in reply to Nanook

As a German, that was a question I could never answer. I knew my grandparents and other old men and women who were good people. How could they have allowed it? And moreover: I always thought, it could never happen again. For every question there would be people who dislike or doubt something, would be demonstrations, would be discussions -- they would never start running like Lemmings again. That's what I thought.

Now I see. How even intelligent people suddenly start to believe what is so obviously doubtful, how they don't dare to say, what they still doubt, how they get angry about people who still say what is no more allowed to say. It's real fear, implanted in their hearts, it's fear of loosing some status, it's a shrug and the sentence "what could I do". It's like Mass psychosis.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Kernel Upgrades Completed


Posted on May 8, 2021

The kernel upgrades went mostly smooth except for the client mail server. Had issues with systemd timing out before it mounted all the disk partitions. This is a virtual machine configured to use a physical partition on a RAID10 device on this host computer and using virtio disk. This has not been a problem in the past but did not want to work today. Changing the disk emulation to SATA made it work so apparently there is some ugliness with the virtio devices in the newest kernel although it was not a problem with any of the virtual machines that used a file rather than a partition for their virtual disk.

At this point the virtual private servers and host computer is now running 5.12.2, this because 5.10.x has not been stable on that machine. The rest are running 5.10.35.

friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and all other Eskimo North services are back online and operational. With the exception of client mail access pretty much everything else was online by 11:30PM, but it took slightly longer than that to bring the mail server back online.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Linux Tickless Kernels


Latest tickless Linux kernel compiles are available for all debian based machines (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, MxLinux, Zorin, Julinux, etc), for 5.10, 5.11, and 5.12 releases.

These kernels are available in two flavors for all of the above, 1) "Client" is 1000HZ clock and fully pre-emptive, and 2) "Server" is 100HZ clock and non-preemptive. The first is optimized to minimize latency, the second to maximize thruput.

Download all three ".deb" files and install with dpkg -i *.deb

The advantage to tickless kernels is that you don't waste CPU cycles, heat, or battery life servicing clock interrupts if there is no work queued.

You can get them from: eskimo.com/kernel/ or via anonymous ftp at ftp.eskimo.com/pub/kernel/(version)/client-…

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

US-Israel Relationships


Few people would believe how insidious the Jewish presence in our country is. 26 of our House of Representatives are of DUAL Israel-US citizenship, 25 of those are Demonrats (surprise surprise). All of big data is owned by Jews, All six major broadcast corporations owned by Jews, most big banks, Jews. Our relationship with the Jewish state of Israel is extremely on-sided and does not benefit our nation.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Kernel Upgrade
Posted on May 7, 2021

We will be performing a kernel upgrade tonight between 11pm and midnight Pacific Daylight Time. If all goes well it should be concluded by 11:30pm.

Going over the change log, I do not expect it to fix a particular bug that is affecting a couple of our virtual private servers but it does address a bug in the Intel Ethernet controller that has been problematic and quite a few other small bugs.

This will affect friendica.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and hubzilla.eskimo.com/ as well as other Eskimo North services.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source