●● IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, May 27, 2022 ●● ● May 27 [01:19] Techrights-sec intermittent network difficulties outside, somewhere [01:25] schestowitz-TR I will turn ipfs back on in a moment as it will be needed for the cron jobs [01:25] schestowitz-TR rianne is on shift [01:25] Techrights-sec ok [01:26] schestowitz-TR I wasd productive in ways other than articles and videos [01:27] schestowitz-TR it'll be nice to have more days off [01:27] schestowitz-TR I even caught up with things I typically do in weekends [01:27] Techrights-sec excellent [01:28] Techrights-sec ack ● May 27 [04:01] *hd44 (~64252822@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [04:02] *hd44 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) [04:11] *hd44 (~64252822@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [04:12] *hd44 has quit (Quit: Connection closed) ● May 27 [06:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [06:56] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [06:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [06:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 27 [07:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [07:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [07:14] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:50] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [07:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 27 [08:01] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:01] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:06] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@freenode-rmogvn.g0d7.dtdf.mc4289.IP) has joined #boycottnovell [08:06] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:15] schestowitz-TR "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 Punch [08:15] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How Crypto is Using the Behavioral Dynamics of Bernie Madoffs Fraud - CounterPunch.org [08:51] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [08:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [08:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [08:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 27 [09:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [09:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:16] *libertybox_ (~schestowitz_log@hcdms2vr9hu9e.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [09:23] schestowitz-TR lol, twitter impressions back to old levels [09:23] schestowitz-TR must be a miracle [09:23] schestowitz-TR "slashdot effect=" -> the musk effect [09:23] schestowitz-TR "try to look big, this due might take this clusterfuck off our hands" [09:23] schestowitz-TR but the moment he mentioned bots, bam! impression halved [09:23] schestowitz-TR what a shitty capitalist scam [09:23] schestowitz-TR you can really align the surges with the events and the reactions [09:36] schestowitz-TR a) we might cycle for food soon (weather poor) [09:36] schestowitz-TR b) already did two daily batches (9am!) [09:36] schestowitz-TR c) OTA [09:36] schestowitz-TR (re twitter) [09:36] schestowitz-TR brb [09:40] Techrights-sec ack ● May 27 [10:14] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:14] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[11:46] schestowitz-TR I hope lessons were learned [11:46] schestowitz-TR now I need to restore all sorts of things [11:47] Techrights-sec ack [11:48] schestowitz-TR the sole upside is [11:48] schestowitz-TR a) I can verify it works after reboot, even headless [11:48] schestowitz-TR which means I have less fats on the session [11:48] schestowitz-TR b) I can refactor cavan for better layout and processes [11:48] schestowitz-TR based on observations made over the past week [11:48] schestowitz-TR I told her I'd clarn my own area, it's just not worth the hassle and risk [11:50] schestowitz-TR even the happiest country in the world cannot figure out how to do a clean install of debian/bs [11:50] schestowitz-TR and put BIND on it :-) [11:50] schestowitz-TR or keep a stable link ● May 27 [12:05] schestowitz-TR OK, I think I've seattled all things here now, except the traffic shaping [12:05] schestowitz-TR thans to rianne the pi now runs without (afaik) a desktop environment [12:05] schestowitz-TR which will mean efficiency improved [12:05] schestowitz-TR (I had to plug in a monitor the last time to configure a bunch of things) [12:05] schestowitz-TR the pi now boots OK with [12:05] schestowitz-TR 1) agate [12:05] schestowitz-TR 2) gemini-proxy [12:05] schestowitz-TR 3) nginx [12:05] schestowitz-TR 4) ipfs was always off by default [12:05] schestowitz-TR all other services and ports should be OK [12:05] schestowitz-TR it also functions as our backup and storage server for actively-worked-in files, over ssh (if it's offline we can [12:05] schestowitz-TR save locally as contigency) [12:05] schestowitz-TR I now know that blue ports mean faster ones [12:05] schestowitz-TR I did not know this [12:05] schestowitz-TR cavan the PC with elepahnts all over it is not full of windows positioned to show what I need [12:05] schestowitz-TR no data was lost [12:06] schestowitz-TR lessons were learned [12:08] schestowitz-TR ---- [12:08] schestowitz-TR I started my phd when I was 21 [12:08] schestowitz-TR undergrad is 3 years here [12:08] schestowitz-TR phd can be 3, I head of a friend's student doing it in 2 years 9 months [12:08] schestowitz-TR I don't know old standards [12:08] schestowitz-TR but back then I did some readings on gfamous scientists who got a phd at a young age [12:08] schestowitz-TR if I got mine at 24, I'd not be that exceptional [12:08] schestowitz-TR because there are shortcuts one can take [12:08] schestowitz-TR regarding oral exams for it, mine was serious enough and did make demands for changes [12:08] schestowitz-TR I heard some disturbing stories where for political reasons [12:08] schestowitz-TR people where treated very lkeniently [12:08] schestowitz-TR like a student (female) from KSA [12:08] schestowitz-TR people whose english isn't even good enough [12:09] schestowitz-TR but the unis don't mind being diploma mills if that brings more money [12:09] schestowitz-TR and signals to china, ksa etc. that we'll "be easy on ya" [12:09] schestowitz-TR it's possible that it was you who relayed to TR links about removal of requirement [12:09] schestowitz-TR of atleast one published paper for a phd [12:09] schestowitz-TR maybe just in china (from memroy) [12:26] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:27] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:28] *rianne (~rianne@hcdms2vr9hu9e.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:28] *asusbox (~rianne@hcdms2vr9hu9e.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [12:32] schestowitz-TR Perl is still a great choice gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-perl-is-still-a-great-choice.gmi [12:33] Techrights-sec yes, for certain things it is the best; basically anything text oriented, and [12:33] Techrights-sec that thus includes XML [12:33] schestowitz-TR when i was a phd student a colleague run the site for conferences using perl at the back end [12:33] schestowitz-TR at some point he left us [12:33] schestowitz-TR and they joked about it being hard to maintain etc. iirc [12:38] Techrights-sec perl is flexible such that individual programmers' styles show through, [12:38] Techrights-sec if there is not a lot of self discipline they can make messes or unpleasant [12:38] Techrights-sec scripts; perl is also very expressive, and in some ways resembles natural [12:38] Techrights-sec language since it was started by a linguist [12:41] schestowitz-TR change of topic, just added the perl thing to next Daily batch [12:41] schestowitz-TR I think I'll give rianne one of the laptops [12:41] schestowitz-TR it would be her third computer [12:41] schestowitz-TR it can improve her worfflow as she no longer uses a second monitor on the main laptop, which is low on RAM [12:41] schestowitz-TR I told her the 3 downtimes or reboots (unplanned) led to some better configs at the end [12:41] schestowitz-TR at the cost of some time [12:41] Techrights-sec second and third monitors save on having to maintain extra systems ● May 27 [13:24] Techrights-sec sometimes the forced maintenance can lead to a reexamination of the process [13:24] Techrights-sec and result in improved work flow [13:24] schestowitz-TR struggling like mad right now to figure out why one machine on the network cannot ping/ssh another [13:24] schestowitz-TR but can do ok with all ther rest [13:24] schestowitz-TR will use tgemini.techrights.org on high port numnber on the router to work around this [13:25] Techrights-sec jsut the two? can it ping / ssh to any of the others? [13:25] schestowitz-TR yes, similar to the f*up bt intropduce and ficxed a month later (last year) [13:43] Techrights-sec and they are both on the same LAN or WLAN? [13:43] schestowitz-TR success! [13:43] schestowitz-TR rianne now has 3 machines with barrier over port 27000 relayed over dns [13:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [13:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [13:51] Techrights-sec that's great news [13:54] schestowitz-TR I'll go show her the new workflow [13:54] schestowitz-TR one machine is winreguard+strreongswam+noc monitoring [13:54] schestowitz-TR another will be for tuxmachines [13:54] schestowitz-TR the main one for the rest [13:54] schestowitz-TR but there are tips and tricks [13:54] schestowitz-TR I've given up on this machine partly due to the "cleaning incidents" this morning [13:54] schestowitz-TR some wires or sockets are very sensitive [13:54] schestowitz-TR so best I can do is minimise movement [13:54] schestowitz-TR if it's not the wire, then that's some horrible shit [13:54] Techrights-sec a lot of session recovery can be done with some simple scripts and tmux using [13:54] Techrights-sec the 'send-keys' command [13:54] schestowitz-TR because laptop psu is hard and expensive to replace/repair [13:54] schestowitz-TR session-recovery isn't an issue when the laptop has batteries and when you use gnu/linux [13:54] schestowitz-TR it's a problem when it silently runs off battery [13:54] schestowitz-TR and runs out [13:54] schestowitz-TR of, for the pi, when the power gets pulled [13:55] Techrights-sec ack [13:57] schestowitz-TR just tryin' to reduce stress in my life [13:57] schestowitz-TR also, I have some spare time [13:57] schestowitz-TR partly owing to 8 days off work [13:57] schestowitz-TR I already did some of saturday's tasks [13:57] schestowitz-TR hence, 4 daily links batches yesterday [13:57] Techrights-sec ack [13:57] schestowitz-TR in theory I could easily custom-make low-cost workstation for people with gnu/linux [13:57] schestowitz-TR with multi-service setups [13:57] schestowitz-TR but there is little awareness of that [13:57] schestowitz-TR most people just buy some $1500 "Mac" or Windows laptop [13:57] schestowitz-TR with no fauly tolerance [13:57] schestowitz-TR and under-utilised/turned off most of the time [13:59] schestowitz-TR like people who turn on the heater all the time instead of investing in double-glazing, insulation, other strategies [13:59] schestowitz-TR we have not turned on the heating since before covid-19 [13:59] schestowitz-TR we know it works because it is connected to the boiler, which runs on gas [13:59] schestowitz-TR the regime now says it'll give 400 pounds to households to help with energy bills [13:59] schestowitz-TR to us, that's like 4 months of energy bills 'free' [13:59] schestowitz-TR (it's from taxpayers' money, soooo.... we know who foots the bill) ● May 27 [14:11] Techrights-sec ack [14:13] schestowitz-TR OK, rianne is all settle now [14:13] schestowitz-TR I did a training session, so to speak [14:13] schestowitz-TR she has an array of 3 and so low ram contraints should not be an issue, either [14:13] schestowitz-TR just need to 'spread out' the tasks [14:13] schestowitz-TR wish I had done this before, now we had an opportunity [14:13] schestowitz-TR and with that laptop gone I finally have space for the teapot, not at the back of the table [14:22] schestowitz-TR holyshi!! [14:22] schestowitz-TR after about 3 months, following the hard reset of the router by virtue of outage [14:22] schestowitz-TR rather a powercycle therof [14:22] schestowitz-TR not a soft reboot [14:22] schestowitz-TR the errors which were floodeding /var/log/syslog [14:22] schestowitz-TR seem to be gone [14:22] schestowitz-TR am checking to be sure [14:22] schestowitz-TR last such warning was minutes before the outage [14:22] schestowitz-TR I long suspected it was wifi related rather than disk related [14:22] schestowitz-TR but that reboot that suggested SMART made me think otherwise [14:22] schestowitz-TR ok, those errors definitely stopped [14:22] schestowitz-TR they stopped after a reboot of the router [14:22] schestowitz-TR not of the laptop [14:22] schestowitz-TR this laptop was rebooted about a month ago [14:22] schestowitz-TR 300k or so errors later, over 3 month, router restarted, errors stop [14:22] schestowitz-TR SMART warnings persist, as the disk is considered "past expiry" because ot a lot of i/o [14:22] schestowitz-TR 127% [14:22] schestowitz-TR data united wwritten: 95.9TB [14:22] schestowitz-TR read: 43.3TB [14:22] schestowitz-TR does that make sense? [14:22] schestowitz-TR it's a samsung ssd [14:22] schestowitz-TR heeding the warning, I moved all my data to the new machine, "bubi" [14:23] Techrights-sec drives can be replaced [14:27] Techrights-sec Errors == Not OK [14:27] schestowitz-TR a) not a simple process with laptop [14:27] schestowitz-TR b) disk still works "OK" [14:27] schestowitz-TR c) cost of new disk about half of new laptop in the "outlet" store [14:27] schestowitz-TR d) I can make this machine (2016 make) more like a data processing machine [14:27] schestowitz-TR SSD is good for it, unlike magnetic [14:27] schestowitz-TR the "Error" seems to relate only to the level of wear assumed [14:27] schestowitz-TR based on number of reads and writes [14:27] schestowitz-TR similar to SD cards [14:27] schestowitz-TR I interpret that as outlasting the warranty or recommended threshold [14:27] schestowitz-TR I read many forum posts about it [14:27] schestowitz-TR some people ven reach 212% [14:27] schestowitz-TR procesing video seems to contribute a lot to that [14:27] schestowitz-TR I still process all the video on that [14:27] schestowitz-TR even those recorded on the new laptop, I just pass the file to "vonick" and process it there [14:29] Techrights-sec ok but there is room for error in a video file, or an audio fil, but [14:29] Techrights-sec databases and similar precise data are not so forgiving of errors [14:32] schestowitz-TR I use this machine for quirerss [14:32] schestowitz-TR some light web browsing [14:32] schestowitz-TR barrier+synergy server/host [14:32] schestowitz-TR I even moved my gemini browsing to the new machine [14:32] schestowitz-TR working files are storage over the network on the pi, rianne and I share the same storage account, which is casually backed up [14:32] schestowitz-TR to external USB3 drives [14:32] schestowitz-TR a lot of things got shuttled around after the outage [14:32] schestowitz-TR and might still be shuffled around as I try to at least 'feel' productive amid 3 days off work [14:32] schestowitz-TR ipfs is turned off at the moment, but having it on just to add objects means the objects don't get copied much to other nodes [14:36] schestowitz-TR if you are still using xfce4, here's a trick [14:36] schestowitz-TR aside from making wallpapers change automatically, make the windows transulent [14:36] schestowitz-TR esp. windows titles [14:36] schestowitz-TR then, make a clock, sett to dark background, light foreground [14:36] schestowitz-TR massive fonts [14:36] schestowitz-TR place behind terminals [14:36] schestowitz-TR and you then have a large visible clock on top of the wallpaper, lightly darkened behind terminal windows [14:36] schestowitz-TR I used to struggle to find the time, now it's in front of my face in the background ● May 27 [15:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [15:01] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [15:34] schestowitz-TR this morning's gz files checked, all OK [15:35] schestowitz-TR pi system level change: by default it seems like the agate logger was disabled upon startuo [15:35] schestowitz-TR I ran enable just now [15:35] schestowitz-TR and it creates a symboli link [15:35] schestowitz-TR that expalins why, for the second time this, week logging was off for many hours [15:35] schestowitz-TR though I think overall we will exceed 500k pages for May [15:38] 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. [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/ [15:39] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | 'Algospeak' is changing our language in real time - The Washington Post ● May 27 [18:11] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@emhq579846782.irc) has joined #boycottnovell ● May 27 [19:52] *DaemonFC has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● May 27 [21:27] 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.gmi [21:28] 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?" [21:29] 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." [21:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell [21:46] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell [21:59] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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