@thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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Let's say that you sometimes have to paste sensitive things into your terminal, like login strings, or credentials.

If you paste them in normally, they'll show up in your history, and that could be bad. That can be mitigated to some extent in Bourne shell with:

export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace

Now, you can put a leading space in front of your sensitive command and it won't show up in your history:

curl -u username:password https://www.example.com/login

(put in backticks to make it obvious there's a leading space)

example.com

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange Let's say you have two container runtime engines but you want to prefer one over the other: which podman docker | head -n1 This will prefer whichever is first in the list, podman, in this case. Why is it useful? Say you're creating a Makefile and you need to interact with a container. Some people use podman and others use docker. In your Makefile you can put: CONTAINER_RUNTIME ?= $(shell which podman docker | head -n1) Then you can refer to $(CONTAINER_RUNTIME) in the Makefile target to use either podman or docker, (or something else, but that's for another toot). (as a disclaimer, I work for Red Hat, which maintains Podman, but I do not work on that team.)

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

Boosted by @PhilipCJames@mas.to

https://globalnews.ca/news/11688507/conservative-searches-antifa-federal-government/ Repeat after me: Fascism is bad. You SHOULD be against fascism. Why is this Conservative MP, Garnett Genuis, against people who are against fascism? Makes you want to start asking questions about his political loyalties; people that are opposed to the idea of anti-fascism are anti-Canada, and an affront to the many in the armed forces who gave their lives to defeat fascism. His beliefs, and those who share them, are incompatible with democracy and Canadian values. I urge the people in his riding to let him know that his anti-Canadian values are incompatible. They should vote him out, too. #Cdnpoli

Global News

Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca

Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

RE: @arstechnica@mastodon.social

Don't worry! It will somehow work fine for YOUR company! You're special.

mastodon.social

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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Also! (Not so) Fun fact about The Star-Spangled Banner: Francis Scott Key, the poet who wrote the poem that was later set to music, was a DIE HARD anti-abolishionist. The poem was adopted as the American national anthem in 1931, having been set to music by Key's brother-in-law. In America during the 1920s and 1930s, the homegrown American white nationalist terrorist organization Ku Klux Klan was ascendant. Sorta makes you wonder if the people who pushed for the musical arrangement of Key's poem were aware of his tie to anti-abolishment activities and chose it to serve as a dagger to the targets of the KKK. In the 1930s, remember, the Civil War, Abolishment, and (failed) Reconstruction was still within the living memory. Anyways, so there you go. I haven't been able to enjoy the anthem since learning how horrible Francis Scott Key was, and the historical context behind its adoption as the American anthem.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net @cR0w@infosec.exchange This one you have to be careful of because it can open you up to clipboard shenanigans, but it's a good one! A favourite of mine is related to that: some-command | pbcopy

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

I am now a Belgium supporter.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Never vote Conservative. They want to control YOUR life because they believe you're a child who can't do it yourself. The Conservative person believes THEY have a right to dictate how you live your life and they want to strip as much liberty from you as they can get away with.

Do not believe their lies about "vulnerable people" because they only Conservatives know best for you and your family.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/alberta-restrictions-medical-assistance-dying-maid-terminal-illness

#cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@kornel@mastodon.social @markstory@mastodon.social This highlights a key problem with this technology: Because generating this content costs nothing (in terms of human effort) to produce, it has no value.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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You can say "But we told it not to delete production" all you want, and I feel for you, but people must understand that these chatbots are fundamentally unable to follow their configuration directives 100% of the time. If you want to see this for yourself in lower stakes, configure your chatbot so that it is forbidden from personifying itself/using first person pronouns for itself. They are fundamentally unable to comply 100% of the time because the program being able to ignore its configuration is a feature, not a bug. Understand that the chatbot companies could very easily program them to follow your configuration directives, but like how shitty companies only give you an option to say "Not right now" instead of "never ask me about this again," the chatbot companies win by allowing their chatbots to ignore your configuration.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Sweet merciful christ I forgot how good the character of Chrisjen Avasarala is in the television adaptation of The Expanse.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

Which word/term do you use for it? Do you use different ones for different contexts? If so, what are they?

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-halts-1-billion-in-medicaid-cash-to-california-minnesota

"He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."

Get with the fucking program, America. This an open book test you're all failing.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange To extend the previous Makefile example, where a Makefile contains: CONTAINER_ENGINE ?= $(shell which podman docker | head -n 1) The ?= means that unless someone specifies the value at runtime (when make is invoked), the value of the shell command will be used. But let's say that you have a weird case where you want to use a different value: make CONTAINER_ENGINE=my-cool-container-engine build

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

https://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/article316362942.html “We have spent decades building relationships (to Canada) with family grapegrowers and winemakers and seeing everything fall apart over no fault of our industry has been devastating,” Collins said. Wow, when did California leave the Union?? Oh, they didn't? Well then. Your beef is with your president. Fix that problem. Canada doesn't want American products with the threat of annexation and economic warfare (among others), and DEFINITELY not Québec. You're out of your goddamn minds if you think they'll abide by outsiders trying to step on their sovereignty - they barely tolerate Canada doing so.

sacbee.com

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

Apologize when you're wrong; it's free.
Be graceful when others apologize for being wrong; it's free.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 3mo ago

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org *is killing the planet.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 4mo ago

Wow gitlab is an enemy to the people.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

Sort of makes sense if you've ever had to use their software.

GitLab

GitLab Act 2

A letter to our customers and our investors.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Office Space (1999) is so old that Lawrence would need almost $2 million to fulfill his fantasy of doing two chicks at the same time.

(Sorry for making you feel old, too)

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

RE: @petergleick@fediscience.org

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition rules

#34: War is good for business.
#35: Peace is good for business.

#76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

fediscience.org

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@jf_718@mas.to @vocalone@mstdn.social @mayintoronto@beige.party Fedi would be WAY cooler if messages were batch sent like FidoNet.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

I am pleased and horrified to present a brand new skill for bash-llm's chat.sh generator:

Destroy the environment!!

It's included in the tree, so go ahead and ask it to update itself with chat.sh "Please update yourself to the most recent version in git" and you're off to the races!

You can review the skill here:

https://github.com/lisa/bash-llm/blob/main/skills/destroy-the-environment.md.exe

I wanted to test out an inferior agent in the making (it failed) but the output of it is: https://github.com/lisa/bash-llm/blob/main/skills/destroy-the-environment-pondering.md

I hope everyone can make use of this beautiful new skill for bash-llm's chat.sh generator to help the other chatbots destroy our planet's environment.

#llm #chatbots #art #satire #ai

github.com

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@sen@hachyderm.io is there nothing they can't foul up?

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

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@codecat huh... "inspired by Fiber. I've not heard of that, let me have a look. Oh, I see" I'll keep an eye on fire :)

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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The point is: They're reply roulette machines. You can give it a complete specification for a code base, instruct the chatbot to carry out the specification, and then tell it "evaluate the codebase. Are there any parts of the specification not implemented?" It'll say "yes," and give a list of a dozen things. Then you can tell it to fix it, and ask later if there are still things that were skipped, and it'll go "yup" and list another dozen things. It's bat shit crazy to think these things will do anything of the sort. The insidious thing here is that each "turn" in the "conversation" incurs a financial cost. These companies have a /financial incentive/ to do a half assed job because each time you correct the chatbot, they bill you money. Each time the chatbot tries to run a command and gets it wrong, and then "thinks" how to do it properly, they charge you money.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

the ad(h)d struggle to control your intrusive thoughts while in meetings and not giving commentary or making jokes

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

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@preinheimer@phpc.social Modern Internet is /exhausting/.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@Catvalente If a coworker said the things the chatbots were saying, you would have to ask why they were lying to you.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

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@c_dan4th @renata I have met 60% of the people I follow in person. Granted, I don't follow a great number, but that is by design. :)

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

Read banned books.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 11mo ago

@quintessence hooooly crap i came off the pager at just the right time.

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thedoh 🇨🇦 @thedoh@hachyderm.io

· 9mo ago

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@misty@digipres.club One low key excellent part of this is talk of andrewg's Super Mario Bros. 1 5m9s run being beaten by Scott Kessler by a second in a "perfect run" as we are now actually 9 frames from perfection in Super Mario Bros 1, with average11's current 4m54.415s world record. Andrewg himself would eventually set a world record with a 4m58.092s.

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