Geek Food
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183 viewsMuch of the email spam and hack attacks I see against my servers can be blocked up-front by using these techniques.- 207 viewsI just discovered a computer shop I really like: North Alabama Computer Associates just south of Drake on Memorial Pkwy (in Applebee's parking lot strip mall).
- 288 viewsIf your website doesn't use SSL, you're going to lose your search engine rankings and the latest web browsers will warn visitors your site is not secure.
- Windows 11 Hack - You can't move windows between virtual desktops directly yet (AFAIK), but you can open the Task View and then move applications to the desired desktop from there. First, open “Task View” [Win+Tab key] and focus the desktop with...
- su vs. sudo - Since converting all of my servers to Ubuntu, I mostly use sudo. But there are advantages/disadvantages to both commands. Do you know the difference between the usage of the two? Here's one opinion, but choose which works best for your...
- Geek Food 🖥️: More years ago than I'd like to admit, Bruce Eckel with "Thinking in Java" got me started with #Java. But tech and programming languages evolve, and I've migrated all but one app from Java to #Python. "Thinking in Python" is on my...
- Quantum Physics - Neutrons and protons are made of three quarks each that are "ordinary" matter, but there are tetraquarks and pentaquarks that are "exotic" matter. The way they decay is special, so a new theory of physics is now...
- Geek Food - My productivity relies on automation of things. I love #Python and I use Anaconda daily. Here's a great tutorial on how to build a 🐍CLI app to get weather reports that's good for beginners or those coming from another programming...
- Geek Food - One of my favorite new features in Python v3.10 is structural pattern matching. Very powerful! 🤯 PEP636 is a good tutorial on how to use it: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/
- Gary Wright II published a blog post Blocking spam and hack attacks by TLDMuch of the email spam and hack attacks I see against my servers can be blocked up-front by using these techniques.
- Geek Food: The 🇺🇸 DoJ has issued "Legal Considerations when Gathering Online Cyber Threat Intelligence and Purchasing Data from Illicit Sources" that y'all will definitely want to study if you do any #RedTeam or other InfoSec research work....
- Geek Food: Tutorials are meant to teach you concepts, not best practices (especially security!) and you should learn from code examples - not just cut/paste them. So, where to find examples of working production (open source) code?🤔 Check this site...
- Geek Food: Chrome v80 will start blocking mixed content (HTTPS mixed with HTTP requests). That may cause some problems if you don't update your websites or until 3rd parties update theirs. You should be forcing HTTPS on everything already, but...
