austinkeeley

#!/bin/bash

distros="karmic lucid maverick natty oneiric precise quantal raring saucy trusty utopic vivid wily xenial yakkety zesty artful bionic cosmic disco eoan focal groovy hirsute"

cmd="apt install "

for d in $distros; do 
    echo "Downloading $d"
    cmd="${cmd} ubuntu-wallpapers-${d}"
done

linuswillner

Today, on the 27th of March 2021, The Coding Den was subjected to a social engineering attack that lead to a brief hostile takeover of the server before the situation was brought under control by staff. We are sharing this statement as a public service announcement on the methodology used in the scam and possible remediations to prevent it, in order to help other staff teams avoid becoming victims of it.

Methodology

The attack proliferates as follows:

1. The attacker will look for a staff member who is presently offline. This will ensure that it appears as if the staff member's account was globally banned and forcefully booted offline.
2. It is within the attacker's interest to choose a target with the highest possible privileges (to do the maximum amount of damage), meaning that they will likely prefer administrators over moderators and so forth.
3. The attacker will create a new Discord account with the same name and profile picture as the target.
4. The attacker will approach a staff member, claiming

matthewzring

Markdown Text 101

Want to inject some flavor into your everyday text chat? You're in luck! Discord uses Markdown, a simple plain text formatting system that'll help you make your sentences stand out. Here's how to do it! Just add a few characters before & after your desired text to change your text! I'll show you some examples...

What this guide covers:

• Text Formatting
• Organizational Text Formatting
  • Headers
• Masked Links

kirilkirkov

Interlaced image loads an early degraded version of the whole image as soon as possible and then progressively renders the image to clear state.

Non-interlaced image will load up in tiles showing clear image in each tile as it progresses to load in the image.

For .jpg the interlaced = progressive and not interlaced = baseline.

gsans

//a simple service
export class LanguagesService {
  get() {
    return ['en', 'es', 'fr'];
  }
}

gsans

// Usage:    <greeter name="Joe"></greeter> 
// Renders:  <h1>Hello Joe!</h1>
@Component({
  selector: 'greeter',
  template: `<h1>Hello {{name}}!</h1>`
})
export class Greeter { 
  @Input() name;
}

brenopolanski

A simple Ghostscript command to merge two PDFs in a single file is shown below:

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combine.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf

Install Ghostscript:

Type the command sudo apt-get install ghostscript to download and install the ghostscript package and all of the packages it depends on.