Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates (calculator edition)

On 01/06/2023 12.22, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: In that talk, [Kahan] showed that all calculators made bozo errors, many unique to a calculator. As a consultant to Victor, he got their errors fixed. I don't remember whether HP and TI listened to him. This makes me very wary of random-

Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates (slide rule edition)

On 01/06/2023 12.32, James Knott via talk wrote: BTW, as I mentioned the other day, I still have a slide rule from my high school days.  It's a Pickett Microline 120 and it still works 56 years later! No batteries to give out! Even though I've never had to use them for school or work, I ha

Re: [GTALUG] motorcycle exhaust systems [was slide rules; was Re: Chromebook death dates]

On 02/06/2023 17.49, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: The diffuser cone should actually be a catenoid, with a diameter and length based on the RPM range you're after. There was a lovely little demo two-stroke at the National Engineering Laboratory in Scotland that had its diffuser shaped s

Re: [GTALUG] Chromebook death dates

On 29/05/2023 18.15, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: So fix the testing facilities requirements. Easier said than done. Remember that the entire HS maths curriculum in the US is effectively owned by TI calculators, and their lock-in allows them to sell a 1980s-tech 'approved' calculator f

[GTALUG] Chromebook death dates

TIL that Chromebooks brick themselves when they hit a hard-coded date: the date when Google stops providing updates: https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/26/colorado-schools-chromebooks-churn-outdated/ The article's about Denver Public School District, who are finding a whole lot of their Chromebook

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

On 22/04/2023 14.16, Dhaval Giani wrote: I don’t know why you think so. There is a real cost to maintaining software. Who is going to keep track of security issues? For security, of course deprecation can be a good idea. But this isn't for security. This is merely FSF being petty. Stewart

Re: [GTALUG] DECTalk TTS in source for Linux

On 24/04/2023 00.14, Karen Lewellen wrote: actually, I am on the dectalk mailing list Ah, thought you might be - so you're way ahead of me. its called the dectalk USB,  sells for about $800, and can run under, systems for which there are drivers, windows for example. No one has written qualit

Re: [GTALUG] Cheap small computers [was Re: DECTalk TTS in source for Linux]

On 24/04/2023 02.35, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: There are a lot of used Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p Tiny computers available, starting at $100. These are neat, but I was thinking of a portable device like the later DECTalk boxes. Still, that's a heck of a deal. I may replace my 2013 Samsung

[GTALUG] DECTalk TTS in source for Linux

DECTalk - the venerable text-to-speech system (think Stephen Hawking, or Moonbase Alpha) -  seems to be available in source form: https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk There's a web demo: https://webspeak.terminal.ink/ While I've built it and run it quite successfully under Ubuntu, its licence i

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 38 is out

I hear that it ships with the latest GNU grep, which removes fgrep and egrep. This could be considered a bad idea: https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323  Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] how I sign PDFs

On 12/04/2023 15.54, Alex Kink via talk wrote: By "digital signatures" you still mean cryptographic digital signatures, right, not scribbles on a PDF? Both. Those squiggles you left on someone's Square app? Valid signature. Who and in what context would accept them? I haven't tried, but I do

Re: [GTALUG] UNIX of ESP32 [was Re: Canadian hosting?]

On 11/04/2023 11.34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: As you say, Linux doesn't run on an ESP32. But there is a youtube video of someone who has built a PDP-11 emulator with an ESP32 and runs 2.11 BSD UNIX on it. So cute! Ah, Sprite_tm's project: S

[GTALUG] Canadian hosting?

I know that Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode) has dedicated root Linux servers in Toronto, but is there anyone else non-terrible*? There's a potential client who absolutely must have all data and processing hosted in Canada. I realize there's probably a 3x (or more) premium for in-country hosting.

Re: [GTALUG] ppp inside private network, but no DNS returned?

On 28/02/2023 16.22, James Knott via talk wrote: On 2023-02-28 16:21, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: Also, these are devices that are on a network that couldn't reach OneDrive. Maybe you could try sneakernet.  😉 They're in sealed boxes, up high, possibly near high-voltage equipment. You go f

Re: [GTALUG] RHEL Free Tier vs CentOS Stream vs Alma Linux vs Rocky Linux

On 31/01/2023 16.26, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: - hurts Red Hat, but that isn't immoral Red Hat is IBM, so I guess they're kind of undead and far beyond hurt. I'm sure my late father would have been far less careful what he said about Big Blue, since he'd worked for ICT/ICL while IBM

Re: [GTALUG] Ubuntu Pro - a new, non-optional walled garden from Canonical

On 31/01/2023 10.10, Dhaval Giani wrote: https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro Ah, I didn't see that link, only the "Contact us ..." bit on the main page --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Weird pivot from the Linux Foundation: Overture Maps Foundation

Looks like there's a bit more background from OSMF members here: Overturemaps.org - big-businesses OSMF alternative — https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/overturemaps-org-big-businesses-osmf-alternative/6760 (note that the poster SimonPoole in that thread is OSMF's legal counsel, or possibly f

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

On 12/12/2022 18.34, Erica Peterson via talk wrote: Re: discord -- perhaps, in the interest of supporting open protocols, we could create a Matrix space on element.io? It is free. This would be preferable. Discord creates a large moderation burden (I've had to moderate a channel during event

Re: [GTALUG] How to keep using an old CIFS device

On 09/12/2022 13.12, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Is smbclient an option? It's like an ftp client except for cifs. That's what I have to use. But it warns me that the (required) 'client use spnego = no' option is deprecated. So I have an undefined amount of time before this device is a paperweig

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

On 01/12/2022 02.30, ac via talk wrote: When "directors" or "boards" or "leaders" make decisions on policy it affects operations. Always. and many times it is "politics" and ... Note that in our case, GTALUG directors are very close to the users. Generally, the services we have are the ones t

Re: [GTALUG] At the GTALUG AGM: How we handle Internet services

On 27/11/2022 21.01, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Along with other AGM business, we will be discussing how GTALUG goes forward with our online services. I'm glad we're going to have this discussion. Chris Browne's untimely passing two years ago showed how heavily GTALUG relied on the work o

Re: [GTALUG] Forced off DSL by Bell

On 21/11/2022 16.13, Michael Galea via talk wrote: Hi, Bell notified me that they will soon be shutting down my copper telephone service, no options.  My DSL to TekSavvy will go with it. Joy. I haven't received notice yet, but there have been Bell folks going round with door tags in the street

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

On 10/11/2022 02.21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Apparently the scan under MacOS (and probably under Windows) has better OCR than under Linux. Grr. We're probably stuck with Tesseract, which — while it's much better than it used to be — is now optimized for mass "good enough" recognit

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

On 07/11/2022 20.14, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Well anything that follows the guidelines from python upstream would know that python is never python3. That's the problem: no other language has tried to do the rule-from-above thing. And they are guidelines, right, so they're optional? python

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

On 06/11/2022 21.14, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: I must have done something really wrong when an app I was trying to install a few days ago insisted on running on Python 2. Did you accidentally install "python-is-python2"? It will break modern things in a hilarious manner. There's pyth

Re: [GTALUG] DNS benchmarking

On 02/11/2022 13.32, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Hi all. Can anyone recommend a modern alternative to "namebench "? Looks like it got forked to this project, and the Go port was updated to at least replicated the original Python 2 functions:

Re: [GTALUG] OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box

On 2022-10-24 11:54, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I mostly touch-type. This keyboard does not confuse my fingers. That's good to know. I once had a French bilingual MacBook, and it was confusing even for a non-touch typist. For all other special characters, there's always the Compose

Re: [GTALUG] OK notebook at a good price: $300, refurb / open box

On 2022-10-23 18:21, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Currently only listed

Re: [GTALUG] war story: CMOS battery AKA Real Time Clock (RTC) battery in a notebook

On 2022-10-19 19:58, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: And the coin cell assembly is not generic -- no Dollarama battery. I've seen that heat-shrink-on-a-flying-lead type battery on some single board computers and even some particularly enlightened microcontroller boards. The Radxa boards (

Re: [GTALUG] wired headset suggestions?

As someone who also has auditory processing issues, Zoom is the absolute worst. It compresses speech by a massive amount and adds back very little comfort noise, and for me anything above whisper-quiet is like a jackhammer to the head. If I've been on a Zoom call with anyone here and I've seeme

Re: [GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

On 2022-09-26 13:48, Evan Leibovitch wrote: And... to round out your GUI-free desktop: Lotus 1-2-3, natively ported. https://github.com/taviso/123elf Like the other one, x86 only. I'd be really impressed if it ran on ARM. cheers Stewart --- Post to this mail

Re: [GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

On 2022-09-25 22:59, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: I used to use WordPerfect. Before WordPerfect there was WordStar. I did a search and found out there is a project called WordTsar which is supposed to be WordStar for the 21st century. WordStar hung on for years. An author friend of mine was

[GTALUG] Linux word processing like it's 1997!

In an act of bravery/recklessness/genius (pick any combination), Tavis Ormandy has managed to package Corel WordPerfect for Unix for modern (x86ish) Linux distributions: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but Liam Proven gives a fair rundown: Tavis Ormand

Re: [GTALUG] Tonight's meeting announcement?

On 2022-09-14 23:33, Colin McGregor wrote: That was Tuesday evening. Any event, it wasn't a very good talk (for several reasons), so you didn't miss much. I'm sure it was great, Colin. I'm sorry I wasn't able to attend. I originally sent the message Tuesday morning, but it bounced around for

Re: [GTALUG] Linux on Chromebook

Someone at the Raspberry Pi meetup last night mentioned the Evolve III Maestro 11.6" educational laptop, if anyone's looking for a *really* cheap laptop. I don't know of anyone selling it in Canada at a reasonable price, but Micro Center - a brick & mortar electronics store in the USA - is sell

Re: [GTALUG] couple of unrelated electronics questions?

On 2022-09-08 23:28, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: ... Active Surplus. I thought Active had relocated when the Queen St. store shut down but the website doesn't list them open at a new location. Active Surplus has been gone since 2015. It's why The Gorilla Store (run by Graham, the store man

Re: [GTALUG] tpl Linux training?

On 2022-09-01 11:16, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote: I have a memory of someone from Toronto freegeeks around?> who used  to teach Linux classes, showcasing I believe an option outside of windows. Yup, Free Geek Toronto (FGT) are still around (https://www.freegeektoronto.org/) but I don't thi

[GTALUG] GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Remember when everyone ditched github when MS bought them? This from The Reg, so take with the appropriate quantity of low-sodium seasoning: GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts — https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/ "Exclusive: GitLab plan

Re: [GTALUG] scanner under Windows under Linux?

On 2022-08-02 10:28, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: CZUR makes interesting page scanners: We actually have a couple. This may not be a solution, or one you wee searching for, but there's a chance that the CZUR scanners are USB video devices. They might appear as

Re: [GTALUG] List was down

On 2022-08-02 10:41, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Thanks, Stewart, for asking. Thanks, Hugh, for fixing! I thought that the list might've been having a nice summer off, which it definitely deserves. Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing l

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

On 2022-07-01 19:52, James Knott via talk wrote: I wouldn't worry about what's bundled and just download the latest 'n greatest pfSense or OPNsense. No, I meant the huge amount of tracking cruft that Hugh's RFD link carried. It goes via awin1.com, which is on two of Ublock's standard tracke

Re: [GTALUG] inexpensive mini-PC with four 2.5G ethernet interfaces

On 2022-07-01 03:34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Beware: AliExpress. I've ordered one but I cannot vouch for it. I'd be more worried about the huge tracking rigm

Re: [GTALUG] another inexpensive refurb computer $300

On 2022-06-24 13:43, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Good: not a netbook Bad: 1366 x 768 15.6" display Worse: dealing with The Source ... --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] cheap netbook: Lenovo IdeaPad 1

On 2022-06-15 14:46, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: This is probably more cost-effective than a Raspberry Pi 4 if the display and keyboard are useful. And at least you can get one of these. Well, you could: the Lenovo site is showing "unavailable" It might be a little slower than a Rasp

Re: [GTALUG] File chooser [was desktops]

On 2022-06-13 14:35, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | It's up there in annoyance with Gnome's modal dialogues, which limit all | interaction with that one file chooser. You can turn them off. How do you turn that off? Tweaks -> Attached Modal Dialogs: Off --- Post to this mailing list tal

Re: [GTALUG] File chooser [was desktops]

On 2022-06-12 12:18, Michael Hill via talk wrote: Have you come across the file chooser behaviour where the search field takes the focus instead of the filename field? I have, and it's supremely annoying. I haven't found a solution that doesn't involve view source and calling rename(1) lots o

Re: [GTALUG] RISC-V

On 2022-05-10 08:12, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote: "RISC-V chip designed with open source tools - eeNews Europe" https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/risc-v-chip-designed-with-open-source-tools/ Ah, neat. Wonder how lo

Re: [GTALUG] Removing snapd from Ubuntu

On 2022-04-29 08:50, Val Kulkov wrote: Stewart, would you mind sharing your experience removing snapd from Ubuntu? I'd love to learn how you managed to do it. I'd be happy to get rid of snapd, too. I followed this guide, which I have to admit I haven't tried on a new 21.10 or 22.04 installati

Re: [GTALUG] OT: NYT article "How To Construct a Chip Factory

On 2022-04-08 19:46, William Park via talk wrote: Why do cars need 2nm chips? There's a surprising amount of processing power required in a modern car. Android Auto uses a tablet-class CPU, and Android Automotive (the lower level OS that does more than infotainment) is similar. Electric cars

Re: [GTALUG] More pointless battles [was: I'm discarding an old notebook!]

On 2022-02-15 17:24, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Acer Aspire 9300 AMD Turion 64 X2 - so, roughly half of a Raspberry Pi 4. but it has a screen, keyboard, and you actually have it - unlike a Raspberry Pi 4 --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [GTALUG] RaspberryPi won't automount USB memory stick

On 2022-01-17 08:51, Giles Orr wrote: Install a desktop environment (as opposed to a "window manager") if you don't have one I may be misremembering, but installing one of the desktop packages doesn't necessarily bring in the automount facility. Only installing the Desktop image gives you th

Re: [GTALUG] RaspberryPi won't automount USB memory stick

On 2022-01-14 23:24, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: Why is Raspbian not set up to automount a memory stick Raspberry Pi OS Lite (no desktop) doesn't automount USB devices. Raspberry Pi OS with Desktop does. Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing l

Re: [GTALUG] X10 - Gear you don't want? Or replacement suggestions?

On 2022-01-16 12:50, Giles Orr via talk wrote: First Question: Does anyone have any X10 gear they'd like to get rid of? Soo much ... please take it! I think I might have a couple of the working transceiver modules (RR501?) left. I bought a dozen from Active Surplus, but their power caps slow

Re: [GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

On 2022-01-08 22:43, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: ... LaTeX, which has fantastic PDF support I think we're seeing different problems. Mine was caused by a literal U+03A9 ("Ω") somewhere in the document. The default LaTeX toolchain for the particular project's Sphinx setup wasn't Unicode-awa

Re: [GTALUG] Man and Info Pages

info was only ever a Gnu thing, and there are as many people who'd do the opposite of what the FSF would say on principle. A major strike against info is its reliance on texinfo,  its own weird markup language. texinfo also has dependencies that run into the gigabytes, since installing texinfo

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

On 2021-12-01 21:53, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: Do any of the casting suggestions on that link that I sent fix it? I haven't had a chance to try them yet, but your note about the transformation being reversible gives me hope that it can be fixed. thanks, Stewart --- Post to this mailin

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

On 2021-11-29 16:25, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: Another thing to try is using mysqli_set_charset("UTF8"); somewhere in your site's code. Substitute in different character sets until you find the correct one ... Thanks, Jamon, but there isn't a valid encoding for what my database seems to

Re: [GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

On 2021-11-27 18:04, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". Yes, I do, but not to the database server. All I have for that is socket access and PHPMyAdmin (blecch). Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere downstream of t

[GTALUG] a solved problem unsolved itself: WordPress, MySQL, UTF-8

I have been running a WordPress blog hosted on a Linux-based shared host since WordPress became a thing. It has worked quite well from about 2004 up until a few weeks ago. Sadly, *something* recently decided my database encoding was wrong. And that something decided to "fix" it. It certainly "

Re: [GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk? (derail, going offlist)

On 2021-11-20 18:39, Karen Lewellen wrote: reaching out because there is a person overseas who might wish to buy one of the  dectalk USB boxes you once wrote of building here. briefly (in case my mails to you are getting blocked: I will try an offlist response): I'm no longer involved in ass

Re: [GTALUG] Booting linux from nvme disk?

On 2021-11-20 13:56, Peter King via talk wrote: The "obvious" suggestion, given the symptoms, are that some driver needs to be loaded right away to allow linux to recognize the nvme disk as bootable. Also, check your BIOS version. My (fairly elderly) motherboard needed a BIOS update to boot f

Re: [GTALUG] Command doesn't work in script but works on command line?

On 2021-11-07 04:54, Jim Ruxton via talk wrote: ... Clicking on the script works. I still find it strange however that this is not the case if I run the script on the command line. It runs regardless. This may be very out of date information, but I remember being surprised that a whole lot of

Re: [GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons (it was .config all along)

On 2021-10-22 21:13, Stewart C. Russell wrote: It is immensely annoying that Xubuntu can't get this right. I've restored the Alt-Tab behaviour, incidentally, by taking the simple but drastic step of removing everything from ~/.config, logging out, logging back in, then selectively restoring

Re: [GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

Thanks to everyone who chimed in to say that Alt-Tab works for them on XFCE. It absolutely doesn't for me. I've tried: * checking the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml: it has the expected (and confusing) contents that seem to work for everyon

Re: [GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any hate it receives. Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code was bug

[GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

GNOME have finally made good on their threat to remove all support for icons on the Desktop. Any files in ~/Desktop no longer produce icons on the screen. The GNOME Shell plugin that was the last thing that allowed it is no longer supported. GNOME Shell itself seems broken: what was the Shell P

Re: [GTALUG] Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms

On 2021-10-09 7:24 a.m., o1bigtenor wrote: > > Now - - - - how long until this hits firefox-esr? - - - - musing.  Depends what ESR cycle you're on. Debian considers 78.14 their ESR release (at least in Buster, which I haven't upgraded from yet), while Mozilla offers 91.2 as ESR. So if we review r

Re: [GTALUG] MySQL v. MariaDB

On 2021-10-09 10:12 a.m., Slackrat via talk wrote: > It looks like Slackware is swtching. Debian went years ago. The only complaints are from people trying to install from ancient tutorials who aren't able to find the mysql-* packages. Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsub

[GTALUG] Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms

via mastodon: Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog — https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/

Re: [GTALUG] [probably offtopic] e-sign solutions

On 2021-09-20 11:57 a.m., Jason Shaw via talk wrote: > > I've used DocHub ( https://dochub.com/ ) for > signing PDFs and it's been fine. I just tried it, and it seems the free version doesn't electronically sign the document at all. It's neither encrypted nor signed, so anyo

Re: [GTALUG] Linux growth (was: Vaccination Receipts on Linux)

On 2021-09-20 6:45 a.m., Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > The rise of chromebooks in school is probably the harbinger of a move of > quasi-embedded linux from phones to the desktop. And, more to Karen Lewellen's point, Chrome OS has to provide better accessibility than standard Linux distro

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

On 2021-09-17 4:24 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: > > I just downloaded the receipts.  They have a watermark and are also > digitally signed, whereas the mailed ones have neither. I downloaded mine a little after you did. Mine aren't signed, watermarked or encrypted. Slightly hilariously, it l

Re: [GTALUG] Vaccination Receipts on Linux

On 2021-09-17 3:20 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > When I go back to that email, I find that it is defective. You cannot > read the PDF from my MUA (Alpine on Linux) "I don't recognize that version of Outlook or Gmail, sir" > The reason is that the PDF is sent as an attachment, wi

Re: [GTALUG] Fedora 34 with EFI boot on Raspberry Pi 4

On 2021-09-10 10:39 a.m., Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > >Let the distribution wars begin! Let's not. Suppose they gave a war and nobody came? From my user point of view, it makes almost no difference what Linux I'm running on. It might as well be a Linux called Mac OS X if it gets the job

Re: [GTALUG] war story: horrible colours on Seiki TV under Fedora 34

On 2021-08-10 9:57 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I don't really like to black-box nature of the profile presentation > through the Gnome GUI. There should be some tool to examine and nudge a > profile in useful ways. I'm tired of spelunking to find the right software > tools for

Re: [GTALUG] war story: horrible colours on Seiki TV under Fedora 34

On 2021-08-09 8:52 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I don't have the tools or the time to calibrate my monitor. I'd be happy to lend you my ColorHug. Takes about 15 minutes. You will be amazed at how less blue everything looks, because vendors always set monitors for maximum brightnes

Re: [GTALUG] long war story: growing the ESP (/boot/efi)

On 2021-07-14 11:47 a.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > Consumer grade flash often only has 1 write cycles. Especially if > it isn't expected to be updated very much. Different price point. Can confirm from annoying experience that these QSPI flash chips really don't have many write

Re: [GTALUG] [ Audacity Becomes Spyware (fwd)

On 2021-07-06 5:07 p.m., Znoteer via talk wrote: > > Don't personally know much about Audacity. Just thought I would pass this > along. > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/ Except your IP address *is* considered to be personally ident

Re: [GTALUG] [ Audacity Becomes Spyware (fwd)

On 2021-07-06 10:38 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I wonder if this change will get Audacity dropped from some distros. > Naively, I'd think that at least Debian and Fedora would have qualms. Debian has no problem about removing tracking code from packages. But what sort of timeline th

Re: [GTALUG] [ Audacity Becomes Spyware (fwd)

On 2021-07-06 7:10 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > That was a pre-announcement, which they withdrew. They said they were going to withdraw, but they doubled down: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ Their new terms and conditions includes: * collection of usage

[GTALUG] Foone's Silverado Linux discovery - "Go away, go away now, go away fast"

Popular hardware hacker Foone Turing has found that the Chevy Silverado they're renting runs a dubious version of Linux in the entertainment console, yet it seems to have some control over some in-car systems and talks via the car's wifi (of course). Ongoing slightly sweary thread starts here:

Re: [GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04? (Mostly, Wayland is Not Fit for Purpose)

Thanks for all the responses. I've mostly got things working, but Hugh's comment about Wayland being “[c]ompatible for X applications. Not users” rings true. It's a horrid thing to dump on users, suddenly finding that Ctrl-X,C,V no longer work, and familiar apps fail silently. The main (and most

Re: [GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

also it seems this upgrade has borked xclip, which is a can't-live-without Did anyone think Wayland was a good idea? A desktop without a working clipboard?? And by working, I mean "the way it always did before" Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

On 2021-06-04 6:28 p.m., Alex Volkov wrote: > > Krusader for example, Thanks, Alex - I should've said: no KDE. I don't, I can't, I won't. And how about that application name, eh? Probbo or what? Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://

[GTALUG] ftp helper app, and how to screenshot on Ubuntu 21.04?

Hi - so browsers don't support ftp:// links any more , and I was wondering what people used as a drop-in app? I'd prefer if it weren't Filezilla, as that thing was a bug-ridden mess of spyware last time I looked at it. Most of the ve

Re: [GTALUG] IX is hiring

On 2021-06-02 11:57 a.m., David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > > See https://www.indexexchange.com/careers, and snoop about us on Linkedin Note that if you use uBlock Origin, this URL is blocked by Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list . cheers, Stewart --- Post to this mailing list talk@gt

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for a can shield for an UNO or compatible

On 2021-05-14 2:54 p.m., Dave Cramer via talk wrote: > > The GPS is very expensive. YesL it's an ancient SiRF Star IV. There are newer, cheaper and more accurate models, but it was the first GPS to appear regularly in hobby projects at a then-reasonable price. Whether they use the same connector,

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for a can shield for an UNO or compatible

On 2021-05-14 10:29 a.m., Dave Cramer via talk wrote: > Is there a local source for something like MakerFocus CAN-Bus Shield > V1.2 > ? Yes, Elmwood Electronics has the SparkFun CAN-BUS Shield in stock — https://elmwoodelectronic

Re: [GTALUG] USB "gadget" on Raspberry Pi 4; Tiny Pilot KVM

On 2021-05-10 3:29 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > > (There's a different splitter that might be aimed at the Pi Zero) Ah, I see this is from 8086 Consultancy, who are known for their compellingly weird products. Like this, for inst

Re: [GTALUG] Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit - Ubiquiti Unifi controller software

On 2021-05-09 10:51 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: > I've been considering (because I have way too much time on my hands > these days) getting a Raspberry Pi to run my Unifi access point > controller software on.  I would be doing this with Ubuntu or Raspian > Linux.  I currently run the control

Re: [GTALUG] Linus Torvalds Responds to Linux Banning University of Minnesota

On 2021-04-25 1:46 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote: > > Zero Tolerance allows one to live. They need to be shot ! Please don't make death threats on the mailing list. They are people who are researchers who made some ill-advised decisions, nothing more. The most worrying aspect for me i

Re: [GTALUG] Follow-on from Evan's talk: WSLg (graphics!)

On 2021-04-21 7:45 p.m., Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > If anyone recalls my talk, one of the reasons I went to Windows and > WSL was to get AWAY from Pulse Audio! :-) I do remember your talk. But this Pulse Audio server will likely work, because you can't mess with it in any meaningful way. --- Post

[GTALUG] Follow-on from Evan's talk: WSLg (graphics!)

I see that MS's WSL preview release that came out today now has graphics support via Wayland. It's got some clever stuff behind it, and is explained here: WSLg Architecture | Windows Command Line — https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/wslg-architecture/ Accelerated graphics and a built-in P

Re: [GTALUG] TIL: rtcwake / wakealarm

On 2021-04-12 9:28 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > I always thought that shutting down a Pi really left it on. That's one > reason some people like Pi power supplies with a switch. To what > extent is that true? It does: it just leaves the processor halted. So the other periphera

Re: [GTALUG] TIL: rtcwake / wakealarm

On 2021-04-11 2:28 p.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > # rtcwake --date +5min --mode mem > > I chose "--mode mem" because this machine has often and successfully > been suspended to RAM. Hi Giles - thanks for the report. I stayed away from using rtcwake, partly because of the report of it no

[GTALUG] TIL: rtcwake / wakealarm

This may be old news to many of you, but today I learned you can have the computer's real time clock boot your machine at a specific time. The more proper way seems to be to use the 'rtcwake' command, but you can also do it by writing the timestamp of the startup time to /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakeala

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

On 2021-04-09 1:58 p.m., David Mason via talk wrote: > > The key part of what Lennart wrote is “if done right”. How could you > imagine that the functional program would return the results out of > order? Well, this particular DSSSL thing did occasionally put lists out of order, and didn't have a

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

(oops, don't you hate it with the mail client silently assumes you only want to reply to the sender?) On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 at 11:51, Lennart Sorensen mailto:lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> wrote: But using a loop means you are telling the system how to do things, rather than telling it what

Re: [GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

On 2021-04-07 11:21 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > When I was an undergrad at University of Waterloo, we were required to > use FORTRAN (WatFiv). I hated it. I liked the notation of Algol > better and Algol-W (W for Wirth) was a good implementation for student > uses. I even creat

Re: [GTALUG] Surveillance Capitalism [was another thread]

On 2021-04-04 1:18 a.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > As for erosion: consider that this sector that MS dominates is an > ever-shrinking piece of the IT pie. PC gaming has to compete with > dedicated consoles and the looming VR. Microsoft does extremely well with its XBox product line, do

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