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#101 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2024-11-29 08:37:59

skynet/starlink to vastly increase and normalize handset-to-satellite/satellite-to-handset communications.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/fcc-approves-starlink-plan-for-cellular-phone-service-with-some-limits/

perhaps a review of the immediately preceding post and associated reference links is in order.

especially/specifically/this_one

more regarding the 1984-style/big-brother/mass-surveillance/fbi/cia/dhs/ice/nsa/skynet/starshield third-party datafest:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/you-cant-do-mass-deportations-without-mass-domestic-surveillance-and-ice-is-already-exploring-its-options/

modified to add content

#102 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 04:44:41

so the systemd guy worked for military-industrial-complex-contractor-redhat...
and now works for military-industrial-complex-contractor-microsoft...
and what he works on is part of this thing where millions of lives are in the balance:

Ada code facilitates such massive software
projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
been at stake."

is it just me or does anyone else think this will end badly?   :rolleyes:   :wavingarmswildly:

#103 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 04:35:13

really, is really real, or just part of the matrix?   :rolleyes:   :wavingarmswildly:

#104 Re: DIY » how to implement Linux commands for building core boot image » 2024-11-29 03:53:41

quote

Ada code facilitates such massive software
projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
been at stake."

from

~$ apt info gnat
Package: gnat
Version: 12.2
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Ludovic Brenta <lbrenta@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 14.3 kB
Depends: gnat-12
Suggests: ada-reference-manual-2012
Tag: devel::compiler, devel::lang:ada, implemented-in::ada,
 implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::dummy, role::program,
 scope::utility, suite::gnu, works-with::software:source
Download-Size: 4,716 B
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
Description: GNU Ada compiler
 GNAT is a full-featured Ada 2012 compiler.  A quote from
 http://www.adaic.org says: "Easily reused and maintained, readable
 and user friendly, Ada code facilitates such massive software
 projects as the Space Station and the Paris Metro. It has proven to
 be extraordinarily robust in decades' worth of daily field tests
 under the most rigorous conditions in which millions of lives have
 been at stake."  Ada is the language for real-world, mission-critical
 programming.
 .
 At the same time, Ada's radical type safety helps novice programmers
 avoid many common mistakes and deliver their software on time (see
 http://www.adaic.org/atwork/trains.html).
 .
 This empty package depends on the default version of the Ada compiler
 for Debian, which is part of the GNU Compiler Collection. Its
 enforces the same version for all Ada compilations, as described in
 the Debian Ada Policy.

seems dangerous to let the ai-bots hack away at such critical code. shazbot.

#106 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Disable a NIC at boot. » 2024-11-28 16:08:25

you might take a closer look at /etc/default/networking(on our daedalus the CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes is commented out)

# Configuration for networking init script being run during
# the boot sequence

# Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot
#CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes

# Don't configure these interfaces. Shell wildcards supported/
#EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=

# Set to 'yes' to enable additional verbosity
#VERBOSE=no

# Method to wait for the network to become online,
# for services that depend on a working network:
# - ifup: wait for ifup to have configured an interface.
# - route: wait for a route to a given address to appear.
# - ping/ping6: wait for a host to respond to ping packets.
# - none: don't wait.
#WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=ifup

# Which interface to wait for.
# If none given, wait for all auto interfaces, or if there are none,
# wait for at least one hotplug interface.
#WAIT_ONLINE_IFACE=

# Which address to wait for for route, ping and ping6 methods.
# If none is given for route, it waits for a default gateway.
#WAIT_ONLINE_ADDRESS=

# Timeout in seconds for waiting for the network to come online.
#WAIT_ONLINE_TIMEOUT=300

#107 Re: Installation » live iso not booting into graphical environment » 2024-11-27 07:47:09

what specifically "takes a long time"?

we will need more information to determine if your equipment is behaving normally.

also for future thread visitors convenience:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_W_series#W500

#108 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] forum image embedding question. » 2024-11-27 07:32:17

indeed @ralph.ronnquist offers the correct correction and a light poke as well...sigh...

throughout decades of electronics usage we have always sought to turn off anything/everything we can/could to reduce attack-surface / bandwidth-consumption / doxxing / identity-theft / etc.

once again...and on a daily basis...humbled & _hat_in_hand_head_bowed_

nevertheless,

Be Excellent to each other and Party On!

#109 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] MAC address changes every reboot » 2024-11-27 07:14:11

my daedalus amd64 has the following

~$ cat /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf 
# Certain drivers are known not to support changing the MAC address.
# Disable touching the MAC address on such devices.
#
# See man NetworkManager.conf
#
# https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777523
[device-31-mac-addr-change]
match-device=driver:eagle_sdio,driver:wl
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

which results in part of NetworkManager configuration

~$ sudo NetworkManager --print-config

some of the different places NetworkManager components can be found/hidden(depending on your point-of-view)
/etc/NetworkManager/
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/
/var/lib/NetworkManager/

if you have time this bug report may also provide some context and/or insight:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=879484

keep us posted on your progress!

#110 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to disable IPv6? » 2024-11-27 06:49:08

try adding

ipv6.disable=1

to the commandline bootcode.

also i seem to recall needing to comment out all the ipv6 stuff in the /etc/hosts file

# commented out all the ipv6 stuff to quiet the /var/log/exim4 report logs
#::1		 localhost
#::1             ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
#fe00::0         ip6-localnet
#fe00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
#ff00::0	 ip6-mcastprefix
#fe02::1         ip6-allnodes
#fe02::1         ip6-allrouters
#ff02::1	 ip6-allnodes
#ff02::2	 ip6-allrouters
#ff02::3	 ip6-allhosts
#fe80::1%lo0	 localhost

you might even check what NetworkManager reports

sudo NetworkManager --print-config

keep us posted on your progress.

#111 Off-topic » [SOLVED] forum image embedding question. » 2024-11-26 09:45:41

referencing the directions for displaying an image found here:

https://dev1galaxy.org/help.php#img

     snippet quoted:

Links and images

...

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.

FluxBB bbcode test produces FluxBB bbcode test

     same but code tags:

If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.

[img=FluxBB bbcode test]https://dev1galaxy.org/img/test.png[/img] produces FluxBB bbcode test

     page source code quoted:

<p><a name="img"></a>If you want to display an image you can use the img tag. The text appearing after the "=" sign in the opening tag is used for the alt attribute and should be included whenever possible.</p>
        <p><code>FluxBB bbcode test</code> produces <samp><img style="height: 21px" src="https://dev1galaxy.org/img/test.png" alt="FluxBB bbcode test" /></samp></p>

tried to do this a variety of ways and never succeeded. this was the image i was trying to embed:

xkcd password strength comic

are the instructions correctly incorrect?

#112 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2024-11-26 09:13:15

some background music perhaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSG3PNztWg8

the infamous music video that broke the tubes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangnam-style-overflows-int_max-forces-youtube-to-go-64-bit/

wonder how many people are using iSG3PNztWg8 as a passphrase/password?

i Star Gate 3 Person Narrative zippy tunes Waste gate 8

obligatory xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/936/

semi-obligatory explainxkcd:

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Strength

#113 Re: Documentation » HOWTO : Downgrade Thunderbird 115 to 102 » 2024-11-26 06:26:55

this webpage(note, debian sid amd64) has an advisement regarding the preference of using a package manager:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/thunderbird/download

If you are running Debian, it is strongly suggested to use a package manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, instead of doing so manually via this website.

You should be able to use any of the listed mirrors by adding a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list like this:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Replacing ftp.de.debian.org/debian with the mirror in question.

to proceed manually just copy the appropriate facility/mirror link and then shorten it by removing the filename itself(something like these):

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/thunderbird/

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/thunderbird/

@dave, it doesn't appear that debian is even offering version 102?

haven't used the bird in years so idk, ymmv.

#114 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2024-11-24 10:57:12

another question that will never be answered honestly is what google is doing with all that capacity now that they "claim" they aren't still "caching" the WorldWideWeb anymore?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/google-search-kills-off-cached-webpages/

in all probability they are still caching on the backend to satisfy their internal requirements(not to mention servicing the global intelligence establishments), just lowering their operational bandwidth consumption on the front end(at the expense of the end-user naturally).

also this is thought-provoking as well:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-crackdown-on-internet-monopoly-youve-never-heard-of/

further reading:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/

especially the comments:

https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/#comment-42616

John Poole
August 27, 2020 at 14:31   

ICANN has already FAILED the global internet community, including domain name registrants, in so many ways, why continue to persist in ignoring the obvious? ICANN policy making is “dysfunctional by design” and its “consensus decision making” often exhibits groupthink at its worst. As you have noted, ICANN structures are rigged in favor of lobbyists and lawyers representing a few special interests and ICANN’s own “contracted parties,” NOT the “global public interest” nor even the “public interest” as defined by the European Union or any other duly elected governmental authority, including the State of California! Most domain name registrants have NO representation within the “ICANN community” and that is “intentional.” ICANN exists primarily (1) to perpetuate itself — the obscenely overpaid, and oftentimes incompetent, ICANN management, and staff, the inept ICANN Board of Directors, and the “few” who dominate and control the “ICANN community” — and (2) to perpetuate U.S. hegemony over global internet governance including the global DNS. ICANN is a “failed organization.” It needs to be replaced. If people such as yourself persist in pretending otherwise, by default others will decide.

and while we are at it, who ultimately should control Skynet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield

see also Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

obligatory skynet links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)

and here is another bigger question/thought:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

Algorithms increasingly rule our lives. It's a small step from applying SKYNET logic to look for "terrorists" in Pakistan to applying the same logic domestically to look for "drug dealers" or "protesters" or just people who disagree with the state. Killing people "based on metadata," as Hayden said, is easy to ignore when it happens far away in a foreign land. But what happens when SKYNET gets turned on us—assuming it hasn't been already?

not to mention the great pumpkin heading the patch full of gourds again...

greenday anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idiot#Themes

black sabbath?

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=51845#p51845

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edited december 7th, 2024 to include another good link referencing the "hiding of the cache"

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Legacy_of_a_Dying_World_Wide_Web.shtml

edited december 8th, 2024 to include more google

https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Google_Does_Not_Have_a_Search_Engine_Anymore.shtml

#115 Re: Packaging for Devuan » Lazarus weird after update » 2024-11-21 11:41:19

currently using Daedalus. when i search synaptic using just the "name" matching i get about a dozen search results. one of them is "lazarus-ide-gtk2-2.2 IDE for Free Pascal - GTK+ version" and as you described, it says "latest available version is  2.2.6+dfsg2-2"

there is also a Qt5 version which may explain why your "apt-get install lazarus-ide-3.6" didn't quite get the job done.

thanks for keeping us posted!

#118 Re: Installation » minimal X install » 2024-11-20 09:50:09

perhaps slightly off-topic but still interesting/thought-provoking:
(especially for the distro/curious/experimenters/hoppers)

https://easyos.org/user/how-to-fix-broken-video.html

Barry Kauler's Devuan Daedalus version of EasyOS(woofwoof!):

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=12851

more for those so inclined:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=136062#p136062

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=136066#p136066

can snowballs go down rabbitholes? indeed.

https://devuanpup.wordpress.com/

#120 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cups error AFTER successful print » 2024-11-19 09:38:54

have had many mysterious mysteries manifest over the last 40 years. especially with those printers.

#123 Re: Off-topic » systemd v257 requires the merging of /bin and /sbin » 2024-11-15 11:54:14

thanks for bringing that to our attention.

naturally it is just _tilting_at_windmills_ and/or _spitting_into_the_wind_ as NOTHING will stop microsoft/redhat/etc and the multiple millions of dollars behind this _extend_embrace_extinguish_ bullet-train.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1085370;msg=10

They cannot be disabled, there are no options to do so, feel free to send a patch upstream to implement such a feature if you want to do so

#124 Re: Other Issues » Clearing the DNS cache » 2024-11-15 09:41:42

check /etc/resolv.conf for clues

cat /etc/resolv.conf

check NetworkManager settings

sudo NetworkManager --print-config

also a further note regarding DNS resolving.

i used DDG to search the terms "force pihole usage"(quotation marks only for forum post clarity, didn't use them for the search)

there were multiple pages of results given the popularity of raspberry pi units these days(not to mention trying to stop all the ads/beacons/click-bait/cookies/iframes/javascript/pop-ups/redirects/super-cookies/third-party-cookies/trackers/zomg-and now all the AI generated garbage as well)

here is one that might be helpful even if more as an overview:

https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

and just for additional amusement: zomg

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/4075/what-is-the-origin-of-zomg

bonus: don't forget that some/most? browsers cache dns as well...sigh... _neverending_whackamole_

#125 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Firefox 128.3.1esr *not* clearing history on closing » 2024-11-14 20:16:38

yes, OP reported having firefox set to remove history when closed/shutdown/terminated and then had an occurrence where when starting firefox they were returned to the webpage they were at when firefox was previously closed/shutdown/terminated.

and further reported that it only happened once and/or infrequently.

a guess would be that firefox somehow failed to shutdown completely/gracefully/etc or that it somehow was still _running_in_the_background_ unknown to the OP.

and since we are now at firefox 128.4.0esr, hopefully it won't happen again.

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