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beginning of new day, August 3

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1 AM, August 3

01:25 schestowitz-TR; wanted to say thank you for the help yesterday. I'll rapidly recovering things here on the pi.

01:25 schestowitz-TR; I've just updated for the SECOND time the post about Linux Today. The site seems defunct now. It 'competed' with TM.


2 AM, August 3

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:20:23 matey second

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:20:25 matey coolest

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:20:27 matey program

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:20:29 matey everrrr

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:20:38 matey /me cant help it

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:21:42 matey three decades in the making, you know

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:22:15 matey of course no ones here, but i dont care

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:22:39 matey netsplit?

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:23:01 matey can that happen on a network (single server?) this small?

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 08:23:28 matey oh, maybe his power went out

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:04:53 matey not scully https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BeZ3QV_IJXc

↺ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BeZ3QV_IJXc

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:05:23 matey this used to play on the radio every night in 199-*coughs*

02:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Tara Kemp - Hold You Tight (Official Music Video) | Warner Records - Invidious

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:09:09 matey /me still thinks the AAAWWWAAAIIIIII part is funny

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:11:23 matey its a mix of production values youd never find today (too bad, even synth in the 90s had more dynamic range and depth) with a few things that are just comical

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:12:03 matey /me wonders if those 90s outfits from dance music will ever be back

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:12:36 matey if you want another example, check out what all the (male) dancers are wearing in "cream" by prince

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:13:13 matey silk shirts and trousers-- suspenders feature often

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:13:19 matey but somehow it looked "cool"

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:14:14 matey everyone spun around in them REALLY quickly-- then they would wave both their arms around not entirely like arsenio

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:14:20 matey ah, 90s

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:15:54 matey this isnt bad https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DNLkD8QEnAM

↺ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DNLkD8QEnAM

02:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Lianne La Havas What You Don't Do (Official Music Video) - Invidious

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 09:16:38 matey /me REALLY wants to hear it without the range squished together though

02:55 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 11:26:43 britney inside the moho discontinuity, the hive mind super computer made of neanderthal brains plans the next battle with the reptilians on the surface of the earth...

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 12:16:49 britney the hive mind super computer is left wing and the reptilians are right wing

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 13:35:39 TR NEWS Games: Steam Deck, Nintendo Online, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/167919

↺ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/167919

02:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Games: Steam Deck, Nintendo Online, and More | Tux Machines

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 13:35:48 TR NEWS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/167920

↺ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/167920

02:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Tux Machines

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:12:05 ulf weird, yesterday i attached the DVB-C cable receiver, and since this afternoon it is disconnected

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:13:05 ulf somewhat ironic, just this morning i began deleting more than 80 of the 100 tv stations from the list already, except for some documentary and news broadcasters

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:13:36 ulf leaving me with what's broadcasted OTA with DVB-T2 anyway

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:13:59 ulf i am wondering, how they could have noticed some cable-tv receiver was attached (no-internet that is)

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:14:27 ulf and, i am paying "cable fee" to the landlord, besides regular internet fee to the internet provider

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:15:42 ulf what's surprising me, is they had noticed somehow a DVB-C receiver was attached, although those officially got no transmission channel back to the provider

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:19:18 ulf the difference seems to be, with DVB-C some "private" tv broadcasters (mostly useless USA rubbish and series) do not require a separate decryption-card

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:19:52 ulf no idea whatever this is, or how it is implemented, with DVB-T2 those "private" broadcasters require decryption

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:20:32 ulf the "public" tv broadcasters do not require decryption, instead government forces all citizens to pay for the rubbish and propaganda, and it's broadcasted for free then

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:23:14 ulf i would be curious though, i they have noticed a DVB-C receiver was attached, i didn't connect this to the internet

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:23:21 ulf *how

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:24:02 ulf i did pay for this receiver with cash btw.; not with the mastercard since i am not keen on this thing being associated with my private data in any way

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:25:11 ulf within 24hours digital cable-tv disconnect

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:25:26 ulf would be curious though, why i have to pay additional "cable fee" to the landlord

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:48:02 TR NEWS "The Banana Pi BPI-Bit Lite is a development board following the BPI-Bit." https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-bit-lite-is-an-educational-board-that-runs-on-arduino-webduino-and-micropython/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

↺ https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-bit-lite-is-an-educational-board-that-runs-on-arduino-webduino-and-micropython/

02:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-bit-lite-is-an-educational-board-that-runs-on-arduino-webduino-and-micropython/ )

↺ https://linuxgizmos.com/bpi-bit-lite-is-an-educational-board-that-runs-on-arduino-webduino-and-micropython/

02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:49:36 TR NEWS "The OpenNCC NCB is an accelerated AI reference platform fully developed by EyeCloud.AI." https://linuxgizmos.com/openncc-ncb-an-open-source-alternative-to-intels-neural-compute-stick-2/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

↺ https://linuxgizmos.com/openncc-ncb-an-open-source-alternative-to-intels-neural-compute-stick-2/

02:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/openncc-ncb-an-open-source-alternative-to-intels-neural-compute-stick-2/ )

↺ https://linuxgizmos.com/openncc-ncb-an-open-source-alternative-to-intels-neural-compute-stick-2/

02:57 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:50:17 TR NEWS "Livepatch is a perfect fit for our needs." https://ubuntu.com//blog/is-linux-secure | Source: Ubuntu

↺ https://ubuntu.com//blog/is-linux-secure

02:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Is Linux secure? | Ubuntu

02:57 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:50:48 schestowitz[TR2 ] testing:

02:57 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:51:19 schestowitz[TR2 ] we had a major outage here, and that seems to have killed the sd card on the pi

02:57 schestowitz[TR2]; Tue 14:52:13 britney Major Outage

02:57 schestowitz[TR2];

02:57 schestowitz[TR2]; ^^ missed during outage


3 AM, August 3

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4 AM, August 3

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04:04 schestowitz-TR; with stress levels down a bit, I've just fixed the git syndication stuff, pushed to git

04:04 schestowitz-TR; i/o is super slow on usb, but what matters most is, anything but ipfs will cope OK

04:04 schestowitz-TR; I am looking into how to make storage more robuest, irc had chatter about how awful microsd is

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04:45 schestowitz[TR2]; also, in irc, some clues about what made me angry last week

04:46 schestowitz[TR2]; people moan they do jobs they hate to feed kids who don't love them back

04:46 schestowitz[TR2]; and suddently I'm the a-hole for not wanting anything to do with that


5 AM, August 3

05:04 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Wow, fifth time in just over a day. Webspam from ZDNet's sister site. What on Earth is going on here? Sunset for the site? Has 'Linux Today' sold its soul to diploma mills? http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/linux-today-zdnet/

http://techrights.org/2022/08/01/linux-today-zdnet/

05:04 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Weird Editorial Choices in Linux Today These Past Few Hours (Updatedx3) | Techrights

05:06 schestowitz-TR; LT (noty Torvalds, Linux Today) is "Done For"... I know what happens after these choices are made, like

05:06 schestowitz-TR; FOSSForce... after its marketing spam as posts

05:06 schestowitz-TR; eeking out a few $s on the way out


6 AM, August 3

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7 AM, August 3

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07:50 Techrights-sec; gm

07:50 Techrights-sec; np I hope today goes more smoothly

07:50 Techrights-sec; yes, old Linux Today readers stop reading because of the spam and the selling

07:50 Techrights-sec; out and no new readers turn up because it's not got that M$ "look and feel"


8 AM, August 3

08:00 schestowitz-TR; gm

08:00 schestowitz-TR; catching up, brb

08:00 schestowitz-TR; mea culpse

08:00 schestowitz-TR; I cought this mistake

08:00 schestowitz-TR; last time I tried to "correct" it it ended up with my PC attempting to upload 100MB files every 5 minutes, adding up a lot of rsync processes choking up

08:00 schestowitz-TR; my connections

08:00 schestowitz-TR; in this case, the mistkae was not constly

08:00 schestowitz-TR; but it was noticed

08:00 schestowitz-TR; had a long chat with rianne last night

08:00 schestowitz-TR; turns out person C spoke to persons B and -- worse -- A

08:00 schestowitz-TR; causing prblems I predicted

08:00 schestowitz-TR; but person C was asked not to talk about it

08:00 schestowitz-TR; thought it was likely ineditable

08:00 schestowitz-TR; person R (hi) should learn to talk to people a lot less

08:01 schestowitz-TR; person A was told by A

08:01 schestowitz-TR; *by B

08:01 schestowitz-TR; and a little conspiracy developed

08:01 schestowitz-TR; people talki about ideas... talk about events... talk about people

08:01 schestowitz-TR; person R is not a kid, person r is 40 now

08:01 schestowitz-TR; *mea culpa (typo earlier)

08:01 schestowitz-TR; today's plan is to catch up and organise to write about topics I saw and lacked time to cover

08:01 schestowitz-TR; while in the background copying back a lot of file using rsync, at a pace (it seems) of about 1 GB per 5 hours (!)

08:01 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I only posted ione new item in TM-new and in TM-old I did many "leftovers" due to other priorities

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08:26 schestowitz-TR; [08:04] <techrights-news> Two companies that ought not exist at all https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23288589/microsoft-outlook-app-crash-uber-email-receipts Outlook = malware platform

↺ https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23288589/microsoft-outlook-app-crash-uber-email-receipts

08:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | Microsoft Outlook crashing when viewing Uber receipt emails - The Verge

08:27 Techrights-sec; ack

08:27 schestowitz-TR; btw, how many lines can you scroll back? I've long wondered that

08:27 schestowitz-TR; just checked git log for changes you're making (many this morning)

08:27 schestowitz-TR; I now have three terminals in which to observe changes

08:29 schestowitz-TR; when I said "scroll back" I actually meant, how many lines visible in ytalk? because I don't want to spill out of view

08:29 schestowitz-TR; here, it is about 30 lines for you, 30 for me

08:29 schestowitz-TR; as in the past the smaller terminals were not always sufficient

08:29 Techrights-sec; checking

08:29 Techrights-sec; 23

08:31 schestowitz-TR; that's good

08:31 schestowitz-TR; in the past I'd refrain from talking overnight even when important things happen for fear of overrunning the buffer

08:31 schestowitz-TR; and sometimes I'd latrer paste "earlier" stuff again, just in case...

08:31 schestowitz-TR; I've just cl;eaned my feeds again

08:31 schestowitz-TR; india market share for gnu/linux now 7%

08:31 schestowitz-TR; (estimate)

08:31 schestowitz-TR; "tech" media will never mention this, too busy sucking the balls of "Sayta"

08:31 schestowitz-TR; *Satya

08:33 schestowitz-TR; (to self: trolls will say it's racist and sexist, though women too suck balls and indians are now officially the planet's "majority")

08:33 schestowitz-TR; (and it is a metaphor a lot older than me)

08:33 Techrights-sec; the M$ worship has been gradually increasing over the years. It's to the

08:33 Techrights-sec; point where mainstream news articles from 20 years ago would be dismissed

08:33 Techrights-sec; as "bashing" if there were republished today.

08:33 Techrights-sec; ack

08:36 schestowitz-TR; yes, I just posted a rant about IBM in the main channel

08:36 schestowitz-TR; they too are manipulative with the media

08:36 schestowitz-TR; I'm not old enough to know how IBM was when it was "market leader"

08:36 Techrights-sec; ack

08:36 schestowitz-TR; but I can imagine Microsoft inherited -- maybe even repurpsoed the same agencies/people -- those tactics

08:36 schestowitz-TR; reward/publishment... even bribes

08:36 schestowitz-TR; atm scrollback in gemini won't work yet, not until I copy across all of ~gemini dir from july 31 backup

08:36 schestowitz-TR; tech issues are connected to media issues and, tracing it back to causes, it's about financial disparity

08:36 schestowitz-TR; journalism was not meant to be "for sale", but that's where we are

08:40 schestowitz-TR; thanks for fixing the "bug" of me pasting in the wrong text as a slug

08:40 schestowitz-TR; resulting in a very long filename

08:40 schestowitz-TR; and colours would help too

08:40 schestowitz-TR; sometimes it's hard to say what's an error and what's just the program being verbose

08:42 Techrights-sec; most of journalism having been bought and sold is a direct offshoot of

08:42 Techrights-sec; media consolidation rules set in place by the Reagan administration and

08:42 Techrights-sec; worsened further over the subsequent decades

08:42 Techrights-sec; np

08:42 Techrights-sec; thanks for finding the bug, normally I check bounds for variables but there

08:42 Techrights-sec; are just so many variables ...

08:42 Techrights-sec; The warnings and errors are more clearly marked now too. Though

08:42 Techrights-sec; there is still a little unnecessary output from db actions.

08:45 schestowitz-TR; I am still thinking long and hard of how to manage data on the raspi, like taking particular account out to external storage

08:45 schestowitz-TR; ipfs does many disk operations all the time unless I stopped it (it was stopped for 2 months before the initial outage and the second;

08:45 schestowitz-TR; the good thing is that the second resulted in propr action and proper resolution... albeit wa s alot longer)

08:46 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> guru3d.com is a dead site, defunct. Gulag Noise should delist it. This is like the TENTH time I see such spam in 2 weeks. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ad-linux-will-be-fasterpay-just-13-for-lifetime-license-microsoft-windows-10-to-play-everything%EF%BC%81.html

↺ https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ad-linux-will-be-fasterpay-just-13-for-lifetime-license-microsoft-windows-10-to-play-everything%EF%BC%81.html

08:46 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.guru3d.com | Ad: Linux will be faster, pay just $13 for lifetime license Microsoft Windows 10 to play everything

08:49 schestowitz-TR; (context: once a day i sweep gulag noise search for "linux" to see if there is a domain I still miss from my

08:49 schestowitz-TR; rss feeds, just to make sure I don't skip something very important; at the moment it's very rare that I find

08:49 schestowitz-TR; in that ddaily sweep anything I didn't see already. some sites that lack rss feeds I check manually every sunday...

08:49 schestowitz-TR; I have list of a particular url in them, like search for "linux", sorted by date)

08:49 schestowitz-TR; the motivation is to bypass the middleman. lxer and linuxtoday (LT) became very low-grade middlemen too...

08:49 schestowitz-TR; they're neglected whoever was entrusted to inform their remaining readers

08:50 Techrights-sec; ack

08:54 schestowitz; https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200901-202208

↺ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200901-202208

08:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Finland | Statcounter Global Stats

08:56 schestowitz-TR; https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200901-202208

↺ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200901-202208

08:56 schestowitz-TR; 20%?? either sample size too poor or was poor before and improving

08:56 schestowitz-TR; but anyway, that seems to be the trend in most countries

08:56 schestowitz-TR; it's always a chance to bring up the real purpose of "secure" boot

08:56 schestowitz-TR; while GNOME/ICBM cautions users that having NO secure boot is BAD

08:56 Techrights-sec; ack

08:56 Techrights-sec; good riddance but will any mainstream news pick up on the trend?


9 AM, August 3

09:00 schestowitz-TR; don't call it

09:00 schestowitz-TR; 1) maintream MEDIA

09:00 schestowitz-TR; 2) of mainstream NEWS

09:00 schestowitz-TR; that can lead to CONFUSION ;-)

09:00 schestowitz-TR; they're shit PR agents, like the ones who burn MSFT whistleblowers

09:00 schestowitz-TR; I still have 2 more parts in that series

09:00 schestowitz-TR; when I'm done transfering ~gemini (been going on since around midnight) maybe I'll make a separate device for /home/[ipfs person]

09:00 schestowitz-TR; and then adjust some things

09:00 schestowitz-TR; atm I think I'd just leave ipfs off except when adding new objects

09:06 Techrights-sec; true

09:06 Techrights-sec; the entity names remain from 40 - 60 years ago but the goals and activities

09:06 Techrights-sec; have changed 180 degrees

09:09 schestowitz-TR; ah, ok, i just noticed that adding a node re ibm fluff resulted in just the db update

09:09 schestowitz-TR; as tm-extract-popsts-sql demands an argument, which is not supplier in the dependants

09:09 schestowitz-TR; *supplied

09:09 schestowitz-TR; re media, I realise now Mrius loathes the corrupt media a lot more than me

09:09 schestowitz-TR; (he hates Microsofters too but rarely mentiond them)

09:09 schestowitz-TR; maybe partly shaped by his experiences of what hapened in softpedia after many years there

09:10 schestowitz-TR; he brought them the most traffic, he said, but microsofters put an end to it

09:10 schestowitz-TR; in the process they aldo doomed softpedia

09:10 schestowitz-TR; you won't see that site anymore

09:10 schestowitz-TR; at one point that site hosted my software

09:10 schestowitz-TR; but at one point they made "cuts" and removed it

09:10 schestowitz-TR; softpedia was originalyl a site to download SOFTware binaries from

09:10 schestowitz-TR; I contacted marius back then

09:10 schestowitz-TR; he said they only keps very popular software

09:10 schestowitz-TR; now even the "news" section is dead

09:10 schestowitz-TR; it was doing great before the "softers" got involevd

09:10 schestowitz-TR; and first weaponised that "Linux" sectionAGAINST Linux

09:10 schestowitz-TR; then gave up

09:10 schestowitz-TR; realised it was not the right audience

09:16 schestowitz-TR; I used to do a lot of c coding, but it takes a long time to work with a compiler and build GUIs, nowadays given the limited appeal

09:16 schestowitz-TR; or number of users i just hack things in bash if possible

09:16 schestowitz-TR; in academia this is very common, they dub it "prototyping" and often use - CHOKE CHOKE -- matlab

09:16 schestowitz-TR; mathworks wanted to hire me when I was a student, offered 120k a year way back then (maybe 200k by today's money) but

09:16 schestowitz-TR; I was already keen on staying a student and/or doing activism

09:17 schestowitz-TR; (iirc, matlab itself is written in c)

09:17 schestowitz-TR; the gui parts used to reuse java, maybe not anymore

09:17 schestowitz-TR; matlab is bloated kludge

09:17 schestowitz-TR; octave had a new rel;ease this past week, I put that in tuxzmachines-old

09:17 schestowitz-TR; i think my most popular yolutube vid is one of the octave tutorials

09:17 schestowitz-TR; C takes a LOT of work

09:17 schestowitz-TR; for many reasons

09:17 schestowitz-TR; bash starts with you running some command, then improving and improving, then echo x > somefile.sh & chmod 700 *.sh

09:17 schestowitz-TR; with matlab it's a bit like bash except you need a NETWORK licence and gigabyes ofkludge and endless RAM

09:17 schestowitz-TR; and then it might still crash ^_^

09:19 Techrights-sec; yes, matlab is too common

09:19 Techrights-sec; Octave is ok but considered a little behing matlab

09:20 schestowitz-TR; I was #1 in the world for my matlab contrib (free software modules) at one point

09:20 schestowitz-TR; and then wanted me to write a book

09:20 schestowitz-TR; or course those f**ers later relicensed all my code as BSD

09:20 schestowitz-TR; and if I said no, they're just remove all my work

09:20 schestowitz-TR; a form of blackmail

09:20 schestowitz-TR; by corporate hawks

09:20 schestowitz-TR; I moved to octave

09:20 schestowitz-TR; later I quit universities

09:20 schestowitz-TR; low pay, too much work

09:20 schestowitz-TR; some profs wear multiple hats, like part time GAFAM, part time teachin

09:20 schestowitz-TR; obv. conflict of interest, but that's 21st century

09:21 Techrights-sec; C takes a lot of work, some skill and time, and a lot of experience to know

09:21 Techrights-sec; which libraries are which

09:21 Techrights-sec; ack

09:21 schestowitz-TR; uni sys admins are not sys admins anymore

09:21 schestowitz-TR; they are people who cannot be hired anywhere else

09:21 schestowitz-TR; clueless shits

09:21 schestowitz-TR; and they lost me some data and code

09:21 schestowitz-TR; without even notifiying me

09:21 schestowitz-TR; wiped the whole machine after it got cracked

09:21 schestowitz-TR; said "sorry"

09:21 schestowitz-TR; after they deleted the whole lot

09:21 Techrights-sec; ack

09:25 schestowitz-TR; maybe if they paid better, they'd have more than a cult of rejects and weirdoes

09:25 schestowitz-TR; later they can use that incompetence as a pretext for further defunding these

09:25 schestowitz-TR; institutions

09:25 schestowitz-TR; saying they produce little of actual value (which is partly true BTW)

09:25 schestowitz-TR; I peer reviewed some papers from poser and frauds

09:25 schestowitz-TR; likely fake data and false claims

09:25 schestowitz-TR; but good luck proving it

09:25 schestowitz-TR; the review goes by word of mouth

09:25 schestowitz-TR; nobody reproduces anything as data and code remain proprietary

09:25 schestowitz-TR; and besides, who even has the time and skill?

09:25 schestowitz-TR; so later, IF AT ALL (maybe a decade later), they remove "discredited" papers

09:25 schestowitz-TR; after the frauds got their tenures and cash

09:25 schestowitz-TR; cash to carry on with their frauds

09:25 schestowitz-TR; reminds me of Holmes from Theranos

09:27 schestowitz-TR; the worst aspect is that your own implementations needs to compete with frauds and fakes

09:27 schestowitz-TR; so unless you too cheat and fake, your work won't seem as impressive

09:27 schestowitz-TR; so you need to compromise integrity to "progress"

09:27 schestowitz-TR; and also submit the same paper to 10 different cionferences weith different titles and picture

09:27 schestowitz-TR; to seem like you're a prolific publisher, not a one-trick pony who harpa about the exact same

09:27 schestowitz-TR; thing for 10 years unless the audience gets bored

09:27 schestowitz-TR; and then you publish the same thing under the name of slave, slave, slave and you

09:27 schestowitz-TR; slave = phs student

09:27 schestowitz-TR; *phd

09:32 Techrights-sec; they are microsoft resellers of the lowest order

09:32 Techrights-sec; what's sad is that in decades past, universities were research institutions

09:32 Techrights-sec; and leaders; LDAP, Kerberos, and AFS are some shining examples; LDAP and

09:32 Techrights-sec; Kerberos are still in use; (Open)AFS has not been succeeded rather the opposite

09:32 Techrights-sec; and file sharing is about at the level ofthe 1980s these days albeit via

09:32 Techrights-sec; a web "interface"

09:32 Techrights-sec; acck

09:32 Techrights-sec; yes there is also a perverse cycle regarding the ass-kissing that goes on

09:32 Techrights-sec; to get tenure; it involves the publishers and prevents bootstrapping openaccess

09:32 Techrights-sec; publishing; those with tenure don't have much time and can't stray from the

09:32 Techrights-sec; "high impact" propietary journals and, worse, are supervising gradual students

09:32 Techrights-sec; who are following the same footsteps into the same trap; a few universities

09:32 Techrights-sec; are eliminating "impact factor" from the hiring process

09:32 Techrights-sec; as an experiment

09:32 schestowitz-TR; "high-impact" journal = gateway cartel

09:32 schestowitz-TR; appease the cartel, get grants

09:32 schestowitz-TR; the grants are given on that basis

09:32 schestowitz-TR; in surrey uni they told us, "publish or perish"

09:32 schestowitz-TR; they didn't mean publish software

09:32 schestowitz-TR; this was the cs school in surrey

09:32 schestowitz-TR; writing words about codecs

09:32 schestowitz-TR; instead of codecs

09:32 schestowitz-TR; proprietary with sofware patents

09:32 schestowitz-TR; they were part of the MP* cartel

09:32 schestowitz-TR; (part of = had patents)

09:39 Techrights-sec; yes, cartel is the right word

09:39 Techrights-sec; and they are one of the several hostile groups now controling the universities

09:39 Techrights-sec; from outside and, soon, within

09:39 schestowitz-TR; in usenet I knew someone who could explain the cartel very well

09:39 schestowitz-TR; like the flow of money

09:39 schestowitz-TR; and the lkibraries' role

09:39 schestowitz-TR; it's like a sort of symparmid scheme

09:39 schestowitz-TR; but I cannot explain it well, or barely

09:39 schestowitz-TR; sprinter verlag etc.

09:39 schestowitz-TR; *springer

09:39 schestowitz-TR; they also use us as slaves, reviewing, editing, writing their "papers"

09:39 schestowitz-TR; 'their'

09:39 schestowitz-TR; while lecturers are paid like a junior programmer

09:39 schestowitz-TR; and work outside 9-5 too

09:39 schestowitz-TR; but worse of all are the unpaid slaves

09:39 schestowitz-TR; the students

09:39 schestowitz-TR; some pay tuition fees and usually they pay for their naccomodation too

09:39 schestowitz-TR; not even 18th centurey US slavery was that oppressive

09:41 Techrights-sec; the libraries have been all but eliminated. Yes the physical structures are

09:41 Techrights-sec; still standing but the goals, service, and philosophy they once had ad

09:41 Techrights-sec; as stewards of scholarly communication are all but gone.

09:41 Techrights-sec; btw changes to the tm-add-entry-sql.pl script, but the /var/www/tuxmachines.org

09:41 Techrights-sec; clone still does not get updated automatically even if the same scrip

09:41 Techrights-sec; succeeds in firing off an MQTT notification

09:42 Techrights-sec; if you mean students, most pay for the tuition and their accommodation,

09:42 Techrights-sec; support (aside from parents) is very rare; another gift of the Reagan era

09:42 Techrights-sec; The student loans have become an entire industry in and of themselves

09:42 Techrights-sec; It's related to wage slavery which has the advantage over the 19th century

09:42 Techrights-sec; and earlier slavery in that slaves are no longer owned but rented or leased

09:42 Techrights-sec; and thus even more disposable

09:47 schestowitz-TR; thanks for working on the cms

09:47 schestowitz-TR; rianne just passed by, I told her that while switching from old to new needs to be done very very carefully

09:47 schestowitz-TR; as soon as gemini works it can be advertised as there is no "old" gemini

09:47 schestowitz-TR; and thus it's a new service

09:47 schestowitz-TR; planet gemini is offline unless all the files are copied, hopefully by this evening

09:47 schestowitz-TR; then I have some work to do on the cron jabs and adjusting things to how they used to be

09:47 schestowitz-TR; ipfs will be on hold until I figure out how where to put this 6-7 GB of junk

09:47 schestowitz-TR; for just 1 GB of ACTUAL data or 700mb, 1:10 ratio data:blockchain shiut

09:47 schestowitz-TR; at least we can joke that techrights truly embraced "web 3.0"

09:47 schestowitz-TR; I got some emails from these posers

09:47 schestowitz-TR; because we mention ipfs

09:47 schestowitz-TR; they don't even know the difference between net and web

09:47 schestowitz-TR; it's more like net 3.0 and not http/3

09:47 schestowitz-TR; web 2.0 = javascript everywhere, not just css

09:48 schestowitz-TR; aka "ajax"

09:48 schestowitz-TR; we stopped having ajax and servers, not it's "platforms" on "clowns"

09:50 Techrights-sec; ok the gemini part is on the way, after some other loose ends are tied up

09:50 Techrights-sec; by the way, the RPi OS cannot boot to RAID1 or any other RAID, so backing up

09:50 Techrights-sec; or cloning the USB stick on a frequent basis is the way to go. For that,

09:50 Techrights-sec; it'd be cleanest to then have the system components on one partition and have

09:50 Techrights-sec; the data separate

09:50 Techrights-sec; A UPS would be the way to go, if one wishes to be more formal about a solution

09:50 Techrights-sec; ack

09:50 Techrights-sec; though I know nothing of IPFS except that it seems to appear like it does not

09:50 Techrights-sec; scale well

09:51 Techrights-sec; CSS is great, at least up to 2.0, but javascript has always been a pox

09:51 schestowitz-TR; css became bad because it does too much and thus few can keep up

09:51 schestowitz-TR; now css includes image manipulation

09:51 schestowitz-TR; I could not believe when I saw an article in linuxhint showing me that now even image processing

09:51 schestowitz-TR; is done by css

09:51 schestowitz-TR; no wonder browsers became so bloated, code and ram-wise

09:51 schestowitz-TR; it's like opening photoshop on top of a browser

09:51 schestowitz-TR; and the only reasons many sites do not adopt such css is "old code"

09:51 schestowitz-TR; or visitors with "old browser" (or "not chrome")

09:52 Techrights-sec; If done correctly CSS degrades gracefully, but that leaves off much of the

09:52 Techrights-sec; CSS 3.0 gimmicks which are poorly thought out and badly designed even if

09:52 Techrights-sec; those poor thoughs and bad designs are skillfully implemented

09:54 schestowitz-TR; a) works best with ->

09:54 schestowitz-TR; b) please download chrome ->

09:54 schestowitz-TR; 3) you're not using a supported browser, no nservice for you (e.g. banks)

09:54 schestowitz-TR; no matter if it degracges gracefully

09:54 schestowitz-TR; they don't want support calls

09:54 schestowitz-TR; "I cannot book a train ticket, yes, I use [some browser the support rep in a sweaty sweatshop does not have in her/his script"

09:54 Techrights-sec; yep

09:54 Techrights-sec; Baker is helping Google line up their shots for finalizing the capture

09:54 Techrights-sec; of the WWW standards

09:54 Techrights-sec; ack

09:55 schestowitz-TR; bbl circa 1 hor, exercise (wife insists, I didn't even sleep well)

09:55 schestowitz-TR; and diet was terrible

09:55 schestowitz-TR; this is how people die in their 60w

09:55 schestowitz-TR; *60s

09:56 Techrights-sec; ack


10 AM, August 3

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10:56 schestowitz-TR; thanks for the links

10:56 schestowitz-TR; 2 months ago I spoke tyo the energy suppler's person who had been assigned to me

10:56 schestowitz-TR; and marked our home as hign priority

10:56 schestowitz-TR; maybe that's why we got ourt power back faster then other people on the block

10:56 schestowitz-TR; this and other factors, like asking for a generator twice over the phones

10:56 schestowitz-TR; with that guy, I spoke about UPS

10:56 schestowitz-TR; I said, only if the outages become a frequent thing, I'll get one for the router and the pi

10:56 schestowitz-TR; which are nearby anyhow

10:56 schestowitz-TR; but outages are rare here, though ime when they start happening they can happen again and again until

10:56 schestowitz-TR; the energy supplier can be arsed to actually investigate and fix the issues

10:56 schestowitz-TR; rianne's aunt has very frequent outages

10:56 schestowitz-TR; not sure if it's in her home or upstream

10:56 schestowitz-TR; so rianne's connection was up and down

10:56 schestowitz-TR; maybe due to flooding, she said

10:56 schestowitz-TR; but she's at work most of the time

10:56 schestowitz-TR; so cannot be bothered to pursue a solution

10:56 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile appliances can break over time, so the cost of ignoring the issue can increas

10:56 schestowitz-TR; the latest two pi issues happened after outages

10:56 schestowitz-TR; but I doubt somewhat those were relatted to it

10:56 schestowitz-TR; I spoke about price of UPS and condityions upon which to acquire one

10:56 schestowitz-TR; we were advised the same in 2005 when my hall of residence started having outages (maybe 5-7 in total before they resolved the issue)

10:56 schestowitz-TR; they suggested getting a ups for computers, students were not happy

10:56 schestowitz-TR; since then I experienced no outages upstream... until this year

10:56 schestowitz-TR; so a ups would be past its lifetime by now

10:56 schestowitz-TR; i.e. waste of money

10:56 schestowitz-TR; idea: make a pi that can extract enough power from several usb ports or similar

10:56 schestowitz-TR; to borrow some life -- enough to safely reboot from a laptop that already has high impedance resistance

10:56 schestowitz-TR; (the good ones anyway, old ones before they make cheap disposable "laptops")


11 AM, August 3

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11:16 Techrights-sec; They have PoE (power over Ethernet) but that requires a special adapter.

11:16 Techrights-sec; I think the Zero series can be powered by USB

11:18 schestowitz-TR; how about an exercise cbicycle that hooks up to it when you know outage is imminent ;-)

11:18 schestowitz-TR; gives you enough time to finish work and maybe shutdown cleanly ;-)

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noon, August 3

12:12 Techrights-sec; the trick is to have some hardware upstream which alerts the device to the

12:12 Techrights-sec; outage while releasing enough stored current to keep it running while it

12:12 Techrights-sec; shuts down. ie. a UPS of some sort. The stream of electricity itself

12:12 Techrights-sec; is either on or off (or too low) so it itself does not contain any information

12:12 Techrights-sec; necessary to trigger a graceful shutdown, there's no avoiding batteries of

12:12 Techrights-sec; some kind

12:15 schestowitz-TR; if the ups kicks in but you're afk/asleep/away from home, the devices you protect might die abruptly anyay

12:15 schestowitz-TR; and if it's not a "smart" thing, you might not even know

12:15 schestowitz-TR; the first time the pi OS died it was not reboot/outage rleated

12:15 schestowitz-TR; just wear

12:15 schestowitz-TR; and I got cluess before powering it down and making a backup beforehand

12:15 schestowitz-TR; we took that opportunity to upgrade the OS

12:15 schestowitz-TR; this time a chance to move to USB and peripheral storage

12:30 Techrights-sec; ack

12:30 Techrights-sec; as far as I can tell LUKS and Rsync can't really work on the same files,

12:30 Techrights-sec; especially when the files are large

12:31 schestowitz-TR; ~gemini still processing

12:31 schestowitz-TR; this is like 50 times slower than it was before

12:31 schestowitz-TR; but you say gemini and gemprox work fast at your end

12:31 schestowitz-TR; and I don't think the other services would be imperiled by it

12:32 Techrights-sec; the UPS usually have a lead which goes either to GPIO or Serial and then

12:32 Techrights-sec; interface with a daemon regarding status and the daemon decides when to

12:32 Techrights-sec; power down

12:32 schestowitz-TR; if it's not systemd, it might even power down properly at the end without user intervention after 20 minds

12:32 schestowitz-TR; *mins

12:34 Techrights-sec; systemd can be deadly slow like that, other times it can fail to allow booting

12:34 Techrights-sec; to complete

12:35 schestowitz-TR; last year kaniini had to bypass thing just to bootstrap techrights

12:36 schestowitz-TR; open microsoft account and report bug to microsoft systemd

12:36 schestowitz-TR; they might fix it in the next version, Pro Deluxe Edition

12:36 schestowitz-TR; the one that does not send your private keys to the clown

12:36 Techrights-sec; yep not a surprise

12:39 schestowitz-TR; booting should be simple, runlevels 0-6 and just run the darn things, evewn in parallel for some things

12:39 schestowitz-TR; developing this from scratch seem unecesaary, to put it likely...

12:39 schestowitz-TR; and then running the file system's home dir as a "Service"

12:39 schestowitz-TR; which means an additional level of failure

12:39 schestowitz-TR; riright now, with lennart working tot Bill and Lolita, there is AN INCENTIVE

12:39 schestowitz-TR; to NOT make it reliable

12:39 schestowitz-TR; or onl;y make it reliable on "Azure"-brasnded clowns

12:39 schestowitz-TR; "IP aAdvantage" -> "Linux Advantage"

12:40 Techrights-sec; open-rc seems rather good, sysvinit was fine too within limits

12:40 Techrights-sec; it was never about solving a technical need but about a political need,

12:40 Techrights-sec; specifically about decommidifyingf Linux

12:40 Techrights-sec; That looks like one of the directions they might try to take

12:40 Techrights-sec; Canonical (Shuttleworth) is sucking up to them too, even though (or maybe

12:40 Techrights-sec; because) it means the end of Canonical

12:41 psydruid; I upgraded my mom's laptop to Kubuntu 22.04 a few days ago

12:42 schestowitz-TR; iirc, some time recently canonical said it was profitable at long last

12:42 schestowitz-TR; but if you look at the Ubuntu Blog you see what they are selling

12:42 schestowitz-TR; the same shit as SUSE (SAP and other crap)

12:42 schestowitz-TR; they are becoming resellers

12:42 schestowitz-TR; and making a distro to them is like a side project

12:42 schestowitz-TR; SUSE even called it "tumbleweed"

12:42 schestowitz-TR; which, we know what it means...

12:42 schestowitz-TR; iirc, greg k-h came up with the name

12:42 schestowitz-TR; o the idea in general

12:42 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: let me guess

12:42 psydruid; On the next storage upgrade I'll replace it with Debian

12:42 schestowitz-TR; the demo did not go as expected

12:42 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: in debian 10 kde is good

12:42 schestowitz-TR; not sure about 11

12:42 psydruid; Well, I had already set up everything and the upgrade went well

12:43 schestowitz-TR; as we use 11 mostly for monitoring and servers, with raspis

12:43 schestowitz-TR; two pis

12:43 schestowitz-TR; but Debian lost its kde packagers

12:43 schestowitz-TR; they bullied him

12:43 psydruid; I just didn't want to bother changing the operating system now

12:43 schestowitz-TR; over some "diversity" fiction

12:43 psydruid; Oh, I see

12:43 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: btw, did you see

12:43 *schestowitz-TR gets links

12:44 schestowitz; https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-200901-202208

↺ https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-200901-202208

12:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share India | Statcounter Global Stats

12:44 schestowitz; 7% for gnu/linux

12:44 schestowitz; so we need 'secure' boot now

12:44 schestowitz; to keep people 'safe'

12:44 schestowitz; from cancer [sic]

12:45 Techrights-sec; that may be good thing or not depending on the details

12:45 Techrights-sec;

12:45 Techrights-sec; ack

12:45 Techrights-sec; or Devuan, maybe ...

12:46 psydruid; I don't think 'secure' boot is going to help this time

12:46 psydruid; the cat is already out of the bag

12:46 schestowitz-TR; we need to fight like hell

12:46 schestowitz-TR; I broke my promise

12:47 schestowitz-TR; said I'd bring it up every day

12:47 schestowitz-TR; but two major disasters here yesterday

12:47 psydruid; and more countries than ever are moving to "domestic" hardware and software

12:50 psydruid; I'm not going to fight x86 and 'secure' boot

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12:56 schestowitz-TR; USA will try to compel 6-eyes to put this stuff on everything

12:56 schestowitz-TR; like psp and me passed as trustzone to arm (uk/jp


1 PM, August 3

13:02 psydruid; that means it's time to put an end to the USA as a "superpower"

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13:43 Techrights-sec; ack

13:52 schestowitz-TR; draft

13:52 schestowitz-TR; I can add more links

13:52 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: that would solve many other problems

13:52 Techrights-sec; ack

13:52 Techrights-sec; checking ...

13:52 Techrights-sec; The graph is missing the key or legend

13:52 Techrights-sec; if you can squeeze in an obsevation that these behaviors are not new, and they

13:52 Techrights-sec; are not only decades old, but that they have not abated over the decades and

13:52 Techrights-sec; only resort to marketing spin to obscure their anticompetitive behaviors

13:53 schestowitz-TR; I will improve clarity, working etc.

13:53 schestowitz-TR; /7*(Woding

13:53 schestowitz-TR; *wording


2 PM, August 3

14:25 Techrights-sec; thanks

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14:29 schestowitz-TR; I've nearly cleaned the feeds, later I'llwipe the Linux feeds and then, I hope, start to finalise things with the pi

14:29 schestowitz-TR; downtime will be needed to reassemble bits

14:29 schestowitz-TR; riuanne uses sd card only as clone of her pi400 system

14:29 Techrights-sec; :)

14:29 Techrights-sec; ack

14:29 Techrights-sec; regular cloning of the system seems to be the recommended practice

14:32 schestowitz-TR; I cloned the whole partition esp. after major changes outside home

14:32 schestowitz-TR; before the first outage I'd do a full dump to external hdd (1 gb tar files)

14:32 schestowitz-TR; periodically

14:32 schestowitz-TR; after that rsync to laptop as the "old" system could no longer even mount the drive

14:32 schestowitz-TR; and I didn't reboot it for 2 months, assuming it would fix nothing and maybe make matters worse

14:32 schestowitz-TR; it takes about 5 mins to boot fully from USB

14:32 schestowitz-TR; with sd card inserted less than 30 secs

14:43 Techrights-sec; ack

14:45 schestowitz-TR; will go rest shortly

14:45 schestowitz-TR; I estimatre the gemini transfer should last till evening

14:45 schestowitz-TR; maybe ipfs account/user directory can be made a hardlink for some path like /media/something

14:45 schestowitz-TR; but even then, the issue would be causing wear on a backup drive

14:45 schestowitz-TR; maybe I shoulsd purchase another usb stick?

14:45 schestowitz-TR; rianne is about to go to town

14:46 Techrights-sec; ok, about to finish preliminary gemini support for tm-new

14:46 Techrights-sec; directories have to be symlinks

14:46 Techrights-sec; but it would work

14:46 Techrights-sec; or the directory itself could be used as the automatic mount point for

14:46 Techrights-sec; that particular removeable device

14:50 schestowitz-TR; thanks for adding gemini to TM

14:50 schestowitz-TR; it's the first of its kind (scope)

14:50 schestowitz-TR; is it conventional to attach two usb disks to a pi

14:50 schestowitz-TR; one for base OS

14:50 schestowitz-TR; and another userspace?

14:50 schestowitz-TR; one can be used to maintain a backup of the other, to some extent (improvised)

14:50 schestowitz-TR; so if one stick fails the other has a recent copy)

14:50 schestowitz-TR; it would boost recovery time from failures

14:50 schestowitz-TR; btw, the latest nodes I added to tm-new are not showing up because of the changes of interfaces to

14:50 schestowitz-TR; perl files, but that's not urgent because we still test and simulate

14:50 schestowitz-TR; the files uploaded via images can also be served, maybe as softlinks, over gemini

14:50 schestowitz-TR; for now I add images manually with wget in Featured

14:50 Techrights-sec; btw on the RPi:

14:50 Techrights-sec; """

14:50 Techrights-sec; Wi-Fi is currently blocked by rfkill.

14:50 Techrights-sec; Use raspi-config to set the country before use.

14:50 Techrights-sec; """

14:50 Techrights-sec; np

14:50 Techrights-sec; the conversion from XHTML to Gemtext is rather primitive, of necessity

14:50 Techrights-sec; yes that would work

14:50 Techrights-sec; checking

14:52 schestowitz-TR; I disabled wifi yesterday so that it uses ethernet even when wireless is available

14:52 schestowitz-TR; the router would assign another name and IP if it connects over wifi

14:52 schestowitz-TR; and that would fuck up lots of things, treated like another device

14:59 Techrights-sec; add-and-refresh-from-db.sh

14:59 Techrights-sec; refresh-site-from-db.sh

14:59 Techrights-sec; update-and-refresh-from-db.sh

14:59 Techrights-sec; ^ these all work

14:59 Techrights-sec; having two network interfaces can confuse things anyway


3 PM, August 3

15:01 schestowitz-TR; thanks, rianne and I agreed not to buy any devices yet, as we don't know for sure yet what to 'provision'

15:01 schestowitz-TR; she uses that pi to save he text files

15:01 schestowitz-TR; when the pi died they were still open in kate, so nothing lost

15:01 schestowitz-TR; only is both devices diue at the same time it results in loss

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5 PM, August 3

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17:12 Techrights-sec; the HTTP logs have quieted down quite a bit, perhaps due to the AWK script

17:13 schestowitz-TR; no, I just haven't links to it for days

17:13 schestowitz-TR; nor have I added images

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17:23 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Worst Coronavirus July on Record and Over 200,000 Dead in Latest Weekly Report https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/03/the-weekly-covid-19-data/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/03/the-weekly-covid-19-data/

17:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Worst Coronavirus July on Record and Over 200,000 Dead in Latest Weekly Report

17:23 Techrights-sec; I mean also that the cracking attempts have diminished greatly

17:31 Techrights-sec; ack


6 PM, August 3

18:40 schestowitz-TR; LT posting anti-Linux shit today

18:40 schestowitz-TR; told you something was amiss

18:40 schestowitz-TR; they're quit caring

18:40 schestowitz-TR; they send traffic (what's left) to "partners"...

18:40 schestowitz-TR; *they've

18:58 Techrights-sec; ack

18:58 Techrights-sec; that's really sad of them

18:58 Techrights-sec; tm-extract-posts-sql.pl seems to handle creation of GemText now

18:58 Techrights-sec; I'd still say it's sad since Software Freedom was a growth area 20 years ago

18:58 Techrights-sec; when M$ transitioned from marketing to politics


7 PM, August 3

19:00 schestowitz-TR; I'm nopt sure if that saddeens me anymore

19:00 schestowitz-TR; or maybe I quit caring running a better service ourselves, maybe it'll work to our advantage

19:00 schestowitz-TR; but overall, for the sake of gnu/linux advocacy, what they do is harmful

19:00 schestowitz-TR; like authoratative linux.com being a pile of bad rubbish

19:00 schestowitz-TR; LT was getting like 3k views per new posts around 2004-5

19:00 schestowitz-TR; I still remember

19:00 schestowitz-TR; and Brian Proffitt (now IBM) ran it as editor

19:00 schestowitz-TR; he also had a short sting at LFN, Linux Foundation Network iirc

19:00 schestowitz-TR; back when they did some decent stuff

19:00 schestowitz-TR; but remember,

19:00 schestowitz-TR; "they they fight you"

19:00 schestowitz-TR; criminals wopn't turn themselves in at the police station

19:00 Techrights-sec; yes

19:00 Techrights-sec; and slashdot, being a reflection of the zeitgeist, was all about FOSS and

19:00 Techrights-sec; open standards and got many more views per post in the 00s

19:15 Techrights-sec; ok

19:15 Techrights-sec; the path for the gemini materis is /yyyy/mm/dd/slug.gmi

19:15 Techrights-sec; the path for the XHTML matrial is /n/yyyy/mm/dd/slug.shtml

19:15 Techrights-sec; or has there been another typo in the script?

19:15 Techrights-sec; tweaking the URL for gemini now so that it will be /n/yyyy/mm/dd/slug.gmi

19:19 schestowitz-TR; we coyld write rules to omit the "n/" frrom strings but ime, with techrights and schestowitz.com

19:19 schestowitz-TR; better add the second level like w and c and Weblog

19:19 schestowitz-TR; so we can have gemini.tuxmachines.org/git for example

19:19 schestowitz-TR; with no likely collision

19:19 schestowitz-TR; e.g. if we had cgi support at some point for only dir_path

19:19 Techrights-sec; all set

19:19 schestowitz-TR; and static otherwise

19:19 schestowitz-TR; regarding typos in scripts, I saw the commits, but I'm not good at reading perl

19:19 schestowitz-TR; and I only know that for the moment adding new nodes won't add them to the visible Web pages

19:19 schestowitz-TR; due to a change in interfaces (another argument required, not "implicity" fallback)

19:19 schestowitz-TR; *no implicit

19:19 schestowitz-TR; should I try adding a node now?

19:19 schestowitz-TR; starting with simpler (no images) cases?

19:20 Techrights-sec; yes, please test it

19:20 schestowitz-TR; excellent!!

19:20 schestowitz-TR; that was fast

19:20 Techrights-sec; the gemini part still has to be done manually but it can be added to the

19:20 Techrights-sec; wrapper script or a new wrapper made

19:21 Techrights-sec; There is also an option to extract the whole database at once --all

19:28 Techrights-sec; perl is quick and expressive, the challenge, like with other languages is

19:28 Techrights-sec; retaining clear meaning and annotation

19:28 Techrights-sec; when writing; performance-wise it's ok for a scripting language

19:30 schestowitz; tm-extract-posts-sql.pl

19:30 schestowitz; Either the --gemini or --xhtml option, or both, must be given.

19:30 schestowitz; tuxmachines:~$ tm-extract-posts-sql.pl --gemini --xhtml

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/leftovers_2.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'leftovers_2' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/Security:_Malware,_Mistakes,_Patches,_and_Snake-oil.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'Security:_Malware,_Mistakes,_Patches,_and_Snake-oil' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/today's_leftovers.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'today's_leftovers' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/howtos_2.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'howtos_2' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/Red_Hat__IBM_Fluff.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'Red_Hat__IBM_Fluff' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/03/today's_howtos.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'today's_howtos' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; Destination '/var/www/tuxmachines.org/htdocs/n/2022/08/02/Games:_Steam_Deck,_Nintendo_Online,_and_More.shtml' already exists

19:30 schestowitz; 'Games:_Steam_Deck,_Nintendo_Online,_and_More' could not be written

19:30 schestowitz; mkdir /home/gemini/gemini/n: Permission denied at /usr/local/bin/tm-extract-posts-sql.pl line 434.

19:30 schestowitz-TR; adding node, just a sec

19:30 schestowitz-TR; after adding the node, should I run tm-export and refresh with the new extra args?

19:30 schestowitz-TR; s/ export/extract/

19:32 Techrights-sec; ok the file system permissions for Gemini need work,

19:32 Techrights-sec; checking

19:34 schestowitz-TR; thanks

19:34 schestowitz-TR; that's as user tux machines

19:34 schestowitz-TR; I imagine roy, rianne, marius will be used later

19:34 schestowitz-TR; prob. another <group>

19:34 schestowitz-TR; after running refresh the HTTP/S version too does not refresh

19:34 Techrights-sec; you are in gemtext, but it was made in the last few days if you log in anew

19:34 Techrights-sec; at least in another window then you can try again

19:34 Techrights-sec; but the permissions /look/ ok

19:34 schestowitz-TR; looking in again

19:34 schestowitz-TR; *logging

19:46 schestowitz-TR; I get the same outcome when logging in afresh

19:46 schestowitz-TR; the last line suggests it is trying to create a directory "n" but fails, as tuxmachines

19:46 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines is in group webmasters

19:46 schestowitz-TR; okj, I see you created this dir 10 mins ago

19:46 Techrights-sec; updated 10 min ago

19:46 Techrights-sec; it's been there for some days

19:46 Techrights-sec; but the subdirectories are new

19:46 Techrights-sec; tuxmachines is not in the group gemtext, roy is

19:55 schestowitz-TR; OK, I've only just added my keys to the account roy, so I'm in as the "right" user

19:55 schestowitz-TR; same outcome, it also gives me some other shell when I log in, like a more primitive one

19:55 schestowitz-TR; I can live with this

19:55 Techrights-sec; zsh is more advance, but we can add bash back in

19:55 Techrights-sec; ash is problematic

19:55 Techrights-sec; imho

19:58 Techrights-sec; tm-extract-posts-sql.pl -a -g -f -v

19:58 Techrights-sec; or without the -v

19:58 Techrights-sec; the -a causes a full rebuild of the gemtext hierarchy and the -f forces

19:58 Techrights-sec; overwritting the existing files


8 PM, August 3

20:06 schestowitz-TR; I am trying to load gemini pages from within the paths

20:06 schestowitz-TR; done

20:06 schestowitz-TR; it says the gemni paths are not writable

20:06 schestowitz-TR; also, the http version has not been refreshing for over a day, no matter what I tried

20:06 schestowitz-TR; yes, it doesn't raise a stink

20:06 schestowitz-TR; but the site remains unchanged

20:06 schestowitz-TR; there are half a dozen pages I've added since

20:06 schestowitz-TR; they are not showing up

20:06 schestowitz-TR; they exist, I think, but not in the index

20:06 Techrights-sec; checking the http

20:06 Techrights-sec; are you using the refresh-site-from-db.sh

20:06 Techrights-sec; ?

20:06 Techrights-sec; hmm I just ran it and see the files with the right time stamps and the

20:06 Techrights-sec; web pages with the rigth content

20:06 Techrights-sec; checking the db ...

20:14 Techrights-sec; sqlite> select max(recno) from metadata;

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206

20:14 Techrights-sec; sqlite> select * from metadata where recno=206;

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206|dc.title|today's leftovers

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206|dc.date.created|20220803

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206|dc.date.modified|20220803

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206|dc.creator|Tux Machines

20:14 Techrights-sec; 206|dc.description|The Linux Foundation Welcome Jefferson Braswell as openIDL Project Executive Director...

20:14 Techrights-sec; the page is there:

20:14 Techrights-sec; http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/03/leftovers_2.shtml

↺ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/03/leftovers_2.shtml

20:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's leftovers

20:14 Techrights-sec; checking the feed

20:20 Techrights-sec; the feed, though, is not quite right

20:20 Techrights-sec; the search is extracting the records but something is going south

20:20 Techrights-sec; I'll have to look into it

20:21 schestowitz-TR; I see you've abbreviated to latest 10

20:21 schestowitz-TR; at least we've found a bug, I guess

20:21 schestowitz-TR; 0/

20:22 schestowitz-TR; both the feed (xml) and index are not refreshing

20:22 Techrights-sec; so the feed /is/ refreshing, it's just not getting the right material

20:22 Techrights-sec; I'll look into the bug

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