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| schestowitz-TR | ---- | May 09 00:15 |
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| schestowitz-TR | 0:00 OK, I've cleaned feeds except patents, now checking the timeline a bit. Seeing that the office visit | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | was in July 2019, new company incorporated 13 months earlier, they were very evasdive about the dtails | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | as to why. Correction: it was incorporated Orc 2017. *Oct | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | With 1 (one) pound paid in, maybe around the time of separation/divorce | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | 24 Sept. 2019 address changed to USA | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | That's 10 or so days after RMS slandered in media | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't know is US has a similar registry for business or rather if it is public for all to see | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | but this was around the time I ran "Mansion of Pedophilia" seires and then we were told about | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | "First US client" (you know who) | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | checking when the abuse from SsrisGas peaked (email trail). #SarinGas | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | Wow! That was end of Augist/Start of Sept. 2019, so some alignment there too | May 09 00:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | Totally ridiculous https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Olkb7fYSyiI | May 09 00:45 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | The Man That Uploaded 2 Million Videos To YouTube - Invidious | May 09 00:45 | |
| *wallacer (~quassel@6bsu33ajs4zs4.irc) has joined #boycottnovell | May 09 03:58 | |
| schestowitz | This morning all gz files were malformed, but there was no output sent to the file. I suppose the real goal should be to avoid the issue, not just detect it. Any thoughts? I look up info online atm, already tried manpages | May 09 08:00 |
| *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) | May 09 08:04 | |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 08:07 |
| Techrights-sec | yes borh avoid the problem /and/ detect it if it does occur. | May 09 08:07 |
| Techrights-sec | It would take a little more space but the gzip can be done separately. | May 09 08:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | I ran, by accident, the command you now see in tmux. This accidental one does in fact output errors to the file, for the fi | May 09 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | orst time since April 22nd | May 09 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | There is something about > that gzip and gunzip treat specially for streams that are the compressed | May 09 08:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | or uncompressed data | May 09 08:09 |
| Techrights-sec | ok | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | $ gzip -t drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz; gzip -t wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz; gzip -t wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.g | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | z | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | gzip: drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | gzip: wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | gzip: wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated | May 09 08:16 |
| Techrights-sec | modified ~/bin/get_dbs.sh, running manually | May 09 08:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, I noticed that all of today's are not valid | May 09 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | what I cannot understand is how to make it properly send the output to the file | May 09 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | I test now with a very broken command that somehow does write to the file | May 09 08:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | there is some different way in how gzip handles standard io | May 09 08:17 |
| Techrights-sec | /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 14: /home/boycottn/wikidatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output error | May 09 08:18 |
| Techrights-sec | too slow ? | May 09 08:18 |
| Techrights-sec | the ionice might be throttling it beyond what part of the script can | May 09 08:18 |
| Techrights-sec | tolerate? | May 09 08:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | we could try removing some of the nice-ing and see if that was a contributing factor | May 09 08:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | it was used when the number of codes was like 4 times smaller, evenm 8 times smaller | May 09 08:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | iirc, on TM local we never saw issues with the gz files and the nice-ing may not be there at all | May 09 08:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | that might still not explain why only on Jan 6th the problem started | May 09 08:21 |
| Techrights-sec | the nice might be ok but the ionice might be the problem, giving | May 09 08:22 |
| Techrights-sec | the script a test without the ionice on the redirection | May 09 08:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | can you try that now? Maybe that's the issue, it has always been mysterioud, inc. the timing, | May 09 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it meant that I had to restore manually another 24 hours of TM when the latest available backup | May 09 08:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | was a bad file | May 09 08:24 |
| Techrights-sec | there are still IO problems: | May 09 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 23: /home/boycottn/wordpressdatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output er | May 09 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | ror | May 09 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | /home/boycottn/bin/get_dbs.sh: line 32: /home/boycottn/drupaldatabase-20220509.dump.gz: Input/output error | May 09 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | "Input/Output errors during filesystem access attempts generally mean hardware issues." | May 09 08:25 |
| Techrights-sec | see dmesg output | May 09 08:25 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think the issue started more than a month before the physical disk was replaced | May 09 08:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | so maybe something at the host level, like hv? | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | see dmesg output | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | yes but perhaos the drive is failing or something else going bad | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | # dmesg | less | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | [7438905.114373] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 1159255952 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x104000 phys_seg 197 prio | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | class 0 | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | [7438905.199835] XFS (vda3): writeback error on sector 1159085712 | May 09 08:26 |
| Techrights-sec | for example | May 09 08:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | I can see lots of them, yes | May 09 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | /dev/vda3 is accessible via hv | May 09 08:32 |
| Techrights-sec | however the standard diagnostic tools are not available within HV so there | May 09 08:32 |
| Techrights-sec | is not much we can do without kaniini, most likely | May 09 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am going to ask politely | May 09 08:32 |
| Techrights-sec | thanks, I am loathe to bother hi but it does need a check | May 09 08:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> IBM continues to perpetuate the "Great Resignation" while laying off a huge number of workers, against their will. https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/5/it-hiring-assumptions-truths-current-talent-shortage | May 09 09:10 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-enterprisersproject.com | IT hiring: Assumptions and truths about the current talent shortage | The Enterprisers Project | May 09 09:10 | |
| schestowitz-TR | -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- enterprisersproject.com | IT hiring: Assumptions and truths about the current talent shortage | The Enterprisers Project | May 09 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> IBM did have talent, but it had to pay decent salaries to such people, so it laid them off instead. | May 09 09:10 |
| Techrights-sec | IBM is similar to most medium and large companies in that way | May 09 10:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | [07:46] <techrights-news> IBM Still Suing Companies Using Software Patents, Still Paying for Puff Pieces • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164625 | May 09 10:28 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | IBM Still Suing Companies Using Software Patents, Still Paying for Puff Pieces | Tux Machines | May 09 10:28 | |
| schestowitz-TR | I thought about doing an article/video on that matter, but it would feel like repetition | May 09 10:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | because several times in the past we mentioned how IBM had resorted to that, even | May 09 10:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | after taking over Red Hat | May 09 10:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | imagine working for such a company, insisting that's about "Software Freedom" | May 09 10:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | no wonder lxo left | May 09 10:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | iirc, they also impose slack on all staff | May 09 10:30 |
| Techrights-sec | way too many people are exploited during the firing process and tricked | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | or extortedd into signing nondisparagement clauses in their termination | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | contract, so while there is an enormous, and I mean really enormous, | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | pool of people who would be in position to report first hand on the | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | problem few to none can legally. MY guess is that the cluases can't don't | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | hold up in court any better than the non-compete clauses did. | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | However, once people ar elready beaten and down they are not willing to | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | be that first test case and get their lives dragge through the courts | May 09 10:32 |
| Techrights-sec | I'm not keen on the naming of that proprietary messaging service because | May 09 10:37 |
| Techrights-sec | I think it rode in on name confusion and exploited the good reputation | May 09 10:37 |
| Techrights-sec | of Slackware, which was and still is refered to as "Slack" | May 09 10:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | we are going to record our call on thursday | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | there are at least 3 cliennts I do not wish to work for | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | and have repeatedly complained about it for months | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | but having said that, the job as a whole was easy money | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | we reckon there's nothing to lose hearing what's on offer | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | rather than resigning earlier this year | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | this sort of job, for TWO people, working from homr, is impossible to | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | even find, let alone get | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | I have a question I could never answer, nor did I ask | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | how does an NDA work in practice? | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | if a boss signs some NDA, who does that apply to? Him? The company? Me? | May 09 10:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | how the f* do you make mere knowledge a "crime"? Like "trade secrets"? | May 09 10:41 |
| Techrights-sec | yes best to wait until they make their move, just my recommendation in | May 09 10:42 |
| Techrights-sec | advance, is to *not* sign anything stifling the ability to communicate | May 09 10:42 |
| Techrights-sec | what they have and are doing to staff | May 09 10:42 |
| Techrights-sec | One trick is to ask for an electronic copy to take home and then | May 09 10:42 |
| Techrights-sec | edit and print out and sign a modified version | May 09 10:42 |
| Techrights-sec | NDAs are mostl self-enforced | May 09 10:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks, another question | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | how the f* is it considered "normal" to tell someone that in NINE days there will be such a meeting | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | without going into the pertinent details? Not that it borhters me as much as .... here | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | *her | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | though let me put it like thus: | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | since 2019 we had some incompetence | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | this year the lying peaked | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | and that's why we wanted to quit | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the job did not get more difficult | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | and we checked around for a bit about similar things elsewhere | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | found nothing | May 09 10:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | I very much doubt many companies would pay 50-100 per hour of net work, from home.. | May 09 10:45 |
| Techrights-sec | has the lying peaked ? Or has it only reached new heights on the way | May 09 10:47 |
| Techrights-sec | to even mor elying? | May 09 10:47 |
| Techrights-sec | Sorry to be cynical | May 09 10:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | no, this is a fair point (slash question) | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | evasive bosses who moreover do bad things | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | (I had no restraint telling what I think to them) | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | even if at risk to my job, I did not care that that point | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | it is a multi-faceted issue | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | a lot of "reverse-engineering" in the company | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | speculatioon and test cases, to see the if, why, how... | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | and getting affirmative answers is like drawing blood from a rock | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | because even when you get an answer it can be a lie | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you get an answer at all | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | on a per hour (pro rata) basis, we're probably best paid in the company | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | and losses don't affect us as we are not shareholders | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | but professional pride has reached new lows | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | with that, new degree of opaqueness | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | so since last year the "maybe we should quit" chrous came both from me and rianne | May 09 10:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | in alternation, depending on the day or straw | May 09 10:51 |
| Techrights-sec | opacity is always a problem, but is more a symptom and enabler of much | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | larger problems than one in and of itself | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | you might check with your union representative about strategy; there | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | may be more compensation if the employer makes the first move rather | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | than quiting first; furthermore (yet again) watch out that they don't | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | try to extort some kinds of unreasonable concessions on the way out | May 09 10:53 |
| Techrights-sec | Are union dues tax deducatble there in the UK? | May 09 10:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | are you suggesting I reach out to one this week? | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | mind you, there are gaps in information here, likely by design | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | but someone with extensive experiment in uk labour law can help | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | (side issue, the company would likely say they're a US company now) | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | (I did not sign any US contract, but maybe they want to sink the debt-saddled UK one) | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | (debt burying, to avoid liabilities of all sorts) | May 09 10:55 |
| Techrights-sec | If I were in that situation, I would investigate joining and, depending | May 09 10:55 |
| Techrights-sec | on the circumstances, give consideration to encouraging others to do so | May 09 10:55 |
| Techrights-sec | *afterwards* as well. | May 09 10:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | this seems *extremely* improbable in our case | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | though a good friend once asked me something to that effect | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | when his employer was having issues | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | not sure if he was a shareholder | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | then again, maybe I signed something in 2019 without | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | checking carefully what it said | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the regsitration suggests only one person associated | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | so again, that is extremely unlikely | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | the purpose of reminting was likely to remove the ex-wife from | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | control or stake in the company | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | based on the incorporation date and separation | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | the idea was to move away all the same staff to a new shell with a similar | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | name | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | and then discard the old one | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | let me check something... I want to see the status of the older one | May 09 11:00 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 11:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | (mind you, we are not resentful. This morning we estimated that pre-tax they paid about 320k in salaries) | May 09 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | that did help towards many things, including our sites | May 09 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | the key thinbg now is, paving the next route | May 09 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | within a small window of time | May 09 11:02 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 11:04 |
| Techrights-sec | yes lining up several alternatives and exits does not necessarily mean | May 09 11:04 |
| Techrights-sec | having to act upon them | May 09 11:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | mayeb I should also phone the pension provider | May 09 11:07 |
| Techrights-sec | yes how portable is the pension and can they loot it? | May 09 11:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | I found the "old" company | May 09 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | it still 'operates' | May 09 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | going through the docs now | May 09 11:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | still uses old and invalid address | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | no longer valid | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | no cash in bank | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | net laiabilities 138k 2020, 139.8 2021 | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | so growing a bitBBBBBBBBBAAABBBBBBBBBBBB | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | so that is likely "in addition" to the "new" company | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe the move to the US was not just dodging two ex wives and 4 girld (kids) | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | but also dodging uk ddebt | May 09 11:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | a little john mcaffee ;)) | May 09 11:12 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 11:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is dated Dec 24th, 2021 | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | for fianncial year ending march 31 2021 | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | ok, got off a call, 25 mins | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | pension company says it is safe from them | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | and in the uk cashing in a pension cannot be done until 55 | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | they will also send out a stetement | May 09 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | *statement | May 09 11:53 |
| Techrights-sec | excellent | May 09 11:57 |
| Techrights-sec | can you put into two pensions until 55 and then cashout both ? | May 09 11:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | I already have it scattered into 3 providers | May 09 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the one I spoke to is the latest | May 09 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't like that, consolidation is possible | May 09 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | if I live super-frugal, maybe I can just about get to 55 but | May 09 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 1) assumes no inflation | May 09 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2) 55 is for cashing in the lot, not actually receieving a monthly pension I assume | May 09 11:59 |
| Techrights-sec | that and they cost > 250 k EUR up to 18 and more beyond, | May 09 12:19 |
| Techrights-sec | s/cashout/receive pension/ | May 09 12:19 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | May 09 12:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | the good thing is, I can do TM and TR "full time" under some conditions | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | one of the joys of having no offspring | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | haha, what a world | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | just been on the phone with in law | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | turnes out a relative has business issues | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I used thr word "insolvent" | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | as the bank would not lend money | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | so much economic uncertainty at the moment | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | I read some articles about inflation this morning (in Daily Links already) | May 09 12:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | you have to wonder if this becomes a world | May 09 12:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | of, "just take whatever is available" | May 09 12:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | that would of course suck | May 09 12:23 |
| Techrights-sec | that is one of the goals AFIAK | May 09 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | one of the ideas that MBAs seem to subscribe to is that everything must | May 09 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | suck | May 09 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | If all employees had offices and windows then it would be harder to rub | May 09 12:24 |
| Techrights-sec | their noses in the differences | May 09 12:24 |
| schestowitz-TR | I certainly hope it's not "end of an era(TM)" for us | May 09 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | in the sense that we change the projectioms | May 09 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | as I said, we and the sites are financially safe | May 09 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | but not for a lifetime | May 09 12:26 |
| Techrights-sec | That's most important | May 09 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | here is the thing, people talk about "recession" cyclles | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | as if upswings are inevitable and guaranteed | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't subscrive to that | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | as most people never recorered from 2008 | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | they just emerged again with new reality | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | if I hibernate and dul the sites full time from age 40 to 50, no assurance at | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | 50 I can just do work resumption | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | 10 years is a very long time | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | and many big decisions are due this week | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | a relative is trying to become a yoke on us | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even a relatrive that I like | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | but sometimes the person drowning hangs on to a floating person whom you | May 09 12:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | care about and would like to defend from drowning, that's a collectivism effecf | May 09 12:31 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 12:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | this past wneekend we sat down taking stock of "asssets" inc. provisional | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | if inflation rates down go back to 2-3% per annum, then wealth is basically being r | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | robbed, collectively, to sustain the phat cats | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it's a universal tax more or less | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | we noticed that banks are back to savings accounts with "saner" interets rates | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | but inflation is like 4 times higher | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | must sustain the graft and musk+ksa buying social control media firehoses | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | :-) | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | I don't support #Inflation is trending in Twitter ;-) | May 09 12:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | aggregate intest, case study for cumulative groiwth=100*107*107*107*107 | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | me gets calculator to see what % rate is double in 10 years | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | 31% in 4 years50% in 6 | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | assuming 7% inflation rate | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | 195% in 10 years | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | sorry, I don't have enough for a savinga "accoubnt" in bermuda or cayman | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | along with billg ;-) | May 09 12:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | So I'm doomed to forever labour | May 09 12:41 |
| Techrights-sec | yes and "savings" accounts have not only basically 0% interest but | May 09 12:42 |
| Techrights-sec | are peppered with service charges and fees, often for no value added | May 09 12:42 |
| Techrights-sec | that brings up the possiblity that inflation is used to keep the general | May 09 12:42 |
| Techrights-sec | population below a certain economic threshold; above a certain level | May 09 12:42 |
| Techrights-sec | of assets, inflation has little to no effect, but for your average slob | May 09 12:42 |
| Techrights-sec | it is killer, especially pensioners | May 09 12:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | assets increase in value | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | (most types) | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | they control which one "gain" in value anyway | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | so it is a deeply rigged game | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | the best gameplay is to shave expenses to bare minimum | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | like heavily discounted food and minimal use of energy | May 09 12:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | but then too there are limits to how low one can go | May 09 12:43 |
| Techrights-sec | quadrupled would be a small increase compared to the real situation; | May 09 12:49 |
| Techrights-sec | realestate speculators got in on the market around the time | May 09 12:49 |
| Techrights-sec | the dotcom crash was coming | May 09 12:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | pensioners are doomed, even EPO pensioners | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | in 20 years a 7% interest rate means prices quadruple! | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | and get this | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe their sole asset is a home | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it too increases in price | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | what then? | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | sell the home | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | then what? | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | you do need a home, they all quadrupled in price ;-) | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | so you shuffle one marble for another | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | of course this means "wonderful" western system means more rantal | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | car, home, phone on "plan" (installment) | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | so that few people/companies own everything | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | the Murcian Drimmmmmm! | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | (I forgot to mention reverse-mortgage/remortgage, I first heard of the concept | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | less than a decade ago, almopst like it was a new invention... how to rob people off | May 09 12:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | their inheritance, too) | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | remember we cycle past tons of EMPTY NEW homes... | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | still with plastic across the windows | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe they reckon it's worth what it says on papere | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | even if nobody buys or can buy | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | in reality, the owneres might be foreign and that merely increases the price of homes | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | harming everyone | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | but it's good for the bubble | May 09 12:52 |
| Techrights-sec | don't forget us-style college fees coupled with inescapable loans | May 09 12:52 |
| Techrights-sec | yes that seems to be the scam, the regulations in place seem to favor | May 09 12:52 |
| Techrights-sec | letting them stand empty for years rather than reducing prices | May 09 12:52 |
| schestowitz-TR | these illuminating things aren't the "trending" topics in twitter | May 09 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybve some pretender slapped some "comedian" | May 09 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | I will discuss this later here | May 09 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | iirc, here too uni fees went through the roof | May 09 12:54 |
| schestowitz-TR | hence the 2010 student protestsand now those unis barely guarantee any job at all | May 09 12:54 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 12:54 |
| Techrights-sec | around here not only is there no guaranetee of a job, a "degree" is | May 09 12:55 |
| Techrights-sec | no guarantee of an education; one has to fight against the university | May 09 12:55 |
| Techrights-sec | to get that; what's provided is daycare and neither education nor training | May 09 12:55 |
| Techrights-sec | May 09 12:55 | |
| schestowitz-TR | true. i will leave you to it. will get back to posting links now, at least we had a constructive chat | May 09 12:56 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | May 09 12:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Venezuela should not waste any time on Twitter. Twitter is s total shithole controlled by mass murderers (who shop down journalists to pieces) and total shits. Venezuela is several classes above that. https://globalvoices.org/2022/05/07/what-does-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-mean-for-venezuelan-twitter/ | May 09 13:43 |
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| schestowitz-TR | [13:37] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- Empty reply from server ( status 0 @ https://globalvoices.org/2022/05/07/what-does-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-mean-for-venezuelan-twitter/ ) | May 09 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | [13:39] <techrights-news> Having robbed billions of people worldwide, the looters (oligarchs) now fight to also own the means of communications to control what people think, hear, and say about them. Social CONTROL media. Repression by criminals. | May 09 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | [13:41] <techrights-news> The alternative to Twitter is not Twitter. It's not another Twitter or something LIKE Twitter. Just abandon social control media. It's designed to MANIPULATE for the highest bidders (the rich). | May 09 13:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | [14:33] <techrights-news> The biggest thieves do their theft "legally". The biggest crackers and biggest privacy violators likewise. We're meant not to think of clown computing as a massive, worldwide, complete data/system breach. | May 09 14:34 |
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| schestowitz-TR | OTA | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | :( | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | some old videos and refs about red hat and patents are dead | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | no way to resurrect them | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe groklaw is next | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | it was down for several months | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | even fairly recent sttuff like ms-red hat patent deal (2015) | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | to provide consolation to myself | May 09 15:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | at least it can increase trhe probability of people who turn to TR for info | May 09 15:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | on these issues | May 09 15:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | IF... I don't trust Gulag to help people | May 09 15:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | they de-rank for age | May 09 15:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | better if we teach people to avoid centralised search [sic] 'engines' | May 09 15:28 |
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| Techrights-sec | yes Google deranks quickly for age, regardless of how authoritative or | May 09 17:32 |
| Techrights-sec | important a site may be | May 09 17:32 |
| Techrights-sec | Yacy was an attempt at a decentralized search engine | May 09 17:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I wanted to sya something else and forgot, though I left that aside for fear the scrollback would be | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | exceeded | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | Today the news is not TOO slow, I'm managing to keep TM quite busy | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | TM busy -> TR Daily Links busy | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | Maybe wht I wanted to see was that for 2 days the gemini updated did not run because of the lockfile | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | when finally it ran it missed some posts from 7/5/2022 and I don't think there is a simple way to "readd" | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | them | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | but from now on I will check more carefully the lockfile | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | for a few weeks it ran OK and I think messing about with planet to test things over and over again | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | got it off balance :-) | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | (re DT on YouTube, I am GLAD about it... shows how bad search can be and how "search as video | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | monopoly" screws real hard workers... seeems like some dude running ffmpeg on autopiloit all | May 09 17:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | day long had impunity) | May 09 17:53 |
| Techrights-sec | checking | May 09 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | > yes Google deranks quickly for age | May 09 17:56 |
| schestowitz-TR | same as social control media. There's 0.0001% chance of people finding what you wrote 10 years ago and maybe 0.01% of them finding what you said a month ago | May 09 17:56 |
| Techrights-sec | the RSS feed only goes back to the 6th. Are there any missing before that? | May 09 17:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you check the front page, nothing from 7th and same in the daily "feeds", which are groups of artilces for that day | May 09 18:00 |
| Techrights-sec | ok 7th is easily fixable. working... | May 09 18:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | thanks! | May 09 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | speaking of working, I do my last shift right now before the thurs meeting when we might throw in the towel | May 09 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | I was in my 20s when I did my first first and even back then the job was easy, for rianne it's her longest- | May 09 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | running job (9 years this year) | May 09 18:03 |
| Techrights-sec | np | May 09 18:03 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 18:03 |
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| Techrights-sec | ok check gemini now | May 09 18:07 |
| Techrights-sec | :18 | May 09 18:07 |
| schestowitz | fantastic gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/07/index.gmi | May 09 18:08 |
| Techrights-sec | good catch | May 09 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | gemini is not just gemini to use | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | it has the gateway and it is leading to irc logs, bulltins, videos etc. | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | apropos, yesterday I noticed that even oilder versions of lagrange let you play mp3s "in place" | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | if they are served over gemini:// | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | / | May 09 18:12 |
| Techrights-sec | I had wondered why the posts in gemini had quieted a little | May 09 18:12 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | skyjake responded to accusation of bloat over the weekend | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | kristall ALMOST plays videos in place, using kpart | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | though I worry about secuity ramifications | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | they should use external programs for these | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's how thunbderbird ends up adding a second copy of gecko to the PC | May 09 18:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "Thinking of moving all my apps to a self hosted server" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi | May 09 18:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | "I, too, deeply appreciate the Unix philosophy when it comes to system-level utilities and command line tools, but when it comes to GUI apps, and cross-platform ones at that, things get a lot less clear." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-05_bloat.gmi | May 09 18:15 |
| Techrights-sec | by the way, using the string IBM will associate the article with IBM in the | May 09 18:15 |
| Techrights-sec | search engines, to the extent that they can/will. ICBM prevents that. | May 09 18:15 |
| schestowitz-TR | yes, this is why in articles I say IBM, at least in headlines | May 09 18:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | the joke can be done once or twice in the body, with a link to IBM wiki, as I did over the weekend IIRC | May 09 18:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I have lowered our dependnace on search [sic] engines | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | and on monopolistic browsers | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | even the site is, in general, accessible with IE6 era browsers | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | inc. video | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | putting other protocols aside | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | social cotrol media we never did... so nothing lost there | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | many will keep whining about gulagtube and MusKSA Social | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | as the impact there will drop, more so if they criticise | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | the powers that be (no, its name is not JK Rowling) | May 09 18:19 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | 1960s: women should stay home | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | 1970s: maybe women should not stay home | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | 1980s: women should be equal | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2000s: feminists are"nazis" (feminazis) | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2020+: women who support women are "TERFs", "radicals" | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | ... | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | "let strike them with drones" | May 09 18:21 |
| schestowitz-TR | MusKSA = owner of Twitter | May 09 18:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | Twitter, can women drive? | May 09 18:22 |
| schestowitz-TR | "99 KLOC (53 KLOC without libraries) is relatively ... a lot, for a Gemini client." gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/re-bloat.gmi | May 09 18:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | found this literally one minute ago | May 09 18:23 |
| schestowitz | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/latest/ | May 09 18:24 |
| schestowitz | I am going to enhance these pages a bit, navigation, timestamps etc. | May 09 18:24 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | among gopher enthsiasts it looks like gemini is "the new gopher" and there are spartan and titan also | May 09 18:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | but with very scarce usage, maybe like gnunet, which (last when I checked) was still unready for production | May 09 18:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | many "web giants" are in for a tough time | May 09 18:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | seems the goal is to compete with tiktok etc. over minds | May 09 18:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | not over money | May 09 18:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | "TikTok is working on an answer: “Project Texas,” a plan to host data for U.S. customers on U.S. servers" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/opinion/tiktok-twitter-china-bytedance.html | Source: New York Times | May 09 18:33 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks - The New York Times | May 09 18:33 | |
| schestowitz-TR | like FB trying to get into china and zuck memorising some shit in mandarin | May 09 18:33 |
| Techrights-sec | yes mindshare is what they are aiming at, specifically cognitive / attention | May 09 18:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | "how authentication decisions will be made." ☛ https://restofworld.org/2022/where-anonymity-on-twitter-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death/ | May 09 18:34 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-restofworld.org | Why Elon Musk’s ambition to have Twitter “authenticate all real humans” will get people killed - Rest of World | May 09 18:34 | |
| schestowitz-TR | credit score etc. | May 09 18:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | gulag search not enough to farm minds and rank docility | May 09 18:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | Larry Ellison, Saudi Regime, Musk... promoted here in the Bezos Post. The plutocrats take direct control of the communications of so many people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/05/musk-twitter-financing-ellison/ | May 09 18:36 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | Musk lines up more than $7 billion in investor financing for Twitter deal - The Washington Post | May 09 18:36 | |
| schestowitz-TR | Trump try to give Ellison TikTok on the plate, not sure if that ever materialised | May 09 18:36 |
| Techrights-sec | FB does that | May 09 18:37 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 18:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | experiment complete | May 09 18:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | like with bitcoin | May 09 18:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | handover to owner signed off | May 09 18:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | making an exit | May 09 18:38 |
| schestowitz | navigation, timestamp etc. added to gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/latest/ | May 09 18:39 |
| schestowitz | will add some more things before git commit | May 09 18:39 |
| Techrights-sec | yep | May 09 18:39 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 18:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | fwiw, the only time twitter did make some profit was the year when it drove people AND | May 09 18:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | developers OFF the platform | May 09 18:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | so from a biz model POV it was doomed to fail | May 09 18:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | Twitter 2018 (August they killed off the APIs) is GulagTube 2021 | May 09 18:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | TR is so prolific in geminispace that campcom et al add a link to the daily lump instead of all individual posts | May 09 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I should sort the result by criteria other than alphabet, which I do just so that uniq can annul adjacent dupes | May 09 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | this leaves a daily archive bdhind it | May 09 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | :-) | May 09 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I saw your push in real time. Nice! | May 09 18:48 |
| Techrights-sec | :) | May 09 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | gnu uniq has an option to compare (or ignore) only N chars in line | May 09 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | but not N words (like URL) | May 09 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I want to eliminate dupes | May 09 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | I was thinking of cut | uniq | May 09 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | but then I lose the bits I want to keep | May 09 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | "" 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent. "" | May 09 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | sort | uniq | May 09 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | -k can sort by 'field' | May 09 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | awk | sort | uniq ? | May 09 18:58 |
| Techrights-sec | or awk with an associative array? | May 09 18:58 |
| schestowitz-TR | difficulty steammping from the issue that different sources have overlaps | May 09 19:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they use different anchor text for the same URL | May 09 19:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | there must be some trick... | May 09 19:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | if all URLs were of predicted length, uniq.. wait, I can try -f, but it's the opposite order | May 09 19:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | *stemming (bad typo) | May 09 19:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | --skip-field= would have worked if the anchor came before the URL | May 09 19:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | stack overflow shows someone asking the same | May 09 19:05 |
| Techrights-sec | xmlstarlet would be the bare mimum possible for parsing HTML | May 09 19:05 |
| Techrights-sec | that is a real parser and a real parser is neede for the task | May 09 19:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | gemini is not parsed like sgml though | May 09 19:05 |
| Techrights-sec | gemini is more or less unparsable | May 09 19:08 |
| Techrights-sec | it's terminal stage data format | May 09 19:08 |
| schestowitz-TR | they drop a hint in "rev" | May 09 19:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | so I can compare the url written from end to start | May 09 19:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | then rev it back at the end | May 09 19:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | trying.... | May 09 19:12 |
| schestowitz-TR | heh, now I have another issue before after => URL who knows how man "fields" exist... it's free form text for ancho | May 09 19:12 |
| Techrights-sec | yep | May 09 19:12 |
| Techrights-sec | patterns are neede to "parse" Gemini ^=>\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$ | May 09 19:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | unless uniq could accept MAX-2 or similar for each line | May 09 19:26 |
| schestowitz | sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/p" ~/gemini/planet/index.gmi | sort | grep "=>" | May 09 19:33 |
| schestowitz | becomes | May 09 19:33 |
| schestowitz | sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/p" ~/gemini/planet/index.gmi | sort -u -k2,2 | grep "=>" | May 09 19:33 |
| schestowitz | you can run as user "gemini" and compare | May 09 19:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | this rev() approach makes the false assumption that all lines have the same number of "fields" | May 09 19:33 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I found a way | May 09 19:33 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 09 19:34 |
| Techrights-sec | sed -n -e "/2022-05-08/,/2022-05-07/{/^=>/p}" | May 09 19:47 |
| Techrights-sec | ? | May 09 19:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | it works now | May 09 19:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | will push | May 09 19:53 |
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