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aluaces

Whenever I see

dd if=this of=that

I usually prefer to

ddrescue this that

(usually --force is required to write to a partition)

Not only it displays many more information than dd's default and it doesn't require blocksize tinkering, but is also capable of resuming and recovering from errors.

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Currently reading "Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs" by Denis Bakhvalov and liking it very much.

It explains many of the arcane details of current desktop CPUs and it also has many tips about tool usage, plus many mentions to other useful tools as .

It's a free download from book.easyperf.net/perf_book

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Snikket

Familiar with :apple_inc: Swift, UIKit, and know your way around XCode? Want to help advance the state of #XMPP on #iOS? :xmpp: 📱 We're looking for developers to help bring our iOS app over the finish line! 🏁

This will be a paid short-term project producing FLOSS. DM or email matthew@snikket.org if you're interested.

Not an iOS dev? That's okay, boosts appreciated too! 🙂

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freund
@cpsdqs "Documents were not supposed to be Turing-complete"

Oh yea? Then explain this ray-tracer written in PostScript:
(Posted from piggo space because of character limit...)

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Yuki :heart_nonbinary:

Can we please stop using Discord for Free software and open source projects, thanks!

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aluaces

for patching windows files on linux using windows patches, use --binary.

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Snikket

We just released a huge update to the #Snikket server! Web admin, #RaspberryPi / #ARM support, and more... 😀

snikket.org/blog/feb-2021-serv

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Johann150 :linus:

Today is #changeyourpasswordday, a gentle reminder that if you (have to) use this policy, it's trash. Users will tend to make serial passwords like password1, password2 etc. which is overall less secure than an actually strong password used over a (very) long time.

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nibö

Our instant messaging client visualization is now available in English under :cc: license.

#DataPrivacyDay
#Signal #Telegram #Whatsapp

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Pirate Praveen

Better than WhatsApp: Try these Free Software Apps and Services — Free Software Foundation India

fsf.org.in/article/better-than

#WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal #matrix #xmpp #p2p #element #quicksy #FreeSoftware

Thanks to Riya for making the info graphics.

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Tails

Tails natively ships with a #XMPP client. Currently Pidgin.
For security reason Tails is going to replace it.

New XMPP client that Tails is likely to natively install will be either @dino or @gajim

Some research about them and Tails requirements you can read here:
gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/bl
(keep in mind that it's a living paper)

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Delta Chat

The maintainers of the mailcow e-mail server suite have optimized and tweaked it a little for Delta Chat, great stuff :) mailcow.email/2021/01/14/back-

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coucouf ⏚

Dear @kaidan developers and users, rejoice !

Kaidan 0.6.0 has been accepted into Debian testing so Kaidan will be part of the next stable Debian 11/bullseye.

Cheers !

#debian #xmpp #freesoftware

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aluaces

Nice recipe for slimming down repositories when storing similar, big files, with the help of

git-annex.branchable.com/tips/

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Martin Allien

My current #privacy & security focused #email provider Mailbox.org now offers 6€ voucher for new accounts (until 10 January '21):
mailbox.org/en/post/give-a-mai

Might not seem like much, but it covers 6 months of the basic tier plan ;)

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Snikket

We're *really* excited to announce the sponsorship of end-to-end encrypted group chats (OMEMO) in Siskin, the #ios #xmpp client! One step closer to an excellent XMPP experience on Apple devices :)

snikket.org/blog/sponsoring-gr

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James Valleroy

Allow the use of external GnuPG in #Thunderbird 78: wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:O

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aluaces

Need to paste something from the clipboard into a window where it is difficult to do so? (for example, some virtual machines)

to the rescue!

xdotool search <something_in_the_window_title> windowactivate type <"whatever you want to paste">

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Dino

Dino 0.2 is out!

Dino is a privacy-friendly messaging application. The 0.2 release adds message correction, improves the file upload functionality and provides more information on encryption.

Release blog post: dino.im/blog/2020/11/dino-0.2-

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aluaces

Another alt key trickery: press CTRL+ALT+click for selecting text rectangles in the .

This is very handy for copying wrapped lines of text in tmux-style even if you are not using tmux.

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