●● IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Saturday, January 30, 2021 ●● ● Jan 30 [01:47] schestowitz EFF comment [01:47] schestowitz https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=18142298&cid=61004768 [01:47] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-tech.slashdot.org | Google Deletes Nearly 100,000 Negative Reviews of Robinhood App - Slashdot [01:47] schestowitz "Kinda like the Electronic Frontier Foundation which became a pure [01:47] schestowitz Washington lobby shill when they moved from Cambridge, MA to [01:47] schestowitz Washington DC and were run by Jerry Bermann, whose since been caught [01:47] schestowitz dipping into the funds of the other lobbying firms we ran. Mitch [01:47] schestowitz Kapor, the founder of the EFF, was lobbying to run the department of [01:47] schestowitz commerce under Bill Clinton, whom he had supported and get elected [01:47] schestowitz The EFF receptionist, a hot little red-headed number called Rita [01:47] schestowitz Rouvalis Chapman who directly worked for their attorney Mike Godwin [01:47] schestowitz back when they were both *very* active on alt.sex.bondage, had a much [01:47] schestowitz better chance of "serving under" Bill Clinton than Mitch Kapor ever [01:47] schestowitz did. Rita later ran an amusing website about breast feeding with [01:47] schestowitz nipple rings, which I'm sure Bill would have loved." ● Jan 30 [08:30] Techrights-sec Should I turn the monitoring back on at my end ? [08:30] Techrights-sec 9BTW this morning I can connect to the Pi via SSH) [08:30] Techrights-sec w [08:30] Techrights-sec (Lots of lag however.) [08:30] Techrights-sec I've increased the connection timeout to the Pi from my SSH client. [08:30] Techrights-sec 20 seconds seems to be enough... [08:32] schestowitz Lag was very high because IPFS was turned on at the time. This coming month I hope to do some activism against traffic shaping, which is a euphemism. Having monitoring for the sites overnight might help. TM was under several attacks last night, I had to block the target/destination page [08:32] schestowitz not only that, to recover I then stopped httpd, stopped mysqld, then started mysqld, then started httpd, in that order, on the TM container [08:39] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [08:40] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes [08:47] schestowitz Case of point (example): [08:47] schestowitz apachetop shows 3,000 reqs for this one URL (large page): [08:47] schestowitz 2977 198.5 13938 929*/aggregator/sources/48 [08:47] schestowitz nano /var/www/html/.htaccess [08:47] schestowitz comment or uncomment [08:47] schestowitz RewriteEngine On [08:47] schestowitz RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*(/aggregator/sources/48).* [NC] [08:47] schestowitz RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L] [08:47] schestowitz If needed: [08:47] schestowitz [root@tuxmachines-old ~]# service httpd stop [08:47] schestowitz [root@tuxmachines-old ~]# service mysqld stop Stopping mysqld: [ OK ] [08:47] schestowitz [root@tuxmachines-old ~]# service mysqld start [08:47] schestowitz [[AStarting mysqld: [ OK ] [08:47] schestowitz [root@tuxmachines-old ~]# service httpd start ● Jan 30 [09:25] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [09:26] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 30 [13:33] schestowitz = [13:33] schestowitz x https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/next-gen-technologies/covid-has-accelerated-digital-transformation-process-satya-nadella/80580540 [13:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Satya Nadella: Covid has accelerated digital transformation process: Satya Nadella, IT News, ET CIO [13:33] schestowitz = [13:33] schestowitz x https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/vulnerabilities/flaws-in-open-source-library-used-by-dod-ic-for-satellite-imagery-could-lead-to-system-takeovers/ [13:33] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.scmagazine.com | Flaws in open source library used by DoD, IC for satellite imagery could lead to system takeovers | SC Media [13:37] schestowitz https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/l8j2g3/no_software_company_has_been_quite_as/ [13:37] -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.reddit.com | "No software company has been quite as collaborative with the NSA as Microsoft has" : WayOfTheBern [13:49] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [13:58] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [13:58] *liberty_box_ has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [13:58] *rianne__ has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) ● Jan 30 [14:03] *rianne__ (~rianne@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [14:04] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [14:04] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [14:06] *liberty_box has quit (Client Quit) [14:06] *liberty_box_ has quit (Client Quit) [14:07] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [14:08] *acer-box__ has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [14:09] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [14:19] *acer-box__ has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [14:19] *libertybox has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [14:19] *Techrights-sec has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [14:27] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes [14:27] *Techrights-sec (~quassel@host81-154-168-60.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #techbytes [14:28] *libertybox (~schestowi@2a00:23c4:c3aa:7d01:9ed2:1eff:feb6:a8e1) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 30 [16:18] *acer-box__ has quit (Quit: Konversation term) [16:18] *acer-box__ (~acer-box@unaffiliated/schestowitz) has joined #techbytes ● Jan 30 [19:47] *kermit has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [19:47] *kermit (sid393220@pdpc/supporter/bronze/kermit) has joined #techbytes