IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Tuesday, February 09, 2021

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Yes, but that tends to be a pain and better done in wiki form or backlinks at the bottom of these posts (automated)

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"Wow you pulled your prehistoric books out. Let’s just all use dark age medicine now. Would you like a lobotomy since seem mental?"

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Feb 09 00:39

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schestowitz

IPFS process run later today, just now

Feb 09 06:20

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IPFS is still running just to sync the files across, so getting the portion from the pi (for logs) may be a tad slow, high latency

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Feb 09 06:31

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Thanks for doing IRC. I've just cronned the ipfs start and end, in order to avoid me having to wake up to make our connection sane. One of my laptop crashed twice in the past 2 days, but it's not the main one (what I use for ytalk), hopefully just bad luck...

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Feb 09 07:50

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Re: Chlorine Dioxide

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> Hi Roy,

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> Well, your gut is wrong this time ;-) There's no need to rely on it when

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> there is so much science available going back decades.

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> It is a miracle biocide because it is a powerful oxidant, but the

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> strength is still below the level needed to oxidize human tissue. And it

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> breaks down into non-carcinogenic and non-mutagenic compounds. I'm not

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> an expert in the domain, but those are the key factors needed to

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> determine its safety, and it's already been done in a number of studies

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> and given to 20M people. It can treat so many diseases, it would empty

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> most of our hospitals and replace treatments like chemo with something

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> much safer, and give people with Alzheimer's hope! That's the opposite

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> of quackery.

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> I've read a lot about it and taken it orally for weeks without any

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> problems. You could also get some Chlorine Dioxide mouthwash and try it

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> out. I might even add some words about it in a revision of my movie,

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> replacing the section by John Campbell.

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> If you want to post a link to my emails to the FDA for others to check

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> out, I'd be happy. I've got several links and a great whitepaper for

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> people to explore more.

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> The debate is polluted because it would cost the drug companies 100s of

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> billions of dollars. Are you on their side?!

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> Warm regards,

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> Yep, you got the right one

Feb 09 07:54

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How's life? Any important news?

Feb 09 07:54

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To talk about my personal life, I'd need to use encryption, as those emails in hotmail are being farmed and scanned by Microsoft :-)

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Feb 09 08:24

Techrights-sec

(it is quite a sluggish connection)

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1.1kB /s

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The draft of xhtml-to-gemini script is now at the solid alpha stage.

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It's in ~gemini/bin/

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I should migrate up to Raklang this year. Dont know if I actually will.

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Right now all the links are outwar to HTTP but it is simple to convert them

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once we have a structure.

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In preparation for the service, maybe you can add the host name

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gemini.techrights.org ?

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I think at the moment the way would be to first have a dynamic DNS

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name for the RPi and use that as the A and AAAA name, then use a CNAME

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to point gemini.techrights.org at the A and AAAA names.

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Does the registrar offer dynamic DNS? The alternative would be one of the

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free-of-charge ones which will nag every month and need re-acknowledging

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each nag.

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the connection was sluggish when ipfs was running. Regarding domain and cname, that's the kind of stuff I'm not too good at. Maybe I should ask kaniini when we're ready to make the change, at least assuming it's not purely the webhost/registrar doing the management at that level (as I suspect, the latter)

Feb 09 08:28

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CNAMEs are easy. The bureaucratic part will be acquiring a dynamic DNS

Feb 09 08:32

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service. No-IP is one of several, but the registration has to be manually

Feb 09 08:32

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refreshed manually every month.

Feb 09 08:32

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thanks, I shall look into it

Feb 09 08:33

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The RPi could then run ddclient

Feb 09 08:53

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to keep the address updated.

Feb 09 08:53

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I did not know about that software; either way it can also help ssh access in case of hub resets, as a hostname would become a surrogate for changing IP.

Feb 09 08:53

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> This was originally just going to be another book but

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> developments in 2020 have moved me to do something

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> different. I am going to be releasing this book under a

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> creative commons license. It will expose all the evils of

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> TLS trust monopoly, how to use GnuPG (PGP in general)

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> safely, and ways to maintain privacy from the attack on

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> basic human rights that we've seen.

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I believe this is the first E-mail message I can read directly from ThunderBird as opposed to the CLI with files.

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I seem to have been getting false positives regarding TM being down. One just

Feb 09 16:00

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happened again at about 2021-02-09 13:00 UTC

Feb 09 16:00

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rianne was restarting apache about 3 times while I was taking a nap, as prior to it I was fighting against some DDOS and could not rest

Feb 09 16:01

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I just got to the point where I can string together the scripts,

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feeding a URL into one and getting Gemini on the disk out of the other.

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Tomorrow I will look at chaining the RSS reader into the beginning.

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I'll put the updated scripts onto the pi in ~gemini/bin/

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The scripts do not address the videos and other non-HTML materials.

https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/02/burned-to-death-in-nassjo/

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Fantastic!! I took a quick look. Make sure to keep local (yours) copies of the code as that account of the raspi I am not backing up just yet (the focus is on the ipfs userspace for backups)

Feb 09 16:34

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Feb 09 17:15

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Feb 09 17:15

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I keep local backups for the most part.

Feb 09 18:48

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Just updated some more stuff that turned out to be easier than expected.

Feb 09 18:48

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excellent! great job! I guess once it's all settled and tested we can work on dns level stuff, assuming we want all this running from home and not from the server (in the US). I was thinking... do we keep local gemini copies of archived "latest" posts... or bulletins only? I guess those details can be worked out later.

Feb 09 18:52

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I also think that as we don't know how many users will be... we may not yet need to host from a DC. IPFS outgrew our local connection... it maxes up upstream and downstream as soon as turned on.

Feb 09 18:52

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gemini GUI https://repology.org/project/kristall/versions

Feb 09 18:53

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Feb 09 18:53

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It is possible to rate-limit it, but that would be like running on one foot... the whole thing should scale without me hobbling it at OS level by denying in/out conns

Feb 09 18:54

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It should be possible to rate limit IPFS, one would think.

Feb 09 18:54

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Can cron be set to turn on and off rate limiting? The router is not using PF

Feb 09 19:00

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so it is probably not smart enough to traffic shape or load balance.

Feb 09 19:00

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It was only last night, before I went to bed, that I started working on cronning the thing (and it would not run, had to use an external script in crontab), hence the delay in generating the files and sharing them outwards. Over time I add to the sophistication of the thing, inc. the IPFS monitoring with the LEDs (it has become rather clever and verbose, code not published yet)

Feb 09 19:01

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see run-blinkt-ipfs.py on your homedir now

Feb 09 19:03

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Neat

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what range of values come from RateOut, RateIn, and Swarm?

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it helps show spikes when they hog the whole 'pipe' or too many peers are added

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usually no more than 100

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out of 255 scale

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I'm not seeing how it refreshes the data from the three files.

Feb 09 19:47

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cron jobs on that account

Feb 09 19:47

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How does the script adapt? I was looking to see if the colors change with

Feb 09 20:01

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the different values

Feb 09 20:01

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Re: Converting XHTML on TR to Gemini

Feb 09 21:46

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> There are three prototype scripts. One fetches the RSS feed and outputs

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> URLs. Then next fetches the web pages, calculates the Gemini path, and

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> passes them to the third script which converts them to Gemini and

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> (optionally) writes them to a designated path.

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> The process can be invoked thus,

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> ./gemini-fetch-urls-from-rss.pl http://techrights.org/feed/ \

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> | xargs ./gemini-fetch-web-page.pl -g -p -v

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> The first script has a -d option for limiting by date.

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> The second script has a -b option to point to another base directory.

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> All three are now on the RPi.

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> The videos and old audios are not fetched yet. I am not sure how to

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> handle them.

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Currently, only the www version has videos. bulletins/ipfs have images as unicode/ascii, so the limitations are known. like rss/xml, however, there's always a link to the original html, shall the reader want to see/read/watch more. :-)