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⚪️ Network Penetration Testing with Minimal Disruption

🗨️ MITM is one of the most impactful attacks you can carry out on a network. At the same time, it is also one of the riskiest techniques from an infrastructure standpoint. In this article, I’ll explain how to perform spoofing during a penetration test without breaking anything along the way or causi…

🔗 https://hackmag.com/unix/perfect-mitm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=repost_hackmag_to_socials

#unix

Ah, the classic tale of someone who longs for the good ol' days of #UNIX tinkering 🤓. Who needs "free and easy" when you can pay $4/month to feel like a real tech pioneer in 2026? 🚀 Because nothing says progress like paying for the privilege of #DIY web #nostalgia. 🙄
https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ #techpioneers #webdevelopment #subscriptionhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month https://lobste.rs/s/za8vwp #openbsd #unix
https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/

#Plan_9 – Der #Unix-Nachfolger, von dem die CIA nichts wissen will.

Der #Unix-Nachfolger „Plan 9 from Bell Labs“ ist vielen unbekannt, obwohl einige seiner Konzepte und Technologien weltweit eingesetzt werden. Obwohl das System nach heutigen Standards sehr alt aussieht, schlummert unter der Haube ein modernes Betriebssystem, von dem man noch viel lernen kann.

#LinuxGuides

https://youtube.com/live/2YDaK9QTukI?is=KQJuhiRLN9GdS86E

#TIL that ln -s doesn't require a destination. It assumes . if none is given.

rld@prometheus:applications$ ln -s ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop 
rld@prometheus:applications$ ll -rat
total 16,384
-rw-r--r--  2 rld rld   264 Jun  4 17:43 sncli.desktop
-rw-rw-r--  1 rld rld   215 Jun 14 15:33 tut.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    46 Jun 14 22:43 tootuser.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/tootuser.desktop
drwx------ 15 rld rld 4,096 Aug 22 16:44 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 rld rld    50 Aug 25 08:00 iamb-flatpak.desktop -> ../../../backups/applications/iamb-flatpak.desktop
drwxrwxr-x  2 rld rld 4,096 Aug 25 08:00 .
rld@prometheus:applications$ 

DESCRIPTION
       In  the  1st form, create a link to TARGET with the name LINK_NAME.  In the 2nd form, create a link to
       TARGET in the current directory.  In the 3rd and 4th forms, create links to each TARGET in  DIRECTORY.

🤯

(Confirmed it behaves the same on all three major BSDs, as well)

#Unix #Linux #BSD #StillLearning

I have hyprland config btw:
https://github.com/Mr-Fox-h/dot_hypr_fox

#code #config #hypr #hyprland #dotfiles #linux #unix #archlinux #arch

لينكس مش نظام تشغيل — وهاد اللي ما حدا بيحكيلك إياه

https://youtu.be/WQ73e7owTz8?list=PLsLU8MTzj_FwuRh4xqb79z0G-U-jzeGE7

#linux #gnu #لينكس #غنو #يونكس #unix #history #تقنية #تاريخ #برمجيات_حرة #مفتوح_المصدر #OpenSource #freesoftware

#OverUnder 080 with Eric Bower

His thoughts about #POSIX, #terminals, #multiplexers, #Neovim, and #ClubSandwiches.

And, like every week, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #blog #fediverse #mastodon #food #blogging #writing #unix #shells #linux #opensource #tmux #ghostty

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-080

An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists

Motif is great, I love how it looks and feels, and I want it to be actively maintained. I want a healthy ecosystem of Motif applications and even window managers and desktop environments, so I can run a real Motif environment. Sadly, while Motif has been open source for a while, the project itself stalled years ago,

https://www.osnews.com/story/145877/an-actively-maintained-and-updated-motif-fork-actually-exists/

#Unix

#UNIX #BSD #Linux but also #Windows

Well, that was unexpected.

Still learning things about #unix #shell after a quarter century of using it!

$ foo=bar
$ echo "hello '$foo'"
hello 'bar'

The GUI didn't make computing easier. It made you a passenger.

Type cd .. and you're navigating — you know where you are, where you're going. Click the arrow in your filemanager and you're following a path someone else designed. The first is writing. The second is a reflex.

Same logic from the Airbus that overrode its pilot to the spellchecker that corrects you without asking: the machine's judgment overrides yours, silently, automatically.

Not a feature. A philosophical manifesto.

And when writing came back — through the AI — it returned as supplication, not sovereignty. The closed-source GUI and the undisclosed LLM are the same thing.

Newsletter: https://newsletter.nicolabaudo.fr/open-the-hood-why-your-gui-is-lying-to-you/

Full version on the blog — mimesis in Plato, induced illiteracy as a business strategy, the pincer of clicking and requesting, and what it means to open the hood: https://blog.nicolabaudo.fr/the-icon-and-the-command-line-image-truth/

#ai #BSD #openSource #unix #cli #gui #privacy #sovereignty #digitalFreedom

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/08/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/valuable-news-2026-08-24/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

I wrote an ascii85 encoder in shell script.
It takes 1.5 minutes for 250kb and 8 minutes for 1mb to process.
Not very useful. But it was fun to code.
#shellScripting #unix #linux

I've written up a retrospective on my UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing, highlighting the cool things people accomplished and learned, along with snapshots of the filesystem throughout the workshop. It was a lot of fun!

https://github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-v4-demo

#unix #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

eh: a minimalist vi-like editor https://lobste.rs/s/au6oho #editors #unix #vim
https://codeberg.org/SirWumpus/eh

@testobsessed

"After 40 years, I have not yet closed my last shell script, ... "

This is the most endearing talk I have, ever, ever seen.

Fascinating subject matter, of course, lots to learn. The man himself is such a --- I don't know what to call it --- an event? He's an event. The overhead projector! The slide rule! The anarchic uncontainability! The unbounded energy!

Most importantly: the wisdom. The gentleness. The courage. The dedication to passing on the message.

I have tears of joy in my eye.

#DefCon34 #CliffStoll #hackers #unix