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Shadow IT has entered the chat – got caught running scripts again : sysadmin

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05

Shadow IT has entered the chat

Many companies have hardly any idea how many scripts are being used by their people to get the chores of day to day work done.

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Need to give this some thought: Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23

Sometimes you need a relatively low-tech solution for updating.

I will need to give this some thought: [Wayback/Archive] Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen | Jun, 2022 | Medium

Back then I posted some edits on Twitter which by now should be reflected in the script and GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/PoorManAutoUpdate.md at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs (with script at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/updater.sh at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs)

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, cron, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, Power User, Python, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

fail2ban is yet another “A project some … person … has been thanklessly maintaining since …”; ensure it does not become yet another XZ Utils debacle

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17

https://i0.wp.com/web.archive.org/web/20240711133830if_/https%3A//www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/d/d7/dependency.pngEarlier this week there were only three sponsors for [Wayback/Archive] sebres (Sergey G. Brester) · GitHub.

You might think “Why is this important?”.

Sergey is the single maintainer of fail2ban, the open source project that protects countless (likely a majority) of  public facing servers facing on the Internet.

Please don’t let fail2ban become another XZ Utils and support Sergey: we don’t want the project to become unmaintained, or worse: being backdoored like XZ was.

[Wayback/Archive] Sponsor @sebres on GitHub Sponsors · GitHub

The fail2ban repository is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Via [Wayback/Archive] dee 🏳️‍⚧️: “fail2ban has one core maintain…” – Grafana Social

fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres

WTF

I can’t even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night… because of this single project.

Related: XZ 5.6.x are backdoored and present in many systems: downgrade to 5.4.x or earlier now; consider libarchive compromised until proven otherwise

--jeroen

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s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.

Via/related:

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Posted in Amazon S3, AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Apps, Development, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/04

Cool technology:

[Wayback/Archive] maartensukel/example-textual-classification-citizen-reports: Example of a simple textual classification using TF-IDF and LR.

The classification is done by using a TF-IDF (Term Freuqency – Inversed document frequency) as representation for the text and a logistic regression to classify the text. Optimal hyperparameters for the dataset are found using a gridsearch.

Author: [Wayback/Archive] Maarten Sukel (@MaartenSukel) / Twitter

The source is based on Python Pandas and sci-kit learn (also known as sklearn).

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Code Visualisation through Python Tutor – Visualise Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/18

The final visualisation post of this week (themed Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation) is about [Wayback/Archive] Python Tutor – Visualize Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution.

Languages covered in these visualisers:

Earlier posts in the series:

–jeroen

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Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/16

Learning Python Pandas can be tough so this free resource is of great help: [Wayback/Archive] Pandas Tutor – visualize Python pandas code – documentation:

Pandas Tutor visualizes how Python code transforms dataframes

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FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/30

[Wayback/Archive] FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞 werd in 2024 gelanceerd vlak voor de Women’s History Month en Internationale Vrouwendag door Felienne Hermans.

Felienne is bekend van bijvoorbeeld haar promotieonderzoek naar de impact van Excel op de samenleving, maar vooral van haar drive te onderzoeken hoe zo veel mogelijk mensen – ongeacht hun achtergrond – kunnen leren programmeren), Joy of Coding, de Hedy programmeertaal (met veel support voor andere alfabetten dan wat we in de westerse wereld gebruiken) en haar boek The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition.

Ze is enorm goed in haar werk, en komt daarmee regelmatig in aanraking met vooringenomenheid over vrouwen. Daar verbaast ze zich terecht over, en ook dat het lastig om content (op allerlei soorten gebieden) te consumeren gemaakt door vrouwen. Dat overkwam haar bijvoorbeeld bij het luisteren naar muziek op de Nederlandse radio: daar kwamen veel meer mannelijke artiesten aan bod dan vrouwelijke.

Vandaar FemFM, en Felienne zou Felienne niet zijn als de source code niet openbaar was, dus hier wat linkjes:

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Posted in Audio, Awareness, Development, IceCast, Inclusion / inclusive society, Java, Java Platform, Media, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

bloomberg/memray: Memray is a memory profiler for Python

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/22

For my link archive as one day I will need this:

Via this cool [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @1st1 on Thread Reader App that has these tweets:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “WOW. Bloomberg finally opensourced memray—a new versatile memory profile for Python. Can’t way to use it. Thread 👇”

  2. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “1. It’s fully open source (Apache 2), grab it here: …”

  3. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “2. Until now you never could have such a deep insight in how your app allocates memory. The tool is a must for any long-running services implemented with Python. With memray you can generate flame charts or all allocations and trace absolutely everything.”

  4. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “3. And this must be a Python snippet of the month:”

    Image

    @pytest.mark. limit_memory("24 MB")
def test_foobar():
    # do some stuff that allocates memory
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “4. It’s sophisticated enough to peek into native code. So you can profile your numpy and pandas code with it. And it has a live mode. You can just run your code and see how it allocates memory as it runs. 🤯”

  6. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “5. A little birdie mentioned to me that @pyblogsal is one of the active contributors in memray. Let’s keep it a secret 🫢”
  7. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “6. This is a Python client to @edgedatabase as it establishes a connection to the DB. cc @fantix @elprans”

  8. [Wayback/Archive] Yury Selivanov on Twitter: “7. Wow, this thread is blowing up. Here’s a link to my Spotify… err,”

–jeroen

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For your next job interview: One-Line FizzBuzz Solution in Python 3 | by David Sanchez | CodeX | Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/18

[Wayback/Archive] One-Line FizzBuzz Solution in Python 3 | by David Sanchez | CodeX | Medium

print('\n'.join(['fizzbuzz' if x%15 == 0 else 'buzz' if x%5 == 0 else 'fizz' if x%3 == 0 else str(x) for x in range(1,101)]))

(Yes, one can do similar list comprehension and conditional expression constructs in other languages to get one-liner solutions)

Via:

–jeroen

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