Pure Sensia digital and Internet radio receiver: good idea, bad design
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Miscellaneous, Grumble
Thanks to a corporate reward program, I just got a Pure Sensia digital and Internet radio receiver: basically, it is a device able to play streams from FM, DAB, HTTP and USB sticks. In overall, it works fine, and it has a remote controller, so it makes a nice addition to my home equipment, but it has what I consider a major flaw, which I suspect to have been designed on purpose.
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Associations, acceptez les p....ns de virements
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Je reçois régulièrement des appels au don pour soutenir des associations. Pourquoi pas, et je suis prêt à donner si la cause et la méthode sont bonnes. Dans la plupart des cas, ces associations acceptent les dons sous forme de débit mensuel automatique, ou par chèque.
Problème : en ce qui me concerne, le débit mensuel, qui est la grande mode pour les associations depuis quelques années, est tout simplement hors de question, dans la mesure où il implique de donner à l’association en question un mandat de prélèvement discrétionnaire. Je veux bien faire un don, pas donner les clefs de mon compte en banque.
Mutt: encrypt all messages sent to known PGP users
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember
This is one thing I have wanted to do for a long time: configure Mutt to encrypt all messages sent to addresses for which I have a valid public key. Well, here is an awk-based script to generate that configuration.
(Yes, I know, a similar script was already written. But I did not see it at first, and I find mine more readable. :-) )
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Using Wine with sound under Debian testing (Jessie)
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, To remember
If you are using Wine under Debian testing with PulseAudio, you probably noticed that you cannot get sound playback any more. This is because:
- Wine uses ALSA, which uses a plugin to play through PulseAudio;
- Wine being in 32 bits, all that has to be installed in i386 versions;
- recent versions of libasound2-plugins depend on libavcodec54 which depends on libopus0 which is not multiarch-capable and thus cannot be installed in both i386 and amd64 versions;
- libopus0:amd64 cannot be reasonably removed to install only libopus0:i386 because many multimedia software depend on it (in other words: try that and you will end removing VLC and everything similar too).
No need to despair though, as there are several ways to work around that problem until the maintainer of libasound2-plugins has converted it to multiarch.
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Vague de spam sur mon wiki sur l'auto-hébergement
Classified in : Homepage, Auto-hébergement
Mon wiki sur l'auto-hébergement est depuis quelque temps la cible de spammeurs. Leur façon de procéder est assez simple : créer de nombreux utilisateurs bidons — une dizaine par jour — puis créer des pages de texte publicitaire.