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This is old, we're not up from 20% excess deaths to 60%. What will it be next year?


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Bioweapon Detox


The subtitle in this video, "Recovering from a Tragic Mistake" is a fallacy. This is NOT a mistake folks, this was deliberate, Gates, Fauci, Klaus Schwab, the Rockefuckers, The Rottchilds, Kissinger, want all of us "Useless Eaters" off the planet so they can have ALL the resources to themselves, 99% isn't enough.

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About 9 minutes in, Get your kid Culled today. If you can't abort them you can STILL kill them after the fact.


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White Priviledge


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Another Sweltering Day


Another sweltering day here just seven miles North of Seattle, 70F even at
5pm which is usually close to the peak temperature of the day. Last year we had 108F on June 28th, this year the hottest we've gotten is 75F here, 76F at SeaTac where the official temperatures are taken but is a poor choice because being by three very busy airstrips it is a heat island.

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The Death Vax


I commented about Bill Gates comments on world population, how if we did a really really good job on vaccines we could reduce that by 10-15%, and on the S1-subunit of the spike proteins proclivity for not only causing macroclots of the type that cause heart attacks and strokes, but also microclots that clog capillaries and damage all organs. That comment disappeared within 15 seconds of my posting it.

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WooHoo! The first day of summer it finally broke 70.9F, we're up to a whole of 75F today, quite a contrast from last years 108F, but that is the nature of weather and a contrast with climate that people fail to understand every time there is a heat wave or a cold snap. Heat waves and cold snaps are NOT climate, they are weather.
in reply to Nanook

Prior to our 108F last year the record high was 103F, but this year so far 75F is max. The nature of weather is that things like temperature, wind, etc, if you graph them, they are fractal in nature, that is to say you look at a longer time frame and you will see correspondingly larger excursions. This is wrongly interpreted by whack jobs to be global warming or global changing when it is in fact just weather.

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Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel Excellent Interview


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Nanook

@ndfree I've been hit by lightning also, fortunately for me other than total depolarization of all the nerves in one arm and thus no motor or sensory function for about an hour, the only damage was a small burn at entrance on my finger and exit on my foot. Considering lightning somethings will explode huge trees, I consider myself pretty lucky but it had no negative impact on my immune system or anything else that I'm aware of and the burns have long since healed. This happened when I was a teenager and I'm 63 today. Nothing will tank your immune system like these MRNA vaccines will.

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Linux Kernel Dolts


I'm more than a little peeved with the Linux Kernel dolts.
When 5.18 came out, I attempted to compile with gcc 12.1, the then current stable release of gcc. It failed owing to some array bounds issues that previous versions of gcc did not check.

I filed a bug report, bug #216026.

One of the developers came out with a patch that addressed this and submitted it for inclusion.

5.18.1 came out, patch still not included, kernel would not compile with the most recent gcc.

I indicated concern that this would not be fixed before they EOL'd 5.17 and also that if developers used current rather than antique tools it never would have been released with this flaw. Further going to older gcc is NOT a good fix because overrunning an array bounds results in overwriting something else and unpredictable behavior results.

5.18.2 came out, patch still not included.

I re-iterated my concerns.

5.18.3 came out, patch still not included.

I re-iterated my concerns again.

5.18.4 came out, 5.17 is now EOL, and 5.18.4 STILL does not compile with the current release of gcc.

Since the official channel for reporting bugs, Bugzilla.kernel.org, is not working to get this to the attention of someone who cares, I am at a loss.

Maybe the problem is that there is noone who cares.

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Nanook

@Robin Unfortunately the performance of the last long term kernels, 5.15 and 5.10 before it were both very poor on my hardware (all Intel gen 9 and gen 10 CPUs), 5.16 performed well but was unstable, 5.17 performs well and so far has been stable. In particular the 5.10 and 5.15 kernels had very poor context switching performance and spent more time in SYS than in user code, no good. I'm hoping we'll eventually get a stable kernel that performs well but that rarely seems to happen.

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Mastodon Bots


Not sure what has changed but I'm being overrun with bots from various Mastodon sites, it started with Mastodon social but has spread to Mastodon.art and other Mastodon sites.

The bots almost always start with a series of three posts, the first of which starts with "Hi I'm" ... some bullshit description, and then a couple more posts by same with totally inane content. The bots often make eight or nine comments on their own posts in the complex absence of comments by anyone else.

I've been blocking them individually when I can but when a site just overruns me I am blocking the entire site. I hope the developers are aware and doing something to counter act. The site admins don't seem to be.

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Brain Washed Morons


Had to go to the pharmacy tonight to pickup drugs for diabetes.

An 500lb or so fat ass sitting there with a mask on asked why I wasn't wearing one. I told him because I already had covid naturally.

He says, well what if you get it again?

I explained to him that is very rare with natural immunity as it includes B and T cell memory immunity as well as over 60 different antibodies, and it doesn't destroy your immune system like the vax.

He says, Oh you're one of those, I bet you're a trump supporter.

I said, well, I did prefer paying $2.29 a gallon for gasoline a year ago a lot more than I like paying $5.09 for it now.

He said, "People in Europe been paying way more than that for years".

I said, so how is that relevant to me? Europe wants to be libtards, let them.

Anyway, conversation sort of petered out. At the request of the pharmacy guy
just wanting to keep the peace I put on a mask.

He asked me for my member ID, I spouted it out from memory but he didn't catch
it fast enough.

After the fifth time I took the mask off and repeated it, he got it first time.

I says, can't breath in these things.

The asshole that started this whole mask thing said, "I've had four heart attacks and I can breath with one on fine."

I said, it's no wonder you've had four heart attacks.

He said, "I had them before Covid".

I said, Yea I figured you for 500lbs before Covid.

At which point this dork started singing a song about a little kindness.

Geez, gotta love how people who completely ignore their own health in terms of
doing things obvious like not overeating to such an excess, expect YOU to be responsible for THEIR poor choices.

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How Do We Get A Peice of Global Warming


Well we're 11 days from the official beginning of summer, still the highest temperature we've cracked here just outside of Seattle so far has been 70.9F.

It would be normal to have a few days in may reach into the mid-80's, but this year just miserable and cold.

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Satan at Work


Watch this and particularly pay close attention on China's forced abortion policy five minutes in. Ask yourself if you want that here? If not, you better figure out how to get rid of Biden, Gates, Fauci, Klaus Schwab and all of these Satanist bastards post haste because else it is coming.

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Kernel Upgrades June 4th 11pm-12pm PDT (GMT -0700)


Posted on June 4, 2022

I am planning on doing kernel upgrades tonight. If they go as smooth as last time they will complete by 11:30 but may take another half hour to check NFS/NIS bindings.

This will affect all Eskimo North services including our Fediverse websites:

friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and our main site eskimo.com/

The downtime for any given service should not exceed 10-15 minutes.

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Regarding NextCloud.Eskimo.Com


Posted on June 3, 2022

About a month ago I posted about upgrade issues with Nextcloud. I did not realize until a few days ago that it broke NIS logins because I had created my account on nextcloud before hooking it into the systems NIS authentication system. A ticket I received a few days ago alerted me of this fact.

In order to fix Nextcloud properly I am essentially going to re-install it except the database and files will remain in place. Then I will need to re-install all the apps including the one that provides authentication to the majority of Eskimo’s users via NIS.

Because the install instructions tell me to stop our web server during the duration but this does not make a lot of sense and I don’t wish a multi-hour and potentially multi-day interruption, I am going to instead disable the NextCloud config in the web server. This will cause any calls to Nextcloud to go back to our home page, then when the new version is installed, undo the web configuration disable, at which point it will be operational but without the applications and you still will not be able to login unless you, like me, created your login before I had NIS wired in.

Because the NIS connection actually involves an application, this will not work until I get the apps re-installed.

As a consequence tonight at some point if you go to nextcloud you will just get our home page. When nextcloud initially comes back you won’t be able to login right away, it may take a day or two before this capability returns because there are a lot of applications and some require some configuration before logins will be operational again.

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Liberalism


I find his talk interesting but I think he has missed out on an important aspect of "modern" liberalism, and that is people are no longer focused on individual rights, now GROUPS LGBQT, Blacks, etc, want SPECIAL RIGHTS. If Liberalism was, as he describes it, I'd have no problem with it.

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GPU VIrtualization and Pass through.


I got something super awesome working on my computer tonight. I regularly run Ubuntu Linux, also have arch installed, slowly working on building that environment, and that's where the majority of my work gets done.

But I also like to play a 3D MMORPG called flyff (Flying for Fun), so named because you can fly around the game on various vehicles.

Anyway, prior to tonight to actually play I had to dual boot into windows, which meant I couldn't play between work items or whatever because I would have to boot the computer back and forth.

I had a win10 virtual machine but the virtio drivers only managed about 5fps and a lot of lag between action and display getting updated, not adequate for game play, ok to sell off items in a store or something but not for actual battles and navigation was VERY painful in that mode.

Well, my machine is an i7-9700k based systems, and in addition to the usual vt-x and vt-d virtualization technologies they also have vt-g. What is that? It is a virtualized GPU, actually it allows you to create as many virtual GPUs as you like within the contraints of memory.

I had to build a kernel to support this because the one Ubuntu supplies does not, but that's okay I have a zillion other reasons I build my own kernels anyway.

So once setup, and that was some work, initially I got a black screen, then fixed that but couldn't see boot messages or my cursor and keyboard was super lagged.

I discovered that they had wrapped libvirtd in apparmor and the apparmor profile did not include many of things qemu needed to access to implement virtual gpu's in guests hosts. So since I'm the only one using this machine, I did not feel a need to protect the host from the guest in this manner and simply disabled the profile and now everything works.

It's not QUITE bare metal but it's close enough for decent game play AND qemu and the virtual GPUs work together to share the physical GPU with the host and guest just as the normal emulated display would.

Another reason to love Intel graphics! With any other vendor I would need TWO gpus, one for the host and one for the guest in order to go pass through to the guest. But this let's me share ONE gpu in a way that is very seemless and transparent between the host and guests. Great solution, would be nice if Ubuntu would implement it natively into their network manager, I had to hand code the xml file for the virtual machine because virt-manager didn't know how to do it.

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Squirrel Nut Zippers - La Grippe


Not a new song but somehow seems appropriate with Covid-19 and all. Mass psychosis was the diagnosis, if that doesn't describe covid I don't know what does.

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Arch


Well I've been running Ubuntu-Mate as my daily driver, but I've got shell servers with Manjaro, Debian, Mint, Centos 7, Centos Stream 8, Fedora, Zorin, Mint, and MxLinux, and recently I got PO'd at Ubuntu for switching a bunch of critical things for me to snaps which suck eggs, and I also got annoyed when I tried to change some settings on Firefox and it came back and told me, "Firefox is managed by Canonical" (the parent company of Ubuntu), okay, I don't run Linux to have the Microsoft mentality so fuck that, went and installed Manjaro on my workstation, but alas, they had removed the AUR button from Pamac, NOT OK since most of what I need is in the AUR repository. So I installed Arch, and in one night managed to get a working Mate Desktop mostly. I'm still having some issues with graphical authentication, gksu and other graphical apps are having some issues with authentication, but hey for one night not bad.

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So Much for Elon Musk Fixing Twitter


Twitter appears to have cancelled me. I went to login today and my password was not accepted, it is saved in my browser so I know that it is correct. I tried the reset password link and after giving it my e-mail address, the "next" button no longer goes anywhere. I never received any notices from them what-so-ever.

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48F two days from June


Well it's two days from June and got down to 48F last night, only 54F At 5:30PM today and yet all the Seattle area libtards are still driving their Teslas around between charging and screaming Global Warming. I'd like to drop Bill Gates off somewhere in the interior of Antarctica without a shelter of any kind.

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Adverse Reactions Deleted From VAERS -- WHO wouldda Thunk It? (And the Use of WHO as in World Health Organization IS by intention)


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Luck


In the past week I've had the water pump and radiator go bad on one of my cars, the security system on another so it's very difficult to start because nine times out of ten it's not seeing the key-fob and thinks I'm trying to hot wire it, and it's not a bad fob because I have two and both are doing it, I've broken two teeth, and tonight trying to fix a minor problem with 32-bit wine I managed to get my work station into a non-bootable state. Fortunately I always have backups, but they are compressed which means restoring takes several hours and because I installed a new kernel since backups were made 4 days ago, the boot block won't match so I'm going to have to repair that as well, always fun!

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Kernel Upgrade


I did not get the kernel upgrade done last night, between the fact that I broke a tooth and so had to go to bed early so I can get to the dentist today and the fact that 5.18.0 had some compiler errors, I’ve got patches from the developers that fix them but haven’t had time to make and install the new kernels yet, the kernel upgrade didn’t happen. So far I haven’t had anyone express connection difficulties, but if you experience them in the meantime, mosh is a possible work-around. Else I’ll at least get the guest machines done tonight or tomorrow. Host servers (physical machines) will have to wait until I know I’ve got a working car.

With respect to the new router, I have it here, still in the process of figuring out how to configure it. The interface is quite different than the old machine owing to vastly expanded capabilities. This is really a full fledged multi-media box not just a router although in our case it will be used just as a router. It is also a video recorded, network controller, etc.

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Emergency Kernel Upgrade Tonight


This affects all eskimo.com services:

I am planning an emergency kernel upgrade of at least the most used shell servers, the mail server, and the web server tonight. May not be able to get to everything as I can not stay up late as I broke a tooth last night and need to get up to see a dentist tomorrow.

This upgrade mostly involves the fallback of MCTCP to TCP. MCTCP is a multi-path TCP protocol that allows a connection to be maintained even when the end point IP addresses change. These are mostly used with mobile phones but any device that does not talk this protocol needs to fall back to TCP, these would mostly be older devices without wireless capability.

The existing kernel has a bug in this fall-back code. Because some of my customers have antique computers that may be affected, I want to try to get the publicly facing computers upgraded if possible tonight but I can’t stay up late to do it. I’m going to focus on the physical servers in case they fail to reboot. I will not have a car available after tonight until sometime next week as my wife’s car needs to go into the shop and she will need mine to get to work.

I also have the new router but have not had time to install the drive and get it configured. This should happen in the next week or so.

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Interesting Bit of Subtle Propaganda


My wife was watching some tacky television show, a who done it type film,
something on the order of NCIS, and they had a line, "we've confirmed they've
turned their cell phone off so we don't know where they are". Boy if only it were so, modern cell phones don't truly switch off. If you can't remove the battery, you're trackable and traceable.

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