llm is a CLI tool by Simon
Willison for interacting with large language models from the terminal. Since
both OpenCode Zen and
GWDG's SAIA
expose OpenAI-compatible APIs, llm can talk to them with a small YAML
configuration.
Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a utility for network discovery and security auditing.
Besides basic network discovery and port scanning, Nmap has a builtin scripting
engine (NSE). With this
scripting engine more complex network tasks can be created. The Nmap
installation comes with a wide variety of scripts (/usr/share/nmap/scripts).
The scripts can be applied for each host or service found during network
discovery, or before and after the scan.
OpenSSH supports FIDO2 hardware keys for additional protection. The private key
is securely stored on hardware. The file in the ~/.ssh/ directory contains
only the credential id with other non-sensitive meta-data.
Distributions based on Ubuntu have
brltty enabled by default. Some braille
displays do not change the ids of those converters and therefore brltty claims
the serial device and no device file /dev/ttyUSBx is created. In the following
some solutions to this problem are presented.
The zram kernel module creates compressed RAM-based block devices named
/dev/zramX. These zram devices allow fast I/O and the compression provides
RAM space savings.
OEM Windows keys are often stored in the software licensing (SLIC) or Microsoft data management (MSDM) table. When a key is stored the unattended installation can use a generic key and the stored key is then used and activated. The usage of such a key can be tested with QEMU/libvirt.
TrueNAS Scale Cobia (23.10) disabled the option to access VM displays via VNC. The connection method is changed to SPICE.
Sometimes it is necessary to find fonts that contain a specific glyph. The tool albatross can be used for that task.
When using IMAP-based user authentication in applications written in PHP (i.e.
Nextcloud, DokuWiki, etc.), debugging with a test script is essential. The
idea of using curl for authentication, is based on the external user
authentication plugin (see: nextcloud/user_external) of Nextcloud.