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ndegruchy

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About ndegruchy

Nathan is a technologist and Open Source enthusiast living and working in Florida. Often, he can be found playing board games with his family, video games by himself or breaking technological things in order to fix them "better".

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    Comment #48688103

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    Comment #48602029

    Is this just for `.com.co`/`.co` or is this a hike across more than that? It seems like there is either missing information, or it's just specific TLD.

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    Comment #48561411

    I've added a button that just triggers `navigator.share()`[1]. I know most users do the copy-paste dance, but I find this is a good middle ground. Adding functionality for my users…

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    Comment #48228916

    That is genuinely a neat usage, but I don't find myself needing to search through images for text. I am glad they're still updating and working on BBEdit, but the major revision fe…

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    Comment #48227127

    > Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing; I'm sure some people will like this update, but it's a big meh for me. I'll wait for some further updates to …

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    Comment #47852416

    The same company is trying to build an AI Zuckerberg...

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    Comment #47767537

    In addition to this guys app, there's also brutaldon[1]. A web1.0 client that serves as a web interface for mastodon. [1]: https://brutaldon.org/about

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    Comment #47754175

    Yeah, toggling in any manner you see fit (a Shortcut would be useful in this case) the location services in its totality or in the context of the Camera app would accomplish the sa…

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    Comment #47751256

    Yes. You can turn it off for Camera if you don't want the geotag to be included in the photo when taken. You can also, as part of the share media picker, opt to include or exclude …

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    Comment #47425230

    Fossil is great. Not only is it a full suite of tools associated with the repository (discussions, tickets, wiki) but the tool is a single >10mb binary and can run as a web server …

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    Comment #47002798

    Absolutely. Handy for making diagrams or just doodling and making custom headers for config files with `fig` and some boxes and shadows!

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    Comment #46850595

    Just as a quick follow up, I completely forgot about the tool BackupLoupe[1]. It allows you to slice into your existing Time Machine backups and find out all manner of information …

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    Comment #46849649

    100% My biggest gripes with Time Machine are the lack of visibility, the silent failures and the inflexible scheduling. I know there are methods to work around the last one, but th…

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    Comment #46849325

    I would try to do some restores of random files. Kind of a "canary in the coal mine" test. If you have problems with restoring some files or folders, then you'll have a problem wit…

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    Comment #46849312

    This has been on my to-buy list for a while. Something I should probably do, because while recovery from the built-in recovery interface is fine, having an offline bootable backup …

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    Comment #46849283

    I get what you're saying. I will only quibble that the consumers in the market for a NAS, regardless of ease-of-setup, is still bordering technically inclined. My mother-in-law has…

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    Comment #46849067

    I'm not in devops. I don't even have a server aside from the basic usage I get out of my Synology. However, I have lost data in my lifetime. If you value your backups, check on the…

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    Comment #46849038

    I don't have a second machine to do a full restore. I just do spot checks every month to see if I'm able to restore files from various locations. It's not scientific, but it's help…

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    Comment #46848798

    I use the same setup and was able to restore some files I recently deleted. My SMB settings in Synology were set to what the recommended settings were already. Not sure what happen…

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    Comment #46633363

    An interesting take. There is also brass and coppers that self-sanitize, albeit more slowly: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11279221/

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    Comment #46580099

    While not free, and not for any other platform than macOS. The program Parachute[1] in the App Store is very nice in downloading both photos from your library as well as files from…

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    Comment #46267876

    I love recutils. The database format is simple enough, it has a bunch of options for constraints, and it has Bash integration and a great Emacs mode to search, edit and verify the …

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    Comment #46218889

    It's always interesting to see how many sharp edges that C, as a language, has still. I know it's a language that eschews a lot of the ergonomics found in more recent languages, bu…

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    Comment #46176035

    Nice! I wonder how this stacks up to Vaultwarden, which is really good.

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    Comment #46024977

    Yeah, I've been using Directory Opus[1] for years on my Windows machine(s). It's hard to overstate how much faster these alternatives are, but not only faster but with better featu…