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● Jul 04
[05:42]	schestowitz-TR	kaniini is looking into the disk-related warnings
[05:43]	schestowitz-TR	I had to repair the DB twice more
[05:43]	schestowitz-TR	same table
[05:58]	Techrights-sec2	Ok I'm glad it has his attention but it is unfortunate it is taking time from
[05:58]	Techrights-sec2	his other activities
● Jul 04
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	I've suggested a new VM
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	(no repy  yet) 
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	also examined drupal 6-> hugo conversion
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	i know it's holiday
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	it's in the public channel, in the scrollback
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	the important tables are still OK AFAIk
[07:05]	schestowitz-TR	but we have techniucal debt at CMS level and OS level
[07:06]	Techrights-sec2	ack
[07:06]	Techrights-sec2	the OS level might be the easiest to solve
[07:10]	Techrights-sec2	supposedly July 4th is when Thoreau move out to Walden Pond:
[07:10]	Techrights-sec2	https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-David-Thoreau/Move-to-Walden-Pond
[07:10]	Techrights-sec2	though the exact date is not in /that/ particular article
[07:10]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Henry David Thoreau - Move to Walden Pond | Britannica
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[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	today I don't sleep too well, had 4 batches of sleep, waking up to check tail -f
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	the past 2 ot 3 times the repair did not have to alter anything
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	it just showed some alerts related to the search index
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	but overall these issues go bakc more than a week
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	we just don't quite see them
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	I checked randomly some pages to ensure all works OK
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	one option I tought was involves loss of some comments etc.
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	and we need to have accounts open for contributors like marius
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	from what I've read, upgrading drupal is not easy at all
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	'reinventing' the site would spoil what it stands for though 
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	I wish some companies rleased software and properly supported 
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	it for decades
[07:14]	schestowitz-TR	it's not an impossible task, but financial motivation
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0704/Fourth-of-July-Almost-two-hundred-years-ago-Thoreau-moved-into-his-Walden-Pond-cabin
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	TM has brief outages throughout the day, so those are more likely slowdowns and
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	timeouts than anything else
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	the appeal to novelty fallacy is too heavily used for that to be allowed
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	and, yes, there are perverse incentives motivating churn rather than stability
[07:15]	Techrights-sec2	that churn also allows decommodification to creep in a little at a time
[07:15]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Fourth of July: Almost two hundred years ago, Thoreau moved into his Walden Pond cabin - CSMonitor.com
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	the analogy I can come up with is, build a radio that lasts 30 years versus "smart" tuner that stops getting 
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	updates after a few years and is "end of life" (good luck or buy a new one)
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	same for sofwtare
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	while I don't know (nor think) the DB issue is related to the disk, it would help to address that other issue
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	too. kaniini says the sites are i/o intensive, which is likely correct
[07:19]	Techrights-sec2	they look I/O intensive
[07:19]	schestowitz-TR	so maybe that's the cause, but with bad backup files it is not benign
[07:35]	Techrights-sec2	ok
[07:56]	schestowitz-TR	I am testing DB integrity
[07:56]	schestowitz-TR	ping
[07:56]	schestowitz-TR	ignore warnings
[07:56]	Techrights-sec2	otr: I have to head out for some errands shortly
[07:56]	Techrights-sec2	pong
[07:56]	Techrights-sec2	ok
● Jul 04
[08:14]	schestowitz-TR	OK, for the record and for transparency:
[08:14]	schestowitz	what I did:
[08:14]	schestowitz	check search_index integrity
[08:14]	schestowitz	as it was marked as crashed
[08:14]	schestowitz	then repaired it
[08:14]	schestowitz	it took a long time
[08:14]	schestowitz	almost 5 mins in this many cores 
[08:14]	schestowitz	as a result, some search results in TM look a little odd
[08:14]	schestowitz	but critical data seems OK
[08:14]	schestowitz	II did further testing
[08:14]	schestowitz	after the repair
[08:14]	schestowitz	1) get db remote, check gz
[08:14]	schestowitz	2) get db local, check gz
[08:14]	schestowitz	3) check db 
[08:14]	schestowitz	4) tail -f running now to see if anything breaks again (I suspect it's a matter of time but hope not
[08:14]	schestowitz	Contingencies: fall back to older DB, export to another CMS, or try to repair on the go
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[12:37]	schestowitz-TR	went to run errands
[12:38]	schestowitz-TR	db still in good state since the work this morning 
[12:38]	schestowitz-TR	I monitor it closely
[12:39]	schestowitz-TR	almost noboody wears maska anymore so it's self defence in the stor, even in quiet times
[12:39]	schestowitz-TR	mask, second mask, shades, hat
[12:39]	schestowitz-TR	I need a second mask that looks like the one of hannbal lector
[12:39]	schestowitz-TR	it can buy me more distance
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	yes earlier
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	excellent
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	tux machines 06:55, tux machines 09:00
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	just two hiccoughs noticed from here ^
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	almost no one does here either and    
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	supposedly there are now crowded concerts 
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	and other events happening and the shops are too crowded etc
[12:40]	Techrights-sec	good
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	I carry heavier item like carton of soya drink
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	rianne is better at finding the expensive things cheaply
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	takes time, but the savings add up to a salary
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	I hope to have better sleep tonight
[12:43]	Techrights-sec	nice
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	it was also too cold and window was open
[12:43]	schestowitz-TR	one upside is, along the way I learn some dba-like skills and utils
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	I can cope with low temps, we have home-wide heating, but it has been off since 2019
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	our electric+gas bill for this month is 85
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	now with extra power for the aquarium
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	but I try to dry-shave more and use the hot water a lot (or coffee machine)
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	my friend mike (home of a couple) paid 250 per month
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	insane!
[12:48]	schestowitz-TR	not including the money he spends pumping gas into his reasonably oversized vehicle
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: in the late 80's I read the account of shipwreck survivor; 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: it went down in the Great Lakes during winter and he attribued
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: survival in the raft to toughening up with an open window all winter
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: his story was quite surreal as it involved a lot of dreams and 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: hallucinations as he was near to freezing to death; all the other 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: from the ship had already frozen to death long before he was rescued
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: in the late 80's I read the account of shipwreck survivor; 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: it went down in the Great Lakes during winter and he attribued
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: survival in the raft to toughening up with an open window all winter
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: his story was quite surreal as it involved a lot of dreams and 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: hallucinations as he was near to freezing to death; all the other 
[12:48]	Techrights-sec	otr: from the ship had already frozen to death long before he was rescued
[12:49]	Techrights-sec	practice is always good if it comes in handy later
[12:49]	Techrights-sec	practice is always good if it comes in handy later
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● Jul 04
[13:22]	schestowitz-TR	got 5 errors related to the search table
[13:22]	schestowitz-TR	repairing now
[13:22]	schestowitz-TR	now as alarming as some errors I saw yesterday
[13:22]	schestowitz-TR	I do not even know if it's related to the storage layer at the disk/OS
[13:29]	Techrights-sec	I am not so experienced with databases as to be able to guess why the tables
[13:29]	Techrights-sec	appear to be curdling spontaneously
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	of note: tuxmachines has write operations around the clock for site updates
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	so rollbacks are rarely a fallback
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	DB replication is overkill
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	this is not critical data
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	the tables will need to protect the most are nodes and comments
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	stuff like block_cache or search_index are almost disposable
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	and this is why despite 3-4 days of error nothing was noticed until you
[13:34]	schestowitz-TR	said something
[13:34]	Techrights-sec	still it would be reassuring to be able to prevent
[13:34]	Techrights-sec	we can't "protect" the important tables without knowing how to prevent 
[13:34]	Techrights-sec	the errors in the peripheral tables IMO
[13:34]	Techrights-sec	Is LDC sufficiently reliable?
[13:34]	Techrights-sec	s/LDC/LXC/
[13:37]	schestowitz-TR	canonical
[13:37]	schestowitz-TR	each company makes up its own "container" 'solution'
[13:37]	schestowitz-TR	and then 'skills' become knowing some interfaces
[13:37]	schestowitz-TR	for the abstractions
[13:38]	Techrights-sec	yes and the containers are effectively blobs because no one outside a specific
[13:38]	Techrights-sec	department at the originating company can actually know the secrets behind
[13:38]	Techrights-sec	putting it together.  Such projects as BigBlueButton come to mind but there
[13:38]	Techrights-sec	are others.
[13:40]	schestowitz-TR	thie is how theel sell support: red hat, squiz matrix... seen it
[13:40]	schestowitz-TR	they like it when things break ' a little' and nobody knows how to save the systems
[13:40]	schestowitz-TR	so they sign some overkill support contract
[13:40]	schestowitz-TR	their "certified" minions put that shit inside company's systems and then leave
[13:46]	Techrights-sec	it's a way of working around copyleft and doing proprietary actions
[13:46]	schestowitz-TR	it is different
[13:46]	schestowitz-TR	not proprietary
[13:46]	schestowitz-TR	badge-ware
[13:46]	schestowitz-TR	with "proprietarty" defects
[13:48]	schestowitz-TR	to who, running TM or TR is like "piracy" because all the pieces are quite the commodity
[13:48]	schestowitz-TR	or we are "free riding"
[13:48]	schestowitz-TR	from the POV of the companies
[13:48]	schestowitz-TR	wordpress.com prob has some support contracts
[13:50]	Techrights-sec	WP is overly complex and is using that, along with some exagerated design flaws,
[13:50]	Techrights-sec	to pull in money.  It's been turned so nasty that most peope just give in
[13:50]	Techrights-sec	and hire someone else to run it for them; that does not make the 
[13:50]	Techrights-sec	security problems related to the methods they have chosen for automated updates
[13:50]	Techrights-sec	go away at all
[13:51]	schestowitz	2013: https://techrights.org/2013/10/31/wordpress-automatic-update/
[13:51]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Back Door (Automatic Update) in WordPress and What It Means to Techrights | Techrights
● Jul 04
[14:00]	Techrights-sec	checking
[14:00]	Techrights-sec	Yes, it's a double back door: remote login + over FTP
● Jul 04
[15:06]	Techrights-sec	digging through blog RSS feeds again
[15:07]	schestowitz-TR	your feeds helped a lot in weaning us off gulag noise
[15:07]	schestowitz-TR	which was years overdue in retrospect, as I spent time and got angered by that
[15:07]	schestowitz-TR	I cannot produce many stories today
[15:07]	schestowitz-TR	not because of TM (last error was 3 hours ago)
[15:07]	schestowitz-TR	but due to slow news
[15:08]	Techrights-sec	np
[15:08]	Techrights-sec	there are still RSS feeds to discover but there are still too many good sites
[15:08]	Techrights-sec	which lack feeds of any kind
[15:08]	Techrights-sec	the slow news is an ongoing problem and the pair of links about furtjher 
[15:08]	Techrights-sec	cuts to journalism give a heads up that it will get slower still later this year
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	rianne read to me billbc headline 2 hours ago
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	it's about expecting food prices to soar some more
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	contradicting utter bs my dad told me the other day
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	he's usually clueless on things
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	but overconfident 
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	today's 8 bangers cost 39p, i.e. 0.05 pounds per sausage
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	last nigght I promised myself to focus on TM and not worry abotu writing new articles
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	TM is more important atm
[15:11]	Techrights-sec	is he afflicted by Facebook?
[15:11]	Techrights-sec	ack
[15:11]	schestowitz-TR	so far we published about 30 nodes since midnight and it's only 3pm
[15:12]	schestowitz-TR	he does not 'use' FB
[15:12]	schestowitz-TR	but maybe a passive, second-hand smoker
[15:12]	schestowitz-TR	as many around him do use the thing
[15:13]	schestowitz-TR	I think I deleted his FB account for him twice, not once
[15:13]	schestowitz-TR	after he had asked me to about a decade ago
[15:14]	Techrights-sec	could be; it is a terrible fountain of disinformation
[15:17]	schestowitz-TR	money is not a bottleneck, the hosting is a favour/charitable
[15:17]	Techrights-sec	this site is still indexed:
[15:17]	Techrights-sec	https://justice4assange.org/Asylum-illegally-terminated.html
[15:17]	Techrights-sec	but seems removed from the net recently.  Any idea?
[15:17]	Techrights-sec	ok I understand, and really appreciate the valuable contribution,           
[15:17]	Techrights-sec	but it seems we are slowing painting ourselves into a corner regarding the OS
[15:17]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Failed connect to justice4assange.org:443; Operation now in progress ( status 0 @ https://justice4assange.org/Asylum-illegally-terminated.html )
[15:19]	schestowitz-TR	ack
[15:19]	Techrights-sec	and there is so much of the current work flow which could be improved with
[15:19]	Techrights-sec	current tools   
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	do you still rsync across TR files, imc. TM dumps?
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	the major "assets" are the databases
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	and we need copies of the files too
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	a lot of these files, like epo stuff, are uniquely hosted by us
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	so we are the sole preserver
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	which is a bit scary and a burden
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	people trust us to keep them online, it took sacrifice
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	I'm off work till weds 1am
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	my #1 goal is to keep all that info online and widely accessible
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	aside from personal goals like not being a shitty husband
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	rianne is understanding unlike the girl I dated who said "I don't like it"
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	and who worked for a paralegal or something
[15:26]	schestowitz-TR	("it" referred to the activism)
[15:27]	Techrights-sec	sometimes; however rsync has not worked for that of late; sftp does work
[15:27]	Techrights-sec	"be excellent to eachother"
[15:27]	Techrights-sec	ack
[15:28]	schestowitz-TR	going to fanalise another batch now
[15:28]	schestowitz-TR	it's a good way to keep the site active when I have nothing special to say
[15:32]	Techrights-sec	news deserts can be a topic
[15:32]	Techrights-sec	since that's one of the things which came up indirectly today
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	random point:
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	for TM and TR, JUST BEING ONLINE and serving pages is in itself a "winning" move
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	it's a race against outside threats, inc. tech rot
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	like I said before, many "big" news sites like IDG's *world have shut down
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	they need migrations and sys admins to keep those running
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	and if they don't have no "content" (salaried writers), then traffic is low
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	and cost of tech people becomes harder to justify
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	we, however, run on shoestring budget 
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	like RMS who said he himself does not need a salary
[15:32]	schestowitz-TR	shithub was never "free" hosting
[15:33]	Techrights-sec	what are the repercussions of techdirt no longe self-hosting and moving
[15:33]	Techrights-sec	to what amounts to a backdoored system
[15:33]	Techrights-sec	  
[15:34]	schestowitz-TR	I am not familiar with what techdirt ran on  before as all pages were served through clownflare
[15:34]	schestowitz-TR	which masks the origin of pages among other things 
[15:35]	schestowitz-TR	phoronix does the same
[15:35]	schestowitz-TR	(phoronix too has slow news syndrome today)
[15:35]	Techrights-sec	  ack
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	a) slow news syndrome = I shall write about an absolute shit (instead of not writing at all)
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	b) techdirt can not be muzzled by threatening the host, which iirc is increasidnly dmca-friendlty
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	and does not want to spend money on lawyers in court 
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	techdirt pulled one key writers from that broadband news site you mentioned the other day
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	karl iirc
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	bode?
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	the one you said was deteriorating
[15:38]	Techrights-sec	not sure
[15:40]	Techrights-sec	Broadbandbreakfast is going south
[15:41]	schestowitz-TR	that's the one
[15:41]	schestowitz-TR	karl bode iirc was the name
[15:41]	schestowitz-TR	he started writing for techdirt many years ago
[15:41]	schestowitz-TR	maybe they lost other pivotal people
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	if a site spends 50% of the time writing stuff and 50% of the time protecting what was published (curation, preservation)
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	that;''s fiar, provided the latter is in fact... effective
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	if it's a 90to-10 ratio, OK... writing does not even mean literally writing, maybe 80% reading and learning, 20% putting in words
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	the conclusions
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	right now we agonise a bit over the latter and deal with the tech, but that's a normal thing every now and then
[15:46]	schestowitz-TR	we already hopped between servers about 5 times already
[15:47]	Techrights-sec	coud be, I don't track the names like I should
[15:47]	Techrights-sec	9-to-5-linux is a good site, but I don't check it sine you have that covered
[15:49]	schestowitz-TR	marius manages that for us
[15:49]	schestowitz-TR	the pipeline is, he posts in TM within minutes
[15:49]	schestowitz-TR	I grabbed it from there and then it goes into TR daily links
[15:49]	schestowitz-TR	he doesn't tolerate trash like "openshift" or WSL or...
[15:49]	Techrights-sec	awesome!
[15:49]	Techrights-sec	excellent
[15:49]	schestowitz-TR	so no time-wasting
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	side story
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	today when I repaired the DB he submitted the weekly roundup and double posted it due to my word causing timeout
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	I unpublished the latter of the two
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	this is why moving away from drupal would be a major problem
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	other authors/editors
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	and a particular workflow
[15:53]	schestowitz-TR	soon 4 hours since last error in mysql.log
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	I am trying to correlate events with error, maybe it's something that triggers this
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	we had much bigger problems when we put the ddos protection in there
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	or when I had to manually resubmit about 70 nodes
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	due to a very important table breaking apart (not for the first time)
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	node_revisions is not so important
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	it's like interim versions of node
[15:54]	schestowitz-TR	index and cache for search and blocks, respectively, are self-healing afaik
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	some people's personality is unfit for this as they give up fast
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	masnick suffered a long lawsuit and still managed to get back to writintg
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	unlikle, say, om malik afeter he had a minor heart attack/stroke
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	julian assange had a small stoke this past october and even if he gets relased to austrlian
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	I think too much damage was done for him to get back to wikileaks as active 
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	contributor. much can be said about rms and esr, maybe even lbt (torvalds)
[15:57]	schestowitz-TR	all 3 suffered what I would call 'traumatising' episodes
[15:59]	Techrights-sec	masnick is not 100% any more though
● Jul 04
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	i admired masnick when he wrote 10 long posts per day
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	how TF did he do that??
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	Now it's a lot less
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	like Linus with his SUnday release announcements
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	he's there, but it's not the same persona
[16:00]	schestowitz-TR	or RMS being an appeaser of sorts
[16:00]	Techrights-sec	assange will never be back, that was a secondary goal of the attack,    
[16:00]	Techrights-sec	the primary goal is against subsequent journalism and journalists
[16:00]	Techrights-sec	yes in the past Masnick was great
[16:00]	Techrights-sec	CoC ?
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	no, conditions upon "return"
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	afaik, someone prefilters his personal posts and he doesn't do media interviews and such
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	they fear anoter "cancel wave"
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	empahsis on they
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	not an oddball word but literally several people who control the FSF rather than follow
[16:03]	schestowitz-TR	 a leader like it was... for nearly 35 years
[16:07]	Techrights-sec	yep
[16:07]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	Pamela Jones vanished completely
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	RMS is controlled by people whose life style requires a salary and whose salary is paid by members and "patrons", so in some
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	sense the FSF is controlled by this thirst for funds and people who pocket these funds (greg, zoe..) now control
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	what RMS can and cannot say, who he can speak to/associate with
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	so it's FSF with "not so much freedom" of association or speech
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	sad to say...
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	companies don't give money "for free"
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	they buy into the brand
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	librem, PIA, Mozilla, Gulag...
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	BTW, our very very "Linux " lamer Gardiner now promotes dos shit for... steam dreck
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	he's like a commercials channel of valve
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	I did not even click, just link
[16:09]	schestowitz-TR	it's still gnu/linux/kde behind those laywers of FS lock-down and DRM
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	fs=file system
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	corporate donors = doping
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	you shorten your life
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	wait till the drugs fuck aorund with internal affairs (or organs)
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	the "patrons" threaten to leave and you get cold feet
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	it's not a surstinable operative mode
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	*model
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	like gullagtruber who quit their job and/or dropped out of college
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	and start "algospeak" and stuff to get "monetised" better
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	like provoking homeless people
[16:10]	schestowitz-TR	or not mentioning "offending" subjects
[16:11]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:11]	Techrights-sec	the corporate shilling gives a temporary infusion of money in exchange for
[16:11]	Techrights-sec	a permanent loss of audience and community support
[16:11]	Techrights-sec	money buys silence on a lot of topics, look at NPR / PBS for bad examples 
[16:12]	schestowitz-TR	both took gates bribes at least a decade ago and ever since, on conditional repreats
[16:12]	schestowitz-TR	so they must behave 
[16:12]	schestowitz-TR	the strings as the conditional "renewal" from the cliernt
[16:12]	schestowitz-TR	now NPR is also funded by Microsoft
[16:12]	schestowitz-TR	double-dipping
[16:15]	Techrights-sec	m$ buys support 
[16:15]	Techrights-sec	LF is out to kill Linux as brand
[16:15]	Techrights-sec	especially in regards to the kernel
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	any client you lose = colleagues who might be laid off
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	LF took that to a whole new level
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	Linux as a brand became more "mainstream", except not as a kernel
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	but a junkword
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	Microsoft "green" datacentres, "endorsed" by Linux(TM)
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	I did not chedck if Bryan Luinduke's calculations are accurate, but he said 1% or 3% of LF funds go towards ACTUAL Linux
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	imagine us giving to elephant charities (we donate about 5 times a year) only to discover the elephants get mere cents
[16:18]	schestowitz-TR	we woould be up in arms
[16:19]	Techrights-sec	yes that, if true, ought to be hammered on -- 3%
[16:20]	schestowitz-TR	I don't know how he calculated it, did not pass the smell test at all
[16:20]	schestowitz-TR	maybe he just added up the salaries for 3 kernel hackers
[16:20]	schestowitz-TR	but not various associated activities and operationas
[16:20]	Techrights-sec	I don;t suppose he can be approached to follow up on that 
[16:21]	schestowitz-TR	you would have to chip in for that one-hour session with Mr. "Linux Sucks"
[16:21]	schestowitz-TR	it's billed at $300 per hour
[16:21]	schestowitz-TR	;-)
[16:22]	Techrights-sec	e he can be approached to follow up on that 
[16:22]	Techrights-sec	:(
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	today I reminder rianne next month we go to the solicitor regarding naturalisation and passport
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	two separate processes
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	next week we might know the outcome of our request to work saturday until sunday evening (5:30), then free 128 hours
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	hard to predict the outcome, it's guy feeling 
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	this solicitor does not rip us off at all, it's like massive discount and effective
[16:25]	schestowitz-TR	they're from HK I think, but born here
[16:25]	Techrights-sec	great
[16:25]	Techrights-sec	that is important to have settled
[16:25]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	we can retire ok as weekend-only sys admin/noc, assuming we can last another decade
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	in this veyr volatile world
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	TM DB ok for 4.5 hours now
[16:31]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:31]	Techrights-sec	4.5 is short though, a small fraction of a full day
[16:32]	schestowitz-TR	yes, but an improvement
[16:32]	schestowitz-TR	it also impacts recoverable tables
[16:32]	schestowitz-TR	rmemeber that some issues mysteriously go away
[16:32]	schestowitz-TR	like that issue we had months ago with TR apache just 'hanging' 
[16:32]	schestowitz-TR	for no known reason 
[16:33]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	I know it sounds like superstitutious nonsense
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	and terrible sys admining
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	but sometimes we solve issues
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	sometimes it's "that too shalt pass"
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	maybe it's even a bug due to some node input with emoji shit
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	the DB REALLY hate emojis
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	so very much
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	it's "too new"
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	meanwhile I've run a script to lower load on that VM and see if maybe the spikes contributed to this issue
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	as kaniini did mention high i/o
[16:46]	schestowitz-TR	some search queries and other things can hammer away at the DB for minutes
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	we can neutralise these proavtively
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	we have a fossil db
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	the tools I used today are very old and considered obsolete over a decade ago
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	due to the storage engine
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	xrevan explained to me earlier this year that migration away from this torage engine would not be simple 
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	at all
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	at one point I can use exporters I downloaded specifically for drupal 6 and for static CMS
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	one envisioned path is make "old" site and then start afresh with same RSS feed address
[16:47]	schestowitz-TR	when all other options run out
[16:48]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:49]	schestowitz-TR	ota
[16:49]	schestowitz-TR	(just did daily links)
[16:49]	schestowitz-TR	ota
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[17:16]	schestowitz-TR	done
[17:16]	schestowitz-TR	windows in turkey 9.8% now lol
[17:17]	schestowitz-TR	its military was first to move to gnu/linux
[17:17]	schestowitz-TR	media hardly mentioned it
[17:17]	schestowitz-TR	I think sam varghese did
[17:17]	schestowitz-TR	(first in turkey)  
[17:17]	schestowitz-TR	then italy
[17:17]	Techrights-sec	ack
[17:17]	Techrights-sec	so is Turkey hardening its cyberdefenses in prep for a conflict with Europe?
[17:17]	Techrights-sec	The French Gendarmerie was first IIRC
[17:17]	Techrights-sec	Italy is doing ok in that regard too
[17:17]	Techrights-sec	ok
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	drafting
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	repetitive on subjects
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	but an importasnt one
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	and undercovered
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	not yet
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	5 mins  
[17:30]	schestowitz-TR	ok, ready now
[17:30]	Techrights-sec	ok     
[17:30]	Techrights-sec	checking
[17:34]	schestowitz-TR	credit to psydroid2 for noticing the trends in turkey
[17:34]	schestowitz-TR	I hadn't seen it till he told me
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[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	ok 
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	ack
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[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	done 
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	published
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	didn't even realise rianne gave me the portland shirt
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	my sister will leave the place some time...
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	6+ hours now without mysql.log entry... best since around 27/6/2022
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	maybe keeping i/o lower will lower the probability of issues
[18:08]	schestowitz-TR	I'm still testing cause and effect 
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[18:25]	Techrights-sec	ok 
[18:25]	Techrights-sec	ack
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	6pm, 39 new/updated nodes in tuxmachines
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	on july 4th!
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	happiness is a relative thing
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	I'm happy the site is managing to cope now
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	I'll monitor is super closely overnight
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	thanks for reporting the isuse
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	if you hadn't said anything, I'd likely only notice when things started breaking in a more visible way
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	like "cannot add new nodes"
[18:26]	schestowitz-TR	or site won't even run
[18:28]	Techrights-sec	np
[18:29]	schestowitz-TR	checking now
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[18:36]	schestowitz-TR	photo number 15
[18:36]	schestowitz-TR	\
[18:37]	schestowitz-TR	I like photo #11 better
[18:37]	schestowitz-TR	there is some occlusion that ruins it though
[18:37]	schestowitz-TR	high res photo, so it can be cropped into a rectangle
[18:37]	schestowitz-TR	parade of the electric cords in #1
[18:37]	schestowitz-TR	brb, writing something about gemini://
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[18:57]	schestowitz-TR	draft
[18:57]	schestowitz-TR	btw to have any graden at all where we are (town, stadium) isn't easy
[18:57]	schestowitz-TR	so even a little one is valuable
[18:57]	schestowitz-TR	I will embed the video "web we had"
[18:57]	Techrights-sec	true
[18:57]	Techrights-sec	ok
[18:57]	Techrights-sec	btw +1 : "on a daily basis we have over 100 unique visitors in the capsule. Not counting the Web proxies"
[18:57]	Techrights-sec	s/. Not/, not/
● Jul 04
[19:13]	schestowitz-TR	last night I programmed ipfs to start automatically at 3am or reset itself at that time
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	for the time being I'm OK with it turned on most of the day
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	the improvments made to cope with connection timeouts are valuable either way
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	as they make the capsule refreshers more robust
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	rianne and I don't intend to put the pi on wifi again
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	its has its own nice little corner safe from human contact (almost)
[19:14]	schestowitz-TR	and from the fish splashing water nearby
[19:22]	Techrights-sec	ack
[19:22]	Techrights-sec	it is faster without wifi anyway
[19:23]	schestowitz-TR	that too
[19:23]	schestowitz-TR	spamnil has gone on for a month now without clickfraud
[19:23]	schestowitz-TR	rehabilitation
[19:49]	Techrights-sec	I doubt he has reformed.  Probably just shifted focus or tactics
[19:49]	schestowitz-TR	yeah, 'rehab' as tongue-in-cheeck
[19:49]	schestowitz-TR	cheek
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