#How to learn docker

[tickfleato]

how to make cool blobby turing patterns in photoshop

i'll preface with i learned the basic loop from skimming a tutorial on youtube, but as someone who prefers written tutorials i'm sure many would appreciate one! also, the second part of this is some of the visual effects i figured out on my own using blending modes and stuff.

i'm using photoshop CS4 on a mac so some buttons and stuff might be in different places on windows and newer photoshop versions but all the actions are the same. my canvas is 1000x1000 pixels.

UPDATES (i'm hoping these'll show up whenever you open the readmore?)

it's possible to do something similar in krita using this plugin, made by the love @arcaedex

it's also possible to do this in photopea, a free browser alternative to photoshop! the results are pretty much identical.

FIRST off you wanna get or make a black and white image of some kind. it has to be one layer. can be noise, a photo, a bunch of lines, whatever. here's mine, just some quick airbrush lines:

now find the actions tab. idk what it looks like in newer versions of photoshop but you probably won't need to dig!

hit the little page thingy to make a new pattern. once you hit 'record', it'll record everything you do. the little square 'stop' icon will end it.

now you want to do a high pass filter. you can mess around with the radius to change the size of your squiggles, but the tutorial had it set to 6. experiment!

now add the 'threshold' adjustment layer. i use the adjustments tab but i think there's also a dropdown menu somewhere. keep it at the default, 128. merge it down. (control or command + E or you can right click it like some kind of weirdo)

and finally, the gaussian blur! the radius of this affects the shape and size of your squiggles as well. i like to keep it around 4.5 but you can mess around with that too.

after that, hit 'stop' on the action you're recording, and then repeat it a bunch of times using the 'play' button, until you have something you like, like this:

WOW!! that was fun!! and only a little tedious thanks to the power of macros. anyway, here's some fun layer blending stuff i like to do. it's with a different pattern cause i made this bit first.

anyway, using a black and white gradient (or a grey base that you do black and white airbrush on), make a layer with the vivid light. this will make the blobs look thicker or thinner.

then, for cool colors, do a gradient map adjustment layer over that:

and finally, my best friend, the overlay layer. just using a gradient here bc i'm lazy, but feel free to experiment with brushes, colors, and blending modes!

NOW GO. MAKE COOL SHIT WITH THE POWER OF MATH. AND SEND IT TO ME

also these are not hard and fast rules PLEASE mess around with them to see what kind of weird shit you can make. here's a gif. as you can see i added some random airblush blobs in the middle of it, for fun.

[noelleholidaily]

hihi do you have any tips regarding digital art? im trying to make the transition from traditional and I find coloring so challenging 😭 I love your art sm and hope to reach your level someday <33

Good to know that you're transitioning, hehe! Of course, I'm happy to reply you!

I must admit that it took me a few of years how to figure, and I consider that the coloring and color theory are tricky.

Before explain how do I color, I must clarify I only use Krita. This art program is [FREE!]!!!

The secret is that I use the following tools to make the colors more beautiful.

Specific Color Selector

Filters mask

Different types of Layers

You should experiment with these tools!

Specific Color Selector

For some reasons, I avoid using color wheel because I don't get always colors that combine well. I only use the color wheel to guide myself to see the color schemes.

Like in this case, if you want to try make yellow turning dark red, sometimes it doesn't look "fluid". Like we only can trust in our eyes, so it can take us more time to figure out how to make the colors appearing well.

Without the specific color selector, using the color wheel.

To activate this tool (Specific Color selector), you can go to settings -> dockers -> Specific Color Selector, as you can see.

According to the RGB theory, red, green and blue are primary colors.

Magenta is a secondary color made by combining red and blue.

Cyan is a secondary color made by combining green and blue.

Yellow is a secondary color made by combining red and green.

So if you want to make it more red, you have to lower the green. As you can see in this screenshot.

With the specific color selector, I only have to move a little backward. To make it reddish, you have lower the green or blue of RGB.

To make darker, you may have to lower the red.

It combines well with colors, right? Yaya!

You can apply similarly, but always be sure to remind how colors work in the RGB theory. Or you can use another model color, and you may learn how the colors model works!

Filter mask

I love so much filter mask, I may use these to have quick fix of 'bad combination of colors' or 'too far off colors'.

Inside the filter mask tool, I use mostly Color adjustment, HSV/HSL Adjustment, ASC-CDL.

Well, I mostly use the color adjustment to balance some colors, if you want to make it more warm, you may play with curves of Red, and lower the part of blue/green!

Different types of layers:

You can check out the guide of "Blending modes" on Krita, and you may use some of these modes.

I use Hard light, overlay, multiply, Color dodge depending of what I would like to.

Hard light to shade or light.

Multiply to shade.

Color dodge to give it lighting

Overlay to give it a bit balance color

I suggest you to experiment with these blending modes or different types of layers! And you will understand a bit. Of course, I also suggest you to play with the opacity of the layer with the blending mode!

You may combine some layers to reach the desired result!

This video teaches you how to use blending mode for some specific parts, like lighting, shading, rendering, etc.

I recommend you to watch some good videos that helped me to understand better the confusing color theory

I hope it's useful for you!

[survivetoread]

Don't tell anyone, but I've secretly got back to reading Shivaji Sawant's Mṛtyuṅjay. I read a couple of chapters yesterday.

It was actually to see how well Lute handles it, and I'm very impressed with the results even if there are a couple of pain points (that I'm discussing with the developer).

Installing it is a bit tricky as you have to use Docker for it, but here ya go if you're interested:

Right now, I'm not sure if I'm going to continue reading this here and now. I'm currently reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's El palacio de la medianoche in Spanish (on Vocab Tracker), and my goal remains that I'll read Mṛtyuṅjay if I finish 20 books this year.

[alisonscotlock]

my predictions for s14 of call the midwife

(i haven't watched the trailer so some of these might have already been disproved)

sister julienne has a fight with the board of health and has a poignant praying scene in the chapel. she and phyllis find a way to save nonnatus

sister veronica has a crisis of faith. she has some chemistry with someone (probably a man) and considers leaving the order, confiding in geoffrey. in the end she stays

sister monica joan continues to be savage and wise

phyllis helps to save nonnatus and is her usual efficient self and spends evenings in with millicent

trixie stays at nonnatus because she needs midwifery more than her husband

nancy and colette spend a lot of time with roger. the final episode features nancy and roger's wedding with colette - angela and may as bridesmaids and teddy as pageboy

joyce gets grief during her divorce but is embraced by her nonnatus family and has a romantic spark with someone in the final episode

rosalind and cyril  fall in love and it is a whole heartbreaking thing because he's married but he keeps his wedding vows and moves to jamaica to be with lucille and rosalind is devastated but understands

millicent spends more time with harry

the buckles are adorable and reggie continues to learn life skills. he saves the day on at least one occasion

the turners get a guinea pig for teddy. tim appears briefly to return the spare car keys

events that might feature (in order of how likely)

• thalidomide victims awarded compensation

• dockers' strike

• apollo 13

• labour -> tory government

• nixon visits uk

• women's liberation protesters disrupt miss world

• paul mccartney leaves the beatles

• first march of the gay liberation front

• jimi hendrix and janis joplin die from overdoses

• dana wins eurovision

[munsonburn3r]

Breaking the Cycle

I started wondering about the types of things Eddie Munson would study in college and it turned into this. Not edited and a little stream of consciousness blurb. Enjoy how sweet our boy is here.

Having thoughts about college!Eddie...

When he finally graduates from Hawkins High, Wayne encourages him to do something after high school. “You don’t have to go to school, but you gotta find somethin’. Everyone’s gotta have something to be good at, Ed.”

So, he enrolls in the local community college and takes a little bit of everything. Just to get his feet wet. He figured he’d end up majoring in auto tech or going the trade route — but it’s the social sciences that surprisingly grab him.

His "Intro to Sociology" class has a service learning portion that requires him to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club. At first, he’s not happy (hadn’t he just gotten past babysitting when he left Hawkins High?), but he quickly warms up to the idea when he spends time with the kids. They’re from rough backgrounds, like him. Some are in foster care and some live with relatives or are surfing couches. But all of them flock to Eddie, because he’s cool, he’s fun, he’s goofy, and he doesn’t treat them like they’re broken.

And after talking with one of his professors about other classes that might allow him to keep working with kids, his professor suggests majoring in social work. He's skeptical. Him? A social worker? He never pictured himself as a 9-5, dockers and button ups kind of guy. But his professor tells him to just try it, that he'd be great at it, and how rewarding it is.

So, Eddie surprises himself by graduating on time with an undergraduate degree in social work. He's even more surprised when he's offered a graduate assistantship to finish his master's -- something he'll need to get any sort of good paying job in the field.

Before he knows it, he's a licensed social worker in the state of Indiana. He immediately finds a job working in the local school system with kids that come to school with unwashed clothes, empty bellies, and days of sleep clouding their eyes. They're kids that remind him a little too much of himself from years ago.

This time, he's the adult staring at the scrawny kid who'd been caught stealing money from a teacher's desk so that he could buy his first meal in two days. But instead of belittling the kid, or embarrassing him, or looking down at him with that mixed glare of pity and disgust that Eddie had been so privy to in his younger days, he's reaching into the cabinet next to them in his office to grab a grocery sack full of various snacks and non-perishables. He's handing it to the boy in front of him as he tells him about an equally scrawny kid who used to steal whatever he could stuff into his jacket from Melvald's, whose dad taught him to hotwire instead of how to catch a ball, whose future could have been drastically different had his uncle not pushed him to be the man he is today.

When the kid leaves a half hour later with a trace of an upturned smile and a sweetly awkward fist bump, Eddie remembers why he does this. As he starts the paperwork for food assistance and begins dialing the boy's number to check in the with the family, to offer to help in any way he can, he thinks of himself at 20 -- a three time senior and social pariah who sold drugs to Hawkin's finest to help keep the trailer warm -- and his eyes threaten mist.

Going to college and working in social work was by far the hardest thing he'd ever done, but he'd done it. And he'd work the rest of his career to be the person he'd needed as a kid. To make all of this generation's 'Eddie Munsons' realize they aren't defined by their situation.

That they too could break the cycle.

[honey-crypt]

KEEPER OF THE GLISTENING SEA - a merman!elliott x plus-sized!reader love story

01. LIGHT IN THE NIGHT

word count: 2.6k

warnings: mentions of shady capitalistic schemes (joja, duh!), one-off mention of psychedelics/hallucinogens

summary: it’s time for you to learn the ways of the lighthouse from willy, the expert of all things sea-related. you befriend a few residents of pelican town and find yourself easing into the groove of the valley. but what’s that flash of red you keep seeing at night?

author’s note: i wrote this like an hour after the prologue so enjoy <3

The incessant gawking of seagulls startled you awake before the crack of dawn. You grumbled a curse to yourself at their volume and tried to fall back asleep. Of course, that was a waste, as the seagulls continued to shriek at one another. Defeated, you kicked the covers off your body and pulled yourself out of bed, the woody floor creaking loudly under your bare feet. You soon dragged your exhausted body into the tiny bathroom and began your morning routine.

Halfway through brushing your teeth after your shower, you heard rapid knocking on your door. You exited the bathroom and opened the front door, revealing an older man with a greying beard and a brown cap, “Ahoy,” he greeted you, “Name’s Willy. Benny informed me that you arrived yesterday.”

“Willy!” you mumbled aloud, pulling the toothbrush out your mouth, “It’s, uh,” you realized that you were still in your pajamas and with terrible bedhead, “Wish we could’ve met when I was more… dressed.”

“No need to fret,” he reassured you, “I’ve seen worse, such as the time I caught the mayor in his lucky purple shorts,” the fisherman jested. He then held out a white box to you, “I just wanted to deliver you yer uniform, I got dear Emily making a few spares in the meantime.”

You took the box from his hands, surprised by its weight. Willy tipped his cap to you, “I’ll see you in an hour,” and walked off towards the nearby docks, where you noticed a small shop perched on it. You waved him off and shut the door behind you, eager to see your uniform. Gently, you unboxed the package, pulled out each part of your uniform, and fully assembled it on the dining table. Your face grew hot at the design of the uniform, a cross between traditional lighthouse keeper's attire and the kind of seafarer outfit someone would purchase for a Spirit’s Eve party.

The top half of your uniform was pretty fine, consisting of a white button shirt with a navy blue suit vest and matching suit jacket. Yet, it was the bottom half that made your palms sweaty. The pants, while appropriate for the warmer seasons, were high-waisted black shorts, adorn with three metallic buttons on each side. At least, the pants were the only real issue you had, the provided knee high socks and sturdy docker shoes not being much of an issue. You looked back at the pants and let out a frustrated huff before returning to your morning routine.

You stood before the wall hung mirror on your bathroom door in your new uniform, trying to break it in a bit before work. It caught you off guard how good it fit you, especially the pants. You adjusted your hat, navy blue with the symbol of the valley’s pride and joy- the Stardrop- in the center. Almost like the keeper’s uniform from hundreds years ago, you fiddled with your uniform, Except mine’s… more twink-ish.

You checked the time on your phone, thankfully able to get service from the one cell tower in the valley, Oh! It’s time.

After double-checking that you had everything you needed for your big day, you made your way out of the cabin and towards the lighthouse, only a few feet away. Outside its entrance, Willy was nursing a cigar, he quickly sniffed its flame upon your arrival, “Ahoy, again,” the fisherman pulled out a large ring of keys and selected the shiniest one, “Thank you for being timely, laddie, I do appreciate it,” he unlocked the door to the lighthouse, “Follow me and do be listening to all my blabbering.”

You followed Willy into the lighthouse, the door slowly closing behind you. A soft whistle escaped your lips at the interior, just as sleek as Benny described it in his letter. Yet, you couldn’t admire its shininess for long, as Willy began reviewing the basics of lighthouse keeping while walking up the spiral staircase, “Usually, it be up to a member of the Ferngill Republic Coast Guard or Navy to man a lighthouse such as this beaut, but given the ongoing war, not many are available to take this job.”

“How come I got it?” you asked, “In all honesty, I have very little experience with this kinda thing.”

“Oh, I’m aware,” chuckled the fisherman, “The mayor wanted me to do it since I’m a retired member of the Navy,” his footsteps thumped against the stairs, “But I already have my hands full at my shop. That’s when yer cousin told us that you had the guts to take it on,” the older man stopped upon making it to the main mechanical floor of the lighthouse, “And the fact that you be the strongest swimmer he knows.”

You raised your eyebrows, “What does good swimming have to do with maintaining a lighthouse?”

Willy cracked a small smile, “You be surprised. When out on these waters, yer ability to swim be the divide between making it home for supper or sinking to the bottom.”

You pressed your lips together, still not comprehending his words. Nonetheless, Willy moved onto explaining the basic functions of the lighthouse and your duties. To your joy, your main responsibilities were cleaning the light and troubleshooting its automated systems when necessary, “Thankfully, ‘is not like the old days where a keeper had to maintain the wicks of the lighthouse,” stated Willy, “The system is set up to do most of the work for you.”

He showcased the various dashboards of equipment, detailing each of their purposes. You made sure to take notes while he explained, not wanting to break any of the obviously expensive equipment. By the time you finished your tour with Willy, you were utterly drained, lighthouse terminology bouncing around your head like ping pong balls. Willy flashed you a toothy grin, “You’re doing well, laddie. This won’t be too hard for you and I’ll be here to train you for the next week and so.”

“Oh, that’s good to hear,” you relaxed your posture, relieved to hear that you weren’t being thrown to the wolves- or sharks, in this case- already.

“Report here tomorrow by dawn, laddie. We got a lot of work on our hands! Other than, you be free to enjoy the rest of your day,” Willy laughed, giving you a gingerly pat on the back before making his way to the bottom of the lighthouse. You copied his move and headed outside, grateful that you could change out of your uniform. Back in the cabin, you swapped your uniform for a comfy muscle tee and some shorts, collapsing on your bed. You checked the time again, that took FIVE hours? you gawked at the change in time. A groan fell from your lips, “It’s not even noon and I’ll already tired.”

Not wanting to succumb to your exhaustion, you switched your focus on unpacking your belongings. It only took an hour or so to fully unpack, you didn’t bring that much with you. For the final touch, you placed your photo frames on the dresser; one of you and Benny as kids at the beach and another of your mother holding your toddler self. You weren’t sure why you kept those photos for all those years, but you were now grateful that you did.

A knock on your door suddenly caught your attention, “Willy?” you questioned when you opened the door.

“Nope, it’s me,” your cousin greeted you, “I take it you wrapped up your tour with dear old William, huh?” they were covered in dirt and reeked of something tangy but ultimately nasty.

“Yeah,” you pinched your noise, “Why do you smell so… so putrid?”

Benny sniffled his shirt, “Sorry, I’ve gotten nose blind to the smells of the farm. You might be smelling my homemade fertilizer.”

“Yeah, that’s,” you tried not to gag at the smell, “That’s probably why I’m smelling.”

“You’ll get used to it,” snorted Benny, “The whole town has,” he gestured to the pathway to the community you came to know as Pelican Town, “Speaking of the town, I thought I’d swing by and get you acquainted with the residents!”

You grimaced, “Are you sure that I have to talk to them?” They didn’t seem so welcoming.

Benny crossed their arms, “Yes, yes you do,” before offering you a hand. Hesitantly, you grasped it and allowed your cousin to drag you off to Pelican Town. It appeared to be a busy day, as groups of people wandered about the main area of town. Benny, the extrovert of you two, waved at the group closest to you, an elderly couple, “Hi Evelyn! Hi George!”

The woman, Evelyn, wore her smile like it was made of pearls, absolutely radiating positive joy, “Oh, hello, dear! It’s so nice to see you!”

The man, George, on the other hand? He seemed to be the exact opposite of his counterpart, sporting a bitter frown, “Mmpf! Ben, it’s too early for your hollering!”

“Sorry, George,” your cousin placated the grump with a bowing nod, “I want to introduce you two to my cousin, (Y/N).”

“Oh, goodness!” proclaimed Evelyn, “I remember you! You were just a munchkin the last time I saw you, oh how big you’ve gotten, my dear.”

You winced a bit at the word big, but promptly shook it off, knowing that she wasn’t referring to you by your weight but rather your overall growth. Evelyn resumed her chatter, “I used to bring homemade cookies and lemonade to you both when you would stay with Charlie for the summer. I’m so glad you’re well, sweetie.”

“Thank you, Evelyn,” you gave her a small nod and an awkward smile. Meanwhile, George huffed and commented, “I remember you, too. You were quite the troublemaker, you nearly destroyed my TV set!”

Benny concealed a snort of laughter and you did the same, thinking back to the time you visited the Mullners’ house and nearly ran straight into the TV while being chased by Benny and the Mullners’ grandson, Alex. I wonder if Alex’s alright, you thought to yourself; you’ve seen him in years, surely he was off in a city somewhere doing something.

“It’s nice to meet you, uh,” you held back a playful snicker, “Again, George.”

“Well, we should be off!” your cousin diffused the situation and whisked you off to another group of townies before George could run you down with his wheelchair.

Throughout the afternoon, Benny introduced you to the various residents of Pelican Town, from the carpenter Robin and her family to the general owner Pierre and his family. Everyone in town had such a bizarre energy about them, but you found yourself most comfortable with Robin’s son Sebastian and Pierre’s daughter Abigail. They were the closest to you in age and you could relate to them as a fellow “weird” person, as you were quite a fan of the occult like Abigail and of Solarian Chronicles: The Game like Sebastian. Soon, you were introduced to Sam, another member of the “weird kids” clubs in Pelican Town, who fancied himself a musician. You spent the remainder of the day getting to know the three of them, as you all longued about the rec room of The Stardrop Saloon, owned by a kind moustached man named Gus.

“It’s really cool that you moved here, (Y/N),” mused the purple-haired girl to you, “Don’t get me wrong, your cousin is cool and all but they’re too focused on their farm work to really hang out like this with us.”

“Yeah, that makes sense,” you acknowledged, “Kinda glad I didn’t inherit the farm then.”

“Oh yeah, what’s with that?” Sam piped up, “Is it like an age thing that determined it?”

You unknowingly shifted your body away from the trio, “Yeah, something like that.”

“You don’t seem like the farm type, anyway,” stated Sebastian. You tensed up, “You think so?”

“Yeah,” he sunk deeper into the couch, “You seem like you don’t give a rat’s ass about the boring logistics of it all, I know from Benny that being a farmer requires you to wear too many professional hats.”

“You’re totally right about that,” you laughed, letting go out of the tension in your body, At least he didn’t call me too fat for manual labor. Trust me, I’m more than capable of doing it. you kept your thoughts to yourself.

“I’m gonna grab us some drinks!” the blond next to you exclaimed, “What does everyone want?”

“Joja Cola,” was Abigail’s order.

“Beer,” replied Sebastian.

Sam looked at you curiously, “And you?”

“Oh, uh,” you squeezed the loose ends of your tee, “Just water will be fine.”

“Okie dokie, be right back!” the musician skipped off to the bar to grab the drinks. Sam returned shortly after and passed out the drinks, having gotten himself a Joja Cola. With drink in hand, he raised it to the ceiling, “I propose a toast!”

“A toast?” you adjusted you grip on your glass of ice cold water.

“Yeah! To you moving to the valley,” elaborated Sam. Abigail smiled and held her drink up, followed by Sebastian. You did the same, all four drinks pointing at the ceiling.

“To (Y/N), may they find success in the valley!” Sam toasted.

“To (Y/N)!” Abigail followed.

“To (Y/N),” Sebastian add on.

“To me!” you exclaimed.

The four of you clinked glasses and cans together; feelings of joy and peace bubbled in your stomach, as dusk passed and the night went on. You didn’t have many friends back in your hometown and you most definitely didn’t have any in ZuZu City so this was a nice change of pace.

A new beginning, your cousin’s words crossed your mind. You smiled to yourself, A new beginning.

You found yourself back on the shore outside your cabin, nursing another cup of melatonin. Your new friends unfortunately had to depart for home sooner than expected, Sebastian and Sam having work in the morning and Abigail having to study for a class of hers. Nonetheless, you were beyond grateful to have befriended them, happy to have a chance to socialize with like minded peers. Like your first night in the valley, the ocean waves were almost hypnotic in their movement, you felt yourself grow sleepy just from watching them.

Then it happened, you noticed a flash of red, just like the night before. You rose from the ground and walked closer to the shoreline, squinting out into the distance to see if you could locate the possible buoy responsible for the flash of red. Yet, much to your confusion, there was no buoy in sight. You looked down at your cup of tea, “Do I need to switch brands?” you muttered aloud. It was Joja Doz-ja Melatonin Tea and Joja was known for their shady shortcuts, it wouldn’t be that much of a shocker if their tea contained psychedelic or hallucinogenic ingredients.

Another flash of red darted across your eyes, earning an exasperated grunt from you. You downed the rest of your tea and stomped to bed, not wanting to entertain the potential hallucination you were having. Thankfully, with the magic of Joja Doz-ja Melatonin Tea, you were out like a light and sleeping the night away.

In the midst of twilight, your supposed halluncation was perched upon a nearby rock. Long ginger hair clung its form like seaweed, as it flapped its tail against the rock.

“Come back soon,” the creature whispered into the darkness, its deep seafoam eyes twinkling like stars in the sky.

[clatterbane]

Oh my. This whole ongoing mess really is crap hilarious.

The ruling is the latest twist in a battle between Tesla and labour groups in Sweden. Union IF Metall put mechanics on strike on Oct. 27, refusing to service Tesla's cars because the company would not accept collective bargaining.

Members of other unions, including dockworkers, electricians and cleaners have since taken action in sympathy.

Tesla has a policy of not signing collective bargaining agreements and says its employees have as good, or better, terms than those demanded by IF Metall. The union says it is vital to the Swedish labour market model that all companies have collective agreements...

Seko, the union that organised the PostNord workers, told Reuters an easy solution for Tesla was to sign the collective bargaining agreement with IF Metall.

So yeah, the agency issuing the licence plates needs to find some way of getting them to Tesla, without any obligation on anyone else to actually deliver them.

It also sounds remarkably like someone at the Transport Agency was being purposely obstructive there too, beyond normal-level dealing with bureaucracies. They also probably did NOT particularly want to piss off the postal workers in question, by trying to circumvent their existing shipping contract while said postal workers were refusing to deliver to Tesla.

A little more background:

So yeah, good luck getting anything done when basically every other industry is refusing to deal with your business, or even deliver its mail. You would think that whoever was actually making certain decisions at Tesla would have learned from the similar Toys 'R' Us debacle in the mid-'90s.

My guess is that they were at least hoping that nearly 30 more years of neoliberal influence might have weakened organized labor enough for them to get away with pulling this shit now. Either that, or 'just' contravening the Being Bloody Stupid Act of 1581. And then freaking Elon did an Elon, and responded to any criticism by doubling down on some terrible choices.

I can only hope that, if this was the line of thinking? That someone was sorely mistaken, and severely underestimated how well the whole Nordic Model has managed to hold up.

[voxxvindictae]

If I’m being honest, the most useful skill for hacking is learning to do research. And since Google’s search is going to shit, allow me to detail some of the methods I use to do OSINT and general research.

Google dorking is the use of advanced syntax to make incredibly fine-grained searches, potentially exposing information that wasn’t supposed to be on the internet:

Some of my go-to filters are as follows:

“Query” searches for documents that have at least one field containing the exact string.

site: allows for a specific site to be searched. See also inurl and intitle.

type: specifies the tor of resource to look for. Common examples are log files, PDFs, and the sitemap.xml file.

Metasearch engines (such as SearxNG) permit you to access results from several web-crawlers at once, including some for specialized databases. There are several public instances available, as well as some that work over tor, but you can also self-host your own.

IVRE is a self-hosted tool that allows you to create a database of host scans (when I say self-hosted, I mean that you can run this in a docker container on your laptop). This can be useful for finding things that search engines don’t show you, like how two servers are related, where a website lives, etc. I’ve used this tool before, in my investigation into the Canary Mission and its backers.

Spiderfoot is like IVRE, but for social networks. It is also a self-hosted database. I have also used this in the Canary Mission investigation.

Some miscellaneous websites/web tools I use:

SecurityTrails: look up DNS history for a domain

BugMeNot: shared logins for when creating an account is not in your best interest.

Shodan/Censys: you have to make an account for these, so I don’t usually recommend them.

OSINT framework: another useful index of tools for information gathering.

[orbitwebtech]

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[nixcraft]

lnav: Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix

lnav is a terminal-based log file viewer (TUI) for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and other Unix-like systems. It combines the functionality of tools like tail, grep, awk, sed, and cat into a single interface. It also allows you to run SQL queries against your log files to build reports and offers basic support for Linux containers like Docker

[hackeocafe]

How to Use Container Manager (Docker) on a Synology NAS - Beginners Guide

This step-by-step guide will show you how to install Container Manager on a Synology NAS and implement your own Docker containers! Container Manager is the "new" Docker application in versions of DSM newer than 7.2. While Container Manager is very similar to the old version of Docker, it has some awesome new features like Docker Compose. Learn everything about Container Manager in this full setup guide!

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Summer - week 6

July - week 2 🌥

Routine

🛏 Sleep 8+ hours  🟩🟨🟥🟨🟥🟨🟩 ⏰ Wake up earlier than 10:00  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 👟 Work  🟩⬛️⬛️🟩⬛️🟩⬛️ 🇳🇱 Dutch lessons  🟦🟩🟨🟥🟩🟨🟨 🦉 Duolingo: Dutch  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 💧 Drops: Dutch  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📚 Reading more than 15 pages 🟥🟥🟩🟥🟩🟥🟩 🧠 Meditation: 5+5 minutes  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🌐 60-day Language Challenge by @leavelesstree (I aimed to complete it in 6 weeks, but it’s more likely it’ll actually take 7 weeks) 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 🚲 Cycling  🟥 ☕️ Coffee*  ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️🟫⬛️🟫 *I enjoy an occasional cup of coffee but I need to keep them occasional, which means: up to three cups a week with one day break in between

Special tasks

Backlog

⁉️🌐 60-day Language Challenge by @leavelesstree 🟩 ‼️‼️🚲 Cycling 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 ‼️❗️💡 Reaching out to the Philosophy people 🟥🟥🟥 ‼️📞 Dispeling my doubts related to the move (formal) 🟨🟥 ‼️✍️ Editing my WiP 🟥 ‼️🏳️‍⚧️ Drafting my name change request 🟩 ‼️🗂 Cleaning my desk 🟩 ❗️💻 Working on my Computer Science project (figuring out how to use docker compose or something similar) 🟥🟥 ❗️🔢 Maths in English - Precalculus (Khan Academy) 🟥🟥🟥 ❗️📧 Sharing my WiP with one person to whom I promised it 🟥 ❗️💶 Learning a specific thing about financial matters in the Netherlands  🟨 ❗️📋 Scheduling meetings with people I’d like to see before I leave 🟨🟨 🟥 🟩 🗺 Sending an email and receiving an answer to my question 🟥🟥 🏢 Going to the library ⬛️ (done by a family member) 💼 Gathering information about internship opportunities (🇪🇺) 🟨 📱 Texting people whom I haven't talked to in a while 🟥(🟥) 📖 Digital Technology and Economy reading list - week 2 🟩🟩

Current tasks

👆 Dealing with the backlog (recovery)  🟩🟥🟥🟧🟥 🟩🟩🟥🟥🟥 🟨🟨🟥⬛️🟨 🟥🟩 🥕 Eating the carrots  🟩 📁 Gathering the documents of which I need certified copies 🟩 🟩 📃 Signing the schedule at work (that’s something new…) 🟩 🩻 Appointments 🟩🟩 🫣 Receiving the results of my final exams (online at first, then physical) 🟩🟩 ©️ Getting certified copies of the necessary documents  🟩🟩🟩 📨 Ordering sworn translations of the necessary documents 🟩🟩 🔁 Asking my supervisor if it’d be possible to reschedule one of my shifts 🟩 (it got cancelled...) 👥 Meetings with friends 🟩🟩 🏣 Requesting a copy of my birth certificate  🟩 📁 Picking up the translations 🟩 📝 Writing a report on the programme in which I participated  🟩 🗳️ Submitting the report on the programme  🟩 🔜🏫 Requesting some other documents  ⬜️⬜️  🔜🏳️‍🌈 Requesting a document ⬜️ 🗒 Preparing for the meeting  🟨 💬 Online meeting 🟩 🔔 Reminding two people about something 🟥🟥 🔜🧘‍♂️ Yoga With Adriene  ⬜️ 🔜📄 Writing a cover letter for a scholarship  ⬜️ 🔜🥒 Baking zucchini muffins and cleaning the kitchen afterwards  ⬜️⬜️ 📖 Digital Technology and Economy reading list - week 3 🟥🟥🟥🟥 🔐[👆(4) 📖] 

Things I had planned to do later, but have already completed them

I might swap them with the non-urgent tasks (🔜)

✅ Informing a person about the date of my arrival ✅ Making an appointment at the office in the Netherlands ✅ Creating a LinkedIn profile (and screaming internally) ��� to do: setting it up properly and professionally ✅ Estimating the "exact" hours I'll be available to work → to do: asking if it'd be possible to get the schedule of my classes a bit earlier. ✅ Going to the swimming pool

[molsno]

if my goal with this project was just "make a website" I would just slap together some html, css, and maybe a little bit of javascript for flair and call it a day. I'd probably be done in 2-3 days tops. but instead I have to practice and make myself "employable" and that means smashing together as many languages and frameworks and technologies as possible to show employers that I'm capable of everything they want and more. so I'm developing apis in java that fetch data from a postgres database using spring boot with authentication from spring security, while coding the front end in typescript via an angular project served by nginx with https support and cloudflare protection, with all of these microservices running in their own docker containers.

basically what that means is I get to spend very little time actually programming and a whole lot of time figuring out how the hell to make all these things play nice together - and let me tell you, they do NOT fucking want to.

but on the bright side, I do actually feel like I'm learning a lot by doing this, and hopefully by the time I'm done, I'll have something really cool that I can show off

[chiragqlanceblogs]

How Python Powers Scalable and Cost-Effective Cloud Solutions

Explore the role of Python in developing scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions. This guide covers Python's advantages in cloud computing, addresses potential challenges, and highlights real-world applications, providing insights into leveraging Python for efficient cloud development.

Introduction

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are increasingly leveraging cloud computing to enhance scalability, optimize costs, and drive innovation. Among the myriad of programming languages available, Python has emerged as a preferred choice for developing robust cloud solutions. Its simplicity, versatility, and extensive library support make it an ideal candidate for cloud-based applications.

In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into how Python empowers scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions, explore its advantages, address potential challenges, and highlight real-world applications.

Why Python is the Preferred Choice for Cloud Computing?

Python's popularity in cloud computing is driven by several factors, making it the preferred language for developing and managing cloud solutions. Here are some key reasons why Python stands out:

Simplicity and Readability: Python's clean and straightforward syntax allows developers to write and maintain code efficiently, reducing development time and costs.

Extensive Library Support: Python offers a rich set of libraries and frameworks like Django, Flask, and FastAPI for building cloud applications.

Seamless Integration with Cloud Services: Python is well-supported across major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Automation and DevOps Friendly: Python supports infrastructure automation with tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Boto3.

Strong Community and Enterprise Adoption: Python has a massive global community that continuously improves and innovates cloud-related solutions.

How Python Enables Scalable Cloud Solutions?

Scalability is a critical factor in cloud computing, and Python provides multiple ways to achieve it:

1. Automation of Cloud Infrastructure

Python's compatibility with cloud service provider SDKs, such as AWS Boto3, Azure SDK for Python, and Google Cloud Client Library, enables developers to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources efficiently.

2. Containerization and Orchestration

Python integrates seamlessly with Docker and Kubernetes, enabling businesses to deploy scalable containerized applications efficiently.

3. Cloud-Native Development

Frameworks like Flask, Django, and FastAPI support microservices architecture, allowing businesses to develop lightweight, scalable cloud applications.

4. Serverless Computing

Python's support for serverless platforms, including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, allows developers to build applications that automatically scale in response to demand, optimizing resource utilization and cost.

5. AI and Big Data Scalability

Python’s dominance in AI and data science makes it an ideal choice for cloud-based AI/ML services like AWS SageMaker, Google AI, and Azure Machine Learning.

Looking for expert Python developers to build scalable cloud solutions? Hire Python Developers now!

Advantages of Using Python for Cloud Computing

Cost Efficiency: Python’s compatibility with serverless computing and auto-scaling strategies minimizes cloud costs.

Faster Development: Python’s simplicity accelerates cloud application development, reducing time-to-market.

Cross-Platform Compatibility: Python runs seamlessly across different cloud platforms.

Security and Reliability: Python-based security tools help in encryption, authentication, and cloud monitoring.

Strong Community Support: Python developers worldwide contribute to continuous improvements, making it future-proof.

Challenges and Considerations

While Python offers many benefits, there are some challenges to consider:

Performance Limitations: Python is an interpreted language, which may not be as fast as compiled languages like Java or C++.

Memory Consumption: Python applications might require optimization to handle large-scale cloud workloads efficiently.

Learning Curve for Beginners: Though Python is simple, mastering cloud-specific frameworks requires time and expertise.

Python Libraries and Tools for Cloud Computing

Python’s ecosystem includes powerful libraries and tools tailored for cloud computing, such as:

Boto3: AWS SDK for Python, used for cloud automation.

Google Cloud Client Library: Helps interact with Google Cloud services.

Azure SDK for Python: Enables seamless integration with Microsoft Azure.

Apache Libcloud: Provides a unified interface for multiple cloud providers.

PyCaret: Simplifies machine learning deployment in cloud environments.

Real-World Applications of Python in Cloud Computing

1. Netflix - Scalable Streaming with Python

Netflix extensively uses Python for automation, data analysis, and managing cloud infrastructure, enabling seamless content delivery to millions of users.

2. Spotify - Cloud-Based Music Streaming

Spotify leverages Python for big data processing, recommendation algorithms, and cloud automation, ensuring high availability and scalability.

3. Reddit - Handling Massive Traffic

Reddit uses Python and AWS cloud solutions to manage heavy traffic while optimizing server costs efficiently.

Future of Python in Cloud Computing

The future of Python in cloud computing looks promising with emerging trends such as:

AI-Driven Cloud Automation: Python-powered AI and machine learning will drive intelligent cloud automation.

Edge Computing: Python will play a crucial role in processing data at the edge for IoT and real-time applications.

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies: Python’s flexibility will enable seamless integration across multiple cloud platforms.

Increased Adoption of Serverless Computing: More enterprises will adopt Python for cost-effective serverless applications.

Conclusion

Python's simplicity, versatility, and robust ecosystem make it a powerful tool for developing scalable and cost-effective cloud solutions. By leveraging Python's capabilities, businesses can enhance their cloud applications' performance, flexibility, and efficiency.

Ready to harness the power of Python for your cloud solutions? Explore our Python Development Services to discover how we can assist you in building scalable and efficient cloud applications.

FAQs

1. Why is Python used in cloud computing?

Python is widely used in cloud computing due to its simplicity, extensive libraries, and seamless integration with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

2. Is Python good for serverless computing?

Yes! Python works efficiently in serverless environments like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions, making it an ideal choice for cost-effective, auto-scaling applications.

3. Which companies use Python for cloud solutions?

Major companies like Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, and Reddit use Python for cloud automation, AI, and scalable infrastructure management.

4. How does Python help with cloud security?

Python offers robust security libraries like PyCryptodome and OpenSSL, enabling encryption, authentication, and cloud monitoring for secure cloud applications.

5. Can Python handle big data in the cloud?

Yes! Python supports big data processing with tools like Apache Spark, Pandas, and NumPy, making it suitable for data-driven cloud applications.

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Development: A Class response

Capitalism has created the Spectacle to seduce us, it has appropriated all the planet’s resources and built a vast machinery of control, including states, governments, armies, deathsquads, laws, judges, policemen, prisons, gulags, advertising, schools, socialization, madhouses and the whole process of production and consumption, in order to protect and extend that grand larceny. And to be precise, by capitalism we mean capitalists, real people running real governments and corporations, in huge mansions, wielding vast and shadowy powers. People with great wealth and no ethics, people for whom personal aggrandizement expressed in profit, status or authority is a too powerful opium.

The effect of this is the wholesale destruction of the planet’s biological and social ecologies, the mass holocaust of the poor, in which disasters are only the most visible events in an unrelenting carnage of wars, starvation, pandemics, crippling disease, ignorance, riot and pogrom. A jungle cleared, a shanty bulldozed, a golf course built on sacred land, farms drowned beneath a reservoir, chemical spills into water systems, toxins into the air from urban incinerators. These are not environmental events alone, they are social and economic events, they are battles lost in a class war, if the working class is those who must endlessly produce and yet have no say over what is produced and how. 900m die of hunger every year on a world even the despised UN says could support 14bn people. Is this just drought and famine, environmental events? Or is it because people have been cleared from the land, forced to work for pennies, droughts caused by massive dams or to fill the swimming pools and water the gardens of the rich ?

The environment was and is an area of working class struggle because it is we who suffer most from environmental degradation and expropriation of land, water and clean air. Boycotts of dam projects, nuclear power stations, forest clearances, heavy industry, the dumping of toxins and waste have been social as well as environmental victories for the working class. Early socialists argued strenuously that political and economic struggle was the means to achieve environmental reform. Revolutionaries like William Morris and Kropotkin proposed sustainable economies that were also socially just. The land would be a vast granary, water would run clean and food would be pure, free from chemicals and adulteration. Environmentally-caused diseases like cholera, diphtheria and typhus would be eliminated. These programs of reform grew out of the unrelenting struggle of working class people against bosses and owners, struggles to defend their place within ecologies (such as resistance to clearances or enclosures) or to improve environments that capitalism had ruined (for instance campaigns for clean water, decent housing and sanitation). Their struggle brought reforms, such as nationalized water companies, but because they did not change the nature of either ownership or control, they were only temporary. The same struggles are being waged by the working class in its millions today but most are equally led by reformist leaders. The anti-capitalist movement must re-learn, as the global poor already know, that the revolution must be made by us, here, on the land and in the towns, and not by campaigns against far-off institutions like the WTO or UN or without an end to private property or (so-called) democratic control.

There are a number of examples or workers taking class – based ecological action. In the 1970s, a number of groups of Australian workers instituted Green Bans, boycotting ecologically destructive projects. Builders, seafarers, dockers, transport, and railworkers boycotted all work connected with the nuclear industry, and the Franklin River project – which would have flooded the Tasmanian National Park (including Aboriginal land) for a large hydro-electric project — a victory. Similarly, workers opposed the attempts of the Amax corporation to drill and mine for oil and diamonds on aboriginal land at Noonkanbah. These workers also actively supported the militant occupation of the site by aboriginal people. In Britain, in the 1980s, rank and file seafarers boycotted the dumping of nuclear waste at sea, forcing the government to abandon the policy. In Brazil, rubber tappers forged an alliance with native peoples and environmentalists to oppose the massive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by big landowners and business interests. Their success led to the murder of union activist Chico Mendes by hired assassins in December 1988, but the struggle continues. Mass direct action by communities (occupations, sabotage and pitched battles with police) prevented nuclear power stations and reprocessing facilities being built at Plogoff in France, and at Wackersdorff in Germany in the 1980s. In Britain communities mobilised in 1987, to end government plans to dump nuclear waste at 4 sites. In Thailand in the early 1980’s, 100,000 people rioted to destroy a $70m steel factory. Following the revolution, the working class worldwide, having seized control of workplaces, land and streets, would direct current technology to benefit the vast majority (the working class) rather than the tiny ruling class minority, as at present.

We have seen that ecological issues and class struggle are inextricably linked. The struggle for a green society where people live in harmony with the rest of nature therefore goes hand in hand with the struggle for a society free from human domination. Capitalism cannot be reformed. It is built on the domination of nature and people. We need to take direct control of every aspect of our lives through social revolution. Collectively seizing control of the land, workplaces and streets, and sharing decisions, work and wealth. Deciding what is produced and how, dissolving the divisions between home, work, and play, and those between people and the rest of the nature.