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lemmyreader,

Well, yes, I prefer desktop. But you know, in some countries some people have nothing else than phones. I am glad that Mullvad has posted this and hopefully Google can fix the bugs soon.

lemmyreader,

Upvoted.

lemmyreader,

Good to see OP used sudo su; passwd (Yes, I know it is frowned upon by a lot of documentation, but I don’t care). I probably would find sudo passwd $USER something that would need some careful typing in all the passwords to avoid confusion.

lemmyreader,

The Ubuntu laptop had to connect to company vpn. It were using openconnect-network-manager-gnome thingy to do that. Recently the company upgraded their vpn software which is sorta incompatible with openconnect and requires a modified user agent string for it to prompt for 2FA keys. package in ubuntu 22.04 is too old to modify that in the gui.

If you have a good idea what I could have tried let me know, love to hear new ideas.

Hmm, tough one. Suggesting to post your question as a new post in relevant Lemmy /c/ or StackExchange and so on. Here as a not so new comment of a comment it will get little exposure I guess.

lemmyreader,

Cool! :)

lemmyreader,

When I saw this posted I thought : “Oh no, not yet another post about Microsoft releasing DOS source code” but the article is written by none other than the founder of FreeDOS. Nice, and an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

lemmyreader,

You can find more modern alternatives to classic Linux command line tools in this blog post

Thanks for sharing that blog post. btw, exa has been superseeded by eza. eza.rocks

lemmyreader,

Personally, I prefer lsd over exa/eza. It’s also written in Rust, but offers much more customizability. It has an entire config file with lots of options.

Nice, thanks.

OpenSSL goes GitHub only (openssl.org)

We’re no longer using our old ftp, rsync, and git links for distributing OpenSSL. These were great in their day, but it’s time to move on to something better and safer. ftp://ftp.openssl.org and rsync://rsync.openssl.org are not available anymore. As of June 1, 2024, we’re also going to shut down ftp.openssl.org and...

lemmyreader,

Yes, what would possibly go wrong ? And OpenSSL is only a small and unimportant project and hardly anyone depends on it, right ? Right ? I can dig that they want to get rid of some of their own services but completely giving up on their own git repository ? Let’s hope they do mirror the source code on Codeberg or sourcehut.

lemmyreader,

Well, yes. But let’s say the OpenSSL developers copy new changes of source code to GitHub, and something goes wrong after the copying (Think of a malicious attacker breaking in and changes some code), then all the people copying from that one download link will be in the same boat as well.

lemmyreader,

I was trying to say that if the OpenSSL developers upload new source code to only GitHub and something goes wrong, even for example simply a mistake or failure by GitHub, then other users wanting to download will not have to wait for the OpenSSL developers to repair that problem when OpenSSL project would for example have mirrors on Codeberg or sourcehut or their own git server, the latter which they intend to deprecate.

lemmyreader,

Good that you mention WolfSSL and that HAProxy team seems to like it. Years ago some Linux distributions made the switch to LibreSSL, but unfortunately that all (?) seems to have failed.

lemmyreader,

Agreed!

lemmyreader,

😀

lemmyreader,

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lemmyreader,

DALnet appears to be alive and kicking. Since you’re maybe out of the loop, big drama happened with Freenode. Right now Libera Chat and OFTC appear to be the big names for IRC for open source software users.

DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network made up of 39 servers, with a stable population of approximately 10,000 users in about 4,000 channels. DALnet is accessible by connecting with an IRC client to an active DALnet server on ports 6660 through 6669, and 7000. SSL users can connect on port 6697 as well. The generic round-robin address is irc.dal.net.

lemmyreader,

Discord is the Gold Standard for you ? Why ?

lemmyreader,

I still think forums are the best way to handle support. Even phpBB is better than any chat. Have a bot alert a chat channel that the project team hangs out for every new topic or something, if that’s a concern.

Giving the users the choice to have IRC and a forum sounds nice to me. Forums for the longer conversations and be able to look up things with a search engine, and IRC for quick questions and informal chat.

lemmyreader,

Searched but can’t find it in their FAQs :) They work together with MX Linux, so personally I’d go for Anti Ex and Em Ex Linnuks.

lemmyreader,

😀 Yeah right, maybe it should indeed by pronounced like something like antique /j

lemmyreader,

I have an old laptop with a Transmeta Crusoe CPU. Can anyone recommend a distro that will work on it? I’ll download this one and give it a shot too.

You have a computer with a CPU made by the company that Linus Torvalds worked for!

lemmyreader,

Yes, and one of the reasons I want to keep it going. It’s an old Fujitsu and has a cool form factor (another reason). I recycled about a dozen laptops a few months back, but could not bear to see this one go. It came with XP, but I don’t care to reload that at all. Am also downloading older versions of Slack to see if they’ll work.

👍 🐧

lemmyreader,

How do you like Jami so far ?

lemmyreader,

Glad to see PoetteringOS has still not infected the *BSD family members /s And I’ll gladly use Doas on Linux if need be, thank you.

lemmyreader,

This is great. Not having the attack surface of sudo (and not even being a SUID binary) certainly are great additions.

And I hope people realize that systemd is not one large thing, but a (large) collection of tools.

XZ-utils rings a bell ? It was among others Debian wanting to pull in part of a systemd tool into openssh and that almost turned into a world wide disaster :(

lemmyreader,

Thanks for that write up. Made my day! 😄

lemmyreader,

Gentoo, Slackware and Devuan can be used without svchost for linux.

nosystemd.org has a list for more choice for readers.

lemmyreader,

You didn’t follow the XZ-utils story ? The malicious actor worked for years on that XZ backdoor that targeted the fact that some Linux distributions were modifying their openssh package to enable systemd notifications.

lemmyreader, (edited )

But it only makes sense to have those notifications.

Maybe in your mind it makes sense. Going for ease of use rather than security is not something that OpenBSD would quickly do. If you read some more about what “jwz” has to say about all the screensaver bugs in Linux, like here : www.jwz.org/blog/…/i-told-you-so-2021-edition and realize what a mess that Linux maintainers are making again and again, and then have a look at Debian and their packaging of xscreensaver. Guess what ? Debian added some systemd thingie to xscreensaver. 🤯

I like Debian since a long time and I use it. But the tinkering of Debian package maintainers and always wanting to do things the Debian way is not something I am always very pleased with. Remember the OpenSSL Debian fiasco ? That shows a problem with Debian which may still exist. Too many packages, not enough maintainers with enough spare time, and no coherent team work of a security team.

lemmyreader,

Right. That reminds of the time I was visiting a friend who had broken his Linux computer (No, not “apt-get remove --purge systemd” but they did something slightly similar). When I booted from a live Linux, used chroot and wanted to use configure networking : FAIL because systemd was … not running. As he had no Internet because of his broken machine this caused some delays in fixing this but we got the job done eventually.

lemmyreader,

Amarok has been around for a long time. I’ve never used it much but I remember the name.

The road to 3.0 has not been a short one. Much of the Qt5/KF5 porting was done in 2015 already, but finishing and polishing everything up has been a slow, sometimes ongoing and sometimes stalled process ever since.

Wow. Almost 10 years for the polishing porting to Qt5, and now KDE based on Qt6 has just been released. I didn’t know that Amarok supported scripting, interesting (Imagine having a cronjob or systemd timer to slowly fade away the music).

lemmyreader,

Here’s a tl;dr : github.com/KFearsoff/nix-drama-explained

If you’re looking for a TL;DR of the situation, here it is:

  • Nix community had a governance crisis for years. While there has been progress on building explicit teams to govern the project, it continued to fundamentally rely on implicit authority and soft power
  • Eelco Dolstra, as one of the biggest holders of this implicit authority and soft power, has continuously abused this authority to push his decisions, and to block decisions that he doesn’t like
  • Crucially, he also used his implicit authority to block any progress on solving this governance crisis and establishing systems with explicit authority
  • This has led uncountably many people to burn out over the issue, and culminated in writing an open letter to have Eelco resign from all formal positions in the project and take a 6 month break from any involvement in the community
  • Eelco wrote a response that largely dismisses the issues brought up, and advertises his company’s community as a substitute for Nix community

And a not too long read : dataswamp.org/…/2024-04-27-nix-internal-crisis.ht…

lemmyreader,

Forked : hachyderm.io/

lemmyreader,

😀

lemmyreader,

Oh, I see, t y!

lemmyreader,

Cool, thanks for sharing!

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