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schestowitz5 hours of downtime today. Script didn't restart apache...Mar 09 09:04
schestowitz> Hi, Roy,Mar 09 10:44
schestowitz> Mar 09 10:44
schestowitz> I just turned on my machines.Mar 09 10:44
schestowitz> Mar 09 10:44
schestowitz> I'm puzzled as to what is actually causing the down time.  In the above,Mar 09 10:44
schestowitz> httpd did get restarted.  But if the site were down, it should have notMar 09 10:45
schestowitz> responded to curl, which it apparently did.  Also, I do not know why weMar 09 10:45
schestowitz> get the 'httpd dead but subsys locked' message.  The /etc init script byMar 09 10:45
schestowitz> itself is sometimes not enough to (re)start httpd, though it should be.Mar 09 10:45
schestowitz>  One guess was the network, but at least locally, it works as shown byMar 09 10:45
schestowitz> ping.Mar 09 10:45
schestowitz> Mar 09 10:45
schestowitz> Another mystery is why it goes down at midnight UTC every night.Mar 09 10:45
schestowitz> Perhaps that is a clue.Mar 09 10:45
schestowitzI assume it goes down at midnight if days are not compared but only hours.Mar 09 10:45
schestowitz>> Hi, Roy,Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> This is on Twitter:Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> "Calling all online #freedom defenders. I REALLY want 2Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> hear how u think #EU can use #cybersecurity 2increaseMar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> freedom Specific ideas; tell me"Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> https://twitter.com/NeelieKroesEU/status/308900540178378752Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> I'm not sure why it is not getting much attention in the Free SoftwareMar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> and Open Source communities.  It's seems to be begging input on someMar 09 11:32
schestowitz>> commonly addressed, long-standing themes.Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz> Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz> cybersecurity requires secure software. But doing cybersecurity theMar 09 11:32
schestowitz> wrong way - by making up for the use of insecure software - harms freedom.Mar 09 11:32
schestowitz> Right, but I thought people were very much into Twitter.  Maybe that wasMar 09 11:36
schestowitz> a few years ago and I missed the memo about it being out of fashion.  IMar 09 11:36
schestowitz> certainly don't use it yet.  But if a commissioner is asking such easyMar 09 11:36
schestowitz> questions online, I would think that the community would jump at theMar 09 11:36
schestowitz> chance to answer, even if it is on Twitter.Mar 09 11:36
schestowitzNot many freedom defenders are on Twitter because it's proprietary, US based (gives access to DoJ, as in Wikileaks scandal), etc. but she does have one of her people reposting her stuff in Identica (and it gets piped into the Techrights IRC channel).Mar 09 11:36
schestowitz> What is her Identica handle?  I'm not finding it, probably due to weakMar 09 11:44
schestowitz> searching skills.Mar 09 11:44
schestowitz@ccbuhrMar 09 11:44
schestowitz> Ok thanks.  Boy are these microblogging things stupid.  There are notMar 09 11:50
schestowitz> even any date-time stamps on the posts.  They could be today or last year.Mar 09 11:51
schestowitzThey're stupid, I ignored them for years, but when everyone is using them and they become surrogate of RSS feeds, it's a loss not to embrace them.Mar 09 11:51
schestowitzhttps://joindiaspora.com/posts/2434188Mar 09 14:54
schestowitz"so do i"Mar 09 14:54
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