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lotuspsychjegood morning to all03:15
lordievaderGood morning06:05
EoflaOEgood morni06:09
EoflaOEmorning*06:09
lotuspsychjeEoflaOE: morning06:10
EoflaOEgood morning lotuspsychje06:10
lordievaderHey EoflaOE06:13
EoflaOEHello, how are you?06:13
lordievaderDoing good here06:20
BluesKajHowdy folks10:32
marcoagpintoHeya11:49
* JimBuntu slides an orange juice with lime to marcoagpinto 11:49
marcoagpintowhat?11:49
marcoagpintoI am drinking cola11:49
marcoagpinto:)11:50
marcoagpintoat 5am I ran out of stock11:50
marcoagpintobut I already bought some more11:50
JimBuntuI am trying to help you live longer, use the PhD to better use11:50
marcoagpintoJimBuntu: at the supermarket in the last weekend there was a customer who said that her mother was 80 and only drank cola11:50
marcoagpinto:)11:50
JimBuntuPeople lie.11:52
JimBuntu80 isn't even that old, come back in 21 years ;p11:52
marcoagpintoohhhhhhhhhh11:52
BluesKajmarcoagpinto, are you writing a thesis about cola for your PhD ?11:54
BluesKajyou shoukd be11:54
BluesKajshould11:54
marcoagpintoit is about terrorism and information theory11:56
marcoagpinto:)11:56
marcoagpintoBluesKaj: hello11:56
BluesKajhi marcoagpinto11:56
JimBuntumarcoagpinto, your thoughts on how the term terrorism is used outside of those using terror to meet their goals?11:58
marcoagpintono11:58
marcoagpinto:)11:58
marcoagpintoI am going to prove that the domain of information in combat is catastrophic11:59
marcoagpinto:)11:59
marcoagpintosomething like that11:59
marcoagpintoit is hard to explain11:59
JimBuntuSorry, I was asking what your thoughts are on how the term is used12:00
marcoagpintoahhhh12:00
marcoagpintoeverything now-a-days is terrorism12:00
marcoagpinto:)12:00
marcoagpintoif there is one dead or two, it is terrorism12:00
marcoagpinto:)12:00
JimBuntuThe history of the term is odd because it wasn't originally used the way people would expect it to be used, it wasn't used by it's common definition, which really, it isn't used by now either12:00
marcoagpintoI have written then in a line in the thesis12:00
marcoagpintothem*12:01
marcoagpintothe first time the term was used was in a war envolving the French12:01
marcoagpinto:)12:01
marcoagpintobut that is all I know12:01
JimBuntuI agree, everything is called terrorism now, even though the term should have a clear definition and most things aren't terrorism if defined normally12:01
marcoagpinto:)12:01
JimBuntuYeah, French revolution, used as a slander against the enemy, even though they were NOT trying to use terror tactics12:02
JimBuntuFor me, a perfect example of REAL terrorism is basically from the Batman movie ( to keep it silly ) where people were afraid to use make-up as some unknown combination was disastrous.12:03
BluesKajRobespierre and Danton used terrorist tactics against the aristocracy12:04
marcoagpintoI only want to finish the course to dedicate my free time to the projects :)12:04
marcoagpintoand code games again12:04
JimBuntuAh, no worries marcoagpinto , it's nice to chase your dream even if silly things like a thesis or dissertations get in the way ;p12:05
marcoagpintoI have put appart even the UFO subject :(12:05
marcoagpintoI am a member of MUFON but for ages that I only pay the membership and do nothing12:05
JimBuntuUFOs are REAL... aliens might not be ( idk ) but UFOs are :-)12:05
marcoagpintoI don't even read the journal12:05
marcoagpintoI need to learn UNITY 3D and get back to convert ZX Spectrum games to the PC12:06
marcoagpinto:)12:06
JimBuntuMy brother caught UFO footage while waiting to record me exiting a test. Did some crazy stuff, even ended up on the local news. No explanation from local air ports etc12:07
BluesKajmarcoagpinto, have you seen this?  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alien-spotted-boarding-ufo-in-romania/12:08
marcoagpintohttp://marcoagpinto.com/me_space.html <- this should give you lots of information about the subject12:08
marcoagpinto:)12:08
JimBuntuThis was back in the days of large VHS camcorders. He was very lucky to have had it with him as he was supposed to be capturing the look on my face exiting12:08
BluesKajI have the original video of the above alien boarding the spaceship, the one I posted is blurry and poorly edited12:10
JimBuntuBUILD THE WALL! ;p12:11
marcoagpintowhat?12:12
marcoagpinto:)12:12
JimBuntumarcoagpinto, sorry, Political style joke about stopping the 'aliens'.12:13
marcoagpintoahhhh12:13
marcoagpintoanyway, in my site you can find information not found elsewhere12:13
marcoagpinto:)12:13
JimBuntulooking12:14
marcoagpintoI have tons of paranormal books which I bought in the 1990s and they don't have it12:14
JimBuntuOh! marcoagpinto , I heard last night... Bernie Sanders says that if he gets elected ( as president of the USA ) and they tell him ETs exist, he will tell the people on Joe Rogans YouTube channel.12:15
marcoagpintowell, Clinton said "Area 51" existed... but for decades that the people know that12:16
BluesKajhere is a better version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNz7BNhdkfw12:16
JimBuntumarcoagpinto, I'll have to get you the info, but you should update that Area 51 was relocated, somewhat publicly as well.12:17
marcoagpintoohhhh12:17
JimBuntuScientific American sent journalists with cash to Area 51 right after the move, they couldn't even get a single fine placed on them though12:17
JimBuntuthanks BluesKaj12:18
JimBuntua new twist for the thesis marcoagpinto , aliens are actually terrorists... they keep showing up to prevent our space program :-)12:20
marcoagpintowhat?12:20
marcoagpinto:)12:21
marcoagpintothe thesis is about visible things12:21
BluesKajthere are all kinds of claims about visiting aliens working with Area 51 engineers etc12:21
JimBuntuThey show up to stress that we shouldn't be exploring... cause they want all the things for themselves12:21
marcoagpintoI don't refer to aliens and such in it12:21
JimBuntuWell, I should hope not... not if you want your doctorate.12:21
marcoagpintoif all goes well, in 2021 I will return to the subject12:22
marcoagpinto:)12:22
JimBuntuyay, not too far away.12:22
marcoagpintoyes12:22
marcoagpinto:)12:22
marcoagpintoI wanted to finish the course this year... but the thesis is never approved by the supervisors12:23
marcoagpintoI have been changing it since December12:23
JimBuntuouch, sorry to hear that12:23
marcoagpintofirst I wrote two volumes, one with DATA ANALYSIS and with the MAIN stuff12:24
marcoagpinto~1000 pages the data one12:24
marcoagpintothe other some ~700 pages12:24
marcoagpintobut the professor complained it was not a thesis, so I had to give up on the DATA volume and rewrite the main12:25
marcoagpintoand OTHER with the MAIN stuff*12:25
marcoagpintoOn December the Professor said my thesis looked like a Sh*tty report12:26
marcoagpintoso, I had to rewrite it12:26
marcoagpinto:(12:26
marcoagpintowhat is wrong with a report anyway?12:26
marcoagpintohe shouted that on the phone12:26
pragmaticenigmano shouting!12:27
marcoagpinto"your thesis looks like a sh*tty report!!!!!!"12:28
marcoagpinto:(((((((((12:28
marcoagpintoI got so sad12:28
marcoagpintoafter 6 years working on the software and text12:29
BluesKajmarcoagpinto, don't you have a professor advisor to help you thru your thesis?12:44
marcoagpintoBluesKaj: yes, since January12:46
marcoagpinto:)12:46
BluesKajmost PhD candidates in North American universities have an advisor from the start12:47
marcoagpintoI only got one because it looked like a s**** report12:47
marcoagpintothe cosupervisor was the Professor's best student12:48
marcoagpinto:)12:48
marcoagpinto19/20 grande12:48
marcoagpintograde*12:48
BluesKajthe advisor should be there to guide you from the beginning12:49
marcoagpintoI know :(((((((((12:49
marcoagpintoI had to code the software by myself and write the thesis12:50
marcoagpintothat is why I suggested the cosupervisor of the masters, but the Professor didn't accept it12:51
BluesKajmy son is an associate professor at a smaller U, but he managed to have an advisor throughout his thesis work12:51
BluesKajit must have been difficult for you to be so "on your own"12:53
marcoagpintoyes, and then I changed my timetable at the supermarket to only work on the weekends... and a university invited me to become the Moodle Manager12:54
marcoagpintotwo terrible years, with e-mails arriving at all times of the day and night12:54
marcoagpintoI would work for them from home12:54
marcoagpinto:)12:54
marcoagpintothat is why I say that work is a necessary evil and leads nowhere... I will never find peace on earth12:55
marcoagpintothe director phoned me to go to the university to help him with an e-mail writing12:55
marcoagpintoin a few seconds I drag'n'dropped the image into the e-mail and teh work was done12:55
marcoagpinto:(12:56
marcoagpintoI spent 3 hours of travel to insert an image into an e-mail12:56
marcoagpinto:(12:56
marcoagpintothat is why I have been refusing work offers for years... it leads nowhere12:57
lordievader<BluesKaj "most PhD candidates in North Ame"> Here you are also assigned an advisor and a supervisor right from the start. Though sometimes you have to poke a bit.12:59
BluesKajmarcoagpinto, next time ask him what he's trying to do and tell him how12:59
BluesKajover the phone12:59
marcoagpinto>:)13:00
marcoagpintoand the university newsletter... I sent the same letter to 10K several times13:00
marcoagpintothe students were angry at me13:00
marcoagpintobecause the director told me to send it13:00
BluesKajlordievader, yes my son did some lobbying ;-)13:00
marcoagpintoBluesKaj: about the image, both directors (a man and a woman) told me they wanted a meeting with me... so, I went there and the meeting was inserting the image13:04
marcoagpinto:)13:04
marcoagpintoI have learned my lesson13:07
marcoagpinto:)13:07
marcoagpintoI need to retire with the EuroMillions13:07
BluesKajwell. I wish you the best in your work and your goals13:25
marcoagpintothanks13:25
marcoagpinto>:)13:25
BluesKajbbl13:28
marcoagpintooki13:28
marcoagpintotake care13:28
marcoagpintoBluesKaj: ahhh... the university job was in 201513:33
marcoagpinto:)13:33
marcoagpintotwo years13:33
marcoagpintoworking from home to them13:33
marcoagpintobut they had meeting I had to go physically13:34
marcoagpintomeetings*13:34
lordievaderI have weekly meetings with my supervisor. That really helps. Sure, sometimes we skip a week if it doesn't fit with our schedules, but still.13:35
marcoagpintohttp://proofingtoolgui.org/proofingtoolgui_files/Europass-CV-marcoagpinto_20190601_en.pdf13:46
marcoagpintoahhh.. I worked for the university between 2013 and 201513:46
marcoagpintomy head has been mixing the dates13:46
marcoagpinto:)13:46
marcoagpintoI am brain-toasted completely13:46
lordievaderThat means it is time for something else ;)13:49
marcoagpintowhat?13:50
lordievaderIf your brain went to mush on one topic/task it is time do something else.13:54
marcoagpintoI am trying to do all at the same time13:54
marcoagpinto:)13:54
marcoagpintothat is my problem... I try to do all13:55
lordievaderToo much context switching...13:55
marcoagpintoyes13:55
marcoagpintobbl14:17
marcoagpintotake care everyone14:17
pragmaticenigma!info pdftk17:31
ubot5Package pdftk does not exist in bionic17:31
pragmaticenigmaOerHeks: I'm certain this question was posted before in #u, about pdftk... think it's another case of someone that can't use a web search engine17:32
OerHekspragmaticenigma, i find no other gui, so that would explain it17:37
pragmaticenigmabest I can find on pdftk is that it's closed source java application, and not something I can find in any of the ubuntu repos17:38
leftyfbzsh-common: /usr/share/zsh/functions/Completion/X/_pdftk17:40
leftyfbnot sure if that's related17:40
leftyfbmaybe they're referring to a zsh function?17:40
pragmaticenigmanot sure ... pdftk is a pretty well known PDF processing tool kit ... if something else goes by the same name, I have not been able to find it so far17:47
lotuspsychjegood evening17:48
OerHekshi lotuspsychje17:49
OerHeksnew firefox 68.0.2 ..17:49
lotuspsychjehey OerHeks17:50
lotuspsychjetnx, updating17:51
pragmaticenigmalotuspsychje: Do you recall a previous converation in main about pdftk?17:52
lotuspsychjepragmaticenigma: refresh my mind a bit?17:52
pragmaticenigmaoh, I'm thinking the topic would have been back in February... so if it doesn't ring a bell on the name, i'm not sure I can think of anything else to help17:53
lotuspsychjeim not good at remembering nicks, unless they are trolls :p17:54
pragmaticenigmanot a nick... name of application17:54
lotuspsychjenot then17:55
lordievaderpragmaticenigma: It is still in debian. Would expect it is therefore in Ubuntu repos too. https://packages.debian.org/buster/pdftk17:59
pragmaticenigmaIt's probably somewhere out there, I'm just not searching apt with the right term18:00
pragmaticenigmano matter how you look at it... pdftk is intentionally written to be worked with in a CLI interface as it's goal is to be used to batch process PDFs... A GUI would imply that one wishes to edit a pdf, which is not an intended use case for PDFtk18:01
pragmaticenigmafrom some documentation though: The pdftk package in Ubuntu (and its upstream Debian package) was dropped due to its dependency on the now deprecated GCJ runtime. I found a fork that depends on OpenJDK or similar instead.18:02
tomreynthis reminds me i wanted to setup a search engine for irclogs18:02
pragmaticenigmatomreyn: Does "{search_term} site:irclogs.google.com" not work?18:02
pragmaticenigmaoops18:03
pragmaticenigmatomreyn: Does "{search_term} site:irclogs.ubuntu.com" not work?18:03
tomreynno, not really18:03
tomreyngoogle web search was nice before it became a product18:03
tomreynor rather before they started selling proper search results as a service18:05
daftykins:<18:06
Kon-I've continued testing on this bug and I'm thinking it's a mainline kernel issue at this stage.  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-signed-hwe/+bug/183975018:09
ubot5Ubuntu bug 1839750 in linux-signed-hwe (Ubuntu) "40% performance loss in Mesa with Linux 5.0" [Undecided,New]18:09
Kon-I know 5.0 introduced a lot of Intel CPU mitigations, but seeing as how this primarily effects my AMD GPU, I'm a little confused here. I did test some CPU workloads and didn't notice any significant change18:10
Kon-(AMD CPU too)18:10
lotuspsychjeKon-: lordievader said he was on 4.19 for ryzen and works nice there18:11
daftykinsKon-: my extremely limited understanding of mesa is that it's very much behind in HWE stacks for ubuntu normally, have you tried one of the commonly used mesa PPAs for a much newer release?18:11
daftykinsperhaps it marries up with the kernels better18:11
Kon-lotuspsychje: Yes, I tested the latest 4.19.66 and it's great18:11
lordievader`Linux executor 4.19.57-gentoo #5 SMP Mon Aug 5 12:08:45 CEST 2019 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux`18:12
Kon-daftykins: I've tried Mesa from the repo, 19.1 series from the Stable PPA, and the 19.2-devel builds18:12
Kon-The outcomes only change with kernel changes18:12
daftykinsKon-: hmm i was really referring to other PPAs often spoken of in game related circles, not sure if those are any newer in comparison18:13
daftykinsis it games you're trying to facilitate?18:13
Kon-Doesn't get any newer than the git, I think ;)18:13
Kon-But yeah, my dev builds were pre-compiled on the PPA18:13
daftykinsok well that wasn't immediately obvious from the words you chose18:14
Kon-And yes, I was on 5.0 for a week before I noticed a regression. Seems only Vulkan titles are affected18:15
tomreynhow about newer kernels? how do you measure the performance drop?18:15
Kon-4.20.17 was good, 5.0.3 was bad, 5.2.8 remains bad18:15
daftykinswhere is the nice write-up with pretty graphs? :D18:16
Kon-I think my write-up in the bug report was good. No graphs yet18:16
lotuspsychjei asked Kon- to describe his benchmarking in his bug18:17
tomreynoh sorry i have not read the full bug report, yet18:17
OerHeksoh, our distrowatch poller crazytux is back, enjoy18:27
TJ-tomreyn: Looks like my fio tests onn SATA/udma5 are bogus ... I decided to test other SATA3 drives and got the same kind of results! Not sure how to do a definitive test now to identify the original issue19:07
TJ-hmmm, in KVM guest: "Jobs: 1 (f=1): [m(1)][100.0%][r=88.9MiB/s,w=30.0MiB/s][r=22.8k,w=7691 IOPS][eta 00m:00s]"19:31
tomreynTJ-: i have never used fio, couldn't tell...19:32
TJ-anyone free to test, on a spinning disk, "sudo fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=randrw --filename=randrw.fio.test --bs=4k --iodepth=64 --size=1G --readwrite=randrw --rwmixread=75 --directory=/ " and let me see the results19:32
tomreynthats non destructive, right?19:33
TJ-tomreyn: it creates the file /randrw.fio.test size 1G and uses that19:34
TJ-if you're mounting some other device pass --directory=/path/to/mountpoint19:34
TJ-I've done this test on different SATA disks in my forensics/data-recovery server, loadavg was 0.02, ioping on the same device being tested as the tests are running was 0.2ms, so not sure where the issue is19:37
TJ-Going for dinner whilst tests run19:38
tomreynthis is a laptop with single SAMSUNG MZNTE256HMHP-000H1 hdd with dmcrypt-luks + lvm + ext4 on /: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/t2x888yFqS/19:51
TJ-tomreyn: that's an SSD?19:55
* daftykins nods19:55
TJ-That's about what I see for various SSDs... its the spinning rust I need to compare against19:56
tomreynwhoops sorry, ssd indeed19:57
TJ-I'd doing the same test of the WD Blue and it's reporting Jobs: 1 (f=1): [m(1)][32.6%][r=468KiB/s,w=140KiB/s][r=117,w=35 IOPS][eta 01h:20m:41s]s]19:57
tomreyni dont have spinning rust where i can install fio + ioping currently19:58
daftykinsnor me19:58
TJ-doesn't seem to be IO latency because ioping is fast: "min/avg/max/mdev = 196.3 us / 243.9 us / 350.6 us / 57.2 us"19:58
TJ-loadavg on the system is 0.0219:58
TJ-What's annoying here is a I know the original issue was solved by replacing the disk with a clone, but cannot find a definitive test to prove the fault, grrr20:02
TJ-And as we have 10 identical PCs all showing the same symtoms I want to do that force the supplier to fix them20:03
EickmeyerOerHeks: I think he was referring to ubuntustudio-installer.20:12
EickmeyerAlso, there are 3 key ! commands: !ubuntustudio-installer, !ubuntustudio-controls, and !ubuntustudio-backports20:12
OerHekshey Eickmeyer20:14
OerHeksah, i missed controls20:14
EickmeyerYeah, they popped-in to #ubuntustudio, but I couldn't get to it in time. Been busy prepping for a trip.20:15

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