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| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/gasgebouw/status/1160671054995607552 | Aug 13 04:19 |
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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@gasgebouw: @schestowitz #opensource @dataterror | Aug 13 04:19 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/vivek5601/status/1160879784122937344 | Aug 13 04:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@vivek5601: @schestowitz What about NRIs?? | Aug 13 04:20 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Oxfordite/status/1160881707521904640 | Aug 13 04:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Oxfordite: @schestowitz @Conservatives I thought it was: be rich, or die. (Not even: be rich, or die trying) | Aug 13 04:20 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/Aeyoun/status/1160891106655113216 | Aug 13 04:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Aeyoun: @schestowitz By default the app keeps all the data on your device and doesn’t involve the microphone and a lot of s… https://t.co/WZT4MOVkhd | Aug 13 04:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Aeyoun: @schestowitz By default the app keeps all the data on your device and doesn’t involve the microphone and a lot of s… https://t.co/WZT4MOVkhd | Aug 13 04:21 | |
| schestowitz | "By default the app keeps all the data on your device and doesn’t involve the microphone and a lot of sensors (unlike most other sleep apps). You can optionally sync to Google Fit. This is a much better option than the competition if you’re interested in your sleep metrics." | Aug 13 04:21 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1/status/1160935677925777413 | Aug 13 04:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SleepyPenguin1: @schestowitz One back door or two back doors with that coffee sir ? | Aug 13 04:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1/status/1160944435364081665 | Aug 13 04:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SleepyPenguin1: FreeDOS.... new YouTube channel... @schestowitz https://t.co/aPqUZdnoWq | Aug 13 04:21 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | FreeDOS - YouTube | Aug 13 04:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/wayneborean/status/1160968892291977216 | Aug 13 04:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@wayneborean: @schestowitz Of course. | Aug 13 04:22 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1160986633975533568 | Aug 13 04:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@glynmoody: and two of my columns, FWIW... https://t.co/3Tej2gvKu1 | Aug 13 04:22 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: The #linuxjournal shutdown 'spikes' some good upcoming articles https://t.co/uMzahqrVkX | Aug 13 04:22 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/tvaddonsco/status/1160998084895227904 | Aug 13 04:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@tvaddonsco: @schestowitz Crazy stuff | Aug 13 04:23 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/StarchyArchie/status/1161004385754910720 | Aug 13 04:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@StarchyArchie: @schestowitz #PootyPoot 🇷🇺 | Aug 13 04:23 | |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/DarthBuzzard/status/1161016660192575488 | Aug 13 04:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DarthBuzzard: @schestowitz Except people that try it don't think it's junk anymore. It actually works as advertised now and has r… https://t.co/RRVvD1jtWv | Aug 13 04:23 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@DarthBuzzard: @schestowitz Except people that try it don't think it's junk anymore. It actually works as advertised now and has r… https://t.co/RRVvD1jtWv | Aug 13 04:23 | |
| schestowitz | "Except people that try it don't think it's junk anymore. It actually works as advertised now and has real world uses for both consumers and enterprise. They keep trying for good reasons." | Aug 13 04:23 |
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| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/ | Aug 13 06:14 |
| schestowitz | odd, is that site unreachable all of a sudden? | Aug 13 06:14 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.tuxmachines.org/ | Aug 13 06:15 |
| schestowitz | odd, is that site unreachable all of a sudden? | Aug 13 06:15 |
| schestowitz | the vm is up and working? Investigating. | Aug 13 06:15 |
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| schestowitz | 11895 boycottn 30 10 51888 2776 1340 S 1.7 0.0 0:06.25 mysqldump | Aug 13 06:21 |
| schestowitz | what's going on in TM? Still trying to understand... | Aug 13 06:22 |
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| TechBytesBot | Hello World! I'm TechBytesBot running phIRCe v0.75 | Aug 13 06:22 |
| schestowitz | PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S PU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND | Aug 13 06:25 |
| schestowitz | 11895 boycottn 30 10 51888 2776 1340 S 2.0 0.0 0:08.27 mysqldump | Aug 13 06:25 |
| schestowitz | Did the mysqldump job from TR hang? | Aug 13 06:25 |
| schestowitz | Site back online after I restarted mysql (I think that's what fixed it). | Aug 13 06:29 |
| schestowitz | I have a sneaking suspicion that the mysqldum did the 'damage', nothing longterm (I checked the logs). | Aug 13 06:29 |
| schestowitz | I was thankfully working on the site at the time, so noticed the issue fast. | Aug 13 06:29 |
| schestowitz | Tuxmachines GALLERY worked mostly OK at the time, so maybe that database was not affected. | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Worth understanding in case that happens again | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service mysql stop | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | mysql: unrecognized service | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service mysqld stop | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Stopping mysqld: [ OK ] | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service mysqld start | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Starting mysqld: [ OK ] | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service httpd stop | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Stopping httpd: ^[[A^[[A [ OK ] | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service mysqld star | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Usage: /etc/init.d/mysqld {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload} | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service mysqld start | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Starting mysqld: [ OK ] | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines ~]# service httpd start | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using tuxmachines.org for ServerName | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [ OK ] | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | [root@tuxmachines log]# tail -f mysqld.log | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:09 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 [Warning] '--log_slow_queries' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use ''--slow_query_log'/'--slow_query_log_file'' instead. | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 8.0M | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233 | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | 190812 22:26:16 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | Version: '5.1.73-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 Source distribution | Aug 13 06:30 |
| schestowitz | >> 11895 boycottn 30 10 51888 2776 1340 S 1.7 0.0 0:06.25 mysqldump | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | >> what's going on in TM? Still trying to understand... | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > The backend seems down. It responds to SSH and I've logged in but don't | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > know what to look for. | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | It's the first such I see such a thing. Seemingly triggered when I accessed tuxmachines the drupal side as root user, but that's just likely a coincidence. | Aug 13 06:31 |
| schestowitz | > the next code i intend to write will help you archive your uploads folders on techrights. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > it will produce zip files (zip is better than tar.gz considering where the zips are going, i encourage you to trust me on this-- i wish i had used .zip for the wiki archiver-- i will use tar.gz only if you insist, but i urge you not to) of each uploads folder, and i already know what size the uploads will be-- due to code ive run and sent you already. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > the zips will be created by month, not year-- unless you insist on by year. that will make it harder for you to upload them. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > your largest year is something like 2gb in size, divide by 12 and you get something like 1/3 OR LESS of a cd in size rather than half a dvd. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > put the first two years (2006 and 2007) online and youll get a better idea of what it takes to do 2008, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > it might take a while to catch up. i doubt doing it all in a week is worth the time youll need to do the uploads. but lets start with 2006. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > what you DONT need to do is create separate ITEMS (metadata) for each zip file. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > you can either do one for each year (10-15 items) or you can even do one item (techrights uploads) for every zip file. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > items can be updated with new files, so you really only need to create one item on the archive-- as you did for the wiki-- which you can add files to anytime you want without affecting existing downloads. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > thats probably the best way to do it. | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ 196 files, 148477016 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
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| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ 168 files, 57507112 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ 198 files, 22149103 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
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| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ 468 files, 92646467 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ 220 files, 24895471 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:53 |
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| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ 376 files, 30223046 bytes | Aug 13 06:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ 151 files, 11323071 bytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
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| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ cant process, might not exist | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Index of /wp-content/uploads/2019/05 | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ cant process, might not exist | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Index of /wp-content/uploads/2019/06 | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Index of /wp-content/uploads/2019/07 | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ cant process, might not exist | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
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| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ cant process, might not exist | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ cant process, might not exist | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2006 total: 56 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document | Techrights | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2007 total: 12664.28 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2008 total: 197228.51 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document | Techrights | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > 2009 total: 449105.85 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document | Techrights | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > 2010 total: 642072.18 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2011 total: 260229.39 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2012 total: 144118.01 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2013 total: 488982.62 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2014 total: 989773.26 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document | Techrights | Aug 13 06:54 | |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2015 total: 1059716.12 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2016 total: 1710233.09 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2017 total: 1929602.52 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2018 total: 1145149.14 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | > 2019 total: 378145.78 kbytes | Aug 13 06:54 |
| schestowitz | I thought about any security implications of this but could think of none as you fetch all this from the public-facing site. Scrape away, just not too fast. We can ensure the site's persistence online this way. | Aug 13 06:55 |
| schestowitz | Not sure how much longer Wikileaks (the main site) will stay online. Maybe years... | Aug 13 06:55 |
| schestowitz | >> Last night a senior writer from LJ asked me to add him to | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> http://www.tuxmachines.org/aggregator/sources | Aug 13 06:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | News Feeds | Tux Machines | Aug 13 06:56 | |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> Glyn Moody also told me yesterday that the shutdown had 'spiked' two of | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> his upcoming columns. | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> Should we implement on techrights a Fair Use thing similar to | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> http://www.tuxmachines.org/aggregator/sources but for politics and | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> mostly automated? As an aside from "Linux"? | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> You already have some code going? | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | > Yes, if it is a news feed (RSS or Atom) then the latest script would | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | > apply. If it is just a custom list of sites, then it would not be too | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | > difficult to modify the second to last script. | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> I'd use that to pick news from... when I write something or need a | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> distraction. And those would also be partly archived. | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | > Which sites should be aggregated? I can customize a script. | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | Mostly these ones. | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | http://techrights.org/2019/07/25/uncensored-news/ | Aug 13 06:56 |
| schestowitz | I can focus on only Linux and patent issues, knowing a script collects the rest and I can 'slap' it on the site in a separate batch of more political/divisive daily links | Aug 13 06:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | RSS Feeds of Sites Techrights Routinely Linked to in Recent Years | Techrights | Aug 13 06:56 | |
| schestowitz | >>>> 11895 boycottn 30 10 51888 2776 1340 S 1.7 0.0 0:06.25 mysqldump | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >>>> what's going on in TM? Still trying to understand... | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >>>> | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >>> The backend seems down. It responds to SSH and I've logged in but don't | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >>> know what to look for. | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >> It's the first such I see such a thing. Seemingly triggered when I | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >> accessed tuxmachines the drupal side as root user, but that's just | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >> likely a coincidence. | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | >> | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > Looking at /var/log/mysqld.log, there were a lot of errors in the tables | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > yesterday. | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > sudo grep -E '^19081.' /var/log/mysqld.log | less | Aug 13 06:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 06:58 |
| schestowitz | > but they seem gone now. | Aug 13 06:58 |
| schestowitz | Yesterday or Sunday? | Aug 13 06:58 |
| schestowitz | Could it be related to the VM crash? I ran repair after it, for it was needed. | Aug 13 06:58 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15626674#bfe734409b110137b19b0cc47a07853c | Aug 13 07:02 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Wrong to frame this as "security risks"; the #basebandOS has long been a back door and it's not an accident or a risk. That's the design. https://twitter.com/PatentJosh/status/1158829023641911298 | Aug 13 07:02 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@PatentJosh: Cf @charles_duan ’s point about the security risks of monocultures in baseband chipsets. Having Qualcomm as the so… https://t.co/fYkP2S4MhC | Aug 13 07:02 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | Wrong to frame this as “security risks”; the #basebandOS has long been a back door and it’s not an accident or a risk. | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | too much quibbling– a backdoor is definitely a risk! (risk, threat, tomayto, tomahto) | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | a backdoor is ALSO a risk! its even beneficial (imo) to say that backdoors are risks, because the idiots in office say they can do backdoors that ARENT a risk. so theyre NOT a risk? oh, they actually are? ok, alright by me then… i think non-savvy people are going to be more confused/misled by the quibbling than the word “risk” and the savvy people knew what was meant anyway. | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | Now we're talking perspective and semantics | Aug 13 07:02 |
| schestowitz | Web page designers think they should control how their page looks on my browser. I don’t think so. Once it’s on my computer, it’s mine. | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | Will Hill - 11 days ago | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000404 | Aug 13 07:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.aaronsw.com | Bake, Don’t Fry (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog) | Aug 13 07:03 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15544927#5f63ffa0970a01374acc0218b72fdf43 | Aug 13 07:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Writing a long post at the moment about why I continue to reject #javascript except in rare cases where no alternatives exist http://techrights.org/2019/07/21/simple-web/ | Aug 13 07:03 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | The Web is Not JavaScript | Techrights | Aug 13 07:03 | |
| schestowitz | That’s great! What’s your hardware set up and OS? | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | Alexandre Oliva | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | Alexandre Oliva - 6 days ago | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | how do you deal with kernel updates? live patching or not at all? | Aug 13 07:03 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15618435#43d493109a7b01370fc242010a800002 | Aug 13 07:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Work laptop: 10:03:55 up 300 days, 13:36, 4 users, load average: 1.16, 0.59, 0.43 Next milestone: 400 days (don't think I ever made it that far on a laptop) | Aug 13 07:03 | |
| schestowitz | That's the tricky thing. When I update system packages, inc. kernel, I don't reboot. I will is there's a highly critical flaw in it, not some multi-user priv escalation. It used to be kubuntu, but not I just run plain openbox on it. HP from a decade+ ago. | Aug 13 07:05 |
| schestowitz | That's the tricky thing. When I update system packages, inc. kernel, I don't reboot. I will if there's a highly critical flaw in it, not some multi-user priv escalation bug. It used to be kubuntu, but now I just run plain openbox on it. HP from a decade+ ago. | Aug 13 07:06 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15437201#0c0eda50890501376ad40cc47a07853c | Aug 13 07:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Will you trust a #fedora repo called after an individual? https://porfiriopaiz.github.io/site/posts/2019/07/11/repos.html whose blog is hosted by #microsoft ? #deletegithub #redhat #ibm | Aug 13 07:07 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> porfiriopaiz.github.io | porfirio's blog – repos | Aug 13 07:07 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 29 days ago | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | yes, depending on their reputation. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | probably not. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz |  | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Thomas Fellinger - 29 days ago | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Yes i do - sometimes. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Before activating a third-party Repo you should: | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Check the Reputation of the Software Developer AND the Repo Maintainer, which is often a different Person | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Check the activity and regularity of Updates | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Check if the Software is possibly in other trusted repos (rpmfusion, suse repos) | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Example: I you dont trust the Developer (Microsoft) or the Publisher(Repo Maintainer: Microsoft) then you might NOT want to include this repo: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux#_rhel-fedora-and-centos-based-distributions | Aug 13 07:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-code.visualstudio.com | Running Visual Studio Code on Linux | Aug 13 07:07 | |
| schestowitz |  | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 29 days ago | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | right? | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | thomas, i wish you would do a quick blog about this, send it to roy and put it under the license he uses on his wiki. i would mirror it on my website too. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz |  | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Thomas Fellinger - 28 days ago | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | my writing does not seem good enough for me to “blog” my last article is a year ago: https://www.netzgestaltung.at/blog/webdesign/wordpress-megamenue-mit-zusaetzlichen-inhalten/ | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz |  | Aug 13 07:07 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.netzgestaltung.at | WordPress Megamenü mit zusätzlichen Inhalten - Netzgestaltung | Aug 13 07:07 | |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 28 days ago | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | yeah, being in german is a dealbreaker for me too. well, i tried. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | cheers. | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:07 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft already 'owns' the largest repo, github | Aug 13 07:08 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15445257#e97c476089c70137e58a0cc47a07853c | Aug 13 07:08 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: You can love computers, but at the same time hate what they're being used for (e.g. spying) Love the Internet concept/protocols while at the same time loathing how sites leverage these (to do malicious things) I think these sorts of distinctions are important | Aug 13 07:08 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:08 |
| schestowitz | being an ethical technologist is about figuring out how to make technology as close to ethically sound as possible. | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | compare this to aircraft-- you can avoid using planes, but people are still going to fly in them. im glad some people care about trying to make them safer (even when companies like boeing make decisions that compromise safety. perhaps we should avoid boeing, to the degree that it is possible or reasonable to.) | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | sometimes a boycott is called for, other times demands for improvement are called for. you can love humanity and still point out its faults. americans can love their country and still demand it holds to the constitution (indeed, every congressperson takes an oath of office to do exactly that! whether they honour that oath or not.) this is considered an american idea (by americans,) but thankfully it exists in other places as well. i love | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | britain, but their treatment of julian assange (as well as americas) is a blight on all human liberty and the 21st century. i love computers, i love the internet-- but microsoft only loves control. the eu is on the wrong side of copyright as well. love does not mean tolerating attacks against liberty-- on the contrary-- love means you care enough to stand up for people. | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | freemedia@share.naturalnews.com - 28 days ago | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | http://slated.org/torvalds_hatred_of_microsoft_critics_is_a_disease | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:09 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-slated.org | Torvalds' Hatred of Microsoft Critics is a Disease | Slated | Aug 13 07:09 | |
| schestowitz | I still you like Keith's blog. he has not been active for ages. He helped us set the IRC channel in 2008. | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | I still see you like Keith's blog. He has not been active for ages. He helped us set up the first IRC channel for us in 2008. | Aug 13 07:09 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15465287#1926f3608b8b0137ff667a163ef10931 | Aug 13 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Wife calls LINUX dot com "A Tabloid" now. She has read it every day since around 2013, but now it's just annoys here. What's posted there is awful and she uses much worse words to describe it. | Aug 13 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- Photo by schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: https://joindiaspora.com/uploads/images/thumb_medium_571b1b5c0f31dcadfb9f.jpeg | Aug 13 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:10 |
| schestowitz | Aug 13 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | There has been a general trend toward a degrading of our media. Esteemed publications such as Scientific American and National Geographic have become trash. What has happened to the notion of "quality"? | Aug 13 07:10 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:10 |
| schestowitz | "Could be worse. Could feature poodles." | Aug 13 07:10 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15495446#7ea1c7708e8c0137e5920cc47a07853c | Aug 13 07:10 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Why Online Dating Can Feel Like Such an Existential Nightmare https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/online-dating-taking-over-everything/594337/ | Aug 13 07:10 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.theatlantic.com | Online Dating Is Taking Over the World - The Atlantic | Aug 13 07:10 | |
| schestowitz | "we have a very narcissistic culture-- it breeds and panders to narcissists above others, even in the non-profit sector. individualism and alcohol arent all bad, but almost anything can be overdone to the point of harm." | Aug 13 07:10 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Aug 13 07:11 | |
| schestowitz | we have a very narcissistic culture-- it breeds and panders to narcissists above others, even in the non-profit sector. individualism and alcohol arent all bad, but almost anything can be overdone to the point of harm. "some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you-- some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused" -- sweet dreams (are made of this), eurythmics | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/15625198#7ef893309ad60137b1890cc47a07853c | Aug 13 07:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Why #Canonical views the Snap ecosystem as a compelling distribution-agnostic solution http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126688 #ubuntu #gnu #linux | Aug 13 07:11 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Why Canonical views the Snap ecosystem as a compelling distribution-agnostic solution | Tux Machines | Aug 13 07:11 | |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | Aug 13 07:11 | |
| schestowitz | its the least "distribution-agnostic" solution among the things remotely like it! canonical is so full of shit. | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | "its the least "distribution-agnostic" solution among the things remotely like it! working on snap is working for canonical, just as much as working on github is working for microsoft. canonical is so full of shit." | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | "Not to mention that snaps are slower than molasses in January. Who has all day to wait for an app to open?" | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | "Massive blobs." | Aug 13 07:11 |
| schestowitz | I can attest to that. They're too big. | Aug 13 07:12 |
| schestowitz | > I thought about any security implications of this but could think of none as you fetch all this from the public-facing site. Scrape away, just not too fast. We can ensure the site's persistence online this way. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > one of the reasons i wanted you to run the wiki archive script is for practice when i send you the uploads script. since it produced an archive of small enough size to email, i said ok, ill do it. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > i dont have the bandwidth to download, let alone upload to the archive, all the stuff in your uploads. i can create a very easy-to-use script, i can compile the script to python if you want, but i cant run this one for you. its 2gb per year. if you want to archive your uploads, i recommend you do so. ill make you the tool you need. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > if youre concerned about security, the deb file for fig27 was first included in refracta two or three years ago. the .deb has not changed since, you can download it from ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/ very few changes to fig are made from 2.7 to 4.6, and every version is backwards compatible. if i write for 2.7 i write for every version after. colourtext will have to be colortext, etc. (the american english version still works in | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | later versions. the australian english version only works in newer ones.) | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ibiblio.org | Refracta home | Aug 13 07:15 | |
| schestowitz | > the fig code is easier to review than the code used to compile it to python. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > i wouldnt recommend running anything on the server-- if we assume i am hostile, or compromised in some mitm attack, then you should run the downloader on a separate machine, i design nothing to be run from the server itself. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > heck, if you just want to zip up the downloads from the server folder, you dont need my help with that. the zip command line utility will do. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > im not insulted by what youre saying, i dont even know what youre saying. im in favour of you taking security into account, even to the point of considering me hostile (i know im not, but its a reasonable model for security purposes to assume so regardless.) | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > so let me know how you want to do it. i promise i wont take it personally, safety is a priority and im only here to try to make the job more convenient for you so you can get back to things more interesting and immediately relevant. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | > all the best. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | Sometimes I rsync the whole site (we have RAID, I don't want to have blind faith in it) and have it stored locally. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | So: | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | 1) I could generate the zip files locally, automate with bash | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | 2) the script you develop is still good and would be worth uploading to the I.A. | Aug 13 07:15 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | RAM is cheap, we shouldn't need to use swap. Nowadays when we even bother to assign swap space it's just to slow the machine down long enough we can figure out what is using so much RAM before OOMkiller jumps in. This is why the Icinga alerts consider *any* swap usage a bad thing. | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | 12/08/2019 06:12 - "Roy Schestowitz" wrote: | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | There ought to be 8GB of swap if not 16 (total RAM or double). | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | This will likely require downtime (reboot). Risizing the swap partititon. | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | Not sure why swap was configured to be so small in the first place. | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Aug 13 07:22 |
| schestowitz | Regarding Article #21, I wasn't 'having a go' at the setup; I just typically think of swap as a lot cheaper than RAM, having never had a machine with more than 2GB of RAM. I work a lot through swap, too. | Aug 13 07:22 |
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