of these issues, at least for our own use. The fight for "Linux" was already 'won'

11:14 schestowitz-TR; (or lost, seeing what LF does to the name and where ChromeOS goes), but many concurrent issues are intact

11:14 schestowitz-TR; I think that after being enamoured w/ social control media federated, dweb, freesw) I realise promoting

11:14 schestowitz-TR; a

11:14 schestowitz-TR; hive of many irc networks would be a lot better. IRCNow (from FSF/LibrePlanet) work towards this too

11:29 schestowitz-TR; ======

11:29 schestowitz-TR; in case scrollback was short and went outside it

11:29 schestowitz-TR; I've just attempted to contact ircnow, using 3 different networks of theirs

11:29 schestowitz-TR; but all of them deny entry except for particular usernames

11:29 schestowitz-TR; how odd!

11:29 Techrights-sec2; ack

11:29 Techrights-sec2; interesting

11:32 schestowitz-TR; evern "bsdforall"

11:32 schestowitz-TR; irc is vastly easier to maintain and to use than pleroma, mastodon, and diaspora

11:32 schestowitz-TR; it also obviates the need for "instant messaging" or "texting"

11:32 schestowitz-TR; there are "apps" for IRC, have been for well over a decade

11:32 schestowitz-TR; pleroma, mastodon, and diaspora

11:32 schestowitz-TR; =running a WEB server

11:32 schestowitz-TR; irc

11:32 schestowitz-TR; =1980s-friendly

11:33 Techrights-sec2; interesting

11:33 Techrights-sec2; one things which can be added to the list of possible topics to write about

11:33 Techrights-sec2; is the importance of the decentralized nature of IRC and that one positive

11:33 Techrights-sec2; aspect of the Leenode mess was that an increased number of communities chose

11:33 Techrights-sec2; then to run their own IRC networks

11:33 schestowitz-TR; the sorts of discussions/debate you get in irc are not possible to have in social control media

11:33 schestowitz-TR; or the "comments" section of a blog

11:33 schestowitz-TR; those are not comparable

11:35 Techrights-sec2; ack

11:37 schestowitz-TR; as you note, many new domains are snubbed by gulag (>90% of the search market) while it pews out TWEETS as

11:37 schestowitz-TR; search [sic] results for important topics

11:37 schestowitz-TR; it's certainly geared towards particular outcomes

11:37 schestowitz-TR; Twiutter is prefiltered, both on the membership level and moderation level

11:37 schestowitz-TR; but NEVER on the basis of factuality

11:37 schestowitz-TR; I was trying to access 3 networks of IRC Now to establish some framework for collaboration

11:37 schestowitz-TR; but I cannot even get in, I've tried many things

11:37 schestowitz-TR; (I barely use email anymore, not much outgoing mail anyway)

11:38 Techrights-sec2; true, it prioritizes hearsay (tweets) over published content

11:39 schestowitz-TR; in june 2022 netcraft observed almost 10 million sites DE-registered

11:39 schestowitz-TR; let me check when the decreases started

11:39 schestowitz-TR; this might be a subject worth researching and reporting on

11:39 schestowitz-TR; just writing a lot of text is pointless if you say nothing new

11:42 schestowitz; "Cloudflare experienced strong growth this month, gaining 2.99 million sites and 85,000 domains, representing a 4.64% growth in its number of sites. Cloudflare experienced a significant outage on 21 June, impacting around half of the total requests made to its network. The outage lasted around an hour and a half and affected a significant number of popular sites. 20.2% of the million most visited sites rely on Cloudflare (up 1,400 sites since

11:42 schestowitz; last month)."

11:49 schestowitz-TR; March, April, May, June = loss of about 20 million Web sites

11:49 schestowitz-TR; Feb was gain

11:49 schestowitz-TR; jan a loss

11:49 schestowitz-TR; it peaked 5 years ago

11:49 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to make charts on this

11:49 schestowitz-TR; and will show you in the draft

11:49 schestowitz-TR; I started taking screesshots

11:49 Techrights-sec2; ack

11:49 Techrights-sec2; the loss peaked or the number of unique domains?

11:49 Techrights-sec2; ack


noon, July 3

12:26 Techrights-sec2; checking

12:26 Techrights-sec2; many of the "local" papers in the US are shells held by a national company

12:26 Techrights-sec2; specializing not in gathering local news but in pumping out an agenda into

12:26 Techrights-sec2; the local market

12:26 Techrights-sec2; instead

12:26 Techrights-sec2; https://miscellanynews.org/2021/04/29/opinions/the-unprecedented-consolidation-of-the-modern-media-industry-has-severe-consequences/

↺ https://miscellanynews.org/2021/04/29/opinions/the-unprecedented-consolidation-of-the-modern-media-industry-has-severe-consequences/

12:26 Techrights-sec2; https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/06/back-basics-fixing-americas-polarized-media-landscape

↺ https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/06/back-basics-fixing-americas-polarized-media-landscape

12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: miscellanynews.org; Unknown error ( status 0 @ https://miscellanynews.org/2021/04/29/opinions/the-unprecedented-consolidation-of-the-modern-media-industry-has-severe-consequences/ )

↺ https://miscellanynews.org/2021/04/29/opinions/the-unprecedented-consolidation-of-the-modern-media-industry-has-severe-consequences/

12:26 Techrights-sec2; https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership

↺ https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/futureofmedia/index-us-mainstream-media-ownership

12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.usip.org | Back to the Basics: Fixing the Americas Polarized Media Landscape | United States Institute of Peace

12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-projects.iq.harvard.edu | Index of US Mainstream Media Ownership | The Future of Media Project

12:26 Techrights-sec2; https://billmoyers.com/story/media-consolidation-should-anyone-care/

↺ https://billmoyers.com/story/media-consolidation-should-anyone-care/

12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-What is Media Consolidation and Why Should Anyone Care? - BillMoyers

12:26 Techrights-sec2; news deserts are a thing in the US

12:35 Techrights-sec2; https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/communication/media-stocks/big-6/

↺ https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/market-sectors/communication/media-stocks/big-6/

12:35 Techrights-sec2; https://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/timeline.html

↺ https://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/timeline.html

12:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Big 6 Media Companies | The Motley Fool

12:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.pbs.org | Moyers on America . The Net @ Risk . Resources. Timeline | PBS

12:48 schestowitz-TR; finalising now

12:48 schestowitz-TR; not sure about you, but to me www becomes more like drawing blood out of stone

12:48 schestowitz-TR; gemini is catching up

12:48 schestowitz-TR; www is very big, but low s/n ratio

12:48 Techrights-sec2; yes, and most of the high profile accounts around the net, especailly those

12:48 Techrights-sec2; exploited by social control media, are quite pernicious

12:48 schestowitz-TR; "infleunders" = clergy

12:49 schestowitz-TR; i've put a skeletal draft

12:49 schestowitz-TR; with room for change in focus, direction

12:49 schestowitz-TR; finalising now

12:49 schestowitz-TR; not sure about you, but to me www becomes more like drawing blood out of stone

12:49 schestowitz-TR; gemini is catching up

12:49 schestowitz-TR; www is very big, but low s/n ratio

12:49 schestowitz-TR; "infleunders" = clergy

12:50 Techrights-sec2; basically

12:50 Techrights-sec2; or more accurately, mullahs

12:50 Techrights-sec2; since there is a predominant political aspect to "influencing"

12:50 Techrights-sec2; the entertainment part is just a carrier signal to ensure people are listening

12:50 Techrights-sec2; and then on rare occasion, to avoid burning the crowd gathered, a payload

12:50 Techrights-sec2; is delivered

12:53 schestowitz-TR; many influencers [sic] get paid by ksa for musicwashing and sportwashing

12:53 schestowitz-TR; you buy oil

12:53 schestowitz-TR; and that helps not only putin

12:53 Techrights-sec2; https://text.npr.org/601323233

↺ https://text.npr.org/601323233

12:53 Techrights-sec2; https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politics-media-misinformation-7a60e1e6005c8b3b967c9ad337cb1a6a

↺ https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-politics-media-misinformation-7a60e1e6005c8b3b967c9ad337cb1a6a

12:53 Techrights-sec2; yep that's a prime example

12:53 Techrights-sec2; I saw some stats that without oil and other petrochemicals 24 of the moslem nations have *combined* a smaller GDP than most *tiny* counties have alone

12:53 Techrights-sec2; all they currently have is hanging on petrochemical industry

12:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-text.npr.org | Did Fake News On Facebook Help Elect Trump? Here's What We Know

12:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-apnews.com | Report: Social media influencers push voting misinformation | AP News

12:56 schestowitz-TR; ksa unis are money laundering of sorts

12:56 schestowitz-TR; ((imho)

12:56 schestowitz-TR; and patent mills

12:56 schestowitz-TR; via foreigners

12:56 schestowitz-TR; oil patents

12:56 Techrights-sec2; for example 60% of Malaysia's total exports go to KSA

12:56 Techrights-sec2; meaning they are exceptionally dependent on that petrolchemical state

12:58 schestowitz-TR; west pays ksa

12:58 schestowitz-TR; ksa pays west

12:58 schestowitz-TR; lobbyists etc

12:58 schestowitz-TR; so both side "benefit"


1 PM, July 3

13:03 schestowitz-TR; buy our oil, we''l fund twitter losses

13:03 schestowitz-TR; and censor critics of our agenda

13:03 Techrights-sec2; yep

13:03 Techrights-sec2; s/agenda/shared agenda/

13:04 schestowitz-TR; murica has its own women oppressing men

13:04 schestowitz-TR; in gowns of black

13:04 schestowitz-TR; -women-oppressing

13:04 schestowitz-TR; the dash matters

13:05 Techrights-sec2; I also recall that KSA, which leads a 30-something nation alliance, defines

13:05 Techrights-sec2; "terrorism" quite differenty from the rest of the world and uses largely a

13:05 Techrights-sec2; political / religious defninition which applies to their opponents and no one

13:05 Techrights-sec2; else

13:06 Techrights-sec2; that too


2 PM, July 3

14:25 schestowitz-TR; draft

14:25 schestowitz-TR; thorn on their side

14:25 schestowitz-TR; published

14:25 schestowitz-TR; I do manage to find topics, but not easily

14:25 schestowitz-TR; it's more important than old activities I did


3 PM, July 3

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7 PM, July 3

19:30 schestowitz-TR; lunduke now promotes "ad-free", like Larabel

19:30 schestowitz-TR; better than asking for $300 (or discounted "FOR ONE DAY ONLY!") to just have a chat with him

19:30 schestowitz-TR; of course it's just filling his feed with irrelevant junk

19:30 schestowitz-TR; and I doubt it'll help him make a living

19:30 schestowitz-TR; we're in front page of LXer now

19:30 schestowitz-TR; (no, you won't notice a difference; LXer is weak)


9 PM, July 3

21:07 schestowitz-TR; just wated an hour in gulkagtube watching a local who abuses people and provoked them for reactions, that he then uploads

21:07 schestowitz-TR; while it's not illegal per se, that reminds me how awful the Internet can make people be

21:07 schestowitz-TR; some people have at least challenged him on it

21:07 schestowitz-TR; gulagtube is a cesspool

21:07 schestowitz-TR; it can be addictive because I know the guy (chatted a few times in town) and it shows my city

21:07 schestowitz-TR; but with "proper" media this behaviour would not be tolerated

21:10 schestowitz-TR; I must admit it is addictive

21:10 schestowitz-TR; as I know the guy (since 2008) and it's showing places right near us (in HD)

21:10 schestowitz-TR; but watching those video rewards nasty behavious

21:10 schestowitz-TR; like abusing fat people, old people, mocking diables, filming heart attacks, annoying homeless people...

21:10 schestowitz-TR; and then watching the local police's resources

21:10 schestowitz-TR; even verbally abusing vegan activists, just to test their limits

21:11 Techrights-sec2; the shock value of "entertainment"

21:11 Techrights-sec2; :(

21:11 Techrights-sec2; or wasting their time and keeping them from important action instead

21:12 schestowitz-TR; I guess I dould dub that "rockvhair-camera vigilante"

21:13 schestowitz-TR; thinking that going about with a camera is the same as law enforcement

21:13 schestowitz-TR; when it fact causing a lot of unnecessary scenes

21:13 schestowitz-TR; "for drama" - his own words

21:13 schestowitz-TR; if there was no channel, there would be none of that

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21:16 Techrights-sec2; ack

21:19 schestowitz-TR; I could rant on

21:19 schestowitz-TR; this really bothers me

21:19 schestowitz-TR; I feel gulity that I watch these videos (I know all these places)

21:19 schestowitz-TR; and a guy who started the thing, Danny Shine, ditched him

21:19 schestowitz-TR; because he turned out to be attention-seeking provocateur

21:19 schestowitz-TR; not sure how soviety can discourage this type of behaviour

21:19 schestowitz-TR; provoking people isn't a crime

21:19 schestowitz-TR; or anti-social behaviour

21:19 schestowitz-TR; he tries to be a public nuisance and when people react he cuts it so that it's out of context

21:19 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if other countries have a similar thing

21:19 schestowitz-TR; he used to do this in London

21:19 schestowitz-TR; in the US the cops would nail him real fast

21:19 schestowitz-TR; he was arreretsed many times in the US and once in Canada, IIRC

21:19 schestowitz-TR; hooked up with Alex Jones for something, at one point...

21:19 schestowitz-TR; The Internet is hopeless

21:19 schestowitz-TR; rant over

21:20 Techrights-sec2; perhaps

21:20 Techrights-sec2; however there are lots of examples of even more antisocial behavior in

21:20 Techrights-sec2; Youtube besides that one some even dealing in physical violence

21:21 schestowitz-TR; there were some local copycats

21:21 schestowitz-TR; if that spreads, the cops won't be able to focus on real crime

21:21 schestowitz-TR; but manufactured (provocation) "scenes"

21:22 Techrights-sec2; Tiktok was also cultivating both vandalism and physical assault


10 PM, July 3

22:23 schestowitz-TR; I've just had to run repair again, also studied again the logs from the past 2 weeks, aboutn 25k entry logs

22:23 schestowitz-TR; it seems like the DB is losing some old node _revisions_, not as critical as nodes themslves

22:23 schestowitz-TR; to the outside it looks like things are normal, but maybe soon we should look into exporting and migrating to

22:23 schestowitz-TR; avoid worse scenarios

22:23 schestowitz-TR; it looks like the warnings return later in the same day that we repair

22:23 schestowitz-TR; usually cach, search, and revision-related data

22:23 schestowitz-TR; so those are almost disposable

22:23 schestowitz-TR; but that might spread

22:23 schestowitz-TR; when you repaired it last week it was block_cache, I think, based on the logs

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