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mboelen

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Founder of CISOfy; author of #infosec tools rkhunter and Lynis; involved with NLUUG, the society for #openstandards and #opensource; helping companies to secure their #Linux environment; interested in #sustainability and sharing messages in English, sometimes in Dutch 🇳🇱. My Dutch-only account is https://mastodon.nl/@mboelen.

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bagder, to random
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Remember to take the user survey 2024 - if you can spare a few minutes.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

mboelen,
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@bagder
Got some feedback on the survey itself: The survey feels a bit overwhelming as I only use a limited set of functionality 😇 For my purposes I can say: it's stable, well-maintained, and it does what it needs to do. So visiting the website and things like that is something I rarely do.

Just a thought: Maybe the survey (next year) can be tuned to show only the remaining relevant sections based on the given answers? Or split into multiple types (light user, curl contributor, curl dev)?

WanderingInDigitalWorlds, to linux
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Ultimately, when I do purchase a Mac Mini, I have a safety net for being able to experiment with freely. It's easier to experiment when failure doesn't cause any significant issues in one's life. General anxiety is a struggle of mine, so doing sensible things to mitigate the intensity of anxiety helps me take chances I wouldn't risk ordinarily. The PC can become my Linux experiment, I can follow the documentation about Linux to increase my comfort levels with Linux.

mboelen,
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Why not start on a cheap raspberry pi or in a virtual machine?

mboelen,
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Hmmm, doing almost everything in virtual machines myself. But yes, I can understand you are curious about MacOS. No longer my cup of tea, but I understand its appeal.

mboelen, to linux
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With more people joining after recent news, it may be good to focus on some core commands 🎓

Before you think 'uptime' on the question below, the article got a few alternatives included.

When did a system start? Learn how to query the boot time (uptime) of a system using commands like uptime and ps: https://linux-audit.com/system-administration/faq/how-to-see-when-system-was-started/

Got other options or useful commands that can be added? 🏗️

Feedback and boosts welcome 👷

mboelen,
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@Corb_The_Lesser @visone But then you make the assumption that we only have users that want to use the GUI. On Windows there are also "power users" using PowerShell to automate their work or activities. My goal is to provide information (for free) to anyone that can use it. From the starter that wonders about viruses on up to the Unix wizards. I understand that not everything uses a terminal that often, but that is also the reason to create blog posts: the is not a scary place.

mboelen, to random
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One of the things I always wanted for the Linux Audit blog was more FAQ entries. Quickly find relevant commands or close enough to find alternatives, or read more about a particular tool. Man pages are great, but also they are not...

So with adding the 'iftop' command page today, adding this frequently asked question: How to see active connections and bandwidth usage?

https://linux-audit.com/networking/faq/how-to-see-active-connections-and-bandwidth-usage/

mboelen, to linux
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The command iftop shows ongoing bandwidth usage on one or more network interfaces and is a great tool for troubleshooting network issues.

Doing some tool ⚙️ and network analysis, so great option to combine things: https://linux-audit.com/system-administration/commands/iftop/

Feedback and boosts welcome 🚀

bagder, to random
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“I could rewrite #curl”

Here's my collection of some less cheerful quotes to keep me firmly grounded. Blogged three years ago today:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/

mboelen,
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@bagder
I think this person meant recompiling 🤣

bagder, to random
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It has been a long time coming, but I've made it official:

"Daniel no longer answers questions on stackoverflow. Use a dedicated public curl forum for accurate and timely answers about anything . "

(yes, speaking about myself in 3rd person)

https://stackoverflow.com/users/93747/daniel-stenberg

mboelen,
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@bagder
Great action 👍🏻. My hope is that we get more specialized pages/blogs, instead of those central places that sooner or later get way too much power. Especially if that power is based on contributions by the community. For this reason, I decided to revamp my blog (https://linux-audit.com/), specialize, and still allow to crawl it. After all, if it continues to exist, I rather want it to use knowledge of higher quality.

taylorlorenz, to random
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Even Elon is sick of her shit

mboelen,
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@taylorlorenz
Or a cry for normal content, instead of hate, mistrust, name-calling, and other crap on his beloved platform 😄

jpmens, to random
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I might actually report this ad. For stupidity.

mboelen,
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@jpmens
Clearly this algorithm matched the wrong things 💩

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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Comment 🐧

#linux

mboelen,
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@itsfoss
Firefox: to browse
KeePass/Bitwarden: storing passwords
Editor (vim/nano or notepad): to store notes
Lynis: scan your system for security and learn Linux along the way

Oh right, one ☺️

mboelen, to sysadmin
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The tool can be useful, but the amount of options is overwhelming. Collecting the ones that I would use, so that I don't have to look things up next time.

Another cheat sheet to simplify the life of a running

https://linux-audit.com/cheat-sheets/lsof/

Do you have other ones that you on a regular basis and that I missed?

mboelen, to linux
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With all those cheat sheets for in the making, I decided to enhance the section page: https://linux-audit.com/cheat-sheets/

Other tools that should be added?

nixCraft, to random
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How to add cron job entry for acme client https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-add-cron-job-entry-for-acme-sh/

mboelen,
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@nixCraft
Love the typo: Opps, which is an operational oops 😂

jpmens, (edited ) to random
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Yeah, I can see how this might be a problem

https://noyb.eu/en/chatgpt-provides-false-information-about-people-and-openai-cant-correct-it

mboelen,
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@jpmens
Schrödingers JP: dead, yet alive 🤔

🖕 AI 😇

nixCraft, to random
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Bad and freeloader behaviour
AnthropicAI. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1ceco4f/claude_ai_name_and_shame/ Please boost to shame them.

mboelen,
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@nixCraft
Yes, saw them as well on my end. Tried contacting them and not much of a response yet. We should feed them digital rubbish, so their products will output 🤡💩
@securingdev

jpmens, to random
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    mboelen,
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    @jpmens
    I thought it was a knife at the first glance 😂 but digging is better than slicing 😇

    itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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    Time to discuss 🔮

    mboelen,
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    @itsfoss
    Desktop 😇

    mboelen, to HowTo
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    One of the best HTTP clients is the open source tool curl. With ongoing development and continuously new updates, it is worth getting everything out of this powerful tool!

    https://linux-audit.com/cheat-sheets/curl/

    And as a bonus: @bagder is friendly developer, and also great to follow here on Mastodon! So give the article a go and follow Daniel 😉

    This is the first version of the cheat sheet, with some practical examples. Feedback is very welcome, and boosts as well 🚀

    mboelen,
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    How I know Daniel is a friendly and funny person? I met him some years ago at a speakers dinner at Snow (NL). Had a big laugh, with him on the opposite of the table and Lennart Poettering besides him. One of the dinners I won't forget 😀

    mboelen,
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    @bagder While refreshing blog content, I came across this one: https://linux-audit.com/web-changes-with-http2-performance-and-security/

    I even blogged about the dinner, yet totally forgot that I did 😲

    bagder, to random
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    When in my car, I found myself in my car.

    mboelen,
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    @bagder
    Nice! What is the weirdest place that you found curl in/at/on?

    mboelen, to linux
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    I'm working on a cheat sheet for . This nifty tool is easily overlooked, but so powerful that it really made me invest more time into learning it.

    The initial version of the cheat sheet is available and ready for feedback: https://linux-audit.com/cheat-sheets/awk/

    Boosts would be appreciated, and feedback even more!

    What are your AWK one-liners that others really need to know and should be included?

    Special thanks to @DopeGhoti

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    @jpmens
    With a 403 in front of it?

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