IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: Thursday, April 22, 2021

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> We’re writing to let you know that your account has been suspended––and

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> will remain suspended––due to multiple or repeat violations of our rules

> <http://twitterinc.force.com/emailmetrics?cid=5004w000028M9XFAA0&cc=Access&rtid=a2pG0000000DCELIA4&url=https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules>.

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> We don’t allow the following behaviors on Twitter:

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> * Creating serial and/or multiple accounts with overlapping uses

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-twitterinc.secure.force.com | NO TITLE

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So I guess they don't like that tuxmachines links to tuxmachines.org and then my personal account is also linking to tuxmachines.org.

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Because that is the only thing I can think of.

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This isn't new though! It has been like this for 8 years!

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> * Evading a permanent suspension by creating or using another account

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Never did that!! False accusation.

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> * Cross-posting Tweets or links across multiple accounts

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Again, maybe they allude to tuxmachines.

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> * Aggressive following, particularly through automated means

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No such thing ever done!

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> Please do not reply to this email or send us new appeals for this

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> account as we won’t monitor them.

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Complete nonsense. False accusation.

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So I think they now use the tuxmachines account as an excuse for saying I post to tuxmachines from the official account and also from my own.

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Ridiculous!

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> Hi Roy

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> Thanks for the updates. Please inform me about their response.

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> Regarding your decision about Twitter. First, I do not wish to exercise

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> any pressure and I know that there is a lot of pressure in activist

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> work, and I speak from personal experience.

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> At the general level of discussion, Twitter is the most politically

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> influential social medium and the hashtags connect all interested

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> parties. If you abandon Twitter, then the gap will be filled by the

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> known propagandists. In this respect, although your posts may be copies

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> of your techrights posts, it is their announcement on Twitter that

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> brings them within a centralised forum for wider dissemination,

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> readership and impact.

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> I do not currently have any serious updates on the patent front, I get

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> news and discussions from various corners and from my discussions with

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> Benjamin who is based in Brussels, but there is nothing new that you

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> haven't heard in the past. But serious issues can emerge in the future

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> and the general issue with Twitter and your posts regards the daily

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> fight for information and impressions. If there is no pressure from you,

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> Benjamin or others, on a frequent basis, then law firms, big companies

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> and uniformed civil servants will easily sell whatever they want. You

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> can ask the following question, that I also ask myself: if you do not do

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> what you do, who else is going to do it.

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> As I said, please do not see this email as an effort from me to exercise

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> any pressure, as there are always personal and professional

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> circumstances that we do not know. I just think that your presence on

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> Twitter is generally needed, especially in the current period.

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> Best wishe

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>> catching up with email now, will fact-check and publish something...

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> Everybody is asking me about it

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> As I was a mentor and administrator in GSoC and a mentor in Outreachy,

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> ethical concerns limit what I can write or publish myself.

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x https://www.tableau.com/solutions/customer/red-hat-embraces-tableau-blueprint-and-tableau-online-deepens-data-culture

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tableau.com | Red Hat embraces Tableau Blueprint and Tableau Online, deepens data culture

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old:

https://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-daringfireball.net | Daring Fireball: On Top

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x https://www.aviationanalysis.net/microsoft-enables-linux-gui-applications-on-windows-10-for-developers/

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.aviationanalysis.net | Microsoft enables Linux GUI applications on Windows 10 for developers

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"lots and lots of M$ hardware spam in many channels, won't link"

x https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/006402.html

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-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lists.orbitalfox.eu | [users] Noob-friendly solutions for co-writing a gemini site?

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WTH!!

Apr 22 08:21

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Microsoft everything

Apr 22 08:21

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Polluting Gemini?!

Apr 22 08:21

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Happy Earth Day

Apr 22 08:31

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shall we try Mumble now?

Apr 22 08:31

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yes, but very quickly, I'm at work till 9am

Apr 22 08:31

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move to the TR channel

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I'm not getting sound nor seeing an indication that you've triggered your mic

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ok I see the mic active but no sound

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I can hear you, I need to relearn the GUI

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Are you sure your sound is on? I tried every possible combination, rechecked everything

Apr 22 08:40

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do you have time for a soundcheck with SIP?

Apr 22 08:41

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yes, i can hear mumble making notification soun

Apr 22 08:41

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I will doub;e check by logging in a second time from another machine

Apr 22 08:41

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seems like mumble or murmur won't pick up my mic

Apr 22 08:46

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even tried alsa and oss, not just LP-Audio

Apr 22 08:46

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I've tried dozens of combination, giving up for the day. Hoping I didn't miss anything important in ytalk all these days...

Apr 22 08:51

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ok, that's probably something in the configuration

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sound is problematic these days and I know very, very, very little about it

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Can we test SIP ?

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and come back to Mumble on some other day?

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ok I see the disconnection from mumble

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(and heard the notifications)

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> I wonder if ytalk can hang? I see that you're connected there and have

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> written a few lines. I've not used it much the last few days though.

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> "Happy Earth Day"

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>> Mumble connects OK, I can test that later when nobody here is asleep.

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> Ok. Let's give it a try once noise can be made.

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>> Regarding TM, it's a bit like cat and mouse... but we'll cope. Maybe

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>> we're targeted as (AFAIK) we're the biggest site of this kind.

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> Biggest and probably best of its kind. The coverage is not only very

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> thorough but very, very fast.

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Fast with clustered updates attached to comments. No other site does the latter.

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<li>

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<h5><a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/04/22/phd-students-willfully-committed-known-malicious-changes-to-mainline-linux/">PhD students willfully committed known malicious changes to mainline Linux</a></h5>

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<p>So their work at to be reverted with 190 reversions so far. It also means future commits from the University of Minnesota will be rejected from mainline Linux by default.</p></blockquote></li>

https://nitter.cc/zoobab/status/1385205641501941761#m

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Apr 22 16:21

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.cc | zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "Sen. Tillis Asks Biden Administration to Oppose WTO Waiver Proposal [Ed: Tillis is a front for the patent cartel and litigation 'industry', so of course he's willing to cause the deaths of millions of people just for the sake of patent profiteering] http://techrights.org/2021/04/22/mesa-21-0-3-available/" | nitter

Apr 22 16:21

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lupa hammering on gemini today, but thats OK

Apr 22 18:06

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It's good that TR gets into the index.

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I hope that the search engine soon allows more than 10k-1 pages in the

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index.

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working on some code/coding, my tuxcode scripts today, to better automate some stuff related to that site. I now know better which reqs to block to restrict ddos impact... but it's far from complete, I just hope to leave that mess behind and focus on what matters

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Yes, the articles, especially on either EPO or sw patents, are why (IMO) the

Apr 22 18:10

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DDoS attacks are aimed at TR.

Apr 22 18:10

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BTW, I cannot think of a way to integrate mumble and webcamoid if that ever became a route for doing multi-participant video. Not just mumble but anything audio like SIP.... I think JACK can do mixing, but I lack experience with those sorts of things and letting the microphone pick up someone's voice would have terrible results

Apr 22 18:14

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I know nothing about JACK or ALSA or PA or really any audio. I just

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cargo cult it until it works and then hope for the best and try

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not to change anything

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but having said all that, my experience doing techbytes is that when you have more than 1 participant, it's a burden to set up, sometimes edit, and the more participants the worse... waiting, choosing time etc.

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we used mumble a bit for techbytes towards the end and it was generally good. I think Gordon did too (the Scottish podcast he did with cavey). It's very solid software, I just need to think of use cases, over time...

Apr 22 18:18

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scheduling is exponentially harder, among other aspects, when having

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multiple participants

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With people far away, the latency can vary so it is *very* important

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to have each participant on a separate audio track and then mix the

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audio separately. That more or less precludes video unless the same

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is done for the video feeds. Otherwise some or all participants

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do not have synchronized audio with video.

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Going audio-only makes that worlds easier.

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I haven't looked into recording with Mumble. It woul be essential

Apr 22 18:24

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for it to do multiple channels/

Apr 22 18:24

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IIRC, Tim recorded us on it a few times and it worked ok

Apr 22 18:25

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Downmixing might be the most practical option at the moment. As mentioned

Apr 22 18:38

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I gave multichannel a try and it was able to put each participant into

Apr 22 18:38

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FLAC files.

Apr 22 18:38

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The metadata included is quite minimal, it just includes

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the handle nothing more.

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The file name includes the date and time tough.

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^though

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mumble would be good for web conferences and office work that involves collaborations

Apr 22 18:40

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I know you are a private person, but if you choose to we can occasionally record discussions about breaking/recent/hot news

Apr 22 18:40

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Yes, it would be excellent for collaborative work.

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It's also designed to be easy to split groups up into subteams and

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have some able to talk to all the subteams without the subteams

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interfering with each other.

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I don't tend to have such lively hot takes that it would be interesting

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or time effective. I have to think things through a lot these days

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to come to conclusions and I seem to have misplaced my telephone voice.

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If it's not recorded I don't mind brainstorming or other discussions

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makes sense, just what I was expecting

https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Features#Encryption

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I found a way to get audio alerts but now need to find a more powerful

Apr 22 18:43

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power supply for the speakers so they can be heard from further away

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than the desk

Apr 22 18:43

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how strong is the encryption for murmur/mumble? When I checked ages ago it was strong enough to count as real e2ee.

Apr 22 18:44

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OCB-AES128

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The weak point might be the TOFU model, but it is not unique in that regard

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and TOFU is a point of discussion in a lot of projects including Gemini.

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It's easy enough to send the fingerprint out of band first though.

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^certificate fingerprint, that is

-TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-wiki.mumble.info | Features - Mumble Wiki

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I have just attempted to remove the TM access restriction and within minutes the load went up. Reverted back to the restricted mode, so it may be premature to leave it fully exposed to any request. I found some of the offending requests.

Apr 22 18:48

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The abuse started around February but got a lot worse in recent days, though the magnitude can be partly controlled, using means I can disclose privately and not in irc or ytalk

Apr 22 18:49

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Ok. Good. It would be great if the offending IP addresses could be blocked at

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the kernel by nftables. There's a way to do it within Apache also, that

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maight be a good work-around.

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ack

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git commit tuxurl.sh

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[master ed02280] more tricks

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1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

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rewrite Desktop-Utils/tuxurl.sh (81%)

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git commit preview.sh

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[master ab0f9ee] still rough

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1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

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create mode 100755 Desktop-Utils/preview.sh