●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, May 21, 2022 ●●
● May 21
[02:48]		*psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
● May 21
[04:32]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell
[04:32]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[04:40]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell
[04:44]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
● May 21
[06:53]		*DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving)
● May 21
[08:27]	schestowitz-TR	how can we respond to the "Microsoft says Linux not secure?" BS articles?
[08:27]	schestowitz-TR	for now I just ignore
[08:27]	schestowitz-TR	not even adding to Daily Links 
[08:27]	schestowitz-TR	not even with comment
[08:28]	Techrights-sec	good question, especially since they have control over what's left of the 
[08:28]	Techrights-sec	trade press; 
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	; it may be that the only way is to addres what they are trying to
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	distract from: that M$ has been, is, and always will be swiss cheese and that
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	the ransomware activities have very quickly gone from a small cottage industry
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	to a major global phenomenon affecting whole nationstates
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	pounding the drum on Windows TCO might be one strategy but the tick is to get it
[08:31]	Techrights-sec	noticed
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	right. right.
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	so please carry on picking windows tco stories
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	I add those to tuxmachines too
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	better than feeding micreosoft bottom feeders
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	even with [Ed:]
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	in this case, I do not bother
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	because unlike with vmware people can see what's wrong
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	like microsoft is not authority for "Linux"
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	rather than concern troll at best
[08:32]	schestowitz-TR	I did not check comments but I can imagine what people say
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	no but they are really increasing their effort to reposition themselves as
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	knowledgeable about security.  They do this in part by conflating exploits
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	with attacks and then asserting that becase they are "attacked" (read
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	exploited) the most they have th emost knowledge and experience.  Ongets thOne gets  that straight from the microsofters themse
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	lves for years.  
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	What really hurts is that they were able to get in on the Biden campaign and
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	because he won, tradition says he owes them a big one.  He does not remember
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	how the various M$-based web sites for the Obama administration fell on theitr
[08:38]	Techrights-sec	faces and had to be replaced with real technology.  
[08:39]	schestowitz-TR	ok, so you and I are in agreement on this
[08:39]	schestowitz-TR	people can figure out what's really going on
[08:39]	schestowitz-TR	and we ened to show what they are distracting FROM
[08:39]	schestowitz-TR	like Costa Rica
[08:39]	schestowitz-TR	and not waste time pointing out the obvious 
[08:40]	schestowitz-TR	(Microsoft does not speak for "Linux")
[08:40]	Techrights-sec	"What people say" is subjective, do you mean people or M$ astroturfers.  Already
[08:40]	Techrights-sec	a few years ago most forums had a 47:1 astroturfer to people ratio in the 
[08:40]	Techrights-sec	visible comments.  
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	I think social control media is used more than comments now
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	and it expensive toi 'turf
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	also, I've just checked phoronix comments
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	I think his forums are def. on the demise
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	he has pushed a number of microsoft pieces of crap lately
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	which is a net negative
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	given the target audience for that crap
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	going to run ddos protection in tuxmachines
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	yesterday I had to restart httpd on it
[08:42]	schestowitz-TR	rianne noticed the issue, half an hour late
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	Yes, social control media is used /instead of comments and with M$-oriented
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	companies in charge of hiring moderators it does not go well for anyone.
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	Look at Conde Nast's Redddit for one of the worse examples.  
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	tm did not trigger here yesterday
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	^tm monitor
[08:44]	Techrights-sec	ack
[08:45]	schestowitz-TR	load came down before I even needed to start ddos protection so to speak
[08:45]	schestowitz-TR	microsoft pays conde nast a lot of money
[08:45]	schestowitz-TR	and the income sources will run out with the cash cows
[08:45]	schestowitz-TR	conde nast should die with microsoft
[08:45]	Techrights-sec	yes and IDG too
[08:46]	schestowitz-TR	IDG is pretty much dead already
[08:46]	schestowitz-TR	many of their old domains do not exist anymore
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	those that still exist are barely active
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	they just pretend to still exist by writing something, sometimes paid placements, once a week or 
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	once a day
[08:47]	Techrights-sec	yes 
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	IDG has no commitment from its new owner
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	you hardly head of IDC, either
[08:47]	schestowitz-TR	*hear
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	sjvn used to write in idg. now it's maybe one article per 2 months, even less
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	just to keep the sites looking "not dead"
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	you would be shocked if the articles showed you view counts
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	the few that have counters suggest hardly anyone accesses sites via gulag noise
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	like a couple hundredds
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	and idg rss feeds have not been fundtional for over  adecade
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	so they have no way to reach an audience
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	they don't use social control media either
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	except accounts of the authors
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	sjvn is about to lose his pluspora account (admin literally died)
[08:49]	schestowitz-TR	which is where he moved after he had lost his gulagPlus account
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	last night I got some more tips re Nat Friedman
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	but at this point I see no purpose going aftyer him
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	afaik, he's not in a position of power anymore
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	so having a go at his dad or wife would seem petty  
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	and would be hard for me to justify
[08:51]	Techrights-sec	a choice opportunity to use them might occur later
[08:51]	schestowitz-TR	it's like "kicking a puppy"
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	ACK.
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	FWIW, yesterday I posted FOUR batches oif Daily Links
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	the morning one with politics was getting too long
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	So I'm trying to split or spread that a bit
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	This weekend I have more spare time than usual, think I reach optimum on some levels
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	Don't know where to hunt fo more gnu/linux rss feeds
[08:55]	schestowitz-TR	you alreedy cover many bsd-oriented ones
[08:55]	Techrights-sec	I think they can only be found accidentally; usually you can check any new 
[08:55]	Techrights-sec	article for feed information, and quite often it is there
[08:57]	schestowitz-TR	this is what I do if or when I stumble upon new sources
[08:57]	schestowitz-TR	howtoforge is still blocking me if I don't run a  clownflare program
[08:57]	schestowitz-TR	and several other sites went down the same route
[08:57]	schestowitz-TR	their loss
[08:57]	schestowitz-TR	they "protect" themselves... from traffic
● May 21
[09:02]	Techrights-sec	:(
[09:09]	Techrights-sec	QuiteRSS has 527 feeds most of which are active but many are low activity and
[09:09]	Techrights-sec	some are defunct
[09:10]	schestowitz-TR	last night I customised quiterss some more
[09:10]	schestowitz-TR	e.g. adding colour to alternate lines
[09:11]	schestowitz-TR	having browsed all the options
[09:11]	schestowitz-TR	maybe mi5 will issue a warning not to update this software anymore ;-)
[09:11]	schestowitz-TR	ime, many techs in russia oppose putin
[09:11]	schestowitz-TR	at least silently 
[09:11]	schestowitz-TR	to avoid being harassed
[09:13]		*SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@dmw5b4ab5hxvs.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[09:13]		*SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@dmw5b4ab5hxvs.irc) has left #boycottnovell
[09:13]	schestowitz-TR	I think we should invest more in gemini
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	it also helps us distinuish ourselves
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	9k hits so far today and it's only 9am
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	radia/lupa seems less active these days
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	so it won't detect tyhe small new capsules
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	unique ips are on the rise
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	and either way we have a gateway for it
[09:14]	schestowitz-TR	so anything we do in gemini will in fact be an extension of the existing http/s site
[09:27]	Techrights-sec	ack
[09:27]	Techrights-sec	on the other hand, lupa might be focusing more on the smaller capsules,
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	gemini s very different in many ways
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	I stioll try to wrap my head around it
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	for instance, no point having rss reads
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	you would typically create a page that funnels inwars aggregators
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	skyjake does the same as me
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	then you can use some existing or new tools to process that
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	also, direct access to capsulkes is not always needed
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	reminds me of "blogroolls"
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	I'm sure you sa w blogrolls back in the old days
[09:32]	schestowitz-TR	not thesame  as planets
[09:37]	Techrights-sec	yes, but the planets have tended to be of little to no use to me, ever
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	they gave visibility to sites you did not know existed
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	without them, they'd be islands
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	barely erven indexes in so-called 'search' engines
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	I think a lot of so-called "screen time" got funneled into utter crap 
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	moving into the crap business is not an option
[09:41]	schestowitz-TR	not even a remote possibility
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	GUD existed the search space
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	but a new one entered, so there are two search engines now
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	but given the nature of gemini I think search might not be the most appealing element
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	I am looking into a gempost from this morning
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	about Antenna
[09:45]	schestowitz-TR	I think gemini can innovate a lot in the "discovery" space
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	just noticed a bug maybe caused by a timeout
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	go to gemini.tt
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	scroll down to articles
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	see the entry of irc logs
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	no title shown
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	never seen this before
[09:50]	schestowitz-TR	*gemini.TR
● May 21
[10:00]	Techrights-sec	that was a missing title in the actual article, it's fixed now
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	I think I missed it when it was actually missing ^_^
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	I'm going to study today my workflow and processes
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	I stronmgly dislike the UNCERTAINTY about the job and what comes next
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	my sister told me this morning she explored changing employers too
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	she is a c++ dev, she can find something better
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	but from home only part time
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	and very demanding production-wise
[10:03]	schestowitz-TR	it's hard to organise the workflow here without knowing how much
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	we work after july
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	my guess is that we'll do part-timing, but the nature of the client
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	and the work might continues to suck
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	I spoke to sister half an hour, same withmy mom
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	who says she is running out of savings
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	which were invested in crap basically
[10:04]	schestowitz-TR	and lost a lot of the value already
[10:06]	Techrights-sec	ack
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	On another note entirely, it makes no sense at all that my main laptop STILL has 9 dual head virtual   
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	desktops when I have 9 screens
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	the toiehr laptops have 1 virtual desktop
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	but a lot is to do with "legacy" or old habits
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	or consolidation
[10:06]	schestowitz-TR	around one single file system
[10:07]	schestowitz-TR	I tried to spread out to other file systems, e.g. ssh (not sshfs)
[10:07]	schestowitz-TR	so the main challenge is breaking old habits and it's psychological mostly
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	thought process:
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	identity any use of virtual/overlapping space
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	tabs, virtual desktops etc.
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	those should be split apart
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	a lot of "modern" things emit far too many "notifications"
[10:09]	schestowitz-TR	they wrongly assume you want more, not less, signal
[10:14]	Techrights-sec	ack
[10:16]	schestowitz-TR	idea: do you wish to assemble a quotes database with me in git?
[10:16]	schestowitz-TR	split by themes/topics?
[10:16]	schestowitz-TR	currently I use a flat, long text file
[10:16]	schestowitz-TR	that DB is useful when I want to look up certain things by topic
[10:31]	schestowitz-TR	<techrights-news> "As usual with the tech industry, cryptocurrencies werent 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
[10:31]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Cryptos Hype and Promises Were Based on Lies From the Very Beginning scheerpost.com
● May 21
[11:02]	Techrights-sec	I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :(
[11:03]	schestowitz-TR	there was about 30-50m mins of download for tuxmachines
[11:03]	schestowitz-TR	sometimes I can see it on the screen here (a script that opens it in a browser, rekonq)
[11:03]	schestowitz-TR	but this time it was rianne trying to post and not being able to reach it
[11:03]	schestowitz-TR	so I got intercom call
[11:09]	Techrights-sec	I see the monitoring program hit a bug lst night :(
[11:09]	Techrights-sec	I think I have found where it is and fixed it.  
[11:10]		*DaemonFC (~daemonfc@64ucc9vur9ywy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[11:32]	schestowitz-TR	I think you started typing something
[11:33]	Techrights-sec	yes but hit ctrl-c in the wronf window
[11:33]	Techrights-sec	I've now tested the fix in the monitoring script and it should be ok until
[11:33]	Techrights-sec	the next bug bites
[11:36]	Techrights-sec	I should have the script || with a loud alert so I notice when it stops
[11:37]	schestowitz-TR	our biggest blind spot will be overnight/afk
[11:37]	schestowitz-TR	last night it was inevitable rianne or I would notice
[11:37]	schestowitz-TR	but the very major and long downtimes happen when nobody attends
[11:45]	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
[11:45]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
[11:53]	Techrights-sec	ack
[11:53]	schestowitz-TR	this is the constructive way, I think, to respond to the anti-Linux 'security' BS/FUD 
[11:53]	schestowitz-TR	pointing people in the right direction
[11:53]	schestowitz-TR	away from the BS
[11:53]	Techrights-sec	yep
[11:55]	Techrights-sec	yes one has to keep pointing to and bringing up the items M$ and Bill wish
[11:55]	Techrights-sec	to distract from.
[11:59]	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."
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	microbell
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	0 comments
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	0 comments
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	0 comments
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	1 comment
[11:59]	schestowitz-TR	2 comments
[11:59]	Techrights-sec	he has lost his audience
● May 21
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	maybe I am being thick of an a-hole
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	but if you greet your audience with shit like WSL
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	sooner or later they will develop a resistance
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	this is why this is verboten in tuxmachines
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	bad news? OK.
[12:01]	schestowitz-TR	but not entryism
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	or, bad news with suitable response to it
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	not unchallenged
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	what I dislike about phoronix is how it treats all this microsoft threats
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	like they're ordinary, acceptable things
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	inc. github
[12:02]	schestowitz-TR	like the little bouy who brings home a wolf on a "leash"
[12:02]	Techrights-sec	WSL and Azure coverage can, for the most part, be eschewed
[12:03]	schestowitz-TR	christine seems afraid of tuxmachines commenting negatively on icbm and openwashing etc.
[12:03]	schestowitz-TR	because she became part of that problem
[12:03]	schestowitz-TR	this leads to guilt
[12:03]	schestowitz-TR	or fear of being cast as "part of the problem"
[12:16]	Techrights-sec	guilt will eventually lead to other problems
[12:17]	schestowitz-TR	having to make money is not a moral argument
[12:17]	schestowitz-TR	I think she's torn between community and paid work
[12:17]	schestowitz-TR	and we know where capital tends to come from
[12:26]	Techrights-sec	'yuppie nuremburg' defense
[12:26]	schestowitz-TR	one reason why, if the noc job is no longer purely noc,
[12:26]	schestowitz-TR	I may leave completely
[12:26]	schestowitz-TR	would rather do part-time noc than touch some of that shit
[12:26]	schestowitz-TR	aws, gulag etc
[12:35]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell
[12:35]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[12:41]		*psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[12:42]		*psydroid2 has quit (connection closed)
[12:45]		*psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
● May 21
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	lunduke became one of those "short shelf life" entertainers
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	and he's still trying to make a bomeback
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	after the LAS days 
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	so far he did marketeering
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	with that fails, he caters for a dodgy crowd, I think
[13:04]	schestowitz-TR	christine is a relic of what used to be known as journalists
[13:19]	Techrights-sec	she used to be, it seems more and more like just a husk is left
[13:21]	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/
[13:21]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive NHS UK Retroactively Adds Weeks of Excess Mortality to 2021 (6 Months Later!), Were Still Seeing Excess Deaths This Spring as Backlogs of Death Certificates Are Caught up With
[13:37]	Techrights-sec	ack
● May 21
[14:02]		*DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[14:13]		*u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)
[14:13]		*u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)
[14:20]		*u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell
[14:20]		*u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
● May 21
[15:23]	schestowitz-TR	running get_db on techrights
[15:23]	schestowitz-TR	the past week's wordpress gz were not good
[15:23]	schestowitz-TR	days ago when I checked they were OK from 13-15 or thereabouts
[15:23]	Techrights-sec	ack
[15:23]	Techrights-sec	I haven't checked since there have been problems here with getting the backups
[15:37]	schestowitz-TR	the dumping process does not yield any warning
[15:37]	schestowitz-TR	and head/tail on the file makes it look in OK integrity
[15:37]	schestowitz-TR	I am testing some of this manually at the moment
[15:37]	schestowitz-TR	since all 3 DBs are affected by this
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	at seemingly random patterns since 6th Jan (hardware did not change until over a month later)
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	I wonder what causes this
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	I've just manually dumped and compressedwordpress
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	test with gunzip is OK
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	so at least I'm happy to know we have a good working backup for today
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	don't want to go on 7 days without one
[15:38]	schestowitz-TR	and it's the most important DB
[15:38]	Techrights-sec	ack
[15:38]	Techrights-sec	right but whatever is breaking the backups needs to be identified and solved
[15:38]	Techrights-sec	:/
[15:38]		*Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer)
● May 21
[16:06]		*Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[16:20]		*psydroid2 has quit (connection closed)
[16:20]		*psydroid2 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	observation
[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
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK 
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident
[16:23]	Techrights-sec	filesystems are scary
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	(about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	from djangocms to drupal
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	(not our fault0 
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some 
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	kind
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	I sort of home to leave the company soon
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	not even part-timing
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	so I can better focus on migration
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc
[16:23]	schestowitz-TR	could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time"
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	observation
[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
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	having run the backup manually in daytime, all gz files are OK 
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	maybe I should test manual runs at different times, just to see if a pattern emerges
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	since that "lost" (empty) file I've not had an FS-related incident
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	as seen in yesterday's IRC logs, a large site we support
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	(about human rights in Iran) seems to ave lost some stuff in migration
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	from djangocms to drupal
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	(not our fault0 
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	it's a bit scary taking a body of work that took a long of work (not mine; many
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	people's) onto some other form of machine, for fear of silent erosion of some 
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	kind
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	I sort of home to leave the company soon
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	not even part-timing
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	so I can better focus on migration
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	in fact, last night from 10pm to 1am I was very tired but did not sleep due to noc
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	could not concentrate on anything, so it was "lost time"
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	unlike people with kids, mortgage and likely no savings (just debt) 12 years of work
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	in this company gave me a cushion, so sellouts are neither needed nor considered
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	maybe at the end only rianne will work part time, I can pass her my duies
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	and help when she needs tandem so to speak
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	yesterday we received 19-page confidential documentsa, circulated among everyone
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	it looks like no move will be made before July
[16:26]	schestowitz-TR	sort of stuck between rock and hard place because they need us
[16:27]	schestowitz-TR	but they cannot compel us to work hard overnight
[16:27]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:28]	schestowitz-TR	a bit private: it would help rianne with naturalisation if she keeps the job (endorsement latter and 
[16:28]	schestowitz-TR	employment status of 9 straight years)
[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
[16:29]	Techrights-sec	yes it would be a good idea to get the paperwork in order by the fastest means
[16:29]	Techrights-sec	possible
[16:30]	schestowitz-TR	(so there are those other elements "at play"... spoke to my mom about things today, 
[16:30]	schestowitz-TR	her savings lost a LOT in value recettly... her pension won't suffice, so assets will be 
[16:30]	schestowitz-TR	sold)
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	she has just intercommed me
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	to tell me about "pandapox"
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	"elephantpx" etc./
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	I guess capitalism will never be declared a failure
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	it'll all be blamed on "nature" and profited from by bailouts, inflation, and patent licences
[16:39]	schestowitz-TR	while crushing all the small businesses
[16:43]	Techrights-sec	ack
[16:43]	schestowitz-TR	to the religious: "an act of god!"
[16:43]	schestowitz-TR	pope: live humbly, not like me on my golden chair in tax-avoiding vatican
[16:44]	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
[16:44]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Apple improves enterprise training to meet growing demand | Computerworld
[16:57]	Techrights-sec	IDG has been useless for decades now
● May 21
[17:32]	schestowitz-TR	 Slashdot now feeding provocative Microsoft FUD against Linux... in the LINUX SECTION (front page). Anything to distract from Microsoft' security catastrophes.
[17:34]	Techrights-sec	.
[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
[17:34]	Techrights-sec	hat point the new owners just
[17:34]	Techrights-sec	plain killed it off.  
[17:35]	schestowitz-TR	I did not even linked to it
[17:35]	schestowitz-TR	I mean, FFS
[17:35]	schestowitz-TR	this is too much
[17:35]	schestowitz-TR	uber-trolling
[17:36]	Techrights-sec	ack
[17:36]	Techrights-sec	it's really not a whole lot different than if the domain had been abandoned
[17:36]	Techrights-sec	and picked up by squatters; the only difference is that the original software
[17:36]	Techrights-sec	is still up and running
[17:48]		*rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)
[17:48]		*rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)
[17:50]		*liberty_box has quit (connection closed)
[17:57]		*rianne (~rianne@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[17:58]		*rianne (~rianne@freenode-b0g.0m6.7132oi.IP) has joined #boycottnovell
[17:58]		*liberty_box (~liberty@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
● May 21
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	<techrights-news> Security Leftovers  Tux Machines  http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165112
[18:02]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Security Leftovers | Tux Machines
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	regarding what I said about El Reg
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	today I went through over 100 items there
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	maybe 150
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	it's not as bad as last year
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	but not as good as last week
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	there are still the occasional BS articles
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	in security leftovers I included what Microsoft may be trying to divertt attention away freom
[18:02]	schestowitz-TR	if you are curious you can go enter linux.slkadhdot.org or whatever
[18:02]	Techrights-sec	that's good to hear, except for the last week
[18:03]	schestowitz-TR	the register has had and still has many writers
[18:03]	schestowitz-TR	I try to differentiate by author and sometimes call them out on it
[18:03]	schestowitz-TR	Microsoft Tim went to some very very tiny site
[18:03]	schestowitz-TR	barely to be seen anymore
[18:03]	schestowitz-TR	like satalin Cimpanu and Bioogdan Popa
[18:04]	Techrights-sec	nah I stopped looking at Slashdot close to ten years ago
[18:04]	Techrights-sec	there's not point in either driving traffic to them or raising their visibility
[18:04]	Techrights-sec	Catalin Cimpanu is now shilling at Risky.biz
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	I think hat too is downgrade/demotion
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	if I know their visibility right
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	or "auto revolution"
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	those sites usually implode after a while
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	catalin started in bleeping computer afaik
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	abram lawrance, ms booster, runs that site
[18:05]	schestowitz-TR	*lawrence (sorry, many typos in names)
[18:05]	Techrights-sec	that one has expanded a lot recently, which can go either way for them at this
[18:05]	Techrights-sec	point
[18:06]		*rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[18:06]		*liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[18:08]		*rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds)
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	I make long 'catalogue' of these links, which come in handy later
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	and add "Ed" where needed
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	that's better than what lxer and linuxtoday do
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	phoronix has just  promoted systemd
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	not sure what audience he aims for there
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	looks at comments.... only 1 comment
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	LOL!
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	making fun of systemd... the comment talks of D-beer-D
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	you can see it in phoronix if you fancy a whirl
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	"beergroups"
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	"imp,emntn d deer-D property"
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	so maybe microbell can take the clue
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	people don't want this thing
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	it's forced upon them
[18:09]	schestowitz-TR	and they're like, "OK, I guess I need to learn this"
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	ack
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	the systemd cabal and their facilitators shutdown any discussion of its merits
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	back when *one* *single* *person* unilaterally made the decision for Debian and
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	thus for hundreds of derivatives, and all the derivatives except a small handful
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	folded
[18:09]	Techrights-sec	.
[18:10]	schestowitz-TR	who was the person btw?
[18:12]		*rianne (~rianne@freenode-b0g.0m6.7132oi.IP) has joined #boycottnovell
[18:12]		*rianne (~rianne@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[18:13]		*liberty_box (~liberty@s44cwn8sugddy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[18:13]	Techrights-sec	on the TC, the chair, IIRC
[18:13]	Techrights-sec	https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652
[18:14]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Debian User Forums
[18:14]	schestowitz-TR	can you check the name for me?
[18:14]	schestowitz-TR	It's important as I likely know the name, I follow Debian closely
[18:14]	schestowitz-TR	Was it Ian jackson, who now pushes Rust and wants to oust Torvalds and RMS?
[18:15]	Techrights-sec	https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652&p=576562#p576502
[18:15]		-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-forums.debian.net | Combatting revisionist history - Page 3 - Debian User Forums
[18:16]	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
[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
[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
[18:16]	schestowitz-TR	 can (and does!) require a specific init system. Talk about bogosity!)"
[18:18]	Techrights-sec	Recall the Norwegian OOXML scandal reached peak when the committee chair
[18:18]	Techrights-sec	overrode multiple rounds of voting, all against OOXML, and just ticked the box
[18:18]	Techrights-sec	"yes"
[18:19]	schestowitz-TR	I forgot the details around what had happened there
[18:19]	schestowitz-TR	but I likely wrote about that
[18:19]	schestowitz-TR	was it jackson who is responsible? I see nom clear name there
[18:19]	Techrights-sec	I am unclear on the name and not finding the citation I was looking for,
[18:19]	Techrights-sec	so the assertion is relegated to a rumor at this point. 
[18:20]	schestowitz-TR	Ok, thanks.
[18:20]	schestowitz-TR	Eiother way, Jackson is not trustworthy for many reasonsd, as noted above
[18:20]	schestowitz-TR	he's also connected to xen-ctirix and LF
[18:26]	Techrights-sec	ack
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	part of debian's oxbridge cabal
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	mcintite, mjg (I think), lamb and others
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	whom I might as well consider pootential state actors
[18:30]	Techrights-sec	yes
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	because of the history there
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	*mccintyre
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	with the many tyres 
[18:30]	schestowitz-TR	I should do mor exercise myself...
[18:44]	Techrights-sec	ack
[18:45]	schestowitz-TR	incominh third link batch for today 
[18:45]	schestowitz-TR	I think those are, in general more important than articles, irc, and videos
[18:45]	schestowitz-TR	because over time they serve as good archives with headlines and full URL (for IA)
[18:46]	Techrights-sec	with some additional structured metadata, it would be even more useful for 
[18:46]	Techrights-sec	using as a citation database
[18:48]	schestowitz-TR	over the years some sites tried to copy that format, but they could not keep up (pace)
[18:48]	schestowitz-TR	and lacked the tools, experience etc.
[18:48]	schestowitz-TR	I started in USENET around 2004 ot 2005
[18:48]	schestowitz-TR	with some social control media on the side, e.g. digg, propeller, netscape, linuxelectron, among others
[18:48]	schestowitz-TR	that I forgot
[18:48]	Techrights-sec	ack
[18:49]	schestowitz-TR	rianne has just rebooted debian 10, first time in months
[18:49]	schestowitz-TR	so now she has two machines with vpns
[18:49]	schestowitz-TR	when you update strongswan/ipsec in debian you then typically need a reboot
[18:49]	schestowitz-TR	befoire realising this I'd spend hours struggling
[18:50]	Techrights-sec	unless there are live updates enabled, kernal and a few key libraries 
[18:50]	Techrights-sec	get updated and then necessitate a reboot
● May 21
[19:18]		*DaemonFC (~daemonfc@64ucc9vur9ywy.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[19:41]		*DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	i took 3 days off work
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	tomorroe last shift, then about 8 days off
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	I want to devote tonight to maximisingutility of thr hardware, rianne does the same with her computers
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	we both reckon the company needs us too much
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	so we have a good bargaining position re noc
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	no, noc? goodbye then
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	I won't be doing full-time engineeting for them
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	i'm on shift atm
[19:43]	schestowitz-TR	quiet as f
● May 21
[20:26]	schestowitz-TR	backing up the /home partition of the pi you sent to a thid external device
[20:26]	schestowitz-TR	shuffled physical drives
[20:26]	schestowitz-TR	rotated to an old 3tb
[20:26]	schestowitz-TR	nap time...
[20:26]	Techrights-sec	ack
[20:27]	schestowitz-TR	the other week I checked if lesser privileges accounts can access the external drive
[20:27]	schestowitz-TR	they cannot even see it
[20:27]	schestowitz-TR	*privileged
[20:27]		*DaemonFC (~daemonfc@xfwaq643p6iza.irc) has joined #boycottnovell
[20:27]	Techrights-sec	that's normal for many desktops 
[20:28]	Techrights-sec	if the drive is user-mounted with the default gimmick to automount it
[20:28]	Techrights-sec	(I no longer recall the current details)
● May 21
[22:47]		*psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
● May 21
[23:50]	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.
[23:54]	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.