Software, gingercats, all the important stuff!
Ok in IT joke explained. Once upon a time there was this coder who wrote a text editor with very hard to remember commands… But everyone used it and it’s on nearly all servers so it’s good to use when you have to make a change or 3 and no one can exit the thing …. seriously read the article and be prepared to cry or laugh.
Cyber attack ‘not particularly sophisticated’, experts say (Friday 19 Jun 2020)
Well I finaly coughed up and put an ssd into my pre historic laptop (well worth the trouble I might add)!
I decided to do things from scratch as opposed to a complete clone of my original HD, mainly because over the years I have probably installed more crud than I care to think about!
This is how to add your local bin folder to your path!
I only use this info about once every 3-4 years but hear it is for my own edumacation and may be, just maybe it will be useful to someone else!
cd ~/ <– switch into your home dir
nano .bash_profile <— create file
then add this line to that file
export PATH=$PATH:~/bin
save close terminal then re launch
Enjoy the contents of you bin!
(you can check that it there by running echo $PATH) or if you have some already executable scripts in your bin you can just try running the scripts from the cli.
Works on Mac os X High Sierra
So this government Covid 19 tracking app is an interesting idea – they even said that they would release the source code…. all very good, I’m thinking I may even install the thing… but then today I read this!
https://www.innovationaus.com/sovereign-capability-and-that-shocking-aws-deal/
To sum up it’s yet another govenment SNAFU…
From the article…
“You really have to wonder what kind of crisis would be needed for the Australian Government to use Australian technology providers for jobs that are well within their capability. “
Update 18 May 2020
Some interesting reading hear. The app it’s self seems reasonable but without the back end code questions still remain.
https://www.qte.am/reading-room
Update 14 May 2020
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/security-report-reveals-some-covidsafe-information-could-go-overseas-20200514-p54t2o.html
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/may/14/questions-remain-over-whether-data-collected-by-covidsafe-app-could-be-accessed-by-us-law-enforcement
Update May 24
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/24/how-did-the-covidsafe-app-go-from-being-vital-to-almost-irrelevant