(Budgie) How do I pin Epiphany to my dock?

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Can artificial intelligence boost your productivity and become your personal assistant?

Hi everybody

We are a startup working on using artificial intelligence to create a digital organizing assistant that completely takes over all the organizing, planning, scheduling, prioritizing and managing of your to-do list and calendar for you. It will then remind you of the right things at the right times so that you don't have to worry about anything anymore. To get better insights into what people exactly need to be more productive and achieve their goals, we are offering the following service:

You get your own personal productivity assistant whom you can tell all your to-dos and anything that is going on in your life. They will then actively organize your life for you, schedule your to-dos, remind you of the right things at the right time, check up on you and motivate you to get your things done and be productive. No procrastination anymore :D

Let me know if this sounds interesting for you!

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Not able to connect to wifi network

Hey guy, I am currently not able to connect to my wifi network. I have been connected before.

The password IS correct. It doesn't even tell me otherwise. It just pulls the key window again and again with password still in place. I've tried changing mac. Still nothing. Any help would be great!

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File Manager navigation like for terminal

Oh blessed Linux users from the r/linux reddit community...
I'm comming here looking for your wisdom in order to find answers about where the hell is the name of the app/program/package/command that makes the terminal navigate folders like a File manager and even preview file content, just like the image down here.

Thanks for your attention and peace ✌

https://preview.redd.it/jhm1yxi2gkk61.png?width=278&format=png&auto=webp&s=1345e6ca74c156b94e36a3f6a352a8a4c5a78fa1

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Personal certificate management on Linux

Recently I've been wondering about personal certificate management solutions on Linux (certificates that are usually given out by government to access government sites, sign documents, etc...). I have googled around and couldn't really find a good solution for this.

Basically what I want to achieve is the same thing that Windows has. In Windows you import your personal certificate into the OS certificate store and set a password for it. Then every time an application wants to use said certificate (for example web browser when accessing secure pages or Adobe Acrobat when signing PDFs) you need to enter a password in order to decrypt it.

In Linux the only options I found so far are:

1. Importing the certificate into Firefox cert store, which is used by Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice and some others. However the problem with this solution is that the certificate then sits unencrypted on your hard disk and anyone with access to your machine can easily copy it. The Firefox certificate store can be encrypted using a Primary Password (used to be called Master Password), however this password is not only used to encrypt certificates but also a bunch of other stuff which means you have to enter it every time you open Firefox. This makes for a lot of unnecessary password typing as I open my browser lots of times but only need to use the certificates rarely - I would prefer to enter the password only when I actually need it.

2. Gnome Seahorse - This seemed like the perfect solutions as it encrypts your passwords/certificates using your login password and then hands out access to them to requesting applications. This solution works really well for SSH private keys, however when I tried to import my personal certificate (.p12 file) in it the import button stayed disabled. This seems to be a pretty old bug, that doesn't look like it'll be fixed any time soon (or at all).


What other solutions are out there? What I want to achieve is to simply store my certificate securely (protected with a password) and then enter this password every time an application wants to use said certificate. To me this seems the only sensible way to manage personal certificates, or am I missing something?

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Disabling IPv6 for OpenVPN tunnels can speed up the VPN

Hi all, just discovered this as I went from near native speeds of 90Mbps to 1.5Mbps after a day or two. After investigation it turns out that many VPN providers don't enable IPv6 in their OpenVPN config. And there are many links on how to turn it off. I just thought I'd share this, as this did not seem to be common knowledge, to me at least.

Essentially all you have to do is turn off IPv6 for the current VPN tunnel interface.

Network Manager gives me tun0 as the tunnel interface. You can find yours with

$ ip address

To disable IPv6, run

$ sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6=1

And append net.ipv6.conf.tun0.disable_ipv6=1 to the end of your /etc/sysctl.conf file to keep the kernel configuration on reboot.

Hope this helps someone!

I wrote a full blog about it here
https://jamochl.com/speed-up-openvpn-by-disabling-ipv6/

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Blackbird Secure Desktop – a fully open source modern POWER9 workstation without any proprietary code
https://www.osnews.com/story/133093/review-blackbird-secure-desktop-a-fully-open-source-modern-power9-workstation-without-any-proprietary-code/

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abc : A command-line tool for frictionless C programming

While coding my school projects, I got tired of my slow workflow in C. So I decided to write a "small" bash noscript to automate this workflow, and it ended up accidentaly being a 300 line "project manager"... The front-end is mainly inspired of the `cargo` tool in Rust, so if you have already used it you'll be at home :).

## What it looks like

Right now you can :

* Create a new project with `abc new <project_name>`
* Initialize a project within a directory with `abc init`
* Compile your code with `abc build` or `abc b`
* Compile and execute your code with `abc run` or `abc r`
* Run unit tests with `abc test` or `abc t`

Also you shouldn't need to fiddle too much with the Makefile !

## The main feature: Tests!

After polishing the noscript for the last few days, I decided today to add test support (and I'm quite proud of it!). Right now if you want to write a test in a file all you need to do is to wrap an integer function like so :

#ifdef TEST
int test_two_plus_two() {
int x = 2 + 2;
return (x == 4);
}
#endif

and `abc test` will do the rest!

You can check out the noscript [here](https://github.com/martin-fl/abc). My main goal was to have a lightweight utility that I didn't have to impose on my programming partners, and except for the tests, my goal is achieved :)

The noscript is mainly POSIX-compliant except for a dependency on `ripgrep` for faster parsing of tests. Oh and it is only *fairly* tested so if you find any bugs let me now !

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Elegant bash conditionals
https://timvisee.com/blog/elegant-bash-conditionals/#nice-to-know

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Which Linux CLI/graphical tools you wish, you would have started using earlier?

I have learnt so many cool commands and tools just by visiting forums particularly memes one (it's true)

1.bat (enhanced cat command which highlights syntax and give easily readability using less: yeah less is more)

2.tldr (name defines it, don't want to sniff through whole man pages to get some necessary commands, tldr{some distros ship it as tealdeer} is your friend)

3.scrcpy (android wireless debugging tool, really useful if you don't wanna fudge around with cables)

Edit:typo

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Electron 12 has just been released with Wayland support

There's nothing specific about Wayland in the release notes but it can be tested by installing the latest Electron version and running:

electron --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

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Fish shell 3.2.0 released.
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.2.0

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Steam Link now available on Linux
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/10/3106892760562833187/

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Explaining the MIT license
https://gustavopinto.medium.com/explaining-the-mit-license-ddc8bc44a14a

https://redd.it/lw9it5
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KDE Plasma 5.21.2, Bugfix Release for March
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.2/

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Hello world from the project to properly establish regression tracking in the Linux kernel development process
https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/post/hello-world/

https://redd.it/lwapw1
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Does anyone have a Juno computer?

I am looking to upgrade and was about to buy Apple because I already have Linux but Linux is simply too good to ignore and is harder to decrypt by authorities than Apple or Windows (If encrypted during installation). I am about to buy from Juno Computers and would like to ask:

1. Does anyone genuinely own a laptop from them?
2. Are you happy with your laptop?

I am aware of Starlabs but reviews and reddit users are not happy with their laptops and the rest of the companies are not in Europe (Tuxedo and Laptopforlinux not included).

Cheers for your assistance.

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And Now For Something Completely Different : I'm exploring (and getting excited by) Elementary development
https://bluesabre.org/2021/02/28/and-now-for-something-completely-different/

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Why is GNU HURD not (A)GPLv3

I was just reading the wikipedia page about the GNU Hurd kernel.

But i noticed something. It said its GPLv2+, why ? Why did they not relicense the GNU Hurd to GPLv3 or AGPLv3 since its GPLv2 or later ? Will it ever be ?

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Looking for a old-folk friendly distro to sustitute windows

Hello everyone! Im looking for a linux distro to replace an old windows system for a couple of old folk's laptop in order to make it more efficient, less bloated etc...

i want something windows like and friendly enough for the to use so I was thinking something like Ubuntu or Elementary OS.

What do you guys think?

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Is MacOS = premium Linux?

I bought Mac and I saw interface is so similar to Linux. It is 180° different than Windows. I bought Mac not even looking how it OS looks (just wanted to get rid of Windows). We had in school Linux so it was so similar.

So is the MacOS a premium Linux? #everythingbetterthanwindows

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