IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 04, 2022

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<h5><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/">Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit)</a></h5>

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<p>The ARMv8-A architecture, which encompasses the 64-bit AArch64 architecture and associated A64 instruction set, was first introduced into the Raspberry Pi line with Raspberry Pi 3 in 2016. From that point on, it has been possible to run a full 64-bit operating system on our flagship products, and many third-party operating systems are available. However, we have continued to build our Raspberry Pi OS releases on the 32-bit

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Raspbian platform, aiming to maximise compatibility between devices and to avoid customer confusion.</p></blockquote></li>

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<h5><a href="https://liliputing.com/2022/02/raspberry-pi-os-enters-the-64-bit-era-but-32-bit-is-still-the-default-option.html">Raspberry Pi OS enters the 64-bit era (but 32-bit is still the default option)</a></h5>

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<p>A few more things worth noting: when using the Imager tool, Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit is still the default. You’ll need to choose the “Raspberry Pi OS (other)” category to opt for a 64-bit version of the operating system. And if you do install Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit and want to use it to stream video from Netflix or other websites that use Widevine DRM, you’ll need to install the 32-bit version of Google Chromium

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since the 64-bit version doesn’t have the WidevineCDM library.</p></blockquote></li>

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<h5><a href="https://wccftech.com/system76-reveals-kudu-amd-ryzen-9-5900hx-high-performance-laptop-running-ubuntu-linux/">System76 reveals Kudu AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX high-performance laptop Running Ubuntu Linux</a></h5>

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wccftech.com | System76 reveals Kudu AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX high-performance laptop Running Ubuntu Linux

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<p>The new System76 Kudu is a premium laptop with the incredible Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, 15.6-inch display with 1080p FHD screen resolution, 144Hz refresh rates, up to 64GB of DDR4 RAM, dual NVMe SSD support, built-in 2.5G Ethernet, and a slick matte finish.</p></blockquote></li>

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what are the repercussions of the OSI restructuring its governance model?

https://opensource.org/blog/osi-board-elections-2022

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It looks like they are phasing out the community aspects.

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-opensource.org | OSI Board Elections 2022 | Open Source Initiative | Guaranteeing the 'our' in source...

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I saw that, put that in Daily Links, earlier, added a link, but did not look too closely. what do you make of it?

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<h5><a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3648909/turn-tabs-into-spaces-on-linux-and-vice-versa.html">Turn tabs into spaces on Linux and vice versa</a></h5>

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<p>The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files larger and smaller, but what they actually do is turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs.</p>

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<p>In this post, we’ll use some simple text files to demonstrate what happens when you use expand and unexpand. We’ll also compare how these commands work with some likely more familiar commands—sed and awk—that can provide similar results and offer additional options.</p></blockquote></li>

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I'm not bureaucratic so am not the right person to ask. It would be useful

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to note what has changed. My suspicion is that they are reducing community

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involvment and increasing corporate sponsor control. Maybe it's not so

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much a change in governance model but turnover among directors and difficulty

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in recruiting replacements, suitable or otherwise. Like I said, I'm the

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wrong person to ask about bureaucracy.

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I'm going to take a proper look and if there's smoke and/or fire maybe do that on video. They're best criticised in light of where money flows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Open Source Initiative - Wikipedia

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heavily censored article

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they emanded some techrights link be removed

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I did not check which, did not car either

https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/912037395

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.charitynavigator.org | Open Source Initiative | Rating by Charity Navigator

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The Open Source Initiative's IRS Tax ID Number (TIN) is 91-2037395.

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The Open Source Initiative's EU Transparency Register Number 672028337929-77

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all wikipedia junk is heavily censored / spun

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i am reading it again and it goes way oover my head

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better not to comment much as it might only make me seem foolish

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and critical based on gut feeling or vengeance, not reason

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it is something to keep an eye on for further developments

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simon is still involved

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deep inside simon knows that I am right

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he knows how to read their stuff

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and he cannot possible be happy to see thekmm as microsoft money funnel

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but he will neveer say such stuff publcily

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thgis whole blog posts seem to me likle optics

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for auditors

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and for sponsors

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my only concern with him is that he can get outnumbered and worn down there

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I think I mentioned this in several videos; we don't know why they let Microsoft in, but he was not alone at the table

Feb 04 00:36

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x https://windowsreport.com/oracle-linux-microsoft-store/

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x https://developer-tech.com/news/2022/feb/03/github-incentivises-open-source-investments-with-sponsor-only-repos/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-windowsreport.com | You can now find the Linux Oracle on the Microsoft Store

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x https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/3/22916118/microsoft-new-windows-11-features-experiment-test

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | Microsoft to test new experimental Windows 11 features - The Verge

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# drm ?

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I got the source code for our own gemini gateway

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so we need not rely on third parties

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I will relay an email to you

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it's bash and awk

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I hope there is validation there. Do you want an open proxy or just one for

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the techrights domain? I'd recommend the latter.

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adding domain restriction would probably be just one line of code

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I have long wanted such a thing, to avoid spilling IPs outwards

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and something simple, not all that golang and nodejs mess

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checking...

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Complicated is unnecessary.

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meanwhile I am working on 2 long videos/articles

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It uses old CGI not FCGI or WSGI. Simple but slow.

Feb 04 12:56

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can that work on our web server?

Feb 04 12:56

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openssl on TR is too old and missing the --connect option

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best to try to keep all http / https activity together on TR and not spread

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it across other machines.

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wait, it's there, just with modified syntax

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It's too old in regards to TLS/

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It could if there are some software updates ...

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sometimes you can find RPM files for (gnu tls? openssl?) that don't require a full system update, is that an option? Or we could open https port on the p, assign a new subdomain to it

Feb 04 13:35

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tried that but it seems not to be a new enough version in the update

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The version present does not handle the capsule's certificate correctly

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I have just added a draft

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*very good title*

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I would need help to have strong evidence for this assertion

Feb 04 13:57

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thanks for checking

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if we can confirm thatl, given quartedly losses admitted

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ion the past, the bailous aree sometimes greater than profirs, we'll do a separat

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article about this issue

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complete with screenshot or whatnot

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to make this point

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looking

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/pentagon-cancels-10-billion-jedi-cloud-contract.h

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https://www.businessinsider.com/toni-townes-whitley-microsoft-jedi-2020-09

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.businessinsider.com | This Exec Is Behind Microsoft's $10 Billion JEDI Pentagon Cloud Win

? https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=microsoft

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there's a lot of obfuscated faff there nothing incriminating or non-misleading

Feb 04 14:19

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debt loading possible

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shuffling the pots

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IBM does this A LOT

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re gemini proxy

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so it boils down to our tls conflicting with some changes at kevin's end

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or the OS upgrade to Debian 11 introducing some new compat issues

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welcome to the joys of standard crypto

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one option we have is, maybe spin off a new alpine container

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would that make for a good suubsite?

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Works fine from other distros.

Feb 04 14:39

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works fine also from other operating systems even, e.g. OpenBSD

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Yes, if we start to migrate services from the old container.

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It'd be easier to open a port on the RPi but that would have very similar

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disadvantages. Better to consolidate and update.

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can be a hopping point towards serving over https from a datacentre with modern OS, alpine is lean

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i shall ask kaniini

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like I wrote before, I can chip in on the migration costs

Feb 04 14:43

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does TR need ImageMagick?

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Or ALSA.lib?

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Better to update than spin a new container unless that new container is

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a stepping stone which leads to an update.

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I was thnking more like,

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start with simple web server

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then add more to it, over time

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then migrate more componnets

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then change dns to suit changes

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either way we have many components other than OS to upgrade

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inc. wiki

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yum update httpd ?

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If we go that route it might be an opportunity to start with a static generator

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instead. then once there is enough at the new site. pull over the

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WordPress content by scraping them as static pages.

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Yes, the OS is the least of it most unfortunately.

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as a rule of thumb,

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IME,

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upgrades doomed a lot of site

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and killed a lot of history

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new.siite.com is often the last of the corpse's spams

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because they hope everyone will "get on with the programme"

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in thre process a lotr gets lost along with the audience

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*spasms

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the same has been true in social control media

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like identica or doigg

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not just news sites

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Yes, WP should be held at the old version but the archaic OS is hurting

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Can a new container with a new OS be set up with an old version of WordPress?

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Then mirroring could be tried, and if it works, the old container shut off.

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1. the db is external to that VM/container (it was turned into the latter

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so there would be conflicting changes

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2. wordpress need not be installed poer se, it's just a collection of php files i

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n the homedir, which get datafrom the db, inc. settings other than DB coinduit

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3. there are likely to be mariadb and php niggling issues, as software

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moves fast and breaks stuff

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4. we already solved the systemd booting issue, but that's a temporary measure

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5. I want to solve the joindiaspora issue first

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6. can you installl the scripts from kevin on your home pi for testing over the d

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omain or ip address?

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the b'w usage is low

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it can even run on openbsd alongside the existing stuff, at l;east for testing

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remember that uptime is NOT critical for this thing

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we already have appalling downtime from existing gateways

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The scripts from Kevin are very dependent on Bash. That's not part of OpenBSD

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but the core, gem-get, works just fine.

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The Bash wrapper could be replaced with perl easily.

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It'd be a new script no need to worry about the licensing AFAIK but credit shoud

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be given regardless.

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you could make a deriv of it and add to git

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i did not check the code's licensing, but it is very short

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we can later do our own matching css, i am not bad at css

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and add some logic to mit access to this one domain

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afaik, the existing code is not public

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so putting out there perl swiss army knife for gem gateway

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would help enhance perl through other devs

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and would broaden its use

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the gateway bit already goes below articles and can be made to better fit the

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page visually

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most of our articles (not meme) do not truly require images

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The TLS part is the question.

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Excellent. That makes the content much more accessible in general and

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helps Gemini a lot specifically.

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i spent days looking at software foir gateway

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and chasingf down libraries

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all were overly complicated with chains of deps

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inc. gop and JS stuff

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some went further

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i assume because their devs knew nothing else

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so something ligh with modest spacs

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suddently became massive, bloated, and in need of JS at the client side

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like the reacrjs stuff we use when vulpes.one is down

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at my end=, and you too have access to dns (catalyst2), I can add a new subsite p

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ointing to the ip, as a sort of "alias" for what exists already

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to update this I can either chain to ddns

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or just use cpanel any time the ip rolls over

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(I know that better ways exist, inc noip's 'daemon)

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TR DDOS

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escalating

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it's mostly hammering the login.php page, should be blocked temporarily

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the login page does not cause the spike but news-roundup, so I blocked it for now

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