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| schestowitz | >> Still nothing too incriminating here. This was mentioned in IRC the | Dec 16 03:28 |
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| schestowitz | >> other day, but nothing here is sufficient for an article because without | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> a 'smoking gun' (like Microsoft paying for X Y and Z) we'd just look | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> desperate looking for a connection where none exists. | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> Debian has not played ball with WSL afaik, | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > Probably due to staff shortages from the systemd-induced exodus rather | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > than from a lack of will. | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> ... but expect someone like Jo | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> Shields to infest a project such as Debian (he works for Microsoft now), | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | >> if not for Windows, then for Mono... | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > M$ will send someone eventually if Debian survives much longer. The | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > damage can happen quickly. Remember that it took only a few months from | Dec 16 03:28 |
| schestowitz | > start to MotU-level access once they sent people into Ubuntu. | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | >> A better area for research might be, who's in which board of Python | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | >> (PSF, Pycon... they have several) and how many work for malicious | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | >> companies. Bonus question: is there a "real" reason for Guido retiring | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | >> so early? | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | > I'm sure there is a back story he can't talk about or might even not be | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | > fully aware of himself. | Dec 16 03:29 |
| schestowitz | > i dont think tuxmachines is doing the same thing. ill let you know when this improves, for now a quick edit to the wiki is now a 10 minute edit to the wiki. if you cant reproduce it, its probably not something fixable on your side. | Dec 16 03:31 |
| schestowitz | Maybe DNS timeout at your end? Check with wget or similar. | Dec 16 03:31 |
| schestowitz | > [an aside] | Dec 16 03:32 |
| schestowitz | >> xxx, freedom fighter he/him | Dec 16 03:32 |
| schestowitz | > [firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?] | Dec 16 03:32 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 03:32 |
| schestowitz | > [xx wasting more of my time. if i considered him honest id address his email more thoroughly. since i think hes spent months essentially bullshitting me i didnt take the time to go into detail. his reply first, mine is short actually, following this one.] | Dec 16 03:32 |
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| schestowitz | > One article mentioned that Vista10 is forcing unblockable ads onto its | Dec 16 05:56 |
| schestowitz | > machines. Not finding a proper verification yet though. | Dec 16 05:56 |
| schestowitz | I have just asked in IRC | Dec 16 05:56 |
| schestowitz | I am going to see over the coming day if my changes to crontab were ok (altered some times) | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | I am also downloading the 'main' DBs of wordpress and tuxmachines at the moment. Both sites grow, I want to minimise risks. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | Yesterday some longtime foes and critics of ours linked to us. I think we're winning the argument!! | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | My birthday is tomorrow, we wanted to go to Sheffield, changed our minds hours ago for several reasons. Might go for a meal with friends instead. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | Work is a bit quiet at the moment, so I'll write some articles, upload recent photos, or both. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | Regarding our house, I think we've managed to assure passage of ownership to us once we have the full sum. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | I think that sums things up... for now. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | We'll sent you a card soon. | Dec 16 05:57 |
| schestowitz | >> Sites are OK. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | >> Thanks for phoning to let me know. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | > No problem. I figured if HV was out, then it was important. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | Definitely! Thanks for that. And thankfully a false positive. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | > Also, does your phone do SMS? The sound quality was not usable. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | No SMS. We use a simple landline. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | Just uploaded http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/Manchester-in-Christmas-2019 | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | >> I guess the mystery then becomes, why no route to network... | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | > So was it just my route? Or were others affected? | Dec 16 09:15 |
| schestowitz | The other issue reported to me was about speed rather than access. | Dec 16 09:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds ( status 0 @ http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/Manchester-in-Christmas-2019 ) | Dec 16 09:15 | |
| schestowitz | >> And I think F-Droid is a false positive, they are on Gitlab. | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | > f-rdoid refers to 78% of the 2000+ apps on f-droid, not the f-droid app itself. | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | > on the one hand, perhaps its "unfair" to "blame" f-droid for that. but f-droid isnt really being blamed for this, the 78% of apps is the real problem. i suppose a quick note further clarifying this is in order, i can add one. | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | That would be great, thank you :-) | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | > mastodon was added some while ago. | Dec 16 09:25 |
| schestowitz | Excellent, though I doubt they care about Microsoft :/ | Dec 16 09:25 |
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| schestowitz | Screencasts/Audiocasts: #ZorinOS 15.1 Run Through, #LinuxActionNews and #OpenSource #Security Podcast | Dec 16 10:56 |
| schestowitz | http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/131771 | Dec 16 10:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Screencasts/Audiocasts: Zorin OS 15.1 Run Through, Linux Action News and Open Source Security Podcast | Tux Machines | Dec 16 10:56 | |
| schestowitz | > i realise i sent a lot of emails today. i hope its obvious what portion of that is now a policy. i recommend tolerating that policy and i apologise for any inconvenience, it is only a policy because i think it matters that much. fwiw i dont think the policy will last long, surely this will dry up soon, right? | Dec 16 10:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 10:56 |
| schestowitz | > since anything that follows this email almost promises to be EXTREMELY telling, here is the non-forwarded version unmangled by the fwd feature. i think this is one of the more important things ill send you, tbh: | Dec 16 10:56 |
| schestowitz | You can write a concise articles based on these if you wish. | Dec 16 10:56 |
| schestowitz | I have not noticed any issues with the servers, either HV or VMs. No signs of anything thus far :( | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | One single anomaly I came across was the IRC logs post being on "schedule missed" (not sure how that works or what that means, I never saw that particular message before). I published it manually myself as an hour earlier I had linked to to the address I expected it to be in (when it was still draft/scheduled). | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | Any reason why they're not published immediately? Is there some account limitation? Maybe I don't know how roles in WordPress work, or don't work... | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >>> Also, does your phone do SMS? The sound quality was not usable. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >> No SMS. We use a simple landline. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > A real landline? It sounded like there were severe compression | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > artifacts in the connection. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | Yes, this is typical. I rarely use it. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >> Just uploaded | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >> http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/Manchester-in-Christmas-2019 | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > That site is reachable. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | This one is hosted in and served from London. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >>>> I guess the mystery then becomes, why no route to network... | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >>> So was it just my route? Or were others affected? | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >> The other issue reported to me was about speed rather than access. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > I'm able to get through to my e-mail account but not HV still. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | Seems like a network-level issue. Do you want me to ping the ISP at the DC about it through my contact (kaniini)? I don't think I ever have his phone number! :-p | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > The 3G/4G modem still has similar problem but reaches a few more sites | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | > than the fibre. | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | I had similar issues in the past, albeit for no more than 10 minutes, with my ISP. I assumed there was an issue with switching. A month ago I could not access TWITTER.... for an HOUR... Rianne could not either. That's a big site... and it wasn't actually down. For BT to screw up like this.... imagine a small ISP in another country. Can you SSH to some other network and hop onto HV from there? I can let you use my machines as a hopping point | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | if you want as I don't need your promise that you won't poke around with my files... we have trust. :-) | Dec 16 11:04 |
| schestowitz | I got a complete DB copy this morning, on my external HDD. | Dec 16 11:05 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-schestowitz.com | Manchester in Christmas 2019 | Dec 16 11:06 | |
| schestowitz | >>> Thus TM and TR are also down. I'm not able to correct anything with HV | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | >>> so I gave a call to let you know that it is out. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | >> Maybe the ISP filtering at the DC went wrong? | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | >> | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > The last few weeks sometimes 15% of UDP packets are lost here over | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > fibre. On the 4G network, when using it instead, SIP appeared blocked | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > in its entirety. I've swapped routers and neither can reach HV or TR + TM. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > Just now while trying to send, the fibre was out completely for a while. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > Still no contact to HV though. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > $ ping -n -c 1 -w 1 xxxxxxxxx | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > PING 199.19.78.18 (199.19.78.18) 56(84) bytes of data. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > --- xxxxxxxxxx ping statistics --- | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > Can't reach some other machines in the US either. DNS seems to work but | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > not actual connections through. It is selective. HTTPS works for some | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > of these other hosts but not IMAPS or SSH | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | > GMail gets through though, but not normal mail hosting. | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | OK | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | Bad news: we lost monitoring, you cannot do your work on the site | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | Good news: the sites do in fact still work | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | Neutral: we know the culprit is the network, likely not the DC/ISP of the sites | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | What to do next? I am not sure. I took 5 minutes to start thunderbird just to look into it. It's really how long it takes me to start my mail client and check mail :( old issue | Dec 16 11:12 |
| schestowitz | >> You can write a concise articles based on these if you wish. | Dec 16 11:17 |
| schestowitz | > im working on an article now. it is... somewhat related. | Dec 16 11:17 |
| schestowitz | > | Dec 16 11:17 |
| schestowitz | > excellent, thank you. | Dec 16 11:17 |
| schestowitz | at least there's supporting material/evidence | Dec 16 11:17 |
| schestowitz | >> Any reason why they're not published immediately? Is there some account | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | >> limitation? Maybe I don't know how roles in WordPress work, or don't work... | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | > In some situations it is better to have a predicable time window for | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | > publication. Also there are those who keep track of when things are | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | > published to try to correlate activities with various accounts. That is | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | > one of the worst draw backs to IRC itself. | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | Yes, I am aware of this. Same for sleep times, if IRC isn't always live... | Dec 16 11:29 |
| schestowitz | If you have Fitbit of course........ then you miss the whole point :-) :-) and they don't miss a BEAT! | Dec 16 11:29 |
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