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smbv··on Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure
Thank you very much! I'm planning on using this for my backups (in conjunction with rsync -a, and podman volume export).
smbv··on Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure
Working today to create a backup script and bind it to a systemd timer. Hope it all goes well.
smbv··on Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure
Running another host is difficult, especially when you only have one computer to run the server on. The server is an old Dell laptop (Inspiron 5547), and I do not have any more hard drives, SSDs or computers that I can keep always-on to run replication.
smbv··on Collection of Unix ASCII Games
ATC remains my favourite TTY game. The adrenaline rush when managing tens of planes, the tension keeping them all afloat, all very fun. I do not want to do this as my real job though.
smbv··on "Log4j trigger in my signature so I can see logging copies of my mail"
Seems like the author is using CanaryToken. I wonder if I can use it to set up a canary email to improve my spam blocklists...

https://www.canarytokens.org

smbv··on [dead]
@dang why is this flagged?
smbv··on Apache Guacamole
I deployed Guacamole myself (for SSH), but I found SSHWifty[0] a lot easier to use and deploy.

[0] https://github.com/nirui/sshwifty

smbv··on Making Websites Small
It's in my bio It was roughly 900kb gzipped on most text only pages. Some pages are on archive.org.
smbv··on Making Websites Small
I optimized my website the other week. Some things that I did that were relatively easy included: removing Font Awesome (I replaced the relevant icons with SVGs since I was only using a few of them), removing jQuery (replaced with vanilla JS), lots of CSS (removed a lot of cruft from unused rules, etc from my SASS rules), and got rid of as many full size images as possible (replaced with webp thumbnail links). I got the size of my website down to less than 100 kb gzipped for the pages with images and less than 50kb for those without.
smbv··on RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website
RSS saved me the "right click on a bookmark folder -> open all" every hour or so. Does RSS increase my productivity or decrease it? On one hand, I'm not obsessively checking a bunch of websites. On the other hand, I have a firehose of content directed at my face with hundreds of feeds.
smbv··on RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website
As a big fan of RSS (I read HN through hnrss[0]), this is wonderful. It seems to be a nice catch-all for whatever websites rss-bridge doesn't support.

If any of you are looking into RSS, check out FreshRSS[2] (an RSS aggregator). A mobile client I especially like is NetNewsWire[3] (for Apple products only, but is imo amazing)

[0] https://hnrss.github.io/

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://www.freshrss.org/

[3] https://netnewswire.com/

smbv··on The Thrilling Dare of Scorched Rice
Fun article, but too much filler (ie history of rice, etc)
smbv··on Computer users fight 'bloatware' (1998)
To be fair, modern web standards and many orders of magnitude more complex than what existed a decade ago. The issue is less with the browsers and more with the rapidly growing set of web standards.
smbv··on Top officers of a Navy nuclear sub have lost their jobs over undersea collision
First thing that came to mind was a Monk episode.

https://imdb.com/title/tt1268705

smbv··on Can't Get You Out of My Head
It's a reference to a manga series with an anime and a Netflix adaptation called Death note[0].

One of the characters is Ryuk[1] who has a likeness on the image on Wikipedia for this article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Note

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuk_(Death_Note)

smbv··on Civil liberty fears as police consider using drones that film from 1,500ft
By that logic, we should not work to rehabilitate criminals. Will rehabilitation bring back the money stolen? The people killed?
smbv··on Tell HN: You can block YouTube ads on iOS 15 using Safari Extensions
I use a dns level blocker on iOS. Blocks ads in apps too.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1...

smbv··on Jellyfin: Free Software Media System
I use Finamp with Jellyfin for audio

https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp

smbv··on Michelin's airless tires are scheduled for market launch in 2024
Cleaned up URL: https://interestingengineering.com/michelin-airless-tires-hi...
smbv··on Peter Pan, Existentialist Fairy Tale? (2017)
Some analysis is lacking (some that things that I'd consider to be important to expand upon are left as is at one sentence, such as the crocodile and the clock), but enjoyable nonetheless. Kudos to you!
smbv··on Vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals any user's exact location
I, for one, enjoyed the writing style. It made it enjoyable to read, and it wasn't dry like other security vulnerability posts.
smbv··on Japan’s Sixth-Gen F-X Fighter Jet
Cleaned up URL https://interestingengineering.com/the-extraordinary-power-o...
smbv··on Show HN: Instantly listen to any URL
Very nice! I tried it out on one of my articles[0] and it worked very well. The only issue I had was that the code samples were spoken. Perhaps ignore <pre> sections?

[0] https://sambhav.saggis.com/en/blog/hashing-data-with-chess

smbv··on The World of CSS Transforms
Works just fine for me.
smbv··on Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, from U.S. Home and Garden Market
Do you have a source?
smbv··on Valve Steam Deck
I was more disappointed that it didn't support 802.11ax.
smbv··on Valve Steam Deck
I wonder what this will mean for Linux support on the Steam store in general? Since this is SteamOS[0], then manufacturers will have to support Linux / Proton in order to have their games on this machine.

[0] https://www.steamdeck.com/en/software

smbv··on Tennessee DoH halts all vaccine outreach to kids – not just for Covid-19
> catch more flies with honey than vinegar

Not really true...

https://xkcd.com/357/

smbv··on Joplin – an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronization
Let's have Windows switch to GPL while we're at it too ;)
smbv··on What's in email tracking links and pixels?
CyberChef helped me decode the URL:

It was a zlib deflate and a URL-safe Base64 code.

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=From_Base64('A-Za-z...

Update: Finishing reading the article, someone beat me to this.

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