Re: [PLUG] Crude comparisons of search engines

the meantime. > -Ben > Sent from ProtonMail mobile > > ---- Original Message > On Sep 7, 2021, 6:05 PM, Mike C. < mconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > "but i suspect that keith's dislike of ads, homonym results, ... are widely > shared." > I almost exclu

Re: [PLUG] Crude comparisons of search engines

"but i suspect that keith's dislike of ads, homonym results, ... are widely shared." I almost exclusively use Google search and I don't get "Pages and pages of ads." I wouldn't say I've never run into the homonym issue but it's not gotten to the point of frustration to call a search engine

Re: [PLUG] Crude comparisons of search engines - BRAVE Search Engine

Okay, perhaps I found something interesting, useful and applicable to share with the rest of the class. The Brave search engine & browser. It's built on Chromium FOSS web browser. The review of Brave and other browsers such as FFX, TOR, DDG is done by restoreprivacy.com. The restoreprivacy.com

Re: [PLUG] Proton mail not exempt from surveillance

One regional communication service provider that I know of that doesn't log ip addresses is Riseup.net. Their philosophy is essentially any info that isn't logged/stored isn't able to be shared. If you don't know about the Warrant Canary, now you can now -

Re: [PLUG] Crude comparisons of search engines

Google: 96 shown, though 9000+ claimed Bing: 311 shown, though 6800+ claimed Mojeek: 478 shown Neeva: 318 shown DuckDuckGo: 151 shown Microsoft Academic: 700+ academic citations shown (mostly for a y2000 paper that spawned a new branch of

Re: [PLUG] New curated search engine: neeva.com

> On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 8:18 AM Daniel Ortiz > wrote: > > > Wouldn't mojeek be a better search engine than Google? I am no search > > engine expert, but it could be checked out: > > https://www.mojeek.com > > > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 7:58 AM Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] New curated search engine: neeva.com

to it. On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 5:58 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 5 Sep 2021, Mike C. wrote: > > > Lastly, If I'm looking for research papers, case studies, etc, I've yet > to > > find a better search engine than Google Scholar. But unfortunately, much > > of that informatio

Re: [PLUG] New curated search engine: neeva.com

"Remember when Google worked surprisingly well? Google is becoming worse than useless." Your criticism doesn't give me much to go on for offering useful/helpful suggestions. FIrstly, I was curious about your idea of "search engine testing" because I couldn't imagine how I'd go about doing this.

Re: [PLUG] OT - State of Oregon tech infrastructure?

> > Mike, > > I assume this last statement is not self-referential[1]. Or, are you a rare > gem? :-) > I had the privilege of working with and for some good people. I asked a lot of questions, made my fair share of mistakes and tried to learn as much as I could from those people. I fought

Re: [PLUG] OT - State of Oregon tech infrastructure?

> > My personal experience working with the State of Oregon is that > their IT functions are rather decentralized, with different organizations > within the State having their own IT support groups. It can be difficult to > figure out which group you need to be talking to. Clackamas County >

Re: [PLUG] OT - State of Oregon tech infrastructure?

ounties with whom I've worked. > > However, as a network engineer, I'm totally going to blame the applications > people for those big awful projects. ;-) > > --Stafford > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:03 PM Rich Shepard > wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Mike

[PLUG] OT - State of Oregon tech infrastructure?

Seems like most days it's just crickets & tumbleweeds on the PLUG email list, so I hope folks don't mind my somewhat off-topic email. I don't watch the local nightly news on tv, but a non-tech friend who does told me that due to the archaic state of Oregon's hw & sw, we're the last state in the

Re: [PLUG] Issues with /etc/apt/sources.list

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:44 AM Derek Loree wrote: > Hi John, > > I see the problem: > > > deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted > > deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal restricted main > > multiverse universe #Added by software-properties > > > deb

Re: [PLUG] Package can't be deleted

> > I finally found how to remove the original package: > > sudo apt purge oscar > I was going to recommend the purge command, but my understanding is that the only difference between it and the remove command is that purge in addition to removing the package also deletes any

Re: [PLUG] Package can't be deleted

> > dpkg: error processing package oscar (--remove): > package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal > dpkg: too many errors, stopping > Errors were encountered while processing: > oscar > Processing was halted because there were too many

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for some WiFi Networking Advice

> > I need to upgrade my home wifi network with a high speed mesh network > (primarily for better phone coverage in my house - I make a lot of video > calls to the UK). I have Cox Gigablast on my wired network. > The issue I am running into is that the "base" unit of the eero units and > other

Re: [PLUG] Power Conditioner

tage is not likely. (Unless it is a cheapo Harbor > > Freight or similar generator.) > > > > Working a lot of field communications activity and back-up power for > > critical sites, I have run into this quite often. > > > > Check the wiring before worrying about power conditi

Re: [PLUG] Power Conditioner

You shouldn't have to buy anything to fix this problem. You should be able to accomplish this by adjusting the governor / idle speed of the generator to the rpm that produces a stable 60 hz signal. Ideally, you'd have a cheap multimeter to use to quickly and easily dial in the rpm but if not, you

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

> > And getting back to meteo, I'd still like to get the outdoors temperature > to appear in the panel's notification area. I'd also like > to know where it's getting its weather data from, openweather, darksky,or > what? And what's going to happen when its source goes down or changes its >

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

> > $ sudo pip3 install lxml > The directory '/home/jjj/.cache/pip/http' or its parent directory is > not owned by the current user and the cache has been disabled. Please > check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip > with sudo, you may want sudo's -H flag. The directory

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

:43:33 -0700 > "Mike C." dijo: > > >> 3) I can't figure out where it keeps its preferences; if I could I > >> might be able to fix the location problem. > > >"To start using Meteo, launch the application, and it’ll appear in the > >system tray

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

> > 3) I can't figure out where it keeps its preferences; if I could I > might be able to fix the location problem. "To start using Meteo, launch the application, and it’ll appear in the system tray on the desktop. Right-click on the red X icon and select “Preferences.” Inside preferences, the

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:26 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > I got it going, I had to disable STP on the B switch side. I have a > SG300 (switch A) here at home, and I also have a SG200 (switch > B). I have the 300 setup with port 28 (it is a 28 port switch) as the trunk > for > VLAN 20. Did same thing

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:03 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > I looked at another file I did after a change, all of the ports > on VLAN 20 have this format: > interface gigabitethernet36 > switchport mode access > switchport access vlan 20 > ! > Regarding the trunk, I have twiddled all of the knobs I

Re: [PLUG] LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

> > I do *NOT* have a CD-ROM. I have an ISO image on a flash drive. > You can use -d for the directory of the CD-ROM mount point or *add a non-CD **mount point (i.e. a USB keydrive).* > More info on apt-cdrom - > I want to install additional

Re: [PLUG] LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

> > 2. When the GUI installer gets to the Package Configuration, Software > Selection screen, select "manual package installation." > https://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/tasksel -- The link to the installer screenshot was omitted in my initial reply.

Re: [PLUG] LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

> > _MY QUESTIONS:_ > > 1. How do I find which packages are explicitly installed by checking a > specific box {primarily Mate}? > I am *NOT* interested in packages that were flagged "recommends". > Does this not answer Q1? https://packages.debian.org/buster/mate-desktop > 2. Especially

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

>> enable the SSH server, (have yet to see said box). > >> So I shall start with this one and get it going then I > >> will use it as my reference with the other two. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 10:25 PM Mike C. wrote: > >> > &g

Re: [PLUG] Weather application for Xubuntu 18.04

You might like Meteo - https://gitlab.com/bitseater/meteo I personally have been using the Weather Underground website & Android app for many years now. I'm not so keen on desktop apps. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:39 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > For years I have used xfce4-weather-plugin in my

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

See my comments below regarding your observations: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 7:54 PM Mike C. wrote: > > > Thanks Chuck, > > > > I did quite a bit of reading and although this configuration should work, > > it's outside of norms / best practices. > > > >

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

e link > >>> carrying the camera VLAN went on a separate path to keep > >>> possible latence down due to competition for the link path. > >>> > >>> This is the same case the cameras are on VLAN 20, it is a > >>> total network island because

Re: [PLUG] Serious linux malware

> > So let's set aside our fancy 5.x kernels and ask a very serious question: > Which kernel version is running the machines used to tally votesi > in November? > > Depends on the state or county, doesn't it? > If only the scope and scale of this problem was constrained to old Linux kernels.

Re: [PLUG] Serious linux malware

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 5:33 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > As a computer user and a non-professional I'd like your thoughts on this > Ars > Technica article, "NSA and FBI warn that new Linux malware threatens > national security." > > < >

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

> > That is what I was thinking based on the other Cisco doc I read all I need > to do is set both of the two fibre links up as trunks and it should work, > but there is another one that also said the part about tagging. I have VLAN > 20 (the VLANS are 1, 10 and 20) on port 50 on both ends, I have

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

> > I got back to this one today. Here is what I have at this time > Switch A Fibre port 50 tagged, VLAN 2 > Switch B Fibre port 50 tagged, VLAN 2 > Port 49 & 50 just need to be set to TRUNK. Then they will carry both tagged and untagged packets across the fibre link between the 2 switches. The

Re: [PLUG] PinePhone

> > Another one to keep an eye on is the Libre 5 from Purism: > > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/purisms-librem-5-phone-starts-shipping-a-fully-open-gnulinux-phone/ > > https://puri.sm/products/ I like that PureOS is not based on Android or iOS, they've anti-tracking features and you

Re: [PLUG] PinePhone

"It would be nice to not be tracked by Google." Rich, if you dig a lil' bit deeper into and get a bit clearer about this, you can do a lot to mitigate Google's or any other corporate tracking of your online presence and offline activities. 1. Airplane mode - I keep my phone in airplane mode

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

> > SW01 is the main switch, it has most of the cameras on VLAN 20 (the VLAN I > calledo[a number 2) > SW02 is the secondary switch in another building. At this time we have no > cameras on the second VLAN. > > One item of note, all of the ports are marked [Trunk] I assume that those > that will

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

> > I do not see ANY VLAN appearing on the far end, even though SW 2 port 50 > is in VLAN 2 > -- What exactly do you mean? That VLAN 2 is not in the configuration file for this switch? "The interesting thing is if I unplug the other SPF transceiver then the link will come up and I can reach the

Re: [PLUG] OT VLAN Setup between 2 Cisco switches

> > The two switches talk just fine between the two devices on > VLAN 1. > Yes, because the default / admin VLAN 1 is automagicaly extended across switches for obvious reasons. > But VLAN 2 will not talk. VLANs are broadcast domains, and with the exception of the default/admin VLAN 1, unless

Re: [PLUG] Devise a remote log

Some good points by Ben & Thomas about the nature of the crash/hang. An example to further that line of logic is x-server hanging but otherwise the OS is still functional. Another example is I had to disable suspend on a Linux box because every time I'd try to use it after it went into suspend,

Re: [PLUG] Devise a remote log

> The problem is that at some point it hangs. The only way to get it to work > again is to power it off and then restart it. I'd like to devise a log of > some sort that I can run from another machine that will give me some idea > of what was going on when it hung. I envision some kind of ping

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

> > > Richard Owlett, I hope it works for you. It is #1 on Distrowatch.com > > currently. https://distrowatch.com/ > > I wonder if something like MX-Fluxbox would work as a window manager for > > you? https://mxlinux.org/blog/4585/ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxbox > >

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

> > On the other hand, pavucontrol's input devices tab shows sound from the > mic like a VU meter would, but the input needs to be at the maximum for the > input tracking to reach half-way up the scale. > Yeah. I don't expect it to be 1:1 analog, but this is what I mean by not having something

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

> > > That should be at least normal speaking volume. > > > Do you have an onboard or the webcam mic that you can do some comparison > > testing with? > > I could futz with the webcam mic and the headset. Those are intended for > online video conferences and calls while the Audio-Technica mic is

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:38 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2020, Mike C. wrote: > > > Just so you know exactly what you're working with, first get a list of > all > > microphone devices. > > > # arecord -l > > Mike, > > Right now only t

Re: [PLUG] Tuning audio system

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:03 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > Using the Audio-Technica AT2005USB microphone when recording a video (with > vokoscreenNG-3.0) the output sound is very low; I need to crank the speaker > volume to almost the maximum to hear it clearly. This should not be the > case > so I

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

> > > When you start the installer if you choose the Expert installation (I > > believe under advanced section) or if you press the Escape key and type > > expert at the boot prompt you can get a very minimal system installed > > although there will be a few more questions that you have to answer

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

> > I had another look at the site. Still don't think it's for me. > > Although the referenced Wikipedia article on Crunchbang quoted Jim > Lynch of desktoplinuxreviews.com as saying (in part) "It’s a perfect > choice for anyone who prefers functionality over form > Take a look at the

Re: [PLUG] Zoom "app" won't start

> > $HOME = /home/rsteff > Aborted (core dumped) > success to create child process,status is 34304. > zoom exited normally. > Something went wrong while running zoom,exit code is 134. > ZoomLauncher exit. A quick Google search on "Something went wrong while running zoom,exit code is 134."

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

> > More info here - https://www.bunsenlabs.org/index.html > > I'll look into it. The site isn't aimed at minimalists of my ilk ;} > Minimalism has its gradients. I hope you follow up once you find a suitable solution. The Debian universe is quite extensive and dynamic. It's what has always kept

Re: [PLUG] Accountability OSS...

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 11:09 AM Bill Barry wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 2020, 11:43 AM wrote: > > > I want to bring open source high quality accountability software to Linux > > and I want the software to be supported for an extended period of time, > say > > 100 years. > > > > I have an idea to

Re: [PLUG] Accountability OSS...

> > I have an idea to intercept tcp/udp packets destined to port 53 and all > web and ftp traffic. The goal here is to intercept, record, reinject as if > nothing ever happened, and report at the end of the 24 hour period. This > monitoring software MUST be open source so it can pass a security

Re: [PLUG] A minimalist oriented Debian derivative?

> I like Debian very much. However its default installer coerces an > undesirable collection of "must have" applications. > > I want a MATE desktop with a very sparse selection of apps installed by > default. I've discovered that the installer is designed *NOT TO* implement > an equivalent of

Re: [PLUG] Would you suspect time as being off?

> > My question is: would you suspect time being off as a suspect when > other things aren't working? > No, not generally unless it involved specific network specific services related to syncing/mirroring or if I was using a Real Time Operating System found on computer networking or telecom

Re: [PLUG] Any current Arch users?

> > It's not that hard to install > official Arch, and you get exactly what you want. > Installing a desktop environment is easy too. pacman -S (one of these > packages) > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_environment#Officially_supported I'm sure that's true. The last time I

Re: [PLUG] Any current Arch users?

> > What do you mean by kernel switching? I just install whatever is current, > which is usually in the regular package archives a few days after the > stable kernel is released. > I wasn't sure as I just read somewhere that it's a unique feature of Arch. So I did a bit more reading and I think I

[PLUG] Any current Arch users?

I'm a long time Debian user and former small shop Sys Admin who came to fall in love with Debian's stability and the apt package management system. Arch seems very modern with its rolling release, ability to switch kernels on the fly and snap, flatpak support. I understand all of these things

Re: [PLUG] Network mount not working

> > For the old Thinkpad I added the same line to its fstab, then rebooted. > 'Synology' does not appear under Places. I can look in the folder where > it's supposed to mounted, but the folder is empty. I tried 'mount -all' > and got: > > mount: /media/jjj/Synology: bad option; for several

Re: [PLUG] Audio player suggestions

" the audio players all want me to navigate to a genre and artist before it starts working, unless I create a playlist (which I'll get to Real Soon Now.)" For example, using the 'load multiple files' menu item with the top window in the file manager containing '/data/music/' I select all

Re: [PLUG] Audio player suggestions

"Is there a console or GUI audio player that will open in /data/music/ displaying the genres and let me navigate down the tree from there? " -- VLC will allow you to display, access and navigate your computer's directory tree through the app's gui.

Re: [PLUG] doxy.me, meet.jit.si, facebook, FaceTime, etc.

> > If the other party has only a mobile device, this is unlikely to work. "Jitsi supports multiple operating systems , including Windows as well as Unix-like

Re: [PLUG] Net meetings and keyboard/mouse visibility

Rules > against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith > provision of telehealth during the COVID-19 nationwide public health > emergency. This notification is effective immediately. > > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:16 PM Mike C. wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Using meet.jit.si

I know I shouldn't dare to challenge the almighty Linux GOD as he will likely unleash his wrath on me as he's been prone to do with other PLUG members in the past and recently with his vitriolic rant of Ubuntu. IMHO, I've found the 1st steps in troubleshooting hardware problems are: 1. Software

Re: [PLUG] Net meetings and keyboard/mouse visibility

> > The computer my wife uses for net meetings and patient e-visits has a > camera with a field of view limited to her head and shoulders, and a simple > curtain behind. Your wife's company and her patients have much bigger concerns if all the data being exchanged between her and her patients

Re: [PLUG] Hardware troubleshooting: Yamaha headset

A few more interesting tidbits of info I found that may help or might complicate troubleshooting. -- From a review of the Asus motherboard's audio system: "When recording an audio sample, with the microphone boost option enabled, the audio sample playback was clear and relatively

Re: [PLUG] Using meet.jit.si

Rich - Just to set the table for future troubleshooting, I noticed the only thing consistent in all your emails is you're only getting faulty audio through the left channel with mp3 playback through Audacity, and RingCentral Test con-call. Thus far you can't verify basic functionality of the

Re: [PLUG] Using meet.jit.si

> > Connecting the AudioTechnica AT2500USB and selecting it in pavucontrol > (turning off the web camera's mic), jitsi again tells me it cannot connect > to this microphone and again doesn't know why. > A quick Google search tells me that you're not alone with this problem and that this problem

Re: [PLUG] Video conference hardware question

Okay. This actually might be helpful. It's from the Arch Wiki. I've had to dig into alsamixer many years ago when trying to use Debian stable for home pc use. "If PulseAudio uses the wrong microphone, and changing the Input Device with Pavucontrol did not help, take a look at alsamixer. It seems

Re: [PLUG] Video conference hardware question

Well said. Very faulty logic on my part. On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:05 PM Ben Koenig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:54 PM Mike C. wrote: > > > One would think, but I've done enough QA testing and tech support in my > > life to know that's not the reality for many reasons.

Re: [PLUG] Video conference hardware question

Ah yes, Ben is on the right track. It has been years since I tried using a headset with separate analog mic and line-out jacks from either the headset or computer side of things. This might be what you need to make it work. It's usb/analog audio splitter. https://amzn.to/3eGKmo8 On Mon, Jun 1,

Re: [PLUG] Video conference hardware question

other Plantronics headsets that it says may only have partial compatibility. That tells the story right there about the reality of what companies are willing to put time and money into supporting. On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:47 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Mike C. wr

Re: [PLUG] Video conference hardware question

It's a pretty common paradigm that the best application support goes to those with the largest market share. For example, if I wanted to use RingCentral, I'd get a Plantronics headset because they own the market for headsets and set the standard for features and functions. So I wasn't surprised

Re: [PLUG] Password managers

This is a food for thought - definitely not meant as mockery of any sorts. I use post-it notes to safely store passwords. It has been tried and tested in various forms for centuries. It is also multiplatform. I challenge anyone to hack into that remotely. Okay, well you might want to chew on a

Re: [PLUG] Password managers

being said, unless you can elucidate on your problems with it, will never know if it was user error or not. On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:13 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2020, Mike C. wrote: > > > It's conceivable you ran into some bug or complication with KeepassXC. If

Re: [PLUG] Password managers

I only have experience with Keepass(2) on MS & Linux (Debian / Ubuntu). I've used it for years with very little trouble. It's Which is probably my favorite thing about Keepass. It's always been a solid app that just seemed to work unless I did something dumb. It has been in development since 2003

Re: [PLUG] Security headaches

"You want to have some form of 2 factor authentication to make it harder for people to break into your account. The nice thing for most people about the texting is that they typically always have their phone with them, so the response cycle is very quick, and limited in who can access." One of

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi component/sub-assembly selection guides

/ starter kits. So I think it's just a matter of looking at these project build sets and swapping a few components to meet your individual needs. On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:34 AM Mike C. wrote: > One possible way to approach this question is to look at project kits such > as the Neego Raspbe

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi component/sub-assembly selection guides

One possible way to approach this question is to look at project kits such as the Neego Raspberry Pi 3 starter kit. It checks off of a few of your boxes. It might not be exactly what you'\re looking for, but it might be a good starting point. -- HTH -- On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:21 AM Richard

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

en. > > It is probably not the best idea to require iPhone purchase or FB/MS > account as a condition of attendance. > > Tomas > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020, 15:48 Mike C. wrote: > > > > > > > Just yesterday I was in a conversation about tools and I started a > &g

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

> > Just yesterday I was in a conversation about tools and I started a > spreadsheet of different video / remote tools. > > So far people have mentioned: > > Zoom > Kast > Crowdcast > Slack > Google Hangouts > Google duo > MS Teams > discord > Wechat > Whatsapp > Facebook/facetime > Kakao > Line >

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

"I'm learning OBS and while it will certainly record as well as stream it provides capabilities well beyond my needs." Yes. This is a real challenge not just with OBS but most software. The hard work IMHO is trying to figure out exactly what features and functionality one truly needs in an app

Re: [PLUG] What to do First Thursday?

"So, I've decided to produce instructional videos but make them available as webinars-on-demand." I don't understand why anyone wo go through all the trouble of trying to figure out which webinar app to use if they'\re not conducting a live seminar over the internet. This makes no sense to me. I

Re: [PLUG] How is TPROXY supposed to work?

> > Having run across all of this, I don't have the big picture of how this is > supposed to work and cannot achieve the point of all this. > What exactly are you trying to do? Do you even know or are you trying to do or are you just playing around with transparent proxying for S & G's? Googling

Re: [PLUG] Folding@home

> > Avast antivirus suggests installing Folding@home module to effect > distributed computing to analyze covid proteins. It warns compute > intensity, running hot, and high electric use, advises run at night. > Seeking opinions on installing Folding@home > especially security risks, etc. > Your

[PLUG] Covid-19 Tech Handbook

I stumbled across this resource in my Internet travels and thought I'd share it. There's some interesting resources such as hardware, software, data science, privacy & security tech collectives / working groups and funding sources for innovators and freelancers / gig workers.

Re: [PLUG] Debian Buster and USB3...

It was 8 hops down there, about the 4th hop > down > there was a router that showed about 75% loss. Also had a lot of jitter. > > At least I knew that the issue was not on my end. > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 7:50 PM Mike C. wrote: > > > Is the USB network adapter support stabl

Re: [PLUG] Debian Buster and USB3...

Is the USB network adapter support stable in Debian Buster? I ask because I suspect that my USB3 gigabit network card is dropping packets. -- If it wasn't supported the driver wouldn't install, the module wouldn't load and you wouldn't see the NIC listed in lsusb. -- With that being said, NIC

Re: [PLUG] Zoom and Debian Buster...

spend the money, get one that shoots up to 30 frames per second." https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2013/08/29/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-zoom-experience/ On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:43 AM Denis Heidtmann wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 9:34 AM Mike C. wrote: > > " 1

Re: [PLUG] Zoom and Debian Buster...

> > . There are lots of reasons why a video could freeze like that and not all > of them are network related. > True. I often find myself looking at problems through the network lens first from decades of other IT staff, employees and customers blaming the network for their computing woes. > If

Re: [PLUG] Zoom and Debian Buster...

Any changes to these rules needed??? Zoom video freezes after 3 seconds and occasionally unfreezes. That's not how firewalls work. Firewalls either allow traffic based on port, protocol, ip address or they don't. If the video is freezing it's due to a lack of bandwidth. There are a couple of

Re: [PLUG] Question on Zoombombin

> > Supposedly they found one of the more obvious sources of the zoombombing > problem: > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-removes-meeting-ids-from-app-title-bar-to-improve-privacy/ > > PEBKAC. Social engineering is always the most effective weapon in a > hacker's arsenal. > -Ben > True but

Re: [PLUG] Ripping audio cds and creating duplicates

"My sister's in an independent living facility in the Bay Area and has been in her apartment for the past 3 weeks as the facility is locked down both externally and internally. Not being able to read (she's legally blind) nor able to get audio books because the California library is closed means

Re: [PLUG] Question on Zoombombin

"Or does Zoom even care?" Oh, Zooom cares, a lot! This has been going on for at least a couple of weeks and has developed into it's own online subculture that's exploiting software vulnerabilities and is threatening Zoom's business with governments and businesses around the world. Zoom like so

Re: [PLUG] Free Conference Call => "Spotting a a fake web service"

Rich, yes by definition Peer to Peer connections and distributed networks don't require a central server. However, if NAT is involved between 2 peers a TURN / STUN server is required to handle NAT traversal. As most endpoints are behind an ISP or company router/firewall with a private IP address

Re: [PLUG] JAMI

> > > How about Jami ? > > > https://jami.net/ With the exception of a TURN Server, It's refreshing to see a truly distributed network / P2P communication app. I'm by no means a security expert but I like how they handled account management with local crypto keys and blockchain for anonymous

Re: [PLUG] Free Conference Call => "Spotting a a fake web service"

> > > > How about Jami ? > > > https://jami.net/ With the exception of a TURN Server, It's refreshing to see a truly distributed network / P2P communication app. I'm by no means a security expert but I like how they handled account management with local crypto keys and blockchain for anonymous

Re: [PLUG] From {proprietary consumer} TO {FOSS contributor} HOW???

In regards to your diverse history. You're not the only one: I dare say my background is more diverse not only vertically within in a technical speciality but also horizontally across many industries. I'm also diverse across types of work and I've had difficulties finding work due to this. I'm not

Re: [PLUG] From {proprietary consumer} TO {FOSS contributor} HOW???

> > That page answers a slightly different question than I was attempting to > ask. It focuses on "W here"to contribute "What". > In my experience, the what is a harder question to answer because it will vary greatly depending on the project, ones interests and skills/talents. What I've come to

Re: [PLUG] From {proprietary consumer} TO {FOSS contributor} HOW???

As a fellow Debian user, a good place to start for participating in and contributing to the Debian community is https://www.debian.org/intro/help Cheers, Mike On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 12:59 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Lousy subject line? *PROBABLY* Suggestions welcome ;} > > About a decade ago

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