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| schestowitz-TR | how can we respond to the "Microsoft says Linux not secure?" BS articles? | May 21 08:27 |
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| schestowitz-TR | for now I just ignore | May 21 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even adding to Daily Links | May 21 08:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even with comment | May 21 08:27 |
| Techrights-sec | good question, especially since they have control over what's left of the | May 21 08:28 |
| Techrights-sec | trade press; | May 21 08:28 |
| Techrights-sec | ; it may be that the only way is to addres what they are trying to | May 21 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | distract from: that M$ has been, is, and always will be swiss cheese and that | May 21 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | the ransomware activities have very quickly gone from a small cottage industry | May 21 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | to a major global phenomenon affecting whole nationstates | May 21 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | pounding the drum on Windows TCO might be one strategy but the tick is to get it | May 21 08:31 |
| Techrights-sec | noticed | May 21 08:31 |
| schestowitz-TR | right. right. | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | so please carry on picking windows tco stories | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I add those to tuxmachines too | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | better than feeding micreosoft bottom feeders | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | even with [Ed:] | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | in this case, I do not bother | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | because unlike with vmware people can see what's wrong | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | like microsoft is not authority for "Linux" | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | rather than concern troll at best | May 21 08:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I did not check comments but I can imagine what people say | May 21 08:32 |
| Techrights-sec | no but they are really increasing their effort to reposition themselves as | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | knowledgeable about security. They do this in part by conflating exploits | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | with attacks and then asserting that becase they are "attacked" (read | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | exploited) the most they have th emost knowledge and experience. Ongets thOne gets that straight from the microsofters themse | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | lves for years. | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | What really hurts is that they were able to get in on the Biden campaign and | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | because he won, tradition says he owes them a big one. He does not remember | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | how the various M$-based web sites for the Obama administration fell on theitr | May 21 08:38 |
| Techrights-sec | faces and had to be replaced with real technology. | May 21 08:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | ok, so you and I are in agreement on this | May 21 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | people can figure out what's really going on | May 21 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | and we ened to show what they are distracting FROM | May 21 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | like Costa Rica | May 21 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | and not waste time pointing out the obvious | May 21 08:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | (Microsoft does not speak for "Linux") | May 21 08:40 |
| Techrights-sec | "What people say" is subjective, do you mean people or M$ astroturfers. Already | May 21 08:40 |
| Techrights-sec | a few years ago most forums had a 47:1 astroturfer to people ratio in the | May 21 08:40 |
| Techrights-sec | visible comments. | May 21 08:40 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think social control media is used more than comments now | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it expensive toi 'turf | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | also, I've just checked phoronix comments | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think his forums are def. on the demise | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | he has pushed a number of microsoft pieces of crap lately | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | which is a net negative | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | given the target audience for that crap | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | going to run ddos protection in tuxmachines | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | yesterday I had to restart httpd on it | May 21 08:42 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne noticed the issue, half an hour late | May 21 08:42 |
| Techrights-sec | Yes, social control media is used /instead of comments and with M$-oriented | May 21 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | companies in charge of hiring moderators it does not go well for anyone. | May 21 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | Look at Conde Nast's Redddit for one of the worse examples. | May 21 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | tm did not trigger here yesterday | May 21 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | ^tm monitor | May 21 08:44 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 08:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | load came down before I even needed to start ddos protection so to speak | May 21 08:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | microsoft pays conde nast a lot of money | May 21 08:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | and the income sources will run out with the cash cows | May 21 08:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | conde nast should die with microsoft | May 21 08:45 |
| Techrights-sec | yes and IDG too | May 21 08:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | IDG is pretty much dead already | May 21 08:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | many of their old domains do not exist anymore | May 21 08:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | those that still exist are barely active | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | they just pretend to still exist by writing something, sometimes paid placements, once a week or | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | once a day | May 21 08:47 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | IDG has no commitment from its new owner | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | you hardly head of IDC, either | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | *hear | May 21 08:47 |
| schestowitz-TR | sjvn used to write in idg. now it's maybe one article per 2 months, even less | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | just to keep the sites looking "not dead" | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | you would be shocked if the articles showed you view counts | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | the few that have counters suggest hardly anyone accesses sites via gulag noise | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | like a couple hundredds | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | and idg rss feeds have not been fundtional for over adecade | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | so they have no way to reach an audience | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | they don't use social control media either | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | except accounts of the authors | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | sjvn is about to lose his pluspora account (admin literally died) | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | which is where he moved after he had lost his gulagPlus account | May 21 08:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | last night I got some more tips re Nat Friedman | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | but at this point I see no purpose going aftyer him | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | afaik, he's not in a position of power anymore | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | so having a go at his dad or wife would seem petty | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | and would be hard for me to justify | May 21 08:51 |
| Techrights-sec | a choice opportunity to use them might occur later | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's like "kicking a puppy" | May 21 08:51 |
| schestowitz-TR | ACK. | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | FWIW, yesterday I posted FOUR batches oif Daily Links | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | the morning one with politics was getting too long | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | So I'm trying to split or spread that a bit | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | This weekend I have more spare time than usual, think I reach optimum on some levels | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | Don't know where to hunt fo more gnu/linux rss feeds | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | you alreedy cover many bsd-oriented ones | May 21 08:55 |
| Techrights-sec | I think they can only be found accidentally; usually you can check any new | May 21 08:55 |
| Techrights-sec | article for feed information, and quite often it is there | May 21 08:55 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is what I do if or when I stumble upon new sources | May 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | howtoforge is still blocking me if I don't run a clownflare program | May 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | and several other sites went down the same route | May 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | their loss | May 21 08:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | they "protect" themselves... from traffic | May 21 08:57 |
| Techrights-sec | :( | May 21 09:02 |
| Techrights-sec | QuiteRSS has 527 feeds most of which are active but many are low activity and | May 21 09:09 |
| Techrights-sec | some are defunct | May 21 09:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | last night I customised quiterss some more | May 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | e.g. adding colour to alternate lines | May 21 09:10 |
| schestowitz-TR | having browsed all the options | May 21 09:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe mi5 will issue a warning not to update this software anymore ;-) | May 21 09:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | ime, many techs in russia oppose putin | May 21 09:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | at least silently | May 21 09:11 |
| schestowitz-TR | to avoid being harassed | May 21 09:11 |
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| schestowitz-TR | I think we should invest more in gemini | May 21 09:13 |
| schestowitz-TR | it also helps us distinuish ourselves | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | 9k hits so far today and it's only 9am | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | radia/lupa seems less active these days | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | so it won't detect tyhe small new capsules | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | unique ips are on the rise | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | and either way we have a gateway for it | May 21 09:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | so anything we do in gemini will in fact be an extension of the existing http/s site | May 21 09:14 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 09:27 |
| Techrights-sec | on the other hand, lupa might be focusing more on the smaller capsules, | May 21 09:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | gemini s very different in many ways | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I stioll try to wrap my head around it | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | for instance, no point having rss reads | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | you would typically create a page that funnels inwars aggregators | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | skyjake does the same as me | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | then you can use some existing or new tools to process that | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | also, direct access to capsulkes is not always needed | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | reminds me of "blogroolls" | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'm sure you sa w blogrolls back in the old days | May 21 09:32 |
| schestowitz-TR | not thesame as planets | May 21 09:32 |
| Techrights-sec | yes, but the planets have tended to be of little to no use to me, ever | May 21 09:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | they gave visibility to sites you did not know existed | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | without them, they'd be islands | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | barely erven indexes in so-called 'search' engines | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think a lot of so-called "screen time" got funneled into utter crap | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | moving into the crap business is not an option | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even a remote possibility | May 21 09:41 |
| schestowitz-TR | GUD existed the search space | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | but a new one entered, so there are two search engines now | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | but given the nature of gemini I think search might not be the most appealing element | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am looking into a gempost from this morning | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | about Antenna | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think gemini can innovate a lot in the "discovery" space | May 21 09:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | just noticed a bug maybe caused by a timeout | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | go to gemini.tt | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | scroll down to articles | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | see the entry of irc logs | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | no title shown | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | never seen this before | May 21 09:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | *gemini.TR | May 21 09:50 |
| Techrights-sec | that was a missing title in the actual article, it's fixed now | May 21 10:00 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think I missed it when it was actually missing ^_^ | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | I'm going to study today my workflow and processes | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | I stronmgly dislike the UNCERTAINTY about the job and what comes next | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | my sister told me this morning she explored changing employers too | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | she is a c++ dev, she can find something better | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | but from home only part time | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | and very demanding production-wise | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's hard to organise the workflow here without knowing how much | May 21 10:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | we work after july | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | my guess is that we'll do part-timing, but the nature of the client | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and the work might continues to suck | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | I spoke to sister half an hour, same withmy mom | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | who says she is running out of savings | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | which were invested in crap basically | May 21 10:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and lost a lot of the value already | May 21 10:04 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | On another note entirely, it makes no sense at all that my main laptop STILL has 9 dual head virtual | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | desktops when I have 9 screens | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | the toiehr laptops have 1 virtual desktop | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | but a lot is to do with "legacy" or old habits | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | or consolidation | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | around one single file system | May 21 10:06 |
| schestowitz-TR | I tried to spread out to other file systems, e.g. ssh (not sshfs) | May 21 10:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | so the main challenge is breaking old habits and it's psychological mostly | May 21 10:07 |
| schestowitz-TR | thought process: | May 21 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | identity any use of virtual/overlapping space | May 21 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | tabs, virtual desktops etc. | May 21 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | those should be split apart | May 21 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | a lot of "modern" things emit far too many "notifications" | May 21 10:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | they wrongly assume you want more, not less, signal | May 21 10:09 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 10:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | idea: do you wish to assemble a quotes database with me in git? | May 21 10:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | split by themes/topics? | May 21 10:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | currently I use a flat, long text file | May 21 10:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | that DB is useful when I want to look up certain things by topic | May 21 10:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> "As usual with the tech industry, cryptocurrencies weren’t just sold as a risky investment" ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/20/cryptos-hype-and-promises-were-based-on-lies-from-the-very-beginning/ | Source: Scheerpost | May 21 10:31 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Crypto’s Hype and Promises Were Based on Lies From the Very Beginning – scheerpost.com | May 21 10:31 | |
| Techrights-sec | I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :( | May 21 11:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | there was about 30-50m mins of download for tuxmachines | May 21 11:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | sometimes I can see it on the screen here (a script that opens it in a browser, rekonq) | May 21 11:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | but this time it was rianne trying to post and not being able to reach it | May 21 11:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | so I got intercom call | May 21 11:03 |
| Techrights-sec | I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :( | May 21 11:09 |
| Techrights-sec | I think I have found where it is and fixed it. | May 21 11:09 |
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| schestowitz-TR | I think you started typing something | May 21 11:32 |
| Techrights-sec | yes but hit ctrl-c in the wronf window | May 21 11:33 |
| Techrights-sec | I've now tested the fix in the monitoring script and it should be ok until | May 21 11:33 |
| Techrights-sec | the next bug bites | May 21 11:33 |
| Techrights-sec | I should have the script || with a loud alert so I notice when it stops | May 21 11:36 |
| schestowitz-TR | our biggest blind spot will be overnight/afk | May 21 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | last night it was inevitable rianne or I would notice | May 21 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | but the very major and long downtimes happen when nobody attends | May 21 11:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Bill Gates-affiliated organization enables ransomware attack on Chicago Public Schools teachers and faculty. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165097#comment-33750 | May 21 11:45 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines | May 21 11:45 | |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is the constructive way, I think, to respond to the anti-Linux 'security' BS/FUD | May 21 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | pointing people in the right direction | May 21 11:53 |
| schestowitz-TR | away from the BS | May 21 11:53 |
| Techrights-sec | yep | May 21 11:53 |
| Techrights-sec | yes one has to keep pointing to and bringing up the items M$ and Bill wish | May 21 11:55 |
| Techrights-sec | to distract from. | May 21 11:55 |
| schestowitz | "When readers use such services as AdBlock, our revenue suffers. With the growing usage of these services and the request of readers who would like to better support our operations, we have established a Phoronix Premium subscription service." | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | microbell | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 0 comments | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 0 comments | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 0 comments | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 1 comment | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | 2 comments | May 21 11:59 |
| Techrights-sec | he has lost his audience | May 21 11:59 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe I am being thick of an a-hole | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | but if you greet your audience with shit like WSL | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | sooner or later they will develop a resistance | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is why this is verboten in tuxmachines | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | bad news? OK. | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | but not entryism | May 21 12:01 |
| schestowitz-TR | or, bad news with suitable response to it | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | not unchallenged | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | what I dislike about phoronix is how it treats all this microsoft threats | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | like they're ordinary, acceptable things | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | inc. github | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | like the little bouy who brings home a wolf on a "leash" | May 21 12:02 |
| Techrights-sec | WSL and Azure coverage can, for the most part, be eschewed | May 21 12:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | christine seems afraid of tuxmachines commenting negatively on icbm and openwashing etc. | May 21 12:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | because she became part of that problem | May 21 12:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | this leads to guilt | May 21 12:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | or fear of being cast as "part of the problem" | May 21 12:03 |
| Techrights-sec | guilt will eventually lead to other problems | May 21 12:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | having to make money is not a moral argument | May 21 12:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think she's torn between community and paid work | May 21 12:17 |
| schestowitz-TR | and we know where capital tends to come from | May 21 12:17 |
| Techrights-sec | 'yuppie nuremburg' defense | May 21 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | one reason why, if the noc job is no longer purely noc, | May 21 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | I may leave completely | May 21 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | would rather do part-time noc than touch some of that shit | May 21 12:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | aws, gulag etc | May 21 12:26 |
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| schestowitz-TR | lunduke became one of those "short shelf life" entertainers | May 21 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | and he's still trying to make a bomeback | May 21 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | after the LAS days | May 21 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | so far he did marketeering | May 21 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | with that fails, he caters for a dodgy crowd, I think | May 21 13:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | christine is a relic of what used to be known as journalists | May 21 13:04 |
| Techrights-sec | she used to be, it seems more and more like just a husk is left | May 21 13:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> NHS UK Retroactively Adds Weeks of Excess Mortality to 2021 (6 Months Later!), We're Still Seeing Excess Deaths This Spring as Backlogs of Death Certificates Are Caught up With https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/21/2022-mortality-reports/ | May 21 13:21 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com » Blog Archive » NHS UK Retroactively Adds Weeks of Excess Mortality to 2021 (6 Months Later!), We’re Still Seeing Excess Deaths This Spring as Backlogs of Death Certificates Are Caught up With | May 21 13:21 | |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 13:37 |
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| schestowitz-TR | running get_db on techrights | May 21 15:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | the past week's wordpress gz were not good | May 21 15:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | days ago when I checked they were OK from 13-15 or thereabouts | May 21 15:23 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 15:23 |
| Techrights-sec | I haven't checked since there have been problems here with getting the backups | May 21 15:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | the dumping process does not yield any warning | May 21 15:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | and head/tail on the file makes it look in OK integrity | May 21 15:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | I am testing some of this manually at the moment | May 21 15:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | since all 3 DBs are affected by this | May 21 15:37 |
| schestowitz-TR | at seemingly random patterns since 6th Jan (hardware did not change until over a month later) | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | I wonder what causes this | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've just manually dumped and compressedwordpress | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | test with gunzip is OK | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | so at least I'm happy to know we have a good working backup for today | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | don't want to go on 7 days without one | May 21 15:38 |
| schestowitz-TR | and it's the most important DB | May 21 15:38 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 15:38 |
| Techrights-sec | right but whatever is breaking the backups needs to be identified and solved | May 21 15:38 |
| Techrights-sec | :/ | May 21 15:38 |
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| schestowitz-TR | observation | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've not yet seen any bad gz on the TM VM, which is on the same physical machine and disk | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident | May 21 16:23 |
| Techrights-sec | filesystems are scary | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | (about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | from djangocms to drupal | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | (not our fault0 | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | kind | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | I sort of home to leave the company soon | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even part-timing | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | so I can better focus on migration | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time" | May 21 16:23 |
| schestowitz-TR | observation | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | I've not yet seen any bad gz on the TM VM, which is on the same physical machine and disk | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | (about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | from djangocms to drupal | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | (not our fault0 | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | kind | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | I sort of home to leave the company soon | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | not even part-timing | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | so I can better focus on migration | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time" | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | unlike people with kids, mortgage and likely no savings (just debt) 12 years of work | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | in this company gave me a cushion, so sellouts are neither needed nor considered | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe at the end only rianne will work part time, I can pass her my duies | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | and help when she needs tandem so to speak | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | yesterday we received 19-page confidential documentsa, circulated among everyone | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | it looks like no move will be made before July | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | sort of stuck between rock and hard place because they need us | May 21 16:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | but they cannot compel us to work hard overnight | May 21 16:27 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 16:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | a bit private: it would help rianne with naturalisation if she keeps the job (endorsement latter and | May 21 16:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | employment status of 9 straight years) | May 21 16:28 |
| schestowitz-TR | to me, it does not matter much and I lack time anyway, I don't garden 5 hours aweek like her | May 21 16:28 |
| Techrights-sec | yes it would be a good idea to get the paperwork in order by the fastest means | May 21 16:29 |
| Techrights-sec | possible | May 21 16:29 |
| schestowitz-TR | (so there are those other elements "at play"... spoke to my mom about things today, | May 21 16:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | her savings lost a LOT in value recettly... her pension won't suffice, so assets will be | May 21 16:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | sold) | May 21 16:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | she has just intercommed me | May 21 16:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | to tell me about "pandapox" | May 21 16:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | "elephantpx" etc./ | May 21 16:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | I guess capitalism will never be declared a failure | May 21 16:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | it'll all be blamed on "nature" and profited from by bailouts, inflation, and patent licences | May 21 16:39 |
| schestowitz-TR | while crushing all the small businesses | May 21 16:39 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 16:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | to the religious: "an act of god!" | May 21 16:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | pope: live humbly, not like me on my golden chair in tax-avoiding vatican | May 21 16:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> IDG has become little but for-paid GAFAM spam (when it writes and publishes anything at all) https://www.computerworld.com/article/3660518/apple-improves-enterprise-training-to-meet-growing-demand.html | May 21 16:44 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Apple improves enterprise training to meet growing demand | Computerworld | May 21 16:44 | |
| Techrights-sec | IDG has been useless for decades now | May 21 16:57 |
| schestowitz-TR | Slashdot now feeding provocative Microsoft FUD against Linux... in the LINUX SECTION (front page). Anything to distract from Microsoft' security catastrophes. | May 21 17:32 |
| Techrights-sec | . | May 21 17:34 |
| Techrights-sec | Slashdot died years ago, 2013 or 2014 or there abouts. Prior to that it suffered egregious damage from previous sales but by t | May 21 17:34 |
| Techrights-sec | hat point the new owners just | May 21 17:34 |
| Techrights-sec | plain killed it off. | May 21 17:34 |
| schestowitz-TR | I did not even linked to it | May 21 17:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | I mean, FFS | May 21 17:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | this is too much | May 21 17:35 |
| schestowitz-TR | uber-trolling | May 21 17:35 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 17:36 |
| Techrights-sec | it's really not a whole lot different than if the domain had been abandoned | May 21 17:36 |
| Techrights-sec | and picked up by squatters; the only difference is that the original software | May 21 17:36 |
| Techrights-sec | is still up and running | May 21 17:36 |
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| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165112 | May 21 18:02 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines | May 21 18:02 | |
| schestowitz-TR | regarding what I said about El Reg | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | today I went through over 100 items there | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | maybe 150 | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's not as bad as last year | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | but not as good as last week | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | there are still the occasional BS articles | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | in security leftovers I included what Microsoft may be trying to divertt attention away freom | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | if you are curious you can go enter linux.slkadhdot.org or whatever | May 21 18:02 |
| Techrights-sec | that's good to hear, except for the last week | May 21 18:02 |
| schestowitz-TR | the register has had and still has many writers | May 21 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | I try to differentiate by author and sometimes call them out on it | May 21 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | Microsoft Tim went to some very very tiny site | May 21 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | barely to be seen anymore | May 21 18:03 |
| schestowitz-TR | like satalin Cimpanu and Bioogdan Popa | May 21 18:03 |
| Techrights-sec | nah I stopped looking at Slashdot close to ten years ago | May 21 18:04 |
| Techrights-sec | there's not point in either driving traffic to them or raising their visibility | May 21 18:04 |
| Techrights-sec | Catalin Cimpanu is now shilling at Risky.biz | May 21 18:04 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think hat too is downgrade/demotion | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | if I know their visibility right | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | or "auto revolution" | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | those sites usually implode after a while | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | catalin started in bleeping computer afaik | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | abram lawrance, ms booster, runs that site | May 21 18:05 |
| schestowitz-TR | *lawrence (sorry, many typos in names) | May 21 18:05 |
| Techrights-sec | that one has expanded a lot recently, which can go either way for them at this | May 21 18:05 |
| Techrights-sec | point | May 21 18:05 |
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| schestowitz-TR | I make long 'catalogue' of these links, which come in handy later | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | and add "Ed" where needed | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | that's better than what lxer and linuxtoday do | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | phoronix has just promoted systemd | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | not sure what audience he aims for there | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | looks at comments.... only 1 comment | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | LOL! | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | making fun of systemd... the comment talks of D-beer-D | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | you can see it in phoronix if you fancy a whirl | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | "beergroups" | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | "imp,emntn d deer-D property" | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | so maybe microbell can take the clue | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | people don't want this thing | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | it's forced upon them | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | and they're like, "OK, I guess I need to learn this" | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | the systemd cabal and their facilitators shutdown any discussion of its merits | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | back when *one* *single* *person* unilaterally made the decision for Debian and | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | thus for hundreds of derivatives, and all the derivatives except a small handful | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | folded | May 21 18:09 |
| Techrights-sec | . | May 21 18:09 |
| schestowitz-TR | who was the person btw? | May 21 18:10 |
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| Techrights-sec | on the TC, the chair, IIRC | May 21 18:13 |
| Techrights-sec | https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652 | May 21 18:13 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Debian User Forums | May 21 18:14 | |
| schestowitz-TR | can you check the name for me? | May 21 18:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | It's important as I likely know the name, I follow Debian closely | May 21 18:14 |
| schestowitz-TR | Was it Ian jackson, who now pushes Rust and wants to oust Torvalds and RMS? | May 21 18:14 |
| Techrights-sec | https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=576562#p576502 | May 21 18:15 |
| -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Page 3 - Debian User Forums | May 21 18:15 | |
| schestowitz-TR | "In offering the GR, Ian Jackson noted that many of the concerns raised during the TC's original discussion were dismissed at t | May 21 18:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | he time as purely speculative/"slippery slope"/just a bunch of FUD. But Jackson's call for the GR noted that time had shown tho | May 21 18:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | se early concerns to be exactly correct and entirely valid. (And so they are. As things stand right now, a friggin' spreadsheet | May 21 18:16 |
| schestowitz-TR | can (and does!) require a specific init system. Talk about bogosity!)" | May 21 18:16 |
| Techrights-sec | Recall the Norwegian OOXML scandal reached peak when the committee chair | May 21 18:18 |
| Techrights-sec | overrode multiple rounds of voting, all against OOXML, and just ticked the box | May 21 18:18 |
| Techrights-sec | "yes" | May 21 18:18 |
| schestowitz-TR | I forgot the details around what had happened there | May 21 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | but I likely wrote about that | May 21 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | was it jackson who is responsible? I see nom clear name there | May 21 18:19 |
| Techrights-sec | I am unclear on the name and not finding the citation I was looking for, | May 21 18:19 |
| Techrights-sec | so the assertion is relegated to a rumor at this point. | May 21 18:19 |
| schestowitz-TR | Ok, thanks. | May 21 18:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | Eiother way, Jackson is not trustworthy for many reasonsd, as noted above | May 21 18:20 |
| schestowitz-TR | he's also connected to xen-ctirix and LF | May 21 18:20 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 18:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | part of debian's oxbridge cabal | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | mcintite, mjg (I think), lamb and others | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | whom I might as well consider pootential state actors | May 21 18:30 |
| Techrights-sec | yes | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | because of the history there | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | *mccintyre | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | with the many tyres | May 21 18:30 |
| schestowitz-TR | I should do mor exercise myself... | May 21 18:30 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 18:44 |
| schestowitz-TR | incominh third link batch for today | May 21 18:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | I think those are, in general more important than articles, irc, and videos | May 21 18:45 |
| schestowitz-TR | because over time they serve as good archives with headlines and full URL (for IA) | May 21 18:45 |
| Techrights-sec | with some additional structured metadata, it would be even more useful for | May 21 18:46 |
| Techrights-sec | using as a citation database | May 21 18:46 |
| schestowitz-TR | over the years some sites tried to copy that format, but they could not keep up (pace) | May 21 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | and lacked the tools, experience etc. | May 21 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | I started in USENET around 2004 ot 2005 | May 21 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | with some social control media on the side, e.g. digg, propeller, netscape, linuxelectron, among others | May 21 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | that I forgot | May 21 18:48 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 18:48 |
| schestowitz-TR | rianne has just rebooted debian 10, first time in months | May 21 18:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | so now she has two machines with vpns | May 21 18:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | when you update strongswan/ipsec in debian you then typically need a reboot | May 21 18:49 |
| schestowitz-TR | befoire realising this I'd spend hours struggling | May 21 18:49 |
| Techrights-sec | unless there are live updates enabled, kernal and a few key libraries | May 21 18:50 |
| Techrights-sec | get updated and then necessitate a reboot | May 21 18:50 |
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| schestowitz-TR | i took 3 days off work | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | tomorroe last shift, then about 8 days off | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | I want to devote tonight to maximisingutility of thr hardware, rianne does the same with her computers | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | we both reckon the company needs us too much | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | so we have a good bargaining position re noc | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | no, noc? goodbye then | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | I won't be doing full-time engineeting for them | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | i'm on shift atm | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | quiet as f | May 21 19:43 |
| schestowitz-TR | backing up the /home partition of the pi you sent to a thid external device | May 21 20:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | shuffled physical drives | May 21 20:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | rotated to an old 3tb | May 21 20:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | nap time... | May 21 20:26 |
| Techrights-sec | ack | May 21 20:26 |
| schestowitz-TR | the other week I checked if lesser privileges accounts can access the external drive | May 21 20:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | they cannot even see it | May 21 20:27 |
| schestowitz-TR | *privileged | May 21 20:27 |
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| Techrights-sec | that's normal for many desktops | May 21 20:27 |
| Techrights-sec | if the drive is user-mounted with the default gimmick to automount it | May 21 20:28 |
| Techrights-sec | (I no longer recall the current details) | May 21 20:28 |
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| schestowitz-TR | <techrights-news> With 10 days left in the month Techrights already served over 330k pages over gemini:// so far this month, so that's a pace of about half a million a month. Gemini is not a niche anymore. Many people use it. Many unique IPs, too. | May 21 23:50 |
| schestowitz-TR | Still, Gemini is nowhere as big as HTTP/S, no point (or any use) denying it. But it's growing fast. TuxMachines and Techrights average almost 10 hits per second, but a lot of today's Web is bots and other junk. Some of them are barely distinguishable and it makes running a Web site potentially expensive. Gemini has very low throughput and load overheads. | May 21 23:54 |
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