●● IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, November 11, 2025 ●● ● Nov 11 [00:16] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] "I should redo the backup method here. It is an incremental backup but because hardlinks are used on the backup destination, only a single copy of each file [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] is ever kept. One way around that is a second drive. Another would be to [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] do full backups each quarter or even each month, but the time and bandwidth [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] for that is a lot. Or the files could be copied from an earlier directory [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] quarterly or montly and *those* used as the hardlink target for the next [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] backup period. That's a little more tricky if manual intervention is to [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] be avoided. [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] date(1) has the --file option and thus a file could be used to hold the [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] date, month, or quarter of the last full backup. I think that can be used [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] I'll think on it a bit more. [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] date > lastbackup.log [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] date --file lastbackup.log +'%q' [00:20] schestowitz[TR2] etc" [00:55] schestowitz[TR2] "Ive heard some whispers that Libreplanet isnt going to happen anymore in Boston. [00:55] schestowitz[TR2] Do you have any info on that? Just curious." ● Nov 11 [07:26] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techbytes ● Nov 11 [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] Re: Adrian / Diana blog corrections [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] > The blog from Friday concerning Adrian and Diana von Bidder had about [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] > half a dozen small things added to it this morning, including the [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] > psychiatrist stuff from 2006 and copies of emails about the money. [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] I will re-add based on the latest then. ● Nov 11 [09:29] schestowitz[TR2] > Thanks, it supports the next things that are in the pipeline. [09:29] schestowitz[TR2] Good stuff lately, inc. the religious stuff (but we focus on the tech side). [09:44] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Nov 11 [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Only one in four suicide victims leave a note [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Even if they do leave a note, a lot of families probably wouldn't even [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > think to tell somebody from Debian that there was a death, let a lone [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > reveal it was a suicide. [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Over 250 people were removed from the Debian keyring without any [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > explanation. Many of them are classed as MIA: they didn't send a [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > resignation and they didn't reply to any attempt to contact them. [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > The implication is that there are other deaths and other suicides that [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > are never mentioned on debian-private because they were never known to [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Debian. [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Yet if people get talking about the ones we know for sure in these [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > blogs, it might jog somebody's memory and other cases may come forward [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > spontaneously. [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] > Regards, [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] A question might then come up [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] Debian makes them suicidal? [11:44] schestowitz[TR2] Or does Debian attract suicidal people? [11:57] schestowitz[TR2]
  • New IP strategy just dropped: generate enough outr...
    New IP strategy just dropped: generate enough outrage in the popular media to win a USPTO director intervention.

    Irrespective of whether the patent monopoly in question is good or bad, it can't be a good th [11:57] schestowitz[TR2] ing that "appearing in enough social control media feeds" is the apparent reason the USPTO director intervened.

    It doesn't take much imagination to think of all the new
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