IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, July 20, 2022

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I will make the amendments now, thanks!

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checking

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might raise the importance of TTN not being a law firm by using that fact

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in the first sentence which introduces it

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the nature of the "harmonization" across fields can use a word or two

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hintng/reminding as to its nature

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In the title and other descriptions "intrepid" might be taken the wrong way

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if the sarcasm is missed

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Jul 20 07:03

schestowitz-TR

3 significant changes made

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at least I know what a "blind copy" reader lack

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I'll send you parts 11-12 soon

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kaniini is getting interested in Gemini

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ack

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lynx is a good approximation

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Jul 20 07:24

schestowitz-TR

parts 11-12 sent

Jul 20 07:43

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Jul 20 07:44

schestowitz-TR

these parts give you a "head start"

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gemini had lots of traffic yesterday

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the update to the pi did not break anything, but reboot would be needed to see if it fixed something

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I'll back up /home over rsync now

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wipo has not yet rules on "debian"(TM)

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I'm off work today

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I want to be of work for good by year's end

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if they buy more time, OK, I get paid more in the meantime, at least we've already begun site migrations

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Jul 20 08:08

schestowitz-TR

I went back and forth thinking whether to reboot after the backup, but decided that no... no need

Jul 20 08:08

schestowitz-TR

too many things to reconnected to, short gemini uptime, chace of some services not coming back

Jul 20 08:08

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on their own, or even the pi itself not coming back

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will wait until there's no choice but to reboot, e.g. outage

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then will go through the list of things (3 things I think) that I want to work again as tey did before

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sometimes it's better to let the reboot happen "on its own" or "in its time"

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Linux or any OS should not be like this, but this is how it is

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just checked mai laptop's uptime, it's 92 days

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with kde neon a reboot after updates is even more risky as almost the whole system gets swapped over

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running tmux now on tuxmachines-new

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at some point we'll pass monitoring to the newer OSes

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ack

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yes with major updates, especially when crucial libraries get updated,

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it is often best to have a full reboot to ensure that all daemons reload

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alternatively, one can restart all the daemons manually

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but that's not so efficient

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Jul 20 08:10

schestowitz-TR

iirc, last pi "reboot" (power cut) it came back with gemini-proxy not running

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I don't have that mnonitored

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but iirc, I set systemd to auto-restart it on boot

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I also have todo list of checks/tasks for each type of oputside (server, network, irc...)

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*outage, not "oputside"... whatever that typing is... memory muscle

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*muscle memory

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ack

Jul 20 08:15

schestowitz-TR

done

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some of the people who destroyed freenode have entered our irc channels

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I try to put them off

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but they keep coming back

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kaniini kicked out one of them

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rianne and "her" black cat are gardening today, rain expected fridat

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the grass is yellowing here, the gracevard looks dry

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*graveyard

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it's usually very green, part of a large park

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2018 we lost a lot of public grass areas

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they were done for to the core

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some never recovered since

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ack

Jul 20 08:19

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still getting through the logs, it can take a bit since it's not all in one

Jul 20 08:19

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ack

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schestowitz-TR

ota

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done, 30 mins total

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mentioned zemlin as weak leader who cannot dissent against firms

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thanks for the links, catching up now

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ack

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looking at the SQLite3 database structure. The body table will need redoing

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in order to implement a limited full-text search capability

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yes, it's kind of a decapitation tactic of sorts, a huge distraction / ruckus

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keeps people from noticing what actually went on

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seems like a trend

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put the wrong people in charge

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debian, LF, OSI...

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lobbyists have asserted control of ewpo

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how important would full-text searching be for TM in the future?

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I'd like to avoid useing postgresql instead of sqlite3 but the latter has

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some severe limitations in text and blob fields. The blob is good for

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storage but cannot be searched. Ok.

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schestowitz-TR

search is not so important

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dsearch is for original works

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not a "daily fix" of links to other sites

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since susan left we've not published anything in-depath

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searching by title or date is easy to set up in SQLite3 since those are

Jul 20 09:12

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contained in fields which are short enough to remain as text

Jul 20 09:12

schestowitz-TR

this is usually enough, but if we use the same VMS in TR later, than didffernt use case

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current use ncase:

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visitors often use gulag search for the domain

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for rinan

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and I

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we rely on browser history/autocoplete

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wifor recent and related titles

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e.g. tuxedo (OEM)

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failing that, checking by title would be enough

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esp. if the searches are prioritised by recency

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so that we can add updates in the right page

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for visitors I think search is not important as all they want is quickl updates with pointers to news of interesta dn relevance to them

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this is usually enough, but if we use the same VMS in TR later, than didffernt use case

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current use ncase:

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visitors often use gulag search for the domain

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for rinan

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and I

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we rely on browser history/autocoplete

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wifor recent and related titles

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e.g. tuxedo (OEM)

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failing that, checking by title would be enough

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esp. if the searches are prioritised by recency

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so that we can add updates in the right page

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for visitors I think search is not important as all they want is quickl updates with pointers to news of interesta dn relevance to them

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Jul 20 09:18

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considering modification to one table anyway, it'll take a bit of planning

Jul 20 09:22

schestowitz-TR

thanks, I reckon TM will be around for decades more

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if not www, then gemini etc.

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kaniini and I spoke about it in #techrights yesterday

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she thought what we too had though

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generating p;ages or exporting to multiple formats/protocols

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it's even simpler with gemtext

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e.g.

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quotes

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and '''' (slanted, 3, not 4)

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tuxmachines pattern is simple

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we have about 4-5 templates

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that apply to aggregation styles)

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btw number of people online in irc increased in recent months

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the protocol that refuse to die

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as long as the discussion is on-topic there, that is good

x https://itwire.com/it-people-news/education/microsoft,-uts-launch-new-course-to-%e2%80%98help-solve%e2%80%99-technology-skills-shortage.html

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trolls can be drowned out or ignored

Jul 20 09:27

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or you can pick a dailt link that's provocative

Jul 20 09:27

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to shift the focus

Jul 20 09:27

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The Modern Web's Many Single Points of Failure gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-07-20-the-modern-web-s-many-single-points-of-failure.gmi

Jul 20 09:33

schestowitz-TR

bbl exercis

Jul 20 09:33

Techrights-sec2

good

Jul 20 09:33

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - Microsoft, UTS launch new course to ‘help solve’ technology skills shortage

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why itwire is nothing to me...

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sam barely has any relevant output anymore

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ack

Jul 20 09:49

schestowitz-TR

iow, giving it any 'goioglejuice ' (gulagjuice??) would mean amplifying all that other crap and all in all increasing the damage to usw

Jul 20 09:50

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hereas linux9-5 (9to5l

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linux) would meanm helping the cause

Jul 20 09:50

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ack

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schestowitz

A moment of self-reflection?

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Dear colleagues,

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In its recent sessions, the ILO-AT has been taking a clear stance on the freedom of association, and how the EPO administration has been implementing it with Social Democrazy 1.0 (CA/D 2/14).

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The Tribunal quashed the way the administration interferes with Staff Rep elections (Judgment 4482); declared the regulations on strike illegal (Judgments 4330-4335); gave back the access to mass email (Judgment 4551); and lifted the limitations on who the Staff Representation can nominate in the Appeals Committee (Judgment 4550) – all judgments are worth a read.

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We should not forget that all of this Social Democrazy 1.0 was aimed at hindering staff – and its representation – to make a stance against the administration, and that it came before a never-ending series of far-reaching and consistently detrimental reforms which have turned the EPO into an organization many of us do not recognize anymore – and that many of us cannot recommend to anyone anymore.

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We can only hope that management will come to the inevitable conclusion that it might have been a good idea to listen to staff and its representation all along: the fundamental flaws the Tribunal ruled upon, were the ones we had been pointing out to the administration all along.

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It is still possible to turn the tide, for the administration to work with staff, rather than against it.

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----

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making some progress on the true story of nat and miguel

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sniff out one piece of shit person, get a clique

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sniff out a clique, make a whole company shiver

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[SUEPO] Appeal Education Reform Post secondary - TODAY sent by email to all SUEPO TH members

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Dear SUEPO member,

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On 24 February 2022, SUEPO provided model review requests to its members to challenge individual aspects of the Education and Childcare reform related to the definition of direct/indirect costs for Primary/Secondary and Post-Secondary Education.

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Some of you submitted a review request (RfR) and received a negative decision from the administration.

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Due to the nature of the reimbursement system the deadlines to submit an appeal are spread across the year, in any case within 3 months period from the date of your RfR rejection.

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For some of you is therefore already the time to file an internal appeal related to Post-Secondary Education. SUEPO has engaged a renowned law firm to draw up model internal appeals. If you are a member of SUEPO TH, please check your email as the following required documents were emailed to you today:

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Instruction on how to file the Appeal with important information

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Appeal Template – Post-Secondary Education

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List of Annexes.

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Upon completion, email the appeal, attachments, and proof of payment to the Appeals Committee at xxxxxrg and copy to xxxxxorg and request acknowledgement of receipt!

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Your SUEPO TH Committee

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Ps: we would like to remind you that SUEPO is preparing another Appeal Template related to the non-adjustment of the ceilings of the Education and Childcare Allowances. Please check your email regularly for update on this case.

schestowitz

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Jul 20 18:05

schestowitz-TR

draft

Jul 20 18:20

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cleaning feeds now

Jul 20 18:20

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just moved the DocumentRoot on the mockup; it is now a clone / checkout of

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the TM Git repository; not all the files are represented in the repository

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but not all should be -- at least not where they are now.

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Also there is the possibility of playing with HTML forms.

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niiice...

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tryint it now

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the layout is a lot better now

Jul 20 18:33

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searches can be used for ddos, anything that caused a script to run

Jul 20 18:33

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yes, that is a risk -- if we decide to finish the search test

Jul 20 18:35

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though the number of concurrent processes is limited by the server

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automatically

Jul 20 18:35

schestowitz-TR

sometimes it is a search engine, as drew devault pointed out a few months ago

Jul 20 18:36

schestowitz-TR

I think the current TM site comes under heavy load when overzealous crawlers click on things that are not properly cached or optimised

Jul 20 18:36

Techrights-sec2

alpine has nftables available to filter misbehavior address ranges

Jul 20 18:38

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good point about caching, perhaps there is a header which can be added

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to the HTTP daemon to encourage caching for a longer period

Jul 20 18:38

schestowitz-TR

did 16 posts in 24 hours

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despite oversleeping 4 hours

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mostly owing to abandonment of gulag

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excellent

Jul 20 18:59

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it's a timesaving move to avoid junk like Google News and various

Jul 20 18:59

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social control media interfaces

Jul 20 18:59

schestowitz-TR

remind yourself you did not make an error while they were still modest and decent

Jul 20 19:00

schestowitz-TR

it's how they changed over time that ruined them, and in turn your mind

Jul 20 19:00

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s/n ratio, ui, visibility of what's relevant (twitter and identica were ok at this at the start)

Jul 20 19:00

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they;re about "engagement" not performance

Jul 20 19:01

schestowitz-TR

as you put it, interfaces is what they asre

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nois-adding or filtering uis

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also, for a while I used twitter accounts as rss feeds

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for very particular accounts such as zoobab

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twitter played a game of whack-a-mobile aginst proxies such as these

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death blow in 2018 iirc

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maybe 2019

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so I told zoobab to reconsider how he produced output

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not just the UI but the "information" they promote and demote is designed

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to alter public opinion under the illusion of communication

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each time someone tries to "fix" FB or Twitter by offering some tools like twitterdeck of rss feeds they get all angry that the shit, which they DO NTIOT

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EVEN CREATE (serdom) is now presented the way "INTENDED"

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So they start mass banning

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I heard it kept happening in FB too

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yes

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not just ad blocking

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may things that try to "fix" the UI

Jul 20 19:06

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user iinterface that fucks your mind up "IS NOT OPTIONAL!"

Jul 20 19:06

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last nigth in the video i help up a duovenir that says berlin

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I don't have fond memories, and not because of any unusual inccident

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in wintertime it's not a pleasant place

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sure, some flight departure delays sucked too, but at least I was typing articles about

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patents in the airport

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now, with expectations of distance, it's not even remoately an option

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and I told rianne not to take us/coach as insulation there is worse

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*bus

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she leaves 11am, so should be quite vacant

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10 pounds return to yorkshire (aunt)

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I hope the air is safe on the bus

Jul 20 19:11

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train. I said no coach, we also boycott that company for reasons I think I blogged about at least once

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journeys to liverpool mostly

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the coaches are generally more spacious than a bus

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she will stay indoors

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aun't hunsband died some months ago

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aunt's

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a good old friend of mine in Flordian is still in hospital

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and I worry he won't leave

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*Florida

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same for the train

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I hope he gets better but health care in the US is quite industrial and not

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about curing

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his kids can afford to get him the best care

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we shall see, he's that blogger in his 90s

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it's about insurance though

Jul 20 19:15

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ack

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that's a rough age to have any of those kinds of emergencies

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2 of his sons are doctors and I'm in touch with both

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I'd rather not think about it too much as thinking leads to spculation

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anyway, I'll try to clean the feeds, then nap

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I'm pleased when I'm productive wrt articles

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those are long-term items, I just need to ensure they edue the "progress" of "tech" (treadmill)

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wordpress 12 will be out in a few years ;-)

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ack

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> "Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, was invited to participate," but he knows absolutely nothing about security and his wife is a Microsofer https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/takeaways-from-the-white-house-cyber-workforce-and-education-summit/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxfoundation.org | Takeaways from the White House Cyber Workforce and Education Summit - Linux Foundation

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Who Brings Home the Bacon (Revenue), Sheela or James (Jim)? http://techrights.org/2022/05/14/microsoft-breadwinner/

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Who Brings Home the Bacon (Revenue), Sheela or James (Jim)? | Techrights

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ack

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this week's new is pleasant so far

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not much anti-Linux BS

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so far

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where is gitshell for Alpine?

Jul 20 20:09

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^git-shell

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i am not so familar with alpine yet

Jul 20 20:09

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<techrights-news> We're Back to 1,000+ COVID-19 Deaths Per Week, Reports About Excess Mortality Suddenly Stop https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/20/july-covid-mortality/

Jul 20 20:15

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » We’re Back to 1,000+ COVID-19 Deaths Per Week, Reports About Excess Mortality Suddenly Stop

Jul 20 20:15

Techrights-sec2

found it...

Jul 20 20:15

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tightened down the git account to use only the git-shell

Jul 20 20:21

schestowitz-TR

excellent, assumign we later move git@TR to the other OS, the steps will be the same

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git activities work, but not other programs

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assuming they can be remembered :/

Jul 20 20:22

schestowitz-TR

git pull works

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lots of green pluses

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I'd give that a "

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like"

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so you can collect "likes" ans cash them in at the local bank

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git-shell is now the shell for the account and the git-shell-commands directory

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is in use, too

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great, that's as it should be

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on the blochain tho?

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schestowitz-TR

distributed bartering logs do not scale well

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you end up using up energy and network capacity

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but it's a nice japenese experiment

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from the wastebasket

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(if the story is true)