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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?

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.

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.