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Techrights-secMention of the Unified Patent Court needs to be identified as suchJul 05 05:50
Techrights-secso the acronym gets expanded.  HTML has the <acronym title=""> elementJul 05 05:50
Techrights-secor it can be spelled out the first time in each article so that it works  Jul 05 05:50
Techrights-secin Gemini as wellJul 05 05:50
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schestowitz-TRno DB issue since midday yesterdayJul 05 09:18
Techrights-seccheckingJul 05 09:35
Techrights-secwhat is the scope of the data in chart?  Is it for one country or global?Jul 05 09:35
schestowitz-TRdraftJul 05 09:35
schestowitz-TRglobalJul 05 09:35
schestowitz-TRI fainted a little earlierJul 05 09:46
schestowitz-TRseems node_revisions are used in blog postsJul 05 09:46
schestowitz-TRI'm trying to assess how much was lost thereJul 05 09:46
schestowitz-TRand how much can be retrieved, e..g. from Google CahceJul 05 09:46
schestowitz-TRso far I found only many of my own blog posts missingJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRdata loss is kind of a big dealJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRbut... now I'm thinkingJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRno blog post in weeksJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRso I wonder if I can take that table from an old DB dumpJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRthen transplant it into the current and see if that goesJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRI still want to see what else was lostJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRI don't have many DB tools, but I reckon I could freeze writing to the site, take a DB dumpJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRthen tke an old one, compare to it, and fill the gapsJul 05 09:47
schestowitz-TRworse come to worse, I can roll back to 25thish, and that would mean giving up on the node after that, which are mostly links tol external sites anyay Jul 05 09:52
schestowitz-TRI want to study better what code_revision does, will check from sql> prompt soonJul 05 09:52
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Techrights-secdrupal is over my headJul 05 10:02
Techrights-secwhat is the underlying cause of the corruptingtables?Jul 05 10:02
schestowitz-TRupside is, no alerts in almost 24 hoursJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRso it 'settled' betterJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRbut...Jul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRat the moment I try to assess how many node went missingJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRand maybe I can readd them by handJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRwith a new address (node)Jul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRso far (noting to self./.. and yuou) I can onyl see about 10 blog posts missing, all mineJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRI can retreive them in full from google chcheJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRthat woluld be the faster "fix"Jul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRalbeit not before assuring myself the DB is ina  stable, good stateJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRI remmebered that revisions are used SOMEWHEREJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRseems it was blogsJul 05 10:03
schestowitz-TRI can see 23 missing content blogs from meJul 05 10:03
Techrights-secackJul 05 10:07
schestowitz-TRgoing back to 2010 I see some more missing blog postsJul 05 10:30
schestowitz-TRso restoring mnaually, assuming qw value most the blogs/originals, is not the bext approachJul 05 10:30
schestowitz-TRsome of these might even be distro reviewsJul 05 10:30
schestowitz-TRI'll check now how that table works and whether it is feasible to graft or merge tables Jul 05 10:30
schestowitz-TRmaybe nodes is just more of a virtual likst and revisions is what's importantJul 05 10:30
schestowitz-TRa) months ago (maybe 2) we had a simialr issueJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRb) last working state was over a week ago, restoring new stuff by hand is a huge taskJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRc) not sure if the disk surface is the issue, mentioned again to kaniiniJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRd) this is the only DB stored on the VM, the others are remoteJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRe) if we were to revert back to old backup, amybe worth CMS work tooJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRf) from what I read "upgrading" drupal is no funJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRg) staying forever with this old DB and drupal is not good eitherJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRh) with drupal, one approach is, clean install, new versionJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRthen import old nodesJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRnot sure if users can also be imported, comments etc.Jul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRthose things are complexJul 05 10:39
Techrights-secackJul 05 10:39
Techrights-secIt's almost too earlyy to speculate about such things since even the OS Jul 05 10:39
Techrights-secupgrade is not set yetJul 05 10:39
schestowitz-TRokJul 05 10:40
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schestowitz-TRI did a lot of thinking while you were offline. One option (mentioned in passsing in main IRC channel is)Jul 05 12:25
schestowitz-TRmake the existing site "legacy", lock it down, read only, no ssh access etc. in case DB breaks, we can restore from backup as it no longer changes anyway. There are many pros, some consJul 05 12:26
schestowitz-TRrss feeds can all be redirected via apache, tuxmachines-old is a legacy locked-down machineJul 05 12:27
schestowitz-TRwhen, using a subdomain we make something like new.tuxmachines.org, build a new site there and maybe create accounts for the contributors in tuxmachines (old) in the new oneJul 05 12:28
schestowitz-TRof note: I think our last major DB disaster was April 12th, I see that before rerstarting from backup then too node_revisions table was impactedJul 05 12:28
schestowitz-TRto start off the new site I can manually migrate all nodes from the past week, such that when we revert back to a backup nothing is lost per seJul 05 12:29
Techrights-secack                                                               #######################################Jul 05 12:44
Techrights-secmaybe scan the whole thing with wget and make static pages that way and thenJul 05 12:44
Techrights-secjust archive the database and such offline?Jul 05 12:44
Techrights-secso then static pages would remain (and could be the target of some Jul 05 12:44
Techrights-secredirection rules in the Apache configutaiton file) and the moving parts wouldJul 05 12:44
Techrights-secget turned off and set asideJul 05 12:44
schestowitz-TRthat would be a groklaw-type 'archive'Jul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRwith a lot of missing stuffJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRalso, that's hundreds of thousands of filesJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRwhich are connected in several ways, e.g. to images in another CMSJul 05 12:47
Techrights-secno, with the right settings wget can get everything there Jul 05 12:47
Techrights-secthe crawling process would take a lot of timeJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRI was thinking, we can redirect many bits to the "new" site Jul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRand in due course the old site will be accessed  a lot lessJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRthan it can be archivedJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRin due courseJul 05 12:47
schestowitz-TRtidying up my mind a bit, let me break it down like thisJul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRa) longterm plan = static for old siteJul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRb) migrate users to new site and cms (to be determined)Jul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRc) restoring DB and carrying on as usual not an option, it keeps us entrapped with a rotting stack (just a quick, short-teyrm 'fix')Jul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRd) new cms can have other contribs added (not many of them, we can do this manually)Jul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRe) any time old site breaks just restore from backup, it's not changing anyhowJul 05 12:58
schestowitz-TRf) in light of "news deserts" we can readjust with another CMS, like Techrights did with frequent batches and TOC at the topJul 05 12:58
Techrights-secackJul 05 12:59
Techrights-secyesJul 05 12:59
schestowitz-TRg) a properly chosen CMS can buy us another decade, in due course stories from 2005ish aren't accessed much, can be made static Jul 05 12:59
schestowitz-TRor gradually copied over to the "new" CMS, URL scheme should not be too hard to write rules forJul 05 12:59
schestowitz-TRh) I contacted kaniini, said you'd be happy to chip in for billable timeJul 05 12:59
schestowitz-TRI don't know what OS or CMS to use, depends on the so-called 'use case' of the site (multi-user, many updates, news stories)Jul 05 12:59
schestowitz-TRany updates, news stories)Jul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRi) (letters easier for referencing) the old site does not need regular backups or open ssh port, it can be accessed when needed viaJul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRHV; if it has technical issues we can revert back to working stats quickly, later we can figure out content migration or makingJul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRit all static, this machine is already calles tuxmachines-old, it is presumed  "legacy", we just just never goit aroundJul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRto making tuxmachines-new or tuxmachines (don't think about migrating drupal 6 to another drupal... based on my research...Jul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRit's fools's errand)Jul 05 13:03
schestowitz-TRj) I lean towards avoidance of "modern" CMS for several reasons inc. complexityJul 05 13:09
schestowitz-TRwe don't need commenting so much, we don't want wiki, multi user a nice to haveJul 05 13:09
schestowitz-TRI'll discuss with rianne to understand potential for other workflowsJul 05 13:09
schestowitz-TRa contrib in tuxmachines has just added a VSCode story ... the sort of stuff I don't like... as there's no editorial review Jul 05 13:09
schestowitz-TRand that can put people offJul 05 13:09
Techrights-secokJul 05 13:11
schestowitz-TRI am going to brainstorm, while also loooking at existing CMSsJul 05 13:12
schestowitz-TRpublishing html manually, by hand, would not work wellJul 05 13:12
schestowitz-TRmaybe the "new" tuxmachines can also have gemini presence? can't harm, can it?Jul 05 13:12
Techrights-secit would be a nice plus for the new CMS to support Gemini out of the boxJul 05 13:13
Techrights-secbut not essentialJul 05 13:13
schestowitz-TRthe content in the gemini page, however, would be just quotes and then WWW linkJul 05 13:13
Techrights-secas at worst Gemini can be retrofitted via a scraper :/Jul 05 13:14
Techrights-secthere's not much there for Gemini on TM thoughJul 05 13:14
Techrights-secand as you point out the links are to the WWW (http / https)Jul 05 13:14
Techrights-secso it would be only the quotes which might be of value thereJul 05 13:14
schestowitz-TRgiven "news desserts"Jul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRhehe, desertsJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRmaybe editorial style too can change, esp. as new links about the same theme/stories arriveJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRso far we've used comments in drupal to make "updates"Jul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRbut the comments were not made for this purposeJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRso we are clearly using the wrong approachJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRwait, here's a radical ideaJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRsince most stories are just some quote and a linkJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRwe could run the site as gemini, maybe even self-hostedJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRthen, service it over your nginx gatewayJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRwith some decorative stuff like rss feeds on topJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRfor multimedia files it can reach out to the "old" site, to lower bandwidthJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRlinks.tuxmachines.orgJul 05 13:23
Techrights-secackJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRor Jul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRnews.tuxmachines.orgJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRover gemini and httpsJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRthis way we also add https supportJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRthe "syntax" is then just gemtext, the storage is plain text filesJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRthe theme is your perl programJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRgrabing a file here and there, via css stylingJul 05 13:23
schestowitz-TRagate or simialr can be set up on a new vm running alpineJul 05 13:24
Techrights-secthere's the bottleneck :(Jul 05 13:24
schestowitz-TRjust had a long chat with rianneJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRwe can replicate the looks of tuxmachines but without drupal as CMSJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRfor rss feeds some kind of CMS would still be highly essentialJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRwatgching hugo videos Jul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRok, so hugo has config fileJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRit hosts images and pages locallyJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRsome of the themes are niceJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRit uses markupJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRediting would be changing the files or adding files, e.g. over ssh/fish://Jul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRlots of shithub thereJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRadding about 50 files per day and then finding which one to edit to add updates to it would be hardJul 05 14:14
schestowitz-TRhugo seems OK for small sites that do not change muchJul 05 14:15
Techrights-secokJul 05 14:15
Techrights-secyes it basically manages a database (if I understand correctly) which     Jul 05 14:15
Techrights-secexports a mirror site from itJul 05 14:15
Techrights-secackJul 05 14:15
Techrights-sechow large could Hugo scale out to?  Is there a better static site generatorJul 05 14:15
Techrights-secfor sites with a great many posts?Jul 05 14:15
schestowitz-TRrianne thinks the gemini proxy of TR is too geekyJul 05 14:19
schestowitz-TRlike "not attractive", zero imagesJul 05 14:19
schestowitz-TRI need something where I can easily add domain/node/mynumberofchoiceJul 05 14:19
schestowitz-TRstarting with numbers that correspond to the old site as in the future we can merge themJul 05 14:19
schestowitz-TRthen, it needs to make rss feed for the latest additionsJul 05 14:19
Techrights-secokJul 05 14:19
Techrights-secthere should be no images but CSS improvements are a good ideaJul 05 14:19
schestowitz-TRtuxmachines is registered until at least 2027Jul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRso whatever s/w we use, we'll be stuck with and spend a lot of time on for many yearsJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRso I want to spend more time Jul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRwe could "roll out our own", but then any theme changes or sidebars or rss feeds would be hardJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRit's like going back to the 'CMS' mindset of late 1990sJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TR jekyllJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRhas lots of shithub alsoJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRewww....rubyJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRshithub modulesJul 05 14:25
schestowitz-TRclosing window... not interestedJul 05 14:25
Techrights-secI think one of the things to look for is whether it can be used collaborativelyJul 05 14:28
Techrights-secby several editors or authors and doesn't just reside on some one person's ownJul 05 14:28
Techrights-secdesktop Jul 05 14:28
Techrights-secackJul 05 14:28
schestowitz-TRyes, then deployed or similarJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRBTW, the same can be used later for TechrightsJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRbut that's another story Jul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRthose things I saw (videos) are a step backJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRthey don't improve editing speedJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRthey improve performance (static)Jul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRI also don't know what state they will be in within 10 yearsJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRmany 'static' site s/w perishedJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRas people flocked to CMSJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRmaybe I will do a video+article about all this at the endJul 05 14:29
schestowitz-TRit's a shame that wordpress or drupal are out of the question alreadyJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRnot just db back end but js front end and editorsJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRalso, they move too fast, hence hard to maintainJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRb2 (what wordpress is forked off) is obv. not an option eitherJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRwordpress 1.0 and 1.2 were small and simpleJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRback then I'd upload images over sftpJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRno JSJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TRif we have another 166,000 nodes coming, starting with bloat that has a new release every month would be misguidedJul 05 14:32
schestowitz-TR"going witrh the flow..."Jul 05 14:32
Techrights-secyesJul 05 14:34
schestowitz-TRthere is no "CentOS" of wordpress or drupal, but they have some LTS versions to go into repos like DebianJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRbut moving between versions can be challenging and drupal is bloatJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRinc. a burden on the user, like lots of stuff really should not be thereJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRiirc, phoronix coded its ownJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRor reused somethingJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRI chatted with him before about replacing "id/number" in the URLs into something Jul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRabout the story, which he later implemented, poorly...Jul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRmambo, joomla and that old family is a dead only like zopeJul 05 14:38
schestowitz-TRI reckon support for these is already terrible, hence itwire being so badly brokenJul 05 14:38
Techrights-secackJul 05 14:38
Techrights-seccould beJul 05 14:41
Techrights-secthe rewrite engine in Apache can do pattern matching so the URL scheme isJul 05 14:50
Techrights-secless important than one might thinkJul 05 14:50
Techrights-secA unique difference between old and new, even a tiny one, is sufficientJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRthey are microsoft nomada dn the site is sometimes brokenJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRthey seem to have drowned in  a messJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRthe TM move, first in 18+ years, can hopefully tidy things up for usJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRI'm thinking of the URL scheme at the momentJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRto make continuity and avoid URL ambiguity for which we fused old and new togetherJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRyou cannot just say, let's go with wordpress but an old versionJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRit's the systemd scenarioJul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRtake it or least it (latst is saddles with with the vendor imposes)Jul 05 14:50
schestowitz-TRterrible UI for 'lamers'Jul 05 14:50
Techrights-sec/node/ is unnecessary as well as too long a single character or nothingJul 05 14:54
Techrights-secwould be adequateJul 05 14:54
Techrights-sec/n/[number]Jul 05 14:54
Techrights-secas for SEO, that's always changingJul 05 14:54
schestowitz-TRwould you go with /node/[number]Jul 05 14:55
schestowitz-TRor change to something more 'SEO'-friendly like portion of title?Jul 05 14:55
schestowitz-TRthe former would keep it shorter and more consistent with past yearsJul 05 14:55
schestowitz-TRanything other than cms would make rss feed generation very difficultJul 05 14:55
schestowitz-TRsadly, all the major ones bring with them bloat we do not want,Jul 05 14:55
schestowitz-TRand future versions more soJul 05 14:55
Techrights-secthe rewrite engine in Apache can do pattern matching so the URL scheme isJul 05 14:56
Techrights-secless important than one might thinkJul 05 14:56
Techrights-secA unique difference between old and new, even a tiny one, is sufficientJul 05 14:56
Techrights-sec/node/ is unnecessary as well as too long a single character or nothingJul 05 14:56
Techrights-secwould be adequateJul 05 14:56
Techrights-sec/n/[number]Jul 05 14:56
Techrights-secas for SEO, that's always changingJul 05 14:56
Techrights-secsadly a CMS is almost necessary for RSSJul 05 15:01
Techrights-secstatic HTML could work but then templates would have to be used and Jul 05 15:01
Techrights-secembedded metadata in the head element; a shell script or maybe at worst a shortJul 05 15:01
Techrights-secperl script could do all thatJul 05 15:01
schestowitz-TRchoosing a cms is scary if you intend to rely on it longer than the project might existJul 05 15:06
schestowitz-TRI still have two php-nuke sitesJul 05 15:06
schestowitz-TRchecking ghostJul 05 15:06
Techrights-secyes, they can dry up and blow away or the developers can go weird like with WPJul 05 15:07
schestowitz-TRalready thinking how to techniacally prevent 404 when we make the switchJul 05 15:08
schestowitz-TRfor new nodes since recovered DB data it shoule be easyJul 05 15:08
schestowitz-TRsite/node/x -> newsie/node/xJul 05 15:08
schestowitz-TRand I'll make statis copies of those pages, then copy acrossJul 05 15:08
schestowitz-TRso no need to hurryJul 05 15:08
Techrights-sectoo early to worry about that; the new CMS must be decided firstJul 05 15:08
schestowitz-TRright, I've already set aside a working (I chedked) copy of 27062022 dump, which will then be the "factory reset" going forwardJul 05 15:10
schestowitz-TRwhen locking things down I'll also prevent editors adding new stuffJul 05 15:10
Techrights-sec2022-06-22 ?Jul 05 15:10
Techrights-sec2022-06-27Jul 05 15:10
schestowitz-TRyesJul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRany backup after 28th I do not trustJul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRas there was an incident with node_revisions notes as producing some errorsJul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRlet's say that techrights was to follow with the same CMS, given that it needs RSS,Jul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRso we need to assess the needs and then it's fewer CMS skills to deal withJul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRdrupal and wordpress became "webapps"Jul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRI think there are also phone "apps"Jul 05 15:17
schestowitz-TRyou don't get to opt out of the "apps" partJul 05 15:17
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Techrights-secack Jul 05 15:25
Techrights-secphone "apps" are undesirableJul 05 15:25
schestowitz-TRjust spoke to rianneJul 05 15:25
schestowitz-TRshe knoews drupal latest form workJul 05 15:25
schestowitz-TRwe support itJul 05 15:25
schestowitz-TRand she knows how messy it can get with sec patches and conflictsJul 05 15:25
schestowitz-TRit's also far more than needed for a news syndicatorJul 05 15:25
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schestowitz-TRfor the time being TM runs OK, but with missing old nodes, old OS etc.Jul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRthis is a good time to leave it behind Jul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRthe readers come via rss mostlyJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRso they would followJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRthough I wonder, if you redirect from site/rss to othersite/rss would all news readers cope?Jul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRafaik, apache manages this transparently enoughJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRthe issue then might be, people have two different URLs for rssJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRone of which a redirectionJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRand different domainsJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRbut I reckon redirecting 'backwards' can always compensate for it Jul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRas we control both endsJul 05 15:37
Techrights-secI'm not sure how RSS readers would handle redirection but if they are fullyJul 05 15:37
Techrights-secHTTP compliant they willJul 05 15:37
schestowitz-TRworst case scenario, as fall back every 5 mins we override what the "old" server returns by getting it from "new"Jul 05 15:44
schestowitz-TRor we do the delivery transparently from ool using apache, withour a redirectionJul 05 15:45
schestowitz-TRspoke to rianne again (out finding food)Jul 05 16:00
schestowitz-TRand we are generally hostile towarss drupalJul 05 16:00
schestowitz-TRit's like missing a good change to escape bad rubbishJul 05 16:00
schestowitz-TRand an overkill for what tuxmachines doesJul 05 16:00
schestowitz-TRand how often it does itJul 05 16:00
schestowitz-TRI will carry on lookingJul 05 16:00
Techrights-secokJul 05 16:01
Techrights-secI think the main thing to worry about is having the CMS be capable of havingJul 05 16:01
Techrights-secseveral editors/authors working on the site.Jul 05 16:01
schestowitz-TRyou can see some of the "oppular" ones, like "hacker" noise, are crude and uglyJul 05 16:03
schestowitz-TRand have rss feed/sJul 05 16:03
schestowitz-TRrianne says she liked the current looks of TMJul 05 16:03
schestowitz-TRbut it is built on very old "tech"Jul 05 16:03
Techrights-sec;(Jul 05 16:04
Techrights-secThe current look is ok but I agree with her about the underlying technologyJul 05 16:04
Techrights-secbeing a problemJul 05 16:04
schestowitz-TRa lot of "solutions" are JS like vue.js or reactJul 05 16:07
schestowitz-TR(no, heck no!)Jul 05 16:07
schestowitz-TRredis, frameworks... think diaspora.. RoRJul 05 16:07
Techrights-secbarfJul 05 16:07
Techrights-secI'm not a fan of RoR or Ruby in general but have nothing major against itJul 05 16:07
schestowitz-TRI am also thinking of how to 'innovate' beyond what we currenly haveJul 05 16:10
schestowitz-TRthe main defficiency was a way to add updates to existing storiesJul 05 16:10
schestowitz-TRlike additional related linksJul 05 16:10
schestowitz-TRwhat would be nice: them showing up as followups in rss feeds too, but marked accordinglyJul 05 16:10
schestowitz-TRLinuxReviews was using a wikiJul 05 16:10
schestowitz-TRbut became inactive, maybe cause the guy from sweden got a new jobJul 05 16:10
Techrights-secackJul 05 16:24
schestowitz-TRi still search and brainstorm Jul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TRbut I cannot find anything better than what we have alreadyJul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TRit's like someone being forced to get something "news"Jul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TR"new"Jul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TRdespite knowing it's worse than the old thingJul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TRthis also depends on kaniini allocating another VM and IPJul 05 16:25
schestowitz-TRthough if it is light, I could get cheap hosting somewhereJul 05 16:25
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Techrights-secstatic sites are light and could run from their own RPi evenJul 05 16:26
Techrights-secthe question would be on which machine the static site generator should Jul 05 16:26
Techrights-secbe accessible on Jul 05 16:26
schestowitz-TRfor a very busy site hosting over copper with risk of outages is not the bestJul 05 16:27
schestowitz-TRsusan used to host the site from homeJul 05 16:27
schestowitz-TRbut it was smallerJul 05 16:27
Techrights-seca low-cost VPS would be best then; even with the same donor as now, going toJul 05 16:31
Techrights-seca static site generator would free up a lot of hardwareJul 05 16:31
schestowitz-TRI am learning in favour of static stillJul 05 16:39
schestowitz-TRbut trying to see what to do for rss feedsJul 05 16:39
schestowitz-TReven if it's just one main feedJul 05 16:39
Techrights-secthe RSS feed generator could be part of the static site generators Jul 05 16:39
schestowitz-TRhugo supports rss, but managing it is no fun from what I can seeJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRI also don't trust github projectJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRthey might not outlive their masterJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRI am not impressed by it, it's by hackers for hackers, and moreover cargo cult lovers who beg Jul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRfor stars from MICROSOFT shithubJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRI don't think it has any "mass appeal" and if hackers find somethig better, it'llJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRfall by the waysideJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRlike many others before itJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRwhile I wrote about it before in Daily Links and TM I never looked very closely until todayJul 05 16:52
schestowitz-TRthis can become the subject of future videos about CMS, bloat, shithub...Jul 05 16:52
Techrights-secackJul 05 16:53
schestowitz-TRwith static cms you might think it's KISS, but they rely on you grabbing frameworksJul 05 16:54
schestowitz-TRand who knows what Microsoft will do to these networks in the next 10 yearsJul 05 16:54
schestowitz-TRremember nuke.NETJul 05 16:54
schestowitz-TRor whatever that was called?Jul 05 16:54
schestowitz-TR.NET clone for php-nuke..Jul 05 16:54
Techrights-secdefinitely; they could damage those quite suddenly in many ways and for manyJul 05 16:54
Techrights-secreasonsJul 05 16:54
schestowitz-TR"crates" also (Rust)Jul 05 16:56
schestowitz-TRthink npm, cran, cpan, and all those js things like nodeJul 05 16:56
schestowitz-TRyou rely on some "modules" or frameworks (pile of bloat) being there for youJul 05 16:56
schestowitz-TRotherwise your code goes nowhereJul 05 16:56
schestowitz-TRand if the OS does not support or will not suppor these, then one?Jul 05 16:56
schestowitz-TRnew vm? new container?Jul 05 16:56
Techrights-sec-1 RustJul 05 16:57
schestowitz-TRfor some basic hello world programs you now need hundreds of MBs of frameworksJul 05 16:59
schestowitz-TRwith dubious sourcesJul 05 16:59
Techrights-secI have only very low opinions about "frameworks"; They are mostly busywork andJul 05 16:59
Techrights-secand end in themselves rather than a means to solve a larger taskJul 05 16:59
schestowitz-TRlet me ask a "big question"Jul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRshould we maybe also consider the editorial style of tuxmachines?Jul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRto present stories not just as second-hand linkerJul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRbut offer a sort of overview followed by links?Jul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRos news is a bit like thatJul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRos news moved to wordpress some years agoJul 05 17:04
schestowitz-TRdoctorow writing style in medium and that long page I really dislike, it's not pleasant to followJul 05 17:04
Techrights-secokJul 05 17:05
Techrights-secI would defer to Rianne about thatJul 05 17:05
Techrights-secTM has been fastest to aggregate most news storiesJul 05 17:05
Techrights-seclong format is fine and Doctorow is really good at it; though Medium is Jul 05 17:05
Techrights-secan awful technologyJul 05 17:05
schestowitz-TRspeed would hardly be impacted by editorial comments here and thereJul 05 17:06
Techrights-secIt takes a lot of time to write them in a useful and informative manner.Jul 05 17:06
Techrights-secAt least it does for me.Jul 05 17:06
schestowitz-TRtrue, and harder for rianneJul 05 17:07
Techrights-secI'd say the time to consider such changes would be after the technical changesJul 05 17:08
Techrights-secare settled in and have been in place for a while but again it should be Jul 05 17:08
Techrights-secdefered to Rianne since she has the most experience thereJul 05 17:08
Techrights-secand has done all the workJul 05 17:08
Techrights-secTM has really flourished under her tenure and with your helpJul 05 17:08
schestowitz-TRthanks Jul 05 17:09
schestowitz-TRI am just trying to justify going for bloated CMS Jul 05 17:09
Techrights-secEven /I/ have sometimes found news items there before anywhere elseJul 05 17:10
schestowitz-TRI was just thinking that with wordpress we'd have some support from your gemini convertersJul 05 17:13
schestowitz-TRas the format is simpleJul 05 17:13
schestowitz-TRbut as noted earlier, it's quote and them http/s linkJul 05 17:13
schestowitz-TRso maybe low appeal for geminautsJul 05 17:13
schestowitz-TR1) has to remind myself we do not get away from outdated CMS but bad DB and very old OS,Jul 05 17:23
schestowitz-TRso this is highly justified and well overdueJul 05 17:23
schestowitz-TR2) took a quick break, thought drupal was cms anyway, WP more for bloging, more similaJul 05 17:23
schestowitz-TRto what TM is about, will just check a quick demo of the new WP 6.0Jul 05 17:23
Techrights-secackJul 05 17:23
schestowitz-TRgood news, see latest scrollbackJul 05 17:39
Techrights-secackJul 05 17:39
Techrights-seccheckingJul 05 17:39
Techrights-secackJul 05 17:39
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schestowitz-TRjust logged into my wordpress.com accountJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRsod it, it's still terrible workflowJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRspoonfeeding, unless I can find fallbacks...Jul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRlooking...Jul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRok, the code editor mode is not badJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRand would enable fast workflow tooJul 05 18:12
Techrights-secackJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRbut it's DB-basedJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TRhence, complexityJul 05 18:12
schestowitz-TR:-)Jul 05 18:51
schestowitz-TRrianne found lots of foodJul 05 18:51
schestowitz-TRtoothpaste (colgate, simplest, 100gr) up from 67p or 69' to 89pJul 05 18:51
schestowitz-TRwe still have cakes and chemical cider for next tuesdayJul 05 18:51
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schestowitz-TRI will probably write about the CMS situation in general only after migratingJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRI'm still not sure what to use to manageJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRbut I just got epo leaksJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRand focusing on this for nowJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRvery happy we got reassuring words re new machineJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRrianne and I poured out 10000s worth of work into itJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRI did a lot of work on the theme/appearance in 2014Jul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRbrbJul 05 19:19
schestowitz-TRhttps://nitter.it/BrideOfLinux/status/1544355425839190016#mJul 05 19:21
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Christine Hall (@BrideOfLinux): "Interesting: Global Dynamics of the Demise of Microsoft Windows (Now Down to 27%) https://buff.ly/3NKfEeB"|nitter.itJul 05 19:21
schestowitz"Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzFlash report: Demonstration of Wednesday 29 June 2022 "The re-election package”Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzOn Wednesday 29 June, 180 colleagues demonstrated in front of the Isar building shortly after the start of the 171th session of the Administrative Council. The occupancy of EPO buildings is low. On average, the caterer serves 400 meals per day in the Pschorrhöfe buildings and 100 in the Isar building.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzOn the agenda of the Council was the “Mobility Package” introducing seconded national experts posts for the delegations (national salary paid by the EPO + an allowance of +€5.000 per month). The reform was conveniently tabled at a time the re-election of Mr Campinos was on the agenda and successfully guaranteed his re-election until 1 July 2028.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzSUEPO hopes that the Council mandated Mr Campinos to faithfully conduct social dialogue from now on. Given the track record of Mr Campinos in terms of cuts on career and purchasing power, EPO staff should be concerned by his re-election.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzA copy of the intervention made during the demonstration is annexed to this paper for those who could not attend the demonstration.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzWe need you to support us so that we can support you.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzRead more here.Jul 05 19:24
schestowitzSUEPO MunichJul 05 19:24
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Techrights-secwhat was the scope of that 27%?  The whole world?   Jul 05 19:41
Techrights-secIIRC Einfeldt had commented that M$ cannot maintain monopoly rents and wouldJul 05 19:41
Techrights-secbasically fall apart below 85%'Jul 05 19:41
Techrights-seccheckingJul 05 19:41
schestowitz-TRnow it says 26% - see this morning's postJul 05 19:41
schestowitz-TRglobalJul 05 19:41
Techrights-secwowJul 05 19:49
Techrights-secglobal decline on that scale is important to note!Jul 05 19:49
Techrights-secThe government bailouts are certainly what's keeping it alive and gnawing at Jul 05 19:49
Techrights-secthe world's infrastructure.  There are probably obscene bailouts associatedJul 05 19:49
Techrights-secwith what it's doing to Ukraine nowadays, too.  Over a longer period, though,Jul 05 19:49
Techrights-secI would guess that they get much of their money through buying and selling theirJul 05 19:49
Techrights-secown stock and other forms of "financialization" and that their software    Jul 05 19:49
Techrights-secaggression is just a show for the surveillance, bailouts, and financializationJul 05 19:49
schestowitz-TRfirst draftJul 05 19:54
schestowitz-TRjust amended it a lotJul 05 19:54
schestowitz-TRI try to get it out asapoJul 05 19:54
schestowitz-TRit really makes me angryJul 05 19:54
schestowitz-TRhow much worse if I actually WORKED thereJul 05 19:54
schestowitz-TRyou can refreshJul 05 19:54
Techrights-seccheckingJul 05 19:56
Techrights-secthe animated letter is not useful or pleasant :(Jul 05 19:56
Techrights-secit;s not possible to pause it or back it up or stop it from progressingJul 05 19:56
schestowitz-TRright, I won't do this next timeJul 05 19:56
schestowitz-TRI just don't want to give away metadataJul 05 19:56
schestowitz-TRthe full letter is in text anywayJul 05 19:56
Techrights-secusing images is ok just please not animated they flip by way too fast to be Jul 05 19:57
Techrights-secreadable even by fast eyes; better to just remove the GIF than to have it as itJul 05 19:57
Techrights-seccurrently isJul 05 19:57
schestowitz-TRI am going to add text to say the full letter is belowJul 05 19:58
schestowitz-TRand won't do this next timeJul 05 19:58
Techrights-secok thanksJul 05 20:07
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