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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Today
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

https://gtalug.org/meeting/2021-02/ # Lightning talks and Round Table This is GTALUG's version of an un-conference, a loosely structured short talks emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured GTALUG meetings. If you already have a topic in mind please send an email to [speakers@gtalug.org](mailto:speakers@gtalug.org) to be added to the list of scheduled talks. A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. Due to global pandemic we are going to hold this session via video conferencing. We're going to use Zoom for this meeting: **Join Zoom Meeting** https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86775332873?pwd=YW03dzBnSGlMdmVBZmJQNC9aSlZmUT09 **Meeting ID:** 867 7533 2873 **Passcode:** 312201 ** Notes on https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/gtalug-february ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: https://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/ If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ board(a)gtalug.org --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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How do you send out email?
by William Park 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hi all, pop.mail.yahoo.ca was rejecting my login while back, but I was able to generate "password" at Yahoo site, and got Fetchmail working again. Now, smtp.mail.yahoo.ca, which I've been using as my outgoing server (SMART_HOST in Sendmail speak), is also rejecting my connection: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <talk(a)gtalug.org> (reason: 554 Email rejected) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to smtp.mail.yahoo.ca: >>> MAIL From:<opengeometry(a)yahoo.ca> SIZE=865 AUTH=<> <<< 554 Email rejected 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable The solution that worked for Fetchmail is not working for Sendmail. I guess, it's time for upgrade to Postfix. But, I suspect, I'll have the same problem. So, bigger question for you guys... - How do you send out email? via Postfix/Sendmail? Or, via Thunderbird? - How do you read your emails? via Fetchmail/Mutt? Or, via Thunderbird? --William Park

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How do you send out email?
by William Park 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

It turns out upgrading to Postfix is not as easy as I thought. I have to upgrade/install shit load of libraries... might as well upgrade the distro. I tried Thunderbird, and it does work. But, it's not much different from using web! --William

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FOSDEM conference this weekend
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

<https://fosdem.org/2021/> I haven't looked closely at the schedule.

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Learning Dart/Flutter
by William Park 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Anyone here using Dart/Flutter? If so, what tutorial/doc/book did you start with? There is way too much fluffs online...

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February Speaker Wanted
by Stewart C. Russell 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

Hi Folks - if anyone has a topic for the February meeting (or indeed any future meeting) please let me know. We've even got guidelines! https://gtalug.org/speaking/ It would be lovely if some folks stepped up. Please. Your club is only as good as you're prepared to make it. cheers, Stewart - Speaker Coordinator

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RISC-V based GPUs?
by Ivan Avery Frey 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/news/risc-v-open-source-gpu-nvidia-intel-a…

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Vulcan Ecosystem Survey Results for 2020
by Nicholas Krause 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Greetings Everyone, Since I've been playing around with Vulcan and have to take a survey the results were sent to me for last year's results. This is the survey of what the development landscape looks like based on last year's survey for the Vulcan ecosystem i.e. 2020: https://www.lunarg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-Vulkan-Ecosystem-SDK… Maybe it interests some people here who are interesting in high performance GPU computing, Nick

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Fwd: HISTORIC opportunity for cheaper Internet in Toronto
by David Collier-Brown 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

A proposal for a community broadband, in Toronto! --dave

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YAD-Zenity-GTK on Pi - assistance needed
by Giles Orr 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

YAD ("Yet Another Dialog") is a fork of Zenity - essentially a way to display GTK+ dialogues from shell scripts. I've chosen YAD because it supports a couple things Zenity doesn't have, namely form buttons and tabs. I've created an ugly but functional interface that's meant to go on a 3.5" touch screen on a Raspberry Pi. But here's the problem: by the time it gets on a screen that small, the buttons are too small to reliably poke with a finger. So I want to increase the font size. All that was needed to fix that on my Fedora desktop was: # file: ~/.configs/gtk-3.0/settings.ini [Settings] gtk-font-name = Sans 32 And voila, 'yad' appears with a super-huge font. However - this behaviour isn't replicated on the Pi. It's an old(ish) Debian stretch install on an old Pi B (not Pi 2 B, just "Pi B"). I'm pretty sure that ~/.configs/gtk-3.0/settings.ini is the right file, because when I mis-configured it, 'yad' complained loudly. But it ignores the font setting that works fine on another host. I tried 'yad --font' which throws up what amounts to a GTK font selection dialogue, and "Sans 32" is a valid font on the Pi. Anyone got any ideas on this? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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