On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 23:07:33 +0100
aitor wrote:
> On 1/3/20 11:56, spiralofhope wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 04:12:07 -0500
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> >> OpenBox, which I consider the best of the bunch if you don't need a
> >> panel
> > My vote
On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:08:28 -0600
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/25/mozilla_turns_on_dns_over_https_by_default_for_usa/
} Another relevant question is whether further centralisation of the
} internet is, inherently, a bad thing. ®
Whoa boy.
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 11:49:57 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
> > 'grey' rather than 'grey': because it's much greyer that way.
> 'gray'
>
> See, even when I set out to adopt quaint USAnaian spelling, I
> sometimes can't quite manage it.
This helps me remember:
E for English "grEy"
A fo
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:25:01 +0100
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> To use the own home directory on different laptops?
This is a first-world problem if I've ever heard one, and a sad waste of
manpower when there are other programming problems.
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27;screenshot--%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S--$wx$h.png' --exec '\mv
$f /l/live/__ ; \gpicview /l/live/__/$f' \\
"
Oh, and since I'm on that and we have some Openbox people.. guess what
this does:
\sh -c "\
\geany \\
$( \realpath ~/.themes/minimal-spiralo
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 13:20:24 -0700
tom wrote:
> My advice is to stop buying X86 in the future and invest in other
> arches.
I love that virtualization has come so far that I don't have to care
what I run my stuff on.
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:03:53 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> LXDE
> is one of many projects who looked at the dismaying near-total rewrite
> required for migrating to GTK3 (and GTK's increasing GNOME-centric
> nature) and made the agonising decision to bail and migrated sideways
> to Qt.
If memory serv
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:14:41 -0400
Dan Purgert wrote:
> Your trust in my key (and therefore, my signature) should not be
> founded on _where_ you got it from, but your own personal web of
> trust made up of (hopefully!) people you know and trust to do their
> due diligence for confirming I am me.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 12:07:56 +0200
Raul Claro wrote:
> is there a way of holding a video- or an audioconference with
> Firefox (or Vivaldi) on Devuan? The ones I have come in contact
> with. such als /https://global.gotomeeting.com/, /work only with
> Windows or Mac and Chrome.
>
> A
On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:56:07 +1000
terryc wrote:
> Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed
> devuan onto?
I have a $300 (CAD) Dell Inspiron 11 3180. According to my mid 2018
notes I tried Devuan_ascii_2.0.0_i386_desktop-live.iso and had issues
with graphics being co
On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:04:45 +
aitor_czr wrote:
> http://www.gnuinos.org/screenshots/Screenshot_2020-04-11_18-14-41.png
> At least, i only need a few features like management for my bookmarks
> and ability to have several websites opened at the same time in
> different tabs.
Related: Tabbed
On Sat, 16 May 2020 03:06:37 +1000
wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
> > On 15 May 2020, at 22:51, Emiliano Marini via Dng
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't know who contact but the site http://without-systemd.org
> > isn't working (it throws database error):
>
> It looks to have been resurrected
On Sat, 16 May 2020 18:13:58 -0700
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?
>
> It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with
> quitting.
Aah.
I would say "nicotine patch".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico
On Mon, 18 May 2020 21:39:11 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> I eschew Occam's Razor in favor of Litt's Razor, which can be
> paraphrased "Follow the money."
See also the maxim of Cassius:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono
"to whom is it a benefit?"
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On Sat, 23 May 2020 19:54:55 +0100 (BST)
Jim Jackson wrote:
> Any recommendations for a better panel?
lxpanel is an old favorite, and tint2 is quite impressive.
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On Sun, 24 May 2020 16:20:05 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote:
> TDE with it's qt3 fork :)
Going down that rabbit hole, I see that Exe GNU/Linux uses it by
default and is also using Devuan.
This seems to be a trivial way for me to check out TDE at its finest.
http://exegnulinux.net/
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I succesfully installed Devuan:
devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64 guest
on VirtualBox 6.0.20-137117
on Windows 10 host
This replaces Debian:
Debian 10.1.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 guest
on VirtualBox 6.0.22-137980
on Windows 10 host
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I have no complaints with my installation, including nuances a
On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 08:29:01 -0700
kdibble wrote:
I'm glad you got things sorted out. Several of the things you mentioned
would have frustrated me.
> 5) Started adding a couple packages and apt asked for cdrom. I assumed
> it wanted usb stick, mounted it and nope, it wants a cdrom. Go in and
>
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:01:14 +0200
"J. Fahrner via Dng" wrote:
> When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs
> forever.
I wonder if there's anything S.M.A.R.T. information can tell you.
There is a spinup time test, and I wonder if perhaps there is SMART
logging within the driv
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 06:31:40 +0200
"J. Fahrner" wrote:
It looks to me like your drive is in good health and supports (and
uses) all the good health features.
As the other poster suggested, using another drive to troubleshoot may
still be useful, but your drive appears fundamentally good.
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 16:53:19 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" wrote:
> A word of condolence to anybody fixed on old hardware. If you cannot
> upgrade, there is still the BSD-family which offer support down to
> 80486. And they, too, are systemd-free :)
It's been a while, but I wonder if Slackware would
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 22:52:12 +0200
richard lucassen via Dng wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 05:58:11 -0300
> pekman wrote:
>
> > Slitaz is very good Linux distribution for old computers. See
> > slitaz.org
>
> The latest "news" is from 20 May 2015:
>
> http://slitaz.org/en/news/
In its defenc
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:35:20 +0100
fraser kendall wrote:
> Best option: 1) can I retrieve the deleted qcow image from a running
> instance of that image?
The other suggestions are on the right track. I myself have
"un-deleted" a file which was held open because it was in use by a
running proce
Incoming musing..
I haven't investigated the solution for email, but I would assume that
many email clients can filter out signatures.
However, when I went looking through my email client (Claws Mail [1]) I
couldn't find anything obvious! Maybe I didn't look hard enough.
- Perhaps I could fi
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:03:13 -0700
Rick Moen wrote:
> flush-left two hyhens plus a single space character, and
> then immediate a hard return
Oh, I didn't know about the single space.
Thanks for that, and the rest. Getting lore and detail is a challenge
for me for the older stuff, because ther
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:59:53 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Is there an establiched word in the Linux/Unix xommunity
> for something which might be a file or a directory?
Perhaps something like inode?
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On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0500
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> ...2 new 500 GB WD Black drives...
You have good taste.
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On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:22:56 -0500
goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> On 2020-09-04 19:24, spiralofhope wrote:
> > On Fri, 04 Sep 2020 15:03:55 -0500
> > goli...@devuan.org wrote:
> >
> >> ...2 new 500 GB WD Black drives...
>
> Not sure if they still have the
On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:05:39 -0400
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Of course there's also mediawiki, which is the basis for the
> WIkipedia.
Unless something has changed, ACLs are explicitly absent from MediaWiki.
There have always been efforts by third parties to make it more
functional, but I'm of the op
The pure sh bible has been a big help:
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible
Here are some examples of replacing "standard" software:
https://github.com/spiralofhope/shell-random/blob/master/live/sh/scripts/examples/replace-head.sh
https://github.com/spiralofhope/shell-random/blob
wants to dig through my history of desperate
experimentation throughout multiple Linuxes:
https://github.com/spiralofhope/shell-random/commits/master/live/zsh/dot_zsh/4-login.sh
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TL;DR: YouTube-dl DMCA
The RIAA successfully applied a DMCA takedown to GitHub (Microsoft) for
an archivism program which downloads YouTube video/audio (although it
does target other services).
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/202
This made me laugh; using the tool to get the tool's source:
youtube-dl -o - https://youtu.be/hyqLv2_zBdA | ffmpeg -i - \
-vf scale=120:-1,eq=contrast=10 -sws_flags neighbor -pix_fmt \
monob -f rawvideo yt_dl.tar.gz
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https://github.com/github/dmca
So..
https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:36:08 -0700
spiralofhope wrote:
> This made me laugh; using the tool to get the tool's source:
>
>
> youtube-dl -o - https://youtu.be/hyq
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:22:34 -0700
Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
> Sorry, spiralofhope. I didn't6 mean to send this to you, but to the
> list.
I'll re-send this to the list then. :)
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:15:42 -0700
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I think they have already obfusc
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:55:17 -0800
Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
> I do run a little file manager -- xfe.
What a wonderful program; I'll add it to my toolkit as an alternative
to spacefm.
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 01:00:44 +1100
wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
> A good move to switch from godaddy. Doesn’t really matter where you
> switch to, but godaddy appear to be a seriously unethical company.
>
> https://www.webpronews.com/godaddy-elephant-killing-nodaddy-venovix/
>
> https://www.wi
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:37:39 -0500
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Know any domain registrars that don't mess with the user?
I've used register4less.com for some time, and they're a bunch of geeks.
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r a
single user): Just have the regular shell at certain TTYs launch X upon
login. A snippet of it:
\xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/bin/X :$(( tty_to_use - 1 )) \
vt"$tty_to_use" -auth "$( \tempfile --prefix='serverauth.' )"
logout
There's mo
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:32:22 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> This is a fun document:
>
> https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/
> ... machinectl ... a program which contains sudo, su and kill (and
> does some functions which historically ssh/telnet did) ...
systemd documentation is creepypasta.
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 07:28:27 -0500
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> But I suspect that, lik firefox, it will make a brave attempt to use
> up ALL of my RAM.
It claims to be "performance aware", which I expect means yes it will
make that trade-off.
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:36:58 -0500
fsmithred via Dng wrote:
> Devuan Beowulf 3.1.0 point release
Confirmed that devuan_beowulf_3.1.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso works with
ventoy-1.0.35 (installed via Windows 10). I highly recommend checking
out Ventoy.
Persistence works, based on its instructions
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:38:36 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> There's only one solution: I need
> to learn enough about bridge devices, tap devices, and VM guest
> networking that I can draw a block diagram of the entire networking
> situation, so I can intelligently probe any interaction point for
> tr
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:34:40 +1100
Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> For bare-metal hardware I believe there is a first possible "race"
> between different modules (that handle different card types), and a
> second possible "race" for multiple same-type cards, which are handled
> by the one and sam
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:58:57 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
> Personally, I deliberately break the thread by snipping In-Reply-To
> (or use mutt's new-message command, which amounts to the same thing)
> if the new discussion will be semantically quite different from the
> old one.
This makes a lot of sen
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:33:48 -0700
Gregory Nowak via Dng wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:30:45PM +0200, Lars Noodén via Dng wrote:
> > I'm looking at an ARM image for Beowulf, but cannot find where the
> > default password is annotated. It's not on either of these pages:
> >
> > https:/
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 17:32:30 +0200
Antony Stone wrote:
> As for a repair, I have no idea what it's like trying to get inside
> Dell laptops.
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:37:54 +0200
Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote:
> ... Dell Latitude 7400 laptop I have ...
I'd gamble that it's easy to service it.
Th
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 13:30:29 +0200
tito via Dng wrote:
> https://git.devuan.org/farmatito/migration
> ...
> p.s.: is there a way to edit committed commit messages?
I have not tested this:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/committing-changes-to-your-project/changing-a-commit-message#amending-ol
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