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schestowitz>> The way I see it, data integrity is vastly more important than uptime.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz>>Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz>> How did you know/check the DBs need repairing?Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz> This showed a lot of errors,Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz>Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz> sudo tail -n 50 -f /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.logNov 28 05:38
schestowitz>Nov 28 05:38
schestowitz> plus the script had the one line pointing to a table which must beNov 28 05:38
schestowitz> rebuilt.  I don't know what to do about rebuilding any which come toNov 28 05:38
schestowitz> need rebuilding.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzOh, I see...Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzSo for the second time in a week we had such a problem.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzIf it happens again, we'll definitely need to urgently consider the migration/upgrade. I already plan to do so this xmas (I should have spare time), but if the test VM isn't in a good state, I can settle for the existing setup, which is long in the tooth TBH.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzI don't want to upgrade Drupal and WordPress (only security patches of high importance). Many sites perish when they embrace 'novelty' for novelty's sake, breaking a lot of what existed beforehand.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitztail -n 50 -f /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log seems to suggest the VM died while the DB had queries running. But those were read-only (I think) and the issue was that open connections (to the DB) were not properly terminated.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzI'd be most worried if we lost data pertaining to WordPress "posts" (not draft/revisions) or Drupal "nodes", esp. if the damage or loss is only realised much later -- in which case I can lose hours' or days' worth of hard work. This is why I also check DB dump sizes every day, as a sort of sanity check...Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzExpect more of our 'competition' to perish; then we have a narrative wars with the companies themselves (IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Nokia) and I think we're sort of winning this war over time, among those willing to accept less 'conventional' explanations, not corporate revisionism.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzThanks for the endless help and support; we wanted to ask, what sort of xmas gift are you in /need/ of? Better to ask than to /guess/ and surprise.Nov 28 05:38
schestowitzThere's a local organics store we ship from.Nov 28 05:39
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/16554477#b151e630f2ee013752af0cc47a07853cNov 28 05:41
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #Microsoft and #IBM Are the #PatentTrolls , They Won't Protect Us From Trolls http://techrights.org/2019/11/20/red-hat-and-microsoft-trolls/ #gnu #linuxNov 28 05:41
schestowitz"Makes sense. I guess that kind of reinforces how appropriate my decision to use Ubuntu is. At the end of the day, I don't think that it's an ethical company but it's not trying to be anyway."Nov 28 05:41
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft and IBM Are the Patent Trolls, They Won’t Protect Us From Trolls | TechrightsNov 28 05:41
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:41
schestowitzI tried Trisquel around 2012 or 2013 and thought it was pretty good. Any reason it failed?Nov 28 05:41
schestowitz2014 was a bad year for most distros, in my opinionNov 28 05:42
schestowitz Rabid RavenNov 28 05:42
schestowitzRabid Raven - 4 days agoNov 28 05:42
schestowitzAny reason why?Nov 28 05:42
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comNov 28 05:42
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - a day agoNov 28 05:42
schestowitzits the year debian stopped giving a shit what users think, for one. its upstream from devuan, trisquel, refracta, mx, antix, gnewsense, and even hyperbola.Nov 28 05:42
schestowitzthe fsfs flagship distro (trisquel) is based on a distro that doesnt give a shit anymore, and trisquel doesnt give a shit either.Nov 28 05:42
schestowitz Rabid RavenNov 28 05:42
schestowitzRabid Raven - a day agoNov 28 05:42
schestowitzMakes sense. I guess that kind of reinforces how appropriate my decision to use Ubuntu is. At the end of the day, I don’t think that it’s an ethical company but it’s not trying to be anyway.Nov 28 05:42
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:42
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/16209349#3c45c530d5a701371e777a163ef10931Nov 28 05:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft connected site #sdtimes pushes to remove RMS from #gnu https://sdtimes.com/os/gnu-project-maintainers-push-to-remove-richard-stallman-from-gnu-project/Nov 28 05:43
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzlinux-libre isnt a fork, but it seems like the most reasonable place to start.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzmy general feeling about how “it technically isnt a fork” is “that doesnt technically matter to me.” we may not need a fork if some other process suffices.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzwhich isnt to say that linux-libre suffices, just that it is a reasonable place to start.Nov 28 05:43
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> sdtimes.com | GNU Project maintainers push to remove Richard Stallman - SD TimesNov 28 05:43
schestowitz tomgrzNov 28 05:43
schestowitztomgrz - about a month agoNov 28 05:43
schestowitzV4.09 or V4.19Nov 28 05:43
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comNov 28 05:43
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about a month agoNov 28 05:43
schestowitzthe later it is, the more vulnerabilities are patched.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzif youre going to fork the kernel, you want the biggest problems fixed first-- whenever possible.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitz tomgrzNov 28 05:43
schestowitztomgrz - about a month agoNov 28 05:43
schestowitzThe problem is, as Linux approached 5.0 it became more significantly more bloated and systemd-focused, and then later there are the mitigations for the Intel-CPU side-channel exploits (did any of these make it into the 4-series as back-ports?).Nov 28 05:43
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comNov 28 05:43
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about a month agoNov 28 05:43
schestowitzThe problem is, as Linux approached 5.0 it became more significantly more bloated and systemd-focusedNov 28 05:43
schestowitzim not aware of any ties to systemd that are not optional that actually made it into the primary branch. that doesnt mean there arent any, it means im not aware of them. im sure its too simple to ask “how many are there?” though im no fan of forks that have less security than the original.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzif this is going to be done it ultimately has to be done right. prior to that, tinkering is fine, but lets be clear about the goal-- a viable replacement. my opinion, naturally.Nov 28 05:43
schestowitz freemedia@share.naturalnews.comNov 28 05:43
schestowitzfreemedia@share.naturalnews.com - about a month agoNov 28 05:43
schestowitz10/20/2019, 9:58:54 PMNov 28 05:43
schestowitz Nov 28 05:43
schestowitzremoving antifeatures should be the goal of this-- im going to call it linux-libre-libre or linux-ultralibre as a working title.Nov 28 05:44
schestowitz'Nov 28 05:44
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/16461359#27570a20e4cc01371e9d7a163ef10931Nov 28 05:44
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: In internal documents #microsoft calls #gnu #linux users "infestations" As if we're cockroachesNov 28 05:44
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:44
schestowitzCould be worse. ;-)Nov 28 05:44
schestowitz Alexandre OlivaNov 28 05:44
schestowitzAlexandre Oliva - 19 days agoNov 28 05:45
schestowitzinstallfestations ;-)Nov 28 05:45
schestowitz tomgrzNov 28 05:45
schestowitztomgrz - 18 days agoNov 28 05:45
schestowitzI’ll be there.Nov 28 05:45
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:45
schestowitzbring pepper sprayNov 28 05:45
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/15831308#4b756400d5a501371e857a163ef10931Nov 28 05:45
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Richard Stallman around the corner from #microsoft http://www.fsf.org/events/richard-stallman-free-software-and-your-freedom-seattle-wa-1Nov 28 05:45
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:45
schestowitzI was in the belly of the beast Walmart for nine years.Nov 28 05:45
schestowitzSadly, I found that there was nothing good I could do there. Not even serve their customers properly. I felt forced to quit, simply out of moral/ethical self-respect.Nov 28 05:45
schestowitz"Nov 28 05:45
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.fsf.org | Richard Stallman - "Free Software and Your Freedom" (Seattle, WA) — Free Software Foundation — working together for free softwareNov 28 05:45
schestowitzWe boycott Walmart here, i.e. ASDA and SainsburysNov 28 05:45
schestowitz                    <li>Nov 28 07:25
schestowitz                      <h5><a href="https://robert.ocallahan.org/2019/11/your-debugger-sucks.html">Your Debugger Sucks</a></h5>Nov 28 07:25
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 404 @ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2019/11/your-debugger-sucks.html">Your )Nov 28 07:25
schestowitz                      <blockquote>Nov 28 07:25
schestowitz                        <p>If debugging is so important, why haven't people built better tools? I have a few theories, but I think the biggest reason is that developers suck. In particular, developer culture is that developers don't pay for tools, especially not debuggers. They have always been free, and therefore no-one wants to pay for them, even if they would credibly save far more money than they cost. I have lost count of the number ofNov 28 07:25
schestowitzpeople who have told me "you'll never make money selling a debugger", and I'm not sure they're wrong. Therefore, no-one wants to invest in them, and indeed, historically, investment in debugging tools has been extremely low. As far as I know, the only way to fix this situation is by building tools so much better than the free tools that the absurdity of refusing to pay for them is overwhelming, and expectations shift. </p></blockquote></li>Nov 28 07:25
schestowitz                <li>Nov 28 07:29
schestowitz                  <h5><a href="https://www.ccsentinel.com/sci-tech/global-music-notation-software-market-2020-musescore-hal-leonard-noteflight-sibelius-software-limited-doremir-music-research-ab-avid-technology/">Global Music notation software Market 2020 – MuseScore, Hal Leonard (noteflight), Sibelius Software Limited, DoReMIR Music Research AB, Avid Technology</a></h5>Nov 28 07:29
schestowitz                  <blockquote>Nov 28 07:29
schestowitz                    <p>Global Music notation software Market Status and Trend Report 2019-2026 offers a comprehensive analysis on industry, in context with reader's perspective, delivering detailed market data and understanding insights. It additionally provides vital points that significantly affect the growth of the market at a global level. It gives the present status as well as projections for future growth pattern of the market. TheNov 28 07:29
schestowitzreport is created after detailed research and exhaustive investigation of the market development in different sectors the requires theoretical analysis, technology-based ideas, and its validity. The Music notation software report allow you to calculate different Music notation software market forecast together with challenges, suppliers selection criteria, the current Music notation software market size, financial opportunities and promotionNov 28 07:29
schestowitzallotment of senior-level officials of Music notation software industry. </p></blockquote></li>Nov 28 07:29
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.ccsentinel.com | Global β-Amylase Market 2016-2026 | Amano Enzyme, Chemzyme Biotechnology, Millbo S.p.A., Nagase, … – The Chicago SentinelNov 28 07:29
schestowitzWay to frame perseverance in writing or activism as something "chronic"... https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1199890844154658816Nov 28 08:35
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jhamby: Far be it for me to criticize others for suffering from hypergraphia, but the TechRights site is so full of text th… https://t.co/Hkz7McfQvmNov 28 08:35
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jhamby: Far be it for me to criticize others for suffering from hypergraphia, but the TechRights site is so full of text th… https://t.co/Hkz7McfQvmNov 28 08:35
schestowitz"Far be it for me to criticize others for suffering from hypergraphia, but the TechRights site is so full of text that it's almost useless to me. No ads. A true labor of love, or an obsession against proprietary software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphia …"Nov 28 08:35
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Hypergraphia - WikipediaNov 28 08:35
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/jhamby/status/1199890469347442688Nov 28 08:36
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jhamby: He hates GitHub so much that he tweets about every single project that uses it to tell them not to. https://t.co/5KDfV4zfteNov 28 08:36
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: #Grafana needs to #deletegithub https://t.co/vwhDxqpiGINov 28 08:36
schestowitzGitHub does pose a legitimate risk. It's NOT about "hate". Read  http://techrights.org/2019/11/11/delete-github/Nov 28 08:36
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-techrights.org | Microsoft’s Abduction of the Voice of Its Opposition Highlights the Urgency of the Movement/Campaign to Delete GitHub | TechrightsNov 28 08:37
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/SanyaSheikh/status/1199805679483183104Nov 28 08:37
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SanyaSheikh: #AIEthics are what you expect others to tolerate 1) Clearly state intentions 2) Model the impacts on behaviour 3)… https://t.co/Im27UZgL1BNov 28 08:37
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@SanyaSheikh: #AIEthics are what you expect others to tolerate 1) Clearly state intentions 2) Model the impacts on behaviour 3)… https://t.co/Im27UZgL1BNov 28 08:37
schestowitz"Nov 28 08:37
schestowitzSanya Sheikh Retweeted Neeraj MathurNov 28 08:37
schestowitz#AIEthics are what you expect others to tolerateNov 28 08:37
schestowitz1) Clearly state intentionsNov 28 08:37
schestowitz2) Model the impacts on behaviourNov 28 08:37
schestowitz3) Do not expect alignmentNov 28 08:37
schestowitz4) Take corrective actionNov 28 08:37
schestowitz5) CommunicateNov 28 08:37
schestowitz6) Rinse and repeatNov 28 08:37
schestowitz#techrights #data #privacy #algorithmicinjusticeNov 28 08:37
schestowitz"Nov 28 08:37
schestowitzhttps://twitter.com/zoobab/status/1199970886910201856Nov 28 08:39
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: "We’re not against patents; we’re for patent quality. We insist that patents should exist only in domains where the… https://t.co/QcJLDu9id3Nov 28 08:39
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@zoobab: "We’re not against patents; we’re for patent quality. We insist that patents should exist only in domains where the… https://t.co/QcJLDu9id3Nov 28 08:39
schestowitz"We’re not against patents; we’re for patent quality. We insist that patents should exist only in domains where their contribution to science/economics are undeniably provable." Unfortunately, there are no formal proofs, just beliefs. Do you believe?""Nov 28 08:39
schestowitzThose who decide on patent policy should be technical practitioners in these pertinent fields, not managers, lawyers and lobbyistsNov 28 08:40
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schestowitz>>>> The way I see it, data integrity is vastly more important thanNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>>> uptime.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>>> How did you know/check the DBs need repairing?Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>> This showed a lot of errors,Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>> sudo tail -n 50 -f /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.logNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>> plus the script had the one line pointing to a table which must beNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>> rebuilt.  I don't know what to do about rebuilding any which comeNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>> to need rebuilding.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> Oh, I see...Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> So for the second time in a week we had such a problem.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> If it happens again, we'll definitely need to urgently consider theNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> migration/upgrade. I already plan to do so this xmas (I should haveNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> spare time), but if the test VM isn't in a good state, I can settleNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> for the existing setup, which is long in the tooth TBH.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz> Wouldn't the whole thing be upgrade and migrated?  The TR and TM VMs,Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz> qemu, and the HV VM host?Nov 28 18:14
schestowitzI'll need to check near the time. Security and stability the goal.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> I don't want to upgrade Drupal and WordPress (only security patchesNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> of high importance). Many sites perish when they embrace 'novelty'Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> for novelty's sake, breaking a lot of what existed beforehand.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz> Oh.  I was kind of expecting the CMS upgrades as part of the migrationNov 28 18:14
schestowitz> as well.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitzIn the case of Drupal an upgrade would render a lot of code obsolete and the whole thing would need to be almost re-developed. With the same nodes, sure, but everything else might need to change.Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz Nov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> tail -n 50 -f /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log seems to suggest the VMNov 28 18:14
schestowitz>> died while the DB had queries running. But those were read-only (INov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> think) and the issue was that open connections (to the DB) were notNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> properly terminated.Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>>Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> I'd be most worried if we lost data pertaining to WordPress "posts"Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> (not draft/revisions) or Drupal "nodes", esp. if the damage or lossNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> is only realised much later -- in which case I can lose hours' orNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> days' worth of hard work. This is why I also check DB dump sizesNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> every day, as a sort of sanity check...Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz> Yeah.  I'm not familiar with MySQL, now MariaDB, any more though andNov 28 18:15
schestowitz> wouldn't attempt that repair myself.  Which command worked to repairNov 28 18:15
schestowitz> that particular table?Nov 28 18:15
schestowitzThe log ends with:Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz191127 12:55:00 [ERROR] mysqld: Table './boycottn_wrdp1/wp_search_phrases' is marked as crashed and should be repairedNov 28 18:15
schestowitz191127 12:55:00 [Warning] Checking table:   './boycottn_wrdp1/wp_search_phrases'Nov 28 18:15
schestowitzThe way I am reading this, with timestamps, the issue is already resolved and the tables are repaired. If I'm not wrong.Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> Expect more of our 'competition' to perish; then we have a narrativeNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> wars with the companies themselves (IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Nokia)Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> and I think we're sort of winning this war over time, among thoseNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> willing to accept less 'conventional' explanations, not corporateNov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> revisionism.Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>>Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>> Thanks for the endless help and support;Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz>Nov 28 18:15
schestowitz> No problem.  Thanks for all the articles.  They cover essential topics.Nov 28 18:15
schestowitzHoliday weekend will give more time to cover issues long overdue.Nov 28 18:15
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