#editorial | Logs for 2019-07-15
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[02:00:10] <RandomFactor> Merde.... in the sub "French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade" the phrase at the end "Louis Bleriot made historically made the same flight" should be "Louis Bleriot historically made the same flight"
[05:09:00] <Bytram> chromas: you say nonsense, but we are such a small org... *any* challenge could be he end of us so we need to stay on the side of not even the appearance of going against those things. Lawyers are more expensive than we can afford.
[05:44:33] <Bytram> whereto? http://go.theregister.com
[05:44:34] <upstart> ^ 03New old Windows bug emerges, your 'strong' password is anything but, plus plenty more ( https://www.theregister.co.uk )
[05:44:35] <exec> └─ 13New old Windows bug emerges, your 'strong' password is anything but, plus plenty more • The Register
[06:11:17] <chromas> Bytram: sure but at least 89% of the stuff we repost is copyrighted (since it's copyrighted by default, at least in the US)
[06:12:28] <Bytram> understood, but in this particular case, they expressly denies *any* use without written authorization.
[06:12:50] <Bytram> other sites often just say "Copyright (c) yyyy"
[06:13:02] <chromas> That's not a real thing they can do
[06:13:15] <Bytram> why not?
[06:13:21] <chromas> The NFL makes that claim too
[06:13:27] <chromas> Fair use
[06:13:45] * Bytram wants to go to the fair
[06:14:04] <Bytram> oh, goody.
[06:14:26] * Bytram just installed a security update and now needs to reboot his PC for the updates to take effect.
[06:14:45] <Bytram> I had just reboot a couple days ago, too.
[06:14:57] <chromas> You're running Windows and it hasn't already rebooted for you?
[06:15:02] <Bytram> nope
[06:15:46] <chromas> Last time I had updates in Windows, it updated and rebooted while I was out walking. Came back to Linux running
[06:16:05] <chromas> Never got the usual "scheduled reboot" message
[06:16:42] * Bytram has things locked down as tightly as possible -- I don't let things do stuff w/o my explicit say-so
[06:16:50] <Bytram> selectively request.
[06:16:55] <Bytram> manually install.
[06:17:11] <Bytram> manually download.
[06:17:46] <Bytram> I don't think I even allow it to check automatically.
[06:18:05] <chromas> I do have win10 though
[06:18:09] * chromas cough
[06:18:15] <Bytram> after the (*##% they pulled with win10 upgrade
[06:18:38] <Bytram> I wasn't going to give them any more chance than I absolutely had to
[06:18:46] * chromas gives Bytram Systemd/Linux
[06:18:55] <Bytram> GWXControlPanel++
[06:18:55] <Bender> karma - gwxcontrolpanel: 1
[06:19:17] <chromas> Did you see the latest Win7 telemetry thing?
[06:19:40] <chromas> https://soylentnews.org
[06:19:42] <upstart> ^ 03Telemetry in Windows 7: Upgrade Readiness Deployment Script and DiagTrack - SoylentNews
[06:19:43] <exec> └─ 13Telemetry in Windows 7: Upgrade Readiness Deployment Script and DiagTrack - SoylentNews
[06:20:03] <Bytram> I'd love to, but I've got decades of stuff written for windows, so would need separate box to run in parallel, and I don't want an Intel Spectre/Meltdown/etc. vulnerable chip, but I want a lappy, and AMD offerings aren't quite there yet.
[06:20:11] <Bytram> yes, I saw
[06:20:23] <Bytram> hence the selective KB installs
[06:21:08] <Bytram> for future reference, this is a *really* handy URL:
[06:21:14] <Bytram> https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com
[06:21:15] <upstart> ^ 03Microsoft Update Catalog
[06:21:19] <exec> └─ 13Microsoft Update Catalog
[06:21:59] <chromas> oh neat, and it has the download links
[06:22:19] <chromas> That'd come in handy if I put 7 on something and ran into the infinity updates
[06:22:37] <Bytram> nod nod
[06:23:03] <Bytram> I *suspect* that it is NOT win7 specific
[06:23:14] <Bytram> hmmm
[06:24:24] <chromas> I've only had the problem on 7 though. Some certain combination of updates causes it to take hours or days to figure out what updates it needs, using up GB of RAM and all the cpu
[06:24:52] <chromas> But manually installing an update or two fixes it
[06:25:20] <Bytram> that was an old problem; had *cough* non-optimal dependency graph generation with huge wasted-time steps in inner-most loop
[06:25:31] <chromas> I only use win for games now though. Since I don't have any enterprise software or anything
[06:26:14] <chromas> Which is weird. They don't even have that many updates. Like a few thousand maybe. I have that every time I update Linux
[06:26:42] <Bytram> my oldest .bat file dates to 1992
[06:26:46] <chromas> Although, some time around last year, Arch's dependency checking suddenly became slow. Still no days of waiting
[06:26:51] <chromas> What's it do?
[06:26:54] <chromas> Or is that secret?
[06:27:35] <Bytram> was a util to set up an HP printer to use "tiny" type
[06:27:44] <chromas> Write a batch file to convert batch files to bash files
[06:28:02] <Bytram> mostly just output a control string to the printer port
[06:28:07] <chromas> printers--
[06:28:07] <Bender> karma - printers: -1
[06:28:34] <Bytram> write a *bash* program to covert batch files to bash files
[06:28:47] <chromas> Nah, make it convert itself as a test
[06:29:04] <Bytram> 'cept I have used darn near every .bat trick there is; many of which are not generally known. Reliable, but unknown.
[06:29:14] <Bytram> ECHO.
[06:29:27] <chromas> Maybe there's a COMMAND.COM for linux
[06:30:02] <Bytram> eg. the period after the ECHO gives a *blank* line (no spaces or other white space)
[06:30:59] <Bytram> quick check of my _primary_ utility dir shows more than 840 .bat files
[06:31:26] <Bytram> there are easily a few hundred more scattered about in task-specific dirs.
[06:33:01] <Bytram> granted, a large proportion of them are glue to invoke AWK scripts where the real work gets done; but there's often a pipeline of cmds that take raw data and do some sed / tail / etc. commands to take an initial hack at reducing the data to be processed.
[06:33:04] <Bytram> also
[06:33:08] <Bytram> htmltidy++
[06:33:08] <Bender> karma - htmltidy: 1
[06:33:25] <Bytram> okay, is late and need food. afk
[06:48:52] <Bytram> going back to that windows URL I pasted here; just tried putting "windows 10" in the search field and it came up with oodles of stuff
[06:48:55] <Bytram> =)
[06:54:57] <Bytram> here's another handy URL: https://routersecurity.org
[06:54:58] <upstart> ^ 03Test Your DNS Servers - RouterSecurity.org
[06:54:59] <exec> └─ 13Test Your DNS Servers - RouterSecurity.org
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[14:48:10] <Bytram> whereto? https://sylnt.us
[14:48:12] <upstart> ^ 03Researchers Claim Creation of Metallic Hydrogen (Again) - SoylentNews ( https://soylentnews.org )
[14:48:14] <exec> └─ 13Researchers Claim Creation of Metallic Hydrogen (Again) - SoylentNews
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[15:42:35] <Bytram> time for me to run some errands. Have a great day everyone!!
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[21:15:15] <Bytram> whereto? http://feedproxy.google.com
[21:15:16] <upstart> ^ 03Now you can buy NASA's own original Apollo 11 moon landing footage ( https://www.cnet.com )
[21:15:17] <exec> └─ 13Now you can buy NASA's own original Apollo 11 moon landing footage - CNET
[23:22:39] <Bytram> /www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation
[23:22:49] <Bytram> good good.
[23:23:58] <Bytram> =submit https://www.teslarati.com ALSO SEE: "https:"+"//www.spacex.com/news/2019/07/15/update-flight-abort-static-fire-anomaly-investigation"
[23:23:59] <upstart> Submitting "SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire"...
[23:24:00] <exec> └─ 13SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire
[23:24:21] <upstart> ✓ Sub-ccess! "SpaceX Says Crew Dragon Capsule Exploded Due to Exotic Titanium Fire" (1 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <Bytram> yay.
[23:25:06] <Bytram> nap time
[23:25:11] <Bytram> laters!
[23:32:02] <Carny> =submit from the you-lose-the-rights-you-don't-fight-for dept. https://www.buzzfeednews.com What's next? AT&T ends your call if they don't like what you're saying?
[23:32:05] <upstart> Submitting "How Silicon Valley’s Angry Right-Wing Sends Its Message To Washington, DC"...
[23:32:26] <upstart> ✓ Sub-ccess! "How Silicon Valley’s Angry Right-Wing Sends Its Message To Washington, DC" (13 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
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