[DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have any that work. My preferences are an ad-free internet experience, or at least, if not e

[DNG] Ubuntu without systemd?

2020-12-03 Thread Antony Stone
Hi. Before I started using Devuan as my standard distribution, I was converting Debian systems from systemd to sysvinit (Jessie and Stretch), and for servers without a graphical desktop environment, this worked perfectly well. Does anyone know whether the same thing can be done starting from Ub

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Dimitris via Dng
Hey, On 12/3/20 10:12 AM, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: Dear All, Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my If you have other solutions which I did not think of, please suggest them. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Waterfox was sold to an advertising company la

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread wirelessduck--- via Dng
> On 3 Dec 2020, at 19:12, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > > Dear All, > > Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my > add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two > more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have > any that wo

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread terryc
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:12:07 +0100 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Dear All, > > Lately, I am noticing Waterfox has lost the ability to display my > add-ons, which are AdGuard AdBlocker and NoScript. I had about two > more in the past, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to have > any that

Re: [DNG] Ubuntu without systemd?

2020-12-03 Thread aitor
Hi Antony, On 12/3/20 10:32 AM, Antony Stone wrote: I ask because I've looked at both Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 systems, and I simply don't see the expected sysvinit packages available - I wonder if they've been eliminated entirely, rather than just not installed by default as Debian does. I don't

Re: [DNG] Ubuntu without systemd?

2020-12-03 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 03 December 2020 at 11:55:22, aitor wrote: > Hi Antony, > > On 12/3/20 10:32 AM, Antony Stone wrote: > > I ask because I've looked at both Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 systems, and I > > simply don't see the expected sysvinit packages available - I wonder if > > they've been eliminated enti

Re: [DNG] Ubuntu without systemd?

2020-12-03 Thread aitor
Hi again, On 12/3/20 12:00 PM, Antony Stone wrote: I don't know, but sysvinit may have been removed entirely from ubuntu since the early days of upstart, due to its backward compatibility with sysV scripts. That's a fair point, however in 18.04 and 20.04 there are no packages with "upstart" in

Re: [DNG] Ubuntu without systemd?

2020-12-03 Thread Antony Stone
On Thursday 03 December 2020 at 12:11:11, aitor wrote: > Hi again, > > On 12/3/20 12:00 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > >> I don't know, but sysvinit may have been removed entirely from ubuntu > >> since the early days of upstart, due to its backward compatibility with > >> sysV scripts. > > > > That'

[DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Huh! Geekiness, in some circumstances, can mean lots of wealth! I has happened to some: I cannot blame them for trying their luck. Cheers. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-12-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 02:54:44 -0500, Steve wrote in message <20201203025444.38d57...@mydesk.domain.cxm>: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:43:23 -0500 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > From: Hendrik Boom > > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > > Subject: Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia > > GeForce gt

[DNG] Let's Encrypt (was: snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...)

2020-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > ..meanwhile, I too lean towards Ian's contrarianism: > http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml I couldn't possibly agree more. Let's Encrypt is a Potemkin Village approach to the SSL cert problem; it's pretend security that pretends a

Re: [DNG] Let's Encrypt (was: snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...)

2020-12-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 13:38:47 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > > > ..meanwhile, I too lean towards Ian's contrarianism: > > http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml > > I couldn't possibly agree more. Let's Encrypt is a Potemkin Village > ap

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread John Crisp via Dng
On 3 December 2020 09:12:07 CET, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: >Dear All, > >If you have other solutions which I did not think of, please suggest >them. Thanks for taking the time to reply. > "Firefox" has lost it. Hey ho. For individual browsers: Ublock Origin. UMatrix if you want to be sava

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-12-01 23:59, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 03:33:41PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > >> What, specifically, gets installed as part of Devuan which you don't want to >> see there? > > As an exercise, try doing a minimal install via debootstrap, which is > arguably the

Re: [DNG] Anybody successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with Devuan?

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-11-29 21:26, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone successfully worked with an Nvidia GeForce gt 710 with > Devuan? As a bonus, has anyone gotten it to work without Pulseaudio? I set up an old Dell XPS desktop for a friend's son with Manjaro. I chose this because it was the only dist

Re: [DNG] Firefox and its forks are losing the power of add-ons.

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-12-04 08:59, John Crisp via Dng wrote: > On 3 December 2020 09:12:07 CET, Edward Bartolo via Dng > wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> If you have other solutions which I did not think of, please suggest >> them. Thanks for taking the time to reply. >> > > "Firefox" has lost it. Hey ho. > That t

Re: [DNG] samba/NAS box problem

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
On 2020-12-02 02:18, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: ... > > You can 'nmap --script smb-protocols ' for a list of supported > versions. > > libre Grüße, > Florian Hi Florian, What package holds said "smb-protocols" script? I regularly troubleshoot in MS shops and that looks useful. Vielen Dan

[DNG] Oldstable and Archive timing expectations?

2020-12-03 Thread Simon Walter
Hi all, First of all, sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere. I had a look around the website and particularly https://www.devuan.org/os/releases has no info. When can I expect oldstable to move to archived? I suppose I should keep an eye out for a Chimaera BETA announcement and then change

Re: [DNG] Oldstable and Archive timing expectations?

2020-12-03 Thread golinux
On 2020-12-03 19:39, Simon Walter wrote: Hi all, First of all, sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere. I had a look around the website and particularly https://www.devuan.org/os/releases has no info. When can I expect oldstable to move to archived? I suppose I should keep an eye out fo

Re: [DNG] samba/NAS box problem

2020-12-03 Thread Florian Zieboll via Dng
Am 4. Dezember 2020 02:19:42 MEZ schrieb Simon Walter : > On 2020-12-02 02:18, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > ... > > > > You can 'nmap --script smb-protocols ' for a list of supported > > versions. > > > > libre Grüße, > > Florian > > Hi Florian, > > What package holds said "smb-protocols"

Re: [DNG] Let's Encrypt (was: snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...)

2020-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > What about the fact that Google gives higher rankings to secure > accounts? For google togive that higher ranking, does self-signing > suffice for enhanced rankings, or does one have to have a cert signed > by a certification company like Let's Enc

Re: [DNG] Let's Encrypt (was: snapd in Devuan? Dependency on systemd...)

2020-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
I posted a wrong link, oops. > Retrospective case studies of some of the latter from over the prior decade: > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20201203.213847.8bf66630.en.html I meant this one: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2020-December/011311.html __