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beginning of new day, January 31

00:34 *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@uyus7d84g6zpu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; 2. Instructions and Process for handling xxxxx Calls

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; The xxxx call handling instructions appear perfectly clear and

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; in fact are particularly well documented, (as per the link here

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; Sirius:xxxx Inbound Call Script

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; xxxx

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; As previously advised by xxxxx, they have also been helpfully linked

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; with a shortcut at the top of the Slack:Support channel for quick

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; reference when calls come in.

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; As far as I'm aware, there has been nothing but positive feedback

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; about these notes so far but do please let me know if anybody else

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; has any concerns at all or if there is anything we could to to

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; improve them. The overwhelming majority of you have handled

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; xxxxx calls excellently and I'm very grateful for your work on

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; this. I am also always happy to offer any additional support that

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; may be needed with our processes and policy.

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; Many thanks,


1 AM, January 31

01:00 schestowitz-TR; endless gratitude for your help with the xml and rss stuff

01:00 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I managed to catch up with most news I had missed

01:00 schestowitz-TR; it's good the HD died on a Friday and not, say, a Monday

01:00 schestowitz-TR; I told rianne we're now investing time in better tools

01:00 schestowitz-TR; i think it will free up time for more articles

01:00 schestowitz-TR; some went 'viral' lately, esp. ones about msft financial state

01:00 schestowitz-TR; i assume those get read a lot by insiders

01:00 schestowitz-TR; i.e. those who maximise impact

01:00 schestowitz-TR; not random dicks and harries


5 AM, January 31

05:34 schestowitz-TR; 0/

05:34 schestowitz-TR; productive overnight

05:34 schestowitz-TR; no time spent on quiterss


7 AM, January 31

07:51 techrigthssec; Will look at python again today in a bit

07:54 schestowitz-TR; it looks like only the wrapper for "supplmentary" was lost

07:54 schestowitz-TR; could you add the list of those sites to the merged one?

07:54 schestowitz-TR; gamingonlinux etc

07:54 schestowitz-TR; i can see that the handling is in rss-since scraper

07:54 schestowitz-TR; the wrapper was likely not much

07:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe a copy of the "main" (general news) file

07:54 schestowitz-TR; but with different list of sitesinnjected

07:54 schestowitz-TR; OTA


9 AM, January 31

09:30 schestowitz-TR; had to restart apache twice this morning

09:30 schestowitz-TR; ddos-ish

09:30 schestowitz-TR; i have added a draft

09:30 schestowitz-TR; will rotate banner

09:30 schestowitz-TR; 3 vids already and it is only 9am

09:30 techrigthssec; gm

09:30 techrigthssec; The Aaron Swartz banner could probably be rotated out until next year.

09:30 techrigthssec; Hmm. My script noticed it, according to its logs, but did not triggger any

09:30 techrigthssec; alerts here.

09:30 techrigthssec; :)

09:38 schestowitz-TR; 1. more productive

09:38 schestowitz-TR; 2. less stress

09:38 schestowitz-TR; 3. fewer updates in TM, but rianne catches all IMPORTANT things

09:38 schestowitz-TR; a bit hectic due to several fsctors atm

09:38 schestowitz-TR; aside from apache


10 AM, January 31

10:03 *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving)

10:34 schestowitz-TR; sirius series over but not quite

10:34 schestowitz-TR; though i can now focus on other stuff

10:34 schestowitz-TR; Study: Finnish is taught needlessly as second language to many children https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html

↺ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html

10:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Empty reply from server ( status 0 @ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html )

↺ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html

10:39 techrigthssec; ack

10:46 schestowitz-TR; Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership with Sweden https://yle.fi/a/74-20015473

↺ https://yle.fi/a/74-20015473

10:46 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership with Sweden | News | Yle Uutiset

10:47 schestowitz-TR; ukraine is on fire and yle et al drone about some fucking single copy of a violent book being burneed


noon, January 31

12:01 schestowitz-TR; "In the week ending 20 January 2023 (Week 3), 15,804 deaths were registered in England and Wales; 781 of these deaths mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)", accounting for 4.9% of all deaths." Far higher than 2019. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending20january2023

↺ https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending20january2023

12:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ons.gov.uk | Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics

12:01 schestowitz-TR; For comparison see https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/deaths-in-uk/ so we've climbed from 12k-13k death per week to 15k-16k. And they tell us pandemic is passe??? What's killing those extra 3k British people each week? All age groups affected.

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/deaths-in-uk/

12:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Chart: England and Wales Deaths (Totals) in 2014-2019 (Average), 2021, and 2022


1 PM, January 31

13:01 techrigthssec; ack

13:02 schestowitz-TR; length and quality control suuffer

13:02 schestowitz-TR; due to economics/time

13:02 schestowitz-TR; and lesser calibre of writers

13:02 schestowitz-TR; a lot of just template/repetition

13:33 schestowitz-TR; "This months Stupid Patent of the Month is a great example of that. U.S. Patent No. 9,054,860 has been used by a company called Digital Verification Services, LLC" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/stupid-patent-month-digital-verification-systems-patents-e-signatures | Source: EFF

↺ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/stupid-patent-month-digital-verification-systems-patents-e-signatures

13:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Stupid Patent of the Month: Digital Verification Systems Patents E-Signatures | Electronic Frontier Foundation


2 PM, January 31

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14:51 schestowitz-TR; restarting httpd again

14:51 schestowitz-TR; i can see theoffending pattern

14:52 schestowitz-TR; ota in a few mins

14:52 schestowitz-TR; interesting scandal to cover


3 PM, January 31

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4 PM, January 31

16:50 schestowitz-TR; so far i have not noticed any "lost file" from vonick that i truly need and had not backed up

16:50 schestowitz-TR; most were disposable

16:50 schestowitz-TR; having said that, the bash wrapper for supplementary links was lost

16:50 schestowitz-TR; it would be super helpful to have that back or its list of feeds, which iirc is in git,

16:50 schestowitz-TR; added to the main automated cycle

16:50 schestowitz-TR; as atm i use very offball python script to help me track foss blogs

16:50 schestowitz-TR; i made 4 long videos today

16:50 schestowitz-TR; i can do even more in the future, but am still adpating a bit and adding automation

16:50 techrigthssec; Can you refresh my memory as to what the supplementary links script did?

16:50 techrigthssec; FWIW in the latest post there was a link to a twitter thread which may

16:50 techrigthssec; vanish at any time.

16:54 schestowitz-TR; the tweets were copied onto irc logs for tody

16:54 schestowitz-TR; after i had received a tip-off

16:54 schestowitz-TR; the video shows all the tweets

16:54 schestowitz-TR; the suppmenetary stuff hada list of linux-related rss feeds

16:54 schestowitz-TR; i had the machine, with debian 10, configured to scan these for updates

16:54 schestowitz-TR; then, the output would be served to kate

16:54 schestowitz-TR; you already coded some 'logic' to pick and abbreviate the relevant fields in the xml payloads

16:54 schestowitz-TR; this was a small step towards discarding the rss GUIs

16:54 schestowitz-TR; a bigger step is handling a massive collection of rss URLs (or atom/df)

16:54 schestowitz-TR; *rdf

16:55 techrigthssec; There is a daily-supplementary.feeds file in Git, should the script just

16:55 techrigthssec; fetch those feeds? The wrapper script would just feed daily-supplementary.feeds

16:55 techrigthssec; into rss-since-scraper.pl one feed at a time and then aggregate the results.

16:55 techrigthssec; RDF is too complicated but Atom and RSS are both quite manageable

16:59 schestowitz-TR; my guess is, the file was never enrolled into git because you justchanged the other file

16:59 schestowitz-TR; changed input filename and served it over the pi

16:59 schestowitz-TR; having both perl ANDpython serve stories would be awesome

16:59 schestowitz-TR; i realise now how much i have pictures in the feeds

16:59 schestowitz-TR; it's like reading s book that leaves no room for imagination

16:59 schestowitz-TR; and tries to visually impose everything

16:59 schestowitz-TR; the current python stuff is failing fatally on some feeds

16:59 schestowitz-TR; the upstream library throws exceptions


5 PM, January 31

17:00 schestowitz-TR; but this is all very interim

17:00 schestowitz-TR; thankfully i finished the sirius stuff today, i self-imposed daily updates

17:00 schestowitz-TR; so my hands were tied

17:00 schestowitz-TR; we now look into gates-related and pension scndals

17:00 schestowitz-TR; this can take some time

17:00 schestowitz-TR; ex staff

17:05 techrigthssec; Apparently not.

17:05 techrigthssec; ack

17:11 schestowitz-TR; Tech sector workers to strike this week, no new settlement in wage dispute https://yle.fi/a/74-20015652

↺ https://yle.fi/a/74-20015652

17:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Tech sector workers to strike this week, no new settlement in wage dispute | News | Yle Uutiset

17:11 schestowitz-TR; q: who would wish to toil 60 hours a week, plus commute, for the salary of 40 hours under shitty PHB

17:11 schestowitz-TR; conditions and constant abuse/stress?

17:11 schestowitz-TR; a: people with kids and mortgage

17:12 schestowitz-TR; i'd rather go to wholesale market than be a stranded cock/hen in a class cage(cubicle)

17:12 schestowitz-TR; *glass

17:20 schestowitz-TR; designed for control, not effcieincy, cost-efficnecy, or productivity

17:20 schestowitz-TR; aaron s spoke about his colleagues at the office

17:20 schestowitz-TR; not doing anything while few do everything

17:20 schestowitz-TR; more staff to 'manage' = mmore BS jobs for managers

17:20 schestowitz-TR; people to help their own self esteem and sense of importance

17:35 techrigthssec; akc

17:51 techrigthssec; See ~links/bin/supplementary-daily-links.sh and ~links/Links/daily-supplementary.feeds on tr-new

17:51 techrigthssec; and ~links/Links/m2023-01/2023-01-31-supplementary.html

17:51 techrigthssec; Some adjustment with the de-duplication might be needed.

17:51 techrigthssec; np

17:51 schestowitz-TR; cheers@

17:51 schestowitz-TR; checking...


6 PM, January 31

18:04 schestowitz-TR; i'vee changed tow local scripts

18:04 schestowitz-TR; so now it retrieves the files for the day and concatenates the contents

18:04 schestowitz-TR; does this run as a cron on the server?

18:04 techrigthssec; ok

18:04 techrigthssec; no it runs manually and for de-duplication purposes should run after merged

18:04 techrigthssec; links are published


11 PM, January 31

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