I was tired of repeating the same old pattern. Send a kill signal. Check with pgrep. Did the process exit? Send a kill -9.
Now all my knowledge has been permanently dumped here:
If you want to kill a process by letting it to exit gracefully, and yet kill it without mercy if it's too slow to exit, that's your new favourite shell script.
You can discuss this on Hacker News as well
Or: the perils of blindly using AI to save some money. IMPORTANT NOTE: while I'm pointing out some specific companies in this post, it's not meant to discredit them; instead, I hope to trigger a bit of reflection on how AI should (and should not) be
There's this post by Ahrefs , a SEO company from Singapore, which is getting quite a lot of shares recently. While nobody ever said that the cloud was cheap, it's a terrible comparison. Basically, the article enumerates what they have bought (a number of Dell servers + network
Password requirements are weird. It seems impossible to set a new password in many websites. Why?
Why you should care about ransomware attacks even for irrelevant internet-connected systems, and how to use duplicity with AWS S3 to create ransomware-resistant backups.