Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 21

Facad is a new and ls-like tool. It is a colorful directory listing tool for CLI users with emoji-based files and directory icons. https://github.com/yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad?tab=readme-ov-file #linux #unix

Looking for a pay rise? Try datacentre construction. Experienced electrical installers can make six figure salaries working on datacentres. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24pvm8ly18o

I can't believe this. Is this Google money speaking? Mozilla's massive lapse in judgment causes a clash with the uBlock Origin developer.
https://www.ghacks.net/2024/10/01/mozillas-massive-lapse-in-judgement-causes-clash-with-ublock-origin-developer/

How To Drop or Block Attackers IP Address With Null Routes On a #Linux https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-drop-or-block-attackers-ip-with-null-routes.html

Red team hacker on how she 'breaks into buildings and pretends to be the bad guy' https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/29/interview_with_a_social_engineering/ #infosec #security

@tehstu also "cd -" and other stuff. Do check out https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Cd_command and https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-change-directory-in-linux-using-cd-command/

Do you need to quickly return to your #Linux or #Unix or #macOS or #FreeBSD home directory? Juyt type "cd" and hit the [Enter] key.

cd /some/long/path/
cd /get/lost/somewhere/else
# now back to sweet home
cd

@f4grx @ralen true. they all are evil.

@f4grx @bison It is going to be a wild crash; worse than the dot-com bubble. They will use that crash to fire even more people while giving bonuses to CEOs, and in some cases, they will ask governments to bail out. This is what they do.

@f4grx that is true. They do have applebot, which seems to follow robots.txt, unlike scams like OpenAI and Perplexity, who ignores robots.txt completely despite getting caught redhanded multiple times https://www.heise.de/en/news/Crawler-without-limits-Perplexity-ignores-robots-txt-9770682.html

FFmpeg 7.1 is released today https://archive.is/6xEjD

Binsider can perform static and dynamic analysis, inspect strings, examine linked libraries, and perform hexdumps, all within a user-friendly terminal user interface! Download here https://github.com/orhun/binsider

We should be really thankful for the FLOSS movement's efforts to create software and operating systems free from AI/LLM, telemetry, and other privacy nightmares. Can you imagine using an OS that sucks all your info and send it to the likes of Microsoft? It is a nightmare. It is none of their business what we do on our computer, yet here we are.

Guess what? Microsoft is still investing in OpenAI. The same company is introducing a recall feature to record everything you do on your computer and store it on disk. Then, that information will be sold to the highest bidder, or some security bug in Windows OS will allow bad guys to have it.

Good, someone at Apple knows this whole thing is a big fraud. Apple has reportedly exited negotiations to invest in OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, according to the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-join-openai-investment-round-e3be3e66 (Paywall) I hope next Apple drop OpenAI from iOS, too. Please don't get involved with low-life thieves and billionaire scum like Sama, who act holier than thou. He and other tech bros think they are special and must be allowed to steal from everyone.

@postpunky that is true but most enterprise distro has them because of compatibility reasons

Want to to see the last time that you or given user logged in, use lastlogin command on your #Linux, or #FreeBSD or #Unix like oses:

# macos/freebsd
lastlogin
lastlogin user

# Linux
lastlog
lastlog -u user

This will tell you last reboot/shutdown time:
last -x
last -x reboot

The syntax varies between Unix variant so do check man page or read the following

→ https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-check-last-time-user-loggedin-command/
→ https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-display-clear-last-login-information/

An Experimental AntiBot Reverse Proxy https://github.com/pulkitsharma07/OnlyHumans-Proxy Serve your static website as image(s) so that crawlers, bots, etc cannot steal/scrape/take your content. This is what it comes to now.

How to test #Linux for IPv6 networking support for debugging purposes https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-for-ipv6-support-in-linux-kernel/

@kravemir Humorous exaggeration of linux user. Just for lulz. Nothing else.