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GPS Location for CoMaps via geoclue2 on Arch Linux

CoMaps gets its location from geoclue2. On Linux, geoclue2 has no native gpsd support — it only reads live GPS fixes from a Unix socket streaming raw NMEA sentences (the network-nmea source), normally discovered via Avahi on a local network. It does not speak gpsd's protocol directly.

If you have a USB GPS receiver working with gpsd/cgps/xgps, geoclue will still ignore it and fall back to coarse IP-based (GeoIP) location unless you bridge gpsd's NMEA output into a socket geoclue can read.

This will set up:

1. A small bridge service that republishes gpsd's NMEA stream onto a Unix socket.
2. geoclue2 configuration pointing at that socket.
3. udev rules so the bridge automatically starts when the GPS is plugged in and stops when it is unplugged — falling back to IP-based location automatically, with nothing running when the GPS is not connected.

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What is it?

DataSync fully automates the data transfer. It comes with retry and network resiliency mechanisms, network optimizations, built-in task scheduling, monitoring via the DataSync API and Console, and CloudWatch metrics, events and logs that provide granular visibility into the transfer process. DataSync performs data integrity verification both during the transfer and at the end of the transfer.

DataSync provides end-to-end security, and integrates directly with AWS storage services. All data transferred between the source and destination is encrypted via TLS, and access to your AWS storage is enabled via built-in AWS security mechanisms such as IAM roles. DataSync with VPC endpoints are enabled to ensure that data transferred between an organization and AWS does not traverse the public internet, further increasing the security of data as it is copied over the network.

How to copy between two different AWS Accounts and S3 buckets

You will need to define a source account and bucket, and a dest

chrisswanda

I banged rocks together and came up with this.  I was needing a quick way to do age encryption/decryption for various files.

Dropped this in my ~/.bash_profile.

age_encrypt()
{
pub_key=$(cat ~/.config/age/pubkey.pub.age)
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
    case $1 in
    *.age)  echo "'$1' is not a valid file" && return 1 ;;

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# Unfortunately we use Teams and I needed a way to deliver a payload to an incoming webhook via Lambda for
# various c7n things.
#
# Below is just an example.


policies:
    - name: call-Azure-webhook
      resource: ec2
      description: |

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I've slowly been converting various processes and encryption schemes over to age, versus using PGP to store encrypted data at rest and sending of encrypted payloads to other users/machines.

If you are not familiar with age, see the specs here -> https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/blob/main/age.md

And the current project in GitHub -> https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

Man page - https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/FiloSottile/age/blob/master/doc/age.1.html

Since version 1.0.0 is out and is considered release, hopefully we will start seeing some cool projects using age for encryption, and hopefully some mobile apps, slick UIs, etc... will soon follow.

chrisswanda

import os
import sys
import numpy
import string

if sys.version > '3':
    strl = str
else:
    strl = string

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'''This stupid little script I use all the time to make perfect rice in my instant pot.
I also have a Siri Shortcut in the event that I'm near my HomePod, or other Apple devices.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c67d4960a15b42d6afb0cc58c649ff03 Just tell Siri, Cook Rice.

It makes the perfect white rice in your pressure cooker or instant pot.

How I use it, is to use a kitchen scale to weigh my inner pot (which is always 1102 grams,
but added in the formula in the event I find myself at someone else's house and need to make some perfect rice).

I then weigh my rice individually to get the weight.  I then wash my rice in multiple changes of water until it runs clear.

chrisswanda

{
  "meta": {
    "theme": "elegant"
  },
  "basics": {
    "name": "Chris Swanda",
    "label": "DevOps Dude",
    "picture": "https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/3af4117781e0d69367900432f45dbe41?size=128&default=mm",
    "website": "https://weather.swanda.net/about.html",
    "email": "chris.swanda@gmail.com",

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import smtplib

#email.mime.multipart is specific to python3
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = 'sendfrom@mail.com'
msg['To'] = 'sendto@mail.com'
msg['Subject'] = 'Subject'

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keys=$(gpg-connect-agent 'keyinfo --list' /bye | awk '{print $3}')

for key in $keys; do gpg-connect-agent "delete_key $key --force" /bye; done