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01:19 Techrights-sec; intermittent network difficulties outside, somewhere

01:25 schestowitz-TR; I will turn ipfs back on in a moment as it will be needed for the cron jobs

01:25 schestowitz-TR; rianne is on shift

01:26 schestowitz-TR; I wasd productive in ways other than articles and videos

01:27 schestowitz-TR; it'll be nice to have more days off

01:27 schestowitz-TR; I even caught up with things I typically do in weekends

01:27 Techrights-sec; excellent

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08:15 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Stock investing is a volatile endeavor. Stocks can go into a bear market and deliver a negative return for years" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/26/how-crypto-is-using-the-behavioral-dynamics-of-bernie-madoffs-fraud/ | Source: Counter Punch

08:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How Crypto is Using the Behavioral Dynamics of Bernie Madoffs Fraud - CounterPunch.org

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09:23 schestowitz-TR; lol, twitter impressions back to old levels

09:23 schestowitz-TR; must be a miracle

09:23 schestowitz-TR; "slashdot effect=" -> the musk effect

09:23 schestowitz-TR; "try to look big, this due might take this clusterfuck off our hands"

09:23 schestowitz-TR; but the moment he mentioned bots, bam! impression halved

09:23 schestowitz-TR; what a shitty capitalist scam

09:23 schestowitz-TR; you can really align the surges with the events and the reactions

09:36 schestowitz-TR; a) we might cycle for food soon (weather poor)

09:36 schestowitz-TR; b) already did two daily batches (9am!)

09:36 schestowitz-TR; (re twitter)

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11:46 schestowitz-TR; rant: 3 unplanned reboots today, 3 machines

11:46 schestowitz-TR; because rianne likes to clean things...

11:46 schestowitz-TR; I hope lessons were learned

11:46 schestowitz-TR; now I need to restore all sorts of things

11:48 schestowitz-TR; the sole upside is

11:48 schestowitz-TR; a) I can verify it works after reboot, even headless

11:48 schestowitz-TR; which means I have less fats on the session

11:48 schestowitz-TR; b) I can refactor cavan for better layout and processes

11:48 schestowitz-TR; based on observations made over the past week

11:48 schestowitz-TR; I told her I'd clarn my own area, it's just not worth the hassle and risk

11:50 schestowitz-TR; even the happiest country in the world cannot figure out how to do a clean install of debian/bs

11:50 schestowitz-TR; and put BIND on it :-)

11:50 schestowitz-TR; or keep a stable link

12:05 schestowitz-TR; OK, I think I've seattled all things here now, except the traffic shaping

12:05 schestowitz-TR; thans to rianne the pi now runs without (afaik) a desktop environment

12:05 schestowitz-TR; which will mean efficiency improved

12:05 schestowitz-TR; (I had to plug in a monitor the last time to configure a bunch of things)

12:05 schestowitz-TR; the pi now boots OK with

12:05 schestowitz-TR; 2) gemini-proxy

12:05 schestowitz-TR; 4) ipfs was always off by default

12:05 schestowitz-TR; all other services and ports should be OK

12:05 schestowitz-TR; it also functions as our backup and storage server for actively-worked-in files, over ssh (if it's offline we can

12:05 schestowitz-TR; save locally as contigency)

12:05 schestowitz-TR; I now know that blue ports mean faster ones

12:05 schestowitz-TR; I did not know this

12:05 schestowitz-TR; cavan the PC with elepahnts all over it is not full of windows positioned to show what I need

12:05 schestowitz-TR; no data was lost

12:06 schestowitz-TR; lessons were learned

12:08 schestowitz-TR; I started my phd when I was 21

12:08 schestowitz-TR; undergrad is 3 years here

12:08 schestowitz-TR; phd can be 3, I head of a friend's student doing it in 2 years 9 months

12:08 schestowitz-TR; I don't know old standards

12:08 schestowitz-TR; but back then I did some readings on gfamous scientists who got a phd at a young age

12:08 schestowitz-TR; if I got mine at 24, I'd not be that exceptional

12:08 schestowitz-TR; because there are shortcuts one can take

12:08 schestowitz-TR; regarding oral exams for it, mine was serious enough and did make demands for changes

12:08 schestowitz-TR; I heard some disturbing stories where for political reasons

12:08 schestowitz-TR; people where treated very lkeniently

12:08 schestowitz-TR; like a student (female) from KSA

12:08 schestowitz-TR; people whose english isn't even good enough

12:09 schestowitz-TR; but the unis don't mind being diploma mills if that brings more money

12:09 schestowitz-TR; and signals to china, ksa etc. that we'll "be easy on ya"

12:09 schestowitz-TR; it's possible that it was you who relayed to TR links about removal of requirement

12:09 schestowitz-TR; of atleast one published paper for a phd

12:09 schestowitz-TR; maybe just in china (from memroy)

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12:32 schestowitz-TR; Perl is still a great choice gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi

12:33 Techrights-sec; yes, for certain things it is the best; basically anything text oriented, and

12:33 Techrights-sec; that thus includes XML

12:33 schestowitz-TR; when i was a phd student a colleague run the site for conferences using perl at the back end

12:33 schestowitz-TR; at some point he left us

12:33 schestowitz-TR; and they joked about it being hard to maintain etc. iirc

12:38 Techrights-sec; perl is flexible such that individual programmers' styles show through,

12:38 Techrights-sec; if there is not a lot of self discipline they can make messes or unpleasant

12:38 Techrights-sec; scripts; perl is also very expressive, and in some ways resembles natural

12:38 Techrights-sec; language since it was started by a linguist

12:41 schestowitz-TR; change of topic, just added the perl thing to next Daily batch

12:41 schestowitz-TR; I think I'll give rianne one of the laptops

12:41 schestowitz-TR; it would be her third computer

12:41 schestowitz-TR; it can improve her worfflow as she no longer uses a second monitor on the main laptop, which is low on RAM

12:41 schestowitz-TR; I told her the 3 downtimes or reboots (unplanned) led to some better configs at the end

12:41 schestowitz-TR; at the cost of some time

12:41 Techrights-sec; second and third monitors save on having to maintain extra systems

13:24 Techrights-sec; sometimes the forced maintenance can lead to a reexamination of the process

13:24 Techrights-sec; and result in improved work flow

13:24 schestowitz-TR; struggling like mad right now to figure out why one machine on the network cannot ping/ssh another

13:24 schestowitz-TR; but can do ok with all ther rest

13:24 schestowitz-TR; will use tgemini.techrights.org on high port numnber on the router to work around this

13:25 Techrights-sec; jsut the two? can it ping / ssh to any of the others?

13:25 schestowitz-TR; yes, similar to the f*up bt intropduce and ficxed a month later (last year)

13:43 Techrights-sec; and they are both on the same LAN or WLAN?

13:43 schestowitz-TR; rianne now has 3 machines with barrier over port 27000 relayed over dns

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13:51 Techrights-sec; that's great news

13:54 schestowitz-TR; I'll go show her the new workflow

13:54 schestowitz-TR; one machine is winreguard+strreongswam+noc monitoring

13:54 schestowitz-TR; another will be for tuxmachines

13:54 schestowitz-TR; the main one for the rest

13:54 schestowitz-TR; but there are tips and tricks

13:54 schestowitz-TR; I've given up on this machine partly due to the "cleaning incidents" this morning

13:54 schestowitz-TR; some wires or sockets are very sensitive

13:54 schestowitz-TR; so best I can do is minimise movement

13:54 schestowitz-TR; if it's not the wire, then that's some horrible shit

13:54 Techrights-sec; a lot of session recovery can be done with some simple scripts and tmux using

13:54 Techrights-sec; the 'send-keys' command

13:54 schestowitz-TR; because laptop psu is hard and expensive to replace/repair

13:54 schestowitz-TR; session-recovery isn't an issue when the laptop has batteries and when you use gnu/linux

13:54 schestowitz-TR; it's a problem when it silently runs off battery

13:54 schestowitz-TR; and runs out

13:54 schestowitz-TR; of, for the pi, when the power gets pulled

13:57 schestowitz-TR; just tryin' to reduce stress in my life

13:57 schestowitz-TR; also, I have some spare time

13:57 schestowitz-TR; partly owing to 8 days off work

13:57 schestowitz-TR; I already did some of saturday's tasks

13:57 schestowitz-TR; hence, 4 daily links batches yesterday

13:57 schestowitz-TR; in theory I could easily custom-make low-cost workstation for people with gnu/linux

13:57 schestowitz-TR; with multi-service setups

13:57 schestowitz-TR; but there is little awareness of that

13:57 schestowitz-TR; most people just buy some $1500 "Mac" or Windows laptop

13:57 schestowitz-TR; with no fauly tolerance

13:57 schestowitz-TR; and under-utilised/turned off most of the time

13:59 schestowitz-TR; like people who turn on the heater all the time instead of investing in double-glazing, insulation, other strategies

13:59 schestowitz-TR; we have not turned on the heating since before covid-19

13:59 schestowitz-TR; we know it works because it is connected to the boiler, which runs on gas

13:59 schestowitz-TR; the regime now says it'll give 400 pounds to households to help with energy bills

13:59 schestowitz-TR; to us, that's like 4 months of energy bills 'free'

13:59 schestowitz-TR; (it's from taxpayers' money, soooo.... we know who foots the bill)

14:13 schestowitz-TR; OK, rianne is all settle now

14:13 schestowitz-TR; I did a training session, so to speak

14:13 schestowitz-TR; she has an array of 3 and so low ram contraints should not be an issue, either

14:13 schestowitz-TR; just need to 'spread out' the tasks

14:13 schestowitz-TR; wish I had done this before, now we had an opportunity

14:13 schestowitz-TR; and with that laptop gone I finally have space for the teapot, not at the back of the table

14:22 schestowitz-TR; holyshi!!

14:22 schestowitz-TR; after about 3 months, following the hard reset of the router by virtue of outage

14:22 schestowitz-TR; rather a powercycle therof

14:22 schestowitz-TR; not a soft reboot

14:22 schestowitz-TR; the errors which were floodeding /var/log/syslog

14:22 schestowitz-TR; seem to be gone

14:22 schestowitz-TR; am checking to be sure

14:22 schestowitz-TR; last such warning was minutes before the outage

14:22 schestowitz-TR; I long suspected it was wifi related rather than disk related

14:22 schestowitz-TR; but that reboot that suggested SMART made me think otherwise

14:22 schestowitz-TR; ok, those errors definitely stopped

14:22 schestowitz-TR; they stopped after a reboot of the router

14:22 schestowitz-TR; not of the laptop

14:22 schestowitz-TR; this laptop was rebooted about a month ago

14:22 schestowitz-TR; 300k or so errors later, over 3 month, router restarted, errors stop

14:22 schestowitz-TR; SMART warnings persist, as the disk is considered "past expiry" because ot a lot of i/o

14:22 schestowitz-TR; data united wwritten: 95.9TB

14:22 schestowitz-TR; read: 43.3TB

14:22 schestowitz-TR; does that make sense?

14:22 schestowitz-TR; it's a samsung ssd

14:22 schestowitz-TR; heeding the warning, I moved all my data to the new machine, "bubi"

14:23 Techrights-sec; drives can be replaced

14:27 Techrights-sec; Errors == Not OK

14:27 schestowitz-TR; a) not a simple process with laptop

14:27 schestowitz-TR; b) disk still works "OK"

14:27 schestowitz-TR; c) cost of new disk about half of new laptop in the "outlet" store

14:27 schestowitz-TR; d) I can make this machine (2016 make) more like a data processing machine

14:27 schestowitz-TR; SSD is good for it, unlike magnetic

14:27 schestowitz-TR; the "Error" seems to relate only to the level of wear assumed

14:27 schestowitz-TR; based on number of reads and writes

14:27 schestowitz-TR; similar to SD cards

14:27 schestowitz-TR; I interpret that as outlasting the warranty or recommended threshold

14:27 schestowitz-TR; I read many forum posts about it

14:27 schestowitz-TR; some people ven reach 212%

14:27 schestowitz-TR; procesing video seems to contribute a lot to that

14:27 schestowitz-TR; I still process all the video on that

14:27 schestowitz-TR; even those recorded on the new laptop, I just pass the file to "vonick" and process it there

14:29 Techrights-sec; ok but there is room for error in a video file, or an audio fil, but

14:29 Techrights-sec; databases and similar precise data are not so forgiving of errors

14:32 schestowitz-TR; I use this machine for quirerss

14:32 schestowitz-TR; some light web browsing

14:32 schestowitz-TR; barrier+synergy server/host

14:32 schestowitz-TR; I even moved my gemini browsing to the new machine

14:32 schestowitz-TR; working files are storage over the network on the pi, rianne and I share the same storage account, which is casually backed up

14:32 schestowitz-TR; to external USB3 drives

14:32 schestowitz-TR; a lot of things got shuttled around after the outage

14:32 schestowitz-TR; and might still be shuffled around as I try to at least 'feel' productive amid 3 days off work

14:32 schestowitz-TR; ipfs is turned off at the moment, but having it on just to add objects means the objects don't get copied much to other nodes

14:36 schestowitz-TR; if you are still using xfce4, here's a trick

14:36 schestowitz-TR; aside from making wallpapers change automatically, make the windows transulent

14:36 schestowitz-TR; esp. windows titles

14:36 schestowitz-TR; then, make a clock, sett to dark background, light foreground

14:36 schestowitz-TR; massive fonts

14:36 schestowitz-TR; place behind terminals

14:36 schestowitz-TR; and you then have a large visible clock on top of the wallpaper, lightly darkened behind terminal windows

14:36 schestowitz-TR; I used to struggle to find the time, now it's in front of my face in the background

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15:34 schestowitz-TR; this morning's gz files checked, all OK

15:35 schestowitz-TR; pi system level change: by default it seems like the agate logger was disabled upon startuo

15:35 schestowitz-TR; I ran enable just now

15:35 schestowitz-TR; and it creates a symboli link

15:35 schestowitz-TR; that expalins why, for the second time this, week logging was off for many hours

15:35 schestowitz-TR; though I think overall we will exceed 500k pages for May

15:38 schestowitz-TR; I divorced hashtags 3 months ago. I don't miss them. They're ugly and a waste of time. I add add them, don't see them.

15:38 schestowitz-TR; On people who speak in emojis, hashtags and algos https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/

15:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | 'Algospeak' is changing our language in real time - The Washington Post

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21:27 schestowitz-TR; "I too, love Perl. And I could not have phrased nearly as well as Paul. I even learned Perl 4 when I started out, because Perl 5 was yet to be released. Without Perl I would have had a hard time to extract and condense the data from my many simulations into smaller, meaningful chunks" gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220527-re-perl.gmi

21:28 schestowitz-TR; Good Bye Raspberry Pi gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-05-27.pi.gmi "What does it mean when a product with MSRP of $35 is sold for hundreds of dollars? Not just a blip it's been months of this. Did speculators corner the market? Is inflation out of control?"

21:29 schestowitz-TR; Tor Browser Needs An Ad Blocker gemini://nomad.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-27.gmi "The only way to avoid fingerprinting while using it is to set its Security Level at "Safest", disabling all JavaScript."

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