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Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by executesorder66 »

chronogram wrote: post #59
dininski wrote: post #37

I can see a lot of people trashing on Matrix.org or the "hacker" themselves (the hacker opened a series of issues, detailing how he managed to get in - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/created_by/m... ). However everyone seems to be missing the point - matrix seems like a pretty cool and open project. And someone taking over their infrastructure in such an open way is also great for the community. Even…

There are some weird people in those issue threads..

What did they say? The comments have been deleted.

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by lelf »

laumars wrote: post #52
jyap wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reason why you would do that (and I often do) is that you have further piping options so it becomes standard work flow and muscle memory. What I usually do is cat the file to inspect it, hit Control+C, then up arrow for previous command, then further pipe and head/tail/grep the file. Starting a grep command is fine if you know that's all you're going to be doing.

You can use Bash (and I assumed it works in zsh too) variables to save you there. eg grep something !$ `!$` will be replaced with the last parameter of the previous command. Crude example cat /etc/hosts grep 12.34.56.78 $! # will be executed as grep 12.34.56.78 /etc/hosts I find this extremely useful for when I'm cat'ing a file to get a sense of it's output then wanting to do something more meaningful with it in the…

I just use M-. (meta+.⃣) for that (aka M-_ aka readline’s yank-last-arg)

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by proboscis »

m_b wrote: post #2

For a bit of context: Matrix.org infrastructure has been hacked a second time in 24h, after restoring everything they went down again, story developing here: https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1116304867683905537

They closed the threads and deleted all the comments, but luckily the issues page was archived beforehand:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190412090123/https://github.co...

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by zhangeru »

mosselman wrote: post #57
SpaceInvader wrote: post #15

As na linux/unix sysadmin with 15+ years of experience my eyes are bleeding everytime I see cat | grep instead of just grep ;D

As someone who doesn't care, my eyes bleed every time someone tries to make others feel small for no reason using improper grammar: "As na linux/unix sysadmin": typo ('na') aside it is 'As a linux/unix sysadmin' "...my eyes are bleeding everytime I see" I think you meant 'my eyes bleed', otherwise it means that, coincidentally, you eyes were already bleeding every time you happen to see someone use cat in that way. "…

Grammar and spelling blind spots don't compromise the security of thousands of people. I think if you're going to make such glaring mistakes, you should be able to take a bit of guff for it.

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by frou_dh »

laumars wrote: post #67
shpx wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can also hit Alt-. to insert the last argument of the previous command.

Unfortunately not on Macs :( That's one of the features I miss the most when using terminals on a Mac.

Works fine here (Terminal.app + bash 5.0.3 from homebrew).

Also, isn't that special variable $_ and not $! ?

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by tadzik_ »

zhangeru wrote: post #74
mosselman wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who doesn't care, my eyes bleed every time someone tries to make others feel small for no reason using improper grammar: "As na linux/unix sysadmin": typo ('na') aside it is 'As a linux/unix sysadmin' "...my eyes are bleeding everytime I see" I think you meant 'my eyes bleed', otherwise it means that, coincidentally, you eyes were already bleeding every time you happen to see someone use cat in that way. "…

Grammar and spelling blind spots don't compromise the security of thousands of people. I think if you're going to make such glaring mistakes, you should be able to take a bit of guff for it.

> Grammar and spelling blind spots don't compromise the security of thousands of people

Neither does useless use of cat. Or am I missing something that I couldn't read because of a deleted comment?

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by josephmx »

snvzz wrote: post #66

4chan is circulating this picture. It shows the defaced website frontpage. https://i.4cdn.org/g/1555048975736.png I have a hard time with the idea that they run the webserver and the matrix server on the same computer. (Regarding users.txt) It seems they do urgently need to hire capable infrastructure people.

I can't access that image on my corporate network, any chance of an imgur mirror?

Re: Matrix.org hacked

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Post by lelf »

laumars wrote: post #67
shpx wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can also hit Alt-. to insert the last argument of the previous command.

Unfortunately not on Macs :( That's one of the features I miss the most when using terminals on a Mac.

Of course you can. It’s «ESC .» or «^[.»

Or you can check “Profiles → Keyboard → Use Option as Meta” for Terminal.app [or just press ⌥⌘O]. And then use option as meta.

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