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#26 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-02-24 14:22:42
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
#27 Re: Off-topic » The seitan conundrum » 2022-02-22 12:50:45
Hey Kelsoo . . . it's been a while, Nice to see you.
...............
Wishing you good health !
Thanks. I visit here most days.
The biggest disease on the planet is not covid. It's centralised social media, it's data collection and it's use. Many have been sold a system where convenience comes with the price of free thought. Each click separates us more and more because profit has no conscience, they don't care on which side of a debate you're so long as you click. CSM needs a cure fast because it poisons the whole of society. Life choices are not so binary and way more subtle. Removing this poison allows all to move towards a more common ground.
From one to satan to another :-)
I recall going on anti GMO demos 20 years a go, ripping up plants from the test fields. Generally folk created such a stink that GMO are quite mistrusted here in the UK and the market opportunities less. Cheese is the one place I see things labelled as GMO. As for organics for the last 20 years I'm fortunate enough to have access to a one acre organic garden similar orchard and 12 acres of woodland. My diet has a very high percentage of organic veg and is GMO free.
I'm familiar with older varieties of wheat - spelt etc. Oats and rice I can stomach both are gluten free. I used to be the main "bread maker" and loved experimenting. We used to buy organic dried goods in bulk. 25KG bags. But since my illness we've had to reduced the volume.
I tend to use potatoes as my main form of carbohydrate. We have one of the best sources of seed potatoes in all of Scotland just down the road and usually grow enough to not have to buy any all year. Pink fir apple is a gem of a potato. https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/po … 000006319/
#28 Re: Off-topic » The seitan conundrum » 2022-02-20 21:44:30
[A very off-topic response]
xinomilo wrote:not really into appearance/theme stuff, but mentioning the island where i live, caught my eye
Lucky you! In the 70s I spent 2 summers sailing with a friend from Guernsey to France across the Bay of Biscay to Spain, Portugal, then Tangier, though the Straits of Gibraltar, more Spain and finally Ibiza. We really wanted to make it all the way to Greece but chatter about pirates from N. Africa targeting Westerners dampened our resolve to actually do it. LOL! Sad that I never was able to fulfill that pipe dream . . .
xinomilo wrote:p.s. in case anyone wonders, picture is from "Seitan Limania" beach.
I am a bit confused how this Japanese delight got to Greece. But then, I'm confused about a lot of things . . . LOL!
As far as I'm concerned Satan is a cracking name for Seitan. The wheat meat, gluten meat, thing or any gluten. I have suffered with IBD for years after wrongly being told I had IBS and "It was down to my age and I would have to live with it". A chance change in my diet which by most measures has been considered very healthy has transformed my gut health and quality of life.
At first I removed bread, then wheat, then all cereal grain from my diet. Thinking about it I don't have four stomachs so no wonder my guts complained about me eating grass! No sugar. No processed food apart from a limited amount of dairy. No additives, sugar, sauces or flavouring etc.
I like things nice n easy. No having to read labels and research every produce I might want to eat. Hence my diet is nice n easy to. No bullshit make believe pasta or GF bread etc.
Food: Plain unadulterated veg, fruit, meat (red and white), fish, nuts&seeds, eggs, 3 dairy products milk, hard cheese, and yogurt.
Drink: water, 100% fruit juice, tea, coffee, whisky, cider, wine.
Note: Distilled spirits only contain gluten if added after distillation. Cider, wine, sherry, spirits, port and liqueurs are gluten free.
Condiments & stuff: salt (rarely), pepper, chilli oil (home made), honey, herbs, spices
Result is happy guts, no daily steroids, an extra hour a day to do things I like doing, I'm less hungry and have more energy. Minus 12kg, though I put this down to no beer! If you like your conspiracy theories look up the Chorleywood bread process and Gliadin protein it's considered an opiate.
#29 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2022-02-05 01:40:43
^
Don't talk wet
You I and everyone else knows a Default Slackware install includes loads of crap because there is no dependency checking. It's a big fat system that is expected to only be patched as and when required (think like next update in 5 years).
Many Slackers will criticize minimal Slackware installs as "Not Slackware". Storage is cheap, Even though I try and run light, gone are the days of me taking my 100mb zip disk to collage to store my Graphic design work on!
That doesn't meant you cant build a lighter Slackware system. For that you use tags. Even that in my opinion is shit because that's not how it's designed to work.
If you want to compare Apples at least compare them against other Apples.... Not Oranges
I have 2 Slackware based machines. One full install (well one freenix so I guess not full full) but close. Another minimal tag based and my builds. (maybe a couple hundred packages). No where near as light as my D2 base system but light compared to may other systems.
A more useful comparison would be your Alpine system with and without wayland.
Dryanuary is well and truly over! Have fun and is your Alpine system running "Bonkers Gnome" :-)
#30 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2022-01-25 17:33:51
Been playing around with shod a mouse driven tabbed wm.
It's based on ideas from notion (my daily driver) plan 9 and others and very unixy. Very easy to build and use. Beta or better quality atm but most definitely usable now. Light weight (1MB in ps_mem). I have it running with fittstool and wmbubble and that's enough once setup. i.e. workspace switching with mouse wheel, killing session etc..
I also have xclickroot, xmenu and pmenu from the same developer just to check them out.
https://github.com/phillbush/shod
clean 
pmenu (pi-menu) 
dirty nested/tabbed terminals 
dirty nested/tabbed guis 
#31 Re: Other Issues » Suggestions for a good simple alarm clock/timer » 2022-01-20 11:27:48
^
In a similar fashion with ogg123 you can use the -Z option
-Z, --random
Play files in pseudo-random order forever.
ogg123 -Z ~/path/to/loud-song.ogg The obvious thing to note if using as an alarm is make sure you only have loud files in the directory.
Incidentally I was woken at 7;30 AM this morning with this blasting in my ears
https://derryth.com/s/free-software-song-best-version
Hence, I can recommend reading the man page at a sane time of day! If using the at command you can check the queue with
atq and clear items in it with atrm queue number
atrm 1 2 4 8:-)
#32 Re: Other Issues » Suggestions for a good simple alarm clock/timer » 2022-01-19 14:28:04
While sleep is fine and super easy to remember for boiling a kettle, it's not so good as an alarm. For that the "at" command is handy.
at -t ccyymmddhhmm.ss # cc=century yy=year mm=month dd=day hh=hour mm=minute .ss=seconds (note the dot!) or just don't bother with .ss
Set the time to run
at -t 202201192359press return
Command to run e.g.
ogg123 ~/Music/Rock/loud-song.oggpress return
press ctrl D
That's it. see "man at" for more options like
Boil an egg
at now + 3 minutespress "return"
ogg123 ~/path/to/loud-song.oggpress "return" then press "ctrl D"
I believe the return after ogg123 ~/path/to/loud-song.ogg is not strictly necessary but I've found it more intuitive and it doesn't hurt. In other words muscle memory. I keep doing it and it works fine! :-$
To switch off the alarm
killall ogg123Morning alarm clock
at 7:30 AM tomorrowpress "return"
ogg123 ~/Music/Rock/loud-song.oggpress "return" then press "ctrl D"
Note make sure your volume is up!
#33 Re: Other Issues » Suggestions for a good simple alarm clock/timer » 2022-01-18 22:57:32
sleep 300 ; mplayer loud-song.oggworks for me
#34 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 18:01:56
Never trust a BMW rider (or driver) :-P
#35 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-24 21:04:29
The solstice is the only event worth noting. All the rest is just human fantasy.
Not on my planet :-P
.....whisky again
My excuse is real but a bit of a stretch... I'm gluten intolerant so can no longer drink beer!!!! Anyway: Greetings and good will to all freetards and init deviants
#36 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-12-09 07:11:10
Slackware (freenix) notion4 -mc and htop
I'm loving notion and the latest htop finaly has date and time and resizable colums. mc is almost to complex but very powerful my new toy!
#37 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Need to reset root password » 2021-12-01 17:37:03
Just copy all the required text from an existing document or website in to a text file and delete what you need until you have your password in the file.
su select the text and middle click in the terminal press enter not return
edit: Then change your password :-)
#38 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Need to reset root password » 2021-12-01 16:39:25
What's wrong with copying and pasting your password in?
#39 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2021-11-14 19:44:26
But it's still bonkers
#40 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » xorg-server 21.1.0 - Final release » 2021-11-10 20:35:14
I recall this thread.
"better in every respect"? Maybe impossible if your arch install was anything to go by :-)
#41 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » incorrect screen size and keyboard not working after lid closure » 2021-09-29 19:13:48
PedroReina wrote:Élisabeth wrote:Any ideas?
Please check the size of your swap partition. It should be as big as your RAM o bigger.
I have 16GB RAM and a 16GB swap partition.
Stone the bleedin crows :-) I have 3GB RAM and 1GB swap
16GB swap seems mightily excessive considering many people will large amounts of RAM like yourself don't use any swap. I've read it's good to have some even if you have plenty RAM. Anyway I doubt very much it's a swap issue.
#42 Re: Devuan Derivatives » An example of how Trinity Desktop Env (TDE) can look on Devuan ASCII » 2021-07-26 21:23:47
TDE certanly is light and very configerable. My TDE desktop based on Devuan dirivative http://exegnulinux.net/ is somewhat less busy weighing in at well under 200MB
A very nice deskop for users wanting a more traditional approach
#43 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Browsers and the demise of Adobe Flash Player » 2021-07-23 10:51:42
I have SeaMonkey-2.53.8.1, Firefox 90.0.2 binaries installed and palemoon-29.0.1 built from source.
No flash, all the websites linked work. about:config is avalible in all of them as are web extentions though the number and choice is dependent on several factors.
I prefer Seamonkey because it has imo a better interface, and the suit. email, news reader, chatzilla, and composer all of which I use a lot. I's also lighter. The only issue I have with Seamonkey is it's harder to use webrtc. You need to set the default mic ouside the browser and use the not so secure addon. Remember to switch it off after using it and switching sites. Because of that I use firefox and user agent switcher when doing my NHS colsultations. (they require android, Windows or Apple and Chrome!).
Getting your bookmarks to display in the toolbar where you want them is surely just a matter of how you configure them. I have a master bookmark file about 4MB all my machines start with this file and each machines new bookmarks peridodicaly are imported into this master file.
#44 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Bluetooth adapter not detected » 2021-05-21 16:40:47
$ sudo lsmod | grep -i blue
bluetooth 737280 7 bnep
ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth
libaes 16384 2 bluetooth,aes_generic
rfkill 28672 7 acer_wmi,bluetooth,cfg80211
crc16 16384 2 bluetooth,ext4
Is there a hardware switch or key bind?
#45 Re: Installation » low memory installation » 2021-05-20 17:03:46
Notion4 (no addons)
leafpad
xterm
spacefm & rox-filer
htop
fittstool
geeqie (not the lightest but huge bang for your buck) If you want light sxiv or qiv or pqiv
ffplay
seamonkey
As I run light and seamonkey is my default browser. I thought I'd share the extentions I use now i's getting harder and harder to find them.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy
I struggled to find older versions but need this for NHS webrtc conferences. I set it i chrome 99 and windows and it allows it to work! Yes I have complained. his zip has the legacy xpi and xml
https://derryth.com/s/user-agent-swicher-0-7-3-xml
For webrtc to work you need access to your default mic and webcam. Not secure so only us on th page you're doing he web conference. then toggle it off.
https://github.com/IsaacSchemm/webrtc-p … -ui-toggle
If you use a netbook or device with a small screen littlemonkey is for you
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/se … seamonkey/
Fantastic plugin. Lets cookies load. The site opens then it deletes them.
https://github.com/JustOff/cookies-exte … tag/2.9.10
If you find a xpi file that is to new to use copy it as a zip extract it and edit the version to a higher one.
or use
http://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/
https://github.com/lemon-juice/AMO-Brow … -SeaMonkey
#46 Re: Off-topic » desktop / workspaces » 2020-08-08 23:16:18
I've been trying to find a light weight workspace notifier for my evilwm install. The lightest is built in to simpleswitcher but requires a keypress.
tint2 and xdotool work well on openbox
# Executor 1
execp = new
execp_command = xprop -root -spy | awk '/^_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP/ { print "" ($3 + 1) ; fflush(); }'
execp_interval = 1
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 1
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip = lmb=add-desktop, rmb=remove-desktop
execp_lclick_command = xdotool set_num_desktops $(( $(xdotool get_num_desktops) + 1 ))
execp_rclick_command = xdotool set_num_desktops $(( $(xdotool get_num_desktops) - 1 ))
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Sans 16
execp_font_color = #00ff00 100
execp_padding = 0 0
execp_background_id = 0
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0bmpanel works well and is light but does to much. I only looked at it today and it seems to be made up of c modules so it might be able to be run as a stand alone program.
I used a small xterm for a while but it's to heavy and ugly!
#!/bin/bash
#xterm +sb -bg lightblue -fg blue -g 1x2-22-2 -fs 18 -e dt #put this in xinit
# another way wmctrl -d | grep -F '*' | cut -c1-1
tput civis #invisable cursor ;
xprop -root -spy | awk '/^_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP/ { print "" ($3 + 1) ; fflush(); }' ; echo "Name" | echo I'm currently using dzen2 which gives me exactly what I want but is again about 6 times heavier than the window manager so it just feels plain wrong
#!/bin/sh
# this puts a tiny workspace number indicator in the top right area of the screen
# Title: dzen-workspace-notifier.sh
# Author:
# Version:
# Source:
# Depends: dzen, wmctrl, awk
# Add:
# -fn $FONT
# if your dzen is compiled with XFT support.
#FONT="-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
#FONT='-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'
#--[ Configuration ]---------------------------------------------------
# x position
#XPOS="-650"
# y position
#YPOS="+5"
# title width
#TWIDTH=200
# details area width
#DWIDTH=150
#WIDTH="500"
# font
FONT='-*-profont-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859'
# fg color
FG="white"
# bg color
BG="blue"
# events & actions
ACT='button1=togglecollapse;button3=exit'
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
while true ; do
wmctrl -d | awk '/*/ {print $1+1}'
sleep .1
done | dzen2 -e '' -x -15 -y +5 -h '20' -w '10' -ta r -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT -e $ACTIf you're in to conky then this works well
conkyrc
TEXT
${if_match ${execi 60 wmctrl -d | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/,0//'}} #/
${color1}Machine:${color2}${machine} #/
${if_match ${desktop}==1} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}one
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==2} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}two
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==3} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}three
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==4} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}four
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==5} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}five
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==6} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}six
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==7} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}seven
${else}${if_match ${desktop}==8} #/
${color1}Workspace: ${color2}eight
${else}
${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}${endif}wmpager is very light but you need so gnome libs
If anyone finds a notifier using less resources than my window manager give me a shout :-)
#47 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2020-07-28 00:06:14
My ancient Dragora D2. (D3 beta2 due out end of next month all thing being well) I have a dislike for dynamic tilers as the raving dyslexic in me struggles with the crazy number of keybinds they tend to have. I always end up chasing windows around rather than just putting them where I want them to be :-)
Hence evilwm-gaps. Minimal keybinds, master slave and set to open up roughly 1/4 screen size means that I have pseudo-tiling too.
#48 Re: Off-topic » HyperbolaBSD Roadmap relevance to Devuan » 2020-02-20 02:56:07
Ash init durbatulûk, ash init gimbatul, Ash init thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
#49 Re: Off-topic » HyperbolaBSD Roadmap relevance to Devuan » 2020-02-19 18:49:48
Kelsoo wrote:I believe in 10 years time assimilation in all but name will be complete. (This is the main reason I don't run Devuan as my main system.) There needs to be somewhere for distros to go when this happens.
I am not sure I fully understand your argument here.
Do you mean you do not run Devuan because it will be assimilated in 10 years?
Do you mean Devuan is too close to the "evil" or too small to undo the "evil"?
Where do you see distros going to when this happens?
I mean I think Debian will be assimilated and therefore most other distros will be not much more than a RedHat clone in 10 years time. That will make Devuans work even harder, or as you put it "too small to undo the "evil" I'm not saying I think Debian is evil. Quite the contrary I really care about it. I'm saying it's being forcibly shaped by outside forces and that have their own interests at heart.
I use a couple Devuan Derivatives. I have installs of Exe GNU/Linux and Gnuinos and use Refracta live CD's. I really hope they can keep going but would rather put my meagre efforts into something not dependent on Debian in-case my fears come true.
Of the "Big" distros only Gentoo seem to offer any sanity. Heck they even support systemd while trying to remain non-dependent on it, which in my view is what Debian should be doing. Fingers crossed Devuan can ultimately merge back in to Debian and restore some sanity.
Guix may offer some refuge. Seems to be getting very popular and like Gentoo as a source distro offers options.
Slackware can't cope with Gnome and I can see them struggling with KDE.
I'm taking the belts n braces approach I'm going small. I still use Dragora 2.2 (way to old) and Hyperbola mostly while I wait for Dragora 3 to actually get out of beta. It will have TDE to try and remove it's self from the ever increasing growth of corporate upstream power, and fetches and builds packages from source or prebuilt by the community like Arch Linux AUR. There are no community repos yet qire the package to fetch packages was only built this morning!
Dragora 3 has the init scheme divided into 2 parts to make it more reliable.
1 Process number 1 (sysvinit) is limited to manage the stages for boot and shutting down the system, but nothing more.
2 Supervisor service (Perp) The control of services is done using Perp only. This way if the service supervisor dies the system should still run.
http://b0llix.net/perp/
Anyway fingers crossed Debian and Devuan find some common ground
#50 Re: Off-topic » HyperbolaBSD Roadmap relevance to Devuan » 2020-02-19 12:39:22
mmaglis wrote:forcing adaptation of software or features without any option to alternatives or the ability to disable them.
By this I do mean hard-coded dependencies in software, but it goes beyond this. Pushing for agendas and platforms, setting default core system software that re-define what GNU+Linux is, without considering interoperability to others. Their interest is to dominate the Linux world with their platforms, tools and architecture.
mmaglis wrote:It is the effect of commercial interests and the influence they excercise on so many vital projects for their commercial needs and targets.
I believe this article from Forbes expresses it in more detail: The Impact Of The Tech Giants On Open Source
The power of the multinationals is the reason we have systemd and it's ilk. Debian would back in the day have supported multi inits as a matter of course. To support user choice. Now they can't compete against the corps. RedHat simply can gain the system by chucking more devs at it. It may be a free-software package but volunteers simply can't keep up with the work required to maintain user choice. I believe in 10 years time assimilation in all but name will be complete. (This is the main reason I don't run Devuan as my main system.) There needs to be somewhere for distros to go when this happens.
We also see a rise in anti copyleft from the big corps. Show me a big 7 that uses copyleft by default where they have a choice. This is about the same thing. Control and power. The only time I see big corps using copyleft is where they don't want other big corps to not share the code!
I think Hyperbola recognise this and simply don't try and kill them selves chasing rainbows. They just drop non-free packages and packages that try and obfuscate no matter what they are and try and work on the things they can do. They choose their rainbows carefully like the firefox, where they maintain the iceweasel-uxp packages. It's easier to maintain that than try to keep fixing each new "feature" firefox either inserts or removes. That said I think their plan to fork OpenBSD is very ambitious and I'm not sure it can be realised. I hope they succeed but have my doubts.
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