Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links To China, Researchers Discover
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/

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Thoughts on Zorin OS check connectivity [opt-out] ?

Zorin OS (15.2 core at least) has got a feature named "Check Connectivity" (similar to Ubuntu/Fedora's) which HTTP/GET "[connectivity.zorin-os.com](https://connectivity.zorin-os.com)" every 30mn. It's opt-out. Of course there are easier ways to check connectivity, like querying NTP servers for instance.

They're doing a home-calling type of heartbeat. Maybe the right name would have been "Inform every 30mn the Zorin company that my computer is online" ?

Although it might not transmit sensitive data (haven't checked the packets), i'm not keen on those opt-out type of stats, kindly presented under an innocent euphemism.

Any thoughts on that ? I haven't found pages discussing that URL anywhere on internet before, which explains my post.

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Linux filesystem encryption comparison: ext4 vs btrfs vs zfs vs luks vs gocryptfs
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Greg KH AMA coming next week, write your questions now!

Hello everyone,

[Greg Kroah-Hartman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman) will be doing an AMA next week. We wanted to give you a heads up to write out some questions in advance and we highly encourage checking out the last AMA to see if anything is already answered:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2ny1lz/im_greg_kroahhartman_linux_kernel_developer_ama/

Please note - there will be a new thread posted by /u/gregkh mid next week so please remember to get your questions in there.

I've left this thread unlocked to help people form questions together, but may lock it as needed.

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Unix/Linux command references (credits: FOSSwire.com)
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Weekend Fluff / Linux in the Wild Thread - April 03, 2020

Welcome to the weekend! This stickied thread is for you to post pictures of your ubuntu 2006 install disk, slackware floppies, on-topic memes or more.

When it's not the weekend, be sure to check out r/WildLinuxAppears or r/linuxmemes!

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LXD 4.0 LTS has been released with tons of new features
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-4-0-lts-has-been-released/7231

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Three Comics For Understanding Unix Shell
http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/04/comics.html

https://redd.it/fubz8n
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Better than Zoom: Try these free software tools for staying in touch - FSF
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch

https://redd.it/fuelpg
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This Month in Mutter & GNOME Shell | March 2020
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/04/03/this-month-in-mutter-gnome-shell-march-2020/

https://redd.it/fue16r
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The Zen of KISS Linux
https://icyphox.sh/blog/kiss-zen/

https://redd.it/fubjw4
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Firefox 74.0.1 has been released
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0.1/releasenotes/

https://redd.it/fuimzw
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Ranger CLI maintainers want to "focus on future" and have just shifted their tool towards IRC client features, renamed their project "IRangerC".
https://github.com/ranger/ranger#ranger-204-1

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Learn things to people

Hi,

Im a great fan of linux and I want people to know that it is not just command line and that you cand do things easily.

I recently created a subreddit r/AdviceCSProgramming to learn quick and short facts about computers from programming to theory. I need some people to write things about linux (kernel, shell, c language in linux, ...) to learn things to people easily.

Thanks in advance ;D

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UBUNTU KYLIN 20.04 LOOKS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL

I've just installed the new Ubuntu Kylin 20.04 with UKUI 3.0 and it is absolutely amazing, for being a preview this looks already deepin-grade style.

There're a few details to polish but the team is asking for help reporting bugs in this testing period.

They said that a lot of these bugs and details won't be in the official release, and also a lot of new features will come. For more information: https://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/shownews.php?id=1576&lang=en

Take a look:

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https://preview.redd.it/sos41f4o3pq41.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=cbaa309ef86ac0ab2652e982676a7a1165ac0ed9

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Making Linux a Deep Fryer for Dopamine Receptors
https://nicholasfarrow.com/Making-Linux-a-Deep-Fryer-for-Dopamine-Receptors/

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Why GNU/Linux?

Hello,
I request you to answer my query which is as follows:
Why 'GNU/Linux' is used and not "Linux-based GNU System". If it seems a long name then why " Linux-based Android System" just use Android. So, why do we use GNU/Linux and not just GNU or "Linux-based…System".
Sorry for the usage of confusing Language but it has a reason.

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An interview with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical
https://invidio.us/watch?v=UDHL3youjIY

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High resolution wheel scrolling in the desktop stack
https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/04/high-resolution-wheel-scrolling-in.html

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Blog post about the security & privacy of Jitsi Meet, an apache-2 licensed video-conferencing solution.
https://jitsi.org/news/security/

https://redd.it/fup8z1
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Minifree is shutting down, permanently
https://minifree.org/product-category/laptops/

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