today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 17, 2024

• Pi My Life Up ☛ Installing FFmpeg on Ubuntu

  FFmpeg is an incredibly powerful set of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and many other multimedia formats.

  This software library has become a core part of numerous pieces of software, including YouTube video processing, the video player VLC, and many more. It boasts support for almost every known audio and video codec and even offers hardware decoding and encoding support.

  Using this library on your Ubuntu device, you can process your videos or audio. For example, you can use FFmpeg to transcode a video from one format to another. It can even extract the audio layer from videos.

  While we won’t cover how to use this software library, you will find it incredibly useful if you ever have to deal with video or audio files.

• Pi My Life Up ☛ Setting up an SSH Honeypot on the Raspberry Pi with sshesame

  One of the cool things about this honeypot is that you can quickly get an idea of how an attacker might approach your system and the commands they might issue over SSH once they gain access.

  Since this is a honeypot, any command an attacker uses never actually occurs, and the sshesame daemon fakes the responses.

• Pi My Life Up ☛ Get your Public IP Address using Curl on Linux

  We can use curl to get your public IP address by connecting it to a service that outputs the IP you connected with. Plenty of services offer this functionality completely free, and we will show you how to use one in particular.

• Hamilton Nolan ☛ You Patsy - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work

  I have long argued that the path out of the two-party trap for unions is: organize workers. Organize workers. Only ten percent of American workers today are union members. Organize the other 90 percent. That is the ladder necessary to climbing out of this political quicksand. “Hey I thought we were talking about elections and now you’re talking about something different.” Organizing more workers is the path to political power for unions. Labor organizing first, everything else downstream of that. The reason why Democrats have often felt free to take unions for granted is not just because Democrats are disappointing; it’s because unions are weak. When you add millions of new workers into the pool of organized labor, you make organized labor stronger, and eventually that strength forces politicians to listen, because politics is about how much power you are able to wield. The solution, in other words, is not begging politicians to be nice to us. It is getting strong enough to make demands that must be obeyed, because we have the people. I wrote a book about this.

• Dan Langille ☛ Where’s my backup?

  That means the FreshPorts backup is more than a day old, and it should have been refreshed by now.

• University of Toronto ☛ People at universities travel widely and unpredictably

  Every so often, people make the entirely reasonable suggestion that if one day you see a particular person log in from locally and then a few days later they're logging in from half way around the world, perhaps you should investigate. This may work for many organizations, but unfortunately it is one of the ways in which universities are peculiar places. At universities, a lot of people travel, they do it a fair bit (and unpredictably), and they go to all sorts of strange places, where they will connect back to the university to continue doing work (for professors and graduate students, at least).

• Ubuntubuzz ☛ Bring Back Firefox Titlebar on Ubuntu 24.04

  Did you notice that Firefox Web Browser has no titlebar on Ubuntu 24.04? If you look closer, you will figure out the top most of its window is the tab bar and you never see program name "Firefox" as well as website name in full "Enterprise Open Source and Linux | Ubuntu" --for example-- you are currently visiting. If you don't like that, you can bring titlebar back by following this.

• TecMint ☛ Install Latest HPLIP for HP Printing & Scanning on Ubuntu

  HPLIP is an open-source project developed by HP to allow Linux users to print, scan, and fax using HP hardware. It supports a wide range of HP printers and multifunction devices.

• TecMint ☛ How to Install MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu

  In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of installing and using MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu.

• TechRepublic ☛ Top Commands GNU/Linux Admins Need to Know

  Linux admins have a love affair with information. The more information they can gather the better. And that’s a good thing, as the more informed you are, the more apt you’ll be to make smart decisions. This applies to administration tasks, security, development and just about anything else you can imagine.

• ID Root ☛ How To Install Specific Package Version Using Pip

  As a Python developer, the management of package dependencies is paramount for the stability and consistency of your projects. Pip, the standard package manager for Python, provides a straightforward method to install specific versions of packages. This ensures your application’s functionality remains uninterrupted.

• linuxcapable

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to use find -exec Command Option in Linux

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install ImageMagick on Rocky GNU/Linux 9/8

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install AnyDesk on Rocky GNU/Linux 9/8

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Apache Cassandra on Rocky GNU/Linux 9/8

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install EPEL on Rocky GNU/Linux 9/8

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Otter Browser on Fedora 40 or 39 Linux

  • Linux Capable ☛ How to Install PHP on Rocky GNU/Linux 9/8