●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, March 20, 2022 ●● ● Mar 20 [00:00] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:02] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@yw4uadn4c3y84.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [00:17] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [00:18] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@yw4uadn4c3y84.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [01:36] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [01:38] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@gw9mdreadq2ki.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [02:38] schestowitz-TR the person whom you thought was trolling [02:38] schestowitz-TR and I too suspectecdd of it [02:38] schestowitz-TR was in fact ender [02:38] schestowitz-TR who had become she around 5 years go [02:38] schestowitz-TR ender (brandon) is not a troll ● Mar 20 [03:09] schestowitz-TR how about this: [03:09] schestowitz-TR -migrate 'working directory, stuff that changes more often, to the pi [03:09] schestowitz-TR then access all things over LAN [03:09] schestowitz-TR the rest gets offloaded to 3 external drives and basically left to [03:09] schestowitz-TR be archived on these [03:09] schestowitz-TR a lot of the files on /home/roy are things which very rarely change [03:09] schestowitz-TR in the past I already archives some [03:09] schestowitz-TR 5 years maybe some of them can become articles [09:04] schestowitz record: around midnight I'll start recording, but I need to think how to now make these repetitive, e.g. bashing gulag news [09:04] schestowitz maybe the approach of analysing the dataset can be refined [09:04] schestowitz seeing there's not much "Real News" there anyhow.... [09:04] schestowitz-TR I means staff, not stuff. I don't interact with suepo, I can speak directly to staff [09:05] schestowitz-TR *meanty [09:05] schestowitz-TR *meant [09:30] schestowitz-TR change of plans. I will record as soon as I fionished the poost, just done daily links [09:30] schestowitz-TR cvey slow news day today in general [09:30] schestowitz-TR 3pm there;'s important football match [09:30] schestowitz-TR and I want to organise files etc. while it is transcoding [09:31] Techrights-sec I wish there were some metrics to show the numbers but the news gets slower every week with occasional major decreases t [09:31] Techrights-sec hat never recover. [09:32] schestowitz-TR so you can make up by,e g. adding gemini [09:32] schestowitz-TR or by casting the net wider [09:32] schestowitz-TR or adding, changing scope/topics [09:32] schestowitz-TR there are things we cannot control [09:32] schestowitz-TR like what OTHERS publish [09:32] schestowitz-TR OOPS, CAPS [09:32] schestowitz-TR similarly, gulag noise is shite partly because it's GIGO [09:32] schestowitz-TR garbage in, garbage out [09:32] Techrights-sec I spend more time dredging RSS / Atom feeds It is *very* time consuming with [09:32] Techrights-sec low yield. ● Mar 20 [10:06] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@ktca8nzkiih9y.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [11:08] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Mar 20 [12:49] *Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer) ● Mar 20 [15:17] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [16:43] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [16:43] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Mar 20 [18:33] schestowitz-TR draft [18:33] schestowitz-TR earlier on I rewrote ota with something else by mistake [18:33] schestowitz-TR today I do lots of organisation of the file system [18:33] schestowitz-TR later I will look into the said scripts and see how to improve backups [18:33] schestowitz-TR this is long overdue [18:33] Techrights-sec 1;3A [18:33] Techrights-sec ack [18:34] schestowitz-TR I will carry on using this machine [18:34] schestowitz-TR but the important data won't be on it [18:34] Techrights-sec no data should be on it. best to at least unmount the offending drive if not [18:34] Techrights-sec actually taking it out physically. [18:38] schestowitz-TR eventually [18:56] schestowitz-TR as a side note, rianne and I have just spoken a lot about the kettle [18:56] schestowitz-TR it broken down after about 12 months [18:56] schestowitz-TR the one porior to that lasted 6 or 7 years [18:57] schestowitz-TR you can never buy kicthen appliances anymore to last decades [18:57] schestowitz-TR for now I use the simple coffee machine instead [18:57] schestowitz-TR because I have zero confidence in antoiher kettle [18:57] schestowitz-TR no longer the make [18:57] schestowitz-TR this one was not a bad brand [18:58] Techrights-sec [18:58] Techrights-sec word on the street is that they are engineered to fail around the warranty [18:58] Techrights-sec expiration. Several sales people I know have commented that personally. [18:58] Techrights-sec I had one kettle which lasted more than ten years. It was top quality and [18:58] Techrights-sec excellent form, function, and durability. Eventually it rusted through at [18:58] Techrights-sec a seam and that was that. [18:59] schestowitz-TR yes, this one was rusting after justa year [18:59] schestowitz-TR and was still on and off [18:59] schestowitz-TR working and not working this past week or 5 days [18:59] schestowitz-TR so we know the issue wasn't at the coil level [18:59] schestowitz-TR maybe some other mechanism [18:59] schestowitz-TR maybe even thermostat [18:59] schestowitz-TR either way, as a form of protest rianne is just boiling water on the hob now ● Mar 20 [19:00] Techrights-sec I figure that one lasted for a more than satisfactory period of time with [19:00] Techrights-sec rather heavy use. [19:01] Techrights-sec That works. A bunsen burner works too. [19:01] Techrights-sec A lid on the pot speeds things up greatly. [19:04] schestowitz-TR thanks for the tip [19:04] schestowitz-TR this more or less reaffirm the decision that we implicitly made [19:04] schestowitz-TR a side perk of the drive issue, which I reckon goes months back because of the recovery [19:04] schestowitz-TR message I was seeing, is that it forces me to untangle a maze or a web of scattered files [19:04] schestowitz-TR the "desktop with 300 files" syndrome [19:04] schestowitz-TR adding up over timea [19:04] schestowitz-TR and slowing down any attempt to actually find what you are looking for [19:04] schestowitz-TR rianne has this issue as well [19:04] schestowitz-TR I found lots of EPO stuff along the way, unpublished material [19:04] schestowitz-TR that can one day be safely published [19:04] schestowitz-TR I still have lots about github [19:04] schestowitz-TR I reckon we got rid of 3 managers already [19:04] schestowitz-TR that we know of PUBLICLY [19:04] schestowitz-TR sometimes I can react to some event in the news by pulling something out [19:04] schestowitz-TR of [19:04] schestowitz-TR the stash [19:05] Techrights-sec The old way of making coffee works that way too. Boil water, throw in [19:05] Techrights-sec the 'right' amount of coarsely ground coffe, and when it sinks it is done. [19:05] Techrights-sec recoll helps [19:05] Techrights-sec it can parse a lot of file types [19:05] Techrights-sec a citation manager would help a lot but the only FOSS one I know of is Zotero [19:05] Techrights-sec and the standalone version has an unusable UI [19:06] schestowitz-TR I have been using "db" as aliad for search-db and so far it has worked decently [19:06] schestowitz-TR lowering my RAM usage by about 1GB [19:07] schestowitz-TR I let it add up over time when I finally got a machine with over 2GB of RAM [19:07] schestowitz-TR in total [19:07] Techrights-sec Yes, the RPi4 has 4GB [19:07] Techrights-sec Most web browsers use > 2GB with no pages loaded, just a single empty tab [19:31] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@yszqqvdxt4p8i.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [20:18] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:32] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Mar 20 [22:21] *techrights_guest|11 (~424a3f48@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Mar 20 [23:05] *activelow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:06] *activelow (~activelow@i8gtth78frzk8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell