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[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 i can now say that I've 'mastered' the new workflow

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 yesterday i had many other tasks

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 associated with organising things in the house, going a few places

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 i hope i'll be able to find the tech news faster now

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 and then do artcles/videos

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 i still don't fully understand how 09.py retains or discards stories from past generation cycles

[02:47] schestowitz-pi2 but i'll learn over time

● Mar 03

[03:14] techrights[sec] The -d option is optional but it sets the cutoff date. In a correctly formatted

[03:14] techrights[sec] feed, each item has the date of publication or update for that item. The

[03:14] techrights[sec] cutoff date defaults to 00:00 as two days ago, calculated when the script is run

[03:14] techrights[sec] If the items are older, they are skipped. The default cutoff date can be

[03:14] techrights[sec] overridden with the -d option. That's one cut. The other is that it stores

[03:14] techrights[sec] the date and time of the most recent attempt and the most recent successful

[03:14] techrights[sec] retrieval. The HTTP requests include an If-Modified-Since header so if the

[03:14] techrights[sec] feed itself has not changed since last successful retrieval, then it is skipped.

[03:14] techrights[sec] That can be overrrun by using the --force option, or at least it should.

[03:14] techrights[sec] The primary principle at work here is the time-management rule of processing

[03:14] techrights[sec] each item once and only once. The browser tracks whether you've seen the

[03:14] techrights[sec] web page linked to by the feed's item. The script tracks whether you've

[03:14] techrights[sec] loaded that particular edition of the feed. Reloading the script without

[03:14] techrights[sec] having done the manual work of checking the items will ensure that they are

[03:14] techrights[sec] hidden from view and skipped. You can reset the state by reloading the

[03:14] techrights[sec] whole OPML file, but that will be slow as it will try to bring in /all/ the

[03:14] techrights[sec] feeds.

[03:14] techrights[sec] one approach: don't re-run the script until the current page's feed items

[03:14] techrights[sec] have been reviewed

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 this is precisely what i am doing right now, based on these assumptions

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 i am failing to get some feeds, esp. google/youtube/blogspot ones

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 so in falkon i scoop up things I'd otherwise overlook

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 but btw, the abundance of sources and items now may mean i'll feel a lot

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 less guilty about 'missing' something

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 and rianne has a very similar opml file anyway, so she catches the important stuff

[03:16] schestowitz-pi2 very fast

[03:49] schestowitz-pi2 Latvian Foreign Ministry bans TikTok on work phones https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/latvian-foreign-ministry-bans-tiktok-on-work-phones.a498883/

[03:49] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-eng.lsm.lv | Latvian Foreign Ministry bans TikTok on work phones / Article

[03:51] schestowitz-pi2 irrespective of their reasons, motivations, explanations

[03:51] schestowitz-pi2 this is a goodthing(R)

[03:51] schestowitz-pi2 and I hope that, over time, they'll recognise those harmful programsd

[03:51] schestowitz-pi2 aren't just the ones from china

[03:51] schestowitz-pi2 and not only politicians are at risk

[03:52] schestowitz-pi2 not every "binary" (code) is useful by virtue of merely existing

[03:52] schestowitz-pi2 and usage does not imply usefulness

[03:52] schestowitz-pi2 no more than vodka use implies happiness and satisfaction

[03:52] schestowitz-pi2 so i feel optimism in this area

[03:52] schestowitz-pi2 at 5am we'll repost ryan's followup on microsoft hiring more criminals

● Mar 03

[04:15] schestowitz-pi2 Zuckerberg said he would "fuck them in the ear"... do you trust this sociopath? He mocked people who trusted him, calling them "dumb fucks" https://gizmodo.com/meta-horizon-worlds-facebook-instagram-zuckerberg-1850178955

[04:15] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gizmodo.com | 'Halt This Plan': Senators Tell Meta Not to Open Horizon Worlds to Teens

[04:16] techrights[sec] Yes, however, it is almost like the conversations are all actively steered away

[04:16] techrights[sec] from examining the manipulation and disinformation that social control media

[04:16] techrights[sec] -- all social control media -- has as its base service. Social control media

[04:16] techrights[sec] is not service for those that obsessively click and "emit behaviors" on it. It

[04:16] techrights[sec] is a service for the large companies and the nations which pay to modified

[04:16] techrights[sec] public opinion in one direction or another, The West has not been aware of

[04:16] techrights[sec] that or else simply not acted on it while hostile entities have.

[04:21] schestowitz-pi2 We Found 28,000 Apps Sending TikTok Data. Banning the App Won't Help. https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-joe-biden-28000-apps-sdk-data-china-1850174019

[04:21] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gizmodo.com | We Found 28,000 Apps Sending Data to TikTok. A Ban Won't Help.

[04:22] schestowitz-pi2 again, missing the point that the privacy aspects are not the principal issue

[04:22] schestowitz-pi2 Saudi twitter is meanwhile siccing crazy people on women

[04:22] schestowitz-pi2 and that's considered OK

[04:23] techrights[sec] Yes, I recall reports of Zuckerberg's email on the topic. Yet there was puff

[04:23] techrights[sec] piece after puff piece extolling the (perceived) benefits of social control

[04:23] techrights[sec] media and of Facebook in particular.

[04:23] techrights[sec] Every time Facebook seemed to be on the ropes, droves of articles turned up

[04:23] techrights[sec] playing on the Fear Of Missing Out, especially in tabloids.

[04:23] techrights[sec] They are only a symptom. The Biden administration is being mislead by

[04:23] techrights[sec] microsofters embedded on the staff so they are not going to be able to from

[04:23] techrights[sec] a cogent policy anyway.

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 like chris krebs

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 under trump

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 they are lots of 'ex' MSFT

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 and 'ex' IBM

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 the latter worry me a lot more

[04:24] schestowitz-pi2 many left ICBM decades ago

[04:25] techrights[sec] IBM is bad but there are no redeeming characteristics of "former" microsofters

[04:25] techrights[sec] Yet they are allowed to continue to pose as IT workers because the industry

[04:25] techrights[sec] fails to police itself.

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 Mr. Kink was a Windows users

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 brought three women he had slept with to the company

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 at best, they could figure out how to put a VM on Windows

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 with his help

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 VirtualBox

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 so imagine a company of geeks turning into this trash

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 and paying $800 a month in AWS bills

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 for almost nothing

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 we already had a whole rack or two of servers

[04:27] schestowitz-pi2 in the office

[04:28] techrights[sec] VMs on Windows never work out. All the time there is wasted on Windows-related

[04:28] techrights[sec] problems and never with the actual contents of the VM.

[04:28] techrights[sec] Again, microsofters posing fraudulently as IT workers. >:(

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 but, to be fair, he did work very hard

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 and even prior to this the company was having issues

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 but the key point is, you cannot run a FOSS specialists with 'hires' like these

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 we need people who can complete jobs, not blow jobs

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 and also show up on time

[04:29] schestowitz-pi2 or apologise when they are late

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 i realise now I link to gizmodo yoo much giving its quality

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 it's no better than "sister" engagdet

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 inc. obvious, blatant clickbait and microsoft spam

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 spam as in, obv. PR plant

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 maybe I'll cull that out next

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 in the next round of culling

[04:31] schestowitz-pi2 cnet has become a total joke, all you have to do is see the RSS outlinee... WTH???

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 OpenAI Says It Won't Steal Data From Those Who Use Its New API to Train ChatGPT https://gizmodo.com/open-ai-c

[04:33] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://gizmodo.com/open-ai-c )

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 hatgpt-api-bing-google-ai-1850174901

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 "open [sic] heyn hi says"

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 "bill sez"

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 check what's true

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 not what microsoft proxy says

[04:33] schestowitz-pi2 this is not journalism

● Mar 03

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 the latest Daily Links is the size I'll aim for

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 i'm getting more productive but am still adjusting

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 but what sort of excites me are the office changes

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 and the general workflow

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 as the potential is vast and now I can do this full time

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 with exercise on top (running outside, barbells indoors)

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 the health benefits of low stress levels is vast

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 and lately I've not seen many anti-Linux pieces

[05:33] schestowitz-pi2 annoying news? yes. but not a lot of anti-free software

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[06:59] schestowitz-pi2 Were going teetotal: Its goodbye to The Daily Swig https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/were-going-teetotal-its-goodbye-to-the-daily-swig

[06:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-portswigger.net | Were going teetotal: Its goodbye to The Daily Swig | The Daily Swig

● Mar 03

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 we've just lost the connection to the HV again

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 for almost 10 mins

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 so did other users in europe

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 so i suspect it's something to do with the war

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 but cannot prove it

[07:00] schestowitz-pi2 maybe ddos vs ISPs

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[07:02] mjg59_ Occam's razor, dude

[07:03] schestowitz-pi2 your vpn is in ireland

[07:03] schestowitz-pi2 the people who lose persistent connection are in europe

[07:03] schestowitz-pi2 and there was a report about ddos

[07:07] mjg59_ So (1) no I don't have a VPN in Ireland and (2) from the US I still had access to my European machines, so it wasn't that European ISPs were losing access to the US in general

[07:07] mjg59_ It's massively more likely that your server hosting or one of their upstreams lost connectivity for a period

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[07:32] techrights[sec] There's an awful lot of overlap between the sites being covered in search of

[07:32] techrights[sec] links. It might make more sense to divide up the pool of sites as it does

[07:32] techrights[sec] not make sense to check the same ones two or even three times.

[07:36] schestowitz-pi2 got a lot of epo material to bring "public" today

[07:36] schestowitz-pi2 the pension thing on hold for now...

[07:36] schestowitz-pi2 impending probe by colleague as well

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 biab, workout

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 maybe some fibre/isp is targeted

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 doesn'r matter the cause as much as the effect

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 connections from Europe to Calif can drop

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 for 2 minutes, one hour...

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 affects hungary,m germany, NL...

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 *nl

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 daemonfc dropped too

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 i asked if he used europe vpn

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 he said yes

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 has been having connection issues lately

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 but if you see an actual report/article, it would be more authorative

[07:52] schestowitz-pi2 than guesswork

[07:52] techrights[sec] It may be only the UK - US connection, IIRC there are other connections

[07:54] DaemonFC I use a Netherlands VPN.

[07:55] DaemonFC I block the cookie notices in my browsers anyway and by law they can't do the tracking unless you click yes.

[07:55] DaemonFC Since the ad blocker gets rid of the notice where I can't see it to click on anything....

● Mar 03

[08:22] techrights[sec] When the connecton there goes out, maybe he could try traceroute over the VPN

[08:22] techrights[sec] and try exit nodes in different countries.

[08:59] techrights[sec] If all traffic goes through the VPN. traceroute can be used.

[08:59] techrights[sec] Otherwise, if only the end point of the VPN can be changed, it can be moved

[08:59] techrights[sec] around until reconnection is possible assuming the VPN itself does not go

[08:59] techrights[sec] unavailable during the same interval.

● Mar 03

[09:00] schestowitz-pi2 gonna OTA in a moment

[09:00] schestowitz-pi2 EPO internal aplenty!!

[09:00] schestowitz-pi2 SHTF

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[10:42] schestowitz-pi2 done

[10:42] schestowitz-pi2 now working on the text

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[12:16] schestowitz-pi2 the po scandals are MASSIVE

[12:17] schestowitz-pi2 you would THINK that MEPs and the 'media' would give

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 a shit

[12:24] schestowitz-pi2 *EPO

[12:24] techrights[sec] MEPs are probably part of the problem and not just through passivity

[12:24] techrights[sec] Media avoids anything even remotely related to technology policy, in any shape

[12:24] techrights[sec] or form. That's in part thanks to the Bill and Lolita slush fund which

[12:24] techrights[sec] is used liberally to prevent such coverage lest people bring up the topic

[12:24] techrights[sec] of software Freedom.

[12:24] techrights[sec] Or of no-M$ software.

[12:40] techrights[sec] checking

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 paste by accident

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 wrong window

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 not my DE of choice

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 btw, I might only refresh [sic] rss once a day

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 to simplify my reading cycles

[12:40] schestowitz-pi2 but undecided

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[12:56] techrights[sec] Once a day is probably sufficient. The feeds are generally not updated so

[12:56] techrights[sec] frequently as to warrant more often. Though the Indian news papers always

[12:56] techrights[sec] have new material throughout the day nearly all of it is not relevant in any

[12:56] techrights[sec] way to ICT.

[12:56] techrights[sec] ]

[12:56] techrights[sec] or ICT policy.

● Mar 03

[13:50] techrights[sec] Going to test redirection of the gallery from tm-old

[13:50] techrights[sec] Using 301 Moved Permanently, since such an old version of Apache does not

[13:50] techrights[sec] support 308 Permanent Redirect

[13:50] techrights[sec] Do you recall the status of the old nodes? I think those are complete and

[13:50] techrights[sec] can also be redirected. But there is not an index.html for the whole collection

[13:50] techrights[sec] overview.

[13:50] techrights[sec] Spot check shows that /node is not complete yet

● Mar 03

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 complete mirror is hard because of permalinks with url that is not "node/something"

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 and the sheer scale of that site

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 there is also the JS in the "tabs" in the page

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 which I'm not sure how to tackle

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 then printer/pdf

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 gallery was simpler and smaller

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 modern web is just very hard to manage unlike gemini

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 and there's no easy solution

[14:01] schestowitz-pi2 in groklaw they zapped like 100k comments

[14:06] techrights[sec] Yes though more of the nodes could be archived.

[14:06] techrights[sec] Any thoughts on further approaches?

[14:06] techrights[sec] JS is not on the list to save.

[14:06] techrights[sec] Yes.

[14:06] techrights[sec] The "modern" web is halfway to those horrible web "apps" that have replaced

[14:06] techrights[sec] web pages.

[14:06] techrights[sec] Groklaw could have mirrored with a different option and gotten all the

[14:06] techrights[sec] comments but appeared to have elected to delete most of them.

[14:06] techrights[sec] wget on tm-old is too old to use any selection criteria and would just

[14:07] techrights[sec] get lost in loops, unlike more recent versions. But running the more recent

[14:07] techrights[sec] version from a remote machine will eat bandwidth. :/

[14:07] techrights[sec] .

[14:08] schestowitz-pi2 i can think of another approach

[14:08] schestowitz-pi2 i'll have a go at it this weekend

[14:08] schestowitz-pi2 ut there would be loads of web pages lying around

[14:08] schestowitz-pi2 having experimented with it for a while, i'll need to consider what's already there

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[14:42] techrights[sec] Ok.

[14:42] techrights[sec] On closer look, /nodes might be complete already but it wouldn't hurt to

[14:42] techrights[sec] double check.

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[17:17] schestowitz-pi2 i got very tired really fast today

[17:17] schestowitz-pi2 and will go in a moment

[17:17] schestowitz-pi2 but weekend gives ample time to read it and catch up

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