Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 14

I wish #Mastodon would add support for hjkl Vim bindings on the desktop; it would make navigation significantly easier for me.

RIP botsin.space (a #mastodon instance where bots were allowed) https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

There is no such thing as a bad Linux distro except Hannah Montana Linux. No, I take it back. That award goes to the bastardized version of Linux called WSL.

#linux #opensource

'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241028-the-failure-that-started-the-internet

#history #internet

@pjakobs absolutely

If you can remember ffmpeg, nmap and openssl syntax from core memory, then you've already mastered the art of the CLI! 💻

#Unix #Linux #opensource

Debian's "secret" sauce https://lwn.net/Articles/990177/

#linux #debian #opensource

YOLO! The world's ending anyway, so let's ditch those pesky security best practices and live life on the edge as the root user! Always log in as root on your #Linux or #Unix machine—who needs security when you've got an apocalypse to enjoy? Just try not to accidentally delete your entire system before the meteor hits. 😉

Boeing hid a significant problem with the software in their 737 MAX airplanes that resulted in two airplane crashes, killing over 350 people. Boeing faced financial penalties, but no Boeing executives were criminally charged with these issues. They know they can get away by paying money. As long as this option exists, CEOs and executives will keep cutting corners, and innocent humans will die. It is the same thing with OpenAI. Sama knows he will not go to jail if someone dies.

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14 This is known as hallucination -- it can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric, and even imagined medical treatments. Yet, they decided to use an OpenAI-based LLM? Has hospital management lost its mind, or is human life no longer valued?

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend. https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

#softwaredevelopment #programming

I'm on a quest to achieve peak #Linux enlightenment, where Windows becomes a distant, hazy memory. 😂

I went as a UDP packet for #Halloween. No one acknowledged me, but to be fair, I wasn't expecting them to.

@catsalad aww 🥰

An Ode To Vim https://bokwoon.com/posts/1khtfep-an-ode-to-vim/

Delta Air Lines, on Friday sued cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike , in a Georgia state court after a global outage in July caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3 million customers and cost the carrier more than $500 million. https://www.reuters.com/legal/delta-sues-crowdstrike-over-software-update-that-prompted-mass-flight-2024-10-25/

Oh my. Apple will pay security researchers up to $1 million to ethically hack its private AI cloud https://security.apple.com/blog/pcc-security-research/

Samsung phone users under attack, Google warns: A nasty bug in Samsung's mobile chips is being exploited by miscreants as part of an exploit chain to escalate privileges and then remotely execute arbitrary code, according to Google security researchers. The good news it is fixed in monthly security update. So apply those ASAP.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/samsung_phone_eop_attacks/

#security #infosec #android #samsung #google

@GoatsLive it is possible that family is getting money via estate

Coworker: Sir, how do you deal with stress, depression, and the rat race of life?

Me: Ah, my friend, whenever existential dread starts creeping in, I remember... somewhere out there, in the giant maze of Microsoft, there's a poor soul whose sole purpose is to ensure Microsoft Edge functions flawlessly on Linux. Suddenly, my problems seem far less difficult to solve. It's all about perspective, you see. 😉

#linux #microsoft #humor