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#1 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-12-22 15:38:35

@stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

Thanks for the tip.

#2 Re: Off-topic » AI Safety » 2024-12-21 21:47:19

Here's a good example of a threat posed by AI that is not theoretical:

CoPilot+ PCs, Windows Recall, Keylogging Privacy Invasions!
https://rumble.com/v4zmoxu-copilot-pcs-windows-recall-keylogging-privacy-invasions.html

#3 Re: Off-topic » Preventing System Penetration by Deep State Actors when Live Streaming » 2024-12-18 02:41:32

Live streaming seems problematic to me if the sessions are announced in advance publicly since this lets potential adversaries know when to carry out their attacks (or attempted attacks). If possible, coordination should be carried out using encrypted chat (including encrypted voice calls), rather than using insecure communication methods like email, public websites, regular telephone calls, and SMS text messages.

Some resources that may be useful:

PRISM Break
https://prism-break.org/en/

Security & Privacy Evaluations
https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/

Rob Braxman Tech
https://rumble.com/c/robbraxman

#4 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2024-11-23 20:27:33

I am also not sure that this is a good idea. I would rather see Google be forced to allow people to use ChromeOS and Android without entering a Gmail address. And by "use" I mean use normally without severe limitations.

#5 Re: Other Issues » New packages automatically installed? » 2024-11-21 17:55:10

An idea just came to me, so I went ahead and tried it:

$ aptitude why libc++1-16
i   atril                Depends libatrilview3 (= 1.24.0-1+deb11u1)
i A libatrilview3        Depends libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.5.3)   
p A libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 Depends libc++1-16 (>= 1:16.0.6)          

$ aptitude why libc++abi1-16
i   atril                Depends libatrilview3 (= 1.24.0-1+deb11u1)
i A libatrilview3        Depends libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.5.3)   
p A libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 Depends libc++abi1-16 (>= 1:16.0.6)       

$ aptitude why libunwind-16
i   atril                Depends libatrilview3 (= 1.24.0-1+deb11u1)
i A libatrilview3        Depends libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.5.3)   
p A libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 Depends libunwind-16 (>= 1:16.0.6)

So, apparently the new packages are dependencies of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37. That's a new one for me. I did not know that packages could suddenly acquire new dependencies. Perhaps this is just one of the oddities that can show up when one is running oldstable.

#6 Re: Other Issues » New packages automatically installed? » 2024-11-21 00:07:53

golinux wrote:

Are you trying to update Chimaera or upgrade to Daedalus?

Update Chimaera (i.e., normal, regular maintenance).

#7 Other Issues » New packages automatically installed? » 2024-11-20 21:31:24

pcalvert
Replies: 4

Today I ran apt upgrade on a Chimaera system that I am still using and this was the output:

# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc++1-16 libc++abi1-16 libunwind-16
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 768 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Notice that apt wants to install new packages. I've seen this before, and it always struck me as being a bit unusual. I thought that automatic installation of new packages is only supposed to occur if one is using testing or unstable. Does anyone have an explanation for why this is happening?

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] MAC address changes every reboot » 2024-11-04 13:27:22

Wired or wireless connection? Is Network Manager being used?

#9 Re: Packaging for Devuan » upower: very broken dependencies » 2024-10-11 05:17:46

If you are indeed using Excalibur, then this may be a good example of why many people choose to run unstable (Ceres) instead of testing. Either that, or they run a mixed testing/unstable system -- testing with some packages pulled (as needed) from unstable. The latter approach is the one I would probably use if I were inclined to run a "rolling" system, but didn't want to switch to a totally different distro (e.g., Arch Linux).

#10 Re: Other Issues » What is the real MAC of wlan0 ? » 2024-09-21 02:13:54

I recently read that Network Manager automatically generates a random MAC address for a wireless connection.

#11 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] deb.devuan.org doesn't respond » 2024-09-12 11:36:40

Andre4freedom wrote:

Using deb.rr.devuan.org works perfectly well, as do all (most) other mirrors as well.
deb.devuan.org remains blocking, wondering why.

Try this and reply with the result:

nslookup deb.devuan.org

#12 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] deb.devuan.org doesn't respond » 2024-09-11 22:14:29

I just checked to see if it's being blocked at the DNS level, and there's no problem here.

$ nslookup deb.devuan.org
Server:		192.168.4.1
Address:	192.168.4.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
deb.devuan.org	canonical name = deb.rr.devuan.org.
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 131.188.12.211
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 147.78.194.22
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 195.85.215.180
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 103.146.168.12
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 95.216.15.86
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 200.236.31.1
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 46.4.50.2
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 130.225.254.116
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 141.84.43.19
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 190.64.49.124
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 160.16.137.156
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 185.178.192.43
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 198.58.118.8
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 125.228.189.120
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 94.16.114.15
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 185.236.240.103
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 106.178.112.231
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 5.161.180.234
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 67.219.104.166
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 202.61.197.17
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 185.183.113.131
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2800:a8:c001::a
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2001:e42:102:1704:160:16:137:156
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a03:4000:28:24c::
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a0d:eb00:8006::acab
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 240b:10:f00:1b00::240
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a01:4ff:f0:dd3a::1
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2401:c080:2000:229e:4b70:fe82:36ed:f788
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a03:4000:59:123:68cc:97ff:fee1:c81
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2001:638:a000:1021:21::1
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a0a:e5c0:10:3::6eeb
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a01:9e40::180
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2407:b6c0::12
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a01:4f9:2a:fa9::2
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2801:82:80ff:8000::2
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2a01:4f8:140:1102:2b76:955d:b48f:bdf3
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2001:878:346::116
Name:	deb.rr.devuan.org
Address: 2001:4ca0:4300::1:19

Try using deb.rr.devuan.org instead.

#13 Re: Other Issues » Disappearing files » 2024-09-04 19:24:00

Maybe, but I don't think so. I've never seen any error messages when running rsnapshot. I don't run it using cron, I use a script that I wrote so, unless I am mistaken, I believe that I would have seen any error messages if there had been any.

You did give me an idea, though. I am going to create a test file and then delete it after a week or two. That should allow me to determine whether rsnapshot is working correctly.

#15 Re: DIY » USB Stick, File Size > 4GB » 2024-09-03 11:15:07

delgado wrote:

Found some information on Paragon's "ntfs3" driver, e.g. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-enable-ntfs3/86049/4

$ cat /boot/config-6.9.12-amd64 | grep -i ntfs3
# CONFIG_NTFS3_FS is not set

Means recompiling the kernel to enable it.

If it turns out that you absolutely must use NTFS, then I recommend using a Liquorix kernel. According to my research, ntfs-3g is enabled in Liquorix kernels.

See: https://liquorix.net/

#16 Re: DIY » USB Stick, File Size > 4GB » 2024-09-02 22:22:14

It sounds like that TV box may be running a very old version of Linux, in which case it may only support the older filesystems. Try formatting the USB stick as XFS and, if that doesn't work, try ext2.

#17 Re: DIY » USB Stick, File Size > 4GB » 2024-09-02 10:12:50

Use GParted and format the drive as exFAT. Before doing this, make sure that exfatprogs is installed.

#18 Re: Other Issues » Disappearing files » 2024-09-01 13:47:26

Thanks for the reply.

Andre4freedom wrote:

And: tools that sync or snpashot filesystems for backup, can delete files in the backup volume if the file is no longer present in the source filesystem. Check the options.

Yes, I know that, but that is not the case here. I am using rsnapshot, which creates daily, weekly, and monthly backups. Since the monthly backups cover the previous year, even if the file had been deleted from recent backups, it should still be in one or more of the older backups. The only exception to that (that I can think of) would be if the file had been deleted shortly after it was created. And I can say with certainty that such a scenario does not apply to two of the three or four files that have disappeared, including the most recent one.

#19 Other Issues » Disappearing files » 2024-08-30 21:45:55

pcalvert
Replies: 6

Has anyone else had files mysteriously disappear? When I do research on a new topic, I create a text file for it. The file includes things like snippets of text, URLs, and keywords that I used to find the information. Since 2020, at least three or four of these files have mysteriously disappeared. For example, earlier in the year I created a file on fifth-generation warfare (aka, 5GW). Recently, I found some new information that I wanted to add to it, but the file was nowhere to be found. I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the file was located on a partition that I formatted as ext3.

I just remembered something else that's a little spooky. The file was backed up, using rsnapshot, to a second HDD. It disappeared from the backup drive as well.

#20 Re: Installation » Install from Ventoy » 2024-08-09 03:53:47

In case anyone prefers to use Ventoy, I believe that I used Ventoy to install Daedalus-based Refracta on a Lenovo notebook. That being the case, I suspect that the Devuan desktop-live ISO, and maybe the Devuan minimal-live ISO, would also work.

#21 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Falkon browser not up-to-date » 2024-07-15 02:59:21

I've known for several years now that some of the web browsers packaged for Debian Stable are not kept up to date, and are therefore not safe to use. Firefox ESR and (to a lesser extent) Chromium are the only two that I know are definitely kept up to date.

I would install Falkon on Devuan using Flatpak. You can see here that there's a package for it on Flathub:

https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.falkon

Another possible way to install Falkon is via the Nix package manager. I'm sure that there are other ways to install an up-to-date Falkon on Devuan, but those two are the ones I would focus on.

#22 Off-topic » End-to-End Encryption (E2E) is Dead » 2024-06-27 15:12:27

pcalvert
Replies: 8

This is definitely bad news.

End-to-End Encryption (E2E) is Dead. Killed By New Tech.
https://rumble.com/v52cc3w-end-to-end-e … tech..html

#23 Re: Installation » Install from Ventoy » 2024-05-20 10:48:07

As I pointed out in the past, the problem is with Ventoy and not Devuan. Ventoy uses a "hacky" method to perform its "magic", and the result of this is a solution that is not very robust.

Here's what the developer of the Limine bootloader had to say about Ventoy:

“Limine is not Ventoy, nor does it try to be. I am not a fan of Ventoy as I think it is a terrible hack (because it needs to support each and every single OS (Linux, FreeBSD...) individually. For example, it needs to load its own kernel modules for various OSes in order to add "virtual drives" since ISO files aren't really made to show up to the OS kernel as separate drives).”

Source:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. … 699#p88699

#24 Re: Other Issues » EML / MHT Files Convert to RTF: Help Required » 2024-05-14 06:41:55

Have you tried opening them with Chromium? I just tried opening an MHT file in Firefox, but it didn't work; however, Firefox suggested using Chromium so I tried that and it worked.

#25 Re: Devuan » liblzma CVE-2024-3094 » 2024-04-08 16:08:25

nahkhiirmees wrote:

Maybe moving on to Alpine becomes a good idea.

I think it's worth considering. At the very least, you could install Alpine in a VM in order to become more familiar with it. That's what I'm planning to do. Even if I don't use it as my main OS, I may still use it for some other purpose.

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