HBO Go now works "natively" on Linux

Pretty sure it didn't work a few weeks ago but I tried it a few days ago and was surprised that it just worked (Fedora 31, Firefox 71.0 -- no Pipelight or Wine or other workarounds). I enabled Widevine DRM, went to [https://play.hbogo.com](https://play.hbogo.com), and signed in using my cable provider credentials (Comcast Xfinity).

I binged on "Chernobyl" and it was mostly fine except for some tearing at fullscreen (Gnome Classic on Xorg -- need to try Wayland).

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Introduction to the Linux goto shell utility
https://opensource.com/article/20/1/directories-autocomplete-linux

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Extending the lifetime of smartphones with Replicant, a fully free Android distribution [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-oio-169-extending-the-lifetime-of-smartphones-with-replicant-a-fully-free-android-distribution

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Some questions about DRM

I was reading up on DRM (Netflix, Spotify thingy and not the X11 thingy) topics like widewine, playfair, playready etc.,
+ If ms edge comes to linux will it have playready pre-loaded?
+ I was thinking if it was possible for the vendors to write their own DRM implementation in wasm which will be cross platform and we can enjoy 4K in all the platforms.

Noob here. Please go easy if the questions are stupid.

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Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer - is it working properly?

I was curious if Linux does use my audio card properly to decode audio with hardware acceleration or decode it with CPU, then put it through my card to simply play the audio.

Do you have any info about it?

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Ohio Linux Fest 2019 - Title: FreeCAD for Newbies (cuz I'm one too) - "Come hear about my trials and tribulations as I get started in the world of 3D parametric modeling with FreeCAD" - Terry Howald - youtube [49:57]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sem4704CTvk

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How to create a handheld Linux terminal (V2)
https://n-o-d-e.net/terminal_2.html

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Firefox 72.0 released
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0/releasenotes/

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Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/808575/9fd4fea3d86086f0/

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PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/pgp-keys-software-security-and-much-more-threatened-by-new-sha1-exploit/

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November and December Update for FreeCAD & Debian Science - Kurt Kremitzki's Blog
https://www.kwk.systems/blog/posts/november-and-december-update-for-freecad-debian-science/

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Theoretical Question - Malicious Shell Aliases?

I was thinking about this the other day and it got me thinking...my .bashrc/.zshrc is user-writable and doesn't need root permissions to edit.

What exactly would stop something malicious from adding an alias to either rc file like this:

```
alias ls='ls;./someMaliciousSilentScript.sh'
```

...I would never actually know this is happening, unless I frequently look at my aliases, right? I don't think I've ever seen any shell show me the expanded alias prior to running.

Or I suppose, this just comes down to "don't run stuff you don't know/don't pipe curl to bash/etc"?

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bcal - storage expression and general-purpose calculator
https://github.com/jarun/bcal

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What are some compelling arguments AGAINST using Linux for personal/professional use?



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Weekly Questions and Hardware Thread - January 08, 2020

Welcome to r/linux! If you're new to Linux or trying to get started this thread is for you. Get help here or as always, check out r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs

This megathread is for all your question needs. As we don't allow questions on r/linux outside of this megathread, please consider using r/linuxquestions or r/linux4noobs for the best solution to your problem.

Ask your hardware requests here too or try r/linuxhardware!

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Whatever Happened To news.gmane.org? (Or: Latest updates on Gmane)
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gmane-org/

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Reproducible Builds Update for December
https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2019-12/

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Windows 7 will stop receiving updates next Tuesday, 14th of January. KDE calls on the community to help Windows users upgrade to Plasma desktop.
https://dot.kde.org/2020/01/08/plasma-safe-haven-windows-7-refugees

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Push Notifications for SSH Logins

Hi,

For anyone that is interested I decided to create a quick noscript to get a push notification whenever a successful login to my SSH server occurs. I thought I would share it with anyone that is interested, at the moment it is very basic and requires a bit of manual installation but it does what I need.

If you have any questions or concerns let me know.

[https://github.com/nabsayeed/sshmonitor](https://github.com/nabsayeed/sshmonitor)

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Jellyfin (free software media system and alternative to proprietary Plex and Emby) in 2019
https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-in-2019/

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Next Generation Machine Learning Kernel Security

Hi guys ! We are working on a embedded security project . We actualy relased our first versione targeting some webserver process in an OpenWRT on ARM32, in the following weeks we will relase MIPS and ARM64 version too.

Github here : [https://github.com/Exeinspa/exein-openwrt-public](https://github.com/Exeinspa/exein-openwrt-public)

Hope you like and please give us suggestions

Happy New Year!

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