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| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Marble Atlas Review – Alternative to Google Earth http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/10/marble-atlas-review-alternative-to-google-earth/ #qt #kde #marble #openstreetmap #osm | Oct 19 17:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxarena.com | Marble Atlas Review – Alternative to Google Earth | TuxArena [ http://ur1.ca/ifhf5 ] | Oct 19 17:46 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I have seen some #debian people using #marble , quite a handy globe for offline use . You could also connect #openstreetmap to it." | Oct 19 17:46 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4972967 | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Puppet regime (installed by coup) fell due to intel' oversight http://www.businessinsider.in/How-One-Mans-Illness-May-Have-Changed-The-Course-Of-Middle-Eastern-History/articleshow/44808052.cms #iran | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.businessinsider.in | How One Man's Illness May Have Changed The Course Of Middle Eastern History | Business Insider India [ http://ur1.ca/ifhg6 ] | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Modernising? Huh. | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | I knew middle-class, liberal Iranians in London who regarded him as oppressive and were terrified of him. I have never seen someone so terrifed - and I mean this - as when we cracked jokes in a bar at Imperial College about the Shah - our friend said that the Savak was in the universities in the Uk and that they would persecute the famiies back in Iran - he begged us to stop making jokes. | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | What, btw, does "modernising" mean? | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | He said in an interview that he couldn't increase literacy because they didn't have enough teachers, nor health care because they didn't have enough doctors. Saddam Hessein, Gaddafi and Castro all managed to solve those problems. With regard to democracy he pointed out that the "people" didn't want it because they didn't need it since the Shah was so near to their people - like a father to his family. | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Perhaps he meant a "Godfather"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imil1iIpIYA#t=4m47s | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Shah Of Iran Critisizing Britain - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhg8 ] | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | He was a thug. | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Here is a film enactment of a demo in during the Shahs visit in Germany - from the film "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuYzhk5He0 | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | The Shah from Iran in Berlin (2. June 1967) Demonstration - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhga ] | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Here is a clip from a swiss documentary of the actual event. | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_IB6wiXtoY#t=31m30s | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | "Polizeistaatsbesuch - Beobachtungen unter deutschen Gastgebern" (Zeichen der Zeit ) - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhgc ] | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Here's a BBC doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGBuLyak-c | Oct 19 17:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Shah Of Iran - BBC Documentary, By Britain - British Opinion - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhgd ] | Oct 19 17:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | "Yes, "they" are trying to re-write history, in preparation for a color revolution in Iran." | Oct 19 17:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971689 | Oct 19 17:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #putin pullout http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Funny-Pics-13.10.2014-9-1.jpg | Oct 19 17:49 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Just don't do that joke with my surname :-)." | Oct 19 17:49 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4972968 | Oct 19 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PBS with James Risen: Government crackdown on whistleblowers bad for #democracy http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/james-risen/ | Oct 19 17:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 17:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.pbs.org | James Risen: Government crackdown on whistleblowers bad for democracy | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour [ http://ur1.ca/ifhh7 ] | Oct 19 17:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | Binary thinking is dangerous. Risen seems to have exposed something - but there are some assertions within it that make his intent questionable. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Iran denies that it is trying to make a bomb. Risen asserts that they bought false plans, but what I've read was that they weren't sold anything nor even asked, but simply given, almost anonymously, the plans (they were popped into their mail box). | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | The net result seems to be minimal damage to the CIA, while seeming to confirm that Iran is building a bomb. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | He also refers to Iran as a "rogue" nation - which is not true. AFAIK it hasn't breached international law whereas the USA and the UK have - in buckets. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | So let's not assume that every exposure is at the cost of the party being exposed - it can be used to send a different message. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Even if he did go to prison - and that seems less and less likely - that would not prove any innocence - a good soldier is willing to do the time. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | The more I read about this, the more I have the feeling that he isn't the genuine goods. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | This is just an opinion - I'm not confident enough about this to make it an assertion. But It seems to me a possibility that we should bear in mind. | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 17:50 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971824 | Oct 19 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #snowden thought #scotus would help http://thehill.com/policy/technology/220497-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-programs http://www.govexec.com/technology/2014/10/edward-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-spying-programs/96359/ http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/edward-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-spying-programs-20141011 was wrong http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/10/supreme-cour | Oct 19 17:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | "In some ways, he is very, very naive." | Oct 19 17:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> thehill.com | Snowden: Supreme Court will strike down NSA programs | TheHill [ http://ur1.ca/ifhhs ] | Oct 19 17:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.govexec.com | Edward Snowden: Supreme Court Will Strike Down NSA Spying Programs - Tech - GovExec.com [ http://ur1.ca/ifhht ] | Oct 19 17:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.nationaljournal.com | Edward Snowden: Supreme Court Will Strike Down NSA Spying Programs - NationalJournal.com [ http://ur1.ca/ifhhu ] | Oct 19 17:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> jurist.org | JURIST - Supreme Court declines to rule on DOJ phone records memo | Oct 19 17:51 | |
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| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> They didn't start the attack on Linus, but are merely joining in. On | Oct 19 19:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> the one side you have Poettering and his minions who are trying to | Oct 19 19:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> distract from technical discussions. On the other you have the M$ crowd | Oct 19 19:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> which will latch onto anything to try to cause trouble for Linux or | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> anything FOSS, even if it's only by attacking the key people. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > I am more interested in knowing what person uses several fake names to | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > insult people in the mailing lists? Some messages are now being deleted | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > because the attacks are very nasty. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Or who is paying him. I haven't seen those on the lists I waste time on | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> but I did see a blog post complaining about it. The blog post itself | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> was a troll, too, in response to the troll. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Blog post "don't feed the troll" was in TR since midnight last night. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > Yeah. That's the one. I'd call it a counter-troll. 1) systemd is not | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > an init system, at least not any more it isn't, not for a long while. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > 2) flippantly saying write a "better" one is in appropriate because 2a | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > there are three better ones already and 2b in debian specifically has a | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > "social contract" which is to prioritize users and free software. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > See point #4: | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > https://www.debian.org/social_contract | Oct 19 19:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.debian.org | Debian Social Contract | Oct 19 19:16 | |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > <rant> | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > systemd is not pretty and is getting worse each few days. It is a kick | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > in the nads for power users, sysadmins, devops and anyone maintaining | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > more than one machine by not just breaking things but making them hard | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > to configure and lumping them all in an inexorable monolithic mess. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > There are implementation, technical and design problems. The design | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > problems are insurmountable because the design is wrong on so many | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > levels. To add to all that, it is being pushed out all at once without | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > any of the traditional, necessary deployment and testing phases. A big | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > question I have is how has it managed to get as far as it has in spite | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > of all the red flags? | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > </rant> | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | Red Hat was apparently asked this by its clients. I don't know which clients and why. | Oct 19 19:16 |
| schestowitz__ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev | Oct 19 19:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Chicken Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ http://ur1.ca/ifipl ] | Oct 19 19:17 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Chicken Kiev (Ukrainian: Котлета по-київськи, kotleta po-kyivsky, Russian: Котлета по-киевски, kotleta po-kiyevski) is a popular breaded cutlet dish of boneless chicken breast pounded and rolled around cold garlic butter with herbs, then breaded and either fried or baked." | Oct 19 19:17 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Red Hat was apparently asked this by its clients. I don't know which | Oct 19 19:20 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > clients and why. | Oct 19 19:20 |
| schestowitz__ | > Which clients? NSA? MPAA/RIAA? M$? | Oct 19 19:20 |
| schestowitz__ | Only the first is a client. | Oct 19 19:20 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ia-46543-2013-ors | Oct 20 00:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk | Tribunal decisions [ http://ur1.ca/ifm5b ] | Oct 20 00:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "3. Mikhail Gres entered the UK as a student on 4th June 2001 and was granted extensions of stay as a student until 9th April 2009; a further application for leave to remain was refused and the appeal dismissed on 23rd March 2010; an application for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal was refused on 16th June 2010. His wife, Natalia Vasyukova, arrived in the UK as his dependant in 2006. Their two children were born in the UK on | Oct 20 00:44 |
| schestowitz__ | 16th July 2007 and 2nd January 2011. The older child has started school here in the UK. All remained in the UK without leave to remain after June 2010." | Oct 20 00:44 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | The making of the decision of the First-tier Tribunal did involve the making of an error on a point of law. | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I set aside the decision | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I re-make the decision in the appeal by allowing the appeal of the SSHD and thus dismissing the claimant's appeal against the decision to remove them from the UK. | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | "24. During that lengthy period of residence I accept that the eldest child has started school here and knows no other country than the UK, that Mr Gres has been gainfully and productively employed and that he will be a loss to his employers. That the eldest child is integrated in the UK in so far as a 6 year old can be, that there would be difficulties for the family as regards employment and housing in Russia, that Mr Gres is | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | working and the family as a whole are integrated within the UK are not sufficiently compelling reasons to outweigh the interests of the SSHD in removal. The circumstances and consequences of removal will not, on the basis of the evidence before me, result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for the family such as to render removal disproportionate." | Oct 20 00:45 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971492 | Oct 20 00:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: And by 'Traditional Voters,' the New York Times Means White People http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/10/16/and-by-traditional-voters-the-new-york-times-means-white-people/ #nytimes | Oct 20 00:54 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.fair.org | And by 'Traditional Voters,' the New York Times Means White People [ http://ur1.ca/ifhdd ] | Oct 20 00:54 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/221196-clinton-democrats-falling-flat-in-south | Oct 20 00:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thehill.com | 'Clinton Democrats' falling flat | TheHill [ http://ur1.ca/ifm97 ] | Oct 20 00:54 | |
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| schestowitz__ | [17:37] <tessier> Has the server been under attack again or something? Got lots of pages this morning. | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> yes, for over a month now but today it was really bad | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> I have some ideas and code that can aid at cache level | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> but the varnish server is shared | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> So I would not deploy iy | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> *it | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <tessier> Hmm... | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <tessier> What are they doing? | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> I can tell you the pattern of attacks | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <tessier> Ok....also who and why if you have any idea... | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <schestowitz__> That's the hard part, I can't see any reason that's new | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <schestowitz__> I have not published anything that's different from the past and they attack Tux Machines too | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:40] <schestowitz__> I rushed home from the gym because the sites were down | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:45] <schestowitz__> the bursts of attacks seem to come exclusively from machines with "NT" in them | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:45] <schestowitz__> there uses to be cycles, but not it's more stochastic | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:47] <schestowitz__> so I can't quite lay out a clear pattern. They do work in pulses/bursts, I blocked some parts of the sites that are hit routinely. Can't block requests based on "NT", but maybe offending IPs can be blocked by Varnish. | Oct 20 18:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <tessier> Are they just doing a lot of GETs and hitting the webpages quickly? | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <tessier> What do you mean by "NT"? NT in the hostname or user agent? | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <schestowitz__> User agent | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> If I tail the logs I see the offending requests always coming from Windows NT zombies, i assume | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> various browsers, not just one type | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> the IPs are the Varnish server's address, I dare not tinker with that box unless varnish as a whole is down, in which case I can help all the sites served through it | Oct 20 18:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:03] <tessier> My first thought is to configure fail2ban to look at the apache logs and block any IP which hits us too fast but since it's the IP of the varnish server that won't work. | Oct 20 19:06 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:06] <schestowitz__> I thought about using one of the two methods for passing IPs from varnish to apache, but that requires configuration. Rpaf and another one (successor I think) achieve this. | Oct 20 19:06 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:09] <schestowitz__> techrights is down again due to heavy load by the DDOS | Oct 20 19:09 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:16] <tessier> Checking the logs....I've never been able to catch it in the act... | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <schestowitz__> check techrights 20 minutes ago until 2 minutes ago when it stopped | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <schestowitz__> I can give you stats on what URLs and headers if that would help | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <tessier> Sure | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <tessier> I really hate the way proxies mess up the IPs in the logs. | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <tessier> I'm not averse to configuring varnish to pass the IP | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <schestowitz__> almost all the attacks on techrights strike at something like /wp-login.php?action=register | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <schestowitz__> but some mass-request heavy to generate pages | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <schestowitz__> at up to 20 times per second | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <tessier> Ok...fail2ban really is the right solution for that. | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <tessier> Have you found any good guides on configuring varnish to pass the IP? | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <tessier> And getting apache to log it correctly since presumably it is passed in a header? | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> I have a better understanding of how tux machines gets hammered | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding / | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding /forum/SOMETHING | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding /aggregator* | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> and some variations on login and register | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:21] <schestowitz__> I can block 2-5 of the above and often do | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:21] <schestowitz__> But the first is hard to block, it's the front page, so I redirect to Google cache or some static page | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:22] <schestowitz__> The attacks are a nightmare when they hit lots of random pages or aggregations of pages that are not cached, then I just flush all live sessions and let it start accepting new conections before RAM runs out | Oct 20 19:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:27] <tessier> Hmm...even if we configured it to pass the ip and logged it on techrights and ran fail2ban there it's still technically the ip of varnish connecting so blocking in iptables wouldn't work....let me see if I can make varnish log and then run fail2ban there. | Oct 20 19:32 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:32] <schestowitz__> I exchanged dozens of emails with a friend in Finland about it. He gave some advice on how to relay IPs from varnish to Apache. Do you want me to send you that? Requires some changes at varnish side.. he rested this on a VM with same centos version as your lovely setup (which is very robust by the way). | Oct 20 19:32 |
| schestowitz__ | (Thanks for the help and great service! This is aside from the annual payment.) | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:33] <schestowitz__> https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4982367 | Oct 20 19:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: US Army withheld promise from Germany that #Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized http://rt.com/news/197500-us-army-ebola-weapon/ #disturbing | Oct 20 19:52 | |
| schestowitz__ | [18:33] <schestowitz__> oops, disregard that paste :-) | Oct 20 19:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> rt.com | NO TITLE [ http://ur1.ca/ig1f6 ] | Oct 20 19:52 | |
| schestowitz__ | [18:36] <schestowitz__> you can see it in action right now against tux machines | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:37] <schestowitz__> but this surge/pulse is probably too weak to knock apache over and make the machine run out of RAM and time out | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:38] <tessier> Got varnish logging going to /var/log/varnishncsa.log on the varnish server...so we've got IPs being logged. Configuring fail2ban on it now... | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:39] <schestowitz__> excellent, thanks! | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:43] <schestowitz__> I've just paypal'ed your account, did you get it? | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:51] <tessier> Yes, I did. Thanks! | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:51] <tessier> fail2ban is banning lots of stuff but having a problem with iptables so the rule isn't going into effect...once I get that figured out we'll be in good shape. | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:52] <schestowitz__> excellent, wish we had done that earlier but thought the attacker would get bored and go away | Oct 20 19:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:52] <tessier> Me too | Oct 20 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:55] <tessier> Ok, I know what the issue is...I'm going to have to reboot the varnish server. | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:56] <tessier> I disable kernel module loading shortly after boot to block rootkits and iptables is needing to load a new module for this to work. | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:56] <schestowitz__> Oh, I see. Sorry for causing issue to others who depend on this varnish server... | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:57] <tessier> Really, your sites and my own personal sites and the copilotco.com site are the only ones who depend on it. This will be a good thing for all of us, really. Not a big deal. | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:59] <tessier> This machine needed patches anyway. CentOS 5.9 to 5.10. I should build a dedicated varnish box and start deploying CentOS 7. Haven't started that because I hear 7 is a lot of work due to systemd. I'm worried about how much puppet policy etc. I'll have to rewrite. | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:11] <tessier> Coming back up....I need to split varnish and asterisk both onto their own separate systems. My asterisk is ancient and probably horribly vulnerable. | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:13] <tessier> yeay, it's back up and fail2ban is working. | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <schestowitz__> average load us under 1 and I cannot access tuxmachines | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <tessier> Yeah...something isn't right... | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <schestowitz__> my wife can't either, from the tablet | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <schestowitz__> fine for both of us now :-) | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <schestowitz__> load up to 1.5 | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <tessier> Yeah...fail2ban somehow banned us too. It's way too aggressive. Tuning... | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:19] <tessier> Currently, if it sees more than 360 requests in 120 seconds it will ban for 10 minutes. | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <schestowitz__> that sounds good, I see the load being less than the number of cores on both VMs, TR and TM org | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <tessier> So far nothing has been banned... | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <schestowitz__> TM is growing in terms of reach, it's becoming bigger than Linux Today and LXer I think | Oct 20 20:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:22] <schestowitz__> [root@tuxmachines ~]# tail -n 1000 /var/log/httpd/access.log | grep NT | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:22] <schestowitz__> there are some offensive requests on tuxmachines at the moment | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:23] <tessier> 27.153.230.48 looks like an offender | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:23] <schestowitz__> I can see them among the lines in bursts, several machines hitting the same pages | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:24] <schestowitz__> including front page, with referer being some junk URL that I think tries to bypass the cache | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:24] <tessier> Yeah...we need to clamp down a bit more then... | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <tessier> Let's try 60 per 60 seconds... | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <schestowitz__> I think there's a pool of machines the attacker is using, maybe no bigger than a cluster | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <schestowitz__> But they're timed to hit at the same time | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Yeah. We'll get them all blocked... | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <schestowitz__> CPU/RAM-intensive page, e.g. every ten minutes, sometimes a second or two apart | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Oct 20 12:25:52 www fail2ban.actions: WARNING [http-get-dos] Ban 158.170.162.11 | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Oct 20 12:25:55 www fail2ban.actions: WARNING [http-get-dos] Ban 86.10.124.97 | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> That's one | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Two actually | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:27] <tessier> 86.85.148.116 also | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:27] <schestowitz__> there's a flood hitting techrights now | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:30] <tessier> Reduced it down to 30 requests per minute. We've blocked 5 so far. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <tessier> 14 blocked. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <schestowitz__> excellent, I can see the cruft becoming more scarce | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <tessier> 17 blocked. Load on the server hasn't really come down much yet though. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <tessier> They may notice we are blocking and throw more bots at us. They must have finite resources though. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> it usually comes in bursts to tuxmachines | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> techrights load still high | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:34] <schestowitz__> Only thing I can think of starting over a month ago is a series about the EPO, based on a whistleblower, which I still do every week (earlier today I published one part before a massive attack) | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> But I very much doubt that's the cause for it | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <tessier> Load is coming down now...22 IPs blocked so far. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> Some source told me today that there's chaos in EPO resulting from it, inc. people leaving | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> their Communications Manager got fired last week | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:36] <tessier> What is EPO? | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> Then one of them wrote a formal response (in Croatia) and someone high level in france is said to be worried about the conflicts of interesting becoming public knowledge | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> European Patent Office. they're getting even more aggressive and corrupt than USPTO now, even with software patents | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <tessier> Ah. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> US is cutting back on software patents | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> not sure if you followed the Alice case | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> lawsuits have almost halved since then | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:38] <tessier> Yes, I was very pleased with the Alice ruling. | Oct 20 20:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:42] <tessier> Is the site working for you? Not loading for me. I wonder if I got myself banned but I don't see my IP in the list... | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:44] <schestowitz__> it's timing out on me, I think | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:44] <schestowitz__> yes, no response | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:45] <schestowitz__> from two IPs here | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:45] <schestowitz__> both sites, two devices | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:46] <schestowitz__> my IP: 86.185.122.224 | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:50] <tessier> Ok, adding those to the whitelist... | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:51] <schestowitz__> hopefully not many legit IPs are being banned | Oct 20 20:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:01] <tessier> If you prefer I can configure it to email you whenever it bans someone so you can investigate. | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:01] <tessier> Currently it is just emailing me | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> yes, please | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> then I can check against the logs, just in case | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <tessier> What email do you prefer these go to? | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> s#schestowitz.com | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> I'll set up a filter based on subject line | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines just got flooded | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> and ran out of ram | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> I reloaded httpd | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> to flush the rogue sessions | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:06] <schestowitz__> load avg climbed over 80 | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:08] <schestowitz__> maybe it's still studying which IPs to block | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:46] <schestowitz__> what's the expiry time for IP ban? | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:50] <tessier> bantime = 3600 | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:50] <tessier> So an hour. | Oct 20 21:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:51] <schestowitz__> cheers :-) | Oct 20 21:51 |
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| schestowitz__ | >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200186&p=13148316#post13148316 | Oct 21 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Oct 21 09:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ubuntuforums.org | upstart, systemd, Canonical and Debian - Page 7 [ http://ur1.ca/igbmd ] | Oct 21 09:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> systemd trolls now hitting the forums with their pro-systemd spewage, | Oct 21 09:51 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> blind, deaf and dumb in regards to problems with systemd. One trick is | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> to ask each person for the full list of problems and pretend that there | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> aren't any others nor ones reported by other people. | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > I don't think someone is coordinating a mess here, I think it's natural | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > for disagreements to arise. | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > Their responses are always limited to a very narrow range of | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > tactics/talking points. Coordinated or not, they are fairly homogeneous. | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm on the fence mostly. | Oct 21 09:52 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984503 | Oct 21 09:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: GOG Now Have Over 100 Linux Games, New Classics Include Baldur's Gate http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gog-now-have-over-100-linux-games-new-classics-include-baldurs-gate.4478/ #gog #games #gnu #linux | Oct 21 09:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | "#nodrm #drmfree tags too :)" | Oct 21 09:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | GOG Now Have Over 100 Linux Games, New Classics Include Baldur's Gate | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/igbso ] | Oct 21 09:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984384 | Oct 21 09:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #google must still have some #microsoft #windows on its premises (maybe non-technical staff) because some zombies attack me from Google IPs | Oct 21 09:57 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Haha, or you pissed someone at Google off." | Oct 21 09:57 |
| schestowitz__ | "It wouldn't surprise me one bit if some Google non-technical staff are using Windows. And I'd only be disappointed but still not surprised if even some of their technical staff are using it." | Oct 21 09:57 |
| schestowitz__ | My point was, there are Windows machines there being compromised. I could file abuse complaint to Google (the ISP). | Oct 21 09:57 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984049 | Oct 21 09:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft worked with #nsa and put #backdoors in #windows in 1999. Re #redhat (NSA partner): http://betanews.com/2000/04/25/backdoor-found-in-red-hat-linux/ http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/27/redhat.backdoor.idg/index.html | Oct 21 09:58 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> betanews.com | Backdoor Found in Red Hat Linux [ http://ur1.ca/igbtc ] | Oct 21 09:58 | |
| schestowitz__ | "published 14 jears ago?" | Oct 21 09:58 |
| schestowitz__ | "It's from BetaNews, a Microsoft booster. Huge grain of salt required. Notice that they don't link to Red Hat's response? Even their updates link is broken.' | Oct 21 09:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> edition.cnn.com | CNN.com - Technology - Security firm warns of Red Hat Piranha 'back door' - April 27, 2000 [ http://ur1.ca/igbtg ] | Oct 21 09:58 | |
| schestowitz__ | IDG published something like this as well at the same time | Oct 21 09:58 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4987568 | Oct 21 19:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 2-3 weeks since #gnu #bash bug media hype; any aftermath or disaster/crisis since then? No? Not much? Same with #openssl bug. #hype #media | Oct 21 19:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | It was yahoo that was supposedly getting compromised due to the bash vulnerability. | Oct 21 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | I still agree with your initial assessment as I'd have to say that if they were getting cracked due to this they didn't patch when they should have. Also I'm not sure how extensive the problem really was. | Oct 21 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4988409 | Oct 21 19:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Cops Won't Help You http://www.cracked.com/article_21830_cops-wont-help-you-7-things-i-saw-as-real-slasher-victim_p2.html "That Whole "Protect and Serve" Thing Is Just Pillow Talk, Baby" #police | Oct 21 19:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cracked.com | Cops Won't Help You: 7 Things I Saw as a Real Slasher Victim | Cracked.com [ http://ur1.ca/igg7x ] | Oct 21 19:49 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4988409 | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | "I started to come out, I opened the door, but I thought Gelman had a gun, so I closed the door and stayed inside." | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Cops in the US are like those in my Banana Republic, only shoot people when they're many, and preferably shoot unarmed and harmless citizens! But unlike the US cops here do not roam in armored vehicles, do not get so much pay and do not get paid vacations in case of murdering. | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | It must be great to be a cop in the US, the best part being having no constitutional duty to protect people from harm. | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 19:50 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524635435063332869 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524631747460595712 https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/524624694041776128 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524623474175016960 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524607687376777217 | Oct 21 20:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Death by #hurricane in the #uk http://t.co/1vxZgwJn8F who said there are no natural disasters here other than floods? | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Hurricane Gonzalo: Disruption As Remnants Of Storm Hits UK - YouTube | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Today in #Techrights http://t.co/CSRhM0uX4z | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Today in Techrights | Tux Machines | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think it's more like the #police no longer need #nsa bc they can buy Stingray spying tools off-the-shelf from Harris, etc. | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Criminal Microsoft is Censoring the Web and Breaks Laws to Do So; the Web Should Censor (Remove) #Microsoft http://t.co/l3kC94CmTU #ddos | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Criminal Microsoft is Censoring the Web and Breaks Laws to Do So; the Web Should Censor (Remove) Microsoft | Techrights | Oct 21 20:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Microsoft 'Loving' GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction http://t.co/1tgLUbA5s5 #microsoft lying again and its media partners help it | Oct 21 20:01 | |
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| schestowitz__ | [05:43] <schestowitz__> hi tracy | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> many legit IPs seem to be getting blocked | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> I checked some and asked some people and they say the server times out on them | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> maybe as many of half the visitors | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:47] <schestowitz__> I don't know why they're being blocked, I think they only request one or two pages | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:47] <schestowitz__> Based on their testing patterns. In some cases all they even do is access the front page | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> Ok | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> We'll have to increase the threshold then.... | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> Has the DDOS traffic been mitigated at least? | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <schestowitz__> yes | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> not entirely, but yesterday was not as bad as the day before | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> there were about 3 cases of techrights becoming unavailable | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines suffered only one successful attack | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <schestowitz__> I worry that most of the banned IPs are actually those of regular visitors, so I'd rather flush the existing bans and start again with better thresholds | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <tessier> Are you getting the emails about IPs being banned? | Oct 22 07:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <schestowitz__> yes, but it's hard to tell if they're offending IPs | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <tessier> I see. | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:56] <schestowitz__> when I used browsershots.org as many as half of the requests if not more are timing out | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:57] <tessier> Ok. I have cleared existing bans and I'm upping the thresholds. It just means the site will be vulnerable/suffer longer before attackers get banned but that's only for a few minutes longer and better than legit users being banned. | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> Thanks, I think it's better than lots of people being banned for just loading a page or maybe 2 | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines.org is under heavy load now | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> but it can cope | Oct 22 07:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [06:13] <tessier> We are implementing a logstash server which will be able to do some more sophisticated things with logs also. I have already written code which will automatically block security scanners etc. based on logfiles. It also blocks people who rack up too many 404's etc. | Oct 22 10:17 |
| schestowitz__ | [06:13] <schestowitz__> I can tell you common locations that zombies target | Oct 22 10:17 |
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| schestowitz__ | [18:02] <tessier> How are things looking today? | Oct 22 20:33 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> Much better this afternoon. Interestingly enough, a quarter of the IPs banned this afternoon are from... Lockheed martin! | Oct 22 20:33 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:39] <tessier> Have you annoyed anyone at Lockmart? | Oct 22 20:45 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:40] <schestowitz__> I am vocal in criticising drone strikes and wars | Oct 22 20:45 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:41] <tessier> Ah. | Oct 22 20:45 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4995596 | Oct 23 06:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Civilization: Beyond Earth Linux Release Date Cleared Up http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/civilization-beyond-earth-linux-release-date-cleared-up.4486 #linux #games #gnu | Oct 23 06:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | Civilization: Beyond Earth Linux Release Date Cleared Up | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/ihvsz ] | Oct 23 06:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I can't wait for that. I'm glad Sid Meier has the heart to release the game for open source." | Oct 23 06:44 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000304 | Oct 23 06:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Another attack on the sites 5 minutes ago, Lockheed Martin Corporation IPs again, hundreds of knocks on #varnish in short moment of time | Oct 23 06:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "That's very suspicious." | Oct 23 06:44 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4999407 | Oct 23 06:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: A high proportion of the #ddos attacks on my sites today come from IP addresses of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Banned. | Oct 23 06:45 | |
| schestowitz__ | "A military industrial complex company. Definitely curious." | Oct 23 06:45 |
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| schestowitz__ | http://www.eweek.com/blogs/first-read/hp-to-show-off-new-pc-called-sprout-this-month.html | Oct 23 07:46 |
| schestowitz__ | "The system will be aimed primarily at businesses, and while initially it will run Windows, there is the possibility that it will support Google's Chrome OS in the future, according to the report. " | Oct 23 07:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.eweek.com | HP to Show Off New PC Called Sprout This Month [ http://ur1.ca/ihwes ] | Oct 23 07:46 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000117 | Oct 23 07:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ## "An elephant never forgets" [](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3520) #memory #file #storage #retrieval #compatibility #SMBC #SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal #comics #comic | Oct 23 07:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""I actually used Elephants for data storage back in the day. :)" | Oct 23 07:50 |
| schestowitz__ | http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/ems003.jpg | Oct 23 07:50 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5004284 | Oct 24 08:40 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Sending weapons to 'moderate' 'rebels' http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/358027093/pentagon-says-it-will-investigate-stray-arms-drop-over-syria | Oct 24 08:40 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.northcountrypublicradio.org | Pentagon Says It Will Investigate Stray Arms Drop Over Syria | NCPR News [ http://ur1.ca/ii9sz ] | Oct 24 08:40 | |
| schestowitz__ | "ridiculous...more war, more business" | Oct 24 08:40 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003845 | Oct 24 08:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #twitter jumps the shark again http://www.morningledger.com/monica-lewinsky-creates-a-buzz-by-joining-twitter/138345/ | Oct 24 08:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.morningledger.com | Monica Lewinsky Creates a Buzz by Joining Twitter | Morning Ledger [ http://ur1.ca/ii9t7 ] | Oct 24 08:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 08:41 |
| schestowitz__ | It's good that Lewinsky is taking control of her own story. She's been a rag doll for big publishers a long, long time and fighting that takes courage. | Oct 24 08:41 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm not as sure Twitter is a good way for her to do that. She should host a blog rather than depend on publications like Vanity Fair or Twitter, both of which censor things. Let's see what she comes up with. | Oct 24 08:41 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 08:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003517 | Oct 24 08:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: What Does the Return of the ‘Crypto Wars’ Mean for Bitcoin? http://insidebitcoins.com/news/what-does-the-return-of-the-crypto-wars-mean-for-bitcoin/25660 the broader impact of attack on cryptography | Oct 24 08:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Eben Moglen says NSA intrusion threatens all electronic commerce." | Oct 24 08:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> insidebitcoins.com | What Does the Return of the ‘Crypto Wars’ Mean for Bitcoin? | Inside Bitcoins [ http://ur1.ca/ii9td ] | Oct 24 08:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5004316 | Oct 24 08:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Shooting in #canada does not show Canada should go to war half a world away. It shows how joining the war creates #blowback (like Spain). | Oct 24 08:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "It's hard to believe that was a honest mistake." | Oct 24 08:42 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5007352 | Oct 24 08:43 |
| schestowitz__ | "The screens and the keyboard are really just awful 9 out of 10. The hardware in them is nice enough, but the build quality of it all together is usally sub-par in my experience. Then again, some of these things sell for $150, usually no more than $350." | Oct 24 08:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Sad to say this, but #chromebook (all those which I saw today for about an hour) are truly underwhelming. http://blog.laptopmag.com/best-chromebooks | Oct 24 08:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.laptopmag.com | Best Chromebooks 2014 - Chromebook Reviews [ http://ur1.ca/ii9to ] | Oct 24 08:43 | |
| schestowitz__ | > Hi, Roy, | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > Regarding PC World: | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/10/23/warranty-gnu-linux/ | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > you can buy a whitebox NUC fairly cheaply from Germany these days. It's | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > not really expandable, but for some desktop uses it is suitable. We | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > even have a local shop here in town that can sell them with Gnu/Linux | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > pre-installed. | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | When I was at the store (for over 2 hours, 2 stores) I also checked online what Novatech offer. They have always sold OS-free laptops and desktops (I bought my last computer there). | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | When we returned home I worked hard on fixing my Novatech box. I was pretty sure the GPU was to blame, so I removed it, upgraded to the latest Kubuntu LTS, made my wife an account on it and so far she's happy with the result. I think I can also do some work on it, even though it's a single-head machine. | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | I really wanted us to have an additional laptop with peripheral display in the bedroom. That said, I think it's more than she really needs; she already uses the tablet a lot to post in tuxmachines. Also, she wants something a bit simpler than KDE (she wants to experiment with other DEs, she never uses Windows or OSuX)... ChromeOS is utter crap, for me at least... tried it again last night having played with it at the airport some | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | years back... it's like a friggin tablet dressed up as a laptop with a keyboard... it does support dual head now though... BUT... get this... only 800 MB of disk space (SSD) for one's files... Google pushes hard for people to upload all their files! | Oct 24 10:48 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Do you know anyone who's good at FOSS and Drupal and is looking for a | Oct 24 10:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > job? We're hiring. | Oct 24 10:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > I don't know anyone using PHP except for one in Portugal. She's into | Oct 24 10:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > FOSS but already currently employed though. Is it an on-site job, | Oct 24 10:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > permanent job or a temporary one? I guess I could forward information | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > if you have a little more detail. | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > By the way, are you employed in CS currently? | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > No, but I'd be open to part-time telecommuting. I have doubts about | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > skills though, I tend to fill up /var/tmp and stuff like that. | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Well, telecommuting is definitely an option. I think you helped Digital Tipping Point under Drupal at one stage. | Oct 24 10:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Would you feel comfortable assisting the building of a public sector (city council) Web site using Drupal? | Oct 24 10:53 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003572 | Oct 24 11:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Let's just forget how many people #fbi has murdered (with or without subsequent coverup) http://www.tweaktown.com/news/40744/congressman-mike-rogers-says-edward-snowden-should-face-murder-charges/index.html #MikeRogers #nutter | Oct 24 11:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tweaktown.com | Congressman Mike Rogers says Edward Snowden should face murder charges [ http://ur1.ca/iib84 ] | Oct 24 11:06 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Like all those apparent suicides. Yep suicide, I believe that." | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | enemies are changing their strategies to avoid being noticed by US and British intelligence agencies. | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, ordinary citizens are, indeed, their enemy. | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | "Hey, why don't they reopen the JFK case. Some of the perps are still alive, and there's quite a bit more evidence there." | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | "the amerikrap government should be charged with murder and hung upside down by the balls for supporting beheadings by the nazi/maidan in the ukraine. lets put rogers on the gallows first." | Oct 24 11:06 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5002937 | Oct 24 11:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft bricking of hardware http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ one of the antifeatures of #uefi http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI (see list) | Oct 24 11:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> hackaday.com | Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips [ http://ur1.ca/iibag ] | Oct 24 11:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | UEFI - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/arj9i ] | Oct 24 11:15 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Do you have anything relating this brick to UEFI?" | Oct 24 11:15 |
| schestowitz__ | Not this particular brick | Oct 24 11:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>> Do you know anyone who's good at FOSS and Drupal and is looking for a>>>>> >>> > job? We're hiring. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> I don't know anyone using PHP except for one in Portugal. She's into | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> FOSS but already currently employed though. Is it an on-site job, | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> permanent job or a temporary one? I guess I could forward information | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> if you have a little more detail. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > By the way, are you employed in CS currently? | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> No, but I'd be open to part-time telecommuting. I have doubts about | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> skills though, I tend to fill up /var/tmp and stuff like that. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Well, telecommuting is definitely an option. I think you helped Digital | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Tipping Point under Drupal at one stage. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > If I recall correctly that was on the non-code side of things. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Would you feel comfortable assisting the building of a public sector | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > (city council) Web site using Drupal? | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > I'd have to check out Drupal this weekend or early next week on a spare | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > machine. It was 2003 or 2004 when I last used PHP[1], I was spending | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > too much time reporting and working around bugs and design problems and | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > went back to Perl for a while. Which distro is it being set up on? | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > Which underlying db, MariaDB or Postgresql? And is there a pre-existing | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > site or two that serves as model or inspiration? | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | At our company we use a lot of Debian/Ubuntu, Postgresql/MySQL and knowledge of PHP is hardly required. Sysadmin skills plus some CMS and maybe a bit of web stuff is preferable. Pay for work from home is around $20 (or more) per hour. | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > [1] I agree with this guy about PHP: | Oct 24 11:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ | Oct 24 11:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-eev.ee | PHP: a fractal of bad design / fuzzy notepad [ http://ur1.ca/iibi4 ] | Oct 24 11:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | I don't like PHP, my applications keep breaking every once in a while because of dead APIs and forced upgrades. | Oct 24 11:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000117 | Oct 24 11:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ## "An elephant never forgets" [](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3520) #memory #file #storage #retrieval #compatibility #SMBC #SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal #comics #comic | Oct 24 11:46 | |
| schestowitz__ | "That's no elephant, it's Chtulh." | Oct 24 11:46 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003310 | Oct 24 11:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: going in...  #goingin #stripes #singularity #animatedgif | Oct 24 11:47 | |
| schestowitz__ | that thing drives my cpu up to 18%"" | Oct 24 11:47 |
| schestowitz__ | warms up the house :-) | Oct 24 11:47 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003315 | Oct 24 11:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "patent prices are plummeting # court fights is down, and stock prices of many patent-holding companies have fallen" http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-tech-ip-trolls-insight-idUKKCN0IB15O20141022 | Oct 24 11:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Hopefully, universities around the country will be closing down their ill conceived "IP" departments. All they did was suck up money and feed the trolls." | Oct 24 11:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> uk.reuters.com | Big Tech winning battle with 'patent trolls' | Reuters [ http://ur1.ca/iiblc ] | Oct 24 11:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | When I submitted my phd thesis I had to reproduce some nonsense text with the term "intellectual property" repeated many times in it. It's enforced, it's a requirement. UK-IPO nonsense. | Oct 24 11:52 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003810 | Oct 24 11:55 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The 'Hacker Wars' Documentary Does Hacktivism No Favors http://www.vice.com/read/the-hacker-wars-documentary-does-hacktivism-no-favors-1023 "giving too much screen time to Weev," | Oct 24 11:55 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.vice.com | The 'Hacker Wars' Documentary Does Hacktivism No Favors | VICE United States [ http://ur1.ca/iibmw ] | Oct 24 11:55 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""Their observations, along with the film's bro-step soundtrack, probably won't counter the perception that activist hackers tend to be puckish pranksters with an anti-authority complex rather than serious people using hacking to achieve noble political ends." ... oh well..." | Oct 24 11:55 |
| schestowitz__ | > Unfortunately not - I've been Berlin-based since February last year. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Give me a shout next time you're in town. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > I know Matt Lee is / was coming to Manchester. Hardly a Richard Stallman | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > substitute, but an interesting figure nonetheless. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > I'm working for LibreOffice / Collabora these days as you probably saw. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Are you still doing research in Manchester? | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Sam. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | I am working for Sirius right now, the same company that Lee had worked for before. Do you know if he's seeking employment? | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm doing research here only into FOSS, as a hobby. We work on FOSS for the British government now (among other clients that are smaller). | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | A lot of family members are hanging around Berlin these days, but I don't foresee myself going there soon, so we might have to meet in Manchester next. | Oct 24 13:46 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I'd have to check out Drupal this weekend or early next week on a spare | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> machine. It was 2003 or 2004 when I last used PHP[1], I was spending | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> too much time reporting and working around bugs and design problems and | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> went back to Perl for a while. Which distro is it being set up on? | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Which underlying db, MariaDB or Postgresql? And is there a pre-existing | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> site or two that serves as model or inspiration? | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > At our company we use a lot of Debian/Ubuntu, Postgresql/MySQL and | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > knowledge of PHP is hardly required. Sysadmin skills plus some CMS and | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > maybe a bit of web stuff is preferable. Pay for work from home is around | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > $20 (or more) per hour. | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > Isn't $32 per hour closer to average? Debian/Ubuntu is familiar, I've | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > been using one then the other since the 90's. I'm comfortable with | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > XHTML+CSS2 but it was also a while back. I'll check out Drupal and see | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > if it is comfortable to use. Which Drupal modules and themes are | Oct 24 13:47 |
| schestowitz__ | > planned and would the site be monolingual? Drupal 7 I presume? It is | Oct 24 13:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > what is in the Ubuntu LTS repository. | Oct 24 13:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, Drupal 7. | Oct 24 13:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Regarding salary, the perk is no bossing and working from home with minimal pressure. | Oct 24 13:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/TechJournalist/status/525628300090441728 | Oct 24 13:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@TechJournalist: @schestowitz just checked. The last @fedora to follow the original schedule (no delays) was Fedora 10 in 2008 https://t.co/8oVxlGjPsv | Oct 24 13:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule?rd=Releases/11 ) | Oct 24 13:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | I used Fedora 1,2, 5,6, 12, 14 and a few more recently. After they dropped Core it wasn't as potent. | Oct 24 13:51 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5011936 | Oct 24 13:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "but "prevent systemd from ever being installed" - does not currently appear possible for a new installation" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg02091.html | Oct 24 13:56 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> lists.debian.org | Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this... [ http://ur1.ca/iiaoz ] | Oct 24 13:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003558 | Oct 24 14:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Revisionist history would have us believe #greenwald discovered #snowden because #poitras is a low-profile person. Greenwald dismissed him. | Oct 24 14:18 | |
| schestowitz__ | "You see a balance in action here and it is very important to note it. Software owner's malice continues to make free software difficult for most people. I focus on that difficulty more than Greenwald because it shows how damaging that malice is. Even the smallest problems are insurmountable when you lack sufficient motivation and we drown in propaganda that tries to tear down our motivation. Simultaneously, we are told not to worry | Oct 24 14:18 |
| schestowitz__ | about injustices because they are not so great and that resistance is futile because the unjust are impossibly powerful. Non free software is helping to make that power." | Oct 24 14:18 |
| schestowitz__ | greenwald is a lawyers. I always say they must be trained for enryption, same for journalists. Greenwald's inadequate use of Tor could put Snowden in his grave/prison... anyway, he pretty much gave up because it was hard. | Oct 24 14:20 |
| schestowitz__ | *lawyer | Oct 24 14:20 |
| schestowitz__ | *encryption | Oct 24 14:20 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003654 | Oct 24 14:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Risen is not a story or case of #nytimes challenging the Establishment. As Risen and his deposed managers tell, NY Times CENSORED him. | Oct 24 14:36 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between a person with professional integrity and controlled opposition. Maybe a person can be so spun that they are both. The NYT surely has little integrity because they did spike his stories and helped ruin the San Jose Mercury News instead of welcoming a new era of internet based reporting. They have also been exposed in many other scandals, most recently by Greenwald. I'm not sure | Oct 24 14:36 |
| schestowitz__ | why anyone would want to work there now, especially someone like Risen who has demonstrated some personal integrity." | Oct 24 14:36 |
| schestowitz__ | Risen gets a good salary and big platform there, so there's not too much harm | Oct 24 14:36 |
| schestowitz__ | he also co-authors with Laura P sometimes | Oct 24 14:36 |
| schestowitz__ | Police play dress-up to arrest cardiac patient; Kind-hearted cleaner hands in bag of cash; Clearer skies over Shijiazhuang | Oct 24 14:38 |
| schestowitz__ | http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1623130/police-play-dress-arrest-cardiac-patient-kind-hearted-cleaner | Oct 24 14:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.scmp.com | Police play dress-up to arrest cardiac patient; Kind-hearted cleaner hands in bag of cash; Clearer skies over Shijiazhuang | South China Morning Post [ http://ur1.ca/iid0h ] | Oct 24 14:38 | |
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| schestowitz__ | > Thanks, Roy! Is it okay with you that Jam post the responses to the | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Acquia blog, and link out to your original post at the bottom? When you | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > get a chance, please let me know. | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Thanks! | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, of course, I would very much like that! :-) | Oct 24 19:38 |
| schestowitz__ | https://plus.google.com/113579520393333767984/posts/4A9V6w56557 | Oct 24 20:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | Avoid UEFI and Windows Bricking is malicious and intentional. People who… [ http://ur1.ca/iig14 ] | Oct 24 20:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Avoid UEFI and Windows Bricking is malicious and intentional. | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | People who reverse engineered the drive claim that the bricking is malicious and intentional. | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | https://plus.google.com/u/0/111104121194250082892/posts/gXzC8Zp72Jv | Oct 24 20:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | A picture of the source code created by disassembling a binary driver that was… [ http://ur1.ca/iibaz ] | Oct 24 20:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | The Microsoft press tries to justify this as an attack on "fake" chips. | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/ | Oct 24 20:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-arstechnica.com | Windows Update drivers bricking USB serial chips beloved of hardware hackers | Ars Technica [ http://ur1.ca/iibao ] | Oct 24 20:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | If the only way to talk to a piece of hardware is through malicious software like Windows, don't buy it. Insist on your software freedom and you won't have to worry about malicious owners bricking your hardware. | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-hackaday.com | Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips [ http://ur1.ca/iibag ] | Oct 24 20:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Avoid GNU/Linux traitors that payed for the secure-boot keys instead of fighting it! X-(" | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | "What has a 3rd party driver to do with UEFI?" | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | "UEFI has 0 bearing on this problem and the villain here is FTDI" | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm not sure Jan, so I've asked Roy here, | Oct 24 20:53 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5002937 | Oct 24 20:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft bricking of hardware http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ one of the antifeatures of #uefi http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI (see list) | Oct 24 20:53 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | UEFI - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/arj9i ] | Oct 24 20:54 | |
| schestowitz__ | In the mean time, I'd like you not to fbomb my threads. I consider it a form of aggression and unnecessary emotional escalation. | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | Nothing to do with UEFI | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | Not a lot to do with Microsoft either except to demonstrate their QA and auditing on driver updates isn't working very well. | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "toned down my comment. And seeing Alan agrees with me that UEFI has nothing to do with 3rd party drivers is good enough for me. " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | By the way: UEFI + secure boot = m$ | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | 3dr party drivers ... from companies that are brownosing m$?? In that case they are not independent problems. | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | But don't pay me attention. I'm one of those crazy guys that believe in utopias. | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "Oh, and worth mentioning. Roy has replied on diaspora and clearly states that it has NOTHING to do with UEFI. I honestly think that adding FUD like this is really not helping him to make an argument." | Oct 24 20:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think Roy intended people to make the leap Jan did, but I will. Roy said non free software like UEFI destroys your hardware. He answered my question by saying there is no link between this particular trick and UEFI. The same trick can be done with UEFI and, of course, Microsoft is responsible for UEFI and its malicious by design. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Linking the two is a natural and frightening thing to do. We would hope that avoiding Windows would protect us from software owner malice. UEFI makes that harder by making the underlying hardware that much more malicious. It's an OS itself. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | So, will UEFI brick itself the same way? Following Jan's lead, I looked around and found a bunch of articles about UEFI drivers for these chipsets. That means UEFI, which is able to update drivers without user intervention, is able to brick itself if the board has UEFI and is set that way. Both Windows and UEFI would get the drivers from the same place, right? | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Thanks for fixing your comment, Jan. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think Roy intended people to make the leap Jan did, but I will. Roy said non free software like UEFI destroys your hardware. He answered my question by saying there is no link between this particular trick and UEFI. The same trick can be done with UEFI and, of course, Microsoft is responsible for UEFI and its malicious by design. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Linking the two is a natural and frightening thing to do. We would hope that avoiding Windows would protect us from software owner malice. UEFI makes that harder by making the underlying hardware that much more malicious. It's an OS itself. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | So, will UEFI brick itself the same way? Following Jan's lead, I looked around and found a bunch of articles about UEFI drivers for these chipsets. That means UEFI, which is able to update drivers without user intervention, is able to brick itself if the board has UEFI and is set that way. Both Windows and UEFI would get the drivers from the same place, right? | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Thanks for fixing your comment, Jan. | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | "Actually Intel is somewhat responsible for the UEFI reference code and design." | Oct 24 20:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | All non free software can brick your hardware and that's the power relationship people need to understand. Saying this is the opposite of FUD, it's clearly stating an easy to demonstrate fact. If there is any uncertainty or fear, it is entirely the fault of software owners who demand power over us. The doubt we should remove is that there are ethical justifications for the demands of software owners. It is difficult to tease apart | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | the cross licensing incest between Intel and Microsoft, but both companies cooperate to restrict and harm us. Trick, brick, spy or other malice, it all springs from the same violation of your software freedom. | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | The term "third party" bothered me as soon as I gave it any serious thought. It has connotations of "third world" or "third wheel" and always implies inferiority, awkwardness even aggression. The concept only makes sense in a non free software world where one party is clearly an owner. I see that GNU uses that term too and has a nice collection of articles under that name, | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/third-party-ideas.html | Oct 24 20:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.gnu.org | Third Party Ideas - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation [ http://ur1.ca/iig29 ] | Oct 24 20:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | but maybe we should avoid the term for software. Reverse engineered, complementary, cooperating, and many other words more clearly define what software is or does even in the context of non free software. | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | +Will Hill you do realize that UEFI replaces BIOS which was another bag of firmware ? | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | Unless you are advocating for LinuxBIOS I am not sure what to make of your claims (specifically wrt UEFI). Also UEFI is an industry standard and MS is not particularly reposible for it (no more than motherboard/cpu vendors). | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | "+Simo Sorce IMHO you can point the 'secure boot' debacle directly at Microsoft.' | Oct 24 20:56 |
| schestowitz__ | "+Alan Cox no doubt, but kinda irrelevant in this context" | Oct 24 20:56 |
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| schestowitz | > Interesting, yes I've met with Mark from Sirius a few times. Always | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > hoped to get him to donate to FSFE while I was there but didn't manage | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > it :) They also had an event for Document Freedom Day once. | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | I thought Sirius had donated to KDE once. | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe there'll be a Collabora-Sirius partnership some time in future. | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | Maybe you should chat up Mark about it. | Oct 25 18:30 |
| schestowitz | Oct 25 18:30 | |
| schestowitz | > Not sure about Matt's work - I read he's working for Creative Commons. | Oct 25 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > Are Sirius hiring? | Oct 25 18:31 |
| schestowitz | Yes, specifically for Drupal experts, if you know any... | Oct 25 18:31 |
| schestowitz | > Ok I'll ping you next time I'm in the rainy city :) | Oct 25 18:31 |
| schestowitz | Cheers! | Oct 25 18:31 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MitchellShawJBS/status/526060071311380480 | Oct 25 18:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MitchellShawJBS: @tuxmachines Thanks for tweeting this. | Oct 25 18:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020903 | Oct 25 20:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It should disturb everyone that those opposing "war on terror" as pretext for abuse of power labelled sympathetic to terror. It's a trick. | Oct 25 20:20 | |
| schestowitz | "it's another false dichotomy." | Oct 25 20:20 |
| schestowitz | "Sure, some people bombs other for no good reason and the ones opposing it are sympathizers of terror." | Oct 25 20:20 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5019842 | Oct 25 20:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838181/security/clueless-fbi-sabotages-its-anti-encryption-campaign.html #fbi #privacy #surveillance | Oct 25 20:21 | |
| schestowitz | "Need to go back to dumb phones. Anyone with a police scanner can listen in to nearby phone calls." | Oct 25 20:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/iiwlf ] | Oct 25 20:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5018972 | Oct 25 20:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Conky Manager to Fedora http://mosaabalzoubi.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/conky-manager-to-fedora/ #fedora #redhat #gnu #linux | Oct 25 20:22 | |
| schestowitz | "#LSD ??" | Oct 25 20:22 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> mosaabalzoubi.wordpress.com | Conky Manager to Fedora | Mosaab Alzoubi [ http://ur1.ca/iiwm7 ] | Oct 25 20:22 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022128 | Oct 25 20:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: CHP Officer accused of stealing nude photos during suspect's booking http://abc7news.com/news/chp-officer-allegedly-steals-nude-photos-from-suspects-phone/363713/ #police #ServeAndProtect | Oct 25 20:23 | |
| schestowitz | "There seems to be a concerted effort to use violations of privacy to reinforce the notion that making a copy is "stealing". What the CHP did is worse than stealing, but me making a copy of a book or a movie is not stealing at all. I think big publishers want to confuse people about one thing to make them less likely to share. Little people, like this police man, will be punished for doing once to one person what rich and powerful | Oct 25 20:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> abc7news.com | Bay Area CHP Officer Sean Harrington accused of stealing nude photos from DUI suspect's phone during booking | abc7news.com [ http://ur1.ca/iiwmi ] | Oct 25 20:23 | |
| schestowitz | people do all the time to everyone." | Oct 25 20:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020818 | Oct 25 20:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #billgates has bribe press to tell us he gives away his money, but actually getting $10bn (or ~9%) richer in 1 year http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/bill-gates-wealthiest-person-in-america-wealth-x/articleshow/44825751.cms | Oct 25 20:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> economictimes.indiatimes.com | Bill Gates wealthiest person in America: Wealth-X - The Economic Times [ http://ur1.ca/iiwpt ] | Oct 25 20:32 | |
| schestowitz | "In my country drug cartels donate money to churches and towns so if what matters is what you're doing with your money, not how you got in, then I guess narcs must be philanthropists too." | Oct 25 20:32 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020827 | Oct 25 20:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Billionaires rewriting history http://www.businessinsider.in/Bill-Gates-Is-Obsessed-With-A-New-Way-Of-Teaching-History-Heres-How-It-Works/articleshow/44830423.cms those who can rewrite history can dominate the future | Oct 25 20:32 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 20:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.businessinsider.in | Bill Gates Is Obsessed With A New Way Of Teaching History - Here's How It Works | Business Insider India [ http://ur1.ca/iiwq8 ] | Oct 25 20:32 | |
| schestowitz | Here's how it works: | Oct 25 20:32 |
| schestowitz | "We edit out the parts that make us look bad..." | Oct 25 20:32 |
| schestowitz | Pretty soon, you're living on a flat earth and the Sun goes around it every day. Without any consideration that this is geometrically impossible. | Oct 25 20:32 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 20:32 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022065 | Oct 25 20:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #drm and #surveillance from #adobe https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141024/06071328930/adobe-discovers-encryption-cuts-back-its-ebook-snooping-bit.shtml thankfully, they'll no longer push "Reader" (of minds) to #gnu #linux users | Oct 25 20:33 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techdirt.com | Adobe Discovers Encryption, Cuts Back On Its eBook Snooping A Bit | Techdirt [ http://ur1.ca/iiwqg ] | Oct 25 20:33 | |
| schestowitz | "Companies like Microsoft and Adobe use encryption frequently, but they deploy it against the user. Windows, for example, has regular communication with Microsoft but it's encrypted so the user has no idea what is being said about them or their computer. All commercial movies are wrapped in layers of encryption so that we can't share with each other and only our masters have the ability to use our culture for their purposes." | Oct 25 20:33 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5019344 | Oct 25 20:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #rekonq has been maturing and is almost on par now with every browser. Goodbye #firefox (for now), I'm back to Rekonq. #kde #gnu #linux | Oct 25 20:34 | |
| schestowitz | how about #dwb ?"" | Oct 25 20:34 |
| schestowitz | Haven't heard of it | Oct 25 20:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5015983 | Oct 25 20:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Linux desktop-a-week review: #LXDE http://www.networkworld.com/article/2838326/opensource-subnet/the-linux-desktop-a-week-review-lxde.html #gnu #linux | Oct 25 20:35 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.networkworld.com | The Linux desktop-a-week review: LXDE [ http://ur1.ca/iiwr4 ] | Oct 25 20:35 | |
| schestowitz | "Well, we have LXQt 0.8 now... and it's pretty awesome as well! Basically the same, just based on Qt now and kinda merged into the Razor Qt project." | Oct 25 20:35 |
| schestowitz | "lxqt is much heavier than lxde. i will switch to open box if they drop gtk version." | Oct 25 20:35 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003980 | Oct 25 20:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Keep your conversations private with these 10 super secure messaging apps https://www.techinasia.com/10-best-secure-messaging-apps/ #android | Oct 25 20:38 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techinasia.com | 10 secure messaging apps for all your private chats [ http://ur1.ca/iibip ] | Oct 25 20:38 | |
| schestowitz | "Yeah, they won't delete for me. Maybe Dr. Roy can do it." | Oct 25 20:38 |
| schestowitz | "he's a Dr. after all!" | Oct 25 20:38 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022056 | Oct 25 20:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: VFX Coder Proposes MOX, a Crowdfunded Open-Source Movie File Format http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/10/vfx-coder-proposes-mox-a-crowdfunded-open-source-movie-file-format/ no #swpats | Oct 25 20:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 20:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.studiodaily.com | VFX Coder Proposes MOX, a Crowdfunded Open-Source Movie File Format | Studio Daily [ http://ur1.ca/iiwuq ] | Oct 25 20:43 | |
| schestowitz | Can a crowdfunded open-source project bring the industry together behind a QuickTime killer? | Oct 25 20:43 |
| schestowitz | Shit, is that still around? | Oct 25 20:43 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971477 | Oct 19 16:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Marble Atlas Review – Alternative to Google Earth http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/10/marble-atlas-review-alternative-to-google-earth/ #qt #kde #marble #openstreetmap #osm | Oct 19 16:46 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxarena.com | Marble Atlas Review – Alternative to Google Earth | TuxArena [ http://ur1.ca/ifhf5 ] | Oct 19 16:46 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I have seen some #debian people using #marble , quite a handy globe for offline use . You could also connect #openstreetmap to it." | Oct 19 16:46 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4972967 | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Puppet regime (installed by coup) fell due to intel' oversight http://www.businessinsider.in/How-One-Mans-Illness-May-Have-Changed-The-Course-Of-Middle-Eastern-History/articleshow/44808052.cms #iran | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.businessinsider.in | How One Man's Illness May Have Changed The Course Of Middle Eastern History | Business Insider India [ http://ur1.ca/ifhg6 ] | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Modernising? Huh. | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | I knew middle-class, liberal Iranians in London who regarded him as oppressive and were terrified of him. I have never seen someone so terrifed - and I mean this - as when we cracked jokes in a bar at Imperial College about the Shah - our friend said that the Savak was in the universities in the Uk and that they would persecute the famiies back in Iran - he begged us to stop making jokes. | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | What, btw, does "modernising" mean? | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | He said in an interview that he couldn't increase literacy because they didn't have enough teachers, nor health care because they didn't have enough doctors. Saddam Hessein, Gaddafi and Castro all managed to solve those problems. With regard to democracy he pointed out that the "people" didn't want it because they didn't need it since the Shah was so near to their people - like a father to his family. | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Perhaps he meant a "Godfather"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imil1iIpIYA#t=4m47s | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Shah Of Iran Critisizing Britain - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhg8 ] | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | He was a thug. | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Here is a film enactment of a demo in during the Shahs visit in Germany - from the film "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFuYzhk5He0 | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | The Shah from Iran in Berlin (2. June 1967) Demonstration - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhga ] | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Here is a clip from a swiss documentary of the actual event. | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_IB6wiXtoY#t=31m30s | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | "Polizeistaatsbesuch - Beobachtungen unter deutschen Gastgebern" (Zeichen der Zeit ) - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhgc ] | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | Here's a BBC doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGBuLyak-c | Oct 19 16:48 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Shah Of Iran - BBC Documentary, By Britain - British Opinion - YouTube [ http://ur1.ca/ifhgd ] | Oct 19 16:48 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | "Yes, "they" are trying to re-write history, in preparation for a color revolution in Iran." | Oct 19 16:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971689 | Oct 19 16:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #putin pullout http://www.pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Funny-Pics-13.10.2014-9-1.jpg | Oct 19 16:49 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Just don't do that joke with my surname :-)." | Oct 19 16:49 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4972968 | Oct 19 16:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #PBS with James Risen: Government crackdown on whistleblowers bad for #democracy http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/james-risen/ | Oct 19 16:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 16:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.pbs.org | James Risen: Government crackdown on whistleblowers bad for democracy | The Rundown | PBS NewsHour [ http://ur1.ca/ifhh7 ] | Oct 19 16:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | Binary thinking is dangerous. Risen seems to have exposed something - but there are some assertions within it that make his intent questionable. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Iran denies that it is trying to make a bomb. Risen asserts that they bought false plans, but what I've read was that they weren't sold anything nor even asked, but simply given, almost anonymously, the plans (they were popped into their mail box). | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | The net result seems to be minimal damage to the CIA, while seeming to confirm that Iran is building a bomb. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | He also refers to Iran as a "rogue" nation - which is not true. AFAIK it hasn't breached international law whereas the USA and the UK have - in buckets. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | So let's not assume that every exposure is at the cost of the party being exposed - it can be used to send a different message. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Even if he did go to prison - and that seems less and less likely - that would not prove any innocence - a good soldier is willing to do the time. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | The more I read about this, the more I have the feeling that he isn't the genuine goods. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | This is just an opinion - I'm not confident enough about this to make it an assertion. But It seems to me a possibility that we should bear in mind. | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 16:50 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971824 | Oct 19 16:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #snowden thought #scotus would help http://thehill.com/policy/technology/220497-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-programs http://www.govexec.com/technology/2014/10/edward-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-spying-programs/96359/ http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/edward-snowden-supreme-court-will-strike-down-nsa-spying-programs-20141011 was wrong http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/10/supreme-cour | Oct 19 16:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | "In some ways, he is very, very naive." | Oct 19 16:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> thehill.com | Snowden: Supreme Court will strike down NSA programs | TheHill [ http://ur1.ca/ifhhs ] | Oct 19 16:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.govexec.com | Edward Snowden: Supreme Court Will Strike Down NSA Spying Programs - Tech - GovExec.com [ http://ur1.ca/ifhht ] | Oct 19 16:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.nationaljournal.com | Edward Snowden: Supreme Court Will Strike Down NSA Spying Programs - NationalJournal.com [ http://ur1.ca/ifhhu ] | Oct 19 16:51 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> jurist.org | JURIST - Supreme Court declines to rule on DOJ phone records memo | Oct 19 16:51 | |
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| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> They didn't start the attack on Linus, but are merely joining in. On | Oct 19 18:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> the one side you have Poettering and his minions who are trying to | Oct 19 18:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> distract from technical discussions. On the other you have the M$ crowd | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> which will latch onto anything to try to cause trouble for Linux or | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>>>> >>>> >> anything FOSS, even if it's only by attacking the key people. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > I am more interested in knowing what person uses several fake names to | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > insult people in the mailing lists? Some messages are now being deleted | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > because the attacks are very nasty. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Or who is paying him. I haven't seen those on the lists I waste time on | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> but I did see a blog post complaining about it. The blog post itself | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> was a troll, too, in response to the troll. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Blog post "don't feed the troll" was in TR since midnight last night. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > Yeah. That's the one. I'd call it a counter-troll. 1) systemd is not | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > an init system, at least not any more it isn't, not for a long while. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > 2) flippantly saying write a "better" one is in appropriate because 2a | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > there are three better ones already and 2b in debian specifically has a | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > "social contract" which is to prioritize users and free software. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > See point #4: | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > https://www.debian.org/social_contract | Oct 19 18:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.debian.org | Debian Social Contract | Oct 19 18:16 | |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > <rant> | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > systemd is not pretty and is getting worse each few days. It is a kick | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > in the nads for power users, sysadmins, devops and anyone maintaining | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > more than one machine by not just breaking things but making them hard | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > to configure and lumping them all in an inexorable monolithic mess. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > There are implementation, technical and design problems. The design | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > problems are insurmountable because the design is wrong on so many | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > levels. To add to all that, it is being pushed out all at once without | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > any of the traditional, necessary deployment and testing phases. A big | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > question I have is how has it managed to get as far as it has in spite | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > of all the red flags? | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | > </rant> | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | Red Hat was apparently asked this by its clients. I don't know which clients and why. | Oct 19 18:16 |
| schestowitz__ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev | Oct 19 18:17 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Chicken Kiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [ http://ur1.ca/ifipl ] | Oct 19 18:17 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Chicken Kiev (Ukrainian: Котлета по-київськи, kotleta po-kyivsky, Russian: Котлета по-киевски, kotleta po-kiyevski) is a popular breaded cutlet dish of boneless chicken breast pounded and rolled around cold garlic butter with herbs, then breaded and either fried or baked." | Oct 19 18:17 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Red Hat was apparently asked this by its clients. I don't know which | Oct 19 18:20 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > clients and why. | Oct 19 18:20 |
| schestowitz__ | > Which clients? NSA? MPAA/RIAA? M$? | Oct 19 18:20 |
| schestowitz__ | Only the first is a client. | Oct 19 18:20 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ia-46543-2013-ors | Oct 19 23:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk | Tribunal decisions [ http://ur1.ca/ifm5b ] | Oct 19 23:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "3. Mikhail Gres entered the UK as a student on 4th June 2001 and was granted extensions of stay as a student until 9th April 2009; a further application for leave to remain was refused and the appeal dismissed on 23rd March 2010; an application for permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal was refused on 16th June 2010. His wife, Natalia Vasyukova, arrived in the UK as his dependant in 2006. Their two children were born in the UK on | Oct 19 23:44 |
| schestowitz__ | 16th July 2007 and 2nd January 2011. The older child has started school here in the UK. All remained in the UK without leave to remain after June 2010." | Oct 19 23:44 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | The making of the decision of the First-tier Tribunal did involve the making of an error on a point of law. | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I set aside the decision | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | I re-make the decision in the appeal by allowing the appeal of the SSHD and thus dismissing the claimant's appeal against the decision to remove them from the UK. | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | "24. During that lengthy period of residence I accept that the eldest child has started school here and knows no other country than the UK, that Mr Gres has been gainfully and productively employed and that he will be a loss to his employers. That the eldest child is integrated in the UK in so far as a 6 year old can be, that there would be difficulties for the family as regards employment and housing in Russia, that Mr Gres is | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | working and the family as a whole are integrated within the UK are not sufficiently compelling reasons to outweigh the interests of the SSHD in removal. The circumstances and consequences of removal will not, on the basis of the evidence before me, result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for the family such as to render removal disproportionate." | Oct 19 23:45 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4971492 | Oct 19 23:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: And by 'Traditional Voters,' the New York Times Means White People http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/10/16/and-by-traditional-voters-the-new-york-times-means-white-people/ #nytimes | Oct 19 23:54 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.fair.org | And by 'Traditional Voters,' the New York Times Means White People [ http://ur1.ca/ifhdd ] | Oct 19 23:54 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/221196-clinton-democrats-falling-flat-in-south | Oct 19 23:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-thehill.com | 'Clinton Democrats' falling flat | TheHill [ http://ur1.ca/ifm97 ] | Oct 19 23:54 | |
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| schestowitz__ | [17:37] <tessier> Has the server been under attack again or something? Got lots of pages this morning. | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> yes, for over a month now but today it was really bad | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> I have some ideas and code that can aid at cache level | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> but the varnish server is shared | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> So I would not deploy iy | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> *it | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <tessier> Hmm... | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <tessier> What are they doing? | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:38] <schestowitz__> I can tell you the pattern of attacks | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <tessier> Ok....also who and why if you have any idea... | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <schestowitz__> That's the hard part, I can't see any reason that's new | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:39] <schestowitz__> I have not published anything that's different from the past and they attack Tux Machines too | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:40] <schestowitz__> I rushed home from the gym because the sites were down | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:45] <schestowitz__> the bursts of attacks seem to come exclusively from machines with "NT" in them | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:45] <schestowitz__> there uses to be cycles, but not it's more stochastic | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:47] <schestowitz__> so I can't quite lay out a clear pattern. They do work in pulses/bursts, I blocked some parts of the sites that are hit routinely. Can't block requests based on "NT", but maybe offending IPs can be blocked by Varnish. | Oct 20 17:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <tessier> Are they just doing a lot of GETs and hitting the webpages quickly? | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <tessier> What do you mean by "NT"? NT in the hostname or user agent? | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:52] <schestowitz__> User agent | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> If I tail the logs I see the offending requests always coming from Windows NT zombies, i assume | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> various browsers, not just one type | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [17:53] <schestowitz__> the IPs are the Varnish server's address, I dare not tinker with that box unless varnish as a whole is down, in which case I can help all the sites served through it | Oct 20 17:58 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:03] <tessier> My first thought is to configure fail2ban to look at the apache logs and block any IP which hits us too fast but since it's the IP of the varnish server that won't work. | Oct 20 18:06 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:06] <schestowitz__> I thought about using one of the two methods for passing IPs from varnish to apache, but that requires configuration. Rpaf and another one (successor I think) achieve this. | Oct 20 18:06 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:09] <schestowitz__> techrights is down again due to heavy load by the DDOS | Oct 20 18:09 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:16] <tessier> Checking the logs....I've never been able to catch it in the act... | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <schestowitz__> check techrights 20 minutes ago until 2 minutes ago when it stopped | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <schestowitz__> I can give you stats on what URLs and headers if that would help | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:17] <tessier> Sure | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <tessier> I really hate the way proxies mess up the IPs in the logs. | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <tessier> I'm not averse to configuring varnish to pass the IP | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:18] <schestowitz__> almost all the attacks on techrights strike at something like /wp-login.php?action=register | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <schestowitz__> but some mass-request heavy to generate pages | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <schestowitz__> at up to 20 times per second | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <tessier> Ok...fail2ban really is the right solution for that. | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:19] <tessier> Have you found any good guides on configuring varnish to pass the IP? | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <tessier> And getting apache to log it correctly since presumably it is passed in a header? | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> I have a better understanding of how tux machines gets hammered | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding / | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding /forum/SOMETHING | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> flooding /aggregator* | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:20] <schestowitz__> and some variations on login and register | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:21] <schestowitz__> I can block 2-5 of the above and often do | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:21] <schestowitz__> But the first is hard to block, it's the front page, so I redirect to Google cache or some static page | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:22] <schestowitz__> The attacks are a nightmare when they hit lots of random pages or aggregations of pages that are not cached, then I just flush all live sessions and let it start accepting new conections before RAM runs out | Oct 20 18:23 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:27] <tessier> Hmm...even if we configured it to pass the ip and logged it on techrights and ran fail2ban there it's still technically the ip of varnish connecting so blocking in iptables wouldn't work....let me see if I can make varnish log and then run fail2ban there. | Oct 20 18:32 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:32] <schestowitz__> I exchanged dozens of emails with a friend in Finland about it. He gave some advice on how to relay IPs from varnish to Apache. Do you want me to send you that? Requires some changes at varnish side.. he rested this on a VM with same centos version as your lovely setup (which is very robust by the way). | Oct 20 18:32 |
| schestowitz__ | (Thanks for the help and great service! This is aside from the annual payment.) | Oct 20 18:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:33] <schestowitz__> https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4982367 | Oct 20 18:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: US Army withheld promise from Germany that #Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized http://rt.com/news/197500-us-army-ebola-weapon/ #disturbing | Oct 20 18:52 | |
| schestowitz__ | [18:33] <schestowitz__> oops, disregard that paste :-) | Oct 20 18:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> rt.com | NO TITLE [ http://ur1.ca/ig1f6 ] | Oct 20 18:52 | |
| schestowitz__ | [18:36] <schestowitz__> you can see it in action right now against tux machines | Oct 20 18:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:37] <schestowitz__> but this surge/pulse is probably too weak to knock apache over and make the machine run out of RAM and time out | Oct 20 18:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:38] <tessier> Got varnish logging going to /var/log/varnishncsa.log on the varnish server...so we've got IPs being logged. Configuring fail2ban on it now... | Oct 20 18:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:39] <schestowitz__> excellent, thanks! | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:43] <schestowitz__> I've just paypal'ed your account, did you get it? | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:51] <tessier> Yes, I did. Thanks! | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:51] <tessier> fail2ban is banning lots of stuff but having a problem with iptables so the rule isn't going into effect...once I get that figured out we'll be in good shape. | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:52] <schestowitz__> excellent, wish we had done that earlier but thought the attacker would get bored and go away | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:52] <tessier> Me too | Oct 20 18:53 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:55] <tessier> Ok, I know what the issue is...I'm going to have to reboot the varnish server. | Oct 20 18:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:56] <tessier> I disable kernel module loading shortly after boot to block rootkits and iptables is needing to load a new module for this to work. | Oct 20 18:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:56] <schestowitz__> Oh, I see. Sorry for causing issue to others who depend on this varnish server... | Oct 20 18:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:57] <tessier> Really, your sites and my own personal sites and the copilotco.com site are the only ones who depend on it. This will be a good thing for all of us, really. Not a big deal. | Oct 20 18:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [18:59] <tessier> This machine needed patches anyway. CentOS 5.9 to 5.10. I should build a dedicated varnish box and start deploying CentOS 7. Haven't started that because I hear 7 is a lot of work due to systemd. I'm worried about how much puppet policy etc. I'll have to rewrite. | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:11] <tessier> Coming back up....I need to split varnish and asterisk both onto their own separate systems. My asterisk is ancient and probably horribly vulnerable. | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:13] <tessier> yeay, it's back up and fail2ban is working. | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <schestowitz__> average load us under 1 and I cannot access tuxmachines | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <tessier> Yeah...something isn't right... | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:15] <schestowitz__> my wife can't either, from the tablet | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <schestowitz__> fine for both of us now :-) | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <schestowitz__> load up to 1.5 | Oct 20 19:41 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:16] <tessier> Yeah...fail2ban somehow banned us too. It's way too aggressive. Tuning... | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:19] <tessier> Currently, if it sees more than 360 requests in 120 seconds it will ban for 10 minutes. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <schestowitz__> that sounds good, I see the load being less than the number of cores on both VMs, TR and TM org | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <tessier> So far nothing has been banned... | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:21] <schestowitz__> TM is growing in terms of reach, it's becoming bigger than Linux Today and LXer I think | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:22] <schestowitz__> [root@tuxmachines ~]# tail -n 1000 /var/log/httpd/access.log | grep NT | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:22] <schestowitz__> there are some offensive requests on tuxmachines at the moment | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:23] <tessier> 27.153.230.48 looks like an offender | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:23] <schestowitz__> I can see them among the lines in bursts, several machines hitting the same pages | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:24] <schestowitz__> including front page, with referer being some junk URL that I think tries to bypass the cache | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:24] <tessier> Yeah...we need to clamp down a bit more then... | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <tessier> Let's try 60 per 60 seconds... | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <schestowitz__> I think there's a pool of machines the attacker is using, maybe no bigger than a cluster | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:25] <schestowitz__> But they're timed to hit at the same time | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Yeah. We'll get them all blocked... | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <schestowitz__> CPU/RAM-intensive page, e.g. every ten minutes, sometimes a second or two apart | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Oct 20 12:25:52 www fail2ban.actions: WARNING [http-get-dos] Ban 158.170.162.11 | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Oct 20 12:25:55 www fail2ban.actions: WARNING [http-get-dos] Ban 86.10.124.97 | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> That's one | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:26] <tessier> Two actually | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:27] <tessier> 86.85.148.116 also | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:27] <schestowitz__> there's a flood hitting techrights now | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:30] <tessier> Reduced it down to 30 requests per minute. We've blocked 5 so far. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <tessier> 14 blocked. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <schestowitz__> excellent, I can see the cruft becoming more scarce | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:32] <tessier> 17 blocked. Load on the server hasn't really come down much yet though. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <tessier> They may notice we are blocking and throw more bots at us. They must have finite resources though. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> it usually comes in bursts to tuxmachines | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> techrights load still high | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:34] <schestowitz__> Only thing I can think of starting over a month ago is a series about the EPO, based on a whistleblower, which I still do every week (earlier today I published one part before a massive attack) | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> But I very much doubt that's the cause for it | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <tessier> Load is coming down now...22 IPs blocked so far. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> Some source told me today that there's chaos in EPO resulting from it, inc. people leaving | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:35] <schestowitz__> their Communications Manager got fired last week | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:36] <tessier> What is EPO? | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> Then one of them wrote a formal response (in Croatia) and someone high level in france is said to be worried about the conflicts of interesting becoming public knowledge | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> European Patent Office. they're getting even more aggressive and corrupt than USPTO now, even with software patents | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <tessier> Ah. | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> US is cutting back on software patents | Oct 20 19:42 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> not sure if you followed the Alice case | Oct 20 19:43 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:37] <schestowitz__> lawsuits have almost halved since then | Oct 20 19:43 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:38] <tessier> Yes, I was very pleased with the Alice ruling. | Oct 20 19:43 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:42] <tessier> Is the site working for you? Not loading for me. I wonder if I got myself banned but I don't see my IP in the list... | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:44] <schestowitz__> it's timing out on me, I think | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:44] <schestowitz__> yes, no response | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:45] <schestowitz__> from two IPs here | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:45] <schestowitz__> both sites, two devices | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:46] <schestowitz__> my IP: 86.185.122.224 | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:50] <tessier> Ok, adding those to the whitelist... | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:51] <schestowitz__> hopefully not many legit IPs are being banned | Oct 20 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:01] <tessier> If you prefer I can configure it to email you whenever it bans someone so you can investigate. | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:01] <tessier> Currently it is just emailing me | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> yes, please | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> then I can check against the logs, just in case | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <tessier> What email do you prefer these go to? | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> s#schestowitz.com | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:02] <schestowitz__> I'll set up a filter based on subject line | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines just got flooded | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> and ran out of ram | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> I reloaded httpd | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:05] <schestowitz__> to flush the rogue sessions | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:06] <schestowitz__> load avg climbed over 80 | Oct 20 20:51 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:08] <schestowitz__> maybe it's still studying which IPs to block | Oct 20 20:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:46] <schestowitz__> what's the expiry time for IP ban? | Oct 20 20:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:50] <tessier> bantime = 3600 | Oct 20 20:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:50] <tessier> So an hour. | Oct 20 20:52 |
| schestowitz__ | [20:51] <schestowitz__> cheers :-) | Oct 20 20:52 |
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| schestowitz__ | >>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200186&p=13148316#post13148316 | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Oct 21 08:52 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ubuntuforums.org | upstart, systemd, Canonical and Debian - Page 7 [ http://ur1.ca/igbmd ] | Oct 21 08:52 | |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> systemd trolls now hitting the forums with their pro-systemd spewage, | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> blind, deaf and dumb in regards to problems with systemd. One trick is | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> to ask each person for the full list of problems and pretend that there | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> aren't any others nor ones reported by other people. | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > I don't think someone is coordinating a mess here, I think it's natural | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > for disagreements to arise. | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > Their responses are always limited to a very narrow range of | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | > tactics/talking points. Coordinated or not, they are fairly homogeneous. | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm on the fence mostly. | Oct 21 08:52 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984503 | Oct 21 08:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: GOG Now Have Over 100 Linux Games, New Classics Include Baldur's Gate http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gog-now-have-over-100-linux-games-new-classics-include-baldurs-gate.4478/ #gog #games #gnu #linux | Oct 21 08:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | "#nodrm #drmfree tags too :)" | Oct 21 08:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | GOG Now Have Over 100 Linux Games, New Classics Include Baldur's Gate | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/igbso ] | Oct 21 08:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984384 | Oct 21 08:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #google must still have some #microsoft #windows on its premises (maybe non-technical staff) because some zombies attack me from Google IPs | Oct 21 08:57 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Haha, or you pissed someone at Google off." | Oct 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz__ | "It wouldn't surprise me one bit if some Google non-technical staff are using Windows. And I'd only be disappointed but still not surprised if even some of their technical staff are using it." | Oct 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz__ | My point was, there are Windows machines there being compromised. I could file abuse complaint to Google (the ISP). | Oct 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4984049 | Oct 21 08:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft worked with #nsa and put #backdoors in #windows in 1999. Re #redhat (NSA partner): http://betanews.com/2000/04/25/backdoor-found-in-red-hat-linux/ http://edition.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/04/27/redhat.backdoor.idg/index.html | Oct 21 08:58 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> betanews.com | Backdoor Found in Red Hat Linux [ http://ur1.ca/igbtc ] | Oct 21 08:58 | |
| schestowitz__ | "published 14 jears ago?" | Oct 21 08:58 |
| schestowitz__ | "It's from BetaNews, a Microsoft booster. Huge grain of salt required. Notice that they don't link to Red Hat's response? Even their updates link is broken.' | Oct 21 08:58 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> edition.cnn.com | CNN.com - Technology - Security firm warns of Red Hat Piranha 'back door' - April 27, 2000 [ http://ur1.ca/igbtg ] | Oct 21 08:58 | |
| schestowitz__ | IDG published something like this as well at the same time | Oct 21 08:58 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4987568 | Oct 21 18:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: 2-3 weeks since #gnu #bash bug media hype; any aftermath or disaster/crisis since then? No? Not much? Same with #openssl bug. #hype #media | Oct 21 18:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 18:42 |
| schestowitz__ | It was yahoo that was supposedly getting compromised due to the bash vulnerability. | Oct 21 18:42 |
| schestowitz__ | I still agree with your initial assessment as I'd have to say that if they were getting cracked due to this they didn't patch when they should have. Also I'm not sure how extensive the problem really was. | Oct 21 18:42 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 18:42 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4988409 | Oct 21 18:49 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Cops Won't Help You http://www.cracked.com/article_21830_cops-wont-help-you-7-things-i-saw-as-real-slasher-victim_p2.html "That Whole "Protect and Serve" Thing Is Just Pillow Talk, Baby" #police | Oct 21 18:49 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.cracked.com | Cops Won't Help You: 7 Things I Saw as a Real Slasher Victim | Cracked.com [ http://ur1.ca/igg7x ] | Oct 21 18:49 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4988409 | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | "I started to come out, I opened the door, but I thought Gelman had a gun, so I closed the door and stayed inside." | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | Cops in the US are like those in my Banana Republic, only shoot people when they're many, and preferably shoot unarmed and harmless citizens! But unlike the US cops here do not roam in armored vehicles, do not get so much pay and do not get paid vacations in case of murdering. | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | It must be great to be a cop in the US, the best part being having no constitutional duty to protect people from harm. | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 21 18:50 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524635435063332869 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524631747460595712 https://twitter.com/jhamby/status/524624694041776128 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524623474175016960 https://twitter.com/schestowitz/status/524607687376777217 | Oct 21 19:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Death by #hurricane in the #uk http://t.co/1vxZgwJn8F who said there are no natural disasters here other than floods? | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.youtube.com | Hurricane Gonzalo: Disruption As Remnants Of Storm Hits UK - YouTube | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Today in #Techrights http://t.co/CSRhM0uX4z | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tuxmachines.org | Today in Techrights | Tux Machines | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@jhamby: @schestowitz I think it's more like the #police no longer need #nsa bc they can buy Stingray spying tools off-the-shelf from Harris, etc. | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Criminal Microsoft is Censoring the Web and Breaks Laws to Do So; the Web Should Censor (Remove) #Microsoft http://t.co/l3kC94CmTU #ddos | Oct 21 19:01 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Criminal Microsoft is Censoring the Web and Breaks Laws to Do So; the Web Should Censor (Remove) Microsoft | Techrights | Oct 21 19:02 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz: Microsoft 'Loving' GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction http://t.co/1tgLUbA5s5 #microsoft lying again and its media partners help it | Oct 21 19:02 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | Microsoft ‘Loving’ GNU/Linux and Other Corporate Media Fiction | Techrights | Oct 21 19:02 | |
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| schestowitz__ | [05:43] <schestowitz__> hi tracy | Oct 22 06:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> many legit IPs seem to be getting blocked | Oct 22 06:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> I checked some and asked some people and they say the server times out on them | Oct 22 06:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:44] <schestowitz__> maybe as many of half the visitors | Oct 22 06:02 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:47] <schestowitz__> I don't know why they're being blocked, I think they only request one or two pages | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:47] <schestowitz__> Based on their testing patterns. In some cases all they even do is access the front page | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> Ok | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> We'll have to increase the threshold then.... | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <tessier> Has the DDOS traffic been mitigated at least? | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:53] <schestowitz__> yes | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> not entirely, but yesterday was not as bad as the day before | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> there were about 3 cases of techrights becoming unavailable | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:54] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines suffered only one successful attack | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <schestowitz__> I worry that most of the banned IPs are actually those of regular visitors, so I'd rather flush the existing bans and start again with better thresholds | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <tessier> Are you getting the emails about IPs being banned? | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <schestowitz__> yes, but it's hard to tell if they're offending IPs | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:55] <tessier> I see. | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:56] <schestowitz__> when I used browsershots.org as many as half of the requests if not more are timing out | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:57] <tessier> Ok. I have cleared existing bans and I'm upping the thresholds. It just means the site will be vulnerable/suffer longer before attackers get banned but that's only for a few minutes longer and better than legit users being banned. | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> Thanks, I think it's better than lots of people being banned for just loading a page or maybe 2 | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> tuxmachines.org is under heavy load now | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [05:58] <schestowitz__> but it can cope | Oct 22 06:03 |
| schestowitz__ | [06:13] <tessier> We are implementing a logstash server which will be able to do some more sophisticated things with logs also. I have already written code which will automatically block security scanners etc. based on logfiles. It also blocks people who rack up too many 404's etc. | Oct 22 09:17 |
| schestowitz__ | [06:13] <schestowitz__> I can tell you common locations that zombies target | Oct 22 09:17 |
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| schestowitz__ | [18:02] <tessier> How are things looking today? | Oct 22 19:33 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:33] <schestowitz__> Much better this afternoon. Interestingly enough, a quarter of the IPs banned this afternoon are from... Lockheed martin! | Oct 22 19:33 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:39] <tessier> Have you annoyed anyone at Lockmart? | Oct 22 19:45 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:40] <schestowitz__> I am vocal in criticising drone strikes and wars | Oct 22 19:45 |
| schestowitz__ | [19:41] <tessier> Ah. | Oct 22 19:45 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4995596 | Oct 23 05:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Civilization: Beyond Earth Linux Release Date Cleared Up http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/civilization-beyond-earth-linux-release-date-cleared-up.4486 #linux #games #gnu | Oct 23 05:44 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.gamingonlinux.com | Civilization: Beyond Earth Linux Release Date Cleared Up | GamingOnLinux [ http://ur1.ca/ihvsz ] | Oct 23 05:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "I can't wait for that. I'm glad Sid Meier has the heart to release the game for open source." | Oct 23 05:44 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000304 | Oct 23 05:44 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Another attack on the sites 5 minutes ago, Lockheed Martin Corporation IPs again, hundreds of knocks on #varnish in short moment of time | Oct 23 05:44 | |
| schestowitz__ | "That's very suspicious." | Oct 23 05:44 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4999407 | Oct 23 05:45 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: A high proportion of the #ddos attacks on my sites today come from IP addresses of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Banned. | Oct 23 05:45 | |
| schestowitz__ | "A military industrial complex company. Definitely curious." | Oct 23 05:45 |
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| schestowitz__ | http://www.eweek.com/blogs/first-read/hp-to-show-off-new-pc-called-sprout-this-month.html | Oct 23 06:46 |
| schestowitz__ | "The system will be aimed primarily at businesses, and while initially it will run Windows, there is the possibility that it will support Google's Chrome OS in the future, according to the report. " | Oct 23 06:46 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.eweek.com | HP to Show Off New PC Called Sprout This Month [ http://ur1.ca/ihwes ] | Oct 23 06:46 | |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000117 | Oct 23 06:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ## "An elephant never forgets" [](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3520) #memory #file #storage #retrieval #compatibility #SMBC #SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal #comics #comic | Oct 23 06:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""I actually used Elephants for data storage back in the day. :)" | Oct 23 06:50 |
| schestowitz__ | http://home.comcast.net/~kevin_d_clark/ems/ems003.jpg | Oct 23 06:50 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5004284 | Oct 24 07:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Sending weapons to 'moderate' 'rebels' http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/358027093/pentagon-says-it-will-investigate-stray-arms-drop-over-syria | Oct 24 07:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.northcountrypublicradio.org | Pentagon Says It Will Investigate Stray Arms Drop Over Syria | NCPR News [ http://ur1.ca/ii9sz ] | Oct 24 07:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | "ridiculous...more war, more business" | Oct 24 07:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003845 | Oct 24 07:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #twitter jumps the shark again http://www.morningledger.com/monica-lewinsky-creates-a-buzz-by-joining-twitter/138345/ | Oct 24 07:41 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.morningledger.com | Monica Lewinsky Creates a Buzz by Joining Twitter | Morning Ledger [ http://ur1.ca/ii9t7 ] | Oct 24 07:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 07:41 |
| schestowitz__ | It's good that Lewinsky is taking control of her own story. She's been a rag doll for big publishers a long, long time and fighting that takes courage. | Oct 24 07:41 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm not as sure Twitter is a good way for her to do that. She should host a blog rather than depend on publications like Vanity Fair or Twitter, both of which censor things. Let's see what she comes up with. | Oct 24 07:41 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 07:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003517 | Oct 24 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: What Does the Return of the ‘Crypto Wars’ Mean for Bitcoin? http://insidebitcoins.com/news/what-does-the-return-of-the-crypto-wars-mean-for-bitcoin/25660 the broader impact of attack on cryptography | Oct 24 07:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Eben Moglen says NSA intrusion threatens all electronic commerce." | Oct 24 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> insidebitcoins.com | What Does the Return of the ‘Crypto Wars’ Mean for Bitcoin? | Inside Bitcoins [ http://ur1.ca/ii9td ] | Oct 24 07:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5004316 | Oct 24 07:42 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Shooting in #canada does not show Canada should go to war half a world away. It shows how joining the war creates #blowback (like Spain). | Oct 24 07:42 | |
| schestowitz__ | "It's hard to believe that was a honest mistake." | Oct 24 07:42 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5007352 | Oct 24 07:43 |
| schestowitz__ | "The screens and the keyboard are really just awful 9 out of 10. The hardware in them is nice enough, but the build quality of it all together is usally sub-par in my experience. Then again, some of these things sell for $150, usually no more than $350." | Oct 24 07:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Sad to say this, but #chromebook (all those which I saw today for about an hour) are truly underwhelming. http://blog.laptopmag.com/best-chromebooks | Oct 24 07:43 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> blog.laptopmag.com | Best Chromebooks 2014 - Chromebook Reviews [ http://ur1.ca/ii9to ] | Oct 24 07:43 | |
| schestowitz__ | > Hi, Roy, | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > Regarding PC World: | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/10/23/warranty-gnu-linux/ | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > you can buy a whitebox NUC fairly cheaply from Germany these days. It's | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > not really expandable, but for some desktop uses it is suitable. We | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > even have a local shop here in town that can sell them with Gnu/Linux | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > pre-installed. | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | When I was at the store (for over 2 hours, 2 stores) I also checked online what Novatech offer. They have always sold OS-free laptops and desktops (I bought my last computer there). | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | When we returned home I worked hard on fixing my Novatech box. I was pretty sure the GPU was to blame, so I removed it, upgraded to the latest Kubuntu LTS, made my wife an account on it and so far she's happy with the result. I think I can also do some work on it, even though it's a single-head machine. | Oct 24 09:48 |
| schestowitz__ | I really wanted us to have an additional laptop with peripheral display in the bedroom. That said, I think it's more than she really needs; she already uses the tablet a lot to post in tuxmachines. Also, she wants something a bit simpler than KDE (she wants to experiment with other DEs, she never uses Windows or OSuX)... ChromeOS is utter crap, for me at least... tried it again last night having played with it at the airport some | Oct 24 09:49 |
| schestowitz__ | years back... it's like a friggin tablet dressed up as a laptop with a keyboard... it does support dual head now though... BUT... get this... only 800 MB of disk space (SSD) for one's files... Google pushes hard for people to upload all their files! | Oct 24 09:49 |
| schestowitz__ | >> Do you know anyone who's good at FOSS and Drupal and is looking for a | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > job? We're hiring. | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > I don't know anyone using PHP except for one in Portugal. She's into | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > FOSS but already currently employed though. Is it an on-site job, | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > permanent job or a temporary one? I guess I could forward information | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > if you have a little more detail. | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > By the way, are you employed in CS currently? | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > No, but I'd be open to part-time telecommuting. I have doubts about | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | > skills though, I tend to fill up /var/tmp and stuff like that. | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Well, telecommuting is definitely an option. I think you helped Digital Tipping Point under Drupal at one stage. | Oct 24 09:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Would you feel comfortable assisting the building of a public sector (city council) Web site using Drupal? | Oct 24 09:53 |
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| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003572 | Oct 24 10:06 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Let's just forget how many people #fbi has murdered (with or without subsequent coverup) http://www.tweaktown.com/news/40744/congressman-mike-rogers-says-edward-snowden-should-face-murder-charges/index.html #MikeRogers #nutter | Oct 24 10:06 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.tweaktown.com | Congressman Mike Rogers says Edward Snowden should face murder charges [ http://ur1.ca/iib84 ] | Oct 24 10:06 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Like all those apparent suicides. Yep suicide, I believe that." | Oct 24 10:06 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 10:06 |
| schestowitz__ | enemies are changing their strategies to avoid being noticed by US and British intelligence agencies. | Oct 24 10:06 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, ordinary citizens are, indeed, their enemy. | Oct 24 10:06 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 10:06 |
| schestowitz__ | "Hey, why don't they reopen the JFK case. Some of the perps are still alive, and there's quite a bit more evidence there." | Oct 24 10:07 |
| schestowitz__ | "the amerikrap government should be charged with murder and hung upside down by the balls for supporting beheadings by the nazi/maidan in the ukraine. lets put rogers on the gallows first." | Oct 24 10:07 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5002937 | Oct 24 10:15 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft bricking of hardware http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ one of the antifeatures of #uefi http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI (see list) | Oct 24 10:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> hackaday.com | Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips [ http://ur1.ca/iibag ] | Oct 24 10:15 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | UEFI - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/arj9i ] | Oct 24 10:15 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Do you have anything relating this brick to UEFI?" | Oct 24 10:15 |
| schestowitz__ | Not this particular brick | Oct 24 10:15 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>> Do you know anyone who's good at FOSS and Drupal and is looking for a>>>>> >>> > job? We're hiring. | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> I don't know anyone using PHP except for one in Portugal. She's into | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> FOSS but already currently employed though. Is it an on-site job, | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> permanent job or a temporary one? I guess I could forward information | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> if you have a little more detail. | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>>>> >>> > By the way, are you employed in CS currently? | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> No, but I'd be open to part-time telecommuting. I have doubts about | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> skills though, I tend to fill up /var/tmp and stuff like that. | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Well, telecommuting is definitely an option. I think you helped Digital | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Tipping Point under Drupal at one stage. | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > If I recall correctly that was on the non-code side of things. | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > Would you feel comfortable assisting the building of a public sector | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > (city council) Web site using Drupal? | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > I'd have to check out Drupal this weekend or early next week on a spare | Oct 24 10:40 |
| schestowitz__ | > machine. It was 2003 or 2004 when I last used PHP[1], I was spending | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > too much time reporting and working around bugs and design problems and | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > went back to Perl for a while. Which distro is it being set up on? | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > Which underlying db, MariaDB or Postgresql? And is there a pre-existing | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > site or two that serves as model or inspiration? | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | At our company we use a lot of Debian/Ubuntu, Postgresql/MySQL and knowledge of PHP is hardly required. Sysadmin skills plus some CMS and maybe a bit of web stuff is preferable. Pay for work from home is around $20 (or more) per hour. | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > [1] I agree with this guy about PHP: | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | > http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ | Oct 24 10:41 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-eev.ee | PHP: a fractal of bad design / fuzzy notepad [ http://ur1.ca/iibi4 ] | Oct 24 10:41 | |
| schestowitz__ | I don't like PHP, my applications keep breaking every once in a while because of dead APIs and forced upgrades. | Oct 24 10:41 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5000117 | Oct 24 10:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ## "An elephant never forgets" [](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3520) #memory #file #storage #retrieval #compatibility #SMBC #SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal #comics #comic | Oct 24 10:47 | |
| schestowitz__ | "That's no elephant, it's Chtulh." | Oct 24 10:47 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003310 | Oct 24 10:47 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: going in...  #goingin #stripes #singularity #animatedgif | Oct 24 10:47 | |
| schestowitz__ | that thing drives my cpu up to 18%"" | Oct 24 10:47 |
| schestowitz__ | warms up the house :-) | Oct 24 10:47 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003315 | Oct 24 10:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "patent prices are plummeting # court fights is down, and stock prices of many patent-holding companies have fallen" http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-tech-ip-trolls-insight-idUKKCN0IB15O20141022 | Oct 24 10:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Hopefully, universities around the country will be closing down their ill conceived "IP" departments. All they did was suck up money and feed the trolls." | Oct 24 10:51 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> uk.reuters.com | Big Tech winning battle with 'patent trolls' | Reuters [ http://ur1.ca/iiblc ] | Oct 24 10:51 | |
| schestowitz__ | When I submitted my phd thesis I had to reproduce some nonsense text with the term "intellectual property" repeated many times in it. It's enforced, it's a requirement. UK-IPO nonsense. | Oct 24 10:52 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003810 | Oct 24 10:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The 'Hacker Wars' Documentary Does Hacktivism No Favors http://www.vice.com/read/the-hacker-wars-documentary-does-hacktivism-no-favors-1023 "giving too much screen time to Weev," | Oct 24 10:56 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.vice.com | The 'Hacker Wars' Documentary Does Hacktivism No Favors | VICE United States [ http://ur1.ca/iibmw ] | Oct 24 10:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | ""Their observations, along with the film's bro-step soundtrack, probably won't counter the perception that activist hackers tend to be puckish pranksters with an anti-authority complex rather than serious people using hacking to achieve noble political ends." ... oh well..." | Oct 24 10:56 |
| schestowitz__ | > Unfortunately not - I've been Berlin-based since February last year. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Give me a shout next time you're in town. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > I know Matt Lee is / was coming to Manchester. Hardly a Richard Stallman | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > substitute, but an interesting figure nonetheless. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > I'm working for LibreOffice / Collabora these days as you probably saw. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Are you still doing research in Manchester? | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | > Sam. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | I am working for Sirius right now, the same company that Lee had worked for before. Do you know if he's seeking employment? | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm doing research here only into FOSS, as a hobby. We work on FOSS for the British government now (among other clients that are smaller). | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | A lot of family members are hanging around Berlin these days, but I don't foresee myself going there soon, so we might have to meet in Manchester next. | Oct 24 12:46 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> I'd have to check out Drupal this weekend or early next week on a spare | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> machine. It was 2003 or 2004 when I last used PHP[1], I was spending | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> too much time reporting and working around bugs and design problems and | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> went back to Perl for a while. Which distro is it being set up on? | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> Which underlying db, MariaDB or Postgresql? And is there a pre-existing | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >>> >> site or two that serves as model or inspiration? | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > | Oct 24 12:47 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > At our company we use a lot of Debian/Ubuntu, Postgresql/MySQL and | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > knowledge of PHP is hardly required. Sysadmin skills plus some CMS and | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > maybe a bit of web stuff is preferable. Pay for work from home is around | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | >> > $20 (or more) per hour. | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > Isn't $32 per hour closer to average? Debian/Ubuntu is familiar, I've | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > been using one then the other since the 90's. I'm comfortable with | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > XHTML+CSS2 but it was also a while back. I'll check out Drupal and see | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > if it is comfortable to use. Which Drupal modules and themes are | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > planned and would the site be monolingual? Drupal 7 I presume? It is | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | > what is in the Ubuntu LTS repository. | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, Drupal 7. | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | Regarding salary, the perk is no bossing and working from home with minimal pressure. | Oct 24 12:48 |
| schestowitz__ | https://twitter.com/TechJournalist/status/525628300090441728 | Oct 24 12:50 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@TechJournalist: @schestowitz just checked. The last @fedora to follow the original schedule (no delays) was Fedora 10 in 2008 https://t.co/8oVxlGjPsv | Oct 24 12:50 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-SSL connect error ( status 0 @ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule?rd=Releases/11 ) | Oct 24 12:50 | |
| schestowitz__ | I used Fedora 1,2, 5,6, 12, 14 and a few more recently. After they dropped Core it wasn't as potent. | Oct 24 12:51 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5011936 | Oct 24 12:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "but "prevent systemd from ever being installed" - does not currently appear possible for a new installation" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg02091.html | Oct 24 12:57 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> lists.debian.org | Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this... [ http://ur1.ca/iiaoz ] | Oct 24 12:57 | |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003558 | Oct 24 13:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Revisionist history would have us believe #greenwald discovered #snowden because #poitras is a low-profile person. Greenwald dismissed him. | Oct 24 13:18 | |
| schestowitz__ | "You see a balance in action here and it is very important to note it. Software owner's malice continues to make free software difficult for most people. I focus on that difficulty more than Greenwald because it shows how damaging that malice is. Even the smallest problems are insurmountable when you lack sufficient motivation and we drown in propaganda that tries to tear down our motivation. Simultaneously, we are told not to worry | Oct 24 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | about injustices because they are not so great and that resistance is futile because the unjust are impossibly powerful. Non free software is helping to make that power." | Oct 24 13:18 |
| schestowitz__ | greenwald is a lawyers. I always say they must be trained for enryption, same for journalists. Greenwald's inadequate use of Tor could put Snowden in his grave/prison... anyway, he pretty much gave up because it was hard. | Oct 24 13:20 |
| schestowitz__ | *lawyer | Oct 24 13:20 |
| schestowitz__ | *encryption | Oct 24 13:20 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003654 | Oct 24 13:36 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Risen is not a story or case of #nytimes challenging the Establishment. As Risen and his deposed managers tell, NY Times CENSORED him. | Oct 24 13:36 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference between a person with professional integrity and controlled opposition. Maybe a person can be so spun that they are both. The NYT surely has little integrity because they did spike his stories and helped ruin the San Jose Mercury News instead of welcoming a new era of internet based reporting. They have also been exposed in many other scandals, most recently by Greenwald. I'm not sure | Oct 24 13:36 |
| schestowitz__ | why anyone would want to work there now, especially someone like Risen who has demonstrated some personal integrity." | Oct 24 13:36 |
| schestowitz__ | Risen gets a good salary and big platform there, so there's not too much harm | Oct 24 13:36 |
| schestowitz__ | he also co-authors with Laura P sometimes | Oct 24 13:37 |
| schestowitz__ | Police play dress-up to arrest cardiac patient; Kind-hearted cleaner hands in bag of cash; Clearer skies over Shijiazhuang | Oct 24 13:38 |
| schestowitz__ | http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1623130/police-play-dress-arrest-cardiac-patient-kind-hearted-cleaner | Oct 24 13:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.scmp.com | Police play dress-up to arrest cardiac patient; Kind-hearted cleaner hands in bag of cash; Clearer skies over Shijiazhuang | South China Morning Post [ http://ur1.ca/iid0h ] | Oct 24 13:38 | |
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| schestowitz__ | > Thanks, Roy! Is it okay with you that Jam post the responses to the | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Acquia blog, and link out to your original post at the bottom? When you | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > get a chance, please let me know. | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | > Thanks! | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | Yes, of course, I would very much like that! :-) | Oct 24 18:38 |
| schestowitz__ | https://plus.google.com/113579520393333767984/posts/4A9V6w56557 | Oct 24 19:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | Avoid UEFI and Windows Bricking is malicious and intentional. People who… [ http://ur1.ca/iig14 ] | Oct 24 19:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | Avoid UEFI and Windows Bricking is malicious and intentional. | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | People who reverse engineered the drive claim that the bricking is malicious and intentional. | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | https://plus.google.com/u/0/111104121194250082892/posts/gXzC8Zp72Jv | Oct 24 19:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-plus.google.com | A picture of the source code created by disassembling a binary driver that was… [ http://ur1.ca/iibaz ] | Oct 24 19:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | The Microsoft press tries to justify this as an attack on "fake" chips. | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-update-drivers-bricking-usb-serial-chips-beloved-of-hardware-hackers/ | Oct 24 19:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-arstechnica.com | Windows Update drivers bricking USB serial chips beloved of hardware hackers | Ars Technica [ http://ur1.ca/iibao ] | Oct 24 19:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | If the only way to talk to a piece of hardware is through malicious software like Windows, don't buy it. Insist on your software freedom and you won't have to worry about malicious owners bricking your hardware. | Oct 24 19:53 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:53 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-hackaday.com | Watch That Windows Update: FTDI Drivers Are Killing Fake Chips [ http://ur1.ca/iibag ] | Oct 24 19:53 | |
| schestowitz__ | "Avoid GNU/Linux traitors that payed for the secure-boot keys instead of fighting it! X-(" | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "What has a 3rd party driver to do with UEFI?" | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "UEFI has 0 bearing on this problem and the villain here is FTDI" | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | I'm not sure Jan, so I've asked Roy here, | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5002937 | Oct 24 19:54 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #microsoft bricking of hardware http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/ one of the antifeatures of #uefi http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UEFI (see list) | Oct 24 19:54 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> techrights.org | UEFI - Techrights [ http://ur1.ca/arj9i ] | Oct 24 19:54 | |
| schestowitz__ | In the mean time, I'd like you not to fbomb my threads. I consider it a form of aggression and unnecessary emotional escalation. | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | Nothing to do with UEFI | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | Not a lot to do with Microsoft either except to demonstrate their QA and auditing on driver updates isn't working very well. | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "toned down my comment. And seeing Alan agrees with me that UEFI has nothing to do with 3rd party drivers is good enough for me. " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | By the way: UEFI + secure boot = m$ | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | 3dr party drivers ... from companies that are brownosing m$?? In that case they are not independent problems. | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | But don't pay me attention. I'm one of those crazy guys that believe in utopias. | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | "Oh, and worth mentioning. Roy has replied on diaspora and clearly states that it has NOTHING to do with UEFI. I honestly think that adding FUD like this is really not helping him to make an argument." | Oct 24 19:54 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think Roy intended people to make the leap Jan did, but I will. Roy said non free software like UEFI destroys your hardware. He answered my question by saying there is no link between this particular trick and UEFI. The same trick can be done with UEFI and, of course, Microsoft is responsible for UEFI and its malicious by design. | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Linking the two is a natural and frightening thing to do. We would hope that avoiding Windows would protect us from software owner malice. UEFI makes that harder by making the underlying hardware that much more malicious. It's an OS itself. | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | So, will UEFI brick itself the same way? Following Jan's lead, I looked around and found a bunch of articles about UEFI drivers for these chipsets. That means UEFI, which is able to update drivers without user intervention, is able to brick itself if the board has UEFI and is set that way. Both Windows and UEFI would get the drivers from the same place, right? | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Thanks for fixing your comment, Jan. | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | " | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | I don't think Roy intended people to make the leap Jan did, but I will. Roy said non free software like UEFI destroys your hardware. He answered my question by saying there is no link between this particular trick and UEFI. The same trick can be done with UEFI and, of course, Microsoft is responsible for UEFI and its malicious by design. | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Linking the two is a natural and frightening thing to do. We would hope that avoiding Windows would protect us from software owner malice. UEFI makes that harder by making the underlying hardware that much more malicious. It's an OS itself. | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | So, will UEFI brick itself the same way? Following Jan's lead, I looked around and found a bunch of articles about UEFI drivers for these chipsets. That means UEFI, which is able to update drivers without user intervention, is able to brick itself if the board has UEFI and is set that way. Both Windows and UEFI would get the drivers from the same place, right? | Oct 24 19:55 |
| schestowitz__ | Thanks for fixing your comment, Jan. | Oct 24 19:55 |
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| schestowitz__ | "Actually Intel is somewhat responsible for the UEFI reference code and design." | Oct 24 19:55 |
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| schestowitz__ | All non free software can brick your hardware and that's the power relationship people need to understand. Saying this is the opposite of FUD, it's clearly stating an easy to demonstrate fact. If there is any uncertainty or fear, it is entirely the fault of software owners who demand power over us. The doubt we should remove is that there are ethical justifications for the demands of software owners. It is difficult to tease apart | Oct 24 19:56 |
| schestowitz__ | the cross licensing incest between Intel and Microsoft, but both companies cooperate to restrict and harm us. Trick, brick, spy or other malice, it all springs from the same violation of your software freedom. | Oct 24 19:56 |
| schestowitz__ | The term "third party" bothered me as soon as I gave it any serious thought. It has connotations of "third world" or "third wheel" and always implies inferiority, awkwardness even aggression. The concept only makes sense in a non free software world where one party is clearly an owner. I see that GNU uses that term too and has a nice collection of articles under that name, | Oct 24 19:56 |
| schestowitz__ | https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/third-party-ideas.html | Oct 24 19:56 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.gnu.org | Third Party Ideas - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation [ http://ur1.ca/iig29 ] | Oct 24 19:56 | |
| schestowitz__ | but maybe we should avoid the term for software. Reverse engineered, complementary, cooperating, and many other words more clearly define what software is or does even in the context of non free software. | Oct 24 19:56 |
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| schestowitz__ | +Will Hill you do realize that UEFI replaces BIOS which was another bag of firmware ? | Oct 24 19:56 |
| schestowitz__ | Unless you are advocating for LinuxBIOS I am not sure what to make of your claims (specifically wrt UEFI). Also UEFI is an industry standard and MS is not particularly reposible for it (no more than motherboard/cpu vendors). | Oct 24 19:56 |
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| schestowitz__ | "+Simo Sorce IMHO you can point the 'secure boot' debacle directly at Microsoft.' | Oct 24 19:57 |
| schestowitz__ | "+Alan Cox no doubt, but kinda irrelevant in this context" | Oct 24 19:57 |
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| schestowitz | > Interesting, yes I've met with Mark from Sirius a few times. Always | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | > hoped to get him to donate to FSFE while I was there but didn't manage | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | > it :) They also had an event for Document Freedom Day once. | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | I thought Sirius had donated to KDE once. | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | > Maybe there'll be a Collabora-Sirius partnership some time in future. | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | Maybe you should chat up Mark about it. | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | Oct 25 17:31 | |
| schestowitz | > Not sure about Matt's work - I read he's working for Creative Commons. | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | > Are Sirius hiring? | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | Yes, specifically for Drupal experts, if you know any... | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | > Ok I'll ping you next time I'm in the rainy city :) | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | Cheers! | Oct 25 17:31 |
| schestowitz | https://twitter.com/MitchellShawJBS/status/526060071311380480 | Oct 25 17:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@MitchellShawJBS: @tuxmachines Thanks for tweeting this. | Oct 25 17:38 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020903 | Oct 25 19:20 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: It should disturb everyone that those opposing "war on terror" as pretext for abuse of power labelled sympathetic to terror. It's a trick. | Oct 25 19:20 | |
| schestowitz | "it's another false dichotomy." | Oct 25 19:20 |
| schestowitz | "Sure, some people bombs other for no good reason and the ones opposing it are sympathizers of terror." | Oct 25 19:20 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5019842 | Oct 25 19:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838181/security/clueless-fbi-sabotages-its-anti-encryption-campaign.html #fbi #privacy #surveillance | Oct 25 19:21 | |
| schestowitz | "Need to go back to dumb phones. Anyone with a police scanner can listen in to nearby phone calls." | Oct 25 19:21 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.infoworld.com | Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign | InfoWorld [ http://ur1.ca/iiwlf ] | Oct 25 19:21 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5018972 | Oct 25 19:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Conky Manager to Fedora http://mosaabalzoubi.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/conky-manager-to-fedora/ #fedora #redhat #gnu #linux | Oct 25 19:23 | |
| schestowitz | "#LSD ??" | Oct 25 19:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> mosaabalzoubi.wordpress.com | Conky Manager to Fedora | Mosaab Alzoubi [ http://ur1.ca/iiwm7 ] | Oct 25 19:23 | |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022128 | Oct 25 19:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: CHP Officer accused of stealing nude photos during suspect's booking http://abc7news.com/news/chp-officer-allegedly-steals-nude-photos-from-suspects-phone/363713/ #police #ServeAndProtect | Oct 25 19:23 | |
| schestowitz | "There seems to be a concerted effort to use violations of privacy to reinforce the notion that making a copy is "stealing". What the CHP did is worse than stealing, but me making a copy of a book or a movie is not stealing at all. I think big publishers want to confuse people about one thing to make them less likely to share. Little people, like this police man, will be punished for doing once to one person what rich and powerful | Oct 25 19:23 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> abc7news.com | Bay Area CHP Officer Sean Harrington accused of stealing nude photos from DUI suspect's phone during booking | abc7news.com [ http://ur1.ca/iiwmi ] | Oct 25 19:23 | |
| schestowitz | people do all the time to everyone." | Oct 25 19:23 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020818 | Oct 25 19:32 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #billgates has bribe press to tell us he gives away his money, but actually getting $10bn (or ~9%) richer in 1 year http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/bill-gates-wealthiest-person-in-america-wealth-x/articleshow/44825751.cms | Oct 25 19:32 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> economictimes.indiatimes.com | Bill Gates wealthiest person in America: Wealth-X - The Economic Times [ http://ur1.ca/iiwpt ] | Oct 25 19:32 | |
| schestowitz | "In my country drug cartels donate money to churches and towns so if what matters is what you're doing with your money, not how you got in, then I guess narcs must be philanthropists too." | Oct 25 19:32 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5020827 | Oct 25 19:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Billionaires rewriting history http://www.businessinsider.in/Bill-Gates-Is-Obsessed-With-A-New-Way-Of-Teaching-History-Heres-How-It-Works/articleshow/44830423.cms those who can rewrite history can dominate the future | Oct 25 19:33 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 19:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.businessinsider.in | Bill Gates Is Obsessed With A New Way Of Teaching History - Here's How It Works | Business Insider India [ http://ur1.ca/iiwq8 ] | Oct 25 19:33 | |
| schestowitz | Here's how it works: | Oct 25 19:33 |
| schestowitz | "We edit out the parts that make us look bad..." | Oct 25 19:33 |
| schestowitz | Pretty soon, you're living on a flat earth and the Sun goes around it every day. Without any consideration that this is geometrically impossible. | Oct 25 19:33 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 19:33 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022065 | Oct 25 19:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #drm and #surveillance from #adobe https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141024/06071328930/adobe-discovers-encryption-cuts-back-its-ebook-snooping-bit.shtml thankfully, they'll no longer push "Reader" (of minds) to #gnu #linux users | Oct 25 19:33 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techdirt.com | Adobe Discovers Encryption, Cuts Back On Its eBook Snooping A Bit | Techdirt [ http://ur1.ca/iiwqg ] | Oct 25 19:33 | |
| schestowitz | "Companies like Microsoft and Adobe use encryption frequently, but they deploy it against the user. Windows, for example, has regular communication with Microsoft but it's encrypted so the user has no idea what is being said about them or their computer. All commercial movies are wrapped in layers of encryption so that we can't share with each other and only our masters have the ability to use our culture for their purposes." | Oct 25 19:33 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5019344 | Oct 25 19:34 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: #rekonq has been maturing and is almost on par now with every browser. Goodbye #firefox (for now), I'm back to Rekonq. #kde #gnu #linux | Oct 25 19:34 | |
| schestowitz | how about #dwb ?"" | Oct 25 19:34 |
| schestowitz | Haven't heard of it | Oct 25 19:34 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5015983 | Oct 25 19:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The Linux desktop-a-week review: #LXDE http://www.networkworld.com/article/2838326/opensource-subnet/the-linux-desktop-a-week-review-lxde.html #gnu #linux | Oct 25 19:35 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.networkworld.com | The Linux desktop-a-week review: LXDE [ http://ur1.ca/iiwr4 ] | Oct 25 19:35 | |
| schestowitz | "Well, we have LXQt 0.8 now... and it's pretty awesome as well! Basically the same, just based on Qt now and kinda merged into the Razor Qt project." | Oct 25 19:35 |
| schestowitz | "lxqt is much heavier than lxde. i will switch to open box if they drop gtk version." | Oct 25 19:35 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5003980 | Oct 25 19:38 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Keep your conversations private with these 10 super secure messaging apps https://www.techinasia.com/10-best-secure-messaging-apps/ #android | Oct 25 19:39 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.techinasia.com | 10 secure messaging apps for all your private chats [ http://ur1.ca/iibip ] | Oct 25 19:39 | |
| schestowitz | "Yeah, they won't delete for me. Maybe Dr. Roy can do it." | Oct 25 19:39 |
| schestowitz | "he's a Dr. after all!" | Oct 25 19:39 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/5022056 | Oct 25 19:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: VFX Coder Proposes MOX, a Crowdfunded Open-Source Movie File Format http://www.studiodaily.com/2014/10/vfx-coder-proposes-mox-a-crowdfunded-open-source-movie-file-format/ no #swpats | Oct 25 19:43 | |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 19:43 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes--> www.studiodaily.com | VFX Coder Proposes MOX, a Crowdfunded Open-Source Movie File Format | Studio Daily [ http://ur1.ca/iiwuq ] | Oct 25 19:44 | |
| schestowitz | Can a crowdfunded open-source project bring the industry together behind a QuickTime killer? | Oct 25 19:44 |
| schestowitz | Shit, is that still around? | Oct 25 19:44 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 25 19:44 |
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