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| schestowitz | > It needs a standard microusb power dongle. The wattage is top-end for that connector, so you probably have several dongles that are underpowered. (In the desktop world, underpowered computers often lead to unstable operation.) | Apr 04 00:44 |
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| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > Translation: use a proper power cord, it will typically come with one. | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > It will have a few standard USB ports. You can use these to attach things like keyboards, mice, whatever. It will have an ethernet port. | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > It will take a Micro-SD card. You will get an image from online, probably unzip it, then "dd" the image to the card using an adapter. There are several ways for this to go wrong, but the main one is to use an on-board SD adapter which doesn't like making SD cards bootable for whatever reason. External USB-SD adapters are more reliable. But once you know this, don't let it stop you from trying. | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > You'll find Debian and Devuan images. Despite Debian being a pile of shit these days, I recommend trying it first. You heard it here. This is only for the Pi and I would avoid it otherwise. After you get that working, try anything you want. | Apr 04 00:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > There's an ideal sequence for plugging things into the Pi. This is probably related to the HDMI adapter. You'll have to look it up. It isn't complex; I haven't done it in a while. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > You probably have a monitor that does HDMI already. You probably have a TV or two that does HDMI as well. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > I looked very closely at the connector, knew it was HDMI, and went and bought a cable that worked for it on the first try. There are HDMI-to-whatever adapters. I try to avoid them. As a desperate measure, that might work. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > Don't forget to change your root password and user password. The defaults will make a nice botnet. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > Cheers! | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > P.S. with 8 home-office-quality elastics and a 4Ltr milk bottle from Tesco you can house a Raspberry Pi. You can probably think of a better way. Those elastics won't likely hold up to the bulk/strain of an HDMI cable unless you do some cable management or stress relief. The other cables will be fine. For some reason HDMI cables tend to be about 6-8mm thick. You can probably tow a smartcar with one. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | Thanks, RasPi does not sound like what I need at the moment. I am still not sure what to do about the dead laptop. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > The person trolling you about overpopulation is a stupid cunt who thinks overpopulation is a nationalist concept. | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > | Apr 04 00:45 |
| schestowitz | > Overpopulation is a global issue and related to the global food supply. Borders are irrelevant, and you're being drawn into an endless, pointless quarrel with a troll. He loses nothing in the exchange, you get attacked no matter what you say. I'd just ignore him. You can-- of course-- do whatever you want to about it. But each false premise he demands draws you further into his web of bullshit. Take it from XXXX, he would tell you | Apr 04 00:46 |
| schestowitz | this is classic. You know XXXX, and he knows everything there is to know about bullshit. Best of luck. | Apr 04 00:46 |
| schestowitz | Yeah, that's why I stopped relying on that. | Apr 04 00:46 |
| schestowitz | >>> Ok. Something has gone south. I am looking into it. I see what is | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> happening but digging into how it is happening. I will have to rewrite | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> some XPaths and verify the structure of the template. | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> Tomorrow's batch will have the manual links from the today and | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >>> yesterday, too. | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> I am guessing the two days of 3 or so links and today's with 0 are not | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> so time-critical and can be posted in the weekend without having grown | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> irrelevant or out of date. | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> | Apr 04 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > Yep. That'd be about it. I cleaned up the template on the 28th. It | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > should have been semantically identical though cleaner in structure. | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > That partially broke the XPaths I had been using to eliminate the empty | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > nodes. So there may have been a little or a lot missing manual links | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > from the 29th onward. However, I'll skip those and only manually fold | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > in material from yesterday and today into tomorrow. | Apr 04 00:49 |
| schestowitz | OK, I wish I had said something sooner. | Apr 04 00:49 |
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| schestowitz | <li> | Apr 04 07:37 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3535808/scheduling-tasks-on-linux-using-the-at-command.html"> Scheduling tasks on Linux using the at command</a></h5> | Apr 04 07:37 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Apr 04 07:37 |
| schestowitz | <p>When you want commands or scripts to run at some particular time, you don’t have to sit with your fingers hovering over the keyboard waiting to press the enter key or even be at your desk at the right time. Instead, you can set your task to be run through the at command. In this post, we’ll look at how tasks are scheduled using at, how you can precisely select the time you want your process to run and how to | Apr 04 07:37 |
| schestowitz | view what’s been scheduled to run using at.</p></blockquote></li> | Apr 04 07:37 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.networkworld.com | Scheduling tasks on Linux using the at command | Network World | Apr 04 07:37 | |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/django_stiglitz/status/1246334698311135233 | Apr 04 09:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@django_stiglitz: @schestowitz I has never heard of this product until 2 days ago. Now its nonstop | Apr 04 09:15 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MrIvanJohnson/status/1246250735144177665 | Apr 04 09:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MrIvanJohnson: @theharryshearer @schestowitz looks like #zoom $zm isn’t quite ready for prime time... https://t.co/0FdreFilag | Apr 04 09:17 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Trumpery45: rels just sent a video of a zoom hack. 😂 they broke into 30 person zoom meeting of real estate agents. “show us you… https://t.co/MRWW0C1xqw | Apr 04 09:17 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/knowledgevendor/status/1246112999645028358 | Apr 04 09:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@knowledgevendor: @schestowitz @glynmoody The sheer number of private ambulances with their sirens off that I’m seeing means it’s run… https://t.co/5w6EZ13qkI | Apr 04 09:19 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@knowledgevendor: @schestowitz @glynmoody The sheer number of private ambulances with their sirens off that I’m seeing means it’s run… https://t.co/5w6EZ13qkI | Apr 04 09:19 | |
| schestowitz | "The sheer number of private ambulances with their sirens off that I’m seeing means it’s running through our orthodox community here" | Apr 04 09:19 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1246077799833763840 | Apr 04 09:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: @poxxk @schestowitz | Apr 04 09:25 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Zz1pp/status/1246076423250382850 | Apr 04 09:25 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Zz1pp: So you're saying, what... 5-1/2? https://t.co/kCTxbi3VfC | Apr 04 09:25 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: The world is far more f-ed than from #covid19 ... f-ed by random idiots with a #youtube channel Someone I saw just… https://t.co/69tYkmUYkt | Apr 04 09:25 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/wendycockcroft/status/1246029590012796929 | Apr 04 09:27 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@wendycockcroft: From the "Not creepy" dept. https://t.co/9YsvErANFA | Apr 04 09:27 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: 2018: Amazon patents wristband that tracks warehouse workers' movements https://t.co/myBGc5bg38 #bezos #amazon | Apr 04 09:27 | |
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| schestowitz | "Thanks for spotting the thinness of the curated links. I had tidied the structure and needed a closer examination of the XPaths used to work them over. Now the XPaths should be up to date, too. Wednesday's, Thursday's, and Friday's curated links were included in the daily batch. The filter for duplicates out to sort out any reduncancies." | Apr 04 10:08 |
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| acer-box | https://twitter.com/eindrstein/status/1246363713260699653 | Apr 04 10:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@eindrstein: @EU_Careers Why don't European public servants cut their salary a bit for the #covid19? We keep paying huge salarie… https://t.co/WjErGuvxTo | Apr 04 10:53 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@eindrstein: @EU_Careers Why don't European public servants cut their salary a bit for the #covid19? We keep paying huge salarie… https://t.co/WjErGuvxTo | Apr 04 10:53 | |
| acer-box | https://twitter.com/eindrstein/status/1246363713260699653 | Apr 04 10:53 |
| acer-box | " | Apr 04 10:53 |
| acer-box | Why don't European public servants cut their salary a bit for the #covid19? We keep paying huge salaries for many people who are not contributing at all on this. They're just a burden for #EuropeanUnion @EU_Commission | Apr 04 10:53 |
| acer-box | @Europarl_EN | Apr 04 10:53 |
| acer-box | " | Apr 04 10:53 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1246052892655714307 | Apr 04 12:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: CJEU out of UPC, won't have a say on swpats: "Frits Bolkestein said: 'To maximise the benefits of the Community Pat… https://t.co/Me4EbQFetO | Apr 04 12:16 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: CJEU out of UPC, won't have a say on swpats: "Frits Bolkestein said: 'To maximise the benefits of the Community Pat… https://t.co/Me4EbQFetO | Apr 04 12:16 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1246004758655221760 | Apr 04 12:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: "Still done various bits of work with Pieter. Including a "software archaeology" project into the early days of iMa… https://t.co/m7OfgqyKac | Apr 04 12:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: "Still done various bits of work with Pieter. Including a "software archaeology" project into the early days of iMa… https://t.co/m7OfgqyKac | Apr 04 12:23 | |
| schestowitz | " | Apr 04 12:23 |
| schestowitz | I first came across Pieter Hintjens 20 years ago, in 1996. He posted to a UseNet group I followed (comp.lang.perl.announce; later announcement), about a tool he had created -- Libero -- which could translate state machine descriptions into runnable code, in multiple languages. | Apr 04 12:23 |
| schestowitz | Libero caught my attention because I was in the middle of finishing a Computer Science degree with a focus on computational theory. So I built it for OS/2, which I was using at the time, and sent Pieter email. He responded by asking if I would be interested in porting SFL, the iMatix Standard Function Library, to OS/2. By the end of 1996 and the turn of 1997 we were exchanging emails about porting SFL to OS/2. | Apr 04 12:23 |
| schestowitz | Gradually over the next couple of years I did more coding with Pieter, and the tools that he had designed, including SMT the Simple Multi-Threading kernel and then Xitami, the webserver built with SFL and SMT. He even organised for me to do some (paid) work for a NYSE-listed company, remotely over the Internet. In 1998. Before the world had really caught on to remote working, when "cloud" still referred to bodies of water in the sky. | Apr 04 12:23 |
| schestowitz | But we had not met, spoken on the phone, or done anything other than exchange emails. Pieter lived in Belgium, and I lived in New Zealand -- nearly as far apart as it is possible to be, and still both be on Earth! | Apr 04 12:23 |
| schestowitz | " | Apr 04 12:23 |
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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jrobertson/status/1246439345868791815 | Apr 04 15:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jrobertson: This may change how receptive hospitals are of Coronavirus patients in the near future. Just look at your own medic… https://t.co/e7uGSa0YTI | Apr 04 15:58 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jrobertson: This may change how receptive hospitals are of Coronavirus patients in the near future. Just look at your own medic… https://t.co/e7uGSa0YTI | Apr 04 15:58 | |
| schestowitz | "This may change how receptive hospitals are of Coronavirus patients in the near future. Just look at your own medical practice or doctors surgery, they have been shut for weeks now." | Apr 04 15:58 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1246428505107083264 | Apr 04 15:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: @schestowitz and it will get worse... | Apr 04 15:59 | |
| schestowitz | Does BoJo have his own equipment at home? | Apr 04 15:59 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/jrobertson/status/1246423084661260288 | Apr 04 16:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jrobertson: @schestowitz Being dumbed down, sedated and kept comfortable in our own homes is exactly the best outcome the contr… https://t.co/60EiX2JJUv | Apr 04 16:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jrobertson: @schestowitz Being dumbed down, sedated and kept comfortable in our own homes is exactly the best outcome the contr… https://t.co/60EiX2JJUv | Apr 04 16:00 | |
| schestowitz | "Being dumbed down, sedated and kept comfortable in our own homes is exactly the best outcome the controlling elite could have imagined." | Apr 04 16:00 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1246421745927479296 | Apr 04 16:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: this is terrible https://t.co/Pf1cldpvs4 | Apr 04 16:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #bbc ☞ #Coronavirus : Thai elephants face #starvation as #tourism collapses https://t.co/rKE0w2M4Jt | Apr 04 16:00 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/cctranslates/status/1246421334688661505 | Apr 04 16:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@cctranslates: @schestowitz @glynmoody Gorgeous. @M_Z_Harrison | Apr 04 16:01 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/BContenary/status/1246417440705142791 | Apr 04 16:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@BContenary: oh shit. this is bad. this is VERY bad. https://t.co/Sh3WEVTRBY | Apr 04 16:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: ● NEWS ● #privateinternetaccess #internet #china #cn #www ☞ China's "New IP" proposal to replace TCP/IP has a built… https://t.co/Gzf32mMLg7 | Apr 04 16:01 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/1246413087068094464 | Apr 04 16:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@FOSSpatents: @schestowitz Dozens of people knew. I'm still the first one of them to speak out. Sure, 16 years is a long time. | Apr 04 16:01 | |
| schestowitz | "Dozens of people knew. I'm still the first one of them to speak out. Sure, 16 years is a long time." | Apr 04 16:01 |
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| schestowitz | >> The adapters business is a major ripoff. In some places you can find | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | >> these for a pound, at least for normal cords. | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | >> | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, they cost cents to manufacture but are sold for tens of Euros. | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | > Even when you can find them cheaply the end up costing. I bought a | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | > bunch of decent cables @ 50 cents each recent but the shipping costs | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | > were around 12 EUR. :( | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | The last cable we bought was at some local Chinese-owned store and it works better than the ones from ebay. We used so many.... | Apr 04 19:07 |
| schestowitz | https://placeholderapi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/%e2%97%8f-news-%e2%97%8f-commondreams-%e2%98%9e-trump-labor-department-accused-of-quietly/#comment-16145 | Apr 04 19:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-placeholderapi.wordpress.com | ● NEWS ● #commondreams ☞ #Trump Labor Department Accused of Quietly… | Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊) | Apr 04 19:19 | |
| schestowitz | "I think our current situation with this administration, and the stark denial and distrust of scientist, we may find ourselves in a very alarming situation. We may even need to start growing our own food. http://coronavirussurvivalstudio.xyz/?p=600" | Apr 04 19:19 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-coronavirussurvivalstudio.xyz | The Importance of Preparedness! – coronavirussurvivalstudio.xyz | Apr 04 19:19 | |
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