apparmour and viewing mutt attachments -- Re: how to background mutt external viewer applications

2020-07-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 02:28:14PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> A hint is here:
> http://www.guckes.net/Mutt/setup.html
> 
> To make it work, do e.g. the following in $HOME/.mailcap as follows
> (the following is to be on one line):
> 
> application/pdf; (mv %s %s-\; evince %s-\; rm -f %s-)& sleep 0.2s; test=test 
> -n "$DISPLAY"
> 
> 
> Couple keys:
> 
>  - mv mutt's temp file to a new name, so mutt cannot delete the file
>from under the viewer's feet
> 
>  - do the mv, view and rm in a subshell, so that this mini process
>can be backgrounded
> 
>  - escape the semi colons in that are part of the viewer mailcap
>entry (ampersand does not need escaping)
> 
>  - rm the temp file (using its new name) after viewing is finished
> 
>  - sleep for a short bit after backgrounding the viewer, in the hope
>that your kernel will schedule the viewer to do its thing within
>that time - this time is a racy heuristic, so can fail of course
> 
> 
> The ideal solution would be another mailcap part of the line, or
> option, which specifies that the viewer should be backgrounded, so
> that this little dance does not have to be copied for every entry of
> interest - although a handful of such entries will likely capture the
> bulk of daily requirements...


So AppArmour is making it's presence felt - disallowing Evince to open the 
user's files named "__.pdf-" but still thankfully opening user files named 
"__.pdf".

The solution is simple, change the above mailcap entry to read e.g. as follows:

application/pdf; (mv %s %s.pdf\; evince %s.pdf\; rm -f %s.pdf)& sleep 0.2s; 
test=test -n "$DISPLAY"



Redskins Change Name to Better Represent Population Of Washington, D.C.

2020-07-03 Thread Zig the N.g
   Redskins Change Name To 'Lizard People' To Better Represent Population Of 
Washington, D.C.
   
https://babylonbee.com/news/redskins-to-change-name-to-lizard-people-so-theyll-fit-in-better-in-dc

  [truly sichening image not attached]

  WASHINGTON, D.C.—There has been much talk about renaming the Washington 
Redskins, since their offensive name has no place in our modern, enlightened 
society that has done away with all other immorality and sin.

  ...



Re: [OT, but curious] bye bye, 5G...

2020-07-03 Thread Mirimir
On 06/28/2020 09:17 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 17:51:07 -0700
> Mirimir  wrote:



>> However, it's  likely that some populations are more susceptible than 
>> others, so it's
>> not as extreme as bananas (clones) or even typical agricultural crops.
> 
>   yeah the asians are most susceptible. Oh, wait! That was YET ANOTHER 
> bullshit claim, but it turns out that flu hysteria in places like china, 
> korea or japan was over months ago or has a pretty low number of cases - or 
> both. 

I just saw a link to Zeberg and Pääbo (2020) The major genetic risk
factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals.[0] The
abstract follows:

| A recent genetic association study (Ellinghaus et al. 2020)
| identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus for
| respiratory failure in SARS-CoV-2. Recent data comprising
| 3,199 hospitalized COVID-19 patients and controls reproduce
| this and find that it is the major genetic risk factor for
| severe SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization (COVID-19
| Host Genetics Initiative). Here, we show that the risk is
| conferred by a genomic segment of ~50 kb that is inherited
| from Neandertals and occurs at a frequency of ~30% in south
| Asia and ~8% in Europe.

Maybe we ought to protect old people, those with serious health
problems, and carriers of this genetic sequence, and let everyone else
get on with their lives.



0) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.03.186296v1.full.pdf


CBS News: NSA warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks

2020-07-03 Thread jim bell
CBS News: NSA warns that VPNs could be vulnerable to cyberattacks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-security-agency-warns-that-vpns-could-be-susceptible-to-cyberattacks/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e


Re: 1 step forward and 2 steps back...

2020-07-03 Thread Zig the N.g
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:25:20AM +, CJ Parker wrote:
> A US Federal Court has ruled that Julian Assange lawfully published the 
> Hillary Clinton emails

Awesome news!!



> CJ Parker #05987-196 Proud To Be A Felon In AMERI A

Every time I read that line, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story number 
"America" pops into my head - along with a florrid flaunty flurry of skanty 
leggy dancers strutting dey many curves ...  (how does one render the glottoral 
roll in ASCII? :D)

Kudos!  Great position to take in an Empire of Chaos ;D

BTW, wilcommén bàkken, monsèurẽ :)

Live ünd learn, hąy .. we haz múchen ẅorken to do, en.

Praps time fo dat private chaтski..