For me it was 6502 assembly and Applesoft BASIC, followed by Commodore BASIC :)

Anyone here remember Pascal and its successor, Modula-2?

For bash scripting, shellcheck is your missing ingredient.

I use apt, but you don’t have to, instead you can use any package manager from any distribution and use that distribution within the container.

If an application isn’t packaged, you can use the same mechanism to compile from source.

IMHO, if it’s not packaged and you can’t compile from source, it’s time to look for a different application.

I use Docker and apt instead. The definition of an application lives in a single text file and you don’t give it anymore resources or permissions than it needs.

So much so, that I wrote a bunch of scripts to make life easier, without ever needing to go anywhere near appimage, flatpak or snap.

https://github.com/ITmaze/remote-docker

14,000 sounds like a big number, until you realise that there’s many millions of routers. Asus is not known for backbone routing, so while this might be happening, you have to ask yourself, is this the biggest threat across the internet, or is this article intended to serve another interest?

Regardless of the account, anonymous or not, I assume that my identity will be revealed and post accordingly. I’ve been doing so since I first posted on the internet in 1990.

Not for nothing, the same is true for email and any other form of (electronic) communication.

Do I make mistakes? Absolutely! Have I regretted making a post or comment? Over the years perhaps less than a dozen times, that, or I’m getting old and feeble minded.

I try to make my contributions positive and supportive, sometimes I even manage to get the balance right between my odd sense humour and misunderstanding promulgated by online communication with strangers.

Depends on how you install the software.

If you used snap to install it, then this affects you.

From the article, uninstall the software and use a .deb, .rpm or flatpack installer instead.

Essentially the snap version has a long standing bug that causes deleted files to be stored outside the normal “trash can” structure.

Yeah, I belatedly realised that.

Apparently Debian ranks lower than the distros that are based on it.

What ranking are you using to arrive at this conclusion?

Why do you see this as USA only?

Because the announcement doesn’t use UTC to announce the event and there’s absolutely no chance that anyone outside the US knows when some random timezone is, or if daylight savings is active in that timezone or not at the time of the event.

The announcement also tells me that the organisation is run out of the USA, not a place universally known for its inclusivity or global consideration. Reinforced by a text only image with no alt text.

I think a tech workers coalition is an interesting and potentially useful idea, but the announcement doesn’t even contain a URL to the organisation.

Which leads to my conclusion, a USA only affair.

I’d be delighted to be wrong, but that’s what the announcement conveyed to me.

So … USA tech workers only?

This explains is pretty well:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20141029-what-do-conductors-actually-do

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/638975/how-do-i-tell-if-a-file-does-not-exist-in-bash#638980

man mv

https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/string-manipulation.html

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/linux-sed-command

Boarder?

Look at tailscale.

So … now we have plausible gibberish … also known as Autocorrect on Steroids … that includes corporate sponsorship… seems like we’re moving closer to the true meaning of advertising with every iteration.

Next we’ll be asked to pay for this feature … oh wait.

I can’t wait until the Assumed Intelligence bubble finally bursts and takes with it some of the largest companies in the world … perhaps this is how we finally address climate change.

Because they’re all copying each other’s homework?

I’ve been using Linux for 25 years, awk is a more recent addition to my arsenal, but rapidly becoming more and more useful.

For example, awk is extremely helpful if you want to rearrange columns, do math on columns, essentially do things that would take multiple lines of bash with cut and read.

grep, sed, awk, and find