[DNG] Best way to manage a 15 hard drive DAS

So I just got a nice 15 disk dual uplink SAS DAS and I am wondering what you guys think the best way is to allocate the disks for backing stuff up and what is a good automated backup option for network backups. Until now I have just done disks one by one never before using LVM but that seems

[DNG] The Blackbird - An owner controlled, open source firmware system on the POWER ppc64/ppc64le arch - a less expensive mATX TALOS 2

This is a much less expensive mATX variant of the TALOS 2 from the same people. It runs both little and big endian so both ppc64 and ppc64le and supports POWER-KVM/POWER-IOMMU/IOMMU-GFX for DMA protection and to attach PCI-e devices to VM's including PCI-e graphics devices[3]

Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism

On 11/01/2018 10:20 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On 01/11/18 at 13:19, m712 wrote: >> Your best bet is a killfile since he's guaranteed to bomb our inboxes after >> your message. (not asking for a reply) What makes you think that? I am entitled to share my opinions no matter how unpopular

Re: [DNG] "Sloppy" backports

What do they mean by sloppy? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism

Everyone here knows purism stuff is blobbed right? Their laptops have coreboot but that isn't open source firmware - the hardware init process on their laptops is entirely blobbed (done via FSP) and they are are being very dishonest for not stating this up front and instead claiming to have "open

Re: [DNG] Well, this is interesting

I wouldn't consider this necessarily doom and gloom IBM has done a lot of good lately in regards to affordable performance computing freedom with OpenPOWER and helping to bring the Raptor TALOS 2 and Blackbird to life - no other company would take and implement suggestions from a small player let

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

Man you guys have no idea how some of these SJW's operate and how much trumps election really brought out the evil on both sides. After the election I was yelled at and physically attacked at many times by them because I "look like a trump supporter"[1], the news media blamed poor white people

Re: [DNG] [OT] Restricting user capabilities after ssh login

You can use apparmor to do this quite easily - afaik there are a few tutorials for it. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

if you've gotten a ham radio license since 2007, or if > you're doing various Open Source things you have already benefited from > things I've done in the name of social justice. So would you please be more > careful about who you think is evil. > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 1

Re: [DNG] Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: GPL version 2 is a bare license. Recind. (Regarding (future) linux Code of Conduct Bannings).

"Code of conduct" type policies are absolute bullshit meant to ruin and divide a community with conflict and strife. I can't understand what has happened - perhaps "they" got to linus somehow? The people they want out are the ones who reject changes like rdrand etc. This is a plot to destroy

Re: [DNG] POWER support for devuan?

On 08/31/2018 03:03 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: >> taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> >>> Debian supports POWER but why not devuan? >>> >>> I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2. >> >> My

[DNG] POWER support for devuan?

Debian supports POWER but why not devuan? I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Why no ipv6 privacy extensions?

I disable ipv6 since there is no reason for me to use it (and my isp doesn't offer it anyways) but I noticed that there is a lack of ipv6 privacy extensions enabled in devuan and I believe this is an issue. There are too many little things that people have to opt-out of - private and secure

[DNG] Central .asc key for releases?

Am I missing something? I only see that the releases are signed by individual developers whom aren't on a central dev list page with their fingerprints. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Debian blocks latest Intel microcode update

On 08/22/2018 05:32 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Don Wright - 22.08.18, 21:56: >> El Reg has [1]published a disagreement between a Debian maintainer and >> Intel over changes to license terms in the latest CPU microcode >> updates. The added terms (see comments) appear to attach liability to >>

[DNG] Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

Yet another great choice by mozilla Cloudflare is such an incredibly obvious intelligence agency ploy to gather data but no one talks about this. https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/08/05/2353249/security-researchers-express-concerns-over-mozillas-new-dns-resolution-for-firefox Article included

Re: [DNG] Home server replacement hardware suggestions?

I have to say your current computer is more than powerful enough for your current uses and I would advise saving your money instead, perhaps instead just buy a SSD for the primary drive and some storage disks for storage. Your current system is also pre-PSP so it lacks AMD's version of the evil ME

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

Round 2! spectre V4! https://www.cnet.com/news/intel-microsoft-reveal-new-variant-on-spectre-meltdown-chip-security-flaws/ Of course zero real info for us lowly peons, like before only microsoft and the criminals have the info we get nothing - even congress is mad about it.

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

On 05/05/2018 03:13 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting chill...@protonmail.com (chill...@protonmail.com): > >> At minimum, I'd like to see browsers blocking certain possibilities >> from javascript. > This isn't going to be provided in the default configurations of major > Web browsers because the

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

correction - the replicant gx2/gx3 phones don't have libre baseband firmware, in this case I wonder how ESD america/GSMK made their lauded "baseband firewall" I shall have to ask them. I swear I read somewhere that they did It seems the openmoko GT04 is the only phone on the market with real

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

On 05/05/2018 03:21 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 05.05.18 05:32, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> But whilst I still can, I'll at least run my own servers and rely on the >> "cloud" as little as possible. Librem 5 phone coming next year for me. > If there isn't an ARM board sufficiently free of

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

platform) On 05/04/2018 06:35 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2018 at 17:29:24 -0400 > "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> Purism is a very dishonest company and their >> phone is yet another example of faux-freedom hardware like

Re: [DNG] It's far from being over. Sigh!

On 05/04/2018 02:52 PM, chill...@protonmail.com wrote: > Well that's only my method of dealing with it.. generally I think it's worth > waiting for them to properly fix some problems first. At least then people > vote for what they want from them based on what they're prepared to buy. > >

[DNG] Mozilla is at it again - Firefox nightly sends all your hostname lookups to cloudflare

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/20/mozilla_firefox_test_of_privacy_mechanism_prompts_privacy_worries/ Time for a fork ala devuan. Cloudflare is a project of an intelligence agency - they are able to monitor most of the internet as it goes via their "protection" servers and they have

Re: [DNG] Used *and* free hardware

On 03/19/2018 12:24 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote: They're all thru-hole and can be done with a fine tipped soldering iron and cheap plunger type solder sucker..☺ Or a solder braid :0 I fixed a screen with bad caps by replacing all the broken ones with brand new long life high quality japanese

[DNG] HPLIP/sane problems with document feeder scanning

When I scan documents via the document feeder the scan head re-docks after every page which drastically slows down the process and wears it out, in comparison this doesn't happen when you copy something on the MFC's front panel. I have had this issue with various models of older hp mfc's I

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

Is it possible to print and scan on an older hp network printer without hplip/dbus? It supports LPR/PS but I have never been able to get it to work properly (ie: with the extra paper trays, duplexer, dpi settings etc) are there any good guides for this?

Re: [DNG] Install experiments with FAT partition sda1

Hey instead of dual booting you can use IOMMU-GFX to have a VM with a graphics card (and then use a KVM switch) I do this and it is great (can play video games without letting windows access my bare metal or having to reboot etc) ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Used *and* free hardware

That PowerPC laptop project is never going to happen because they have no money for it and it shouldn't happen because PowerPC is old and dead - the new hotness is POWER and making a POWER laptop is entirely achievable you can downclock one of the (4 threads/core) SMT4 4 core CPU's to a mobile

Re: [DNG] The FSF seems to have finally sold out

On 03/10/2018 05:49 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On 09/03/2018 at 00:05, taii...@gmx.com ha wrote: On 03/08/2018 11:34 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote:    In fact it's just another take of Taiidan against Purism, it's his job. You fail to mention that there are many people who are constantly

Re: [DNG] The FSF seems to have finally sold out

I still have not received an answer from the FSF about if purism will be allowed to fraudulently market their products at libreplanet, they avoid the question as if I never asked it whilst answering my other questions. What a shame - blobbed firmware is not "open source firmware" and the

Re: [DNG] The FSF seems to have finally sold out

On 03/08/2018 08:26 AM, ghostlands wrote: The important thing about Purism is that it's the only effort leaning in this direction to make it this far financially and as an entity. No it isn't - bunnylabs and raptor engineering are making brand new shipping libre products. The T2 is somewhat

Re: [DNG] The FSF seems to have finally sold out

On 03/08/2018 11:34 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: In fact it's just another take of Taiidan against Purism, it's his job. You fail to mention that there are many people who are constantly promoting purism, whereas I am the only one who provides constructive criticism. I have told them that

[DNG] The FSF seems to have finally sold out

In exchange for money they are now advertising and endorsing a maker of fake libre hardware by letting them have a booth at libreplanet an endorsing their debian copy "PureOS" https://libreplanet.org/2018/sponsors "Grassroots: Purism, makers of fine free hardware" Purism is NOT free hardware

Re: [DNG] Is the removal of powermgmt-base from apts' suggested packages a problem for us?

With actions like these I can't understand why some people think it is weird for me to believe that SystemD is a conspiracy to weaken computer security, they are constantly trying to force people to use it with shady crap like this. Why after all would every distro that prides on being

Re: [DNG] Real talk: Not laywer bullshit, or programmer babble.

Looks like someone took the brown acid. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Modify scheduling for AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver module efficiency

On 02/19/2018 03:26 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 19/02/2018 à 00:56, Bruce Perens a écrit : Surely you can connect shell scripts to icons. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018, 14:03 taii...@gmx.com <mailto:taii...@gmx.com> <taii...@gmx.com <mailto:taii...@gmx.com>> wrote:     On 02/17/20

Re: [DNG] Modify scheduling for AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver module efficiency

On 02/17/2018 09:37 PM, Bruce Perens wrote: See http://www.glennklockwood.com/hpc-howtos/process-affinity.html I have previously used taskset and also read that article but I do not want to launch every program manually, I want to click an icon and have it assigned to cores in a module aware

[DNG] Modify scheduling for AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver module efficiency

I want to change the thread scheduler to be aware of AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver modules. Each module has 2 cores, but currently for instance two tasks are placed on two modules rather than the two cores of a single module which results in higher power consumption and Turbo 2 (half CPU turbo)

[DNG] [Off topic] Is HOPE worth attending?

I heard it was full of poseurs, and $170 is pretty steep - I have a friend I can stay with in NYC but that is a lot of money for me. Has anyone here went? is it worth it? what is the quality of the speakers/events/workshops/etc? Do the earlier batches of tickets cost less money? It seems like

Re: [DNG] forum registration

On 02/03/2018 07:14 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..some people _HAVE_ to use Tor, because their lives depends on it. ..and, we need a backup plan whenever Tor fails. Again a life and death issue. And there should not ever be a debate as to if someone "needs" it. Asking a few simple questions

Re: [DNG] Help with Spectre and Meltdown

On 01/18/2018 01:23 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:03:46PM -0500,taii...@gmx.com wrote: According to wikipedia: "The pinebook cannot be run solely on free software now (December 2017), Sad to hear this. Because of this, I guess we should tell the ftpmasters tha

Re: [DNG] Help with Spectre and Meltdown

On 01/17/2018 05:17 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Am Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2018 schrieb Adam Borowski: [...] Grab a Pinebook. It's slow, but still faster than Raspberry Pi, and has two GB ram rather than one. For $89, you don't care that it's only a stop-gap before you can get a better one

Re: [DNG] Help with Spectre and Meltdown

On 01/17/2018 02:15 PM, Cassandra of Troy wrote: Much appreciated from lurker(s) as well as the OP. Looking forward to unplugging this live USB stick and reading my mail on Jessie tomorrow morning. :) If any of you have the spare time to reply on or offlist, I value your opinions on whether

Re: [DNG] Request file system reviews and recomendations.

On 12/27/2017 01:34 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: Please remember that all RAID should have ECC RAM and when it comes to XFS it is MANDATORY to avoid massive data corruption. Ahh late night typo for me, correction - ZFS not XFS. ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] Request file system reviews and recomendations.

Please remember that all RAID should have ECC RAM and when it comes to XFS it is MANDATORY to avoid massive data corruption. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Decent GUI FTP client for linux (not filezilla)

After noticing that filezilla has added adware to the windows client I am nervous about using it for linux due to their loose morals and I am curious about alternatives. I am looking for one with a decent gui, ideas? Thanks ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] ifconfig deprecated?

What is so much better about the ifconfig replacement ip? Why should I learn how to use yet another tool that has no tangible benefit but is being foisted on me? Would I be correct in guessing it is made by red-hat? ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] rc.local removed from Debian 9, rly?

On 11/19/2017 09:10 AM, Jaromil wrote: is there any internal discussion about such governance issues in Debian? is there any hope the current leadership will change and perhaps repair what this vandalism is breaking? Am I the only one who thinks there is some kind of conspiracy here? I mean why

Re: [DNG] Libre computers (as I see you don't like ME/PSP) they exist!

On 11/14/2017 04:19 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: To me, these prices look more like a 'polite' extortion for the 'obsessed' and gullible. I can't understand as to why everyone always compares the pricing to that of a daily browsing computer and not intel/amd's high end server offerings where the

Re: [DNG] Libre computers (as I see you don't like ME/PSP) they exist!

On 11/12/2017 09:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:03:32 -0500 "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: In case you don't notice my reply (but please keep replies on the ML so everyone sees :D) OK, here it is... On 11/09/2017 12:32 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

Re: [DNG] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree.

On 11/10/2017 06:21 PM, KatolaZ wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 05:55:32PM -0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: I just bought 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] And I am getting this error [5.831720] [drm] radeon

Re: [DNG] AMD: Was Problem with xorg on 6th gen Intel cpus

On 11/09/2017 12:32 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:41:11 + jack da wrote: When my 6th-gen intel boxes start to die and be replaced by amd/arm [losing faith in intel], I may give devuan another try. After Rick's posted Minix on Intel article, I'm going

[DNG] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree.

I just bought 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] And I am getting this error [5.831720] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [5.831899] [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for

Re: [DNG] ID Quantique "Quantum" PCI-e RNG's - does anyone have more info?

Thanks again both. On 10/21/2017 04:11 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: taii...@gmx.com writes: I found this seemingly cool product, a pci-e hardware RNG that produces a large stream of "truly random" "quantum" random numbers. ... I am curious what the deal with this is, does

Re: [DNG] Google abandons UEFI in Chromebooks

On 11/02/2017 09:47 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: Yes, I know, they failed disabling ME and they stopped even trying. Their website/marketing says that it is "disabled" when it isn't. Purism has gone farther than anyone though possible just two years ago They didn't make ME_cleaner or

Re: [DNG] Google abandons UEFI in Chromebooks

In the interest of not starting a big argument again this will by my last reply on this thread. On 11/02/2017 01:14 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: They are fully worth it. Certainly not for the price they are charging, for $2K one could buy 5 Lenovo G505S laptops which are owner controlled

Re: [DNG] Google abandons UEFI in Chromebooks

On 11/01/2017 08:23 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: As my next music playback machine I may even use such a Pine64. As anything from ThinkPad X240 and upwards appears to be "protected" by Intel Boot Guard Verified Boot crap, instead

Re: [DNG] Redhat CEO answers questions

On 10/31/2017 10:07 AM, dev wrote: I have some systemd encumbered systems and Devuan boot times beat them hands down. The difference is so profound I can't believe anyone at Redhat would even use that as a justification any more but they do because nobody is going to argue with "we did it to

Re: [DNG] ID Quantique "Quantum" PCI-e RNG's - does anyone have more info?

On 10/27/2017 10:35 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: Olaf Meeuwissen writes: I have used the `haveged` package to keep my /dev/urandom "topped up" when randomizing disks. Greatly shortened the time needed to fill my disks. No idea about the quality of randomness, though. I looked at it now. It

Re: [DNG] UEFI and Secure Boot

On 10/23/2017 09:12 PM, zap wrote: no blobs of any kind with regard to wifi especially! Yes! and of course a an open source firmware with fully open source silicon init. (ex: TALOS 2, KCMA-D8, KGPE-D16, Novena and a few others with the G505S being the most free modern laptop with IOMMU and no

Re: [DNG] UEFI and Secure Boot

On 10/23/2017 05:47 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: kato...@freaknet.org writes: And what if you want to use your own unsigned bootloader? Why should you ask someone else the permission to boot your own machine? o_O Because I want deny people with physical access the ability to boot unsigned

Re: [DNG] ID Quantique "Quantum" PCI-e RNG's - does anyone have more info?

On 10/21/2017 09:14 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_hardware_random_number_generators says of all ID Quantique SA products: Open Hardware? Software License Closed Proprietary Ah thank you. What a shame.

[DNG] ID Quantique "Quantum" PCI-e RNG's - does anyone have more info?

I found this seemingly cool product, a pci-e hardware RNG that produces a large stream of "truly random" "quantum" random numbers. https://www.idquantique.com/ It is made in Switzerland, which is cool as it isn't outsourced and it endeavors way more trust than chinese hardware. I am

Re: [DNG] librezilla: [WAS: Has anyone tried waterfox?]

On 10/11/2017 11:29 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 23.09.2017 10:51, Miroslav Rovis wrote: Except with Udoo the *fake* open hardware. Based on Intel x86 processor, as I strongly suspect. Maybe we should set up a public list of open vs. proprietary hardware, a big hall of

[DNG] Photoshop CS6 on devuan wine?

How can I do this? I have installed the recommended windows addons with winetricks to no luck (installer exits with unspecified error) I then installed it in a VM and copied it over only to get either a blank launch and exit with no error or an "Error 1" Thanks

Re: [DNG] librezilla: [WAS: Has anyone tried waterfox?]

On 09/21/2017 12:12 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Excuse me for interrupting this conversation, but, what is the point of making sure a browser is secure knowing there is a complete HIDDEN OS running all the time? Not everyone is a sucker who uses stuff with ME/PSP. Devices: You can get a (libre

Re: [DNG] Devuan, Firefox and Apulse

On 09/19/2017 10:46 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 08:38:24AM -0500, dev wrote: Mozilla got a new bedmate named PulseAudio. Looks like another Smooth Move by Mozilla that will end up costing them market share. I don't like Chrome, but basically forced to choose between

Re: [DNG] Gnome?

Why not use the gnome 2 fork MATE? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] security

On 09/19/2017 02:47 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote Unfortunately, that comes at too high high a price for many of us. But the cheaper systems are riddled with unexaminable firmware. There's no good technical reason why this should be the case. We end up resenting it but settling for it because it's

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

On 09/08/2017 07:18 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 at 00:22:40 -0400 "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: On 09/07/2017 02:18 PM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting taii...@gmx.com (taii...@gmx.com): I also find a bit questionable your going around attem

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

On 09/07/2017 05:01 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting taii...@gmx.com (taii...@gmx.com): [speaking to Alessandro Selli] You are constantly defending them and snubbing your nose at superior products so it is obvious you work for purism. Can I ask for a bit more civility, please? Mr. Selli

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

IPMI." IBM stuff is plagued by embedded controlware, too. Uhh no it is There is a major difference between ME/PSP and IBM's POWER-BMC - One is open source and owner controlled the other two aren't. On 09/06/2017 07:18 PM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On 06/09/2017 at 19:15, taii.

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

On 09/06/2017 06:36 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: The steep price. Uhh the laptops you guys are selling now cost just as much as TALOS...only they aren't owner controlled. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

On 09/05/2017 03:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: so it looks as it that legitimately owner-controlled computer project based on the POWER processor has died. Anyone know better? Is is still continuing in some form? That was TALOS 1 (POWER8), the new hotness is TALOS 2 (POWER9). They are waiting

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

Well gee shows over folks we can go home as the good people at the NSA have made a nice little feature to shut off that thing all the kids are complaining about. Hypothetical backdoor team "Aw shucks they got us!" "Damn they're using a non-intel NIC - what will we do now?" If you can't

Re: [DNG] Purism Librem and disabling Intel ME: it can be done [ Re: TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server ]

On 09/05/2017 06:34 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2017 at 07:32:10 -0400 zap wrote: On 09/03/2017 05:26 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On 01/09/2017 at 20:36, zap wrote: I doubt it will be owner controlled, as their laptops aren't - they still haven't even

Re: [DNG] TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server

On 09/03/2017 09:41 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: Do you believe that all ARM, SPARC and Power suppliers do not put anything in their CPUs that users and developers do not know about? Again, the only way to be sure is buying hardware from a vendor that produces it's own hardware, CPUs

Re: [DNG] TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server

FYI just so everyone knows the 6.5K price is the prebuilt cost, you can get the board and CPU for around 2K then you just need DDR4 memory. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server

On 08/31/2017 04:14 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 at 18:25:07 -0400 "taii...@gmx.com" <taii...@gmx.com> wrote: Thought I would share this! After what happened with TALOS 1 I can't believe they actually pulled it off this time. This is truly a historic mome

[DNG] TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server

Thought I would share this! After what happened with TALOS 1 I can't believe they actually pulled it off this time. This is truly a historic moment for computing freedom lovers - an owner controlled open source ultra high performance workstation/server for only a few thousand dollars.

Re: [DNG] OT: most processors are insecure (was Re: Nvidia Drivers)

FYI Many big companies get intel to include classified instruction sets to give them some kind of competitive edge. I can't find the link but it was in a bloomberg article about xeon CPU's. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Asterisk GUI that doesn't depend on SystemD

On 07/30/2017 05:33 PM, etech3 wrote: On 07/30/2017 05:12 PM, taii...@gmx.com wrote: I have attempted to install various asterisk gui's only to find out that they all depend on systemd for some arbitrary reason like systemd-uuid. Does anyone know of one that doesn't need it? (for phones I

[DNG] Asterisk GUI that doesn't depend on SystemD

I have attempted to install various asterisk gui's only to find out that they all depend on systemd for some arbitrary reason like systemd-uuid. Does anyone know of one that doesn't need it? (for phones I want "it just works" - a gui) ___ Dng mailing

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

On 22.06.2017 19:53, Hendrik Boom wrote: I manage to get a root accout on my phone. But even root only gets selective access to parts of the file system. And hope you're lucky when you try to guess the names of the its of file system you are allowed to access. Google seems to have found ways

Re: [DNG] curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

Thank you for your assistance :D On 06/16/2017 04:00 AM, G.W. Haywood wrote: When trying to run apt-get update with https I receive this error curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl https://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#Protocol_xxx_not_supported_or_di Is there some

Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,

On 06/17/2017 01:25 PM, Bruce Perens wrote: Can we be a little more focused, please? Gnome went for systemd. While I don't think it was a good decision, it should not cause you to write off the entirety of Gnome for their lack of philososophical purity. A philosophical purity issue would be a

[DNG] curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

When trying to run apt-get update with https I receive this error curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl Any ideas? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] An option should be provided in the installer for avahi and friends

I really dislike all the "helpful" addons like avahi/mdns and rpc.statd that scan and listen on every network you connect to. Windows has a lot more of this type of thing but one of the things MS got right was the application level firewall and the distinciton between public and private