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  • Bash not sourcing .profile automatically in Debian 11

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  • Do you have anything else your ~/.bashrc that is perhaps overwriting the PATH?

    One thing you can do is just add echos to your .profile to see if it is getting sourced and what the state of PATH is as it gets loaded. That might help you trace what is happening.

  • New responsibilities - Bastien Nocera

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  • This is really disappointing and seems to underscore the feeling that RedHat/IBM is abandoning (or pulling back from) the Linux desktop.

    I think the frustrating thing is that we are in a position where we are so dependent on one company to fund and bankroll so much of the ecosystem (particularly when it comes to the desktop). FOSS really needs to figure out a sustainable way of funding and support developers who work on infrastructure and background systems (ie. beyond apps or games which have high visibility).

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  • Familiarity (my client distro is Pop and is based on Ubuntu), and I like the LTS life cycle (predictable).

    I do uninstall snaps, though, and mostly just use Docker for things. I could use Debian, but again, for me it was about familiarity and support (a lot more Ubuntu specific documentation).

  • Makefile: If target name contains colon (:)

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  • I just tried it with GNU make 4.3 and it worked.

  • Makefile: If target name contains colon (:)

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  • You can escape the :

     
        
URLS  = https\://foo.example.com
URLS += https\://bar.example.com
URLS += https\://www.example.org

  • Need help with SearXNG in docker - cp: can't create '/etc/searxng/uwsgi.ini': Permission denied

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  • Do you have a searxng folder in the same folder as your docker-compose.yml? If so, perhaps it is not mounting inside the container properly.

  • Rhino Linux 2023.1, how we made the distro

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  • Linux 6.5 Patches Merged For Intel GDS/DOWNFALL, AMD INCEPTION

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  • Here is the Downfall writeup, which includes videos of extracting information in various situations.

    [A] GDS is highly practical. It tooks me 2 weeks to develop an end-to-end attack stealing encryption keys from OpenSSL. It only requires the attacker and victim to share the same physical processor core, which frequently happens on modern-day computers, implementing preemptive multitasking and simultaneous multithreading.

    [A] In addition to normal isolation boundaries e.g., virtual machines, processes, user-kernel isolation, Intel SGX is also affected. Intel SGX is a hardware security feature available on Intel CPUs to protect user’s data against all form of malicious software.

  • Intel DOWNFALL: New Vulnerability Affecting AVX2/AVX-512 With Big Performance Implications

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  • I think this is missing an article link: https://www.phoronix.com/review/downfall

    Downfall, or as Intel prefers to call it is GDS: Gather Data Sampling. GDS/Downfall affects the gather instruction with AVX2 and AVX-512 enabled processors. At least the latest-generation Intel CPUs are not affected but Tigerlake / Ice Lake back to Sandy Bridge is confirmed to be impacted. There is microcode mitigation available but it will be costly for AVX2/AVX-512 workloads with GATHER instructions in hot code-paths and thus widespread software exposure particularly for HPC and other compute-intensive workloads that have relied on AVX2/AVX-512 for better performance.

    Rough day for CPU makers...

    Update: Of course there is a dedicated page for it: https://downfall.page/

  • Q: Gnu Make 4.4 on Ubuntu LTS (22.04 and 20.04)

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  • Is there a reason for using Travis instead of GitHub's built-in CI system?

    With the GitHub CI system, you can specify your own container image which could have GNU Make 4.4 already pre-installed (you build it once and then re-use it).

  • Log filesystem changes? Track what a java app modifies on the fs?

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  • You can use strace to track all open system calls, which should give you an idea of what files are being opened.

    To do this, you just need to put strace before the command you normally run. It would be something like this: 

     
        
strace java ...

  • help: var folder on ubuntu won't stop filling up

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  • If you suspect that the issue is journald, you can use the following command to check how much space it is using:

     
        
journalctl --disk-usage

    Rather than periodically running journalctl --vacuum-size=500 to free up space, you can just limit the journal by adding the following to a new file such as /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/size.conf:

     
        
[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=512M

    This will limit the journal from using more than 512MB. That said, if journald is filling up fast, then something is spamming your logs and you could run journalctl -a -f to get a sense of what is being written to your logs.

  • Favorite Terminal Emulator

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  • Boring answer, but I just use gnome-terminal with a nord theme. I also remove the menu and scroll bars, and add some internal padding.

    The only other thing I do, is I use tdrop so I can have a "scratchpad" or dropdown terminal that I can toggle with gnome-terminal.

  • GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

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  • I don't use Wayland at all, though I am aware of Sway.

    I switched to Pop and GNOME because... for lack of better phrasing, I wanted a more normal experience that I could recommend others. I used Void and i3 for about 6 years (Arch + i3 for years before that) and just wanted something I could recommend to new users and support them as well (hard to support something I don't use myself). Pop and GNOME with the tiling features is a happy medium for me. Far from perfect, but good enough.

  • (solved) I am not a noob, but this is confusing: dpkg/apt issue

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  • Seems like dpkg failed in configuring things in a previous update? Perhaps it was interrupted. You can try to run the configuration process again with:

     
        
sudo dpkg --configure -a

    See if that helps.

  • GNOME Devs are rethinking the "Activities" button

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  • It's not a terrible idea... I actually use the mentioned Space Bar and really like it (makes me miss i3 less :)).

  • Lemmy desktop clients

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  • I'm a fan (and contributor) to Photon. This is my main lemmy client on desktop and on mobile (I usually use the compact view, which I implemented).

  • Looking for a better SMS system.

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  • No, but basically jmp.chat takes over your phone number... it acts as your carrier for voice and SMS (similar to Google Voice). Maybe not exactly what you want.

    From the FAQ:

    You can use JMP to communicate with your contacts without them changing anything on their end, just like with any other telephone provider. JMP works wherever you have an Internet connection. JMP can be used alongside, or instead of, a traditional wireless carrier subscription.

    The benefit of this is that you can receive voice and text on anything that can serve as a XMPP client.

  • Looking for a better SMS system.

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  • You could consider using something like jmp.chat. It delivers SMS via XMPP (aka jabber), so you could self-host a XMPP server and receive SMS that way. It also has some support for MMS (group chat, media), but my experience with it was mixed (I used it for about 3-4 years).