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If AI replaced your current job in the IT industry (developer, sysadmin, infosec, etc.), what job would you switch to? Do you have any other additional skills beyond computers?

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Hackers are so bored. According to one hacker kid, they've already stolen all your data, and nothing is left to steal from anyone. One important elderly hacker said there is so much data stolen that we don't even know what to do with it. Another hacker who goes by 'K!tt�K4t' nickname confirmed that most of the average public citizens are so poor we can't get anything from them using that stolen data. So now hackers are resorting to hacking each other just for fun. #Satire #shitpost

Fun fact: The STOPPED one requires insecure and older CGroupV1 host system settings at kernel boot time. Those images probably need to be updated to fix this issue, but given the current state of CentOS 7, which is EOLd, I doubt anybody will fix it. Hah!

@bazkie The major stuff like kernel and drivers are all shared and heavily cached on faster PCIe SSD. But, libs are not shared between distros for sure. Because these are containers, they can only load required apps like php-fcgi or nginx, depending on your needs. I would say Linux kernels and containers developers put lot of hard work into it to optimise these kind of workloads. Despite all IBM/RedHat/Intel/Google, etc, pulling shenanigans, they did contribute a lot to this ecosystem.

@max_frost true. Windows codebase is a massive hack, and somehow, enterprise and home consumers are convinced that it is the only option despite all the privacy and security nightmares that MS baked into it. I'm even ashamed to tell anyone sometimes I have to work with Windows servers or desktops.

Running 26 Linux distributions as containers. How much RAM do you think it will consume? The answer might surprise you, my friends. Just 1.2Gi RAM used on the freshly rebooted machine. Of course, this is a test lab running Ubuntu fully patched 22.04 LTS. But you get the gist. This stuff is born for enterprise workload. Here is how to set up a lab using shell script for fun and profit https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/shell-script-to-set-up-an-lxd-incus-linux-containers-lab-for-testing-purpose/ #linux #devops #sysadmin #opensource

A typical Friday afternoon at software development centre 🤨 https://www.commitstrip.com/en/?

@rickyx of course it is nvidia 🤖

Changing the timezone to match your local time for comfort might seem tempting, but keeping your Linux or Unix servers set to UTC is best practice. UTC ensures consistency across all servers, avoids potential issues, and makes it easy to use with log analysis or troubleshooting on the server side. #linux #unix #sysadmin

There is a big bank that is also reducing customer support jobs, including IT and infosec jobs. The bank CEO and CTO are drinking AI cool aid and want to save money despite making billions in profits. Get ready for the worst possible customer support and data breaches because they are replacing trained staff with AI. It is now a race to the bottom.

This is brutal. Cisco Systems to Cut About 7% of Staff in Second Round of Layoffs. That is 6000 jobs. Cisco has raced to take advantage of an industrywide shift into artificial intelligence https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/technology/cisco-layoffs.html

Damn. YouTube now requires an account to view videos. It says, "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot". Suppose I logged in to Gmail with no issues. This is what AI is doing. Every platform is getting closed source.

Open source will always win the battle

me trying to learn rust lang 😭

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Java was released in 1995

Python was released in 1991

Not just Java is popular, but it dominates the enterprise market. Truth is hard to swallow.

@alda that is okay. i trust you and followers.

It is imperative that most Linux and Unix server config files are free of syntax errors! Otherwise, you may end up with a disaster. But fear not; there is an easy way to check for such mistakes in most common Unix services before you reload/restart them https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/check-unix-linux-configuration-file-for-syntax-errors.html 👇 #linux #unix #opensource #freebsd

@alda honestly i really don’t know but i deleted the post because I don’t want to support anyone who did something to upset my followers.