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    I just put my network card into promiscuous mode

  • sunbytes@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “Nobody mention the GIMP”

  • onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s the man-in-the-Middle.

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    “ffmpeg” 🤨

  • Buffman@lemmy.world
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    unzip, strip, top, less, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 hours ago

      You forgot scrot

    • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Forgot $

      • Lena@gregtech.eu
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        Like sex, an operating system is better when it’s free

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        22 hours ago

        I changed the $ in bash to § because fuck capitalism, keep your currency out of my free software

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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          17 hours ago

          That’s the currency in The Sims…

      • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
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        22 hours ago

        And !

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      … grep?

      • Barrymore@sh.itjust.works
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        I’m gonna tie you too the radiator, and grep you in the mouth for decades, and decades, and decades!

        • heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
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          13 hours ago

          To the radiator. It’s not also.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          14 hours ago

          The Hammurderer is quickly becoming regarded as the worst-received advertising mascot since Kool-Aid’s 1989 discontinuation of “The Grapist,” a huge purple monster who sodomizes thirsty children.

          The Onion, March 2002

      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        It’s a command line tool, used to search and filter text. According to wikipedia it stands for “global regular expression print”, which I never knew til today. Essentially, you give it some input text and a regular expression, and grep outputs all the parts of the input that match the regular expression. For example, if I run the command cat server_logs.log | grep ERROR* on my server, grep will print out all the lines in server_logs.log that have the word “ERROR”, filtering out all the “WARN” and “INFO” logs.

        * The | character is called a pipe, and it’s used to pass the output of one command line utility to another. In this example, the command line tool cat prints out the entire text of the file server_logs.log, and that output is then passed as an input to the next utility, grep, who filters it and outputs the filtered result. Piping is unnecessary in this case; in fact I have heard it rather upsettingly referred to as cat abuse, but that’s how my fingers remember how to filter files so I thought I’d present it as I wrote it.

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          https://lemmy.world/search?q=grep&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=531839&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

          I’m familliar with grep, thank you. Although you did something good for people who don’t know.

          I mean more, what’s grep innuendo for? The others are fairly obvious.

          • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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            Oh, hahaha. Well, I’m glad you liked it in that case. I’ve been practicing my hand at writing little impromptu social-media sized explainers for technical concepts, and It’s good to get some knowledgeable feedback.

            I’ve always assumed the joke was that it sounded like “grope”, and I always thought it was a loose fit for this joke. A bit of a reach, if you will.

          • osanna@lemmy.vg
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            i think it’s like grab, but spelt grep

    • CubitOom@infosec.pub
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      23 hours ago

      date

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      24 hours ago

      Put on the sockets, finger and connect, accept reject.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    Always with all the questions. You want in or not?

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    Don’t forget all the master/slave terminology

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      Tbf, we’re trying to get away from that one

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        Has there been “slave” anywhere for a while? The last time I can think is PATA, which is ancient by now.

        It seems like most (all?) uses of “master” these days are in the sense of a “master copy”, which doesn’t really have a “master/slave” dynamic to it.

        • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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          Yep, gotta work with that on a daily basis because its in the protocol I have to work with.

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        Yeah, I’ve heard. I’ve always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.

        I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; “master” and “slave” are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.

        It’s also generally accepted that “retard” and “retarded” are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.

        Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don’t look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.

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        And I’m so glad, and my boomer coworkers still complain

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          I don’t see the issue but I find Dom/Sub better anyway.

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            USB-OTG should just have been named USB Power Bottom. That makes USB-Type-C the embodiment of a switch.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I use main instead of master on git, but what’s the substitute to slave? Especially in master/slave setups like you have 1 processor controlling a bunch of measuring equipment for example.

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          primary/replica

        • jdr@lemmy.ml
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          Master in git is like master record, nothing to do with slaves

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            It sure is, it’s the master branch that rules over all other branches.

            • jdr@lemmy.ml
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              You’re the master of lies

        • smeg@feddit.uk
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          I’ve seen controller/worker which seems pretty descriptive

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Manager/wageslave 😁😌😒

            It’s not easy.

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              I think I’ve seen leader/follower too

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      Or the process terminology: “How to kill parent?” “How to spawn child?” “How to terminate zombie child?” Kinda forked if you ask me.

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        My worst search was “How to kill orphaned child” I didn’t even think about how it sounded until I saw it typed out in the search box lol

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          I think the go-to option is an elaborate death trap that will prove to be easily escapable in the next episode.

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        If the parent was waiting on the child, it is notified of the exit status and the child dies immediately. ~ man exit(3)

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        I c wut u did there

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    man finger

    touch $it; nice -n 1 cat; fsck; shutdown

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      No manual entry for finger

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        It’s an old lookup tool. I believe it printed the gecos/“meta data about a username logged in” from passwd on UNIX boxes back in the day.

        You can do

        getent passwd $USER
        
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    It’s not, trust me. Now football, that is horny. Tight end, going deep, hand off.

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    I like how the most prominent part of the screenshot is the person explaining the joke in an unfunny way

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    Look who coined the terms. Like the Silicon Valley stoners/hippies who came up with bit, byte, and nibble.

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      I prefer the spelling “nybble”

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        It certainly fits. I’ve only heard the term, never heard it used in practice.

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      What’s a nibble in this context?

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        Usually half a byte, 4b, but I think the general definition is half of the word size

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        Half a byte: 4 bits

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          Shave and a haircut: 2 bits

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    They forgot master/slave in version control systems.

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      You used to have master and slave processes too until it was changed to parent and child

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    “Ey gurl, don’t act like you ain’t see my pull request. Lemme deep scan dem packets.”

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