A movie I would watch?
I didn't know that this was a movie poster, but maybe it's for
a movie I would watch?
Getting my Dell C1765nf to work on Debian
I'm only looking to get the printer part working. I have set up the scanning part to scan to an CIFS drive on the printer itself. I used to use the fax capability, but nowadays everybody just accepts scanned PDFs via email, so that feature is not of importance.
The printer is a relabeled Xerox 6000B, but Xerox only provides 32bit i386 binaries and my system is now amd64. This doesn't bode well for a future setup.
Installing the printer driver binaries
After installing CUPS, the magic printer driver is
apt install printer-driver-foo2zjs
Configure it for the network
Location: 192.168.1.xx
Device-URI: socket://192.168.1.xx:9100
Model: Dell C1765 Foomatic/foo2hbpl2 (recommended)
Using that printer driver, I get feedback on the toner fill and can print in color.
Configure the printer on the computer
Enter the printer settings
Set color mode from "monochrome" to "color"
I had to reset the number of pages per sheet from 9 to 1. Most likely this was a manual misclick by me first.
Print a test page
Just to be sure, print a test page. For me, the printed configuration text reads:
Media Limits: 0.12 x 0.17 to 8.14 x 11.53 inches
Job ID: Xerox-Phaser-6000B-33
Driver: FOO2HBPL.PPD
Driver Version: 1.1
Description: Dell 1675nfw
Printer Location: 192.168.1.xx
Make and Model: Dell C1765 Foomatic/foo2hbpl2 (recommended)
Printer: Xerox-Phaser-6000B
My Firefox redirects
I run Firefox with Javascript selectively enabled thanks to the uMatrix AddOn. Some sites need some adjustments or really want Javascript, but instead of enabling Javascript for these sites, I often rewrite the URLs automatically, using the Redirector AddOn. These are my redirects:
Use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com
Even though I don't really frequent Reddit.com, for some communities or
problems, it is a good source of information. This entry rewrites all URLs
that point to www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com, which doesn't need
Javascript and loads all content at once:
Redirect:
https://www.reddit.com/(comments|r)/(.*)
to:
https://old.reddit.com/$1/$2
Redirector snippet export
{
"description": "Use old reddit comments",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/comments/o9xp15",
"exampleResult": "https://old.reddit.com/comments/o9xp15",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://www.reddit.com/(comments|r)/(.*)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "",
"redirectUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/$1/$2",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
Youtube fullscreen, without comments
Instead of seeing the horror that is YouTube consent popups and YouTube viewer
comments, I run the YouTube videos completely filling the browser window by
going to the /embed/ link that allows one to embed a YouTube video in
another webpage.
Redirect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch\?(?:feature=youtu\.be&)?v=([-\w]+)&(list=[-\w]+)
to:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=playlist&$2
Redirector snippet export
{
"description": "Youtube Embed Playlist / Fullscreen only",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgWCLuQuajo&list=OLAK5uy_nKPBfR_eEc8qYWnkE3j7ijH23L_ULyiZY",
"exampleResult": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=playlist&list=OLAK5uy_nKPBfR_eEc8qYWnkE3j7ijH23L_ULyiZY",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://www.youtube.com/watch\\?(?:feature=youtu\\.be&)?v=([-\\w]+)&(list=[-\\w]+)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "",
"redirectUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/?listType=playlist&$2",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
{
"description": "Youtube-NoCookie Embed / Fullscreen only",
"exampleUrl": "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=Wisthc226SU",
"exampleResult": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wisthc226SU",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://(?:www|m).youtube(?:-nocookie)?.com/watch\\?(?:feature=youtu\\.be&)?v=([-\\w]+)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "",
"redirectUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/$1",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
},
Use Nitter instance instead of Twitter
From time to time some supposedly interesting information only exists as a 140 character entry on Twitter. Twitter really wants Javascript but there are mirror sites running the Nitter software. This rewrites Twitter URLs to use one (of many) Nitter instances:
Redirect:
https://(mobile.)?twitter.com/(.+)
to:
https://nitter.namazso.eu/$2
Redirector snippet export
{
"description": "Twitter to Nitter (nitter.pussthecat.org)",
"exampleUrl": "https://mobile.twitter.com/richardf/status/1314481244344852480?s=20",
"exampleResult": "https://nitter.namazso.eu/richardf/status/1314481244344852480?s=20",
"error": null,
"includePattern": "https://(mobile.)?twitter.com/(.+)",
"excludePattern": "",
"patternDesc": "",
"redirectUrl": "https://nitter.namazso.eu/$2",
"patternType": "R",
"processMatches": "noProcessing",
"disabled": false,
"grouped": false,
"appliesTo": [
"main_frame"
]
}
Conway Complexity
Conway's Law states
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.
I guess Docker images follow Conway's law, in that the number of levels in a Docker image will be one larger than the number of groups working on it...
So far, I haven't seen any analysis of how the communication structure of organizations is set up and what levels of complexity actually exist there.
Reviving Net::Pcap
... in which I look at how existing patches floating on the internet can be integrated into Net::Pcap to make it compile again.
Net::Pcap is dear to me, as I have a module implementing an HTTP sniffer using its network capture. So I like it when the module compiles without too much manual work.