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  • Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing apt upgrade - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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  • There are warnings so my bet is that there is an edge case where

    • one runs apt and receives NO warning
    • the system keeps on doing other tasks, e.g. user copies a large file on the same filesystem or log files just increasing
    • user runs apt upgrade BUT now apt would warn except it's not run again

    so basically concurrency that makes it unpredictable, except if apt was the only process writing on the filesystem (which it never is).

  • Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing apt upgrade - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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  • reinstall curl/apt-transport-https (manually via dpkg if needed)

    That's the trick, local installation via dpkg of the missing package itself (that you got another way) required to let apt get work.

  • Accidentelly run out of disk space when executing apt upgrade - Debian doesn't boot anymore

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  • Oof... it actually happened to me and it's not 1 problem but 2 namely :

    • you ran out of disk space while updating
    • AND one of the messed up packages is one that is required for the upgrade process, e.g. curl or wget (sorry can't recall which it actually is)

    so that leaves you in a terrible stable. You can still clean up this mess BUT that's tricky. Basically you have to

    • actually find out what's taking up space (often old kernels) or "just" give up on data temporarily (basically you move your /home, or part of it, to a USB stick) via rescue mode (you need to be familiar with the CLI) or remount the disk on another working system
    • get the actually missing packages via another working system then install locally (typically dpkg on .deb files but NOT apt get because that requires connectivity and thus packages you do not have anymore) the bare minimum you need then finish the update.

    For me it was on a small temporary system (e.g. RPi for HomeAssistant) so it was basically easier to recover from a recent backup after formatting.

    It's annoying but it's actually not that bad.

    Edit: clarified on the broken state and dpkg vs apt get

  • Is anyone making a frontend player for the music Anna recently archived from Spotify?

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  • You'd have settings for when to stop seeding, e.g. 1:1 ratio minimum, duration of the track xN, etc with a reasonable default. Suggestions welcomed.

  • Is anyone making a frontend player for the music Anna recently archived from Spotify?

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  • I would recommend against a new player when existing scriptable ones like vlc and mpv already exist.

    Instead what I would do is a plugin for either, eventually repackaged as its own player (if somehow installing the script itself is too much for some) for which the script would

    • include a very small torrent client
    • point that client to the torrent (which AFAICT is still not public, so for now a reconfigurable URL)
    • include a search function that when it fails, proposes to search within the trimmed cleaned torrent metadata then does the torrent download then plays.

  • Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

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  • Inside Denmark’s struggle to break up with Silicon Valley

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  • Please feel free to help right now. You can still move to the EU if you want to but if you take for example NLNet they fund open source work for anybody anywhere in the World, you "just" have to propose something that is new and needed with a focus on the Internet.

  • Should I delete my existing bad social medias accounts or just let them die by stagnation?

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  • Send an email to people you care about with your new email, they reply or not it's OK you still have their email address anyway, no big deal.

    Source : I've migrated away from GMail.

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    DuckDuckGo Launches Public Vote on AI and User Choice

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  • It's a VERY specific tool that needs

    • a lot, like World scale, amount of data and that has repetitively been done WITHOUT permissions from authors of that data
    • huge amount of data must be processed and this is done in enormous datacenters that consume radically MORE than traditional ones without GPUs
    • energy and cooling for those very specific new datacenters that then becomes unavailable to the local community, energy produced that is often rushed and typically more polluting

    So I think it is fundamental to distinguish

    • "AI" as a theoretical researcher field, public research focusing on processing CERN data, weather forecast, genomics, medicine, etc that is indeed a tool that might produce results that helps us all

    versus

    • commercialized for-profit "AI" with GenAI and LLMs as blackboxes mostly used for spam, scan, low quality code, etc.

    When one amalgamates one with the other, knowingly or not, they do the marketing for the later.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • Because dockers record with regards to security is questionable

    Works with Podman

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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    • stop the container (safer)
    • scp only its mounted directory once to the target, via ssh key (no password)
    • next time rsync instead to add only the new files, ideally via a crontab script
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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • On the RPi microSD, on a USB stick, on a SSD,... entirely up what you have available and what you need.

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    Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos

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  • Immich fits on a RPi so not sure one needs a lot of memory for that.

  • Drag and Drop is an absolute mess

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  • Funny I have the opposite experience.

    I use KDE Plasma, Firefox, konsole, etc and sometimes, no idea when and why, I just pick a file then drop it somewhere else, including ON the terminal... and it works?! Like it brings the full path for that file and then I can compose with CLI tools, amazing!

    I'm quite used to the terminal so I rarely use drag&drop (mv, cp, scp, rsync, etc just work) but when I do I'm actually often positively surprise that totally different software made with different interaction paradigms (e.g. GUI vs CLI) do work well together. Overall I think https://specifications.freedesktop.org/ is quite impressive.

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Gosh... wish I could upvote twice. Feels like we just gave a low cost (for now) chainsaw to anybody who wish they had a pocket knife then say "There, you can cut anything with that!" and somehow they forgot they can just buy some OK stuff from Ikea or a nice artisan. The need to "build" anything without taking a minute to know, not even the state of the art, whatever already exist out there and "fix" it by "personalizing" it is nuts.

    Let's not "vibe code" anything when reliable solutions already exist!

  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Recommended software to scan a load of video files for detected motion

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  • Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?

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  • There are actual radios, like FIP.fr or plenty of other ones that just give you the m3u8 and their playlist. It's not federated but it's less centralized than most platforms like SoundCloud or Apple Music.

    If you do want a specific song and album you can pay for it via BandCamp and get the actual file, DRM free, to play on any device.

    If you do want a song or album it BandCamp does not have, or you already have a copy of, e.g. physical CD, and you want something less centralize SoulSeek still works.

    PS: I have been running my own PeerTube instance for years now but I don't use it for music, just videos.

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