[DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!

2021-10-14 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers, Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera 4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the result of lots of painstaking work by the team and extensive testing by the wider Devuan community. --

Re: [DNG] random sudden stops

2021-08-26 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
g else, but checking for dust isn't a bad idea. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [DNG] The audacity of it all...

2021-08-26 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
to strace or gcore a random binary but not let it write to disk or connect to the network. Here you are. This is a tool. Tools are good. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signa

Re: [DNG] The audacity of it all...

2021-08-24 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 06:41:59PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > So, whether you set it persistently or not, you start with: > > sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 > > ...and then you can run something that has no configured network: > > $ un

[DNG] The audacity of it all...

2021-08-24 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
have been, but this has the advantage of being possible today. There's also an iptables-centric method: https://serverfault.com/questions/550276/how-to-block-internet-access-to-certain-programs-on-linux Either way, this is a good model for semi-trusted things that ought not to be allowed

[DNG] ifupdown laptop wired/wifi trick

2021-05-25 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
writing this so people realize that they aren't forced to use some convoluted tool to flexibly manage networking. You can cover a wide range of situations with good old ifupdown. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? d

Re: [DNG] PartialSolve Re: Chimaera; Lost sound

2021-05-24 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: C525 [HD Webcam C525], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 We're plugging away at a wiki where we folks can easily document this stuff. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is becau

Re: [DNG] Debian/Buster-to-Devuan/Beowulf : Version 1

2021-04-07 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ts. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Dng mailing list Dng@l

Re: [DNG] On Non-Judicial Punishment of Individuals

2021-04-06 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
is back on the board, just as I'm dismayed at some trusted staff members leaving the FSF. All of this takes the focus off of free software, and the people directly involved are hurting. Frankly, it makes me hope that my kids are able to forge a better world than what I've managed so far. -- Ma

Re: [DNG] FSF, RMS and a danger to almost all GPL code

2021-04-02 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ose to mob justice. But if we don't want mob justice, we need a judiciary. We don't have one set up to rule on moral or ethical stances. We hardly prosecute white-collar or corporate crime at all, nowadays. So, there's the problem. What are possible answers? -- Mas

Re: [DNG] motherboard BIOS update

2021-01-09 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
, it's clearly not a fly-by-night operation - it would be a way for Gigabyte to gain credibility and expand their customer base for effectively no effort. The fwupd folk would be quite happy to start working with Gigabyte, and have, as I understand it, reached out to them already, but Gigabyte needs

Re: [DNG] Disabling touchpad

2020-12-28 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
nput | grep Synaptics ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPadid=11 [slave pointer (2)] Note that you *don't* have to parse out the ID. I can say, as an example: xinput disable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad ...and it'll do the right thing, far more simply. -- Maso

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-11 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
r the new perspective! -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep : random() & 2 ? dream : sleep; -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc D

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-10 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:31:38PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Also, for laughs, in Beowulf, the xdm binary consumes 117K on disk, There's a pandemic on, so I'll forgive myself a little OCD. Sorted by RSS: $ ps uq 21538 USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-10 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ser shells, mksh consumes 275K on disk. (I can't seem to get myself to stick with tcsh long enough to call it usable, although I know some folks love it. But for completeness: 415K) -- Mason Loring Blissma...@blisses.org They also surf, who only stand on wa

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-09 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
demanding elogind. I should take better notes whenever I encounter this kind of oddity. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:22:03PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 09:33:16AM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > > > We were talking about libsystemd0 being a stub. > > It's not a stub. There's a bunch of functionality in there. A ton of it. &g

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
#x27;t wish to have pieces of it running on my systems without an explicit invitation. I certainly don't want to have it forced on me, and I can think of no compelling reason why I should accept it. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.org Ewige Blumenkraft! awake ? sleep

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:01:49PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Let's start with how much systemd code we're talking about. Admittedly, I'm > not cutting out comments or whitespace here, but even so: > > .../elogind-241.4/src$ find . -name '*.c'

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-08 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
7;s start with how much systemd code we're talking about. Admittedly, I'm not cutting out comments or whitespace here, but even so: .../elogind-241.4/src$ find . -name '*.c' -exec cat {} \; | wc -l 125582 -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as othe

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
27;m unclear on what set of related functions it provides. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) -- Hamlet, Act III, Scene I signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
nd is systemd. It's a major component of it. And libelogind0 maps directly to libsystemd0. A rose by any other name...) -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson signature.asc Desc

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ND for many years, and it works just fine in this role too. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orghttp://blisses.org/ For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized. signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

[DNG] Building De{vu,bi}an kernel packages with embedded ZFS

2020-11-01 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
lt-in ZFS before long, and which supports either LUKS or native ZFS encryption, both with or without mirroring, on either UEFI or legacy systems. (It's flexible. It'll even install Debian or Ubuntu.) (It'll make the most sense for me to ship instructions for a local repository first.)

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-10-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
That said, I've stopped using unbound and I'm using straight BIND as my local resolver lately. It's pleasant. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abel

Re: [DNG] Complete system HDD encryption w/o LLVM.

2020-10-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
s what enables the prompt for the filesystem(s) in question. I sometimes have others that use keys that are on the encrypted root, and those don't specify "initramfs" as they can wait until the normal boot phase. Only vaguely related, something I haven't played with yet that I'

Re: [DNG] Complete system HDD encryption w/o LLVM.

2020-09-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
; option in /etc/crypttab, keys noted in entries marked with that will be automatically included. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abelson signature.asc D

Re: [DNG] Complete system HDD encryption w/o LLVM.

2020-09-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
root) but it would require manual installation, and I'm not sure how easy it'd be to adapt Debian's GRUB scaffolding to accomodate it. Might be easy, might be nearly impossible. But: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Encrypted_/boot -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen a

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ND for this role lately, and it's been quite pleasant. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orghttp://blisses.org/ For more enjoyment and greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized. signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-17 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
;split DNS" configuration with DNSSEC support. /etc/resolv.conf will be managed by dnssec-trigger daemon. systemd-resolved: NetworkManager will push the DNS configuration to systemd-resolved none: NetworkManager will not modify resolv.conf. This imp

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-06 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
behind, and hopefully some increased attention will get it the rest of the way. Red Hat's Stratis and DragonflyBSD's Hammer2 will both have self- healing working before long, using different approaches. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because ma...

Re: [DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-04 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:53:54PM -0700, tom wrote: > How many Gemini and Kristall (or any other Gemini client of your > choosing) https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ As it turns out, we were talking about that at the last meeting, and there's probably interest in it. -- Mason L

[DNG] RFC: wiki software

2020-09-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
e back end - ideally content can be captured to version control, can come from version control, etc. * JavaScript not required for clients. We'll continue poking at TWiki while we gather data. -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake '

Re: [DNG] buster to beowulf

2020-01-16 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
g in the desktop apps. -- Beware of "predictable interface naming" - depending on how you configure your network, you might see your NIC names change. -- Mason Loring Bliss"An equation for me ha

[DNG] PXE booting, initial notes

2020-01-16 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
ck it: gzip -cd initrd.gz | cpio -id in a directory somewhere, pay attention to, among other things: sbin/debian-installer* lib/debian-installer* We presumably have all the tools we need, and just need to point debconf/d-i in the right direction. -- Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have no

Re: [DNG] Ascii/Beowulf nonfree firmware

2020-01-12 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
son, the wifi in my Thinkpad T420 requires the non-free firmware: iwlwifi :03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0 -- Mason Loring Bliss ma...@blisses.orgEwige Blumenkraft! (if awake 'sleep (aref #(sleep dream) (random 2))) --