------------------------------- Wed May 18 05:15:24 PM EDT 2022 ------------------------------- Transcript of Chat box from BLU meeting, Wed, May 18, 2022 Meeting held online via Jitsi Meet In attendance (16 total): Speaker(s): * Jerry Feldman BLU officers: * John Abreau * Kurt Keville Attendees (named): * Bill Bogstad * Bob Primak * Brendan Kidwell * Chris Allen * Ed Piecewicz * John Kennedy (Central Ohio) * John Spizzirri * Paul Jameson * Robert Luoma Attendees (anonymous): * arnie * Curt * dk * Michael I (he/him) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Primak Bob Primak says:Hi. 18:43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:Hi, Bob 18:45 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curt Curt says:So the security button just adds a password? 18:46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Jerry Feldman says:yes 18:47 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curt Curt says:😀 Curt says:new toys in Jit Curt says:👍 18:49 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan Kidwell (NYC) Brendan Kidwell (NYC) says:DistroTube: "Keep Your Snaps and Flatpaks, I'll take AppImages!" https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/keep-your-snaps-and-flatpaks,-i'll-take:f 18:50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:Good Lab Kurt says:Does a lot of OSHWA work 18:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:The Fundamentalist position in the VI-vs-Emacs wars: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html John Abreau says:Ed, man! !man ed 19:00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:Didn't work on my system... Kurt says:Ed, man! man passwd ed -bash: Ed,: command not found 19:02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:OK, here is the command. 😃 19:02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:Ha Ha. That's the title of the web page I posted 19:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:I think I do have Ed... just not a proper PATH set... 19:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!! 19:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:bash: ed: command not found 19:17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:which ed /bin/ed 19:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:$ rpm -qf /bin/ed ed-1.14.2-9.fc33.x86_64 John Abreau says:Assuming you're using fedora, you can install ed via 19:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:$ rpm -qf /bin/ed error: file /bin/ed: No such file or directory 19:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:sudo dnf install ed 19:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:I'm running Mageia now. Ed says:(descendant of Mandriva) Ed says:(or a successor to Mandriva) Ed says:emacs installed with the default install. 19:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says:I'm not familiar with the Mandriva distributions, so I cannot tell you whether they make ed(1) available 19:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:It's available: ed-1.16-1.mga8.x86_64 19:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:What package format? tar.gz? 19:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:rpm 19:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:I used to use opkg and ipkg back in my embedded days... OpenWRT squashfs images mostly.... Kurt says: https://pypa.github.io/pipx/ Kurt says:Looks interesting 19:29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BillBogstad BillBogstad says:So long everyone! 19:29 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:There is a snap of Claws Mail, but it is not an official release from the Claws developers. 19:38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Allen Chris Allen says:Hey All, I need to take off. have a good rest of the meeting and see you next time 19:39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Jerry Feldman says:Hopefully see you next month 19:40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:Has anyone had any (bad) experiences with alien? I have to convert a ton of deb packages. Kurt says:i might just script it and deal with the failures Kurt says:Yeah... no mic yet Kurt says:but I can type Kurt says:I suppose if it just places things in /usr/local the conversion should be pretty straightforward... Kurt says:but if there are differences in the LFS or God Forbid an /opt directory all bets are off 19:48 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:Tesla pkg manager = msk 20:03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:Ha... attitude install upgrade.msk 20:04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:That was my concern - can the car be hacked? 20:07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:There is this guy in NH. https://electrifiedgarage.com/ Kurt says:Off-label Tesla fixer 20:13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:👍 20:14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan 20:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:He only does Teslas and after-market Deloreans 20:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Abreau says: https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket 20:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kurt Kurt says:Gold Deloreans? Kurt says:There is a YT documentary on the Massachusetts BTTF Delorean. I will see if i can find it.... Kurt says:I think it is this... Dec 2021, so pretty new Kurt says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgOb22gz_TY Kurt says:Cristoph is a member and he lives in TX Kurt says:Yeah, MIT will probably reevalute their policy in September 20:43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Jerry Feldman says: natickfoss.org 20:47 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ed says:Jabr's audio is breaking up Ed says:Thank you 20:52 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- meeting ended at 8:53 pm