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| schestowitz-TR | [00:15] <techrights-news> ZDNet "Linux" section: only 9 stories in one month. It used to be 2-3 times PER DAY. ZDNet is dying. Good riddance. http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/ZDNet | May 10 00:15 |
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| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | ZDNet - Techrights | May 10 00:15 | |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Webspam: "Before we continue, we’d like to tell you about (insert product name here). We host LinuxAndUbuntu on (insert product name here) VPS. Check them out" http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36799/ | May 10 00:21 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LXer: Native Advertising: WordPress 6.0 Soon To Be Released With these new Features | May 10 00:21 | |
| schestowitz-TR | [00:19] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- LXer: Native Advertising: WordPress 6.0 Soon To Be Released With these new Features | May 10 00:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | [00:20] <techrights-news> When LXer mistakenly posts links to Microsoft puff pieces. "You are right, I removed it." http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36798/ | May 10 00:21 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LXer: Why is this on LXer?: Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China | May 10 00:21 | |
| schestowitz-TR | [00:20] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- LXer: Why is this on LXer?: Windows Insider builds are back for Lenovo PCs in China | May 10 00:21 |
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| Techrights-sec | there is a truckload of crap about the DSA with Thierry Breton and Elon Musk | May 10 06:55 |
| Techrights-sec | but it'll be with tomorrows links. | May 10 06:55 |
| Techrights-sec | since it appears just now | May 10 06:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have just restarted httpd on tuxmachines | May 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | seems like it was down for 5 hours | May 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am surprised rianne did not notice | May 10 06:59 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 06:59 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | May 10 06:59 |
| Techrights-sec | I have not monitored it here of late | May 10 06:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | can you set up alerting? It went down not too long before I went to sleep | May 10 06:59 |
| Techrights-sec | I can but I'd have to modify the new system; the old stuff has been partially | May 10 07:01 |
| Techrights-sec | dismantled because the hardware it was on is *waaay* past end of life | May 10 07:01 |
| Techrights-sec | I can look at that later today | May 10 07:01 |
| Techrights-sec | any reply regarding the apparent disk errors? | May 10 07:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | no reply, I will retry | May 10 07:08 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 07:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | checking the latest dumps, drupal is OK, wiki not OK, and wordpress OK | May 10 07:12 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 07:53 |
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| schestowitz-TR | last night we noticed that the company brought onboard some Windows 'dope' with an Arab name | May 10 08:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | putting aside the name, seems like another step downwards: | May 10 08:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | in terms of pay | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | in terms of skills | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | so we think we can see where this is going | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | as I said before, a growing proportion if just a bunch of Windows lusers | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | with zero computer skills | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | thinking they can handle "IT" | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | at best, they can pick up the phone | May 10 08:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | When I joined in 2011 we had some high-profile people on board | May 10 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | inc. Debian Developers (wne becoming DD meant something, now a political | May 10 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | decision) | May 10 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | So even if they suggest that I do projects, I might turn it down | May 10 08:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | we have no capable workers anymore | May 10 08:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | "skeleton crew" as you call it... | May 10 08:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | IOW, even if we stayed, we doubt that can last very long | May 10 09:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | we're already down to "d types", after a colleague brough c types with zero qualifications in tech | May 10 09:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | just because they lived in the same home (lesbian couple) | May 10 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, zero skills | May 10 09:15 |
| Techrights-sec | (back) | May 10 09:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne has sent me a link from vox | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | putting aside the "great resignation" canard, she said it suggests many | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | people who got used to working from home don't wish to get "back" to the office | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | so they retire | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | Vox is owned by banksters, but I got the link and added it to Daily Links moments ago | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | we're discussion option of partial retirement with some job on the side to cover basic expenses | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | or self employment | May 10 09:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | *discussing | May 10 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | (nb: I said to rianne months ago it's very improbable I would pursue another job because | May 10 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | a) I would not want to work outside home (might also require buying a car). b) not many jobs | May 10 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | available, except maybe zero-hour or crap ones.. the latter probably does not exist either, it's an | May 10 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | old excuse the rich make about the "lazy" and "spoiled" population) | May 10 09:20 |
| Techrights-sec | then a "tip jar" should be given more consideration | May 10 09:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | I started drafting two things to that effect | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | one for schestowitz.com about why leave the job | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | like how crap the company became in recent years | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't need a good reference if I doin't look for another job anyway | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | the second would poromise more output if we get support from readers | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then can focus on the site 100% | May 10 09:22 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 09:22 |
| Techrights-sec | hiring Windows resellers is a sure sign the company is leaving the market | May 10 09:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | not Windows resellers | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | but people who use Ubuntu only in a VM | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | and get excited about WSL crap | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | IOW, technically weak people | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | the company has, to put it in terms I thought og this morning, ridden its past reputation 23 years for more | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | years now than it can pull that off | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | IOW, the trail of high-profile clients and goodwill is running thin by now | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | and almost 50% of the "team" listed in our web site are not even in the company!! | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | (the BETTER people) | May 10 09:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "Between pandemics, historic economic crashes, bull runs, and crashes again, war, climate change, record breaking weather, the ever encroaching threat of climate change, and the general apparent downward spiral of American society in general, it's hard to find anything to be optimistic about." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/932 | May 10 09:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | one minute ago, just happened to coincide with the topic | May 10 09:27 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 09:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | so far I don't think I ever saw a bad gz file on the TM VM, which resides on the same physical (storage) | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | device | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | I did repeat what I said yesterday, but not in direct message so as to avoid "alerts" or "notifications" | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | (re the dmesg output) | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | On the TM VM, if I run dmesg I get similar output | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | I checked about 5 forum pages just now | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | here is a theory that can be tested | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | how about if we spread apart the dumps and gz operations? | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | like adding sleep commands? | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | based on what I am reading, a large mysql DB can lead to this | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am testing this theory, but actually the afternoon dumps also fail at times when it comes to gzip | May 10 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | so never mind what I said | May 10 09:50 |
| Techrights-sec | yes it would be the same piece of hardware AFAIK | May 10 09:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | technically we run a kernel that seems to be not so old | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | the alpine one | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | not knowing how the VM "boots" when lxd runs it | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | some reports that I saw do not rush to blame the hardware | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | but something in xfs | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | when did we last check dmesg or, put another way, is it possible that these messages predate the change of storage | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | device and maybe go a lot further back? | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | the main variable on the hosting side is not packages installed but the % of disk used | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | remember that the gz issue started in january | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | the media was changed completely in debruary | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | *fe | May 10 09:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | *feb | May 10 09:55 |
| Techrights-sec | yes but I am not familiar with the hardware at all, were the old drives | May 10 10:03 |
| Techrights-sec | brought over into the new machine? | May 10 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | No | May 10 10:03 |
| Techrights-sec | how would XFS be part of the problem? | May 10 10:11 |
| Techrights-sec | the kernels in TR and TM are quite old | May 10 10:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | ota | May 10 10:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | draft | May 10 10:56 |
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| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 11:16 |
| Techrights-sec | added preliminary multi-site monitoring just now, testing on tm and tr | May 10 11:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks! | May 10 11:17 |
| Techrights-sec | arre there hard stats on the demise of zdnet? | May 10 11:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | oh, did you see my draft? | May 10 11:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | I was just working on that | May 10 11:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | see the draft | May 10 11:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | it was work in progress | May 10 11:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | poor sjvn | May 10 11:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | if his pension is not good | May 10 11:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe he will become TFIR employee :-) | May 10 11:27 |
| Techrights-sec | checking | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | yes I still feel somewhat bad for him but only based on his exxcellent past | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | work not the stuff he appears forced to produce these recent years | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | speaking of which maybe a word about the rduced quality, especially i ntegards | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | to topics there | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | oh it does but the opponents work extra hard and have a lot of focus to tear | May 10 11:28 |
| Techrights-sec | things down | May 10 11:29 |
| Techrights-sec | such a move is dead end, the lose their original audience while never being | May 10 11:29 |
| Techrights-sec | accepted by the actual microsofters | May 10 11:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | it does not pay to promote free software | May 10 11:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | rms owns almost nothing | May 10 11:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | sjvn and spamnil tried to cross to the other side | May 10 11:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | michael did it more recently | May 10 11:29 |
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| Techrights-sec | as a follow up to monitoring TM : | May 10 12:35 |
| Techrights-sec | $ ssh tm | May 10 12:35 |
| Techrights-sec | Unable to negotiate with 23.161.112.115 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss | May 10 12:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's possible to enter via the hv | May 10 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | in fact, the only reason ssh is still open on there is for remote backups | May 10 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "My wife needed to catch a plane this weekend. She hadn't felt quite right while packing, so the night before she left, we picked up two COVID-19 test kits. I had never taken one before, which is an interesting thought to me, since the pandemic has now lasted two and a half years." In 5 months 3 YEARS. How time flies. gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202205/20220509-2022-week-16-17-18-photos.gmi | May 10 12:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | we did our first test a month ago, just to become familiar with the procedure... 12 have 19 test kits (test units) left | May 10 12:39 |
| Techrights-sec | checking | May 10 12:48 |
| Techrights-sec | ok that way works, throuh lxc | May 10 12:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I deeply apologise for this situation | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | if I quit my job, that will be a massive MENTAL thing off my head | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | set aside actual time made available and more flexible sleeping schedules | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | I began drafting (cruedly) 3 things | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | not that I would publish them, they're just speculative | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | a) why resign b) what it means to the sites (not for my personsl site) | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | c) something related to rianne (things to discss after Thurs.) | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | I cannot discuss sooner than the meeting | May 10 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | see, dumb lying incompetent employer says.... BIG NEWS... hang on NINE DAYS | May 10 12:51 |
| Techrights-sec | no worries | May 10 12:52 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | (not sure I want to stay, no matter what they offer, in a company that for 4 years compromised and sacrifised | May 10 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | "expensive" A and B type for a couple of D types whose skill is having sex with [redacted]" | May 10 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | because there's not much of a future to such a company no matter what) | May 10 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | bouncing from one shell to the next and piling up debt, even in two continent, likely | May 10 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | means that even employee compensation is voided, but IANAL in the labour sector | May 10 12:54 |
| Techrights-sec | hence the suggestion to check around for other options | May 10 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | I already checked around, even 2 weeks ago, and spoke to some people around here, also dad | May 10 12:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | they all say it's very improbable a comparable thing can be found, more so for two people | May 10 12:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | hence. since 2018 we've been just "milking" | May 10 12:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | if we can milk for a little while longer, maybe we will | May 10 12:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | If we collected enough funds to secure the sites for a decade (plus additional costs), then we're | May 10 12:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | vastly better off than people with mortgage, kids, or both | May 10 12:57 |
| Techrights-sec | yes but the current situation is not sustanible it wears on you if nothing else | May 10 12:58 |
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| schestowitz-TR | oh, silly me, I fogot to mewntion I took today and tomorrow off as holidays | May 10 13:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | so no shifts until the weekend | May 10 13:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | you will see the change in productivity | May 10 13:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | but back to the above-mentioned thing, rianne(dfc mocks walmark for locking up | May 10 13:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | baby forumula like it was a diamond ring | May 10 13:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't find that funny at all | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | babies are the next generation | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | and if the "greast and bestest country in the while wild/wide world" resorts to this | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | then we're in a tough place | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | the young people coming out of the college pipeline do not know computers | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | some of them barely have a computer | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's smart this and that | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | and zero skills, actual skills... | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | like... for them to get VPN working is like a big accomplishment | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne installed wireguard on debian 11 all on her own and configured it | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | on the pi400 | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | while these idiots rejoice getting a VM to boot ubuntu | May 10 13:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | putin's tech army will hgave a field day | May 10 13:03 |
| Techrights-sec | congratulations | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | yes and other countries are doing what they can to redce the likelihood | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | of a successful new generation; some of that is on social control media, it | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | suck their attention so that they are learning to be addicted and waste time | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | rather than interacting with people and learning and growing | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | excellent, wireguard is supposed to be quite good | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | every Windoze instance and every social media account makes the job easier | May 10 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | for putin's offensive | May 10 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | corporate media and CONTROL 'media' both mock Putin and Russia | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | reminds of of the "Hitler has one nut" tactics | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | in reality, Russia remains a very potent threat, even wiuthout bringing out | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | the nuclear warheads | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | ukraine is europe's biggest or second-biggest army | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | the media does not say that | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | and now they have a proxy war with cannon fodder and destruction from within | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | if the polls are true, all that social control median "campaigning" failed | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | and russians mostly support the "secial operations" | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | IOW,the Internet as a military-grade perception manager is not effective | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | Russia | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | has shut off a lot of the "hostile" sites | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | and is doing a Lukashenko on protesters | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | so they go under water and quit spreading the messages Purtin does not | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | want to spread | May 10 13:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | ack | May 10 13:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | their lockdown of a "splinternet" has been in the works for a decade at least | May 10 13:09 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 13:09 |
| Techrights-sec | their lockdown of a "splinternet" has been in the works for a decade at least | May 10 13:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | their candidate is planning to run again in 2 years | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | and reports said he had contacted musKSA (all of them) to take over Twitter | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe just in time to drop Russian-type divisive crap | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | theRealSputnik | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think it'll be increasingly important to convey to all, inc. wife, that | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | the old "normals" are long buried and any expectation of "old order" | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | are delusional wrt employment, social norms, travel, etc. | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have not left Manchester (except "city proper") since Jan 2020 | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | and have no imminent intention to | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | the COVID-19 pendemic is not the reason, it was a trigger almost | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | 3 years ago, many people (inc. banksters, energy giants and gates) | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | latched onto it | May 10 13:15 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 13:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is a blessing that our sys owner has a job now, full time I think, and that it's | May 10 13:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | not Muppet Labs. It's security company, not an evil one either | May 10 13:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | so financial pressures are not a factor at the moment. Years ago I asked catalyst2 and others | May 10 13:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | how much dedicated servers are and they sell "managed" (OVERsell) at about 3k a year (pounds) | May 10 13:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | that was 4 years ago, prices have risen) | May 10 13:18 |
| Techrights-sec | excellent | May 10 13:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ww | May 10 13:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | "This year, 2022, May the 4th was my last day at Mozilla." https://www.otsukare.info/2022/05/04/bye-mozilla | May 10 13:21 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.otsukare.info | Mozilla, Bye! - otsukare | May 10 13:21 | |
| Techrights-sec | wordpress is a liability | May 10 13:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | transition and migratioin can be made a priority given less mental clutter (2 workers in the home fewers | May 10 13:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | with a broad range of things to watchon the screen and solve) | May 10 13:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | LOL /me imagines mr. ubuntu VM trying to actually diagnose and solve issue (gets popcorn) | May 10 13:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | (we did have some misters like these before... imposters who put a VM in full screen mode) | May 10 13:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | (they solve NOTHING!!! money down the drain) | May 10 13:24 |
| Techrights-sec | """ | May 10 13:25 |
| Techrights-sec | e are here to make the Web more open, not only for making the Web usable on Firefox products. | May 10 13:25 |
| Techrights-sec | """ | May 10 13:25 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 13:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | btw, zdnet did slow down very very noticably | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | whereas TM has not because we found lots of news sites and blogs that are active | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | yesterday 3 batches of Daily Links -- that's a lot for slow-to-start Mondays | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | as long as I can do at least 2 batches a day, I am happy | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | articles of our own are a plus/bonus | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | given how much we worked (job) in recent days | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | a lot of the patent blogs died | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they really hate it when I point it out | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | because there is nothing they can do | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | a few times before they tried to prove me wrong for a few days, then ran out of steam again | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | some of them before 10 times less active then years back | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | hence GIGO in Gulag Noise | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | the spam is what's left | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | when it's GiGO, it is time to move on and leave the spamfarms | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | sjvn barely writes 2 per week, somtimes only 1 | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | and jack wallen was 'borrowed' by zdnet (from the sister site) | May 10 13:40 |
| Techrights-sec | The RSS/Atom feed collection here has > 40k posts to sift through | May 10 13:40 |
| Techrights-sec | I focus on the blogs and then some ofthe news site if there is time | May 10 13:40 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 13:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | did you see in last night's IRC log how people in lxer complained in FORUMS that lxer was posting Microsoft | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | shit? | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then the editor deleted it? | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | my theory that they piss off their readers is correct | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | causing emotional annoyance is way to assure people won't eneter l-x-e-r as often in the future | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's an instinct not to rpeeat what causes angst or shock | May 10 13:43 |
| Techrights-sec | I saw part of that, I hope lxet backpedals on that and that it was a mistake | May 10 13:43 |
| Techrights-sec | or lapse of judgement rather than a symptom of something more severe | May 10 13:43 |
| Techrights-sec | right. they can quickly drive away their bread-and-butter community | May 10 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you go to their site, click team/people (or other section) to appreciate how out of date the site is, | May 10 13:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | like TR with only BN content in the sidebar | May 10 13:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | but maybe if we alter CMS bits we can sort that out | May 10 13:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | the lxer team is frozen in... pre-2010 days | May 10 13:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think Scott and one of the whittingers are the sole operators | May 10 13:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they recently had a 3-day downtimes due to dns | May 10 13:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | worse than our 5-hour TM downtime (today) | May 10 13:46 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 13:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think it was Bob (the more senor of the two) | May 10 13:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | he must be like 80 by now | May 10 13:48 |
| Techrights-sec | there are so few new people entering IT these days | May 10 13:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | you said "IT" :-) | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | I mentioned the term in my view this morning | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | the new "CS"... it's not science anymore... it's "informstion" | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | passing around data, not much more | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | not many people conider "IT" itself a ruinous buzzwords | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | because the term IT or ICT is so widely used now | May 10 13:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | it started around here maybe 1990s | May 10 13:52 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | of note: I did not do a job interview for my current job (neither did rianne, they trusted me to train her) | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | the "interview" was asking me to set up my own account and such, which I did fact | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | email, jabber, ldap etc. | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | now the clown idiots have no ldap or iam.. | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | just open some gulag account | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | IT skillz: knowing which "APP/S" to download and memorising GUIs | May 10 13:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | (based on true story) ;-) | May 10 13:55 |
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| schestowitz-TR | priority/wishlist: stories of people leaving Twitter, esp. those citing good reasons | May 10 15:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | weakening social control media = curtailing the attacks on democracies | May 10 15:21 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 15:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Twitter WILL NOT support free speech. Stop believe a CHRONIC liar. MusKSA (it's shared ownership with people who chop down journalists to pieces and cook them!) will manipulate Twitter for PERSONAL GAIN. QUIT NOW. https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/05/10/elon-free-speech/ | May 10 15:23 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-etbe.coker.com.au | Elon and Free Speech « etbe - Russell Coker | May 10 15:23 | |
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| schestowitz-TR | I hardly know how to answer this question | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | rant: just wasted over 20 mins helping rianne because paypal decided to add 2FA | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | security theatre | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | and we do not have "mobile" | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | eventually I managed after talking to a call centre of theirs | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | based on the acceent, somewhere in south asia | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | paypal is shit | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | but sadly the compettiion to it seems not much better | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne needed tp pay for deliverty (parcel/sale today) | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | she picks up bargain on way back | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | we might need to use online payments more if we leave the job | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | (which we decided to do some time ago anyway, just didn't know when) | May 10 15:59 |
| Techrights-sec | "security" | May 10 15:59 |
| Techrights-sec | paypal is high risk | May 10 15:59 |
| Techrights-sec | yes that will probably increase the necessity | May 10 15:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's only 4pm, too early to get angrry, it's my day off work and I want to produce some articles/videos | May 10 16:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | anyway, another annoying hurdle in life | May 10 16:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | remember how much time I spent fighting the city council here over trying to impose | May 10 16:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | "mobile" on EU citizens pursing "permission" to "stay" | May 10 16:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | *purusing | May 10 16:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | at the end I filed a major complaint and had them chasing and invetigating | May 10 16:02 |
| Techrights-sec | yes; be sure to get the two exercise sessions per day | May 10 16:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | wordpress is good for many things | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's not getting a lot better | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's feature church since 10 years ago | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | they just need to "keep up"... looking for problems that do not really exist instead of | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | just leaving the darn thing alne | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is also why web sites and then browsers keep getting worse over time | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | they need to give the engs SOMETHINGto doi | May 10 16:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they call it INNOVA~1 | May 10 16:05 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 16:05 |
| Techrights-sec | WordPress has a shitload of expensive proprietary plugins of uncertain and | May 10 16:05 |
| Techrights-sec | very dubious quality | May 10 16:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | my uncle broke his blog with one | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | addeda CRM to it, IIRC | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then cried that it stopped working | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | after he had broken it | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | I had to fix it the same day/weekend that I bought the new laptop | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it was a major PITA | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | gonna do some weights | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | I lost my rhytham due to paypal | May 10 16:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | bbiab | May 10 16:07 |
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| schestowitz-TR | COVID-19 in the UK: Going Dark, Hiding the Problem Instead of Solving It http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/10/hiding-covid/ | May 10 16:51 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » COVID-19 in the UK: Going Dark, Hiding the Problem Instead of Solving It | May 10 16:51 | |
| schestowitz-TR | typos likely, have not proofread it yet | May 10 16:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | let me know if you read it and see any along the way | May 10 16:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Added: "NHS/Tories: Maybe if we stop publish data, then people will stop blasting our fatally stupid policy." http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/10/hiding-covid/ | May 10 16:57 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 16:57 |
| Techrights-sec | read quickly but did not notice anything this time | May 10 17:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | i found one typo (seized) | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | either way, it's going to be harder for me to do such posts | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | no data, no analysis possible | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | I meant, 'only' 2000 people a week die | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's like... less than 9/11 | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | sod it, go back to work lads | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | as we say here, "for queen and country" | May 10 17:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | for mom-of-nadrew and country | May 10 17:02 |
| Techrights-sec | cutting off the data means cutting off the coverage and resultant discussion | May 10 17:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | right now bill and lolita foundation assesses the online reactionm | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and decides if billBC should run next week's puff pieces with COVID guru bill | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | or maybe "not yet" | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | (give the public more time to forgot and make new scapegoats) | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | if they stop updating, I might put together a formal FOI (like FOIA) demanding access to data | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and making my own portal | May 10 17:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | to keep their feet to the fire | May 10 17:04 |
| Techrights-sec | are there groups there collaborate with on that? | May 10 17:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | don't want to be covid alarmist, but if the numbers did in fact go down, then it would be justified | May 10 17:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | but that is clearly not the case | May 10 17:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think goign through a local MP might work best | May 10 17:06 |
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| schestowitz-TR | [17:14] <techrights-news> 50% of the articles in PHORONIX today are about AMD, a company with 15k workers (Intel is almost 120k). What PHORONIX does not tell you: it's SPONSORED by AMD http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/ | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:14] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- techrights.org | When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions | Techrights | May 10 17:42 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | When Blogs Become Marketing and Benchmarks Become Product Promotions | Techrights | May 10 17:42 | |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> it's like social control media | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> things ar enot quite how they seem on the surface | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:14] <schestowitz-TR> you need to look below (apropos covid data) | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:15] <Techrights-sec> it'd be much less problematic, though not ideal, if michael were to remind | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:15] <Techrights-sec> people of the connection now to AMD | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> sometimes he even does AMD job ads as articles | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> even for just one single role | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> in a company of that size | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> that's like those spammy patent NOISE sites | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> where they tell you some low-level person moved from firm A to firm B | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> and make it seem like "news", complete with photo, portfolio, and promotional words | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | [17:17] <schestowitz-TR> affirming people's choice os that supposedly impoirtant person and firm | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have an idea | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | will measure # of iterms in amd categ' before and after estimated time of crate | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | wait, that's not going to work | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | there is category singularity | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | so many amd iterms go under different ctags | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | thinking... | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | remember on an empirical basis I know what I'd find | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | as I see all the headlines there since 15+ years ago | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | but I need numeric evidence | May 10 17:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I might nee to use wayback machine | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | that's a lot of checking | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | see /tmp/techrights-monitor-tr-v3.py on the rpi | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | ^ old topic from earlier | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | going through the wayback machine is slow, but they have to be slow for self | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | defence | May 10 17:42 |
| Techrights-sec | mouse middle button stopped working; drop-test fixed it :/ | May 10 17:43 |
| Techrights-sec | hope it does not break soon | May 10 17:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | when it starts doing this, it's time to purchase the spare | May 10 17:43 |
| Techrights-sec | this was the newly purchased spare :/ | May 10 17:45 |
| Techrights-sec | I'm not sure I can find the receipt though | May 10 17:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | these receipts | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | for such flaky items | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | can be just as valuable as the product itself | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | as they are a ticket for the second product | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | here I did have to return a few in the diustant past | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | a | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | and pick a replacement of roughly the same price | May 10 17:46 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, agreed, it's just I have to look through a stack of them | May 10 17:46 |
| Techrights-sec | t | May 10 17:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | I like playing with data, libreoffice cal time :-p) | May 10 17:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | wayback machine | May 10 17:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | *calc | May 10 17:47 |
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| Techrights-sec | calc is useful | May 10 18:18 |
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| Techrights-sec | it TM unavailable again? | May 10 18:36 |
| Techrights-sec | the one I uploaded is for hardware / peripherals here | May 10 18:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | i noticed | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | but.. | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | heavy load | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | i might run the script soon | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "Ebba Busch is boycotting the Swedish radio because in their Arabic, Somali, and Kurdish transmissions th | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | ey translated her desire to shoot islamists as her wanting to shoot muslims." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/ebba-radioBBB | May 10 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | rsync becomes a pig when finding two files, large files, of the same name and no matching hash | May 10 18:48 |
| Techrights-sec | otr: that must be it; but I've not been able to complete the task this evening | May 10 18:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | ota | May 10 19:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | it was about AMD | May 10 19:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | an the phenomenon in general | May 10 19:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | I want to think people will become more suspicious of what they see on the Web | May 10 19:17 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 19:18 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, good approach especially now with so many "influencers" but those | May 10 19:18 |
| Techrights-sec | are especially a danger to social control media useds | May 10 19:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | I did mention social control media and gulagtube along thr way | May 10 19:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | and microsoft bribing bloggers for "reviews" | May 10 19:18 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 19:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | today's tm remote backup is OK | May 10 19:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | tm-db-[today].dump.gz | May 10 19:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | it'\s an hour old | May 10 19:35 |
| Techrights-sec | not from here, I can't get it to complete | May 10 19:35 |
| Techrights-sec | maybe SFTP or tar instead of rsync? | May 10 19:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne back | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | shel will post in TM shortly | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | many isles are empty, she says | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | so much foir "normal" | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | NHS portal going dark | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | I reckon many recipes of prpoducts lack supply chain ingredients like oils, inc. palm oil | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | so cannot make the same product as before | May 10 19:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | she didn't find much discounted food either | May 10 19:36 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 10 19:38 |
| Techrights-sec | palm oil is to be avoide for health, environment, and political reasons | May 10 19:38 |
| Techrights-sec | same here | May 10 19:38 |
| Techrights-sec | it's really widespread and one has to check the ingredients list carefully | May 10 19:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | we've bene boycoting all products with palm oil in them for ages | May 10 19:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | even soaps | May 10 19:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | they use m,any sneaky names | May 10 19:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | but we know those | May 10 19:39 |
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