IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, September 09, 2022

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Prioritisation of HR requests: HR Drowning in work

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Dear colleagues,

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In July, our colleagues in HR posted a cry for help on the Intranet, asking staff to “be patient” as they were “experiencing a large volume of incoming requests and enquiries” and needed “time to process the requests received”.

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Over the past months we have met with several HR teams and collected their concerns regarding staffing and IT tools. Instead of enjoying proper working conditions, the workload is piling up, service is delayed and all the conditions for health problems are met. Nevertheless, our HR colleagues continue to strive for quality support.

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With this short publication, we reaffirm our support and our determination to follow up the issues with senior management.

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The Central Staff Committee - CSC

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leaving home in 2 hours for solicitors and discounts

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today will be "slow news" anyway

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for more than one reason

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this morning I had to restart the gemini-proxy

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not a big deal

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not as system level or mission-critical as agate itself

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afternoon

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I think I did not miss anything in this buffer, nor have you

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last I got was back in a few hours

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then,

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just 10 mins before we left the house

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I had added an animated gif converted into another version

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tbh, animated gifs are best handled by leavint them in tact

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last time it took over a minute to process

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this time it took less

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but when I loaded it in my browser the machine ran out of RAM

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I had to reboot at short notice

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and quickly removed that image from the site

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it did not even render correctly

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I think for animated gifs better to not attempt to resise at all

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I did not fully recovered my system until we came back from our appointment

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If the proxy died, did it leave any information in journalctl?

Sep 09 14:28

Techrights-sec

Large GIF animations are yet another problem to avoid.

Sep 09 14:28

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I did not check the logs

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it is not a problem that happens a lot

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and I have a feeling it had something to do with our connection issues around 3am

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very likely to have been the culprit

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some unclosed connections

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re gif, we had already decided we had a problem before my machine suffered sverely

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no data loss, just waste of time

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and I wanted to get back home to sort out the rest of the services

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It is rather important, if feasible, to know what killed the process.

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ack

Sep 09 14:32

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without checking logs, the systems suggest jammed or poor state in process

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either nginx, proxy, or both

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btw, I did manage to do videos last night

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until 3am

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ack

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I only did 2 short ones this morening

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the programmable billboards in the streets are all "HM"

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which is predictable

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we went to one shop

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and the music in the background, playing loud was

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Bono, "It's a Beautiful Day"

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(it was heavy rain outside)

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it's sunny now

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anyway, the sort of music to play less than a day after the monarch of 70+ years dies

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This is lacking information in the summary about what happened:

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gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/09/08/epo-moss-loss/

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"why did the above happen?"

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What is described above?

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i thought about gemini when I wrote this

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1) we don't know the answer

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2) as to what's shown, it just shows new name

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or names I never heads of

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*heard

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I hope some Brits at EPO know more and can tell a backstory if any exists

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we got some backstories before

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but I also mentioned this in the video

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while recording the video I noticed this for the first time

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asked if someone can explain

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time will tell...

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Ok perhaps a follow up post can mention the names? I presume there

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was a quiet swap of representatives. What was the exact timing?

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we don't know, I just know the date the EPO.org site mentioned changes

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and Bulgaria too had changes

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that might be another story

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we wrote about the Bulgarian reps months ago

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their names don't ring a belkl, mean nothing to me

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hat was the exact timing?

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Do you know the names, though? Maybe others might recognize the names, if

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they are posted in an article?

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I shall do a folloup

Sep 09 14:46

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last night was intense

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Thanks

Sep 09 14:46

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re gif, 3 options:

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1) never add animated gifs

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2) never process animated gifs

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3) change the processing, either static image or valid animation

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it filled up my RAM very fast, I could not fkill it fast enough and took me a minute t realise what had happened

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ack

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I'd recommend option #1 ;/

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Regarding the posts from the other day about Android's extreme dominance in

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many countries, how many of those countries are vulnerable to zero-rating>

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old: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/356371-here-is-the-full-list-of-zero-rated-websites-in-south-africa.html

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good question

Sep 09 14:58

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maybe you can research it, as I don't know

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I hardly hear that term anymore

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Yes it has disappeared from the "news" though I would say there is an increased

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risk that the usual suspects exploit corruption and swap surveillance/censorship

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to authorities in exchange for being allowed zero-rating.

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we ought to revisit it a lot as there is a 'big story' there -- one nobody truly tells or talks about

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I concur

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epo was 'put in its place'... 2 "announcements" in 35 days. we still have a big series on the way.

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Sep 09 15:04

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-mybroadband.co.za | Here is the full list of zero-rated websites in South Africa

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THere is not likely to be a lot of information and I would suspect that much

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of the worst is done (intentionally) without much oversight

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put another way, they block rival sites

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to control the www and minds/information

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I experienced this at a train station once

old: https://openbylaws.org.za/za/act/gn/2020/651/eng/

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Yes, that is a more accurate description of zero-rating: blocking rivals

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for the sake of control of eyes and minds

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-openbylaws.org.za | Directions on Zero-rating of Content and Websites for Education and Health - Open By-laws South Africa