nixCraft 🐧

me just using the `apt-get` or `apt` https://cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-lts-debian-linux-apt-command-examples/ but how the world see it:

Microsoft is using AI to replace all their C/C++ code with Rust by 2030. Is that actually possible? What could go wrong? Microsoft’s strategy relies on a new "North Star" metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. 😱

Principal Software Engineer (CoreAI) | Microsoft Careers | Galen Hunt | 18 comments

I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Software Engineer.  The position is in-person in Redmond.   My goal is to eliminate every ...

Rust is good, but this approach seems incredibly difficult. Given the risk of AI hallucinations, aiming for a million lines of code per developer feels like an 'Apollo-program' level of difficulty and an excessive task 😱

Windows User: My computer froze again. I have to restart it for the third time today Linux User: That’s rough. My system has been running for 3 years straight without a single crash Windows User: Wow! What have you been doing with all that uptime? Linux User: Trying to get my usb ink printer to work 😅

Here is a small pro tip: To find whether a file is a text file, executable, or some other type of file, use the `file` command on your Linux, macOS, FreeBSD (or any *BSD), Unix, or Unix-like systems: ``` file /bin/ls file /etc/passwd file /dev/null file some.png ``` See inside a compressed file and determine the file type inside: ``` file -z file.zip ``` Find the MIME encoding type of a file: ``` file foo.jpg ```

Lmao. This is funny.

The search giant Google claims SerpApi is running an "unlawful" operation by using hundreds of millions of fake requests to bypass security and scrape search results at scale and selling that data to OTHER AI companies for profit. 😅🤣

Google

Why we’re taking legal action against SerpApi’s unlawful scraping

We filed a suit today against the scraping company SerpApi.

Biggest web scraping/LLM company in the world is suing a web scraping company for web scraping its content obtained illegally without paying for it. isn’t that something? It is not like that Google does something like that.. oh wait a sec..

By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can. They finally settle on Debian Stable or Mint because they realize they no longer have the "mental bandwidth" to spend 6 hours configuring stuff or fix broken systems just to check their email or watch Netflix. 😊

Microsoft Teams is experiencing issues, with thousands reporting problems sending messages, including delays 🤣