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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?

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  • Not sure if that's a good thing.

    It's not. Power hungry individuals only want more power, not the responsibility the signed up for.

  • tell me your experience using zfs/btrfs

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  • As a home user I'd recommend btrfs. It has main line kernel support and is way easier to get operational than zfs. I'd you don't need the more advance raid types of zfs or deduplication, btrfs can do everything you want. Also btrfs is a lot more resource friendly. Zfs, especially with deduplication, takes a ton of RAM.

  • The History of Debian, Part 1

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  • fook'n b&' mate.

  • The History of Debian, Part 1

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  • Firefox Reader mode is your friend.

  • Migrate from Authy to FOSS TOTP app

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  • You can work with the snap to do this, but agree it's bullshit. Try this method. Same concept though.

  • Migrate from Authy to FOSS TOTP app

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  • A GIST with good instructions/how to. Follow the steps until #8, but don't paste in the following code block; instead scroll down a bit until you see Alternatively, this code can be used to save your tokens as a JSON file, and then paste in THAT code block. That should get you a json file with TOTP credentials ready to import to another FOSS authenticator. I like Aegis and it can import that json file from step 1.

  • What's your current favorite distro that isn't Arch, Debian or Fedora?

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  • NSA would like to know your location. Enable?

  • What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?

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  • I use both (and others) for different reasons. However, the primary homelab server I use is based on Debian - Proxmox OS. It runs on the machine hardware you have but then you can run a few 'fake' computers (virtual machines) on top of that host OS. This is called a hypervisor. So when running Proxmox on the host, you could run a Virtual machine (guest) that is running Rocky and play around with that. Or Fedora, or Gentoo.. or Arch. That really would be the avenue to go to learn about different Distros and nuances without having to breakdown and rebuild everything every time.

    My experience is that both Debian and Rocky are stable and very useful for what you need them to do. Debian favors stability, whereas Rocky favors being a RHEL compatible OS. It's easier to do somethings on Debian, but you may learn more enterprise aspects using Rocky.

  • Is there such a thing as split-screen grep?

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  • Your request goes against the unix philosophy. Grep does one thing and does it well. If you desire additional functionality, you should add another utility to accomplish what you want.

    rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/ | grep denied

    In your specific task, utilize bashims to do (what I think) you want:

    rsync -naP --exclude-from=rsync-homedir-local.txt /home/$USER/ $BACKUPDIR/ || echo "task failed"

  • Moving away from Kindle

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  • I have a Kobo Clara HD, also moved quite a few years ago from a Kindle to this. I really love the accessibility of the Kobo ecosystem. The store, while not as vast as Amazon, has good books to choose from. You can also load your own items onto it. Calibre has good support. All in all, I am happier with it than the Kindle; not worried about a book disappearing on me.

  • What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?

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  • Same as Reddit; it's network affect. There are different applications out there for various purposes that work better/nicer than Discord. But not enough people are using them so everyone goes where everyone else is at.