I am pretty sure I started with either Halloween or Mother’s Day because Red Hat Linux for Dummies came with Red Hat 2.1 which I am pretty sure came out in 96 or 97. I know Red Hat 6 was released in 1999, because I was neck deep in Y2K work at the time I installed it on my Compaq laptop.

That is strange.

I have been on this Linux jam since 1996 with a CD copy of Red Hat that came with a magazine (Byte, maybe?). In 2018 I made the jump to Debian based distros specifically because I got tired of the surprises. Now my lab runs LMDE. The only thing more stable and boring is Debian Stable itself.

Like you said, I want to focus on my projects, not have the OS be my project.

And they are providing the OCR’d text free of charge to the masses, right? Right?

Nice. Could you recreate my mess using it? We all carry bad habits and inneficiencies, so I’m down to learn a cleaner, more efficient way.

find dir1 – find something within directory “dir1”

-type f – specifies that what you are looking fir is a file

-name ‘crunk’ – the file name is ‘crunk’

-exec bash -c – for the results, execute bash command

The command executed is move (mv)

‘mv “$0” “${0/crunk/chunk}”’ {} ; – move from crunk to chunk

Let’s see, and please do not execute this “as is” since I am pulling this out of my butt. Assuming directory name is “dir1”, the file to be renamed is “crunk”, and the new name is “chunk”, then… (I assumed bash)

find dir1 -type f -name 'crunk' -exec bash -c 'mv "$0" "${0/crunk/chunk}"' {} \;

A: The EU should definitely have its own military, capable of defending its own borders without the need of external help.

B: Fuck the orange buffoon who has single handedly damaged the US beyond repair. Even if the US ejects the fascists and prosecutes all corrupt politicians and billionaires who partook in pilfering the country, it will never reach the heights it enjoyed before.

Loot boxes and gatcha games:

I could go $299 at the absolute ceiling, but $499 is truly bonkers.

1. Install a PiHole.
2. Create a guest wifi (most current routers allow you to do this)
3. Configure PiHole as DNS server on guest WiFi DHCP
4. Add all IoT devices including Roku and SmartTVs to guest WiFi

“Chat, the billionaires are acting super sus while hungry New Yorkers are in need of a carry. So let’s flip the script. Spend your Bezos bucks here and you’ll help the needy. Let’s goooo!!!”

Ideally, higher quality audio circuitry.

Infosec professional for almost 30 years here. I can confirm that the latest iterations of AI models are finding high quality bugs and vulnerabilities in the code we work with. If Daniel has access to Mythos, I suspect his experience would be even more shocking.

The problem I have is that the AI tools can find bugs faster than they can be patched, which is eventually going to prompt companies to use AI to patch bugs found by AI. Before long, no living being will be able to make heads or tails out of the code we run. Just my 2¢.

65k YouTube subs and they paid hundreds of millions?!?

So fucking stupid