●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, August 17, 2026 ●● ● Aug 17 [00:08] *asacengyet has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 17 [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] > *The Ravenports Universal Package System:* [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > https://www.ravenports.com/ [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > Ravenports is a cross-platform ports system. Let that sink in for a [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > moment ...Ravenports has been designed to support any POSIX-compliant [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > operating system outside of Microsoft Windows - this can be a /very/ [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > powerful liberating tool for Free Software. No Free Software Vendor [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] > Lock-in". ! [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] Never heard of it till today: [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/17/The_Ravenports_Universal_Package_System.shtml [15:34] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:34] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:34] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:34] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:34] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:34] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:34] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:34] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] >> [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] >>> [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] >>> Not to e-mail but accessing the web site, and probably Gemini and IRC, is blocked from Tor. That means that visits to TR (and TM) would be visible. [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] >> it impacts schestowitz.com only afaik. That netblock. [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > When I checked the other day, it was TR and TM too. [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] > However, access to HTTPS / HTTP works find now via Tor, so they did fix something. [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] Nice. See [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] Update on the Tor Situation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/17/update-on-the-tor-situation/ ping admfubar lxo [15:36] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:36] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:36] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [15:36] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] Re: TV station's "cloud" provider fails [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > Note the name of the cloud provider: "Open Source Storage". [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > PBS Station Lost 70 Years of Archive to Cloud Vendor Collapse [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > https://fstoppers.com/business/pbs-station-just-lost-access-70-years-its-archive-when-cloud-vendor-vanished-904044 [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > A St. Louis public television station has lost access to more than 50 [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > terabytes of its own archive after the cloud vendor holding the files [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > apparently went out of business. The material spans about 70 years of [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > programming, and it is now sitting inside a Denver data center that [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > so far has refused to hand it back. [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > The station is Nine PBS, and the story was reported by the public [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > media outlet Current. According to the complaint, the case was filed [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > by the operators of KETC (Channel 9) in Denver, because the cloud [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > provider, Open Source Storage, kept its servers at a Colorado [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > facility owned by Iron Mountain Data Centers. Nine PBS entered a [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > relationship with a company described as OSS's predecessor back in [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > 2019 and renewed the contract year after year, storing hardware, [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > software, and cloud-based archival material through the vendor. When [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > the station tried to schedule a renewal meeting in February, OSS went [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > silent. [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > Here is where it fell apart. The contract gave Nine PBS 30 days to [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > retrieve its data after service ended, but on March 6, the day the [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > agreement was set to expire, OSS cut off access with no warning. When [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > the station went looking for answers, it found OSS's website gone and [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > the company listed as delinquent with the Colorado Secretary of [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > State. ... [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > --- [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > - public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > materials, to ensure preservation - Tom's Hardware [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] > https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] I know this provider. :) [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] Live and learn... [15:38] *TechBN has quit (connection closed) [15:38] *TechBN (~b0t@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:38] -TechBN/#boycottnovell-Failed to load module HelloWorld. 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