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I used bluez and bash to lock xscreensaver using some very minimal bash. It wasn't my idea I believe people on the Gentoo forums were doing it. But you can just loop over something…

> The alternative is that people complain "netflix doesn't work on firefox", switch to chrome instead, which is even worse. So what if users complain? How is it better for Firefox …

I wish more were done to push back against this consolidation of power by these platforms. We're like frogs that have been stoking the fuel of our own pot. It used to be that DRM w…

I think symlinks are really underappreciated for organizing files. One cool thing you can do is to treat directories as tags when you symlink into them, since a file can 'belong' t…

If you are iterating over a lot of files, a read while loop can be a major bottleneck. As long as you use the null options from find and pipe into xargs, you should be safe with an…

There is a pretty good syntax for dealing with nasty filenames, if you must: ANSI-C quoting[1]. If you have to output in a shellscript in this format, use printf %q from man printf…

Both Finder and explorer.exe will mung mtimes from casual browsing, usually due to metadata updates. It is a common enough problem that there are utilities to bind mtimes to files.…

Sometimes search indexing and build tools get it wrong, so if you know what you're doing, then tools like this allow you to provide an override. Just browsing an old photo collecti…

Thanks for sharing, I love stuff like this. I get frustrated at mtimes being munged. MacOS finder is terrible about this. If anyone is interested, I wrote a more generalized tool f…

You can already use it with git-annex to store binaries using the git-annex-remote-git-aafs[1] special remote. Although I would be careful and make sure you understand what it is d…

I think "confabulation" is a way more accurate term, I wish it had stuck instead of "hallucination". A hallucination is a problem with input. Confabulation is false output . Confab…

That's what's great about btrfs. I started using it that way too. It was nice to be able to take instant snapshots of my fs. I just amended my existing backup scripts to act on tem…

I will probably give bcachefs on one of my machines. I started using btrfs back when it was way less stable, but that instability was more than offset by the other features. The la…

This is an example of how btrfs is poorly handled by many userland tools by default. You should never ever need to have thousands of snapshots. I use btrbk to manage my snapshots. …

I actually have something I've been meaning to put on github. I wrote it over a decade ago and I need to dockerize it. I only made it in Vagrant. But it can do something iVentoy ca…

My biggest mistake after being laid off was to not be discerning enough about my next job. You need to be willing to say no to a crummy job offer, even as the bills pile up.

John, at around that time you mentioned, you gifted me with my first shell account on one of your coffeshop servers, Reva. I just wanted to say THANK YOU. Up until then, I had read…

I was hoping that using hardware keys would eliminate some of the security hoops that we have to jump through. And it does seem to help. But the whole reason that I have a key is s…

This makes me worried, because I am pretty sure Google is going to start removing keys based on attestation certificates. I believe that this is much more about rate limiting than …