●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 ●● ● Jan 31 [00:34] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@uyus7d84g6zpu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:51] schestowitz[TR] 2. Instructions and Process for handling xxxxx Calls [00:51] schestowitz[TR] The xxxx call handling instructions appear perfectly clear and [00:51] schestowitz[TR] in fact are particularly well documented, (as per the link here [00:51] schestowitz[TR] Sirius:xxxx Inbound Call Script [00:51] schestowitz[TR] xxxx [00:51] schestowitz[TR] As previously advised by xxxxx, they have also been helpfully linked [00:51] schestowitz[TR] with a shortcut at the top of the Slack:Support channel for quick [00:51] schestowitz[TR] reference when calls come in. [00:51] schestowitz[TR] As far as I'm aware, there has been nothing but positive feedback [00:51] schestowitz[TR] about these notes so far but do please let me know if anybody else [00:51] schestowitz[TR] has any concerns at all or if there is anything we could to to [00:51] schestowitz[TR] improve them. The overwhelming majority of you have handled [00:51] schestowitz[TR] xxxxx calls excellently and I'm very grateful for your work on [00:51] schestowitz[TR] this. I am also always happy to offer any additional support that [00:51] schestowitz[TR] may be needed with our processes and policy. [00:51] schestowitz[TR] Many thanks, ● Jan 31 [01:00] schestowitz-TR endless gratitude for your help with the xml and rss stuff [01:00] schestowitz-TR yesterday I managed to catch up with most news I had missed [01:00] schestowitz-TR it's good the HD died on a Friday and not, say, a Monday [01:00] schestowitz-TR I told rianne we're now investing time in better tools [01:00] schestowitz-TR i think it will free up time for more articles [01:00] schestowitz-TR some went 'viral' lately, esp. ones about msft financial state [01:00] schestowitz-TR i assume those get read a lot by insiders [01:00] schestowitz-TR i.e. those who maximise impact [01:00] schestowitz-TR not random dicks and harries ● Jan 31 [05:34] schestowitz-TR 0/ [05:34] schestowitz-TR productive overnight [05:34] schestowitz-TR no time spent on quiterss ● Jan 31 [07:51] techrigthssec Will look at python again today in a bit [07:54] schestowitz-TR it looks like only the wrapper for "supplmentary" was lost [07:54] schestowitz-TR could you add the list of those sites to the merged one? [07:54] schestowitz-TR gamingonlinux etc [07:54] schestowitz-TR i can see that the handling is in rss-since scraper [07:54] schestowitz-TR the wrapper was likely not much [07:54] schestowitz-TR maybe a copy of the "main" (general news) file [07:54] schestowitz-TR but with different list of sitesinnjected [07:54] schestowitz-TR OTA ● Jan 31 [09:30] schestowitz-TR had to restart apache twice this morning [09:30] schestowitz-TR ddos-ish [09:30] schestowitz-TR i have added a draft [09:30] schestowitz-TR will rotate banner [09:30] schestowitz-TR 3 vids already and it is only 9am [09:30] techrigthssec gm [09:30] techrigthssec The Aaron Swartz banner could probably be rotated out until next year. [09:30] techrigthssec Hmm. My script noticed it, according to its logs, but did not triggger any [09:30] techrigthssec alerts here. [09:30] techrigthssec :) [09:38] schestowitz-TR 1. more productive [09:38] schestowitz-TR 2. less stress [09:38] schestowitz-TR 3. fewer updates in TM, but rianne catches all IMPORTANT things [09:38] schestowitz-TR a bit hectic due to several fsctors atm [09:38] schestowitz-TR aside from apache ● Jan 31 [10:03] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [10:34] schestowitz-TR sirius series over but not quite [10:34] schestowitz-TR though i can now focus on other stuff [10:34] schestowitz-TR Study: Finnish is taught needlessly as second language to many children https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html [10:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Empty reply from server ( status 0 @ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/22897-study-finnish-is-taught-needlessly-as-second-language-to-many-children.html ) [10:39] techrigthssec ack [10:46] schestowitz-TR Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership with Sweden https://yle.fi/a/74-20015473 [10:46] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Haavisto: Finland has patience to wait for Nato membership with Sweden | News | Yle Uutiset [10:47] schestowitz-TR ukraine is on fire and yle et al drone about some fucking single copy of a violent book being burneed ● Jan 31 [12:01] schestowitz-TR "In the week ending 20 January 2023 (Week 3), 15,804 deaths were registered in England and Wales; 781 of these deaths mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)", accounting for 4.9% of all deaths." Far higher than 2019. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending20january2023 [12:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ons.gov.uk | Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics [12:01] schestowitz-TR For comparison see https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/26/deaths-in-uk/ so we've climbed from 12k-13k death per week to 15k-16k. And they tell us pandemic is passe??? What's killing those extra 3k British people each week? All age groups affected. [12:01] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Chart: England and Wales Deaths (Totals) in 2014-2019 (Average), 2021, and 2022 ● Jan 31 [13:01] techrigthssec ack [13:02] schestowitz-TR length and quality control suuffer [13:02] schestowitz-TR due to economics/time [13:02] schestowitz-TR and lesser calibre of writers [13:02] schestowitz-TR a lot of just template/repetition [13:33] schestowitz-TR "This months Stupid Patent of the Month is a great example of that. U.S. Patent No. 9,054,860 has been used by a company called Digital Verification Services, LLC" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/stupid-patent-month-digital-verification-systems-patents-e-signatures | Source: EFF [13:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Stupid Patent of the Month: Digital Verification Systems Patents E-Signatures | Electronic Frontier Foundation ● Jan 31 [14:12] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@cbcfptirpkfqa.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [14:51] schestowitz-TR restarting httpd again [14:51] schestowitz-TR i can see theoffending pattern [14:52] schestowitz-TR ota in a few mins [14:52] schestowitz-TR interesting scandal to cover ● Jan 31 [15:02] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-s03.8oq.t9s42j.IP) has joined #boycottnovell ● Jan 31 [16:50] schestowitz-TR so far i have not noticed any "lost file" from vonick that i truly need and had not backed up [16:50] schestowitz-TR most were disposable [16:50] schestowitz-TR having said that, the bash wrapper for supplementary links was lost [16:50] schestowitz-TR it would be super helpful to have that back or its list of feeds, which iirc is in git, [16:50] schestowitz-TR added to the main automated cycle [16:50] schestowitz-TR as atm i use very offball python script to help me track foss blogs [16:50] schestowitz-TR i made 4 long videos today [16:50] schestowitz-TR i can do even more in the future, but am still adpating a bit and adding automation [16:50] techrigthssec Can you refresh my memory as to what the supplementary links script did? [16:50] techrigthssec FWIW in the latest post there was a link to a twitter thread which may [16:50] techrigthssec vanish at any time. [16:54] schestowitz-TR the tweets were copied onto irc logs for tody [16:54] schestowitz-TR after i had received a tip-off [16:54] schestowitz-TR the video shows all the tweets [16:54] schestowitz-TR the suppmenetary stuff hada list of linux-related rss feeds [16:54] schestowitz-TR i had the machine, with debian 10, configured to scan these for updates [16:54] schestowitz-TR then, the output would be served to kate [16:54] schestowitz-TR you already coded some 'logic' to pick and abbreviate the relevant fields in the xml payloads [16:54] schestowitz-TR this was a small step towards discarding the rss GUIs [16:54] schestowitz-TR a bigger step is handling a massive collection of rss URLs (or atom/df) [16:54] schestowitz-TR *rdf [16:55] techrigthssec There is a daily-supplementary.feeds file in Git, should the script just [16:55] techrigthssec fetch those feeds? The wrapper script would just feed daily-supplementary.feeds [16:55] techrigthssec into rss-since-scraper.pl one feed at a time and then aggregate the results. [16:55] techrigthssec RDF is too complicated but Atom and RSS are both quite manageable [16:59] schestowitz-TR my guess is, the file was never enrolled into git because you justchanged the other file [16:59] schestowitz-TR changed input filename and served it over the pi [16:59] schestowitz-TR having both perl ANDpython serve stories would be awesome [16:59] schestowitz-TR i realise now how much i have pictures in the feeds [16:59] schestowitz-TR it's like reading s book that leaves no room for imagination [16:59] schestowitz-TR and tries to visually impose everything [16:59] schestowitz-TR the current python stuff is failing fatally on some feeds [16:59] schestowitz-TR the upstream library throws exceptions ● Jan 31 [17:00] schestowitz-TR but this is all very interim [17:00] schestowitz-TR thankfully i finished the sirius stuff today, i self-imposed daily updates [17:00] schestowitz-TR so my hands were tied [17:00] schestowitz-TR we now look into gates-related and pension scndals [17:00] schestowitz-TR this can take some time [17:00] schestowitz-TR ex staff [17:05] techrigthssec Apparently not. [17:05] techrigthssec ack [17:11] schestowitz-TR Tech sector workers to strike this week, no new settlement in wage dispute https://yle.fi/a/74-20015652 [17:11] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Tech sector workers to strike this week, no new settlement in wage dispute | News | Yle Uutiset [17:11] schestowitz-TR q: who would wish to toil 60 hours a week, plus commute, for the salary of 40 hours under shitty PHB [17:11] schestowitz-TR conditions and constant abuse/stress? [17:11] schestowitz-TR a: people with kids and mortgage [17:12] schestowitz-TR i'd rather go to wholesale market than be a stranded cock/hen in a class cage(cubicle) [17:12] schestowitz-TR *glass [17:20] schestowitz-TR designed for control, not effcieincy, cost-efficnecy, or productivity [17:20] schestowitz-TR aaron s spoke about his colleagues at the office [17:20] schestowitz-TR not doing anything while few do everything [17:20] schestowitz-TR more staff to 'manage' = mmore BS jobs for managers [17:20] schestowitz-TR people to help their own self esteem and sense of importance [17:35] techrigthssec akc [17:51] techrigthssec See ~links/bin/supplementary-daily-links.sh and ~links/Links/daily-supplementary.feeds on tr-new [17:51] techrigthssec and ~links/Links/m2023-01/2023-01-31-supplementary.html [17:51] techrigthssec Some adjustment with the de-duplication might be needed. [17:51] techrigthssec np [17:51] schestowitz-TR cheers@ [17:51] schestowitz-TR checking... ● Jan 31 [18:04] schestowitz-TR i'vee changed tow local scripts [18:04] schestowitz-TR so now it retrieves the files for the day and concatenates the contents [18:04] schestowitz-TR does this run as a cron on the server? [18:04] techrigthssec ok [18:04] techrigthssec no it runs manually and for de-duplication purposes should run after merged [18:04] techrigthssec links are published ● Jan 31 [23:52] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed)