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schestowitzmade some improvements to IRC bot and in /bin/watch-for-heavy-users.sh  which can be run under the gemini account, it's even a bit of a GUIApr 09 03:48
schestowitzbacking up whole pi to laptop disk (ssd) and going to bed while it's doing that. tomorrow I'll know if all the changes I've made in fact work.Apr 09 04:49
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schestowitz>>> Did you get these new mails about voting?  It shows the current resultApr 09 10:38
schestowitz>>> after you vote.Apr 09 10:38
schestowitz>> I don't know what's going on there, but it's important to be more politeApr 09 10:38
schestowitz>> than the mob, or else they can invert the narratives.Apr 09 10:38
schestowitz> Is there any correlation between being polite and mobs inverting narratives?Apr 09 10:38
schestowitz> Apr 09 10:38
schestowitz> They will invert narratives if they wantApr 09 10:38
schestowitz> Apr 09 10:38
schestowitz> You haven't seen how much they wrote about Appelbaum on debian-private yetApr 09 10:38
schestowitzx https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-08/bill-gates-is-right-to-warn-about-spacs-chris-bryant?srnd=premium-europeApr 09 10:42
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bloomberg.com | Bloomberg - Are you a robot?Apr 09 10:42
schestowitz# bill sezApr 09 10:42
schestowitzx https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-April/065061.htmlApr 09 10:42
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.gnupg.org | Follow-up on L'Affaire StallmanApr 09 10:42
schestowitztuxmachines has come under more attacks lately, sometimes when we're both afk (rianne and I), causing long downtime. If you see an attack in nmon or receive an email alert from montanstic, you run usually fix things by just running: service mysqld restartApr 09 10:47
Techrights-secIäve been trying to keep an eye on TM lately but the triggers that set off montasticApr 09 10:55
Techrights-secdon't set off my monitor and when I do follow up on the montastic warnings,Apr 09 10:55
Techrights-secnearly each time it has been a false alarm.  So I am not quite sure what to Apr 09 10:55
Techrights-secmodify.Apr 09 10:55
schestowitzI am reluctant to automate something that takes up and down a DBApr 09 10:56
schestowitzminimising downtime damage would have the effect or educing the incentive for the attackerApr 09 10:57
schestowitzre Koch, he has long been in the anti-RMS camp (even calling for removal from GNU), so no major surprise there... I would not call it a new lossApr 09 10:58
Techrights-secI should then fine-tune the monioring scripts here to make them more sensitiveApr 09 11:28
Techrights-secRe Koch: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird/Apr 09 11:28
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-sequoia-pgp.org | Blog - Sequoia: Super Powering End-to-End Email Encryption in Mozilla ThunderbirdApr 09 11:28
Techrights-secI should then fine-tune the monioring scripts here to make them more sensitive                                               Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secRe Koch: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird/                                       Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secNeither Google nor Oracle are the good guys. So their relative wins or                                                       Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-seclosses are irrelevant.  What is important is that the court's decision                                                       Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secallows software development to continue.Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secI should schedule some router maintenance soon, it will break the connection for                                             Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secabout 30 minutes.  tmux etc will be unaffected.Apr 09 14:14
Techrights-secI should be able to fit a gemini server on the router someday soon.Apr 09 14:14
schestowitzI could really use another quasi-primary ipfs node. I've just recorded a video about ipfs-gemini.Apr 09 14:24
Techrights-secI don't have the free storage capacity anywhere otherwise I'd read up on IPFSApr 09 14:25
schestowitzwe have a mirror of "G" in the UK for a while (busy finishing his book now) and then in Tasmania... but at the moment I'm not only complete copy of things, the "master"Apr 09 14:25
Techrights-sec$  lsb_release -d; apt-cache search ^ipfsApr 09 14:47
Techrights-secDescription:    Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera/ceres)Apr 09 14:47
Techrights-secno IPFS stuff in the repository yetApr 09 14:47
Techrights-secso that's a second, and much larger, barrierApr 09 14:47
schestowitzno need for repos, I have detailed manuals for doing it from goipfs and golangApr 09 14:47
schestowitzTrue, but that too has risk associated with it. Original sites/repos of projects sometimes work well enough and don't embed themselves in your root level stuff, they're running in userspace.Apr 09 14:54
Techrights-secWorking from the repository is a prerequisite for use...Apr 09 14:56
Techrights-secI'm thinking more about compatibility, tidiness, and ease of maintenance.Apr 09 14:56
Techrights-secGentoo is fine, but I prefer Devuan or similar because the work is scalable.Apr 09 14:56
schestowitzyou could even just copy over the homedir from my SBC with ipfs in it and it'll work provided you add some depsApr 09 14:57
schestowitz> Apr 09 23:54
schestowitz> Garrett and Tagliamonte have appeared regularly in attacks on variousApr 09 23:54
schestowitz> people, even against me:Apr 09 23:54
schestowitz> Apr 09 23:54
schestowitz> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00111.htmlApr 09 23:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaksApr 09 23:54
schestowitz> Apr 09 23:54
schestowitz> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00115.htmlApr 09 23:54
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaksApr 09 23:54
schestowitzPentagon (both of them). Of PentaGAFAM as I call it jokingly...Apr 09 23:54
schestowitz"Has anyone who's friends [...]  encouraged him to get help?"Apr 09 23:58
schestowitzhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00111.htmlApr 09 23:58
schestowitz"Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's technology part of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to place selection pressure on those companies and individuals that show a genetic weakness for Apr 09 23:58
schestowitzcompetitors' technologies, to make the industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time."Apr 09 23:58
schestowitzhttp://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096.pdfApr 09 23:58
schestowitzMicrosoft, internal documentApr 09 23:58

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