[u-u] Odds and Ends

[Adam Holland]

To clarify regarding my email setup, I already have my own independent
email server, I just forgot to mention where I was.  At this point, I am
ready to move my u-u subscription over, but I wanted to figure out what to
do about mailing lists before I move them all over.  I have an "adam@"
inbox now, but unless I find a way to filter mail that's not too
complicated, I might just make a second inbox such as "lists@" or
"adam-lists@" so I can keep the group discussions separate from 1-on-1
discussions.

-Adam

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:29 AM, David Gilbert <uu at dclg.ca> wrote:

>
>
> On 2018-07-20 08:57, Adam Holland wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Some odds and ends, as I tend to communicate in short, very infrequent
> bursts:
>
>
>    1. I'm in the process of ceasing all use of Google services this
>    summer (I'd wanted to do this since 2013/Snowden, but it was beyond my
>    skills and/or my emotional state - until now).  One thing I always had a
>    problem with is how to handle the volume of certain mailing list output,
>    especially with busier Linux communities which I am subscribed to.  It is
>    the conflict between wanting those messages away from my inbox because
>    they're not directly to me (and there are lots of them!), and not wanting
>    to miss out on important announcements that I need to see, such as QA
>    release blockers which I would want to help out with asap.  Any advice, or
>    links to good suggestions would be great.
>
>
> Obviously email is a thing, given your from address.  On that tune, may I
> recomend a completely opensource ISP (me, that is).  I can get you all the
> way to TorIX without any binary blobs.  As a perk, you get an email (and,
> if you like) a shell account.  Again, with only open source.
>
> That said, though, you'll want to look at devices in your life, from
> complex things like phones to simple things like your router/gateway.
>
>
>    1. Is anyone aware of a service that has the functionality of Youtube
>    but which is not in the possession of a large corporation with shady
>    privacy policies?  As somebody without cable/satellite TV, without Netflix
>    and soon to be without Youtube, I'm feeling like a hermit in my desire to
>    enjoy multimedia clips and to share those with my friends.  Failing that,
>    is there currently a software project I could host myself?
>
>
> Bit Torrent with a private torrent site is pretty private.  I don't even
> tend to get notices.
>
>
>    1. As per a discussion at a U-U meeting several years ago, I did try
>    NetBSD on my old SGI O2, but never installed successfully as the disk
>    partitioning was a nightmare
>    <https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=46958> to
>    me.  I did subsequently learn of pkgsrc which could be set up on IRIX to
>    give me the compiling capability that it was lacking.  At this time I am
>    not going to dive back into IRIX, but if anyone has a real need to try
>    something out under that OS I am willing to make that available as I don't
>    know how much longer the machine will remain in working order.
>
>
> Finding an untrackable workstation is more problematic.  The best hope I
> have at the momment lies in the MIPS project, but ARM is fairly open (if
> not free).  Old hardware is not always the solution.  I've done pleanty of
> retrocomputing in my time.  It can be rewarding for a sense of
> accomplishment, but it's less so for productivity.
>
>
>    1. I never found an answer to my concern about the CheckInstall
>    <https://free-as-in-lost.blogspot.com/2017/10/checkinstall-is-unmaintained-and-broken.html>
>    software project, something I thought would be extremely wise to adopt
>    early as I explore more and more software projects that require
>    installation from source.  If anyone can offer guidance as to what
>    direction I should be looking, if not in the direction which CheckInstall
>    was going, please do.
>
>
> Well... the answer to that is close to my heart.  Get FreeBSD.  Not
> installing from source is almost harder.  And you'll have ZFS ... which is
> just good.
>
>
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