3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates

In particular, I've created shell scripts for catching three problems:

1. abuse of the passive voice,
2. weasel words, and
3. lexical illusions.

Found some unexpected TCP socket listening on port 5355.
The corresponding process was systemd-resolved.
Turns out this is the LLMNR implementation for name resolution on the local network, which is enabled by default.

As this is not useful on a server (and rather another attack vector to keep an eye on), I decided to turn it off.
This can be done by adding LLMNR=no to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and then doing a service systemd-resolved restart.

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Today I found myself on a Linux machine and needed to check which processes are listening for network packets.
Usually I use netstat for such tasks, but on this machine it was not available.
Luckily there was ss available, and the following command gave me the processes listening for TCP packets:

ss -n -A tcp -a -p state listening

There was some drama around RubyGems.org (seems like a classic commercial overstep on a community resource).
And as a result there is now a new Gem server available: gem.coop

If you want to use the new server (which currently is a mirror of rubygems.org), simply replace source "https://rubygems.org" with source "https://gem.coop" in your Gemfile:

-source "https://rubygems.org"
+source "https://gem.coop"

I switched the Gemfile for this blog over to it, and so far it seems to work fine. 💎

Evolution stores passwords for email accounts in the GNOME Keyring. Thus they can be listed there for example with Seahorse.

FliipBook, create 24 frame GIF animations.

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Can very much relate to this ⌨️

Dropping :wq and j's and k's in all my word, google, txt docs.

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After upgrading one of my physical hosts to Debian Trixie, it failed to boot.
It complained about the service for mounting my encrypted disk not starting.

Turns out this is a known problem (even mentioned in the Trixie release notes).
For cryptsetup to work in Debian 13, the systemd-cryptsetup package must be installed:

# apt-get install systemd-cryptsetup

After doing this (via the rescue shell) and rebooting the host, the system started seamlessly.
And the encrypted disks were mounted as expected.

and TIL I can read(1) from a distinct file descriptor to avoid having processes in the shell's while loop consume input from the file I pass.

while read -u 8 f; do
...
done 8</path/to/file

I can use any fd (typically > 2)

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On a work computer I'm currently using WSL quite often and thus wanted to see if there is a pbcopy/pbpaste equivalent.
Turns out WSL integrates with the X11 and Wayland clipboard APIs, thus we can simply install wl-clipboard.

With this in place, running wl-paste inside WSL dumps the content of the Windows clipboard.
And echo "foobar" | wl-copy puts "foobar" into the Windows clipboard.