_h9mb

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by _h9mb 3y ago
I add all videos that I want to watch to a playlist and then run a script on my machine to download the videos. It will only download each video once as it keep tracks of downloaded videos through the file downloaded.txt so you can delete&#
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by _h9mb 3y ago
Shameless plug: https://github.com/danisztls/fzfx It tries to solve the "now what" part.
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by _h9mb 4y ago
Basically I use Git, ln and a setup script that I wrote. https://github.com/danisztls/dotfiles > primarily that I'd have to try to share it between professional and personal computers My script has a recipes fe
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by _h9mb 4y ago
I write data that makes sense to have as normalized in YAML format even if I'm not parsing it in any program because I may do so in the future and YAML is ergonomic. But for things that shouldn't be normalized I write then as plai
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by _h9mb 4y ago
https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
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by _h9mb 4y ago
AFAIK ripgrep is faster. Haven't used ag much so I can't compare features.
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by _h9mb 4y ago
> Software engineering should be about more productive UX, not flexing one’s ability to parse arbitrary syntactic art. Tasks lists are generally useless without their context. It makes sense to have tasks along their context (be it plain
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by _h9mb 4y ago
I had a similar insight some years ago. I write my TODOs mixed with text in markdown notes and use a CLI to do nice things like exploration and journaling. It purposefully doesn't have any state besides the notes in itself. https:&#x2
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by _h9mb 5y ago
> In general keep in mind that your 8TB to backup likely has a power law distribution where your really important filesets are much smaller and can therefore be inexpensively backed up with more copies. In my personal experience a simple
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by _h9mb 5y ago
> there must be absolutely no way for the cloud or server hosting provider or someone gaining access to the server e.g. via an RCE in the SSH or other sync daemon to access any data (both content and metadata like file name) both in tran
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by _h9mb 5y ago
Linux has XDG base directories despite many vendors no using them. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory PS. I don't know about Mac but Windows also have similar directories although more of a mess.
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by _h9mb 5y ago
Have zero trust. Use E2E encryption.
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by _h9mb 5y ago
Syncthing frequently stops syncing on my phone and requires me to delete everything and resync. I'm using receive-only folders. I think I'm an exception but it's been a pain in the ass.
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by _h9mb 5y ago
Using Borg for more than a year I haven't had an issue yet. In the past I used a similar tool that had error-correction capability but the tool was buggy and slow when compared to Borg.
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by _h9mb 5y ago
Suggestion: You can use pass to securely store and pipe your password, no superuser required.
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by _h9mb 5y ago
It kind is, simple but effective. For comparison, take a look at my over-engineered backup script: https://github.com/danisztls/arbie/blob/main/arbie
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by _h9mb 5y ago
I do something similar but using Borg (backup), gocryptfs (encryption) and rclone (sync) for cloud backup. No cascade.