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schestowitz>>> https://debian.community/nicolas-dandrimont-maria-climent-pommeret-outreachy-gsoc-conflict-of-interest-policy/Jun 25 00:30
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-debian.community | Nicolas Dandrimont, Pauline (or Maria) Climent-Pommeret & Debian, Outreachy, GSoC Conflict of Interest policy scandalsJun 25 00:30
schestowitz>>> 2. https://fsfellowship.eu/2019/01/26/fsfe-behavior-standards.htmlJun 25 00:30
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fsfellowship.eu | FSFE behavior standardsJun 25 00:30
schestowitz>> I've relayed that back into IRC. I did feel baffled by the accusation.Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> This is the technique they use, they keep repeating something like thatJun 25 00:30
schestowitz> in every channelJun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.  Joseph Goebbels.Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Challenging their lies is not harassment.  The lies are the harassment.Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161026-how-liars-create-the-illusion-of-truthJun 25 00:30
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bbc.com | How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’ - BBC FutureJun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:30
schestowitz> Did you see the extra pictures on the blog?Jun 25 00:30
schestowitzI did.Jun 25 00:30
schestowitzRe: fact vs fictionJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Fiction: relationship with a womanJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Fact: LGBT woman I supported just won the Chevening scholarship today.Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> She arrives in London in September to start her Masters.Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> See the photo, woman on the left.  You can meet her, show her around,Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> ask what I did in my visits to Albania.  In Debian terms, "Traffic" herJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> to Manchester.Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> I made at least 10 trips to the Balkans.  Can you appreciate the timeJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> and effort I invested personally in supporting these people?Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Jun 25 00:32
schestowitz> Why is Chris Lamb hiding and disparaging the effort I made supportingJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> these people?  Is it because he wanted one of the girls for himself?  OrJun 25 00:32
schestowitz> was it just convenient to eliminate critics of Google?Jun 25 00:32
schestowitzI think it is important to do a blog post about it, and to moreover highlight the false allegations against you. This way people can confront the lies with a link.Jun 25 00:32
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schestowitz> Fuck Microsoft sucks.Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>  Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz> Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>> On Jun 24, 2021, at 4:33 PM, xxxxxxxxxwrote:Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>> http://techrights.org/2021/06/24/microsoft-attacking-linux-from-the-inside/Jun 25 07:12
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Politicians Need to Crack Down on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse Amid Yet More Attacks on Linux (Even From the Inside) | TechrightsJun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>> Jesus doesn’t it?Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>> Sent from my iPhoneJun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>> On Jun 23, 2021, at 11:02 PM, xxxxxxxx wrote:Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>xxxxxxxxxwrote on 24/06/2021 05:41:Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>> See this:Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>> https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/23/microsoft-house-judiciary-committee-thomas-massie/Jun 25 07:12
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-dailycaller.com | EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Document Appears To Show Microsoft Helped Write Big Tech Bills | The Daily CallerJun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>>> <https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/23/microsoft-house-judiciary-committee-thomas-massie/>Jun 25 07:12
schestowitz>>>> This explains a lot.Jun 25 07:12
schestowitzRe: Fwd: searX and the survival curveJun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Forgive the long communiqueJun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Jun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Please recommend any preferred search engine with security. If nooneJun 25 07:26
schestowitz> exist, perhapsJun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Jun 25 07:26
schestowitz> instructions for use of searX.Jun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Jun 25 07:26
schestowitz> Thanks,Jun 25 07:26
schestowitzNowadays I use https://searx.feneas.org/Jun 25 07:26
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-searx.feneas.org | searxJun 25 07:26
Techrights-secEdward Snowden "tweeted" recently.  Now in recent hours there have turned up Jun 25 07:58
Techrights-secdozens of slickly produced crazy videos peddling conspiracy theories ridingJun 25 07:58
Techrights-secon his "tweet".  The vidoes seem to use and remix old video interviewsJun 25 07:58
Techrights-secfrom other sources to appear current and to bend the meaning of what heJun 25 07:58
Techrights-secsays.  Jun 25 07:58
Techrights-secIt is all but impossible to find any legitimate videos in Youtube on Jun 25 07:58
Techrights-secor by Edward Snowden.  Jun 25 07:58
Techrights-secSaturate, diffuse, confuse.Jun 25 07:58
schestowitzHaha, I like how I can read this in real time and see the edits, like ICQ in 1998Jun 25 07:58
schestowitzSome changes in IRC today:Jun 25 07:59
schestowitz1. I moved over the bot for news and renamed it accordinglyJun 25 07:59
schestowitz2. I changed the irc tail cron job a bitJun 25 07:59
Techrights-secYes, some people can write smoothly and linearly.  However, sinceJun 25 08:00
Techrights-secwriting is so many times slower than thought (and for other reasons too),Jun 25 08:00
Techrights-secI cannot.Jun 25 08:00
Techrights-secAnyway, it looks like two things are going on.  1) associate truthJun 25 08:02
Techrights-secwith whackdoodle, 2) some power grab or pushJun 25 08:02
schestowitz3. I spent 2 days (almost) lurking in LC:#techrightsJun 25 08:03
schestowitz4. it's mostly dead, as I hoped, but off topic tooJun 25 08:03
schestowitz5. we might merge that into logs, but the official and unofficial channels won't be fused in (in real time) so as to avoid fighting, which would waste effortJun 25 08:04
Techrights-sec4.  Is there a way to finish it off and reserve the channel asJun 25 08:05
Techrights-secan empty placeholder?Jun 25 08:05
Techrights-sec1.  What is the location of the bot script?Jun 25 08:05
schestowitz4-reply: no, any possible scenario would not seem good (reflect badly on us)Jun 25 08:05
schestowitz1-reply: I will push to git now, with redactions for pwJun 25 08:06
schestowitzi looks like some files I recall putting in git aren't there anymore, maybe because you removed them completely or we did not add after rebuilding the repoJun 25 08:09
schestowitz*itJun 25 08:09
Techrights-secStore the pw and authentication info in a separate file and read it inJun 25 08:13
Techrights-secplaintext, XML, or JSON but in any case separate.  That avoids the risk of forgettting to redact later on .Jun 25 08:13
schestowitzIf you wish, I can explain more "4-reply", but yesterday's IRC logs already explain some considerationsJun 25 08:14
schestowitz1. we do not register anything thereJun 25 08:14
schestowitz2. i am not registered thereJun 25 08:14
schestowitz3. we never banned anyone thereJun 25 08:15
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schestowitz4. turns out it has the one person we once muted because kaniini asked (the person hates kaniini, not me)Jun 25 08:15
schestowitz5. most people there are either idle or unknown to meJun 25 08:15
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Techrights-secackJun 25 08:35
Techrights-secIs the channel intro there clear that the channel has no affilation withJun 25 08:35
Techrights-secTR?  Jun 25 08:35
schestowitzyes, superkuh put "unofficial" in the /topicJun 25 08:36
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/21053791Jun 25 08:53
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Not a Diaspora post?Jun 25 08:53
schestowitz"Jun 25 08:53
schestowitz Hi Dr. RoyJun 25 08:53
schestowitzNeed you assistanceJun 25 08:53
schestowitzCan you help me ?Jun 25 08:53
schestowitz"Jun 25 08:53
Techrights-sec "unofficial" might be a bit weak and stronger or more clear wordingJun 25 08:54
Techrights-secdesireable.Jun 25 08:54
schestowitzfrom work: "Spent about an hour trying to get Slack running on two machines with ARM processors, but none would ever run the site, no matter which browser. Very strange."Jun 25 09:01
Techrights-sechttps://nitter.eu/Snowden/status/1407789197264568321  Jun 25 09:07
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.eu | Edward Snowden (@Snowden): "Europe should not extradite those accused of non-violent crimes to a court system so unfair—and prison system so cruel—that native-born defendants would rather die than become subject to it. Julian Assange could be next. Until the system is reformed, a moratorium should remain." | nitterJun 25 09:07
schestowitzseems extremely innocuous.Jun 25 09:08
Techrights-secIt seems to be the tweet that set off all the crazies.Jun 25 09:09
Techrights-secIt's hard to find any legitimate videos of Edward Snowden now.Jun 25 09:09
schestowitzyou don't get to control the narrative about yourself/oneself when that public status/profile is reachedJun 25 09:10
Techrights-secYes, it's more like branding and trademark control for ES at this point.Jun 25 09:13
Techrights-secSame for any other celebrityJun 25 09:13
schestowitzJulian Assange spent money on PR agencies because of this... he lost control of the story and Wikileaks was being personifiedJun 25 09:13
schestowitzattacks on TR winding down a bit. Earlier I saw TM targeted again, but only for a few minutes or seconds (thousands of identical reqs, dumped by apache when it self-restarted)Jun 25 09:17
Techrights-sectail -F /var/log/httpd/techrights.org-access_log | awk '$6~/GET/ && $9=="200" && $7!~/\.jpe?g$/ && $7!~/\.png$/ && $7!~/\.gif$/Jun 25 09:30
Techrights-sec{print}; {fflush();}'Jun 25 09:30
schestowitzI can imagine what that does, but wish to be sure before running itJun 25 09:30
Techrights-secI only have one screen / display availabe at the moment, so it is oftenJun 25 09:31
Techrights-secin the background, under another window.  However, when I have checked,Jun 25 09:31
Techrights-secI have not seen any levels of traffic that /should/ be overwhelming.Jun 25 09:31
Techrights-secPerhaps it is long past time to leave wordpress?Jun 25 09:31
schestowitzthis past month we lost TONS of productivity, maybe 50-100, due to chaos, mostly because of IRC. Upside is, that gave us a strong nudge to where we wanted to be: self-hosted for commsJun 25 09:42
Techrights-secIt lists a subset of the Apache2 logs, showing (mostly) main items requested,Jun 25 09:43
Techrights-secnot the embedded images and such.Jun 25 09:43
schestowitzcan you put that in a shell script somewhere? maybe we can process that for analysis some other time...Jun 25 09:43
schestowitzat the moment I refactor and tidy up some stuff, as the news is RELATIVELY slow, and am also checking the backups/systems for any faults. We need a complete system backup (offsite) at some stage. I also did some raspi maintenance today, really need to automate that...Jun 25 09:44
Techrights-secOk.  It's in a shells script in ~root/bin/track-apache-logs-host-documents.shJun 25 09:48
Techrights-secnpJun 25 09:48
schestowitzmaybe in parallel to wordpress can we model some of the new articles after the front page of TR with its simplicity, or maybe work something out wrt to geminiJun 25 09:49
Techrights-secAnyway, the rate at which legitimate traffic is coming in is not anythingJun 25 09:49
Techrights-secwhich /should/ cause a normal server to slow down for.  Jun 25 09:49
Techrights-secI'm not a wordpress expert, so I would guess that it is easier to Jun 25 09:51
Techrights-secarchive as static pages and start fresh with a static site generator for allJun 25 09:51
Techrights-secnew articles. Jun 25 09:51
Techrights-secThat would vastly reduce the resources required and make mirroring super easyJun 25 09:51
schestowitzseems that technical debt/complexity killed many "news" sites, which could not cope with upgrades, licensing costs, keeping the thing running (sys admins aren't free) etc. So for long-term preservation Groklaw went static, but downsides too exist.Jun 25 09:52
Techrights-secGemini is scraped from wordpress.  There might be a static site generator whichJun 25 10:01
Techrights-secalready can do Gemin + HTML.  If not, once we choose a static site generator,Jun 25 10:01
Techrights-secit might be easy to mod in that capabilityJun 25 10:01
Techrights-secGroklaw missed scraping the comments.  The bot should have done 'nested' modeJun 25 10:01
Techrights-secwhen it did its run.  There were some very important comments 2+ levels downJun 25 10:01
Techrights-secin the threadsJun 25 10:01
Techrights-secYes, technical debt can snowball rapidly once it reaches a threshold.  Jun 25 10:01
Techrights-secTR might be near that threshold with the server. :/Jun 25 10:01
Techrights-secback in a bitJun 25 10:01
schestowitzhistory will be written (and preserved) by those with least technical debt ;-)Jun 25 10:03
Techrights-secvery true, and more than a bit unfortunate.  web sites vanish and then Jun 25 10:55
Techrights-secopponents pay shills to rewrite a fantasy version of what went on.Jun 25 10:55
Techrights-sechttps://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htmJun 25 11:27
Techrights-sec$400 billion USD and counting ...Jun 25 11:27
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-newnetworks.com | The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the NetJun 25 11:27
schestowitzthis is now a proper gemini page, with title and links gemini://gemini.techrights.org/chat/index.gmiJun 25 11:41
schestowitzI've also just made some improvements to gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi Jun 25 11:47
Techrights-secIn the latter, can the date be written yyyy-mm-dd and the extra spaces removed?Jun 25 11:49
Techrights-secAlso the month starts on 1 not 0 around here.  :)Jun 25 11:49
schestowitzthe zero is due to the cron thing we debated, like when to wipe the logs without wiping an open file in the process. I'll look into date format...Jun 25 11:49
schestowitzthe date format was already as you wanted it, but I modified it for my own convenienceJun 25 11:58
Techrights-secthanksJun 25 11:59
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Techrights-secuse "perl -p -e '...'" or "perl -n -e '...'" with or without -i instead of sedJun 25 15:32
Techrights-secYou get full perl regular expressions that way.  sed is classic but antiquated.Jun 25 15:32
Techrights-secSee "man perlrun" for the options.Jun 25 15:32
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schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/21053791#c6e472d0b7f301394cab002590d8e506Jun 25 17:39
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Not a Diaspora post?Jun 25 17:39
schestowitz"Jun 25 17:39
schestowitzI need to ask you some questions, what way could be the best ?Jun 25 17:39
schestowitzEmail ?Jun 25 17:39
schestowitzWhat’s your email address ?Jun 25 17:39
schestowitzThanks in advanceJun 25 17:39
schestowitz"Jun 25 17:39
schestowitzmy firstname at lastname .comJun 25 17:39
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schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/jimmyroybloom/status/1408447706700333057Jun 25 18:33
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@jimmyroybloom: .... https://t.co/5aybcAgxORJun 25 18:33
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/DankwahMorrison/status/1408365914681135105Jun 25 18:42
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@DankwahMorrison: @schestowitz I more than agree. BTW, Ghana and some other African nations have no such #broadband infrastructure plans!Jun 25 18:42
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/DrolNacul/status/1408351209975595008Jun 25 18:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@DrolNacul: @schestowitz What facts are available from a scientific ignoramus?Jun 25 18:43
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1408349808864251904Jun 25 18:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@zoobab: @FOSSpatents @schestowitz Financial firms hurting the real economy. Some trolls are remote controlled by pension funds.Jun 25 18:43
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/1408344968134070273Jun 25 18:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@FOSSpatents: @schestowitz Regarding that [sic], Fortress Investment actually *is* an investment firm. They fund lots of things,… https://t.co/dxQl2ZumMPJun 25 18:43
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@FOSSpatents: @schestowitz Regarding that [sic], Fortress Investment actually *is* an investment firm. They fund lots of things,… https://t.co/dxQl2ZumMPJun 25 18:43
schestowitz"Regarding that [sic], Fortress Investment actually *is* an investment firm. They fund lots of things, patent assertion entities are just part of what they do."Jun 25 18:44
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/gnarlin2/status/1408211358638919680Jun 25 18:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@gnarlin2: @schestowitz What are your thoughts on the patent system overall? Do you think that it does more good than harm? Do you think it ever did?Jun 25 18:44
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/Counterfeit_Rpt/status/1408179022761119749Jun 25 18:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Counterfeit_Rpt: @schestowitz https://t.co/6fai0k3GYSJun 25 18:44
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Counterfeit_Rpt: @schestowitz https://t.co/6fai0k3GYSJun 25 18:44
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