Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 March 2021 23:25:53 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 22:50:48 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 March 2021 21:18:16 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:36:09 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 12 March 2021 17:13:40 David Wright

Re: Creating a tap device.

2021-03-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 14.03.2021 09:55, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: My previous message was meant for another list. Apology for the disturbance. I've set aside the instructions for qemu. Trying to understand how a tap device is created. "man ip" has minimal explanation of "ip tuntap".

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Tom Yates
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really secure/private". I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see the code of the client, but AFAICT

Creating a tap device.

2021-03-13 Thread peter
My previous message was meant for another list. Apology for the disturbance. I've set aside the instructions for qemu. Trying to understand how a tap device is created. "man ip" has minimal explanation of "ip tuntap".

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> AFAICT, for video, that just records the screen. I do that with > Shift-Alt-F12 start, Shift-Alt-F11 stop (fvwm bindings to customised > ffmpeg commands). But the disadvantages of that method (it gets > polluted by all sorts of screen clutter, it's uses up CPU, you're > recording a resampled

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 22:50:48 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 March 2021 21:18:16 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:36:09 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 12 March 2021 17:13:40 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Thu 11 Mar 2021 at 15:00:06 (-0700), Charles

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 23:00:47 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > But nowadays, there are some audio links that play quite happily > > without leaving any trace that I can find. Which leaves only the > > option of recording the soundcard output. Some computers have both > > LineOut and LineIn, and

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread William Torrez Corea
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 3:39 AM The Wanderer wrote: > > I decided long, long ago (sometime in the first half of the first decade > of this century, IIRC) that I didn't trust Facebook - initially because > it and its embedded ads were a notorious vector for malware, later > because I just didn't

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

2021-03-13 Thread Victor Sudakov
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 12 mar 21, 09:21:59, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > The problem is that /dev/nvme1n1 is being used for ZFS now, and there is > > currently no btrfs thereon. However, there is a btrfs label or something > > stuck somewhere, how can I clear it? > > [...] > > > It's

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On 13/03/2021, Stefan Monnier wrote: ... ... [snipped] ... ... >> Expectation is enabling Duplex audio. Record while playing AV stream. >> With pulseaudio Volume Control. Isn't possible presently. > > My understanding is that you expect the feature you need

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread ellanios82
On 3/14/21 1:41 AM, Weaver wrote: russian search-engine  helpful Yes, I use that for it's local focus, especially, and a few others. One doesn't cover it all. I just don't use Google. Cheers!  - believe that can anonymize  ones google search?  regards

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really >> > secure/private". >> I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see >> the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread Weaver
On 14-03-2021 08:59, ellanios82 wrote: > On 3/14/21 12:20 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> Still, the quality of the results isn't an absolute measure depending only >> on the search engine > > >  - sometimes, find russian search-engine  helpful Yes, I use that for it's local focus, especially,

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 14/3/21 6:59 am, ellanios82 wrote: On 3/14/21 12:20 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Still, the quality of the results isn't an absolute measure depending only on the search engine  - sometimes, find russian search-engine  helpful I find that Google has bias and censorhip in some topics,

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread ellanios82
On 3/14/21 12:20 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Still, the quality of the results isn't an absolute measure depending only on the search engine  - sometimes, find russian search-engine  helpful .  regards

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread grumpy
March 13, 2021 7:36:39 PM CET Larry Martell wrote: On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > [...] > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Interestingly, for my searches recently I've seldom got really better > hits on Google. I'm trying DuckDuckGo for 2 weeks now - it's not bad, but Google is (still) the best

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 03:58:48PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Felix Miata [2021-03-13 15:44:50] wrote: > > Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): > >> (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) > > I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, > > and

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 March 2021 15:13:06 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > adding this "-s ~/gene/log/mail.log" inside the option "double quote > > pair"> and issueing an /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart, didn't > > bother it a bit. > > > > The way

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 16:15:54, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > > secure/private". > > I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see > the code of

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 15:44:50, Felix Miata wrote: > Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): > > > (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) > > I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread Weaver
On 14-03-2021 06:58, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Felix Miata [2021-03-13 15:44:50] wrote: >> Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): >>> (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) >> I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, >> and the >> exact same search

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 18:13:12, ghe2001 wrote: > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > These look like real hardware to me. > > They do to me too. Sometimes. But they're a bit suspect in places. > > > > Anything interesting

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 20:24:45, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On 13/03/2021, deloptes wrote: > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use > > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:32:37 +0100 > > Message-id: <[] s***ne.io> > > ...

Re: Social-media antipathy

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 04:55:04, Felix Miata wrote: > Larry Martell composed on 2021-03-12 08:09 (UTC-0800): > > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >> Eventually I had to give in, because I was being literally forgotten by > >> a group of friends that were using Facebook for most of their > >> communication

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > secure/private". I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as centralized :-(

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 13 mar 21, 09:10:36, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-13 at 09:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > >> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm > >> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of > >> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are > >>

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021, Felix Miata wrote: Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, and the exact same search repeated in Google return multiple good hits. -- I

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
Felix Miata [2021-03-13 15:44:50] wrote: > Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): >> (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) > I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, > and the > exact same search repeated in Google return multiple good hits. The

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-03-13 Thread Felix Miata
Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): > (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, and the exact same search repeated in Google

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > adding this "-s ~/gene/log/mail.log" inside the option "double quote > pair"> and issueing an /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart, didn't bother > it a bit. > > The way I read that manpage, it should have worked. First: do you

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 March 2021 07:13:38 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What file, and where, do I edit to put that log someplace else? > > What's unclear or not working about the --syslog= option in "man > spamd"? > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my

2021-03-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sat Mar 13 10:15:13 2021 Stefan Monnier wrote: Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are supposed to be encrypted, at least). >>> >>>

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:45 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 12 Mar 2021 at 18:27:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 08:27:23AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > If they shun or ostracize you for not being on Facebook, they are > > > neither your

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > These look like real hardware to me. They do to me too. Sometimes. But they're a bit suspect in places. > > Anything interesting in the output of

Re: non-existing interface problem

2021-03-13 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, March 12, 2021 8:42 PM, David wrote: > Another possibility to check/eliminate: are there any additional > configuration files in the /etc/network/interfaces.d directory? Nope. Empty. Thanks for the

Off topic, Python programming teacher for a friend?

2021-03-13 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Folks, Going to ask about this in a few places. If you know of a prospect, send them to me off list. I have an associate who lives in Malta and wishes to learn the Python Programming language. They prefer a teacher, can pay for the work, and seek to work with someone who understands

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use >> From: deloptes >> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:13:28 +0100 >> ... ... [snipped] ... ... [snipped] >> ... ... >> >>

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > No, that is about recording audio stream as an audio file. Mic is > muted, had you noticed carefully. My other HP laptop does this > seamlessly. yes noticed, is the software version on both the same? did you try to unmute mic in ALSA?

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On 13/03/2021, deloptes wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:32:37 +0100 > Message-id: <[] s***ne.io> ... ... [snipped] ... ... > I wonder

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread deloptes
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > So Mr. Tomas, is your distracted :-) email supposed to mean that > installing Realtek drivers separately isn't a possibility in Debian, > but a newer installation of Debian should be sought for? > > Please... I am trying to find a solution, as some work isn't possible >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm >>> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of >>> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are >>> supposed to be encrypted, at least). >> W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On 13/03/2021, Tomas wrote: ... ... [snipped] ... ... > ♥ > Unfortunately, in pandemic times ... ... ... [snipped] ... ... So Mr. Tomas, is your distracted :-) email supposed to mean that installing Realtek drivers separately

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 March 2021 07:13:38 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > What file, and where, do I edit to put that log someplace else? > > What's unclear or not working about the --syslog= option in "man > spamd"? > >

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-13 at 09:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm >> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of >> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are >> supposed to be encrypted, at least). > > W.r.t. something

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 13 March 2021 01:02:56 mick crane wrote: > On 2021-03-13 04:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Somehow, spamd and friends have gotten the idea that they can spam > > the syslog to the point where logrotate fires off at least daily, > > putting so > > much trash in the

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm also > not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of the > conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are supposed to > be encrypted, at least). W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to Facebook

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What file, and where, do I edit to put that log someplace else? What's unclear or not working about the --syslog= option in "man spamd"? https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/spamassassin/spamd.8p.en.html You can change

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:44:49AM -0600, Ed Redd wrote: > Please post the General Public license at the bottom of the page? I > scripted my name on the license April 12 2020 and Debianized a package > manager. Now theyre trying to cover it up with a bullshit license Ed Can you please be a

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-13 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 10:04 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > deloptes writes: > > > Anssi Saari wrote: > > > > > udevadm trigger is the command to run to simulate plugging in the wifi > > > adapter after you have the firmware available. I don't think modprobe > > > loads firmware. > > > > loading

Re: Social-media antipathy

2021-03-13 Thread Felix Miata
Larry Martell composed on 2021-03-12 08:09 (UTC-0800): > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Eventually I had to give in, because I was being literally forgotten by >> a group of friends that were using Facebook for most of their >> communication (I was the only one without a Facebook account), so I did >>

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread tomas
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:00:47PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > I consider computers to be devices which should ideally stay silent ♥ Unfortunately, in pandemic times, I've come to ask things of my poor computer I've never done before. With 1/3 swearing, 1/3 alsa voodoo, and 1/3 apulse

Re: Kernel message: BUG: Bad page state in process kworker

2021-03-13 Thread Reco
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 03:01:45AM -0500, Michael Grant wrote: > > I'd say it is a Linode problem, unless you run custom kernel modules. > > It looks like a "memory" corruption to me and since it is virtualized > > system, > > you should check if host system is ok. > > Memory in quotes because

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 09:24:50AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Exactly. "Hey, won't *everybody* switch to using for > our communication, photo sharing, event coordination, etc.? Why? Because > I'm (the only one in the group) worried about my privacy on Facebook." > > Besides the social

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

2021-03-13 Thread Anssi Saari
deloptes writes: > Anssi Saari wrote: > >> udevadm trigger is the command to run to simulate plugging in the wifi >> adapter after you have the firmware available. I don't think modprobe >> loads firmware. > > loading the driver, loads the firmware > unloading the driver, unloads the firmware

Re: Kernel message: BUG: Bad page state in process kworker

2021-03-13 Thread Michael Grant
> I'd say it is a Linode problem, unless you run custom kernel modules. > It looks like a "memory" corruption to me and since it is virtualized system, > you should check if host system is ok. > Memory in quotes because this issue could be also related to a storage > sub-system (local or network

Re: A network connection for ETHO on QEMU.

2021-03-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 12 mar 21, 15:09:27, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Should the guest system be connected as a routed subnet? > > Connected by a bridge? That depends mostly on what you intend to use the virtual machine for. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser