●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 ●● ● Sep 21 [00:50] *techrights_guest|29 (~519aac55@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 21 [01:56] *techrights_guest|29 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) ● Sep 21 [04:27] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) ● Sep 21 [07:20] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 21 [09:45] schestowitz-TR At around 4:10 I said ipfs worked ok and went to slkep. Did I miss soemthing here? [09:48] Techrights-sec Not much. The script on your end needs some tweaking, I think since [09:48] Techrights-sec it disconnects as fast as it logs in. [09:48] Techrights-sec The RMS video is /still/ transcoding and will likely go another 2 or 3 hours [09:48] Techrights-sec at the projected rate. [09:49] schestowitz-TR thanks. It will be good to have it. [09:50] schestowitz-TR regarding scripts, I never thought much about them until publishing them in git, so most are dirty hacks. Last night I improved the script for updating gemini index for new articles and also automated a couple of things for videos. We're becoming more efficient, little by little... [09:51] Techrights-sec The news talks about vaccine availability in developing countries and [09:51] Techrights-sec goes on quite a bit about costs, but none to-date have mentioned the [09:51] Techrights-sec patent burden. Nor have they mentioned the public money origin of them. [09:52] schestowitz-TR I thought abotu doung another response to UPC misinfo, but then ... argh... it's likr broken radio. In "other links" there are more subjects we could cover [09:53] Techrights-sec With the scripts, it is best to write something quick and get it to work. [09:53] Techrights-sec Then rewrite it from scratch as a note to your future self so that [09:53] Techrights-sec it will be easy to read and figure out. [09:53] schestowitz-TR yes, what I like about git now is that it maintains all the history, so no code is gone, just shelved [09:54] Techrights-sec Code is read many more times than it is written so the ROI for clean, [09:54] Techrights-sec readable code is quite high. [09:54] Techrights-sec I can't test any of the IPFS scripts so I think I will leave them alone for now. [09:55] schestowitz-TR ipfs turns out to not scale well. also, iirc it's still alpha or similar. I want to invest in it assuming it matures further. I tried to reach the person who introduced it to us... not only is his email address not valid anymore... the domain is down too [09:57] Techrights-sec :( I hope he's ok still. [09:57] Techrights-sec Is he available via mastodon or diaspora? [09:57] schestowitz-TR absolutely not, and IRC is in flux after freenode collapsed. The freenode site was offline yesterday. [09:58] schestowitz-TR he is too smart to use social control media and IRC he only used with proxies and pseudonyms [09:58] Techrights-sec a [09:58] Techrights-sec When was the last contact? [09:58] schestowitz-TR almost half a year ago [09:59] Techrights-sec Ouch. ● Sep 21 [10:11] Techrights-sec The binaries have not been updated since Nov 2020. [10:11] Techrights-sec Patching is long overdue. [10:11] Techrights-sec Personally, while positively inclined towards IPFS, I have no enthusiasm for [10:11] Techrights-sec it in its current state. [10:11] schestowitz-TR it is extremely inefficient [10:21] Techrights-sec yes among other things it needs traffic shaping [10:22] schestowitz-TR a bitcoin of "content" [10:23] Techrights-sec maybe not that bad. bitcoin is only bad. IPFS still has some good aspects. [10:24] schestowitz-TR after breakfast I will record a thing or two, maybe gemini stuff again, I have 5 clients of it open atm [10:25] schestowitz-TR btw, mozilla managed to also screw up encryption on rianne's laptop. the incompetence makes me miss enigmail [10:26] Techrights-sec Gemini has been good so far. Just the bug with the large file handling is [10:26] Techrights-sec a major problem. [10:31] Techrights-sec Yes, at least enigmail functioned unlike what Mozilla is trying. But [10:31] Techrights-sec Mozilla has been very hostile to e-mail in general for many years. So [10:31] Techrights-sec it would not be beyond them to take the low road and be passively undermining [10:31] Techrights-sec what's left until more people leave it. [10:32] schestowitz-TR no irc, no email, what will be left? zoom and whatsapp? "apps" and "clown"? [10:33] schestowitz-TR maybe mozilla's firefox blog can do a blog post about charlie the shoemaker, who found firefox and uses POCKET to keep links of his favourite FACEBOOK posts... with some "tweets" thrown into the blog post [10:34] Techrights-sec Electron "apps" [10:34] Techrights-sec The after effects of the mistake of teaching javascript in the schools is [10:34] Techrights-sec making their presence felt. [10:42] Techrights-sec we've already seen those damaged by M$ interaction designing software interfaces [10:42] Techrights-sec and in recent years we've seen those damaged by social control media's [10:42] Techrights-sec "engagement" paradigm designing software interfaces. Soon those that have lost [10:42] Techrights-sec almost the entirity of their formative hours to social control media [10:42] Techrights-sec will enter the work force. They won't know enough to catch up nor do those [10:42] Techrights-sec that are slightly older. So they'll advance chronologically to their age [10:42] Techrights-sec of responsibility empty handed in the skill and experience deparment except [10:42] Techrights-sec for a bucket of bad ideas and worse habits. [10:42] Techrights-sec How many under 25 use the Internet let alone have even vague idea of what [10:42] Techrights-sec it is? [10:43] schestowitz-TR says that better than I ever could ^^ [10:44] schestowitz-TR even git is apparently beyond comprehension now, even though we all used cvs and svn in CS, so people are pushed to Web UIs that are going to render code obsolete and offer no real skill, just GUI memorisation [10:44] schestowitz-TR now, sysadmin= AWS GUI "certi", and LF pushes this crap as "upskilling" for "clown" [10:45] Techrights-sec It's been on my mind today, since I am starting to not be able to avoid [10:45] Techrights-sec running into the effects. [10:45] Techrights-sec AWS and the others are basically proprietary and certainly non-standard. [10:46] Techrights-sec transcoding complete: [10:46] Techrights-sec real 317m45.967s [10:46] Techrights-sec user 918m28.874s [10:46] Techrights-sec sys 3m16.311s [10:46] Techrights-sec now to double check the result [10:47] schestowitz-TR there's no way to compare the videos, but if you upload you can get hashes on both sides [10:47] schestowitz-TR I partly automated this for my uploads, which happen concurrently with transcoding to save time [10:48] Techrights-sec The beginning missed a few seconds but its too much CPU time to redo. [10:51] Techrights-sec It's all there otherwise: see -excerpt-1.webm [10:51] Techrights-sec (uploading now) [10:51] Techrights-sec The transcoding took about 5 h 20 m for that long a clip. [10:52] schestowitz-TR yes, that makes sense for 2 or 4 desktop/laptop ores [10:52] schestowitz-TR *cores [10:53] Techrights-sec 12 cores but I did not check to see how many were utilized. [10:53] schestowitz-TR better to nice it if you also do work on the same machine and if the images in the video are high res because I think it does GPU stuff a lot [10:57] Techrights-sec It did not interfere with anything noticeably but did run the fan the whole [10:57] Techrights-sec time. [10:57] schestowitz-TR yes, same here, it offloads a lot to VPU or whatever it's called [10:58] schestowitz-TR spamnil did some videos for microsoft yesterday. iirc, he spent like $15,000 on some apple crap he needs to reboot every day, just to encode his videos ● Sep 21 [11:00] Techrights-sec :( [11:00] Techrights-sec I haven't run into any of his work in ages but suppose he is still out there [11:00] Techrights-sec and still a sellout. [11:01] schestowitz-TR rianne and I get amused watching the view counts in his youtube channel, it's really embrassingly low [11:02] schestowitz-TR we're talking about something like 5 views per day on the first week for most videos, maybe average 10. for first week. [11:04] Techrights-sec I'm not sure why anyone would watch him at all. As a say-for-pay stenographer [11:04] Techrights-sec he has no credibility among most of the public. And those that pay him [11:04] Techrights-sec aren't going to listen to him, since they know what he has been paid to say. [11:05] schestowitz-TR exactly. the site onece known as muktware and themukt is not just a mildly edited press releases mill/farm [11:07] *DaemonFC (~DaemonFC@neukgmjr6gmt8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [11:09] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:09] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:47] schestowitz-TR I've taken another ircd backup/dump, zoobab has finally re-joined us [11:53] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@eitv7zet4whwy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [11:56] Techrights-sec excellent [11:56] schestowitz-TR it is a one liner, copies is to the pi, which in turns gets copies into laptop, then to external disks [11:57] schestowitz-TR but main blidn spot of the backups is the sites, esp. the file system [11:57] schestowitz-TR sorry about many typos ● Sep 21 [12:01] Techrights-sec I back up the data from TR, but have not tested the restoration for a few [12:01] Techrights-sec years now. [12:02] schestowitz-TR sometimes I get copies of the latest TR-WP and TM DBs, just in case of disaster, but file system backups are few a year and exclude videos. With my connection it does not scale well. One GB takes hours. [12:04] Techrights-sec It takes a few minutes here. [12:04] schestowitz-TR I'm preocessing a new video now, I think we can also be first to post the RMS talk in a free format [12:07] schestowitz-TR the video shows only the gemi url in intro and doesn't involve web browsers. the goal is to show you can get stuff without www [12:08] Techrights-sec It'd be an improvement if more sites used free formats by default. [12:08] Techrights-sec It seems to be going the other direction even though it hurts the sites [12:08] Techrights-sec pushing the proprietary formats. I suspet that many top managers cannot [12:08] Techrights-sec get their minds around the idea of royalty-free formats and actually [12:08] Techrights-sec hate the idea of not paying. zero-sum-gamers [12:08] schestowitz-TR remember how those who built their stuff with adobe flash ended up... [12:16] Techrights-sec Yep. The same will / is playing out with the other proprietary formats. [12:16] Techrights-sec It's costly all the way around but that appears to be the goal of many, [12:16] Techrights-sec even if it self-harms. [12:16] schestowitz-TR this is also why many old news sites are online now [12:16] schestowitz-TR *offline [12:17] Techrights-sec Unfortunately I saw one site that converted /to/ Adobe Flash already [12:17] Techrights-sec after the EOL was announced. The victims had outsourced the development [12:17] Techrights-sec to M$ Accenture... [12:18] schestowitz-TR they bleed themselves to death and only the vampires enjoy that [12:20] Techrights-sec /media/TechRights01 932G 476G 52% [12:20] Techrights-sec Near as I can figure it is that they seem to expect that by intentionally losing [12:20] Techrights-sec now they will somehow through that be maneuvered into a position to win later. [12:20] Techrights-sec Magical thinking. [12:21] schestowitz-TR now with covid there are many unemployed, redundant suits. Let's hope it lasts a while longer and weeds them out as an occupation [12:23] Techrights-sec One can hope, but the suits tend to proliferate even as they bleed a company [12:23] Techrights-sec out. https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-mar [12:23] Techrights-sec x [12:23] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.vox.com | Why the world is full of bullshit jobs - Vox [12:23] Techrights-sec https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-bullshit-job-boom [12:23] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.newyorker.com | The Bullshit-Job Boom | The New Yorker [12:23] schestowitz-TR mozilla is a pool of blood [12:24] Techrights-sec And still stabbing itself [12:41] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [12:41] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@eitv7zet4whwy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:56] Techrights-sec The CEO still pulls an obscene compensation package out of the budget each year. [12:56] schestowitz-TR techrights covered this before mozilla staff and the media spoke about it ● Sep 21 [13:07] Techrights-sec Yes. [13:09] schestowitz-TR ah, my two improvements to the video script worked, it discards mp4 at the end and gets remotely, over ssh, the hash for comparison [13:51] *DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 21 [14:29] schestowitz-TR is the rms video still being uploaded? [14:38] Techrights-sec It should be there by now. It's got a similar name as the old one -except1.webm [14:48] schestowitz-TR thanks, that's published now and we're first to put that in free formats afaik [14:54] Techrights-sec Full-Talk-Richard-Stallman_Free-Software-and-the-GNU-General-Public-License.webm [14:54] Techrights-sec is not quite the full talk [14:54] Techrights-sec It's the main part but not the fussing at the beginning or the TED video [14:54] schestowitz-TR yes, it's very good that this was left off and even rianne found it a tad off-putting ● Sep 21 [15:04] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Sep 21 [16:36] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Sep 21 [17:38] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cqggrmwgu7gji.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:39] *DaemonFC (~DaemonFC@e5ifhyuxg6s7y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [17:43] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:43] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:57] schestowitz > Your login script is broken and logs out the same second it logs in so [17:57] schestowitz > there is not time for a connection. [17:57] schestowitz Should I increase the delay in the loop? 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