IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, August 29, 2022

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apache2 on tm-new was not logging

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there was a mistake in logrotate, I probably added, that's fixed

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there was also some redundant settings in Apache2's configuration regarding SSL

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the old file was preventing a successful start/restart so it has been moved

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out of the way. the service now restartes fine and seems to be logging ok

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much of the activity seems to be the feed

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adjusted the httpd logs so that TM's http and https logs go to the same file

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tracking user agent string for a while, too

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The feed generator for TM might work better with XML::RSS instead,

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Shlomi Fish has taken over maintenance, that is good. The module probably

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needs little modification at this point but he is active in Perl so the

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module will get attention if it needs it.

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catching up

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draft

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showing what you asked for

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changes made to both git repos

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to adapt to the new atom feed structure

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good to know maintainers are better now

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thanks

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comments on the draft would help

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later on I can use that big html (link in the draft) to show further things

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ok biab then I'll be able to check

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back

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the screenshots should be hyperlinks to the propublica page or else the source

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mentioned more clearly at the beginning. Also, what is the scale?

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I presume dollars and not 1,000s of dollars

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It was very useful to pointout the salaries of the coders versus the dead wood.

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It might be also useful to point out that the former are mostly at the bottom

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of the list.

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Aso, is Brescia the only director representing M$? I thought there was at leastone other, not to mention all the partners and license infringers there, too.

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Of the fourteen salaried positions listed, only four (29%) are programmers,

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according to your annotations. Except for LT himself, they are at the bottom

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of the list and even LT is a distant second to JZ.

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I'm going to sit on these notes and add text, accordingly...

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handing over at work 9am

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I hope we can make enough stink for debian to reverse course

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also see this morning's TM update re debian

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I won't install debian again

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Aug 29 08:16

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gmniserv did logrotate some hours ago

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and then didn't log to the new file, which has another UNIX owner

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did you restart that service?

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gmniserv did logrotate some hours ago

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and then didn't log to the new file, which has another UNIX owner

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did you restart that service?

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I've also just noticed that the feed in gemini:// tm is no longer parsed properly by lagrange and I think it wants atom, not rss

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at least for gemini

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the same is true for feed.xml in the gemini capsule of techrights

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not sure about amfora, but atom is better supported it seems than rss

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in gemini at least

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there was an error in the logrotate configuration regarding restarting the

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service, so the old process was still there and still looking for the old log

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file which was gone and therefore not writing anything

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It should be working now. Thanks for spotting that. I'll check some of the

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other configurations, too, now.

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I guess the changes can be rolled back.

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for http RSS is BETTER

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and I changed tow programs for that

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I think gemini it more atom-centric

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for techrights it's not a new "issue"

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I could never get it to 'work'

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regarding rotate, sooner or later the log file was going to be 'split' anyway

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I've accordingly changed the cronjob

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btw, rianne has exam Weds, so we practice a bit every day, which takes time

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there will be stuff to be done after that too

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rss for www, atom for gemini

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in theory you could make both atom and rss for www, but there's usually no benefit because then you need to maintain

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two things

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wordpress supports (or supported) both

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/atm/

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/atom/

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and /feed/ the latter for rss

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in the past rs2 and rss0.91/1

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I've not been keeping up with wordpress 6.0.x

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Ok, so it should keep RSS for HTTP and restore Atom for Gemini?

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Excellent, good luck on the exams!

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ok, that will cause two dependencies instead of one. XML::Feed for the Atom

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part and XML::RSS for the RSS feed. By the way, the RSS Validator at the W3C

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does not acknowledge the gemini:// protocol in the URLs

Aug 29 08:41

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w3c is just a recommendation

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the w in w3c is world/wide/web

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or www

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so they have a conflict of interest

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never mind corporate entryism

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they won't want to enroll other protocols

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aka "business risk" ;-)

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btw, techrights can still use rss in gemini

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maybe over time gemini clients will learn to also adopt rss

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there's no formal standard regarding that

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client support is 'the standard' for undefined stuff

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like atom/rss

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not specified in gemini specs

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That's too bad. For a while, W3C was about building better stuff in more

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efficient ways. Though just for a while. TBL killed the last of that off

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with his DRM concession.

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draft

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weeding out typos now

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i will add a link for that

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naming them would opemn up to the "he is just sexist" trolls

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see latest from prenening

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s/companies like/hostile companies like/

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s/companies like/hostile opponents like/

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s/yesterdat/yesterday/

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The question, "is Brescia the only director ..." is not rhetorical. If there

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is an answer, the answer should be included instead. If there is not an

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answer handy, it should be removed. Thanks

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And if there are other microsofters, they should be named so that they are

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easier to identify.

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The LF page for the BoD is poisoned by gratuitous javascript

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The page lists "At Large" directors, to hide their affiliations with

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hostile opponent companies.

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The paragraph "Only about ..." should be joined with the previous sentence.

https://www.herronprinting.com/resources/the-ideas-collection/all-alone-and-misunderstood-widows-orphans-runts-and-rivers/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.herronprinting.com | Tech Tips: Caring for the Widows and Orphans

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Standard typopgrapy from paper does not apply much, but having two tiny yet

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semantically related paragraphs separated by a wide graphic ought to be merged

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sorry, got distracted by work handover and the microsoft troll came back to irc

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several unwanted people there atm

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I'm going to get back to our HTML copy at a later stage

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when I'm under less time pressure

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btw, mobile.php and frontpage.php are on the old site

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not much there yet, I got almost no work done on them

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ack

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made them work with atom, not back to rss

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I assume you do or did some work on TR gemini capsule

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as the front page is empty atm

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ok, it's back

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theory: under heavy load it was still in the middle of generating it

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but backups finished an hour ago

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anyway, all is fine (not false alarm, it did temporarily serve blank page)

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not that I recall

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checking

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not lately

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yes, it is subject to race conditions like that

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IIRC that one still generates the file live rather than using a temporary

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file and swaping it out quickly to minimize the chance of hitting an

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empty or incomplete file

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exercise biab

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ack

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draft

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whois is the post about?

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I will change the title

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I already added hard links, for gemini

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ok, title changes

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thanks

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tryint to dodge trolls

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(yes, I know appeasing them might not help)

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they can try to spin it as "harassment" when people call out a fraud

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that's the coc-mindset anyway

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if you did not see prening's blog, have a look, it's short

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in fact, should I give it extra exposure?

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mayeb a video?

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gonna record 2 videos

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LF and debian+ddg+pennind

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Something does not like the host 'gemini.tuxmachines.org'

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The host 'news.tuxmachines.org' works though. DNS for both point to the

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same IPv4 address. So it must be something with the server.

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Checking

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oh, you fixed the feed in the sense that it is atom again

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all the links are dead links, not limited to the feed

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"Not found"

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both have cenrificates for the domain

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which the server software accepts

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maybe after restarting it something changed

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both domains worked before

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I think it was a matter of the URLs

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paths where an unnecessary slash led the path and only some things choke on

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it; Added a check to remove them.

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excellent, I've juist checked using both siusites, both pages and atom feesa

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all works pefectly

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I later do a check for all_changes (git) to ensure it updates on its own

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and another check too

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I've just got some epo material

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so will record at least 3 videos in a row now

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OTA

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s/treated/mistreated/

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"over the word 'it'" --- more context is needed

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some hints at what set off the mob are needed

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no title or summary yet

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I swapped the word

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re word "it"

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trust me, you don't want to go there

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mentally sick people don't surrender to reason

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draft\by intention the text and the video/audio contain differewnt material

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so that they are somewhat complementary

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just added aniother draft about <zdnet

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while video processes

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s/the one at the bottom is/the one at the bottom is actually about/

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links are fine, but it helps a lot to also have a bit in the text itself

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so that one knows which, if any, links to follow; there are othewise too many

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to follow randomly

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thanks, added a link to explain that, too

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true, well, at least there is a hover effect give headline of target page

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I'll soon do the epo leak video, on the other laptop..

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busy day today

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and I work tongiht

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ack

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TR's output is far from perfect

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but there are time limitations and I think we nail some of the key themes/points

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without yet faking the full wrath of a libel/lawsuit campign to silence us

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irc is very quiet so far today

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/sfaking/facing/

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nice

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btw, changing to rss for tm is good

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as some twitter bots that syndicated tm are today back to life

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I only noticed an hour ago

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I've just cleared all thr tm gemini checke I had in my life (3)

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all is working properl;y

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3~t

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thanks for refining the css

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+div.post > * {

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+ margin-left: 1em;

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+ margin-right: 1em;

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with git it's very easy to manage and to track what changes, when...

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I never did css this way in the past

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ota epo

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ota

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<techrights-news> Gulag worst at it, says BillBC (taking bribes FROM THE WORLD'S LARGEST POLLUTER TO COVER UP HIS CRIMES... yes, Bill Gates). "Flights now appear to have much less impact on the environment than before." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62664981 | Source: BBC

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Google 'airbrushes' out emissions from flying, BBC reveals - BBC News

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I don't recall BillBC ever doing an articler about Bill'ls emissions

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just puff pieces

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farting his way

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not sure what disturbs me more,

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sumak pandering to dovidiots

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or bill's guardian using this to frame the situatiin wrongly

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I am so truly frustrated with "the media"

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what's not webspam can be even more malicious than webspam

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it's all about money and facts are 'politicised;'

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it's still not clear if aol, bojo and marin are permitted to dance

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but the media's verdict is, AOC and Marin cannot dance

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they just 'happen' to be not the same gvender as paper owners

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they must also ensure their lower body shows no more than the knee, at msst, or be

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slu-thsmaed

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*shamed

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*slut-shamed

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typing while standing

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you now what they say, if everyone fucks it up, then do it right

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at least that's why we gained traction in 2006 when media was metoo-ing Microvell

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a friend of mine goes to my site for covid-19 updates (he'll also give rianne's reference letter)

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the media here and people act as if 2020 was a "false positive", false alarm"

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in the irc channel, helenah said after the first shot she suffered heart damage and did not bother

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with a second

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meanwhile monkeypox fell off the news cycle and they say it goes away

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some people got shots not properly tested

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while bill's guardian is gaslighting people who say that some shots did them harm

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reminds me of dominion voting machine (aka diebold) suing publishers for 'defaming'

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their proprietary back-doored voting machines

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and the strawman arguments to discredit criticism or even investigation

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tbh, i think these are very very old tactics

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and newer examples of these

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they teach that in certain schools

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probably

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example (recent): microsoft to lay off 18k staff

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microsoft moles (many I saw): microsoft to lay off 1% of staff

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so people just see loads and loads of the latter

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coverage on "micosoft layoffs"

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but they read totally wrong numbers

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and it is spun as routine and annual cull

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that's false

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epo does a lot og googlebombing on subject we exposed them a la data protection, belarus/ukraine

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they know exactly why they are doing this

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<techrights-news> "On the personal side, I also intend to pause twitter activity, as I notice current microblogging platforms tend to mostly contain flame wars, self promotion, or shared links I could find anyway with a good feed reader." https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/moving-blog-from-blogger-com-to-wordpress-com/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-00formicapunk00.wordpress.com | Moving blog from blogger.com to wordpress.com – formicapunk

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<techrights-news> "I’m considering moving to a Gemlog instead of WordPress, but I’m going to have to learn how to do that so it may be a while. Eventually, I would like to leave an “I’m not here anymore. Use Gemini.” message on WordPress." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/08/29/your-bank-and-other-web-sites-are-running-creepy-javascript-that-records-your-every-action-noscript-can-block-that-from-running-bonus-web-rot/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-baronhk.wordpress.com | Your bank and other Web sites are running creepy JavaScript that records your every action. NoScript can block that from running. Bonus: “Web Rot” | BaronHK's Rants

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javascript is even worse than that ...

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that's why timbl wants to replace the www with js... hosted in proprietary sofwtare of Microsoft

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I wonder if he wants EME on top of that, too

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DaemonFC: ^

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using the browser as a VM for mysteryscripts run by random sites

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How much electricity could be saved worldwide with even a 50% reduction

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in the amount of javascript?

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every bit counts, but yeah travel, especially air travel for business, is the

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highest waster. see the articles about Google suppressing that information

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in their services/

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in the grand scheme of things I believe that travel causes far more consumption and pollution

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a while different scale

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manufacturing of gadgets is also a big problem, but cars are a lot bigger

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eggs and milk have become so expensive here that we rarely find them discounted enough

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and I started turning off monitors when I do not use them

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to keep power bills at around or below 100 a month

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yes, but billBC could at least do one article about how billy yhe G is causing a ton of emissions while bribing billbc et al to paint him as the priest

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of green 'stuff'

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Yes, the BBC owes the world articles on a multitude of topics regarding Bill

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and his behavior. The environmental aspects of the private jets is just one

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of them.

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billBC will just die

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and as it shrinks so will the bribes

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see what happens to fossforce amid sellouts

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gonna do leftovers

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today rianne and marius had a lock battle ;-)

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then will rest a bit

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need to practice with rianne for weds exam

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locking is one of the weak points of sqlite

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however there is a world of complexity separating it and the next step up,

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which would probably be postgresql

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yottadb would work well, too, but there are not ready packages for it for

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Alpine as far as I know

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the locks are something one gets used to

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usually puts you on pause in the queue and then resumes

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I hope we have habitual backups of the db ;-)

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Bruce Schneier as parrot of NSA again :/ this is becoming a pattern :( https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/08/levels-of-assurance-for-dod-microelectronics.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Levels of Assurance for DoD Microelectronics - Schneier on Security

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sh -c 'cd /var/www/tuxmachines.org/db; sftp tm:/var/www/tuxmachines.org/db/tm-static-site-generator.sqlite3; cd -;'

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it wouldn't make sense to have the db in Git but the above copies the working db

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to a local mirror

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and much of the rest of the local mirror is in Git

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With sqlite3, the site could probably run on a RPi Zero W or at least a 3A+

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or 3B+