●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, August 26, 2022 ●● ● Aug 26 [00:27] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [00:31] *schestowitz__ (~schestowi@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell [00:31] *schestowitz[TR2] (~schestowi@freenode/user/schestowitz) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [01:31] *Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer) ● Aug 26 [02:42] Techrights-sec not sure why the script works manually but none of them seem to work from [02:42] Techrights-sec incron even though the logs claim that the script is called ● Aug 26 [04:35] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [05:41] schestowitz-TR2 Racism by GulagTube https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IPXukSZhTuI [05:41] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Big Problems at Youtube - Invidious ● Aug 26 [07:57] schestowitz-TR2 The Absurdity of UK Government's COVID-19 Data Disclosures (Deaths 2-3 Times Higher, But Updates/Data Demoted From Daily to Weekly) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/08/26/the-absurdity-of-uk-governments-covid-19-data-disclosures-deaths-2-3-times-higher-but-updatesdata-demoted-from-daily-to-weekly/ [07:57] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The Absurdity of UK Governments COVID-19 Data Disclosures (Deaths 2-3 Times Higher, But Updates/Data Demoted From Daily to Weekly) ● Aug 26 [08:16] *DaemonFC has quit (connection closed) [08:36] Techrights-sec otr: IRC is way off the topic of tech [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 yes, irc was bad yesterday and the day before [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 busynut noisy [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 *busy but [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 now I need to talk to that nazi about his weird views [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 seems societal breakdown means mental health crisis too [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 and that means a lot of professional/exprert debate becomes politicial and whacky in nature [08:39] Techrights-sec ack [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 just my observation anyway [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 it'll gewt worse in the coming years [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 lockdowns already exposed many adults to BS on sites like youtube [08:39] schestowitz-TR2 the re-programming makes society less functional and less cohesive [08:51] schestowitz-TR2 I joked with rianne yesterday afternoon that this past week (or few days) we got an influx of 99-helpline ● Aug 26 [09:03] Techrights-sec true enough [09:08] Techrights-sec thinking about the incron failure, I'm not sure of a way around it at the [09:08] Techrights-sec moment even after resting the problem for a while. There is always the [09:08] Techrights-sec option of running the script manually but that, I tbink, is an unnecessary [09:08] Techrights-sec and annoying step. [09:09] schestowitz-TR2 the way I do it now is, I am stationed at Features, wget the image, then plant the filename alone in the template I alkready have [09:09] schestowitz-TR2 it does not take long [09:09] schestowitz-TR2 the annoying part is sometimes removing trailing spyware with chars that wget does not like [09:09] schestowitz-TR2 e.g. logo.jpg?salkdskjfkjdbfjkdsbkdsbfkdj#somesurveillanceshit [09:33] Techrights-sec the resizing script is a in perl so it would be trivial to add the ability [09:33] Techrights-sec to rename the files without the spying query trailing the URL [09:33] Techrights-sec do the URLs you fetch from end up with a pound sign # in the name, too? [09:33] Techrights-sec Can that even happen, in your workflow? [09:34] schestowitz-TR2 usually it is a question mark [09:34] schestowitz-TR2 let me get the most recent examples [09:34] schestowitz__[TR] wget https://i0.wp.com/www.linuxlinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/student-information.png?resize=700%2C386&ssl=1 [09:34] schestowitz__[TR] [1] 32674 [09:34] schestowitz__[TR] zsh: no matches found: https://i0.wp.com/www.linuxlinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/student-information.png?resize=700%2C386 [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] another kind of issue: [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] wget https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-with-people-typing-on-laptop-surrounded-by-floating-windows.jpg [09:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 400 @ https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-with-people-typing-on-laptop-surrounded-by-floating-windows.jpg ) [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] --2022-08-25 08:31:09-- https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/an-illustration-with-people-typing-on-laptop-surrounded-by-floating-windows.jpg [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] Resolving spectrum.ieee.org (spectrum.ieee.org)... 151.101.189.68 [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] Connecting to spectrum.ieee.org (spectrum.ieee.org)|151.101.189.68|:443... connected. [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request [09:36] schestowitz__[TR] 2022-08-25 08:31:09 ERROR 400: Bad Request. [09:36] Techrights-sec ok [09:45] Techrights-sec try quotes around the URL [09:45] Techrights-sec either single quotes or double quotes [09:45] Techrights-sec the ampersand is throwing it off in the interactive shell [09:45] schestowitz-TR2 I think it would still make a strange filename [09:45] schestowitz-TR2 sometimes I need to mv the file to make the filename saner [09:47] Techrights-sec yes it will make a strange file name but the file can be processed and renamed then, some sites will react badly if you cut off parts of the query and thus [09:47] Techrights-sec give error 400 or something similar [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 ieee is just a very nasty site [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 it does other very bad things [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 like JS-only [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 or empty titles [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 or block curl [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 I didn't look into how and why [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 it's just a really bad desigg [09:48] schestowitz-TR2 intentionally [09:48] Techrights-sec yes, it has been the victim of microsofters rather severely iirc [09:54] Techrights-sec anyway, see tm-scale-and-process-image.pl [09:54] Techrights-sec it strips the queries and such from the file names as part of the processing [09:54] Techrights-sec the two main weaknesses are that the file and its destination must be on [09:54] Techrights-sec the same partition / file system and the script does not yet handle SVGs [09:54] Techrights-sec yes both # and ? [09:54] Techrights-sec and puts the image in /i/ along with a thumbnail and the text for making [09:54] Techrights-sec a link to the image; perhaps the script ought to use a different scheme for [09:54] Techrights-sec naming the thumbnails? [09:54] schestowitz-TR2 so it removes #. ● Aug 26 [10:13] schestowitz-TR2 if the filenames remain in tact, it helps avoid downloading some of the same images over and over gain [10:13] schestowitz-TR2 more toom for reuse, e.g. with ls|grep [10:13] schestowitz-TR2 biab gym ● Aug 26 [11:19] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@h635kpe3hju7k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [11:34] Techrights-sec ack [11:51] *starstreak has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 26 [12:36] *Despatche has quit (Quit: Read error: Connection reset by deer) ● Aug 26 [13:14] *Seaduck- has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:14] *Seaduck- (~seaduck@ys9kag65kxsiu.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [16:00] psydroid2 https://manilastandard.net/tech/314254365/alibaba-cloud-unveils-chip-development-platform-to-support-developers-with-risc-v-based-high-performance-socs.html [16:00] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-manilastandard.net | Alibaba Cloud unveils Chip Development Platform to support developers with RISC-V based high-performance SoCs - Manila Standard [16:00] psydroid2 to be honest I don't know what's up with the main channel [16:00] psydroid2 all kinds of unrelated things are being brought up there [16:15] schestowitz-TR2 true [16:15] schestowitz-TR2 see above [16:15] schestowitz-TR2 it has gone on for 3 days already [16:20] schestowitz-TR2 we have done a lot of work on the site lately [16:20] schestowitz-TR2 so no new stories, or barely [16:20] schestowitz-TR2 and the channel drifted onto other topics ● Aug 26 [17:06] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:08] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #boycottnovell [17:08] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +a #boycottnovell MinceR [17:43] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:44] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #boycottnovell [17:44] *irc.techrights.org sets mode +a #boycottnovell MinceR ● Aug 26 [18:06] schestowitz-TR2 thanks for the css tweaks [18:06] schestowitz-TR2 i'll have another b atch ready shortly [18:06] schestowitz-TR2 still cannot think of video topics [18:06] Techrights-sec np [18:06] Techrights-sec there are still some left to do but they are hard to figure out [18:06] Techrights-sec topic: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/24/former-uk-supreme-court-judge-calls-out-online-safety-bill-as-harmful-by-itself/ [18:06] Techrights-sec ? [18:06] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Former UK Supreme Court Judge Calls Out Online Safety Bill As Harmful By Itself | Techdirt [18:07] schestowitz-TR2 I linked to that area [18:07] schestowitz-TR2 a bit outside my comfort zone as I'd have to read up a lot to catch up [18:07] schestowitz-TR2 techdirt said the letters I got are BS, so I'll publish these letters this coming weekent, I think [18:09] Techrights-sec ack [18:10] Techrights-sec There have been a lot of articles like this one lately: [18:10] Techrights-sec https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html [18:10] Techrights-sec Zatko and others support your observation about Twitter apparently publishing [18:10] Techrights-sec faked stats. [18:10] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko raises concerns over security threats at platform - CNN [18:11] schestowitz-TR2 oh, yes, I ought to do a video that mentions youtube doing this and twitter for sure as well [18:11] schestowitz-TR2 I don't know FB well enough [18:11] schestowitz-TR2 I'm sure it's the same [18:18] Techrights-sec ack [18:19] schestowitz-TR2 will OTA shortly [18:19] schestowitz-TR2 after Daily Links [18:19] schestowitz-TR2 thanks for the topic [18:19] Techrights-sec ack [18:19] Techrights-sec np [18:29] *Noisytoot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:38] *Noisytoot (~noisytoot@tkbibjhmbkvb8.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [19:26] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@6sbgukm7ty7zk.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [19:43] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) [19:50] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@h635kpe3hju7k.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [20:02] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [20:02] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@6sbgukm7ty7zk.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [20:04] *starstreak (~starstreak@muarsy2vret2q.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [21:38] *psydroid2 has quit (connection closed) ● Aug 26 [22:08] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-r5a.v7r.m0ki60.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [22:23] *Mio14 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [22:24] *Mio14 (~quassel@freenode-r5a.v7r.m0ki60.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [22:29] Techrights-sec there seem to be some paste errors in some of the posts, [22:29] Techrights-sec http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/26/today_s_howtos.2.shtml [22:29] Techrights-sec is one [22:29] Techrights-sec the addition script works with UTF-8 and so does the update script, I double [22:29] Techrights-sec checked. The data in the database is not right, so I would guess that [22:29] Techrights-sec it was like that upon entry. [22:29] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos [22:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [22:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:45] schestowitz-TR2 Thanks for spotting that. I did not notice and don't even know how or why it happened. [22:45] schestowitz-TR2 I will triple-check and try to figure it out when it happens again. [22:49] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [22:50] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [22:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [22:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● Aug 26 [23:37] schestowitz-TR2 I've just notice that readon title isn't showing anymore [23:37] schestowitz-TR2 I assume this was intentional a change in css? [23:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [23:38] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell