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00:15 schestowitz-TR; ----
00:15 schestowitz-TR; 0:00 OK, I've cleaned feeds except patents, now checking the timeline a bit. Seeing that the office visit
00:15 schestowitz-TR; was in July 2019, new company incorporated 13 months earlier, they were very evasdive about the dtails
00:15 schestowitz-TR; as to why. Correction: it was incorporated Orc 2017. *Oct
00:15 schestowitz-TR; With 1 (one) pound paid in, maybe around the time of separation/divorce
00:15 schestowitz-TR; 24 Sept. 2019 address changed to USA
00:15 schestowitz-TR; That's 10 or so days after RMS slandered in media
00:15 schestowitz-TR; I don't know is US has a similar registry for business or rather if it is public for all to see
00:15 schestowitz-TR; but this was around the time I ran "Mansion of Pedophilia" seires and then we were told about
00:15 schestowitz-TR; "First US client" (you know who)
00:15 schestowitz-TR; checking when the abuse from SsrisGas peaked (email trail). #SarinGas
00:15 schestowitz-TR; Wow! That was end of Augist/Start of Sept. 2019, so some alignment there too
00:45 schestowitz-TR; Totally ridiculous https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI
00:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | The Man That Uploaded 2 Million Videos To YouTube - Invidious
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08:00 schestowitz; This morning all gz files were malformed, but there was no output sent to the file. I suppose the real goal should be to avoid the issue, not just detect it. Any thoughts? I look up info online atm, already tried manpages
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08:07 Techrights-sec; ack
08:07 Techrights-sec; yes borh avoid the problem /and/ detect it if it does occur.
08:07 Techrights-sec; It would take a little more space but the gzip can be done separately.
08:09 schestowitz-TR; I ran, by accident, the command you now see in tmux. This accidental one does in fact output errors to the file, for the fi
08:09 schestowitz-TR; orst time since April 22nd
08:09 schestowitz-TR; There is something about > that gzip and gunzip treat specially for streams that are the compressed
08:09 schestowitz-TR; or uncompressed data
08:16 Techrights-sec; ok
08:16 Techrights-sec; $ gzip -t drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz; gzip -t wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz; gzip -t wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.g
08:16 Techrights-sec; z
08:16 Techrights-sec; gzip: drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
08:16 Techrights-sec; gzip: wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
08:16 Techrights-sec; gzip: wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
08:16 Techrights-sec; modified ~/bin/get_dbs.sh, running manually
08:17 schestowitz-TR; yes, I noticed that all of today's are not valid
08:17 schestowitz-TR; what I cannot understand is how to make it properly send the output to the file
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I test now with a very broken command that somehow does write to the file
08:17 schestowitz-TR; there is some different way in how gzip handles standard io
08:18 Techrights-sec; /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 14: /home/boycottn/wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output error
08:18 Techrights-sec; too slow ?
08:18 Techrights-sec; the ionice might be throttling it beyond what part of the script can
08:18 Techrights-sec; tolerate?
08:20 schestowitz-TR; we could try removing some of the nice-ing and see if that was a contributing factor
08:20 schestowitz-TR; it was used when the number of codes was like 4 times smaller, evenm 8 times smaller
08:21 schestowitz-TR; iirc, on TM local we never saw issues with the gz files and the nice-ing may not be there at all
08:21 schestowitz-TR; that might still not explain why only on Jan 6th the problem started
08:22 Techrights-sec; the nice might be ok but the ionice might be the problem, giving
08:22 Techrights-sec; the script a test without the ionice on the redirection
08:23 schestowitz-TR; can you try that now? Maybe that's the issue, it has always been mysterioud, inc. the timing,
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and it meant that I had to restore manually another 24 hours of TM when the latest available backup
08:24 schestowitz-TR; was a bad file
08:25 Techrights-sec; there are still IO problems:
08:25 Techrights-sec; /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 23: /home/boycottn/wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output er
08:25 Techrights-sec; ror
08:25 Techrights-sec; /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 32: /home/boycottn/drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output error
08:25 Techrights-sec; "Input/Output errors during filesystem access attempts generally mean hardware issues."
08:25 Techrights-sec; see dmesg output
08:26 schestowitz-TR; I think the issue started more than a month before the physical disk was replaced
08:26 schestowitz-TR; so maybe something at the host level, like hv?
08:26 Techrights-sec; see dmesg output
08:26 Techrights-sec; yes but perhaos the drive is failing or something else going bad
08:26 Techrights-sec; # dmesg | less
08:26 Techrights-sec; [7438905.114373] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 1159255952 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 197 prio
08:26 Techrights-sec; class 0
08:26 Techrights-sec; [7438905.199835] XFS (vda3): writeback error on sector 1159085712
08:26 Techrights-sec; for example
08:31 schestowitz-TR; I can see lots of them, yes
08:32 Techrights-sec; /dev/vda3 is accessible via hv
08:32 Techrights-sec; however the standard diagnostic tools are not available within HV so there
08:32 Techrights-sec; is not much we can do without kaniini, most likely
08:32 schestowitz-TR; I am going to ask politely
08:38 Techrights-sec; thanks, I am loathe to bother hi but it does need a check
09:10 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> IBM continues to perpetuate the "Great Resignation" while laying off a huge number of workers, against their will. https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/5/it-hiring-assumptions-truths-current-talent-shortage
09:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-enterprisersproject.com | IT hiring: Assumptions and truths about the current talent shortage | The Enterprisers Project
09:10 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- enterprisersproject.com | IT hiring: Assumptions and truths about the current talent shortage | The Enterprisers Project
09:10 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> IBM did have talent, but it had to pay decent salaries to such people, so it laid them off instead.
10:28 Techrights-sec; IBM is similar to most medium and large companies in that way
10:28 schestowitz-TR; [07:46] <techrights-news> IBM Still Suing Companies Using Software Patents, Still Paying for Puff Pieces Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164625
10:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | IBM Still Suing Companies Using Software Patents, Still Paying for Puff Pieces | Tux Machines
10:30 schestowitz-TR; I thought about doing an article/video on that matter, but it would feel like repetition
10:30 schestowitz-TR; because several times in the past we mentioned how IBM had resorted to that, even
10:30 schestowitz-TR; after taking over Red Hat
10:30 schestowitz-TR; imagine working for such a company, insisting that's about "Software Freedom"
10:30 schestowitz-TR; no wonder lxo left
10:30 schestowitz-TR; iirc, they also impose slack on all staff
10:32 Techrights-sec; way too many people are exploited during the firing process and tricked
10:32 Techrights-sec; or extortedd into signing nondisparagement clauses in their termination
10:32 Techrights-sec; contract, so while there is an enormous, and I mean really enormous,
10:32 Techrights-sec; pool of people who would be in position to report first hand on the
10:32 Techrights-sec; problem few to none can legally. MY guess is that the cluases can't don't
10:32 Techrights-sec; hold up in court any better than the non-compete clauses did.
10:32 Techrights-sec; However, once people ar elready beaten and down they are not willing to
10:32 Techrights-sec; be that first test case and get their lives dragge through the courts
10:37 Techrights-sec; I'm not keen on the naming of that proprietary messaging service because
10:37 Techrights-sec; I think it rode in on name confusion and exploited the good reputation
10:37 Techrights-sec; of Slackware, which was and still is refered to as "Slack"
10:41 schestowitz-TR; we are going to record our call on thursday
10:41 schestowitz-TR; there are at least 3 cliennts I do not wish to work for
10:41 schestowitz-TR; and have repeatedly complained about it for months
10:41 schestowitz-TR; but having said that, the job as a whole was easy money
10:41 schestowitz-TR; we reckon there's nothing to lose hearing what's on offer
10:41 schestowitz-TR; rather than resigning earlier this year
10:41 schestowitz-TR; this sort of job, for TWO people, working from homr, is impossible to
10:41 schestowitz-TR; even find, let alone get
10:41 schestowitz-TR; I have a question I could never answer, nor did I ask
10:41 schestowitz-TR; how does an NDA work in practice?
10:41 schestowitz-TR; if a boss signs some NDA, who does that apply to? Him? The company? Me?
10:41 schestowitz-TR; how the f* do you make mere knowledge a "crime"? Like "trade secrets"?
10:42 Techrights-sec; yes best to wait until they make their move, just my recommendation in
10:42 Techrights-sec; advance, is to *not* sign anything stifling the ability to communicate
10:42 Techrights-sec; what they have and are doing to staff
10:42 Techrights-sec; One trick is to ask for an electronic copy to take home and then
10:42 Techrights-sec; edit and print out and sign a modified version
10:42 Techrights-sec; NDAs are mostl self-enforced
10:45 schestowitz-TR; thanks, another question
10:45 schestowitz-TR; how the f* is it considered "normal" to tell someone that in NINE days there will be such a meeting
10:45 schestowitz-TR; without going into the pertinent details? Not that it borhters me as much as .... here
10:45 schestowitz-TR; *her
10:45 schestowitz-TR; though let me put it like thus:
10:45 schestowitz-TR; since 2019 we had some incompetence
10:45 schestowitz-TR; this year the lying peaked
10:45 schestowitz-TR; and that's why we wanted to quit
10:45 schestowitz-TR; but the job did not get more difficult
10:45 schestowitz-TR; and we checked around for a bit about similar things elsewhere
10:45 schestowitz-TR; found nothing
10:45 schestowitz-TR; I very much doubt many companies would pay 50-100 per hour of net work, from home..
10:47 Techrights-sec; has the lying peaked ? Or has it only reached new heights on the way
10:47 Techrights-sec; to even mor elying?
10:47 Techrights-sec; Sorry to be cynical
10:51 schestowitz-TR; no, this is a fair point (slash question)
10:51 schestowitz-TR; evasive bosses who moreover do bad things
10:51 schestowitz-TR; (I had no restraint telling what I think to them)
10:51 schestowitz-TR; even if at risk to my job, I did not care that that point
10:51 schestowitz-TR; it is a multi-faceted issue
10:51 schestowitz-TR; a lot of "reverse-engineering" in the company
10:51 schestowitz-TR; speculatioon and test cases, to see the if, why, how...
10:51 schestowitz-TR; and getting affirmative answers is like drawing blood from a rock
10:51 schestowitz-TR; because even when you get an answer it can be a lie
10:51 schestowitz-TR; if you get an answer at all
10:51 schestowitz-TR; on a per hour (pro rata) basis, we're probably best paid in the company
10:51 schestowitz-TR; and losses don't affect us as we are not shareholders
10:51 schestowitz-TR; but professional pride has reached new lows
10:51 schestowitz-TR; with that, new degree of opaqueness
10:51 schestowitz-TR; so since last year the "maybe we should quit" chrous came both from me and rianne
10:51 schestowitz-TR; in alternation, depending on the day or straw
10:53 Techrights-sec; opacity is always a problem, but is more a symptom and enabler of much
10:53 Techrights-sec; larger problems than one in and of itself
10:53 Techrights-sec; you might check with your union representative about strategy; there
10:53 Techrights-sec; may be more compensation if the employer makes the first move rather
10:53 Techrights-sec; than quiting first; furthermore (yet again) watch out that they don't
10:53 Techrights-sec; try to extort some kinds of unreasonable concessions on the way out
10:53 Techrights-sec; Are union dues tax deducatble there in the UK?
10:55 schestowitz-TR; are you suggesting I reach out to one this week?
10:55 schestowitz-TR; mind you, there are gaps in information here, likely by design
10:55 schestowitz-TR; but someone with extensive experiment in uk labour law can help
10:55 schestowitz-TR; (side issue, the company would likely say they're a US company now)
10:55 schestowitz-TR; (I did not sign any US contract, but maybe they want to sink the debt-saddled UK one)
10:55 schestowitz-TR; (debt burying, to avoid liabilities of all sorts)
10:55 Techrights-sec; If I were in that situation, I would investigate joining and, depending
10:55 Techrights-sec; on the circumstances, give consideration to encouraging others to do so
10:55 Techrights-sec; *afterwards* as well.
11:00 schestowitz-TR; this seems *extremely* improbable in our case
11:00 schestowitz-TR; though a good friend once asked me something to that effect
11:00 schestowitz-TR; when his employer was having issues
11:00 schestowitz-TR; not sure if he was a shareholder
11:00 schestowitz-TR; then again, maybe I signed something in 2019 without
11:00 schestowitz-TR; checking carefully what it said
11:00 schestowitz-TR; but the regsitration suggests only one person associated
11:00 schestowitz-TR; so again, that is extremely unlikely
11:00 schestowitz-TR; the purpose of reminting was likely to remove the ex-wife from
11:00 schestowitz-TR; control or stake in the company
11:00 schestowitz-TR; based on the incorporation date and separation
11:00 schestowitz-TR; the idea was to move away all the same staff to a new shell with a similar
11:00 schestowitz-TR; name
11:00 schestowitz-TR; and then discard the old one
11:00 schestowitz-TR; let me check something... I want to see the status of the older one
11:00 Techrights-sec; ack
11:02 schestowitz-TR; (mind you, we are not resentful. This morning we estimated that pre-tax they paid about 320k in salaries)
11:02 schestowitz-TR; that did help towards many things, including our sites
11:02 schestowitz-TR; the key thinbg now is, paving the next route
11:02 schestowitz-TR; within a small window of time
11:04 Techrights-sec; ack
11:04 Techrights-sec; yes lining up several alternatives and exits does not necessarily mean
11:04 Techrights-sec; having to act upon them
11:07 schestowitz-TR; mayeb I should also phone the pension provider
11:08 Techrights-sec; yes how portable is the pension and can they loot it?
11:11 schestowitz-TR; I found the "old" company
11:11 schestowitz-TR; it still 'operates'
11:11 schestowitz-TR; going through the docs now
11:12 schestowitz-TR; still uses old and invalid address
11:12 schestowitz-TR; no longer valid
11:12 schestowitz-TR; no cash in bank
11:12 schestowitz-TR; net laiabilities 138k 2020, 139.8 2021
11:12 schestowitz-TR; so growing a bitBBBBBBBBBAAABBBBBBBBBBBB
11:12 schestowitz-TR; so that is likely "in addition" to the "new" company
11:12 schestowitz-TR; maybe the move to the US was not just dodging two ex wives and 4 girld (kids)
11:12 schestowitz-TR; but also dodging uk ddebt
11:12 schestowitz-TR; a little john mcaffee ;))
11:52 Techrights-sec; ack
11:53 schestowitz-TR; this is dated Dec 24th, 2021
11:53 schestowitz-TR; for fianncial year ending march 31 2021
11:53 schestowitz-TR; ok, got off a call, 25 mins
11:53 schestowitz-TR; pension company says it is safe from them
11:53 schestowitz-TR; and in the uk cashing in a pension cannot be done until 55
11:53 schestowitz-TR; they will also send out a stetement
11:53 schestowitz-TR; *statement
11:57 Techrights-sec; excellent
11:57 Techrights-sec; can you put into two pensions until 55 and then cashout both ?
11:59 schestowitz-TR; I already have it scattered into 3 providers
11:59 schestowitz-TR; but the one I spoke to is the latest
11:59 schestowitz-TR; I don't like that, consolidation is possible
11:59 schestowitz-TR; if I live super-frugal, maybe I can just about get to 55 but
11:59 schestowitz-TR; 1) assumes no inflation
11:59 schestowitz-TR; 2) 55 is for cashing in the lot, not actually receieving a monthly pension I assume
12:19 Techrights-sec; that and they cost > 250 k EUR up to 18 and more beyond,
12:19 Techrights-sec; s/cashout/receive pension/
12:21 Techrights-sec; :(
12:22 schestowitz-TR; the good thing is, I can do TM and TR "full time" under some conditions
12:22 schestowitz-TR; one of the joys of having no offspring
12:22 schestowitz-TR; haha, what a world
12:22 schestowitz-TR; just been on the phone with in law
12:22 schestowitz-TR; turnes out a relative has business issues
12:22 schestowitz-TR; I used thr word "insolvent"
12:22 schestowitz-TR; as the bank would not lend money
12:22 schestowitz-TR; so much economic uncertainty at the moment
12:22 schestowitz-TR; I read some articles about inflation this morning (in Daily Links already)
12:23 schestowitz-TR; you have to wonder if this becomes a world
12:23 schestowitz-TR; of, "just take whatever is available"
12:23 schestowitz-TR; that would of course suck
12:24 Techrights-sec; that is one of the goals AFIAK
12:24 Techrights-sec; one of the ideas that MBAs seem to subscribe to is that everything must
12:24 Techrights-sec; suck
12:24 Techrights-sec; If all employees had offices and windows then it would be harder to rub
12:24 Techrights-sec; their noses in the differences
12:26 schestowitz-TR; I certainly hope it's not "end of an era(TM)" for us
12:26 schestowitz-TR; in the sense that we change the projectioms
12:26 schestowitz-TR; as I said, we and the sites are financially safe
12:26 schestowitz-TR; but not for a lifetime
12:26 Techrights-sec; That's most important
12:31 schestowitz-TR; here is the thing, people talk about "recession" cyclles
12:31 schestowitz-TR; as if upswings are inevitable and guaranteed
12:31 schestowitz-TR; I don't subscrive to that
12:31 schestowitz-TR; as most people never recorered from 2008
12:31 schestowitz-TR; they just emerged again with new reality
12:31 schestowitz-TR; if I hibernate and dul the sites full time from age 40 to 50, no assurance at
12:31 schestowitz-TR; 50 I can just do work resumption
12:31 schestowitz-TR; 10 years is a very long time
12:31 schestowitz-TR; and many big decisions are due this week
12:31 schestowitz-TR; a relative is trying to become a yoke on us
12:31 schestowitz-TR; not even a relatrive that I like
12:31 schestowitz-TR; but sometimes the person drowning hangs on to a floating person whom you
12:31 schestowitz-TR; care about and would like to defend from drowning, that's a collectivism effecf
12:33 Techrights-sec; ack
12:36 schestowitz-TR; this past wneekend we sat down taking stock of "asssets" inc. provisional
12:36 schestowitz-TR; if inflation rates down go back to 2-3% per annum, then wealth is basically being r
12:36 schestowitz-TR; robbed, collectively, to sustain the phat cats
12:36 schestowitz-TR; and it's a universal tax more or less
12:36 schestowitz-TR; we noticed that banks are back to savings accounts with "saner" interets rates
12:36 schestowitz-TR; but inflation is like 4 times higher
12:36 schestowitz-TR; must sustain the graft and musk+ksa buying social control media firehoses
12:36 schestowitz-TR; :-)
12:36 schestowitz-TR; I don't support #Inflation is trending in Twitter ;-)
12:41 schestowitz-TR; aggregate intest, case study for cumulative groiwth=100*107*107*107*107
12:41 schestowitz-TR; me gets calculator to see what % rate is double in 10 years
12:41 schestowitz-TR; 31% in 4 years50% in 6
12:41 schestowitz-TR; assuming 7% inflation rate
12:41 schestowitz-TR; 195% in 10 years
12:41 schestowitz-TR; sorry, I don't have enough for a savinga "accoubnt" in bermuda or cayman
12:41 schestowitz-TR; along with billg ;-)
12:41 schestowitz-TR; So I'm doomed to forever labour
12:42 Techrights-sec; yes and "savings" accounts have not only basically 0% interest but
12:42 Techrights-sec; are peppered with service charges and fees, often for no value added
12:42 Techrights-sec; that brings up the possiblity that inflation is used to keep the general
12:42 Techrights-sec; population below a certain economic threshold; above a certain level
12:42 Techrights-sec; of assets, inflation has little to no effect, but for your average slob
12:42 Techrights-sec; it is killer, especially pensioners
12:43 schestowitz-TR; assets increase in value
12:43 schestowitz-TR; (most types)
12:43 schestowitz-TR; they control which one "gain" in value anyway
12:43 schestowitz-TR; so it is a deeply rigged game
12:43 schestowitz-TR; the best gameplay is to shave expenses to bare minimum
12:43 schestowitz-TR; like heavily discounted food and minimal use of energy
12:43 schestowitz-TR; but then too there are limits to how low one can go
12:49 Techrights-sec; quadrupled would be a small increase compared to the real situation;
12:49 Techrights-sec; realestate speculators got in on the market around the time
12:49 Techrights-sec; the dotcom crash was coming
12:51 schestowitz-TR; pensioners are doomed, even EPO pensioners
12:51 schestowitz-TR; in 20 years a 7% interest rate means prices quadruple!
12:51 schestowitz-TR; and get this
12:51 schestowitz-TR; maybe their sole asset is a home
12:51 schestowitz-TR; and it too increases in price
12:51 schestowitz-TR; what then?
12:51 schestowitz-TR; sell the home
12:51 schestowitz-TR; then what?
12:51 schestowitz-TR; you do need a home, they all quadrupled in price ;-)
12:51 schestowitz-TR; so you shuffle one marble for another
12:51 schestowitz-TR; of course this means "wonderful" western system means more rantal
12:51 schestowitz-TR; car, home, phone on "plan" (installment)
12:51 schestowitz-TR; so that few people/companies own everything
12:51 schestowitz-TR; the Murcian Drimmmmmm!
12:51 schestowitz-TR; (I forgot to mention reverse-mortgage/remortgage, I first heard of the concept
12:51 schestowitz-TR; less than a decade ago, almopst like it was a new invention... how to rob people off
12:52 schestowitz-TR; their inheritance, too)
12:52 schestowitz-TR; remember we cycle past tons of EMPTY NEW homes...
12:52 schestowitz-TR; still with plastic across the windows
12:52 schestowitz-TR; maybe they reckon it's worth what it says on papere
12:52 schestowitz-TR; even if nobody buys or can buy
12:52 schestowitz-TR; in reality, the owneres might be foreign and that merely increases the price of homes
12:52 schestowitz-TR; harming everyone
12:52 schestowitz-TR; but it's good for the bubble
12:52 Techrights-sec; don't forget us-style college fees coupled with inescapable loans
12:52 Techrights-sec; yes that seems to be the scam, the regulations in place seem to favor
12:52 Techrights-sec; letting them stand empty for years rather than reducing prices
12:54 schestowitz-TR; these illuminating things aren't the "trending" topics in twitter
12:54 schestowitz-TR; maybve some pretender slapped some "comedian"
12:54 schestowitz-TR; I will discuss this later here
12:54 schestowitz-TR; iirc, here too uni fees went through the roof
12:54 schestowitz-TR; hence the 2010 student protestsand now those unis barely guarantee any job at all
12:54 Techrights-sec; ack
12:55 Techrights-sec; around here not only is there no guaranetee of a job, a "degree" is
12:55 Techrights-sec; no guarantee of an education; one has to fight against the university
12:55 Techrights-sec; to get that; what's provided is daycare and neither education nor training
12:55 Techrights-sec;
12:56 schestowitz-TR; true. i will leave you to it. will get back to posting links now, at least we had a constructive chat
12:56 Techrights-sec; yes
13:43 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Venezuela should not waste any time on Twitter. Twitter is s total shithole controlled by mass murderers (who shop down journalists to pieces) and total shits. Venezuela is several classes above that. https://globalvoices.org/2022/05/07/what-does-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-mean-for-venezuelan-twitter/
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13:43 schestowitz-TR; [13:39] <techrights-news> Having robbed billions of people worldwide, the looters (oligarchs) now fight to also own the means of communications to control what people think, hear, and say about them. Social CONTROL media. Repression by criminals.
13:43 schestowitz-TR; [13:41] <techrights-news> The alternative to Twitter is not Twitter. It's not another Twitter or something LIKE Twitter. Just abandon social control media. It's designed to MANIPULATE for the highest bidders (the rich).
14:34 schestowitz-TR; [14:33] <techrights-news> The biggest thieves do their theft "legally". The biggest crackers and biggest privacy violators likewise. We're meant not to think of clown computing as a massive, worldwide, complete data/system breach.
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15:27 schestowitz-TR; OTA
15:27 schestowitz-TR; :(
15:27 schestowitz-TR; some old videos and refs about red hat and patents are dead
15:27 schestowitz-TR; no way to resurrect them
15:27 schestowitz-TR; maybe groklaw is next
15:27 schestowitz-TR; it was down for several months
15:27 schestowitz-TR; even fairly recent sttuff like ms-red hat patent deal (2015)
15:27 schestowitz-TR; to provide consolation to myself
15:28 schestowitz-TR; at least it can increase trhe probability of people who turn to TR for info
15:28 schestowitz-TR; on these issues
15:28 schestowitz-TR; IF... I don't trust Gulag to help people
15:28 schestowitz-TR; they de-rank for age
15:28 schestowitz-TR; better if we teach people to avoid centralised search [sic] 'engines'
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17:32 Techrights-sec; yes Google deranks quickly for age, regardless of how authoritative or
17:32 Techrights-sec; important a site may be
17:32 Techrights-sec; Yacy was an attempt at a decentralized search engine
17:53 schestowitz-TR; I wanted to sya something else and forgot, though I left that aside for fear the scrollback would be
17:53 schestowitz-TR; exceeded
17:53 schestowitz-TR; Today the news is not TOO slow, I'm managing to keep TM quite busy
17:53 schestowitz-TR; TM busy -> TR Daily Links busy
17:53 schestowitz-TR; Maybe wht I wanted to see was that for 2 days the gemini updated did not run because of the lockfile
17:53 schestowitz-TR; when finally it ran it missed some posts from 7/5/2022 and I don't think there is a simple way to "readd"
17:53 schestowitz-TR; them
17:53 schestowitz-TR; but from now on I will check more carefully the lockfile
17:53 schestowitz-TR; for a few weeks it ran OK and I think messing about with planet to test things over and over again
17:53 schestowitz-TR; got it off balance :-)
17:53 schestowitz-TR; (re DT on YouTube, I am GLAD about it... shows how bad search can be and how "search as video
17:53 schestowitz-TR; monopoly" screws real hard workers... seeems like some dude running ffmpeg on autopiloit all
17:53 schestowitz-TR; day long had impunity)
17:56 Techrights-sec; checking
17:56 schestowitz-TR; > yes Google deranks quickly for age
17:56 schestowitz-TR; same as social control media. There's 0.0001% chance of people finding what you wrote 10 years ago and maybe 0.01% of them finding what you said a month ago
17:59 Techrights-sec; the RSS feed only goes back to the 6th. Are there any missing before that?
18:00 schestowitz-TR; if you check the front page, nothing from 7th and same in the daily "feeds", which are groups of artilces for that day
18:01 Techrights-sec; ok 7th is easily fixable. working...
18:03 schestowitz-TR; thanks!
18:03 schestowitz-TR; speaking of working, I do my last shift right now before the thurs meeting when we might throw in the towel
18:03 schestowitz-TR; I was in my 20s when I did my first first and even back then the job was easy, for rianne it's her longest-
18:03 schestowitz-TR; running job (9 years this year)
18:03 Techrights-sec; np
18:03 Techrights-sec; ack
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18:07 Techrights-sec; ok check gemini now
18:07 Techrights-sec; :18
18:08 schestowitz; fantastic gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/07/index.gmi
18:09 Techrights-sec; good catch
18:12 schestowitz-TR; gemini is not just gemini to use
18:12 schestowitz-TR; it has the gateway and it is leading to irc logs, bulltins, videos etc.
18:12 schestowitz-TR; apropos, yesterday I noticed that even oilder versions of lagrange let you play mp3s "in place"
18:12 schestowitz-TR; if they are served over gemini://
18:12 schestowitz-TR; /
18:12 Techrights-sec; I had wondered why the posts in gemini had quieted a little
18:12 Techrights-sec; :(
18:12 schestowitz-TR; skyjake responded to accusation of bloat over the weekend
18:12 schestowitz-TR; kristall ALMOST plays videos in place, using kpart
18:12 schestowitz-TR; though I worry about secuity ramifications
18:12 schestowitz-TR; they should use external programs for these
18:12 schestowitz-TR; that's how thunbderbird ends up adding a second copy of gecko to the PC
18:14 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Thinking of moving all my apps to a self hosted server" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi
18:15 schestowitz-TR; "I, too, deeply appreciate the Unix philosophy when it comes to system-level utilities and command line tools, but when it comes to GUI apps, and cross-platform ones at that, things get a lot less clear." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-05_bloat.gmi
18:15 Techrights-sec; by the way, using the string IBM will associate the article with IBM in the
18:15 Techrights-sec; search engines, to the extent that they can/will. ICBM prevents that.
18:16 schestowitz-TR; yes, this is why in articles I say IBM, at least in headlines
18:16 schestowitz-TR; the joke can be done once or twice in the body, with a link to IBM wiki, as I did over the weekend IIRC
18:19 schestowitz-TR; I think I have lowered our dependnace on search [sic] engines
18:19 schestowitz-TR; and on monopolistic browsers
18:19 schestowitz-TR; even the site is, in general, accessible with IE6 era browsers
18:19 schestowitz-TR; inc. video
18:19 schestowitz-TR; putting other protocols aside
18:19 schestowitz-TR; social cotrol media we never did... so nothing lost there
18:19 schestowitz-TR; many will keep whining about gulagtube and MusKSA Social
18:19 schestowitz-TR; as the impact there will drop, more so if they criticise
18:19 schestowitz-TR; the powers that be (no, its name is not JK Rowling)
18:19 Techrights-sec; ack
18:21 schestowitz-TR; 1960s: women should stay home
18:21 schestowitz-TR; 1970s: maybe women should not stay home
18:21 schestowitz-TR; 1980s: women should be equal
18:21 schestowitz-TR; 2000s: feminists are"nazis" (feminazis)
18:21 schestowitz-TR; 2020+: women who support women are "TERFs", "radicals"
18:21 schestowitz-TR; ...
18:21 schestowitz-TR; "let strike them with drones"
18:22 schestowitz-TR; MusKSA = owner of Twitter
18:22 schestowitz-TR; Twitter, can women drive?
18:23 schestowitz-TR; "99 KLOC (53 KLOC without libraries) is relatively ... a lot, for a Gemini client." gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/re-bloat.gmi
18:23 schestowitz-TR; found this literally one minute ago
18:24 schestowitz; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/latest/
18:24 schestowitz; I am going to enhance these pages a bit, navigation, timestamps etc.
18:30 Techrights-sec; ack
18:32 schestowitz-TR; among gopher enthsiasts it looks like gemini is "the new gopher" and there are spartan and titan also
18:32 schestowitz-TR; but with very scarce usage, maybe like gnunet, which (last when I checked) was still unready for production
18:32 schestowitz-TR; many "web giants" are in for a tough time
18:32 schestowitz-TR; seems the goal is to compete with tiktok etc. over minds
18:32 schestowitz-TR; not over money
18:33 schestowitz-TR; "TikTok is working on an answer: Project Texas, a plan to host data for U.S. customers on U.S. servers" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/opinion/tiktok-twitter-china-bytedance.html | Source: New York Times
18:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks - The New York Times
18:33 schestowitz-TR; like FB trying to get into china and zuck memorising some shit in mandarin
18:33 Techrights-sec; yes mindshare is what they are aiming at, specifically cognitive / attention
18:34 schestowitz-TR; "how authentication decisions will be made." https://restofworld.org/2022/where-anonymity-on-twitter-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death/
18:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-restofworld.org | Why Elon Musks ambition to have Twitter authenticate all real humans will get people killed - Rest of World
18:34 schestowitz-TR; credit score etc.
18:35 schestowitz-TR; gulag search not enough to farm minds and rank docility
18:36 schestowitz-TR; Larry Ellison, Saudi Regime, Musk... promoted here in the Bezos Post. The plutocrats take direct control of the communications of so many people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/05/musk-twitter-financing-ellison/
18:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | Musk lines up more than $7 billion in investor financing for Twitter deal - The Washington Post
18:36 schestowitz-TR; Trump try to give Ellison TikTok on the plate, not sure if that ever materialised
18:37 Techrights-sec; FB does that
18:37 Techrights-sec; ack
18:38 schestowitz-TR; experiment complete
18:38 schestowitz-TR; like with bitcoin
18:38 schestowitz-TR; handover to owner signed off
18:38 schestowitz-TR; making an exit
18:39 schestowitz; navigation, timestamp etc. added to gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/latest/
18:39 schestowitz; will add some more things before git commit
18:39 Techrights-sec; yep
18:40 Techrights-sec; ack
18:41 schestowitz-TR; fwiw, the only time twitter did make some profit was the year when it drove people AND
18:41 schestowitz-TR; developers OFF the platform
18:41 schestowitz-TR; so from a biz model POV it was doomed to fail
18:41 schestowitz-TR; Twitter 2018 (August they killed off the APIs) is GulagTube 2021
18:48 schestowitz-TR; TR is so prolific in geminispace that campcom et al add a link to the daily lump instead of all individual posts
18:48 schestowitz-TR; I should sort the result by criteria other than alphabet, which I do just so that uniq can annul adjacent dupes
18:48 schestowitz-TR; this leaves a daily archive bdhind it
18:48 schestowitz-TR; :-)
18:48 schestowitz-TR; I saw your push in real time. Nice!
18:48 Techrights-sec; :)
18:58 schestowitz-TR; gnu uniq has an option to compare (or ignore) only N chars in line
18:58 schestowitz-TR; but not N words (like URL)
18:58 schestowitz-TR; I want to eliminate dupes
18:58 schestowitz-TR; I was thinking of cut | uniq
18:58 schestowitz-TR; but then I lose the bits I want to keep
18:58 Techrights-sec; "" 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent. ""
18:58 Techrights-sec; sort | uniq
18:58 Techrights-sec; -k can sort by 'field'
18:58 Techrights-sec; awk | sort | uniq ?
18:58 Techrights-sec; or awk with an associative array?
19:01 schestowitz-TR; difficulty steammping from the issue that different sources have overlaps
19:01 schestowitz-TR; and they use different anchor text for the same URL
19:01 schestowitz-TR; there must be some trick...
19:01 schestowitz-TR; if all URLs were of predicted length, uniq.. wait, I can try -f, but it's the opposite order
19:05 schestowitz-TR; *stemming (bad typo)
19:05 schestowitz-TR; --skip-field= would have worked if the anchor came before the URL
19:05 schestowitz-TR; stack overflow shows someone asking the same
19:05 Techrights-sec; xmlstarlet would be the bare mimum possible for parsing HTML
19:05 Techrights-sec; that is a real parser and a real parser is neede for the task
19:05 schestowitz-TR; gemini is not parsed like sgml though
19:08 Techrights-sec; gemini is more or less unparsable
19:08 Techrights-sec; it's terminal stage data format
19:12 schestowitz-TR; they drop a hint in "rev"
19:12 schestowitz-TR; so I can compare the url written from end to start
19:12 schestowitz-TR; then rev it back at the end
19:12 schestowitz-TR; trying....
19:12 schestowitz-TR; heh, now I have another issue before after => URL who knows how man "fields" exist... it's free form text for ancho
19:12 Techrights-sec; yep
19:26 Techrights-sec; patterns are neede to "parse" Gemini ^=>\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$
19:26 schestowitz-TR; unless uniq could accept MAX-2 or similar for each line
19:33 schestowitz; sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/p" ~/gemini/planet/index.gmi | sort | grep "=>"
19:33 schestowitz; becomes
19:33 schestowitz; sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/p" ~/gemini/planet/index.gmi | sort -u -k2,2 | grep "=>"
19:33 schestowitz; you can run as user "gemini" and compare
19:33 schestowitz-TR; this rev() approach makes the false assumption that all lines have the same number of "fields"
19:33 schestowitz-TR; I think I found a way
19:34 Techrights-sec; ack
19:47 Techrights-sec; sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/{/^=>/p}"
19:47 Techrights-sec; ?
19:53 schestowitz-TR; it works now
19:53 schestowitz-TR; will push
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