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Show HN: Z-nettool – a cross-platform network troubleshooting CLI

Posted by publicarray on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:16PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/publicarray/z-nettool

I work at an MSP, and we often deal with poorly labelled cables and limited documentation. A common question during troubleshooting is: which switch and port is this computer connected to? Is the link negotiating at Gigabit, or has it fallen back to Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) or even 10 Mbps due to a bad cable or port?To make basic network troubleshooting faster, I built a small cross-platform...

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Re:Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day? on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @02:45PM (#38930972)

Maybe it’s part of a botnet?

3CX DesktopApp Security Alert

Posted by publicarray on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:13AM
from the 3cx.com dept.

https://www.3cx.com/blog/news/desktopapp-security-alert/

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Re:Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups? on Saturday December 31, 2022 @04:20PM (#34200878)

I’m trying out https://Kopia.io at the moment Finally something that is fully cross platform, easy to use and open source.

Show HN: GitHub redirect to download latest asset

Posted by publicarray on Friday December 30, 2022 @09:37PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://gh.seby.io/

I needed a way to get the latest direct download link to plug into a different program. After a quick few minutes and reading the GitHub API this is the result.I hope it can be useful for others.

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Re:EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:24PM (#33267509)

Maybe try the open source programs at Fastly.com or Bunny.net

https://www.fastly.com/open-source

https://bunny.net/contact/

Re:Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:17PM (#28656251)

For me, it's been bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom and dua https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli for a while

I've found some other cool CLIs written with rust at https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

Re:Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large nu... on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:02AM (#28365488)

Instead of "find -maxdepth 1" there is "fd -I -d 1" which in my experience is faster as it uses multiple threads https://crates.io/crates/fd-find

Bullshit.js

Posted by publicarray on Monday August 23, 2021 @08:51PM
from the mourner.github.io dept.

https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

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Re:Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen? on Saturday January 05, 2019 @02:01AM (#18830393)

Possible target for spear phishing (easier to social engineer when more information about a target is public).

Account take-over if the password was used elsewhere (credential stuffing).

Become a target for Extortion or Blackmail: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-opportunistic-and-empty-threat-...

Edit: Some companies still use birth dates, security questions or social security numbers for identification. If the information is public, any one can identify as that person via a phone call. https://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=SMS&x=10&y=14 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/voice-phishing-scams-are... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/hanging-up-on-mobile-in-...

Re:Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @07:46PM (#16750534)

>> The root server would just see your NS lookup for .com, ...

> That's not how DNS works today so you're asking for a major re-architecture.

Actually that is how QNAME minimisation (on the resolver) works https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7816

unbound has some nice slides: https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/120-unbound_qnamemin_r...

Re:Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use? on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:18PM (#15985247)

Cryptomator.org inside iCloud. I like it because I'm responsible for the password. There is no password reset feature.

Also a +1 for Keybase.

Show HN: Ansible Role for unbound with compiling

Posted by publicarray on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:05PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/publicarray/ansible-role-unbound

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Re:Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried? on Sunday February 19, 2017 @07:43AM (#13679419)

I don't think it's a new hack it's just that the internal investigation has lead to more findings of the already talked about cookie hack: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/more-yah...

Re:Map-dl: Download Google Maps on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:53AM (#12547295)

Thanks, It all started when I got asked whether I could build a simple way to download specific areas of google maps. The following day a college asked whether it was possible to just get the traffic layer and download it for further analysis. So map-dl was born :-)

Map-dl: Download Google Maps

Posted by publicarray on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @03:04AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/publicarray/map-dl

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Re:Bandwidth costs around the world on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:19AM (#12334636)

I wonder if there is a reason for the high cost. In Australia some of the infrastructure is being upgraded for the NBN, maybe that's part of it? I don't know but I'm curious to find out.