climagic

climagic, 24 days ago to random

What is your LEAST favorite command?

climagic, 1 month ago to random

"You're stupid, why don't you just use the GUI file manager?"
[GUI file manager]:

climagic, 1 month ago to random

Is there a goddess of RAID controllers I can pray to?

climagic, 2 months ago to random

PSA: Don't make the mistake of missing eclipse totality once in your life just because you're worried about some traffic. Trust me when I say it's worth it (saw it in 2017). GET YOUR ASS TO THE TOTALITY ZONE ON APRIL 8TH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSJy_okRiI

climagic, 3 months ago to random

I created a file literally called -? In my homedir to help stop wildcard accidents with rm and mv and stray *s

climagic, 4 months ago to random

Those posts about Netiquette and FAQs stopped too soon. We really need them again.

climagic, 4 months ago to random

chfn

climagic, 4 months ago to random

Sometimes you just want to play the audio from a video, such as one that has music in it:
mpv --vo=null musicvideo.mp4

climagic, 4 months ago to random

Did any of you run an anonymous FTP server back in the mid 90s or earlier? Like at one of the big universities that had major FTP servers. Did putting your email address as your password actually get recorded somewhere? AFAIK the password was not logged in cleartext, so looking back, it seems pointless to have asked for that as if it was some form of ID.

climagic, 4 months ago to random

It's tough to read long numbers, especially the ones we see in data sizes these days. What can help is to use the -h option that is provided by some of the GNU utilities. For instance, long list files with human readable sizes:
ls -lh

Show filesystem data with human readable sizes:
df -h

Summarize disk use of directories:
du -sh */

Sort that output by the human readable sizes:
du -sh */ | sort -h

climagic, 4 months ago to random

"But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard." -- Douglas Adams HHGTTG

climagic, 5 months ago to random

The picture of the teletype is from https://www.electroprops.co.uk/

climagic, 6 months ago to random

Ya know, it was one thing when binary bytes vs decimal bytes was a difference of like 1% of the drive, but now the difference is nearly one whole terabyte (sorry, tebibyte) and 9% difference. Now get off my lawnmower man.

climagic, 6 months ago to random

The new Amazon style looks like the classic Slashdot style and it's freaking me out.

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climagic, 7 months ago to random

Use ip's stats (-s) and json output (-j) options with the jq command to parse the received byte count on your wireguard wg0 interface:

ip -s -j addr show dev wg0 | jq '.[].stats64.rx.bytes'

climagic, 7 months ago to random

Take time to try new things, but keep time for the people that matter in your life.

climagic, 7 months ago to random

The climagic Halloween video was released 10 years ago today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRF1S-8P6_k

climagic, 7 months ago to random

If you find yourself in a rush and don't want to wait for filling out an encrypted partition at install time (to hide disk usage patterns), you don't have to wait inside the installer. You can finish the install without doing that, reboot and do it from within the installed OS within the install with something like this:

ionice -n 3 dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfatzero bs=1M status=progress ; rm bigfatzero

The ionice will give the process lower i/o priority to keep your system snappy.

climagic, 7 months ago to random

Have multiple computers in front of you? If you didn't know about it, there is a program for Linux called Barrier (which is an open source alternative Synergy) for sharing a keyboard/mouse between multiple computers. It allows you to use the same mouse/keyboard across multiple computer's screens like it was all one desktop.

climagic, 7 months ago to random

People at work through the decades.

climagic, 8 months ago to random

I've always read that global variables are bad.

climagic, 8 months ago to random

We must have passed some kind of threshold because I just spent 30 minutes looking through my house for a micro USB cable and could only find USB-C cables.

climagic, 8 months ago to random

This past weekend I tried out Patrick Finnegan's Dot Matrix Printer Selfie System at VCF Midwest 18. Here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSPG8nB6GtY

climagic, 8 months ago to random

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A log file that grew to 2.5GB in just five minutes. I've seen system loads of over 15,000. All these moments will be lost in time, like bits in DRAM. Time to reboot.