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beginning of new day, May 15

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2 AM, May 15

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6 AM, May 15

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06:34 Techrights-sec; ok

06:34 Techrights-sec; so maybe there is something misconfigure or non-standard in the formula

06:34 Techrights-sec; with openssl

06:40 schestowitz-TR; even if I try to run it from a script on my laptop it does not wokr

06:40 schestowitz-TR; must be interactive mode

06:40 schestowitz-TR; in sh

06:40 schestowitz-TR; on laptop, CLI or bash too

06:40 schestowitz-TR; in /usr/bin/sh in debian

06:40 Techrights-sec; intriguing. even with the #!/bin/sh at the top?


7 AM, May 15

07:32 schestowitz-TR; lol netflix

07:32 schestowitz-TR; get popcorn

07:32 schestowitz-TR; anything to buy time from shareholders...

07:33 schestowitz-TR; "we're not a METAVERSE company..."

07:33 schestowitz-TR; "don't worry, lads, we can pull this off!!!"

07:33 schestowitz-TR; or they could end up like tumblr and onlyfans profiting only from sex

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8 AM, May 15

08:31 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Far too many US companies operate at a loss and some get bailed out by taxpayers, e.g. Microsoft (stealing fr

08:31 schestowitz-TR; om the public) https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/palantir_share_price_collapses/

↺ https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/palantir_share_price_collapses/

08:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | Palantir CEO: Threat of nuclear conflict 'underestimated' The Register

08:31 schestowitz-TR; today's backups are all in good integrity

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08:57 Techrights-sec; ack

08:57 Techrights-sec; ok that good, I'll try the remote backup here then

08:59 schestowitz-TR; after spen^Hwasting 2-3 hours on this I decided I'd manually run (interactive mode)

08:59 schestowitz-TR; the command and then let the cron job pick the output from /tmp


9 AM, May 15

09:17 Techrights-sec; ack

09:17 schestowitz-TR; fyi, i have this session shows on another laptop now

09:17 schestowitz-TR; so if this one loses the connection it won't be orphaned and also I can detect change better

09:25 Techrights-sec; ok, that's an advantage of tmux

09:47 Techrights-sec; the wordpress tarballs are over 1GB in size, each, can that be correct?

09:47 Techrights-sec; to answer that myself, yes, the files have slowly grown over time

09:47 Techrights-sec; ok thanks

09:47 Techrights-sec; 1.3 is HUGE can that be compacted upstream at all?

09:47 schestowitz-TR; yes, about 13000mb

09:47 schestowitz-TR; from mysql>

09:47 schestowitz-TR; you could see table sizes

09:47 schestowitz-TR; revision history is there too

09:54 schestowitz-TR; posts at 33.5k

09:54 schestowitz-TR; post+revs 150k

09:54 schestowitz-TR; the latter could be compacted out of existence

09:54 schestowitz-TR; I'd rather keep them though

09:54 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the volume is in Daily Links

09:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe 80% of the total space usage

09:54 Techrights-sec; ack

09:54 Techrights-sec; if it is safe to do so, it would help

09:58 Techrights-sec; ok

09:59 schestowitz-TR; the Daily Links stuff does not link to other posts using [cref ]

09:59 schestowitz-TR; so it's one of those things that separating away from WordPress would be more doable with

09:59 schestowitz-TR; I still don't know how many hours we'll work come Jully


10 AM, May 15

10:03 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Reasons why the tech stock crash may be far from over https://www.ft.com/content/00f6f7de-3d84-419f-bd05-07583a3345c7

↺ https://www.ft.com/content/00f6f7de-3d84-419f-bd05-07583a3345c7

10:03 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ft.com | Reasons why the tech stock crash may be far from over | Financial Times

10:14 schestowitz-TR; with skyjake added (I need to run a thing manually about once a day, only takes about 15 secs)

10:14 schestowitz-TR; we now net and archive 10-40 gemini posts per day

10:14 schestowitz-TR; archive only in the link sense

10:14 schestowitz-TR; weekends are slower

10:14 schestowitz-TR; but there are cartoons, cats, crossword puzzles, TR is a daily bundle, and even podcasts on gemini://

10:14 schestowitz-TR; TR does videos too, but the files are sent over http/s

10:14 schestowitz-TR; let's hope one day there will be 100+ per day

10:14 schestowitz-TR; them, we can take that further with some curation

10:14 schestowitz-TR; the idea being, show that gemini is large and also good


11 AM, May 15

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11:42 schestowitz; >>> Check out the gallery... one picture stands out. Does it violate the

11:42 schestowitz; >>> CoC or are they shooting at it?

11:42 schestowitz; >>>

11:42 schestowitz; >>> https://www.facebook.com/arlinda.sopaj/photos

↺ https://www.facebook.com/arlinda.sopaj/photos

11:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-m.facebook.com | Log into Facebook | Facebook

11:42 schestowitz; >> Facebookism.

11:42 schestowitz; >

11:42 schestowitz; > A lot of the Balkan women are using social media and very few are using

11:42 schestowitz; > Linux, let alone Debian

11:42 schestowitz; >

11:42 schestowitz; > I see a culture clash on the horizon

11:42 schestowitz; >

11:42 schestowitz; > But maybe the Debian people don't plan to talk about computing at all

11:44 schestowitz-TR; Datingian Linux

11:46 schestowitz-TR; I'm sure it is widespread knowledge already, but busing people in for impression of diversity aside,

11:46 schestowitz-TR; in China they pay "white people" to shut up at events


noon, May 15

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1 PM, May 15

13:10 schestowitz-TR; will report on epo stuff and ota eta 1 hour

13:10 schestowitz-TR; then upc

13:10 schestowitz-TR; I'm startinmg to give up on keeping up with patent news

13:10 schestowitz-TR; because it's not a hot topic in general (anymorE)

13:10 schestowitz-TR; even the push for covid vaccinene patent waiver is not a thing anymore

13:11 Techrights-sec; ack

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2 PM, May 15

14:30 Techrights-sec; have you tried logging into the KDE forums at all? It's an unmitigated

14:30 Techrights-sec; disaster for usability and unnecessary, pointless complexity

14:30 Techrights-sec; The workflow is not well thought out at all

14:30 Techrights-sec; anyway, trying some KDE stuff at the moment, it is mostly quite nice but

14:30 Techrights-sec; weird bugs prominent

14:30 schestowitz-TR; which version or distro? Debian?

14:46 Techrights-sec; Devuan 5 (daedaulus) just some of the productivity tools not the full

14:46 Techrights-sec; desktop environment

14:46 Techrights-sec; $ apt-cache policy akonadi-server | head -n 2

14:46 Techrights-sec; akonadi-server:

14:46 Techrights-sec; Installed: 4:21.12.3-2

14:47 schestowitz-TR; ah, I know the solution to this

14:47 schestowitz-TR; on my laptops and rianne's

14:47 schestowitz-TR; CTRL-ESC

14:47 schestowitz-TR; type in "akA"

14:47 schestowitz-TR; CTRL+A

14:47 schestowitz-TR; kill

14:47 schestowitz-TR; I fucking hate akonadi

14:48 schestowitz-TR; it's giving me nothing but crap

14:48 schestowitz-TR; and its predecessors too

14:48 Techrights-sec; the forum registration process is just as bad but akonadi sucks up all t

14:48 Techrights-sec; the data regardless of where programs /say/ they are configured to store it

14:49 schestowitz-TR; type in ako in ksysgusrd (now renamed)

14:49 schestowitz-TR; kill the whole lot

14:49 schestowitz-TR; inc. mysql

14:49 schestowitz-TR; then get shit done

14:49 schestowitz-TR; the same for "store" in gnome or other

14:49 schestowitz-TR; all these things do is waste resources ime

14:54 Techrights-sec; stopping the akonadi 'server' does nothing, applications seem to write to

14:54 Techrights-sec; it direvtly

14:54 Techrights-sec; anyway, that's a distraction from important stuff

14:54 schestowitz-TR; if you just kill all the "ako" processes, bear in mind starting kmail or kalendar would bring those back again

14:54 schestowitz-TR; so just avoid that

14:54 Techrights-sec; :( it seems to be using MySQL or similar

14:55 schestowitz-TR; DB for something like email with flat files is not good plan, imho

14:55 schestowitz-TR; or even for very large file systems

14:55 schestowitz-TR; my systems are quite tidy

14:55 schestowitz-TR; I rarely need desktop searcgh

14:56 Techrights-sec; $ pgrep -lf mysql

14:56 Techrights-sec; 22372 mysqld

14:56 Techrights-sec; WTF?

14:56 Techrights-sec; No but there is SQLite3


3 PM, May 15

15:12 Techrights-sec; hmm looking at the forum most posts have few if any replies

15:12 Techrights-sec; most have no replies

15:12 Techrights-sec; recoll is best for desktop search and has fewer dependencies

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15:17 schestowitz-TR; draft (takes ages to do those, butr it's important)

15:25 Techrights-sec; ack

15:25 Techrights-sec; not just breaking credibility but is probably grounds for getting struck off

15:25 schestowitz-TR; yes, i must stress i am pro eu

15:25 schestowitz-TR; not concern-trolling

15:42 Techrights-sec; ack

15:43 schestowitz-TR; the common tactic is to mention afd or claim the critic is "Russia" or "eurosceptic

15:43 schestowitz-TR; as if the facts are emotion rather than logical


4 PM, May 15

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5 PM, May 15

17:19 schestowitz-TR; OTAx2

17:19 schestowitz-TR; finished recording

17:20 Techrights-sec; ack

17:36 schestowitz; "

17:36 schestowitz; Early this year, SUEPO called for actions supported by the Central Staff Committee (CSC). The main reason for discontent with the EPO present administration led by Mr. Campinos during the last four years follows his flawed Financial Study of 2019 made by Oliver Wyman & Mercer and the consequent reforms. The new salary adjustment procedure causes a disastrous immediate and long-term loss of purchasing power and denies the massive efforts made by

17:36 schestowitz; EPO staff during the last two pandemic years.

17:36 schestowitz; The inflation in the Netherlands of 11.2% and in Germany of 7.8% over the last 12 months accounts for far more than a double step reward (on average 1 step equals 2%). Less than 60% of eligible staff (actually less than 50% of all staff) may receive a single step let alone a double step this year. This is the worst year in the career of EPO staff which comes at the time when staff worked diligently through the worst pandemic of the century and

17:36 schestowitz; the worst inflation since the EPO inception.

17:36 schestowitz; The Work-to-Rule Actions are proving successful and the Focus on search actions is effective. The actions are drawing the attention of the Administrative Council and external stakeholders thereby persuading management to take staffs concerns seriously. Actions continue.

17:36 schestowitz; "

17:42 Techrights-sec; ack

17:43 schestowitz-TR; working on the text atm


6 PM, May 15

18:13 schestowitz-TR; put on the last litre of coffee for a while, we need to move to tea and lemon (quarter the original price, still fresh)

18:13 schestowitz-TR; rianne just sold a high-priced item in ebay

18:13 schestowitz-TR; but there is a "recession" here

18:13 schestowitz-TR; draft

18:13 Techrights-sec; ACK

18:13 Techrights-sec; ^ack

18:13 Techrights-sec; checking

18:22 schestowitz-TR; good idea, I will use the empoty summary for this

18:22 schestowitz-TR; add title, desc/summary

18:22 schestowitz-TR; done

18:22 schestowitz-TR; ok, try now

18:22 schestowitz-TR; the summary is very important (I read itr 3 times) because more people read that (than the body)

18:23 Techrights-sec; 'work-to-rule' can be described in a few words to remind the reader of

18:23 Techrights-sec; what it is and how it fits in

18:23 Techrights-sec; great!

18:23 Techrights-sec; s/embrked/embarked/

18:23 Techrights-sec; The summary could still benefit from saying what 'work-to-rule' actually is

18:23 Techrights-sec; That will help the reader understand why they are a good thing

18:23 Techrights-sec; checking

18:23 Techrights-sec; A good place to actually define 'work-to-rule' would be the second paragraph

18:27 schestowitz-TR; r3rd para expanded

18:27 schestowitz-TR; many correctiolns applied, best to refresh page

18:28 Techrights-sec; ok then please add a few words about what the phrase/term means

18:28 Techrights-sec; thanks

18:28 Techrights-sec; refreshing

18:39 schestowitz-TR; "I've had similar thoughts, I mean, the immediate of 'social' media, designed for engagement has a lot of problems." gemini://text.eapl.mx/re-the-dissappearence-of-sincere-conversations

↺ gemini://text.eapl.mx/re-the-dissappearence-of-sincere-conversations

18:44 Techrights-sec; ack

18:44 Techrights-sec; """

18:44 Techrights-sec; I can create my own system", and

18:44 Techrights-sec; later when your new system involves money (since

18:44 Techrights-sec; everything costs money) and power (since social

18:44 Techrights-sec; relationships create power), you are facing an

18:44 Techrights-sec; interesting dilemma.

18:44 Techrights-sec; """

18:44 schestowitz-TR; yes, I added that part to Faily Links

18:44 schestowitz-TR; that also describes github


7 PM, May 15

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19:14 schestowitz-TR; I like what I find in Gemini, on averge, more than WWW

19:14 schestowitz-TR; because it weeds out not "stupid people"

19:14 schestowitz-TR; but coirporate influence that breeds dishonesty and marketeering

19:14 schestowitz-TR; no posts about "clown computing"

19:14 schestowitz-TR; or "devops"

19:14 schestowitz-TR; sean conner actually mocked all those buzzwords recently

19:15 schestowitz-TR; so yopu have non-conforment technical people

19:15 schestowitz-TR; trying to write not for money or "SEO"

19:15 schestowitz-TR; or "brands"

19:15 schestowitz-TR; video upload nearly done

19:15 schestowitz-TR; I've uploade d ameme in the meantime

19:15 schestowitz-TR; as draft

19:15 schestowitz-TR; "toxic" mortgages

19:15 Techrights-sec; ack

19:15 Techrights-sec; quantity over quality has been a problem, pushed by management

19:15 Techrights-sec; so it is important to distinguish this downturn from an actually

19:15 Techrights-sec; desireable reacallibration

19:26 schestowitz-TR; I changed the headline to say "Much-Needed"

19:26 schestowitz-TR; Added a note to the meme too

19:26 schestowitz-TR; as I felt some might see minus and think "oh, bad!"

19:37 schestowitz-TR; draft

19:40 schestowitz-TR; then they defect then you win

19:41 Techrights-sec; thanks

19:41 Techrights-sec; ack

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19:54 schestowitz; I've just noted the <u></u> empty warnings in https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F%3Fstoriesd

↺ https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F%3Fstoriesd

19:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F%3Fstoriesd )

↺ https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftechrights.org%2F%3Fstoriesd

19:56 Techrights-sec; there are some more serious errors, according to the validator

19:57 schestowitz-TR; yes, it's very hard to appese these specs with any embedded video and with "cards"

19:57 schestowitz-TR; for social control media to show preview image

19:57 schestowitz-TR; that used to be all green for over a decade

19:57 schestowitz-TR; vut "modern" web....

19:57 schestowitz-TR; *but

19:59 Techrights-sec; ack

19:59 Techrights-sec; there are some more serious errors, according to the validator

19:59 Techrights-sec; It's easy, if the standards are followed, the first line needs to

19:59 Techrights-sec; be removed and replaced with <!doctype html> which the assholes at m$ and

19:59 Techrights-sec; elsewhere decided should represent HTML5

19:59 Techrights-sec; The other option is to remove the HTML5 cruft and stick with HTML4


8 PM, May 15

20:04 Techrights-sec; draft does not have the most coherent quote on the topic :/

20:04 schestowitz-TR; there are two drafts now, one is a meme


10 PM, May 15

22:24 schestowitz-TR; I made two minitor changes and pushed to git for faster posting

22:24 schestowitz-TR; *minor changes


11 PM, May 15

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