IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Friday, February 26, 2021

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> I just saw your article about the video thumbnail and saw you'd merged a

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> couple of pics ... with the 2 pics being included, I couldn't resist

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> having a go, lol, so I've done a combo idea ... if you like it, great;

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> if not, no pressure to use it. I cropped the title header from the site

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> ... that's one of the things on a separate layer, so if you want that

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> adapted, let me know.

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> Cheers, Mogz

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Wow! This is really very awesome and more than I could possibly do!!

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I am going to use yours and mine interchangeably from now on.

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I will upload this now and set up the template! Many thanks!!!

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BTW: wife is still thinking what she longs for... maybe Kavan the world's loneliest elephant... but she's not sure yet. Can we send you a gift at least?

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> Oops, had forgotten to up the resolution, so here's the updated, plus

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> different examples of header etc and one or two tidy ups.

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> Cheers, Mogz

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Excellent! I'm going to shuffle around with these!!

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I'll convert them to a smaller size and JPEG to reduce the file size somewhat and retain the originals for other purposes.

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> Oops, had forgotten to up the resolution, so here's the updated, plus

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> different examples of header etc and one or two tidy ups.

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> Cheers, Mogz

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Excellent! I'm going to shuffle around with these!!

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I'll convert them to a smaller size and JPEG to reduce the file size somewhat and retain the originals for other purposes.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/20160231#bf43277059410139c7bb002590d8e506

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> One more, just to cover all options. :-)

Feb 26 00:23

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I avoid PA like the plague, I’ve never heard that crap working Ok, unless one has a Ryzen or Corei5 and up.

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So, I don’t touch it with 5 ft pole.

Feb 26 00:31

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Feb 26 00:31

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I am not familiar with ./bin/show-new-visitors.sh, but I changed the log format to include timestamps and I think ./bin/show-new-visitors.sh needs to change accordingly. I rarely run any logging, except when I try to get a sense of what accesses the capsule (e.g. is Stephane runs Lupa on it)

Feb 26 03:11

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./bin/show-new-visitors.sh is just a wrapper for some awk

Feb 26 07:40

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I've updated it. BTW what are the numbers in the right hand columns?

Feb 26 07:40

schestowitz__

Thanks. Those number pertain to burst sizes and are not of much interest to us

Feb 26 07:41

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there seems to be some german bot scraping the capsule or something atm

Feb 26 07:42

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grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l

Feb 26 07:43

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137562

Feb 26 07:43

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/2021/02/introducing-linux-mint-devuan-edition.html">Introducing the Linux Mint Devuan Edition</a></h5>

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<p>There's only one thing wrong with LMDE and that is that it's based on Debian rather than on Devuan with its more traditional and predictable init. So I set out on a little experiment to build a LMDE-like system on top of Devuan and what can I say, it works very well. Steps are outlined here on the LM forum.</p></blockquote></li>

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.talospace.com/2021/02/firefox-86-on-power.html">Firefox 86 On POWER</a></h5>

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<p>Firefox 86 is out, not only with multiple picture-in-picture (now have all the Weird Al videos open simultaneously!) and total cookie protection (not to be confused with other things called TCP) but also some noticeable performance improvements and finally gets rid of Backspace backing you up, a key I have never pressed to go back a page. Or, maybe those performance improvements are due to further

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improvements to our LTO-PGO recipe, which uses Fedora's work to get rid of the sidecar shell script. Now with this single patch, plus their change to nsTerminator.cpp to allow optimization to be unbounded by time, you can build a fully link- and profile-guided optimized version for OpenPOWER and gcc with much less work. Firefox 86 also incorporates our low-level Power-specific fix to xpconnect.</p></blockquote></li>

x https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/economy/230221/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-bats-for-global-regulation-on-privacy.html

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grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l

Feb 26 07:53

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147324

Feb 26 07:53

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so 10,000 connections in 10 minutes' time

Feb 26 07:53

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grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l

Feb 26 08:11

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167643

Feb 26 08:11

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about 1,000/min

Feb 26 08:11

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grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l

Feb 26 09:05

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242895

Feb 26 09:05

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I was wondering about that address.

Feb 26 09:07

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grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l

Feb 26 09:43

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296140

Feb 26 09:43

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Feb 26 10:34

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.deccanchronicle.com | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella bats for global regulation on privacy

Feb 26 10:34

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no attacks on TM last night, for the first time in a while... :-) but the Germany IP address racked up 442622+ connections already to Gemini... in just the past 4-5 hours

Feb 26 10:42

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it's just parking there and eating up about 200KB/sec all the time. Very odd.

Feb 26 10:57

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very misconfigured bot or else malicious

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sudo iptables -I INPUT -i wlan0 -s 185.183.157.0/24 -j DROP

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or without the -i wlan0 option

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later, much later, it would be best to use nft instead, but that is not

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the default for Raspberry Pi OS at the moment.

https://twitter.com/cybersecmnl/status/1365309721159196673

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I've filtered out (blocked that address), seeing it passes even half a million connections, which is not acceptable (even time- or rate-limiting would have been sensible)

Feb 26 11:03

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radia.bortzmeyer.org is now having another big trawl (maybe Lupa), but this one I know is a real thing and it won't reach half a million reqs at the pace it goes at

Feb 26 13:01

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"Less than three weeks since the Early Access release, Iron Gate announced today that it’s now sold three million copies. https://cstu.io/b91e35 #InformationTechnology"

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now that the spiders are done I can see more clearly a really noticeably growth in the number of connections to our capsule. Very encouraging, emboldening. Also, we have a static version of the whole site and it's very portable and compact.

Feb 26 16:53

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yes, I saw. that is good. I hope that his cache has been expanded beyond 10k

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or else a third of the collection (at minimum) will be missing

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The one that went in loops was shut off after we blocked it, however the

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owner claims to have voluntarily stopped it.

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Yes, compact is good.

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I am wondering about accessing the SQL db directly for conversions.

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I suppose no conversion is needed except for the RSS feed,

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but if there are changes to the final Gemini format there might be reasons

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to retro fit.

schestowitz__

You could spin off the site on a localhost (to you)

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I remember around 2008 when I did this with Mandriva

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Yes, I was thinking that. A tunnel would work.

Feb 26 17:36

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At the moment the site is now under heavy loads or spikes, bw is the main bottleneck. I am uploading a 1-hour video atm.

Feb 26 17:37

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*not under

Feb 26 17:37

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Today, for the first time, I keep logging turned on most (not all) of the day. I assume it does many disk writes and the *top operations also take up CPU, so typically I turn it all off.

Feb 26 17:39

Techrights-sec

The writesto the microSD card will be slow but it won't be noticeable on the CPU

Feb 26 17:40

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at all

Feb 26 17:40

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the machine should be idle most of the time. IPFS-related things are now turned off, except during the window of time it does something.

Feb 26 17:41

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I don't think I know the 'new' db arrangement.

Feb 26 18:08

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3 TR DBs are in another container, over LAN address. TM uses that DB only for Gallery2, not Drupal.

Feb 26 18:08

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Yes, .290

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.20

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however, mariadb expects connections only from specific IPs

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I'm not able to emulate that correctly.

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Or should there be direct login to the third container?