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nixCraft 🐧

Get ready; Google Adsense, which is used by the majority of websites out there, is introducing a beta feature called Offerwall (Ad gate). support.google.com/adsense/ans Once the threshold of 4 page views has been reached for any given user, the ad gate will appear everywhere. How generous of them and the website operators? Currently, this is optional, but it may become a permanent feature unless you turn off the ad blocker. #privacy #security

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YouTube is about to restrict views (beta test) to 3 videos per day, or you need to disable Adblocker or buy YT premium. The battle between content creator and Ad blocker user just escalated further. The whole Google-backed-up Ad industry is going nuclear for sure. It is not just Google, but all other players like FB, Insta, Twitter, and others restricting access to content unless you allow Ad viewing.

nixCraft 🐧

Poll: As a developer or sysadmin/IT person - do you put stickers on your laptop?

Anonymous poll

Poll

Yes, here is the pic πŸ’»
34
33%
No 😝
63
61.2%
I am not allowed to put it
6
5.8%
103 people voted.
Voting ended 8 Jul 2023 at 11:40.
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Evv1L :blobcatlaptop:

@nixCraft I wish, but not on ThinkPad. I keep the serious look for this machine :blobcatcool:

metallcorn 🐧

@nixCraft Yeah, every time I have a laptop, it's covered in stickers. Both old and new here in the photo )

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Poll: According to you, which shell, among #Linux, #Unix, #macOS, or #FreeBSD, has the most features to make your life easier at the CLI:

Anonymous poll

Poll

bash
52
36.9%
fish
18
12.8%
tcsh
5
3.5%
zsh
66
46.8%
141 people voted.
Voting ended 7 Jul 2023 at 19:40.
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DELETED

@nixCraft i like bash. not a huge fan of zsh. tried fish but i didn't like how it felt. by default bash or sh is on a server or a new system usually. a lot of my tweaks are also for bash. (⁠๑⁠‒⁠﹏⁠‒⁠)

Edd

@nixCraft zsh and fish both seem to have more and better features than Bash, based on my limited experience with them; but Bash is my warm and cozy blanket and I'll stay snuggled under it thankyouverymuch

nixCraft 🐧

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.

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PaulBivand

@nixCraft Instructions as used by my father for teaching students to become teachers. Before 1975, hence imperial measures, foolscap copy by dyeline printing.

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Steve Dinn

@nixCraft The real question is why wasn't Debian considered an "enterprise" distro all along?

jagdtigger

@nixCraft
Will be fun to watch redhats reaction when their market share takes a nosedive..... 🀣

nixCraft 🐧

one day i will convince the world that ffmpeg is superior.

so far it only makes people stop reading my messages. twitter.com/meowkoteeq/status/

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Mat DJ 🐢 :verified_paw: :donor:

@nixCraft You get extra points if you typed that using an Android keyboard with autocorrect still switched on.

bulbyvr

@nixCraft i love using ffmpeg to convert a game audio track with 4 mono channels to a stereo channel track dropping the last 2 channels

nixCraft 🐧

You can press up-arrow or down-arrow to walk through a list of previous commands in most modern shells like bash, tcsh, fish, zsh and others in #Linux / #FreeBSD / #macOS/ #Unix. Another option is to hit CTRL+R & type the command to recall. See:
help history
man bash
man fish
man zsh

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Georg

@nixCraft all are white, all are able-bodied, there is at best one female person. This picture is part if the problem for sure.

ash

@nixCraft Thanks and love to all the solo developer-maintainers 🫢

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I'm not surprised at all. Brute Fail: Watch brute force SSH attacks fail in real time brute.fail/. Hence, I suggest reading my OpenSSH best security practices guide for #Linux, #FreeBSD, and #Unix cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix- to secure your server against these bots. #infosec #security #sysadmin

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Takiro 🎨

@nixCraft
I remember seeing Scott and other random names in my alerts send by Fail2Ban and I always wondered: who were these people that they appear in those brute force lists?

Takiro 🎨

@nixCraft
Anyone remembering Siri recommending Nokia when asked what the best mobile phone is?

devsecfranklin

@nixCraft because the software and models won't improve over time right

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Mother Nature committed quite a few times on this branch

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Poll: The most common way I've seen for SSH access to #Linux or #Unix servers (please boost for reach. TIA):

Anonymous poll

Poll

Username and password
605
34.1%
SSH authorized_keys (pub key)
1,336
75.3%
SSH Certificates
81
4.6%
Other (I will reply below)
21
1.2%
1,774 people voted.
Voting ended 5 Jun 2023 at 5:27.
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Christopher Wood

@Nixcraft

Channeling the Enterprise Security Architect vibe...

Don't you know that somebody might rEplAcE filEs oR aDd a kEy?? Are you committed to security at all??

l4p1n πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

@nixCraft public keys managed with an initialization Ansible role.

I've tried ssh certs, but it's more annoying to manage for my setup so far

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