Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
March 13, 2021 7:36:39 PM CET Larry Martell wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > neither your friends nor your family. > > I don't know whether that hard position is always viable. I mean, > I managed without Facebook (and *all* the others, btw.) but that > may well be sheer luck. To think otherwise would feel... arrogant > to me. How can "sheer luck" be a factor? My non-participation in Facebook is due to a conscious decision. > And yes, I'm interested in understanding /why/ and /how/ people > are sucked in: that's about the only way to do something against > it. Perhaps they feel a need to communicate with a group. That's hardly being "sucked in". Their choice, just like mine. Different midsets. To imply it is not quite the best and there is something that should be done about such a choice is simply vi vs emacs talk :). “In the old pre-technology days, it would have been almost impossible to replicate Facebook or Twitter. The closest you could get would be to mail dozens of postcards a day to everybody you know, each with a brief message about yourself like: "Finally got that haircut I've been putting off." Or: "Just had a caramel frappuccino. Yum!" The people receiving these postcards would have naturally assumed you were a moron with a narcissism disorder. But today, thanks to Facebook and Twitter, you are seen as a person engaging in 'social networking'.” ― Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood which begs the question "why do people feel the need to tell the world every tiny thing that pops into their head?"
Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)
> > From: The Wanderer > Sent: Fri Mar 12 10:38:54 CET 2021 > To: > Subject: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating > system?) > > > On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > >> I have never had a Facebook account and never will. > > > We (three?) are the invisible Internet Underground \o/ > > > > [psst. don't tell anyone] > > > > ;-) > > I can go one better than that. > > Unless my memory is failing me, I have only ever visited facebook.com > once in my life - and that was a mistake, I clicked on a link to > something that looked interesting without first checking the target domain. > > I decided long, long ago (sometime in the first half of the first decade > of this century, IIRC) that I didn't trust Facebook - initially because > it and its embedded ads were a notorious vector for malware, later > because I just didn't trust it period. I made a conscious decision to > never risk visiting the site, and with that one exception (for which I > did have NoScript active) I'm fairly sure I've never broken from that. > > I'm not as strongly antipathetic towards the other social-media sites, > but I still tend not to visit them. I do have a Twitter account > nowadays, but I rarely visit it, and the number of tweets I've sent out > is in the low double (or maybe even high single) digits. > > -- >The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > the borg people who can not function without being part of a collective they refuse to think for themselves
Re: po...@lists.debian.org
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 9:39 AM mm wrote: totally with you on this. but then do smth about the politically motivated techincal discussion starting with the subject line I second that motion. all in favor let go of your momma's teat and raise your hand
Re: po...@lists.debian.org
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, mm wrote: On 1/9/21 6:27 PM, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: W?dniu sob, 09.01.2021 o?godzinie 15?33?+0100, u?ytkownik mm napisa?: Cheers, Please get your right wing propaganda elsewhere. If you deem yourself intelligent you have to revise your understanding of the words: 1. freedom 2. speech I for sure will not tolerate this white-washing soup mouth-full BS. I understand that free speech can be abused, it is however I believe value which is important in democracy. That is also guaranteed in United States constitution. Cheers, Marek But, but, of course, of course it is a value which is one of the cornerstones of a functional democracy. But the sheer panic and call to action (overdue due btw, which again points out the fact that you chose this event to decry something for which many people have fought and continue doing so) points out that you sympathize with right wing fascists. To which I, as you may have noticed, strongly react. Free speech is not abolished by not giving a platform (by a private company, so please also get your legal understandings in order) to a hateful fear and violence inducing excuse of a human being to spread racial division, hatred and sheer and numbing stupidity, which in return only amplifies his deranged orange brain to echo his narcissistic delusional notions of himself and his perceived power while still holding the nukes. so cheers to that. and to all the guys that joyfully joined the ride to help poor fascist have their 'freedom' of 'speech'. (oh, yeah, right, they have parler or whatever) and on a more emotionless note: in Germany it is prohibited to distribute fascist propaganda/goods whatever. Is Germany an authoritarian state? I still strongly advice to put your perspective to revision and retrospective in a truthful and honest manner. and can i do that in stretch or do i need buster
command file location
over the years i've noticed that some command files are put in what i would call not usual locations for example /usr/lib/dropbear/dropbearconvert and to add insult to injury many times the man pages do not tell you the location does anyone know the reasoning behind this this is not a criticism just curiosity
Re: Emergency mode when root account locked
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 04 dec 20, 08:09:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: I am also going to guess that Deepin, like Ubuntu, defaults to giving you a user account with sudo access, and no root password. You can achieve that in Debian as well, by doing something special during the installation. In all cases, it's a stupid idea and you shouldn't do it. This is a pretty strong (and harsh!) statement. Care to expand on the reasons? It prevents access to single-user mode. The fact that Debian (and these others?) still puts a single-user mode entry into the GRUB menu, knowing that it won't work, is just adding insult to injury. Even if you plan to use sudo for 99% of your administrative work, there's still no reason NOT to have a root password, for those emergency situations where you need one. Another thing to keep in mind is that you might forget your root password if you don't use it once in a while. So, you might try to remember to use "su" or a console root login from time to time, just to make sure you remember your root password. i was a sys admin for hpux and linux systems for 25 years now retired having a root password is along the same line as backups for your system you spend time and money and pray you never have to use it you set a root password and use it from time to time just in case
Re: swamp rat bots Q
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, elvis wrote: Just goes to show if you whinge hard enough and pretend to be useless it will irritate someone enough to do your work. You don't even bother to check your robots.txt and complained about some evil bot all year. Priceless. now now little girl don't get your panties bunched
Re: swamp rat bots Q
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 08:39:42AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: But I asked specifically how to enable it for one bot, and I've asked that question several times, getting smoke and mirror answers you all assume are helpfull, but which are useless to a new user installing the now 7 years old and long out of date package that in effect has no "how it works" docs. I asked 3 questions in a previous day or so timeline, and no one has actually attempted to actually answer even one of them. Here is one line from that log: and that I just blocked: coyote.coyote.den:80 192.99.6.226 - - [04/Dec/2020:07:18:20 -0500] "GET /gene/toolshed/c3/build/win32/prep/?C=S;O=D HTTP/1.1" 200 673 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; http://mj12bot.com/)" Taken directly from the link. Bot Type Good crawler (always identifies itself) IP Range Distributed, Worldwide Obeys Robots.txt *Yes* Obeys Crawl Delay Yes Data served atMajestic.com I kindly suggest to all debian-user members to reflect on this, and to stop this pointless discussion. Reco many times i have needed help and it takes a while for all the suggestions to coalesce i kindly suggest that your opinion is pointless
Re: Replacement Email Client
On Sun, 25 Oct 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Any suggestions? alpine
Re: To enable TrueType fonts on uxterm by default
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, Brian wrote: On Mon 19 Oct 2020 at 07:18:39 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Xianwen Chen (?) wrote: Hi, When I hold Ctrl and right click on uxterm, a menu shows up, where I can click to enable TrueType fonts. I would like to enable TrueType fonts by default. I guess I could do it by setting it up in ~/.Xresources and use xrdb to merge it. However, I do not know which TrueType font(s) uxterm used, when I manually Ctrl + Right Click to enable it. Or, is there an option in a config file where I just ask uxterm to use TrueType and let uxterm to decide which TrueType font to use? The other way around: add a default font and you don't have to say anything else. xterm -fa 'Inconsolata' -fs 14 In my .Xresources I have: xterm*faceName: Inconsolata xterm*faceSize: 15 and xterm*renderFont: true
Re: Please be respectful
Reading this thread reinforces just how old I am The whole world seems to be wearing their feelings on the sleeve On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Weaver, On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:12:45AM -0700, Weaver wrote: Being polite is a standard that has to apply to all. And indeed it does. Even if the OP was not being polite, you are not suddenly given a free pass to write a rude reply. I was really disappointed to see your reply because, as Kaye points out, that kind of attitude reflects poorly on all of us. Please, if you haven't something constructive to offer, just don't post at all. I consider the original post not to be. Hopefully it's now clear to you that you are mistaken since the OP's requirement is shared by several others. Kaye, I use Nemo and at least out-of-the-box, it does not do what you want. From what I recall GNOME's Nautilus file manager might do. However, at least by default, Nautilus performs a recursive search for all paths that match under the current directory when you start typing to search. For me, this is a blocker to using Nautilus (I could not risk, say, confidential HR documents flashing up when a colleague was in front of my screen. Although that's not going to happen any time soon) The feature you want is sometimes described as "fuzzy searching". The command-line tool "fzf" does it, although it's a grep-like tool, not a file manager. There are plugins for Vim to do the same thing too (likewise, not a file manager). But perhaps looking for fuzzy searching as a feature will help. Best wishes -- Please don't CC me, I am subscribed to the list. Jonathan Dowland https://jmtd.net
Re: ot: hack me
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, deloptes wrote: gru...@mailfence.com wrote: does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall You are looking for online nmap service like this one https://pentest-tools.com/network-vulnerability-scanning/tcp-port-scanner-online-nmap Google can tell you more - I just picked up the first one after looking for "nmap port scan online" that works, thanks
ot: hack me
does anyone know of a reliable site that can stress test my firewall
timeout in initramfs
i set up a machine with wifi with an encrypted root fs i have this "ip=:wlan0:on" in my boot command line during boot it talks to my dhcp to set up a connection so i can remotely unlock the root fs i know that this is not really secure but lets ignore my stupidity for the moment anyway it work fine except when it can not talk to the dhcp then it just continues try'n forever to connect to the dhcp this is where i need a timeout so it will give up and i can unlock the fs at the console
Re: How to control mode entered after specific inactivity time?
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: My search attempts likely failed because I didn't know the appropriate terms. After some initial inactivity the screen blanks and can can be brought back to life by mouse movement. After a longer period of inactivity one must touch the power button. What are the correct names for these states? How does a user (preferably not root) control the timing of entering these states? I know that I've reset them because the defaults were inconvenient. Now they are inappropriate. I'm using Debian 9.8. TIA edit /etc/systemd/sleep.conf
Re: [dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd)
any ideas -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 16:02:33 +0200 From: Arno Wagner To: dm-cr...@saout.de Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 (fwd) Hi, your array looks fine. But this is not a topic for the cryptsetup mailing list. Please use Debian support for this. Regards, Arno On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 14:25:05 CEST, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i upgraded an old nas device from debian 8 to 9 and started get'n this message what's the dang deal :) i don't have any spares root@nsa320:~# mdadm -D /dev/md4 /dev/md4: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Tue Mar 5 13:16:13 2013 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB) Used Dev Size : 1932713920 (1843.18 GiB 1979.10 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 4 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jul 9 06:13:34 2020 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : dc6cc046:ef4012cc:ecea512d:0eb28517 (local to host nsa320) Events : 0.99097 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 8 200 active sync /dev/sdb4 1 841 active sync /dev/sda4 -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:20:14 -0500 From: mdadm monitoring To: root@nsa320.grumpy-net Subject: SparesMissing event on /dev/md4:nsa320 This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on nsa320 A SparesMissing event had been detected on md device /dev/md4. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following: Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [multipath] md2 : active raid1 sda2[1] sdb2[0] 19573696 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 sda4[1] sdb4[0] 1932713920 blocks [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sda3[1] sdb3[0] 975808 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: ___ dm-crypt mailing list dm-cr...@saout.de https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform.,Email: a...@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier ___ dm-crypt mailing list dm-cr...@saout.de https://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
upgrade stretch to buster on armel fails
i have a device that runs stretch armel if i change my repos to buster i do apt clean all, apt update, apt install systemd when systemd installs it fails to start and i get a series of timeouts when i reboot i get Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... Begin: Stopping dropbear ... done. [ 41.330911] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /sys is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [ 41.339709] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /proc is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [ 41.348525] systemd[1]: Failed to determine whether /dev is a mount point: Bad file descriptor [!! systemd[1]: Freezing execution. [0m] Failed to mount early API filesystems. i have re-imaged my drive and tried several upgrades they all fail with the above message
Re: how to stop reboot from delete'n directory
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 02:33:07PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i create a directory /run/foo to hold sockets for my application when i reboot the directory gets deleted is set'n the immutable flag the way to go unicorn:~$ df /run Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs1219016 48132 1170884 4% /run See where it says "tmpfs"? The /run file system is entirely ephemeral, existing only in memory while the system is running. If you want to re-create something in /run at boot time, you'll need to set up a task to do so, either by creating a systemd unit, or perhaps by using rc.local (since this is a ridiculously small and simple one-shot task, where a whole systemd unit would be overkill, rc.local is fine). Or, if you prefer, you could add "create the directory in /run" to your application's start-up code. rc.local it is thanks
how to stop reboot from delete'n directory
i create a directory /run/foo to hold sockets for my application when i reboot the directory gets deleted is set'n the immutable flag the way to go
Re: how to: apt --exclude=foo* upgrade
On Wed, 1 Jul 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 01:22:29PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: i build my kernels how can i tell apt to never install a kernel when i upgrade Remove all Debian kernel packages, including and most especially the metapackages such as "linux-image-amd64". thanks simple like me :)
how to: apt --exclude=foo* upgrade
i build my kernels how can i tell apt to never install a kernel when i upgrade
cryptsetup gui
i don't know what i have screwed up i am running buster on three machines only one behaves this way i have an encrypted root fs while the system is still running the initial ramdisk it launches a cryptsetup gui it ask for the password and then presents 3 square dots this obscures the rest of the boot process can someone tell me how to disable this
Re: completion prompting
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, gru...@mailfence.com wrote: with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off I don't know what you mean by "turning this off". The helper doing this is the readline library. Your shell picks configuration for readline from the files /etc/inputrc and ~/.inputrc. There is one variable which limits the maximum number of possible completions shown (default is 100). The variable is called completion-query-items So, if I understood you correctly, you might experiment with putting set completion-query-items 1000 in your file ~/.inputrc. Or you set it to a negative number, then you're never asked (do at your own risk :-) See bash's man page, section READLINE, and the readline man page. But perhaps I didn't understand you correctly. Cheers -- t that's is exactly what i was attempting to say if i am reading the man page correctly there is not a very fine control i wrote a script that runs in bash i would like to disable prompting for only this script $if my_script set completion-query-items -1 $endif but this does not work
completion prompting
with bash completion returns a message like Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n) how can i turn this off
Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD
On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On Monday 02 March 2020 06:28:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I'm currently running Buster on a 5 year old GigaByte motherboard with a 10-year old Raid-1 array on 2 500GB disks. Although it is running fine, I'm becoming a bit concerned about the longevity of this storage, so I'm planning to upgrade it to a 500GB or maybe 1TB SSD from Crucial. My plan would be to install the SSD in the cage, and dd the contents of the array onto the SSD. I would then change the BIOS to boot from the SSD, making the RAID array redundant. Can someone please tell me whether this plan is feasible, and what pitfalls I might encounter? Thanks to all who replied. Gene didn't address my problem, but made the very useful observation that disks spinning 24/7 don't really die. Perhaps I shouldn't worry about replacing them. Dan gave a useful step-by-step procedure for copying at file level. This method is slightly problematical for me as it includes "make changes to new /etc/fstab" and "make changes to bootloader to set new root filesystem", neither of which I feel feel comfortable with, due to lack of knowledge. I'll certainly abandon my plan to dd the whole filesystem. Basti and Deloptes propose to add the SSD as a third drive to the RAID. Very attractive, but would involve complications if the SSD is not identical in size to the old spinners. Andrei supports file-level copying, so I'll stick to that. Joe supports the idea of adding the drive to the RAID, but makes no reference to dealing wth the size difference. Alex highlights the downside of size difference. David and Sarunas suggests doing a system reinstall on the SSD, leaving my data on the RAID. Whilst a useful upgrade, I don't really understand how that addresses my problem. (if I have one!) Michael and Deloptes poo-poo that suggestion, with which I concur. Andy suggests that I should continue using RAID, instead of reverting to a single disk. Thank you very much for this helpful suggestion, I considered it originally, but abandoned it on cost grounds. When I originally built this system with RAID, 10 years ago, I was very reliant on data integrity. I now no longer have such a pressing need, and am quite happy to rely on a single disk, with nightly rsync backups to an off-site server. I certainly have no need for the always-on data that RAID provides. Finally, Geoff supports Andy's suggestion, and in addition, interestingly, mentions NVME to replace SATA SSD. Attractive, but costly. So, you have all given me plenty to think about, for which I'm grateful. I guess I'll go with s single SSD onto which I'll copy the data from the RAID. Thank you all for helping me make up my mind. if new drive is the same size or larger install new drive boot using usb drive, i use systemrescuecd dd if=old_drive of=new_drive
how to determine who is responsible for a file
how can i find what package is responsible for installing a file. for example /etc/ssh/sshd_config. apt-file returns nothng and dpkg -S returns dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/ssh/sshd_config. on another note, is there a mailing list just for the package manager?
