Link Diary May 2024

• GPN22
• Let them know where to report a security issue
• Dad joke cowsay
• Wayland eyecandy
• Assist in building a PC
• Predictive analysis
• Video Picks
  • Linus Torvald on a career in Linux
  • Linux Penguin origins
  • ChatGTP-4o demo
  • Bad at the job with AI
  • Raspberry Pi 5 NAS
  • Skyrim Rivers' origin
  • Origami and Science
  • Apple Vision Seethrough video chat
  • Eating cookies as a job
  • Fun with french
  • Slicing agile teams
  • An essay on UUID history
  • The Slayer Guy gets a private show

From 29.5. to 2.6. was the Gulaschprogrammiernacht, organized by the CCC of Karlsruhe.

Videos can be found here:

• https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn22

Recommended (german):

• https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-266-down-the-parcel-hole

Place a security.txt in your .well-known folder of your website.

• https://securitytxt.org/

This Bash script randomizes all possible parameters and figures of cowsay plus fetches a dad joke to tell.

bubble_array=("say" "think")
bubble=${bubble_array[$((RANDOM % ${#bubble_array[@]}))]}

parameters="-b -d -g -p -s -t -w -y"
param_array=($parameters)
mood=${param_array[$((RANDOM % ${#param_array[@]}))]}

cow=`ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows | sort -R | head -1`

foo=$(curl -s -H "Accept: text/plain" https://icanhazdadjoke.com/)
cow$bubble $mood -f "$cow" $foo

A wayland tiling compositor (aka window manager in X11). Controversial, I heard.

https://hyprland.org/

PC Part Picker will help you find components that fit together.

https://pcpartpicker.com/

I'm doing an AI/ML course and this was the first mentioned tool: sklearn

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html