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#26 Re: Off-topic » Anybody here use swisscows email service? » 2022-03-21 12:06:01
LU344928 wrote:I wonder how it compares with Protonmail.
That's my biggest wonder as Protonmail is what I currently use.
Interesting... why are you thinking about switching? Security concerns? Not enough storage on the basic account?
I say interesting because I also use Protonmail.
#27 Re: Off-topic » Anybody here use swisscows email service? » 2022-03-20 14:20:54
I wonder how it compares with Protonmail.
#28 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-03-08 09:10:25
. . . Trust Us, We're Experts
Indeed. As Bud Relman, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine said, "The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful."
#30 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2022-03-07 06:10:00
Welcome to the Revolution
#31 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-03-02 11:06:06
Even as skillfully and well documented as these revisions are, it is inevitable that the content will be misunderstood by readers with no knowledge of Pali language
Pali was the language of the Vinaya, if I'm not mistaken, and many of the 600 odd rules in there came about as a result of sexual transgressions committed by the Buddha's disciples. This is hilariously described in the book, Lust for Enlightenment: Buddhism and Sex, by John Stevens, an American Zen monk who lived 20 years in Japan.
FWIW . . . those involved in the revisions of the translation, which were made 30 years ago, were known to me as teachers, mentors and colleagues. I was asked to review the changes and was surprised and honored to receive a mention of my efforts in the preface.
Well done, congrats.
#32 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-03-02 10:44:37
Sri Lanka also has a history of colonial abuse. First there were the Portuguese then the Dutch and finally the British Empire. It went on for centuries . . . Of course they did everything they could to impose their religious beliefs on the "natives" as Western European colonists did all over the world. Disgusting . . .
One of the worst was Major-General Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India:
#33 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-02-23 16:36:44
LU344928 wrote:Incredibly, the British government of Margaret Thatcher had continued to support the defunct Pol Pot regime in the United Nations and even sent the SAS to train his exiled troops in camps in Thailand and Malaysia.
Not incredible at all. She was pure evil.
She was. But I think he was writing that for the 'uninitiated'.
#34 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-02-23 09:37:12
Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge' by Evan Gottesman.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Gottesman shows the disgusting tactics of the US, which supported the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot when they fled to the Thai border and became known as the ‘resistance’. The UN voted to recognise the Pol Pot regime as the legitimate representative of Cambodia. Both the US and Britain voted in favour at a time when the true horrors of the killing fields were being exposed to the world.
John Pilger has written (and filmed) extensively on the topic:
'Cambodia had been the West's dirty secret since then-president Richard Nixon and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger ordered a "secret bombing", extending the war in Vietnam into Cambodia in the early 1970s, killing hundreds of thousands of peasants.
"If this doesn't work", an aide heard Nixon say to Kissinger, "it'll be your ass, Henry".
It worked in handing Pol Pot his chance to seize power... Incredibly, the British government of Margaret Thatcher had continued to support the defunct Pol Pot regime in the United Nations and even sent the SAS to train his exiled troops in camps in Thailand and Malaysia. '
#35 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-02-01 21:34:41
This also dense reading:
In the 70s and early 80s, Sugar Blues and Confessions of a Medical Heretic and others exposed the manipulations that have gotten us to exactly where we are so no surprise to me that we are in this mess.
+1
#36 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-02-01 21:32:16
Currently reading the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling. Good stuff!
"...We know that the tail must wag the dog, as the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art?"...."
And the wildest dreams of Kew
Are the facts of Kathmandu
#37 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2022-01-31 08:14:32
FWIW:
More than 15 years after creating JavaScript, Brendan Eich conceded that JS had “a lot of stupid in it.” Mr. Eich, I regret to say that the same is true of your new web browser, called Brave.
#38 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2022-01-09 09:55:40
...evidence of the roundness of the Earth...
I once had a round-the-world ticket. Always flying in an easterly direction I ended up where I started from. If that doesn't prove the earth is round what does?
#39 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2022-01-03 15:29:36
LU344928 wrote:Head_on_a_Stick wrote:... as has Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
I like this though -
Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.
In the right-hand column:
ORIGINAL SOURCE
#40 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2022-01-03 04:14:59
... as has Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
#41 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2022-01-03 04:07:54
so mythology = fantasy ?
Not trying to be divisive, just trying to understand your point.
In the words of Thomas Paine, it's "a parody on the worship of the sun"
#42 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 11:17:30
Solstice is not really a fantasy...
What I was getting at was, and to put it succinctly, Dec. 25 was originally a pre-Christian festival which celebrated the sun's movement north (by a small degree) thereby signalling longer days and eventually warmer weather.
#43 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-26 07:09:15
The solstice is the only event worth noting. All the rest is just human fantasy.
Very true. In fact the fantasy comes from the solstice...
A happy festive season to all.
#44 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2021-12-26 06:07:49
I have a feeling I'll have nightmares tonight about demons screaming in my skull and eating my brains with rusty forks.
#45 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2020-08-28 14:46:45
But I do think FF has a memory leak somewhere...
That memory leak has plagued FF for years. Why it's not fixed after all this time is bewildering.
#46 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » HDMI no sound » 2020-08-28 14:42:14
What do you have under the configuration tab. If you don't have HDMI there you may have some issues with the driver.
https://www.udrop.com/plugins/imageviewer/site/thumb.php?s=Aub&/pavu.png
I can see ony 3 tabs: - playback, recording, and output devices
Older version perhaps?
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin 0.2.4
#47 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » HDMI no sound » 2020-08-28 14:39:16
Hi
Does your TV have an onboard D/A-converter.
I don't know. I didn't buy it.
#48 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » HDMI no sound » 2020-08-25 11:52:11
So after checking that I see at the bottom it says,
Show: All Output Devices
Output Devices tab > Port > then just two choices, speakers or headphones. HDMI option not there.
#49 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » HDMI no sound » 2020-08-25 10:57:25
I use pavucontrol and pulseaudio. With pavucontrol I switch between all outputs and inputs on the fly. On pavucontrol: Configuration > Ouput devices > Playback
PA is the default sound manager so I may as well try that. I notice there are different packages and I suppose I should really know this but which one do I install, the GTK or the Qt one? Thanks for your time.
EDIT: I'm on ascii 2.1.
EDIT again: Please disregard that. I just chose Properties from the system tray icon and I see it shows pavucontrol is already there.
#50 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » HDMI no sound » 2020-08-25 10:54:59
Hi
You get the list from "aplay -l" which you have given above. Seeing all files from the commandline "ls -a". Editing the file (as root) with "nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf" and add the two lines suggested in the previous post. Save and reboot. The numbers could as well be 0,0,1,0 or 0,0,0,1 depanding on the hdmi port you are using for your display. Hope this help. And as stated above, my advice could prove to be wrong. I am just suggesting what I would try myself ;-))
Have a nice day
Lars H
Thanks Lars but when I did that it disabled the soundcard.
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