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Mining Banano in Debian Linux (Ubuntu)

29 Oct 2022 8 minute read 2 comments WinterYeti

If you've heard about crypto then it's almost a guarantee you've heard about mining coins and tokens as well. In fact, the very first coin, Bitcoin, came amount because people literally worked around the clock with early computers and processors to c...

Reinvent Computing with a Penguin

24 Oct 2022 2 minute read 6 comments Debesh Choudhury

Computer usage is indispensable in the current time. Surviving in this modern world without using a computer is almost impossible. Maybe, some of you would say that you would use a smartphone. But, a smartphone is also a computational device....

Become anonymous and untraceable with tails os

11 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments 4rkal

In this article we will talk about what tails is and how to install and more. What is tails? Tails, or The Amnesic Incognito Live System, is a security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity.It connects t...

[Bash] Returning from functions performatically

28 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments rafaeldomi

So, once a while I posted some shell script tips. Now, let's see a little more, this time about functions and returning values. First, the basics Creating a function in bash is as simple like this: #!/bin/bash fnc_name() { echo "Inside the function...

Creating an Encrypted Local File System in a File

21 Sep 2022 4 minute read 0 comments TheJan

So you'd like to store your secrets in plain sight, and only want to decrypt and use them when you know it's safe? The Scenario Here's a use-case: You have access to a remote machine, which you do not have physical access to. At any point in time, s...

Mining with the Neoscrypt algorithm on Linux

14 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments TheJan

There are many algorithms for crypto mining out there, and sometimes it's difficult to find out which mining software (or even specific version) supports what. One particular algorithm called Neoscrypt is not particularly widely supported. Neoscrypt...

AWK: a precursor to RegEX

22 Aug 2022 4 minute read 4 comments lingy

The AWK language is a text processing language created for early versions of Unix. You can think of it as the grandfather of RegEx, as you could create simple scripts to search for text on the lines of files you wanted and then filter them. The firs...

Tried Proxmox virtualization and failed but not giving up

13 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Bala

Yesterday almost the whole day I spent setting up my own virtualization environment with the help of Proxmox. I learned about Proxmox from @rishi556. He mentioned somewhere that he's been using it for managing virtual servers. I did learn some things...

The State of Linux - Great Progress, but Where Do We Go from Here?

12 Aug 2022 5 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty

Co-published on Read.cash. In less than 2 weeks, the Steam Deck will have officially reached its half-year milestone. Back in May, I wrote about some of Linux gaming's most significant achievements as well as its shortcomings. At that time, about 2,5...

GNU, Linux, BSD: FLOSS mythology and folklore

3 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments GG-Off

History and origins of popular UNIX-like systems   Linus Torvalds started Linux (then intended to be named Freax, for freedom, freak, and the X of UNIX – reminiscent from the older phreax of phone freaks, the hackers' grandparents) in the early 90's...