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08:02 schestowitz-TR; gulag search has begun indexing and presenting pertinent pages in new.tm
08:02 schestowitz-TR; I'm just checking as you said they would not be indexing new sites, or barely
08:02 schestowitz-TR; I think it follows links from IRC logs
08:02 schestowitz-TR; rianne has gotten comfortable with the submission process
08:02 schestowitz-TR; yesterday she got stuck and DB was locked again when she gave up
08:02 schestowitz-TR; turns out it was ampersand
08:02 schestowitz-TR; sometimes they are inside URLs and sometimes no spaces between them
08:02 schestowitz-TR; I told her to find them and change/remove them
08:31 schestowitz-TR; gm, cheers fore the links
08:32 Techrights-sec; np
08:32 Techrights-sec; tidy produces some warnings, but they are maybe not the easiest to spot
08:32 Techrights-sec; the locking in sqlite3 is quite simplified but it is important
08:32 schestowitz-TR; I've found a new way o show in context android vs windows
08:32 schestowitz-TR; today I'll look closely into the pi and how to make it work better esp. ipfs
08:37 schestowitz-TR; wow, today just 3 new items in counterpunch rss feeds
08:37 schestowitz-TR; there used to be like 50 or more
08:37 schestowitz-TR; btw, when tuxmachines has rss feed (I saw you started coding it yesterday) we can submit that to some sites
08:37 schestowitz-TR; and give it visibility
08:37 schestowitz-TR; last night I did a 2-min video about linuxtoday
08:37 schestowitz-TR; it has since then published 2 more webspam
08:45 Techrights-sec; ack
08:45 Techrights-sec; yes, but we should probably be blocking the spiders until the site is in
08:45 Techrights-sec; production, it is not wise to drive traffic to a site still in late alpha
08:45 Techrights-sec; stage
08:45 Techrights-sec; btw EXT ACLs needed adjusting again. EXT sure is difficult in a shared context
08:45 Techrights-sec; afaik nowhere else has used MQTT for Git notifications
08:46 schestowitz-TR; it is very plausable as many things we do in TR and TM we do for the first time esp. in the context of gemini and to some extent ipfs
08:46 schestowitz-TR; because they're young and small
08:46 schestowitz-TR; on www, doing things first or being first is harder because it's hard to keep track of everything that goes on there
08:46 schestowitz-TR; even in irc we 'innovated' a number of things
08:46 schestowitz-TR; but not something truly major
08:46 schestowitz-TR; you can add something on top of an existing protocol or combined protocol
08:46 schestowitz-TR; like using gemini to give an up-toi-date index of hashes for ipfs
08:46 schestowitz-TR; when you push to git the system bell and visible popup in knotify will tell me
08:46 schestowitz-TR; then I run the script to see, with colour, all the latest changes in the two repos
08:46 schestowitz-TR; *plausible
08:48 Techrights-sec; yes
08:48 Techrights-sec; one could make a public MQTT broker, one where the clients don't have to
08:48 Techrights-sec; identify themselves, and use it to push a subset of RSS :/
08:48 Techrights-sec; nice
08:49 schestowitz-TR; what you said about public mqtt broker occurred to me ysterday
08:49 schestowitz-TR; rss with less bandiwith
08:49 schestowitz-TR; push versus pull
08:49 schestowitz-TR; like push notifications, but for site updates with another protcol
08:49 schestowitz-TR; I forgot the name of the protocol of push notification, there are at least a couple
08:52 schestowitz-TR; vis-a-vis gitlab is canning many projects to "save" 11 million a year
08:52 schestowitz-TR; all that social control media loss leader BS
08:52 schestowitz-TR; they were used to give people push notifications to their fake friends
08:52 schestowitz-TR; over phoens etc.
08:52 schestowitz-TR; at cost of abndwidth
08:52 schestowitz-TR; but those people are now locked in to that vendor-specific push notif "disservice
08:52 schestowitz-TR; so they cannot quit
08:52 schestowitz-TR; or, if they do, their 'friends' ' "phones" will no longer notify them
08:52 schestowitz-TR; so people must learn to
08:52 schestowitz-TR; a) self host (it's not free)
08:52 schestowitz-TR; (see gitlab)
08:52 schestowitz-TR; b) do theior own notifications, e.g. blog doamin with rss, do not outsoutce. gulag youtube no longer notified ssubscribers, it's not as addictive as
08:52 schestowitz-TR; aujtoplay at end and "suggestions"
08:52 schestowitz-TR; and infinite scrolls
08:53 Techrights-sec; yes, http is an inefficient wrapper
08:53 Techrights-sec; but it would require an MQTT client as a browser pluging and I'm not sure
08:53 Techrights-sec; what the upper limit on connections would be at the broker level.
08:53 Techrights-sec; There is a test broker which sees heavy traffic:
08:53 Techrights-sec; https://test.mosquitto.org/
08:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-test.mosquitto.org
08:57 schestowitz-TR; re mosquitto, I don't know the protocol
08:57 schestowitz-TR; but I can imagine it habitually pings the clients to make sure it's still alive and the IP address is still current
08:57 schestowitz-TR; so that when there's a message on $topic, it'll send a notification to all the right sessions, if they're not expired
08:57 schestowitz-TR; so there must be some "pulses" going on even when there is no update to send
08:57 schestowitz-TR; there are other factors that evade me atm, but those protocols suck because they give ytou stuff TODO
08:57 schestowitz-TR; evcen when you're not prepared, not when you actually ask for any
08:57 schestowitz-TR; that's why I check my email; at most once a day
08:57 schestowitz-TR; rss: "boss, I'm free now. give me work please."
08:57 schestowitz-TR; notifications/email always-on: "danny, sorry for interrupting you, I have another thing for you to do"
08:58 Techrights-sec; mosquitto is one set of programs, MQTT is the protoco. It's rather simple.
08:58 Techrights-sec; if I understand correctly it mainly uses TCP itself to maintain the connection
08:58 Techrights-sec; yes push vs pull
08:58 Techrights-sec; one of the reasons the Web took off was because it was pull
09:00 schestowitz-TR; brb, handover at work
09:01 schestowitz-TR; email can be "pull" also
09:01 schestowitz-TR; it used to be in the dial-up era
09:01 schestowitz-TR; guess which is more addictive, more stressful, and which harms productivity
09:02 Techrights-sec; yes but too many idiots mistake webmail for e-mail and due to the inconvenience
09:02 Techrights-sec; of web mail, combined with them leaving it on 24/7, mistake e-mail for being
09:02 Techrights-sec; difficult. They are confusing terrible client software with the protocol itself
09:02 Techrights-sec; and GAFAM aims to make that confusion worse in an apparent attempt to gain
09:02 Techrights-sec; control over the relevant protocols and turn them into a proprietary service
09:02 Techrights-sec; which they alone control and monitor
09:02 Techrights-sec; ack
09:12 schestowitz-TR; done
09:12 schestowitz-TR; free again
09:12 schestowitz-TR; what I'd like to know is
09:12 schestowitz-TR; and I've said it out loud for 3-4 years already
09:12 schestowitz-TR; where are people "online" going?
09:12 schestowitz-TR; no doubt the www is perishing
09:12 schestowitz-TR; I think because of 'webapps' and 'apps'
09:12 schestowitz-TR; but I'm out of touch
09:12 schestowitz-TR; because I did not embrace fashionable consumerism
09:12 schestowitz-TR; so I don't know what tiktok and "apps" are like in 2022
09:12 schestowitz-TR; it's like asking rms about systemd
09:12 schestowitz-TR; (he said he never installed gnu/linux himself)
09:13 schestowitz-TR; or asking the amish about tractors
09:18 Techrights-sec; ack
09:18 schestowitz-TR; rms has been very focused on giving talks
09:18 schestowitz-TR; and studying threats
09:18 schestowitz-TR; which is fair enough
09:18 schestowitz-TR; he lets the others help him with technical things, inc. operationg (they're like his "shabbos goys")
09:18 schestowitz-TR; but when it comes to some of those "phone" things I too must admit, I'm in the dark
09:18 schestowitz-TR; also, I never saw a spy meter
09:19 schestowitz-TR; but the main concern is, 1) they are NOT needed 2) they will get worse over time (more sensors)
09:19 schestowitz-TR; with routers you could argue there is a necessity
09:19 schestowitz-TR; spy meters are an extension to the router which exists for a single purpose that's not requiring yet another piece of ewaste
09:22 Techrights-sec; ack
09:22 Techrights-sec; probably
09:22 Techrights-sec; one contributing factor is the load that idle wall warts put on the grid
09:22 schestowitz-TR; this morning in geminispace (latest, planet)
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I read not one but two posts on energy problems
09:22 schestowitz-TR; more connection and electric issues
09:22 schestowitz-TR; combined with what rianne told me about the tram and outages in shops
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I'm starting to wonder if there's an energy crisis the media says too little about
09:23 schestowitz-TR; and it not limited just to price
09:23 schestowitz-TR; I can find you the two gemini:// links
09:23 schestowitz-TR; I put them in the irc channel actualluy
09:23 schestowitz-TR; I hope out Network/Internet uptime will still be good and no UPS will be needed
09:24 schestowitz-TR; UPS = more manufacturing (waste), much like A/C to 'combat' heating
09:24 schestowitz-TR; then it draws up some power
09:24 schestowitz-TR; they tell us spy meters will help save energy
09:25 schestowitz-TR; as if they're made out of thin air and run on "thetans"
09:25 schestowitz-TR; (same for EVs)
09:28 schestowitz-TR; our current router (installed january 2021 IIRC, after our complaints; the engineer told us to demand a new one) has very good uptime
09:28 schestowitz-TR; and no network hangups, or very rare ones
09:28 schestowitz-TR; I don't take this for granted; it wasn't like this before
09:28 schestowitz-TR; the upstream provider (ISP) has also been OK since then
09:28 schestowitz-TR; when I had networ problem it was electic outage or my own mistakes (or oven triggering a fuse)
09:28 schestowitz-TR; "you don't appreciate things... until you lose them..."
09:28 schestowitz-TR; "Since I've started hosting shit.cx from home, my internet and electricity has been more unreliable than ever." gemini://shit.cx/tech/meta/2022-08-05-so-much-downtime-/
09:32 Techrights-sec; ack
09:37 schestowitz-TR; I exported my own router settings (less than 150 lines) to a file
09:37 schestowitz-TR; it lets you save the most hedious sort of file you even saw
09:37 schestowitz-TR; it's like a soup of binary and ascii
09:37 schestowitz-TR; but you can see bits and bobs that you put in
09:37 schestowitz-TR; they don't use ini or json or xml
09:37 schestowitz-TR; it's ridiculous
09:37 schestowitz-TR; I saved these last summer when they "tried" to= put us on fibre (first home in this area)
09:37 schestowitz-TR; and I wanted to be able to import the same stuff into the "new" router
09:37 schestowitz-TR; which looks exactly the same, except minor differencee
09:37 schestowitz-TR; and BT gave me conflicting messages about compatibility
09:37 schestowitz-TR; either way, they seemed unready to support this new service
09:38 schestowitz-TR; and I reckoned as an "experiment" I would get worse services
09:38 schestowitz-TR; lack of expirtise and effect on only one user, not whole block of homes
09:38 schestowitz-TR; they compensated us almost 100 pounds for all the trouble
09:38 schestowitz-TR; we still have the fibre equipment, not connected to the socket, inside the home
09:38 schestowitz-TR; it'll come in handy as this sort of service matures sufficiently
09:38 Techrights-sec; JSON?
09:43 schestowitz-TR; not json
09:44 schestowitz-TR; I could send you the file, but somewhere in it there are likely passwords
09:44 schestowitz-TR; without power, you typically can have no connections
09:44 schestowitz-TR; without connections you could still have power
09:44 schestowitz-TR; the other day (tue.) when the power was off I went us to be productive
09:44 schestowitz-TR; rianne said that she'd rather have no power than no running water
09:44 schestowitz-TR; but in winter you cannot bathe without some level of water heating
09:44 schestowitz-TR; call me sceptics or paranoid, but jusding by trends I read about, cost won't be the sole issue
09:44 schestowitz-TR; when it comes to CLEAN water being available or a steadfy flow of power
09:44 schestowitz-TR; In african there is this thing called GPL that showed up in my feeds
09:44 schestowitz-TR; they have lots of outages and sometimes even planned blackouts
09:44 schestowitz-TR; like, you need to prepare for times of the day without power
09:44 schestowitz-TR; and charge applicance accordingly
09:44 schestowitz-TR; this, to me, is a whole new concept/monster
09:44 schestowitz-TR; power "share" or rationing
09:44 schestowitz-TR; I'd hate to live in a world with water rationing
09:44 schestowitz-TR; at the moment they just have things like "hose bans"
09:44 schestowitz-TR; you sent me a link about spain trying to limit or police A/C thermostats
09:44 schestowitz-TR; maybe first in public places where enforcers can go
09:44 schestowitz-TR; maybe later in proprietary firmware..
09:44 schestowitz-TR; spy meters come to mind here
09:44 schestowitz-TR; why you might NOT want to have one
09:44 schestowitz-TR; give me the bits (network)
09:44 schestowitz-TR; give me water
09:44 schestowitz-TR; give me voltage
09:44 schestowitz-TR; how it's used is my own gaddamn business
09:53 schestowitz-TR; ---
09:53 schestowitz-TR; rianne said that in mindanao they used to have power rationing or outtage hours (planned)
09:53 schestowitz-TR; and in manila is there's elnino they do awater ratiuoning too
09:54 Techrights-sec; water distribution is becoming more unsteady and uneven
09:54 Techrights-sec; in places which still have water it is coming more often in large doses
09:54 Techrights-sec; rather than spread out over time
09:54 Techrights-sec; many place have had power rationing but in many situations it is due to
09:54 Techrights-sec; privatization because it is not profitable to deploy more capacity until
09:54 Techrights-sec; there is more demand. Brownouts, however, destroy equipment, even heavy
09:54 Techrights-sec; stuff like refrigerators
09:54 Techrights-sec; again the various wastages cause problems with load;
09:54 Techrights-sec; at the scale that "smartphones" are deployed worldwide, and given that
09:54 Techrights-sec; they need to be recharged muliptle times per day, they are collectively
09:54 Techrights-sec; probably one of the world's largest drains on the grid
09:54 Techrights-sec; ... if considered as a single line item
09:57 schestowitz-TR; btw, did you see the post about android in africa?
09:57 schestowitz-TR; wow, 18% windows... no wonder the media is too busy harping about "chrome OS" vs "Windows"
09:57 schestowitz-TR; living in a more GAFAM universe where everyone can blow $1000 on a laptop instead of
09:57 schestowitz-TR; a budget $100 "smart" phone from "belt and braces" land
09:58 Techrights-sec; "tracking devices which also happen to make calls"
10:03 schestowitz-TR; rianne now telling me rocking firdge stories
10:03 schestowitz-TR; due to unsteady power levels in some places
10:03 schestowitz-TR; you know, last week I tried to recall who came up with that sentence
10:03 schestowitz-TR; not sure if it was ioerror, or me (maybe he repeated me), or rms, or maybe we all borrowed that from someone else
10:03 schestowitz-TR; rms said "stalin's dream"
10:03 schestowitz-TR; "also happen to make calls" is jake
10:03 schestowitz-TR; but maybe inspired by something he had read from me
10:03 schestowitz-TR; it's not important anyway
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I can at least say I popularised some terms, not big like "brexit"
10:03 schestowitz-TR; but still... changing how people communicate issues and the vocabulary helps tackle issues
10:03 schestowitz-TR; openwashing became more widespread
10:03 schestowitz-TR; fauxopen never caught on sflc said "giveUpGithub"
10:03 Techrights-sec; "tracking devices which also happen to make calls"
10:03 Techrights-sec; I think it was jake
10:03 Techrights-sec; at least he was the first early on
10:03 Techrights-sec; ack
10:04 schestowitz-TR; I wondered the same and I assumed it was coined by him, based on nothing but me seeing him adopting and using the term a lot
10:10 schestowitz-TR; masnick did a number of important things/contributions in the vocabulary sense, but like godwin with "godwin's law"
10:10 schestowitz-TR; masnick did "streisand effect"
10:10 schestowitz-TR; which is still in use to this dy
10:10 schestowitz-TR; of course techdirt lost much of the influence it had in the golden era of the web after msie was elbowed aside
10:10 Techrights-sec; ack
10:10 Techrights-sec; I should read techdirt more often. When he sticks to purely technical matters
10:10 Techrights-sec; he and tech policy, he is quite good. But on other topics he exhibits some
10:10 Techrights-sec; signs of severe social control media poisoning
10:16 schestowitz-TR; he or his colleagues are sceptical of regulations and too defensive of 1) gafam 2) social control media
10:16 schestowitz-TR; calling everything a "panic" even where legitimate concerns do exist
10:16 schestowitz-TR; I don't read techdirt outside of kate text editor, so I honestly don't know who writes what
10:16 schestowitz-TR; I don't even know if moody sitll writes there
10:16 schestowitz-TR; observation: techdirt used to get over 200 comments per post, for good posts at least
10:16 schestowitz-TR; nowadays it's often less than a dozen... last I checkede
10:16 schestowitz-TR; but techdirt does not do irc and never did irc
10:16 schestowitz-TR; so for mike and co to receive feedback from readers they rely too much on sh*t like twitter
10:16 schestowitz-TR; and are unable to let go
10:16 schestowitz-TR; feedback is importat
10:16 schestowitz-TR; I don't know the words to explain the phenomenon
10:16 schestowitz-TR; but writing to a wall or getting no sensory feedback is hard
10:17 schestowitz-TR; even if you know someone reads it
10:17 schestowitz-TR; like publishing a book, not knowing anything except how many copies were printed (not sold)
10:17 schestowitz-TR; and what the readrs thing
10:17 schestowitz-TR; amazon "reviews" is astroturf zone
10:17 schestowitz-TR; ripe for the liks of clickfraud spamnil
10:17 schestowitz-TR; igor diedomedo has not published books or blog posts in a while
10:17 schestowitz-TR; last I saw he was busy toying around with proprietary 3-d modeling s/w
10:17 schestowitz-TR; and is gradually weaning himself OFF windows
10:18 Techrights-sec; sometimes
10:18 Techrights-sec; I really wish Glyn would have some kind of syndication because I will go to
10:18 Techrights-sec; a site specifically to read what he wrote even if it's a site I would otherwise
10:18 Techrights-sec; not prioritize
10:18 Techrights-sec; some of that is the public is no longer used to being allowed to comment
10:23 schestowitz-TR; moody's work is widely scattred by the virtue of his ability to do gainful employment as a writer
10:23 schestowitz-TR; ars, linux journal, techdirt...
10:23 schestowitz-TR; I sadly wasted many years writing shit in social control media where I could do a better job writing the same in my Weblog from 2004
10:23 schestowitz-TR; I'm making up for it now, little by little...
10:23 schestowitz-TR; some american cousins of mine read it for sure
10:23 schestowitz-TR; remember that tuxmachines still has an android "app", but I don't know if it is compatible with latest android versions
10:23 schestowitz-TR; it's basically a preloaded RSS reader
10:23 schestowitz-TR; with push notifications something better can be done
10:23 schestowitz-TR; but don't want to condone use of spyphones
10:23 schestowitz-TR; the other day on rianne's laptop I tested web-based access to irc @ tuxmachines
10:23 schestowitz-TR; there are about 20-25 users online in that channels
10:23 schestowitz-TR; it shows site updates
10:23 schestowitz-TR; but no real community there
10:23 schestowitz-TR; szombie community of sorts
10:23 schestowitz-TR; like #phoronix was in freenode
10:23 schestowitz-TR; before pulling the plug
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10:43 schestowitz-TR; self-hosting is better for self-taught, skilling etc. imho
10:43 schestowitz-TR; too many people skip many stages by just "opening an account"
10:43 schestowitz-TR; e.g. vps
10:43 schestowitz-TR; and come to assume a lot about netblocks, hardware etc.
10:43 schestowitz-TR; so they can never properly provision and do things
10:43 schestowitz-TR; mind you, I was never sys admin
10:43 schestowitz-TR; I'm a programmer
10:43 schestowitz-TR; not very pracitising since my phd days
10:43 schestowitz-TR; as I do more writing
10:44 schestowitz-TR; but being "dev op" (bs term) means you have more control over the stack
10:44 schestowitz-TR; some "ops", like oiaohm, cannot do any programming
10:44 schestowitz-TR; some "users", like daemonfc, can't do dev or ops
10:44 schestowitz-TR; but still "get" a lot of tech
10:44 schestowitz-TR; toay's uni grads probably get the worst of all worlds
10:44 schestowitz-TR; a) accounts, not self-hosting
10:44 schestowitz-TR; (e.g. gmail, aws)
10:44 schestowitz-TR; b) fake programming ("frameworks"), not even "swing" in java but stuff like vue.js and electron
10:44 schestowitz-TR; c) windows, "apps" etc.
10:44 schestowitz-TR; so basically they end up paceled off to GAFAM-ish "IMPOSED-FROM-ABOVE" agenda
10:44 schestowitz-TR; and therefore aren't employable by companies that actually get stuff done
10:49 schestowitz-TR; unpopular theory:
10:49 schestowitz-TR; computers are being made worse
10:49 schestowitz-TR; and programming tools too
10:49 schestowitz-TR; among other stuff
10:49 schestowitz-TR; to take back power from the "people"
10:49 schestowitz-TR; and weaken resistance or unionisation, leaking without consequences
10:49 schestowitz-TR; as it's assumed that people were given "too powerful" or general-purpose computiong
10:49 schestowitz-TR; and now it's time to disemplower them by presenting them with inferior but "UX" (cargo cult) toys
10:49 schestowitz-TR; like AWS accounts instead of an environment one can control (in 2010 already AAWS kicked out wikileaks; iirc, aws was not even profitable back then)
10:49 schestowitz-TR; chats are being centralised and people's clients are not making secure connections
10:49 schestowitz-TR; because "kids somethjing,,,," or "terror attacks"
10:49 schestowitz-TR; whether it is all planned and deliberate would be difficult to prove (who? wef? nato? where is the "conspiracy")
10:49 schestowitz-TR; hence it's more of an hypothesis
10:49 schestowitz-TR; good luck provinmg it without being dubbed "crank"
10:50 Techrights-sec; there are only 24 hours per day
10:50 Techrights-sec; yep
10:50 Techrights-sec; on purpose
10:50 Techrights-sec; I would suspect that to be the case, too
10:50 Techrights-sec; the proprietary "cloud" stuff falls under that umbrella too
10:50 Techrights-sec; it takes away the commodity nature of the systems
10:50 Techrights-sec; note that accidentally at first all the anti-spam measures have done nothing
10:51 Techrights-sec; more than centralize control over online written communication, and not really
10:51 Techrights-sec; addressed actual spam
10:51 Techrights-sec; "think of the children" == root passphrase
10:51 Techrights-sec; to bypass democracy and just about anything else
10:51 schestowitz-TR; [21:46] <techrights-news> Bill Gates-bribed news [sic] papers try to associate accusation of high-profile pedophilia with the far right. Meanwhile Gates was working behind the scenes to enable Jeffrey Esptein. Guardian sees nothing wrong with it, uses straw men instead. https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/12/conspirituality-is-pervasive-but-why/
10:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-stop.zona-m.net | Conspirituality is pervasive, but why? | Stop at Zona-M
10:52 schestowitz-TR; his blog is spitting out updates again in rss
10:52 schestowitz-TR; for the first time this year, I think
10:52 schestowitz-TR; that blog is a mess
10:52 schestowitz-TR; drafts, missing stuff... it's like a desk with papers all over the place...
10:52 Techrights-sec; ack
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10:57 schestowitz-TR; I was thinking late last night
10:57 schestowitz-TR; or our repo of articles about epo
10:57 schestowitz-TR; in the context ofm whether the capsule still updatesd the wiki mirror ok
10:57 schestowitz-TR; if the epo goes under, it'll have impact on a number of orgs connected to it
10:57 schestowitz-TR; if not the profession in general
10:57 schestowitz-TR; I was also concerned about two or three irc users
10:57 schestowitz-TR; one connects "us" to nuttery
10:57 schestowitz-TR; two can connect us to "far right"
10:57 schestowitz-TR; if people aren't careful in grasping what irc is
10:57 schestowitz-TR; and our very liberal policy on speech
10:58 schestowitz-TR; I think the best approach is to rebut the BS, even insult the BS
10:58 schestowitz-TR; and make it clear the opinion is fringe even among us and we don't leave that unchallenged
10:58 schestowitz-TR; kaniini temporarily banned phanes a month ago
10:58 schestowitz-TR; after I had been told of a plan to hard-code into the server an INABILITY to ban
10:58 schestowitz-TR; see? epople are good at doing things.... as long as it suits them
10:58 schestowitz-TR; when it doesn't then there are "exceptions"
11:00 Techrights-sec; yes
11:00 Techrights-sec; the nuttery is a means of disparagement through involuntary association
11:00 schestowitz-TR; the person was fedora ambassador for a while
11:00 schestowitz-TR; and even before changing name the person had already been into that crazy theory
11:00 schestowitz-TR; so many the identity change is connected to narcotics use
11:00 schestowitz-TR; or, as per admission, autism
11:00 schestowitz-TR; we cannot ban people for that, we need to learn how to better deal with it
11:06 schestowitz-TR; we've lasted as a site and as online community (irc is one of several means) for 1.5 decades
11:06 schestowitz-TR; so we must have done _some_ things right
11:06 schestowitz-TR; having said that, there's always room for improvement
11:06 schestowitz-TR; technical aspects of the improvements are important
11:06 schestowitz-TR; I have some ideas for TR capsule
11:06 schestowitz-TR; but work keeps "wasting" time
11:06 schestowitz-TR; and they don't let me go easily (still no updates from them)
11:06 schestowitz-TR; at least we get paid in the meantime, so I cannot complain
11:06 schestowitz-TR; I want to set up automated backup on the pi (external disk, 3tb, is already plugged in and even though it is mounted only user "pi" can 'see' it)
11:06 schestowitz-TR; the backup job is already a script, but it's not cronned
11:06 schestowitz-TR; next week I'll get more spare usb sticks to burn clones onto
11:07 schestowitz-TR; I like how the pi makes "hot spares"... plug and play
11:07 schestowitz-TR; the worst outage was when debian 10 died and we had to rebuild again on debian 11 in around jan 2022
11:07 schestowitz-TR; even though I have an up-to-date backup of /home
11:15 schestowitz-TR; just done a full sanity check ont eh pi forbulletin and irc archives
11:15 schestowitz-TR; tldr: there were two gaps
11:15 schestowitz-TR; one for the clone to preseent (march to august
11:15 schestowitz-TR; another for latest backup to present (july to august)
11:15 schestowitz-TR; I can see there are no gaps left
11:15 schestowitz-TR; also for blog posts I think it completed he gaps
11:15 schestowitz-TR; and the wiki
11:15 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to check how long a full backup to magnetic disk takes from usb (on sd card system it was rather fast, maybe under 1 hour)
11:15 Techrights-sec; yes, it's a nice feature being able to just move storage media pretty much
11:15 Techrights-sec; interchangeably
11:15 Techrights-sec; ack
11:17 schestowitz-TR; rianne's rsp400 also means we have a spare physical machines, either way
11:17 schestowitz-TR; she can use mine and plug in external keyboard
11:17 schestowitz-TR; now it's hard to get spares for s reasonable price w
11:17 schestowitz-TR; when she bought one just before the war (shortages worsened) it cost about 70 pounds
11:17 schestowitz-TR; iirc, it launched for retail price of about 50
11:19 Techrights-sec; The main downside to the RPi is that it is now very hard to get them
11:19 Techrights-sec; but you have more options there in the UK for now as to where to buy them
11:19 schestowitz-TR; you can probably find them off ebay, but it would take days to ship, hence no >hot_ spare
11:21 Techrights-sec; the RPi units are so rare in part because of scalpers, such as what you find
11:21 Techrights-sec; on E-Bay :(
11:27 schestowitz-TR; I'd say hold on to what you have, put it to use though
11:27 schestowitz-TR; all our working machines are powered on and help augment workflows
11:27 schestowitz-TR; but that purpose is never immediately obvious
11:27 schestowitz-TR; needs lateral thinking
11:27 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to test duration of full backup now
11:27 schestowitz-TR; ok, it shows time of start
11:27 schestowitz-TR; then tries each device (drive) based on device unique id when mounted
11:27 schestowitz-TR; I'll assess the rate of growth to get estimate of duration
11:27 schestowitz-TR; oh, writing to external disk is still fast I see... 300 mb done in about a minute so far
11:28 Techrights-sec; I presume that is without LUKS encryption
11:28 Techrights-sec; LUKS will slow it down substantially and can make Rsync impossible
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11:36 schestowitz-TR; LUKS has a back door: torture
11:37 schestowitz-TR; psychological in the UK (unless they parcel you off to some CIA "black site")
11:37 schestowitz-TR; I still have my fist and mouth to stave off intruders
11:37 schestowitz-TR; rianne already knows what to do if cops come over (witness for protection, deterrence)
11:37 schestowitz-TR; not that they have ANY legtimate reason to visit
11:37 schestowitz-TR; LUKS is good when you travel physically with a device (e.g. laptop) and it contains sensitive info
11:37 schestowitz-TR; you cannot just access over the network instead
11:37 schestowitz-TR; like travel abaord, then ssh to home
11:37 schestowitz-TR; in which case border control gets just a "blank"
11:37 schestowitz-TR; and ssh does all the security
11:37 schestowitz-TR; rsync does a lot of checksums
11:37 schestowitz-TR; iirc
11:37 schestowitz-TR; you sent me pages, but I only did a very shallow read
11:37 schestowitz-TR; it relies on the files being mostly the same (identical checksum at target and dest)
11:37 schestowitz-TR; otherwise it would be no more efficient than a copy
11:37 schestowitz-TR; even slower is ALL the files are changed entirely
11:37 schestowitz-TR; not "half files"
11:37 schestowitz-TR; or "quarter files"
11:37 schestowitz-TR; slower because it has the overhead of needless comparison
11:37 schestowitz-TR; that results in negatices
11:37 schestowitz-TR; *negatives
11:37 schestowitz-TR; for LUKs, you need to decrypt everything, entirely, then get checksum
11:37 schestowitz-TR; I don't know if LUKS has per-individual-file access to objects
11:37 schestowitz-TR; if it does, maybe you can compare checksums of encrypted objects without dcceprting them fist
11:37 schestowitz-TR; assuming source and dest both use the same encryption key
11:37 schestowitz-TR; and the hashsums do not depend on the allocation of files on encrypted disk
11:37 schestowitz-TR; LUKS creates another risk factor: you getting locked out of your own system
11:37 schestowitz-TR; or damage to disk rendering the whole thing dead
11:37 schestowitz-TR; rather than partial damage
11:37 schestowitz-TR; PC-based encryption or access protection relies on the physical disk not being retreievable by physical access
11:37 schestowitz-TR; LUKS is for when you assume raid is possible and "they" can't get to your machine when it's powered on
11:37 schestowitz-TR; same for openpgp when password token is still stored in RAM
11:39 Techrights-sec; ack
11:39 Techrights-sec; yes, if a bit flips then the whole partition is lost as far as I know
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11:40 schestowitz-TR; wow.... SUPER LAG!!!
11:40 schestowitz-TR; I tried ctrl+s/q a million times
11:40 schestowitz-TR; but it was network
11:40 Techrights-sec; ack
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11:44 schestowitz-TR; assange had his computer on
11:44 schestowitz-TR; while he was kisnapped in the corridor and roughened up
11:44 schestowitz-TR; he had handcuffs in the office
11:44 schestowitz-TR; but he could not use them
11:44 schestowitz-TR; to protect himself from kidnappers
11:44 schestowitz-TR; he was claled to the other room
11:44 schestowitz-TR; where revocation of his nationality was read out to him
11:44 schestowitz-TR; and then he was snatched
11:44 schestowitz-TR; I assuime the laptop they then sent to the un of a
11:44 schestowitz-TR; was first imaged fully, while it was "unlocked"
11:44 schestowitz-TR; they had a decade to prepare for this
11:44 schestowitz-TR; and even audioned a little (coips entereing the enbassy a bit) dats prior
11:44 schestowitz-TR; *audiotned
11:44 schestowitz-TR; *auditioned
11:44 schestowitz-TR; backup now halfway there, so it should take less than one hour all in all
11:44 schestowitz-TR; I'll write a script to wrap this thing up and do a nightly dump of /home/
11:44 schestowitz-TR; maybe a stack for past 3 days
11:44 Techrights-sec; ack
11:44 Techrights-sec; very little coverage of how illegal it was to kidnap him from within the
11:44 Techrights-sec; embassy; it was in violation of major treaties
11:44 Techrights-sec; yet nary a peep
11:47 schestowitz-TR; I hope he deleted identifying details about sources
11:47 schestowitz-TR; they got hundreds of them
11:47 schestowitz-TR; some unpublished
11:47 schestowitz-TR; WL was a leaks magnet not just for US
11:47 schestowitz-TR; snuffing out insiders in international committees
11:47 schestowitz-TR; who might be repeat leakers is of interest to three-letter agencies
11:47 schestowitz-TR; so they can better control what the public knows
11:48 Techrights-sec; yes
11:48 Techrights-sec; s/knows/believes/ :(
11:51 schestowitz-TR; btw, villege idiot steffno from osi s running an evene on "HEY HI"
11:51 schestowitz-TR; OSI is fast becoming a foes of our movement
11:51 schestowitz-TR; and Steff is bagging like $130,000 PER YEAR
11:51 schestowitz-TR; until OSI closes shop
11:51 schestowitz-TR; because it's of no more use to Bill and Lolita
11:51 schestowitz-TR; they are in the PR industry now
11:51 schestowitz-TR; they do nothing else
11:51 schestowitz-TR; no code, no nothing
11:51 schestowitz-TR; meetings on how to message "members" (corporations)
11:51 schestowitz-TR; and how to censor wikipedia... to "p[rotect the gays"
11:53 Techrights-sec; OSI has it out for Software Freedom and even, to a lesser extent, OSS too
11:53 Techrights-sec; uh oh: links within headings within lists:
11:53 Techrights-sec; /gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/06/Android_Leftovers.gmi
11:53 Techrights-sec; https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/06/Android_Leftovers.shtml
11:53 Techrights-sec; checking ...
11:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers
11:57 schestowitz-TR; thanks
11:57 schestowitz-TR; we also use the pi as a file server for our open working files
11:57 schestowitz-TR; if the pi goes up in flames, kio slave (oooo!! dont' say dat1!!) will still keep all the open files in kate
11:57 schestowitz-TR; sadly, when the pi died days ago unopened files edited after july 29th lost their latest changes
11:57 schestowitz-TR; that's basically (afaik) two files, todo_archive (stuff I ALREADY gotr done)
11:57 schestowitz-TR; and tuxmachines.txt
11:57 schestowitz-TR; and reboot_notes.tyxt (only updated a little after the last reboot... inventory of things to do and check)
11:57 schestowitz-TR; had I done nightly backups of the pi, I'd not have lost any of these things
11:57 schestowitz-TR; so lessons learned, action taken
11:57 schestowitz-TR; no more SD
11:57 schestowitz-TR; nightly backups highly advisable
12:04 Techrights-sec; biab
12:11 schestowitz-TR; backup complete. 35 mins.
12:11 schestowitz-TR; 15 gb of tar files
12:11 schestowitz-TR; cronning it now...
12:11 schestowitz-TR; for 1am
12:11 schestowitz-TR; no, better 5am... quieter and AFTER a lot of files get added 2-3am
12:11 schestowitz-TR; doen , cronnned 5:10am will check tomorrow3~3~
12:11 schestowitz-TR; I've fortified the pi some more and more the disk and stuff under a cabinet
12:11 schestowitz-TR; to better protect them from evil miss dust pen
12:11 schestowitz-TR; who kept knocking them over while cleaning
12:11 schestowitz-TR; removing or detaching some pins from the leds
12:11 schestowitz-TR; now the leds are screwed in better
12:11 schestowitz-TR; and the external disk holds down the wires under its weight
12:11 schestowitz-TR; [12:09] <techrights-news> After the latest mega-incident (whole OS and data just died after electric outage) we've set ipfs and gemini @ techrights (among many other things) to back up to external disk automatically every night at 5:10am. That ought to make recovery from disaster a lot more rapid.
12:13 Techrights-sec; ack
12:17 schestowitz-TR; one russian nukes stops them working
12:17 schestowitz-TR; *nuke
12:17 schestowitz-TR; a few seconds after the bright flash
12:17 schestowitz-TR; OK, I see the fix now in git
12:17 schestowitz-TR; no newline
12:24 Techrights-sec; ack
12:24 schestowitz-TR; nukes are good for pension companies
12:24 schestowitz-TR; they help prolong the scheme
12:24 schestowitz-TR; much like cancer-causing pills in USA
12:24 schestowitz-TR; *spills
12:24 schestowitz-TR; the football seasons kicks off today here in england
12:24 schestowitz-TR; more covid-19 for more working class "plebs"
12:24 schestowitz-TR; to shorten their lives and mess up their brains
12:24 schestowitz-TR; under the guise of "freedom"
12:24 schestowitz-TR; clcohol (booze) and life-shortening virus
12:25 Techrights-sec; probably a million people get drinking water from any given major riverway
12:25 Techrights-sec; poisoning the water like that will have long term public health effects,
12:25 Techrights-sec; all to the negative, not just for nature and the environment
12:25 Techrights-sec; :(
12:27 schestowitz-TR; we still washa dn quarantine
12:27 schestowitz-TR; food
12:27 schestowitz-TR; we still shut the lid before flushing
12:27 schestowitz-TR; I read in gemninispace about how people contract the virus
12:27 schestowitz-TR; usually relatives
12:27 schestowitz-TR; kids of otherwise
12:29 Techrights-sec; ack
12:30 schestowitz-TR; ANTOHER (previously-unadvertised) way in which having kids shortens your life and elongates youu working (for somebody else) hours
12:30 schestowitz-TR; responsible parenting: sending the kids "someplace" to import a nasty virus into your home
12:30 schestowitz-TR; with incubation period just about long enough to ensure everyone gets its before it's detectable
12:30 schestowitz-TR; and now the US has baby formula shortages (russe for price hikes probably; it's a monopoly, so pric-ce-fixing is easy and there are no "alternatives")
12:30 schestowitz-TR; daemonFC said that in walmart they're begun putting baby formula in locked cabinets as if they're jewellery
12:31 Techrights-sec; most things are a ruse for price hikes, there has been some (but minimal)
12:31 Techrights-sec; reporting on the phenomenon
12:32 DaemonFC; <schestowitz-TR> daemonFC said that in walmart they're begun putting baby formula in locked cabinets as if they're jewellery
12:32 DaemonFC; When it costs $60 to feed your baby for several days, why not?
12:32 DaemonFC; I don't know how long a small can of formula lasts, so that's a guess.
12:32 DaemonFC; It's really expensive though.
12:33 schestowitz-TR; "but it'sssssss yooooo baaaaby"
12:33 schestowitz-TR; DaemonFC: cheaper to send it back to the womb, then eat lots of bread
12:34 schestowitz-TR; then, even the GOP will protect the baby
12:34 schestowitz-TR; they are embryophiles
12:35 Techrights-sec; ack
12:35 DaemonFC; Once you have kids your choices go away.
12:35 DaemonFC; All of your choices.
12:36 DaemonFC; You won't sleep.
12:36 DaemonFC; Even if you do get a short break from work to sleep, the kids will wake you up about something.
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12:54 schestowitz-TR; up here in Manc we've had quite a bit of rainfall these past 2 weeks
12:54 schestowitz-TR; I hope for no more hosepipe bans for years to come
12:54 schestowitz-TR; those bans always happen (obviously) when your grass is yellow and the plants perish
12:55 schestowitz-TR; less oxygen
12:55 schestowitz-TR; and the place generally looks worse
13:12 Techrights-sec; ack
14:31 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Englands COVID-19 Deaths in July: 561 in 2020 (Coronavirus Breakout), 1,430 Last Year, 4,199 This Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/06/getting-worse/
14:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Englands COVID-19 Deaths in July: 561 in 2020 (Coronavirus Breakout), 1,430 Last Year, 4,199 This Year
14:32 Techrights-sec; back?
14:32 Techrights-sec; yep
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14:56 schestowitz-TR; Albert Woodfox Dies of COVID-19 https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/5/michael_mable_robert_king_albert_woodfox | Source: Democracy Now
14:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.democracynow.org | Albert Woodfox Dies of COVID; Loved Ones Remember the Life & Legacy of Famed Political Prisoner | Democracy Now!
14:56 schestowitz-TR; "died at the age of 75 due to complications tied to COVID-19." https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/5/albert_woodfox_black_panthers_angola_three
14:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.democracynow.org | Albert Woodfox in His Own Words on 43 Years in Solitary, the Black Panthers & Fighting Injustice | Democracy Now!
14:57 Techrights-sec; ack
15:05 schestowitz; Marco Fioretti https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/12/nudification-is-for-women-near-you/
15:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-stop.zona-m.net | Nudification is for women NEAR you | Stop at Zona-M
15:05 schestowitz; does he smack of a bad person?
15:07 schestowitz-TR; but in person?
15:14 schestowitz-TR; I'll ignore his feeds from now
15:14 schestowitz-TR; I know those clique types
15:14 schestowitz-TR; nationality aside
15:14 schestowitz-TR; italo, piana, stefanno
15:14 schestowitz-TR; the "oopen source" people
15:14 schestowitz-TR; piana entered OSI too
15:14 schestowitz-TR; like italo and stafano
15:14 schestowitz-TR; they have been doing some things I do not like
15:14 schestowitz-TR; and are connected not only by lan
15:15 schestowitz-TR; and are connected not only by language
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17:31 schestowitz-TR; charles schultz vanished not so long after he had got a kid
17:31 schestowitz-TR; though he was pivotal in LO
17:31 schestowitz-TR; and was on a techbytes episode too
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18:15 schestowitz-TR; he did vanish, but never did something rude
18:17 schestowitz-TR; for context, after his great success rallying people around LO IIRC he was hired by OpenMandriva (IIRC) to get people iunvolved,
18:17 schestowitz-TR; but the success was very limited
18:17 schestowitz-TR; maybe that setback set the scene for quiet cadence
18:30 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> GNU/Linux market share in Hong Kong up to around 5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/hong-kong/#monthly-200901-202208
18:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Hong Kong | Statcounter Global Stats
18:30 schestowitz-TR; I amk trying to get a better understanding of what's going on
18:30 schestowitz-TR; as media certainly does not investigate anything anymoe
18:30 schestowitz-TR; linuxtoday became a total shame
18:31 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Englands COVID-19 Deaths in July: 561 in 2020 (Coronavirus Breakout), 1,430 Last Year, 4,199 This Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/
18:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com
18:31 schestowitz-TR; football is BACK today, after 2-3 months
18:31 schestowitz-TR; because hey, covid-19 is just some little thing in history anyway
18:32 Techrights-sec; ack
18:32 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Make better vaccines to protect people, not patent monopolies https://michaelwest.com.au/concern-over-low-third-vaccine-dose-rates-2/
18:32 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-michaelwest.com.au | Concern over low third vaccine dose rates - Michael West
18:33 schestowitz-TR; now they want to do the same with monkeypox without clinical trials
18:33 schestowitz-TR; the "new nornal"
18:33 schestowitz-TR; the reason regulation exists is past incidents that killed many people
18:33 schestowitz-TR; "TRUST COMPANIES!"
18:34 Techrights-sec; ack
18:34 Techrights-sec; actually they want to reinforce the obedience to companies too
18:37 schestowitz-TR; my mom keeps getting reinfected
18:37 schestowitz-TR; being ill in bed is the new normal for her
18:37 schestowitz-TR; after doses and infections
18:37 schestowitz-TR; she thinks this is freedom
18:37 schestowitz-TR; though it does leave some permanent damage
18:37 schestowitz-TR; I've noticed that people who got infected already are dismissive of the harm
18:37 schestowitz-TR; they choose to think it's no big deal, evenm if they insisted so before
18:37 schestowitz-TR; like a girl who lost her virginity and starts seleeeping around with anyone
18:40 schestowitz-TR; if you've been bed-bound somany times maybe it's about time you just simply reassess all your assumptinos and the stratetygy as a whole
18:40 schestowitz-TR; but people are better ajt justifying past behaviour than admitting errors and advising others accoridngly
18:46 Techrights-sec; ack
18:46 schestowitz-TR; we've been observing with great caution the situation, inc. availability of discounted foods and living expenses in general as licving in
18:46 schestowitz-TR; introvert mode or living like a hermit indoors (except exercise and some visits with masks and distances) would be OK, compatible\
18:46 schestowitz-TR; with what we've become accustomed to. if others arer dismissive of this, that's their own business, not ours
18:46 schestowitz-TR; but like I said, many are 0imho - doing self harm for the sake of compliance with the nor aka "the new normal"
18:46 schestowitz-TR; *norm
18:46 schestowitz-TR; case of point: flying
18:46 schestowitz-TR; 1980s: I have nice cusion, good meal, no strip searching, not too many people at airport
18:46 schestowitz-TR; good service, not "budget" crew
18:46 schestowitz-TR; now: security theatre, unreliable budget planes, passengers who barely know how to behave on a bug, no meals, stinking lavatories, long queues, delays
18:46 schestowitz-TR; almost every single time, new pews ("securuty") and after covid-19 also test requirements, masks, antiseptic etc.
18:46 schestowitz-TR; and risk that you cannot fly back tdue to getting infected at the destrination
18:47 Techrights-sec; flying ought to be banned, especially private jets
18:47 Techrights-sec; budget planes == price dumping to kill train travel
18:47 Techrights-sec; ack
18:49 schestowitz-TR; it did not occur to me that weeding out investment in rail/trains was a goal
18:49 schestowitz-TR; rails move a low more slowly, but are more spacious and make up for the speed becausse boardinfg i s faster and there's no takeoff/landing
18:49 schestowitz-TR; some people here take planes for distances that a train covers in just under 2 hours
18:49 schestowitz-TR; the trains here usually leave and arrive on time
18:49 schestowitz-TR; unlike planes
18:49 Techrights-sec; as far as I know that is one of the main goals -- kill competition either
18:49 Techrights-sec; financially or by establising unproductive travel habits
18:55 schestowitz-TR; s/rails move/carriages move/
18:55 schestowitz-TR; I've not taken a train or plane or bus since jan 2020
18:55 schestowitz-TR; I did take a taxi though
19:56 schestowitz-TR; going by the little data we do have,
19:56 schestowitz-TR; preparing a quick post
19:56 schestowitz-TR; see draft
19:56 schestowitz-TR; I think there's something interesting in this data
19:56 schestowitz-TR; afaik, china makes no territorial claims to mongolia
19:57 Techrights-sec; ack
19:57 Techrights-sec; the rate of change would be very important to note there also
19:57 Techrights-sec; AFAIK the China - Mongolia war is at a slow simmer, never having really stopped
19:57 Techrights-sec; It's certainly not all-out genocide like has been against Tibet for 7 decades
19:57 Techrights-sec; Also China is biting of chunks of Kashmir, India and also bits of Pakistan
19:57 Techrights-sec; ^off
19:58 schestowitz-TR; adding words on pace of expansion
19:58 Techrights-sec; In the TM capsule, e.g.
19:58 Techrights-sec; gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/06/Raspberry_Pi_Projects_and_News.gmi
19:58 Techrights-sec; how should the previous and next links be marked or arranged?
19:58 Techrights-sec; Next first and then previous second or as it is now which is previous first
19:58 Techrights-sec; and next second? I'd like to avoid tagging them with unicode since that
19:58 Techrights-sec; screws up screen readers
20:02 schestowitz-TR; re gemini,
20:02 schestowitz-TR; good question
20:02 schestowitz-TR; I wondered the same
20:02 schestowitz-TR; let me check again
20:02 schestowitz-TR; if instead of unicode you added "next: " it would lead to ambiguity
20:02 schestowitz-TR; as we have no #bold# and there would be
20:02 Techrights-sec;
20:02 Techrights-sec; ack
20:02 Techrights-sec; ok
20:02 schestowitz-TR; Next: Security: ... . ..
20:02 schestowitz-TR; I'm trying to think how other capsules dealt with it
20:02 schestowitz-TR; I saw some that draw a calendar with numbers in it
20:02 schestowitz-TR; gimme a moment, checking...
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20:08 schestowitz-TR; trying to locate an example I had in mind
20:08 schestowitz-TR; but search in geminispsace is very limited
20:08 schestowitz-TR; how about [NEXT]
20:08 schestowitz-TR; and [PREV]
20:08 schestowitz-TR; I suppose you saw the NYTimes article on how WWW tortures blind people
20:08 schestowitz-TR; I found it in RSS and then saw you had already sent it to me days earlier
20:09 schestowitz-TR; I saw it last weekend, i.e. july
20:10 Techrights-sec; I'm thinking that it may make the most senst to have the next link first
20:10 Techrights-sec; and then the previous link second, the reverse of what we have now
20:10 Techrights-sec; that's got symbols in it, some punctuation might be less problematic
20:10 Techrights-sec; next: next,
20:10 Techrights-sec; not yet
20:10 Techrights-sec; just the summary a while ago
20:10 Techrights-sec; I can recheck, It was last month, yes, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/technology/ai-web-accessibility.html
20:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws - The New York Times
20:14 schestowitz-TR; don't mean to sound mean, but relatives I speak to talk about ear pain after the shots and/or infection
20:14 schestowitz-TR; I think a hearing crisis may be looming
20:14 schestowitz-TR; my uncle who was hospitalised (he'll be back home soon, he mailed me last night from hospital)
20:14 schestowitz-TR; lost a lot of his hearing in his 70s
20:14 schestowitz-TR; when I visited him in 2006 in Davie he was already struggling to hear, even with a piece on
20:14 schestowitz-TR; iirc, he blamed it on military service
20:14 schestowitz-TR; eardrum damage
20:14 schestowitz-TR; rianne's sense of hearing is noticably worse than mine, eyesight it's the opposite
20:14 schestowitz-TR; esp. for long distances
20:14 schestowitz-TR; prob. due to excessive screen time
20:14 schestowitz-TR; If I started driving again, I might need to have lenses/glasses (which I never had)
20:16 schestowitz-TR; if the shots started leading to tooth decay and people's teeth started falling off, there would
20:16 schestowitz-TR; be outrage, not gaslighting by COVID profiteers-connected media
20:16 Techrights-sec; likely
20:16 schestowitz-TR; people's ears are fewer and more important than one's teeth
20:16 schestowitz-TR; you can get flase teeth, you cannot get artificial hearing
20:16 schestowitz-TR; if the shots started leading to tooth decay and people's teeth started falling off, there would
20:16 schestowitz-TR; be outrage, not gaslighting by COVID profiteers-connected media
20:18 *Techrights-sec2 is now known as ts2
20:19 Techrights-sec; the compression artifacts from the mobile phones are far worse than anything
20:19 Techrights-sec; else since they distort the sound and compound the damage to the sound quality
20:19 Techrights-sec; with each lossy algorithm. Some callers are completely unintelligible
20:19 Techrights-sec; .
20:20 Techrights-sec; nope
20:22 Techrights-sec; The worst part (IMO) about the vaccine profiteering is that it seems that they
20:22 Techrights-sec; are exploiting the situation and maybe using some of the profit to block
20:22 Techrights-sec; development of far more effective vaccines. Work on those seems to have
20:22 Techrights-sec; slammed to a halt while a tiny handful of companies colled 25 EUR per patient per dose
20:22 Techrights-sec; for vaccines which don't actually halt the spread
20:25 schestowitz-TR; I agree 100%
20:25 schestowitz-TR; had I not worked from home, my choices would likely be different
20:26 schestowitz-TR; rianne has just made a very special tea, bought a 1L teapot of it
20:26 schestowitz-TR; *brought
20:26 schestowitz-TR; we probably use up a lot of water just sanitising things
20:26 schestowitz-TR; but seeing the (aforementioned infection, death, and hospitalisation rates) facts, it would make no sense to curtails this
20:26 schestowitz-TR; not or to go BACK to town, given that it was 10 times safer 2 summers ago
20:28 schestowitz; https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/vitamins-and-supplements/supplements/collagen/best-collagen-drinks/
20:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.hollandandbarrett.com | 9 Of The Best Collagen Drinks 2022 | Holland & Barrett
20:28 schestowitz-TR; my bad, it is not tea
20:28 schestowitz-TR; she has mader it for day
20:28 schestowitz-TR; *days
20:28 schestowitz-TR; https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/the-health-hub/vitamins-and-supplements/supplements/collagen/best-collagen-drinks/
20:28 Techrights-sec; ack
20:31 schestowitz-TR; the fallback plan has been good diet, supplements, testing when needed
20:31 schestowitz-TR; I want to show you something, I'll communicatew it to you in a blog...
20:31 schestowitz; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen
20:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Collagen - Wikipedia
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20:39 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> UK's COVID-19 Testing Rates Falling to New Lows in Spite of Deaths and Hospitalisations Being About 10 Times Worse Than Summer of 2020 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/06/covid-testing-rates-new-lows/
20:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UKs COVID-19 Testing Rates Falling to New Lows in Spite of Deaths and Hospitalisations Being About 10 Times Worse Than Summer of 2020
20:39 schestowitz-TR; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen
20:39 schestowitz-TR; I think she bought it based on something she read
20:39 schestowitz-TR; I'm making a meme too now
20:42 Techrights-sec; also should non-Gemini links have markers?
20:44 schestowitz-TR; that would help if not too much work/trouble
20:44 schestowitz-TR; the capsule was submitted today
20:44 schestowitz-TR; but not any rss feed
20:44 schestowitz-TR; Google picked up the new site without any intervention
20:44 schestowitz-TR; I assume it saw links in irc logs and started processing pages
20:44 schestowitz-TR; at least they say it's alpha at the very top
20:44 schestowitz-TR; after cloning the pi to another usb stick I'll sort out IPFS
20:44 schestowitz-TR; I want ipfs to work on another surface if possivle
20:45 schestowitz-TR; gemini is very light i/o-wise
20:47 Techrights-sec; ok
20:49 schestowitz-TR; "I got into Gemini more or less at the culmination of my techno-minimalism phase. I'd gotten annoyed with "bloat" and considered the WWW a massive disaster." gemini://samsai.eu/gemlog/2022-08-06-heartbeat-signal.gemini
20:49 Techrights-sec; ack
20:49 schestowitz-TR; I've finished many of the weekend tasks already
20:49 schestowitz-TR; so can do projects and such
20:49 schestowitz-TR; I've finished many of the weekend tasks already
20:49 schestowitz-TR; so can do projects and such
21:04 schestowitz-TR; got the changes showing
21:04 schestowitz-TR; + $text = " ".$text;
21:04 schestowitz-TR; ytalk does not handle those symbols well
21:04 schestowitz-TR; just looked at all 6 new blocks
21:04 schestowitz-TR; @@ -842,7 +842,12 @@ sub xhtml_to_gemtext {
21:04 schestowitz-TR; trailing space atr end of third line:
21:04 schestowitz-TR; + $text = " ".$text;
21:04 schestowitz-TR; I only noticed because I know how strict TR's repo is
21:04 schestowitz-TR; I have a script to automate removing trailing spaces
21:04 schestowitz_log; REMOVE TRAILING SPACE: sed -i 's/[[:space:]]*$//' functions.php
21:07 Techrights-sec; ack
21:07 Techrights-sec; the commit message might be more useful than the code itself in ytalk
21:07 Techrights-sec; there feels like there is a bit of redunancy there, I think it is consistent
21:07 Techrights-sec; enough that it can be split off into a function
21:07 Techrights-sec; ok the hooks never get checked out / cloned along with the rest of the
21:07 Techrights-sec; repository, that's one check that always has to be redone
21:07 Techrights-sec; It'll be checked automatically
21:07 Techrights-sec; One can set up a lot of hooks but they can easily get lost, destroyed, or
21:07 Techrights-sec; overwritten
21:07 Techrights-sec; The pre-commit hook now checks for various whitespace problems including
21:07 Techrights-sec; trailing whitespace and will block the commit until they are fixed, but
21:07 Techrights-sec; as mentioned hooks can get lost, destroyed, or overwritten all too easily
21:07 Techrights-sec; Hmm. Git won't allow .git/hooks/pre-commit to be added to the repository
21:07 Techrights-sec; So this problem is fixed for now but could likely happen again in the future.
21:07 Techrights-sec; when a new clone is made.
21:12 schestowitz-TR; I am grateful that I get real-time alerts about pushes and then, at my time of convenience, I run one
21:12 schestowitz-TR; command to see what was changed in the window adjacement to ytalk
21:12 schestowitz-TR; it's a good cli-based collaboration tool and runs over ssh
21:12 schestowitz-TR; with deers in the background (translucent terminals *deer
21:12 schestowitz-TR; *adjacent
21:12 schestowitz-TR; I will refine it some more over time, it seems like something that's worth investing in
21:12 schestowitz-TR; btw, this morning I checked all the gz files (backups)
21:12 schestowitz-TR; all are fine, that problem was qemu when i/o was very high
21:12 schestowitz-TR; kaniini upgraded qemu
21:12 schestowitz-TR; so I could cross out (intend) this TODO off my list
21:14 schestowitz-TR; all those backups are made around 4:30am
21:14 schestowitz-TR; the tuxmachines temote backup is around 5pm
21:14 schestowitz-TR; local at 5:10am
21:14 schestowitz-TR; to cover 12-hour priods
21:14 schestowitz-TR; I will stillr evert back to 27/6/22 version (TM) at some point
21:14 schestowitz-TR; after making static copies of all nodes after that date, then redirect the requests
21:14 schestowitz-TR; as some old nodes got damaged with the DB recoveries
21:20 Techrights-sec; ack
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