Debian on JOURNAL.ROBBI.MY

Cawbird - Linux Twitter Client

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 22:24:38 +0800

Peace be upon you and hello everyone!

Have you heard Corebird before? It a twitter client for linux desktop user but the project (and others 3rd party twitter client) stopped when Twitter decide to remove “UserStream API”.

Twitter actually replace that API with new ones called “Accounts Activity API”, but the Corebird developer stated it too difficult to implement and he may not have much time for development anymore. So the project was discontinue since 2018 and honestly, Corebird are the best GUI twitter client for linux.

Ubuntu Chromium DEB file are actually snap wrapper

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:22:25 +0800

The screenshot taken is the latest rev:head (currently when the post published) of chromium-browser/focal package files repository. I really surprise about this kind of packaging. Oh my God, how comes this is allowable?

Seems it start putting and using wrapper to use snap on rev:1505, correct me if I wrong because I don’t use bazaar source code management so much compare to cvs, mercurial and git.

Control Your Snap Package

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 08:56:57 +0800

Press here to skip the rant

I checking my email today and saw Bret Busby posted on Ubuntu-users mailing-list asking about “How do we disable the snap stuff” and likely it trigger some Ubuntu kipas-susah-mati replies when he typed:

As this snap stuff can not be trusted to not make unauthorised changes , and, cannot be trusted to not sabotage the system operation (this unauthorised snap interference probably explains the error messages that I have been getting, about incomplete and partial upgrades and resultant systems instability across my systems), how do we disable this malicious snap thing?

My FOSS contributions and rants on Feb-April 2021

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:18:00 +0800

My rants and contributions to FOSS in Feb - April 2021

Involve with Debian and joined Debian Med teams, thank you Andreas Tille.
I intend to help Steffen Möller to package python-scanpy by fixing blocker and I end up packaging it missing dependencies which are python-sinfo and python-stdlib-list . Many thanks to who teach me how to packaging and Nilesh Patra for sponsoring me. The work on scanpy still unfinished, there is still leftover to do. WIP.
At same time I also send another ITP for python-scanorama, it working but the unit test asking for another missing package called as annoy from spotify and fbcpa from facebook.
Both missing package I able to rebuild locally but I not sending ITP yet. I send a request to Debian Python Team to join them and place both of this package under it.
I still contribute to Fedora as QA and few stuff. Another point, recently (actually few month ago but nvm, just put here), Izhar aka Kagesenshi get highsugar and re-activate the local community (Fedora Malaysia) via discord. He also setup a new team called Fedora Data Engineering SIG
After a while using and involve (contribute) with Fedora for fews years, I sometimes get a feel that Fedora and Red Hat moving so fast on everything and feel it not community oriented it more like leader oriented, take a look on something worth called as “flamewar” on Fedora-devel list which debate on changes on os-release.. check the Wiki here

There is few’s more contribution but I not keep track it properly, will update when I remember it 🤪

My FOSS contribution Jan 2021

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:18:00 +0000

My Contribution to FOSS in Jan 2021

Subscribing few of Debian mailing list such as debian-user, debconf-announce , debian-events-apac , debian-jobs, and debian-jr (If you want to see full list of mailing list that available, you can check here and become poster
Registered IRC nick as rnm (master) and mambang (slave) on OFTC network and actively helping user on #debian and #debian-welcome channel as what I could.
Request and accepted as Wiki Editor to Debian Wiki (check my profile)
Created Malaysia local group page on debian wiki and created Debian Malaysia Telegram group.
Submited #980521 - fail to edit/insert to file opened by vi bug report to debian bug tracking system (BTS) using reportbug (nice tool!)
Translate CalyxOS to Malay via weblate
Fixing existing Debian - Bahasa Melayu front page by using short wiki tag instead of hardcode string.
Submit #1688371 - Add option to override user agent somewhere bug/feature since the current thunderbird remove menu and address bar to enter pref configuration

How to disable ICMP ping replies (linux)

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 01:42:00 +0000

Few weeks ago during server setup phase for one of my project, I notice there is no ICMP or ping replies from server and some port are not able to access.

I told the network engineer to check and seem they blocking the ports and disabling ICMP replies from their firewall configuration.

From that accident I do some google-fu if I can do same thing for personal computer / server. We can setting the kernel variable or use iptable to disable ICMP / ping replies if requested.

Sending JSON data file using CURL to API endpoint

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:23:00 +0000

I developed warehouse system and use restful as communication method between our software and client software. We let end point of our system to talk each other with API designed.

For simple and small test using Postman or SOAP-UI is enough for me but to when to test this system with massive data via API is quite headache, plus the mock features on Postman limited and not “mocking” enough as I want.

Gnome Asia summit 2020

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:04:00 +0000

I think it maybe too late to help out telling anyone about this event ~~since registeration already closed~~ but look like the registeration still open. Anyway, let see the schedule:

Some of the segment that offer good topic and caught my eyes :

The Use and Benefits of Open Source Software in Tour & Travel Company - Rahman Nur
Building a career in open source : Lessons and Learnings - Umang Jain
Under COVID-19 pandemic, Korea’s Community Challenges and Futures - DaeHyun Sung
Leveraging Open Source Tools for Distance Learning During Pandemic Season - Mohammad Hafiz Ismail

Gnome Asia summit 2020 will start by ~~tomorrow~~ today and conference will be online. This event was sponsor by Gitlab and openSUSE.

mambang.org.my - Oshirix operating system (linux)

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:25:00 +0800

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Assalamualaikum wbt dan salam sejahtera kepada semua pembaca..

Ok kali ni aku nak cover-up sebuah portal dan produk yang dah hilang dari radar since 2014 (kalau tak silap) hingga kini. Penulisan ini adalah berdasarkan penglibatan aku secara tak langsung dan pengalaman bersama komuniti tersebut.

Komuniti “Mambang.org” atau “Mambang.org.my” atau lebih mudah disebut “Mambang” adalah sebuah komuniti opensource tempatan yang sangat berahsia binti misteri tapi mempunyai banyak khazanah dan produk yang bagus.