●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Friday, April 09, 2021 ●● ● Apr 09 [03:48] schestowitz made 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 GUI ● Apr 09 [04:49] schestowitz backing 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 [09:02] *ChanServ has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *hook54321 has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *acer-box____ has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *asusbox2 has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *rianne_ has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *TechrightsBN has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *rianne has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *buzzert has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *schestowitz has quit (*.net *.split) [09:02] *liberty_box has quit (*.net *.split) [09:04] *asusbox2 (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:04] *ChanServ (ChanServ@services.) has joined #boycottnovell [09:04] *niven.freenode.net gives channel operator status to ChanServ [09:05] *schestowitz (~schestowi@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *niven.freenode.net gives channel operator status to schestowitz [09:05] *rianne_ (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *TechrightsBN (~b0t@techrights.org) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *buzzert (~buzzert@buzzert.net) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *hook54321 (sid149355@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-yowuzbrikpmmzknf) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *acer-box____ (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [09:05] *niven.freenode.net gives channel operator status to acer-box____ [09:09] *hook54321 has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [09:12] *hook54321 (sid149355@gateway/web/irccloud.com/session) has joined #boycottnovell [09:20] *hook54321 has quit (Changing host) [09:20] *hook54321 (sid149355@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-mxonnkmjnhseenax) has joined #boycottnovell ● Apr 09 [10:38] schestowitz >>> Did you get these new mails about voting? It shows the current result [10:38] schestowitz >>> after you vote. [10:38] schestowitz >> I don't know what's going on there, but it's important to be more polite [10:38] schestowitz >> than the mob, or else they can invert the narratives. [10:38] schestowitz > Is there any correlation between being polite and mobs inverting narratives? [10:38] schestowitz > [10:38] schestowitz > They will invert narratives if they want [10:38] schestowitz > [10:38] schestowitz > You haven't seen how much they wrote about Appelbaum on debian-private yet [10:42] schestowitz x https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-08/bill-gates-is-right-to-warn-about-spacs-chris-bryant?srnd=premium-europe [10:42] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bloomberg.com | Bloomberg - Are you a robot? [10:42] schestowitz # bill sez [10:42] schestowitz x https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-April/065061.html [10:42] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.gnupg.org | Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman [10:47] schestowitz tuxmachines 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 restart [10:55] Techrights-sec Ive been trying to keep an eye on TM lately but the triggers that set off montastic [10:55] Techrights-sec don't set off my monitor and when I do follow up on the montastic warnings, [10:55] Techrights-sec nearly each time it has been a false alarm. So I am not quite sure what to [10:55] Techrights-sec modify. [10:56] schestowitz I am reluctant to automate something that takes up and down a DB [10:57] schestowitz minimising downtime damage would have the effect or educing the incentive for the attacker [10:58] schestowitz re 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 loss ● Apr 09 [11:28] Techrights-sec I should then fine-tune the monioring scripts here to make them more sensitive [11:28] Techrights-sec Re Koch: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird/ [11:28] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-sequoia-pgp.org | Blog - Sequoia: Super Powering End-to-End Email Encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird ● Apr 09 [14:14] Techrights-sec I should then fine-tune the monioring scripts here to make them more sensitive [14:14] Techrights-sec Re Koch: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird/ [14:14] Techrights-sec Neither Google nor Oracle are the good guys. So their relative wins or [14:14] Techrights-sec losses are irrelevant. What is important is that the court's decision [14:14] Techrights-sec allows software development to continue. [14:14] Techrights-sec I should schedule some router maintenance soon, it will break the connection for [14:14] Techrights-sec about 30 minutes. tmux etc will be unaffected. [14:14] Techrights-sec I should be able to fit a gemini server on the router someday soon. [14:24] schestowitz I could really use another quasi-primary ipfs node. I've just recorded a video about ipfs-gemini. [14:25] Techrights-sec I don't have the free storage capacity anywhere otherwise I'd read up on IPFS [14:25] schestowitz we 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" [14:47] Techrights-sec $ lsb_release -d; apt-cache search ^ipfs [14:47] Techrights-sec Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera/ceres) [14:47] Techrights-sec no IPFS stuff in the repository yet [14:47] Techrights-sec so that's a second, and much larger, barrier [14:47] schestowitz no need for repos, I have detailed manuals for doing it from goipfs and golang [14:54] schestowitz True, 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. [14:56] Techrights-sec Working from the repository is a prerequisite for use... [14:56] Techrights-sec I'm thinking more about compatibility, tidiness, and ease of maintenance. [14:56] Techrights-sec Gentoo is fine, but I prefer Devuan or similar because the work is scalable. [14:57] schestowitz you could even just copy over the homedir from my SBC with ipfs in it and it'll work provided you add some deps ● Apr 09 [23:54] schestowitz > [23:54] schestowitz > Garrett and Tagliamonte have appeared regularly in attacks on various [23:54] schestowitz > people, even against me: [23:54] schestowitz > [23:54] schestowitz > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00111.html [23:54] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks [23:54] schestowitz > [23:54] schestowitz > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00115.html [23:54] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.debian.org | Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks [23:54] schestowitz Pentagon (both of them). Of PentaGAFAM as I call it jokingly... [23:58] schestowitz "Has anyone who's friends [...] encouraged him to get help?" [23:58] schestowitz https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/12/msg00111.html [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 [23:58] schestowitz competitors' technologies, to make the industry increasingly resistant to such unhealthy strains, over time." [23:58] schestowitz http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096.pdf [23:58] schestowitz Microsoft, internal document