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08:27 schestowitz-TR; how can we respond to the "Microsoft says Linux not secure?" BS articles?
08:27 schestowitz-TR; for now I just ignore
08:27 schestowitz-TR; not even adding to Daily Links
08:27 schestowitz-TR; not even with comment
08:28 Techrights-sec; good question, especially since they have control over what's left of the
08:28 Techrights-sec; trade press;
08:31 Techrights-sec; ; it may be that the only way is to addres what they are trying to
08:31 Techrights-sec; distract from: that M$ has been, is, and always will be swiss cheese and that
08:31 Techrights-sec; the ransomware activities have very quickly gone from a small cottage industry
08:31 Techrights-sec; to a major global phenomenon affecting whole nationstates
08:31 Techrights-sec; pounding the drum on Windows TCO might be one strategy but the tick is to get it
08:31 Techrights-sec; noticed
08:32 schestowitz-TR; right. right.
08:32 schestowitz-TR; so please carry on picking windows tco stories
08:32 schestowitz-TR; I add those to tuxmachines too
08:32 schestowitz-TR; better than feeding micreosoft bottom feeders
08:32 schestowitz-TR; even with [Ed:]
08:32 schestowitz-TR; in this case, I do not bother
08:32 schestowitz-TR; because unlike with vmware people can see what's wrong
08:32 schestowitz-TR; like microsoft is not authority for "Linux"
08:32 schestowitz-TR; rather than concern troll at best
08:32 schestowitz-TR; I did not check comments but I can imagine what people say
08:38 Techrights-sec; no but they are really increasing their effort to reposition themselves as
08:38 Techrights-sec; knowledgeable about security. They do this in part by conflating exploits
08:38 Techrights-sec; with attacks and then asserting that becase they are "attacked" (read
08:38 Techrights-sec; exploited) the most they have th emost knowledge and experience. Ongets thOne gets that straight from the microsofters themse
08:38 Techrights-sec; lves for years.
08:38 Techrights-sec; What really hurts is that they were able to get in on the Biden campaign and
08:38 Techrights-sec; because he won, tradition says he owes them a big one. He does not remember
08:38 Techrights-sec; how the various M$-based web sites for the Obama administration fell on theitr
08:38 Techrights-sec; faces and had to be replaced with real technology.
08:39 schestowitz-TR; ok, so you and I are in agreement on this
08:39 schestowitz-TR; people can figure out what's really going on
08:39 schestowitz-TR; and we ened to show what they are distracting FROM
08:39 schestowitz-TR; like Costa Rica
08:39 schestowitz-TR; and not waste time pointing out the obvious
08:40 schestowitz-TR; (Microsoft does not speak for "Linux")
08:40 Techrights-sec; "What people say" is subjective, do you mean people or M$ astroturfers. Already
08:40 Techrights-sec; a few years ago most forums had a 47:1 astroturfer to people ratio in the
08:40 Techrights-sec; visible comments.
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I think social control media is used more than comments now
08:42 schestowitz-TR; and it expensive toi 'turf
08:42 schestowitz-TR; also, I've just checked phoronix comments
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I think his forums are def. on the demise
08:42 schestowitz-TR; he has pushed a number of microsoft pieces of crap lately
08:42 schestowitz-TR; which is a net negative
08:42 schestowitz-TR; given the target audience for that crap
08:42 schestowitz-TR; going to run ddos protection in tuxmachines
08:42 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I had to restart httpd on it
08:42 schestowitz-TR; rianne noticed the issue, half an hour late
08:44 Techrights-sec; Yes, social control media is used /instead of comments and with M$-oriented
08:44 Techrights-sec; companies in charge of hiring moderators it does not go well for anyone.
08:44 Techrights-sec; Look at Conde Nast's Redddit for one of the worse examples.
08:44 Techrights-sec; tm did not trigger here yesterday
08:44 Techrights-sec; ^tm monitor
08:44 Techrights-sec; ack
08:45 schestowitz-TR; load came down before I even needed to start ddos protection so to speak
08:45 schestowitz-TR; microsoft pays conde nast a lot of money
08:45 schestowitz-TR; and the income sources will run out with the cash cows
08:45 schestowitz-TR; conde nast should die with microsoft
08:45 Techrights-sec; yes and IDG too
08:46 schestowitz-TR; IDG is pretty much dead already
08:46 schestowitz-TR; many of their old domains do not exist anymore
08:47 schestowitz-TR; those that still exist are barely active
08:47 schestowitz-TR; they just pretend to still exist by writing something, sometimes paid placements, once a week or
08:47 schestowitz-TR; once a day
08:47 Techrights-sec; yes
08:47 schestowitz-TR; IDG has no commitment from its new owner
08:47 schestowitz-TR; you hardly head of IDC, either
08:47 schestowitz-TR; *hear
08:49 schestowitz-TR; sjvn used to write in idg. now it's maybe one article per 2 months, even less
08:49 schestowitz-TR; just to keep the sites looking "not dead"
08:49 schestowitz-TR; you would be shocked if the articles showed you view counts
08:49 schestowitz-TR; the few that have counters suggest hardly anyone accesses sites via gulag noise
08:49 schestowitz-TR; like a couple hundredds
08:49 schestowitz-TR; and idg rss feeds have not been fundtional for over adecade
08:49 schestowitz-TR; so they have no way to reach an audience
08:49 schestowitz-TR; they don't use social control media either
08:49 schestowitz-TR; except accounts of the authors
08:49 schestowitz-TR; sjvn is about to lose his pluspora account (admin literally died)
08:49 schestowitz-TR; which is where he moved after he had lost his gulagPlus account
08:51 schestowitz-TR; last night I got some more tips re Nat Friedman
08:51 schestowitz-TR; but at this point I see no purpose going aftyer him
08:51 schestowitz-TR; afaik, he's not in a position of power anymore
08:51 schestowitz-TR; so having a go at his dad or wife would seem petty
08:51 schestowitz-TR; and would be hard for me to justify
08:51 Techrights-sec; a choice opportunity to use them might occur later
08:51 schestowitz-TR; it's like "kicking a puppy"
08:55 schestowitz-TR; ACK.
08:55 schestowitz-TR; FWIW, yesterday I posted FOUR batches oif Daily Links
08:55 schestowitz-TR; the morning one with politics was getting too long
08:55 schestowitz-TR; So I'm trying to split or spread that a bit
08:55 schestowitz-TR; This weekend I have more spare time than usual, think I reach optimum on some levels
08:55 schestowitz-TR; Don't know where to hunt fo more gnu/linux rss feeds
08:55 schestowitz-TR; you alreedy cover many bsd-oriented ones
08:55 Techrights-sec; I think they can only be found accidentally; usually you can check any new
08:55 Techrights-sec; article for feed information, and quite often it is there
08:57 schestowitz-TR; this is what I do if or when I stumble upon new sources
08:57 schestowitz-TR; howtoforge is still blocking me if I don't run a clownflare program
08:57 schestowitz-TR; and several other sites went down the same route
08:57 schestowitz-TR; their loss
08:57 schestowitz-TR; they "protect" themselves... from traffic
09:02 Techrights-sec; :(
09:09 Techrights-sec; QuiteRSS has 527 feeds most of which are active but many are low activity and
09:09 Techrights-sec; some are defunct
09:10 schestowitz-TR; last night I customised quiterss some more
09:10 schestowitz-TR; e.g. adding colour to alternate lines
09:11 schestowitz-TR; having browsed all the options
09:11 schestowitz-TR; maybe mi5 will issue a warning not to update this software anymore ;-)
09:11 schestowitz-TR; ime, many techs in russia oppose putin
09:11 schestowitz-TR; at least silently
09:11 schestowitz-TR; to avoid being harassed
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09:13 schestowitz-TR; I think we should invest more in gemini
09:14 schestowitz-TR; it also helps us distinuish ourselves
09:14 schestowitz-TR; 9k hits so far today and it's only 9am
09:14 schestowitz-TR; radia/lupa seems less active these days
09:14 schestowitz-TR; so it won't detect tyhe small new capsules
09:14 schestowitz-TR; unique ips are on the rise
09:14 schestowitz-TR; and either way we have a gateway for it
09:14 schestowitz-TR; so anything we do in gemini will in fact be an extension of the existing http/s site
09:27 Techrights-sec; ack
09:27 Techrights-sec; on the other hand, lupa might be focusing more on the smaller capsules,
09:32 schestowitz-TR; gemini s very different in many ways
09:32 schestowitz-TR; I stioll try to wrap my head around it
09:32 schestowitz-TR; for instance, no point having rss reads
09:32 schestowitz-TR; you would typically create a page that funnels inwars aggregators
09:32 schestowitz-TR; skyjake does the same as me
09:32 schestowitz-TR; then you can use some existing or new tools to process that
09:32 schestowitz-TR; also, direct access to capsulkes is not always needed
09:32 schestowitz-TR; reminds me of "blogroolls"
09:32 schestowitz-TR; I'm sure you sa w blogrolls back in the old days
09:32 schestowitz-TR; not thesame as planets
09:37 Techrights-sec; yes, but the planets have tended to be of little to no use to me, ever
09:41 schestowitz-TR; they gave visibility to sites you did not know existed
09:41 schestowitz-TR; without them, they'd be islands
09:41 schestowitz-TR; barely erven indexes in so-called 'search' engines
09:41 schestowitz-TR; I think a lot of so-called "screen time" got funneled into utter crap
09:41 schestowitz-TR; moving into the crap business is not an option
09:41 schestowitz-TR; not even a remote possibility
09:45 schestowitz-TR; GUD existed the search space
09:45 schestowitz-TR; but a new one entered, so there are two search engines now
09:45 schestowitz-TR; but given the nature of gemini I think search might not be the most appealing element
09:45 schestowitz-TR; I am looking into a gempost from this morning
09:45 schestowitz-TR; about Antenna
09:45 schestowitz-TR; I think gemini can innovate a lot in the "discovery" space
09:50 schestowitz-TR; just noticed a bug maybe caused by a timeout
09:50 schestowitz-TR; go to gemini.tt
09:50 schestowitz-TR; scroll down to articles
09:50 schestowitz-TR; see the entry of irc logs
09:50 schestowitz-TR; no title shown
09:50 schestowitz-TR; never seen this before
09:50 schestowitz-TR; *gemini.TR
10:00 Techrights-sec; that was a missing title in the actual article, it's fixed now
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I think I missed it when it was actually missing ^_^
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to study today my workflow and processes
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I stronmgly dislike the UNCERTAINTY about the job and what comes next
10:03 schestowitz-TR; my sister told me this morning she explored changing employers too
10:03 schestowitz-TR; she is a c++ dev, she can find something better
10:03 schestowitz-TR; but from home only part time
10:03 schestowitz-TR; and very demanding production-wise
10:03 schestowitz-TR; it's hard to organise the workflow here without knowing how much
10:04 schestowitz-TR; we work after july
10:04 schestowitz-TR; my guess is that we'll do part-timing, but the nature of the client
10:04 schestowitz-TR; and the work might continues to suck
10:04 schestowitz-TR; I spoke to sister half an hour, same withmy mom
10:04 schestowitz-TR; who says she is running out of savings
10:04 schestowitz-TR; which were invested in crap basically
10:04 schestowitz-TR; and lost a lot of the value already
10:06 Techrights-sec; ack
10:06 schestowitz-TR; On another note entirely, it makes no sense at all that my main laptop STILL has 9 dual head virtual
10:06 schestowitz-TR; desktops when I have 9 screens
10:06 schestowitz-TR; the toiehr laptops have 1 virtual desktop
10:06 schestowitz-TR; but a lot is to do with "legacy" or old habits
10:06 schestowitz-TR; or consolidation
10:06 schestowitz-TR; around one single file system
10:07 schestowitz-TR; I tried to spread out to other file systems, e.g. ssh (not sshfs)
10:07 schestowitz-TR; so the main challenge is breaking old habits and it's psychological mostly
10:09 schestowitz-TR; thought process:
10:09 schestowitz-TR; identity any use of virtual/overlapping space
10:09 schestowitz-TR; tabs, virtual desktops etc.
10:09 schestowitz-TR; those should be split apart
10:09 schestowitz-TR; a lot of "modern" things emit far too many "notifications"
10:09 schestowitz-TR; they wrongly assume you want more, not less, signal
10:14 Techrights-sec; ack
10:16 schestowitz-TR; idea: do you wish to assemble a quotes database with me in git?
10:16 schestowitz-TR; split by themes/topics?
10:16 schestowitz-TR; currently I use a flat, long text file
10:16 schestowitz-TR; that DB is useful when I want to look up certain things by topic
10:31 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "As usual with the tech industry, cryptocurrencies werent just sold as a risky investment" https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/20/cryptos-hype-and-promises-were-based-on-lies-from-the-very-beginning/ | Source: Scheerpost
10:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Cryptos Hype and Promises Were Based on Lies From the Very Beginning scheerpost.com
11:02 Techrights-sec; I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :(
11:03 schestowitz-TR; there was about 30-50m mins of download for tuxmachines
11:03 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I can see it on the screen here (a script that opens it in a browser, rekonq)
11:03 schestowitz-TR; but this time it was rianne trying to post and not being able to reach it
11:03 schestowitz-TR; so I got intercom call
11:09 Techrights-sec; I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :(
11:09 Techrights-sec; I think I have found where it is and fixed it.
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11:32 schestowitz-TR; I think you started typing something
11:33 Techrights-sec; yes but hit ctrl-c in the wronf window
11:33 Techrights-sec; I've now tested the fix in the monitoring script and it should be ok until
11:33 Techrights-sec; the next bug bites
11:36 Techrights-sec; I should have the script || with a loud alert so I notice when it stops
11:37 schestowitz-TR; our biggest blind spot will be overnight/afk
11:37 schestowitz-TR; last night it was inevitable rianne or I would notice
11:37 schestowitz-TR; but the very major and long downtimes happen when nobody attends
11:45 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Bill Gates-affiliated organization enables ransomware attack on Chicago Public Schools teachers and faculty. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165097#comment-33750
11:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
11:53 Techrights-sec; ack
11:53 schestowitz-TR; this is the constructive way, I think, to respond to the anti-Linux 'security' BS/FUD
11:53 schestowitz-TR; pointing people in the right direction
11:53 schestowitz-TR; away from the BS
11:53 Techrights-sec; yep
11:55 Techrights-sec; yes one has to keep pointing to and bringing up the items M$ and Bill wish
11:55 Techrights-sec; to distract from.
11:59 schestowitz; "When readers use such services as AdBlock, our revenue suffers. With the growing usage of these services and the request of readers who would like to better support our operations, we have established a Phoronix Premium subscription service."
11:59 schestowitz-TR; microbell
11:59 schestowitz-TR; 0 comments
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11:59 Techrights-sec; he has lost his audience
12:01 schestowitz-TR; maybe I am being thick of an a-hole
12:01 schestowitz-TR; but if you greet your audience with shit like WSL
12:01 schestowitz-TR; sooner or later they will develop a resistance
12:01 schestowitz-TR; this is why this is verboten in tuxmachines
12:01 schestowitz-TR; bad news? OK.
12:01 schestowitz-TR; but not entryism
12:02 schestowitz-TR; or, bad news with suitable response to it
12:02 schestowitz-TR; not unchallenged
12:02 schestowitz-TR; what I dislike about phoronix is how it treats all this microsoft threats
12:02 schestowitz-TR; like they're ordinary, acceptable things
12:02 schestowitz-TR; inc. github
12:02 schestowitz-TR; like the little bouy who brings home a wolf on a "leash"
12:02 Techrights-sec; WSL and Azure coverage can, for the most part, be eschewed
12:03 schestowitz-TR; christine seems afraid of tuxmachines commenting negatively on icbm and openwashing etc.
12:03 schestowitz-TR; because she became part of that problem
12:03 schestowitz-TR; this leads to guilt
12:03 schestowitz-TR; or fear of being cast as "part of the problem"
12:16 Techrights-sec; guilt will eventually lead to other problems
12:17 schestowitz-TR; having to make money is not a moral argument
12:17 schestowitz-TR; I think she's torn between community and paid work
12:17 schestowitz-TR; and we know where capital tends to come from
12:26 Techrights-sec; 'yuppie nuremburg' defense
12:26 schestowitz-TR; one reason why, if the noc job is no longer purely noc,
12:26 schestowitz-TR; I may leave completely
12:26 schestowitz-TR; would rather do part-time noc than touch some of that shit
12:26 schestowitz-TR; aws, gulag etc
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13:04 schestowitz-TR; lunduke became one of those "short shelf life" entertainers
13:04 schestowitz-TR; and he's still trying to make a bomeback
13:04 schestowitz-TR; after the LAS days
13:04 schestowitz-TR; so far he did marketeering
13:04 schestowitz-TR; with that fails, he caters for a dodgy crowd, I think
13:04 schestowitz-TR; christine is a relic of what used to be known as journalists
13:19 Techrights-sec; she used to be, it seems more and more like just a husk is left
13:21 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> NHS UK Retroactively Adds Weeks of Excess Mortality to 2021 (6 Months Later!), We're Still Seeing Excess Deaths This Spring as Backlogs of Death Certificates Are Caught up With https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/21/2022-mortality-reports/
13:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive NHS UK Retroactively Adds Weeks of Excess Mortality to 2021 (6 Months Later!), Were Still Seeing Excess Deaths This Spring as Backlogs of Death Certificates Are Caught up With
13:37 Techrights-sec; ack
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15:23 schestowitz-TR; running get_db on techrights
15:23 schestowitz-TR; the past week's wordpress gz were not good
15:23 schestowitz-TR; days ago when I checked they were OK from 13-15 or thereabouts
15:23 Techrights-sec; ack
15:23 Techrights-sec; I haven't checked since there have been problems here with getting the backups
15:37 schestowitz-TR; the dumping process does not yield any warning
15:37 schestowitz-TR; and head/tail on the file makes it look in OK integrity
15:37 schestowitz-TR; I am testing some of this manually at the moment
15:37 schestowitz-TR; since all 3 DBs are affected by this
15:38 schestowitz-TR; at seemingly random patterns since 6th Jan (hardware did not change until over a month later)
15:38 schestowitz-TR; I wonder what causes this
15:38 schestowitz-TR; I've just manually dumped and compressedwordpress
15:38 schestowitz-TR; test with gunzip is OK
15:38 schestowitz-TR; so at least I'm happy to know we have a good working backup for today
15:38 schestowitz-TR; don't want to go on 7 days without one
15:38 schestowitz-TR; and it's the most important DB
15:38 Techrights-sec; ack
15:38 Techrights-sec; right but whatever is breaking the backups needs to be identified and solved
15:38 Techrights-sec; :/
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16:23 schestowitz-TR; observation
16:23 schestowitz-TR; I've not yet seen any bad gz on the TM VM, which is on the same physical machine and disk
16:23 schestowitz-TR; having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK
16:23 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges
16:23 schestowitz-TR; since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident
16:23 Techrights-sec; filesystems are scary
16:23 schestowitz-TR; as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support
16:23 schestowitz-TR; (about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration
16:23 schestowitz-TR; from djangocms to drupal
16:23 schestowitz-TR; (not our fault0
16:23 schestowitz-TR; it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many
16:23 schestowitz-TR; people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some
16:23 schestowitz-TR; kind
16:23 schestowitz-TR; I sort of home to leave the company soon
16:23 schestowitz-TR; not even part-timing
16:23 schestowitz-TR; so I can better focus on migration
16:23 schestowitz-TR; in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc
16:23 schestowitz-TR; could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time"
16:26 schestowitz-TR; observation
16:26 schestowitz-TR; I've not yet seen any bad gz on the TM VM, which is on the same physical machine and disk
16:26 schestowitz-TR; having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK
16:26 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges
16:26 schestowitz-TR; since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident
16:26 schestowitz-TR; as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support
16:26 schestowitz-TR; (about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration
16:26 schestowitz-TR; from djangocms to drupal
16:26 schestowitz-TR; (not our fault0
16:26 schestowitz-TR; it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many
16:26 schestowitz-TR; people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some
16:26 schestowitz-TR; kind
16:26 schestowitz-TR; I sort of home to leave the company soon
16:26 schestowitz-TR; not even part-timing
16:26 schestowitz-TR; so I can better focus on migration
16:26 schestowitz-TR; in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc
16:26 schestowitz-TR; could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time"
16:26 schestowitz-TR; unlike people with kids, mortgage and likely no savings (just debt) 12 years of work
16:26 schestowitz-TR; in this company gave me a cushion, so sellouts are neither needed nor considered
16:26 schestowitz-TR; maybe at the end only rianne will work part time, I can pass her my duies
16:26 schestowitz-TR; and help when she needs tandem so to speak
16:26 schestowitz-TR; yesterday we received 19-page confidential documentsa, circulated among everyone
16:26 schestowitz-TR; it looks like no move will be made before July
16:26 schestowitz-TR; sort of stuck between rock and hard place because they need us
16:27 schestowitz-TR; but they cannot compel us to work hard overnight
16:27 Techrights-sec; ack
16:28 schestowitz-TR; a bit private: it would help rianne with naturalisation if she keeps the job (endorsement latter and
16:28 schestowitz-TR; employment status of 9 straight years)
16:28 schestowitz-TR; to me, it does not matter much and I lack time anyway, I don't garden 5 hours aweek like her
16:29 Techrights-sec; yes it would be a good idea to get the paperwork in order by the fastest means
16:29 Techrights-sec; possible
16:30 schestowitz-TR; (so there are those other elements "at play"... spoke to my mom about things today,
16:30 schestowitz-TR; her savings lost a LOT in value recettly... her pension won't suffice, so assets will be
16:30 schestowitz-TR; sold)
16:39 schestowitz-TR; she has just intercommed me
16:39 schestowitz-TR; to tell me about "pandapox"
16:39 schestowitz-TR; "elephantpx" etc./
16:39 schestowitz-TR; I guess capitalism will never be declared a failure
16:39 schestowitz-TR; it'll all be blamed on "nature" and profited from by bailouts, inflation, and patent licences
16:39 schestowitz-TR; while crushing all the small businesses
16:43 Techrights-sec; ack
16:43 schestowitz-TR; to the religious: "an act of god!"
16:43 schestowitz-TR; pope: live humbly, not like me on my golden chair in tax-avoiding vatican
16:44 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> IDG has become little but for-paid GAFAM spam (when it writes and publishes anything at all) https://www.computerworld.com/article/3660518/apple-improves-enterprise-training-to-meet-growing-demand.html
16:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Apple improves enterprise training to meet growing demand | Computerworld
16:57 Techrights-sec; IDG has been useless for decades now
17:32 schestowitz-TR; Slashdot now feeding provocative Microsoft FUD against Linux... in the LINUX SECTION (front page). Anything to distract from Microsoft' security catastrophes.
17:34 Techrights-sec; .
17:34 Techrights-sec; Slashdot died years ago, 2013 or 2014 or there abouts. Prior to that it suffered egregious damage from previous sales but by t
17:34 Techrights-sec; hat point the new owners just
17:34 Techrights-sec; plain killed it off.
17:35 schestowitz-TR; I did not even linked to it
17:35 schestowitz-TR; I mean, FFS
17:35 schestowitz-TR; this is too much
17:35 schestowitz-TR; uber-trolling
17:36 Techrights-sec; ack
17:36 Techrights-sec; it's really not a whole lot different than if the domain had been abandoned
17:36 Techrights-sec; and picked up by squatters; the only difference is that the original software
17:36 Techrights-sec; is still up and running
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18:02 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165112
18:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
18:02 schestowitz-TR; regarding what I said about El Reg
18:02 schestowitz-TR; today I went through over 100 items there
18:02 schestowitz-TR; maybe 150
18:02 schestowitz-TR; it's not as bad as last year
18:02 schestowitz-TR; but not as good as last week
18:02 schestowitz-TR; there are still the occasional BS articles
18:02 schestowitz-TR; in security leftovers I included what Microsoft may be trying to divertt attention away freom
18:02 schestowitz-TR; if you are curious you can go enter linux.slkadhdot.org or whatever
18:02 Techrights-sec; that's good to hear, except for the last week
18:03 schestowitz-TR; the register has had and still has many writers
18:03 schestowitz-TR; I try to differentiate by author and sometimes call them out on it
18:03 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft Tim went to some very very tiny site
18:03 schestowitz-TR; barely to be seen anymore
18:03 schestowitz-TR; like satalin Cimpanu and Bioogdan Popa
18:04 Techrights-sec; nah I stopped looking at Slashdot close to ten years ago
18:04 Techrights-sec; there's not point in either driving traffic to them or raising their visibility
18:04 Techrights-sec; Catalin Cimpanu is now shilling at Risky.biz
18:05 schestowitz-TR; I think hat too is downgrade/demotion
18:05 schestowitz-TR; if I know their visibility right
18:05 schestowitz-TR; or "auto revolution"
18:05 schestowitz-TR; those sites usually implode after a while
18:05 schestowitz-TR; catalin started in bleeping computer afaik
18:05 schestowitz-TR; abram lawrance, ms booster, runs that site
18:05 schestowitz-TR; *lawrence (sorry, many typos in names)
18:05 Techrights-sec; that one has expanded a lot recently, which can go either way for them at this
18:05 Techrights-sec; point
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18:09 schestowitz-TR; I make long 'catalogue' of these links, which come in handy later
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and add "Ed" where needed
18:09 schestowitz-TR; that's better than what lxer and linuxtoday do
18:09 schestowitz-TR; phoronix has just promoted systemd
18:09 schestowitz-TR; not sure what audience he aims for there
18:09 schestowitz-TR; looks at comments.... only 1 comment
18:09 schestowitz-TR; LOL!
18:09 schestowitz-TR; making fun of systemd... the comment talks of D-beer-D
18:09 schestowitz-TR; you can see it in phoronix if you fancy a whirl
18:09 schestowitz-TR; "beergroups"
18:09 schestowitz-TR; "imp,emntn d deer-D property"
18:09 schestowitz-TR; so maybe microbell can take the clue
18:09 schestowitz-TR; people don't want this thing
18:09 schestowitz-TR; it's forced upon them
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and they're like, "OK, I guess I need to learn this"
18:09 Techrights-sec; ack
18:09 Techrights-sec; the systemd cabal and their facilitators shutdown any discussion of its merits
18:09 Techrights-sec; back when *one* *single* *person* unilaterally made the decision for Debian and
18:09 Techrights-sec; thus for hundreds of derivatives, and all the derivatives except a small handful
18:09 Techrights-sec; folded
18:09 Techrights-sec; .
18:10 schestowitz-TR; who was the person btw?
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18:13 Techrights-sec; on the TC, the chair, IIRC
18:13 Techrights-sec; https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652
18:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Debian User Forums
18:14 schestowitz-TR; can you check the name for me?
18:14 schestowitz-TR; It's important as I likely know the name, I follow Debian closely
18:14 schestowitz-TR; Was it Ian jackson, who now pushes Rust and wants to oust Torvalds and RMS?
18:15 Techrights-sec; https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=576562#p576502
18:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Page 3 - Debian User Forums
18:16 schestowitz-TR; "In offering the GR, Ian Jackson noted that many of the concerns raised during the TC's original discussion were dismissed at t
18:16 schestowitz-TR; he time as purely speculative/"slippery slope"/just a bunch of FUD. But Jackson's call for the GR noted that time had shown tho
18:16 schestowitz-TR; se early concerns to be exactly correct and entirely valid. (And so they are. As things stand right now, a friggin' spreadsheet
18:16 schestowitz-TR; can (and does!) require a specific init system. Talk about bogosity!)"
18:18 Techrights-sec; Recall the Norwegian OOXML scandal reached peak when the committee chair
18:18 Techrights-sec; overrode multiple rounds of voting, all against OOXML, and just ticked the box
18:18 Techrights-sec; "yes"
18:19 schestowitz-TR; I forgot the details around what had happened there
18:19 schestowitz-TR; but I likely wrote about that
18:19 schestowitz-TR; was it jackson who is responsible? I see nom clear name there
18:19 Techrights-sec; I am unclear on the name and not finding the citation I was looking for,
18:19 Techrights-sec; so the assertion is relegated to a rumor at this point.
18:20 schestowitz-TR; Ok, thanks.
18:20 schestowitz-TR; Eiother way, Jackson is not trustworthy for many reasonsd, as noted above
18:20 schestowitz-TR; he's also connected to xen-ctirix and LF
18:26 Techrights-sec; ack
18:30 schestowitz-TR; part of debian's oxbridge cabal
18:30 schestowitz-TR; mcintite, mjg (I think), lamb and others
18:30 schestowitz-TR; whom I might as well consider pootential state actors
18:30 Techrights-sec; yes
18:30 schestowitz-TR; because of the history there
18:30 schestowitz-TR; *mccintyre
18:30 schestowitz-TR; with the many tyres
18:30 schestowitz-TR; I should do mor exercise myself...
18:44 Techrights-sec; ack
18:45 schestowitz-TR; incominh third link batch for today
18:45 schestowitz-TR; I think those are, in general more important than articles, irc, and videos
18:45 schestowitz-TR; because over time they serve as good archives with headlines and full URL (for IA)
18:46 Techrights-sec; with some additional structured metadata, it would be even more useful for
18:46 Techrights-sec; using as a citation database
18:48 schestowitz-TR; over the years some sites tried to copy that format, but they could not keep up (pace)
18:48 schestowitz-TR; and lacked the tools, experience etc.
18:48 schestowitz-TR; I started in USENET around 2004 ot 2005
18:48 schestowitz-TR; with some social control media on the side, e.g. digg, propeller, netscape, linuxelectron, among others
18:48 schestowitz-TR; that I forgot
18:48 Techrights-sec; ack
18:49 schestowitz-TR; rianne has just rebooted debian 10, first time in months
18:49 schestowitz-TR; so now she has two machines with vpns
18:49 schestowitz-TR; when you update strongswan/ipsec in debian you then typically need a reboot
18:49 schestowitz-TR; befoire realising this I'd spend hours struggling
18:50 Techrights-sec; unless there are live updates enabled, kernal and a few key libraries
18:50 Techrights-sec; get updated and then necessitate a reboot
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19:43 schestowitz-TR; i took 3 days off work
19:43 schestowitz-TR; tomorroe last shift, then about 8 days off
19:43 schestowitz-TR; I want to devote tonight to maximisingutility of thr hardware, rianne does the same with her computers
19:43 schestowitz-TR; we both reckon the company needs us too much
19:43 schestowitz-TR; so we have a good bargaining position re noc
19:43 schestowitz-TR; no, noc? goodbye then
19:43 schestowitz-TR; I won't be doing full-time engineeting for them
19:43 schestowitz-TR; i'm on shift atm
19:43 schestowitz-TR; quiet as f
20:26 schestowitz-TR; backing up the /home partition of the pi you sent to a thid external device
20:26 schestowitz-TR; shuffled physical drives
20:26 schestowitz-TR; rotated to an old 3tb
20:26 schestowitz-TR; nap time...
20:26 Techrights-sec; ack
20:27 schestowitz-TR; the other week I checked if lesser privileges accounts can access the external drive
20:27 schestowitz-TR; they cannot even see it
20:27 schestowitz-TR; *privileged
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20:27 Techrights-sec; that's normal for many desktops
20:28 Techrights-sec; if the drive is user-mounted with the default gimmick to automount it
20:28 Techrights-sec; (I no longer recall the current details)
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23:50 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> With 10 days left in the month Techrights already served over 330k pages over gemini:// so far this month, so that's a pace of about half a million a month. Gemini is not a niche anymore. Many people use it. Many unique IPs, too.
23:54 schestowitz-TR; Still, Gemini is nowhere as big as HTTP/S, no point (or any use) denying it. But it's growing fast. TuxMachines and Techrights average almost 10 hits per second, but a lot of today's Web is bots and other junk. Some of them are barely distinguishable and it makes running a Web site potentially expensive. Gemini has very low throughput and load overheads.
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