Re: Re: Corsair mouse and UPower

2024-08-18 Thread Celejar
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/08/2024 03:37, Celejar wrote: > > Is the mouse simply not reporting power info via standard protocols, or > am I missing something? The mouse also supports Bluetooth, so I suppose > I could try that instead of 2.4GHz and see if it mak

Corsair mouse and UPower

2024-08-07 Thread Celejar
reporting power info via standard protocols, or am I missing something? The mouse also supports Bluetooth, so I suppose I could try that instead of 2.4GHz and see if it makes a difference. -- Celejar

Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-30 Thread Celejar
Ash Joubert wrote: > On 2024-07-20 03:39, Celejar wrote: > > Thanks much! > > [...] > > As per another message in this thread, I've already filed a bug against > linux-image-6.9.9-amd64, but I suppose I should update the report with > this infor

Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-19 Thread Celejar
Ash Joubert wrote: > On 2024-07-19 02:32, Celejar wrote: > > I'm currently on kernel 6.9.8 (amd64 / Sid). Installing 6.9.9 fails due to > running out of space on /boot: > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.9.9-amd64 > zstd: error 70 : Write err

Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread Celejar
The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-07-18 at 13:50, Celejar wrote: > > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >> This is not the place for debugging Sid, I'm afraid, there are too > >> few > > > > It's not? Where, then, is the place for debugging Sid? &

Re: Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread Celejar
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 03:42:30PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:35:15AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I'd rather not mess around with stuff I don't really understand > > > without a

Re: Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread Celejar
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:35:15AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > I'd rather not mess around with stuff I don't really understand > > without an official guide to the process. > > I don't mean this to be snarky, but that desire se

Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread Celejar
Dan Ritter wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm currently on kernel 6.9.8 (amd64 / Sid). Installing 6.9.9 fails due to > > running out of space on /boot: > > ... > > > I'm not sure why I'm hitting this now - did Debian j

Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size

2024-07-18 Thread Celejar
Is anyone else hitting this? Is this documented somewhere? Is there a straightforward fix / workaround? -- Celejar

Re: Re: GTK applications displaying emojis in monochrome rather than color

2024-03-01 Thread Celejar
Ash Joubert wrote: > On 2024-03-01 04:19, Celejar wrote: > > About two years ago [0], I installed the package > "fonts-noto-color-emoji" on my Sid (Xfce4) system, and from then until > several weeks ago, emojis have been displayed throughout the syste

Re: Re: GTK applications displaying emojis in monochrome rather than color

2024-03-01 Thread Celejar
Floris Renaud wrote: > On donderdag 29 februari 2024 16:19:57 (+01:00), Celejar wrote: ... > > glorious color. Recently (several weeks ago?), however, a number of > > applications have started displaying emojis in (unattractive) > > monochrome. The applications that I have

GTK applications displaying emojis in monochrome rather than color

2024-02-29 Thread Celejar
nt a while searching the web, and I can't find a simple and straightforward way to deal with this. Font configuration on Linux seems to be an extraordinarily complicated and poorly documented mess. [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/11/msg00619.html -- Celejar (not currently subscried to the list)

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:04:50 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 13 Sep 2023 13:14 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > > The truth is, however, that although I thought I had fully investigated > > the problem, I was wrong. Upon further investi

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:16:15 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 13 Sep 2023 at 08:24:27 (-0400), Celejar wrote: > > > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > > financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with > >

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:35:12 +0200 wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:09:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > The OP was on Stable; with Sid, we're hitting this: > > Yes. > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051355

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-12 Thread Celejar
es, as per here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1051355#10 (The older Chromium packages are available at snapshot.debian.org.) -- Celejar

Re: Debian on Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite?

2023-09-12 Thread Celejar
om Debian (iirc, stretch). https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/205202560-EdgeRouter-Add-Debian-Packages-to-EdgeOS > Quick check of their site https://ui.com/download/software/erlite3 shows > that they most recently released firmware on 31 July 2023. > Unfortunately there are no release notes. -- Celejar

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-04 Thread Celejar
for basic (wireless) network configuration. -- Celejar

Re: syncthing, rsync for git; was: git setup

2023-08-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:27:57 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 22 Aug 2023 14:33 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > >> Git tends to be very rsync-friendly. > > > > I do something similar - I use syncthing to automatically keep the

Re: git setup

2023-08-22 Thread Celejar
ically keep the git repositories on two of my machines in sync. rsync may be better, but syncthing has more or less worked for me. -- Celejar

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-08-13 Thread Celejar
rvice on a systemd system, and "Recommends" are installed by default (which I would assume is a not uncommon scenario), then one will end up with libnss-mymachines installed. -- Celejar

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Celejar
27;t have to be RSS; any feed tech like Atom is fine also) > > Similar here. I'm using FreshRSS daily to pick up on RSS/atom feeds > from all over the place... Ditto - Liferea for all kinds of blogs and other sites that regularly / semi-regularly publish new content, including tech and Linux / FLOSS sites such as Ars Technica, LWN.net, etc. -- Celejar

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-03 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 02:08:27 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 03 Aug 2023 01:25, Celejar wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand your point: if we assume that the fact that > > my adapter burned indicates that my particular adapter must have been of > > very poor quality, t

Re: Follow the specs :) (was Re: AMD GPU hard lockups)

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 01:29:42 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 02 Aug 2023 23:29, Celejar wrote: > > But reputable companies do produce 6-8 pin adapters, e.g.: > [...] > > (I just ordered the Cable Matters one.) > > Out of curiosity, I checked the links. > Funny that &qu

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:37:50 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 02/08/2023 22:29, Celejar wrote: > > The Z440 officially supports up to an NVIDIA Quadro K6000 12GB, which > > draws 234 watts, so it ought to be able to handle my Red Devil RX-570. > > The Red Devil specifies a minimu

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 23:12:02 +0200 zithro wrote: > On 02 Aug 2023 03:21, Celejar wrote: > > when I opened the case, sure enough, the > > cable feeding the GPU had burned and broken. > > > > Fortunately, I don't see damage to the system's power cable or to the

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 19:13:42 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 19:09, Celejar wrote: > > Okay, thanks for the clarification. It seems, however, that I'm dealing > > with a hardware issue (as Dan Ritter suggested): I did some more > > testing, and after the latest cr

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 18:25:39 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 18:16, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:56:37 +0100 > > piorunz wrote: > > > >> On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > >> > >>> Any ideas? > >>> > >>

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:12:01 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > piorunz wrote: > > On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's > > 100% stable on Stable, and

Re: AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:56:37 +0100 piorunz wrote: > On 01/08/2023 16:44, Celejar wrote: > > > Any ideas? > > > Revert to Debian Stable and check there. I have AMD Radeon card and it's > 100% stable on Stable, and it had issues last year back when bookworm &g

AMD GPU hard lockups

2023-08-01 Thread Celejar
are / firmware, since everything worked fine previously, although I suppose it's possible that something physical has broken in the hardware.) Any ideas? -- Celejar

Re: file server

2023-07-24 Thread Celejar
t have 7 drive bays: did you perhaps mean something else? -- Celejar

Re: Follow recent stable Python versions

2023-06-22 Thread Celejar
Last I heard, you're supposed to set up one python venv > (virtual environment) for each version, but that information might be > outdated. You are, of course, entirely correct, but here's the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/ -- Celejar

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:46:36 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-06-12 13:33:02 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Often, but apparently not always. For example, on one of my upgrades, > > the old sshd_config had: > > > > ** > > # Change to yes to enable cha

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-12 Thread Celejar
le Nextcloud (26.02 via Docker) server to Bookworm without trouble. Nextcloud is using PHP 8.2.6, but the Docker containers seem to be providing their own PHP, since I haven't installed any native PHP packages. This is one reason it can be nice to run software not in the repositories via Docker. -- Celejar

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-12 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:02:13 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 12 Jun 2023 at 08:50:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:31:31 -0400 > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > > The machine I am typing on has been upgraded from bullseye to &g

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-12 Thread Celejar
r. I accepted the new sshd_config, but I manually switched PermitRootLogin back on. (Pretty much everything I do on this machine is done is root, so I don't bother logging in as a user and switching to root.) Both upgrades went quite smoothly. -- Celejar

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
are/blob/master/LICENSE.qca_firmware > 3. Article 6 of Directive 2009/24/EC of the European Parliament and of > the Council of 23 April 2009 on the legal protection of computer > programs : > https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32009L0024 > > Stefan -- Celejar

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 14:52:24 +0200 wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:57:38AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...] > > > I know that the subject mentions USB, but I was responding to Stefan's > > statement regarding "USB or otherwise." He's basi

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-06 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 12:14:50 +0100 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:51:21 -0400 > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > The best option is to buy one that says clearly that it works wit

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

2023-06-05 Thread Celejar
here is an ethical problem here? What right does a user have to demand that someone else perform some processing for him? -- Celejar

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Celejar
re at least some 11ac cards supported by the vanilla kernel and open source firmware: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware -- Celejar

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:13:46 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: ... > This may not be an issue for entry level Debian users, but anyone who does > anything serious will want to compile from package source. They will? -- Celejar

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread Celejar
> > mail are. > > There is a lot relevant of stuff in /usr/local > > For instance some programs use /usr/local/etc rather than /etc They do? I see that my /usr/local/etc is empty. What programs use this directory -- Celejar

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-15 Thread Celejar
e it. If you need it, you install > it. It is in stable (version 1.60), coming in testing (v 2.10) and is > in unstable. It is not going away, folks! We can quibble about the term "deprecated," but the official Debian Reference Manual repeatedly calls it "obsolete": https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html -- Celejar

Re: tmp on tmpfs

2023-04-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:02:30 +0200 wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 12:16:36PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:52:23 +0200 > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > "Mounting /tmp to tmpfs may be a good thing in some rare cases, but it'

Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)?

2023-04-24 Thread Celejar
but it can currently be readily found for as little as $250 USD (doubtless less if one scrounges around): https://www.ebay.com/itm/225546840287 -- Celejar

Re: tmp on tmpfs

2023-04-24 Thread Celejar
as it claims :) "Mounting /tmp to tmpfs may be a good thing in some rare cases, but it's a bad default. It breaks a lot of things and, which is more important, brings nothing good." [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/06/msg00311.html -- Celejar

Re: tmp on tmpfs

2023-04-24 Thread Celejar
s a post on the CentOS Wiki describing how to do it, but it involves a (small) unofficial, homegrown script: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptTmpSwapHome I wonder why this is not a standard option provided by distributions? -- Celejar

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Celejar
rs like TIMTOWTDI, but for me, the paradox of choice is strong; programming is hard enough as it is, and I vastly prefer not having to exert mental energy to decide on the best way to do something when that's unnecessary. -- Celejar

Re: Debian Server

2023-03-14 Thread Celejar
web sites probably still have a list of Windows programs that > are known to run. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=14685 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37255&iTestingId=103954 -- Celejar

Re: what method do you prefer for data transfer between nodes?

2023-03-06 Thread Celejar
'm personally using Scaleway with rclone, which offers 75 GB free (but €12 / month per terabyte beyond that). Other prominent vendors (besides the obvious ones) include Wasabi and rsync.net. Pricing is tricky, as they break the fees into different categories (hot and cold storage, egress, etc.) -- Celejar

Re: hplip : looking for a workaround

2023-02-22 Thread Celejar
ds a binary > plugin installed by hplip This is your bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1031784 but this earlier bug discussion contains a workaround (I haven't tried it): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029459 FTR, here's the upstream bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/2003739 -- Celejar

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 17:13:09 -0800 Mike Kupfer wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > The logs show regular deactivate events like the following every 20 > > seconds: > > > > ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time > > > >

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-17 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:28:23 -0800 Mike Kupfer wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a > > number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate > > via the "Preview" button or

Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:12:19 -0500 Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a > number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate > via the "Preview" button or (more importantly) via the &q

xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting

2023-02-13 Thread Celejar
n the bug discussion do not seem to apply to my system, but xscreensaver nevertheless remains broken here. Can anyone help me figure this out? -- Celejar

Re: locating blocked port

2023-01-31 Thread Celejar
hat port the java application tried to use? The documentation is surprisingly poor, but it looks like 6050 is the default: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/2698 https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/8653 -- Celejar

Re: Web page management. Was: Re: Debian release criteria.

2023-01-29 Thread Celejar
ware, the developer of uBlock Origin and uMatrix, Raymond Hill, has ceased work on uMatrix: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#issuecomment-694988696 https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-ended/ -- Celejar

Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-29 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:55:18 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:42:18PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > Shouldn't this be included somewhere prominently in the Debian > > documentation, in the form of a Big Fat Warning that the standard > >

Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-24 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:41:56 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, Celejar wrote: > > > Thank you - the plot thickens. I tried radvdump, and I was indeed > > receiving IPv6 advertisements. I inspected my router (an OpenWrt box) > > more carefully, and l

Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-23 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:32:41 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:28:55 -0500 > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > >> Celejar wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> My Debian Sid

Re: Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:28:55 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My Debian Sid system, including its networking system, has been > > working fine for a while. Recently, Gmail has not been working properly > > on the system: sending (

Broken IPv6 / IPv4 configuration, or Gmail brokenness?

2023-01-22 Thread Celejar
-t cele...@gmail.com -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -tls -a LOGIN Username: celejar Password: === Trying smtp.gmail.com:587... *** Error connecting to smtp.gmail.com:587: *** IO::Socket::INET6: connect: timeout 3) Forcing the use of IPv4 fixes the timeout problem. In particular, both of the fo

Re: Syncing Firefox tabs without a Mozilla account

2023-01-22 Thread Celejar
requires a Google account: https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager -- Celejar

Re: Why Debian packaging structure is so difficult

2023-01-09 Thread Celejar
assThroughPattern) for a bunch of repositories, including those of WineHQ, Xpra, VScodium, and the Tor Project. -- Celejar

Re: MacOS VM on Debian: is it reasonably possible?

2022-11-22 Thread Celejar
open source components used in their operating systems (things like awk, bash, bind, bzip, etc.), but the operating systems themselves are certainly not open source, and cannot be legally used except in accordance with Apple's license terms and / or applicable law. -- Celejar

Re: Problems with gv after upgrade

2022-11-21 Thread Celejar
at error did you get? > Rodolfo -- Celejar

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-31 Thread Celejar
mmunity, e.g.: https://www.upliftdesk.com/desk-accessories/cpu-holders/ -- Celejar

Re: Debian 11, Chrome and .asp pages

2022-08-28 Thread Celejar
both of which seem to resolve / redirect to a legitimate Netgear site when not using a Netgear router: https://kb.netgear.com/27199/I-can-t-access-my-router-what-do-I-do https://www.netgear.com/home/services/routerlogincom/ If Netgear actually used an url that it didn't control, that would indeed be incredibly reckless and irresponsible. -- Celejar

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

2022-08-09 Thread Celejar
ut T-Mobile wireless is IPv6 only (and uses its own (now standardized as RFC 6877) 464XLAT protocol to talk to IPv4 only networks: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6877 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/12/msg00564.html -- Celejar

Re: NFC security key on a desktop

2022-07-10 Thread Celejar
ng with a security key on a Debian > desktop? If so, I'd like to know how to set that up. No actual experience with NFC (I use a HyperSecu HyperFIDO via USB), but see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/yubikey/comments/j1225h/yubikey_with_nfc_reader_on_linux/ -- Celejar

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread Celejar
I adaptor.) 2) My RX-570 needed an 8 pin power connector, which the Z440 does not have, so I had to resort once again to eBay, for a 6 to 8 pin Molex adaptor. 3) You obviously have to make sure that whatever card you buy will physically fit in the case, but that's true for any build. -- Celejar

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-13 Thread Celejar
installing KDE. > > > > > > Thanks, but i use ifup/ifdown (not wpasupplicant) to manage network > > connection. > > You are associating with a wireless access point. You must be using > wpasupplicant. Have you tried installing wpagui? JFTR, wpasupplicant is no longer required for WiFi - I use iwd. -- Celejar

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-16 Thread Celejar
terrible choice for 2FA. Hardware tokens, or at least authenticator apps, are far better. (Although as others have pointed out in this thread, if your auth app is stored together with your password, that can eliminate some (but not all) of the benefits of 2FA.) -- Celejar

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

2022-05-16 Thread Celejar
print out and save offsite). But of course, the same is true for passwords as well (assuming you're using (as you should) long, random ones that are difficult or impossible to remember). But I agree that it's complicated: https://dmitryfrank.com/articles/backup_u2f_token -- Celejar

Re: Networking book recommendation

2022-05-05 Thread Celejar
uard is definitely the way to go. On both ends, just install the Debian wireguard package (and its dependencies), edit the appropriate configuration files, and you're good to go. -- Celejar

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-05-04 Thread Celejar
isn't familiar with them, as I wasn't when I encountered it in the wild, in a second-hand machine ;)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Storage_Specification https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Self-encrypting_drives -- Celejar

Re: apt-cacher-ng and CNAMEs

2022-05-03 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 May 2022 21:24:11 +0200 Nito wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 15:16:47 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [...], and I'm consequently somehow getting bitten by > > this issue: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986356 > > > &

apt-cacher-ng and CNAMEs

2022-05-03 Thread Celejar
osedly resolved, and the bug was closed. Am I missing something, or does that bug need to be reopened? -- Celejar

Re: email lacks sender address

2022-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:04:06 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > Dear Celejar, > > Celejar writes: > > > On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:42:38 +0900 > > 황병희 wrote: > > > >> Dear Greg, > >> > >> Greg Wooledge writes: > >> > >>

Re: email lacks sender address

2022-04-26 Thread Celejar
e you want your outgoing mail to be handled. > > > > Thanks for your time and your life! > > Really i love sSMTP so much!!! FWIW, there's an outstanding ten year old bug against sSMTP pointing out that it doesn't bother to validate server TLS certificates. You'll have to decide whether this bothers you or not: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662960 -- Celejar

Re: exim4 and oAuth

2022-04-26 Thread Celejar
use email-oauth2-proxy, which allows non-OAuth-aware applications to talk to services that require OAuth: https://github.com/simonrob/email-oauth2-proxy -- Celejar

Re: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

2022-04-26 Thread Celejar
h as the Broadcom NetXtreme II (BCM5716) in my Dell R210 II, also require non-free firmware to function: https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-bnx2 -- Celejar

Re: Desktop environment and VNC

2022-04-24 Thread Celejar
ting X11 session, and replicates that > X11 session as a VNC session. I only know of *one* VNC server which does > this, and its name is "x11vnc". IIUC, TigerVNC can do this as well: https://packages.debian.org/sid/tigervnc-xorg-extension Getting it to work properly, though, may not be trivial. -- Celejar

Re: 2FA

2022-04-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:27:48 +0200 steef wrote: > Hi folks, after long time back home. with a question. > Is 2FA installable on my OS debian11 and, if yes, how do I do that? > > Thank you, https://wiki.debian.org/Security/U2F [I am one of the editors of this page.] -- Celejar

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-19 Thread Celejar
nager or that script. I just bring up a wireguard tunnel to my LAN before updating / upgrading. -- Celejar

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-18 Thread Celejar
se is getting rather annoying: https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg#HTTPS_repositories https://blog.packagecloud.io/using-apt-cacher-ng-with-ssl-tls/ One ends up with an ugly and not-very readable line like this: PassThroughPattern: (winehq\.org|xpra\.org|vscodium\.com|packagecloud\.io):443$ -- Celejar

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-04 Thread Celejar
not be a good way to > > >> maintain security - it can mean that people use password01, password02 > > >> and things like that. > > > > > > Changing passwords at frequent intervals? Total nonsensense as far as > > > advice goes. > > > > > > > What web browser generates 'random' passwords? Am I missing something? > > > > > > > > > > -- Celejar

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-03 Thread Celejar
nnel: I was just saying it is possible to use a SSH tunnel or a > direct SSH connection ("--direct") Got it. I haven't really looked into the distinction, although I did notice it in the documentation, but I'll keep it in mind for the future. > Glad your problem is solved :-) Thanks for providing me with the solution! -- Celejar

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
count as a bug: after all, if I've provided a keyfile, the location of which virt-manager has stored in its configuration, then why isn't it using it for console access? I understand that I can get around this by using an agent, but why should I have to? Celejar

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:40:30 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > Celejar writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use virt-manager / virt-viewer to access the console of > > some qemu / kvm virtual machines on a remote system over ssh. I have > > public ke

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 03:43:10 +1200 Richard Hector wrote: > > > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > >> What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > >> line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't eve

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 08:05:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-01, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command > > line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of > >

Re: libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-02 Thread Celejar
nsole, it's recommended to have ssh-agent running to avoid getting > multiple authentication prompts." Thanks - this might be the solution. I'll have to look into this further. > (take a look at virtsh, virt-manager, virt-viewer manpages) -- Celejar

libvirt tools and keyfiles

2022-04-01 Thread Celejar
I get the password prompt. What is going on here? Since I'm specifying a keyfile on the command line, and it's being used - otherwise I wouldn't even get the list of VMs - why am I being prompted for the password? Celejar

Potential DNS leak with Wireguard + iwd + resolvconf

2022-03-30 Thread Celejar
onfigured things, or is this indeed a (serious) bug? -- Celejar

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Celejar
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/open-ath9k-htc-firmware https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Firmware-ath9k-htc https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware No idea how well this hardware works, or how readily available it is. -- Celejar

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-20 Thread Celejar
ions here: 1) How can mc's colors be changed? Answer: via environment variables or the configuration file (~/.config/mc/ini) - see the "Colors" section of the mc manpage. 2) How can mc's default editor be changed? Answer: via mc.ext (copy /etc/mc/mc.ext to ~/.config/mc/mc.ext and edit the copied version) Celejar

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

2022-03-18 Thread Celejar
first 75GB of storage (and transfer) are currently free: https://www.scaleway.com/en/object-storage/ Celejar

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