May 2024 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

anyone have this bell item?
by Karen Lewellen 06 Mar '25

06 Mar '25

hi all, Layered times, leaving me reading more than commenting. My landlord wishes to provide, but cannot seem to successfully secure from bell, the box below. it's a basic bell cable box vip2502 https://www.bellmts.ca/support/tv/fibe-tv/installation-and-setup/arris-vip2… Anyone have this sitting in a closet? Might be wise to confirm the idea will work. This entire property, even outside, has bell fibe for home coverage including internet..But my on going issues with them have me a bit scared. Thanks, Kare Who has not given up on Over The Air, just gauging offered options.

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(very off topic) quality die grinder bits
by William Park 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

Hi all, Very off topic, but I'm fed up. I sharpen my lawn mower blade with die grinder. Problem is, all the bits that I bought from Canadian Tire, Rona, and Home Depot, they all wobble. Except for one bit. And, that has been used so much that I need a new one, now. If anyone has die grinder, what brand of grinding bits do you recommend? --

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Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited
by Ron / BCLUG 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

News is out about a fairly severe Linux vulnerability. This is a new one: > Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively > exploited > > Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency urges affected users > to update ASAP. > The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1086 and carrying a severity > rating of 7.8 out of a possible 10, allows people who have already > gained a foothold inside an affected system to escalate their system > privileges. It’s the result of a use-after-free error, a class of > vulnerability that occurs in software written in the C and C++ > languages when a process continues to access a memory location after > it has been freed or deallocated. Use-after-free vulnerabilities can > result in remote code or privilege escalation. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/federal-agency-warns-critical-linu…

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[Lynx-dev] ANN: lynx2.9.2
by Karen Lewellen 31 May '24

31 May '24

Current as of 31 may 2024. Karen On Fri, 31 May 2024, Thomas Dickey wrote: > The current version of lynx is 2.9.2 > > It's available at > https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/ > Development & patches: > https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/index.html > > Files: > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.2.patch.gz > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/patches/lynx2.9.2.patch.gz.asc > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.2.tar.bz2 > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.2.tar.bz2.asc > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.2.tar.gz > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.2.tar.gz.asc > https://invisible-island.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.9.2.zip > > 2024-05-31 (2.9.2) > * modify makefile.in install-help to only remove files, leaving existing > directories and symbolic links -TD > * in POSIX environments, check paths for external programs to ensure that they > are executable, non-empty files -TD > * adapt special case of gzip decompression in 2.8.9dev.12 to brotli, to handle > downloads from websites which support "br" (report by Rajeev V Pillai) -TD > * updated configure macro CF_ANSI_CC_C, to reset flags on test-failure, to > keep options from accumulating. > * build-fix for NetBSD and Solaris system curses libraries, removing an ifdef > added in 2.9.0dev.11 (report by Nelson Beebe) -TD > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey <dickey(a)invisible-island.net> > https://invisible-island.net >

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Power Mode: reducing fan noise on a notebook
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 31 May '24

31 May '24

Most modern notebooks throw off a lot of heat when computing hard. Too much heat can force the cooling fans to go faster and therefore make more noise. The notebook that I keep by our couch for casual use while watching TV sometimes gets noisy. What's the heavy computing doing? Mostly running ads in Firefox. Since I don't really care how quickly ads run, I've switched the "power mode" to "power saver" and there seems to be less noise. Power Mode can be set several ways. The way I used on Fedora 40's Gnome Desktop: Settings: Power: Power Mode: Power Saver There is a slightly faster way that is harder to describe - click on top right of the screen (the little icons for networking, sound and power on are really one button) - that pops up a window showing a lot of things. One is "Power Mode" - click on "Power Mode" and it will toggle between "Balanced" and "Power Saver" (at least on my desktop). - Alternatively click on the ">" symbol on the "Power Mode" oval to get all the choices displayed (including "Performance") Note: just how the fans behave under different Power Modes is specific to the hardware. YMMV. My suspicion is that vendors like their computers to have good benchmark performance so the "balanced" mode is more likely to run fans than I'd like. I'm going to try "Power Saver" on more of my computers.

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new class of Windows Notebooks: "Copilot+ PC"
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 26 May '24

26 May '24

These were just intruduced by Microsoft. As usual, a lot of smoke around this. - new ARM-based processor family from Qualcomm "Snapdragon X" - performance supposedly better than Apple's M series (for now) - like all new processors, it contains an NPU (for accelerating AI) - price seems to be Apple-like: <https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/copilot-pc/ci/40407> This is for pre-orders from a US discount store, in US dollars. - most models are from Microsoft so far. There is one Asus and one Lenovo. - my understanding is that they won't run Linux now. Linux support for the processor is being promised by Qualcomm but it isn't yet ready. It may be that the "Copilot+ PC" models lock out Linux anyway (my impression is that previous ARM-based Surfaces did that). - Microsoft is pushing these as being able to run LLMs locally and that the new version of Windows will delightfully exploit this. - A centrepiece of this is something called Recall that assists you in finding (computer) things that you used previously Summary: in six months or a year these might be interesting to Linux users. Right now they are too expensive and not compatible. Trivia: the least expensive models listed on BH Photo are US$999.99 These do not have enough resources to run Recall.

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Feature Highlight - Wayland Compositor Hand-Off
by Scott Sullivan 24 May '24

24 May '24

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/ This is a robustness improvements that let Wayland clients (applications/programs) gracefully survive and reconnect with the Wayland Compositor after a crash / restart or even complete replacement with a different Wayland compositor. X11 Server, from what I understood in my old explorations, architecturally it would not have been possible to get there from within the limits of X11's design. As someone who daily drives KDE Plasam Wayland, I'm really looking forward to this coming down stream. I've at various time suffered the pain of loosing my whole session over crash bugs. A frustrating, but thankfully brief example was a combination of PrusaSlicer and the QT file dialog triggering a compositor crash. It really takes me back 15 years, when the same level of instability was in X11's ecosystem. But I switched to KDE's Wayland compositor because there are meaningful parts that are already surpassing the prior art, and competing with what the commercial OSes are putting out. -- Scott Sullivan

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Linux and the tPL.
by Karen Lewellen 23 May '24

23 May '24

Hi folks, Given if memory serves there are Linux certification classes provided via the Toronto Public Library..although the crash might have put this on hold, I am curious about a problem. Do they actually test site functions in command line Linux? Visited the site using one of the JavaScript compiled browsers Elinks, sought to access the tpl maps feature, only to reach a "block the terminal" image. I did not get a you need to use JavaScript error, but a request to download this image named block the terminal, no way to go forward. Thoughts? Karen

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[OT] Tonight's presentation on mailing lists requires a unique keyword
by Ron / BCLUG 14 May '24

14 May '24

For this evening's presentation on mailing lists, I need a message with a unique keyword. I'm sending a couple hours before presentation so there's a chance of this message being search index. Since I had a video by Moyun in my browser, I figured her name would work. Plus, the music's amazing, she's so talented and no one else does what she does, so I thought I'd share. Western or Japanese music on a traditional Chinese instrument - it actually works, and really well. > Burn It All Down - Worlds 2021 League of Legends(LoL) Guzheng Cover > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDWcs6kWVzE > il Vento d'oro > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPxeV0gks9Y > Hotel California > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf6v59c5yuY Her start as an online presence, at 14 years old, maybe her best cover: > Zenbon sakura > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHFLzq7A8c A favourite of mine: > Only My Railgun > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5eZa-1h2YY Anyway, I got my keyword in a message, that was the main goal. If someone enjoys some music, that's a bonus. rb

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Reminder: GTALUG General Meeting - May 14 at 7:30pm
by Alan Heighway 12 May '24

12 May '24

Mailman 3, is it worth it? The trials and tribulations of upgrading, & do we really need mailing lists anymore? Discuss! <https://gtalug.org/meeting/2024-05/> with Ron Barnes <https://gtalug.org/> 14 May, 2024 at 07:30 PM We're going to use Big BLue Button for this meeting: https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl *Time:* May 14th, 2024 19:30 AM Eastern Time *Join us on Big Blue Button:* https://blue.lpi.org/b/eva-zjc-gjy-kgl. *A*lan *H*eighway <http://heighway.ca/> heighway.ca VA3WAH / VA3YKZ [image: Please consider the environment before printing]

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