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HeadlessChild··on Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps
They are sold out :-(
HeadlessChild··on Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)
Thunderbird has been PITA due to its major updates that breaks existing add-on's which I tend to use.
HeadlessChild··on The human tendency to over-water plants
I use an app on my phone called Planta [1] that creates a water, fertilize, mist, clean and prune schedule for my plants which I tend to follow. You add your plants to the app, it asks a couple of questions such as which type of pot is the plant planted in and which room* is it located in.

I share the same account on the app with my wife and we can stay logged in simultaneously, which helps to keep track.

The app is only free for the watering schedule, the rest are premium features which you need to pay for.

* You can create rooms and describe the sun light exposure of those rooms.

[1] https://getplanta.com/en/about

HeadlessChild··on Ansible Techniques I Wish I’d Known Earlier
One needs to lookout for their config file being overwritten [1] if another ansible.cfg exist. In my case my ~/.ansible.cfg config got overwritten by a local ./ansible.cfg (as per the order the config files are read [2]) in a project directory.

In my case I workaround it by _merging_ all potential config files into one at runtime using `crudini` as demonstrated by rsguhr [3].

[1] https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/35

[2] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/intro_configuration.htm...

[3] https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/1851171

HeadlessChild··on Rocky Linux releases its first release candidate
Check out FAI [0] (Fully Automatic Installation) for something similar to kickstart but for Debian/Ubuntu. When you get into it, it is quite nice to configure.

[0] https://fai-project.org/

HeadlessChild··on Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10
Axis Communications who are the leaders in the network camera industry has their HQ in the small Swedish city, Lund.

Huawei decided to place a new R&D team which focuses on network cameras in the same building were the Axis HQ are located, in Lund.

EDIT: Source (in Swedish): https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.712002/huawei-kamerav...

HeadlessChild··on Lenovo to Certify ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio for Linux
Running Ubuntu 16.10 it looks like (which was released almost 4 years ago).
HeadlessChild··on Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
Yup, same thing happen to my VPS. I had redis running on a tcp port instead of a unix socket and I didn't have a firewall setup.
HeadlessChild··on The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death
I don't known if I have OCD or I'm just a over thinker. Most of the time I must process the words I'm about to say to another person. I have a hard time making spontaneous conversations.
HeadlessChild··on Tell HN: I miss the old internet
Yes, I remember SmarterChild on MSN.
HeadlessChild··on Learn just a little Awk (2010)
According to the footer he is a software engineer at Google.
HeadlessChild··on What do Unix command names stand for?
According to Hendrik Jan Thomassen [0] this is the reason.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-DRLfzqD0

HeadlessChild··on Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin?
A configuration manager, Ansible for example. You basically describe your infrastructure with it.
HeadlessChild··on What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM
Have you looked at exchangecalendar (EWS) https://github.com/ExchangeCalendar/exchangecalendar?
HeadlessChild··on Re: Moving from PHP to Go and Back Again
Wow, that's a first. The website is hijacking the "go back" button for Google Chrome.
HeadlessChild··on Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD
That's a tool I abuse daily at work.
HeadlessChild··on Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD
Is this basically what `cat /proc/cpuinfo` is for Linux?
HeadlessChild··on Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial
Fix has landed for Debian Jessie/Stretch in the security repo

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000117

HeadlessChild··on Fedora Loves Python
Have you looked into the FAI (https://fai-project.org) project? It's like preseed on steroids and very similar to the Kickstart project.
HeadlessChild··on Take Naps at Work
"Who is this?"
HeadlessChild··on Ask HN: What do you want to see in Debian 10 (“buster”)?
I do also have had some problems running Debian Stretch in Virtual Box.

For example I had to install the "xserver-xorg-legacy" package to get the X server working as X is not running as root anymore.

HeadlessChild··on Samba 3.5.0+ vulnerability: Remote code execution from a writable share
That is really handy. Thanks for the info!
HeadlessChild··on Intel AMT Checker for Linux
Fixed in this commit: https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check/pull/4/commits/4f2fef...
HeadlessChild··on BSD socket API revamp
OT: How is text files like this (or like any RFC) written? Is there any standard format and is it done in a specific way?

EDIT: Found it! There was actually a RFC for that. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7322

HeadlessChild··on Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
Sort of the same for me but I learnt it from the Arch Linux installation process.
HeadlessChild··on Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH without reboot
I work at an IT Helpdesk and we build a custom GRML image which we write to our pen drives. We use it, for example, to quickly live boot Debian/Ubuntu PC's and run a script that mounts all necessary file systems (including pseudo file systems). This makes it really easy to quickly chroot into a broken system right at a users desk.

On our Linux installations we have separated most of the directories into different LVM partitions. Such as '/home', '/usr', '/var' and of course '/' (the root). Just last week I helped a user live boot his system and ran a fsck on his '/home' partition. We had "frozen" the system and hard reset his computer which led to a couple of corrupt blocks and inodes.

HeadlessChild··on Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts
Speaking as a Linux support technician I would think that we really enjoy fixing things and have a hard time not to.
HeadlessChild··on ROBOTS.TXT is a suicide note
I only use robots.txt for pages that already issues 403. Something like this:

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /secret/
HeadlessChild··on Is Sugar Killing Us?
... Bitch?
HeadlessChild··on I Have a Unicode Email Address
I really hate this. Just stop please.
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