TL;DR

too log didn't read

Preface

TL;DR researches ways to make sense of the hidden labour that goes on in a feminist server through log files and unlogged activity.

The unlogged activity of a server includes the physical labour, the decisions about shared spaces, the different knowledges that depend on each other for the network to exist.

Activity that is logged, is often compiled in inaccessible log files that track the work a server performs as data. They're both hard to retrieve, hard to decipher, and have a bias towards the technological ecology, prioritizing the labour of machines.

Chopchop is a a Raspberry Pi that is configured, maintained and used as a community server by XPUB1 .

This EPUB is a generated compilation of logs with annotations that provide context to the situatedness of this technology. With one book a day, a diary of chopchop is kept, stored and shared.

What happened today?

tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl -S today -u kitchen-stove.service -u kitchen-bin.service -u kitchen-fridge.service -r -n

tldr@chopchop:~ $uptime -s

2024-03-18 07:51:34

This is common, the fragility of these machines are more prominant than any cloud user expects. Partially because of scale, partially because a lot of labour that happen in datacenters just escapes us all when we want to just upload an image. 
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=useradd -r -n 1 --output-fields=MES

Mar 19 15:00:26 chopchop useradd[16047]: new user: name=chef, UID=1023, GID=1023, home=/home/chef, shell=/bin/bash, from=/dev/pts/3

Users will be trusted with not just the keys and passwords to the "house" which is the server, but with a portion of responsibility to keep it afloat and contribute to what makes it a community of practices (and network of knowledge and dependence). 
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl -S today _COMM=useradd -r
A level 1 annotation for users_created_today 
tldr@chopchop:~ $ grep 'install' /var/log/dpkg.log
tldr@chopchop:~ $ grep 'remove' /var/log/dpkg.log
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=systemd-login
    --output-fields=MESSAGE -S today -g "New session" | grep -v 'Boot'
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=groupadd -r --output-fields=MESSAGE
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=groupremove -r --output-fields=MES
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=usermod -r
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo journalctl _COMM=userdel -r
tldr@chopchop:~ $sudo service --status-all
tldr@chopchop:~ $getent group