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paravzon Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

Top prometheus story at https://hackernewstrends.com/compare/prometheus-vs-grafana-v... is about wrong Prometheus (Remove CO2 from Air)

paravzon Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

windows 10 pro (and other editions) also have an option for 3 year of updates via https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

paravzon %CPU utilization is a lie

Cpu utilization %% needs to be contrasted with a "business" metric like latency or RPS. Depending on the environment and hardware 40% can be too utilized or way underutilized

paravzon Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard

Lenovo still sells $100 ThinkPad keyboards with TrackPoint, it will never be as fast, but no need to move hands from the keyboard

paravzon MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux

my rsync backup use case over usb and adb (with adb root)

start rsync daemon: adb root adb forward tcp:6010 tcp:11873 adb shell "rsync --daemon --port 11873 --config=/sdcard/rsyncd.conf &"

rsync: rsync -rltHDhP --stats --size-only --append-verify --partial --delete rsync://localhost:6010/root/data/data/ /backup/data

cleanup: adb kill-server

/sdcard/rsyncd.conf for the phone: address = 127.0.0.1 uid = root gid = root [root] path = / read only = true

paravzon Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping switched to opt-in by default

From the article:

>To do so, users must actively opt out by finding and disabling the feature in settings. The process requires unchecking the box 'Turn on optional connected experiences' that is enabled by default.

>On a Windows PC, the steps include going to File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences and unchecking the box.

paravzon WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

for example https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/ + cron job on router to periodically update dns record

paravzon Using static websites for tiny archives

SingleFile is fantastic, became part of my "standard" browser install, next to uBlock and Tree Style Tab

paravzon "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"

    echo '{"ExtensionManifestV2Availability": 2}'  | sudo tee -a /etc/chromium/policies/managed/ExtensionManifestV2Availability.json

paravzon Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)

had to google the trick to disable ai search results, now how to apply it to all searches

paravzon Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index

How does double compare to Betterment?

paravzon Understanding SPF, DKIM, and DMARC: A Simple Guide

https://www.mailhardener.com is another great "validator" and more for a personal email domain

paravzon RAG to Riches

this type of marketing satire worked for me: 80% entertainment 20% substance

paravzon Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

This brings back the days of trillian (the best multi-chat client for the desktop in the age of ICQ, AIM, MSN) that got killed by the raise of mobile phones and mobile chat apps.

paravzon Volvo delivers 74-tonne electric truck

Extra battery in the trailer can make it go so much further. And make battery in the trailer replaceable during a "charge" stop

paravzon Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data

podman and podman-compose became mainstream and replaced docker for me in "server" scenarios on rhel8/rhel9, fedora and derivatives. Glad to see progress on the desktop!

paravzon Icanhazip: A simple IP address tool survived a deluge of users (2021)

great callout! A more advanced self hosted option can be https://github.com/mpolden/echoip

paravzon Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)

I have started using globally exported TZ=:/etc/localtime after previous discussion, but since stopped, since at some desktop applications (slack for example) were not reading timezone correctly.

paravzon CDC File Transfer

Exactly what I'm looking for recently.. I dismissed ZFS (not mature on Linux) and btrfs (seems to be too complex and buggy as seen in a few horror stories)

So far I started using --link-dest for rsync, as explained in https://lincolnloop.com/insights/detecting-file-moves-rename... and used in https://github.com/dparoli/hrsync/blob/master/hrsync#L52

paravzon CDC File Transfer

sounds like cdc_rsync should be a good replacement for rsync in a generic backup

paravzon The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync

I switched from Cygwin+rsync(over ssh) to robocopy+samba to speed up backups (up to saturating 1Gbit connection):

    for %i in (C D) do robocopy %i:\ \\backup-server\b-%COMPUTERNAME%\%i /MIR /DCOPY:T /NFL /NDL /R:0 /W:1 /XJ /XD "System Volume Informatiowsn" /XD "$RECYCLE.BIN" /XD "Windows" /XD "Windows.old"

paravzon The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync

--link-dest is also used in hrsync, another rsync wrapper: https://github.com/dparoli/hrsync/blob/master/hrsync#L52

paravzon FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s [pdf]

What is Gb/s per watt of power between 2x400Gb/s servers and a single 800Gb/s ?

Following these reports since 2015, when I compared estimated cost of your 9Gb/s server to F5 load balancer :)

paravzon Duck DNS – About

another alternative is https://freedns.afraid.org