Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Charles Curley wrote: > Are you also responsible for this? > > "X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying bucket.cia.gov.." > Or: > "X-Message-Flag: WARNING: Danger from LLM misuse - find shelter!" Not at all. This is the first time I have seen these. Did you s

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
$ nmcli connection show NAME    UUID TYPE  DEVICE Wired connection 1  fc7feb2f-f189-44c3-b06c-88d053fd087f ethernet  enp27s0 $ nmcli connection show "Wired connection 1" nnection.id:  Wired connection 1 connection.uuid: fc7feb2f-f189-44c3-b06c-88d053fd087

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:12:38PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > > Microsoft-ism > > > here. > > > > >

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Will Mengarini
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find >> which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent >> to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a >> weird thing, that makes me wonder whether

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > > here. > > > > (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > > > Ah, yes. > > "We live in inter

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

2025-01-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM Bob McGowan wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-24 at 18:23 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Hello list, > > I've been trying to figure out how to use my BD disc writer to create > backups of files. > > What I first found were instruct

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET) > Roger Price wrote: > > > "X-Message-Flag: Cannot contact reaper.nsa.gov. Trying bucket.cia.gov.." That one's me, for the last twenty years or so. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by ref

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 07:36, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" > > This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke > by a friend many years ago. I am a long time p

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Thomas, On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 06:48:08PM +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > ip a -> > 2: enp27s0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast > state UP group default qlen 1000 >     link/ether 30:9c:23:b7:48:8c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >     inet 192.168.1.6/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute enp27s0

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 17:46, Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >>> That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary >>> personal >>> cron job with crontab -e which sets >>> >>> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" >>> >>> and runs >>> >>> M H * * * aplay /u

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has been carried o

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism here. (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) Ah, yes. "We live in interesting times, where the only thing to fear, is the government" :-< "Just becau

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:36:54 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > OK. My crontab has this: > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > # m h dom mon dow command > * * 24 1 * aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > At the minute, no sound. I tried > id=$(id -u) > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/us

Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has been carried on unwittingly from one OS release to

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

2025-01-24 Thread Bob McGowan
On Fri, 2025-01-24 at 18:23 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > I've been trying to figure out how to use my BD disc writer to > > create > > backups of files. > > > > What I first found were instructions to create an empty file of the >

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has been carried o

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary > > personal > > cron job with crontab -e which sets > > > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > > > and runs > > > > M H * * * aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > > >

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > here. On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pine

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 16:58, Roger Price wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>> Maybe a difference in some software? I ran >>> eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay >>> /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav >>> Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1

List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, > for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird thing, that makes me wonder > whether

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: > [...] > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing > list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > Hz, Mono >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: Maybe a difference in some software? I ran eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 13:33, Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >>> 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: >>> >>> So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would >>> suspect it's one of the XDG_ va

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > > > So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would > > suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables, > > I did it the other way, by

Re: Help with UDF and BluRay disks

2025-01-24 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, Bob McGowan wrote: Hello list, I've been trying to figure out how to use my BD disc writer to create backups of files. What I first found were instructions to create an empty file of the propper size, 'mkudffs file', loop mount it, copy files to it, unmount and burn to the

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little > Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono > hobbit:~$ env - aplay /usr/share/

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
I see. Thanks Greg. Let's see if this works ip a -> 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever     inet6 ::1/128 scope host    

Re: Debian 12, KVM and shared clipboard issue on Wayland

2025-01-24 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 22-01-2025 at 20:06 Rafał Lichwała wrote: > Hi, > > I struggled with this for several days and tried everything, but nothing > seems to work. I cannot successfully set shared clipboard between host > and guest machines when both run Wayland desktop. Rafal, To my knowledge, spi

Re: Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:11:06 +0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > Here is updated version with CR in this context means carriage returns. Which is actually not the correct term -- they meant LF (line feed) or newlines. But what they *really* meant was for you to send the message as plain text, n

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Joe
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:14:05 +0100 Thomas Anderson wrote: > Thanks for thorough reply. > > 1. I am talking about basic network connection. I have an ip, so I > can ping local machines, including the gateway router itself. > > 'ip a' shows the following > > 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state

Fwd: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
Here is updated version with Thanks for thorough reply. 1. I am talking about basic network connection. I have an ip, so I can ping local machines, including the gateway router itself. 'ip a' 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-01-24, Thomas Anderson wrote: > 'ip a' shows the following > 'cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/*' shows Could you give us the result with CR. It's unreadable without, especially for commented lines. Perhaps give also ip r

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
Thanks for thorough reply. 1. I am talking about basic network connection. I have an ip, so I can ping local machines, including the gateway router itself. 'ip a' shows the following 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:0

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 15:37:56 +0100, Roger Price wrote: > I added export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u)/pulse" to bark.sh . > File /run/user/2108/pulse contains value 1309 and command > > rprice@maria ~ ps -ef | grep pulse > rprice 13091293 0 2024 ?05:45:10 /usr/bi

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > OK, PulseAudio takes over ALSA, and from then on, only sessions > with PA active can play sounds. That means that your shell can > do it, but your cron can't. > > Add this to your cron invocation or bark.sh. > > export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/$(id -u

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 > > > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > > Playing Sparc Aud

Re: weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
Hi Thomas, On Friday, 24 January 2025 08:35:44 GMT-4 Thomas Anderson wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Debian 11, and no matter what I do, I repeated on each > reboot, I will boot into a system with no gateway set (or rather, the > "default route is 0.0.0.0," which naturally gives this device no > in

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:15:30 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 04:43 Frank Guthausen > wrote: ... > > > [x2go] > > I would still need some kind of mini-PC to be the client, correct? Yes. You can use any mini-PC or server or whatsoever to run headless with an X and x2go-server

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 > > bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > bark.sh calls Biff ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/2108 > > Playing Sparc Audio '/mnt/home/rprice/bark/h5.au' :

weird networking anomaly whereby my gateway always defaults to 0.0.0.0

2025-01-24 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello, I am using Debian 11, and no matter what I do, I repeated on each reboot, I will boot into a system with no gateway set (or rather, the "default route is 0.0.0.0," which naturally gives this device no internet connectivity. I am using the NetworkManager, and have a static IP set. If

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 04:43 Frank Guthausen wrote: ... An option is: x2go > Thanks, I vaguely remember looking at that many years ago. Is it reasonaby usable? I would still need some kind of mini-PC to be the client, correct? -Tom

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > > > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? > > I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual > operation > still works correctly: > > rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 >

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:59:16 -0800 Will Mengarini wrote: > * Tom Browder [25-01/23=Th 16:00 -0600]: > > > > Any recommendations? > > [...] > > Perhaps other posters could comment on any alternatives to RDP. > Googling "X-forwarding" finds what looks like reasonable how-tos. > I don't know how

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual operation still works correctly: rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/u

Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
Before running VLC I hear system sounds, e.g. a cron job has Biff barking each hour. If I then play a music mp4 with VLC, I hear the music, but when the music stops I no longer hear Biff. VLC inhibits system sounds, and leaves the inhibition in place. VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -> Audio ->

Re: Anyone using a fixed KVM extender system for home use for one computer?

2025-01-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-01-23 22:00, Tom Browder wrote: I'm still trying to solve an awkward office layout and keep control of wiring. I want to keep my main server in the closet but have the monitor, keyboard, and mouse (and speakers if possible) accessed via another cat-5 outlet across the room. Looking fo