Linux: gnome-keyring setup as Freedesktop SecretService
https://medium.com//linux-gnome-keyring-setup-as-freedesktop-secretservice-99521a20e9c4?source=friends_link&sk=a2b9521d6e7070dcdf505612858109b4

https://redd.it/fbmtp1
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Corsair K55 keyboard prints root password in plain text when pressing CTRL+G5 keys.

`\]]]*/***
ROOTPASSWORD
sudo dnf update
PARTIAL\]]]*/***`
The * are for privacy sake, no idea if they mean anything important
I have switched from openSUSE to Fedora and am now on Windows, un-plugged and re-plugged keyboard and it still has this in its memory.

keyboard in question: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71wSG1VzANL._AC_SL1500_.jpg

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A browser based application that requires no system related support checks the OS for requirements? Sounds legit.
https://redd.it/fborrx
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Free tickets to SCALE 18x (Southern California Linux Expo)

Hi r/linux,

We got our hands on some extra tickets to the annual [SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) 18x](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/18x) conference and wanted to share! Enter our giveaway by signing up for our waitlist [via this link](https://freepn.com/?pk_campaign=community&pk_kwd=reddit-giveaway-linux). We will select three winners so make sure to **sign up by 12pm PST on March 2**! Good luck!

We'll also be at the conference at the FreePN booth, #413 - come say hello and learn more about what we're building! FreePN is a Linux first, free, fast, anonymous, open-source, peer-to-peer VPN. You can read more about us [here](https://freepn.com/?pk_campaign=community&pk_kwd=reddit-giveaway-linux).

Happy to answer any questions about the giveaway/FreePN.

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Notes taking workflow and programs

How do you guys manage your notes?

I am specifically interested in programs and workflows.

I am already aware of Joplin and orgmode + organice and I am trying to decide between these two.

But, maybe there are options or workflows better suited for my needs.

I need to be able to manage my notes from desktop and mobile. CLI mode for desktop is a must. Searching, tagging and reading notes should be fast and easy.

I am a vim user and would like to be able to use vim as the note taking editor.

Adding pictures to the notes would be a plus but it is not a must. Same holds for tagging.

https://redd.it/fbnhz9
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Ways to eliminate vulnerabilities in your repository
https://medium.com/@AntonLawrence/vulnerabilities-in-your-repository-bb5b11221a6a

https://redd.it/fbqkzw
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Oil Uses Its Parser For History And Completion
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/01/history-and-completion.html

https://redd.it/fbm8kc
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Sandboxing in Linux is completely broken

I read [flatkill.org](https://flatkill.org) and there is something that I found interesting since I am looking into securing apps with Apparmor.

>Almost all popular applications on flathub come with filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions, that is, write permissions to the user home directory (and more), this effectively means that all it takes to "escape the sandbox" is `echo download_and_execute_evil >> ~/.bashrc`. That's it.

Since apps store configuration in hidden files in the home folder, and they store those files everywhere, it is very hard to sandbox apps so that they don't try to do anything funny with hidden files in the home folder. I tried sandboxing Atril with Apparmor and it tries to load a lot of hidden files of unrelated apps. How it is possible to sandbox apps if they touch each other's configuration files?

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cron.weekly issue #123: eBPF, Licensing, CentOS, usql, CouchDB & more
https://ma.ttias.be/cronweekly/issue-123/

https://redd.it/fbrx4f
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Errors while installing ubuntu-gnome-desktop

I was installing the above said software using sudo apt-get command,it finished with some errors. After I restarted the system, I have the new gnome environment but I have a black desktop wallpaper apparently , also right-click doesnt work on the wallpaper part of the screen but works fine else where. So , now If I try to reinstall each of the packages which were shown as error , I get the following errors.

jash@ubu:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-applets-data Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done gnome-applets-data is already the newest version (3.18.2-1). gnome-applets-data set to manually installed. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev libdrm-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libmirclient-dev libmircommon-dev libmircookie-dev libmircookie2 libmircore-dev libpcre3-dev libpcre32-3 libpcrecpp0v5 libprotobuf-dev libpython-all-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev libsdl2-2.0-0 libsndio-dev libsndio6.1 libudev-dev libwayland-bin libwayland-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-dri2-0-dev libxcb-dri3-dev libxcb-glx0-dev libxcb-present-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-sync-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev libxfixes-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxshmfence-dev libxv-dev libxxf86vm-dev linux-headers-4.15.0-70 linux-headers-4.15.0-70-generic linux-image-4.15.0-70-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-70-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-70-generic mesa-common-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 6 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up gnome-applets-data (3.18.2-1) ... E: py3compile:243: Requested versions are not installed dpkg: error processing package gnome-applets-data (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation noscript returned error exit status 3 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-applets: gnome-applets depends on gnome-applets-data (>= 3.18); however: Package gnome-applets-data is not configured yet. gnome-applets depends on gnome-applets-data (<< 3.19); however: Package gnome-applets-data is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package gnome-applets (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up python3.5-venv (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.9) ... No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. /var/lib/dpkg/info/python3.5-venv.postinst: 9: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python3.5-venv.postinst: /usr/bin/python3.5: not found dpkg: error processing package python3.5-venv (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation noscript returned error exit status 127 Setting up python3-pip (8.1.1-2ubuntu0.4) ... E: py3compile:243: Requested versions are not installed dpkg: error processing package python3-pip (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation noscript returned error exit status 3 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-venv: python3-venv depends on python3.5-venv (>= 3.5.1-2~); however: Package python3.5-venv is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-venv (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Setting up gnome-music (3.18.2-1ubuntu1) ... E: py3compile:243: Requested versions are not installed dpkg: error processing package gnome-music (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation noscript returned error exit status 3 No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: gnome-applets-da

ta gnome-applets python3.5-venv python3-pip python3-venv gnome-music E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I use : Linux ubu 4.15.0-88-generic #88~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 12 04:19:15 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz × 8 Graphics card : GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

PS: I HAVE FACED SOME PYHTON DEPENDENCY PROBLEMS , A WHILE AGO I HAD TWO PYTHON3 VERSIONS INSTALLED (3.5 AND 3.8 ) PY3.8 I INSTALLED BY BUILDING FROM THE SOURCE , THEN I HAD TO REMOVE EVERYTHING ,CURRENTLY RUNNING PYTHON3 COMMAND IN THE TERMINAL OPENS UP PYTHON3.5.2

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I've just released a new version of my slack-IRC gateway

https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc/releases/tag/1.7

This version adds support for the new strange and undocumented token type that appeared on slack that projects on the internet seem to be struggling with.

It adds a systemd service that helps people who use several slack chats to configure several instances more easily.

https://redd.it/fbt2d0
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CudaText 1.96 vs other Linux editors on huge lines

CudaText 1.96 was [released](http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/) with reworked support for huge lines.

I was interested how some Linux editors handle such huge lines. Tested several editors on Ubuntu 19.10 on Intel i3 CPU. With XML file with a single line of length 4M. XML file contains line like <id name="nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"> with the huge "name" length of 4M.

* CudaText 1.96. Opens file: 1.5sec. Caret moves at the end of line: very fast (<0.1sec). Editing of this line: not fast, adding each char: about 0.5 sec.
* Sublime Text 3. Opens file: 2sec. Caret moves at the end of line: each Left/Right arrow is 0.5 sec delay. Editing works.
* Kate 19.04. Gives colored panel "The file ... was opened and contained lines longer than .... (4 096 characters). The lines were wrapped and document is set to read-only mode...". Caret moves at the end of wrapped doc: fast. Editing is disabled.
* GEdit 3.34. Hanged of loading file (from command line and from editor), waited it for 20sec.
* Emacs 26.3 GUI. Opens file: 1sec. In word-wrapped mode. With the statusbar error "Internal error in rng-validate-mode triggered at buffer position 10. Stack overflow in regexp matcher". Pressing Ctrl+End to move to end: editor hanged with "wait" cursor.

https://redd.it/fbs802
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Dual boot

Hello i am me and i feel like dual booting manjaro linux and windows 10 and i need to know if i can safely shrink partition sda2 without losing any of my stuff on windows 10 and what sda2 is. I am a beginner in linux and have tried ubuntu, arch, mint, solum and manjaro and i feel like majaro is the distribution that i want to dual boot alongside windows 10

https://redd.it/fbufoi
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This week in KDE
https://pointieststick.com/2020/03/01/this-week-in-kde-3/

https://redd.it/fbv29b
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Having a hard time understanding the hype for Pine Phone

It's from my understanding that we already can flash Linux OS into Android phones. Is this hype more of a celebration that a company is deciding to go full linux, or is there any actual benefit of using a Linux OS with the Pine Phone over a better specced Android one?

https://redd.it/fbvk85
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Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
https://lemire.me/blog/2020/01/30/cost-of-a-thread-in-c-under-linux/

https://redd.it/fbwppd
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Advantages of Wayland over Xorg?

So I have been hearing alot about wayland, can someone explain the hype over it and why it is so hyped?

I use arch and have never had to install a wayland dependancy, so should I switch? (xfce4, brave browser, a few tools from xfce4-goodies, vscode. Dell e6400 Latitude)

https://redd.it/fbxxu6
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No audio recording possible? (however, my destiny is to be the best youtuber ever though)

Hello,

Yet another reddit noob that yell for help. And yes, I have been stuck for months, and yes, I have tried anything I could find on the web. My brain will get absorbed by a black hole soon if I cannot overcome this problem.

I desperately need to find the solution to be able to create viral videos and be able, in a few months, after I create my channel to have more subscribers than Pewdipie and T-Series ***REUNITED***.

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*And here is the problem*: I cannot record anything from my computer. Using my internal speaker, or a headset connected to bluetooth, or the same headset connected via a jack, or a new microphone connected via usb: NO audio is captured via any software whatsoever! If I open a sound recorder, or an application to "display" sound like ingot, I see nothing when recording.

I tried on the windows partition and had no problem.

It used to work fine, I used to be able to skype flawlessly.

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How could I follow my path to fame and fortune, without your precious help? **How could I troubleshoot this to be able to record sound?**

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Here are some info about my system, if that can help:

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KDE neon User Edition 5.18

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\# aplay --list-devices

\*\*\*\* List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices \*\*\*\*

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 0: ALC256 Analog \[ALC256 Analog\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 3: HDMI 0 \[HDMI 0\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 7: HDMI 1 \[HDMI 1\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 8: HDMI 2 \[HDMI 2\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 9: HDMI 3 \[HDMI 3\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PCH \[HDA Intel PCH\], device 10: HDMI 4 \[HDMI 4\]

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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\# lshw

\*-multimedia

denoscription: Multimedia audio controller

product: Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio

vendor: Intel Corporation

physical id: 1f.3

bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.3

version: 21

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: bus\_master cap\_list

configuration: driver=snd\_hda\_intel latency=32

resources: irq:130 memory:df2a8000-df2abfff memory:df280000-df28ffff

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computer : acer swift 3 SF315

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Krita Weekly #11 | Bi weekly from now - A Nerd's Tale
https://www.hellozee.dev/kw11/

https://redd.it/fc0184
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Trying to set and old computer for my mom

Hello, My mom is a kindergarten teacher and is in need for a computer where she can edit some .doc, .ppt and images that she uses for the kids to paint, write, etc. I have an old laptop that has very low specs, problably 1gb ram and some Pentium processor. The thing is: I tried installing some light ubunto that looks like windows, but I\`m not being able to donwload and install some softwares that read ppt and .doc. I very new to linux in general, and would like some help to find and isntall the software.

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Please, can someone provide me some info on which and how to download and install, bec most softwares that i\`ve tried I failed to download or install.

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thanks

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