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00:15 schestowitz-TR; [00:15] <techrights-news> ZDNet "Linux" section: only 9 stories in one month. It used to be 2-3 times PER DAY. ZDNet is dying. Good riddance. http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/ZDNet
00:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | ZDNet - Techrights
00:21 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Webspam: "Before we continue, wed like to tell you about (insert product name here). We host LinuxAndUbuntu on (insert product name here) VPS. Check them out" http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36799/
00:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LXer: Native Advertising: WordPress 6.0 Soon To Be Released With these new Features
00:21 schestowitz-TR; [00:19] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- LXer: Native Advertising: WordPress 6.0 Soon To Be Released With these new Features
00:21 schestowitz-TR; [00:20] <techrights-news> When LXer mistakenly posts links to Microsoft puff pieces. "You are right, I removed it." http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36798/
00:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LXer: Why is this on LXer?: Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China
00:21 schestowitz-TR; [00:20] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- LXer: Why is this on LXer?: Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China
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06:55 Techrights-sec; there is a truckload of crap about the DSA with Thierry Breton and Elon Musk
06:55 Techrights-sec; but it'll be with tomorrows links.
06:55 Techrights-sec; since it appears just now
06:59 schestowitz-TR; I have just restarted httpd on tuxmachines
06:59 schestowitz-TR; seems like it was down for 5 hours
06:59 schestowitz-TR; I am surprised rianne did not notice
06:59 Techrights-sec; ack
06:59 Techrights-sec; :(
06:59 Techrights-sec; I have not monitored it here of late
06:59 schestowitz-TR; can you set up alerting? It went down not too long before I went to sleep
07:01 Techrights-sec; I can but I'd have to modify the new system; the old stuff has been partially
07:01 Techrights-sec; dismantled because the hardware it was on is *waaay* past end of life
07:01 Techrights-sec; I can look at that later today
07:07 Techrights-sec; any reply regarding the apparent disk errors?
07:08 schestowitz-TR; no reply, I will retry
07:11 Techrights-sec; ack
07:12 schestowitz-TR; checking the latest dumps, drupal is OK, wiki not OK, and wordpress OK
07:53 Techrights-sec; ack
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08:36 schestowitz-TR; last night we noticed that the company brought onboard some Windows 'dope' with an Arab name
08:36 schestowitz-TR; putting aside the name, seems like another step downwards:
08:37 schestowitz-TR; in terms of pay
08:37 schestowitz-TR; in terms of skills
08:37 schestowitz-TR; so we think we can see where this is going
08:37 schestowitz-TR; as I said before, a growing proportion if just a bunch of Windows lusers
08:37 schestowitz-TR; with zero computer skills
08:37 schestowitz-TR; thinking they can handle "IT"
08:37 schestowitz-TR; at best, they can pick up the phone
08:47 schestowitz-TR; When I joined in 2011 we had some high-profile people on board
08:47 schestowitz-TR; inc. Debian Developers (wne becoming DD meant something, now a political
08:47 schestowitz-TR; decision)
08:48 schestowitz-TR; So even if they suggest that I do projects, I might turn it down
08:48 schestowitz-TR; we have no capable workers anymore
08:48 schestowitz-TR; "skeleton crew" as you call it...
09:15 schestowitz-TR; IOW, even if we stayed, we doubt that can last very long
09:15 schestowitz-TR; we're already down to "d types", after a colleague brough c types with zero qualifications in tech
09:15 schestowitz-TR; just because they lived in the same home (lesbian couple)
09:15 Techrights-sec; yes, zero skills
09:15 Techrights-sec; (back)
09:19 schestowitz-TR; rianne has sent me a link from vox
09:19 schestowitz-TR; putting aside the "great resignation" canard, she said it suggests many
09:19 schestowitz-TR; people who got used to working from home don't wish to get "back" to the office
09:19 schestowitz-TR; so they retire
09:19 schestowitz-TR; Vox is owned by banksters, but I got the link and added it to Daily Links moments ago
09:19 schestowitz-TR; we're discussion option of partial retirement with some job on the side to cover basic expenses
09:19 schestowitz-TR; or self employment
09:20 schestowitz-TR; *discussing
09:20 schestowitz-TR; (nb: I said to rianne months ago it's very improbable I would pursue another job because
09:20 schestowitz-TR; a) I would not want to work outside home (might also require buying a car). b) not many jobs
09:20 schestowitz-TR; available, except maybe zero-hour or crap ones.. the latter probably does not exist either, it's an
09:20 schestowitz-TR; old excuse the rich make about the "lazy" and "spoiled" population)
09:20 Techrights-sec; then a "tip jar" should be given more consideration
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I started drafting two things to that effect
09:22 schestowitz-TR; one for schestowitz.com about why leave the job
09:22 schestowitz-TR; like how crap the company became in recent years
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I don't need a good reference if I doin't look for another job anyway
09:22 schestowitz-TR; the second would poromise more output if we get support from readers
09:22 schestowitz-TR; and then can focus on the site 100%
09:22 Techrights-sec; ack
09:22 Techrights-sec; hiring Windows resellers is a sure sign the company is leaving the market
09:25 schestowitz-TR; not Windows resellers
09:25 schestowitz-TR; but people who use Ubuntu only in a VM
09:25 schestowitz-TR; and get excited about WSL crap
09:25 schestowitz-TR; IOW, technically weak people
09:25 schestowitz-TR; the company has, to put it in terms I thought og this morning, ridden its past reputation 23 years for more
09:25 schestowitz-TR; years now than it can pull that off
09:25 schestowitz-TR; IOW, the trail of high-profile clients and goodwill is running thin by now
09:25 schestowitz-TR; and almost 50% of the "team" listed in our web site are not even in the company!!
09:25 schestowitz-TR; (the BETTER people)
09:27 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Between pandemics, historic economic crashes, bull runs, and crashes again, war, climate change, record breaking weather, the ever encroaching threat of climate change, and the general apparent downward spiral of American society in general, it's hard to find anything to be optimistic about." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/932
09:27 schestowitz-TR; one minute ago, just happened to coincide with the topic
09:28 Techrights-sec; ack
09:50 schestowitz-TR; so far I don't think I ever saw a bad gz file on the TM VM, which resides on the same physical (storage)
09:50 schestowitz-TR; device
09:50 schestowitz-TR; I did repeat what I said yesterday, but not in direct message so as to avoid "alerts" or "notifications"
09:50 schestowitz-TR; (re the dmesg output)
09:50 schestowitz-TR; On the TM VM, if I run dmesg I get similar output
09:50 schestowitz-TR; I checked about 5 forum pages just now
09:50 schestowitz-TR; here is a theory that can be tested
09:50 schestowitz-TR; how about if we spread apart the dumps and gz operations?
09:50 schestowitz-TR; like adding sleep commands?
09:50 schestowitz-TR; based on what I am reading, a large mysql DB can lead to this
09:50 schestowitz-TR; I am testing this theory, but actually the afternoon dumps also fail at times when it comes to gzip
09:50 schestowitz-TR; so never mind what I said
09:51 Techrights-sec; yes it would be the same piece of hardware AFAIK
09:55 schestowitz-TR; technically we run a kernel that seems to be not so old
09:55 schestowitz-TR; the alpine one
09:55 schestowitz-TR; not knowing how the VM "boots" when lxd runs it
09:55 schestowitz-TR; some reports that I saw do not rush to blame the hardware
09:55 schestowitz-TR; but something in xfs
09:55 schestowitz-TR; when did we last check dmesg or, put another way, is it possible that these messages predate the change of storage
09:55 schestowitz-TR; device and maybe go a lot further back?
09:55 schestowitz-TR; the main variable on the hosting side is not packages installed but the % of disk used
09:55 schestowitz-TR; remember that the gz issue started in january
09:55 schestowitz-TR; the media was changed completely in debruary
09:55 schestowitz-TR; *fe
09:55 schestowitz-TR; *feb
10:03 Techrights-sec; yes but I am not familiar with the hardware at all, were the old drives
10:03 Techrights-sec; brought over into the new machine?
10:03 schestowitz-TR; No
10:11 Techrights-sec; how would XFS be part of the problem?
10:11 Techrights-sec; the kernels in TR and TM are quite old
10:56 schestowitz-TR; ota
10:56 schestowitz-TR; draft
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11:16 Techrights-sec; ack
11:17 Techrights-sec; added preliminary multi-site monitoring just now, testing on tm and tr
11:17 schestowitz-TR; thanks!
11:23 Techrights-sec; arre there hard stats on the demise of zdnet?
11:23 schestowitz-TR; oh, did you see my draft?
11:23 schestowitz-TR; I was just working on that
11:23 schestowitz-TR; see the draft
11:23 schestowitz-TR; it was work in progress
11:27 schestowitz-TR; poor sjvn
11:27 schestowitz-TR; if his pension is not good
11:27 schestowitz-TR; maybe he will become TFIR employee :-)
11:28 Techrights-sec; checking
11:28 Techrights-sec; yes I still feel somewhat bad for him but only based on his exxcellent past
11:28 Techrights-sec; work not the stuff he appears forced to produce these recent years
11:28 Techrights-sec; speaking of which maybe a word about the rduced quality, especially i ntegards
11:28 Techrights-sec; to topics there
11:28 Techrights-sec; oh it does but the opponents work extra hard and have a lot of focus to tear
11:29 Techrights-sec; things down
11:29 Techrights-sec; such a move is dead end, the lose their original audience while never being
11:29 Techrights-sec; accepted by the actual microsofters
11:29 schestowitz-TR; it does not pay to promote free software
11:29 schestowitz-TR; rms owns almost nothing
11:29 schestowitz-TR; sjvn and spamnil tried to cross to the other side
11:29 schestowitz-TR; michael did it more recently
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12:35 Techrights-sec; as a follow up to monitoring TM :
12:35 Techrights-sec; $ ssh tm
12:35 Techrights-sec; Unable to negotiate with 23.161.112.115 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
12:36 schestowitz-TR; it's possible to enter via the hv
12:36 schestowitz-TR; in fact, the only reason ssh is still open on there is for remote backups
12:39 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "My wife needed to catch a plane this weekend. She hadn't felt quite right while packing, so the night before she left, we picked up two COVID-19 test kits. I had never taken one before, which is an interesting thought to me, since the pandemic has now lasted two and a half years." In 5 months 3 YEARS. How time flies. gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202205/20220509-2022-week-16-17-18-photos.gmi
12:39 schestowitz-TR; we did our first test a month ago, just to become familiar with the procedure... 12 have 19 test kits (test units) left
12:48 Techrights-sec; checking
12:48 Techrights-sec; ok that way works, throuh lxc
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I deeply apologise for this situation
12:51 schestowitz-TR; if I quit my job, that will be a massive MENTAL thing off my head
12:51 schestowitz-TR; set aside actual time made available and more flexible sleeping schedules
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I began drafting (cruedly) 3 things
12:51 schestowitz-TR; not that I would publish them, they're just speculative
12:51 schestowitz-TR; a) why resign b) what it means to the sites (not for my personsl site)
12:51 schestowitz-TR; c) something related to rianne (things to discss after Thurs.)
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I cannot discuss sooner than the meeting
12:51 schestowitz-TR; see, dumb lying incompetent employer says.... BIG NEWS... hang on NINE DAYS
12:52 Techrights-sec; no worries
12:52 Techrights-sec; ack
12:54 schestowitz-TR; (not sure I want to stay, no matter what they offer, in a company that for 4 years compromised and sacrifised
12:54 schestowitz-TR; "expensive" A and B type for a couple of D types whose skill is having sex with [redacted]"
12:54 schestowitz-TR; because there's not much of a future to such a company no matter what)
12:54 schestowitz-TR; bouncing from one shell to the next and piling up debt, even in two continent, likely
12:54 schestowitz-TR; means that even employee compensation is voided, but IANAL in the labour sector
12:54 Techrights-sec; hence the suggestion to check around for other options
12:57 schestowitz-TR; I already checked around, even 2 weeks ago, and spoke to some people around here, also dad
12:57 schestowitz-TR; they all say it's very improbable a comparable thing can be found, more so for two people
12:57 schestowitz-TR; hence. since 2018 we've been just "milking"
12:57 schestowitz-TR; if we can milk for a little while longer, maybe we will
12:57 schestowitz-TR; If we collected enough funds to secure the sites for a decade (plus additional costs), then we're
12:57 schestowitz-TR; vastly better off than people with mortgage, kids, or both
12:58 Techrights-sec; yes but the current situation is not sustanible it wears on you if nothing else
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13:02 schestowitz-TR; oh, silly me, I fogot to mewntion I took today and tomorrow off as holidays
13:02 schestowitz-TR; so no shifts until the weekend
13:02 schestowitz-TR; you will see the change in productivity
13:02 schestowitz-TR; but back to the above-mentioned thing, rianne(dfc mocks walmark for locking up
13:02 schestowitz-TR; baby forumula like it was a diamond ring
13:03 schestowitz-TR; I don't find that funny at all
13:03 schestowitz-TR; babies are the next generation
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and if the "greast and bestest country in the while wild/wide world" resorts to this
13:03 schestowitz-TR; then we're in a tough place
13:03 schestowitz-TR; the young people coming out of the college pipeline do not know computers
13:03 schestowitz-TR; some of them barely have a computer
13:03 schestowitz-TR; it's smart this and that
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and zero skills, actual skills...
13:03 schestowitz-TR; like... for them to get VPN working is like a big accomplishment
13:03 schestowitz-TR; rianne installed wireguard on debian 11 all on her own and configured it
13:03 schestowitz-TR; on the pi400
13:03 schestowitz-TR; while these idiots rejoice getting a VM to boot ubuntu
13:03 schestowitz-TR; putin's tech army will hgave a field day
13:04 Techrights-sec; congratulations
13:04 Techrights-sec; yes and other countries are doing what they can to redce the likelihood
13:04 Techrights-sec; of a successful new generation; some of that is on social control media, it
13:04 Techrights-sec; suck their attention so that they are learning to be addicted and waste time
13:04 Techrights-sec; rather than interacting with people and learning and growing
13:04 Techrights-sec; excellent, wireguard is supposed to be quite good
13:04 Techrights-sec; every Windoze instance and every social media account makes the job easier
13:04 Techrights-sec; for putin's offensive
13:08 schestowitz-TR; corporate media and CONTROL 'media' both mock Putin and Russia
13:08 schestowitz-TR; reminds of of the "Hitler has one nut" tactics
13:08 schestowitz-TR; in reality, Russia remains a very potent threat, even wiuthout bringing out
13:08 schestowitz-TR; the nuclear warheads
13:08 schestowitz-TR; ukraine is europe's biggest or second-biggest army
13:08 schestowitz-TR; the media does not say that
13:08 schestowitz-TR; and now they have a proxy war with cannon fodder and destruction from within
13:08 schestowitz-TR; if the polls are true, all that social control median "campaigning" failed
13:08 schestowitz-TR; and russians mostly support the "secial operations"
13:08 schestowitz-TR; IOW,the Internet as a military-grade perception manager is not effective
13:08 schestowitz-TR; Russia
13:08 schestowitz-TR; has shut off a lot of the "hostile" sites
13:08 schestowitz-TR; and is doing a Lukashenko on protesters
13:08 schestowitz-TR; so they go under water and quit spreading the messages Purtin does not
13:08 schestowitz-TR; want to spread
13:09 schestowitz-TR; ack
13:09 schestowitz-TR; their lockdown of a "splinternet" has been in the works for a decade at least
13:09 Techrights-sec; ack
13:09 Techrights-sec; their lockdown of a "splinternet" has been in the works for a decade at least
13:15 schestowitz-TR; their candidate is planning to run again in 2 years
13:15 schestowitz-TR; and reports said he had contacted musKSA (all of them) to take over Twitter
13:15 schestowitz-TR; maybe just in time to drop Russian-type divisive crap
13:15 schestowitz-TR; theRealSputnik
13:15 schestowitz-TR; I think it'll be increasingly important to convey to all, inc. wife, that
13:15 schestowitz-TR; the old "normals" are long buried and any expectation of "old order"
13:15 schestowitz-TR; are delusional wrt employment, social norms, travel, etc.
13:15 schestowitz-TR; I have not left Manchester (except "city proper") since Jan 2020
13:15 schestowitz-TR; and have no imminent intention to
13:15 schestowitz-TR; the COVID-19 pendemic is not the reason, it was a trigger almost
13:15 schestowitz-TR; 3 years ago, many people (inc. banksters, energy giants and gates)
13:15 schestowitz-TR; latched onto it
13:15 Techrights-sec; ack
13:18 schestowitz-TR; it is a blessing that our sys owner has a job now, full time I think, and that it's
13:18 schestowitz-TR; not Muppet Labs. It's security company, not an evil one either
13:18 schestowitz-TR; so financial pressures are not a factor at the moment. Years ago I asked catalyst2 and others
13:18 schestowitz-TR; how much dedicated servers are and they sell "managed" (OVERsell) at about 3k a year (pounds)
13:18 schestowitz-TR; that was 4 years ago, prices have risen)
13:18 Techrights-sec; excellent
13:21 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ww
13:21 schestowitz-TR; "This year, 2022, May the 4th was my last day at Mozilla." https://www.otsukare.info/2022/05/04/bye-mozilla
13:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.otsukare.info | Mozilla, Bye! - otsukare
13:22 Techrights-sec; wordpress is a liability
13:24 schestowitz-TR; transition and migratioin can be made a priority given less mental clutter (2 workers in the home fewers
13:24 schestowitz-TR; with a broad range of things to watchon the screen and solve)
13:24 schestowitz-TR; LOL /me imagines mr. ubuntu VM trying to actually diagnose and solve issue (gets popcorn)
13:24 schestowitz-TR; (we did have some misters like these before... imposters who put a VM in full screen mode)
13:24 schestowitz-TR; (they solve NOTHING!!! money down the drain)
13:25 Techrights-sec; """
13:25 Techrights-sec; e are here to make the Web more open, not only for making the Web usable on Firefox products.
13:25 Techrights-sec; """
13:25 Techrights-sec; ack
13:40 schestowitz-TR; btw, zdnet did slow down very very noticably
13:40 schestowitz-TR; whereas TM has not because we found lots of news sites and blogs that are active
13:40 schestowitz-TR; yesterday 3 batches of Daily Links -- that's a lot for slow-to-start Mondays
13:40 schestowitz-TR; as long as I can do at least 2 batches a day, I am happy
13:40 schestowitz-TR; articles of our own are a plus/bonus
13:40 schestowitz-TR; given how much we worked (job) in recent days
13:40 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the patent blogs died
13:40 schestowitz-TR; and they really hate it when I point it out
13:40 schestowitz-TR; because there is nothing they can do
13:40 schestowitz-TR; a few times before they tried to prove me wrong for a few days, then ran out of steam again
13:40 schestowitz-TR; some of them before 10 times less active then years back
13:40 schestowitz-TR; hence GIGO in Gulag Noise
13:40 schestowitz-TR; the spam is what's left
13:40 schestowitz-TR; when it's GiGO, it is time to move on and leave the spamfarms
13:40 schestowitz-TR; sjvn barely writes 2 per week, somtimes only 1
13:40 schestowitz-TR; and jack wallen was 'borrowed' by zdnet (from the sister site)
13:40 Techrights-sec; The RSS/Atom feed collection here has > 40k posts to sift through
13:40 Techrights-sec; I focus on the blogs and then some ofthe news site if there is time
13:40 Techrights-sec; ack
13:43 schestowitz-TR; did you see in last night's IRC log how people in lxer complained in FORUMS that lxer was posting Microsoft
13:43 schestowitz-TR; shit?
13:43 schestowitz-TR; and then the editor deleted it?
13:43 schestowitz-TR; my theory that they piss off their readers is correct
13:43 schestowitz-TR; causing emotional annoyance is way to assure people won't eneter l-x-e-r as often in the future
13:43 schestowitz-TR; it's an instinct not to rpeeat what causes angst or shock
13:43 Techrights-sec; I saw part of that, I hope lxet backpedals on that and that it was a mistake
13:43 Techrights-sec; or lapse of judgement rather than a symptom of something more severe
13:43 Techrights-sec; right. they can quickly drive away their bread-and-butter community
13:44 schestowitz-TR; if you go to their site, click team/people (or other section) to appreciate how out of date the site is,
13:44 schestowitz-TR; like TR with only BN content in the sidebar
13:44 schestowitz-TR; but maybe if we alter CMS bits we can sort that out
13:46 schestowitz-TR; the lxer team is frozen in... pre-2010 days
13:46 schestowitz-TR; I think Scott and one of the whittingers are the sole operators
13:46 schestowitz-TR; and they recently had a 3-day downtimes due to dns
13:46 schestowitz-TR; worse than our 5-hour TM downtime (today)
13:48 Techrights-sec; ack
13:48 schestowitz-TR; I think it was Bob (the more senor of the two)
13:48 schestowitz-TR; he must be like 80 by now
13:50 Techrights-sec; there are so few new people entering IT these days
13:52 schestowitz-TR; you said "IT" :-)
13:52 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned the term in my view this morning
13:52 schestowitz-TR; the new "CS"... it's not science anymore... it's "informstion"
13:52 schestowitz-TR; passing around data, not much more
13:52 schestowitz-TR; not many people conider "IT" itself a ruinous buzzwords
13:52 schestowitz-TR; because the term IT or ICT is so widely used now
13:52 schestowitz-TR; it started around here maybe 1990s
13:55 Techrights-sec; :(
13:55 schestowitz-TR; of note: I did not do a job interview for my current job (neither did rianne, they trusted me to train her)
13:55 schestowitz-TR; the "interview" was asking me to set up my own account and such, which I did fact
13:55 schestowitz-TR; email, jabber, ldap etc.
13:55 schestowitz-TR; now the clown idiots have no ldap or iam..
13:55 schestowitz-TR; just open some gulag account
13:55 schestowitz-TR; IT skillz: knowing which "APP/S" to download and memorising GUIs
13:55 schestowitz-TR; (based on true story) ;-)
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15:21 schestowitz-TR; priority/wishlist: stories of people leaving Twitter, esp. those citing good reasons
15:21 schestowitz-TR; weakening social control media = curtailing the attacks on democracies
15:21 Techrights-sec; ack
15:23 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Twitter WILL NOT support free speech. Stop believe a CHRONIC liar. MusKSA (it's shared ownership with people who chop down journalists to pieces and cook them!) will manipulate Twitter for PERSONAL GAIN. QUIT NOW. https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/05/10/elon-free-speech/
15:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-etbe.coker.com.au | Elon and Free Speech etbe - Russell Coker
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15:59 schestowitz-TR; I hardly know how to answer this question
15:59 schestowitz-TR; rant: just wasted over 20 mins helping rianne because paypal decided to add 2FA
15:59 schestowitz-TR; security theatre
15:59 schestowitz-TR; and we do not have "mobile"
15:59 schestowitz-TR; eventually I managed after talking to a call centre of theirs
15:59 schestowitz-TR; based on the acceent, somewhere in south asia
15:59 schestowitz-TR; paypal is shit
15:59 schestowitz-TR; but sadly the compettiion to it seems not much better
15:59 schestowitz-TR; rianne needed tp pay for deliverty (parcel/sale today)
15:59 schestowitz-TR; she picks up bargain on way back
15:59 schestowitz-TR; we might need to use online payments more if we leave the job
15:59 schestowitz-TR; (which we decided to do some time ago anyway, just didn't know when)
15:59 Techrights-sec; "security"
15:59 Techrights-sec; paypal is high risk
15:59 Techrights-sec; yes that will probably increase the necessity
16:01 schestowitz-TR; it's only 4pm, too early to get angrry, it's my day off work and I want to produce some articles/videos
16:01 schestowitz-TR; anyway, another annoying hurdle in life
16:01 schestowitz-TR; remember how much time I spent fighting the city council here over trying to impose
16:01 schestowitz-TR; "mobile" on EU citizens pursing "permission" to "stay"
16:02 schestowitz-TR; *purusing
16:02 schestowitz-TR; at the end I filed a major complaint and had them chasing and invetigating
16:02 Techrights-sec; yes; be sure to get the two exercise sessions per day
16:04 schestowitz-TR; wordpress is good for many things
16:04 schestowitz-TR; it's not getting a lot better
16:04 schestowitz-TR; it's feature church since 10 years ago
16:04 schestowitz-TR; they just need to "keep up"... looking for problems that do not really exist instead of
16:04 schestowitz-TR; just leaving the darn thing alne
16:04 schestowitz-TR; this is also why web sites and then browsers keep getting worse over time
16:04 schestowitz-TR; they need to give the engs SOMETHINGto doi
16:05 schestowitz-TR; and they call it INNOVA~1
16:05 Techrights-sec; ack
16:05 Techrights-sec; WordPress has a shitload of expensive proprietary plugins of uncertain and
16:05 Techrights-sec; very dubious quality
16:07 schestowitz-TR; my uncle broke his blog with one
16:07 schestowitz-TR; addeda CRM to it, IIRC
16:07 schestowitz-TR; and then cried that it stopped working
16:07 schestowitz-TR; after he had broken it
16:07 schestowitz-TR; I had to fix it the same day/weekend that I bought the new laptop
16:07 schestowitz-TR; and it was a major PITA
16:07 schestowitz-TR; gonna do some weights
16:07 schestowitz-TR; I lost my rhytham due to paypal
16:07 schestowitz-TR; bbiab
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16:51 schestowitz-TR; COVID-19 in the UK: Going Dark, Hiding the Problem Instead of Solving It http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/10/hiding-covid/
16:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive COVID-19 in the UK: Going Dark, Hiding the Problem Instead of Solving It
16:51 schestowitz-TR; typos likely, have not proofread it yet
16:51 schestowitz-TR; let me know if you read it and see any along the way
16:57 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Added: "NHS/Tories: Maybe if we stop publish data, then people will stop blasting our fatally stupid policy." http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/10/hiding-covid/
16:57 Techrights-sec; ack
17:00 Techrights-sec; read quickly but did not notice anything this time
17:02 schestowitz-TR; i found one typo (seized)
17:02 schestowitz-TR; either way, it's going to be harder for me to do such posts
17:02 schestowitz-TR; no data, no analysis possible
17:02 schestowitz-TR; I meant, 'only' 2000 people a week die
17:02 schestowitz-TR; that's like... less than 9/11
17:02 schestowitz-TR; sod it, go back to work lads
17:02 schestowitz-TR; as we say here, "for queen and country"
17:02 schestowitz-TR; for mom-of-nadrew and country
17:03 Techrights-sec; cutting off the data means cutting off the coverage and resultant discussion
17:04 schestowitz-TR; right now bill and lolita foundation assesses the online reactionm
17:04 schestowitz-TR; and decides if billBC should run next week's puff pieces with COVID guru bill
17:04 schestowitz-TR; or maybe "not yet"
17:04 schestowitz-TR; (give the public more time to forgot and make new scapegoats)
17:04 schestowitz-TR; if they stop updating, I might put together a formal FOI (like FOIA) demanding access to data
17:04 schestowitz-TR; and making my own portal
17:04 schestowitz-TR; to keep their feet to the fire
17:05 Techrights-sec; are there groups there collaborate with on that?
17:06 schestowitz-TR; don't want to be covid alarmist, but if the numbers did in fact go down, then it would be justified
17:06 schestowitz-TR; but that is clearly not the case
17:06 schestowitz-TR; I think goign through a local MP might work best
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17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:14] <techrights-news> 50% of the articles in PHORONIX today are about AMD, a company with 15k workers (Intel is almost 120k). What PHORONIX does not tell you: it's SPONSORED by AMD http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:14] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- techrights.org | When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions | Techrights
17:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions | Techrights
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> it's like social control media
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> things ar enot quite how they seem on the surface
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> you need to look below (apropos covid data)
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:15] <Techrights-sec> it'd be much less problematic, though not ideal, if michael were to remind
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:15] <Techrights-sec> people of the connection now to AMD
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> sometimes he even does AMD job ads as articles
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> even for just one single role
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> in a company of that size
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> that's like those spammy patent NOISE sites
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> where they tell you some low-level person moved from firm A to firm B
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> and make it seem like "news", complete with photo, portfolio, and promotional words
17:42 schestowitz-TR; [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> affirming people's choice os that supposedly impoirtant person and firm
17:42 schestowitz-TR; I have an idea
17:42 schestowitz-TR; will measure # of iterms in amd categ' before and after estimated time of crate
17:42 schestowitz-TR; wait, that's not going to work
17:42 schestowitz-TR; there is category singularity
17:42 schestowitz-TR; so many amd iterms go under different ctags
17:42 schestowitz-TR; thinking...
17:42 schestowitz-TR; remember on an empirical basis I know what I'd find
17:42 schestowitz-TR; as I see all the headlines there since 15+ years ago
17:42 schestowitz-TR; but I need numeric evidence
17:42 schestowitz-TR; I might nee to use wayback machine
17:42 Techrights-sec; that's a lot of checking
17:42 Techrights-sec; see /tmp/techrights-monitor-tr-v3.py on the rpi
17:42 Techrights-sec; ^ old topic from earlier
17:42 Techrights-sec; going through the wayback machine is slow, but they have to be slow for self
17:42 Techrights-sec; defence
17:43 Techrights-sec; mouse middle button stopped working; drop-test fixed it :/
17:43 Techrights-sec; hope it does not break soon
17:43 schestowitz-TR; when it starts doing this, it's time to purchase the spare
17:45 Techrights-sec; this was the newly purchased spare :/
17:45 Techrights-sec; I'm not sure I can find the receipt though
17:46 schestowitz-TR; these receipts
17:46 schestowitz-TR; for such flaky items
17:46 schestowitz-TR; can be just as valuable as the product itself
17:46 schestowitz-TR; as they are a ticket for the second product
17:46 schestowitz-TR; here I did have to return a few in the diustant past
17:46 schestowitz-TR; a
17:46 schestowitz-TR; and pick a replacement of roughly the same price
17:46 Techrights-sec; yes, agreed, it's just I have to look through a stack of them
17:46 Techrights-sec; t
17:47 schestowitz-TR; I like playing with data, libreoffice cal time :-p)
17:47 schestowitz-TR; wayback machine
17:47 schestowitz-TR; *calc
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18:18 Techrights-sec; calc is useful
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18:36 Techrights-sec; it TM unavailable again?
18:36 Techrights-sec; the one I uploaded is for hardware / peripherals here
18:37 schestowitz-TR; i noticed
18:37 schestowitz-TR; but..
18:37 schestowitz-TR; heavy load
18:37 schestowitz-TR; i might run the script soon
18:37 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Ebba Busch is boycotting the Swedish radio because in their Arabic, Somali, and Kurdish transmissions th
18:37 schestowitz-TR; ey translated her desire to shoot islamists as her wanting to shoot muslims." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/ebba-radioBBB
18:48 schestowitz-TR; rsync becomes a pig when finding two files, large files, of the same name and no matching hash
18:49 Techrights-sec; otr: that must be it; but I've not been able to complete the task this evening
19:17 schestowitz-TR; ota
19:17 schestowitz-TR; it was about AMD
19:17 schestowitz-TR; an the phenomenon in general
19:17 schestowitz-TR; I want to think people will become more suspicious of what they see on the Web
19:18 Techrights-sec; ack
19:18 Techrights-sec; yes, good approach especially now with so many "influencers" but those
19:18 Techrights-sec; are especially a danger to social control media useds
19:18 schestowitz-TR; I did mention social control media and gulagtube along thr way
19:18 schestowitz-TR; and microsoft bribing bloggers for "reviews"
19:33 Techrights-sec; ack
19:35 schestowitz-TR; today's tm remote backup is OK
19:35 schestowitz-TR; tm-db-[today].dump.gz
19:35 schestowitz-TR; it'\s an hour old
19:35 Techrights-sec; not from here, I can't get it to complete
19:35 Techrights-sec; maybe SFTP or tar instead of rsync?
19:36 schestowitz-TR; rianne back
19:36 schestowitz-TR; shel will post in TM shortly
19:36 schestowitz-TR; many isles are empty, she says
19:36 schestowitz-TR; so much foir "normal"
19:36 schestowitz-TR; NHS portal going dark
19:36 schestowitz-TR; I reckon many recipes of prpoducts lack supply chain ingredients like oils, inc. palm oil
19:36 schestowitz-TR; so cannot make the same product as before
19:36 schestowitz-TR; she didn't find much discounted food either
19:38 Techrights-sec; ack
19:38 Techrights-sec; palm oil is to be avoide for health, environment, and political reasons
19:38 Techrights-sec; same here
19:38 Techrights-sec; it's really widespread and one has to check the ingredients list carefully
19:39 schestowitz-TR; we've bene boycoting all products with palm oil in them for ages
19:39 schestowitz-TR; even soaps
19:39 schestowitz-TR; they use m,any sneaky names
19:39 schestowitz-TR; but we know those
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