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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-07-20 08:57, Adam Holland
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<div>Some odds and ends, as I tend to communicate in short, very
infrequent bursts:<br>
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<li>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.</li>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<li>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?<br>
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Bit Torrent with a private torrent site is pretty private. I don't
even tend to get notices.<br>
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<li>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 <a
href="https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=46958"
moz-do-not-send="true">nightmare</a> 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.</li>
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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.<br>
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<li>I never found an answer to my concern about the <a
href="https://free-as-in-lost.blogspot.com/2017/10/checkinstall-is-unmaintained-and-broken.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">CheckInstall</a> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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