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King County Omicron Definitely Peaked Last Wednesday


Today new cases were half of what they were last Friday, definitely peaked last Wednesday and an extremely fast upward climb and then downward descent it was.

Meanwhile our county won't allow us in most public venues without a vax pass even though there were ZERO deaths attributed to this wave involving more than 60,000 cases in this county alone. Got to love it, a bunch of people have the sniffles and the tyranny goes overboard.

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Weird Firefox Problem


I use Ubuntu 21.10 Linux, Mate Desktop, and Firefox web browser. I have eight workspaces and have Firefox in the 2nd. However today it started following me to whatever workspace I switch to covering up what I'm trying to access. I thought maybe it was the upgrade to 96.0.1, so backed out to 96.0.0, but still the same behavior.

I wasn't sure if it was Firefox or Mate that got hosed, so I tried Chrome. Chrome stays put but all my passwords, bookmarks, etc, are in Firefox. Anybody know how to make Firefox stay anchored to one workspace?

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friendica.eskimo.com / hubzilla.eskimo.com New User


One of our customers account was compromised, in spite of all the facilities in place to prevent this, and used to send spam triggering the addition of our mail server IP to abuseix. Yahoo and AOL have also blocked it for excessive spam. I have requested delisting at abuseix and with AOL and Yahoo there isn’t much to do but wait.

This will cause the sign-up e-mail to anyone at Yahoo, AOL, and any site using hostedemail.com or any site using abuseix RBL from being delivered until we are delisted.

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I hope your childs life is worth more than $200 but apparently some in Minnesota Are Not.


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Web Server – New Kernel Being Tested


Posted on January 17, 2022

This impacts:

friendica.eskimo.com/
hubzilla.eskimo.com/
nextcloud.eskimo.com/

We are trialing a new kernel on our web server. We were running 5.13.19 however it is past end-of-life upstream. We attempted 5.15.x but the performance of this kernel was garbage. However, I’ve tested 5.16.0 on my workstation and it performed much better than 5.15 and at least on par if not slightly better than 5.13, so I’m giving it a try on our web server (the most heavily loaded machine). If it holds up we will be upgrading all the machines next Friday the 21st between 11PM and Midnight.

If you notice any difference in the performance please let us know.

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Waste of Time?


Not just a waste of time but a waste of life! Why inject someone with something that is likely to kill them now or later, to protect against what amounts to the common cold? And other than some body aches and a day or two of general malaise that is what Omicron is.

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Linux Kernel 5.16 Much Better!


I just compiled and am running a 5.16.0 Linux kernel. I had been running 5.13.19, because 5.14 was unstable (crashed if you looked at it wrong) and 5.15 was as slow as molasses in liquid helium, audio skipped, graphics performance was not great, system load was high and most CPU cycles were spent in kernel time. It seemed to have severe issues with context switching and interrupt handling.

So far my impressions of 5.16.0 are very different. No audio skip, seems to respond well, graphics are on par with 5.13. If it remains stable I'll be happy. Unfortunately, the kernel development folks have slated 5.15 to be a long term release which is unfortunate since it's performance is shit.

By contrast 5.16 on a i7-9700k machine with 32gb of RAM clocked at 4.9Ghz, with a MariaDB, a Windows 10 VM running Flyff (a 3DMMORPG), Winamp running under Wine, Firefox, the Mate Desktop and half a Dozen mate-terminals and various widgets, it has a load average of only 2.6, that means 5 cores are sitting idle and one is only partially occupied, and at that 26% CPU in userspace, only 1.9% in kernel space. so HUGE improvement over 5.15.

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Omicron - End of Pandemic


I don't have a graph but here in King County the peak was about 400% of Delta and we're now on the downhill side (highest numbers were Wednesday Jan 12th), only deaths attributed to trailing Delta very early on, no deaths once Omicron solidly displaced Delta. So now I'm still seeing governments locally overreact even though we're on the downside of this. And on social media, it's clear the NWO folks know they can't milk this for much more because I'm seeing bullshit emphasis shift from Covid to Global Warming and also they're already gearing up for a possible Trump re-election by trying to smear him, but everything they attribute to him is really ByeDone so it will be interesting to see to what degree that works.

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Web Server for friendica.eskimo.com


Automatic Restart and Alarm for Web Service
Posted on January 15, 2022

Because 2.4.52 version of Apache seems to have a bug that causes it to occasionally stall, and because earlier versions have a root exploit that makes returning to them unfeasible, I wrote an automatic recovery script to recover the server in the event of a failure.

What it does is automatically test the web server for a proper response every five minutes. If it fails to respond, it attempts to restart apache, waits a minute to give it time to spool up, then retests.

If the second test is good it logs the failure so I can keep track of how often it is failing. If the second test fails, it turns my speaker volume up to 100%, and I have 100-watts per channel so that’s 200 watts worth of noise and then sends the Star Trek Next Generation Red Alert sound effect to the speakers. I should hear that pretty much no matter what if I’m here, and also sends an e-mail so if I’m out I will be notified via my tablet or laptop.

Hopefully this will prevent long outages like that which occurred last night when Apache decided to silently hang.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Here in King County the cases appeard to have peaked last Wednesday 1/12/2022


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Web Server Monitoring Tests


I am going to test a script that I wrote to attempt automatic recovery of a hung apache web server and if that recovery fails an automatic alarm.

This will interrupt friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, and nextcloud.eskimo.com.

If everything works as expected, there will be two outages around 5 minutes each. If not, there may be more and somewhat longer.

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

HP 2755


My HP5455 all-in-wonder crapped out and I bought an HP 2755 as a replacement, not realizing at the time that it lacked a document feeder and fax and the scanner does not work. I am used to HP being pretty much plug-n-play under Linux, NOT THIS machine, so spent several hours of troubleshooting.

Finally said fuck it, booted Windows and tried it, no device driver available. So I went to HP's site, they've supposedly got a device driver but when I click on install it does not.

I tried their HP Smart program and their HP Scanner and Driver Doctor program, neither were helpful.

I then got a hold of someone in customer support via chat. Teats on a bore hog he was. He finally got flustered and abruptly terminated the conversation.

So this pile of shit is going back to Amazon from whence it came. Just warning others in case you are considering a similar purchase.

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My Letter to King County Council and Their Response


Hi Robert,

Thank you for contacting King County. This form is used for answering questions and getting help with King County services. As there is no question in this message, this issue is being closed in our system. If you have a specific question, feel free to use the same website form to resubmit.

Stay well,

Jennifer Hays 
Communications Specialist II 
  
500 4th Ave, RM 401  
Seattle, WA  98104  
(206) 477-6873 

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Below is a copy of your request:
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From: Robert Dinse

Date Received: 12/14/2021 6:17 PM

Email: nanook@eskimo.com

Phone: 2068120051

Zip: 98155

Subject: Real Data

Message: Be nice if someone would give us real data instead of Pfiezer shill data regarding Covid. Per Pfiezer's OWN documentation, 1/3rd of those receiving the vaccine are either killed by it or permanently damaged. And per four different south African doctors I've heard from, Omicron thus far is right up there with the common cold in terms of disease severity, approximately 1% requiring hospitalization, less than 10% of those requiring oxygen, and six percent of those dying which makes the death rate .06%, less than the .1% for the common flu. The big danger of Omicron is it's going to reveal all the lies you bastards have foisted on society in the name of big pharma profits and government power.

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Radiation


One thing that puzzles me is how much variability there is in local background radiation. I bought a Geiger counter about a year ago just to see if the people saying the whole west coast was being fried (it isn't) by Fukushima. At the time typical back ground was 13 microseiverts / hour. Today is only 10, and I let it run for a while because there is some randomness but it stayed consistently low tonight.

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I'm looking for a very old poem, it was taught to my now deceased mother by her mother, and I can only remember the opening lines, wondering if anyone can identify, google did not return a search result.

There lived in China a very fat man, his name was chiggery chig chian, his head was big and his feet were small, the Chinaman could not walk at all.

If anyone can help me identify this and locate the full text, it would be appreciated.

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An Exceptional X22 Report


I'm not a big fan of X22 because mostly things they predict never happen, but this one seems pretty spot-on.