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Looking for a multi-user remote desktop system


Hi all!
I'm looking for a remote desktop control system that works in Ubuntu. Something like VNC, but that allows for more than one user to remotely see and control the screen of this Ubuntu Desktop at the same time.
I've been looking around for a while now, but all the solutions I've found only allow for one user at a given time. If a second user logs in, the first one is kicked out.
I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'd really appreciate any help pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks!

Edit: What I'm looking for is something like tuple.app/, but open source.

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in reply to matto

BeyondTrust and SimpleHelp both support this functionality. You can invite a second technician to join the session. I suspect all they're really doing is opening up a second session at the same time, but the end result is that you can have two people remotely controlling a single computer.

But those are both "tech support" focused tools, so I don't know if they quite fit your use case. Parsec is another option that specifically advertises collaborative work like pair programming:

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in reply to PeachMan

Parsec is windows only with a non-hardware accelerated Linux client, moonlight+sunshine will work though
in reply to PeachMan

Thanks for your suggestions! All look like viable solutions, but I'm looking for open-source alternatives to those :)
in reply to matto

Oops, didn't notice which community we were in 😂
in reply to matto

I've never heard of anything like that. Tall order... maybe put in a request to a current FOSS RD dev.

in reply to just_another_person

So my friends in middle school weren’t too far off when they started taking random weeds from the yard and started rolling them up and smoking them 🤔
in reply to just_another_person

totally different plant


But it's literally in Cannabaceae, the same family that contains Marijuana (as well as the Hackberry tree). It makes sense that similar compounds would arise in related species, as that is how phytochemistry works. I'm sure cannabinoids are in the foliage of hackberry trees, too.

They are acting like they found cannabinoids in, like, a grass or something.

in reply to Classy

I think there is another family of plants that does have them though? Like liverworts or something
in reply to prettybunnys

That would be interesting if liverworts contained them too. They're very very unrelated to the hemp family, and in fact they're not really closely related to any flowering plant families, but I'm not saying that to say that you're wrong, I've actually never looked into that before. I just think it'd be interesting if cannabinoids developed in liverworts, because that would imply that those compounds evolved independently.
in reply to Classy

They are acting like they found cannabinoids in, like, a grass or something


I don’t get people who smoke grass without cannabinoids.

(I’m sorry)




Exclusive: Iraqi groups say Israel fabricated deadly Golan drone attack


On Friday, the Israeli military said two explosive-laden drones had targeted its forces in the Golan early the previous morning. Two officers from the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion were killed, it said, and 24 other soldiers were wounded.

Yet, the leaders of the three factions that are continuing to target Israel, as well as Iraqi officials, challenged the Israeli account and said they did not strike the Golan that day.

“Since October of last year, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has carried out more than 160 operations targeting the Israeli interior and the occupied areas in the Golan Heights."

“The resistance announces the operations it carries out as soon as they happen. The resistance did not announce this operation or claim responsibility for it as was reported,” he added. If we had carried it out, we would have announced it.”

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Are there guidelines for backend data structure and distribution solutions for activist/investigative groups?


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in reply to OneMeaningManyNames

I think Arise is sth I had seen and at the time motivated these thoughts. It is a bash based static site generator, that, according to its docs, it is build with the philosophy of minimal language requirements as well as other dependencies.

I would argue that a solution like this is better than heavily nested JSON files, or a cascade of Ordered Dicts in Python, or even a db.sqlite that would require the user parse or query the data somehow. In fact, a user could retrieve the static site from their own distro package manager and run it in bash with minimal dependencies.

I haven't tested this solution yet, but it looks very promising as to what I originally had in mind.

in reply to OneMeaningManyNames

As an innocuous example of sharing data with pure bash and Arise, these people here have preserved the Trigedasleng dictionary, the fictional language from the science-fiction/young adult show The 100, after another fan site was taken down. They use a github repo as data backend, and Arise as a static-site generator for github pages. All their data are stored in lots of version controlled JSON files instead of a database. According to the authors, this democratizes the process of forking and adding data to the repository.

in reply to MataVatnik

I mean before the invasion Russia was building walls and moving them forward overnight to slowly take territory. It's not entirely off base about Russia.
in reply to Dessalines

lol why would anyone want get away from Russian rule? Are they not like super awesome all the time? Hey what happened to that guy that simply tried to run for not dictator? Oh the dictator killed him? Ya sounds about right.
in reply to Dessalines

Nato is a group of independant, mostly democratic states.
Nato generally doesn't kill people, because it doesn't attack, does not do genocide and most relevant for the meme, it doesn't redraw state lines.

If Nato would do several of those things, you might have a point, please prove me wrong.

Also the second pic is ridiculous. What even do the Nato-emblems mean? It cant be singular bases or single memberstates. So what is it? And what about russias allies, why arent they painted/highlited? If one would want to show the big allies, the BRICS+ states could be marked.
But like this, the second image is worthless.

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in reply to freeman

Nato doesn't kill people, doesn't attack, does not do genocide and most relevant for the meme, it doesn't redraw state lines.


NATO killed thousands of people, redrew state lines, and overthrew several governments, in yugoslavia, libya, afghanistan, and north africa.

It's main enemies (and those of it's member countries) are the anti-colonialist movement:

blackagendareport.com/our-case…

in reply to Dessalines

Thanks, I might have overstepped my knowledge here, I'll look into it.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

They're already insular, and are hoarding resources. It may be that their police force will slaughter some of the angry mob that comes for them, cameras and ARs be damned?
in reply to Maeve

There's a difference between being insular and having to live in a box for the rest of your life.



In the US, chronic drug shortages are the business model




As promised, I've open-sourced my exploration game (2 days ahead of release).


So I while back I made a post about making a game on Linux using mostly open-source tools. Someone suggesting open sourcing it, so here we are!

It doesn't have some content (mostly images, audio, and fonts) due to licenses and file sizes, but it has scripts, models, and more. And licensed under MIT. Hopefully someone makes use of it, or at the very least finds it interesting.

in reply to Julian

The videos showcasing game in steam make it seem like it’s just reading text. You should add video that shows more gameplay fyi
in reply to Julian

Definitely looks like my type of game! Will be paying soon



Of course the Baltics have begun designating the IRGC a terrorist organization, surprised they didn't already


in reply to Southern Boy

I have no love for Iran but once again it's the hypocrisy that I hate. Iran and Israel are held to entirely different standards.

Literally, what makes Israel better than Iran and even Russia when it comes to causing death, destruction, and misery?

in reply to Lad

Iran and Russia have never done anything like what Israel is doing, this ridiculous comparison mainly exists in the minds of Western commentators who earn their keep by agreeing with Washington. Not to mention they are nations with thousands of years of history and will not be going anywhere when Uncle Sam's money dries up.

This entire project you picked up of comparing Israel to Russia has done nothing to help Ukrainians or Palestinians. It has simply muddied the waters further. No, Israel was not "provoked", Palestine was provoked. And yes, Russia and Iran were provoked by the same US alliance.

What about India, where Hindutva has been ethnically cleansing Muslims this entire time? No it's just parroting the rogues gallery of Washington. There is no detail, only your useless addition to the WAPO oped comments section.

in reply to Southern Boy

Russia is doing the same kind of invasion in ukraine as zios in palestine.

Don't lump Iran with this tankie BS please. Not honest, not helpful.

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in reply to technocrit

Russia is doing the same kind of invasion in ukraine as zios in palestine.


Is it? Could you show me how Russian imperialist settler-colonialism factors into Russia's invasion, or Russian leaders flaunting their targeting of Ukrainian civilians, or how Ukrainian armament against Russia, and so too the inner shift against Russia, is not a product of Western imperialist direction but an inner revolt against some brutal oppression that for some reason leads them into Nazism?

Don't lump Iran with this tankie BS please. Not honest, not helpful.


What are you talking about? Are you stupid?

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in reply to Lad

Iran and Israel are held to entirely different standards.


By body count, there's no comparison.

I will, however, add an obligatory Fuck the Mullahs-- the Iranian people deserve much better than that.

in reply to futatorius

Fuck the Mullahs


Corny imperialism. Fuck zionism.

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Hezbollah Launches Missile Strike on Military Production Complex in Northern Israel (Sputnik)


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ZLUDA's third life


ZLUDA is a compatibility layer for Nividia’s CUDA on other processors
in reply to jaxiiruff

AFAIK: Development at AMD funded the dev to make it support AMD GPUs (instead of the then-supported Intel GPUs), Dev keeps a clause saying any and all work will remain open even if contract is cancelled, work is then halted by AMD and dev releases his updates on his repo, Legal then says later that the clause was not legally binding and can't be enforced or such, making dev rollback to earlier Intel version
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in reply to Kevin

Legal then says later that the clause was not legally binding and can’t be enforced or such, making dev rollback to earlier Intel version


Yeah it was said by email, i actually did some research and turned out it is indeed not legally binding, i think it is good to know.



House Democrats Say 'Impunity' for Israel Violates US Human Rights Law


in reply to Peter Link

House Democrats have repeatedly funded Israel in the middle of its obvious genocide and supported its genocider-in-chief and now vice-genocider-in-chief. Tlaib has been the lone consistent opponent and has been attacked by her colleagues for doing so.
in reply to TheOubliette

Yeah this letter was penned by a whopping 4 democrats. I'm sure there are more, but nothing close to a majority.
in reply to Peter Link

At least Republicans are honest about their Genocidal desires. Liberals are reaching peak hypocrisy.
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US, UK jets bomb four Yemeni provinces in support of Israeli war


Commenting on the latest aggressions against the country, a senior Yemeni source told Al Mayadeen that the country has been hit by more than 860 US, British, and Israeli raids over the past year, 39 of which were conducted this week alone.
in reply to NightOwl

Murdering poor people has always been fundamental to capitalism.
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in reply to clutchtwopointzero

longstanding critics of the UI/UX will be pleased to hear that GIMP are setting up a UX repository and are looking to build a dedicated team of designers to develop this
in reply to Aatube

Thanks.

In the meanwhile I discovered PhotoGIMP, which helps with getting basic stuff done through GIMP and addresses some points around image and layer selection and manipulation that used to be so confusing with GIMP.




How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war


in reply to Peter Link

And now compare that to the Palestinians' drama. What happened on the 7th of October is horrible but what ensued after is even worse.

Israel is trying once again to portray themselves as the sole victim here which is quite hypocritical given the level of destruction they caused in Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon and the civilian lives lost.

They are citing they want to return 80K Israelis to the north of their country, and for that they displaced 1M Lebanese people. Is the well being of 80K people more important than the well being of 1M?


in reply to Flying Squid

As someone not from hurricane continent, these images are freaking scary. Like what do you mean the hurricanes are several times bigger than my entire country?

I'm just sitting here thinking holy hell I hope cyclones don't come to my comfy corner of North-Eastern Europe

in reply to WoodScientist

I live on top of a hill that drains directly into the ocean. If my house floods I have different problems.

I also won't live on the side of hills without a very clear understanding of the local watershed, soil stability, nearby land rights... I took a lot of Earth science classes and honestly it's kinda traumatizing to peek behind the curtain. Shit is fucked.