pixelmonkey

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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   Same thing happened to me. I had seen The Matrix countless times, but this was going to be my first rewatch in a few years and my first rewatch ever in theaters. Part of the reason I was going was to get that awesome feeling you get when se
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   I have a soft spot for cron jobs. But if you use them, I highly recommend you also use the open source runitor tool: https://github.com/bdd/runitor ... which lets you quickly integrate any cron job with the https:&#x2
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   Interesting. Uploaded on: 2023-11-27. I wonder if that's actually a legal upload, though. Also seems to currently be available as a $3 rental on YouTube US in SD quality: https://youtu.be/4uGSmnRYe48
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   I am glad his "documentary film" got a mention. "In 2005, Mr. Lapham wrote and appeared in 'The American Ruling Class,' a documentary-style film featuring fictional characters as well as interviews with real celebri
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   Oh, I see what you're saying. I personally wouldn't use it to do a 100% filesystem restore. For the sake of simplicity, I'd just use dd/ddrescue to make a .img file and then load that .img file directly into a partition
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   Yea, I don't want to oversell it. The restic FUSE mount isn't anywhere near "native" performance. But, it's fast enough that if you can narrow your search to a directory, and if you're using a local restic repo
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   rsnapshot was definitely my favorite Linux option before restic. I find that restic gives me the benefits of chunk-based deduplication and encryption, but via `restic find` and `restic mount` I can also get many of the benefits of rsnapshot
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   I only have one macOS system (a Mac Mini) and Arq works well for me. Also I prefer to use Time Machine for the local backups (to a USB3 SSD) on macOS since Apple gives Time Machine all sorts of special treatment in the OS, especially when i
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   by pixelmonkey 2y ago

   I only discovered httm thanks to this thread, and I'll definitely be trying it out for the first time today. Maybe I'll add an addendum to my blog post about it.
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I never knew this. Thanks for sharing!
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I backup everything except for scratch/tmp/device style directories. Bytes are cheap to store, my system is a rounding error vs my /home, and deduping goes a long way.
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    For me, these traits made restic initially attractive: - encrypted, chunk-deduped, snapshotted backups - single Go binary, so I could even backup the binary used to create my backups - reasonable versioning and release scheme - I could read
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I agree with you, of course. On macOS, Arq uses APFS snapshots, and on Windows, it uses VSS. It'd be nice to use something similar on Linux with restic. In my linked post above, I wrote about this: "You might think btrfs and zfs s
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I explain in the post. Here's a copypasta of the relevant paragraph: "My reasoning for splitting these two processes — restic backup and rclone sync — is that I run the local restic backup procedure more frequently than my offsite
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I've probably spent way too much time thinking about Linux backup over the years. But thankfully, I found a setup that works really well for me in 2018 or so, used it for the last few years, and I wrote up a detailed blog post about it
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    That's an interesting Wikipedia page! Thanks for sharing.
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    All I could think about when listening to this interesting clip is, "How many young people, today, even have any idea what he's talking about, re: computers being ugly and hard to use?" Since this is 1983, he's obviously
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    Perhaps here? https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/boom
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    Weirdly I know about this category of software from a prior life working at a major CMS company. So, "digital asset managers" (DAMs) are basically fancy versions of the WordPress media library: https://wordpress.org&#x2
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    Birth years of last 5 presidents: 1946, 1946, 1961, 1946, 1942. And, assuming no one drops out and they both survive to election day, 1942 or 1946 will be the next one. Obama, being born in 1961, is on the edge of Boomers and Gen X, since g
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    The Economist just launched a new podcast, "Boom!", on why boomers, as a generation, have been holding an "iron grip" on major US institutions. The first episode is free on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QEy9R
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    You might want strip metadata before doing a comparison, using exiftool. Even though exiftool was originally written for EXIF metadata on JPGs, these days, it supports a lot of metadata standards, including PDF. This command will do it assu
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    When I say "cut out" I mean "remove that small segment from the larger video, resulting in the large video modified such that the short section is skipped." Think of removing a commercial break from a broadcast clip or r
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    Looks like an open source competitor to this absolutely magical app I used to use back in my Windows media PC days, way back when, which was called VideoReDo. (Unfortunately, VideoReDo was proprietary, produced by an indie developer, and th
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I think every CS undergrad (or self-taught programmer) should run through the Harvard "CS50x" course, and supplement it with the MIT "Missing Semester" course. This way you're guaranteed to have a bit of C, clang, m
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    On Android, the official Wikipedia app is surprisingly good at marking articles for offline reading, organizing them into collections, and downloading them, including related assets like images. When I'm traveling I install the app on
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    This article reminded me that many years ago I used to make PDF compilations of related Wikipedia articles using some tooling developed by PediaPress, and then read those offline on my laptop or iPad. I recently encountered one such compila
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    This is my go-to screenshot tool on Linux. For Linux users who also use Google Photos already, you may not realize this but the Google Photos web app accepts paste from system clipboard via Ctrl+V in the browser. Thus, my workflow if I want
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    I like your suggestions. I haven't looked at this tutorial in awhile but I have an occasion to do so coming up, so I'll keep your feedback in mind for a revision.
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    by pixelmonkey 2y ago

    piku installs an agent on the remote machine (piku.py) which itself also provides the support for making that machine a git remote. There is no commit hook on the local machine. On the local machine, you simply have a shim named "piku&