On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> D MacDougall wrote:
>
>> On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote: =20
> ...
>>> I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for
>>> years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the
>>> point that I seldom have ca
Richard Owlett wrote:
> My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
>
> It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you
back to using Atril.
1. Open the MATE Control Center, click on "Preferred Applications" (in
the "
I generally use Synaptic package manager because I like the UI when searching
and selecting packages to install. However, I find that the package resolution
phase leaves a lot to be desired.
Because I use "sid", I regularly find myself in a situation where "Mark All
Upgrades" proposes to remov
Greg writes:
> looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line. Seriously,
> who does that?
"Website builders" and "content management systems". Modern Web
designers never deal with HTML.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 07:04:30 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> That long line of code, might not be completely stupid. It might have some
> hidden AI thing (that they figure no member of the public would find, due to
> the length of the line), that starts playing "Rubber Ducky, you're the one",
> in a
On 9/3/25 06:56, Greg Wooledge wrote:
P.S. looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line. Seriously,
who does that?
hobbit:~$ xclip -o | wc
02960 44363
44 kilobytes of HTML/CSS/Javascript, all in one. stupid. line. Well,
they found a way to make me stop trying to re
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 12:21:43PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this
> instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used to
> supposedly "solve" the problem.
You don't know that. As Marco already explained,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > D MacDougall wrote:
> >> https://duckduckgo.com
> >
> > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word
> > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation
On 08.03.2025 17:30 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
> Before today I never heard of anything beginning with "xdg".
Now you have heard about it, so use it.
> I'm looking for the specific MATE tool. ;}
I think that is maybe handled by the file manager. Which one do you use?
--
kind regards
Marco
Sen
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 17:14:44 -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> I want to be able to change the web without logging in as root. I
> occasionally need to send files to recipients that are big enough
> suffocate their mail readers. Putting a soft link to it in /opt/www
> without hooking it to my index is
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 05:43:32PM -, Greg wrote:
> Why wouldn't Debian's Firefox sell or share user data whereas a
> non-Debian package or binary might or would, according to the vague
> legalese of the new EULA? If Debian users are not bound, by what
> method or procedure are they exempt
On 3/8/25 3:55 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I can suggest a couple things to try, either of which should get you
back to using Atril.
1. Open the MATE Control Center, click o
On 08/03/2025 21:30, Marco Moock wrote:
xdg-mime query default application/pdf
Just a word of caution. It does not necessary mean that applications or
xdg-open will use the reported handler.
E.g. in corner cases Gtk and KDE interprets mimeapps.list in a bit
different way.
exo-open (that i
On 09/03/2025 01:21, Richard Owlett wrote:
I do not believe using xdg-mime is a *legitimate" technique in this
instance. It wasn't used to *cause* the problem. It *shouldn't* be used
to supposedly "solve" the problem.
A wrong assumption.
On 08/03/2025 23:27, Richard Owlett wrote:
Before toda
On 09/03/2025 04:55, Mike Kupfer wrote:
I don't have any ideas for how you ended up with a different PDF viewer.
Behavior varies across various DE. It may be enough to just install
another application that may open PDF files. If media type association
is not explicitly configured then it is i
Greg writes:
> On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds
>>> (and whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I
>>> hope not. But irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are
>>>
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and
> whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not. But
> irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are not bound by
> Mozilla's EULA.
Have you confirmed this with a lawyer
On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote:
Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single
file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be
smaller than size exposed to virtual machines. However likely
On 3/8/25 8:07 AM, Miriami wrote:
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
P
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
But if, instead, what you want is the backing store to grow then use a
sparse file as the backing store.
This idea reduces the search to filesystems which don't hop around and
write without need to new random places on their storage medium.
# trunca
On 9/3/25 02:22, Richmond wrote:
Where is Iceweasel?
Over there...
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
do *NOT* try solution described below
*UNLESS* unless you know how to recover.
On 3/8/25 7:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
On 08/03/2025 11:23, Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution
for it?
Good idea. Thanks.
It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication
method. I hope,
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 20:04:16 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> # ls -1 /lib/systemd/system/stunnel*
> /lib/systemd/system/stunnel@.service
> /lib/systemd/system/stunnel.target
>
> What is stunnel@.service, rather than stunnel.service?
systemd.service(5):
SERVICE TEMPLATES
It is possib
On 3/2/25 2:35 PM, David Christensen wrote:
The "norecovery" option for mount(8) seems like a dangerous design
choice. "readonly" is supposed to mean "do not write to disk". I must
remember that land mine if and when I want to do forensic work.
To be fair, the first step of forensic work is
From: Greg Wooledge
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:35:31 -0500
> [shorewall]'s a native systemd service (/lib/systemd/...) but the service is
> showing as disabled.
# ls -1 /lib/systemd/system/shorewall*
/lib/systemd/system/shorewall-init.service
/lib/systemd/system/shorewall.service
> system
On 3/7/25 11:49 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
I believe all the major browsers are using Manifest v3 nowadays.
Most support Mv3 now, but AFAIK only Chrome has actually disabled Mv2
support. All of my Mv2 extensions continue to work on Firefox.
--
Chris Howie
http://www.chrishowie.com
http://en.
On 3/2/25 2:23 PM, Anssi Saari wrote:
So you actually back up the hibernated / partition? Is that really a
sound backup strategy?
It is effectively like yanking the power cord and then taking a backup.
(Effects of the voltage dropping on the storage controller/disk are
another matter, but in
On Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 09:40:07AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
Then you have access to mail logs on the server. I expect that it is
possible to enable debug logs in evolution as well. Comparing logs
from both sides should help to figure out what party should be blamed.
In addition you may use t
On 3/6/25 4:25 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I ended up installing Brave. Sure, it's Chromium-based, and it will
eventually drop support for Manifest v2 extensions, including uBlock
Origin (even though it's supported right now). But it has its own
built-in ad blocking*by default*, so you don't actua
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 21:44 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> It is not clear to me why you want vsnyder:adm, and why you want the
> world to have access to anything.
>
> Here's how I set up permissions on Apache. It is part of my hardened
> system.
>
> # Root owns everything. Apache only gets r
On Sat, Mar 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM John Hasler wrote:
>
> Greg writes:
> > looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line. Seriously,
> > who does that?
>
> "Website builders" and "content management systems". Modern Web
> designers never deal with HTML.
There are also server-side compo
On 3/8/25 12:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word
> DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any length?
Very odd. On my phone I see exactly what you see plus several other
things on the page. One other thin
On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-07, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I believe David Wright uses some humongous hosts file to block ads on
> his computer rather than a brower add-on (if I'm remembering and understanding
> correctly).
I do something similar but it's limited. What's the best w
Hi!
Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as
backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried
the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ext4 filesystem requires the
user to
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Miriami wrote:
Hi!
Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single
file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing -
I tried the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ex
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:41:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
>
> It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
> I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
>
> I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
> But und
On 3/8/25 7:55 AM, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2025 at 8:41 AM
From: "Richard Owlett"
To: "debian-user"
Subject: How to associate a file extension with preferred executable
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it wit
On 3/8/25 8:30 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
On 08.03.2025 14:50 Uhr Richard Owlett wrote:
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
But under Browser->Helper Applications i
Hi Richard,
I haven't used the MATE desktop environment, but I guess it also has this:
1. Right click on a PDF file, in the pop-up right-click menu, chooss 'open this
file with ...'
2. In the then-popped-up dialog asking which program to be used to open this
PDF file, select the program desired,
On 3/8/25 8:52 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 07:41:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferen
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 08/03/2025 19:31, Miriami wrote:
> > Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single
> > file as backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
>
> Qemu's qcow2 disk images may grow in size while initially they may be
> smaller than size exposed to v
Richmond writes:
> Greg writes:
>
>> On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds
(and whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I
hope not. But irrespectively, users of Debia
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution
> for it?
Good idea. Thanks.
>
> It may help if your mail provider has en
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, Chris Green wrote:
> > > ... some humongous hosts file to block ads
> >
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
>
131425 ad servers. Fantastic! Thanks, Roger
On 2025-03-08, Joey Hess wrote:
>
>
> Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> Whether or not the data-gathering is enabled in the Debian builds (and
>> whether it's on by default in the sources), I don't know. I hope not. But
>> irrespectively, users of Debian's Firefox packages are not bound by
>> Mozilla's E
By "mail provider" they mean the entity that operates the
Internet-facing mail server that your mail comes and goes through.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote:
...
> I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for
> years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the point that
> I seldom have cause to use any other. Along the way I discovered that
> they also make a browser.
...
In the Play
Richmond writes:
> I see also in the build config for debian firefox esr it says:
> --enable-official-branding
That does not affect end users of Debian's Firefox in any way. It just
means that Debian has permission from Mozilla to use the Firefox
trademark.
--
John Hasler
j...@sugarbit.com
Elm
D MacDougall wrote:
> > On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote:
> ...
> > > I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for
> > > years and have found that it's gradually been improving to the
> > > point that I seldom have cause to use any other. Along the way I
> > > discovered that th
On 2025-03-07, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well.
>>> Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring
>>> experience!
>>
>>I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone?
>I use a "DNS
2025-03-08[Sat]11:54 Runamile🦓Czyborra read that
2025-03-07[Fri]15:33 Maureen Thomas wrote
copied your answers into a file for me to keep on hand
thank you all for your help for this great grandmother.
Parenting a grandparent or great at grandparenting or both?
Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution
> > for it?
>
> Good idea. Thanks.
>
> >
> > It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication
> > method.
Miriami wrote:
>
> Would you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem, which uses a single file as
> backing storage, and could self-growing in size?
>
> It's like using a fuse ext4 filesystem, just that with self-growing - I tried
> the fuse ext4 filesystem, but it seems that fuse ext4 filesyste
My system is Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0
It used to be that clicking on a PDF opened it with Atril.
I don't know what *I DID*, but it now opens with L3afpad.
I assumed that Edit Preferences was the place to go.
But under Browser->Helper Applications it says "always ask" indicating
system isn't
On 2025-03-08, D MacDougall wrote:
>>
>> >I use a "DNS privé" that's effective in blocking ads on my Android phone.
>>
> Since the subject of browsers on phones has come up I thought I'd put in
> my 2 bits. I've been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for
> years and have found that it'
On 3/6/25 12:32 PM, songbird wrote:
i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
would like to try something else.
currently running testing.
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
songbird
h
Roger Price wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Greg wrote:
>
> > On 2025-03-07, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I believe David Wright uses some humongous hosts file to block ads on
> > his computer rather than a brower add-on (if I'm remembering and
> > understanding
> > correctly).
>
> I do something si
On Sat, 8 Mar 2025, poc...@homemail.com wrote:
> Pi-hole is your friend https://pi-hole.net/
Interesting, but for the moment I don't fancy pi-hole as my DNS server. Roger
Hi,
Miriami wrote:
> > I would like the fuse filesystem to automatically grow as new files
> > are added in, just like how a SQLite database would grow as new
> > records being inserted.
Tim Woodall wrote:
> The nearest I can think of is growisofs.
That's mainly a burn program for optical media
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