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*Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovellFeb 26 00:11
Techrights-secsystemctl status cronFeb 26 02:44
Techrights-seclots of /home/gemini/bin/gemini-latest-videos.shFeb 26 02:44
Techrights-secperhaps Feb 26 02:46
Techrights-secsystemctl restart cron     Feb 26 02:46
Techrights-secis needed?Feb 26 02:46
schestowitz-TRdoneFeb 26 02:47
Techrights-sechmm still loads of /home/gemini/bin/gemini-latest-videos.sh there,Feb 26 02:48
Techrights-secI wonder how to clean them outFeb 26 02:48
Techrights-secpkill -x CRONFeb 26 02:48
Techrights-sec?Feb 26 02:48
Techrights-secthen systemd unit ought to resume Feb 26 02:48
schestowitz-TRi tail -f syslogFeb 26 02:51
schestowitz-TRseems likely you arer seeing past runs for cronFeb 26 02:51
schestowitz-TRi see mostly gemini activityFeb 26 02:51
Techrights-secit looks like they have not finished and are hanging aroundFeb 26 02:51
schestowitzkillall gemini-latest-videos.sh has eliminated many, but ffprobe remainsFeb 26 02:53
Techrights-secstuff from days ago:Feb 26 02:54
Techrights-secps -p $(systemctl status cron | grep CRON | grep -o -P '\d+' | tr '\n' ',' | sedFeb 26 02:54
Techrights-sec's/,$//') -o pid,user,start,argsFeb 26 02:54
Techrights-secprobably timeouts are needed in all the scriptsFeb 26 02:54
Techrights-secackFeb 26 02:54
schestowitz-TR sleep now, very tiredFeb 26 02:55
schestowitz-TRukraine thing ansd work at home and outdoors left me nom time for vvideosFeb 26 02:55
schestowitz-TRand essaysFeb 26 02:55
schestowitz-TRbut will make up tomorrowFeb 26 02:55
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schestowitz-TRthe official gemini site is still offline this morningFeb 26 08:27
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Techrights-sechow many days has it been gone, it's been quite a while nowFeb 26 08:54
Techrights-sechow many days has it been gone, it's been quite a while nowFeb 26 08:54
schestowitz-TRI have not been countingFeb 26 08:55
schestowitz-TRbut it can contribute to FUD about the projectFeb 26 08:55
schestowitz-TRwhose paricipants hardly have a plce to spoeakFeb 26 08:55
schestowitz-TRI have not been countingFeb 26 08:55
schestowitz-TRbut it can contribute to FUD about the projectFeb 26 08:55
schestowitz-TRwhose paricipants hardly have a plce to spoeakFeb 26 08:55
Techrights-secAgreed.Feb 26 08:56
schestowitz-TRbut is is so decentralised on many levelsFeb 26 08:57
schestowitz-TRwith the Web, removing some sites or schema Feb 26 08:57
schestowitz-TRwould break some pagesFeb 26 08:57
schestowitz-TRdue to the nature of one site Feb 26 08:57
schestowitz-TRdepending on many othersFeb 26 08:57
Techrights-secThe important part is adherence to the standardFeb 26 09:10
Techrights-secThe important part is adherence to the standardFeb 26 09:10
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Techrights-secyes, he and Moscow Mitch and many others of their ilk are/were on the payrollFeb 26 10:08
Techrights-secsome of that is coming to light, albeit too slowly and too lateFeb 26 10:08
Techrights-secRT and Sputnik are no longer viable, they are propaganda with a carrier signalFeb 26 10:08
Techrights-secof news.  It's not worth trying to cherry pick because that just lends credibilitFeb 26 10:08
Techrights-secy to their drivelFeb 26 10:08
schestowitz-TRotrFeb 26 10:08
schestowitz-TRukraine tech videoFeb 26 10:08
schestowitz-TRotaFeb 26 10:08
schestowitz-TRi will have a draft soonFeb 26 10:34
schestowitz-TRmom got covid last nightFeb 26 10:34
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schestowitz-TRdraftFeb 26 11:03
schestowitzx https://www.computerworld.com/article/3505976/slack-vs-teams-which-is-best-for-your-business.htmlFeb 26 11:05
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Slack vs. Teams: Which is best for your business? | ComputerworldFeb 26 11:05
schestowitzx https://www.networkworld.com/article/3651491/cisco-ids-top-2022-security-threats-and-what-to-do-about-them.htmlFeb 26 11:06
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.networkworld.com | Cisco IDs top 2022 security threats and what to do about them | Network WorldFeb 26 11:06
schestowitz-TRI hope she does not have serious damage from it.  Feb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRChecking draft.Feb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRThe "phones" are even more dangerous than Windows, for many reasons, includingFeb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRlack of security but also through how the towers track the signals.  ProbablyFeb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRmany troops on both sides have smuggled such tracking devices into the field.Feb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRThen there is the mysterious baseband processor which only the bad actors andFeb 26 11:07
schestowitz-TRa few manufacturers have access to.Feb 26 11:07
Techrights-secEven though both types of "smart" phone have subsumed a lot of FOSS technologyFeb 26 11:15
Techrights-secthey are effectively closed, proprietary systems, especially Apple's.  Feb 26 11:15
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Techrights-secackFeb 26 12:05
Techrights-secThey're moving /to/ WordPressFeb 26 12:05
schestowitz-TR https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220224/16315648534/important-announcement-teFeb 26 12:05
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Important Announcement: Techdirt Is Migrating To A New Platform | TechdirtFeb 26 12:05
schestowitz-TRchdirt-is-migrating-to-new-platform.shtmlFeb 26 12:05
schestowitz-TRYes, I was just about to type that to youFeb 26 12:05
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Techrights-secThey're moving /to/ WordPressFeb 26 14:08
Techrights-seccrontab still not working on the RPi.  Feb 26 14:08
schestowitz-TRnow working at all?Feb 26 14:09
schestowitz-TR*notFeb 26 14:09
Techrights-secI haven't checked all the items but at least two seem not to work.  Feb 26 14:11
Techrights-secI moved the latest addition to the start of the file and it still does notFeb 26 14:11
Techrights-secrun AFAIKFeb 26 14:11
Techrights-secgemini://gemini.techrights.org/chat/Feb 26 14:11
Techrights-sec            ### Last updated 2022-2-26 at 13:45 UTCFeb 26 14:11
Techrights-secIntermittent.Feb 26 14:12
Techrights-secgemini-make-feed.pl seems not to run at allFeb 26 14:12
schestowitz-TRchat not updating was likely my faultFeb 26 14:12
schestowitz-TRwatch was running in a window  too smallFeb 26 14:12
schestowitz-TRit goes a line long every dayFeb 26 14:12
Techrights-secMost of the others seem to run.Feb 26 14:33
Techrights-secThe wiki gets updated, for example.Feb 26 14:33
Techrights-secmore "tweets" in place of reliable news sources by mainstream media has Feb 26 15:26
Techrights-secgotten much worseFeb 26 15:26
schestowitz-TRI've become more 'mean-spirited' towards social conterol media as a wholeFeb 26 15:27
schestowitz-TRthere is no assumption that people need to have a badsi understanding Feb 26 15:27
schestowitz-TRto comment on some subjectsFeb 26 15:27
schestowitz-TReven stallman.org is full of guates'; guardian, soi I deleted thatFeb 26 15:27
schestowitz-TRfrom my rss feedsFeb 26 15:27
schestowitz-TRI would rather read nothing at all about some topic than read bullshit about itFeb 26 15:27
Techrights-secThe misuse of tweets in place of news sources and in place of official          Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-seccommunicaton channels has worsened greatly.  It is accepted as normal byFeb 26 15:31
Techrights-secthe "news" these days and not considered in light of its fundamental Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secdrawbacks. Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secUnfortuantely the bullshit is all the news is starting to produce since they;veFeb 26 15:31
Techrights-secgiven on investigation.  Also they are pushed into bullshit by (worst of all) Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secpoliticians and agencies which insist on makeing press statements via Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secsocial control media, perhaps even knowing full well that it is unreliable Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secafiltered and skewed.Feb 26 15:31
Techrights-secThus feeding the disinformation cycle.Feb 26 15:31
schestowitz-TRyes, exactlyFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRunlike you (I think(, I'm not all negatuiveFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRsome decent news sources do existFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRthey are not so well knownFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRand can be audited on the flyFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRtrhen rejectedFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRwe do not need 1000 newsroomsFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRthe main issue then is,Feb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRa lot of people around us are led to believe in BSFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TReven rianneFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRwho gets too much ""news" from gulagtube and billBCFeb 26 15:33
schestowitz-TRhence I was doing some fact checks latelyFeb 26 15:33
Techrights-secAkFeb 26 15:36
Techrights-secackFeb 26 15:36
Techrights-secmy main complaint in the abobe is that the "news" articles from many servicesFeb 26 15:36
Techrights-sechave been leading in with "X tweeted that" or "X tweeted from their officialFeb 26 15:36
Techrights-secaccount that " and other sewage.Feb 26 15:36
Techrights-secas everywhere else tooFeb 26 15:36
schestowitz-TRI too write crap in social control media sometimesFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRbut I make it very clear, if typos do not give it aay,Feb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRthat theofficial messages are not in IRCFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRor in some site that has hashtagFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRthe IRC channels have lately been devolving into russian/east euroe chatFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRand that is not what techrights is actually about at allFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRtoday I saw osnews adding a ukraine flag to their site's logoFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRI doi not think their authors (still) have any connectiuon to that countryFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRthose who i think were russian left ages agoFeb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRsome french diustro I nsaw yesterday (new release) added a message of Feb 26 15:37
schestowitz-TRsolidarity toi the front pageFeb 26 15:37
Techrights-sec"twactivism" is very empty, it has no effectFeb 26 15:38
Techrights-seccutting of SWIFT would be a start but that's not "twactivism" or even activism Feb 26 15:38
schestowitz-TRevery "like" receive is time wasting, not doing something that mibhtFeb 26 15:38
schestowitz-TRactually have a real impactFeb 26 15:39
schestowitz-TRthere was a US president (apparently) for 4 years who wrote lots of crap Feb 26 15:40
schestowitz-TRall hat crap vanished before he even finished his termFeb 26 15:40
schestowitz-TRbut there was a lot of toxic residue in many peoplee's mindsFeb 26 15:40
Techrights-secackFeb 26 15:48
Techrights-secand social ccontol media, twitter in particular, fed off that anywayFeb 26 15:48
schestowitz-TRiirc, those were the only years Twitter ever temporarily made somem  profitFeb 26 15:49
Techrights-secannual or only quartely?  I think only the latter happened.Feb 26 15:50
schestowitz-TRI did not check closely enough to see 4 consecutive quartersFeb 26 15:50
schestowitz-TReven in the weekend I still managed to scrape some actual Linux and BSD news offFeb 26 15:51
schestowitz-TRgulag noiseFeb 26 15:51
schestowitz-TRas I am doing right nowFeb 26 15:51
schestowitz-TRlately I've been adding some gemini linksFeb 26 15:51
schestowitz-TRwith the new software it'll be easier to find more of itFeb 26 15:51
Techrights-sechttps://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/TWTR/financials/annual/income-statementFeb 26 15:54
Techrights-secIt's been quite hard to find reall, bonafide BSD or GNuLinux news for a long Feb 26 15:54
Techrights-sectimeFeb 26 15:54
Techrights-sechttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/technology/twitter-earnings-4q-2021.htmlFeb 26 15:54
Techrights-sec"Twitter also announced that its board had authorized a $4 billion buyback of itsFeb 26 15:54
Techrights-sec stock."Feb 26 15:54
Techrights-secYes, you and Rianne have been doing a great job with TM.  Fast and lots of Feb 26 15:54
Techrights-secposts.Feb 26 15:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-TWTR | Twitter Inc. Annual Income Statement - WSJFeb 26 15:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Twitter's Mixed Fourth-Quarter Earnings Show Challenges Ahead - The New York TimesFeb 26 15:54
Techrights-sechttps://time.com/4241716/twitter-losses-twtr/Feb 26 15:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Twitter Has Lost More Than $2 Billion in 10 Years | TimeFeb 26 15:54
schestowitz-TRon monday we'll see techdirt's make-or-break migrationFeb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRime, when sites do this it is a last gaspFeb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRtuxmachines will be OK as long as there is still a flow os info, even ifFeb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRit's just some developers' blog postsFeb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRbecause gnu/linux users multiply (now many kde users on steam dreck)Feb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRand they want to know what goes onFeb 26 15:55
schestowitz-TRTwitter exxists not for financial reasonsFeb 26 15:56
schestowitz-TRsimilarlyly , Windows is part-time honeypotFeb 26 15:56
schestowitz-TRand anyone with a clue will NOT deploay a honeypot for critical infrAFeb 26 15:56
Techrights-secNot a honeypot, since it is impossible to contain.  More like a digitalFeb 26 16:00
Techrights-secChernobylFeb 26 16:00
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schestowitz-TRthe arse-covering by the employer was worth mentioningFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRbut I could only share the cover letterFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRthey did a 120-page report investigating themselvesFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRso funnyFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRbut this is what I wanted Feb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRlike with NHS last yearFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRthey put a lot of effort into itFeb 26 19:21
schestowitz-TRjust to defend themselves from my accusations, which still stand btwFeb 26 19:21
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Techrights-sechow much of the 120 page report can be debunked?Feb 26 21:24
schestowitz-TRit was a typing error, I meant 10Feb 26 21:26
schestowitz-TRbut still, it forced them to spend a lot of time/effort arse-coveringFeb 26 21:26
schestowitz-TRand if still debbunkableFeb 26 21:26
schestowitz-TRI won't botherFeb 26 21:26
schestowitz-TRI have better things to do :-)Feb 26 21:26
Techrights-secok    Feb 26 21:26
Techrights-secackFeb 26 21:26
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