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PenguinCoder

@ Penguincoder @beehaw.org

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Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English and Programming ones.

Sometimes I write things about technology.

If I told you the SHA256 for this sentence starts with 'c, 5, four, a, and a', would you believe me?

  • GPL violation follow-up - some bad news and some good news

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  • Rightfully so.

  • What generation are you?

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  • The older, but not the oldest one... Gen-X.

  • GPL violation follow-up - some bad news and some good news

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  • More software and competitors are born from spite, versus anything else I'd bet.

  • Will Linux’s New run0 Command Run sudo Out of Town?

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  • it can't really be that bad.

    LoL; you say that... But

  • Concurrency models of Rust and Golang

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  • stop referring to the “what color is your function”

    I am not sure what you mean.

  • Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

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  • Lemmy isn't much better in that regard.

  • Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed

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  • Java and gradle build is way easier (IMO) than trying to wrangle the dep and build steps of everything react/node/rust based.

  • How many of you use Usenet VS torrents

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  • Usenet here. 4 paid indexers and the Usenet sub. Still cost less in a year than cable or streaming services cost in a month. Get everything I want and look for easily.

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  • Amazing list, thanks for sharing.

  • What's Your Favorite IRC Client, and Why?

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  • Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.

  • What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

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  • An OS can be restored. Backup your data, so /home for sure and maybe any custom configs for /etc, like your wireguard configs. So anything you specifically edited/added for /etc directory.

  • Should we post here or reddit?

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  • Always has been...

  • Which one do you prefer? htop, btop or top?

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  • Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it's my goto.

  • Need a list of FOSS alternatives

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  • Can you be more specific. Alternatives for what? One time list or would you want and expect it to be constantly updated? By whom?

    This list and many others like it, may be what you're looking for.

  • Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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  • Arch is Easier to Use than Debian

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  • All I’m saying is that aur has more stuff.

    Sure, but that does not equate to the premise you made that Arch is easier to use than Debian.

  • Exxon-Mobil CEO flips from "it's too soon to act on climate" to "it's too late" as a means of discouraging decarbonization

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  • Reminds me of that saying choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Their incentive is to do the job just good enough and with the least amount of effort. The shareholders incentive here is make money. So we need to make Fossil fuel business illegal. The shareholders still want to make money. They'll find an alternative way to do so. OH HEY LOOK! No longer reliant on fossil fuels?

  • Is Clonezilla still a solid choice for complete backup and restoration of partition(s) / drive(s) nowadays?

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  • There's a lot more going on with restic aside from just that, but yes. So with an rsync of your home dir (for example), it's reliant on the FS to do compression and deduplication (ZFS,btrs), and/or it will still take up a lot of wasted space. Say you got ransom-wared. It's okay you have that rsync backup, but oh crap it got ransom-wared to. No more backups to try? Restic gives you snapshots for whatever increment you set and just handles it simply. You can then restore one file from any of the snaphots (history) or every single file. Restoreing 250kb vs 400TB is quite a difference. The benefits of this, are huge even beyond the fire and forget capability.

    I mean, rsync handling everything via mirroring and pushed to a ZFS FS, would be sort of the same thing.

  • Is Clonezilla still a solid choice for complete backup and restoration of partition(s) / drive(s) nowadays?

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  • Because that serve different purposes. rsync is for moving data around, synchronization of such. It has no concept of point in time restoration, or snapshots (etc) that really define a backup solution. I use restic because its the proper tool for the job.