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  • Mull was fixed in the DivestOS repository as early as October 17th, but to do this you need to add to F-Droid and reinstall Mull.

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    Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around
  • The Ministry of Digital Development plans to create its own Linux community, which will unite developers from friendly countries who will be ready to work with Russia. This decision is a reaction to the exclusion of Russian developers from the global IT community.

    Among the countries that could potentially become members of the new community is China, which has made more progress than others in developing operating systems.

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    Best Alternatives to GitHub?
  • I will be original. Radicle: A decentralized alternative to GitHub built on Gossip

    The builds are prepared for Linux and macOS. Additionally, the desktop client, web interface and console interface are being developed.

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611#issuecomment-2436287977

    We have made some adjustments to how the SDK code is organized and packaged to allow you to build and run the app with only GPL/OSI licenses included. The sdk-internal package references in the clients now come from a new sdk-internal repository, which follows the licensing model we have historically used for all of our clients (see LICENSE_FAQ.md for more info). The sdk-internal reference only uses GPL licenses at this time. If the reference were to include Bitwarden License code in the future, we will provide a way to produce multiple build variants of the client, similar to what we do with web vault client builds.

    https://github.com/bitwarden/sdk-internal/commit/db648d7ea85878e9cce03283694d01d878481f6b

    Thank you to Bitwarden for relicensing a thing to GPLv3 License!

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    Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • by this logic it turns out that the code quality control system is built in such a way that if someone has malicious intent and wants to add malicious code, but is not affiliated with dubious structures, then he will easily succeed? Hey, what about enough eyeballs and shallow bugs?

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    Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted - Phoronix
  • Linus set a very bad precedent without causing any real damage. Clearly he was "asked" to do it, but then he did it himself.

    One day, Linus might become a traitor - a traitor to the people who followed him. And a traitor to the cause he served all these years. You were the chosen one! You were supposed to fight evil, not join it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

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    Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • Linus Torvalds Confirms Decision to Remove Maintainers from Russia

    You couldn't come up with a more powerful spit in the direction of FOSS. And from Linus, who is now kind of showing f*ck to the entire community. Here you have freedom, openness and all that. Today they just wiped their ass with it, and by one of the founders.

    This is the moment when the split politics, dirty ones from all sides, have penetrated into the very heart of OpenSource - into the Linux kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

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    Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • NVIDIA banned Russia. What a stupid trick. Why block? As if anyone would be left without a driver.

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    Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
  • it's a pity that politics is penetrating more and more into open source and FOSS.

    recently support for Russian cloud providers was cut out of opentofu. https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824

    now this. this is, of course, natural the core and many components of modern distributions have not been free in terms of decision-making for a long time and are under the influence of large companies, which in turn are under the influence of the USA.

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • for passwords no way, as you noted it is for calendars and contacts

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • as another option this KeePassXC(PC)+radicale+DAVx5 The same for KeepassDX

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • besides everything else, the end of support for syncthing-android, yes, that's a real blow to the gut.

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • Integration with Android

    The GnuPG implementation for Android is called OpenKeychain. To configure it, just go to the "key management" menu and import the previously created secret key. The only drawback of OpenKeychain for me personally is that there is no fingerprint unlocking.

    The pass implementation for Android is called android-password-store, or simply APS.

    Install and launch APS. Before synchronizing the password store, go to the "Settings" menu. There we will need the following items:

    1. Git server settings. The resulting URL should be the same as that specified on the repository page on github. Authorization type - OpenKeychain.

    2. Git utils. In this section, specify the username and email from the gpg key.

    3. OpenPGP provider. Select OpenKeychain.

    4. Autofill.

    Now you can clone. Select "clone from server" on the main screen, specify the desired location of the repository, check the git settings.

    Of course, pass is not that easy to set up. However, this price buys confidence that the tools we use will not one day be declared obsolete, will not change their data format, and will not be left without support.

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • A small script for entering passwords into various windows via rofi, I take passwords from pass.

    Example script:

    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file rofi_pass.sh
    passwords=$(find /home/fireshell/.password-store/ -type f -name *.gpg)
    selected_pass=$(echo -e "$passwords" | awk -F "/" '{printf "%s > %s\n", $5, $6}' | rofi -dmenu -p Pass)
    item=$(echo "$selected_pass" | awk '{printf "%s/%s", $1, $3}' | sed 's/\.gpg//g')
    data=$(pass show $item)
    pass=$(echo -e "$data" | head -n1)
    login=$(echo -e "$data" | grep -e "^login: " | sed 's/^login: //g')
    xdotool type "$login"
    xdotool key Tab
    xdotool type "$pass"
    

    In awesome wm I bound a key that calls it like this:

    awful.key({ modkey}, "p", function () awful.spawn.with_shell("/home/fireshell/Scripts/rofi_pass.sh") end    ,
    {description = "rofi pass", group = "launcher"}),  
    

    I turn on the computer, press the key combination and the script works, or I run this script from the terminal (~/Scripts/rofi_pass.sh), select the password - it works (if necessary, pinentry is called to enter the main password), after that I press the key combination, select the desired entry

    passmenu: extremely useful and wonderful dmenu script.

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    Bitwarden Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software
  • pass is enough (+ xdotool + rofi + pass-menu). Synchronization via git or Syncthing.

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    What is your linux backup strategy?
  • Example of a Bash script that performs the following tasks

    1. Checks the availability of an important web server.
    2. Checks disk space usage.
    3. Makes a backup of the specified directories.
    4. Sends a report to the administrator's email.

    Example script:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    # Settings
    WEB_SERVER="https://example.com"
    BACKUP_DIR="/backup"
    TARGET_DIRS="/var/www /etc"
    DISK_USAGE_THRESHOLD=90
    ADMIN_EMAIL="admin@example.com"
    DATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
    BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIR/backup-$DATE.tar.gz"
    
    # Checking web server availability
    echo "Checking web server availability..."
    if curl -s --head $WEB_SERVER | grep "200 OK" > /dev/null; then
    echo "Web server is available."
    else
    echo "Warning: Web server is unavailable!" | mail -s "Problem with web server" $ADMIN_EMAIL
    fi
    
    # Checking disk space
    echo "Checking disk space..."
    DISK_USAGE=$(df / | grep / | awk '{ print $5 }' | sed 's/%//g')
    if [ $DISK_USAGE -gt $DISK_USAGE_THRESHOLD ]; then
    echo "Warning: Disk space usage exceeded $DISK_USAGE_THRESHOLD%!" | mail -s "Problem with disk space" $ADMIN_EMAIL
    else
    echo "There is enough disk space."
    fi
    
    # Creating backup
    echo "Creating backup..."
    tar -czf $BACKUP_FILE $TARGET_DIRS
    
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Backup created successfully: $BACKUP_FILE"
    else
    echo "Error creating backup!" | mail -s "Error creating backup" $ADMIN_EMAIL
    fi
    
    # Sending report
    echo "Sending report to $ADMIN_EMAIL..."
    REPORT="Report for $DATE\n\n"
    REPORT+="Web server status: $(curl -s --head $WEB_SERVER | head -n 1)\n"
    REPORT+="Disk space usage: $DISK_USAGE%\n"
    REPORT+="Backup location: $BACKUP_FILE\n"
    
    echo -e $REPORT | mail -s "Daily system report" $ADMIN_EMAIL
    
    echo "Done."
    

    Description:

    1. Check web server: Uses curl command to check if the site is available.
    2. Check disk space: Use df and awk to check disk usage. If the threshold (90%) is exceeded, a notification is sent.
    3. Create a backup: The tar command archives and compresses the directories specified in the TARGET_DIRS variable.
    4. Send a report: A report on all operations is sent to the administrator's email using mail.

    How to use:

    1. Set the desired parameters, such as the web server address, directories for backup, disk usage threshold and email.
    2. Make the script executable:
    chmod +x /path/to/your/script.sh
    
    1. Add the script to cron to run on a regular basis:
    crontab -e
    

    Example to run every day at 00:00:

    0 0 * * * /path/to/your/script.sh
    
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    What is your linux backup strategy?
  • I do it externally with this script

    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file backup-documents.sh
    cd ${HOME}/documents
    tar -cJpf /run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/documents-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').tar.xz .
    sync
    
    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file restore-documents.sh
    backup_dir="/run/media/fireshell/EAGET/mybackups/"
    mkdir -p ~/documents
    last_documents="$(ls -1t ${backup_dir}/documents-*.tar.xz | head -n1)"
    cd ~/documents && \
      tar -xpf ${last_documents}
    
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    What is your linux backup strategy?
  • Creates a compressed backup of all files in your documents directory and stores the backup in the mybackups directory:

    #!/bin/bash
    # Sample file backup-documents.sh
    # Save the contents of this directory
    documentdir=~/documents
    # Backup location
    backupdir=~/mybackups
    # Create backup directory
    mkdir -p $backupdir
    # returns e.g., date=03 for 2024-10-16
    day=$(date '+%d')
    # Create backup, save as documents-<day>.tar.gz
    echo "Backup file: $backupdir/documents-$day.tar.gz"
    tar czf $backupdir/documents-$day.tar.gz -C $documentdir .
    
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    Best RSS Reader for Linux? Bonus if it has PDF/epub export
  • Miniflux has integrations for sending content to read-later tools like Wallabag and then reading it in KOReader.

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    Best RSS Reader for Linux? Bonus if it has PDF/epub export
  • among other things, there is a plugin for Gemini client for KOReader, there is also something interesting to read there. or antenna-to-epub

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  • announce the release of Magit version 4.0.

    One of the best things to happen to EMACS!

    More information can be found on in the release notes.

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