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jinnko··on Ncdu – NCurses Disk Usage
ranger has this built in
jinnko··on Ask HN: Is DDG Becoming Unusable?
Check your network MTU.

Cloudflare have a few good posts for context.

jinnko··on We're moving away from swap partitions on our Linux servers
From the kernel docs, `image-size` section, which relates to the hibernation image size.

> Reading from it returns the current image size limit, which is set to around 2/5 of the available RAM size by default.

I have successfully been hibernating a laptop after a few hours in suspend with swap allocated 50% the size of my RAM, so 8GB when I had a 16GB laptop, and 16GB now on a 32GB laptop. Never had any issues.

jinnko··on Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots
Did you disable CoW on the VM image files? This makes a significant difference to performance on BTRFS
jinnko··on Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
Q
jinnko··on Pfizer booster’s ability to prevent symptomatic Covid wanes within weeks
Would love to see the study that's referred to. The UKHSA publications are here [0] but I couldn't identify the source.

The numbers in the article are relative to different starting points so can't be used to infer anything useful.

0: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/monitoring-reports-of-the-effect...

jinnko··on Ask HN: Non-cloud-based home cameras
I used old phones with SIP phone apps that support video for this. IIRC it was an iPhone 4 at the time with LinPhone that was strapped to the cot with power connected.

I did set up a local SIP server to avoid going out to the internet but don't remember which one now.

jinnko··on RotaJakiro: A long live secret backdoor with 0 VT detection
rkhunter is nothing but a false sense of security. The detection mechanisms are crude and trivially bypassed. Have a read of the code for yourself.
jinnko··on How does BBC iPlayer know I'm not in UK despite logging into UK server via VPN?
https://ipleak.net/
jinnko··on Show HN: A mindfulness based social network designed to be checked once a week
I believe it's Saturday to Wednesday, with Thu & Fri as the weekend days.
jinnko··on No One Ever Got Fired for Choosing React
> sometimes developers use it for blogs, forms, or other simple websites. There are many great tools out there for these websites, React is not one of them.

Such as?

jinnko··on Ask HN: How do you privately share pictures and video with family and friends?
I set up a Mastodon instance and a Peertube instance on my own server and got all everyone onto Mastodon. They all get how to use Mastodon, including the seniors, so that's what most people engage with. Peertube videos can be easily embedded into toots so both pics and videos are shareable.

I also have a Nextcloud instance and have all photos and videos auto uploaded, then recently Nextcloud introduced some workflow features that I used to auto upload all videos from Nextcloud to Peertube, making it really easy to go pick the video link and share.

What I've found is that better quality photos and videos tend to make it into Mastodon and Peertube, while other content will still be shared in the Signal group chat.

It's all running in docker, making it easy to upgrade, backup, and/or move around.

jinnko··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
> Boox are GPL violators though.

Hadn't heard of this. Can you provide some references? A quick DDG search didn't turn up anything.

jinnko··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
Boox devices are also very accessible as the run Android and you can install anything on them either from the Play store (requires manual setup at first) or F-droid, along with the usual adb access. I have the Nova Pro which I absolutely love. It has configurable screen refresh rates so it's possible to use a web browser with scrolling. You can install your favourite file sync app. Lately I've been using KDE connect to send/receive files. Writing on it is good and the notes app supports OCR that I found can make reasonable sense of my chicken scratches.
jinnko··on Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of bookmarks/notes/snippets?
I've been using wallabag for years too and it's worked well for me. I like that the mobile app downloads the articles for reading offline later and with minimal distraction.

I'm currently considering using Zotero so I can keep better track of topics I'm researching so I'm curious to hear more about people's experience with it, including across devices. For example is there as easy a way to share a URL to it on Android as there is with wallabag?

For notes I was using Evernote once upon s time then migrated to nvAlt synced via Nextcloud. On mobile app the notes are available in the Nextcloud app and editable in any markdown or text editor. Since switching back to Linux I've been using nvPy.

jinnko··on Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
With a quick search online I found the following bio from a TED talk he gave.

"Tomas was fascinated with the Why behind everything, he studied two MSc in Engineering from ICAI Madrid and Ecole Centrale Paris. After a few years of management consulting, he moved to America in 2008 to pursue his MBA at Stanford University. He specialized in Behavioral Psychology, Design, Storytelling, and Scriptwriting in an effort to uncover how people think and why they think the way they do."[1]

His background in engineering gives me confidence he's not making all this up, and the lack of medical or microbiological education doesn't seem as relevant given he's not making claims about the virus itself, but rather about the mathematical underpinnings of it's spread and interpretation of publicly available figures.

The take-away is that it's prudent to take this seriously now, as in today, if not yesterday.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUT6GQveD0E

jinnko··on Ask HN: Best Linux Laptop Replacing a Macbook Pro?
It's also well worth using the mainline kernels with the XPS as power management along with any flakey drivers is vastly improved. It's easy when done with the ukuu utility.
jinnko··on Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster
Have a look at OpenWRT
jinnko··on Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication
I was frustrated with the complexity and automated the process. Unfortunately even automation doesn't protect you from the complexities of GPG, but it does help. This is the tooling: https://github.com/ixydo/gpg-smartcard-automation
jinnko··on Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
Laying all the trans at one cripples my core i8 system for some time. Firefox's lazy tab loading is a much better user experience. Together with TreeStyle Tabs and the recent multi-container add-on, Firefox is just a better experience.
jinnko··on Turkey’s Halkbank sells dollars on the cheap, prompting public outcry
Halkbank's own twitter feed confirms this: https://twitter.com/Halkbank/status/1035854727500767232
jinnko··on Ask HN: How to secure an old android phone that is no longer supported
It seems you're on the right track. Using a postmarketOS is your only option, but depends very much on the device you have and whether the community is supporting it.
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