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05:57 schestowitz-TR; gm
05:57 schestowitz-TR; emergency-ish here
05:57 schestowitz-TR; we had 1.5 hour electric outage
05:57 schestowitz-TR; do not try to retreieve
05:57 schestowitz-TR; ipfs stuff just yet
05:57 schestowitz-TR; it has not run yet
05:57 schestowitz-TR; worse yet, I cannot gegt wlan to show up on the pi
05:57 schestowitz-TR; after the reboot
05:57 schestowitz-TR; upon boot iy says "failked to start Load Kernel Module"
05:57 schestowitz-TR; then it goes into the desktopop OK
05:57 schestowitz-TR; but it seems like wireless option is hard to get going
05:57 schestowitz-TR; any pointers?
05:57 Techrights-sec; I wondered why no access to gemini.techrights.org
05:57 Techrights-sec; wlan troubles here too
05:57 Techrights-sec; can you do a system update?
05:58 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> About half these are Microsoft, for the second day in a row, but the corrupt media lets Microsoft badmouth "Linux" over admins who choose lousy passwords. These are actively-exploited Microsoft holes! https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/24/cisa-adds-20-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
05:58 schestowitz-TR; for system update I would need a connection I assume
05:58 schestowitz-TR; unless you think it will try to amend something locally, too
05:58 schestowitz-TR; does it have ethernet port? or over usb?
05:59 Techrights-sec; What about the package 'debsums" ?
05:59 Techrights-sec; no Ethernet at all?
05:59 Techrights-sec; It has Ethernet next to the USB ports
06:00 schestowitz-TR; i am goint to try
06:00 schestowitz-TR; icidentally, I am getting to test my usb clone of the system
06:00 schestowitz-TR; brb
06:19 schestowitz-TR; a) usb boots OK
06:19 schestowitz-TR; b) usb very slow for anything, both on rianne's and mine
06:19 schestowitz-TR; c) when it finally booted wlan0 worked
06:19 schestowitz-TR; but it's an old backup of the whole system, and slow
06:19 schestowitz-TR; d) gooing back to sd card
06:19 schestowitz-TR; e) running system update now
06:19 schestowitz-TR; linux (kernel) has no new version, I assume maybe version update broke it (I did system update about 2 weeks ago)
06:19 schestowitz-TR; f) eth0 works fine, I didn't even remember the pi4 has it
06:19 Techrights-sec; ack
06:24 Techrights-sec; ack
06:24 Techrights-sec; f) it's not quite 1Gb/s but close
06:24 Techrights-sec; but most home networks are probably still only 100Mb/s
06:30 schestowitz-TR; no, wait, yoiu leap ahead
06:30 schestowitz-TR; so I did full system update
06:30 schestowitz-TR; no linux update was there
06:30 schestowitz-TR; you said you too lost wifi #######################################
06:30 schestowitz-TR; so I told rianne not to update hers # ########################## #
06:30 schestowitz-TR; when rebooting now it is the same issue
06:30 schestowitz-TR; wifi works OK when I bot from the older clone
06:30 schestowitz-TR; I chedked how to boot the pi with an older klernel
06:30 schestowitz-TR; knowing it does not use grub
06:31 Techrights-sec; ssh: connect to host gemini.techrights.org port 22: No route to host
06:31 Techrights-sec; DNS may be out of date?
06:35 schestowitz-TR; do you know how to choose another kernel? I looked up some info, but it was not too useful
06:35 schestowitz-TR; assuming the pi does kerp old kernels and lets me select these
06:35 Techrights-sec; ack
06:35 Techrights-sec; is that in /boot/config.txt ?
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06:40 Techrights-sec; if so, then shutdown and remove USB drive, mount it in another machine,
06:40 Techrights-sec; edit the file and then return it and boot
06:43 Techrights-sec; maybe copy the data over to the clone and use that?
06:44 schestowitz-TR; ok
06:44 schestowitz-TR; well, the clone is out od date
06:44 schestowitz-TR; and the approch does not solve the issue
06:44 schestowitz-TR; I may try to downgrade the kernel
06:44 schestowitz-TR; it it does not seem too risky an approach
06:48 schestowitz-TR; I have looked at config.txt
06:48 schestowitz-TR; the options there do not allude to older kernel
06:48 schestowitz-TR; I do not use a USB drive, I'm back to using the SD card
06:48 schestowitz-TR; the goal is to boot into a state where wlan works again
06:48 schestowitz-TR; (I did test wlan works if I boot into the USB clone)
07:16 Techrights-sec; RPi systems are easier to replace than repair by swapping out the storage medium
07:26 schestowitz-TR; I am going to try to run it close to me, with ethernet, headless
07:26 Techrights-sec; ack
07:58 schestowitz-TR; I have restored things one by one
07:58 schestowitz-TR; soon the ipfs processes will be fully caught up with
07:58 schestowitz-TR; nginx is failing
07:58 schestowitz-TR; I don't know hy yet
07:58 schestowitz-TR; *why
07:58 schestowitz-TR; would you like to see the error it gives?
07:58 schestowitz-TR; maybe a newer version of it was unhappy with configs?
07:58 schestowitz-TR; I think when I did system updates it already restarted nginx as part of the process
08:01 schestowitz-TR; [emerg] socket() [::]:80 failed 97: address family not supported by prtotocol)
08:11 schestowitz-TR; OK, I think that the ipfs bits are ready to pick up now from the pi
08:11 schestowitz-TR; the internal ip changed from 82 to 84 in D block
08:11 schestowitz-TR; maybe some future system update will 'fix' wifi
08:11 schestowitz-TR; for now, http/s, gemini and ssh route to the ethernet address
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08:28 Techrights-sec; http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-240522.html#tMay%2024%2016:37:41
08:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
08:41 schestowitz-TR; my connection requires that I run the tc scripts on the pi
08:41 schestowitz-TR; I changed ip=wlan to eth
08:41 schestowitz-TR; but it than acts unhappyabout running the commands
08:41 schestowitz-TR; as if they are only working with wlan
08:41 schestowitz-TR; I guess eome other scripts alsdo make references to that
08:41 schestowitz-TR; I also had to change internal references to the name of the mchine
08:41 schestowitz-TR; whioch is not the same when it is on ethernet
08:42 Techrights-sec; ack
08:44 Techrights-sec; yes, but the wifi problem can be at the router posisbly
08:44 schestowitz-TR; the upside is that there are now better fallback and maybe some time in the future the wifi issue will be
08:44 schestowitz-TR; solved by system update
08:44 schestowitz-TR; more iurgent that the geminiproxy/nginx, I need to figure out the traffic shaping
08:44 schestowitz-TR; as my connecction is slow
08:44 schestowitz-TR; and rianne's aloso
08:46 schestowitz-TR; it looks like some kernel thing
08:46 schestowitz-TR; as wlan is not even being loaded after the reboot
08:46 schestowitz-TR; like a missing component
08:46 schestowitz-TR; and it works ok with the old snapshot running off the sub stick
08:48 Techrights-sec; ack
08:48 schestowitz-TR; something in the OS itself has changed
08:48 schestowitz-TR; I am so tired, been up since 2:40
08:48 schestowitz-TR; I just want to get tc right
08:48 schestowitz-TR; and then take a break
09:00 Techrights-sec; ack
09:01 schestowitz-TR; going tito get much-needed sleep
09:01 schestowitz-TR; losing health over it not worth iit given
09:01 Techrights-sec; ack
09:01 schestowitz-TR; that more critical things are unning again
09:01 schestowitz-TR; the outage did not cause me as much trouble as the pi losing wlan
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11:48 Techrights-sec; that's good news then
11:48 Techrights-sec; that the outage was minimal
11:50 schestowitz-TR; back
11:50 schestowitz-TR; at the end there were two unrelated issues
11:50 schestowitz-TR; 1) pi after updated
11:50 schestowitz-TR; 2) 1.5 hours of outage
11:51 schestowitz-TR; first such outage in 15 years
11:51 schestowitz-TR; I was a lot younger when last experiencingf an outage that's not my own fault and fixable on the stop
11:51 schestowitz-TR; rianne and I were like zombies, much better now
11:51 schestowitz-TR; priority now is 1) fix tc (maybe kernel change is the culprit?)
11:51 schestowitz-TR; s) fix the gemini-proxy or rather nginx
12:04 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Suffered my first electric outage (not caused by myself and immediately fixable in the fuse box) since more than 15 years ago! Shocking that the emergency line for this used a robot to pick up call. Emergency lines should send you directly to a person.
12:04 Techrights-sec; ack
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14:08 schestowitz; x https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4050185/microsoft-open-sources-adatest-toxigen
14:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.computing.co.uk | Microsoft open-sources tools to create safer language models
14:08 schestowitz; x https://www.techcityng.com/applications-open-for-the-microsoft-africa-development-center-adc-open-source-connect-for-developers/
14:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.techcityng.com | Applications open for the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC) Open Source Connect for developers - TechCity
14:10 schestowitz; x https://www.computerworld.com/article/3661673/adobe-tightens-microsoft-integration-for-document-management-validation.html
14:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Adobe tightens Microsoft integration for document management, validation | Computerworld
15:04 psydruid; Adobe trying to keep its friends relevant
15:05 schestowitz-TR; shared crises
15:07 psydruid; that's why I always disregard people's discounting GNU/Linux for not having Adobe and Autodesk products
15:08 schestowitz-TR; I understand those people
15:08 schestowitz-TR; some have worked for 20 years with these
15:08 schestowitz-TR; they know no other way
15:08 schestowitz-TR; they dee autocad
15:08 schestowitz-TR; not windows
15:08 schestowitz-TR; and some have used "Mac" for 20 years
15:08 schestowitz-TR; so they see no other way
15:08 schestowitz-TR; but that perception can change
15:08 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: are you good at iptables and nftables
15:08 psydruid; if you are flexible enough you can learn anything
15:09 schestowitz-TR; Techrights-sec seems to be offline at the moment
15:09 schestowitz-TR; yeah, but Techrights-sec spent a lot of time learning these, I spend 2 hours today in vain
15:09 schestowitz-TR; I think we need to rewrite our traffic shapers
15:09 psydruid; I worked for one of these CAD/CAM companies as a technical support
15:09 schestowitz-TR; Debian decided to move to newer packages that are not compatible with old
15:09 schestowitz-TR; I already had to fix 3 broken things
15:09 psydruid; So I know what I'm talking about
15:10 schestowitz-TR; or work around
15:10 schestowitz-TR; technical support is awful experience
15:10 schestowitz-TR; you get abuse
15:10 psydruid; I haven't worked with iptables directly
15:10 psydruid; That's why I eventually quit
15:10 schestowitz-TR; the pi was forcibly reboot [sic]
15:10 schestowitz-TR; we had the first such outage in over 15 years
15:11 schestowitz-TR; I was joking to myself about Putler flicking a switch
15:11 schestowitz-TR; just to "fuck with us"
15:11 schestowitz-TR; but at 2:50am in summer power usage is very low
15:12 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: yes, better even garden than handle people on the phone MORE so people who are ANGRY as something went WRONG
15:12 psydruid; I used to set up Slackware with Shorewall for an easier interface to iptables
15:12 schestowitz-TR; Now I don't even want to make a snapshot/clone of the pi
15:12 psydruid; Most customers were nice, except for the French, who have no matters
15:13 psydruid; manners*
15:13 schestowitz-TR; because of all the things 'broken' with the latest patches
15:13 schestowitz-TR; France has a reputation for it
15:13 schestowitz-TR; not just in EPO
15:13 schestowitz-TR; what a strange day it has been today
15:14 psydruid; Sometimes they started cursing and I am the kind of person who treats others the way he is treated himself
15:14 schestowitz-TR; pushing infra changes to git
15:14 schestowitz-TR; let me put it crudely
15:14 psydruid; Can you go back to a previous working state?
15:14 schestowitz-TR; jobs suck
15:14 schestowitz-TR; IT jobs suck more
15:15 schestowitz-TR; an artilce in The Register 1-2 years ago
15:15 schestowitz-TR; said something to the effect of
15:15 schestowitz-TR; 90% of people in tech or IT or software
15:15 schestowitz-TR; (cannot recall which)
15:15 schestowitz-TR; dislike their job
15:15 psydruid; I am considering non-IT jobs in the future too
15:15 schestowitz-TR; the worst part is working on stress
15:15 schestowitz-TR; like downtime, data loss, things breaking
15:15 schestowitz-TR; that's when the health is also impacted
15:16 schestowitz-TR; I woke up after just 3 hours of sleep, stayed up 6 hours
15:16 psydruid; I know when I was working for that company I didn't even feel like staying in the workplace for lunch
15:16 schestowitz-TR; until I decided that I fixed "enough" of the "more important" things
15:16 psydruid; So I went home not to see or hear from anyone
15:16 psydruid; And I put on weight because of the stress
15:16 schestowitz-TR; makes sense
15:16 schestowitz-TR; do not before close friend of colleague
15:16 schestowitz-TR; or relationships
15:16 schestowitz-TR; *become
15:17 schestowitz-TR; need to separate the worlds
15:17 schestowitz-TR; when I worked in burger king my girlfriend was a colleague
15:17 schestowitz-TR; it's getting a bit awkward sometimes
15:17 psydruid; I've always been pursued in the workplace, but held it off
16:03 schestowitz-TR; psydruid: FURTHER (oops, caps) to main channel powwow
16:03 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned you on the phone
16:03 schestowitz-TR; to the man I spoke to
16:03 schestowitz-TR; he worked in IT
16:03 schestowitz-TR; found it stressful
16:04 schestowitz-TR; now does power supplier stuff
16:04 schestowitz-TR; the good thing here is, power cuts are avoided in crowded places
16:04 schestowitz-TR; in bohol some people have had no power for 6 months
16:04 schestowitz-TR; due to the hurricane
16:04 psydruid; I think people in IT are undervalued, especially if they have degrees in CS
16:05 schestowitz-TR; maybe there is an oversupply
16:05 psydruid; you learn all this theory and these advanced skills
16:05 schestowitz-TR; they moan about "shortages" to lower the salaries
16:05 schestowitz-TR; by increasing oversupply
16:05 schestowitz-TR; and not even training and teaching properly
16:05 psydruid; and then you go into the workplace and do all kinds of boring things
16:05 schestowitz-TR; shit like "AWS certification"
16:05 psydruid; for which you don't even need the degree
16:06 schestowitz-TR; yes, that's another issue
16:06 schestowitz-TR; and it is why rianne and I want to leave our job
16:06 schestowitz-TR; we lost some staff
16:06 schestowitz-TR; so sometimes we do shit jobs of people who left
16:06 schestowitz-TR; I already drafted something about going part time
16:06 schestowitz-TR; at first about leaving
16:06 schestowitz-TR; but I softened my stance
16:06 schestowitz-TR; a friend read my draft yesterday
16:07 schestowitz-TR; after speaking to the power supplier our address is registered like a business
16:07 schestowitz-TR; so maybe we can live up to that
16:07 schestowitz-TR; and do techrights full time, not that stupid job full time
16:07 schestowitz-TR; more people need to do their own thing
16:07 schestowitz-TR; but gov gives subsidies to very wealthy (graft) copmpanies
16:07 schestowitz-TR; and they eat all the pie
16:08 schestowitz-TR; the only way out of it is to not play their game
16:08 schestowitz-TR; self-hosting is one
16:08 schestowitz-TR; our company sometimes feels like resellers
16:08 schestowitz-TR; we used to have our OWN RACKS in the office
16:08 schestowitz-TR; now the media says everyone needs THE CLOWN
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16:11 psydruid; I think we should try to change the system
16:12 psydruid; The big problem is most companies siding with government and surveillance capitalism businesses
16:12 schestowitz-TR; it is a marriage of convenience
16:12 schestowitz-TR; gov, military, large companies
16:12 psydruid; With the objective of keeping technical people out of top jobs and companies
16:12 schestowitz-TR; spying and hoarding taxpayers' money
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16:12 schestowitz-TR; now the energy copmpanies and food giants make huge profits
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16:13 schestowitz-TR; having killed off the small shops drting pandemic
16:13 psydruid; It's technologists vs business people
16:13 schestowitz-TR; prices went up by a lot
16:13 psydruid; And we should realize that
16:13 schestowitz-TR; the other thing is demoting techs
16:13 schestowitz-TR; because they are seen as a threat to the 'empty suits'
16:13 schestowitz-TR; see EPO
16:14 schestowitz-TR; bankers and politicians or MBAs at the top
16:14 schestowitz-TR; no science
16:14 schestowitz-TR; the scientists are treated like farmers
16:18 psydruid; I'm in favour of reversing this situation
16:18 psydruid; with scientists at the top and bankers and politicians at the bottom
16:19 schestowitz-TR; but we need to organise
16:19 schestowitz-TR; or unionise across firms
16:19 schestowitz-TR; there are some movements
16:19 schestowitz-TR; but too scattered
16:19 schestowitz-TR; gnu helped coders as "hackers" do this
16:20 schestowitz-TR; and bypass proprietary unix
16:20 schestowitz-TR; so now there are optinos
16:20 schestowitz-TR; bsd also
16:27 schestowitz-TR; Techrights-sec:
16:27 schestowitz-TR; aha
16:27 schestowitz-TR; and we're back
16:30 psydruid; Scientists are competing too much against one another for jobs and salaries
16:30 psydruid; So yes, I agree about unionising
16:38 schestowitz-TR; EPO uses "promotion" to create hostility
16:38 schestowitz-TR; but the union points back at the real issues
16:39 schestowitz-TR; which is not colleagues
16:39 schestowitz-TR; but the dictators who plunder everyone
16:39 schestowitz-TR; EPO is a "success story" for unions
16:39 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if I should make a statement on today's service interruption
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16:40 schestowitz-TR; the main issue is the Debian 11 kernel update
16:40 schestowitz-TR; seems to have broken at least 4 services
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16:42 psydruid; Yes
16:42 schestowitz-TR; that'st the part I really hate about tech
16:42 psydruid; This shouldn't happen in a "stable" release
16:42 schestowitz-TR; it is stressful
16:42 schestowitz-TR; tech needs to be judged by what happens when things go wrong
16:43 psydruid; So standards seem to be slipping
16:43 schestowitz-TR; like kids bullied into suicide in FB
16:43 schestowitz-TR; or shamed into it
16:43 schestowitz-TR; or when businesses lose a ton of data
16:43 schestowitz-TR; or server suffer major breach
16:43 schestowitz-TR; ransomware too
16:43 schestowitz-TR; and people then skip a night's sleep
16:43 psydruid; That's always my way of thinking
16:44 schestowitz-TR; same for relationships
16:44 schestowitz-TR; 'thehoneymoonisover"
16:44 schestowitz-TR; so they say
16:44 psydruid; Test for breakage instead of only proper functioning
16:44 schestowitz-TR; as if marriage is just some long vacation
16:44 schestowitz-TR; I even plugged in the usb clone
16:44 schestowitz-TR; wifi was OK
16:44 schestowitz-TR; I then used ethernet to bring everything up to date
16:44 schestowitz-TR; checked old kernels
16:45 schestowitz-TR; but that did not fix wifi
16:45 schestowitz-TR; Techrights-sec told me to just throw it away and use the clone
16:45 schestowitz-TR; as it would be faster
16:45 schestowitz-TR; based on experience
16:45 schestowitz-TR; with those types of devices
16:45 psydruid; I had this with a Debian 11 install a few months ago
16:45 schestowitz-TR; people used to say sound broke
16:45 schestowitz-TR; after they had upgraded
16:46 psydruid; I applied updates and networking stopped working
16:46 psydruid; So I did a reinstall
16:46 schestowitz-TR; to me, eth0 still works
16:46 schestowitz-TR; I need to rewrite some scripts and stuff
16:46 psydruid; As I couldn't be bothered figuring out what exactly went wrong
16:46 schestowitz-TR; and it needs to be close to the router now
16:59 schestowitz-TR; rianne and I are joking today that Putler is flicking the switch on and off
16:59 schestowitz-TR; to feel how much power -- pardom the pun -- he has
16:59 schestowitz-TR; I spoke for over 30 mins with the power supplier
16:59 schestowitz-TR; the upstream one
16:59 schestowitz-TR; got our addressed registered as "high priority"
17:02 schestowitz-TR; I spent a coupld of hours messing with tc, seeing that we now use "deprecated" tools and commands
17:03 schestowitz-TR; tried to work around that, as ipfs takes up the b/w at home
17:03 Techrights-sec; did you try it with nftables
17:03 Techrights-sec; ack
17:03 schestowitz-TR; I reckon the commands can be converted to nftables
17:04 schestowitz-TR; but do not know how
17:04 schestowitz-TR; There are similar issues people have with RHEL 8
17:04 schestowitz-TR; and some compatibility fallbacks
17:04 schestowitz-TR; like patches for the kernel
17:04 schestowitz-TR; but in the long run using these tools will get harder
17:04 schestowitz-TR; until rewritten
17:04 schestowitz-TR; this is less of an iissue
17:04 schestowitz-TR; I did fix the logger and the nginx stuff, pushed to git
17:04 schestowitz-TR; so the only remaining PITA is tc
17:04 schestowitz-TR; maybe some time in the future the kernel will pick up wlan OK
17:05 schestowitz-TR; what complicates me fixing this is that I barely have a grasp of how the tc scripts work at the moment
17:05 schestowitz-TR; but I reckon a mapping from one command to another would solve this
17:05 schestowitz-TR; we vey much r ely on this for all tasks and computer
17:05 schestowitz-TR; as the network is slow and ipfs is still useful enough
17:05 schestowitz-TR; the issue with ipfs taking up a lot of bw is widely known
17:05 schestowitz-TR; because it needs to scatter many copies around, that's the whole point of it
17:06 Techrights-sec; the main problem with tc is that it runs on a host within the LAN rather than
17:06 Techrights-sec; the LAN's router
17:06 Techrights-sec; can IPFS be adjusted to not use more than a certain amount of bandwidth on its
17:06 Techrights-sec; own?
17:06 schestowitz-TR; I looked into it again this morning, with newer docs, but people suggest traffic shaping
17:09 Techrights-sec; ack
17:09 schestowitz-TR; we have long known that iptablkes is being phased out
17:09 schestowitz-TR; and now there's an opportunity to future-proof the setup
17:09 schestowitz-TR; The news is slow today, but I hardly slpt and my RSS feeds need cleaning
17:09 schestowitz-TR; at least all key services are fully restored
17:09 schestowitz-TR; inc. ones I did not push to git, like changing to the devices name
17:09 schestowitz-TR; it now has two 'profiles', LAN Eth and WLAN
17:16 psydruid; It's still inexcusable for such changes to take place in a stable distribution
17:16 schestowitz-TR; yes, I mean..
17:16 schestowitz-TR; likle breaking apis and compatibility
17:17 schestowitz-TR; with apt/apt-get update
17:17 schestowitz-TR; not upgrade
17:17 schestowitz-TR; just leave it the fuck alone
17:17 schestowitz-TR; it works, it runs
17:17 schestowitz-TR; no upgrades
17:17 schestowitz-TR; maybe security fixes, that's enough
17:17 schestowitz-TR; like nginx suddenly complaining about the config files
17:18 schestowitz-TR; because the syntax that was OK before it's not "Emerg"(ency)
17:18 schestowitz-TR; so the gemini proxy was down for like 9 hours
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17:25 Techrights-sec; ack
17:25 Techrights-sec; I should look at NFTables again soon.
17:28 schestowitz-TR; thanks so much
17:28 schestowitz-TR; we have two tc scripts that are called by gemini
17:28 schestowitz-TR; at the moment they do nothing
17:28 schestowitz-TR; they fail to run
17:28 schestowitz-TR; fixing this is more to do with "convenience" (latency etc.) than uptime
17:28 schestowitz-TR; afaik, I did fix or work around all the other issues
17:28 schestowitz-TR; but I will babysit tonight's scripts in real time just to be sure
17:28 schestowitz-TR; along the way on multiple machines at home we made things more robust in case of a next incident
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17:42 Techrights-sec; ack
18:08 schestowitz-TR; my energy provider is eager to protect what we have here in terms ofreisilience
18:08 schestowitz-TR; the person I spoke to used to work as tech in telecoms
18:08 schestowitz-TR; so the network side
18:08 schestowitz-TR; BT uptime has been superb so far this year
18:08 schestowitz-TR; no outages at all, just those annoying firmware updates without prior warnings, followd by IP address roll-over
18:08 schestowitz-TR; at leasy my vague and basic understanding is that iptables is being replaced and phased out
18:08 schestowitz-TR; for good, solid, factual reasons
18:08 schestowitz-TR; technical reasons, not some corporation shoehorning vendor lockin
18:09 Techrights-sec; ack
18:09 Techrights-sec; yes and nftables is easier to use just it's missing the enormous wealth of
18:09 Techrights-sec; (good, bad, terrible) tutorials
18:10 schestowitz-TR; today's news is (so far) clean of Microsoft shitposts
18:10 schestowitz-TR; so far...
18:10 schestowitz-TR; so we can be offeensive with positive stuff, not "defensive"
18:11 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Spamnil headline 3 hours ago: "Your Much Loved macOS Linux Terminal..." Waaah??? "macOS Linux Terminal"? The kernel has a terminal? Linux is MacOSX? macOS? When clueless people are propped up by Jim and Sheela Zemlin... to attack tech (no spamnil has no tech skills)
18:12 Techrights-sec; ack
18:12 Techrights-sec; though Apple's, Microsoft's, John Deer's, and other's astroturfers have been
18:12 Techrights-sec; active in framing Apple's repair kit in a way that attacks right to repair and
18:12 Techrights-sec; tries to further erode the right
18:13 schestowitz-TR; those are other battles
18:13 schestowitz-TR; like Florian told me last month, better for us to focus on upc and epo
18:13 schestowitz-TR; he tackles apple's abuses a lot these days
18:13 schestowitz-TR; there are 3 people I know who write 24/7 about fight or right to repair
18:13 schestowitz-TR; they can explain it a lot better than me
18:14 Techrights-sec; yes, of course, but one to check on from time to time because it is increasingly
18:14 Techrights-sec; crossing into software and with it licensing and, lately, into software patents
18:14 Techrights-sec; yes, that too, however, the increasing misuse of patents and the incursion of
18:14 Techrights-sec; software patents into the fight is sometign to be aware of and check on from
18:14 Techrights-sec; time to time
18:15 schestowitz-TR; maybe there are clips or portions of clips that can illuminate this
18:15 schestowitz-TR; as expalined by other people
18:15 Techrights-sec; good idea. I'll try to make note next time sw patents come up in one of the
18:15 Techrights-sec; vlogs
18:17 schestowitz-TR; very improbable I'll make videos today as the wind was out of my sails by 9am and I'm just trying to survive
18:17 schestowitz-TR; as feed items pile up and we only posted 10 nodes in drupal so far today (usually it's about 50 per day), except weekends
18:19 schestowitz-TR; I spoke to the nortjhwest power manager
18:19 schestowitz-TR; and he said that for the router and the pit it makes sense to get a ups
18:19 schestowitz-TR; as the exchanges run on backup batteries anyway
18:19 schestowitz-TR; and a ups for small devices should be 50-80 pounds
18:19 schestowitz-TR; if we have another ppoower cut, I'll go purchase something
18:19 schestowitz-TR; the laoptops have batteries
18:19 schestowitz-TR; all of them have working batteries, some last longer than others
18:19 Techrights-sec; :/
18:19 Techrights-sec; problems like power outages will do that
18:19 Techrights-sec; would a UPS for one or two of the computers have helped?
18:20 schestowitz-TR; cost of ups ~ 4 hours of babysitting elephants in librewold
18:20 schestowitz-TR; so we don't have to wake up colleagues
18:20 schestowitz-TR; (for the NOC, which is useless if you work in the blind)
18:24 schestowitz-TR; I reckon we'll live and operate like this for a llong time to come
18:24 schestowitz-TR; given recent circumstances
18:24 schestowitz-TR; hence renewing domain for 5 years as well
18:24 schestowitz-TR; the savings alone can assure that
18:24 schestowitz-TR; I've manually checked the gzx file this afternoion
18:24 schestowitz-TR; those are the bread and butter of the sites
18:24 Techrights-sec; ack
18:24 schestowitz-TR; though the file system matters as well
18:24 schestowitz-TR; with fibreoptics I'd have backups it up a lot more often rather than rely on RAID and on you
18:25 Techrights-sec; I don't feel comfortable until problems with the filesystem are ru;ed out
18:27 schestowitz-TR; yes, hence the need to reduce working hours
18:27 schestowitz-TR; the time seems right
18:27 schestowitz-TR; and we made the decision (final) even before the employer communicated anything
18:28 schestowitz-TR; now we have excuse and opportunity
18:28 schestowitz-TR; I already ponsoered years ago either passing to rianne or going part time
18:28 schestowitz-TR; but the money was easy and I feared it would insult the boss
18:28 schestowitz-TR; like "OK, I'm out, but plkease keep rianne in"
18:28 schestowitz-TR; becaause it comes as a set
18:28 schestowitz-TR; (when sareen was being a gas I threatened to quit and the boss reacted in panic sucking up
18:28 schestowitz-TR; and staff; she was sacked shortly after that)
18:29 schestowitz-TR; work politics is toxic shit that wears you down
18:29 schestowitz-TR; working 9-5 and communiting fnished you, even if you could in theory, type away and blog 7pm to midmnight
18:30 schestowitz-TR; you do not have the mental and emotional capacity anymore
18:30 schestowitz-TR; it is a hidden enemy
18:30 Techrights-sec; yep and those that don't do any work or anything constructive at all, sahy
18:30 Techrights-sec; microsofters, have all the time in the world to wear down productive people
18:30 Techrights-sec; with their politics
18:31 schestowitz-TR; when getting older some people regret having been "budy making money" (they cannot even use up, just waste like "business c
18:32 schestowitz-TR; class seats") when they could in fact use the time doing something personal
18:32 schestowitz-TR; and at 40 you do start to wonder...
18:33 schestowitz-TR; heck, you cpould be that "professional clock
18:33 schestowitz-TR; "along the lines ofm "biological clock" (typically a feminine term)
18:37 Techrights-sec; microsofters often run the clock out on projects, making them miss deadlines
18:37 Techrights-sec; and fail through obstruction
18:37 Techrights-sec; delay, and interference
18:37 Techrights-sec; since they never get measure by the same criteria, they can fail all day
18:37 Techrights-sec; every day and only get praised and promoted for it
18:38 schestowitz-TR; and when all else fails, outsource
18:38 schestowitz-TR; to places where they still retain some actual engineerrs
18:38 schestowitz-TR; on borrowed money
18:38 schestowitz-TR; because they lack a business model
18:38 schestowitz-TR; too obsssessed with grabbing all the "share" ("market")
18:38 Techrights-sec; oh, too bad, it was almost ready, if there had only been a little
18:38 Techrights-sec; more time/money/upgrades
18:47 schestowitz; Security mjg being pawned again (or pwn3d rather)
18:47 schestowitz; I want to spend more time in irc if I spend less time on the job
18:48 Techrights-sec; ack
18:58 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "The malware creates a working directory %TEMP%\\OfficeInit and copies to it INIT and cmpbk32.dll files, as well as a legitimate 32-bit Windows executable cmdl32.exe from either System32 or SysWOW64 folder, depending on if the operating system is 32 or 64 bit." https://research.checkpoint.com/2022/twisted-panda-chinese-apt-espionage-operation-against-russians-state-owned-defense-institutes/
18:58 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- research.checkpoint.com | Twisted Panda: Chinese APT espionage operation against Russians state-owned defense institutes - Check Point Research
18:58 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Filename: eset_ssl_filtered_cert_importer.exe SHA-1 hash: 796362BD0304E305AD120576B6A8FB6721108752 ESET detection name: Win32/Agent.AEGY" https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/05/20/sandworm-ukraine-new-version-arguepatch-malware-loader/
18:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-research.checkpoint.com | Twisted Panda: Chinese APT espionage operation against Russians state-owned defense institutes - Check Point Research
18:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Sandworm uses a new version of ArguePatch to attack targets in Ukraine | WeLiveSecurity
18:58 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- Sandworm uses a new version of ArguePatch to attack targets in Ukraine | WeLiveSecurity
19:21 Techrights-sec; ack
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19:47 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Despite assurances by Eben Upton that theres no supply shortage of Raspberry Pi CM4 modules for commercial and industrial customers, installations or projects requiring just a few modules may be out of luck. So alternatives are needed" https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/25/raspberry-pi-cm4-compatible-module-amlogic-a311d-cpu/
19:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cnx-software.com | Raspberry Pi CM4 compatible module coming soon with Amlogic A311D CPU - CNX Software
19:49 Techrights-sec; ack
19:49 Techrights-sec; ack; not all the manufacturing can take place in Wales yet, and of course
19:49 Techrights-sec; there is the matter of the components too
19:49 schestowitz-TR; not computer enthusiats hoard components
19:49 schestowitz-TR; car makers do
19:49 schestowitz-TR; and of course CrankCoin people
19:49 schestowitz-TR; but they are buying into duds that lack value or lose value very rapidly
19:57 Techrights-sec; not the enthusiasts but the manufacturers of chips and other basic parts
19:57 Techrights-sec; their not hoarding but are just not able to make enough
19:57 Techrights-sec; scalpers are another problem and a big one which has popped up rather recently
19:58 Techrights-sec; in response to the shortage
19:58 Techrights-sec; people buy up units at the normal price and then auction them off for several
19:58 Techrights-sec; times higher
19:58 schestowitz-TR; data is the new aunflower oil :-)
19:58 psydruid; it also depends on the types of chips
19:59 schestowitz-TR; fish and chips
19:59 schestowitz-TR; with sunflower oil
19:59 psydruid; I think it's more important to get more smaller chips out there than these x86 monstrosities
19:59 schestowitz-TR; made or farmed in ukraine
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