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04:51 schestowitz-TR; BillBC: COVID-19 is Everywhere Now https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/09/covid-19-is-everywhere/
04:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive BillBC: COVID-19 is Everywhere Now
04:52 Techrights-sec; apparently in most (all?) countries
04:53 schestowitz-TR; we still get sanitiser at all the shops here (and use it)
04:53 schestowitz-TR; just because everyone jumps or falls of the bridge does not mean you should too
04:54 schestowitz-TR; *off
04:54 Techrights-sec; few still wear masks or keep distance any more
04:55 schestowitz-TR; i did not look scary enough yesterday, so some people walked near
04:55 schestowitz-TR; I need a Hannibal mask
04:55 Techrights-sec; ack
04:55 Techrights-sec; I will think about the navigation part of the UI for the TM mockup
04:56 schestowitz-TR; at first it can be very simple and crude, then improved over time
04:56 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines was a lot simpler when susan handed over to us
04:57 Techrights-sec; It's far easier to get the basics right in the early stages
04:57 Techrights-sec; retrofitting is inefficient, unpleasant, and disruptive
04:57 schestowitz-TR; hmm, true... esp. with static html files
04:59 Techrights-sec; Well, if the bodies and metadata are stored in a database the static part
04:59 Techrights-sec; can be re-generated at will
04:59 Techrights-sec; but that adds complexity.
04:59 Techrights-sec; It won't waste most of the current testing scripts though
05:01 schestowitz-TR; "modernising" pages that mrely link to external sites is not as impoirtant as speed and uptime
05:01 schestowitz-TR; think technocrat or "hacker" "news"
05:01 schestowitz-TR; whioch was offline yesterday btw
05:01 schestowitz-TR; according to our irc channels (I did not check to verify)
05:11 schestowitz-TR; upsides: https
05:11 schestowitz-TR; better mobile (fluid design
05:11 schestowitz-TR; speed
05:11 schestowitz-TR; easier to maintain and back up
05:11 schestowitz-TR; less bloated (cheaper for kaniini)
05:12 Techrights-sec; ack
05:12 Techrights-sec; M$ is like a mix of scientology, amway, and herbalife business models
05:12 Techrights-sec; less bloated is good all the way around, esp kaniini
05:13 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines does many sql queries per page servced and drupal caching isn't great, at least not in this version of it
05:13 schestowitz-TR; for people who read over rss that's OK
05:13 schestowitz-TR; but search engines can eaily cause load spikes
05:15 Techrights-sec; putting the body information and the metadata into an sql database would
05:15 Techrights-sec; not mean that the database is queried per http request, only once to generate
05:15 Techrights-sec; a new static page per page
05:15 Techrights-sec; so static pages would be generated -- once -- from SQL and then save to disk
05:15 Techrights-sec; and served as normal static pages w/CSS and such
05:18 schestowitz-TR; dbs are still fragile, hard to inspect in some cases, longer time to back up, and security overhead
05:19 Techrights-sec; yes they are
05:19 Techrights-sec; SQLite3 might be ok, it's not networked AFAIK
05:19 Techrights-sec; a lock file would be needed though to ensure no concurrent acccess, but
05:19 Techrights-sec; since the access would be needed /only/ when actually adding a post, that's not
05:19 Techrights-sec; so much of an issue
05:20 schestowitz-TR; I will take a nap soon
05:20 schestowitz-TR; the db is has been holding up OK for over a day without repairs
05:20 schestowitz-TR; buying us more time
05:21 Techrights-sec; I think I'm starting to lean towards trying SQLite3 a bit
05:21 Techrights-sec; ack
05:21 Techrights-sec; or a tied hash would work too, though that might not scale well and might
05:21 Techrights-sec; be more fragile. so never mind
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05:30 schestowitz-TR; lol, need popcorn
05:30 schestowitz-TR; musk and twitter
05:30 schestowitz-TR; tons of free pblicity
05:30 schestowitz-TR; not a dime spent
05:30 schestowitz-TR; and now twitter ie xposed for the botfarm it is
05:30 schestowitz-TR; good
05:30 schestowitz-TR; btw, some shop here had popcorn on sale with 10p label on it
05:30 schestowitz-TR; but would not be available, I think the cashier kept it aside for himself
05:30 schestowitz-TR; or maybe a day past expiration
05:32 Techrights-sec; yes I hope that twitter collapses as a result of all this
05:33 schestowitz-TR; i hope so too
05:33 schestowitz-TR; the fraud got a ton of free pubblicity from this
05:33 schestowitz-TR; and harmed a company I never liked anyway
05:33 schestowitz-TR; notice the "news" now places emphasis on twitter being a botfarm
05:33 schestowitz-TR; which IS IS
05:34 schestowitz-TR; *IT IS
05:34 schestowitz-TR; I said it for ages
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05:45 schestowitz-TR; oh, no automated links at all today
05:45 schestowitz-TR; something went wrong
05:46 Techrights-sec; ok checking
05:46 Techrights-sec; typo: missing a single char
05:46 Techrights-sec; rerunning
05:46 Techrights-sec; may take a few minutes
05:46 Techrights-sec; uploaded, check now
05:47 schestowitz-TR; thnaks,
05:47 schestowitz-TR; will refetch when done with this one, will then ignore completely the first sectiion, which I've just "finished"
05:47 schestowitz-TR; i think musk shaved off several years from twitter's life expenctancy
05:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe it'll get bought cheaply by some other survillance company with ambitions to manipulate
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05:58 schestowitz-TR; scanning tuxmachines db...
05:58 schestowitz-TR; done, it was search-related only
05:58 Techrights-sec; too many public officals misuse twitter and feed it by using it for announcements instead of sticking to official channels. They only feed the disinformation
05:58 Techrights-sec; problem and reduce their own credibility by doing so.
06:00 schestowitz-TR; many political actors built their "reputation" with "successful" tweet
06:00 schestowitz-TR; the most famous one was banned in January last year
06:00 Techrights-sec; ack
06:00 Techrights-sec; and twitter calls the shots, choosing winners and losers in the publicity game
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10:00 Techrights-sec; renamed the document root on the mockup in preparation for a second round
10:00 Techrights-sec; of experiments later today
10:00 Techrights-sec;
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10:12 schestowitz-TR; back from sleep
10:12 schestowitz-TR; yes, that would be good
10:12 schestowitz-TR; I noticed Bill's Pro Publica has not been active in recent years
10:12 schestowitz-TR; and wonder what's going on
11:10 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Microsoft lobbyists infecting techdirt and others: "narrative over the past few years is that four companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google have basically..." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/08/if-its-impossible-to-compete-with-google-how-come-new-search-engines-keep-launching/ | Source: Techdirt
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-If Its Impossible To Compete With Google, How Come New Search Engines Keep Launching? | Techdirt
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12:37 schestowitz-TR; oha
12:37 schestowitz-TR; new leaks (epo)
12:37 schestowitz-TR; microsoft squirming over our github series, got contact from lawyer, NOT threatening, more like hovsepian
12:37 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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13:44 schestowitz-TR; just got more leaks re github
13:44 schestowitz-TR; added draft for first video
13:44 schestowitz-TR; will record sanother
13:44 schestowitz-TR; video
13:44 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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16:03 Techrights-sec; the phoronix article about Lennart moving to M$ has no second source verifying
16:03 Techrights-sec; the rumor; also, as expected, the phoronix comments are a waste of space with
16:03 Techrights-sec; many M$ apologists and shills pumping out talking points and ad hominems
16:03 Techrights-sec; s/talking points/debunked talking points/
16:03 schestowitz-TR; wait
16:03 schestowitz-TR; the ones i saw
16:03 schestowitz-TR; when it was 14
16:03 schestowitz-TR; \weere ok
16:03 schestowitz-TR; wherre
16:03 schestowitz-TR; eating
16:03 schestowitz-TR; maybe infested lated
16:03 schestowitz-TR; 160+ comments whebn i scrolled later
16:03 schestowitz-TR; re github publication, i wa asked to delay puyblication
16:03 schestowitz-TR; but we have some good stuff coming
16:03 schestowitz-TR; i am now editing text for second epo video
16:04 Techrights-sec; yes they are much further down
16:06 schestowitz-TR; the comments are sorted or 'ranked' based on time
16:06 schestowitz-TR; so the PR brigade would have better luck in /.
16:06 schestowitz-TR; where you can game the order of appearance
16:06 schestowitz-TR; michael is underestimating the power of astroturfs
16:06 schestowitz-TR; and is bagging bribes
16:06 schestowitz-TR; he might niot even recognise them as such
16:06 schestowitz-TR; biab
16:06 schestowitz-TR; want to finish this draft
16:06 schestowitz-TR; then record third video re github proxy in gemini \0/
16:06 schestowitz-TR; at long last
16:16 schestowitz-TR; draft in place
16:16 schestowitz-TR; we have some good stories coming
16:16 schestowitz-TR; I've prodded kaniini by mentioning our progress
16:39 Techrights-sec; checking
16:39 Techrights-sec; can the text have some details as examples of the problems?
16:39 Techrights-sec; Do you think the post summaries (dc.description) can each be shoehorned into
16:39 Techrights-sec; less than 256 characters? Or will the field need to be longer?
16:39 Techrights-sec; 256 is the limit for varchar in sqlite3. The next size up would be a blob
16:39 Techrights-sec; ^for TuxMachines
16:39 Techrights-sec; aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
16:39 Techrights-sec; aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
16:39 Techrights-sec; that's 256 characters, just over three lines
16:39 schestowitz-TR; back
16:39 schestowitz-TR; at the moment drupal 6 is configured for titles to be non-unicode, non-html string about this long, unlike the body
16:40 Techrights-sec; the body is a different matter, I'm wondering about the description specifically
16:40 Techrights-sec; at the moment. The title and keywords will be shorter. I can do a quick run
16:40 Techrights-sec; through the Gemini titles and find an average size, I think,
16:41 schestowitz-TR; TR titles aren never very very long
16:41 schestowitz-TR; TM does not have summaries, just title and body
16:41 schestowitz-TR; for new stories
16:41 Techrights-sec; ok what about TM
16:41 Techrights-sec; ?
16:41 Techrights-sec; however, instead of title, what length should be reserved for the description?
16:44 Techrights-sec; should a description be arranged? What is the average size of the bodies?
16:44 Techrights-sec; https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp
16:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.w3schools.com | HTML meta tag
16:45 Techrights-sec; https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
16:45 Techrights-sec; The RSS / Atom feed can be just the title IMHO, that keeps it simple
16:45 Techrights-sec; people can click on the link if they want more
16:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ietf.org | A Dirge
16:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe an abbreviated version of the body
16:46 schestowitz-TR; that's what wordpress does for rss at least
16:46 schestowitz-TR; if not full body rss feed
16:46 schestowitz-TR; yes, that's fine too as the site will be fast anyway
17:07 schestowitz-TR; added 5 links to the post for context
17:07 schestowitz-TR; will record i n a few mins
17:07 schestowitz-TR; re gemini as proxy for shithub pages
17:07 Techrights-sec; thanks
18:00 schestowitz-TR; i've searched searx without success
18:00 schestowitz-TR; on HR tricks
18:00 schestowitz-TR; I know how notorious HR is... from the EPO
18:01 schestowitz-TR; Regarding separation fees, I think I see a tactic of theirs
18:01 schestowitz-TR; but all I can see is fake 'articles' about social control media BS
18:01 schestowitz-TR; I guess this is what qualifies as "journalism" now
18:01 schestowitz-TR; if I managed to get dismissed, according to an online calculator, and if it's not discriminatory, I can receive
18:01 schestowitz-TR; 17,500 in compensation for the 11+ years
18:01 schestowitz-TR; it's more if discrimation can be proven
18:01 schestowitz-TR; the employe is aware, their HR people try to play tricks, which I've not fallen for
18:01 schestowitz-TR; so if you know some HR-fluent person, that can help me net a lot of money
18:01 schestowitz-TR; on my way out
18:03 schestowitz-TR; it says if after age 41, it's another 2k
18:03 schestowitz-TR; if discriminatory on minor basis, 600-6000 more
18:04 Techrights-sec; back
18:04 Techrights-sec; no one I can think of at the moment but watch out for various NDAs and
18:04 Techrights-sec; non-disparagement clauses and other muzzles as well as for non-competes
18:04 Techrights-sec; They throw everything in. If everything is on paper, in some jurisdictions
18:04 Techrights-sec; you can cross out the offending clauses, senteces, or paragraphs. In electronic
18:04 Techrights-sec; form you can try tricking them by getting the electronic copy, editing it, and
18:04 Techrights-sec; then signing the edited copy and see if they notice.
18:04 Techrights-sec; Severance bonus
18:04 Techrights-sec; too bad the union cannot help out in this case :/
18:04 Techrights-sec; maybe not too late to join though
18:10 schestowitz-TR; last year I had concerns that if I left, they'd punish rianne too
18:10 schestowitz-TR; but now she can stay while I take a hike
18:10 schestowitz-TR; after I had brought her in
18:10 schestowitz-TR; I can try to be evasive or absent
18:10 schestowitz-TR; to reduce chance of getting tricked
18:10 schestowitz-TR; and make records of everything
18:10 schestowitz-TR; UK-specific HR so-called 'consultants' would not be cheap
18:10 schestowitz-TR; seeing how much money is at stake, no wonder they contracted "HR" from the outside
18:10 schestowitz-TR; and they memorise what to say and how
18:10 schestowitz-TR; some law firms here could be 'trick' into giving free advice
18:10 schestowitz-TR; but none is needed at this point
18:10 schestowitz-TR; the goal is to bag what I'm entitled to and retire
18:10 schestowitz-TR; the pension ripens when I turn 55
18:10 schestowitz-TR; ok, recording re github now
18:10 schestowitz-TR; OTA
18:10 Techrights-sec; ack
18:44 schestowitz-TR; draft
18:44 Techrights-sec; checking
18:44 Techrights-sec; Nice to use a Gemini source. Might want to close with a paragraph about where
18:44 Techrights-sec; to get Gemini clients for GNU/Linux or *BSD
18:50 schestowitz-TR; sure, I'll add more after cofffe (video will take another 20 mins to process+upload)
18:50 schestowitz-TR; gemini is getting super-useful
18:50 Techrights-sec; also the SFLC or some such had a long article encouraging people to drop GitHub
18:50 Techrights-sec; already
18:50 Techrights-sec; I'm not sure if you wish to send them traffic, but if you do, that's the article
18:50 Techrights-sec; s/SFLC/SFC/
18:50 Techrights-sec; I get them mixed up
18:50 Techrights-sec; https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
18:50 Techrights-sec; Regardless of past problems, their in-house decision to drop GitHub should be
18:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-sfconservancy.org | Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy
18:50 Techrights-sec; praised even if no traffic is pointed their direction.
18:50 Techrights-sec; https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/07/03/1449204
18:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - SoylentNews
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22:49 schestowitz; "Social networks are not good for you. The Fediverse brought out the worst in me, and it can bring out the worst in you, too. The behaviors it encourages are plainly defined as harassment, a behavior which is not unique to any ideological condition."
22:49 schestowitz; http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/167034
22:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | The Fediverse can be pretty toxic | Tux Machines
23:12 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Only 3% of COVID-19 Hospital Admission in England Are Under 18s, 0.02% of Deaths Are Toddlers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/09/hospital-admission-stats/
23:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Only 3% of COVID-19 Hospital Admission in England Are Under 18s, 0.02% of Deaths Are Toddlers
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