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[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	one strange thing about barrier is,
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	and i very much suspect i had this issue before,
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	when several screens of different sizes are combined
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	it can get a little bit iffy when it comes to how cursor passes from
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	one machine/screen to another
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	not sure if synergy tackled this issue
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	one thing I disliked about synergy in my previous setup was,
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	the cross-pc clipboard did not work
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	i am going to spend some time now offloading processes and tasks to the pi400 
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	it has a 27 inch screen
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was our monitoring machine before
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	with several vpns running, i had to disable ipsec yesterday
[02:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	first reboot in about 6 months
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[03:47]	schestowitz-TR2	happy sunday, microsoft in a freefall, yet another round of layoffs, just 3 weeks after first!
● Feb 12
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[04:10]	techrights[sec]	Yes, more layoffs, that is good but the "former" microsofters are now acting
[04:10]	techrights[sec]	as metastases through industry as they begin to seek income elsewhere. 
[04:10]	techrights[sec]	Society needs to innoculate itself against their behavior and mode of operation.
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	for sure, that is a real problem
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	but it's also a tricky situation
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	would you rather they stay at Micrs
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	and Microsoft grows
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	this seems like the only alternative to that
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	and... as a bonus
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	it happens when few other places hire for IT
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	i did not check
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	rianne hasn't, either
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	she's not looking for a tech job atm
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	this means they might have to change craft
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	rianne looks for a low-demand job
[04:13]	schestowitz-TR2	just to pay our already-low bills, we need about1k/month
[04:15]	techrights[sec]	Oh, the layoffs are a better that then current situation.  The layoffs are not
[04:15]	techrights[sec]	themselves without harmful side effects.
[04:15]	schestowitz-TR2	bonus: many companies now look for ways to cut spendigns rather than people/staff
[04:15]	schestowitz-TR2	some still value human beings
[04:15]	schestowitz-TR2	and are aware of needless spendings
[04:15]	schestowitz-TR2	choosing microsofters or choosing microsoft staff right now would not be priority
[04:16]	schestowitz-TR2	also, many 'freebies' from microsoft are culled
[04:16]	schestowitz-TR2	as they are seen as not sustainable
[04:16]	schestowitz-TR2	like "Teams"
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[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	lazyweb/tldr: any way to add translucency to raspiOS?
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	like, terminal windows?
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	i want to make it more pleasant to look at
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	the panels can be changed, but no compositor
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	there is front hinting
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	but no shadows in window bakcground
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	if I close a window is seems a bit animated
[04:20]	schestowitz-TR2	so there seems to be potential for effects
[04:21]	techrights[sec]	URL?
[04:21]	techrights[sec]	Wouldn't that be a setting in the Window Manager and if the current Window  
[04:21]	techrights[sec]	Manager does not have that option then a different one can be loaded in. 
[04:21]	techrights[sec]	If I understand correctly, a compositing Window Manager is necessary.
[04:22]	schestowitz-TR2	i will sniff around, but raspiOS is very limited in some sense
[04:22]	schestowitz-TR2	you can install loads of things (I have)
[04:22]	schestowitz-TR2	but the core system does not provide ample room for tinkering
[04:22]	schestowitz-TR2	i won't try apt-get install plasma/kde/plasmashell on such hardware
[04:22]	techrights[sec]	Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor > Opacity
[04:22]	techrights[sec]	I presume it is using OpenBox?
[04:24]	techrights[sec]	Compiz, Xfwm, Mir?
[04:28]	techrights[sec]	Compiz, Xfwm, Mir, Metisse?
[04:33]	schestowitz-TR2	oh, it does do shadows and transluency 
[04:33]	schestowitz-TR2	let's try to install more advanced s/w..
[04:33]	schestowitz-TR2	adding konsole and the whole lot
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[04:57]	schestowitz-pi	i've managed to overcome the limitations
[04:57]	schestowitz-pi	now some qt/kde software added
[04:57]	schestowitz-pi	and it looks much better
[04:58]	techrights[sec]	Excellent.  Which WM is in use now?
[04:59]	schestowitz-pi	raspi os debian 11 deriv is coming with barebones destko
[04:59]	schestowitz-pi	i added some kde stuff on top of it 
[04:59]	schestowitz-pi	so it is snappy
[04:59]	schestowitz-pi	the applications have all the advanced features, plus transluncency
[04:59]	schestowitz-pi	no kwin
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[05:00]	techrights[sec]	Excellent.  Which Window Manager is in use now?
[05:14]	schestowitz-pi	i'm not sure tbh
[05:14]	schestowitz-pi	could check in ps
[05:14]	schestowitz-pi	we're leaving soon
[05:14]	schestowitz-pi	the liquidators upon around 7am, some sooner
[05:14]	schestowitz-pi	the good things vanish fast
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[06:12]	schestowitz-pi	bbl
[06:12]	schestowitz-pi	happy about the microsoft news
[06:12]	schestowitz-pi	we'll hopefully live to see who dies first: bill or microsoft
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● Feb 12
[09:34]	schestowitz-pi	another good day today
[09:34]	schestowitz-pi	60 tubes of toothpaste, carpet for the office, 1.5 m long for 1 pound
[09:34]	schestowitz-pi	new laundry rack 10 pds
[09:34]	schestowitz-pi	pepsoden 25p a tube
[09:34]	schestowitz-pi	i took some two weeks ago to test them, at 3 uses a day a tube lasts a wek
● Feb 12
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	gonna test feeds in a bit
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	just got back
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	doing daily links first
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	then 6 things in todo
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	we've moved from foods to move homeware discounts
[10:24]	schestowitz-pi	it takes some patience, but it always pays off
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[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	in this case, it's stuff that cannot be sold in the high street
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	imperfections sometimes
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	the laundry racked, for instance, lacks the tiny tiny plastic foot on one side
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	so we took one from another, added it in, though the main store cannot do this
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	i don't know why those acarpets were so cheap, time will tell perhaps...
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	maybe those pieces are from wall to wall, but too narrow to sell on their own
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	from the factory
[10:36]	schestowitz-pi	I need that as I move my chair around a lot
[10:54]	techrights[sec]	With Yahoo! in the news regarding layoffs it belatedly comes to  mind that
[10:54]	techrights[sec]	m$ is doing to the LF the same thing and in much the same way.  LF, Yahoo!,
[10:54]	techrights[sec]	Nokia, what others?
[10:54]	schestowitz-pi	Novell
[10:55]	schestowitz-pi	pj protested even novell entering the LF
[10:55]	schestowitz-pi	saying it would let microsoft get a foot in the doors
[10:55]	schestowitz-pi	that was before elop
[10:55]	schestowitz-pi	now look at LF
[10:55]	schestowitz-pi	far worse than novell
[10:56]	techrights[sec]	Maybe a short retrospective summary of such attacks is in order now with Yahoo!
[10:56]	techrights[sec]	laying off so many.
[10:56]	techrights[sec]	Good point and it is truly bizarre that LF allows their most hostile compitor 
[10:56]	techrights[sec]	seats on the board, both indirectly but (far worse) directly 
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	with help from spamnil, perlow and co
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	it now only sold openwashign as a service
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	it effective killed the open source brand
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	many fs devs no longer wish to use this term
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	as for linux, it does not have a "community" connotation to it anymore
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	any time people hear or see "linux foundation" it comes
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	with household names like oracle, facebook, microsoft, and some
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	military companies
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	*some OTHER military...
[10:58]	schestowitz-pi	many tech firms are already technical contractoes for the "fedence ministry", DoD
[10:59]	techrights[sec]	They appear to plan to ride it into the ground, openwashing until the residue
[10:59]	techrights[sec]	of reputation is gone.
[10:59]	techrights[sec]	LF got rid of the community representatives long ago.  
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[11:00]	schestowitz-pi	it was obstructing "opportunities" (to profit more)
[11:00]	schestowitz-pi	the product that sells more is misinformation
[11:00]	schestowitz-pi	not honest reporting but manipulation
[11:00]	schestowitz-pi	the best known example of that has a name
[11:00]	schestowitz-pi	it is called "ADVERTISING"
[11:40]	schestowitz-pi	billPR perpetuates this idea that health concerns are irrational
[11:40]	schestowitz-pi	and promotes the idea that "back to business" is acceptable
[11:40]	schestowitz-pi	because "everyone is smok... wait, I man, everyone is doing it"
[11:45]	schestowitz-pi	testing script05
● Feb 12
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	trmpting to put this on the raspi400 with apache on and some alternative port number
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	(yes, am aware it is not finished)
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	my script, which is not quite evolving yet, merely throws a lot of html into a plain text file
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	faster to work with it than "view source" 
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	one thing I noticed is, the script that adds site named to urls chomps the spaces before and after "href"  
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	elements inside blockquote
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	did not check why
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	but either way, those are big strides that increase the usefulness of the links we curate
[12:06]	schestowitz-pi	on a dail basis thousands of people use those
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	just backed up ergo/ircd
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	first time this year, next step is doing bubi->external drives
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	for peace of mind, i am playing with r.r.r.r.r.r.
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	it's very handy, but i recognise the workflow is yet to be decided on
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	i have a 'minkey mouse' approac in the interim, rianne checks quiterss as before
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	we passed the library twice today, it is very very large, not far from the manchester city training 
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	ground ("academy"), just across the road from it. iirc, some of the library building costs was covered
[12:19]	schestowitz-pi	by the OILigarchs
[12:32]	schestowitz-pi	ergoirc backup includes some server logs, but the key part is channel and user data in case recovery is needed (one day that can happen; quick D-R would be neat)
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[12:48]	techrights[sec]	Eventually the feed reader script could sit on one of your machines 
[12:48]	techrights[sec]	and dump its output to the local web server's document root via cron
[12:49]	schestowitz-pi	yes, this is ezaactly what I had in mind
[12:49]	schestowitz-pi	splitting apache based on domains without some HA machine somewhere would be the hard part for part 80
[12:49]	schestowitz-pi	*port
[12:52]	techrightssec	Apache can do vhosts based on IP address or by port number or both
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	the scenario i had in mind was 
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	rss.something
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	> rasp400
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	gemini.tr
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	> raspi4
[12:53]	schestowitz-pi	on same home network
[12:54]	schestowitz-pi	same port
[12:54]	techrights[sec]	You'd have to have one machine be the main unit and cache the other if  
[12:54]	techrights[sec]	you want both accessible via the same host name and same port
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	yes, hence HA
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	but I think it can be a more generic splitter
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	no HA per se
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	either way, something needs to manage or route requests
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	varnish can do that, i think
[12:55]	schestowitz-pi	maybe squid too
[12:56]	techrights[sec]	s/cache/proxy/
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[13:19]	techrights[sec]	Minor update; I think the CSS is now more or less done.  Now it is a matter
[13:19]	techrights[sec]	of finding feeds which are not processed correctly.  The most common problem 
[13:19]	techrights[sec]	has been with malformatted dates.
[13:32]	schestowitz-pi	the script run nicelyt
[13:32]	schestowitz-pi	is there a simple way  to expand the whole tree in one fell swoop?
[13:39]	techrightssec	Maybe, but probably not -- at least not with the current CSS model
[13:39]	techrightssec	The workflow I have found so far is to start at the bottom and work upwards, 
[13:39]	techrightssec	openening as I go.  There's less scrolling that way.  
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[14:01]	techrights[sec]	Wait.  There might be a way.  But the XSLT might be in the way.     
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	i can put my latest script in /tmp but it has not changed much and would not be easy to read
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	the cascading navigation thing url can help orientation, except see what is new since the last time
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	then, I can turn to the raw html and handle it there
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	i regret I did not do OFF-SITE backup of OPML in months
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	but then again those are all just mere URLs
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	and not much of great value was lost in the crash
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	I had planned to back it up weeks prior 
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	but assumed booting one last time to take latest files would be possible
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	the real goal is not to retain everything
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	but to move on and watch further for what little is left of actual journalissm
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	or coverage of real substance in free software
[14:01]	schestowitz-pi	the in-deapth journalism is so scarce that it has become hard to actually
[14:02]	schestowitz-pi	come up with article idea
[14:02]	schestowitz-pi	and it's clear who benefits from such informatioin vacuums, which PR can fill up
[14:02]	schestowitz-pi	or not be needed to compensate for
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	i might be doing something wrong
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	1) got latest file
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	2) ran with --open before the target file
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	3) checked output in firefox esr
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	4) checked --h 
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	5) seems like i used it correctly
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	6) checked again, it did not auto-expand 'live' nodes
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	btw, i think i'm on top of all feeds now
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	this weekend i have other "lesser" tasks like shopping (we saved like 150 pounds again)
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	and still need to back up "bubi" tonight
[14:32]	schestowitz-pi	want to do some video (have topic, lack time)
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	and improved the layout of the office
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	with a coffee table
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	and a raspi and 27 inch monitor on it
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	formerly the monitoring bot upstairs
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	very very nice offe now, lower row, 5 keyboard, controlled by one master keyboar,d the 6th one
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	middle tier: two large monitor
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	top tier: 2 smaller monitors (22 inch)
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	they all hibernate when afk
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	so I think i balanced energy use, to the best of my abilitity
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	as you can see, my typos are now fewer and i can type a lot faster too
[14:33]	schestowitz-pi	as this is a machines that is controlled by the mechanical keyboard over barrier
[14:33]	techrights[sec]	checking
[14:33]	techrights[sec]	found it
[14:33]	techrights[sec]	try  now
[14:33]	techrights[sec]	(new upload)
[14:33]	techrights[sec]	Yes, the precision of typing has improved noticably
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	getting the new file now
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	yes, you should see how I was typing before, leaning over one keyboard to reacha  distant one
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	I'm glad I found a solution to it
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	rather, an alternative
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	now this ytalk session shows up on two computers at once
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	so 3 participants, sort of
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	irc has been rather busy lately and has cost a lot of time in general
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	i don't mind tbh, as long as it is on topic
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	i got some messages from fans of the tuxmachines and techrights sites
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	some analysts and forrmer editors of news site
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	yesterday one asked about fsfe
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	so one can get a smell of the covert impact
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	but I wish i could write more, it's just still a transitionary perdiot, esp. due to the probing
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	of the pensiona dn speaking to old colleagues
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	in the context of life in general, a few lost days is no worse than air travel or a journey
[14:37]	schestowitz-pi	and staying healthy (not hospital stay) is also important
[14:38]	techrights[sec]	wait, indent problem, just a sec
[14:38]	techrights[sec]	just a sec
[14:38]	techrights[sec]	ok I think all the Ts are crossed and Is dotted
[14:38]	techrights[sec]	try the current incarnation using the --open option
[14:38]	techrights[sec]	Yes health is important the pandemic seems to show no sign of easing up
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[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	very nice, this works now
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	i try not to think of covid-19 too much
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	it can be mentally paralysing at times
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	i need to look after my wife and i
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	i cannot lecture others too much
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	or impose masks on them
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	the stores we go to are "open air"
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	and at 7am it's sparsely populated
[14:50]	schestowitz-pi	we finish by 8am sunday
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	in my latest draft, was i fair and diplomatic enough do you think? rianne says yes
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	btw, she saw the feeds page (06) and likes that
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	for now she covers quiterss
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	don't think we're missing any major news or reach it too late
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	when done right and consistently we'll be vastly better off
[14:59]	schestowitz-pi	seeing that hunting for stories got harder
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[15:04]	techrights[sec]	\
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	In the draft it might be useful to make a distinction between ads and javascript
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	Malvertising usually rides along in javascript but javascript and ads are really
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	two separate things.  It would be disingenuous of Larabel to try to conflate the
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	two.  I'm sure people still visiting his old site have no problem with actual
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	ads but they get blocked along with the malicious javascript.
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	The content of larabel's page might be substantially less than 25% of one 
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	counts the scripts (but not the graphics)
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	checking
[15:04]	techrights[sec]	QuiteRSS is too slow and crashy.  It's great otherwise
[15:05]	schestowitz-pi	thanks, i will rephrase a bit
[15:05]	schestowitz-pi	good points
[15:09]	techrights[sec]	His latest page is about 430kB minus the graphics and minus most scripts.  Yet
[15:09]	techrights[sec]	the text itself is about 2k which is 0.4% if my arthimetic is still ok
[15:09]	techrights[sec]	s/page/post/
[15:11]	techrights[sec]	0.47%
[15:11]	schestowitz-pi	0.47%
[15:11]	techrights[sec]	So yes 0.4% is less than 25%
[15:11]	techrights[sec]	by a lot
[15:11]	techrights[sec]	Mistake with bc and scale
[15:14]	techrights[sec]	I'm disappointed that bc just truncated the extra decimal place and did not round up.  I guess I'll go back to n
[15:14]	techrights[sec]	ot using it and stay with perl or python for
[15:14]	techrights[sec]	quick math.
[15:14]	techrights[sec]	One-liners all the way.
[15:15]	schestowitz-pi	i usee kcalc, i fire it off with ctrl+alt+f in xbindeys
[15:15]	schestowitz-pi	klauncher/krunner can also do basic maths
[15:15]	schestowitz-pi	which it can cope with, unlike spsmGPT
[15:15]	schestowitz-pi	kde: the HEY HI smart desktop env.
[15:15]	techrights[sec]	Is it RPN?
[15:15]	techrights[sec]	I wouldn't mind a fast graphical RPN calculator like a virtual HP 15C or sometghing but otherwise math is done e
[15:15]	techrights[sec]	asily on one line in the shell with perl
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	kcalc has a very simple mode
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	i just fire it up.. cause qt
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	since 20 eyars ago or more
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	and use numpad
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	rianne does the same
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	i had some interim spreadsheets for covid-19 before the drive crash
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	i did not back these up as important odf files were uploaded to my site anyway
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	i don't think i lost anything of much value
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	and recovering data from bad ssd is expensive
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	I asked around
[15:18]	schestowitz-pi	doable, but not worth the time and money
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[15:21]	schestowitz-pi	urgency proportional to sense of urgency and importance. in this case,
[15:21]	techrights[sec]	Proactive backups are better but easier said than done, in practice.
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	urgency proportional to sense of urgency and importance. in this case,
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	a) lost a few dozens of rss feeds (merely a list of urls, no biggie)
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	those were backups up to the same drive, but not recently to another machine
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	b) "original" raw video recordings
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	since 3 months ago
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	i didn't mind losing those
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	c) some changes to local scripts that changed in recent months and didn't get git commit
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	d) some various image files like templates that i use for memes sometimes
[15:24]	schestowitz-pi	last backup to another machine was months ago
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[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	when i worked in mcc, manchester computing
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	i saw the faces of people turning white
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	if they list their work
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	on usb keys, sometimes not even nfs
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	sometimes we could recover
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	somettimes not
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	i remember one black person with african-sounding accent
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	we did try to help
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	intl' student
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	i gave a talk about those sorts of things when i was 22
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	the eye hospital kept having "cyber" problems
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	i was pleased that i gave lectures at such a young age
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	i also started my web site 1-2 years earlier
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	and was amazed by how good reach one could get on www in that
[15:28]	schestowitz-pi	golden era
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	in the 90s novell netware was used at my school
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	we even used the lan to play warcraft multiplayer at the computer lab
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	and descent
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	i didn't like the latter much
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	descent 2 also, iirc
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	fifa 95 worked ok over modem
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	despite high latency
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	zip was still all the rage for backups
[15:47]	schestowitz-pi	not the zip format but the iomega thing
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[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	----
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	s/song/sons/
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	btw, japan and s korea kept ahead by working hard
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	excelling at their arts
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	some was copies from europe a century ago
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	like photography tech
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	europe must work hard to keep ahead
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	"afternoon tea" won't cut it
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	uk has a big advantage: almost no natural disasters and "rebuilding"
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	since ww1+2
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	distribution of wealth is not a problem unique to us
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	i think overpopulation leads to it 
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	over-saturation of workforce, cheapning the labourers
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	i am back to the coffee machine today, trying to be productive while having 'fun' too
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	/s/arts/crafts/ , /copies/copied/
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	biab, football kickoff in 10 mins, I 'watch' by listening to the crowd only
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	you can tell when there is change, goal, penalty, sub, based on sound footprints
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	usually you can even guess the score right, just by listening
[16:22]	schestowitz-pi	now the announcer is reading out the name of starting lineup
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	go to r.r.r.r.
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	look under phoronix
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	you will see very low s/n ratio
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	i hardly find even one per day to be useful or informative
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	for 6-12 months I was using that to assess lkml work of importance
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	but then it became links to JS (gitlab) and microsoft (gh, not so JS-intensive)
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	with very very very minor changes, like 5-20 lines of code +-
[16:27]	schestowitz-pi	so the articles were longer
[16:28]	techrights[sec]	On which system?
[16:30]	schestowitz-pi	i wonder, are we accepting the idea of using the new tr for apache/tor/onion yet?
[16:30]	schestowitz-pi	or just ipfs, links, git?
[16:43]	techrights[sec]	We could phase in HTTP/HTTPS on it but with care so that the old site can be
[16:43]	techrights[sec]	moved over as an archive while retaining the old link structure.  
[16:45]	schestowitz-pi	i think txumachines is priority because of its older OS, but now without a full-time job
[16:45]	schestowitz-pi	we can progress while building new things
[16:45]	schestowitz-pi	and normal sleeping hours
[16:45]	schestowitz-pi	(for me anyway)
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[17:09]	techrights[sec]	With TM would 301 or 308 be better for the redirection?  Or just flip a coin
[17:09]	techrights[sec]	and deploy the mapping for the gallery?
[17:09]	schestowitz-pi	oh, yeah, we talked about this and another thing (maybe "Blogs") just before death in the family and HD failure
[17:10]	techrights[sec]	The blogs ended up a little scattered and not all under one directory as planned
[17:10]	techrights[sec]	They can be redone but that'd be more delay;
[17:20]	schestowitz-pi	fsf is cautioning people to leave twitter by writing tweets about it ^_^
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