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Sniffnet: Application to Comfortably Monitor your Network Traffic
Sniffnet is a great tool to use if you want to easily keep an eye on network traffic. It has a simple GUI interface that lets you filter the network based on the application's protocol and sends you an alert when a set threshold limit is reached.World Backup Day! Celebrate with a Special BorgBase Discount Code!@
I suppose there is some mythical group of people who've been conscientious from the start but most of us have tripped up at some point and accidentally deleted something or been the victim of some kind of hardware or software failure. Realizing that data is gone is a horrible feeling. Either you're facing time and effort to recreate what's missing, or you've lost something that is irreplaceable like a photo or important document. ~ Today is World Backup Day and it's all about making sure that never happens to you!How to build your own Raspberry Pi webcam
With the software now updated and working, we decided to go the whole hog and create a big fancy Raspberry Pi webcam tutorial. ~ Our tutorial shows you how to 3D print or laser cut your own sleek mount designs to hold the hardware in place atop your computer.Video Streaming on Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets :: DigitalOcean Documentation
DigitalOcean recently launched Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets, virtual machines that deliver reliable performance and high network throughput, making them ideal for CPU and network-intensive workloads.How To Scale Your Mastodon Server
Mastodon is federated, which means multiple instances of Mastodon can interoperate, allowing users from different servers to communicate with each other to create a network called the fediverse. For the last year, numerous incidents of Mastodon servers going down happened because of peak user activity. To prevent the Mastodon server from going down during user influx it needs to be scaled.How to create multidomain web applications with Podman and Nginx
Learn how to use Podman and Nginx to work with applications from different domains on the same host. When a colleague suggested I write an article about using Podman to solve that problem, possibly using a reverse proxy, I jumped at the chance.Build a golden image for your RHEL homelab with Image Builder
In How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I laid out my plans for revamping my home lab using as many Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat-adjacent tools as I could get my hands on. ~ I can deploy repeatedly.The Last of Us on Steam Deck is not great
Even though you've just downloaded it, you won't be ready to play. It will take around an hour to build the shaders on the main menu, something you'll need to do, otherwise you're likely to see worse performance. In my testing, you definitely want to wait on that being done too. Before it was done the performance was far more erratic and it ended up slowing down to a 1FPS crawl during one attempt.Check CPU and RAM usage of a Kubernetes pod
The first method will not require any metrics server or other third party tool. ~ Replace [pod name] with the full name of the pod, and [namespace] with whatever namespace it is in. The second method involves installing metrics server and utilizing its tools to check CPU and RAM usage. ~ Using the --containers flag is a good idea in order to get a better idea of what your pod is running3 fundamental tools to troubleshoot Linux performance problems
Performance is one of those things that many system administrators dread. Sometimes you don't even think about it when things are running well. Then, suddenly you get a call from an end user, or even worse, lots of end users, that the application you're responsible for "feels slow."
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Rust Identified as Safer Coding Tool by NIST
Memory safe languages like Rust are emerging as critical assets not only for organizations trying to prevent data corruption and null pointer references but also for the United States government as it becomes increasingly concerned with encouraging proper information security measures.Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals
The UK's National Crime Agency has recently announced work that it's been doing as an ongoing part of a multinational project dubbed Operation PowerOFF. ~ The fake crimeware-as-a-service offerings that the NCA pretends to operate are so-called booters, also known as stressers, also known as DDoSsers, where DDoS is short for distributed denial of service.Apple patches everything, including a zero-day fix for iOS 15 users
Apple's latest update blast is out, including an extensive range of security patches for all devices that Apple officially supports.Microsoft assigns CVE to Snipping Tool bug, pushes patch to Store
Simply put, one of the primary reasons for cropping photos and screenshots before you send them out is to get rid of content that you don't want to share.GoAnywhere Zero-Day Attack Hits Major Orgs
More organizations are emerging to confirm impact from the newly disclosed in-the-wild zero-day exploits hitting Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer software. ~ Soon after, attacks targeting the security defect were linked to a Russian-speaking threat actor called 'Silence' that has been linked to the distribution of the Cl0p ransomware.
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Crypto news site The Block gets new CEO and reported staff layoffs following admitted ties to SBF
The Block reportedly laid off roughly 33% of its staff, including interim CEO Bobby Moran, to stabilize the platform following loans it received from Sam Bankman-Fried. The vice president of research at The Block, has announced that he will be taking the reins at the crypto and blockchain news website from interim CEO Bobby Moran — the second change in leadership since reports surfaced that former CEO Mike McCaffrey financed the platform through loans from Alameda Research.US government plans to sell 41K Bitcoin connected to Silk Road
On March 14, 2023, the government sold 9,861 BTC for $215.7 million, according to court documents filed on March 31. ~ U.S. authorities seized more than 50,000 BTC from his Georgia home in November 2021. It was one of the largest crypto seizures by the government until the February 2022 recovery of roughly $3.6 billion connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack.Major Energy Companies Are Trading Tokenized Emissions Credits
Natural gas producer PureWest is minting tokenized emissions credits in an effort to reduce the footprint of a methanol producer and other customers. ~ PureWest is now transacting the tokenized credits with the world's second largest methanol producer, the energy firm announced this week. ~ The CETs are each matched to one million British thermal units of gas produced and are sold on an MMBtu basis, Kelly Bott, PureWest's senior vice president of ESG, land and regulatory told Blockworks.US Crypto Crackdown Sees USDC Lose $10B, Tether Gain $9B
Tether stablecoin USDT is enjoying a near two-year high in market share amid heightened regulatory fears across crypto, after Circle's USDC shed almost $10 billion. ~ USDC's market cap is down more than 5% over the past week and more than 24% over the past month representing $9.7 billion in reduced supply.Pussy Riot Member Put on Russia's Most-Wanted List, with NFT Used as Evidence
A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot has been placed on the country's most wanted list. ~ The feminist punk rocker had created a work called "Virgin Mary, Please Become a Feminist" — but this is an offense under Russian law because it "hurts religious feelings." ~ "The Ukraine flag NFT for Ukraine DAO was sold for close to $7 million and the crypto community rallied around it, we saved lives.