today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 06, 2023

• The different sorts of 'iconification' of windows in X

  In X, application windows can be in a variety of states. They can be on the screen, they can not have been 'mapped' yet, they can be mapped but located off the currently visible area of the screen (many of my windows spend a lot of time in other pages of my virtual desktop), and pretty much since the beginning they can be what was originally called 'iconified' but which these days is often called 'minimized' in documentation that ordinary people read.

• [Old] Trashware, a practice whose time has passed? | Stop at Zona-M

  Back in 2010, I explained that “trashware” is the practice of saving “old” computers from the trash bin, and successfully reusing them, thanks to Free Software like Linux. Today, I share, with permission from the author, a reformatted translation of this email about the serious limits and hurdles of doing trashware today.

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  Giomba’s own, final observations were that, when compared with the huge effort madem, 40 computers are a really small number, that make it hard to expect that trashware may be regularly practiced. But if asked again to do it, they will certainly accept, as knowing they can help someone is always a great reward!

• My own thoughts on why trashware's time has passed | Stop at Zona-M

  Two months ago I posted here the thoughts of a Linux user on why, and how, the practice of trashware, that is saving “old” computers from the trash bin, and successfully reusing them, thanks to Free Software like Linux, has passed its time.

• My own thoughts on why trashware's time has passed, part 2 | Stop at Zona-M

  and so on. All things for which there is no intrinsic need to know how to program or do system administration. In short, and always without belittling those who still want to focus on trashware and succeed: if we talk about digital competence and awareness, at the point we have reached there is a much more urgent need for people who know and do and ask for things like those , and when I manage to meet people willing to learn more at that level, I don’t even get to talk to them about trashware, and there’s almost never time.

• DeTT&CT: Automate your detection coverage with dettectinator

  Dettectinator is a tool developed by Martijn Veken and Ruben Bouman of Sirius Security that enables the automation of DeTT&CT data source and technique administration YAML files needed to create visibility and detection layers in the ATT&CK Navigator. This tool can be integrated as a Python library within your security operations center (SOC) automation tools or used via the command line.

• Leaf Node Monitoring v2023.01 released, major performance improvements, new layout and new checks!

  I'm pleased to announce the next version of Leaf Node Monitoring, the simple and easy to use open source site and server monitoring tool. Major new features include a responsive and adjustable layout, massive performance improvements and a new check type, allowing you to execute external processes, for example, the nagios/monitoring plugins. This post goes over everything that is new in this release.