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I miss /r/highqualitygifs a little bit

Whether a system(d) service is activated by default after you install a package is a distro-specific choice. I know Debian and derivatives do, so it will be started at the next reboot; while Arch and derivatives don’t, requiring an explicit systemctl enable [--now] something.service to run it. The devs of the distro try to pick what they think their userbase wants and after the initial decision is taken it’s not a behaviour that can be changed lightly.

Regarding running as root, sometimes it’s just the default configuration that can be changed to a dedicated user, other times it’s required by the privileges they use (e.g. if they need to open a port below 1024)

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

In 6pt font just two lines under a giant header saying “we care about your privacy”

HTTP headers or headers in general? For the former I suggest Burp Suite to inspect and manipulate headers to see how things change, for the latter tcpdump/wireshark, to supplement your theory reading :)

Of course not, but I’ve found that seeing the protocols in action and looking at real headers can be very helpful in making them click. Understanding DHCP or ARP or mDNS or BGP or whatever is much easier by inspecting a pcap than it is by reading RFCs

Yes, but before I used it I assumed that its scope was pretty much limited to what you just mentioned. Instead it can operate on most protocols both above and below layer 4, and it is incredibly useful as a traffic capture tool to produce a .pcap on a remote headless machine which you can then load into Wireshark. The “dump” part is the interesting one, not the “tcp” ;)

Will you join the hivemind or run from the killbots when the time comes?

tcpdump looks scary but is super neat and helpful, learn it if you haven’t ;)

Especially not for serious fucking things like this. A bit of money that gets lost in the system and not even admission of guilt is supposed to be justice?

That’s why it’s usually called a WAF (Web Application Firewall), although you can also have L7 firewall for non-web applications (SMTP, SQL, whatever)

Layer 7 firewalls are a thing

CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964
Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos
CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964
Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos

Come on, Jeffrey, you can do it
Pave the way, put your back into it
Tell us why, show us how
Look at where you came from, look at you now
Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffett
Amateurs can fuckin’ suck it
Fuck their wives, drink their blood
Come on, Jeff, get 'em!

Even more uberchad, can be used without installing it at all

Isn’t that only for docker desktop?

Psh, we all know life is toroidal

Ah, so they’re skipping basic testing and heading straight for the final task training

But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed.

Well, no shit, all they can do is follow instructions. We just really can’t help avoid anthropomorphizing something that speaks language and think it was a good boy for stopping whining and trying again

DNS is like spiders. The visceral fear is justified, but if you can get over it you can learn interesting things and have fun

That “An ambulance is not your taxi to the hospital” tweet lives rent free in my head