How to install Brave on Linux

How to install Brave on Linux

Brave is a free and open source web browser focused on providing a privacy-oriented setup by default. It is released under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0, and it is based on chromium, which is also the open source foundation upon Google Chrome is built.  Brave comes with useful built-in features such an ad-blocker, a private search engine, an integrated VPN, and Tor support.

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how to manage groups on Linux

How to manage groups on Linux

Groups are an essential part of how discretionary access control (DAC) is implemented on Linux and, in general, on any Unix-based operating system. The creation, modification, and removal of groups are relatively straightforward operations which can be carried out using some utilities installed by default.

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Introduction to Linux capabilities

On Linux, traditionally, a process could either run as root, and so have limitless access to the system, or as a non-root user, subject to a set of restrictions. Since version 2.2 of the kernel, capabilities were introduced as a way to grant permissions in a more granular way.

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How to bind a rootless container to a privileged port on Linux

One of the main innovations introduced by Podman was the ability to run rootless containers. Security wise, this was a big improvement, since a potentially compromised container running as root represents a security threat for the host system. In order to obtain a similar behavior, recent versions of Docker support running the docker daemon in the user context. Running unprivileged containers, albeit more secure, has also its drawbacks, as the inability to bind to privileged host ports.

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how to create and manage snippets in vim with ultisnips

How to create and manage snippets in Vim with Ultisnips

Snippets are small fragments of reusable code which, in all the major text editors, can be defined, organized and associated to key shortcuts. Although in Vim it is possible to create snippets without using any plugin, Ultisnips provide us extra features and write snippets using a clean and well documented syntax.

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Introduction to jupyter notebook

Introduction to Jupiter Notebook

Jupyter Notebook is a web application used to produce computational documents, commonly called “notebooks” which can contain human-readable text, executable code, charts, and more. When used together with Python and libraries like pandas and Matplotlib, Jupyter notebooks are an excellent tool we can use for presentations and data analysis.

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How to manage tlp graphically with tlpui

Introduction to Tlpui, a GTK frontend for Tlp

Tlp is a command line utility we can use to optimize power consumption on Linux. It provides reasonable defaults, and, at the same time, an easy to understand text-based configuration file we can use to create our own setup. An external project provides a user-friendly GTK frontend to Tlp written in Python: Tlpui.

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