●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Friday, February 26, 2021 ●● ● Feb 26 [00:16] schestowitz__ > Hi Roy :-) [00:16] schestowitz__ > I just saw your article about the video thumbnail and saw you'd merged a [00:16] schestowitz__ > couple of pics ... with the 2 pics being included, I couldn't resist [00:16] schestowitz__ > having a go, lol, so I've done a combo idea ... if you like it, great; [00:16] schestowitz__ > if not, no pressure to use it. I cropped the title header from the site [00:16] schestowitz__ > ... that's one of the things on a separate layer, so if you want that [00:16] schestowitz__ > adapted, let me know. [00:16] schestowitz__ > Cheers, Mogz [00:16] schestowitz__ Wow! This is really very awesome and more than I could possibly do!! [00:16] schestowitz__ I am going to use yours and mine interchangeably from now on. [00:16] schestowitz__ I will upload this now and set up the template! Many thanks!!! [00:16] schestowitz__ BTW: wife is still thinking what she longs for... maybe Kavan the world's loneliest elephant... but she's not sure yet. Can we send you a gift at least? [00:22] schestowitz__ > Oops, had forgotten to up the resolution, so here's the updated, plus [00:22] schestowitz__ > different examples of header etc and one or two tidy ups. [00:22] schestowitz__ > Cheers, Mogz [00:22] schestowitz__ Excellent! I'm going to shuffle around with these!! [00:22] schestowitz__ I'll convert them to a smaller size and JPEG to reduce the file size somewhat and retain the originals for other purposes. [00:22] schestowitz__ > Oops, had forgotten to up the resolution, so here's the updated, plus [00:22] schestowitz__ > different examples of header etc and one or two tidy ups. [00:22] schestowitz__ > Cheers, Mogz [00:22] schestowitz__ Excellent! I'm going to shuffle around with these!! [00:22] schestowitz__ I'll convert them to a smaller size and JPEG to reduce the file size somewhat and retain the originals for other purposes. [00:23] schestowitz__ > One more, just to cover all options. :-) [00:30] schestowitz__ https://joindiaspora.com/posts/20160231#bf43277059410139c7bb002590d8e506 [00:30] schestowitz__ " [00:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@linux@joindiaspora.com: Trying Out #NoiseTorch to Reduce Background Sound/Noise in #GNU / #Linux http://techrights.org/2021/02/24/noisetorch-primer/ [00:30] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> techrights.org | Trying Out NoiseTorch to Reduce Background Sound/Noise in GNU/Linux | Techrights [00:30] schestowitz__ I avoid PA like the plague, Ive never heard that crap working Ok, unless one has a Ryzen or Corei5 and up. [00:31] schestowitz__ So, I dont touch it with 5 ft pole. [00:31] schestowitz__ " ● Feb 26 [03:11] schestowitz__ I am not familiar with ./bin/show-new-visitors.sh, but I changed the log format to include timestamps and I think ./bin/show-new-visitors.sh needs to change accordingly. I rarely run any logging, except when I try to get a sense of what accesses the capsule (e.g. is Stephane runs Lupa on it) ● Feb 26 [07:40] Techrights-sec ./bin/show-new-visitors.sh is just a wrapper for some awk [07:40] Techrights-sec I've updated it. BTW what are the numbers in the right hand columns? [07:41] schestowitz__ Thanks. Those number pertain to burst sizes and are not of much interest to us [07:42] schestowitz__ there seems to be some german bot scraping the capsule or something atm [07:43] schestowitz__ grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l [07:43] schestowitz__ 137562 [07:49] schestowitz__
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    Introducing the Linux Mint Devuan Edition
    [07:49] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://all-things-linux.blogspot.com/2021/02/introducing-linux-mint-devuan-edition.html">Introducing ) [07:49] schestowitz__
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    There's only one thing wrong with LMDE and that is that it's based on Debian rather than on Devuan with its more traditional and predictable init. So I set out on a little experiment to build a LMDE-like system on top of Devuan and what can I say, it works very well. Steps are outlined here on the LM forum.

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    Firefox 86 On POWER
    [07:50] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.talospace.com/2021/02/firefox-86-on-power.html">Firefox ) [07:50] schestowitz__
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    Firefox 86 is out, not only with multiple picture-in-picture (now have all the Weird Al videos open simultaneously!) and total cookie protection (not to be confused with other things called TCP) but also some noticeable performance improvements and finally gets rid of Backspace backing you up, a key I have never pressed to go back a page. Or, maybe those performance improvements are due to further [07:50] schestowitz__ improvements to our LTO-PGO recipe, which uses Fedora's work to get rid of the sidecar shell script. Now with this single patch, plus their change to nsTerminator.cpp to allow optimization to be unbounded by time, you can build a fully link- and profile-guided optimized version for OpenPOWER and gcc with much less work. Firefox 86 also incorporates our low-level Power-specific fix to xpconnect.

    • [07:53] schestowitz__ grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l [07:53] schestowitz__ 147324 [07:53] schestowitz__ so 10,000 connections in 10 minutes' time ● Feb 26 [08:11] schestowitz__ grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l [08:11] schestowitz__ 167643 [08:11] schestowitz__ about 1,000/min ● Feb 26 [09:05] schestowitz__ grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l [09:05] schestowitz__ 242895 [09:07] Techrights-sec I was wondering about that address. [09:43] schestowitz__ grep v2202102141844143923 log.txt | wc -l [09:43] schestowitz__ 296140 ● Feb 26 [10:34] schestowitz__ x https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/economy/230221/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-bats-for-global-regulation-on-privacy.html [10:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.deccanchronicle.com | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella bats for global regulation on privacy [10:42] schestowitz__ no attacks on TM last night, for the first time in a while... :-) but the Germany IP address racked up 442622+ connections already to Gemini... in just the past 4-5 hours [10:57] schestowitz__ it's just parking there and eating up about 200KB/sec all the time. Very odd. ● Feb 26 [11:01] Techrights-sec very misconfigured bot or else malicious [11:01] Techrights-sec sudo iptables -I INPUT -i wlan0 -s 185.183.157.0/24 -j DROP [11:01] Techrights-sec or without the -i wlan0 option [11:01] Techrights-sec later, much later, it would be best to use nft instead, but that is not [11:01] Techrights-sec the default for Raspberry Pi OS at the moment. [11:03] schestowitz__ I've filtered out (blocked that address), seeing it passes even half a million connections, which is not acceptable (even time- or rate-limiting would have been sensible) ● Feb 26 [13:01] schestowitz__ radia.bortzmeyer.org is now having another big trawl (maybe Lupa), but this one I know is a real thing and it won't reach half a million reqs at the pace it goes at ● Feb 26 [15:25] schestowitz__ https://twitter.com/cybersecmnl/status/1365309721159196673 [15:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@cybersecmnl: Less than three weeks since the Early Access release, Iron Gate announced today that its now sold three million co https://t.co/d6pbqLqnDm [15:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@cybersecmnl: Less than three weeks since the Early Access release, Iron Gate announced today that its now sold three million co https://t.co/d6pbqLqnDm [15:25] schestowitz__ "Less than three weeks since the Early Access release, Iron Gate announced today that its now sold three million copies. https://cstu.io/b91e35 #InformationTechnology" [15:25] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Links 19/2/2021: Linux on Mars and Tumbleweed Gets Newest KDE Frameworks | Techrights ● Feb 26 [16:53] schestowitz__ now that the spiders are done I can see more clearly a really noticeably growth in the number of connections to our capsule. Very encouraging, emboldening. Also, we have a static version of the whole site and it's very portable and compact. ● Feb 26 [17:35] Techrights-sec yes, I saw. that is good. I hope that his cache has been expanded beyond 10k [17:35] Techrights-sec or else a third of the collection (at minimum) will be missing [17:35] Techrights-sec The one that went in loops was shut off after we blocked it, however the [17:35] Techrights-sec owner claims to have voluntarily stopped it. [17:35] Techrights-sec Yes, compact is good. [17:35] Techrights-sec I am wondering about accessing the SQL db directly for conversions. [17:35] Techrights-sec I suppose no conversion is needed except for the RSS feed, [17:35] Techrights-sec but if there are changes to the final Gemini format there might be reasons [17:35] Techrights-sec to retro fit. [17:35] schestowitz__ You could spin off the site on a localhost (to you) [17:35] schestowitz__ I remember around 2008 when I did this with Mandriva [17:36] Techrights-sec Yes, I was thinking that. A tunnel would work. [17:37] schestowitz__ At the moment the site is now under heavy loads or spikes, bw is the main bottleneck. I am uploading a 1-hour video atm. [17:37] schestowitz__ *not under [17:39] schestowitz__ Today, for the first time, I keep logging turned on most (not all) of the day. I assume it does many disk writes and the *top operations also take up CPU, so typically I turn it all off. [17:40] Techrights-sec The writesto the microSD card will be slow but it won't be noticeable on the CPU [17:40] Techrights-sec at all [17:41] schestowitz__ the machine should be idle most of the time. IPFS-related things are now turned off, except during the window of time it does something. ● Feb 26 [18:08] Techrights-sec I don't think I know the 'new' db arrangement. [18:08] schestowitz__ 3 TR DBs are in another container, over LAN address. TM uses that DB only for Gallery2, not Drupal. [18:13] Techrights-sec Yes, .290 [18:13] Techrights-sec .20 [18:13] Techrights-sec however, mariadb expects connections only from specific IPs [18:13] Techrights-sec I'm not able to emulate that correctly. [18:13] Techrights-sec Or should there be direct login to the third container? [18:14] schestowitz__ I was thinking more along the lines of, download the nightly db dump, load it locally on a machine, as for gemini you need not rely on having copies of local files (afaik( [18:14] schestowitz__ at least not yet, given the simplicity of the protocol [18:16] Techrights-sec Found it. Needed the -J option. [18:22] Techrights-sec There are not any read-only users for [18:22] Techrights-sec the db. [18:22] schestowitz__ I suppose we never had a use case for that (as yet) [18:36] Techrights-sec WOuld it be easy for you to add one? [18:36] schestowitz__ I only have a cheat sheet I have not used since the migration in 2019 ● Feb 26 [19:08] Techrights-sec Ok. If it's ok, I'll look into it over the next few days. [19:09] schestowitz__ CREATE USER 'yyyyyyyyyyy'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; [19:09] schestowitz__ GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'zzzzzzzzzzz'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; [19:10] schestowitz__ the container can be accessed over viera, I can send the DB names and other schema stuff [19:11] schestowitz__ I mean accessed like viera, from the HV. [19:11] schestowitz__ sudo lxc-attach -n viera [19:13] schestowitz__ last message I got before session was awol was "Ok. If it's ok, I'll look into it over the next few days. " [19:20] Techrights-sec I'll look at Viera [19:20] Techrights-sec Over the next few days I'll look at the MariaDB manual and plan some [19:20] Techrights-sec access. [19:21] schestowitz__ right now viera has nothing interesting as we're not back on the fediverse and might never be, either. I lost 3 accounts there already. [19:21] schestowitz__ those things always turn out to be a waste of time/effort at the end [19:22] schestowitz__ It is "thinking aloud" [19:22] Techrights-sec social control media is mostly about time wasting ● Feb 26 [21:23] *asusbox2 (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [21:24] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [21:27] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [21:37] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-169-167.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell