Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, September 5, 2020 1:09 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > Isn't that how the web originally WAS designed? That the web-site sent > content and the browser determined how it was displayed? sort of. it was not very clear and they could've gone either

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 4, 2020 12:06 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > with qutebrowser, i added these in my config.py > file: > > c.aliases['style-none'] = 'config-unset -t content.user_stylesheets' > c.aliases['style-night'] = 'set -t content.u

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 3, 2020 11:19 PM, John Blinka wrote: > Could you elaborate on this?  Don’t know css, but could pick it up.  I’m > assuming that web pages already contain css code to direct their > appearance.  yes. > So you apparently have some

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:50 PM, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, Everyone, hello big dawg! quick point: imo the problem of gray texts on white backgrounds, or scrollbars or whatever, that you have, is not related to aging. imo it's rather related to stupid

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 11:27 PM, antlists wrote: > On 26/08/2020 21:21, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > > so basically total expected number of protocols/layers used in the > > > universe, per second, will be much less if we, on planet earth, use a > > > mail

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-28 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 2:35 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 09:07:03PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > anyway i'm out of this. massive waste of time. i > > could've finished server-side hillarymail by it. >

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-27 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 27, 2020 8:15 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/27/20 7:00 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > but i this way of looking at protocols (despite being common) is wrong. > > Why do you think that it is wrong? > > What

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-27 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:21 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > email emailemail > SMTP SMTP POP3S/IMAPS > A) [1]---(TCP)---[2]---(TCP)---[3]---(TCP)---[4] > > Now what you are proposing: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of > Margaret > Thatcher? ;-) very true (re: thatcher). now i cannot unsee the thatcher in the pixel art. i have 2 options: (1) rename protocol into

[gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol which i plan to implement some day if things turn out well. here is its zeroth draft: https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail rgrds, cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:19 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > > i was thinking (and still) if such relay-by-relay delivery increases > > probability of error by a factor of n (n = number of relays in the > > middle). e.g. probability of accidental silent mail

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:10 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > There is some nebulous area around what that actually means. But the > idea is that the receiving server believes, in good faith, that it has > committed the message to persistent storage. Usually this

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 21, 2020 11:37 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > SMTP may not be the best, but I do think that it has some merits. > Merits that the previously mentioned HTTP/2 alternative misses. not a major point but just to clarify a thing. i think it's unfair to

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-21 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ On Friday, August 21, 2020 8:59 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/20/20 7:39 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > 1. receipt by final mail server (mandatory). > > > > You're missing the point that each and every single server along the > path between the original subm

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-21 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 21, 2020 4:28 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > You're re-inventing the wheel. yes, i do consider re-inventing octagonal wheels. though this wasn't my point here. here, i'm just "asking" to see what makes the "safely stored" guarantee. perhaps i

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-20 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 20, 2020 11:41 AM, antlists wrote: > Will that python script allow for the situation that the message is > received, but the message was NOT safely stored for onwards transmission > before the receiver crashed, and as such the message has not

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 7:10 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > Per protocol specification, SMTP is EXTREMELY robust. > > It will retry delivery, nominally once an hour, for up to five (or > seven) days. That's 120-168 delivery attempts. > > Further, SMTP

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 12:25 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I don't think you fully understand Grant's point. Whilst HTTP(/2) may be more > featureful for serving web pages, it makes absolutely no sense to use for > anything but. Protocol age absolutely is not

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
> So you want to change from a ubiquitous protocol that is supported by > many Many MANY devices to niche protocol that has a non-trivial > installation / configuration curve. 1st half is "yes", 2nd half is "no" (mine is simpler). > > then, verify messages by mailing their supplied email a

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:21 PM, Remco Rijnders wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:00:52AM +, Caveman wrote in > > > yes. smtp is nasty, and also redundant. > > How is it redundant? redundant as in containing concepts already done in other protocols, so

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 8:00 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/16/20 10:50 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > 3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may read my emails, > > and laugh at me! > > Do you have any (anecdotal) e

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:48 PM, Jarry wrote: > Rent VPS and be your own admin. But running properly configured > mail-server is not so easy. Setting up postfix/exim/sendmail > is just a beginning. If you mean it seriously and do not want > your IP to land on

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 3:33 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > How many concurrent users will be connected to the mail server? How much > traffic > will the S.M.T.P. server receive (read: how many e-mails arrive on a daily > basis)? If you really don't trust your

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, August 17, 2020 8:54 PM, Dale wrote: > > If you visit this site, it doesn't allow adblock to be in use.  I can't tell > if it has the actual list or not.  Sites that don't like my adblock blocking > their annoying ads that I will never click on gets

[gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-17 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi. context: 1. tinfoil hat is on. 2. i feel disrespected when someone does things to my stuff without getting my approval. 3. vps admin is not trusty and their sys admin may read my emails, and laugh at me! 4. whole thing is not worth much money. so not welling to pay more than the

[gentoo-user] which bitcoin app to use?

2020-08-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - which btc app to use? one in portage? or one in the overlay `bitcoin'? and why? rgrds, cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-08-01 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, August 1, 2020 5:49 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > This is not a GUI > > > > xterm is GUI. you don't need to click on gtk/qt > > widgets to access details of password entries. > > gtk/qt is a massive overkill. > > Please check the meaning of " GUI "

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, July 19, 2020 6:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > [I have stripped all mention of capitalisation, as it is off-topic here. > However, a seeming lack of competence in English will lead people to believe > that the incompetence also leaks into the code. This

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, July 18, 2020 11:13 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > This is not a GUI xterm is GUI. you don't need to click on gtk/qt widgets to access details of password entries. gtk/qt is a massive overkill. > This makes portability a problem. Exactly why keepass

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:28 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This sociological position may be valid, but please understand that I was not > suggesting you "don't insult" them. But placing a picture of a shit next to > their project name based solely on the fact it

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, July 17, 2020 8:56 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Looks nice. Except for: > I like having a GUI where I can easily access the different account details. how about: `nsapass list | less` ? (thinking to let nsapass automatically pipe list's output to

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-18 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, July 17, 2020 2:32 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I haven't downloaded it yet, but I think you should rephrase the README on the > GitHub page. Instead of constantly explaining the reasons you dislike > KeePassXC > in particular, it would be more

[gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-17 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - recently i heard some guys were suffering in this list from keepassxc, which reminded me of my my own. so i finally decided to put an end to this in 404 lines of py code: https://github.com/Al-Caveman/nsapass hth. rgrds, cm.

[gentoo-user] color fonts?

2020-07-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look: https://www.fontspace.com/category/color can we do this to linux? e.g. in urxvt? also can we make our own color fonts? e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them? rgrds, cm.

[gentoo-user] arpwatch changed syntax?

2020-07-01 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi. background: --- previously, i used to run it by this: > arpwatch -i enp7s0 -m cave...@domain.com -s /usr/sbin/sendmail but now, after some update, apparently this doesn't work any more. what seems to have changed is: * "-m" is replaced by "-w" or "-W". * "-s" doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, June 5, 2020 5:08 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > smp? ( > >=dev-python/ipykernel-5.1.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] > > >=dev-python/ipyparallel-6.2.3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] > > )" > > > Do you currently have either of these packages installed ? yes, but gone by --depclean (probably after

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, June 5, 2020 4:20 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > installed version of ipython also has the [smp] USE-flag ? yeah. added -smp for ipython, and the circle is gone. looks problem is solved for now. (i hope i'm not missing much for having ipython with -smp) thanks a lot! i highly

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, June 5, 2020 1:43 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I can't replicate this at all. Could you post (attach, compress if necessary) > your `emerge --info docutils` ? Thanks a lot for your time. Highly appreciated. Portage 2.3.100 (python 3.7.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/systemd,

[gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-04 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
if i exec: "emerge -avDuNt --quiet-build=y @world": > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more

Re: [gentoo-user] newboat loading wrong library path

2020-05-10 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 10, 2020 5:02 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > A more permanent solution would be to fix the error in newsboat, or patch the > ebuild to create this symlink upon installation of stfl or newsboat. thanks a lot for your time. highly appreciated. any reason why it isn't a bug in libstfl?

[gentoo-user] newboat loading wrong library path

2020-05-10 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi: shell> newsboat newsboat: error while loading shared libraries: libstfl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory shell> ls /usr/lib64/libstfl.so* -lh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 10 15:27 /usr/lib64/libstfl.so -> libstfl.so.0.24* -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:35 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:14 PM Caveman Al Toraboran > toraboracave...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > are you referring to python's dependence on expat > > and glibc? > > More like bash's dependence. Well, and in the

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 7:31 AM, Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > OP, odds are the emerge failure is what triggered the problem.  If it had > completed without failure, it would likely have been a clean update.  This is > why I set up a chroot and do my updates there and use the -k option

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, May 7, 2020 5:43 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Are you overriding something, or were you running this right in the > middle of an update? emerge was updating, then some ebuild failed and i didn't have --keep-going. then next time i tried to sync layman it failed. i'm now re-running

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-06 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:28 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/22/20 12:24 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > On a source-based distribution, the thing that manages package > > installations can break itself if it incorrectly installs a library that > > a subsequent run of itself would

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Monday, May 4, 2020 3:19 AM, antlists wrote: > On 03/05/2020 22:46, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > On Sunday, May 3, 2020 6:27 PM, Jack ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > curious. how do people look at --layout=n2 in the > > storage industry? e.g. do they i

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Monday, May 4, 2020 2:50 AM, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 03.05.2020 um 23:46 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: > > > so, in summary: > > /\ > > | a 5-disk RAID10 is better than a 6-disk RAID10 | > > | ONLY IF your d

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 6:27 PM, Jack wrote: > Minor point - you have one duplicate line there ". f  f ." which is the > second and last line of the second group.  No effect on anything else in > the discussion. thanks. > Trying to help thinking about odd numbers of disks, if you are still >

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:23 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For > example, Seagate Barracudas are very popular desktop drives, but I guess > maybe HALF of the emails asking for help recovering an array on the raid > list involve them

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Sunday, May 3, 2020 1:14 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > > Q3: what are the future growth/shrinkage > > options for a RAID10 setup? e.g. with > > respect to these: > > > > 1. read/write speed. > > > > iirc far is good for speed. > > > 2. tolerance guarantee towards failing > >disks. >

[gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - i'm to setup my 1st RAID, and i'd appreciate if any of you volunteers some time to share your valuable experience on this subject. my scenario --- 0. i don't boot from the RAID. 1. read is as important as write. i don't have any application-specific scenario that

[gentoo-user] how to partition a dm-crypt disk?

2020-05-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - why can't i use fdisk to partition a dm-crypt disk? tried to `sudo fdisk /dev/mapper/ea`, which is created by: > `sudo cryptsetup open --type plain /dev/sda ea` fdisk shows my partitions: > Device StartEndSectors Size Type > /dev/mapper/ea-part1 2048

Re: [gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-30 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression oo. thanks, but my mistake. i should've clarified better. i'm looking for a solution that works nicely with ext4. ideally i am thinking of a device mapper solution. e.g. we got a

[gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-29 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - any nice way to have compression at the file system level, without using zfs? perhaps some kind of device mapper that compresses data? i find file system compression to speed up read/write to slow disks noticeably (e.g. sata). rgrds, cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Saturday, April 25, 2020 1:23 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > It's not outwardly a traveling salesman problem, but it's on the same > level of difficulty. If you look at RDEPEND in an ebuild, you'll see a > bunch of entries like > > cat/pkg <= version > > As the package manager recursively

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-25 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Saturday, April 25, 2020 10:04 PM, Fernando Reyes wrote: > Bravo, and Gentoo can't be dead because it's immortal. > > likewhoa no, that's not it. let me explain. gentoo is indeed dead. specifically, gentoo's death happened some time in 2007. then, in the 2nd of march 2008, gentoo

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-25 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 24, 2020 12:27 AM, Steven Lembark wrote: > Main issue I can see with C is that most people today don't know how > to manage memory; not enough of us left who really understand how > malloc works :-) i find it very hard to believe this. because, fundamentally, the concept of

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-24 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 24, 2020 9:56 PM, Michele Alzetta wrote: > I mean, basically portage is just a set of functions, so a functional > programming language might just be the best way to go yes, haskell passes step (1); so does php, java, etc. now kindly apply the rest of the steps ((2) and

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-24 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 24, 2020 8:30 PM, inasprecali wrote: > There is no rational reason for the core of Portage to be written in > C. curious.. are you also cool if busybox was written in python?

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-24 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 24, 2020 4:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > How did we get from "Is Gentoo dead?" to "Is C++ dead?" c++ is very alive. it just usually exists in the form of a disease and spreads like cancer. rgrds, cm.

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-24 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:32 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > >   No-no. C++ is a nightmare. A few people want to use it. > > C++ is an extremely widespread language with millions of lines of code > written daily world wide.  i think that might be misleading as it seems to imply that being a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 24, 2020 1:03 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > If it's so easy, why don't you implement it? /s because busy and got better things in life. but what is your point? 1. are you trying to get to know me a bit closer? 2. or are you trying to indirectly a claim that making portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?

2020-04-23 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 23, 2020 11:09 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > Looking for some guidance in managing the source of package > installs/upgrades when a package is provided by both the standard > repository and an overlay. > > I currently have the poly-c overlay added via layman. poly-c

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-23 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:34 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Dependency resolution is indeed a (formally) hard problem. Solving the > traveling salesman problem is also hard. Solving the traveling salesman > problem while being punched in the face is even harder. When I complain > about

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 7:35 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/22/20 11:22 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:01 PM, Consus con...@ftml.net wrote: > > > > > Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best rss reader?

2020-04-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:44 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Really? Masked as in package.mask? When? I don't see that. > I use it too, and it is better than the alternatives IMO. i'm on ~amd, is this related to why you don't see it? from `/var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/package.mask`: ``` #

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 11:01 PM, Consus wrote: > Yeah, mgorny likes to do some provocative stuff like forking Portage. patching P*E is heretic, and forking it is outright blasphemous.

[gentoo-user] best rss reader?

2020-04-19 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - could everyone share his rss reading setup? i have newsboat, but it got masked. so i'm now starting to look around again. i'm open minded and welling to question fundamentals in the theory of the optimality of rss feed readers. so if you have some principles/theories about what makes an

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:09 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > I use urxvt and I've always done Ctrl+Alt+V for paste. If you try that, what > does it do? yes. it works. thanks. i guess the reason ctrl+shift+v, or ctrl+v, work is because of fish's (shell) magic. but when ssh runs, it's no

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:51 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > if i press ctrl+shift+v, followed by enter, then > not even the enter registers. if i press the > enter again, alone, without the preceeding > ctrl+shift+v, it works but tells me the obvious > message "permi

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:20 PM, wrote: > I didn't tru that muself, but as far as I could remember, > ssh catches the tty so no password will be shown (but processed). ya, i know that bit. > What happens if you paste the password, ignore, that "nothing" happens > and then press ? if i

Re: [gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:12 PM, David Abbott wrote: > Did you try CTRL + SHIFT + V yes (that's how i paste).

[gentoo-user] can't paste password from clipboard into ssh login in urxvt

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
so i get my password loaded into the clipboard by keepassxc. then i can paste it into various terminals, like urxvt. but, the strange thing is that, i cannot paste it into urxvt when it shows ssh's login prompt. i can paste the password loaded into the clipboard from keepassxc if there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] display repo in emerge list?

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 3:19 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: > It shows the repository for me when I use my command. I assume you > would get the same if you removed -q (quiet) from your command, which > might override or interfere with your -v (verbose). > > Another thing people might react to,

[gentoo-user] display repo in emerge list?

2020-04-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - any way to display which repository a package is being installed/updated from when emerging something? e.g. when doing `emerge -aqvDuUNt @world`, i see a tree of packages, but i don't know from which repository are they coming. this concerns me since i got 2 overlays added, and it would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-09 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:49 AM, Michael wrote: > I have not configured nullmailer to know its internals, but assuming you have > not removed '127.0.0.1 localhost' from your /etc/hosts it should work. interesting. i had (no work): `127.0.0.1localhost myhostname` but it only worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v > m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this error: > > Apr 03 10:15:09 blah smartd[219171]: Te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing > outbound mail while you're offline.: nullmailer is now configured, and test with `echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Friday, April 3, 2020 6:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran toraboracave...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your > > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? > > Yes. I meant the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional > who already knows how to configure it (not joking). > > If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or > wherever), then Sendmail is definitely

[gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
currently i have two i3 tiles open on one of my monitors: * one shows `journalctl -f`, which shows things from smartd, sudo attempts, and maybe soon also arpwatch. (btw, any other monitoring apps that you recommend?) * another shows `watch 'dmesg -T` for kernely things not showing up in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the > hard part :-P Do you hav

[gentoo-user] mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-03-31 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. from journalctl: > Apr 01 03:55:17 blah smartd[11693]: mail: cannot send message: Process exited > with a non-zero status i did `equery belongs mail`, and i got: > dev-python/twisted-19.10.0 (/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/twisted/mail) >

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-24 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 23, 2020 3:33 PM, Michael wrote: > 'man smartctl' provides some explanation with regards to reading the Attribute > values reported by the firmware of the disk, as does Wikipedia: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:50 PM, Michael wrote: > What Stefan said - the disk is on its way out and autorecovery of bad sectors > is failing. You could run: > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > to see what errors it reports, but in the first instance if the data on

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 22, 2020 11:53 AM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > Messages like > > > > [sda] tag#6 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > > > > [sda] tag#6 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed > > usually point towards towards problems with the

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-21 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracave...@protonmail.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: > > > questions: > >  * what's going on? > >  * how to find out? > > "dmesg

[gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-21 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
questions: * what's going on? * how to find out? * how to fix? symptoms: * can't write (gives read/write error). * but files can get created and deleted. * newly created files, which also have failed writes have 0 bytes in them. * mount /dev/sda1 /boot is slow. * umount /boot is slow.

[gentoo-user] emerge --sync using tor by default?

2020-03-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - is that true?  it seems to be using it automatically when tor.service is running. what's the point?  e.g. is it made to ensure that we reduce the probability of having a single man in the middle that may consistently fool us?  by replacing it by varying men in the middle that is harder for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop - AMD or Intel?

2020-03-11 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:17 PM, james wrote: > On 3/9/20 2:53 PM, Michael wrote: > > Intel/nvidia sold their souls to satan, a long time ago, from my > perspective as a christian, ymmv. [Citation needed].

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice job,

2020-03-10 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, March 8, 2020 2:02 PM, Michael wrote: > > atg@tortoise ~ $ konsole > > QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h" > > QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all" > > QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v"

[gentoo-user] anything new in kernel 5.5.6 that makes boot slower (some extra file system checks?)

2020-02-26 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
hi - is title right? if so, what is going on? rgrds, cm. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. (this is a lie obviously)

Re: [gentoo-user] how to lbry desktop?

2020-01-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
  Directory: /home/caveman/Documents/dev/lbry-desktop/node_modules/keytar == snippet end == rgrds, cm. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 16, 2020 7:59 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, at 10:27, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > >

[gentoo-user] how to lbry desktop?

2020-01-16 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
this: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop#running-from-source doesn't work. i did `yarn dev:web` (and without web) and i don't see anything usable. with `:web` i get a browser opened, but it doesn't show anything. without `:web` it just says that render compilation complete, and gets stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] "Application Menu" missing on Desktop after Plasma update to 5.17.4 : bug reported

2020-01-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 2, 2020 10:53 PM, Dale wrote: > I'm not sure how either of your posts helped the OP.  You don't like > KDE, you think KDE doesn't fix bugs, got it.  I'm not sure how that > helps with the problem.  I've filed a bug report or two in the past

Re: [gentoo-user] "Application Menu" missing on Desktop after Plasma update to 5.17.4 : bug reported

2020-01-02 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:47 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > @Caveman Al Toraboran: If you do not like KDE, that is fine with me, BUT > then, you do NOT have to "pollute" the thread with your opinions if they > do nothing to solve this KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] "Application Menu" missing on Desktop after Plasma update to 5.17.4 : bug reported

2019-12-30 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 30, 2019 4:42 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I can submit it to KDE Bugs, but first what to others think re it ? What I think about it is that I object to you wasting your time by submitting bug reports to KDE. It will be a net-loss for humanity in

Re: [gentoo-user] XDM Start Faster

2019-12-09 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
below is not exactly answering ur question, but i am sharing it in case it helps. here is how i chose to live in order to minimize suffering, and i did not change this setup for several years: 0. i login in text (no gui login). i think xdm is fundamentally a redundant concept that should

Re: [gentoo-user] blender 2.80 or 2.81?

2019-12-07 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, December 7, 2019 1:17 PM, Jacques Montier wrote: > Le ven. 6 déc. 2019 23:57, Caveman Al Toraboran > a écrit : > >> any idea when? >> >> rgrds, >> cm. > > Hello all, > > I use Blender 2.81 and it works qui

[gentoo-user] blender 2.80 or 2.81?

2019-12-06 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
any idea when? rgrds, cm.

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