Day changed to 2026-02-02
[22:51] jfw: I think I've found the right cut for the timekeeping knot on my Gales machines, which so far have had freely & significantly drifting clocks, while I still set my watch from a legacy system running the bloaty and bug-ridden ntpd
[22:53] jfw: I'm porting djb's "clockspeed" which basically serves to calibrate the PC quartz under its actual operating conditions, squeezing as much accuracy as possible from the commodity reference
[22:55] jfw: unlike djb's usage, I won't attempt to track TAI with the attendant complexities and compatibility nightmares of translating that to UTC in userspace (or perhaps even kernel space)
[22:59] jfw: but unlike ntpd, I won't attempt to follow the present definition of UTC, this sort of hybrid monster which ticks in sync with TAI but jumps unpredictably in "leap seconds" to resync with the earth's rotation
[22:59] jfw: instead I can simply get my clockspeed adjustment samples from the NIST UT1 time server
[23:00] jfw: no leap seconds
[23:00] jfw: <1s offset from UTC
[23:01] jfw: it fluctuates relative to atomic time, but not to a perceptible degree on the available hardware
[23:06] jfw: if money's not an issue, it's just as objective & independently verifiable as atomic time: one is just based on astronomical observations while the other's based on atomic observations. and without the practical means or need to make those myself, it's just a tossup between tuning into one or another signal from authority
[23:09] jfw: but the re-syncing to that outside signal is an occasional, deliberate thing that can be sanity-checked, *not* a slavish acceptance
[23:11] jfw: if someday I find myself with an actual need for a cesium clock, I expect I'll also have the means to tweak the software, re-derive my own UT1 if needed and so on.
[23:19] jfw: philosophically, this bases computer timekeeping on the reference where it arguably belongs - the sun, the very fundament of life on earth and regulator of the human organism, that which we supposedly created the computers to serve. rather than the technically and scienterifically more accurate basis nonetheless far removed from human experience or care.
[23:33] jfw: while djb also invented a "taiclock" protocol to serve his preferred standard, I couldn't find any actual public servers for it; looks like a lost cause to me. so of the available options, this one looks by far the most appealing. "check in on my UT1 delta" fits better in my quarterly calendar than "check for new leap seconds, recompile the .dat file, then check in on my TAI delta"
Day changed to 2026-02-04
[01:12] dorion: jfw, sounds smart to me.
Day changed to 2026-02-10
[03:41] jfw: ftr, I've taken down my now 10 years frozen "bitcoin wiki backup" installation previously hosted from http://welshcomputing.com/bitcoin/ ; on the benefits side I'm not aware of any legitimate users in recent years, myself included, much less donors, and I can't find much interest in further promoting it; while on the costs side, it's been the target lately of some aggressive bots and complicates
[03:41] jfw: upcoming server migration & consolidation work.
[03:42] jfw: the mirrored data dumps from the time remain available for any historical/archival interest.
[03:57] jfw: DNS was down for a bit today for the sites I host, due to a disk fillup resulting from the bot traffic; that should be sorted now for a while at least.
[04:14] jfw: 4 years to get the first million hits, now getting a million a day of total garbage.
Day changed to 2026-02-16
[02:27] nekoluce: https://luz713.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/i-think/
[02:43] jfw: nekoluce: I certainly do not believe that we must all hug and love will prevail somehow. gotta be a little more discriminating, you know?
[02:48] nekoluce: i meant it as he was bringing peace
[02:48] nekoluce: because there is a lot of conflict lately
[02:49] nekoluce: so it was nice for the super bowl to bring all the countries together somehow
[02:59] nekoluce: Im going to sleep hun take care
[22:13] jfw: ftr: the Panama machine desk was down for 1.5 hours this morning due to power outage.
Day changed to 2026-02-17
[00:16] caai: that matches with my experience
[02:03] nekoluce: Whats a machine desk ?
[02:07] jfw: smaller than a machine room. that one.
[03:12] nekoluce: I found guerrilla email im looking forward to dispose of my email someday
[03:17] nekoluce: also tutanota maybe this one is better
[16:43] nekoluce: according to firewalls which one is the best ?
[16:44] nekoluce: portmaster?
[16:48] caai: electricity went out again today for about 5 minutes
[16:55] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkKdXZiVj4 how to have better privacy
[16:56] nekoluce: power outages are beoming more often it seems
[17:15] caai: yes, luz. it is because it is carnivals and the men have left their post.
[17:29] nekoluce: their post ?
[17:29] nekoluce: their positions ?
[17:43] caai: The phrase "the men have left their post" means that individuals assigned to a specific duty, station, or location have abandoned it, often implying a neglect of responsibility.
[17:47] nekoluce: okay
[20:30] jfw: caai: I see; no service outage this time though. power was also out here a few minutes this time.
[20:30] jfw: after a large bang sound.
[20:31] jfw: which is fairly common, like a transformer somewhere blows and they reroute or reset power after a quick checkup.
[20:35] nekoluce: I learn that gmail servers are very well kept
[20:35] nekoluce: so no need to think they are going to go bad
[20:36] nekoluce: and i got to empty some space by deleting videos
[20:36] nekoluce: videos where taking so much space of the gmail
[20:36] nekoluce: more than the mails itself
[21:54] caai: jfw: i see. power out in the crab, too. well, at least it was only out for a few minutes today and the ups handled it with ease
[22:00] jfw: caai: how about getting an exercise bike with dynamo generator. next time we see a fat lady begging in the street, recruit her to be the backup power supply.
[22:02] jfw: nekoluce: well sure, presumably google has the money, pressure, and experience to keep their servers well; I thought you were more concerned about privacy and systemic risks, though.
[22:04] jfw: there's also different perspectives on "well kept" of course, for instance google finds it perfectly fine to send email to spam even from known & trusted & addressbook-marked correspondends, for instance.
[22:05] jfw: * correspondents.
[22:07] jfw: as well as to block you out of your account and demand 2FA if whatever unknowable internal security measure is triggered, even though you haven't lost your password. that was the last straw for me personally.
[22:33] nekoluce: i found a secure f2a authenticator that it aint google
[22:33] nekoluce: im no longer using google for my stuff :D
[22:34] nekoluce: xD omg fat lady
[22:34] nekoluce: yes those are my concerns too privacy and spam
[22:41] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0IfCfhOHN4 just wow How to Hide in Plain Sight: Next-Level Digital Privacy | Ivan Banov at BSidesCache 2025
Day changed to 2026-02-18
[01:42] caai: jfw: hahaha
Day changed to 2026-02-23
[22:15] dorion: !e view-height
[22:15] btcexplorer: block_height: 934034
[22:15] btcexplorer: mins_since_last_block: 38732
[22:15] dorion: whaack, looks like you're wedged again.
[22:16] dorion: from one of my nodes, 4 of my 8 connections report satoshi 27.0.0.0 all with startingheight 0. my other 4 are trb/jwrd nodes that are behind my own.
[22:46] nekoluce: https://luz713.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/nowadays/ one of my post for today
Day changed to 2026-02-24
[01:30] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBGhSqvcu4 PA
[01:30] nekoluce: AI Will Create New Wealth, But Not Where You Think | Carnegie Mellon University, Po-Shen Loh
[01:47] nekoluce: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/viral-doomsday-report-lays-bare-wall-street-s-deep-anxiety-about-ai-future/ar-AA1WVlKU
[22:51] jfw: I think I've found the right cut for the timekeeping knot on my Gales machines, which so far have had freely & significantly drifting clocks, while I still set my watch from a legacy system running the bloaty and bug-ridden ntpd
[22:53] jfw: I'm porting djb's "clockspeed" which basically serves to calibrate the PC quartz under its actual operating conditions, squeezing as much accuracy as possible from the commodity reference
[22:55] jfw: unlike djb's usage, I won't attempt to track TAI with the attendant complexities and compatibility nightmares of translating that to UTC in userspace (or perhaps even kernel space)
[22:59] jfw: but unlike ntpd, I won't attempt to follow the present definition of UTC, this sort of hybrid monster which ticks in sync with TAI but jumps unpredictably in "leap seconds" to resync with the earth's rotation
[22:59] jfw: instead I can simply get my clockspeed adjustment samples from the NIST UT1 time server
[23:00] jfw: no leap seconds
[23:00] jfw: <1s offset from UTC
[23:01] jfw: it fluctuates relative to atomic time, but not to a perceptible degree on the available hardware
[23:06] jfw: if money's not an issue, it's just as objective & independently verifiable as atomic time: one is just based on astronomical observations while the other's based on atomic observations. and without the practical means or need to make those myself, it's just a tossup between tuning into one or another signal from authority
[23:09] jfw: but the re-syncing to that outside signal is an occasional, deliberate thing that can be sanity-checked, *not* a slavish acceptance
[23:11] jfw: if someday I find myself with an actual need for a cesium clock, I expect I'll also have the means to tweak the software, re-derive my own UT1 if needed and so on.
[23:19] jfw: philosophically, this bases computer timekeeping on the reference where it arguably belongs - the sun, the very fundament of life on earth and regulator of the human organism, that which we supposedly created the computers to serve. rather than the technically and scienterifically more accurate basis nonetheless far removed from human experience or care.
[23:33] jfw: while djb also invented a "taiclock" protocol to serve his preferred standard, I couldn't find any actual public servers for it; looks like a lost cause to me. so of the available options, this one looks by far the most appealing. "check in on my UT1 delta" fits better in my quarterly calendar than "check for new leap seconds, recompile the .dat file, then check in on my TAI delta"
Day changed to 2026-02-04
[01:12] dorion: jfw, sounds smart to me.
Day changed to 2026-02-10
[03:41] jfw: ftr, I've taken down my now 10 years frozen "bitcoin wiki backup" installation previously hosted from http://welshcomputing.com/bitcoin/ ; on the benefits side I'm not aware of any legitimate users in recent years, myself included, much less donors, and I can't find much interest in further promoting it; while on the costs side, it's been the target lately of some aggressive bots and complicates
[03:41] jfw: upcoming server migration & consolidation work.
[03:42] jfw: the mirrored data dumps from the time remain available for any historical/archival interest.
[03:57] jfw: DNS was down for a bit today for the sites I host, due to a disk fillup resulting from the bot traffic; that should be sorted now for a while at least.
[04:14] jfw: 4 years to get the first million hits, now getting a million a day of total garbage.
Day changed to 2026-02-16
[02:27] nekoluce: https://luz713.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/i-think/
[02:43] jfw: nekoluce: I certainly do not believe that we must all hug and love will prevail somehow. gotta be a little more discriminating, you know?
[02:48] nekoluce: i meant it as he was bringing peace
[02:48] nekoluce: because there is a lot of conflict lately
[02:49] nekoluce: so it was nice for the super bowl to bring all the countries together somehow
[02:59] nekoluce: Im going to sleep hun take care
[22:13] jfw: ftr: the Panama machine desk was down for 1.5 hours this morning due to power outage.
Day changed to 2026-02-17
[00:16] caai: that matches with my experience
[02:03] nekoluce: Whats a machine desk ?
[02:07] jfw: smaller than a machine room. that one.
[03:12] nekoluce: I found guerrilla email im looking forward to dispose of my email someday
[03:17] nekoluce: also tutanota maybe this one is better
[16:43] nekoluce: according to firewalls which one is the best ?
[16:44] nekoluce: portmaster?
[16:48] caai: electricity went out again today for about 5 minutes
[16:55] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkKdXZiVj4 how to have better privacy
[16:56] nekoluce: power outages are beoming more often it seems
[17:15] caai: yes, luz. it is because it is carnivals and the men have left their post.
[17:29] nekoluce: their post ?
[17:29] nekoluce: their positions ?
[17:43] caai: The phrase "the men have left their post" means that individuals assigned to a specific duty, station, or location have abandoned it, often implying a neglect of responsibility.
[17:47] nekoluce: okay
[20:30] jfw: caai: I see; no service outage this time though. power was also out here a few minutes this time.
[20:30] jfw: after a large bang sound.
[20:31] jfw: which is fairly common, like a transformer somewhere blows and they reroute or reset power after a quick checkup.
[20:35] nekoluce: I learn that gmail servers are very well kept
[20:35] nekoluce: so no need to think they are going to go bad
[20:36] nekoluce: and i got to empty some space by deleting videos
[20:36] nekoluce: videos where taking so much space of the gmail
[20:36] nekoluce: more than the mails itself
[21:54] caai: jfw: i see. power out in the crab, too. well, at least it was only out for a few minutes today and the ups handled it with ease
[22:00] jfw: caai: how about getting an exercise bike with dynamo generator. next time we see a fat lady begging in the street, recruit her to be the backup power supply.
[22:02] jfw: nekoluce: well sure, presumably google has the money, pressure, and experience to keep their servers well; I thought you were more concerned about privacy and systemic risks, though.
[22:04] jfw: there's also different perspectives on "well kept" of course, for instance google finds it perfectly fine to send email to spam even from known & trusted & addressbook-marked correspondends, for instance.
[22:05] jfw: * correspondents.
[22:07] jfw: as well as to block you out of your account and demand 2FA if whatever unknowable internal security measure is triggered, even though you haven't lost your password. that was the last straw for me personally.
[22:33] nekoluce: i found a secure f2a authenticator that it aint google
[22:33] nekoluce: im no longer using google for my stuff :D
[22:34] nekoluce: xD omg fat lady
[22:34] nekoluce: yes those are my concerns too privacy and spam
[22:41] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0IfCfhOHN4 just wow How to Hide in Plain Sight: Next-Level Digital Privacy | Ivan Banov at BSidesCache 2025
Day changed to 2026-02-18
[01:42] caai: jfw: hahaha
Day changed to 2026-02-23
[22:15] dorion: !e view-height
[22:15] btcexplorer: block_height: 934034
[22:15] btcexplorer: mins_since_last_block: 38732
[22:15] dorion: whaack, looks like you're wedged again.
[22:16] dorion: from one of my nodes, 4 of my 8 connections report satoshi 27.0.0.0 all with startingheight 0. my other 4 are trb/jwrd nodes that are behind my own.
[22:46] nekoluce: https://luz713.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/nowadays/ one of my post for today
Day changed to 2026-02-24
[01:30] nekoluce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBGhSqvcu4 PA
[01:30] nekoluce: AI Will Create New Wealth, But Not Where You Think | Carnegie Mellon University, Po-Shen Loh
[01:47] nekoluce: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/viral-doomsday-report-lays-bare-wall-street-s-deep-anxiety-about-ai-future/ar-AA1WVlKU