well (using basically the same
model as email), and there are several different clients available, most
of them Free Software as well (and some of them included in Debian).
Stefan
comparable to Facebook
(which isn't saying much since I never used Facebook and never looked
for something like it), but there are several alternatives to WhatsApp
(I'm using Matrix for that).
Stefan
d success when recording a Jitsi session (using
`vokoscreen`, IIRC).
Admittedly, I was using pulseaudio, so maybe this is a PA feature not
available in ALSA?
Stefan
> du -hd1 | sort -h
> then 'cd' into a likely candidate directory and repeat.
Hmmm here's what I do instead:
du | sort -n | tail -n 100
-- Stefan
ipts using un-quoted $foo which vomits all over your system as
soon as it bumps into a file with a not-so-funny character in it.
Stefan
I remember as "the slowest" for
connections to time-sharing machines. That was generally fast enough to
keep up with a user's typing.
Stefan
alling a `/usr/sbin/ifconfig` file).
Stefan
s to the disks (for that
reason I use LVM to partition my disks, where I can label my disks and
partitions, although those labels aren't always reflected in the mount
points, so they're not always visible in the actual names of the files
that reside in them).
Stefan
d even less how to fix it.
I personally don't know what a "friendly" filesystem hierarchy might
look like. I'm sure we can do better than what Debian has (and what
Windows has as well), but until someone has a very clear idea of that
should look like, it's unlikely we'll se
mes is common practice in all walks of human life, so I really don't
think the reason is technological but rather a result of aesthetic
preference of those who developed the system.
Stefan
case, when I have such needs I first go to my department's IT
guys, who have all kinds of old unused hardware pieces stashed in
boxes. ]
Stefan
ach" but don't include an attachment might
> be helpful.
FWIW, Emacs does offer support for that kind of footnotes, of course ;-)
Stefan
27;t support all those features, so
they're slim and efficient but the web-page doesn't display properly).
Stefan
ntly, its performance is
> comparable to that of KDE or GNOME.
I wouldn't know since I use XFCE4 everywhere, but the desktop
environment only has some impact. When it comes to Firefox, the main
issue is Firefox itself and the pages you visit.
Stefan
4) and using Firefox on it has been painful for many
years already.
Stefan
s and they
typically can't use the system's normal DRAM in the same way they use
their own video RAM. This means that you often can't use your discrete
GPU to render a 3D scene into the frame buffer used by the DE of your
integrated graphics card.
Stefan
end of the line.
You should be able to change the MAC used by your device, i.e. you
should be able to arrange for both devices to expose the same MAC so
your ISP won't notice the difference.
Stefan
; it's a really poor choice that that did not become standard
> just because manufacturers wanted to save a few $.
IIUC the reason is not "to save a few bucks" but to segment the market
such that ECC products can be sold at much higher prices.
Stefan
that is sad
any other ideas how can I done that? (but I will create a new thread for that
On Friday, March 5, 2021 10:55:36 AM CET didier gaumet wrote:
> Hello
>
> from what I understand, Bulleye's version of Systemd is now frozen to 247:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/0
Hello,
is there a chance that systemd 248 get in bullseye?
Systemd248 allow to unlocking encrypted volumes via FIDO2, which is very
usefull nowadays.
best regards
Stefan
doesn't need to be compiled
with `cA` (nor written in the same source language), it just needs to be
used somehow to compile `A` to `cA2` so it can be compared to `cA` to
see if there's a backdoor.
Stefan
ut also
that any attacker who may have infected `cA` hasn't seen that code and
can't have guessed enough of its content to be able to properly infect
`cT`.
> 7. What if the compiler, by design, does not produce identical output for
>identical input?
Then you can't use that technique and you're left wondering if it may
have a hidden self-perpetuating backdoor.
Stefan
itiating network connections, but nowadays many if not most
applications have some kind of "call home" functionality (e.g. to check
if there's a more recent release). It's absurdly considered normal.
Stefan
> https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf
Not sure how this is relevant. This is like talking about the security
of locks when the other guy is openly telling you he has a copy of
the key.
Stefan
s?
I didn't say "built by the ISP" but "under the control of the ISP".
IOW "who can administer".
Of course, there can also be issues of trust about the underlying
software, hardware or what not, but if the ISP has administrative
access then there's no need to dig any further.
Stefan
rivate home.
[ Tho, of course, you can probably arrange to confine that "local
network" such that it's only connected to a single other machine which
you do control and which you use as your own local router. ]
Stefan
any tool that I know. So the better option is to try and
find some source for that PDF and then try to convert *that* to a format
you like.
Stefan
> Tomas, please read posts more carefully :-)
FWIW, `man hostname` also mentions /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
Stefan
>> Then reboot and cross your fingers.
> Arthritis at 86 is beginning to make that painful. :(
I don't believe in crossing fingers either FWIW, I pick my nose
instead, and I think it works just as well (but be careful not to do
that right after chopping some habanero),
Stefan
m that
theme. E.g. a computer lab's nodes may all have names of dinosaurs, or
names of alcoholic drinks, etc...
Searching for chuangtzu and laotzu suggests these are names of great
figures of Taoism, so it seems very kosher to me.
Stefan
y feasible, so it wouldn't
surprise anyone if they work on more machines than a "normal install",
but I've often moved USB/HDD/SSD drives (or cloned root partitions) from
one machine to another without any trouble.
Stefan
every once in a while (I used
to symlink some firefox files to /tmp for that reason).
Stefan
that it's the best choice for them and for
Debian. It's just not the best choice for me.
Stefan "who sometimes feels like what he really wants is to get
a merge of Debian, Nix, and Guix"
with just `emacs`
instead of `emacsNN`), they just didn't quite match my specific needs.
It'd be work in the DPKG/APT code, yes. But it would require no extra
work from the people doing the packaging.
Stefan
d use-case, which seems quite unlikely.
> I have the hunch that just making the packages co-installable is
> the more pleasant avenue...
It's more pragmatic, but it won't solve the longer-term recurring issues.
Stefan
Dan Ritter [2021-02-16 11:03:14] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Still, there is to me no good reason not to allow installing both exim
>> and postfix at the same time. I think it's just a tradeoff between how
>> often this could be useful and how much work it take
econd package, but
also during the rest of the lifetime of the system, until you remove
the override. ]
Stefan
IIUC), i.e. use
`C-v TAB` to insert a TAB character.
Stefan "who can't be bothered to reboot to try it out"
;m a very happy user of OpenWRT (and have been
for many many years).
Stefan
PS: Another reason I went with the BT HomeHub is that it includes the
modem (and that this modem is supported by OpenWRT, tho with
a proprietary firmware), so it saves me having to have yet another box
in that cor
days the idea is called HTML, where the display server is
called "web browser" and Javascript has replaced Display Postscript.
Stefan
n0, (presumably in dhcpcd.conf.) Seems kind of a simple oversight
> for a wireless AP.
I'm not familiar with dhcpd, but dnsmasq's built-in DHCP server has been
perfectly sufficient so far and it lets you specify fixed IPs based on
MACs by simply putting those in the `/etc/ethers` file.
Stefan
your router ends up
being answered by the ISP router instead (since the request is
broadcasted to all connected machines).
Stefan
just a place holder to make sure the file can be modified
without having to allocate any new space in the filesystem. A single
write of a single sector is all it takes.
Stefan
with this. Thanks.
>>
> hello,
>
> fsck -fy /dev/sda1 is probably what you want
Then again, after the "UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY", the `-f` flag to
`fsck` shouldn't be needed. This is weird.
Stefan
you the "raw" file.
Stefan
ehouse, but here in my house, I've never seen more
than 6MB/s actual transfer rate even when my AP says that the
connection is currently using "300Mb/s").
Stefan
with these conditions?
Sorry,
Stefan
> Also, progressive back-ups get very large very quickly using everything
> in one file.
FWIW tools like `bup` can do incremental backups of "mailbox" files efficiently.
Stefan
gt; which surprises WD for some reason.
In any case, we're talking about the speed of the SATA connection, which
seems unrelated to CMR-vs-SMR, especially since AFAIK the slowness of
SMR only affects writes.
Stefan
e same: in that what happens is that attention is
diverted, so when you "amuse", you cause thinking of something which
prevents thinking of what you'd have been thinking of if it weren't for
that amusement.
Stefan
they all use 6.0 gbs
I can't tell you why, but I'd recommend you look at
dmesg | grep -i ata
It might give you some clues,
Stefan
> Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
>>> # find /dev -follow -printf ""
>>You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or
>>`/dev/shm`.
> I tried that on /
Not a good idea: the `-mount` will then preventi
On 14.01.21 01:44, Sven Hartge wrote:
Stefan Pietsch wrote:
I am experiencing problems with X2Go on a virtual server machine I am
connecting to. The process x2goagent on the server has high CPU usage
(nearly 100%) when connecting with x2goclient and selecting Xfce as
desktop environment
> # find /dev -follow -printf ""
You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or
`/dev/shm`.
Stefan
> What is the purpose of remote power switch ?
Probably to turn on the popcorn machine when you're not at home.
Stefan
em mini instead,
to put my money where my mouth is), but I did find it out of place.
> He's just saying look there is a good cheep HW for sale.
In any case, it needed an `[OFFTOPIC]` marker in the Subject line.
Stefan
> Its armhf Stefan, not wintel.
Shouldn't make any difference, except for the fact that a lot of
development in the ARM world is done in a kind of "cowboy" way: take
some version of the kernel and then hack at it until it does what they
want (with no regards for what will ha
ane": 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+ #1 SMP PREEMPT RT
This doesn't say whether it's sane or not. The question is whether the
driver for the temp sensor is using the standard kernel infrastructure
or whether it reinvented the wheel.
Stefan
> ISTR there is a "vcg*" sort of thing to read that stuff, but have lost it
> in the fog of time.
If the kernel is sane, then I think that the following command should
give you this info:
sensors
it comes from the `lm-sensors` package.
Stefan
> No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as
> /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it.
Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the
name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`.
Stefan
the need to run the program by hand.
FWIW, I only ever run it by hand. I can't remember disabling any
monthly cron job nor receiving any email from it, OTOH. I guess it
somehow guessed that I'd prefer to run it by hand ;-)
Stefan
able.
I wish non-free packages were always be carefully flagged as such,
ideally with hyperlinks to appropriate documentation about what's
at stake.
Stefan
ut too much trouble.
I'd expect you also need to handle 4-5 screws to remove a drive from a mini-PC.
Stefan
X2Go.
Regards,
Stefan
#
installed x2go and xfce packages:
libx2go-config-perl 4.1.0.3-5
libx2go-log-perl 4.1.0.3-5
libx2go-server-db-perl 4.1.0.3-5
libx2go-server-perl 4.1.0.3-5
libx2go-utils-perl 4.1.0.3-5
x2goserver 4.1.0.3-5
x2goserver-common 4.1.0.3-5
x2goserver-extensions 4.1.
l
heavily depend on your use case (and on how much work went into tuning
the filesystem and journaling code).
Stefan
27;s important to report it.
Since it used to work, it's probably just an oversight.
Stefan
only useful to the extent
that it supports hardware that Wayland doesn't.
Stefan
g plain Debian but some
other OS and that OS uses /media/pi by default mount things.
It's important to clarify those details here, because this is a Debian
mailing-list, so readers like me generally presume that you're using
Debian and not some other (presumably Debian-derivative) OS.
Stefan
; media).
FWIW, the use of exFAT for filesystems which will basically never be
disconnected is very common in Android devices.
Stefan
sers of the service are willing to
pay for it and hence subsidize the non-paying users. This is the case
of most gratis dynamic-dns services, for example. This always risks
sliding into selling the clients, of course.
Stefan
e
to see.
Nevertheless, I largely agree with Andrei that this is but a small part
of the potential attacks.
Stefan
indows-linux-and-macos/
AFAICT these are all proprietary software, so I wouldn't recommend them.
Stefan
t as
a way to remind them that there are customers who care about that.
Stefan
you never complain&return those products broken-by-design, the
companies will keep bringing them to the market.
Stefan
path
forward is to return the bugger, complaining that it doesn't work.
Stefan
foo because I'm subscribed to the list and will get
the reply anyway". Or more generally some set of "email address
inclusions", like "b...@fineby.me.uk ⊂ debian-user@lists.debian.org".
I think/hope this would not be as prone to misinterpretation.
Stefan
tical machines
that can natively run both arm64 and amd64 binaries, but to let you move
your system for example from an amd64 machine to an arm64 machine
without needing a reinstall.
Stefan
e also several other problems where the 64bit kernel wouldn't provide
support for some particular operations to 32bit applications).
Stefan
e amd64 kernel and keep using your existing
system (and I'd strongly recommend to use an amd64 kernel in any case if
you have more than 4GB of RAM).
Stefan
> Finally, competing with the politicians, the scientists have
> complicated things with their atomic time and leap seconds.
Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files?
Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific to particular time zones)?
Stefan
connectors
which provide a displayport signal).
Stefan
even more
so, writing) some `ext4` filesystems.
Stefan
ng them won't bring any benefit to MS.
Stefan
> Sorry for that. I know it's a sleazy way of learning -- spewing out some
> nonsense, being corrected and caching that for the next time.
You're describing the scientific method,
Stefan
ew files you need from it if/when you need them.
Stefan
ereas `lsinitramfs` lists the content of all the concatenated archives
(under the assumption that all but the last one are not compressed).
I assume this is because dracut doesn't generate such
concatenation-of-archives for its initrds.
Stefan
d easily see the content of the archives but they were
silently decompressed so you can't immediately see what compression (if
any) is used. I had to tweak the code to preserve the intermediate temp
files in order to get to the bottom of it.
In any case, thanks all for the help,
Stefan
0 Aug 20 08:00
kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3692544 Aug 20 08:00
kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin
7214 blocs
% l yuca-initrd.img-5.9.0-2-686-pae
-rw-r--r-- 1 monnier users 24421797 nov 21 14:51
yuca-initrd.img-5.9.0-2-686-pae
%
How come the archive weighs in at 24MB when it doesn't even contain 4MB
of data?
Stefan
i386 testing (with incremental
updates for the last 17 years or so).
> For yours to have 256 times this much is quite an aberration.
Quite definitely.
Stefan
(in both cases,
they are compressed with `lzma`).
Any idea what this difference could come from (or how I could try and
track it down) and how I could fix the size to be more like 15MB?
Stefan
m `unstable` is not problematic, even on Debian `stable`.
Stefan
> Incidentally, I'd prefer to say that authentication is conducted by
> "authenticator" and "authenticatee". Meaning is fairly obvious.
There's also client/server, but I think the 11x people felt this would
too easy to grasp.
Stefan
ate and
improve the debug-log to help diagnose the problem). In the ZFS case
the problem is likely that the ZFS code was not designed with the right
assumptions for use in the Linux kernel.
Stefan
kind of RAM you need has become old&rare). So you want to keep an
eye on the price of your memory and max it out before its price starts
rising again.
Stefan
> The Seagate Barracudas in the NAS do respond to a sleep command
> (hdparm -y) but
Indeed `hdparm -y` has worked fairly reliably for me for all drives.
Stefan
ast I checked.
More specifically, IIUC WD drives will mostly disregard the "time to spin
down" you specify and instead they'll use their own idea of what the
time to spin down should be based on the power-management level
you specified.
Stefan
te).
I had managed to get something like it running using LXC on one machine
but couldn't make it work in the machine where I actually needed it.
IIUC systemd offers something like that nowadays but I haven't had the
occasion to dig into it.
Stefan
produces
it on your system and then you can ask people here to help you track down
the problem, starting by tracking down which tools are involved in your
specific case.
Or (depending on what your end goal is), armed with your recipe you may
also `reportbug`.
Stefan
e, you can almost always arrange for
the development to be done locally, whereas with proprietary software
it's usually out of the customer's hands.
Stefan
rt of udev or systemd or anything else).
Stefan
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