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Enjoy #Linux, #macOS, #FreeBSD & #Unix like systems? #Opensource software & #programming? Enjoy #Sysadmin & #DevOps work? Follow us to make the most of your geeky IT career. #ActuallyHuman (e/human)

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Someone actually built a Chrome extension to "Hide annoying Google AI Overviews". LOL. Right now it only has 2,000 users, but I wouldn't be surprised if it reaches millions in a few months when SGE (Search Generative Experience) will be rolled out globally. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hide-google-ai-overviews/neibhohkbmfjninidnaoacabkjonbahn Duckduckgo is also releasing similar tech using AI .

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There are some valid reasons to temporarily disable IPv6 in Linux for testing, debugging, and other purposes. Let's see how to disable or enable IPv6 in temporarily using the CLI https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-temporarily-disable-ipv6-in-linux/

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@nyx net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 is used to set on any interfaces that are created after the change.

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 set all interfaces, including both existing and newly created ones

If you want to disable IPv6 completely and permanently , you must set both parameters to 1.

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are you a rockstar developer? πŸ€”

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AI: As an LLM, I can confirm that the code samples you provided indeed suck.

Me: You were supposed to replace SO and not hurt my feelings. I am calling daddy Satya.

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what happened to cobol? πŸ€”

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Here's how you can use tcpdump command to capture and record specific network traffic, protocols and ports on , , (OS X) and BSD systems like . This tool is essential for sysadmins and developers to debug networking issues. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/tcpdump-capture-record-protocols-port/

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How can I find the correct ulimit values for a user account or given process name on #Linux systems? https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-find-ulimit-for-user-on-linux/

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πŸ˜‚ best 12 bucks ever spent πŸ‘‡

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My favorite underrated coding tip is ______

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SCOOP: The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/ Sama is a bad news for the world πŸ˜‚ People are about to understand why the Board wanted Sama gone months ago.

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The twitter block issue is caused by Firfox filters. Firefox is working on a fix. The announcement reads as: Hey folks, we are aware of the Twitter issue and our team is working on a fix at the moment.

In the meantime, disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection or changing it from Strict should fix this issue temporarily. Here's how to do that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_what-to-do-if-a-site-seems-broken

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Twitter has officially dropped the twitter.com domain. All links to twitter.com now redirect to x.com. This is final transformation πŸ€” The end of an era https://twitter.com/BBCWorld now goes to https://x.com/BBCWorld

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100 Exercises To Learn Rust https://rust-exercises.com/

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Meanwhile, people on Google's official forum struggle with forcing AI into the search index called Google SGE results. 🍿 They don’t want it, but if you like it or not, Google is rolling out this feature. Maybe it is still not too late to avoid messing with working search engines and trying to copy Bing or OpenAI https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/274545087/how-can-i-turn-off-ai-results?hl=en-au

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there is no place like ~

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On the left: Progynova (A drug that provides estrogen). On the right: Copy of Debian https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1ctg06e/on_the_left_progynova_a_drug_that_provides/ Coincidence?

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Becomes First Governmental Sponsor of FFmpeg Project. See https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#stf24 and https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/tech/ffmpeg

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Want to run the same command again? In many shells (e.g., tcsh, zsh, bash) you can type "!!" to recall last command and run it. Example:

apt install nginx # missed sudo
sudo !! # this will run sudo apt install nginx

#linux #unix #macos #freebsd

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The real guide to interpreting developer job ads 🀑 EDIT: I believe this is an old image from the bird site https://twitter.com/rundavidrun/status/689165491760316416

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The best coding language, without a doubt, is _______.

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@masagu where can I learn about this language? πŸ˜‚

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If the salary for IT/SWE jobs is so competitive, list it in the job description. Why hide it? What's with all the suspense? 🀣

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