When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.

Scott Williams 🐧

Alex Russell

@vwbusguy Beware the `ffmpeg` incantation knowers, for they are connected to an eldritch power beyond comprehension.

Scott Williams 🐧

@slightlyoff I learned ffmpeg when I ended up doing a bunch of video and livestream editing during COVID lock downs and I basically found out you can save a lot of time in not re-encoding if your inputs and outputs are the same format, but yeah, ffmpeg will harm your sanity real good.

Nils Ballmann

@vwbusguy @bluca come on man, openssl s_client -connect ${host}:${port} isn't that hard to memorize. Though I use @bagder somewhat similar curl -v -fsS https://${host}:${port} >/dev/null way more often... Probably because I don't have to Ctrld out of it...

Scott Williams 🐧

@nils_ballmann @bluca @bagder You don't have to ^c out of it if you </dev/null

I generally pipe that to `openssl x509` from there.

Ramesh #NotGoingBack

️ @vwbusguy

>> When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.

Is that a call to #normies to be kind to #techies, or a call to "members" to be kind to other "members"?

On #Mastodon, #normies have gone through some things too, which is why the distinction is facile. I remember being scorned by some self-identified techies who knew little about me

Christian Gudrian

@vwbusguy I’ve heard rumours there’s a space invaders clone using just one invocation of #ImageMagick.

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@vwbusguy also applies to iptables

Hideki Motosuwa

@vwbusguy
And also be kind to people who can write hello world on assembly from sheer memory.

Ölbaum

@rameshgupta
I think neither. I read it as: openssl’s CLI interface is so convoluted and makes so little sense that knowing any command from memory means you used the tool a lot. And the tool and SSL/TLS are so shitty that the only way you chose to use the openssl CLI is because you had serious problems to solve. So “having serious problems to solve” and “a lot” lead to “having been through things.”
@vwbusguy

Ramesh #NotGoingBack

️ @oscherler

>> so shitty that the only way you chose to use the openssl CLI is because you had serious problems to solve

So this IS a call for #normies to be kind to #techies because techies have "been through a few things"

#Techies understand techie struggle, but they don't understand that #normies have to solve serious problems too

My point is that everybody has to solve serious problems, and the techie-normie distinction is facile.

There's no need to seek special treatment

@vwbusguy

Scott Williams 🐧

@rameshgupta @oscherler Oh hey, I finally get to use this meme. Thanks!