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Ni som är bevandrade inom ftp och överföring via #Filezilla ,
jag använder mobilt bredband med router och får ständigt felmeddelande i Filezilla om "to many connections" trots jag har de inställt på max 2 och "anslutningen tog för lång tid" .

Kan jag förbättra överföringen?

edit: jag ökade tiden för anslutning till 40 sek. Det gjorde susen. Tack Google AI.... :-D

#Sverige #IT #filesharing

Phantom Stealer Unmasked: Shellcode, Steganography, and Credential Theft

Phantom Stealer is a .NET-based credential-harvesting malware that collects browser credentials, saved passwords, session cookies, cryptocurrency wallet files, and system fingerprints from infected machines. Distributed through phishing emails, cracked software, and malicious links on Discord and Telegram, it employs multiple loader variants including steganography-based delivery and PowerShell shellcode injection. The malware uses extensive anti-analysis techniques including virtualization detection, API patching to disable AMSI and ETW, and timing-based sandbox evasion. It targets Chromium and Gecko-based browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, FileZilla credentials, WinSCP configurations, and Outlook profiles. Additional capabilities include keylogging, screen capture, clipboard monitoring with cryptocurrency address replacement, and Wi-Fi credential theft. The malware achieves persistence through registry Run keys or Startup folder entries.

Pulse ID: 6a6a0753fc3cdb9a380c795d
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a6a0753fc3cdb9a380c795d
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-07-29 13:59:47

Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

#Browser #Clipboard #CodeInjection #Cookies #CyberSecurity #Discord #Email #FileZilla #InfoSec #Mac #Malware #NET #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Outlook #Password #Passwords #Phishing #PowerShell #RAT #ShellCode #Steganography #Telegram #WinSCP #Word #bot #cryptocurrency #AlienVault

Phantom Stealer Unmasked: Shellcode, Steganography, and Credential Theft

Phantom Stealer is a .NET-based credential-harvesting malware that collects browser credentials, saved passwords, session cookies, cryptocurrency wallet files, and system fingerprints from infected machines. Distributed through phishing emails, cracked software, and malicious links on Discord and Telegram, it employs multiple loader variants including steganography-based delivery and PowerShell shellcode injection. The malware uses extensive anti-analysis techniques including virtualization detection, API patching to disable AMSI and ETW, and timing-based sandbox evasion. It targets Chromium and Gecko-based browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, FileZilla credentials, WinSCP configurations, and Outlook profiles. Additional capabilities include keylogging, screen capture, clipboard monitoring with cryptocurrency address replacement, and Wi-Fi credential theft. The malware achieves persistence through registry Run keys or Startup folder entries.

Pulse ID: 6a6a0753fc3cdb9a380c795d
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a6a0753fc3cdb9a380c795d
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-07-29 13:59:47

Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.

#Browser #Clipboard #CodeInjection #Cookies #CyberSecurity #Discord #Email #FileZilla #InfoSec #Mac #Malware #NET #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Outlook #Password #Passwords #Phishing #PowerShell #RAT #ShellCode #Steganography #Telegram #WinSCP #Word #bot #cryptocurrency #AlienVault

#filezilla #flathub #linux

https://flathub.org/apps/org.filezillaproject.Filezilla

#filezilla #flathub #linux

https://flathub.org/apps/org.filezillaproject.Filezilla

@amir I do use FileZilla still, but there is a trick. Add a show_all=1 URL parameter, like this: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1. then download Windows X64 edition as usual. You'll get a normal version without the bloat. #FileZilla #Lifehack

@amir I do use FileZilla still, but there is a trick. Add a show_all=1 URL parameter, like this: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1. then download Windows X64 edition as usual. You'll get a normal version without the bloat. #FileZilla #Lifehack

Ok so video uploads to #friendica kind of suck, I get it, it is not exactly a video platform, but I have made it my all in one social and website, so I created a complex solution to an easy problem, as I want control over where my content is hosted/served from, I made this convoluted script and process for my video uploads, it starts with opening #filezilla and ftping into my /storage/videos folder in my instance, yes I created a folder in /storage labeled videos, after I move the .mp4 into that folder I run a script that I placed in the root of my instance which is called register-video.php and here is the script,

<?php

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

// CONFIGURE THESE:
$friendica_root = '/home/someplace/public_html/your.instance.domain/';
$ftp_folder     = $friendica_root . 'storage/videos/';
$uid            = your user number;

// DATABASE CONFIG:
$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'your db user';
$db_pass = 'your db password';
$db_name = 'your db name';

// Connect to Friendica database
$mysqli = new mysqli($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_name);

if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
    die("DB ERROR: " . $mysqli->connect_error . "\n");
}

// Debug: show folder
echo "Checking folder: $ftp_folder\n";

// Find all files in FTP folder
$files = glob($ftp_folder . '*');

if (!$files) {
    echo "No files found.\n";
    exit;
}

$allowed = array('mp4', 'webm', 'mov');

foreach ($files as $file) {

    $ext = strtolower(pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));

    if (!in_array($ext, $allowed)) {
        continue;
    }

    $basename = basename($file);
    $filesize = filesize($file);
    $filetype = mime_content_type($file);

    echo "Registering: $basename\n";

    // Read file contents into memory
    $filedata = file_get_contents($file);

    if ($filedata === false) {
        echo "Failed to read file data.\n";
        continue;
    }

    // Create Friendica hash
    $hash = hash('sha256', $basename . microtime(true));

    $created = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
    $edited  = $created;

    // Insert into Friendica attach table
    $stmt = $mysqli->prepare("
        INSERT INTO attach 
        (uid, hash, filename, filetype, filesize, data, created, edited)
        VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
    ");

    $null = NULL;

    $stmt->bind_param(
        "isssisss",
        $uid,
        $hash,
        $basename,
        $filetype,
        $filesize,
        $filedata,
        $created,
        $edited
    );

    $stmt->send_long_data(5, $filedata);

    $stmt->execute();

    $attach_id = $stmt->insert_id;

    echo "Attachment ID: " . $attach_id . "\n";
    echo "Embed using:\n";
    echo "\n\n";

    $stmt->close();
}

echo "Done.\n";

?>

after you have imported your video via ftp to your /storage/videos you go to your cmd that your sshed into and in the root of your instance you run php register-video.php and you should receive

 php register-video.php
Checking folder: /home/someplace/public_html/your.instance.domain/storage/videos/
Registering: somerandom.mp4
Attachment ID: some number will appear here say 00
Embed using:


Done.

⚖️ License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2026 pasjrwoctx👽 (Philip A. Swiderski Jr.)

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@helpers @developers @admins

You can encourage my continued useless ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

#FileZilla 不允许除了浏览器以外的程序从它官网下载安装包，所以不能进 #winget
于是我下载了 #WinSCP

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues/78578#issuecomment-1238126217

Mysteries I'd like to solve: why is #filezilla, configured for a single connection, nearly twice as fast at #sftp as every other client I have ever used? including regular old #scp and #rclone?

Mysteries I'd like to solve: why is #filezilla, configured for a single connection, nearly twice as fast at #sftp as every other client I have ever used? including regular old #scp and #rclone?

Yesterday on my #LinuxJourney: couldn't get to work Double Commander's FTP plugin to autenthicate me with my SSH keys. Maybe the format of the public key was wrong, but why it even needs it, if neither Filezilla, nor SSH itself does. When I gave up on that pursuit, setting up Filezilla for 3 connections with different bookmarks was maybe 15 minutes total.

Also changed the icon of the "start" menu from Mint logo to a little heart. Didn't found a rainbow.
#MintLinux #DoubleCommander #Filezilla

Yesterday on my #LinuxJourney: couldn't get to work Double Commander's FTP plugin to autenthicate me with my SSH keys. Maybe the format of the public key was wrong, but why it even needs it, if neither Filezilla, nor SSH itself does. When I gave up on that pursuit, setting up Filezilla for 3 connections with different bookmarks was maybe 15 minutes total.

Also changed the icon of the "start" menu from Mint logo to a little heart. Didn't found a rainbow.
#MintLinux #DoubleCommander #Filezilla

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.6. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.6. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Estava a procurar maneiras de passar milheiros de fotos desde o telemóvel ao pc, mas já tenho instalado Amaze para a gestão de ficheiros e aprendi que podes passar o que queiras com FTP (eu uso FileZilla).

É bem doado https://linuxonfire.de/index.php/2019/08/11/using-amaze-file-manager-to-transfer-data-between-your-linux-pc-and-your-smartphone/

#ftp #amaze #filezilla #linux

C64 Ultimate FTP Transfers Made Simple with Coding with Culp
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #CodingWithCulp #FileZilla #RetroComputing #C64 #FTP
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-ftp-transfers-made-simple-with-coding-with-culp/?fsp_sid=6587

C64 Ultimate FTP Transfers Made Simple with Coding with Culp
#Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #CodingWithCulp #FileZilla #RetroComputing #C64 #FTP
https://theoasisbbs.com/c64-ultimate-ftp-transfers-made-simple-with-coding-with-culp/?fsp_sid=6587

Wireshark .pcap vs .pcapng?

Short answer: .pcap is the older, simpler format with minimal metadata; .pcapng is the modern “next‑generation” format that supports multiple interfaces, comments, higher‑precision timestamps, and richer capture metadata.

https://neurosphere-2.tail52f848.ts.net/wordpress/?page_id=5936

By the way, #FileZilla is an FTP Application you can setup to feed the SCYTHE_HYPERGRAPH your tcpdumps / packet captures.

https://filezilla-project.org/

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.5. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.5. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

#OpenSource Tipp3: #Thunderbird von Mozilla. Der No-Brainer, das Emailprogramm, das wohl jede*r kennt. Wie #FileZilla, #Firefox oder #VLC früher kaum von einem PC wegzudenken. Und auch heute noch eine super Alternative. Es fehlt wirklich nichts. Email-Verwaltung beliebig vieler Emailadressen, Kalenderfunktion, Aufgaben, Chat. Stabil, verlässlich, schnell, intuitiv und das Ganze spendenbasiert.

#reclaimTheInternet

От localhost до сервера: деплой telegram бота за 8 минут

Вы написали бота. Он работает локально, отвечает на команды, всё выглядит отлично. Вы показываете другу — и отправляете ссылку. Друг пишет боту. Бот не отвечает. Потому что бот работает только пока открыт ваш ноутбук. Это момент когда большинство разработчиков застревают. Код написан, идея рабочая — но бот живёт только на вашем компьютере и умирает как только вы закрываете терминал. Гуглишь "как задеплоить телеграм бота", находишь статьи про Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines — и закрываешь вкладку. На самом деле всё проще. Чтобы бот работал 24/7 нужно три вещи: дешёвый VPS за 300-500 рублей в месяц, минимальная конфигурация и systemd который не даст боту упасть и не встать. Никаких сложных конфигураций. В этой статье я покажу как перенести готового aiogram-бота на сервер с нуля. Без лишней теории — только конкретные команды которые можно скопировать и запустить. Весь процесс занимает около восьми минут. Поехали. Читать далее...

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1025022/

#vpsхостинг #хостинг #timeweb #filezilla #телеграмбот #бот #сервер

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.4. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.4. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Using #Filezilla to upload a website because that's still a very reasonable way to do things, actually.

Using #Filezilla to upload a website because that's still a very reasonable way to do things, actually.

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.3. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.3. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Oh, look, it's yet another thrilling escapade of #nerds wrestling with #FileZilla for their beloved 3D printers 😴. Spoiler alert: the solution involves more tweaking than a DJ's soundboard at a rave 🎛️. But hey, at least it's written in two languages, so you can get confused in stereo! 🌐
https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/modify-filezilla-workaround-bambu-3d-printer-ftp-issue.lantian/ #3Dprinting #troubleshooting #techhumor #codingfun #duallanguages #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look, it's yet another thrilling escapade of #nerds wrestling with #FileZilla for their beloved 3D printers 😴. Spoiler alert: the solution involves more tweaking than a DJ's soundboard at a rave 🎛️. But hey, at least it's written in two languages, so you can get confused in stereo! 🌐
https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/modify-filezilla-workaround-bambu-3d-printer-ftp-issue.lantian/ #3Dprinting #troubleshooting #techhumor #codingfun #duallanguages #HackerNews #ngated

Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue

https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/modify-filezilla-workaround-bambu-3d-printer-ftp-issue.lantian/

#HackerNews #FileZilla #Bambu3D #FTP #Fix #3DPrinting #TechHack

Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue

https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/modify-filezilla-workaround-bambu-3d-printer-ftp-issue.lantian/

#HackerNews #FileZilla #Bambu3D #FTP #Fix #3DPrinting #TechHack

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.2. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.2. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

#FileZilla 3.70.1 is out! The change that solved our #sftp issues is the second one, where the server devs likely screwed up by using a signed 32-bit int where they should've used an unsigned.

SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers sending empty longnames

SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers incapable of handling large receive windows of 2^32 - 1 bytes

SFTP: Fixed an issue creating directories during file upload

#FileZilla 3.70.1 is out! The change that solved our #sftp issues is the second one, where the server devs likely screwed up by using a signed 32-bit int where they should've used an unsigned.

SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers sending empty longnames

SFTP: Updated to fzssh 1.1.8 to address an issue with servers incapable of handling large receive windows of 2^32 - 1 bytes

SFTP: Fixed an issue creating directories during file upload

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.1. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.1. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

In the middle of sous videing our dinner I had a call about site wide sftp problems.

Thinking my Friday #firewall changes (I know, shut up already! =)) had broken something, I took the subway down and spent 2 hours sifting through captures and testing bypass policies before having the bright idea to test sftp from my cli. It worked.

Turns out our automation updated #FileZilla from 3.69.6 to 3.70.0 on Friday, featuring a new ssh library.

Rolled back and pinned 3.69.6, got cheers and went home.

In the middle of sous videing our dinner I had a call about site wide sftp problems.

Thinking my Friday #firewall changes (I know, shut up already! =)) had broken something, I took the subway down and spent 2 hours sifting through captures and testing bypass policies before having the bright idea to test sftp from my cli. It worked.

Turns out our automation updated #FileZilla from 3.69.6 to 3.70.0 on Friday, featuring a new ssh library.

Rolled back and pinned 3.69.6, got cheers and went home.

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.0. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.70.0. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Updated the blog and linkdump of my website.

The linkdump went without a hitch, but the blog was a little troublesome.

Lesson: Always use a dedicated FTP client, and dont use the ftp client of your filemanager

Also: the new flatpress update can now also run a mastodon plugin!

#webmaster #ftp #filezilla #blog #links

Replacing FTP with Rsync For my Blog

Recently I have been playing with rsync a lot. In the process of synching source A to B, as well as synching between machines I have grown familiar with how it works. It is for this reason that the move from using ftp for rsync to update the static part of the website began to make sense.

When I write a blog post I update wordpress with the markdown from the static blog post and then I run hugo to prepare the static site. I then used Filezilla to upload the changed files.

With a blog that is updated daily, it's not that I update two or three files. The blog post page is created of course, but the navigation from plenty of pages needs to be updated at the same time. The result is that filezilla needs to compare, and transfer hundreds of files on a daily basis.

As I use one computer for blogging, and another for other tasks the time it takes Filezilla via FTP to work through the list is time that I'm stuck waiting.

With rsync, with rsync -av --dry-run /local/path/ user@remote_host:/remote/path/ I can update the blog as soon as Hugo has run, within seconds, and from the command line rather than a dedicated app. I'm suggesting the "--dry-run" flag so that you can double check that it is doing what you expect before running it without the flag.

Getting a Push from AI

In my eyes vibe coding apps, and getting AI to write blog posts or create photographic kitsch and videos is deeply immoral. Asking AI to help you use understand tools such as rsync is worthwhile.

It's not that we can't read the manual. It's not that the manual is hard to understand. It's that sometimes we learn and think differently than those that wrote the man pages. We might not have the right context to understand the nuance of what was written.

Many times I have wanted to use a tool, read the man page, failed to understand it, tried two or three things and got nowhere. I spent half a day or more trying to get Ghost to work on an Infomaniak Node.js server without success despite asking for AI for help.

The Grsync Stepping Stone

More than once I used grsync to back up a linux machine and it works well. I can look at the interface and see the options, but it would take reading the fabulous manual to understand what everything does. I was happy with Grsync for a while.

The Gemini Advantage

With Gemini, I will say, "I want to sync the Hugo publish output from my local machine to my web server. Which flags are optimal for this task. I would also like to run it without using the password. What does that involve" and it will generate the prompt as well as explain what each prompt does and why it's used.

Beware Hallucinations

When you are given a prompt make sure that you understand it before running it, and if you do run it, try a dry run. If the output is not too long you can feed it to Gemini and ask if you can proceed. You can also say "I noticed that the output seems wrong in this manner" and it will help you debug. More than once it caught that I was missing a "/" at the end of a source. In that case the folder and it's contents would be moved, rather than just the contents.

Long Conversations with Gemini

If you're curious why I favour Gemini over Euria, MyAI, Le Chat and other solutions, it's because I rarely if ever get it telling me that I am out of tokens. Instead it hallucinates more and more. If you're playing with rsync (By playing I mean learning) you can often get long outputs and these long outputs can quickly get Gemini to hallucinate.

Who cares?

When you're learning to use rsync, you can ask it to be verbose to see what it's doing. Since that output can cover hundreds, if not thousands of lines, you can ask gemini to help you with grep and other tools to check that what you expect is happening, for quality control and quality assurance.

If you did this by eye, and by skimming you might miss something that AI, due to its optimisation for dealing with big data, might help you with.

AI as Patient Tutor

Reading a man page will tell you about the diversity of flags and how to use them but you might have reservations about trusting that you have understood what prompts do. That's where AI as a patient tutor comes in. I might run command A once, twice, three times, and with each run I become more confident, in part because Gemini or another "tutor" confirms that what I'm doing is right. It doesn't mind repeating a lesson until it sinks in.

Move From Host to Host

Imagine, you are with a web host and you have files on Hosting Solution A and Hosting Solution B. My natural instinct was to FTP the files from the web host locally, and then to ftp them back up to Hosting Solution B. Gemini said "Use rsync" and because I had experimented with ssh and transferring files via rsync locally and remotely the idea grabbed me, so I experimented, and that's why I changed how I update my blog.

And Finally

I was using rsync a lot, for moving around and synching photos between drives. In the process my confidence with this tool grew. I also grew more familiar with using rsync between machines within my "home lab" so it became a small leap to go a step further, to sync my blog.

Thanks to Gemini being my "tutor/mentor" I broke my 29 year habit of using FTP.

Replacing FTP with Rsync For my Blog

Recently I have been playing with rsync a lot. In the process of synching source A to B, as well as synching between machines I have grown familiar with how it works. It is for this reason that the move from using ftp for rsync to update the static part of the website began to make sense.

When I write a blog post I update wordpress with the markdown from the static blog post and then I run hugo to prepare the static site. I then used Filezilla to upload the changed files.

With a blog that is updated daily, it's not that I update two or three files. The blog post page is created of course, but the navigation from plenty of pages needs to be updated at the same time. The result is that filezilla needs to compare, and transfer hundreds of files on a daily basis.

As I use one computer for blogging, and another for other tasks the time it takes Filezilla via FTP to work through the list is time that I'm stuck waiting.

With rsync, with rsync -av --dry-run /local/path/ user@remote_host:/remote/path/ I can update the blog as soon as Hugo has run, within seconds, and from the command line rather than a dedicated app. I'm suggesting the "--dry-run" flag so that you can double check that it is doing what you expect before running it without the flag.

Getting a Push from AI

In my eyes vibe coding apps, and getting AI to write blog posts or create photographic kitsch and videos is deeply immoral. Asking AI to help you use understand tools such as rsync is worthwhile.

It's not that we can't read the manual. It's not that the manual is hard to understand. It's that sometimes we learn and think differently than those that wrote the man pages. We might not have the right context to understand the nuance of what was written.

Many times I have wanted to use a tool, read the man page, failed to understand it, tried two or three things and got nowhere. I spent half a day or more trying to get Ghost to work on an Infomaniak Node.js server without success despite asking for AI for help.

The Grsync Stepping Stone

More than once I used grsync to back up a linux machine and it works well. I can look at the interface and see the options, but it would take reading the fabulous manual to understand what everything does. I was happy with Grsync for a while.

The Gemini Advantage

With Gemini, I will say, "I want to sync the Hugo publish output from my local machine to my web server. Which flags are optimal for this task. I would also like to run it without using the password. What does that involve" and it will generate the prompt as well as explain what each prompt does and why it's used.

Beware Hallucinations

When you are given a prompt make sure that you understand it before running it, and if you do run it, try a dry run. If the output is not too long you can feed it to Gemini and ask if you can proceed. You can also say "I noticed that the output seems wrong in this manner" and it will help you debug. More than once it caught that I was missing a "/" at the end of a source. In that case the folder and it's contents would be moved, rather than just the contents.

Long Conversations with Gemini

If you're curious why I favour Gemini over Euria, MyAI, Le Chat and other solutions, it's because I rarely if ever get it telling me that I am out of tokens. Instead it hallucinates more and more. If you're playing with rsync (By playing I mean learning) you can often get long outputs and these long outputs can quickly get Gemini to hallucinate.

Who cares?

When you're learning to use rsync, you can ask it to be verbose to see what it's doing. Since that output can cover hundreds, if not thousands of lines, you can ask gemini to help you with grep and other tools to check that what you expect is happening, for quality control and quality assurance.

If you did this by eye, and by skimming you might miss something that AI, due to its optimisation for dealing with big data, might help you with.

AI as Patient Tutor

Reading a man page will tell you about the diversity of flags and how to use them but you might have reservations about trusting that you have understood what prompts do. That's where AI as a patient tutor comes in. I might run command A once, twice, three times, and with each run I become more confident, in part because Gemini or another "tutor" confirms that what I'm doing is right. It doesn't mind repeating a lesson until it sinks in.

Move From Host to Host

Imagine, you are with a web host and you have files on Hosting Solution A and Hosting Solution B. My natural instinct was to FTP the files from the web host locally, and then to ftp them back up to Hosting Solution B. Gemini said "Use rsync" and because I had experimented with ssh and transferring files via rsync locally and remotely the idea grabbed me, so I experimented, and that's why I changed how I update my blog.

And Finally

I was using rsync a lot, for moving around and synching photos between drives. In the process my confidence with this tool grew. I also grew more familiar with using rsync between machines within my "home lab" so it became a small leap to go a step further, to sync my blog.

Thanks to Gemini being my "tutor/mentor" I broke my 29 year habit of using FTP.

A fake FileZilla site hosts a malicious download
#FileZilla
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/03/a-fake-filezilla-site-hosts-a-malicious-download

A fake FileZilla site hosts a malicious download
#FileZilla
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/03/a-fake-filezilla-site-hosts-a-malicious-download

Tim Kosse released #FileZilla version 3.69.6. https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Почему FTP умирает, и нужно ли уже начинать его оплакивать

Те, кто застал эпоху диалап-модемов, знают о нём не понаслышке. Через FTP передавали файлы, заливали первые сайты на хостинги и по ночам скачивали драйверы — другого варианта тогда просто не было. Сейчас ссылки с ftp:// почти не встречаются, а сам протокол всё чаще вспоминают только при разборе легаси-систем. Под катом расскажу, почему один из столпов интернета фактически доживает свой век и пора ли готовить для него прощальную речь. Читать

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/984666/

#ruvds_статьи #ftp #ftpсервер #FileZilla #протоколы #история_it #HTTPS #хостинг #системное_администрирование #серверное_администрирование