Bookmarks with tag “foss”:
In these days of "vibe coding" and chatbots, users ask AIs for help with everything. Asked to find security problems in Open Source projects, AI bots tell users something that sounds right. Reporting these "findings" wastes everyone's time and causes much frustration and fatigue. Daniel shows how this looks, how it creates a DDoS on projects and how totally beyond absurd this is. With examples and insights from the curl project.
Resolved after 168h 30m of downtime.
NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.
GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. For example,
/usr/local/bincould contain symlinks to files within/usr/local/stow/emacs/bin,/usr/local/stow/perl/binetc., and likewise recursively for any other subdirectories such as.../share,.../man, and so on.