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Bad Week for Mechanics and Electronics


Thursday morning when I started my car (a '96 Taurus SHO) it had a regular and bad misfire, it had been running perfectly the night before. Turns out rats
built a nest and chewed through a spark plug wire.

Then I had to do kernel upgrades and on one of my servers that is always a
challenge because it has special drivers for a type of flash card that supports
something known as atomic writes, basically bypass cache and write directly to
flash. The reason for this hardware is a very high performance mariadb that helps make friendica fast.

For some reason dkms didn't install right so had to rebuild the drivers with new kernel. All in all was a major pain.

Then went to upgrade the OS on a customers private virtual which has Devaun installed and it blew up and much effort to recover didn't succeed, ended up with a dependency loop I could not resolve so restored from backups and will try again when I'm in the mood.

Then my workstation, when I upgraded it from Ubuntu-Mate 20.10 to 21.04, it blew up. I thought I had fixed everything but tonight I ran into a dependency loop issue with some out of date libraries and could not successfully resolve so I was about to re-install on it when I dumped a glass of coke over, some of which was absorbed by my nice logitech mouse and it ceased function.

So ran to Wallimart, the only thing computer wise open at 10:45, got there five minutes before closing and they only had one cheap-ass wired mouse, only logitechs were wireless and I really don't care to be feeding batteries continuously so picked up the cheap ass wired mouse and ordered a new logitech off of Amazon (yes straight from the devil himself).

Oh I've had better weeks. At least my cats were nice to me this morning with one of them head butting and puring away. I think I may marinate myself a bit tonight.

in reply to Vee McMillen

@Vee McMillen Maybe, my thoughts are anti-body enhanced response is a known issue with any vaccine and is considered during the development. Second, if he wanted to get the word out without it coming back to him he could hire an unknown third party or use a computer voice to read his script then upload the videos to peertube and odyssey or lbry and put links to them from here, like I did on his behalf. Problem with that is it doesn't make money for him off of all the bullshit (and he does sell a ton of bullshit) he sells on natural news. Whenever someone has a financial incentive, for me at least, that tends to undermine the message.

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Kernel Upgrades Completed


Posted on May 29, 2021

The kernel upgrades are completed and all NFS and NIS connections have been verified. The upgrade was relatively uneventful. Everything is back up.

I am in the process of upgrading vps3 because the version of Devuan has reached end of life and it no longer has repositories from which to receive security updates. At the conclusion of this process there will be about 1/2 hour downtime for it to image it.

The free public services friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and nextcloud.eskimo.com/ are back in service.

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Nanook

@John Doe I use Ubuntu for my infrastructure, we have an mx-linux shell server for those customers who like it but the majority prefer ubuntu, debian, mint, centos7, centos8 pretty much in that order, manjaro, jelinux, and centosstream mostly go ignored.
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Nanook

@John Doe I've played with it since I started out in Xenix 1985, then SunOS 3.5 and 4.1 which is BSD based. BSD has better networking if you are using regular 1500 byte packets but I don't like the way the kernel allocates memory and that's so critical to the efficiency of everything I do not find it acceptable.

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Kernel Upgrades Tonight 11PM-Midnight Pacific Daylight Time


Posted on May 28, 2021

I hope to do kernel upgrades tonight from 5.12.4 to 5.12.8, mostly a bug fix upgrade. Because there is no change in major point release, hopefully it will go smoothly.

This will result in approximately 10 minute outages of various services during this time frame, this includes shell servers, virtual private servers, web hosting, email, and friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and nextcloud.eskimo.com/.

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in reply to Nanook

For the sake of this meme, the 'left' consists of all that mob pushing the political extremism over the last several years. There have been some very civil folks discussing progressive politics here for a decade or so, but the TDS morons have railroaded any civil discourse with "defund the police", and "mostly peaceful protests" (with pallets of bricks dropped at convenient points along the parade route), and all manner of vitriolic hate speech. so yeah, this is aimed at _that_ left. the people claiming Trump is Hitler and other patently absurd nonsense.

This is aimed at the 'left' of Facebook and Twitter, with their now-public censorship of, well, they censored a sitting President, so that's about as extreme as anything we have seen since the mid-20th century, or maybe the Civil War.

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Nanook

@Max Mustermann Well I don't know what "90's" you are referring to, 1990's are gone and I won't live long enough to see 2090's. The crazy part is definitely here. You would think someone in congress for 40 years would at least know Economics 101, but definitely not the case with Dementia Joe.
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Nanook

@baptist_joshua_on_youtube Israel always has it's enemies attacking it without provocation. Wish I could go back and murder Rockefucker before the state was formed. Perhaps if this video had started earlier in history, at the formation and original borders of the country, shown how Israel invaded and occupied it's neighbors, how it bulldozed their homes with them in them and then built it's own settlements on their land, but no they just start in 2006 and pretend all of this was unprovoked.
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Mycroft


I installed Mycroft because I wanted to play with a voice assistant like Siri without Google or Apple or Microsoft listening in.

So far the experience has been less than satisfying. First issue I had is that I had to crank the microphone gain to maximum (past 100% slider all the way to the right) to get it to here me. Then by default it seems to be more of an artificial stupidity engine than an artificial intelligence engine. Even simple things like "help" it does not understand.

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in reply to Vee McMillen

@Vee McMillen I think of brainwashed as a kind of intentional stupid. I'm pretty much convinced that if someone could design a real-time IQ meter, you could watch the needle drop as soon as you set someone in front of a television or Facebook. It's like the Skeksis in Dark Crystal draining our essence. There are numerous studies that show a group of people generally make wiser decisions than individuals, but what those studies never include are the subjective filters put in place by those with agendas in the real world. Even if the agenda is as seemingly benign as trying to limit offensiveness, it eliminates a spectrum of exploration necessary for the best decisions and solutions to be arrived at.

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