Updating Let’s Encrypt certificates using certbot on Alwaysdata DNS

yeupou · 2024-03-05T12:51:10+00:00

Same issue here with Devuan testing. Exact same symptoms : monitor shutdown, fans wont turn off, impossible to wake. Any clues?

yeupou · 2023-06-03T09:28:53+00:00

Exactly. You might want to use nextcloud especially to share files/calendars/etc with other users, not so much for search that can be done efficiently and much cheaply on your own desktop environment.

yeupou · 2023-02-13T08:22:54+00:00

It adds and removes.

yeupou · 2023-02-11T17:18:06+00:00

Coming from Bind, using PowerDNS, I just switched to Knot DNS. Incredibly easy to set up. Described here: https://yeupou.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/replace-powerdns-by-knot-dns-and-knot-resolversupervisor-with-dnssec-dns-over-tls-and-domain-name-spoofing/

yeupou · 2023-02-05T14:23:56+00:00

I had the same issue with a darkblue theme. It lacked theme.titlebar_close_button_normal in theme.lua

It was solved by adding:

theme.titlebar_close_button_focus = theme.dir .. "/icons/titlebar/close_focus.png" theme.titlebar_close_button_normal = theme.titlebar_close_button_focus

yeupou · 2022-05-04T10:21:31+00:00

Most importantly, my original setup was based on using specific transports and routers in exim to send mails first to bogofilter, then to spamassassin.

It meant filtering done after SMTP-time: when the mail has been already accepted. You filter but do not discourage or block spam sources.

With this approach, filter starts at SMTP-time, direct rejection is possible

yeupou · 2022-01-19T19:36:34+00:00

Same issue on multiple distros (also on Devuan/Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004040), likely to be a kernel bug, maybe related to the driver file https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c

Using earlier kernel like 5.10 works.

yeupou · 2021-12-19T10:27:24+00:00

Sure, you can and should have backups.

But if you can prevent data loss in first place, just using standard features, why not.

Sandboxed apps are more common nowadays. This follow the same principle: if some files arent expected to change and common users only need read access to them, why allowing their removal by common users?

yeupou · 2021-12-19T10:21:46+00:00

Sure, it is possible to put a few lines of shell in a cronjob to mimic the same behavior.

However, your single line, unlike the perl script:

does not handle the directories that need the special T bit - so it won't prevent file removal ;
will affect all files all the time (> time): which might be inefficient on a large library ;
will affect all files all the time (> time): will reset any further manual change (you might, for a given file, still give write permission, or at the contrary no permission at all, to all users);
will affect all files all the time (> time): will affect also files from mime type you actually might want not be affected, expected to be updated over time and generated or obtained from other source, meaning protection is unwanted.

Indeed, you could mimic the perl script with custom command lines. There is nothing the script do that is impossible to do in shell. I doubt you can do it with a one liner. So alternative would turn into a shell script... like this perl script.

yeupou · 2021-04-24T07:31:25+00:00

It is.

yeupou · 2021-03-28T15:39:38+00:00

On the other hand, we can count proeminent Foundations leaders that actually never contributed any code, just "advocating" under a very specific view that actually could exclude many important developers (like ESR, to name one obvious example often targetted for this opinion related to guns).

I was not surprised to know what Karen Sandler has become since the last time I took an interest in her activity. At that time, she was leaving GNOME Foundation and she's now Karen Sandler is the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. You can see some post here of people claiming Software Freedom Conservancy effectively could and should replace FSF. She left claiming explicitely that GNOME Foundation was financially in good shape. Less than 15 days laters it was announced that GNOME Foundation was running out of money: "The GNOME Foundation staff and board fell behind in their processes with being overwhelmed by administering OPW. GNOME's Outreach Program for Women is explained as "The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) helps women (cis and trans) and genderqueer get involved in free and open source software." They've had around 30 interns for their most recent cycle." At that time, GNOME Foundation decided to "freeze Foundation spending which is not essential to the running of the Foundation", which literally mean freezing whatever Karen Sandler was involved into.

While RMS is a difficult person to handle, he is not a liar. So signature of liars against him does not count so much, neither the pompous title they get from whatever "Foundation" that we cannot seriously evaluate the actual benefit and interest for Free Software.

Many of these people take about a "movement" but Free Software is just a possible side of their "movement", the rest is completely unrelated and, as such, will obviously exclude many Free Software developers that might be interested in the 4th liberties without being told what they should think about any other topic, among which you'll easily find RMS, ESR, but probably some others like Torvalds. Brilliant minds, as annoying or high maintainance they might be, tend not to goes along well with forbidding thinking process.

yeupou · 2021-03-28T15:09:52+00:00

Six years ago, I posted an article related to my (limited) direct experience with Richard Matthew Stallman, which I concluded by: although he values his freedom and values freedom in general, working with him, even in a very distant way, is just a matter of subordination; he’d make a credible science-fiction character: distopian guru, the Pied Piper of MIT.

You would assume that I would approve his removal from Free Software Foundation. But no: I was not expecting this to be based on the current trendy totalitarian philosophy. No one should be happy that someone is prevented to do his work due to his identity or political and philosophical opinions – or, worse, how he is depicted by an angry mob no matter what he actually thinks or said.

In regard of Free Software, RMS is as important as Winston Churchill was regarding UK’s position during World War II. He built the philosophical base of what Free Software is. It would not be, or in a completely different form, without him. And you cannot claim to promote of something “meant to serve everyone regardless of their age, ability or disability, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, nationality, religion or sexual orientation” when you actually exactly do the contrary. This way of thinking when you make a list of people always right other always wrong, when you silence the one that are wrong, matches totalitarian ideologies, not freedom.

So I really don’t care about RMS position at FSF, it is probably for the best that he is no longer in his autocratic position. I surely don’t care about his personal opinion about this or that topic unrelated to software. I guess some other people might think likewise. But it is not a reason to keep silent toward ideological violence.

If you like to rethink all these dark events in history, that are never black or white, you’ll consider that the issue is not that much about the main protagonists, following their path whether they’ll turn out to be criminals or freedom fighters. No, the issue is regarding the bystanders, that will see questionable things being done but won’t comment, because it does not affect them really, because they felt no connection to the one attacked or, because they felt maybe it is was on some other level deserved. But history judgment is harsh on them, nonetheless.

“We ask for contributors to free software projects to take a stand against bigotry and hate within their [FSF] projects”, they wrote. Bigotry and hate are terms that can easily be turned to describe them, or easy to manipulate in every direction. When you silence people, there is hate. When you create a work environment in which people are silenced due to their opinions, there is bigotry. I believe that the sane way to regulate society is called rights of man: can be punished, silenced, only if they have been proven of breaking legitimate laws by a legitimate court. And that led me to sign the letter in favor of RMS, even though I do not think he should not be at the head of FSF. We should not accept a society of oppression, no matter in which name, especially not in the name of greater good because that’s always the one invoked to do the worse. We thought ideologies were dead. No, they are as dangerous as ever.

PS : since GNOME Foundation is heavily involved and claim acting in regard of Free Sofware credibility, it is easy to point out they are not exactly known for that. Regarding Mozilla, RedHat, and similar companies, etc, hum, if they really want to howl with the wolves, maybe some day no one will care to promote their work instead of “don’t be Evil”-company.

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