Let us see how to change the color of shell prompt on a Linux or Unix system when using bash.
Source: BASH Shell Change The Color of Shell Prompt on Linux or UNIX – nixCraft
How do I change the color for directories with ls in the console?
To change your directory colors, open up your ~/.bashrc file with your editor
nano ~/.bashrc and make the following entry at the end of the file:
LS_COLORS=$LS_COLORS:’di=0;35:’ ; export LS_COLORS
Source: How do I change the color for directories with ls in the console? – Ask Ubuntu
Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It
Imagine my excitement, then, to finally have a piece of equipment that could potentially depict how well a coffee grinder works in granular detail. Specifically, I’ve got a DiFluid Omni ($900), a new device that promises something heretofore unknown: the chance for home coffee geeks to graph out the particle size distribution of a batch of coffee. (It also has a colorimeter, to assess the lightness or darkness of a roast.)
Source: Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It | WIRED
As someone who likes good coffee this made me laugh. Wired is paywalled but it has good writers and interesting stories.
How to change the SSH server port on Ubuntu?
To change the port of the SSH server, the systemd configuration for ssh.socket must be changed or supplemented. The configuration adjustment is made by creating a *.conf file in the directory /etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.d/ (if the directory does not exist, create it with the root user).
Source: How to change the SSH server port on Ubuntu? – Server Fault
JFC!
Needed to configure ssh to listen on a different port on a new Ubuntu server 24.04. Have done this many times before editing ssh_config. But this time nothing happened. The server wasn’t accepting the change. Googled and googled all night until I found out that systemd took over the god damned opening of ports away from openssh config.
I have other Ubuntu 24.04 installations that don’t do this so this is new and finding this new systemd fuck up hasn’t propagated the search engines. 14 year old answers don’t cut it anymore.
Still pissed off even though this site fixed the problem. Systemd needs to show warnings when they make changes like this, when they know a user wants to open up a port.
Had to get this off my chest.
New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere
Short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, RADIUS harkens back to the days of dial-in Internet and network access through public switched telephone networks. It has remained the de facto standard for lightweight authentication ever since and is supported in virtually all switches, routers, access points, and VPN concentrators shipped in the past two decades.
Source: New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere | Ars Technica
Political deepfakes are the most popular way to misuse AI
In May, OpenAI released research revealing operations linked to Russia, China, Iran, and Israel had been using its tools to create and spread disinformation.
Source: Political deepfakes are the most popular way to misuse AI | Ars Technica
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Undermining Democracy
The fundamental problem, however, is Republican insiders who have convinced themselves that to keep and hold power, they need to trash the shared beliefs that hold American democracy together.
Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones.
Source: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components
Although it is JavaScript based, Google Charts has a couple of options to make your charts entirely in PHP. You can either use server-side code (in our case PHP) to get the data, or get one of the open-source wrappers to do it for you.
Source: 4 Best Chart Generation Options with PHP Components – SitePoint
Need to generate charts for the baseball-handbook.com website and looking into php options. Google seems like the simplest solution right now. The above site breaks down each option nicely.
Here’s more info about Google Charts.