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beginning of new day, February 6

00:36 schestowitz-TR; 1. seems the reason the capsule was not updating was a lockfile being stuck there

00:36 schestowitz-TR; I removed it and now it seems to be going OK

00:36 schestowitz-TR; 2. for the first time in a while I checked the sizes of wordpress dumps, gz'ed

00:36 schestowitz-TR; in the past week sometimes the file grew bigger, sometimes smaller, still

00:36 schestowitz-TR; around 1.4gb

00:36 schestowitz-TR; this is not the behavious I am accustomed to

00:36 schestowitz-TR; unless wordpress does very heavy internal caching, so it made me wonder

00:36 schestowitz-TR; if the apache hangups COULD be related to this

00:36 schestowitz-TR; I have no reason to believe data was lost, I saw no issue at the user end of

00:36 schestowitz-TR; admin side

00:36 schestowitz-TR; but I wonder why the size changes

00:36 schestowitz-TR; it varies as much as 200MB compressed between nights

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1 AM, February 6

01:09 schestowitz-TR; Did I miss sometghing in the ytalksm session?

01:09 Techrights-sec; Nothing new.

01:10 schestowitz-TR; Did I miss sometghing in the ytalksm session?

01:10 schestowitz-TR; handing over tyo colleague at work atm, will be free in a moment

01:10 schestowitz-TR; I have some notes on what to test next and I want to finish cleaning RSS before 2

01:10 schestowitz-TR; :40am cutoff (bulletin)

01:10 Techrights-sec; http://techrights.org/irc/#is#already#formatted. ##########

http://techrights.org/irc/#is#already#formatted.

01:10 Techrights-sec; ack

01:11 schestowitz-TR; the rogi file is in root and isn't too pretty

01:11 schestowitz-TR; orig.

01:31 schestowitz-TR; handover sent (work)

01:31 schestowitz-TR; regarding wordpresss, one theory is that internal WP cashe gets flushed, thenn re

01:31 schestowitz-TR; built

01:31 schestowitz-TR; then flushed again

01:31 schestowitz-TR; perfectly possible

01:31 schestowitz-TR; but rare

01:32 Techrights-sec; Not familiar with inner workings of WP.

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01:43 schestowitz-TR; yay! gemini refresh was successful, took almost half an hour to catch up

01:43 schestowitz-TR; sorry, multitasking too much atm

01:44 Techrights-sec; WP seems overly complicated.

01:44 Techrights-sec; Excellent. It normally takes 7 - 9 minutes. If there were any articles missing

01:44 Techrights-sec; they can still be fetched, if they are in RSS, by adjusting the relative date.

01:44 Techrights-sec; Older articles are more work to fetch.

01:45 schestowitz-TR; let me paste somr todo notes

01:46 schestowitz; DONE finish proxy, firewall, files etc.

01:46 schestowitz; debug errors nginx (some unix warnings), double slashes/traversal deeper (not urgent),

01:46 schestowitz; css and technical proxy enhancements, push to git

01:46 schestowitz; SOLVED tr-gemini does not refressh

01:46 schestowitz; DONE search and replace proxies in site, weed out third party ones

01:46 schestowitz; DONE change vulpes

01:46 schestowitz; proxy: add ssl at end?

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01:52 Techrights-sec; ok. Can you show an example ofthe double slashes? I have one mitigation in

01:52 Techrights-sec; place but need to know if it should be moved to elsewhere in the program.

01:52 Techrights-sec; SSL can be added as per normal for Ngninx.

01:52 Techrights-sec; https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-nginx-in-ubuntu-20-04-1

↺ https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-self-signed-ssl-certificate-for-nginx-in-ubuntu-20-04-1

01:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.digitalocean.com | How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Nginx in Ubuntu 20.04 | DigitalOcean

01:53 schestowitz-TR; on the page, any page, navigate to git, then browse the repository. you will see...

01:53 schestowitz-TR; re double slashes, it's often adding an additional one, need to find steps to reproduce still

01:55 Techrights-sec; ack

01:55 Techrights-sec; ok fixed

01:59 Techrights-sec; see ~gemini/bin/gemini-proxy.pl

01:59 Techrights-sec; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr-git/ is missing. Looking.

gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr-git/

01:59 schestowitz-TR; it leaves out the base dir


2 AM, February 6

02:12 Techrights-sec; fixed

02:12 Techrights-sec; what is an example of the "traversal deeper" item?

02:12 schestowitz-TR; I think it's that thing you've just tackled, let me see if nginx still have stuff in error log file

02:15 schestowitz-TR; that issue seems limited to requests for ~chat

02:15 schestowitz-TR; OK, that seems to alwo correleta with double slahes

02:15 Techrights-sec; gemini-proxy.service has to be restarted each time the script is updated

02:15 Techrights-sec; ok checking

02:18 schestowitz-TR; curiously, techrights is nnow 4 servers, or 2+2

02:18 schestowitz-TR; DB container, httpd container, gemnini back end, and nginx front end

02:18 schestowitz-TR; for any given article

02:38 schestowitz-TR; updated

02:38 schestowitz-TR; refreshed

02:38 schestowitz-TR; restarted

02:41 schestowitz; "Summary of changes" under http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/tr-git/Links/

http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/tr-git/Links/

02:41 Techrights-sec; ack

02:41 Techrights-sec; ~/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl

02:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for Techrights

02:43 Techrights-sec; ack

02:43 Techrights-sec; hmm. which script was that made from?

02:43 Techrights-sec; ...

02:44 schestowitz-TR; side point: only the wiki and blog sections ought to link to "original" , ad the

02:44 schestowitz-TR; rest have other url topology ad would lead to 404s on apache

02:48 Techrights-sec; ok, the others can be removed.


3 AM, February 6

03:00 Techrights-sec; I've fixe it for the wiki but what is a sample URL for the blog section?

03:00 Techrights-sec; ~/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl

03:00 schestowitz-TR; adding ssl atm, takes minutes to generate entropy

03:01 schestowitz-TR; I've just paused it to update perl and restart

03:21 Techrights-sec; ack

03:21 Techrights-sec; ok the 'changes' link should work again

03:22 schestowitz-TR; updated

03:22 schestowitz-TR; for perl

03:22 schestowitz-TR; trying to sort out ssl, it complains about the cert's form atm

03:25 schestowitz-TR; ok, fixed

03:25 schestowitz-TR; https should work now

03:25 schestowitz-TR; i will push to git the nginx ocongig late

03:26 schestowitz-TR; but I think I used a cipher so strong that falkon, not the firefox things,

03:26 schestowitz-TR; moans about it

03:26 Techrights-sec; ack

03:26 Techrights-sec; checking

03:26 Techrights-sec; ack

03:26 Techrights-sec; checking

03:27 Techrights-sec; chromium probably complains worse

03:27 schestowitz-TR; i do not have it installed

03:30 schestowitz-TR; an old chrome on another machine warns but let's me in if I insist

03:30 schestowitz-TR; but like the official site, I will keep it without ssl BY DEFAULT

03:30 schestowitz-TR; to avoid some of this scaremongering

03:30 schestowitz-TR; if the browser insists on https it'll be there

03:30 schestowitz-TR; self-signed

03:30 Techrights-sec; chromium probably complains worse

03:30 Techrights-sec; atm me neither

03:37 schestowitz-TR; pushed to git moments ago

03:37 schestowitz-TR; do you think it is worthwhile changing url.sh to add the gateway url to

03:37 schestowitz-TR; social control media? when new articles get posted in Techrights

03:38 Techrights-sec; The Gemini proxy? It's ideally a temporary service, so it should not be

03:38 Techrights-sec; pushed too much where it will get archived a lot. Maybe the word temporary

03:38 Techrights-sec; ought to appear in the service's content and in the title?

03:41 schestowitz-TR; the word temporary would not best edescribe what it is

03:41 schestowitz-TR; i am thiunking...

03:41 schestowitz-TR; at least it does link to originals

03:41 schestowitz-TR; so spinders will trest it accordingly

03:41 schestowitz-TR; if they work properly, which you don't know...

03:41 schestowitz-TR; Maybe rework "See aleo:

03:41 schestowitz-TR; to say, this a Geminino gateway for x and we suggest using proper, standalone

03:41 schestowitz-TR; [link to gemini software]

03:49 schestowitz-TR; site backup taken just now

03:49 schestowitz-TR; compressing

03:49 schestowitz-TR; total wordpress db size 7.6 gb

03:49 schestowitz-TR; let's see what that compressed to tonight

03:49 schestowitz-TR; 400mb and going... (gz)

03:49 schestowitz-TR; i now see baidu in the gateway's logs

03:49 schestowitz-TR; well, at least we know it links to the originalk http/html

03:49 schestowitz-TR; might need to reword preamble a little

03:49 schestowitz-TR; that could even add images (added to the page for presentation near top

03:49 schestowitz-TR; I can enahance it a bit later if we agree on some changes

03:49 schestowitz-TR; oh, compressed dump complete, I think this might boil down to caching in WP

03:49 Techrights-sec; ack

03:49 Techrights-sec; I've added an advisory to the link.

03:49 Techrights-sec; ok

03:51 schestowitz; "

03:51 schestowitz; http://techrights.org/2022/02/05/gimp-taught-in-libraries/

http://techrights.org/2022/02/05/gimp-taught-in-libraries/

03:51 schestowitz; and: This is only a proxy HTTP-Gemini gateway. We highly recommend using a proper Gemini Client Software instead.

03:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 6/2/2022: NuTyX 22.02.4, GIMP Taught in Libraries | Techrights

03:51 schestowitz; "

03:51 schestowitz; maybe missing words before URL

03:51 schestowitz; "and: This"

03:52 schestowitz; in "a Gemini" - > "Gemini" (grammar)?

03:52 schestowitz-TR; restarted perl unit

03:56 Techrights-sec; ack

03:56 Techrights-sec; ok try the new file

03:56 schestowitz-TR; ok, one minute

03:56 schestowitz-TR; this pi has turned into somewhat of a powerhouse

03:56 schestowitz-TR; many gemini and http/s requests per day

03:57 schestowitz-TR; done, updated


4 AM, February 6

04:00 Techrights-sec; thanks

04:00 Techrights-sec; :( and then link an ifram from the original to the proxy :/

04:01 schestowitz-TR; maybe the url at the top can become <a href="$theurl>the original article complet

04:01 schestowitz-TR; e with pictures, video etc.......</a>

04:01 schestowitz-TR; lol

04:01 schestowitz-TR; come to think of it

04:01 schestowitz-TR; you could iframe the orignal inside this gemproxy

04:01 schestowitz-TR; lol

04:01 schestowitz-TR; like a twio way mirror

04:01 schestowitz-TR; iframe src="...">

04:01 schestowitz-TR; lol because yes, it would loook chaotic and in fact recrusive afaik

04:01 schestowitz-TR; geeks' head explodes!!!

04:10 schestowitz-TR; pushed minor fix to git

04:10 schestowitz-TR; make sure to pull asap

04:11 schestowitz-TR; ok text update

04:11 schestowitz-TR; d

04:11 Techrights-sec; ok text update

04:11 Techrights-sec; d

04:23 schestowitz-TR; pushed minor fix to git

04:23 schestowitz-TR; make sure to pull asap

04:23 schestowitz-TR; working to fix an issue where http (not https) urls try to use the gateway

04:23 schestowitz-TR; instead of going to original URLs (http)

04:23 schestowitz-TR; just looked, cannot find that bbit eaile, will post rss links stuff instead

04:23 schestowitz-TR; I think you can catch this faster

04:23 schestowitz-TR; basically the gateway trtied to find every http) prt 80) in the gateway

04:23 schestowitz-TR; this impacts Daily Links and can lead to many 404s on the gateaway


6 AM, February 6

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7 AM, February 6

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8 AM, February 6

08:09 Techrights-sec; ok chekcing

08:09 Techrights-sec; I see it. It may have to be fixed upstream in the other gemini script.

08:09 Techrights-sec; can you try with the version in ~gemini/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl ?

08:09 Techrights-sec; I cannot duplicate the problem here so it may be the script there is an older

08:09 Techrights-sec; one. (I can see the problem there howevr)

08:09 Techrights-sec; Wait. Those are identical, it is already uptodate.

08:09 Techrights-sec; Strange

08:09 Techrights-sec; sudo systemctl restart gemini-proxy.service ?

08:10 Techrights-sec; ok I am seeing some issue in dealing with quirks. It kind of chokes when

08:10 Techrights-sec; fed http:/ instead of http:// though both are valid only the latter is common.

08:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: though; Unknown error ( status 0 @ http:// though )

08:10 schestowitz-TR; back

08:21 Techrights-sec; found another bug related to that...

08:21 Techrights-sec; try ~/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl

08:23 schestowitz-TR; done

08:23 Techrights-sec; that fixes at least two problems though I can't duplicate the main problem

08:23 Techrights-sec; here.

08:23 Techrights-sec; Thanks. Checking.

08:23 Techrights-sec; Yes, that seems to have done it.

08:26 schestowitz-TR; yes

08:26 schestowitz-TR; latest videos links work now

08:26 schestowitz-TR; those were http

08:26 schestowitz-TR; also the http urls in daily links

08:26 Techrights-sec; It was hard to track down due to

08:26 Techrights-sec; some associated rendering bugs in both Brave and Firefox.

08:26 Techrights-sec; those seem to work too


9 AM, February 6

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09:47 Techrights-sec; Brave does not provide a clean way to visit sites with self-signed certificates.

09:47 Techrights-sec; It issues warnings and has the protocol in red strikethrough letters. If

09:47 Techrights-sec; you choose the warnng icon it states flat out, but wrongly, that the connection

09:47 Techrights-sec; is "not secure".

09:47 schestowitz-TR; nothing "brace" about that. They push sacammy fakecoins/scamcoins, but won't trust sites which trust themsekves.

09:47 schestowitz-TR; nothing "brave" about that. They push sacammy fakecoins/scamcoins, but won't trust sites which trust themsekves.

09:48 schestowitz-TR; btw, are other links on the way

09:48 schestowitz-TR; I have just recorded two videosfor about an hour

09:48 Techrights-sec; yes, on the way still.


10 AM, February 6

10:00 Techrights-sec; yes, on the way still. Try now.

10:00 Techrights-sec; router maintenace eta 30 min

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10:31 schestowitz-TR; today's daily links had breyer, which I guess is no accident

10:31 schestowitz-TR; I've added a draft just now while video processes or progresses

10:32 Techrights-sec; maintenacneemnce complete

10:32 Techrights-sec; breyer is one of the only politicians addressing technology policies

10:32 Techrights-sec; reda was really good but has moved on and, most unfortunately, seems to be

10:32 Techrights-sec; increasingly disinformed/ misinformed via social control media

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10:33 Techrights-sec; She was on top of things while in office though.

10:33 Techrights-sec; I hope that breyer is able not only to stay in office a while longer but to

10:33 Techrights-sec; bring other polticians willing to take on technology policy matters and not

10:33 Techrights-sec; lobbyist money

10:33 schestowitz-TR; at the moment he is the oinly .de politician or MEP taking on the UPC head--on

10:33 schestowitz-TR; but that might nchange

10:36 Techrights-sec; I hope it changes, the economy and human rights combine to need such a change

10:39 schestowitz-TR; energy prices high

10:39 schestowitz-TR; food also

10:39 schestowitz-TR; salaries the same

10:39 schestowitz-TR; jobs reduced

10:39 schestowitz-TR; inflation soaring, so you cannot buy things other than food and energy either

10:39 schestowitz-TR; journalism stagnant

10:39 schestowitz-TR; see daily links I put there

10:39 schestowitz-TR; lotsm of paid-for SPAM disguised as journalism

10:39 schestowitz-TR; IBM and tohers

10:39 schestowitz-TR; "ssponsored by [subject oif article]"

10:39 schestowitz-TR; even michael and fatima crossed to the other side

10:39 schestowitz-TR; BTW, re bryer, I was making sure this ws the only manually-curated

10:39 schestowitz-TR; iutem you had

10:39 schestowitz-TR; as in the past it could be indicative of editing mistaker

10:40 Techrights-sec; Food is expected to become quite expensive all around. Eventually, though

10:40 Techrights-sec; the price will shoot through the roof as the mass destruction of arable land

10:40 Techrights-sec; crosses a threshold.

10:40 Techrights-sec; Ah. Thanks for checking. But yes there were few items, in fact just the one.

10:40 Techrights-sec; Slow news + other activities.

10:40 schestowitz-TR; ACK


11 AM, February 6

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11:21 Techrights-sec; ack

11:24 Techrights-sec; ack

11:24 Techrights-sec; Also as of 20 years ago, empathy had diminished massively compated to the early 1

11:24 Techrights-sec; 990s. I would posit that the general empath levels have diminished further.

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11:48 schestowitz-TR; draft

11:48 Techrights-sec; s/quire/quite/

11:49 schestowitz-TR; it is hard not to notice it

11:49 schestowitz-TR; but in the past year we published like several book vaolumes, of very high

11:49 schestowitz-TR; quality of research about EPO scandals

11:50 schestowitz-TR; I'm not saying we will ever try to "sell" this

11:50 schestowitz-TR; but... given the lack of "compettition" over such information online

11:50 schestowitz-TR; I think such information will be accssed a lot for a decade to come

11:50 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to catch up with patent news in a moment

11:54 schestowitz-TR; gulagnoise is very very emotionally draining

11:54 schestowitz-TR; spam and self-promotion

11:54 schestowitz-TR; but... what else can be used? not much competition

11:54 schestowitz-TR; 9to5 linus was added to gulagnoise

11:54 schestowitz-TR; marius was delighted and thank me a lot

11:54 schestowitz-TR; law firms and their sites rarely have rss feeds

11:54 schestowitz-TR; so you mmight say,

11:54 schestowitz-TR; where to find patent news

11:55 schestowitz-TR; m

11:55 schestowitz-TR; me: whaaaa?

11:55 schestowitz-TR; news about patents?

11:55 schestowitz-TR; no much thing anymore

11:55 schestowitz-TR; just spam disguised as "news"

11:55 schestowitz-TR; firm hires "partner" or associates" = "news"

11:58 Techrights-sec; ack

11:58 Techrights-sec; ack

11:58 schestowitz-TR; rianne checked pihut and pimoroni

11:58 schestowitz-TR; pi 400 not available in uk

11:59 schestowitz-TR; france and germany ok

11:59 schestowitz-TR; she left an email address in case some replinish t heir stocks here

11:59 schestowitz-TR; 2022: when you want to buy something and the shop says, "no, we can';t sell"

11:59 schestowitz-TR; "capitalism" at its finest... sweatshops


noon, February 6

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12:10 Techrights-sec; sweatshops are just about everywhere these days

12:12 schestowitz-TR; in the west it is referred to as modern-0age slavery, which they tell us is

12:12 schestowitz-TR; just a myth and imposed laboiur (to keep root above head) is just some

12:12 schestowitz-TR; "asian" issue; either way, various aspects of the system are failing

12:12 schestowitz-TR; when old and frail people need to choose betwqeen eating and heating

12:12 schestowitz-TR; all that technobaabble and bubble doesn';t mean jack to them

12:12 schestowitz-TR; and their technofascistic "smart" phones did not enhance their lives

12:12 schestowitz-TR; in any meaningful way

12:12 schestowitz-TR; now at the shops they insist they need to learn to become cashiers

12:12 schestowitz-TR; at age 80

12:21 Techrights-sec; that's happened here too

12:22 schestowitz-TR; the year is 2060

12:22 schestowitz-TR; you want to eat?

12:22 schestowitz-TR; learn how to grow the food

12:23 schestowitz-TR; then bring it to the "cashier"

12:23 schestowitz-TR; to process the crops

12:23 schestowitz-TR; pay twice as much as 10 years earlier

12:23 schestowitz-TR; be thankful you can eat

12:23 schestowitz-TR; after all, covid-59 makes you thankful to just be alive

12:27 Techrights-sec; Harrison was an over optimist:

12:27 Techrights-sec; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473850.Make_Room_Make_Room_

↺ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473850.Make_Room_Make_Room_

12:27 Techrights-sec; https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/90829/a_lily_pad_is_growing_in_a_pond_and_it_doubles_in_size_every_day_after_30_days_it_covers_the_entire_pond_on_what_day_does_it_cover_half_pond

↺ https://www.wyzant.com/resources/answers/90829/a_lily_pad_is_growing_in_a_pond_and_it_doubles_in_size_every_day_after_30_days_it_covers_the_entire_pond_on_what_day_does_it_cover_half_pond

12:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.goodreads.com | Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

12:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.wyzant.com | a lily pad is growing in a pond and it doubles in size every day. after 30 days it covers the entire pond. on what day does it cover half pond | Wyzant Ask An Expert

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1 PM, February 6

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13:30 schestowitz-TR; close($log); looks so much better

13:30 schestowitz-TR; I'll have a quick go at the file

13:30 schestowitz-TR; headsup to avoid m simultaneous edits

13:30 schestowitz-TR; (conmflicting ones)

13:30 Techrights-sec; yes, it was some debugging material left over , I think I've tracked down

13:30 Techrights-sec; and removed all artifacts of the testing phase.

13:38 Techrights-sec; That last only opened a file but did not put anything in it.

13:38 Techrights-sec; ok checking

13:38 schestowitz-TR; pushed to git, may do another push shortlu

13:41 Techrights-sec; the error from 05:47 has probably been addressed.

13:41 Techrights-sec; maintenacnee


2 PM, February 6

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14:18 schestowitz-TR; are you ok with the lkatest changes?

14:18 schestowitz-TR; is it ok to push to git

14:18 schestowitz-TR; ?

14:18 schestowitz-TR; i left in tact almost all that you did

14:18 schestowitz-TR; added a little on top of it

14:21 Techrights-sec; Yes, though the one can be tweaked a little. Just moment. Ok pushed.

14:21 Techrights-sec; I've commented out two unused modules but not removed the comments because

14:21 Techrights-sec; the one is useful in debugging (in the test environment) and the other might

14:21 Techrights-sec; be needed eventually.

14:21 Techrights-sec; I'm not sure of the /right/ way to do FastCGI, but this way definitely has

14:21 Techrights-sec; full privilege separation.

14:22 schestowitz-TR; did you make the change in git, locally, or the live server? I would need to merg

14:22 schestowitz-TR; e edits manually

14:23 Techrights-sec; Git

14:23 Techrights-sec; Git is designed for concurrent editing.

14:23 schestowitz-TR; yes, I know, but in the past it just panicked and did fast forwards ands things

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14:41 schestowitz-TR; ok, after a lot of struggle

14:41 schestowitz-TR; I think git stopped shouting at me

14:41 schestowitz-TR; I merged the conflicting edits

14:45 schestowitz-TR; ok, nothing in error log since 6am today (GMT)

14:45 schestowitz-TR; the access logs show over 3k requests since we started last night

14:45 schestowitz-TR; it does work over https but promoting such URLs will allow

14:45 schestowitz-TR; browsers to shout at users, scaring them more than padlock BS

14:45 Techrights-sec; excellent

14:45 Techrights-sec; I presume indexers?

14:46 schestowitz-TR; i ddi not look, but the error file not growing for hours is good news

14:46 schestowitz-TR; *for 8 hours

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3 PM, February 6

15:53 Techrights-sec; I think all the corner cases are covered now


4 PM, February 6

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16:07 schestowitz-TR; top-level domain gemini.tr org now responds ok on 3 ports with /

16:07 schestowitz-TR; gemini, htttp, https

16:07 schestowitz-TR; added redirects

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16:35 schestowitz-TR; after tonight's shift I will be free till Friday

16:35 schestowitz-TR; I really like this proxy/gateway

16:35 schestowitz-TR; it's also a contigency or GETAWAY in case of server downtimes

16:35 Techrights-sec; Great!

16:36 schestowitz; old alias, pointing to gemini as aaa record: http://home.techrights.org

↺ http://home.techrights.org

16:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for Techrights

16:58 schestowitz; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2016/06/series-trade-marks-are-bundle-of.html?showComment=1643884539582#c127131582717294680

↺ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2016/06/series-trade-marks-are-bundle-of.html?showComment=1643884539582#c127131582717294680

16:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Series trade marks are a bundle of separate trade marks, Court of Appeal declares in Fox's latest Glee challenge - The IPKat

16:58 schestowitz; "

16:58 schestowitz; Appeal withdrawn (settlement reached):

16:58 schestowitz; https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/appeal-withdrawn-twentieth-century-fox-film-corporation-v-comic-enterprises-limited.html

↺ https://www.supremecourt.uk/news/appeal-withdrawn-twentieth-century-fox-film-corporation-v-comic-enterprises-limited.html

16:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.supremecourt.uk | Appeal withdrawn: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v Comic Enterprises Limited - The Supreme Court

16:58 schestowitz; "

16:59 schestowitz; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/02/neurim-v-mylan-illiad-was-shorter.html?showComment=1643740568018#c5161634681479973637

↺ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/02/neurim-v-mylan-illiad-was-shorter.html?showComment=1643740568018#c5161634681479973637

16:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Neurim v. Mylan-- the Illiad was shorter - The IPKat

16:59 schestowitz; "

16:59 schestowitz; The issue is that divisionals can be filed at any point a patent is pending at the EPO. The EPO did introduce changes to limit the filings of divisionals and this was a welcome improvment. But that was reversed due lobbying by the patent world whose fees are paid through the filing of very expensive divisionals. Let's pause here and recognise that this patent will expire in 2022! So the patentee can define their invention over 18 years in as

16:59 schestowitz; many divisionals as they choose to file. If we accept the principle that some patents should be challenged because they are bad for society then to remove all incentives, which have to be commercial, makes little sense if you can keep coming back for more.

16:59 schestowitz; The solution is 1. the EPO has to speed up 2. divisionals should be limited in time and/or double patenting has to be more rigorously applied. The best option for double patenting is for courts to flex a little more around the Arrow injuctions.

16:59 schestowitz; In this case the Arrow injunction could not apply as they were found to infringe a valid patent! My limited understanding is that the expert for Mylan had a bad day and, therefore, they have to do it all over again.


5 PM, February 6

17:00 schestowitz; I could be wrong but I think Mylan have not launched in the UK but Teva have. Teva were temporarily injuncted in Israel from launching this product due to a claim of an abuse of confidential information. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3736281,00.html. I assume that has all now been concluded.

↺ https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3736281,00.html.

17:00 schestowitz; "

17:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.calcalistech.com | Teva Blocked From Launching Generic Version of Israeli Sleep Medicine Circadin - CTech

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7 PM, February 6

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8 PM, February 6

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20:17 Techrights-sec; ack

20:17 Techrights-sec; do we need a bot filter for the HTTP-Gemini proxy?

20:17 Techrights-sec; ok

20:18 schestowitz-TR; old alias, pointing to gemini as aaa record: http://home.techrights.org

↺ http://home.techrights.org

20:18 schestowitz-TR; no, not yet

20:18 schestowitz-TR; just woke up btw

20:18 Techrights-sec; ok

20:18 Techrights-sec; sorry did not mean to make noise

20:37 Techrights-sec; small adjustment pushed to Git

20:38 Techrights-sec; ack

20:42 schestowitz; sudo cp /home/gemini/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl /usr/local/bin/ && sudo systemctl restart gemini-proxy.service


9 PM, February 6

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21:33 activelow; (more) => gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/05/epo-parcel-of-rogues/

gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/05/epo-parcel-of-rogues/

21:33 activelow; SSL error 326

21:33 activelow; Error: SSL error

21:33 activelow; [request failed] at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/05/epo-parcel-of-rogues/

gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/02/05/epo-parcel-of-rogues/

21:34 schestowitz-TR; which client?

21:34 schestowitz-TR; and since when?

21:38 activelow; cgmnlm; with both torsocks and without. other gemini sites work, and techrights was ok some weeks ago too.

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21:39 schestowitz-TR; maybe the handshake protocol is too new

21:39 schestowitz-TR; we upgraded to latest debian

21:39 activelow; currently, it is gemini://gemini.techrights.org affected only, with cgmnlm, other sites work

↺ gemini://gemini.techrights.org

21:42 schestowitz-TR; telescrope, kristall, amfora etc. all work

21:42 schestowitz-TR; lagrange also

21:42 schestowitz-TR; let me check moonlander

21:43 schestowitz-TR; I noticed one proxy host was failing

21:43 schestowitz-TR; I think incompatible new protocol or version

21:43 schestowitz-TR; try to updatre your client maybe?

21:43 schestowitz-TR; I take your report seriously and investigate now

21:44 schestowitz-TR; moonlander works OK also

21:44 schestowitz-TR; and most people access it OK

21:44 schestowitz-TR; 20k requests since midnight today

21:45 schestowitz-TR; ok, so what I can suggest is, make sure you lose the latest version of your software

21:45 schestowitz-TR; seems like one of those cases where debian's new ciphers or version specs cause issues

21:46 schestowitz-TR; today I added https to the proxy

21:46 schestowitz-TR; and falkon could not handle the algorithm

21:46 schestowitz; sudo openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/dhparam.pem 4096

21:46 schestowitz; Generating DH parameters, 4096 bit long safe prime, generator 2

21:46 schestowitz; This is going to take a long time

21:46 schestowitz; took almost 10 minutes!


10 PM, February 6

22:04 activelow; only surprised a protocol update could break my favorite gemini client; not high priority otherwise

22:05 activelow; didn't update libressl for a while too, although it would be the first incident to break SSL in any application with any server

22:17 schestowitz; interesting...

22:17 schestowitz; yes, older systems fail a lot with this cert mill

22:17 schestowitz; sadlyt

22:21 activelow; don't think it's cert related, except if their internal structure changed, which i doubt

22:22 activelow; currently thinking about something else, which are GCC, tinycc, standards compliance, and vendor-locks

22:23 activelow; as if my mood hasn't been bad enough already, because those compilers were OK, too linux kernel was... up until some corrupt entities decided to "improve" upon that

22:24 activelow; the fun part of this is, since gcc-4.8 those responsible knee-jerked themselves, unpreceeded in the history in this project

22:24 activelow; becaues, tcc could cleanly bootstrap gcc, yet can't anymore since when some decisions were made by GNU/GCC or whoever it was

22:25 activelow; same with linux kernel, it could be compiled with tcc, up until recently situation escalated when linux kernel decided this

22:26 activelow; #if gcc #elif clang #else #error #endif... now they say i would be "complaining" and should reimplement some clusterfuck of a decade of millions of man-hours of work to feed any sane compiler with

22:27 activelow; THIS is what some "red hat" affiliates argued, and of cause i had no clue of what i was talking about

22:27 activelow; after weeks of working and endless nightshifts, for exactly this amount of income: 0

22:31 activelow; it's remarkable, because GNU guix project was the last to seriously consider GCC bootstrapping, little later tinycc showcased a clean procedure, and nowadays anyone had to disassemble dozens of Megs of binary to review GCC bootstrapping alone

22:32 activelow; of cause, this isn't a problem for them, since they conquered the Olymp of free software, where this is a non-issue for the higher intellect of theirs, which escapes mine


11 PM, February 6

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23:40 schestowitz-TR; sudo cp /home/gemini/bin/Gemini-Proxy/gemini-proxy.pl /usr/local/bin/ && sudo sy

23:40 schestowitz-TR; stemctl restart gemini-proxy.service

23:40 schestowitz-TR; I pushed quite a few minor changes through git

23:40 schestowitz-TR; nginx served 5k pages

23:40 schestowitz-TR; I did not study the nature of these, it does not matter much

23:40 schestowitz-TR; home.techrights.org

23:40 schestowitz-TR; yes, just a gateway, but also alternative

23:40 schestowitz-TR; though rss feeds are vastly better

23:45 schestowitz; I've only just noticed that the links at bottom of http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi go to the wrong pages, based on traversal/path interpretation issue

http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi

23:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for Techrights

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