Re: [DNG] ntp setup

2021-06-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (paddy-h...@member.fsf.org): > I think it's fair to point out that systemd-timesyncd only promises > Simple NTP (SNTP). How good a job it does of that is another matter > but at least it explains some of the "quirks" you mention below. Put that way, fair point. _But_,

Re: [DNG] ntp setup

2021-06-20 Thread Rick Moen
clock is within about 68 years of current time. Do _not_ use ntpdate any more. It doesn't work well. https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate -- Cheers, Grammarian's bar joke #22: The past, present, Rick Moen and future walked into

Re: [DNG] Multiple resignations from Freenode's staff ??? New drama shake the opensource

2021-05-20 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bernard Rosset via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Thanks Rick, for this lighthearted take on this! > Very much welcome and appreciated on my part. Yr. very welcome. > This actually is the "dream" of any infra person facing a relentless > ego-bloated hijacker above in such a situation. I

Re: [DNG] Multiple resignations from Freenode's staff ??? New drama shake the opensource

2021-05-20 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > there are lawyers-threats involved and he took infra too. so it's > not that simple/light as you're presenting it. > announced here as well : https://twitter.com/freenodestaff As always, persons involve will need to judge for themselves whether

Re: [DNG] Multiple resignations from Freenode's staff ??? New drama shake the opensource

2021-05-19 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ludovic Belli??re (belliere.ludo...@proximus.be): > What does it means for devuan? It's a spelling change! 1996: NCSA HTTPd is now spelled "Apache HTTPd" 1997: gcc is now spelled "egcs" (which then got called gcc, again) 1991: GNU libc forked as Linux libc, and then, 1998: Linux

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-14 Thread Rick Moen
not be able to compromise the package collection via the build infrastructure. > There is always a first time (or a time of first discovery). Send a telegram. And I believe I'm done. Run away and play elsewhere, sonny. I'm busy. [rest snipped per the Law of Diminishing Returns]

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-06 Thread Rick Moen
o speculate that my employer was VA Linux Systems and that the embarassing theft of a token happened when a VA sysadmin ssh'd out to shells.sourceforge.net (a shared public host that he didn't know someone had rooted), and then ssh'd or scp'd back into the sensitive corporate network, I would say

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-06 Thread Rick Moen
n source distros for general purpose computing. -- Cheers, Grammarian's bar joke #20: The subjunctive Rick Moen would have walked into a bar, had it only known. r...@linuxmafia.com

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Arnt Karlsen (a...@iaksess.no): > ..very true. Are there ways to trick common Devuan installs > into automatically installing these bad things? > (Other than tricking newbie etc users, sysadmins etc into > doing it?) I don't see any particular structural accidents waiting to happen,

Re: [DNG] ..are we|Devuan safe from this systemd backdoor malware, taking our kernels from Debian?

2021-05-04 Thread Rick Moen
RotaJakiro has been distributed remains unanswered. So, there ya go: Avoid installing and running it. It's called system administration. -- Cheers, Grammarian's bar joke #26: A gerund and an Rick Moeninfinitive walk into a bar,

Re: [DNG] connection manager as dns resolver?

2021-04-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Looks as if the connection manager is taking over dns. > > Who knew? And whom does it talk to? Does it contain its own recursive > DNS resolver? Or does it just pick up on the DHCP signals it gets from > elsewhere and take over? connman

Re: [DNG] rm not freeing space (SOLVED)

2021-03-21 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Marc Shapiro via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > On 3/19/21 8:31 PM, tempforever via Dng wrote: > > > >To find files last modified in January: > >(adjust the dates as needed; on Mar. 19 this should locate files dated > >Jan 1 - 31 but it could be off a day or so) > > > >cd /media/archives >

Re: [DNG] Is RSA broken? Or is it a hoax?

2021-03-13 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Mike Tubby (m...@tubby.org): > Try this: > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/no-rsa-is-not-broken.html Thanks, yes. Among the telling points made; The most important point from the StackExchange discussion is that if Schnorr could “destroy RSA”, he would have destroyed

Re: [DNG] Is RSA broken? Or is it a hoax?

2021-03-13 Thread Rick Moen
I wrote: > > https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.pdf > > Snakes. Oil. (**COUGH** Theranos **COUGH**) > We've been here before with Crown Sterling. Sorry, I take that back, having just assumed this was the Crown Sterling guys (again). The current claim is _not_ from Crown Sterling but rather

Re: [DNG] Jitsi-meet server in DMZ

2021-03-13 Thread Rick Moen
liably, and would just need to do it again the right way. -- Cheers, "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." Rick Moen --- John Maynard Keynes (attr.) r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___

Re: [DNG] Is RSA broken? Or is it a hoax?

2021-03-13 Thread Rick Moen
matter as much or more than theoretical weaknesses in the algorithms themselves. Cracking is cracking, no matter whether it was achieved through exploiting unintended side-channels or anything else.) -- Cheers, "My generals are always right about other people's Rick Moen

Re: [DNG] Motel wifi: was web conferencing software

2021-03-12 Thread Rick Moen
ad. -- Cheers,Foursquare is for people who wish they were Sims. Rick Moen-- @kellyoxford r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > What's the problem? I'm now resolving with some opennic servers. Later > I'll actually make a separate root.hints for opennic, and one for the > regular servers (which might be updated with my next Unbound update). Glad it's working for you.

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tito via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > To be honest you advised me: > > me: Hi, > can this opennic.cache file be downloaded freely or do > you need to register? > > You: As mentioned, I have not experimented with alternative DNS roots in > decades. > > I could try

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tito via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:38:35 -0800 > Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > > > > > https://wiki.opennic.org/tier_2_unbound > > > > > > eg. for opennic root server

Re: [DNG] Opennic

2021-03-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gabe Stanton via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > I'll be blunt as well. I think this argument is a strawman because you > lumped opennic in with other dns providers and dismissed them That is not what I said. Your reading comprehension isssues are not my problem. > > > You made a case

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-11 Thread Rick Moen
bit makes handling of queries faster and smarter. In case the reasons why aren't obvious, I tried to cover this humourously in my piece "The Village of Lan: A Networking Fairy Tale": http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lan.html -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You

Re: [DNG] Opennic

2021-03-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gabe Stanton via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Of course using a local (or controlled by you) caching dns resolver > ENHANCES privacy. You really should have stopped there. > That's not even a question and doesn't represent a > real argument against the likelihood that, in the case of

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wirelessduck--- via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Au contraire, I’m running unbound right now on my laptop. There are > some situations though where it’s not feasible to run one's own > recursive DNS resolver, such as a home router for non-technical people > that doesn’t support

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tito via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > then please just don't do it. You are under no obligation to answer, > As we say in Italy: "To ask is allowed, to answer is a courtesy", > but once you take the time and effort to answer then it would > make more sense to me to share your knowledge

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > https://wiki.opennic.org/tier_2_unbound > > eg. for opennic root servers : > # dig . NS @161.97.219.84 > root.hints Yeah, I _vaguely_ recall (after not paying attention to such matters for some decades) that their alternate root servers supply

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tito via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Hi, > can this opennic.cache file be downloaded freely or do you need > to register? As mentioned, I have not experimented with alternative DNS roots in decades. I could try to answer your question for you, but, seriously, if you are going to start

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tito via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Hi, > just for fast information, is it enough for unbound to remove: > > forward-zone: > #forward-first: yes > name: "." > forward-tls-upstream: yes > forward-addr: 1.1.1.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com > forward-addr:

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gabe Stanton via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > In the absence of a "community of dns server operators and users", is > the optimal option to have everyone run their own recursive server? But > then the upstream servers still get the birds-eye view and will very > likely abuse that

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wirelessduck--- via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > What’s the consensus on Quad9? Are they any better from a privacy > standpoint? To say again, why outsource recursive nameservice to _anyone_? You seem like a large number of people who are weirdly resistant to the notion of basic control

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > so, i would be interested to know, if there's a privacy issue with > opennnic? I have no problem with people who decide to adopt alternate roots. What I was talking about upthread was outsourcing one's recursive nameservice to OpenNIC's public

Re: [DNG] I kinda sorta got opennic DNS working

2021-03-09 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > When I added four opennic root servers to my unbound's root.hints {laughs} Oh, you sweet summer child. Experimenting with alternative DNS roots, eh? It's been decades since I've done so, but ISTR that the correct way to do that is to re-point

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > AND the tech chops to set it up. I provided a simple copy/paste recipe. My friend Michael Paoli even scripted the entire process: http://www.mpaoli.net/~michael/tmp/2jitsi And just following the official instructions isn't actually difficult,

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > If I had demanded of myself to change the root cause instead of > coathangering the symptom, I'd have needed to go to the Void Linux > developers and ask them to find a way to accommodate DNS, in a > travelling situation, without changing

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 11:36:57AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > > More to the point, Jitsi Meet (reminder: that's its correct name) > > is open source (Apache License 2.0). All it takes to run is a computer > > with adequat

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-06 Thread Rick Moen
I wrote: > Setting /etc/resolv.conf immutable, the classic case that was the first > I saw you fall in love with, is a case in point. There are multiple > ways to ensure that a DHCP client respects and enforces your preference > of recursive nameserver, averting the need for breaking system >

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-06 Thread Rick Moen
utable bit. It has been ever thus. -- Cheers,HULK LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT "FEWER" MEAN YOU CAN COUNT IT, Rick Moen "LESS" MEAN MUST BE MEASURED. FEWER MISTAKES MEAN LESS SMASH! r...@linuxmafia.com

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-06 Thread Rick Moen
min, for ultimately it leads to the Way of Hemsworth and to Cheesy Dialogue. -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dn

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
I wrote: > Gentle reminder: The correcct name of this A/V conferencing server > software is Jitsi Meet. The Jitsi Project has published several pieces > of software; Jitsi Meet is the best known among them. Jitsi Project codebases so far: o Jitsi Desktop aka 'Jitsi' aka 'the SIP

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting g4sra via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > My biggest beef with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and now Jitsi-meetthey > all omitted an essential service. What I want is (looking at you Rick > :P) a test sever which simply echo's back the incoming video\audio to > the client. As mentioned, the

Re: [DNG] web conferencing software (was Re: Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver?)

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting k...@aspodata.se (k...@aspodata.se): > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_conferencing_software > lists four open source systems: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMeetings >

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > So while a home-grown installation is all of our goal, until then, > anything on meet.jit.si works pretty darn well, as long as your browser > is Chromium if you're on Linux. Looks like Jitsi Meet's supported browsers list has moved to

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
hub.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/ https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian -- Cheers, And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, Rick Moen that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. r...@linuxmafia.com--

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
- Cheers, "2021 showed up, and told 2020 'hold my beer.'" Rick Moen -- @justinaireland r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Dimitris via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > a list of jitsi instances : > https://framatalk.org/accueil/en/info Ah, thank you (ευχαριστώ). I've been trying to re-find that. Gentle reminder: The correcct name of this A/V conferencing server software is Jitsi Meet. The Jitsi Project has

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting goli...@devuan.org (goli...@devuan.org): > I use vivaldi for jitsi (but nothing else). It just works. The proprietary Vivaldi browser is a good choice (other than being proprietary) _because_ it is based on Chromium's Blink rendering engine, hence has good WebRTC support and a decent

Re: [DNG] Jitsi advice please

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
t;If you use headphones you can open two tabs to the same meeting and > >talk to yourself. > > My psychiatrist told me to stop doing that. > > At least, in public. Rumour has it that it's harmless to talk to yourself, as long as you don't _listen_. -- Cheers, &qu

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > >In case anyone's interested in an extended and only semi-temperate rant > >on this theme: > >http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html > > I love your essay, but you were much too kind to meetup.com. ;-> I'll work on that.

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting o1bigtenor via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Asking to confirm - - - - so Firefox won't work? Some folks have no problems with particular Firefox versions (talking to Jitsi Meet), but it's not officially recommended as per https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Browser-support .[1]

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-05 Thread Rick Moen
"2021 showed up, and told 2020 'hold my beer.'" Rick Moen -- @justinaireland r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting o1bigtenor (o1bigte...@gmail.com): > I, for one, p l e a s e ? (!?!) {sigh} Care to try reframing the question? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Gabe Stanton via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > This is incentive for me to take another crack at getting a jitsi > instance running. It will probably take me a couple months to get one > working since time is limited and there are many things higher on the > priorities list, but I'll work

Re: [DNG] Any interest in a Devuan Meetup in Colorado Springs or Denver? (was "GNUPGP Web of trust")

2021-03-04 Thread Rick Moen
eme: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists

Re: [DNG] My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft

2021-03-03 Thread Rick Moen
x/qemu/nobs.htm This is a very nice piece of work, Steve, and will be endlessly useful. Thank you. -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent process. Prepare to vi. r...@linuxmafia.

[DNG] OT: Lewis Carroll (was: My Qemu LAN-peer documentation is now in its first draft)

2021-03-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ralph Ronnquist via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > I think Lewis Carroll had a stab at this issue as well in "Through The > Looking Glass" where the name of the Black Knight was called > something... or how it was. The White Knight, but yes, exactly -- Carroll playing with what we now call

Re: [DNG] Netiquette

2021-03-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting g4sra via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > What is the netiquette on this list for changing subject lines. > I hate hijacking threads but I also hate breaking them. > Which is the lesser of the two evils ? Standards-compliant mailers' threading doesn't get broken by altering the Subject

Re: [DNG] How to firewall on Devuan?

2021-02-24 Thread Rick Moen
s/gufw -- Cheers, This limerick goes in reverse. If you start from the bottom-most verse Rick Moen Unless I'm remiss, This limerick's not any worse. rick@linu The neat thing is this:-- Zach Weiner xmafia.com McQ!

Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-08 Thread Rick Moen
ped that decade's pop music -- but, for the (33 1/3 rpm long-playing vinyl album-rock) record: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/electric-light-orchestra-dont-bring-me-down-bruce/ -- Cheers, "2021 showed up, and told

Re: [DNG] Synaptics Touchpad Fn+F9

2021-02-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > > as you replied off-list and I don't know of any better way, I bring > > the issue back to the list: Perhaps someone has a hint on resetting > > the device, if you'd reveal its make and model? > > > > Another idea out of thin air: Did you remove

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > It *does* list a co-author. Funny thing is, the co-author's name seems > kinda familiar, and I'm wondering where I heard his name before. I think it's actually a franchise -- like Dread Pirate Roberts. Westley:Well, Roberts had grown so

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
ten guy's style. The difference of authorial 'voice' seems night-and-day to me, but -- horses for courses; à chacun son goût. -- Cheers, This limerick goes in reverse. If you start from the bottom-most verse Rick Moen Unless I'm remiss, This limerick's not any worse. rick@linu

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
plish. When I don't get answers, I send a whiny reminder every two > hours. When all this doesn't work, I use a web search. Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXesMkAYh44 -- Cheers, This limerick goes in reverse. If

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Antony Stone (antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it): > On Monday 01 February 2021 at 21:02:34, Rick Moen wrote: > > > I think someone should write an online essay called something like 'How > > to Ask Questions the Smart Way', to help such folks. > > https://xkcd

Re: [DNG] Need install Devuan Beowolf but got "initramfs" prompt

2021-02-01 Thread Rick Moen
what would you answer? Reading that on a mailing list you probably would > just ignore such a person ... I think someone should write an online essay called something like 'How to Ask Questions the Smart Way', to help such folks. -- Cheers, This limerick goes in reverse. If you start from t

Re: [DNG] if2mac V0.3 init.d service for persistent network interface names

2021-01-13 Thread Rick Moen
on their complying with that "include the licence test" requirement, which obligation you'll find stated in GPLv2 clause 1 -- and I'm assuming that is not your intent. -- Cheers, "2021 showed up, and to

Re: [DNG] Why X does keyboard and mouse.

2021-01-01 Thread Rick Moen
"The plural of regex is regrets." Rick Moen -- old coder gag, seen on Reddit r...@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Finding installed packages, but from a backup

2020-12-31 Thread Rick Moen
there's a solution to that difficult and vexing problem in the Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html . (But probably that's just me.) -- Cheers, "Like looking both ways before crossing the street, and Rick Moenthen get

Re: [DNG] double negative

2020-12-25 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Didier Kryn (k...@in2p3.fr): >     Just to remind, if you forgot it. > >     There's one known case where double positive means negative: C++ "Yeah, yeah." (The gag may not travel well, so: At least in some USA regions, the phrase "Yeah, yeah" is something of a dismissive phrase

Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.

2020-12-24 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ian Zimmerman (i...@very.loosely.org): > But if "and" is a conjunction in this sentence pattern, the nouns or > pronouns it joins together form the subject, and so they ought to be in > the nominative, i.e. "John and I". Indeed. I vaguely recall Hendrik suggesting that 'and'

Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.

2020-12-24 Thread Rick Moen
s wife Karen fondly): https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftish-beholding-aka-atomic-theory.pdf (Watch out for that ymirstuff-235. It can be troublesome.) -- Cheers,My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 Rick Moen my parent p

Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.

2020-12-24 Thread Rick Moen
at colour the sky is, there. -- Cheers, "Like looking both ways before crossing the street, and Rick Moenthen getting hit by a submarine." -- Clarke Smith, age 9, r...@linuxmafia.com winner of Washtington Post's contest for best description McQ! (4x80)

Re: [DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Hendrik Boom (hend...@topoi.pooq.com): > Good that that works for you. > But for someone with attantion deficit, that couple of minutes a year is > difficult. (1) Keep domains you care about registered with five years of runtime. There really is not disadvantage worth mentioning. (2)

Re: [DNG] Your system is not supported by certbot-auto anymore.

2020-12-11 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wirelessduck--- via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > A good move to switch from godaddy. Doesn’t really matter where you > switch to, but godaddy appear to be a seriously unethical company. > > https://www.webpronews.com/godaddy-elephant-killing-nodaddy-venovix/ >

Re: [DNG] Redhat EEEs CentOS?

2020-12-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting vmlinux (vmli...@charter.net): > Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Shocking but not surprising. Even more reason > for Devuan to exist. > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-beta/ From: Rick Moen via Sb Date: Thu, 10 De

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

2020-12-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > Imagine that you tried and failed to find any door that would taken a > skilled lockpicker more than three seconds to open. Would you leave the > entrance to your flat wide open without a door at all? That's what you're > suggesting. No, I'm not.

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

2020-12-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bernard Rosset via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > >It makes me sad that this view is deemed 'contrarian'. As a sysadmin, I > >consider it obvious common sense. > > I have no idea if it is contrarian or if it is the silent majority > of opinions. However the opinion being more vocal

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

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

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

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

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

2020-12-03 Thread Rick Moen
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Re: [DNG] Beowulf: 32bit or 64 bit?

2020-11-27 Thread Rick Moen
wn the necessary leadership. -- Cheers, "2020 is pulling out more plot devices than Rick Moen a TV series on the brink of being canceled." r...@linuxmafia.com (Seen on Reddit,

Re: [DNG] Configuring cron and exim4 to send e-mail after running cronjob

2020-11-15 Thread Rick Moen
ngs like msmtp tend to be called 'nullmailers', after an early example of the type. I try to track the known options, here: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/nullmailers.html -- Cheers, "The plural of regex is regrets." Rick Moen

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-06 Thread Rick Moen
re, start there. I swear I've come across other pieces elaborating on why separating recursive from authoritative nameservice is a recommended precaution, but I failed to bookmark/save those, sorry. -- Cheers, "2020 is pulling out more plot devices t

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-06 Thread Rick Moen
core functionality is, since every subvariety of DNS nameserver software except for authoritative-only daemons includes caching. -- Cheers, "2020 is pulling out more plot devices than Rick Moen a TV series on the brink of bei

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (paddy-h...@member.fsf.org): > I have a dnsmasq instance that does *authorative* resolution for an > internal domain. Well, pseudo-authoritative. > Anything not in that domain is forwarded to the corporate DNS servers. > Works fine for me so I think dnsmasq can be more

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-10-29 Thread Rick Moen
kage like BIND9, but that's been known to be a bad idea for a long time, and it's past time to stop doing that. -- Cheers,"Rand Paul being patient zero for a Senate Rick Moen viral outbreak is a sign of a writers' room r...@

[DNG] Self-hosted SMTP (was: TB and Enigmail)

2020-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bernard Rosset via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > It seems we're drifting away from the main subject. > Count me in! Roger that! Subject header tweaked. > ? > If your emails are being refused by others, including major email > hosters, I would kindly suggest you check you got at least

Re: [DNG] Zoom via Firefox

2020-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting d...@d404.nl (d...@d404.nl): > I do not have experience with Zoom but with Jitsi and discovered that > disabling WebRTC leakage in Firefox because of WebRTC leaking ip > addresses also crippled Jitsi. The first comment on this bug is said to address that (even though the bug report is

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-28 Thread Rick Moen
elf-hosted SMTP smarthost operation. -- Cheers, "I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual Rick Moen four stages: (i) This is worthless nonsense; (ii) This is an rick@linux interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) This is true, mafia.com but qu

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Rick Moen
mes in the past it's been something like hearing, once too often, 'There aren't enough mail clients for Linux', and wanting to rejoin something like 'Really, 123 isn't enough? How many do _you_ use, from day to day?' -- Cheers, Peter G. Neumann: "Mars has been a tough targe

Re: [DNG] TB and Enigmail

2020-10-27 Thread Rick Moen
hen I want it to be graphical, I run it in an xterm. ;-> -- Cheers, Rick Moen"The first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is r...@linuxmafia.com you don't know you're in Dunning-Kruger club." McQ! (4x80) -- @drankturpentine (

Re: [DNG] ?? chacun son go??t (was: Is it worth the effort for SPF, DMARC, DKIM, etc.?)

2020-10-04 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk): > > Sounds like a problem local to you. > > No, not in the least bit "local to me". I will be generous and assume > that you simply misunderstood what I wrote - it happens a lot :-( > > Prior to SPF, it was perfectly OK to (for example) : > >

[DNG] à chacun son goût (was: Is it worth the effort for SPF, DMARC, DKIM, etc.?)

2020-10-03 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Hobson (si...@thehobsons.co.uk): > Rick Moen wrote: > > > My response inevitably is that I really couldn't care less whether > > they like SPF or not. ... > > May I respectfully pick you up on that one. Well, you can _try_. > Regardless of the argu

Re: [DNG] X11: safe to remove?

2020-10-02 Thread Rick Moen
"2020 is pulling out more plot devices than Rick Moen a TV series on the brink of being canceled." r...@linuxmafia.com (Seen on Reddit, Oct. 2, 2020.) McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Is t worth the effort for SPF?, DMARC>, DKIM?, etc

2020-10-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting terryc (ter...@woa.com.au): > On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:20:06 +0200 > Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > > > > You can also publish DKIM and SPF records so as to produce > > DMARC-aligned authentication for any hosted domain. Users won't > > notice any difference. > > Does anyone have

Re: [DNG] ..devuan to the rescue? Easiest possible newbie email server setup, ideas?

2020-09-24 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Mark Rousell (mark.rous...@signal100.com): > Option 1 is a bit embarrassing if anyone notices (e.g. > "host-46462.static.bugtown.myisp.net" isn't too cool as the name of your > mail server) but I don't see any technical downside, although DMARC > might perhaps be an issue nowadays. DMARC

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ian Zimmerman (i...@very.loosely.org): > I worry about a different kind of portability. If I ever have to switch > to BSD (and this remains a possibility, unfortunately), /bin/* shebangs > will not work except for /bin/sh, and /bin/sh is always ash. That is > because on BSD everything not

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Peter Duffy (pe...@pwduffy.org.uk): > With respect, I'd tend to disagree with that to some extent. The /bin/sh > symlink is built in, and is there from the point that the system is > installed. That was a _second_ if lesser blunder (in that bash was, even at the inception of Linux, a

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-21 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting marc (marc...@welz.org.za): > Hmm - that might require some background: I'd venture that most of > these scripts were written when sh was just a symlink to bash, and > dash didn't exist, nevermind as a debian package. But that was always a blunder. The shebang should have been set to

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-21 Thread Rick Moen
quot;My hot flight attendant asked how I like my coffee. Rick Moen And that's when she told me: 'That's cute, honey, but r...@linuxmafia.com the coffee's free. You don't have to pay for it, here." McQ! (4x80)

Re: [DNG] Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-09-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > I've never been afraid to kludge when it comes to packages, so my > solution was: > > chattr i /etc/resolv.conf > > :-) Without the '+', that is not a solution, just a syntax error. ;-> ___ Dng

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