Yevhen Ts. Hammer2900

Mounting Clonezilla images with FUSE

I love to make backups with Clonezilla. But often, I'll back up my system, wipe my Linux partition and try another distro—only to realize that I need access to just one file from the old installation. For example, maybe I made an interesting change to my .zshrc or Samba configuration, which I want to re-use on the new system.

The obvious solutions aren't my favorites. It's easy to restore an image to a spare disk, but it takes a long time, and requires a spare disk I'm willing to wipe. I [could extract an entire image][extract_image], but that also takes lots of time and space. Wouldn't it be nice to just look inside my compressed Clonezilla image, just like I can do with a zip file or squashfs archive?

It turns out it's possible, with clever use of [user-space filesystems][fuse]!

Four Level framework for prompt engineering

Watch the breakdown here in a Q4 2024 prompt engineering update video

LLM library

Ollama

Level 1: Ad hoc prompt

Quick, natural language prompts for rapid prototyping
Perfect for exploring model capabilities and behaviors

Python easing functions

For precision programmatic animation!

Translated from the JavaScript in Sean Yen’s Easing equations
Illustrations adapted from Andrey Sitnik and Ivan Solovev’s Easings.net

Example usage:

duration = 30

	from threading import Thread
	from pyray import *
	from raylib import *
	from time import sleep


	# control variables
	downloadPressed = False
	uploadPressed = False

	# A simple no dependency Python implementation of the Quadtree
	# pseudocode on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadtree

	from dataclasses import dataclass, field

	@dataclass
	class Point:
	x: float
	y: float

	rm -rf ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/eval
	rm -rf ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	touch ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	sed -i -E 's/<property name=\"evl.\".\/>//' ~/.config/JetBrains/GoLand2021.3/options/other.xml
	rm -rf ~/.java/.userPrefs/jetbrains/goland

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import i3ipc
	from i3ipc import Event
	from i3ipc.events import IpcBaseEvent, Event

	i3 = i3ipc.Connection()

	# callback for when workspace focus changes
	def on_workspace(i3, e:IpcBaseEvent):
	print(e.__dict__)

	#!/bin/bash
	sudo apt install -y libxcb1-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libpango1.0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libyajl-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libev-dev libxcb-cursor-dev libxcb-xinerama0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev autoconf libxcb-xrm0 libxcb-xrm-dev automake libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xrm-dev

	cd /tmp

	# clone the repository
	git clone https://www.github.com/Airblader/i3 i3-gaps
	cd i3-gaps

	# compile & install

	-- awesomewm fancy_taglist: a taglist that contains a tasklist for each tag.

	-- Usage:
	-- 1. Save as "fancy_taglist.lua" in ~/.config/awesome
	-- 2. Add a fancy_taglist for every screen:
	-- awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(function(s)
	-- ...
	-- local fancy_taglist = require("fancy_taglist")
	-- s.mytaglist = fancy_taglist.new({
	-- screen = s,

	-- Dependency: xdotool
	--
	-- Usage:
	-- 1. Save as "virtual_keyboard.lua" in ~/.config/awesome/
	-- 2. Add a virtual_keyboard for every screen:
	-- awful.screen.connect_for_each_screen(function(s)
	-- ...
	-- local virtual_keyboard = require("virtual_keyboard")
	-- s.virtual_keyboard = virtual_keyboard:new({ screen = s } )
	-- ...