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#51 Re: Other Issues » I seem to crash when I go to a certain website... » 2025-07-25 08:48:11
@all
please see both the article as well as the comments:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/tackling-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-to-overwhelm-the-open-web/
Proxies for Bots / Global Proxy Networks
do a quick search for “proxies for bots” and a hypothesis develops where hundreds of millions of individual consumers/users get “free” internet access simply for willingly being an active part of a global proxy network. not sure how cloudflare or anyone will be able to distinguish quasi-random proxy-networks from naturally occurring web traffic. definitely a race to the bottom nevertheless.
would expect to see more of these types of apps:
https://geekflare.com/consumer-tech/apps-to-sell-internet-data-and-earn-money/
#52 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-18 15:28:03
^^^@zapper, thanks for your installation report! keep us posted on your experiences/observations/progress/etc
#53 Re: Off-topic » Google in trouble again » 2025-07-18 09:15:40
this was insightful(or inciteful, depending on your take) - circa 2021:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/this-is-how-you-keep-your-dignity-and-not-sell-your-soul.html
#54 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » XFCE Suspend wakes immediately, successful suspend on second attempt » 2025-07-17 03:40:26
check out this specific post and then read the complete thread to get a better idea of what you are up against:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23730#p23730
another thought is if your free hard drive space is below a certain amount, then that will cause strange machine behavior
#55 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 06:33:04
stumbled across this commentary which references g*
mostly sharing it because...[sarcasm]well, what we need is to be more like microsoft windows...sigh.[/sarcasm]
#57 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 05:51:05
more on the k* word
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/kumbaya-song-meaning
side-eye dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Jones
alternatively
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000169/
just fer fun
#58 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-13 22:25:44
tracfone unlocking webpage:
https://www.tfwunlockpolicy.com/wps/portal/home/
sad how verizon has consumed Straight Talk, Net10, Clearway, Total, Tracfone, Simple Mobile, Safelink(obamaphone), and Walmart Family Mobile
#59 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-12 13:03:17
^^^@tux_99
Got sound in Firefox with only alsa and JACK!
#60 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 12:52:56
power and fuses and circuitboards, oh my!...beware the Magic Smoke!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
re: ... oh my!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lions_and_tigers_and_bears,_oh_my
and to get that earworm out, Bad Wolves tribute covering Cranberries Zombie rip Dolores O'Riordan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
peace out
#61 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 08:00:16
re: "charging only" cables
best guess is when a batch of cables Q.C.ed bad for data at a high-enough failure rate then they magically became "charging-only" cables(ooohhh, specialty item...sigh...argh)
#62 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 07:50:31
mostly thinking along the lines of @golinux at reply #60 regarding "peace"
#64 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 05:58:11
there is no spoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI
one gives themselves peace
others mostly bring violence
refuse to engage and/or obey _enough_ and many will attempt to destroy the peacefully non-compliant
as always, your mileage will vary
#65 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-12 05:44:04
looks like there might be timing issues with _some_ distros
quoting from:
https://benleskey.com/blog/opensuse#nvidia
snippet:
The biggest problem with the NVIDIA drivers is updating them. With UEFI secure boot enabled, each time the drivers were upgraded I had to enroll their keys at boot time. If I missed the 10 second window (and you only get one chance, even after rebooting), the graphical environment couldn't come up and I had to recover manually by running sudo mokutil --import /usr/share/nvidia-pubkeys/whatever-nvidia-pubkey.der from the recovery environment. You can also disable kernel module verification by running sudo mokutil --disable-validation. This will ask you to set up a small password and then disable the verification at next boot time (assuming you can remember the small password you set up).
#66 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-11 14:17:04
did you try it in single-user?(just a casual guess)
#68 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-07-10 08:20:09
more re: anubis, please review:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
#69 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-10 07:08:23
this thread reminds me to reread and rereference:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
and for those who unduly shun the message for the messenger, please see:
and search the below webpage for "lifelong activist" as you have time:
edited to add a couple more(again, as you have time):
https://www.stallman.org/articles/magellan-just-a-name.html
https://www.stallman.org/articles/what-mary-had.html
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
https://www.stallman.org/apple.html
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
#70 Re: Devuan » Can't use MAKE command driver for installation » 2025-07-10 06:46:25
since the OP seems unable to use simple code tags perhaps we might hypothesize we are interacting with ai/llm? how would we know? could we? really?
don't get me wrong, i understand. a dear one has dementia and no longer knows who they are/was/were. it is hard to relate unless/until it is personally experienced and so one must seek out others who have both experienced it and are willing to share and talk about it as well. life is short, love them long.
#71 Re: Off-topic » The need for cooperation as central motivation in Unix and GNUproject » 2025-07-09 03:35:03
^^^Re: Global Firefox marketshare
the marketshare loss is mostly due to the continuing increase in smartphone usage which ultimately drives users to the devices default/included browser which is _not_ firefox...sad but true.
anyone here using GrapheneOS?
#72 Re: Off-topic » The need for cooperation as central motivation in Unix and GNUproject » 2025-07-06 03:41:19
Don Marti was editor-in-chief at Linux Journal once upon a time and his website is absolutely overflowing with very interesting intriguing thought-provoking stuff!
once on his main webpage find the "Start here" and/or the "About me" sections/sub-headings and have a go!
way down in the "Bonus links" area is a link to a long but must-read commentary regarding the sorry state of search:
https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/
#73 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How are 'live' disks that can boot on many systems created? » 2025-07-06 03:14:38
generally speaking the linux kernel continues to grow in size partially because of new devices being added as time marches on:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/driver-model/index.html
so for example, devuan installed on an ssd could be moved between different machines as long as they were the same architecture
also you might find these interesting as well:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/20/redbean_2_a_singlefile_web/
https://justine.lol/cosmo3/
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
#74 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-05 14:30:26
sh*thub:
please note that the above website is NOT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans
the Codeberg wiki was interesting as well:
#75 Re: Other Issues » Unable to connect to devuan laptop server on local network » 2025-07-05 07:13:31
since you don't have the same issues when using a _livecd/dvd/usb_ (no tailscale)
you'll need to know what tailscale has done and that might depend on how you installed tailscale.
perhaps see this for possible clues:
https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/main/scripts/installer.sh
also wasn't able to find "orbi32" at:
https://www.netgear.com/support/product/orbi/
but maybe it is eos:
https://www.netgear.com/about/eos/
other links of possible interest to future forum/thread visitors:
https://www.netgear.com/home/services/orbilogin/
https://www.netgear.com/home/services/orbi-app/
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