Turn any file storage into a Full Private Cloud - looking for Linux users to try out our app!

Hi everyone!

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With my co-founder we've developed an app that gives you your full private cloud/private Dropbox, with no complicated installation, and no server required. Just one app and one storage and that's it. It converts any file storage into a full private cloud/private dropbox. And we're currently looking for Linux beta users!

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It's a new kind of app that simplifies the concept of a private cloud. Basically, the entirety of your private cloud is contained inside a single folder called a repository folder. This folder can be stored anywhere: USB hard drive, NAS, cloud file storage, Raspberry Pi, etc... In order to use your private cloud, Duple needs to be able to access your repository folder. On your devices (where Duple is installed), you get a second folder called Duple (inside your "My Documents" folder). This folder contains the readable data, it's where you work with your private cloud: add, modify and remove your files there.

Your data is always at least in two places at the same time: inside the Duple folder (present on every desktop device where Duple is installed) and in the repository folder.

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It is so far available on Linux, and we're looking for Linux fans who would be interested in beta testing!

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Here's the website: [www.duple.io](https://www.duple.io)

The beta page to download and use the app: [https://beta.duple.io/en/](https://beta.duple.io/en/)

And the documentation (explaining what is Duple, how it works, how to use it): [https://doc.duple.io](https://doc.duple.io)

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If you have any questions about Duple, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

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Fuchsia on the horizon

I love me some Linux, but I am eying the Fuchsia project suspiciously. It's design seems to align it well for server usage just as much as mobile or desktop (not to mention IoT). Unfortunately it is not a copyleft license...


However, I am wondering how the potential introduction of a micro kernel in the mainstream can change the community of Linux. Hurd has been around for a while, but there isn't much adoption.


Anyway, I'd love a discussion around this. If you're unfamiliar with Fuchsia, check out [https://fuchsia.dev/](https://fuchsia.dev/)

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Does anybody else remember the old gnome shell?

apparently these are the principles of the design. and still are used today..

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[https://people.gnome.org/\~mccann/shell/design/GNOME\_Shell-20091114.pdf](https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf)

https://redd.it/cavorg
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Creating a SSH/Telnet utility?

Hi, I would like to ask if possible to create a SSH utility. In where user can input just a hostname then translate to IP address using our internal tool then remote to the device?

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Example:

rtr01 is equivalent to [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1) recorded on our internal tool.

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Target noscript: (to create a utility for example gossh)

user will just input **'gossh rtr01'** and noscript will get the managed ip(our internal tool) and proceed in remoting and use the local user acct. in linux.

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then the noscript will do this,

1. get the mgmt ip of rtr01 using this command get rtr01 | grep IP
2. then proceed in connecting 'ssh <localuser>@<x.x.x.x>'

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Is this possible? should I do it on bash or in allias?

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Thanks

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Currently Using LibreOffice. Is there a reason I shouldn’t switch to OnlyOffice?
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cat5c7/currently_using_libreoffice_is_there_a_reason_i/

https://redd.it/cavomy
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Printing a Star Wars Scene in Terminal with Bash [towel.blinkenlights.nl]
http://nicholasfarrow.com/Printing-a-Star-Wars-Scene-in-Terminal-with-Bash/

https://redd.it/cakc9q
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Help with Digital Art and Distro.

Hey, I am ordered a Ryzen 3600 and MSI B450 A Pro. I am planning to run Linux on it mostly the Ubuntu 18.04. I am kinda new (I have used Linux well before been years since I last used it need to get on again).

I am new to Digital Art, I am planning to buy a Wacom One Clt 672/K0-CX or Huion H950p.

I am planning to start with Krita. Which Graphic Tablet should I buy.

Please suggest a new distro too if you have a suggestion.

Thankyou.

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FSF and the Linux community should put more effort in defending the freedom of internet

I know as a normal user I don't have too much right to complain, but I still have to say some of my personal opinions. It is 2019 right now, and it is not the good old days of 386 machines. Internet is empowering government and big organizations to censor people and invade people's privacy. The enemy of free internet is becoming stronger year by year, but the freedom world rarely complete something very powerful. Mobile phones start to replace PCs for normal users. Linux is losing on the mobile devices(don't tell me that Android uses a linux kernel).

Until 2019, we still do not have a handy and powerful phone(Don't tell me Nokia n900, maybe purism is a good phone, but it's performance it is also very poor compare to smart phones in 2019). Big firms like Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei put tons of proprietary blobs and spyware in their phones and lock down the hardware to prevent any DIY. It is impossible for a normal person to not to use a phone in the modern world, and we have to be punished by all the closed source software and spyware on the phone. Also all the products that claims to protect people's freedom comes with a much higher price than normal products. If we want to many people to use these free devices we need a really cheap price. Most people even do not care about privacy, how can you expect them to buy something cost more than $600?

I think the Linux community maybe need to have some more radical and brave projects. Here is some of my ideas:

1.A privacy respectful phone, it needs to be highly modularized, high extendable, very friendly for DIY, supports large RAM and REALLY POWERFUL processors even some low power consumption i3 processors. It is better if supports security focus system like Qubes OS(even an old T400 can run Qubes OS, why not) It can be very bulky, ugly and heavy, but I think this is acceptable.

2.GNU Hurd? Any idea for future development? Is GNU Hurd prepared to become the kernel of the federation starships? Google fushica will soon become mature, and it will become the kernel of mobile devices in the future.

3.Some radical and organized maybe potentially illegal reverse engineering project to discover the backdoors in the proprietary software, and post them on the media

This is just some of my personal ideas about the future, if it bothers you I am very sorry about that, but I think we really need some new projects to liberate us from the tyranny of phones filled with closed source spywares and locked down disposable junk hardware.

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We all have favourite editors here at work. So when I started to print out a Vim cheat sheet, others decided to join in.
https://redd.it/caytx6
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Firefox now recommends extensions: These are not paid ads
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

https://redd.it/cazlh0
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How important is TPM?

I've ordered a laptop that doesn't seem to be equipped with TPM. How important is TPM for securing Linux?

https://redd.it/cazwqp
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[Official]: IBM Closes Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat for $34 Billion; Defines Open, Hybrid Cloud Future
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future

https://redd.it/cb0ftd
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Bash AI ;-)

I have been working on [Bash function 'FuzzyMatch\(\)'](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ca70ay/bash_function_fuzzymatch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x), and I am quite chuffed with the results :-)

This humble bash noscript:

cat guess
#!/bin/bash

# Import functions.
source <(PrintLibraryFunctions FuzzyMatch) || exit $?

Out=""
for W in $@
do
Guess=$(
while read DW
do
echo "$(FuzzyMatch "$DW" "$W") :${DW}"
done </usr/share/dict/words | sort --reverse --general-numeric-sort | head -n 1
)
Out="$Out ${Guess##*:}"
done
echo "$Out"

believe it or not, can turn gibberish into Queen's English. This is its first run:

time ./guess "the fst cnnng fx radd the chkn cg nd fckd th fttest hn"
the fist cunning Fox raided the chicken cog Nd fucked Th fittest Hun

real 25m0.909s
user 20m39.697s
sys 6m38.660s

To run it in your system: copy noscript above, replace lines:

# Import functions.
source <(PrintLibraryFunctions FuzzyMatch) || exit $?

by [function 'FuzzyMatch\(\)'](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ca70ay/bash_function_fuzzymatch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x) code and run:

./guess "string with words"

("string with words" should not contain punctuation marks).

Be ready to wait for a long time (~2 minutes per word). If you get any funny 'guesses', please, post them here.

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Syncthing 1.2.0 released(adds QUIC protocol with NAT traversal support)
https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases/v1.2.0

https://redd.it/cb2b7t
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What's the best way to optimize a touchpad in 2019? Is it still xinput?

It seems like every few years I find myself installing Ubuntu on a laptop and having to re-learn how to use xinput to get the trackpad usable. There's always something that can't be fixed using the system dialogue - two-finger scroll is too sensitive, palm detection isn't where it should be, general feel etc.

I just finished going through this process again, and on the whole I feel like I have a grip on how it works. I've identified my device, the properties I need to modify, and I have all my commands stored in an .sessionrc file that correctly executes after starting up. I even found a [useful little Python app](https://github.com/IvanFon/xinput-gui/releases/tag/0.1.1) to let me edit everything in a GUI before writing it out to my startup noscript.

The thing is, this trackpad still doesn't feel right and I don't really have the desire or motivation to mess with it this time around. Every time I do this, I end up with 15 tabs open and only a vague idea of what the parameters I'm changing actually are or do. [This](ftp://www.x.org/pub/X11R7.5/doc/man/man4/synaptics.4.html) is the only comprehensive list of these properties that I can find, and even it isn't very denoscriptive. Also, there's something particularly infuriating about not being able to scroll or type correctly while trying to fix all of this. It doesn't feel rewarding at all, I just make things less and less bad until I can tolerate it and move on to what I actually want to work on.

The lack of community resources around xinput touchpad configurations is a little surprising to me, as well. I'm using an older Lenovo ThinkPad Edge, and I know this touchpad is used in a lot of ThinkPad models. You would think there would be a repository of known xinput values for common touchpads, or a wiki that outlines how to correctly adjust these property values since they all impact one another. It seems like once I get one property dialed in I need to adjust another property that I've already adjusted because it's behaving differently.

I'm all for figuring things out myself, and I'm fine with terminal commands and startup noscripts, but I have no desire or interest to get into the weeds of touchpad optimization. I just want a template to follow to make two-finger scrolling usable and palm-detection work so I can actually type on this thing. I want to spend my time doing other things. Am I missing something? Is everyone using some other tool or method that I've somehow overlooked? **I'm trying to make the touchpad on a ThinkPad E520 usable.** Is xinput even the right solution? I always feel out of the loop when I'm adjusting touchpad settings in Linux.

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Firefox 68.0 Released
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/

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Mini ITX Raspberry Pi server
http://linuxgizmos.com/cluster-platform-supports-seven-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/?utm_source=reddit

https://redd.it/cb2oal
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Want to switch to linux but which one ubuntu or zorin from windows

Windows is too slow even though I have an i5 and 16gb of ram just too much bloat ware.

Is there any advantages to using ubuntu over zorin?

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GL Redhat, really hope IBM embraces you like this. Long live open source
https://youtu.be/bABIzGvNPw4

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SUDO - order bash to do things by shouting.
https://github.com/jthistle/SUDO

https://redd.it/cb2din
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If Ubuntu is a beginner friendly distro, why does it use vim-tiny despite all the confusion is causes even to regular vim users?

I spend my work day in RHEL/CentOS world. Exiting vim jokes are always funny to me because despite being a vim user(only the basics; search, copy, paste, exit), I'm reminded of my first experience using vim every time I try to use it on Ubuntu. Even a simple task like commenting one line out, I always end up in a maze of confusion, adding characters everywhere and have to `:q!` while hoping nano is installed.

A Google search "vi ubuntu sucks" will produce results going back to 2000's. I'm not buying the smaller size argument as it's less than 30M on CentOS. And just because vi is not for beginners doesn't meant they should make it harder that it already is. Why does Ubuntu still include it as opposed to the full version?

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