tmpsms - A temporary SMS utility right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpsms

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9 Months of using linux - some sort of review + some more or less chaotic wall of text

TL;DR: I used linux for 9 months as a main OS, I was infected by FLOSS, and privacy in some parts I'm a happier human now, but the curse of knowledge is making some things worse.

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This is some sort of review of 9 months of using Debian as a main OS, with a focus on my change of mindset and the technical differences to windows

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Nine months ago, I started using linux as a main OS.

What happened before that lead me to this steps

I learned C and I read in the internet, that there is MSYS2 that comes with a nice C compiler, that isn't as bloated as MSVC. So I installed MSYS2 and soon after that, I learned the commandline tools of linux like grep,sed,awk,cat and other concepts like pipes.

Then I wanted to try real linux. I looked around and well, as a naive beginner, I choose Kali Linux.

I dual-booted, but because I didn't know what to do with this tools and having no real usage for them (Except nasm-shell, this is pretty nice), I deleted it.

The only nice thing about Kali Linux was its look. Well it looks great and so I have chosen my next distro that looked as good as this Kali Linux: Debian

I installed debian and started using it as a main OS.(In April) I never booted to windows for more than 3 months. I didn't need it.

First, some things were different. I say different, not worse. Installing software without a package manager is so time-consuming and feels wrong. On linux, having a package manager is such a nice thing.

But then, the first problem came to the new world: Nvidia

I have a nvidia graphics card, and I wanted to use it, but never got it working. (I wanted to make it switch between my intel chip and the graphics card, depending on the usage of graphics)

My entire workflow is better, faster, more efficient, programming is a dream, using it is a dream, it's nearly perfect.

Soon after I had installed linux, I came into contact with FLOSS. I opened a github account, made contributions (Sadly only 10 PRs that were accepted, 2 were declined), opened my own opensource projects.

I must say, I nearly "radicalized" (Sorry I don't know any other matching word). I used only FLOSS, I gave up getting nvidia drivers running, as these are proprietary ~~mal~~software, same with my WiFi Card. Only on the web I make an exception and on the smartphone (Fuck you peer pressure, screw you whatsapp), as both are already infected with too much proprietary software. (Although I try to use as much FLOSS as possible[1\])

1 year ago, I would just have downloaded the first program I found for some task. Now I only look for FLOSS solutions. If there are none, I will cancel this task or find other ways to accomplish it, if possible.

As I became interested into more technical things, I went to the topic privacy.

Before I was like "I have nothing to hide", but after reading Cory Doctorows book "Little brother" and randomly going to r/privacy, my eyes were opened.

I cared even more about privacy, I made my browser a fortress, tried to convert(=Showed that privacy is a nice thing to have) others to caring about privacy (I got five of my friends to use firefox instead chrome and converted two to linux)

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But knowledge is sometimes a curse. All the attacks onto privacy and FLOSS were making my life hard. I read about the things microsoft did, EEE, how non-free software is prevalent in many areas of life, often because of the lobbying of Microsoft or Apple.

For example in schools. Schools should never just teach the product of one company (Especially at my school, germany, in 5. and 6. grade Word and Powerpoint, in the 9. grade Access and Excel). It is in my opinion for example totally wrong, from every POV.

It was making me somehow sad and I was feeling overwhelmed because of the attacks on the consumers/peoples freedom (DRM) and privacy (EARN IT, and the comparable BS the EU wants to do).

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Some months later, I deleted my windows partition and was happy.

But soon, I had to write applications as I'm

ending school soon. This worked great, until they wanted to make video interviews. I had to installed Webex Teams/Meetings (I don't know which anymore).

I didn't got it running with wine. Every internet connection with this program failed with some Certification failed error, the web client wasn't working somehow. So in the biggest emergency, I had to install windows.

I have it since then. The original plan was to purge it after the application processes, but then the second lockdown came. My school forced us MS Teams down the throat and so my plans for purging this, for me useless, from my disk were delayed indefinitely.

Windows is now feeling foreign. Every minute in which I use windows is feeling like a pain. No I don't want your browser, no I know, what I want to do. I'm 17 and not a fucking child. Maybe I'm prejudging, because Windows is proprietary, but it feels comparatively much worse to linux.

I know, many(?) use windows just for gaming. I was some sort of gamer before I switched to linux, I played Minecraft and was happy. After switching, I played it some weeks, until I got infected with FLOSS. Now I'm happy with 0ad and Supertuxkart.

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Thank you, all of you that made it possible, to write this text.

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Congratulations, if you were able to read until here and understand everything.

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^(Please excuse my english)

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[1\]: I have only two packages installed, that are in the non-free repo: manpages-posix-dev and manpages-posix

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mhtml2html conversion tool

For those of you who have a couple of MHT(ML) files collected on your disk like me: As all viewers seems to be gone these days I needed a way/tool to convert them into a more future-proof format. Unfortunately I couldn't find one, so I've created it myself:

https://gitlab.com/thomas.mc.work/mhtml2html

It has been tested with several input files, from several sites, captured by several clients, including lots of non-standards-compliant parts. So it should be pretty much bullet-proof in the meantime.

Have fun!

https://redd.it/kvrojb
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Kate Text Editor - Quick Open
https://kate-editor.org/post/2021/2021-01-10-kate-quick-open/

https://redd.it/kug7kj
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The advantage of a fully transparent terminal is that you can watch movie while you code.

https://redd.it/kvyl7l
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ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm64
https://threedots.ovh/blog/2021/01/huawei-exagear-x86_64-apps-on-arm64/

https://redd.it/kvw838
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Houdini: run Arm 32-bit and 64-bit applications on an x86_64 system
https://threedots.ovh/blog/2020/12/houdini-run-arm-32-bit-and-64-bit-applications-on-an-x86_64-system/

https://redd.it/kvxcvd
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Mozilla VPN releases Linux client PPA
https://vpn.mozilla.org/

https://redd.it/kw131v
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csBooks 5.5.1 Released

Dear All,
I am so excited to finished another release for csBooks :D
This release has following improvements.
\- Performance improvement for Thumbnail Generation
\- ePUB reader UI Improvements
\- Consistant download progress for Audio Books

I also made a feature tour video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJH8n7iZx5k


Please give it a try and report any issue here -
https://github.com/caesiumstudio/csBooks-updates/issues

https://redd.it/kw141g
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lartc gone?

I've been referencing the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO for going on twenty years. Is it gone now? I can't resolve an A record for lartc.org, and archive.org doesn't show a hit since 2020-12-15: https://web.archive.org/web/20201206043311/https://lartc.org/

https://redd.it/kw2myh
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LibreTech: A free software school

Hi,

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I am a new/temporary user of reddit. I do not use social media but created this account in order to see if people would be interested in my project. I am currently transforming my website with notes to self about programming to a online school centered around free software/hardware and helping people answer questions such as: how to live a good digital life and how to use technology for oneself and for the good of humanity.

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You can know more about it at https://libretech.eu/news-libretech-2021/

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This post retrace the state of the project in 2020, what I want to achieve this year.

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Nota Bene: In depth content will require a membership, but introductory and most essential content will be accessible to anybody.

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Thank you.

https://redd.it/ku7oug
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Taking forever to allocate disc space

So I'm a linux noob, trying to make a dual boot system on my pc. I got all the way through install alongside windows boot manager to the drive space divider. And it's taking a while... like its been nearly an hour. Is there something wrong?

Edit: wow it took a while but its worked 😂 never panicked this much before with windows 🤣🤣🤣

https://redd.it/kw78do
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DMG for Linux

Why Linux doesn't have a simple way to install a software like in macos without dependencies problem and so simple?

Yeah, i know, appimage, flathub, snap, but it's not that simple, where is the difference?

https://redd.it/kw6yg4
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Installation from ks - unable to find repodata

Hi all, I'm new to being the solo sysadmin at my company, and a lot of doco is poor and handover didn't happen.

Right now I'm trying to install Oracle Linux 6.10 (yes, we are THAT far behind) on an ESXi 6.7 instance with a kickstarter noscript.

The kickstarter all makes sense to me, until we hit:

repo --name="UEK4 kernel repo" --baseurl=file://anaconda-addon

Anyway, I get this error when it goes looking for the repo:

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https://preview.redd.it/bf14gua421b61.png?width=624&format=png&auto=webp&s=da293da7fe81a862072bea8bdc4735d3b1bdd56a

It's already created my filesystem, I can ping the IP I gave the installation interface, but cannot SSH yet. I've checked all the previous kickstarter .cfg files and they have been referencing this repo for several years.

It's possible the rpm that sets up the repo hasn't been installed yet. I'll give that a go while I'm waiting for tech support :)

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\-- Nug

https://redd.it/kw99s0
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2020 FOSS Contributor Survey, by the Linux Foundation and LISH
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020FOSSContributorSurveyReport_121020.pdf

https://redd.it/kw98dn
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Translators, please do not translate everything
https://www.schauenburg.nl/posts/2021/01/11_translators_-_please_do_not_translate_everything.html

https://redd.it/kvo87s
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HUMBLE BOOK BUNDLE: LINUX BY APRESS (pay what you want and help charity)
https://twitter.com/AnajonesLee/status/1349245400822136832?s=20

https://redd.it/kwc532
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How to find out who is maintaining manpages

Hello,

at the bottom of man slappasswd (https://linux.die.net/man/8/slappasswd) there is a link to the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)


The link leads to a 404, however there are guides on OpenLDAP.org.

Who do you think would be the right party to contact in this case?


Kind regards,

Ori

https://redd.it/kwe202
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XRDP Settings

While searching for ways to increase responsiveness of xrdp, I noticed a lot of recommendations for setting max_bpp=128 in xrdp.ini.

Why would setting the max bits per pixel to 128 make a difference? Does it make memory reads and writes noticeably faster? It seems like sending more data would increase overhead. Additionally, man pages for xorg.conf state that hardware is only going to use 24 bits.

https://redd.it/kwemn8
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Debian discusses vendoring again
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/842319/8adb13e08d0302bd/

https://redd.it/kwef3r
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