IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 07, 2022

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I can make ipfs addition of objects about 5 times faster

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but atm the ability to serve ipfs from a home node over copper is now good

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so making the code more efficient might be pointless

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Aug 07 06:33

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the efficiency might come in handy later somehow

Aug 07 06:33

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ack

Aug 07 06:33

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I'm running garbage collection for ipfs atm

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trying to see if I can salvage the darn shebang

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the problem is that it times out a lot

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daniel p, who also runs a node of ipfs, complained he was havinf similar issues

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very slow or not reachable

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but I don't give up just yet

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they did make improvements before

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and I thought about it yesterday

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under some circumstances, you can give it more resources

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like a vps

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to bypass dns/site censorship

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the imp;ortant thing is to maintain the index of hashes and file store

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the data is now 900 MB in aggregated side

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20+ months of bulletins and irc files

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the datastore, or caches etc. grew to about 5gb

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I think that's too much, many stale files in there

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btw, the 5:10am backup went well

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now I just need to write something to purge old backups

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those backups include some working files of rianne and myself

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so the backup drive becomes a third disk onto which to write active work

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in TR git you will see some long-overdue changes associates

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with the toxic residue of "hashtags"

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to me, they're not just a way to refer to IRC channel on our network

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do you think it would be sensible to mention in TM that we're now in gemini and point to clients or primers?

Aug 07 06:35

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not quite yet, the Gemini capsule is getting there but there are still

Aug 07 06:35

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problems with the conversion and such

Aug 07 06:35

schestowitz-TR

I think the order or migration might be

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first say we have a capsule

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later, make copies of "new" nodes (July, August)

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add rediections

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test

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revert back to backups

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lock old DB/CMS

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update rss feed by redirection

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I'll contact marius asking him to test node creation

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thanks, marius' input is very important though I don't want to inconvenience

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him with too much, I just hope the work flow is acceptable

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as mentioned an other option is to do all the editing, including the metadata,

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via nano (or should there be a provision for using vi too?)

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perhaps the first step is that we say there /will/ be a capsule

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it's not production-ready by any means atm

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it's rather close though

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I've decided not to tell him yet as the UI or interfaces (apis) might change a bit and it's hard to explain over email with nitty-gritty details like, this time

Aug 07 06:48

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you cannot hotlink, but here, have this tool where you wget a file and it generates for you some html bits (which is still work in progress)

Aug 07 06:48

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I've just garbage-collected away over a GB of ipfs objects regarded as stale

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but performance is still sub-par

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maybe I'll pass ipfs to a datacentre?

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I've just garbage-collected away over a GB of ipfs objects regarded as stale

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but performance is still sub-par

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maybe I'll pass ipfs to a datacentre?

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there is a bug somewhere in that an empty slug turned up

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I'm not sure how to duplicate it but it was probably during the input process

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RP2040_based_board_ships_for_5_40 should have been the right slug

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the empty slug is one that I noticed

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and I think it's my mistake

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maybe it doesn't check for some edge case

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how often should garbage-collection be run? Is there a way to trigger it

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automatically when it is needed before it would be too slow?

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only a mistake in the UI, it should not be possible to create an empty slug

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can you recall the process?

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The other fields were present in that record, just the slug was empty

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I don't remember how or why it happened

Aug 07 07:02

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I jst noticed that it did

Aug 07 07:02

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checking

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thought: we now have a modern OS

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and ipfs has not scaled well for my connection for ages already

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should I deploy to the tr alpine VM?

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and see if I can sync new objects to there?

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probably well overdue

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oh, better yet, keep the node at home, usually turned off,

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and add a node at the server, which will become a primary one

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it just needs to have the same objects in it

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I'll make it today's objective

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we'll see how alpine can copy with golang

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*cope

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there is an lxc container techrights-new

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if IPFS can be added from the repository, it might be ok to try there

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if it cannot be added from the repository, it might not be a good idea to

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that might work too, but my main concern is sticking with tools from

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the repository

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/go-ipfs

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/go-ipfs )

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"404 Page not found."

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looks like it was removed

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WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main: No such file or directory

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right, but apk is unfamiliar so the steps to correct that error are elusiv

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ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community: temporary error (try again later)

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WARNING: Ignoring http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community: No such file or directory

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org | Index of /alpine/edge/main/

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2 errors; 27 distinct packages available

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org | Index of /alpine/edge/community/

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wget: bad address 'dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org'

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if it's not in the repository it would be inadvisable to have it on a public

Aug 07 07:13

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facing system on fat pipes in a data centre

Aug 07 07:13

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I don't see any IPFS stuff in the repository at all, at least no by name

Aug 07 07:15

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there used to bethere used to be

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GabBWWvsr4oJ:https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86/go-ipfs+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=pub-2479740519054892

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-webcache.googleusercontent.com | Alpine Linux packages

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hmm then it may have been removed from the 3.x series

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ack

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MaintainerOleg Titov

Aug 07 07:17

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Build time2022-07-21 14:19:15

Aug 07 07:17

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ack

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something is up with apk, perhaps dns:

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ping -c 3 dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

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ping: bad address 'dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org'

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that's google :(

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resolv.conf is empty

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doesnt the data centre have its own?

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yes, you need to echo '8.8.8.8' > resolve... or similar

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I'm on that machine atm as well

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choose dns

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I tried adding ipfs or go-ipfs

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add dns to it, of your choie

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most 'free' choices are awful

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and ISPs pretend they need not provide any

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you can see what kaniini suggested for tm-new

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he and xrevan were arguing over it

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the DNS should be as topologically close to the data centre as possible

Aug 07 07:24

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can you add one and then try apk add ipfs?

Aug 07 07:25

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if you do that I can take care of the rest and hopefully ipfs@techrights will be back on top

Aug 07 07:26

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that would also remove a yoke from my home pi

Aug 07 07:26

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and hokme network in general

Aug 07 07:26

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# apk add go-ipfs

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(1/2) Installing kubo (0.14.0-r1)

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Executing kubo-0.14.0-r1.pre-install

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Executing kubo-0.14.0-r1.post-install

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To be able to use the ipfs service you will need to create the ipfs repository

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(eg: su -s /bin/sh -c "ipfs init -e" ipfs)

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or change IPFS_PATH of /etc/conf.d/ipfs with another with proper permissions.

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(2/2) Installing kubo-openrc (0.14.0-r1)

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Executing busybox-1.35.0-r22.trigger

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OK: 72 MiB in 30 packages

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Aug 07 07:42

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ping

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installed nanop and ssh, configured them

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we need to decide on user accounts (for ssh/rsync)

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created account for me

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a dns entry might help

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should I make dns entry?

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created account for ipfs

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which subdomain/s?

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at some point maybe ipfs. git. etc

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if we have new and old in tandem at one point tr-new.techrights.org would seem odd

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can you create yourself an account with adduser?

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I'll add just ipfs.techrights.org for now

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added rsync also

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dns is working ok now (from here)

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ipfs.techrights.org

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ipfs will have its own user

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consistent with the pi, not same access creds

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tr-new ?

Aug 07 08:10

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Aug 07 08:10

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it'll take several days for me to upload the ipfs directory, but that's OK, there's no hurry

Aug 07 08:12

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I've compacted the data as best as I could

Aug 07 08:12

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$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C 'roy tr-new' -f tr-new

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$ ssh-copy-id -i tr-new ipfs.techrights.org

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I can log in now with keys. Have you set up keys yet? It is important to

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turn of password authentication as soon we can

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let me first ther transfer and then set keys up for both acccounts

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so that they can pass files as needed

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anyway, tuxmachines needs to be done first

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ipfs is not urgent, but it's long overdue that we give it the b/w it needs without choking gemini and rianne's videos etc.

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The above two lines will do it .

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updated /etc/profile

Aug 07 08:16

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maybe TR's Git ought be moved there too?

Aug 07 08:16

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that'll require also making changes on the pi/gemini

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eventually

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that'll require also making changes on the pi/gemini

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small changes, assuming same alias

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Aug 07 08:18

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not big changes though

Aug 07 08:18

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yes

Aug 07 08:18

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passwordless login set up fro roy

Aug 07 08:24

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but don'\t turn off pw yet

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as I need to do the same for the pi later

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when done copying I'll test to see if object availability improves over ipfs

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before doing any coding or investing further time in this

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having a fixed ip address can help

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as it's easy for the swarm to predict where to find the registered device id

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it doesn't need to be password less, the key can have a strong passphrase

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# du -sh

Aug 07 09:07

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111.8M .

Aug 07 09:07

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after about an hour

Aug 07 09:08

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it'll take days longer

Aug 07 09:08

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but it's a one-time thing, then I'll just need to add the new objects to it, which can take under a minute

Aug 07 09:08

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ack

Aug 07 09:12

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in theory we could add videos to ipfs (scale issue due to total size of videos and time taken to get checksums

Aug 07 09:22

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but we don't lack capacity there

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I tried peertube and it's only good if many people have copies

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blender3d adopted it, but it's just way too slow

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fsf adopted it also, but it containue to use locally-hosted mediagoblin

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ack

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my uninformed guess is that the size would choke most nodes

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they need to host an extra seed (or whatever it is called) themselves to

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bootstrap the process; if it's too slow people turn away rather than join in

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such an extra seed might end up de facto dedicated hosting

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in which case nothing is achieved by peertube

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like ipfs where one node only has the hashed data

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there's a reason why bittorrent only ever scales well for things like big films, popular music, pr0n etc.

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the incentive to share today's news won't be there next week or in 10 years

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but music from 10 years ago is still alluring to many people

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you rely on oveerlap in what many people are after and thus have copies of, locally stored

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ack

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one merit of ipfs is that it bypasses dns

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but it has its own addressing system

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ands not every node has updated information of which node is on which ip, assuming people's isps shuffle that around a lot

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Aug 07 09:31

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yes ISPs change home IP addresses rather often

Aug 07 09:41

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it helps discourage hosting anything public from home

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i.e. it helps "protect the children"

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I asked BT, repeatedly, what it would take to get static ip address

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they said no way unless you are business

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when I worked in dial support as undergrad students we gave some profs fixed ip addresses, iirc

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some also ran vpn through us (MMC)

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*MCC

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So they can access things like library from home

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connections are faster now

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but services are not much improved

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The proprietrary portion of the university libraries' digital collections

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used to be available via SSO (kerberos and ldap); You'd log in from where

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you were, if it was not a campus IP address, and away you'd go. Now there

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are boondoggles like VPNs and such, especially CISCO, VPNs which have poor

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performance and are really only there to burn up the budget and to block

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Linux and *BSD clients

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back then a big challenge, for me also, was supporting mandrake users and such

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this was 20 years ago

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we had some instructions, but for the most part the bsd and gnu/linux profs were on their own

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I used mandrake in the officer and later tried ubuntu 4.10 (first release) on a dell desktop

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it just looked and behaved like debian

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it was debian with bongo sound and another set of themes/colours

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MS (Mark S) did an MS. He copied the competition. Now he's pushing crap like snaps.

Canonical https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c05bb0e-b52e-426a-8bd8-cf63c21ac9b9_1600x1067.png

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at the time it was nearly identical to Debian

Aug 07 09:55

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that was quite nice, Debian with polish

Aug 07 09:55

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debian with polish is called sparkyLinux ;-)

Aug 07 09:57

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POLISH, gedddit?

Aug 07 09:57

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sparky= polish distro based on debian

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eurolinux=polish distro based on rhel

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they do other locales too

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but don't have marketing capacity

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cannot afford to buy "LET'S TALK" episodes from clickfraud spamni

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where 99% of the "views" are bots

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There was a Polis(ed) distro for a while but it was only ok for one release or

Aug 07 10:00

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so and then it got quickly out of maintenance and more trouble than it was

Aug 07 10:00

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worth; it was a good try though

Aug 07 10:00

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m4linux is polish too, but I cannot recall for sure what it is based on

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it has routine releases, marius covers it a lot

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gnu/linux was originally a community respons to corporate shittiness from ibm (1980s) or xerox

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but then it was called "linux" and sold as the reaction to Microsoft'a crimes and market abuses

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now we need the commuity to replace

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a) corporate distros (inc. AWS)

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b) corporate controlled distros like SPI/Debian (they have Arch in the bag, too)

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what's needed is people who know how to assemble the tools

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and reject shit like snap, firefox, chro* and systemd

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pclinusos comes close

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and uses kde, not gnome

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alpine is good also

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a lot of what people think they need they don't really need

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if you must play games, aaa games, maybe get a console like steamos (arch/kde/drm)

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steam deck, with steamos

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I think newswaffle is awesome and our goal in gemini should be to add more missing pieces

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we have youtube mirror, github mirror (ish, more like gateway), way to read any news site one choose

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in any language

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weather there are several options

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some games and riddles

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social control media does not need a replacement

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it just needs to die

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a) good way to describe the, "cloud" services are basically proprietary

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distros

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b) Devuan has a fighting chance now

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Alpine seems very nice and lean; It's much better than I though it would be and

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I was already positively inclined towards it from the beginning

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I spoke to jonathen cartel

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he's not so bad

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there was pressure for him to be a dick like sam

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sam did a GR on systemd

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not under this name obviously

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they didn't fgollow through ... yet

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maybe lennard working for a debconf SPONSOR will wake them up

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BTW, I did a quick post on devuan yesterday

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re ipfs, given that isps give us appalling upload speeds we can use that as a building block to make a more decentralised Net (maybe Web, too)

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the key thing is to put ipfs in lots of places

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I removed the alias australia.techrights.org

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as the guy no longer wants ipfs connecting to a zillion ip address, inc. some from CHOYNA (aussie accent)

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230mb uploaded so far... I think I can upload just the objects, not datastore (like cache)

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and then start from that... will save me days' worth of uploading

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to speed it up I've stopped rsync

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now uploading with --exclude

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ack

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for things I think it can autogenerate anyway

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datastore and blocks

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lol, I wrote jonathan CARTEL

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must be muscle memory

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but still funny

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I think as soon as I have SOME objects, I will be able to start ipfs on the server

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and later add the new arrivals

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for gemini capsule I can write the page to html, then wget from the pi

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it's public data anyway

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or use ssh/similar, we don't have nginx/apache on the server yet

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which would you prefer, nginx or apache2?

Aug 07 10:33

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we currently use apache, so it means less to change afterwards

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but let's finish TM first, knowing some of the setup there helps with TR later (e.g. git)

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I think just copying across the files from centos and running git on them would be OK

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if you have spare time you can try that already, first as a second address

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there's also the "Links" account

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we can tidy up the files and programs when moving to the new /home

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not systemd-homed

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Aug 07 10:37

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I've made a directory for the vhost but will not add apache2 yet

Aug 07 10:37

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I gues the Links account can be moved

Aug 07 10:37

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in Amfora, it is possible now to progress forward through Tux Machines posts

Aug 07 11:25

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by pressing Enter twice per post.

Aug 07 11:25

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i assume double tap means progress to first link?

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yes

Aug 07 11:44

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tab then enter works too

Aug 07 11:44

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but the first link is the defaut so enter is less work

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Aug 07 11:53

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ipfs running on the server now

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I'll add more objects as they arrive

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moving links over to ipfs.techrights.org

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oh, excellent, I assume ... or never mind, you sent daily links already

Aug 07 12:01

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yes they were sent already

Aug 07 12:03

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seems to work; anyway, that's where the'll be tomorrow

Aug 07 12:07

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inotify is available, if needed ...

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Oh, I was in the wrong window

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I wanted to say, OK, so I didn't respond as I was busy posting some links

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and am also tinkering with ipfs

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it already runs with the data it has gotten so far

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as for links, I diodn't realise a connection was broken

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so I was not getting alerted about new links

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I think that's all I wanted to say, but maybe there was more

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I will have to change code and topologies later for ipfs to work nicely on the server side

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but first I'll check the impct on object availability

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[13:25] <schestowitz> https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/the-owner-of-the-proprietary-software-controls-the-computer-not-the-owner-of-the-computer/ is a video TR p

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-neritam.wordpress.com | The owner of the proprietary software controls the computer, not the owner of the computer – neritam

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osted as webm this year, it's hotlinked

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612mb/~940mb

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I've already added many objects to ipfs and need your advice

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so here is what I'm thinking

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2:30-40am, machine generates irc logs, then bulletin, time it finishes unknown

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it'll report in irc

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then it sends all the objects to the pi as before

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in addition it sends them to TR-new and reports to me if issues exist

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ipfs processes the object on the server, not the pi

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but the pi needs those objects for gemini, as well

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ipfs might run very gently as a fallback or background process, not touch the disk much

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at 3am the server adds the new objects (9 in total)

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it then sends the new hashes stuff to your homdir on the SERVER, not the pi

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it also updates the ipfs tables and transmits to gemini on the pi, or the pi pulls the index of hashes from a www address

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how much can be transfered to tr-new and removed from the pi?

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this whole process would mean changes to the code, but not major changes

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I thought, after cloning, I'd still be able to take over from the pi, but reachability of that many objects would be poor

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so I wonder, after changing the code, whether I should make similar versions of the scripts on the server

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or push to git with those changes apply

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they cannot run the same on both the pi and the server

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the words you use show there might be a misconcpetion about ipfs

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one is a booter of the other

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the objects are the same, they're assumes so based on the hashes

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so the more nodes having them in circulation, the better

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the pi is more relaxed and the home network less busy when ipfs is off

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the main issue was, where to serve these from?

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/s/booter/booster

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I have no clue about how IPFS works. So my advice, if one could call it that,

Aug 07 18:21

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is unlikely to be informed. Whatever the internal workings, I would suggest

Aug 07 18:21

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trying to move as much of the core activities as possible to tm-new.

Aug 07 18:21

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processing the files on the server is astonishingly fast

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like 5-10 faster than the pi

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and I can see objects reachable again for the first time in about a year

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if there' a blessing associated with this past tuesday's incidents, this is it

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anyway, let this to me, I'll get this done by the morning I reckon

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testing can take a few more days

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another good thing about the incidents is that I can mount the drive again and have automated backups

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network aspects like iptables or wifi available don't matter much anymore

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I also fortified the SBC

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owing to the network capacity stuff you made the script more robust to timeouts and disruption

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so that's good as well

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sometimes I can throttle it again if gemini causes heavy load

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which happened 2 weeks ago (55k reqs a day)

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nftables would be better ...

Aug 07 18:35

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than iptables if available

Aug 07 18:35

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tc is what does the traffic shaping and that is available to either

Aug 07 18:35

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I think the only thing we lost in the root OS was the addition of the traffic shaping scripts with sudoers

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but we won't need that anymore if all goes as planned

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being able to throttle down the pi is still possible by hand, which is good

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I'll clone the whole OS hopefully this coming week

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tonight's task will be to change the code to generate you the ipfs bits into homedir on server

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and to properly update the same on the "old" site

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this time those objects will actually be accessible

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ack

Aug 07 18:38

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it resolves several outstanding issues

Aug 07 18:50

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and makes ipfs viable again (it was a scale issue)

Aug 07 18:50

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ack

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740mb now

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the master copy will be home hosted and ready to roll

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but the booster and authoritative sources for generating the hashes will be in the DC

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they will be kept in sync

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so if one is online the other is still OK

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I'll figure out the details later and maybe write something about that

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when the transfer is done I'll change the code and test stuff

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what I asked earlier is, how to manage two similar codebases

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without git splitting off into two branches

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I still don't know how profound the changes might be, maybe I can just "comment out" the bits for local

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and write those for remote

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it might be no more than 10 lines in total

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be sure to use similar, but distinct, names for the scripts and such

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at some point later techrights.org will point to another ip address, so I will use domain name

Aug 07 19:09

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but be aware tomorrow morning I hope you'll have the usual files in your homedir

Aug 07 19:09

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if not tomorrow, later this week

Aug 07 19:09

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sometime soon I'd like to rearrange MQTT a little so that it would open the

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possibility of maybe adding generic read-only access in the future, at least

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for some of the 'topics'

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as alternative to rss like test.mosquitt [sic].org?

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I assume you get notificed when I add notes to TM-new but don't know if those contain data other than topic

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yes

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yep

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for now, it says only date, time, and "tux machines site updated"

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it could convey more details, or not

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nice, but...

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I wonder what clients exist for that and how widely used they are

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IOW, if this becomes a public API, I doubt many hardcore gnu/linux users will care

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regardless, it would be helpful to juggle the account names a little

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Paho used to exist for Python but they eliminated the ability to work with

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self-signed certificates.

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I'm not sure any would care, but it's more about the principle of the matter

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a little renaming now will / could go a long way later

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yes, it would at least be "innovative"

Aug 07 19:18

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we're ther first site of this kind (scope/topic) with a gemini capsule, that's for sure

Aug 07 19:18

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many other firsts, but it's not a popularity contest

Aug 07 19:18

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the hierarchical nature of the 'topics' could be exploited better for Git

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notifications, down to the relevant directory or maybe even file which has

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been updated .. perhaps. Though commits can, and often do, contain multiple

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file updates, and that presents a puzzle. That might be overthinking it

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but at least the usernames for MQTT can be redone to be more informative

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so that it is easier to figure out which one is where.

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That's not for today but maybe tomorrow or later.

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The Git notification over MQTT can and should stay simple.

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Yes, and even that seems to be a first.

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The level of notification on your end can be kept generic.

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it is enough to tell me to run a check, when I am free, to see what changed

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anything beyond that would be unwanted distraction from what I do at the time of the alert

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until my mind frees up

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todo:

Aug 07 19:25

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a) fix ipfs

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b) resume publication pace (lower priority)

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c) find more rss feeds if possible (it's vvvvvvweeeeeeewwwy vewwwwy slow this past week), impacting (b)

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d) back up for better D-R planning (I think the outages won't happen again; they did a massive job there)

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ack

Aug 07 19:27

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lots of good stuff today in irc logs

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re uefi

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I try not to spend too much time on it, but morale-wise it's good to know Microsoft is

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really THAT nerous. I see from the inside some staff of MSFT panicking. Many lost a lot of money

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as their capital was tied to the company's "value"

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and they are shedding off stuff, anyone can go (person, project, team)

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other companies don't need Windowes people, so reraining needed

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they've been in that state for 20 years afaik

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what's different now is that people know how hard M$ works covertly and overtly

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to undermine the free market

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brb

Aug 07 19:30

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ack

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brb

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OK, just checked some Windows and Edge stats

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I still have 2 msft series going

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and one upcoming epo

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august is slow, so I'm in no hurry to finish the material

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would rather get close to completition of site migration and then fortify what we have

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if you can, make backups of TR sometimes

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I see many sites perishing these days (offline, no activity, or webspam "exit startegy")

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so www-only is not a viable long-term strategy

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nor is social control media, lol...

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[18:52] <techrights-news> This statement was issued on a Sunday; they've solved none of the underlying issues, they're just gagging those who speak about Debian issues https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220807

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.debian.org | Debian -- News -- Ownership of "debian.community" domain

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note to self: remind people to adopt system-free distros and remind devs to consider building on devuan

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debian just issued a cocky statement

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<techrights-news> Most British COVID-19 mourners suffer PTSD symptoms: survey | News ⚓ https://news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/most-british-covid-19-mourners-suffer-ptsd-symptoms-survey/ ䷉ Source: news | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//news.curtin.edu.au/media-releases/most-british-covid-19-mourners-suffer-ptsd-symptoms-survey/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.curtin.edu.au | Most British COVID-19 mourners suffer PTSD symptoms: survey | News

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ack

Aug 07 19:45

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the backups of TR have to take place over SFTP, so I'll have to make alternate

Aug 07 19:45

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scripts from the ones I have at the moment.

Aug 07 19:45

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at least the disks are no longer moaning

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the most important piece of data, as it changes a lot, if the wordpress DB

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videos I do, in theory, keep locally by virtue of how they are uploaded

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but the WP DB is countless hours of human effort

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of many people inc. WBers

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we have a commitment to them

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yes that's very good

Aug 07 19:49

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just spoke to rianne we'll buy backup hardware in the supermarket tomorrow

Aug 07 19:50

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they have a section for it

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more USB HDs or SSDs?

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not decided yet, maybe both, but also depends on brands and prices

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more like usb sticks and sd

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the important files are usually on the pi anyway

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and we have enough external drives for now

Aug 07 19:55

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(off topic people work work 6am to 6pm for nasty companies life in a personal digital disarray... too much time wasted grooming someone else's systems)

Aug 07 19:55

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For now I'd recommend the spinning rust models rather rather than the solid

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state models.

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Oh. Ok. The USB sticks would be good for mirroring the RPi systems.

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It appears that mirroring like that is apparently the best practice.

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RAID 1 is supposedly unlikely to be of any use in the situation where the

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power goes out and forces unclean shutdowns.

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michael west's site is postging a LOT this monh, I assume it is thriving a shame it focuses most on .AU

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though sometimes some UK perspective too

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I don't expect more shutdowns of this kind (there were several as they try to bring the power back up to no avail, with inconsistent voltage too

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but it's also safer now from evil miss broomstick ... who knocked it over a few times by accident

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spinning rust now gets a full snapshot of /home every morning at 5:10am

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Yes he writes a lot and does good work but only a little ever seems to overlap

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with TR

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it's good for daily links, I try to support by linking to his word

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he seems truly independent

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iirc, former prisoner of murdoch

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----

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lessons of the past month:

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YOU might be OK with economic volatility

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but OTHERS might not be and it's all connected

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whether you like it or not

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Then, disconnecting oneself from others seems the least harmful way forward

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"crab culture" (trying to drag other crabs down)

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btw, one client at work now gets amber lights showing on the server SMART issue

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check the smartctl data

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if possible

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we'll need to swap out the whole RAID

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some of them don't take such stuff into accounbt

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but at least properly forwarned

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we moved them to wireguard

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they used to pay a FFOOOORTTUNE for some shit company to "support" openvpn for them

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it's RIDICULOUS!

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not my dept. and I'm on my way out, I hope by year's end

Aug 07 20:06

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ack

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one client did a migration from djangocms to drupal

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they always hire on low budget

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like totally clueless slingers from india

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and this time a pair of people in yerevan

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of course they lost data in the migration

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again, their problem

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if they want to keep their data in tact, they'll need to pay

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that one idiot threw kubernetes on a server just for the "fun" of it

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yes

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for no purpose whatsoever

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a live/prod webserver

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we had to restrict his account and he needed to go through us before installing anything

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after this kept happening

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNSNxDGf8uW24qwfnLjXrvXVvHmUMuSgb1HJu756yHhud

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850mb

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getting there soon, then I can start testing on a "real" thing

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not testing the water