Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 2

Suppose you see someone, perhaps your co-worker or friend, or someone switched from Windows to Linux and struggling with the command line. What would you do?

I’m going to be honest: I still don’t understand the point of Threads. It feels just like IG. The discovery features are lacking. There’s little to no presence from the infosec, tech, IT, or FLOSS communities. No major government or company offers tech support using Threads either. Instead of creating a separate platform, Meta could have simply added link-sharing and text post options to IG. They went out of their way to build it, but it offers nothing special and their alog just sucks.

I know this sounds like extreme views, but these companies have taken jobs from honest working people like book writers, artists, video/audio editors, authors, copyright editors, and more while taking their hard work to train their shity AI. I have zero sympathy for anyone who causes job loss or doesn't compensate for others' hard work. You are not curing cancer here. If anything, you are heating our planet and making energy expensive for everyone.

If you want to hit OpenAI, sue all its investors, like Microsoft & others. Go after their cash cow business, such as Windows OS and MS-Office, and ban sales of those apps until everyone is compensated for these copyright infringements. Make sure until that time, all OpenAI APIs are blocked too. Hit everyone associated with monstrosity. These companies have sued kids for downloading MP3s. The same laws should apply to OpenAI & tech bros. You are not special because you are billionaire brat

Good. One of India’s largest news agencies, Asian News International (ANI), has sued OpenAI in a case that could set a precedent for how AI companies use copyrighted news content. Asian News International filed a 287-page lawsuit in the Delhi High Court on Monday, alleging the AI company illegally used its content to train its AI models and generated false information attributed to the news agency https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/indian-news-agency-sues-openai-alleging-copyright-infringement/

Linus Torvalds once said ChromeOS was probably the nearest win for the Linux desktop. Now, Google plans to migrate Chrome OS fully over to Android. The reason for this shift is to better compete with the iPad and also make more effective use of development resources. Is ChromeOS as good as dead now? It seems that way. https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3500661/

The Debian Project mourns the loss of Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241119 #linux #opensource #rip

Good. DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly including AI overviews feature which is affecting all small sites https://archive.ph/PPGGV

I hope the DOJ also punishes and breaks up Microsoft for its predatory behavior with the Windows OS, privacy issues and deep integration with shity AI. These companies are too big and abusing their power, and they need to be controlled now.

I think I found a serverless data center that developers use to create serverless apps 😂🧑🏻💻

Here is how you list all physically installed network cards in #Linux connected to the PCI bus:

sudo hwinfo --short --netcard
sudo lshw -C network -short
sudo inxi -N
sudo lspci | grep -Ei 'eth|network|ethernet|wireless|wifi'

See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-list-network-interfaces-names-command/ for more info and examples.

Want to print your #Linux and #Unix manual pages? Try

Save the PostScript version to a file:
man -t {command} {command|.ps
man -t date date.ps
file date.ps
xdg-open date.ps

You send the PostScript directly to default printer:
man -t {command} | lp

This will send date manual page to the printer named hp0:
man -t date | lpr -Php0

AlmaLinux 9.5 has been released https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/9.5.html #linux

> FreeBSD pkg upgrade: You may need to manually remove /usr/local/etc/ssh/sshd_config if it is no longer needed.

Haha. If I do that, I will lose connectivity. I'm unsure why I disabled OpenSSH shipped in base and replaced with OpenSSH portable on this machine. And now I'm afraid to make any change. LOL.

The Sysadmin’s Apprentice 🧑🏻💻🤣 https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/11/18/the-sysadmins-apprentice/

So, IPv4 address space walks into a bar and yells “One strong CIDR please, I'm exhausted!”

🥱

Ah, it is the time of year. I need to pay the annual fee for that domain I bought with grand plans but I haven't touched since? That's not a charge, my fellow dev bros, that's a procrastination fee. You know, I Gotta pay tax for the premium parking spot for my brilliant idea which is hogging in the internet garage. 😉

There are three ways to edit text on a #Linux or #Unix like systems: 🫣

0. The vim or vi way
1. The emacs way
2. The wrong way

Which one are you? 🤔

I hate it when I get shoulder tapped while eating my lunch. The grim-faced user says, "I am glad I found you." Fuck you, and I hate you more. You are not president/CEO. Your problem can wait 15 minutes more.

Question: What’s an Australian Linux users favourite DE?

Answer: MATE

"Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking. " -- Unknown