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paravz | 2 months ago | on: Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

windows 10 pro (and other editions) also have an option for 3 year of updates via https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

paravz | 6 months ago | on: %CPU utilization is a lie

Cpu utilization %% needs to be contrasted with a "business" metric like latency or RPS. Depending on the environment and hardware 40% can be too utilized or way underutilized

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard

Lenovo still sells $100 ThinkPad keyboards with TrackPoint, it will never be as fast, but no need to move hands from the keyboard

paravz | 1 year ago | on: MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux

my rsync backup use case over usb and adb (with adb root)

start rsync daemon: adb root adb forward tcp:6010 tcp:11873 adb shell "rsync --daemon --port 11873 --config=/sdcard/rsyncd.conf &"

rsync: rsync -rltHDhP --stats --size-only --append-verify --partial --delete rsync://localhost:6010/root/data/data/ /backup/data

cleanup: adb kill-server

/sdcard/rsyncd.conf for the phone: address = 127.0.0.1 uid = root gid = root [root] path = / read only = true

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default

From the article:

>To do so, users must actively opt out by finding and disabling the feature in settings. The process requires unchecking the box 'Turn on optional connected experiences' that is enabled by default.

>On a Windows PC, the steps include going to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences and unchecking the box.

paravz | 1 year ago | on: WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

for example https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ + cron job on router to periodically update dns record

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Using static websites for tiny archives

SingleFile is fantastic, became part of my "standard" browser install, next to uBlock and Tree Style Tab

paravz | 1 year ago | on: "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

    echo '{"ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2}'  | sudo tee -a /etc/chromium/policies/managed/ExtensionManifestV2Availability.json

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)

had to google the trick to disable ai search results, now how to apply it to all searches

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index

How does double compare to Betterment?

paravz | 1 year ago | on: Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide

https://www.mailhardener.com is another great "validator" and more for a personal email domain

paravz | 2 years ago | on: RAG to Riches

this type of marketing satire worked for me: 80% entertainment 20% substance

paravz | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

This brings back the days of trillian (the best multi-chat client for the desktop in the age of ICQ, AIM, MSN) that got killed by the raise of mobile phones and mobile chat apps.

paravz | 2 years ago | on: Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck

Extra battery in the trailer can make it go so much further. And make battery in the trailer replaceable during a "charge" stop

paravz | 2 years ago | on: Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data

podman and podman-compose became mainstream and replaced docker for me in "server" scenarios on rhel8/rhel9, fedora and derivatives. Glad to see progress on the desktop!

paravz | 2 years ago | on: Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)

great callout! A more advanced self hosted option can be https://github.com/mpolden/echoip

paravz | 3 years ago | on: Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)

I have started using globally exported TZ=:/etc/localtime after previous discussion, but since stopped, since at some desktop applications (slack for example) were not reading timezone correctly.

paravz | 3 years ago | on: CDC File Transfer

Exactly what I'm looking for recently.. I dismissed ZFS (not mature on Linux) and btrfs (seems to be too complex and buggy as seen in a few horror stories)

So far I started using --link-dest for rsync, as explained in https://lincolnloop.com/insights/detecting-file-moves-rename... and used in https://github.com/dparoli/hrsync/blob/master/hrsync#L52

paravz | 3 years ago | on: CDC File Transfer

sounds like cdc_rsync should be a good replacement for rsync in a generic backup

paravz | 3 years ago | on: The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync

I switched from Cygwin+rsync(over ssh) to robocopy+samba to speed up backups (up to saturating 1Gbit connection):

    for %i in (C D) do robocopy %i:\ \\backup-server\b-%COMPUTERNAME%\%i /MIR /DCOPY:T /NFL /NDL /R:0 /W:1 /XJ /XD "System Volume Informatiowsn" /XD "$RECYCLE.BIN" /XD "Windows" /XD "Windows.old"