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The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on the basis of Arch Linux and aimed at beginners, announced the beginning of testing a new service MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect statistics about the system and send it to the external server of the project. The author of the MDD intended to enable telemetry by default (opt-out), but the decision has not yet been approved and, judging by the objections of some developers and users, it is likely that telemetry will be offered as an option requiring prior consent of the user (a request to enable telemetry is proposed to be added to the greeting interface after the first download).

The report includes data such as host name, kernel version, desktop component versions, detailed information about hardware and drivers involved, screen size and resolution information, network device MAC addresses, disk serial numbers, disk partition data, information about the number of running processes and installed packages, versions of basic packages such as systemd, gcc, bash and PipeWire.

The sent data is stored on the project server in the ClickHouse database and visualized using the Grafana platform. The IP addresses of users are not stored, and the hash from the /etc/machine-id file is used as the system identifier.

Аccording to the code https://github.com/manjaro/mdd/blob/master/mdd.py#L40 sends everything.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (39 children)

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

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (28 children)

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.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

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
[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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}
[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Miniflux has integrations for sending content to read-later tools like Wallabag and then reading it in KOReader.

[–] fireshell@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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