bizdelnick @ bizdelnick @lemmy.ml

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Maybe. But maybe they did nothing because there was no ./configure script and you had to use another tool, e. g. one of that I mentioned, so you need to learn another shit.

BTW installing anything from source like this is the right way only in (B)LFS.

But you definitely don't need to learn this if you are a developer and starting a new project in 2024. You can use cmake or write plain makefiles, even shell scripts if you want, but as you value life or your reason keep away from the autotools. It is a nightmare to debug thousands lines of scripts they generate and put into your source tree.

Autocrap is a bloated obsolete stuff that is mostly replaced with other tools like cmake or meson. There's no need to learn it today.

If this is so interesting, where's the discussion you are talking about? And I did not say there's nothing interesting in Wikipedia. It is easy to find for everyone who needs it.

No problems with Wikpedia, I always can go there and find what I need. There's a problem with flood of meaningless link-only posts here.

Are you going to post links to all Wikipedia articles here?

If the license you use is reallu permissive, it does not forbid the change to more restricted (copyleft). You also can use separate licences for code and resourses.

Standard tool to send email is mailx, it is also often aliased as mail.

Any distro you are comfortable with.

There are also forkgram, nekogram x, whatevergram... I use negkogram x, in particular, and I don't want to switch to another fork to get unified push but losing other features. I guess forkgram users also stick to its features. Etc.

Too many forks, each with its own enhancements... If the purpose of this one is just a single feature, why not contribute it to another popular fork?

I guess it can be NetworkManager if it is used to configure the interface but the route is added manually.

Why not use a static site generator?

There's nothing special, it can be replaced with any TOTP/HOTP implementation. In particular, oathtool is supplied in most distros (it has only command line interface, probably there are also some GUI tools in your repos). However it does not support JSON key format that is provided as QR code for mobile 2FA apps. You have to copy and paste values from it manually.

However this will likely violate your employer's security policy. The point of 2FA is that secret key is stored on a separate device, so that it cannot be stealed together with your password.

I recommend to try other Android apps on your phone. I use FreeOTP+ and have no problems with font readability. Some of my collegues use AndOTP and like it.

This paper is a bullshit. Authors claim they are able to extract an RSA 4096 decryption key within an hour using a prepared cyphertext, but this cannot work for PGP. PGP uses an asymmetric cypher (i.e. RSA) only to encrypt a symmetric cypher key (e.g. AES) that is used to encrypt/decrypt the text itself. So RSA does not work for hours, it takes only few milliseconds to decrypt a key that is 256 bit maximum.

Even if this method worked, it would be very hardware dependant. They would need to tune their algorithm for each laptop being attacked. So if you don't give your laptop to attacker for several weeks, he won't be able to steal your key.

the .deb file would be the equivalent of an .exe file on Windows

Not .exe. If you want to find an equivalent, .msi is the closest.

I don't recommend using anything new to you unless you are ready to learn it. If you are, welcome aboard!

Lolwhat? It is the same in any distro: adding the repo and installing the app.

This wiki article contains the information you need. It can seem too long, but I highly recommend to read it.

You don't have to do everything through terminal. You can use synaptic for example. What you have to do is to learn new concepts. If you want to do everything like in windows, use windows.

Yes, it is. You can achieve the same usung GUI of course, but this would be more difficult to describe because there are multiple GUIs and they change with new distro versions.

This is more convenient than "downloading and intalling" a file because you don't have to track updates manually, the package manager will do this for you. You have to read something about what package manager is and how does it work. It is the main concept of all linux distros except LFS.