On 30/01/2023 10:32, Celejar wrote:
For those who may not be aware, the developer of uBlock Origin and
uMatrix, Raymond Hill, has ceased work on uMatrix:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#issuecomment-694988696
It is really sour. On a lot of sites, including github, hig
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:14:22 -0500
Dan Ritter wrote:
> pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > Unwieldly References list truncated.
> >
> > From: Stefan Monnier
> > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:45:52 -0500
> > > I use uMatrix, which I find strikes a fairly good balance between
> > > keeping sites wo
On Sat 21 Jan 2023 at 08:20:00 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From:
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 20:09:20 +0100
> > Know what? Those "resources" to be "allocated" are you and me.
>
> Documentation? The Web? Most of the front page,
> https://www.debian.org , is occupied with graphics.
From:
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 20:09:20 +0100
> Know what? Those "resources" to be "allocated" are you and me.
Documentation? The Web? Most of the front page,
https://www.debian.org , is occupied with graphics. =8~/ A link
directly to https://wiki.debian.org would make sense. "User su
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Unwieldly References list truncated.
>
> From: Stefan Monnier
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:45:52 -0500
> > I use uMatrix, which I find strikes a fairly good balance between
> > keeping sites working and letting me control how much crap is loaded.
>
> Another he
Unwieldly References list truncated.
From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:45:52 -0500
> I use uMatrix, which I find strikes a fairly good balance between
> keeping sites working and letting me control how much crap is loaded.
Another helpful add-on. Thanks!
A feature (gingerb
On 2023-01-08, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> To heck with it, let's just fall back on Allan Sherman's
> description of a dejected man from Mars searching for his
> girlfriend, who's...
>
> Eight foot two, solid blue
> Five transistors in each shoe
> Has anybody seen my gal?
>
> Luci
On Sun, Jan 08, 2023 at 07:53:11AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> David & all,
>
> Earlier from peter,
> > > Bulk of the software and frequent updates are evident but what changes
> > > in functionality? The Web site of my credit union works as it did
> > > five years ago.
>
> From: David W
On Sat 07 Jan 2023 at 17:52:43 (-), Curt wrote:
> On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. We only use
> > "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> > term which is a shortened form of "cool".
> >
>
> I ha
On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 23:41:25 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Rather,
> > > >
> > > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
> > > >
> > > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
>
On Sun 08 Jan 2023 at 07:53:11 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> My primary interest: if many Web sites appear and perform as five
> years ago, what is the need for the frequent updates? A bug needs
> repair a.s.a.p. A bug compromising security needs repair sooner.
> Are most Firefox updat
David & all,
Earlier from peter,
> > Bulk of the software and frequent updates are evident but what changes
> > in functionality? The Web site of my credit union works as it did
> > five years ago.
From: David Wright
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> What's that got to do with Firefox? O
Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.
On Sat Jan 7 13:37:31 2023 cu...@free.fr wrote:
> On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different.
>> We only use "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove,
>> or
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:45:52PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile
> > is one where I have excised javascript capabilities by "tuning"
> > (read: fat-fingering) about:config. Some pages won't work, but
> > for those I get to think twice w
On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. We only use
> "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> term which is a shortened form of "cool".
>
I haven't been following, but coo to me is the sound a pigeon makes, or
> That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile
> is one where I have excised javascript capabilities by "tuning"
> (read: fat-fingering) about:config. Some pages won't work, but
> for those I get to think twice whether I'm interested or not.
> Most of the time I am not.
I use uMatri
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:50:37PM +, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 07:39:41 +0100
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:41:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > [...] hope that Firefox gets a bit more memory-efficient,
> >
> > Stefan, I *love* your dry humour :
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:41:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[...]
> [...] hope that Firefox gets a bit more memory-efficient,
Stefan, I *love* your dry humour :-)
That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile
is one where I have excised javascript capabilities by "tuning"
(rea
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > Rather,
> > >
> > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
> > >
> > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
> > When using slang, the current meaning is the one that will be understo
I'm only replying because I've got nothing better to do.
(Recuperating.)
On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 15:18:44 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > And cool in this modern sense (and words like awesome, wicked, and so
> > on) is quite recent.
>
>> What, you expect someone to obtain an i386 machine just to replicate
>> that it's slow? And make it crash in some unspecified manner?
> Definitely not for the problems with Firefox.
BTW, regarding the problem with Firefox, a cause of crashes of Firefox
for me is running out of memory. So there
On 1/6/23 15:19, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
I know that's going to be an obstacle for many of the people here,
since we're generally a mature bunch, but that's the nature of a living
language.
If you want to use a slang term that you know is pretty old, and you
aren't sure whether its meaning is
On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> And cool in this modern sense (and words like awesome, wicked, and so
> on) is quite recent.
>
> Rather,
>
> coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
>
> and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
>
On Thu 05 Jan 2023 at 23:34:12 (-0500), Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 1:57 PM wrote:
> > David Wright wrote on Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
For clarification …
> > > I ran FF on a 500MB i386 laptop to the end of buster, ...
> >
>
> Debian dropped support for i386, i486
On Thu 05 Jan 2023 at 10:40:59 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: David Wright
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> > What, you expect someone to obtain an i386 machine just to replicate
> > that it's slow? And make it crash in some unspecified manner?
>
> Definitely not for th
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 1:57 PM wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks for replying.
>
> From: David Wright
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> > What, you expect someone to obtain an i386 machine just to replicate
> > that it's slow? And make it crash in some unspecified manner?
>
> Definitely
On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 10:40:59AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
[...]
> [...] Debian can't fix it. No single
> entity can fix it. At least Debian can acknowledge the problem and
> allocate some attention and resources to mitigation.
You sound a bit like Napoléon on his horse. Know what? T
David,
Thanks for replying.
From: David Wright
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:46:39 -0600
> What, you expect someone to obtain an i386 machine just to replicate
> that it's slow? And make it crash in some unspecified manner?
Definitely not for the problems with Firefox.
Yes, I'd hope that at
>> From: "Andrew M.A. Cater"
>> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:32:37 +
>> > All software is buggy: it is a matter of luck whether bugs hit you.
>> =8~/ A hacker might be satisfied with luck. An engineer should not
>> be. If I claim to be a package maintainer, I test as broadly as
>> f
On Wed 04 Jan 2023 at 14:26:47 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> dpkg -l | grep fire
> ii firefox-esr 102.6.0esr-1~deb11u1
> i386 Mozilla Firefox web browser - Extended Support Release (ESR)
>
> > All software is buggy: it is a mat
On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:26:47PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: "Andrew M.A. Cater"
> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:32:37 +
>
> > All software is buggy: it is a matter of luck whether bugs hit you.
>
> =8~/ A hacker might be satisfied with luck. An engineer should not
> be
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater"
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:32:37 +
> Is this a bug that you are experiencing?
Yes. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562765#55
> This is only the case for IPv6 - is this something that affects you?
I don't need IPv6 but need 4. This is the pe
From: Eric S Fraga
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:25:02 +
> According to that bug report, the problem is on sid.
Was on sid. The report originated in 2009 when sid = squeeze = Debian 6.
sid is a floating codename. Helps to confuse us. =8~)
https://www.debian.org/releases/
'The "unst
On 03/01/2023 21:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
Can't comment on Cheese camera software or Qemu bridge, I don't use that.
Firefox has become slow and crashes frequently.
Firefox works perfectly well for me, on both Debian Stable and Debian
Testing systems. I don't restart Firefox for days and
On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 01:36:31PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few years ago a USB camera worked with Cheese, a bridge interface
> worked as documented and Firefox was fairly stable.
>
> Now Cheese cashes immediately upon startup.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b
On Tuesday, 3 Jan 2023 at 13:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> A few years ago a USB camera worked with Cheese, a bridge interface
> worked as documented and Firefox was fairly stable.
>
> Now Cheese cashes immediately upon startup.
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562765
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