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ProfDreameron Self-hosting my photos with Immich

I'm using restic to backup the Immich photo directories as well as automatically generated Immich database dumps to an external drive and a Hetzner Storage Box.

ProfDreameron 16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

There's at least some of the original ANSI Art of BitchX in there.

Here are some examples:

https://16colo.rs/pack/acid-100/ANSI-100.ANS

https://16colo.rs/pack/sense-19/logos-19.ans

https://16colo.rs/pack/awe-20/MID-BX.ASC

ProfDreameron Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

> Given an existing collection - Is there an easy way to auto sort & tag everything? e.g. Merge the artists 'Guns N Roses' and 'Guns and Roses' into the most correct one.

I've recently started using Beets[1] to organize my music collection. It's a command line application that IMHO is not entirely intuitive to use at first. But once you get the hang of it, it works incredibly well.

[1]: https://beets.io/

ProfDreameron Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a

There's a crowd-sourced list of banking apps known to work on GOS at <https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...>.

ProfDreameron Gixy: Nginx Configuration Static Analyzer

Using the nginx module on NixOS[1] and enabling services.nginx.validateConfigFil, which defaults to true, generated nginx configurations will be checked by Gixy[2]. The build will actually fail if Gixy finds any issues.

[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/nixos/modu... [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.11/pkgs/build...

ProfDreameron Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can

From <https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#ch-supported-platforms>:

> Nix is currently supported on the following platforms:

> - Linux (i686, x86_64, aarch64).

> - macOS (x86_64).

ProfDreameron Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware

Reminds me of "Tempest for Eliza" which uses the computer's monitor to generate AM signals: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/

ProfDreameron Emacs 27.1

multi-hops[0] should probably be mentioned as well. Using those one can for example open a file using sudo via ssh:

    /ssh:you@remotehost|sudo:remotehost:/path

Doing any further actions on a file opened that way also applies the hops there as well. For the example above opening a shell or running a shell-command would run those through sudo on the remote host.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Ad...

ProfDreameron Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server

There's also honk[0] which aims to be a small ActivityPub server implementation with "minimal setup and support costs".

[0]: https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

ProfDreameron The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017)

> Or something like that already available?

There's Userland[0] which seems to be kinda similar. The demo video[1] is kinda impressive.

[0]: https://github.com/hishamhm/userland [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gla830WPBVU

ProfDreameron Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

Same for me. I first read this during high school in the early 90s and read it several times again in the following years.

There's also a movie about the story which is worth watching: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308449/ You can easily find it (and quite a few talks and interviews by/with Clifford Stoll about the subject of the book) on Youtube if you search for "Cuckoo's Egg".

ProfDreameron Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

"The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage" by Clifford Stoll is my all time favorite for vacation reading.

ProfDreameron The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (2011)

https://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/

Something like this?

ProfDreameron The longer passwords in the Last.fm database

It's actually a song title.

ProfDreameron The longer passwords in the Last.fm database

I think the problem with the longer passwords in this list is that they're well known phrases like song titles or just repetitions of the username.

ProfDreameron Taskwarrior – intelligent TODO list

> I personally don't think it does a very good job [...]

Why do you think so? Would you care to elaborate?

ProfDreameron Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

Out of curiosity: What do you have installed on your laptop instead?

ProfDreameron Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

The one thing I would benefit the most from when switching from your approach to Org mode are agenda views: http://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html

ProfDreameron Show HN: Ship – A fast, native issue tracker for software projects

This is exactly what Bugs Everywhere does: http://www.bugseverywhere.org/

ProfDreameron Bash Academy

The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide is a good resource as well: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/abs-guide.html

ProfDreameron CSV Challenge

    echo 'name,creditcard' > `date '+%Y%m%d'`.csv
    grep 'name"' data.json | \
        grep -v 'creditcard":null' | \
        tr '{:}' ',' | \
        cut -d',' -f3,20 | \
        sed 's/"//g' \
            >> `date '+%Y%m%d'`.csv

ProfDreameron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014)

Cologne, Germany, Remote, Full Time, Contract

Stack: C, Java, Python, Lua, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MySQL/MariaDB, Hibernate, Backbone.js, Angular, Mercurial, Linux, OpenBSD, Android, Shell Script, Perl, Arduino, Nginx, Postfix, OpenSMTPD, ...

Resume: Available on request

Contact: hnhired@gmail.com

I've been developing software since ~ 1995, professionally for about six years. I know my *nix systems but can work with windows based machines just as well. I'm mostly self taught and eager to learn more and new technologies.