Extracting a *.snap package
Posted: 2024-10-31 Filed under: network, ports, system | Tags: ports, skype, squash 1 CommentI still use Skype, however I was stuck at an old version. The reason was that this was the last *.deb package of the program provided by upstream. For the following versions, it is distributed as a *.snap. I really know nothing about these and I thought I was done with Skype. Well, turns out that’s not the case.
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Font blocker for Chrome
Posted: 2024-06-30 Filed under: network | Tags: block, Chirp, font, fonts, google chrome Leave a commentI’ve been playing with my fonts settings for a while and I am close to getting nuts. I have almost everything the way I want it, however, some web-pages insist on using their own fonts. Twitter with it’s Chirp font and GitLab with their own font family come to mind. Well, I don’t like it, do I tried to find a solution.
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Tor browser: specify a country node
Posted: 2024-03-31 Filed under: network | Tags: exit, node, tor, tor-browser Leave a commentI visit an old, Linux-dedicated forum, that sometimes does not like comments from users with a foreign IP address, due to its outdated engine or something. In order to post, I often need to prove that I am not a robot, via captcha. Well, I am not a robot and this happens only occasionally, but it’s still annoying. Therefore, I decided to find out whether I can use the Tor Browser with a pre-specified country for the exit node.
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Traditional names of network devices
Posted: 2024-02-04 Filed under: network, system | Tags: adapter, CRUX, eth0, grub, lilo, network, wlan0 Leave a commentMoving from Slackware to CRUX, I noticed that my network devices have weird names, such as enp4s0. What happened to the good old eth0? It did not bother me much at first, but… For example, I have a firewall script, where I specify adapter names, and it is a bit annoying to always check for the specific one, depending on the computer I am working on.
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Tor browser won’t start
Posted: 2023-07-02 Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: browser, gdk_wayland_display_get_wl_compositor, libxul.so, shim.c, shim.so, tor, tor-browser, XPCOM, XPCOMGlueLoad Leave a commentOn CRUX 3.7, the Tor browser (version 12.5 at the moment) fails to start. It is not available as a port, so I just downloaded the Linux tarball from the official website, extracted it, and tried to run the program. Nothing. Therefore, I decided to find out what’s wrong and search for a fix.
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