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00:35 Techrights-sec; "we could use even lower-power hardware"
00:35 Techrights-sec; yes even the raspberry pi requires a 3 A pwoer supply these days
00:35 Techrights-sec; for laptops more power efficiency could mean batteries lasting for a day or two
00:35 Techrights-sec; 'smart'phones won't even get through a whole work day let alone a calendar day
00:35 Techrights-sec; in their current software + hardware constellation.
00:35 Techrights-sec; yes, the trademark needs defending or it goes away. Maybe that is another goal
00:35 Techrights-sec; of the LF.
00:37 schestowitz-TR; I thought about writing something about their new political letter
00:37 schestowitz-TR; signed by microsoft
00:37 schestowitz-TR; edelman, then microsoft
00:37 schestowitz-TR; now LF manager
00:37 schestowitz-TR; paid 100% by microsoft
00:37 schestowitz-TR; and writing politicval latter
00:37 schestowitz-TR; with the name "linux" on them
00:37 schestowitz-TR; way to divide the project
00:37 Techrights-sec; what an egregious situation, their most hostile competitor has a place not
00:37 Techrights-sec; only on the board but inside management
00:37 Techrights-sec; yes, division is their well-used tactic. THere have been many previous examples
00:37 Techrights-sec; of them sowing division elsewhere.
00:38 schestowitz-TR; then again the letter si signed by THREE people
00:38 schestowitz-TR; two of whom male
00:38 schestowitz-TR; so if I pick on the "softer"
00:38 schestowitz-TR; they can try the "sexism" angle
00:38 schestowitz-TR; "why onl;y her"?
00:39 Techrights-sec; that's yet another means for them to sow division
00:39 schestowitz-TR; so I passed, sskipped
00:39 schestowitz-TR; not even a meme
00:40 schestowitz-TR; anyway, it was covered in a prior video/meme
00:40 schestowitz-TR; the miceosoft-spanks-linus one
00:40 schestowitz-TR; and it shows the names
00:40 schestowitz-TR; hides the faces
00:42 Techrights-sec; ack
00:42 schestowitz-TR; we have better things to pick on anyway
00:42 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I checked deeper the irs filings
00:42 schestowitz-TR; theior cfo lef
00:42 schestowitz-TR; *left
00:42 schestowitz-TR; same year they LOST money
00:42 schestowitz-TR; -$700,000
00:42 Techrights-sec; their subesquent adoption of Enron-style accounting is considered acceptible by
00:42 Techrights-sec; many accountants, both strangely and unfortunately.
00:44 schestowitz-TR; wait, are we talking about companies or a ahhole nation? or nations?
00:44 schestowitz-TR; seems like the world has made "loadn-from-unknown-future the norm
00:44 schestowitz-TR; maybe we can also borrow some "green credited" from the next generation?
00:44 schestowitz-TR; don't worry, we'll be carbon net negative
00:44 schestowitz-TR; some day
00:44 schestowitz-TR; we'll turn it around, promise
00:45 Techrights-sec; M$ considers itself, and works to position itself, above the nation-states,
00:45 Techrights-sec; Recall that some of the executive positions are named and positioned as if
00:45 Techrights-sec; they were national level, official governmental jobs.
00:45 schestowitz-TR; Chairman Bill
00:46 schestowitz-TR; Vice President
00:46 schestowitz-TR; there miight be others
00:46 schestowitz-TR; but many do end up in politics
00:46 schestowitz-TR; or vice versa
00:46 schestowitz-TR; see meta^H^Hbook
00:50 Techrights-sec; I was thinking more specifically National Technology Officer and sone other
00:50 Techrights-sec; job titles there.
00:53 schestowitz-TR; my job title at techrights shall be benevolent master of the universe
00:53 schestowitz-TR; and you shall be god the third
00:53 schestowitz-TR; just to ruffle some feather
00:53 schestowitz-TR; i need to follow some halo now... if you'll excuse me
00:54 Techrights-sec; They clearly continue to have designs on at least being considered part of the
00:54 Techrights-sec; governments. LOL
00:54 Techrights-sec; On a more serious note, Europe is about to most seriously regret allowing
00:54 Techrights-sec; M$ saboteurs placing M$ products throughout critical infrastructure.
00:56 schestowitz-TR; if you saw my video about secuyrity, I did mention that this weeek CISA pointed out Russia targets Windows
00:56 schestowitz-TR; the MSM will not mention this
00:56 schestowitz-TR; it's all day, all night.... linux "secuirty" something
00:56 schestowitz-TR; <I did not know the kernel also selected and rotates and re-enters passwords, let alone "1234"
00:57 Techrights-sec; There were articles about the US going in covertly before the 2022 attack and
00:57 Techrights-sec; cleaning up the M$ infestations what little they could. THey can't do that
00:57 Techrights-sec; verywhere and all the time.
00:57 Techrights-sec; Yes, they've been pounding the drum about perceived insecurity in FOSS
00:57 Techrights-sec; competitors, especially GNU/Linux. They are so frightened by GNU and the
00:57 Techrights-sec; goals behind it that they refuse to ever even name it.
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09:41 schestowitz; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/opinion/russia-ukraine-putin.html
09:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | Russians Must Accept the Truth. We Failed. - The New York Times
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09:42 schestowitz; https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-sc-crt-rally
09:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.teenvogue.com | Donald Trump Tells South Carolina Rally to "Lay Down Their Lives" Over Critical Race Theory | Teen Vogue
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09:42 schestowitz; https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ex-nj-teacher-threatened-to-kill-fellow-teacher-in-online-post-authorities-say/ar-AAV5DgD
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09:42 schestowitz; https://medforth.biz/france-man-in-tracksuit-of-football-club-fc-bayern-munich-wants-to-kill-a-faggot-in-the-name-of-allah-and-stabs-passers-by/
09:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-medforth.biz | France: Man in tracksuit of football club FC Bayern Munich wants to kill a faggot in the name of Allah and stabs passers-by Allah's Willing Executioners
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09:42 schestowitz; https://cphpost.dk/?p=132261
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09:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cphpost.dk | St Patricks Day 2022: Ten reasons to discover Irish literature - The Post
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09:42 schestowitz; https://www.wcvb.com/article/journalist-russian-state-tv-protested/39453051
09:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.wcvb.com | The journalist who protested on Russian state TV says it was 'impossible to stay silent'
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12:04 Techrights-sec; '
12:04 Techrights-sec; otr: another dude trolling http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-160322.html#tMar%2016%2020:28:38
12:04 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, March 16, 2022
12:05 schestowitz-TR; saw that, looked away, hoped he would go away which did happen
12:07 schestowitz-TR; ota
12:07 schestowitz-TR; sorry, i accidentally pasted the otr in irc, bt not the end of thr world
12:07 schestowitz-TR; it is important to remind people we take trolling seriously
12:07 schestowitz-TR; but also free speech
12:07 schestowitz-TR; if that persists, we need to take action
12:07 schestowitz-TR; ota
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13:15 schestowitz-TR; ota
13:15 schestowitz-TR; the roses are nearly dead now
13:15 schestowitz-TR; I've recorded about the strike
13:15 schestowitz-TR; working on text now
13:54 Techrights-sec; Service Unavailable
13:54 schestowitz-TR; draft
13:54 schestowitz-TR; i will issue a request for European readers to contact their reps and give contact details
13:54 schestowitz-TR; yes, the timing was curious
13:54 schestowitz-TR; I was holinking tons of stuff from epo.org
13:54 schestowitz-TR; makes me wonder
13:54 schestowitz-TR; iot looks ok now
13:54 schestowitz-TR; did you do something?
14:02 Techrights-sec; nope
14:03 schestowitz-TR; VERY interesting that just hotlinking can do damage to OUR site, not theirs
14:03 schestowitz-TR; unless they have some appliance that is ddosing us
14:03 schestowitz-TR; or spewing oout spam traffic
14:03 schestowitz-TR; as "protection"
14:03 Techrights-sec; haven't checked yet
14:04 schestowitz-TR; I have added local copies of all the flags
14:04 schestowitz-TR; I first tested it with hotlinking
14:04 schestowitz-TR; you can see this in the more recent draft of the two
14:04 schestowitz-TR; better to publish the latter AFTER the video
14:04 schestowitz-TR; we'll have some busy EPO days ahead
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15:46 schestowitz-TR; main laptoprebootedD
15:46 schestowitz-TR; x crashed
15:46 schestowitz-TR; which is unusual #######################################
15:46 schestowitz-TR; # Ytalk Error #
15:46 schestowitz-TR; at least I managed to update the system and boot into a new kernel
15:46 schestowitz-TR; long overdue
15:46 Techrights-sec; acktry smartmontools
15:46 schestowitz-TR; When rebooting I got a warning about my disk
15:46 schestowitz-TR; I might email you a copy
15:46 schestowitz-TR; I took a photo, it was bios level
15:46 schestowitz-TR; I will install some stuff later
15:46 schestowitz-TR; first I have like 50 things to restore following the reboot
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17:17 Techrights-sec; SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
17:17 Techrights-sec; - NVM subsystem reliability has been degraded
17:17 Techrights-sec; time for a new drive, I think
17:17 Techrights-sec; They're usually easy to replace if you get a matching model.
17:17 schestowitz-TR; it does not even say much about why or how
17:17 schestowitz-TR; does not suggest a fix either
17:18 schestowitz-TR; considering the complexity of this job, should I may consider demoting this machine to non-primary and get another machine to act as primary?
17:22 Techrights-sec; that would be a work-around but any data on the HD can be silently corrupted
17:22 schestowitz-TR; yes, I know, but I did the same with ted and vonick, basically one machines becomes "slave" and all the important data is maintained only on the new one
17:25 Techrights-sec; Underprovisioning solid state drives can extend the life. The drives
17:25 Techrights-sec; have some built-in wear levelling but leaving some padding goes further.
17:28 schestowitz-TR; OK, thanks
17:28 schestowitz-TR; At this point I gravitate towards getting a newer machine
17:28 schestowitz-TR; teere are already other issues on this one
17:28 schestowitz-TR; so I do not want to invest in repairs too much
17:28 schestowitz-TR; this machine has 2- to 50 GB free
17:28 schestowitz-TR; depeending on how many videos are stored
17:28 schestowitz-TR; I did notice some months ago Intel ewarniings at the syslog files
17:28 schestowitz-TR; that might be related
17:28 schestowitz-TR; I can buy a machine
17:28 schestowitz-TR; second hand but better
17:28 schestowitz-TR; put a new OS on it
17:28 schestowitz-TR; copy /home to it
17:28 schestowitz-TR; than startr working from there, use debian 10 for some tasks
17:28 Techrights-sec; Available Spare: 100%
17:28 Techrights-sec; Available Spare Threshold: 5%
17:28 Techrights-sec; Percentage Used: 111%
17:29 Techrights-sec; either way I think there is time pressure to abandon the HD currently inside
17:31 schestowitz-TR; I can go look for a laptop tomorrow
17:31 schestowitz-TR; I do not want a brand new on
17:32 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft makes good 'old' machines cheaper
17:32 schestowitz-TR; by rendering them obsolete
17:32 Techrights-sec; Ok. That's faster than it would take to order a new drive and have it delivered
17:32 Techrights-sec; Yes.
17:32 Techrights-sec; Though they appear to have plans to experiment with hardware which *cannot*
17:32 Techrights-sec; accept a reinstalled OS, not even WIndoze.
17:34 schestowitz-TR; afaik, this current machine is from 2016
17:34 schestowitz-TR; I have otheers from that year
17:34 schestowitz-TR; it was maybe state of the art back then
17:34 schestowitz-TR; the drive is thus about 6 years old
17:34 schestowitz-TR; the keyboard has some issues with it
17:34 schestowitz-TR; I have aspare VGA, can have 9 monitors in front of me if I get another laptop
17:34 schestowitz-TR; and a drive more reliable and mayeb bigger for the files
17:34 schestowitz-TR; that are criuitical to me
17:35 Techrights-sec; The old one could boot a custom Live USB stick and still be used for something
17:35 Techrights-sec; barrier or whatever
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I woluld still use the HD, until it dies, then live CD
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I could use that as encoding farm for videos
17:37 Techrights-sec; Yes, but system files only, *no* data for that drive any more.
17:37 Techrights-sec; Video could be read via SSHFS or NFS from another machine,
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17:46 schestowitz-TR; I have just chedked ebaqy
17:46 schestowitz-TR; 512GB nvm is about 11-150 pounds
17:46 schestowitz-TR; I am guessing I might be able to get a decent laptop for 200
17:46 schestowitz-TR; but maybe with inflation and shortages that has changed
17:46 schestowitz-TR; I do not wish to buy a new machine with microsoft tax
17:46 schestowitz-TR; I am playing hypothetical in my head
17:46 schestowitz-TR; like tasks and workflow
17:46 schestowitz-TR; the migration can be staged, with data doing the leap first
17:52 Techrights-sec; yes there is a hurry with the data
18:04 schestowitz-TR; a part of me is in fact relieved
18:04 schestowitz-TR; 1. I tested booting
18:04 schestowitz-TR; 2. I improved my recovery notes
18:04 schestowitz-TR; 3. for months now I've been suspecting HD issues, which I mentioned openly
18:04 schestowitz-TR; 4. I can use another machine
18:05 schestowitz-TR; 5. this can solve some space constrained and USB port limits
18:05 schestowitz-TR; Recently I could not use the external webcam unless I unplugged the mouse
18:05 schestowitz-TR; which led to othyer issues
18:05 schestowitz-TR; 6. I can use the spare external monitor
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18:21 Techrights-sec; #4
18:21 Techrights-sec; The RPi4 can drive two monitors
18:25 schestowitz-TR; ok, how about...
18:25 schestowitz-TR; instead of additional laptop
18:25 schestowitz-TR; adding externalkl USB drive to the pi
18:25 schestowitz-TR; 4tb
18:25 schestowitz-TR; then all essential data goes there
18:25 schestowitz-TR; upsides: no new machine
18:25 schestowitz-TR; can be used over ssh -X
18:25 schestowitz-TR; downsides
18:25 schestowitz-TR; for things like thunderbird too slow
18:25 Techrights-sec; that'd work too -- if the dead drive is removed just to be sure
18:25 schestowitz-TR; and does not tackle the issue of this current machine
18:25 schestowitz-TR; being potentially on its way out
18:30 Techrights-sec; the machien might last a while longer but the drive should be decommissioned
18:30 Techrights-sec; today
18:33 schestowitz-TR; yes, that is what I am thinking
18:33 schestowitz-TR; let me know if this makes sense
18:33 schestowitz-TR; stages:
18:33 schestowitz-TR; 1) copy ALL of /home to external HDD
18:33 schestowitz-TR; 2) coinnected the HDD to the pi that runs gemini
18:33 schestowitz-TR; 3) move all working notes (articles etc.) to that machine
18:33 schestowitz-TR; then edit them over ssh
18:33 schestowitz-TR; 4) all essential files are then stores on the SSD and external disk
18:33 schestowitz-TR; 5) this machine is still use for browsing etc.
18:33 schestowitz-TR; where underlying data on disk is not essential
18:33 schestowitz-TR; or stuff like music files
18:34 Techrights-sec; #3 -- sshfs is not to slow over the LAN / WLAN
18:34 Techrights-sec; #5 -- boot from the USB stick with a bare bones installation
18:34 Techrights-sec; I'd say get a screwdriver and remove the drive today so there is no temptation
18:34 Techrights-sec; to keep it in service
18:54 schestowitz-TR; goint to speak to me boss in 10 mins
18:54 schestowitz-TR; I might confront him
18:54 schestowitz-TR; but aftr that I will start migrating data to the external drive
18:54 schestowitz-TR; thre are 3 drives in total
18:54 schestowitz-TR; but two will be backups
18:54 schestowitz-TR; I will classify tasks i DI AS DATAESSENTIAL AND NONDATA ESSENTIAL
18:54 schestowitz-TR; THEN DECIDE WHAT i can keep doing on this machined
18:54 schestowitz-TR; and which activity to do remoately via the pi
18:54 schestowitz-TR; irc will need to go to the pi because it logs
18:54 schestowitz-TR; and the log files can be very large
18:54 schestowitz-TR; email will be a challnge because the data is too large for the pi's native storage
18:54 schestowitz-TR; and thunderbird is very heavy
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18:58 Techrights-sec; thunderbird is a little heavy even for RPi4, not just weaker models
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22:56 schestowitz-TR; I had a one-hour chat with him
22:56 schestowitz-TR; I handed his arse to him, as they say here
22:56 schestowitz-TR; or I put them in their poplace
22:56 schestowitz-TR; he and the CEO
22:56 schestowitz-TR; a lot off my chest
22:56 schestowitz-TR; and he was oon the defensive the whole trime
22:57 schestowitz-TR; occasionally raising the voice
22:57 schestowitz-TR; to try to give pretence of leverage
22:57 schestowitz-TR; rianne only heard part of it as she was in the kitchen most of the time
22:57 schestowitz-TR; anyway, that was fun
22:57 schestowitz-TR; tonight or tomorrow I will migrate data and workflow out of my main box
22:57 schestowitz-TR; first the data
22:57 schestowitz-TR; all of it
22:57 schestowitz-TR; I might use a second laptop as terminal for the external HD
22:57 schestowitz-TR; rather than a pi
22:57 schestowitz-TR; for a number of reasons
22:57 schestowitz-TR; at the end this will be like a bit of an upgrade for me
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