beret

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

Many tools do not fully remove metadata, but just remove the link with in the metadata table. The data are thus still available in the PDF file itself.

While a lot of people rely on Exiftool to remove metadata, it actually does the same in PDFs. If you remove metadata with exiftool -all= some.pdf, you can always restore the data with exiftool -pdf-update:all= some.pdf.

There are several options to remove PDF metadata safely:

Option 1 : Exiftool with qpdf

Remove metadata with exiftool : exiftool -all= some.pdf
Then remove ununsed objects with qpdf : qpdf --linearize some.pdf - > some.cleaned.pdf

Automount of CIFS (smbfs) folders w/ systemd

i.e. mounting your Windows shares on Linux at boot

First, let's see how to mount the remote directory. Assume that there is a shared folder over the network at \\192.168.1.1\users\self\shared which is accessible with user myuser and password secret123.

We could mount it manually in /mnt/winshare with:

# mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/users/self/shared /mnt/winshare -o user=myuser,password=secret123

This should work on your Linux box, because systemd will basically call mount with the same arguments: What (//192.168.1.1/users/self/shared), Where (/mnt/winshare) and Options (user=myuser,password=secret123).

I've never had great understanding of launchctl but the deprecation of the old commands with launchctl 2 (10.10) has been terrible as all resources only cover the old commands, and documentation for Apple utilities is generally disgracefully bad, with launchctl not dissembling.

Mad props to https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/ which contains most details

domains

Internally, launchd has several domains, but launchctl 1 would only ask for service names,

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import argparse
	import itertools
	import os
	import subprocess
	import sys

	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="set up zfs pool")
	parser.add_argument("--mirror-size", type=int, default="2")
	parser.add_argument("--disk-name-filter", type=str, default="-ata-.0")

	# This script automatically generates a pop for the talon zoom mouse every n seconds,
	# then another one 2 seconds later. For when you want to do a ton of clicking actions
	# without getting jaw cramp. If you don't want to click, just look away within 2 seconds.

	from talon import Context, Module, actions, app, cron, ctrl, imgui, noise, settings, ui
	from talon_plugins import eye_mouse, eye_zoom_mouse, speech
	from talon_plugins.eye_mouse import config, toggle_camera_overlay, toggle_control

	# Put the following at the bottom of talon/resources/talon_plugins/eye_zoom_mouse.py
	# (you will need to reapply this after every talon update)

	#!/bin/bash

	# by joevt Jan 7/2021


	dodump=1
	if [[ "$1" == "-s" ]]; then
	dodump=0
	shift
	fi

	#!/bin/bash

	CYAN="$(tput bold; tput setaf 6)"
	RESET="$(tput sgr0)"

	clear

	if command -v python3 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
	if [ $(python3 -c "print('ye')") = "ye" ]; then
	clear

	#!/usr/bin/env zsh
	#
	# # About
	#
	# Since APFS supports de-duplication on block-level, it can be useful to
	# manually de-duplicate your files if you've migrated/upgrade to APFS not
	# using a fresh install.
	#
	# I've written this simple script with the aim to:
	# - Be simple, easy to read and understand (for users to check)