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cyberCleveon Elasticsearch SQL

As I recall, this is severely limited in that it does not correctly support sub-searches or pivoting between different indexes. Any news on if this has been improved?

cyberCleveon The reality of celebratory gunfire

Why is the velocity of a falling bullet > the speed of gravity?

cyberCleveon SSH tips and tricks

I will for sure be using the SSH straight into Tmux trick. To get it to work I had to add a RequestTTY option in ~/.ssh/config.

cyberCleveon I got pwned by my cloud costs

Ouch. If Troy Hunt of all people can make this mistake, it can happen to anybody. HIBP is an awesome service funded totally by donations, so it's too bad this happened. Of course Microsoft is happy to hide behind their confusing pricing model and let customers overpay for Azure without alerting them.

cyberCleveon CronRAT malware hides behind February 31st

That seems like an obvious oversight. This is a well known and widely used malware technique. https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1053/003/

cyberCleveon COBOL – Still standing the test of time

I would imagine part of the reason is because even if you have a trained COBOL maintainer, they still have to learn and understand the actual business logic of the application. Learning the language is not even half the battle. Maintaining old often undocumented code is a hard task in any language.

cyberCleveon Check If Email Exists

Does it work?

cyberCleveon Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Ah, I was confused until I ran > alias ii

Now I see why this works. Good trick either way.

cyberCleveon Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

I learned from the video you can launch VS code from within WSL with "code ."

That's really useful. I like it.

cyberCleveon Perl.com domain stolen, now using IP address tied to malware

Google DNS is reporting back a different IP for me when I query perl.com (same subnet though). It's all part of the Google Cloud /13 block.

Sure it may have been used for malware, but given those IPs float between ephemeral cloud instances, it does not mean it is currently being used for malware.

cyberCleveon What's New in PHP 8.1

Are you saying you do not use IDEs? What is your rationale for that decision?

cyberCleveon Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

I guess this means a lot of malware/botnets that uses Twitter to communicate just broke today.