Eddie Carswell AfroThundr3007730

hi, and goodbye

The past few weeks has not been fun on IRC, the drama based on false information and assumptions has been insane. I've almost entirely been silent on the drama because I know the fallout that would happen if I spoke up.

A quick TLDR - I'm quitting all IRC development. KiwiIRC project lead, IRCv3 technical board, supporting the multitude of IRC networks, the lot.

Many people seem to think that I am supporting one side in everything that is going on, so just to be clear: I am not supporting any side of the current freenode drama - there is so much false information going around from everywhere that it is impossible to support anybody.

Woo freenode drama

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: "what the fuck is going on?"

IMPORTANT NOTE:

It's come to my attention that some people have been spamming issue trackers with a link to this gist. While it's a good idea to inform people of the situation in principle, please do not do this. By all means spread the word in the communities that you are a part of, after verifying that they are not aware yet, but unsolicited spam is not helpful. It will just frustrate people.

Update 3 (May 24, 2021)

A number of things have happened since the last update.

It appears that rasengan (Andrew Lee) of Private Internet Access believes that ownership of the company Freenode Ltd. gives him the right to unilaterally replace the current staff team.

We may have had our disagreements with staff, but freenode being run by a volunteer team, using servers provided by sponsors, is a key reason that we appreciate freenode.

As such, we do not believe that such a unilateral replacement by a corporate interest is appropriate.

If this attemped takeover by Andrew Lee continues, we will be advocating to move our communities elsewhere.

Context: Fuchs' leaked (not by him) draft resignation letter that caused Andrew Lee to come onto #freenode: https://fuchsnet.ch/privat/fn-resign-letter.txt

Proxmox PVE Host Config Backup Script

This script can be used to backup essential configuration files from the Proxmox Virtual Enivronment (PVE) host.

The script will create backups using tar with specified backup prefix and date and time stamp in the file name. Script will also delete backups that are older then number of days specified.

Create backup script file

To create backup script that will be executed every day we can create backup script in /etc/cron.daily/ folder. We need to make it writeable by root (creator) only, but readable and executable by everyone:

touch /etc/cron.daily/pvehost-backup

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# vim: set et ts=2 sw=2 filetype=bash :
	[[ $_ != $0 ]] \|\| { printf "\n\e[2G\e[1mPlease source this script!\e[0m ( e.g. \"source ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}\" )\n\n"; sleep 1;exit; }

	ubuntu-repo-size() {
	ubuntu-repo-size_usage() {
	printf "\n\e[1m\e[2G${FUNCNAME%%_*}\e[0m\n\n"
	printf "\e[1m\e[2GUsage\e[0m: ${FUNCNAME%%_*} [options]\n\n"
	printf "\e[1m\e[2GOptions\e[0m:\n\n"
	printf "\e[3G -a, --arch \e[28GArchitecture to display, i.e. amd64,arm64,armhf,i386,ppc64el,s390x (Default: amd64)\n"

	.SILENT:

	.PHONY: help
	## This help screen
	help:
	printf "Available targets\n\n"
	awk '/^[a-zA-Z\-\_0-9]+:/ { \
	helpMessage = match(lastLine, /^## (.*)/); \
	if (helpMessage) { \
	helpCommand = substr($$1, 0, index($$1, ":")-1); \

	#!/usr/bin/python3

	'''
	usage: swsh.py [-h] [--login LOGIN] [--password PASSWORD] [--server SERVER]
	[--verify VERIFY] [--output OUTPUT] [--input INPUT]
	[--customprop [CUSTOMPROP [CUSTOMPROP ...]]]
	[--pollers [POLLERS [POLLERS ...]]]
	[--node-settings [NODE_SETTINGS [NODE_SETTINGS ...]]] [--debug]
	[--log [LOG]] [--config [CONFIG]] [--generate-config]
	[--col-order COL_ORDER]

	// Unscaled values for kOpsinAbsorbanceBias
	const kB0 = 0.96723368009523958;
	const kB1 = kB0;
	const kB2 = kB0;
	const kScale = 255.0;
	const kScaleR = 1.0;
	const kScaleG = 1.0;
	const kInvScaleR = 1.0;
	const kInvScaleG = 1.0;

	<?php

	/**
	* Generate a random UUIDv4.
	* @return string UUID
	*/
	function generate_uuid()
	{
	$b = random_bytes(16);
	$b[6] = chr(ord($b[6]) & 0x0f \| 0x40);