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Read random news on the internet
sort -R randomize the list. head -n1 takes the first.

View facebook friend list [hidden or not hidden]
There's no need to be logged in facebook. I could do more JSON filtering but you get the idea... Replace u=4 (Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator) with desired uid. Hidden or not hidden... Scary, don't you?

Extract a remote tarball in the current directory without having to save it locally

Trick find -exec option to execute alias
An alias cannot be executed as command in a find -exec line. This form will trick the command line and let you do the job.

Create a tar archive using 7z compression
Using 7z to create archives is OK, but when you use tar, you preserve all file-specific information such as ownership, perms, etc. If that's important to you, this is a better way to do it.

Bingo-like raffle
Random choose numbers from 1 to 100 with 5 seconds interval without duplicates.

Replace all tabs with spaces in an application
Note that this assumes the application is an SVN checkout and so we have to throw away all the .svn files before making the substitution.

Find the package that installed a command

Prepend a text to a file.
Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection
Based on capsule8 agent examples, not rigorously tested

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