aspi

Network technician · Linux IT Associate Cybersecurity enthusiast · python · bash

[Jason @Jasoncoderx]

Stop saying 'Sorry for the late reply' in emails.

It doesn't make you polite. It makes you look disorganized.

Here are 6 phrases that skip the apology and get straight to work:

[rootsecdev @rootsecdev]

Me today

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you were born after 1998, you won't understand this.

[aspi @LandryDimitri2]

Highly recommend

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

If you were impacted by a recent layoff, have been on a job hunt for too long, or haven't graduated yet and need to brush up on your Linux, networking, containers, and Kubernetes skills, I'll be happy to help with free premium access to iximiuz Labs learning materials and playgrounds.

What I need from you in return:

- Join our discord and become an active community member
- Share your (honest) experience using our learning platform

The link is in the first reply (or just google "iximiuz Labs").

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[Sakpo @sakpo0007_]

Today marks 718 days that my TV remote has not gone missing 🤣

[aspi @LandryDimitri2]

@veux_parler @banzance @antic_cameroun Bonjour et Merci Mais le site de @antic_cameroun est bel et bien actif mais pour des raison que j'ignore il n'est pas accessible a travers @Orange_Cameroun. Je l'ai testé avec camtel et ça passe.

[Cyber_Racheal @CyberRacheal]

😂 bare metal

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

I'm running a semi-unplanned sale: iximiuz Labs membership is 50% off (plus the traditional PPP discount).

The sale is mainly to keep iximiuz Labs afloat during the summer slowdown. But this same slowdown is one of the best times of the year to fill the knowledge gaps. So it's a good opportunity to go deeper into Linux, containers, and Kubernetes through our hands-on labs, and also support the platform.

And to express my appreciation, I'll match each purchase of an annual or lifetime membership with a year of free premium access for anyone who cannot afford the subscription. Ping me on Discord if you're in a tough spot or if you need a voucher code for a friend (the link is on the site - labs[.]iximiuz[.]com)

Happy learning!

[aspi @LandryDimitri2]

@popovicu94 when will it be up ?? 😊

[aspi @LandryDimitri2]

I got obsess with writting one liner bash command as much as possible now renaming microblog -> m_microblog is as short as

`mv {m,m_m}icroblog`

First version : `mv {m,m_}icroblog` didn't work well though 🤣🤣🤣

Can you spot why ?? 🤣

[aspi @LandryDimitri2]

@anishmoonka Genuinely asking If it wasn't on by default why is removing the option such a big deal since chances are most people wern't using it

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Browsing the internet nowadays.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Meta can now read every message you send on Instagram. They removed the privacy feature yesterday, eleven days before a new federal law takes effect that would have forced them to read your messages anyway.

The feature is called end-to-end encryption. With it on, your messages get scrambled in a way that only you and the person you're messaging can unlock. Not even Meta has the key. Without it, Meta has the key.

The new law is the Take It Down Act. From May 19, social media platforms have 48 hours to remove intimate photos posted without consent, including AI-generated ones, after someone reports them. You can't search messages you can't read. So Meta turned it off.

Meta's official reason is different. A spokesperson told The Guardian that very few people were using the encryption feature, so they're getting rid of it. The feature was buried inside each chat's settings, never on by default, never offered to all users, and only launched at the end of 2023. Almost nobody used it because Meta hid it.

WhatsApp is the giveaway. Meta also owns WhatsApp, which has 3 billion users. Its messages are still encrypted by default and will stay that way. Instagram has 3 billion users too, but Instagram is Meta's biggest advertising business, more than half of the company's US ad revenue. Reading your messages helps Meta target ads. It also helps train its AI. WhatsApp doesn't do either, so the encryption stays.

In 2019, Zuckerberg wrote a long essay called "A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking." He promised to encrypt Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The pitch was that private messaging would replace public posts as the future of the internet. Seven years later, Instagram quietly went the other way without a press release or public statement, just a small update to a help page back in March.

If you want messages that stay private from Meta, you have to use WhatsApp. Other options that stay encrypted by default: Signal, iMessage, and X's XChat. Anything you send on Instagram DMs from now on can be read by Meta, handed to police under a court order, used to target ads at you, and fed into Meta's AI for training.

[Vivek Galatage @vivekgalatage]

An awesome regex visualization tool

https://t.co/zrGa64iMHJ

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

If you wanted to play with the fresh Kubernetes release, I just upgraded all iximiuz Labs playgrounds:

- Kubernetes 1.36
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Fedora 44

And a few dozen more wait for you at https://t.co/0wtSNmbLlR