Re: [Sheflug] ShefLUG - January 8th Meeting 2022

[Richard Ibbotson <richard.ibbotson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Some more information about last week's meeting.  For anyone who is
interested.  Topics that we discussed were...

Devuan Linux https://www.devuan.org/

log4j testing with
     apt list --installed | grep -i log4j
     dpkg -l|grep log4j|grep -v log4js
failed to find any but
     find / -iname "*log4j*.jar"
found plenty especially within Intel Edison developer board software
or with GloboNote

Issue with non-PulseAudio swapped speakers
Using Konqueror as a browser under devuan

From initially discussing Retrowave wallpaper we have
The Midnight https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/
Mike Oakley https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVCnbrETvgFXwgkC1JelYXQ
Nina Bolt  https://www.ninasounduk.com/about
yota https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-dreams
Ollie Wride https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/thanks-in-advance
Mind in a box https://www.facebook.com/mindinabox.official/ - Industrial music

Cherrytree https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/ for bookmark files and
note taking
youtube-dl http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ and new version
yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp to prevent throttling
downloads
bandcamp-dl https://github.com/iheanyi/bandcamp-dl equilavent to
get-iplayer https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer
Okular https://okular.kde.org/ or pdfsam https://pdfsam.org/ for
editing pdfs with annotations
Windows 11 requiring tpm ( Trusted Platform Module)
Libre Writer Ctrl+m on selected text to clear direct formatting to
default formatting
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/12/quick-and-dirty-way-to-rip-an-ebook-from-android/
Noctua cooling fan https://noctua.at/en/products/cpu-cooler-retail/nh-d15
Free license equivalent of Times New Roman font - Liberation Serif
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/liberation-fonts   Linux Libertine
https://libertine-fonts.org/
Cinnamon has Pulseaudio embedded in Devuan
Inkscape install with appimage rather than tarball
https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.1/gnulinux/appimage/dl/
LIOS (Linux Intelligent OCR software) https://sourceforge.net/projects/lios/
KDE screenshot software https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/spectacle/
Festival Text to speech voices
https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html
Orca text to speech scren reader
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/Orca?action=show&redirect=Orca
compared to Windows Jaws
https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ £735 for
Home use to £1700 for business use.
TDGpro Tactile Design Graphics software (About £400)
https://www.tactileview.com/
Duxbury braille translation software https://www.duxburysystems.com/
SEB - Standard English Braille vs UEB Unified English Braille (nine
contractions removed and the punctuation changed)
Moon for braille with a possum moon writer https://omniglot.com/writing/moon.htm
Picture in a flash - tactile image machine https://piaf-tactile.com/
Zyfuse - tactile image machine for swell paper
https://www.zychem-ltd.co.uk/zyfuseheater

-- 
Richard

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