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by simosx 8y ago
Answering the updated question regarding the security of running what is described in the post, but using Xephyr and not the desktop's existing X11 session. It is as secure as the individual components, that is whether there are securi
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by simosx 8y ago
This is a convenience tool, that uses your existing X11 session. You would not use it when testing malicious programs because they would be able to attack the X11 session (but not your host's filesystem). If you want to test programs t
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Running graphics-accelerated GUI apps in LXD containers on a Ubuntu desktop(blog.simos.info)
81 points by simosx 8y ago|20 comments
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by simosx 8y ago
The person that started this type of videos has the channel "Primitive Technology" at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA It is nice that others are following the lead. I do doubt though
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by simosx 8y ago
Did the community contributors assigned the copyright of their work to the original maintainer?
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by simosx 8y ago
I created a snap package for LibreSprite. You can try it out on Linux (with snap package support: https://docs.snapcraft.io/core/install ) by running sudo snap install libresprite-simosx Then, run 'libresprite-simo
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by simosx 8y ago
You can also use software to count birds, https://blog.simos.info/how-to-count-the-population-of-flock... (disclaimer: I wrote the tutorial from a post I found on the Internet. That source post is now gone)
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by simosx 8y ago
Allwinner has done mistakes in the past and posted tarballs of the Linux kernel source with object files for drivers they did not have the right (from others) to post the source. They called these "SDKs" and distributed them to t
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The Easiest Metasploit Guide You’ll Ever Read(a.ndronic.us)
3 points by simosx 9y ago|0 comments
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by simosx 9y ago
The article actually asks for input of the collection of diagnostic data. The title by Santosh83 says instead "Ubuntu will collect data about your system by default, starting with 18.04".
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by simosx 9y ago
It has been mentioned already above. We are talking here about anonymized diagnostic data, not private indentifiable information.
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TCP-Starvation(github.com)
63 points by simosx 9y ago|14 comments
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by simosx 9y ago
" Quick. May fade to white. "
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by simosx 9y ago
Compared to Scaleway, Scaleway gives you two vCPUs (not one) and 50GB storage (not 20GB) for their entry level cloud server, at around 3€/month. URL: https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ The problem with Scaleway is
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by simosx 9y ago
When you create a new cloud server, there is a tab called CEPH (for the Ceph network filesystem). It does not have any options and it looks like it is not active yet. It would be great if they offered network storage through Ceph.
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by simosx 9y ago
Had some fun trying out these new cloud servers, https://blog.simos.info/a-closer-look-at-the-new-hetzner-clo... (not affiliated with Hetzner)
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by simosx 9y ago
This should be for Skylake or newer CPUs only, that support USB DCI.
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by simosx 9y ago
The PLEASESTOPNAMINGVULNERABILITIES vulnerabilities are surely of a different type than the KRACK attack.
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by simosx 9y ago
The article says that only WPA2-TKIP is vulnerable to the downgrade, therefore running WPA2 with only AES should be fine.
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by simosx 9y ago
I wrote a similar guide that uses unprivileged LXD containers, https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-graphics-accelerated-gui-... I think that with LXD containers it is easier to set up. I am looking forward to see a guide for
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A closer look at the new ARM64 Scaleway servers and LXD(blog.simos.info)
2 points by simosx 9y ago|0 comments
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by simosx 10y ago
Both Dell and System76 sell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. Are you looking into some sort of certification of the sort "Ubuntu Verified"?
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by simosx 10y ago
For me, "vim-full" would be a hard requirement. The minimal vim is so bad in terms of usability that makes it a pain to use even for advanced users. Especially, when you complete the installation and then need to do some text edit
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by simosx 10y ago
+2
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by simosx 10y ago
Is that for Ubuntu Core or Ubuntu Desktop?
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by simosx 10y ago
It would make sense as soon as the default filesystem becomes btrfs or ZFS. As it is now, it would need to be a feature that only appears if it finds that you have the proper filesystem.
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by simosx 10y ago
This one would be useful. There are several things to test, and things that may break. It is possible to get corner cases. I would suggest to get purge-old-kernels on 17.10 in order to test it, and decide whether to put on 18.04 LTS later o
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by simosx 10y ago
The AMD engineers have decided to only support the open-source amdgpu driver and diverted all resources from fglrx to amdgpu. Due to this, 16.04 does not have fglrx because the X11 server in 16.04 is not compatible any more with fglrx. Arou
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by simosx 10y ago
If it is a Linux kernel update, then it's either Livepatch or you reboot. If it is a system library, then for the apps to use the newly installed library, they need to be restarted (sometimes logging out and logging in again should be
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by simosx 10y ago
The first two examples relate to codecs that are not installed by default. Most probably they should not be available for installation at all, but then it's the way that packages are available in the "universe" repository. Th

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