Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 06:50:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 12 Apr 2020 at 15:46:45 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Using Synaptic I: > > > 1. searched package names for "info" > > > 2. selected it >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not trust > > your local resolver. > > Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https It's a privacy issue along

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/12/2020 03:28 PM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Using Synaptic I: 1. searched package names for "info" 2. selected it 3. clicked Apply 4. received error message saying E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Could not open

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 12/4/20 10:09 pm, Andy Smith wrote: I am really glad that Debian is investigating this option and I look forward to answering (and asking!) typical debian-user questions there. I hope that fellow debian-user regulars will give it a try with an open mind. OK I might give it a try - but my hi

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:47:52 -0700 Ihor Antonov wrote: > On Sunday, April 12, 2020 12:39:43 PM PDT John Hasler wrote: > > I note that Discourse is not in the Debian archive. > > > > Not that it matters, but I certainly won't use Discourse and if most > > debian-user traffic were to shift to Disc

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ihor Antonov wrote: > >Observing how zealots have moderated Norbert Preining is a perfect example of >how >biased and closed-minded those moderators can be. As Russ has described to you on the debian-project list today, the point of the Debian lists (and other communication forums) is to assist

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 Apr 2020 at 15:46:45 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Using Synaptic I: > > 1. searched package names for "info" > > 2. selected it > > 3. clicked Apply > > 4. received error message saying > > >E: Could not open lock f

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Lee
On 4/12/20, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing >> >

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 11:23 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of rela

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > Using Synaptic I: > 1. searched package names for "info" > 2. selected it > 3. clicked Apply > 4. received error message saying >> E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2: No such >> file or directory) >> E: Could not open file descriptor -1 >> E:

Re: Question Regarding sources.list

2020-04-12 Thread Tobias Brink
Hello Chris, Chris Debian writes: > I recently installed Debian Bullseye with the unofficial iso that > includes non-free firmware > (debian-live-testing-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso). > > However, my sources.list file does not contain "contrib" or "non-free" > components. Should "contrib" and "non-fr

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, April 12, 2020 12:39:43 PM PDT John Hasler wrote: > I note that Discourse is not in the Debian archive. > > Not that it matters, but I certainly won't use Discourse and if most > debian-user traffic were to shift to Discourse I would simply stop > subscribing. > > "Ease of moderation"

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
I note that Discourse is not in the Debian archive. Not that it matters, but I certainly won't use Discourse and if most debian-user traffic were to shift to Discourse I would simply stop subscribing. "Ease of moderation" is *not* a plus. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Question Regarding sources.list

2020-04-12 Thread Chris Debian
Good Afternoon, I recently installed Debian Bullseye with the unofficial iso that includes non-free firmware (debian-live-testing-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso). However, my sources.list file does not contain "contrib" or "non-free" components. Should "contrib" and "non-free" components be added to all

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > On 4/12/20, riveravaldez wrote: >> On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from >>>

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread john doe
On 4/12/2020 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: > Dear list, > > [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: > > What about the mailing lists? > This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I > suspect there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse > be the

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Ihor Antonov
On Sunday, April 12, 2020 8:55:48 AM PDT Nate Bargmann wrote: > I've been hearing/reading this old saw about "less technical users" for > well over two decades, and not just in Linux land but amateur radio as > well, and it really touches a nerve of mine. How are less technical > users ever going

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
tomas writes: > No, I think the only (small) edge free operating systems have over the > rest of the pack is that, on average, their users tend to be more > curious (and, as a result, educated). I think that the (big) edge that free operating systems on the desktop have is too few users to interes

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:25:16PM -0400, Celejar wrote: [...] > Exactly. So if I trust the Sandstorm community (for example - I know > nothing about them), then I'm not sure that there's any particularly > great risk in installing their product via "curl | bash", and if I > don't trust them, I s

Re: Improving performance: RAM or CPU speed

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > How do you upgrade / from where do you get the packages? (apt, > manually installed deb, etc.) Apt from Debian/Sid. Just did it a couple of days ago. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/12/20 3:10 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online information i

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > This very much ISP dependent. My current one will allocate new IPs (v4 > as well as v6) on every re-connection, so the only way to keep the > same IPs is connection uptime. > The only benefits I can think of from their side is less management > overhead and charging for fixed IPs

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/12/2020 10:44 AM, Reco wrote: Your local apt index file is out of sync with the mirror. They should give a button in Synaptic that performs the equivalent of "apt-get update". Reload.

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-12 Thread Martin
Hi Jörg-Volker and Felix, appreciate your help! Here is the complete output for: sudo dpkg -i amdgpu-core_19.30-934563_all.deb amdgpu-dkms_19.30-934563_all.deb https://pastebin.com/kadr0nyH My sources list is (apart from docker, and skype repos): deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread John Hasler
tomás writes: > Trust is a complex beast. At its bottom it can't be completely > rational, but usually you trust a community because you somehow think > you understand how it works and you trust the information chain > linking you to that community. You can also trust a community because it's har

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:41:54 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:41:12AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:37:24 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:17:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:52:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wr

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 09:39:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems > > to me that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a > > plain dns lookup. >

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: >> On Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:21:42 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > > I know I will be out here. >> > >> > I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut

Re: Best practice to allow a program to write its logs

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 05:00:09PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > Oops, I didn't answer to that, sorry... No big deal. This is a maillist, we have nothing to hurry here :) > > It all works - conventional POSIX permissions, ACLs, xattrs, SELinux > > Labels, etc. Until you tr

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread nito
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 18:16:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What if someone else already wrote that, possibly in better words than I > could? If you really feel like it's necessary, you can reply to the thread with: I like this proposal mainly because of A and B, but I am a bit concerned

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 12 Apr 10:06 -0500, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 16:23:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:57:22AM -0600, Keith Christian wrote: > > On the other hand there are the silos, which like to have more end > > user control, which you can't have as much if ev

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, riveravaldez wrote: > On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: >>> >>> Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo >>> speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from >>> [1].) >> >> Some program mi

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:39:34AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/12/2020 09:17 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:07:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > As I said, there has been no previous problem with Synaptic. > > > Where would I look for cause of missing

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:45:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Microsoft has been moving to the cloud and buying Github seems to be > > part of the same direction. Github might not need to make a profit in > > order to benefit Microsoft's profits, > > But that was my point: Github's value for them

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:41:12AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:37:24 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:17:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:52:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Interesting discussion. I've looked quick

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/12/2020 09:17 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:07:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: As I said, there has been no previous problem with Synaptic. Where would I look for cause of missing archives sub-directory? Unless you have an audit facility configured in your ker

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 12, 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > No, I think the only (small) edge free operating systems have over > the rest of the pack is that, on average, their users tend to be > more curious (and, as a result, educated). Don't forget "distrustful of the 'this is way better for you tha

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:26:18, Gene Heskett wrote: > > This might also be true. But at the risk of stating the obvious, if > github gets forked by an open source advocate, I'd sure investigate > moving our open source efforts away from the M$ tentacles. As far as I know the software behind the Git

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 12 Apr 03:46 -0500, Reco wrote: > Dear list, > So, thoughts, options? About a year ago the Gnome project moved to Discourse and shut down all of their mailing lists. I check in there from time to time as interest in GTK development strikes and I must say that I think it is a very

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Apr 12, 2020, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:21:42 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I know I will be out here. > > > > I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut down as long > > as there is significant act

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:39:52, riveravaldez wrote: > > $ groups > thinkpad cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev netdev Ok. > $ speaker-test -c2 [Still not sound.] And no error... > $ sudo speaker-test -c2 [Sounds OK.] That would indicate that sound is handled differently for the regular

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 09:04:23 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:05:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:40:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > So far it seems Microsoft's intention is to use Github to host its > > > own Open Source software while also making

Re: Can't get my Debian laptop to use my Radeon 520 Mobile graphics card

2020-04-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
>From which repository did you get your kernel? In case of a missing file I consult https://packages.debian.org/ "Search the contents of packages". There is also the package apt-file. The package linux-headers-5.4.0-4-common from bullseye contains a file /usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-4-common/includ

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:48:08, n...@dismail.de wrote: > > > Be specific! > > Ok... I think *debian-user*, debian-vote and possibly debian-project > > would be better off in Discourse. […] > While I'm not eligible to vote in debian matters, I'd say that *especially* > debian-vote should *not* be in

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/12/20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Using Synaptic I: >> 1. searched package names for "info" >> 2. selected it >> 3. clicked Apply >> 4. received error message saying >> >E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
Reco wrote: > >While I admire your optimistic view on things, there's a thing to >consider: > >1) The proposition was made by Neil McGovern, who's currently listed as >an Executive Director at [1]. > >[1] https://www.gnome.org/foundation/staff/ Neil has also been a Debian developer for over a deca

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 16:23:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:57:22AM -0600, Keith Christian wrote: > > Is there a general "war on mailing lists" going on? > > I'd say there always has been a "war on mail". Starting with Outlook > which brought upon us the plague of top-quoting

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I was only trying to point out that just querying an external geoip > database has similar privacy implications as any regular internet access > (the server will learn your IP and can, at will, get your aproximate > location from a geoip database). > > The

Re: Best practice to allow a program to write its logs

2020-04-12 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, Oops, I didn't answer to that, sorry... 23 févr. 2020 à 21:08 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 08:31:59PM +0100, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > >> 23 févr. 2020 à 18:02 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: >> >> > Clever, but not any filesystem supports ACL. >> > And you would have cr

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, deloptes wrote: > riveravaldez wrote: > >> But this not, even as sudo (and the error is similar to JACK one): >> $ aplay -vv -D front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav >> aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource bussy > > aplay -vv -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /u

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:37:24 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:17:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:52:50AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > There are sufficient tutorials advising to download random scripts and > > > run with root

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread riveravaldez
On 4/12/20, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 apr 20, 21:02:39, riveravaldez wrote: >> >> Strangely, 'speaker-test -c2' doesn't produce a sound. But 'sudo >> speaker-test -c2' works flawlessly. (The idea to check that came from >> [1].) > > Any error message? Is your user a member of group 'audio'

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 16:43:12, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 04:30:05PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Having a highly e-mail centric community like Debian using it is likely > > to have a significant impact on its development. > > While I admire your optimistic view on things, there'

Re: systemd-networkd: IPv6 prefix delegation lost when changing prefixes

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 15:32:29, Tobias Brink wrote: > > Thanks for the info, but I will rather contact systemd upstream about > this, so that this software can be fixed. Great attitude and thanks for your contribution :) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:57:22AM -0600, Keith Christian wrote: > Is there a general "war on mailing lists" going on? I'd say there always has been a "war on mail". Starting with Outlook which brought upon us the plague of top-quoting (hey, you top-quoted, too :-) On a more serious note: I'd not

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:07:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > As I said, there has been no previous problem with Synaptic. > Where would I look for cause of missing archives sub-directory? Unless you have an audit facility configured in your kernel - you have to guess. > Is it sa

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:43:08, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the > > internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using > > That's not my understanding. I understood the OP explicitly

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/12/2020 08:46 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Using Synaptic I: 1. searched package names for "info" 2. selected it 3. clicked Apply 4. received error message saying E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Keith Christian
Is there a general "war on mailing lists" going on? On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 7:30 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:03:12, Reco wrote: > > > > The million euro question here is how actually good (or bad) is that > > "e-mail interaction with Discourse" is. > > Having a highly e-mail

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread nito
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02 +0300, Reco wrote: > Why are you doing this? > […] Secondly, I genuinely believe that ease of access to new > contributors is of paramount importance to the project. I'd say a mailing list is actually way *more* accessible, than some web forum (esp. with javascri

Re: systemd-networkd: IPv6 prefix delegation lost when changing prefixes

2020-04-12 Thread Tobias Brink
Hello Vincent, Vincent Truchseß writes: > I've had the same Issue here delegating prefixes to my VPN-Gateway in my > home-hetwork. Good to know that it's not just me. For posterity, I did some further tests: * It does not matter if the router sets the "Other Configuration" or the "Managed" f

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 08:43:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Using Synaptic I: > 1. searched package names for "info" > 2. selected it > 3. clicked Apply > 4. received error message saying > >E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2: No such > >file or directory) > >

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 04:04:23PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:05:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:40:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > So far it seems Microsoft's intention is to use Github to host its own > > > Open Source software whi

Re: DOH

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
On 12/04/2020 14:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems to me that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a plain dns lookup. No, that's not how it works.

Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Owlett
Using Synaptic I: 1. searched package names for "info" 2. selected it 3. clicked Apply 4. received error message saying E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Could not open file descriptor -1 E: Unable to lock the download directory

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:09:10PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > So, thoughts, options? > > I am really glad that Debian is investigating this option and I look > forward to answering (and asking!) typical debian-user questions > t

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 04:30:05PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:03:12, Reco wrote: > > > > The million euro question here is how actually good (or bad) is that > > "e-mail interaction with Discourse" is. > > Having a highly e-mail centric community like Debian

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > This simple

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems to me > that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a plain dns > lookup. No, that's not how it works. When the browser wants to resolve a name

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 02:03:55PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > [1] That's not a rhethorical flourish, it's genuine. I know too > >little about DNS-over-HTTP to be of any use at this point. > > The questionable idea behind D

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:03:12, Reco wrote: > > The million euro question here is how actually good (or bad) is that > "e-mail interaction with Discourse" is. Having a highly e-mail centric community like Debian using it is likely to have a significant impact on its development. Kind regards, Andre

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday, 12 April 2020 09:21:42 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I know I will be out here. > > I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut down as long > as there is significant activity (spam and off-topic doesn't count). > > Kind

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:10:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I know I will be out here. I seriously doubt this (or any) mailing list will be shut down as long as there is significant activity (spam and off-topic doesn't count). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser sig

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 13:31:27, Michael Howard wrote: > > I still remember when Debian was for the community. In my opinion it still is, though the community probably changed. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 12:05:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:40:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > So far it seems Microsoft's intention is to use Github to host its own > > Open Source software while also making a profit from it. Nothing wrong > > with any of that. > >

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > >> Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the >> internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using >> this information for (internal only or prov

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > problematic

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Michael Howard
On 12/04/2020 13:09, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02AM +0300, Reco wrote: So, thoughts, options? I am really glad that Debian is investigating this option and I look forward to answering (and asking!) typical debian-user questions there. I hope that fellow debian-user

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02AM +0300, Reco wrote: > So, thoughts, options? I am really glad that Debian is investigating this option and I look forward to answering (and asking!) typical debian-user questions there. I hope that fellow debian-user regulars will give it a try with an ope

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 06:35:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > prob

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > name resolution over HTTPS. This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this problematic feature for good for Firefox (basically it creates a bogus

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:48:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Just to clarify, the privacy concern here is the software accessing the > internet without explicit user consent, regardless of what it is using > this information for (internal only or providing it to other software). Wha

Re: X framebuffer problem on AMD Picasso [fixed]

2020-04-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 4/11/2020 5:47 PM, Paul Scott wrote: Hi, I haven't posted for a long time! I just successfully did my first UEFI installation. It's a new AMD machine with.  X is failing to start.  I have solved a number of related problems within online information including finding the firmware-amd-grap

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:40:06PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 10:52:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > But in a more general sense... > > > > - the snotty way to put it is that they have the Midas touch [...] > I am a strong believer of Hanlon's razor. > > https://en.wi

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Felix Miata
tomas@ composed on 2020-04-12 10:58 (UTC+0200) > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:55:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Interesting. Not at all. :( >> At least at this point my preference will depend a lot on (the >> limitations of) the e-mail interface (didn't look into that yet). > It's second-c

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Curt
On 2020-04-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote: >> Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to >> determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the >> OP's privacy settings are being respected or not. It does appear, >> thou

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 10:52:08, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > But in a more general sense... > > - the snotty way to put it is that they have the Midas touch >(just it's not gold things turn into at their touch, alas). >If you want to know more about the Midas touch, do read on >the strang

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:10:22AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:03:12PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:57:05AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Email is still important to me! > > > > Fine, you can interact with Discorse by

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 10:58:19 +0200 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >It's second-class, at best. I have to suffer from it in another context. Agreed. Another project I'm involved with use Discourse. It has too many disadvantages to compensate for the advantages it (may?) offer. Your explanatio

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:03:12PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:57:05AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Email is still important to me! > > > Fine, you can interact with Discorse by email rather than the web > > > interface [...] "...but we'll make your lif

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:57:05AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Email is still important to me! > > Fine, you can interact with Discorse by email rather than the web > > interface. It should be noted however, that there is *not 1:1 feature > > partiy* with email and the web int

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:55:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Interesting. > > At least at this point my preference will depend a lot on (the > limitations of) the e-mail interface (didn't look into that yet). It's second-class, at best. I have to suffer from it in another context.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:45:02AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Dear list, > > [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: [...] > Email is still important to me! > Fine, you can interact with Discorse by email rather than the web > interface. It should be noted however, that there

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 11:45:02, Reco wrote: > Dear list, > > [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: > > What about the mailing lists? > This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I > suspect there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse >

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:37:24AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 12 apr 20, 09:17:18, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > ...uh stuff I found on the street into my mouth. > > Excelent analogy :) :-) > > (but then, it's Github, so Microsoft [...]) > Unless the platform (owner) is cur

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 12 apr 20, 08:05:49, Curt wrote: > > Surely there must be a way of stracing the Maps app in Gnome to > determine what it is doing and how, with a view to seeing whether the > OP's privacy settings are being respected or not. It does appear, > though, at any rate, that a 50 m radius geolocat

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-12 Thread deloptes
riveravaldez wrote: > But this not, even as sudo (and the error is similar to JACK one): > $ aplay -vv -D front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav > aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or resource bussy aplay -vv -D plughw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav read t

Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Dear list, [1] came to my attention today. To quote relevant parts: What about the mailing lists? This may or may not be a replacement for any particular list. I suspect there are some thet would benefit greatly from having Discourse be the primary interaction, and other places where th

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