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A Basil Plant

InfoSec Person | Alt-Account#2

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  • Not exactly what you asked, but do you know about ufw-blocklist?

    I've been using this on my multiple VPSes for some time now and the number of fail2ban failed/banned has gone down like crazy. Previously, I had 20k failed attempts after a few months and 30-50 currently-banned IPs at all times; now it's less than 1k failed after a year and maybe 3-ish banned at any time.

    There was also that paid service where users share their spammy IP address attempts with a centralized network, which does some dynamic intelligence monitoring. I forgot the name and search these days isn't great. Something to do with "Sense"? It was paid, but well recommended as far as I remember.

    Edit: seems like the keyword is " threat intelligence platform"

  • Nice!

    Could you please word it slightly different to provide clarity? Perhaps:

    From now on, you can comment !lemmysilver under any post to award the poster one lemmy silver. You can do this once every 24 hours in posts that are in participating communities (see: this post for more information). Alternatively, you can send a PM to LemmySilverBot with !lemmysilver username.

  • Ah, I think I misunderstood - the lemmy silver is for one to award to a different user, and not for one to claim? I was under the impression that it was the latter.

    Neat idea!

  • Thanks loads! It's pretty sick and now is my lock screen wallpaper ;D

  • These are gorgeous! If it's okay with you, may I use this as my wallpaper?

    https://metapixl.com/p/Stoy/797940603119447726

    If yes, is there a high res image? Thanks!

  • Oh boy, this was a 20 minute rabbit hole.

    Tl;Dr: this is probably AI generated.

    Using google image search, I found is that it was created by this account in Oct/2024:

    https://www.instagram.com/gothtoon/p/DBh-p4WgThS/

    Alternative front-end: https://imginn.com/p/DBh-p4WgThS/

    There is the copyright symbol with this user in this image.

    If you go through the comments and other posts by that user, it does look AI generated. Their threads account has a linktree, which has a link to a discord server, which I momentarily joined to see what the deal is about.

    Looks like it's a project started by a user named Emo Bot 9000, and they've created a bunch of characters, the most famous of which is the frog mage. This is a message on discord that supports this:

    Another user asks whether the frog mage stuff is made using AI, and Emo Bot 9000 essentially replies yes:

    Now, although the image in this lemmy post is, to the best of my searching, nowhere explicitly labeled AI, I think it mostly points to being generated by AI. The simplest way to confirm would be to ask them on their discord directly, which I don't intend to do.

    Although reverse search tells me there are earlier appearances of this image, they're either false or the PFP of a commenter.

  • Huh, I hadn't heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/

    Interesting!

  • My personal website is made using Hugo, sitting behind Caddy, and hosted on Racknerd. I see elsewhere in the thread that you're looking for something akin to a $5/month VPS, but racknerd is MUCH cheaper for much more vCPU + vRAM (older hardware, but that's not a deal breaker for hosting a static website).

    I used to do $6/Month on Digital Ocean for 1 vCPU + 1GB vRAM + 1TB bandwidth, but now I'm somewhere like $3/Month for 2 vCPU + 2.5GB vRAM + 5TB bandwidth [1]. In fact, I paid $6 extra to have the server in France. Otherwise it's $30 a year.

    Check out racknerd tracker [2]. I found out about it through lemmy many months ago [3]. The person who made the website gets some affiliate stuff.

    [1] https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=211%2F25gb-kvm-vps

    [2] https://racknerdtracker.com/

    [3] https://lemmy.world/comment/11855808

  • Can single-branch handle cloning from a particular commit? I know that it's possible to clone particular branches and particular tags with depth=1, but OP states cloning at a particular commit, not HEAD.

  • --depth=1? I use this all the time when I clone the kernel.

    Edit: reread that you wanted to download code at a particular commit.

  • I'm unsure whether your formatting messed up, but you shouldn't have a space between the shebang (#!) and the interpreter path (/bin/bash). Also add a new line before your command:

     sh
        
    #!/bin/bash
    
    gnome-terminal -- sh -c gotop
    
      

    I tried this on my system (with htop instead of gotop) and it worked.

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:QR_Code_Structure_Example_3.svg

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

    OP is talking about the alternating pattern between the two straw papers. In the SVG from Wikipedia, this corresponds to the "timing"

  • https://lemmy.world/post/21426814

    A very relevant AskLemmy question I asked a month ago.

  • Yep, a few forks were identified within a few hours. I think the maintainers had forks too.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world
    snee.la An 800 Star Repository Just Went Private

    Today morning, I was building an AMD SEV virtual machine from source. It requires TianoCore/edk2, “the reference implementation of UEFI by Intel”. While the build script cloned SubhookLib/subhook, I was asked for a Github username and password: This set off alarm bells. After a quick search through ...

    An 800 Star Repository Just Went Private

    Tl;Dr: Zeex/subhook, an 800+ star repository, went offline. A few big repositories depend on it as a submodule.

    Disclaimer: this is my website.

  • Do you want to return to that account?

    If not, Temp mail works fine.

    Also, Bug me not has user-submitted usernames + passwords to services. This works nicely.

    I've used Port87 in the past. The user who created it promoted the service on lemmy initially. It worked (I paid for a few months).

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    Do you use "mould" or "mold"?

    I've always thought that mold is the fungus, and to mould is to shape. When talking about it with my colleagues yesterday, I was surprised that this isn't common. Most people use one of the two spellings to refer to both.

    Doing a quick search on duckduckgo also confirms that:

    In my quest to prove them wrong, I was surprised at how wrong I was... until I discovered a few people on the internet who said the same thing:

    30 Rock @dubvee.org
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    What do elites do when they screw up?

    Season 3 Episode 10: Flu Shot

    Felt that this quote from Jack was very relevant in today's world.

    linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    Arch users trying to print files

    Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    Mcafee accidentally made users call the devs of SQLite and complain.

    via: @memes@wetdry.world

    https://wetdry.world/@memes/112717700557038278

    the sqlite codebase is a gem.

    tldr; mcaffee made a shit ton of sqlite files in the temp folder causing people to call the sqlite devs phone angrily. now they name all files etilqs to prevent this.

    Text from the screenshot:

    2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid of the file.

    Code found at: https://github.com/sqlite/sqli

    Linux @lemmy.ml
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world
    snee.la How System Requests Work and How to Add Your Own SysReq

    I needed to add a custom System Request (Sys Req or SysRq) to a linux kernel some time ago. While doing so, I dug deep into how it works and I thought I’d make a quick post about it. Here is a good SuperUser answer about what a SysRq is. You may also know about SysRq via REISUB. This post has three ...

    How System Requests Work and How to Add Your Own SysReq

    I needed to add a custom System Request (Sys Req or SysRq) to a linux kernel some time ago. While doing so, I dug deep into how it works and I thought I’d make a quick post about it. Here is a good SuperUser answer about what a SysRq is. You may also know about SysRq via REISUB. This post has three parts: how to raise a SysRq, how SysRq works (looking into kernel code), and how to add your own SysRq.

    Disclaimer: This is my website.

    Science Memes @mander.xyz
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10002

    Abstract (emphasis mine):

    The concept of a 'Ballmer Peak' was first proposed in 2007, postulating that there exists a very specific blood alcohol content which confers superhuman programming ability. More generally, there is a commonly held belief among software engineers that coding is easier and more productive after a few drinks. Using the industry standard for assessment of coding ability, we conducted a search for such a peak and more generally investigated the effect of different amounts of alcohol on performance. We conclusively refute the existence of a specific peak with large magnitude, but with p < 0.001 find that there was a significant positive effect to a low amount of alcohol - slightly less than two drinks - on programming ability.

    Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs

    I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars.

    Lo and behold when I open a pack during a break, I find two bars inside. I didn't want to eat two bars, just one. You can't even just leave the other fucking bar inside because they create so MANY crumbs. How the fuck are you supposed to seal it???

    Stupid-ass deceptive printing got the better of me. It's not the end of the world, just mildly infuriating.

    Firefox @lemmy.ml
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world
    snee.la Firefox and XPI Files

    <rant> I use Zotero, a “free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research” (from their website). Zotero is based on Firefox and users can install addons from XPI files. I looking to install a DOM-Inspector to Zotero and I subsequently found zotero-inspector on ...

    Firefox and XPI Files

    Upon going to the releases page, I clicked on the xpi file only to see an alert pop up in Firefox:

    “The add-on downloaded from this site could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt.”

    I… don’t know if this should be allowed. It just feels wrong.

    Firefox @lemmy.ml
    A Basil Plant @lemmy.world

    How to un-tiny scrollbars in Firefox

    snee.la Scrollbars - Make Them Bigger

    If you want to skip the floof and see the settings to tweak on Firefox, go to Settings to Tweak below. Don’t you love how tiny scroll bars have become??? I sure do! A bunch of other people on lemmy totally love it too! Just search for scrollbars on lemmy and you’ll see the amount of love there is i...

    Scrollbars - Make Them Bigger

    Tl;Dr:

    In about:config, I changed these preferences:

    • widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.round-thumb: false - This makes the scrollbar not have rounded edges
    • widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size: 1 - This makes the scrollbar ‘chonkier’ within the scrollbar region
    • widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override: 20 - This increases the scrollbar region size. Larger number = wider scrollbar
    • Make sure widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled is set to false - This should have been set to false when you enabled “Always show scrollbars”

    On Windows, Firefox follows the system setting (System Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Always show scrollbars).