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05:42 schestowitz-TR; kaniini is looking into the disk-related warnings
05:43 schestowitz-TR; I had to repair the DB twice more
05:43 schestowitz-TR; same table
05:58 Techrights-sec2; Ok I'm glad it has his attention but it is unfortunate it is taking time from
05:58 Techrights-sec2; his other activities
07:05 schestowitz-TR; I've suggested a new VM
07:05 schestowitz-TR; (no repy yet)
07:05 schestowitz-TR; also examined drupal 6-> hugo conversion
07:05 schestowitz-TR; i know it's holiday
07:05 schestowitz-TR; it's in the public channel, in the scrollback
07:05 schestowitz-TR; the important tables are still OK AFAIk
07:05 schestowitz-TR; but we have techniucal debt at CMS level and OS level
07:06 Techrights-sec2; ack
07:06 Techrights-sec2; the OS level might be the easiest to solve
07:10 Techrights-sec2; supposedly July 4th is when Thoreau move out to Walden Pond:
07:10 Techrights-sec2; https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Move-to-Walden-Pond
07:10 Techrights-sec2; though the exact date is not in /that/ particular article
07:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Henry David Thoreau - Move to Walden Pond | Britannica
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07:14 schestowitz-TR; today I don't sleep too well, had 4 batches of sleep, waking up to check tail -f
07:14 schestowitz-TR; the past 2 ot 3 times the repair did not have to alter anything
07:14 schestowitz-TR; it just showed some alerts related to the search index
07:14 schestowitz-TR; but overall these issues go bakc more than a week
07:14 schestowitz-TR; we just don't quite see them
07:14 schestowitz-TR; I checked randomly some pages to ensure all works OK
07:14 schestowitz-TR; one option I tought was involves loss of some comments etc.
07:14 schestowitz-TR; and we need to have accounts open for contributors like marius
07:14 schestowitz-TR; from what I've read, upgrading drupal is not easy at all
07:14 schestowitz-TR; 'reinventing' the site would spoil what it stands for though
07:14 schestowitz-TR; I wish some companies rleased software and properly supported
07:14 schestowitz-TR; it for decades
07:14 schestowitz-TR; it's not an impossible task, but financial motivation
07:15 Techrights-sec2; https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0704/Fourth-of-July-Almost-two-hundred-years-ago-Thoreau-moved-into-his-Walden-Pond-cabin
07:15 Techrights-sec2; TM has brief outages throughout the day, so those are more likely slowdowns and
07:15 Techrights-sec2; timeouts than anything else
07:15 Techrights-sec2; the appeal to novelty fallacy is too heavily used for that to be allowed
07:15 Techrights-sec2; and, yes, there are perverse incentives motivating churn rather than stability
07:15 Techrights-sec2; that churn also allows decommodification to creep in a little at a time
07:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Fourth of July: Almost two hundred years ago, Thoreau moved into his Walden Pond cabin - CSMonitor.com
07:19 schestowitz-TR; the analogy I can come up with is, build a radio that lasts 30 years versus "smart" tuner that stops getting
07:19 schestowitz-TR; updates after a few years and is "end of life" (good luck or buy a new one)
07:19 schestowitz-TR; same for sofwtare
07:19 schestowitz-TR; while I don't know (nor think) the DB issue is related to the disk, it would help to address that other issue
07:19 schestowitz-TR; too. kaniini says the sites are i/o intensive, which is likely correct
07:19 Techrights-sec2; they look I/O intensive
07:19 schestowitz-TR; so maybe that's the cause, but with bad backup files it is not benign
07:35 Techrights-sec2; ok
07:56 schestowitz-TR; I am testing DB integrity
07:56 schestowitz-TR; ping
07:56 schestowitz-TR; ignore warnings
07:56 Techrights-sec2; otr: I have to head out for some errands shortly
07:56 Techrights-sec2; pong
07:56 Techrights-sec2; ok
08:14 schestowitz-TR; OK, for the record and for transparency:
08:14 schestowitz; what I did:
08:14 schestowitz; check search_index integrity
08:14 schestowitz; as it was marked as crashed
08:14 schestowitz; then repaired it
08:14 schestowitz; it took a long time
08:14 schestowitz; almost 5 mins in this many cores
08:14 schestowitz; as a result, some search results in TM look a little odd
08:14 schestowitz; but critical data seems OK
08:14 schestowitz; II did further testing
08:14 schestowitz; after the repair
08:14 schestowitz; 1) get db remote, check gz
08:14 schestowitz; 2) get db local, check gz
08:14 schestowitz; 3) check db
08:14 schestowitz; 4) tail -f running now to see if anything breaks again (I suspect it's a matter of time but hope not
08:14 schestowitz; Contingencies: fall back to older DB, export to another CMS, or try to repair on the go
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12:37 schestowitz-TR; went to run errands
12:38 schestowitz-TR; db still in good state since the work this morning
12:38 schestowitz-TR; I monitor it closely
12:39 schestowitz-TR; almost noboody wears maska anymore so it's self defence in the stor, even in quiet times
12:39 schestowitz-TR; mask, second mask, shades, hat
12:39 schestowitz-TR; I need a second mask that looks like the one of hannbal lector
12:39 schestowitz-TR; it can buy me more distance
12:40 Techrights-sec; yes earlier
12:40 Techrights-sec; excellent
12:40 Techrights-sec; tux machines 06:55, tux machines 09:00
12:40 Techrights-sec; just two hiccoughs noticed from here ^
12:40 Techrights-sec; almost no one does here either and
12:40 Techrights-sec; supposedly there are now crowded concerts
12:40 Techrights-sec; and other events happening and the shops are too crowded etc
12:40 Techrights-sec; good
12:43 schestowitz-TR; I carry heavier item like carton of soya drink
12:43 schestowitz-TR; rianne is better at finding the expensive things cheaply
12:43 schestowitz-TR; takes time, but the savings add up to a salary
12:43 schestowitz-TR; I hope to have better sleep tonight
12:43 Techrights-sec; nice
12:43 schestowitz-TR; it was also too cold and window was open
12:43 schestowitz-TR; one upside is, along the way I learn some dba-like skills and utils
12:48 schestowitz-TR; I can cope with low temps, we have home-wide heating, but it has been off since 2019
12:48 schestowitz-TR; our electric+gas bill for this month is 85
12:48 schestowitz-TR; now with extra power for the aquarium
12:48 schestowitz-TR; but I try to dry-shave more and use the hot water a lot (or coffee machine)
12:48 schestowitz-TR; my friend mike (home of a couple) paid 250 per month
12:48 schestowitz-TR; insane!
12:48 schestowitz-TR; not including the money he spends pumping gas into his reasonably oversized vehicle
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: in the late 80's I read the account of shipwreck survivor;
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: it went down in the Great Lakes during winter and he attribued
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: survival in the raft to toughening up with an open window all winter
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: his story was quite surreal as it involved a lot of dreams and
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: hallucinations as he was near to freezing to death; all the other
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: from the ship had already frozen to death long before he was rescued
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: in the late 80's I read the account of shipwreck survivor;
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: it went down in the Great Lakes during winter and he attribued
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: survival in the raft to toughening up with an open window all winter
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: his story was quite surreal as it involved a lot of dreams and
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: hallucinations as he was near to freezing to death; all the other
12:48 Techrights-sec; otr: from the ship had already frozen to death long before he was rescued
12:49 Techrights-sec; practice is always good if it comes in handy later
12:49 Techrights-sec; practice is always good if it comes in handy later
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13:22 schestowitz-TR; got 5 errors related to the search table
13:22 schestowitz-TR; repairing now
13:22 schestowitz-TR; now as alarming as some errors I saw yesterday
13:22 schestowitz-TR; I do not even know if it's related to the storage layer at the disk/OS
13:29 Techrights-sec; I am not so experienced with databases as to be able to guess why the tables
13:29 Techrights-sec; appear to be curdling spontaneously
13:34 schestowitz-TR; of note: tuxmachines has write operations around the clock for site updates
13:34 schestowitz-TR; so rollbacks are rarely a fallback
13:34 schestowitz-TR; DB replication is overkill
13:34 schestowitz-TR; this is not critical data
13:34 schestowitz-TR; the tables will need to protect the most are nodes and comments
13:34 schestowitz-TR; stuff like block_cache or search_index are almost disposable
13:34 schestowitz-TR; and this is why despite 3-4 days of error nothing was noticed until you
13:34 schestowitz-TR; said something
13:34 Techrights-sec; still it would be reassuring to be able to prevent
13:34 Techrights-sec; we can't "protect" the important tables without knowing how to prevent
13:34 Techrights-sec; the errors in the peripheral tables IMO
13:34 Techrights-sec; Is LDC sufficiently reliable?
13:34 Techrights-sec; s/LDC/LXC/
13:37 schestowitz-TR; canonical
13:37 schestowitz-TR; each company makes up its own "container" 'solution'
13:37 schestowitz-TR; and then 'skills' become knowing some interfaces
13:37 schestowitz-TR; for the abstractions
13:38 Techrights-sec; yes and the containers are effectively blobs because no one outside a specific
13:38 Techrights-sec; department at the originating company can actually know the secrets behind
13:38 Techrights-sec; putting it together. Such projects as BigBlueButton come to mind but there
13:38 Techrights-sec; are others.
13:40 schestowitz-TR; thie is how theel sell support: red hat, squiz matrix... seen it
13:40 schestowitz-TR; they like it when things break ' a little' and nobody knows how to save the systems
13:40 schestowitz-TR; so they sign some overkill support contract
13:40 schestowitz-TR; their "certified" minions put that shit inside company's systems and then leave
13:46 Techrights-sec; it's a way of working around copyleft and doing proprietary actions
13:46 schestowitz-TR; it is different
13:46 schestowitz-TR; not proprietary
13:46 schestowitz-TR; badge-ware
13:46 schestowitz-TR; with "proprietarty" defects
13:48 schestowitz-TR; to who, running TM or TR is like "piracy" because all the pieces are quite the commodity
13:48 schestowitz-TR; or we are "free riding"
13:48 schestowitz-TR; from the POV of the companies
13:48 schestowitz-TR; wordpress.com prob has some support contracts
13:50 Techrights-sec; WP is overly complex and is using that, along with some exagerated design flaws,
13:50 Techrights-sec; to pull in money. It's been turned so nasty that most peope just give in
13:50 Techrights-sec; and hire someone else to run it for them; that does not make the
13:50 Techrights-sec; security problems related to the methods they have chosen for automated updates
13:50 Techrights-sec; go away at all
13:51 schestowitz; 2013: https://techrights.org/2013/10/31/wordpress-automatic-update/
13:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Back Door (Automatic Update) in WordPress and What It Means to Techrights | Techrights
14:00 Techrights-sec; checking
14:00 Techrights-sec; Yes, it's a double back door: remote login + over FTP
15:06 Techrights-sec; digging through blog RSS feeds again
15:07 schestowitz-TR; your feeds helped a lot in weaning us off gulag noise
15:07 schestowitz-TR; which was years overdue in retrospect, as I spent time and got angered by that
15:07 schestowitz-TR; I cannot produce many stories today
15:07 schestowitz-TR; not because of TM (last error was 3 hours ago)
15:07 schestowitz-TR; but due to slow news
15:08 Techrights-sec; np
15:08 Techrights-sec; there are still RSS feeds to discover but there are still too many good sites
15:08 Techrights-sec; which lack feeds of any kind
15:08 Techrights-sec; the slow news is an ongoing problem and the pair of links about furtjher
15:08 Techrights-sec; cuts to journalism give a heads up that it will get slower still later this year
15:11 schestowitz-TR; rianne read to me billbc headline 2 hours ago
15:11 schestowitz-TR; it's about expecting food prices to soar some more
15:11 schestowitz-TR; contradicting utter bs my dad told me the other day
15:11 schestowitz-TR; he's usually clueless on things
15:11 schestowitz-TR; but overconfident
15:11 schestowitz-TR; today's 8 bangers cost 39p, i.e. 0.05 pounds per sausage
15:11 schestowitz-TR; last nigght I promised myself to focus on TM and not worry abotu writing new articles
15:11 schestowitz-TR; TM is more important atm
15:11 Techrights-sec; is he afflicted by Facebook?
15:11 Techrights-sec; ack
15:11 schestowitz-TR; so far we published about 30 nodes since midnight and it's only 3pm
15:12 schestowitz-TR; he does not 'use' FB
15:12 schestowitz-TR; but maybe a passive, second-hand smoker
15:12 schestowitz-TR; as many around him do use the thing
15:13 schestowitz-TR; I think I deleted his FB account for him twice, not once
15:13 schestowitz-TR; after he had asked me to about a decade ago
15:14 Techrights-sec; could be; it is a terrible fountain of disinformation
15:17 schestowitz-TR; money is not a bottleneck, the hosting is a favour/charitable
15:17 Techrights-sec; this site is still indexed:
15:17 Techrights-sec; https://justice4assange.org/Asylum-illegally-terminated.html
15:17 Techrights-sec; but seems removed from the net recently. Any idea?
15:17 Techrights-sec; ok I understand, and really appreciate the valuable contribution,
15:17 Techrights-sec; but it seems we are slowing painting ourselves into a corner regarding the OS
15:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Failed connect to justice4assange.org:443; Operation now in progress ( status 0 @ https://justice4assange.org/Asylum-illegally-terminated.html )
15:19 schestowitz-TR; ack
15:19 Techrights-sec; and there is so much of the current work flow which could be improved with
15:19 Techrights-sec; current tools
15:26 schestowitz-TR; do you still rsync across TR files, imc. TM dumps?
15:26 schestowitz-TR; the major "assets" are the databases
15:26 schestowitz-TR; and we need copies of the files too
15:26 schestowitz-TR; a lot of these files, like epo stuff, are uniquely hosted by us
15:26 schestowitz-TR; so we are the sole preserver
15:26 schestowitz-TR; which is a bit scary and a burden
15:26 schestowitz-TR; people trust us to keep them online, it took sacrifice
15:26 schestowitz-TR; I'm off work till weds 1am
15:26 schestowitz-TR; my #1 goal is to keep all that info online and widely accessible
15:26 schestowitz-TR; aside from personal goals like not being a shitty husband
15:26 schestowitz-TR; rianne is understanding unlike the girl I dated who said "I don't like it"
15:26 schestowitz-TR; and who worked for a paralegal or something
15:26 schestowitz-TR; ("it" referred to the activism)
15:27 Techrights-sec; sometimes; however rsync has not worked for that of late; sftp does work
15:27 Techrights-sec; "be excellent to eachother"
15:27 Techrights-sec; ack
15:28 schestowitz-TR; going to fanalise another batch now
15:28 schestowitz-TR; it's a good way to keep the site active when I have nothing special to say
15:32 Techrights-sec; news deserts can be a topic
15:32 Techrights-sec; since that's one of the things which came up indirectly today
15:32 schestowitz-TR; random point:
15:32 schestowitz-TR; for TM and TR, JUST BEING ONLINE and serving pages is in itself a "winning" move
15:32 schestowitz-TR; it's a race against outside threats, inc. tech rot
15:32 schestowitz-TR; like I said before, many "big" news sites like IDG's *world have shut down
15:32 schestowitz-TR; they need migrations and sys admins to keep those running
15:32 schestowitz-TR; and if they don't have no "content" (salaried writers), then traffic is low
15:32 schestowitz-TR; and cost of tech people becomes harder to justify
15:32 schestowitz-TR; we, however, run on shoestring budget
15:32 schestowitz-TR; like RMS who said he himself does not need a salary
15:32 schestowitz-TR; shithub was never "free" hosting
15:33 Techrights-sec; what are the repercussions of techdirt no longe self-hosting and moving
15:33 Techrights-sec; to what amounts to a backdoored system
15:33 Techrights-sec;
15:34 schestowitz-TR; I am not familiar with what techdirt ran on before as all pages were served through clownflare
15:34 schestowitz-TR; which masks the origin of pages among other things
15:35 schestowitz-TR; phoronix does the same
15:35 schestowitz-TR; (phoronix too has slow news syndrome today)
15:35 Techrights-sec; ack
15:38 schestowitz-TR; a) slow news syndrome = I shall write about an absolute shit (instead of not writing at all)
15:38 schestowitz-TR; b) techdirt can not be muzzled by threatening the host, which iirc is increasidnly dmca-friendlty
15:38 schestowitz-TR; and does not want to spend money on lawyers in court
15:38 schestowitz-TR; techdirt pulled one key writers from that broadband news site you mentioned the other day
15:38 schestowitz-TR; karl iirc
15:38 schestowitz-TR; bode?
15:38 schestowitz-TR; the one you said was deteriorating
15:38 Techrights-sec; not sure
15:40 Techrights-sec; Broadbandbreakfast is going south
15:41 schestowitz-TR; that's the one
15:41 schestowitz-TR; karl bode iirc was the name
15:41 schestowitz-TR; he started writing for techdirt many years ago
15:41 schestowitz-TR; maybe they lost other pivotal people
15:46 schestowitz-TR; if a site spends 50% of the time writing stuff and 50% of the time protecting what was published (curation, preservation)
15:46 schestowitz-TR; that;''s fiar, provided the latter is in fact... effective
15:46 schestowitz-TR; if it's a 90to-10 ratio, OK... writing does not even mean literally writing, maybe 80% reading and learning, 20% putting in words
15:46 schestowitz-TR; the conclusions
15:46 schestowitz-TR; right now we agonise a bit over the latter and deal with the tech, but that's a normal thing every now and then
15:46 schestowitz-TR; we already hopped between servers about 5 times already
15:47 Techrights-sec; coud be, I don't track the names like I should
15:47 Techrights-sec; 9-to-5-linux is a good site, but I don't check it sine you have that covered
15:49 schestowitz-TR; marius manages that for us
15:49 schestowitz-TR; the pipeline is, he posts in TM within minutes
15:49 schestowitz-TR; I grabbed it from there and then it goes into TR daily links
15:49 schestowitz-TR; he doesn't tolerate trash like "openshift" or WSL or...
15:49 Techrights-sec; awesome!
15:49 Techrights-sec; excellent
15:49 schestowitz-TR; so no time-wasting
15:53 schestowitz-TR; side story
15:53 schestowitz-TR; today when I repaired the DB he submitted the weekly roundup and double posted it due to my word causing timeout
15:53 schestowitz-TR; I unpublished the latter of the two
15:53 schestowitz-TR; this is why moving away from drupal would be a major problem
15:53 schestowitz-TR; other authors/editors
15:53 schestowitz-TR; and a particular workflow
15:53 schestowitz-TR; soon 4 hours since last error in mysql.log
15:54 schestowitz-TR; I am trying to correlate events with error, maybe it's something that triggers this
15:54 schestowitz-TR; we had much bigger problems when we put the ddos protection in there
15:54 schestowitz-TR; or when I had to manually resubmit about 70 nodes
15:54 schestowitz-TR; due to a very important table breaking apart (not for the first time)
15:54 schestowitz-TR; node_revisions is not so important
15:54 schestowitz-TR; it's like interim versions of node
15:54 schestowitz-TR; index and cache for search and blocks, respectively, are self-healing afaik
15:57 schestowitz-TR; some people's personality is unfit for this as they give up fast
15:57 schestowitz-TR; masnick suffered a long lawsuit and still managed to get back to writintg
15:57 schestowitz-TR; unlikle, say, om malik afeter he had a minor heart attack/stroke
15:57 schestowitz-TR; julian assange had a small stoke this past october and even if he gets relased to austrlian
15:57 schestowitz-TR; I think too much damage was done for him to get back to wikileaks as active
15:57 schestowitz-TR; contributor. much can be said about rms and esr, maybe even lbt (torvalds)
15:57 schestowitz-TR; all 3 suffered what I would call 'traumatising' episodes
15:59 Techrights-sec; masnick is not 100% any more though
16:00 schestowitz-TR; i admired masnick when he wrote 10 long posts per day
16:00 schestowitz-TR; how TF did he do that??
16:00 schestowitz-TR; Now it's a lot less
16:00 schestowitz-TR; like Linus with his SUnday release announcements
16:00 schestowitz-TR; he's there, but it's not the same persona
16:00 schestowitz-TR; or RMS being an appeaser of sorts
16:00 Techrights-sec; assange will never be back, that was a secondary goal of the attack,
16:00 Techrights-sec; the primary goal is against subsequent journalism and journalists
16:00 Techrights-sec; yes in the past Masnick was great
16:00 Techrights-sec; CoC ?
16:03 schestowitz-TR; no, conditions upon "return"
16:03 schestowitz-TR; afaik, someone prefilters his personal posts and he doesn't do media interviews and such
16:03 schestowitz-TR; they fear anoter "cancel wave"
16:03 schestowitz-TR; empahsis on they
16:03 schestowitz-TR; not an oddball word but literally several people who control the FSF rather than follow
16:03 schestowitz-TR; a leader like it was... for nearly 35 years
16:07 Techrights-sec; yep
16:07 Techrights-sec; ack
16:09 schestowitz-TR; Pamela Jones vanished completely
16:09 schestowitz-TR; RMS is controlled by people whose life style requires a salary and whose salary is paid by members and "patrons", so in some
16:09 schestowitz-TR; sense the FSF is controlled by this thirst for funds and people who pocket these funds (greg, zoe..) now control
16:09 schestowitz-TR; what RMS can and cannot say, who he can speak to/associate with
16:09 schestowitz-TR; so it's FSF with "not so much freedom" of association or speech
16:09 schestowitz-TR; sad to say...
16:09 schestowitz-TR; companies don't give money "for free"
16:09 schestowitz-TR; they buy into the brand
16:09 schestowitz-TR; librem, PIA, Mozilla, Gulag...
16:09 schestowitz-TR; BTW, our very very "Linux " lamer Gardiner now promotes dos shit for... steam dreck
16:09 schestowitz-TR; he's like a commercials channel of valve
16:09 schestowitz-TR; I did not even click, just link
16:09 schestowitz-TR; it's still gnu/linux/kde behind those laywers of FS lock-down and DRM
16:10 schestowitz-TR; fs=file system
16:10 schestowitz-TR; corporate donors = doping
16:10 schestowitz-TR; you shorten your life
16:10 schestowitz-TR; wait till the drugs fuck aorund with internal affairs (or organs)
16:10 schestowitz-TR; the "patrons" threaten to leave and you get cold feet
16:10 schestowitz-TR; it's not a surstinable operative mode
16:10 schestowitz-TR; *model
16:10 schestowitz-TR; like gullagtruber who quit their job and/or dropped out of college
16:10 schestowitz-TR; and start "algospeak" and stuff to get "monetised" better
16:10 schestowitz-TR; like provoking homeless people
16:10 schestowitz-TR; or not mentioning "offending" subjects
16:11 Techrights-sec; ack
16:11 Techrights-sec; the corporate shilling gives a temporary infusion of money in exchange for
16:11 Techrights-sec; a permanent loss of audience and community support
16:11 Techrights-sec; money buys silence on a lot of topics, look at NPR / PBS for bad examples
16:12 schestowitz-TR; both took gates bribes at least a decade ago and ever since, on conditional repreats
16:12 schestowitz-TR; so they must behave
16:12 schestowitz-TR; the strings as the conditional "renewal" from the cliernt
16:12 schestowitz-TR; now NPR is also funded by Microsoft
16:12 schestowitz-TR; double-dipping
16:15 Techrights-sec; m$ buys support
16:15 Techrights-sec; LF is out to kill Linux as brand
16:15 Techrights-sec; especially in regards to the kernel
16:18 schestowitz-TR; any client you lose = colleagues who might be laid off
16:18 schestowitz-TR; LF took that to a whole new level
16:18 schestowitz-TR; Linux as a brand became more "mainstream", except not as a kernel
16:18 schestowitz-TR; but a junkword
16:18 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft "green" datacentres, "endorsed" by Linux(TM)
16:18 schestowitz-TR; I did not chedck if Bryan Luinduke's calculations are accurate, but he said 1% or 3% of LF funds go towards ACTUAL Linux
16:18 schestowitz-TR; imagine us giving to elephant charities (we donate about 5 times a year) only to discover the elephants get mere cents
16:18 schestowitz-TR; we woould be up in arms
16:19 Techrights-sec; yes that, if true, ought to be hammered on -- 3%
16:20 schestowitz-TR; I don't know how he calculated it, did not pass the smell test at all
16:20 schestowitz-TR; maybe he just added up the salaries for 3 kernel hackers
16:20 schestowitz-TR; but not various associated activities and operationas
16:20 Techrights-sec; I don;t suppose he can be approached to follow up on that
16:21 schestowitz-TR; you would have to chip in for that one-hour session with Mr. "Linux Sucks"
16:21 schestowitz-TR; it's billed at $300 per hour
16:21 schestowitz-TR; ;-)
16:22 Techrights-sec; e he can be approached to follow up on that
16:22 Techrights-sec; :(
16:25 schestowitz-TR; today I reminder rianne next month we go to the solicitor regarding naturalisation and passport
16:25 schestowitz-TR; two separate processes
16:25 schestowitz-TR; next week we might know the outcome of our request to work saturday until sunday evening (5:30), then free 128 hours
16:25 schestowitz-TR; hard to predict the outcome, it's guy feeling
16:25 schestowitz-TR; this solicitor does not rip us off at all, it's like massive discount and effective
16:25 schestowitz-TR; they're from HK I think, but born here
16:25 Techrights-sec; great
16:25 Techrights-sec; that is important to have settled
16:25 Techrights-sec; ack
16:26 schestowitz-TR; we can retire ok as weekend-only sys admin/noc, assuming we can last another decade
16:26 schestowitz-TR; in this veyr volatile world
16:26 schestowitz-TR; TM DB ok for 4.5 hours now
16:31 Techrights-sec; ack
16:31 Techrights-sec; 4.5 is short though, a small fraction of a full day
16:32 schestowitz-TR; yes, but an improvement
16:32 schestowitz-TR; it also impacts recoverable tables
16:32 schestowitz-TR; rmemeber that some issues mysteriously go away
16:32 schestowitz-TR; like that issue we had months ago with TR apache just 'hanging'
16:32 schestowitz-TR; for no known reason
16:33 Techrights-sec; ack
16:46 schestowitz-TR; I know it sounds like superstitutious nonsense
16:46 schestowitz-TR; and terrible sys admining
16:46 schestowitz-TR; but sometimes we solve issues
16:46 schestowitz-TR; sometimes it's "that too shalt pass"
16:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe it's even a bug due to some node input with emoji shit
16:46 schestowitz-TR; the DB REALLY hate emojis
16:46 schestowitz-TR; so very much
16:46 schestowitz-TR; it's "too new"
16:46 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile I've run a script to lower load on that VM and see if maybe the spikes contributed to this issue
16:46 schestowitz-TR; as kaniini did mention high i/o
16:46 schestowitz-TR; some search queries and other things can hammer away at the DB for minutes
16:47 schestowitz-TR; we can neutralise these proavtively
16:47 schestowitz-TR; we have a fossil db
16:47 schestowitz-TR; the tools I used today are very old and considered obsolete over a decade ago
16:47 schestowitz-TR; due to the storage engine
16:47 schestowitz-TR; xrevan explained to me earlier this year that migration away from this torage engine would not be simple
16:47 schestowitz-TR; at all
16:47 schestowitz-TR; at one point I can use exporters I downloaded specifically for drupal 6 and for static CMS
16:47 schestowitz-TR; one envisioned path is make "old" site and then start afresh with same RSS feed address
16:47 schestowitz-TR; when all other options run out
16:48 Techrights-sec; ack
16:49 schestowitz-TR; ota
16:49 schestowitz-TR; (just did daily links)
16:49 schestowitz-TR; ota
17:16 schestowitz-TR; done
17:16 schestowitz-TR; windows in turkey 9.8% now lol
17:17 schestowitz-TR; its military was first to move to gnu/linux
17:17 schestowitz-TR; media hardly mentioned it
17:17 schestowitz-TR; I think sam varghese did
17:17 schestowitz-TR; (first in turkey)
17:17 schestowitz-TR; then italy
17:17 Techrights-sec; ack
17:17 Techrights-sec; so is Turkey hardening its cyberdefenses in prep for a conflict with Europe?
17:17 Techrights-sec; The French Gendarmerie was first IIRC
17:17 Techrights-sec; Italy is doing ok in that regard too
17:17 Techrights-sec; ok
17:30 schestowitz-TR; drafting
17:30 schestowitz-TR; repetitive on subjects
17:30 schestowitz-TR; but an importasnt one
17:30 schestowitz-TR; and undercovered
17:30 schestowitz-TR; not yet
17:30 schestowitz-TR; 5 mins
17:30 schestowitz-TR; ok, ready now
17:30 Techrights-sec; ok
17:30 Techrights-sec; checking
17:34 schestowitz-TR; credit to psydroid2 for noticing the trends in turkey
17:34 schestowitz-TR; I hadn't seen it till he told me
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18:05 schestowitz-TR; ok
18:05 schestowitz-TR; ack
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18:08 schestowitz-TR; done
18:08 schestowitz-TR; published
18:08 schestowitz-TR; didn't even realise rianne gave me the portland shirt
18:08 schestowitz-TR; my sister will leave the place some time...
18:08 schestowitz-TR; 6+ hours now without mysql.log entry... best since around 27/6/2022
18:08 schestowitz-TR; maybe keeping i/o lower will lower the probability of issues
18:08 schestowitz-TR; I'm still testing cause and effect
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18:25 Techrights-sec; ok
18:25 Techrights-sec; ack
18:26 schestowitz-TR; 6pm, 39 new/updated nodes in tuxmachines
18:26 schestowitz-TR; on july 4th!
18:26 schestowitz-TR; happiness is a relative thing
18:26 schestowitz-TR; I'm happy the site is managing to cope now
18:26 schestowitz-TR; I'll monitor is super closely overnight
18:26 schestowitz-TR; thanks for reporting the isuse
18:26 schestowitz-TR; if you hadn't said anything, I'd likely only notice when things started breaking in a more visible way
18:26 schestowitz-TR; like "cannot add new nodes"
18:26 schestowitz-TR; or site won't even run
18:28 Techrights-sec; np
18:29 schestowitz-TR; checking now
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18:36 schestowitz-TR; photo number 15
18:36 schestowitz-TR; \
18:37 schestowitz-TR; I like photo #11 better
18:37 schestowitz-TR; there is some occlusion that ruins it though
18:37 schestowitz-TR; high res photo, so it can be cropped into a rectangle
18:37 schestowitz-TR; parade of the electric cords in #1
18:37 schestowitz-TR; brb, writing something about gemini://
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18:57 schestowitz-TR; draft
18:57 schestowitz-TR; btw to have any graden at all where we are (town, stadium) isn't easy
18:57 schestowitz-TR; so even a little one is valuable
18:57 schestowitz-TR; I will embed the video "web we had"
18:57 Techrights-sec; true
18:57 Techrights-sec; ok
18:57 Techrights-sec; btw +1 : "on a daily basis we have over 100 unique visitors in the capsule. Not counting the Web proxies"
18:57 Techrights-sec; s/. Not/, not/
19:13 schestowitz-TR; last night I programmed ipfs to start automatically at 3am or reset itself at that time
19:14 schestowitz-TR; for the time being I'm OK with it turned on most of the day
19:14 schestowitz-TR; the improvments made to cope with connection timeouts are valuable either way
19:14 schestowitz-TR; as they make the capsule refreshers more robust
19:14 schestowitz-TR; rianne and I don't intend to put the pi on wifi again
19:14 schestowitz-TR; its has its own nice little corner safe from human contact (almost)
19:14 schestowitz-TR; and from the fish splashing water nearby
19:22 Techrights-sec; ack
19:22 Techrights-sec; it is faster without wifi anyway
19:23 schestowitz-TR; that too
19:23 schestowitz-TR; spamnil has gone on for a month now without clickfraud
19:23 schestowitz-TR; rehabilitation
19:49 Techrights-sec; I doubt he has reformed. Probably just shifted focus or tactics
19:49 schestowitz-TR; yeah, 'rehab' as tongue-in-cheeck
19:49 schestowitz-TR; cheek
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