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Techrights-secintermittent network difficulties outside, somewhereMay 27 01:19
schestowitz-TRI will turn ipfs back on in a moment as it will be needed for the cron jobsMay 27 01:25
schestowitz-TRrianne is on shiftMay 27 01:25
Techrights-secokMay 27 01:25
schestowitz-TRI wasd productive in ways other than articles and videosMay 27 01:26
schestowitz-TRit'll be nice to have more days offMay 27 01:27
schestowitz-TRI even caught up with things I typically do in weekendsMay 27 01:27
Techrights-secexcellentMay 27 01:27
Techrights-secackMay 27 01:28
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schestowitz-TR<techrights-news> "Stock investing is a volatile endeavor. Stocks can go into a bear market and deliver a negative return for years" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/26/how-crypto-is-using-the-behavioral-dynamics-of-bernie-madoffs-fraud/ | Source: Counter PunchMay 27 08:15
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How Crypto is Using the Behavioral Dynamics of Bernie Madoff’s Fraud - CounterPunch.orgMay 27 08:15
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schestowitz-TRlol, twitter impressions back to old levelsMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TRmust be a miracleMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TR"slashdot effect=" -> the musk effectMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TR"try to look big, this due might take this clusterfuck off our hands"May 27 09:23
schestowitz-TRbut the moment he mentioned bots, bam! impression halvedMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TRwhat a shitty capitalist scamMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TRyou can really align the surges with the events and the reactionsMay 27 09:23
schestowitz-TRa) we might cycle for food soon (weather poor)May 27 09:36
schestowitz-TRb) already did two daily batches (9am!)May 27 09:36
schestowitz-TRc) OTAMay 27 09:36
schestowitz-TR(re twitter)May 27 09:36
schestowitz-TRbrbMay 27 09:36
Techrights-secackMay 27 09:40
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schestowitz-TRrant: 3 unplanned reboots today, 3 machinesMay 27 11:46
schestowitz-TRbecause rianne likes to clean things...May 27 11:46
schestowitz-TRI hope lessons were learnedMay 27 11:46
schestowitz-TRnow I need to restore all sorts of thingsMay 27 11:46
Techrights-secackMay 27 11:47
schestowitz-TRthe sole upside isMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TRa) I can verify it works after reboot, even headlessMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TRwhich means I have less fats on the sessionMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TRb) I can refactor cavan for better layout and processesMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TRbased on observations made over the past weekMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TRI told her I'd clarn my own area, it's just not worth the hassle and riskMay 27 11:48
schestowitz-TReven the happiest country in the world cannot figure out how to do a clean install of debian/bsMay 27 11:50
schestowitz-TRand put BIND on it :-)May 27 11:50
schestowitz-TRor keep a stable linkMay 27 11:50
schestowitz-TROK, I think I've seattled all things here now, except the traffic shapingMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRthans to rianne the pi now runs without (afaik) a desktop environmentMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRwhich will mean efficiency improvedMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TR(I had to plug in a monitor the last time to configure a bunch of things)May 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRthe pi now boots OK withMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TR1) agateMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TR2) gemini-proxyMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TR3) nginxMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TR4) ipfs was always off by defaultMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRall other services and ports should be OKMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRit also functions as our backup and storage server for actively-worked-in files, over ssh (if it's offline we can May 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRsave locally as contigency)May 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRI now know that blue ports mean faster onesMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRI did not know thisMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRcavan the PC with elepahnts all over it is not full of windows positioned to show what I needMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRno data was lostMay 27 12:05
schestowitz-TRlessons were learnedMay 27 12:06
schestowitz-TR----May 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRI started my phd when I was 21May 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRundergrad is 3  years hereMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRphd can be 3, I head of a friend's student doing it in 2 years 9 monthsMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRI don't know old standardsMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRbut back then I did some readings on gfamous scientists who got a phd at a young ageMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRif I got mine at 24, I'd not be that exceptionalMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRbecause there are shortcuts one can takeMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRregarding oral exams for it, mine was serious enough and did make demands for changesMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRI heard some disturbing stories where for political reasonsMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRpeople where treated very lkenientlyMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRlike a student (female) from KSAMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRpeople whose english isn't even good enoughMay 27 12:08
schestowitz-TRbut the unis don't mind being diploma mills if that brings more moneyMay 27 12:09
schestowitz-TRand signals to china, ksa etc. that we'll "be easy on ya"May 27 12:09
schestowitz-TRit's possible that it was you who relayed to TR links about removal of requirementMay 27 12:09
schestowitz-TRof atleast one published paper for a phdMay 27 12:09
schestowitz-TRmaybe just in china (from memroy)May 27 12:09
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schestowitz-TR Perl is still a great choice gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmiMay 27 12:32
Techrights-secyes, for certain things it is the best; basically anything text oriented, andMay 27 12:33
Techrights-secthat thus includes XMLMay 27 12:33
schestowitz-TRwhen i was a phd student a colleague run the site for conferences using perl at the back endMay 27 12:33
schestowitz-TRat some point he left usMay 27 12:33
schestowitz-TRand they joked about it being hard to maintain etc. iircMay 27 12:33
Techrights-secperl is flexible such that individual programmers' styles show through,  May 27 12:38
Techrights-secif there is not a lot of self discipline they can make messes or unpleasantMay 27 12:38
Techrights-secscripts; perl is also very expressive, and in some ways resembles natural May 27 12:38
Techrights-seclanguage since it was started by a linguistMay 27 12:38
schestowitz-TRchange of topic, just added the perl thing to next Daily batchMay 27 12:41
schestowitz-TRI think I'll give rianne one of the laptopsMay 27 12:41
schestowitz-TRit would be her third computerMay 27 12:41
schestowitz-TRit can improve her worfflow as she no longer uses a second monitor on the main laptop, which is low on RAMMay 27 12:41
schestowitz-TRI told her the 3 downtimes or reboots (unplanned) led to some better configs at the endMay 27 12:41
schestowitz-TRat the cost of some timeMay 27 12:41
Techrights-secsecond and third monitors save on having to maintain extra systemsMay 27 12:41
Techrights-secsometimes the forced maintenance can lead to a reexamination of the processMay 27 13:24
Techrights-secand result in improved work flowMay 27 13:24
schestowitz-TRstruggling like mad right now to figure out why one machine on the network cannot ping/ssh anotherMay 27 13:24
schestowitz-TRbut can do ok with all ther restMay 27 13:24
schestowitz-TRwill use tgemini.techrights.org on high port numnber on the router to work around thisMay 27 13:24
Techrights-secjsut the two?  can it ping / ssh to any of the others?May 27 13:25
schestowitz-TRyes, similar to the f*up bt intropduce and ficxed a month later (last year)May 27 13:25
Techrights-secand they are both on the same LAN or WLAN?May 27 13:43
schestowitz-TRsuccess!May 27 13:43
schestowitz-TRrianne now has 3 machines with barrier over port 27000 relayed over dnsMay 27 13:43
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Techrights-secthat's great newsMay 27 13:51
schestowitz-TRI'll go show her the new workflowMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRone machine is winreguard+strreongswam+noc monitoringMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRanother will be for tuxmachinesMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRthe main one for the restMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRbut there are tips and tricksMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRI've given up on this machine partly due to the "cleaning incidents" this morningMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRsome wires or sockets are very sensitiveMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRso best I can do is minimise movementMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRif it's not the wire, then that's some horrible shitMay 27 13:54
Techrights-seca lot of session recovery can be done with some simple scripts and tmux usingMay 27 13:54
Techrights-secthe 'send-keys' commandMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRbecause laptop psu is hard and expensive to replace/repairMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRsession-recovery isn't an issue when the laptop has batteries and when you use gnu/linuxMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRit's a problem when it silently runs off batteryMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRand runs outMay 27 13:54
schestowitz-TRof, for the pi, when the power gets pulledMay 27 13:54
Techrights-secackMay 27 13:55
schestowitz-TRjust tryin' to reduce stress in my lifeMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRalso, I have some spare timeMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRpartly owing to 8 days off workMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRI already did some of saturday's tasksMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRhence, 4 daily links batches yesterdayMay 27 13:57
Techrights-secackMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRin theory I could easily custom-make low-cost workstation for people with gnu/linuxMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRwith multi-service setupsMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRbut there is little awareness of thatMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRmost people just buy some $1500 "Mac" or Windows laptopMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRwith no fauly toleranceMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRand under-utilised/turned off most of the timeMay 27 13:57
schestowitz-TRlike people who turn on the heater all the time instead of investing in double-glazing, insulation, other strategiesMay 27 13:59
schestowitz-TRwe have not turned on the heating since before covid-19May 27 13:59
schestowitz-TRwe know it works because it is connected to the boiler, which runs on gas May 27 13:59
schestowitz-TRthe regime now says it'll give 400 pounds to households to help with energy billsMay 27 13:59
schestowitz-TRto us, that's like 4 months of energy bills 'free'May 27 13:59
schestowitz-TR(it's from taxpayers' money, soooo.... we know who foots the bill)May 27 13:59
Techrights-secackMay 27 14:11
schestowitz-TROK, rianne is all settle nowMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRI did a training session, so to speakMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRshe has an array of 3 and so low ram contraints should not be an issue, eitherMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRjust need to 'spread out' the tasksMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRwish I had done this before, now we had an opportunityMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRand with that laptop gone I finally have space for the teapot, not at the back of the tableMay 27 14:13
schestowitz-TRholyshi!!May 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRafter about 3 months, following the hard reset of the router by virtue of outageMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRrather a powercycle therofMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRnot a soft rebootMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRthe errors which were floodeding /var/log/syslogMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRseem to be goneMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRam checking to be sureMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRlast such warning was minutes before the outageMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRI long suspected it was wifi related rather than disk relatedMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRbut that reboot that suggested SMART made me think otherwiseMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRok, those errors definitely stoppedMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRthey stopped after a reboot of the routerMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRnot of the laptopMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRthis laptop was rebooted about a month agoMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TR300k or so errors later, over 3 month, router restarted, errors stopMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRSMART warnings persist, as the disk is considered "past expiry" because ot a lot of i/oMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TR127%May 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRdata united wwritten: 95.9TBMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRread: 43.3TBMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRdoes that make sense?May 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRit's a samsung ssdMay 27 14:22
schestowitz-TRheeding the warning, I moved all my data to the new machine, "bubi"May 27 14:22
Techrights-secdrives can be replacedMay 27 14:23
Techrights-secErrors == Not OKMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRa) not a simple process with laptopMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRb) disk still works "OK"May 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRc) cost of new disk about half of new laptop in the "outlet" storeMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRd) I can make this machine (2016 make) more like a data processing machineMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRSSD is good for it, unlike magneticMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRthe "Error" seems to relate only to the level of wear assumedMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRbased on number of reads and writesMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRsimilar to SD cardsMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRI interpret that as outlasting the warranty or recommended thresholdMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRI read many forum posts about itMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRsome people ven reach 212%May 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRprocesing video seems to contribute a lot to thatMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TRI still process all the video on thatMay 27 14:27
schestowitz-TReven those recorded on the new laptop, I just pass the file to "vonick" and process it thereMay 27 14:27
Techrights-secok but there is room for error in a video file, or an audio fil, but     May 27 14:29
Techrights-secdatabases and similar precise data are not so forgiving of errorsMay 27 14:29
schestowitz-TRI use this machine for quirerssMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRsome light web browsingMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRbarrier+synergy server/hostMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRI even moved my gemini browsing to the new machineMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRworking files are storage over the network on the pi, rianne and I share the same storage account, which is casually backed upMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRto external USB3 drivesMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRa lot of things got shuttled around after the outageMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRand might still be shuffled around as I try to at least 'feel' productive amid 3 days off workMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRipfs is turned off at the moment, but having it on just to add objects means the objects don't get copied much to other nodesMay 27 14:32
schestowitz-TRif you are still using xfce4, here's a trickMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRaside from making wallpapers change automatically, make the windows transulentMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TResp. windows titlesMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRthen, make a clock, sett to dark background, light foregroundMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRmassive fontsMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRplace behind terminalsMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRand you then have a large visible clock on top of the wallpaper, lightly darkened behind terminal windowsMay 27 14:36
schestowitz-TRI used to struggle to find the time, now it's in front of my face in the backgroundMay 27 14:36
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schestowitz-TRthis morning's gz files checked, all OKMay 27 15:34
schestowitz-TRpi system level change: by default it seems like the agate logger was disabled upon startuoMay 27 15:35
schestowitz-TRI ran enable just nowMay 27 15:35
schestowitz-TRand it creates a symboli linkMay 27 15:35
schestowitz-TRthat expalins why, for the second time this, week logging was off for many hoursMay 27 15:35
schestowitz-TRthough I think overall we will exceed 500k pages for MayMay 27 15:35
schestowitz-TR I divorced hashtags 3 months ago. I don't miss them. They're ugly and a waste of time. I add add them, don't see them.May 27 15:38
schestowitz-TR On people who speak in emojis, hashtags and algos https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/May 27 15:38
-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | 'Algospeak' is changing our language in real time - The Washington PostMay 27 15:39
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schestowitz-TR "I too, love Perl. And I could not have phrased nearly as well as Paul. I even learned Perl 4 when I started out, because Perl 5 was yet to be released. Without Perl I would have had a hard time to extract and condense the data from my many simulations into smaller, meaningful chunks" gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220527-re-perl.gmiMay 27 21:27
schestowitz-TR Good Bye Raspberry Pi gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-05-27.pi.gmi "What does it mean when a product with MSRP of $35 is sold for hundreds of dollars? Not just a blip – it's been months of this. Did speculators corner the market? Is inflation out of control?"May 27 21:28
schestowitz-TR Tor Browser Needs An Ad Blocker gemini://nomad.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-27.gmi "The only way to avoid fingerprinting while using it is to set its Security Level at "Safest", disabling all JavaScript."May 27 21:29
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