Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social), page 40

I'm really sick of all social media companies randomly removing posts and using algorithms designed to provoke anger or hate. I feel like I should just create an independent site that anyone can follow using either a full RSS feed or a daily or weekly email newsletter. After all, I don't get paid to post on these social media platforms. It's just my laziness that's stopping me, and I don't want to invest money into hosting. I think @mwl did it correctly. This is the way in a long run.

Question: What is the best time to push everything to prod?

Answer: From airport WiFi just before boarding an 16-hour flight. Good luck, suckers, caching me! Ensure you catch the Friday evening flight, for extra credit. #ReadOnlyFriday #IT #devlife #devops

Heads up new OpenSSH (sshd) security bug only exists in RHEL 9 and friends. OpenSSH bug leaves RHEL 9 and the RHELatives vulnerable https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/11/openssh_bug_in_rhel_9/ #linux

Heads up: Do Not Upgrade to Any Version of MySQL After 8.0.37. If you create a certain number of tables, #MySQL will crash on restart 😓 https://www.percona.com/blog/do-not-upgrade-to-any-version-of-mysql-after-8-0-37/

🚀 Don't want to crack open your #Linux machine? Find your RAM speed & type (DDR3, DDR4, etc.) with a few simple commands or GUI tools! 💻

Check out this guide to level up your Linux knowledge: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/check-ram-speed-linux/ #LinuxTips #RAMUpgrade #TechHacks

The amount of YAML I write every day makes me wonder if I should change my name from nixCraft to YAMLCraft.

How I escaped vim:

\v\i\m

What is easier? 🤔
A) Buy a new domain name and daydream of building a project

B) Actually write code and build something

Why did the developer quit? They were tired of paying interest on technical debt. 😅

wish me a good luck guys: i am upgrading arch #linux after 6 months of break 😓

Grammarly, by default, uses the text you type or paste into its app and website to train its AI. This feature is turned on by default, but it can be turned off. The company hides this information under the name "Product Improvement." Go to settings > privacy and turn it off. Or simple cancel delete the Grammarly from your phone. #privacy

WTF? Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers https://stackdiary.com/linksys-velop-routers-send-wi-fi-passwords-in-plaintext-to-us-servers/ They found that several data packets being transmitted to an AWS server in the US. These packets included the configured SSID name and password in clear text, identification tokens for the network within a broader database, and an access token for a user session, potentially paving the way for a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. #security #infosec #wifi

Life/404: Motivation not found 😔

Red Hat is working on a new scheme to replace the GRUB bootloader with a fast, secure, Linux-based, user-space solution: nmbl (for no more boot loader). You can just use #Linux kernel to boot https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/W3AVCT/

Who tf said that Rust is the easiest programming language?

How much hard drive storage did your first home computer have? 🤔💾

Gen AI: Too much spend, too little benefit [pdf]
https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf

Linux terminal loves* you.

*Terms and conditions apply. See “man bash” for details.

Do you agree?

User: I accidentally opened vim. How do you even quit this thing?

me: that's their adoption strategy. it's Hotel California of text editors