@StuartJordan said in Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation:

I would say everyone should raise a glass to Microsoft for this move.

They've been doing such a good job the last year or two. Very impressive.

My mom has atleast 5 bags of photos from my childhood and am gonna teach her to do the scan when i go next time-connect to google photos-share that with my account! I get the full library and she gets something to do on her free time 🙂 Win-Win

Urrrrr.....................😕

a major thing on my #ToDoList

@Ambarishrh said in Scoop- Chocolatey alternative:

How is Scoop different to Chocolatey?

Doesn't pollute your path. Where possible, Scoop puts your program shims in a single directory and just adds that to your path

Doesn't use NuGet. NuGet is a great solution to the problem of managing software library dependencies. Scoop avoids this problem altogether: each program you install is isolated and independent.

These two seem to be at odds with one another - if not, please educate me.
I suppose the "where possible" is the exception ; 🙂

@RamblingBiped Yes, I'm strongly agree with you. Python is the best for start!

@scottalanmiller said in Native Virtualization For macOS:

Had no idea that Mac OSX had a native hypervisor framework built in.

Hypervisor is available on Mac OSX from Yosemite.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/MacOSX/WhatsNewInOSX/Articles/MacOSX10_10.html
Hypervisor (Hypervisor.framework). The Hypervisor framework allows virtualization vendors to build virtualization solutions on top of OS X without needing to deploy third-party kernel extensions (KEXTs). Included is a lightweight hypervisor that enables virtualization of the host CPUs.

@Dashrender said in Open Source Google Music Desktop Player:

Off topic, but when will Apple be suing whoever made the dock for Linux?

That would be tough since the Linux one predates the Mac one.

@David.Scammell said in Microsoft Flow:

"The spice must flow!"

Ooops! Wrong IT in every community! 😉

FTFY.

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams announced:

@JaredBusch said in Microsoft Teams announced:

Sounds like the same problem that Google has with messaging.

Good point.

See: https://mangolassi.it/topic/12273/google-voice-gets-an-upgrade

No, never had a postgresql requirement but thought it might be useful for someone here

So hit a roadblock about code deploy. This was taken considering we update the files. Later realized that we might have user generated content/content added by admin via the Drupal CMS backened. In that case those files for example images will be saved on the one particular EC2 and during a scale down the instance could go down, or may not be available in the newly booted up instance.

Luckily Amazon have another service called Elastic File System used for such cases! I now moved the sites folder of drupal to EFS.

So basic Drupal core files on the EC2 AMI image i created, plus sites folder on EFS, with auto enabling that on each loaded instance by adding the below script:

#cloud-config package_upgrade: true packages: - nfs-utils runcmd: - mkdir -p /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - chown ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - echo "$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone).file-system-id.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/ /var/www/html/efs-mount-point nfs4 nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 0 0" >> /etc/fstab - mount -a -t nfs4

I am hoping to do a video tutorial this weekend about the whole setup

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Event:

@garak0410 ah, as a consumer customer, not as a business customer. I see.

Right...in our business, I am digging them. 🙂

@nadnerB said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Dashrender said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Jason said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Dashrender said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@Jason said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

@JaredBusch said in New cameras from Netgear-Arlo:

The next IoT device to add to the botnet

Yup. Get a DVR and use a VPN or SSL not something that uses their online service...

I don't have a problem with using someone's online service as long as my device doesn't need to be published through my own router. Sure if the vendor gets hacked, the hackers could use that connection to try to get back into my network, but I'm a soft target compared to the vendor's network.

Not really.. Not when there's millions of those devices to uses in a DDoS. You all become part of the plan.

I get what you're saying, but normals want remote access their DVRs and setting up access through a cloud provider that then has a secure connection to the DVR is way better than normals trying to setup and maintain VPNs, etc.

Or people could be content to miss whatever it is. 😉 I'm sure people will live and civilisation continue if DVR's and other toys aren't accessible outside home LANs 🙂

While it's true that people would learn to cope, but the cat's already out of the bag. Unless ISPs start blocking outbound traffic, you can't stop someone from doing this. Plus there are already probably millions of those things out there, it's not like people are just going to give them up tomorrow if they saw the news and realized they were partly to blame for these types of problems.

I do wish that ISPs were the tiniest bit more altruistic and would take a list from the forensic analysis of large attacks like this and at minimum send emails to their customers who's IP was on the list of those participating in the attacks.
AND while it's much less effective now considering the number of IoT devices available to attack with real IPs, I wish ISPs would drop outgoing packets that have forged return addresses.

And I got one! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01863IYSC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@JaredBusch said in Franz messaging app:

Someone mentioned this app here a while back and I tried it out.

Did not really like it. I should give it another try.

I think it was @John-Nicholson in telegram. I tried it also and wasnt a big fan.

@Ambarishrh said in Network-wide, hardware ad blocking using Raspberry Pi:

Yes, it supports most Debian-based distros, so yeah a VM with that and give its IP as DNS would work too

As long as it doesn't have an ARM dependency.

@stacksofplates said in Explainshell:

@tonyshowoff said in Explainshell:

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this with EXPLAIN in MySQL it seems pretty obvious, because it works better than "use man pages" because when you build up tons of stuff, sprinkle syntactical sugar all over it, it can even be slightly difficult for experts to understand.

Great idea!

Ya. I hate when man pages don't have an example of the syntqx they want. I've seen some bad enough that it just tells you what the utility is used for with no real explanation.

Yeah, that is seriously missing in a lot of cases.

@DustinB3403 said in Doubt on a script- Backup site & DB:

@Ambarishrh You're welcome, sorry I didn't have the exact answer for you.

But that really helped me to find the right solution 🙂