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I've spent the day trying to get this setup working with GitHub and given the number of gotcha's I encountered, it seemed like a good idea to document how I finally got this working with as few hacks as possible. There's a lot of documentation out there (some of it old and misleading) and committing here for posterity will help me remember this when I inevitably need to do this again.

Rationale

Passwords are simply not enough these days. Regardless of the company, breaches (and the associated Personally Identifiable Information harvested) are a matter of not if, but when. There are a number of things you can do to protect yourself, but being on the tin-foil-hat side of paranoia, means there are a few Commandents that I adhere to (and recommend for other folks)[Insert link to Fight Club Rules for the Secure Internet].

That being said, if you use 2-factor authentication and have committed to using a hardware token such as the Yubikey, then you're already ahead of the curve. The problem is that wh

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From: http://web.archive.org/web/20160904174444/http://andreafrancia.it/2010/03/understanding-the-output-of-rsync-itemize-changes.html

As you may know the rsync's --delete options if misused could make severe damage.

To prevent this you can use the --itemize-change and the --dry-run options to figure out how the command will behave before launching the real one.

The output will be something like that:

.d..t..g... ./
.f...p.g... Something.pdf

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Commands

httrack example.com -O ./example.com -N100 −%i0 -I0 --max-rate 0 --disable-security-limits --near -v

httrack example.com -O ./example.com-3 -N100 -I0 -N "%p/%n%[month].%t" --max-rate 0 --disable-security-limits --near  -v

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package main

import (
	"crypto/aes"
	"crypto/cipher"
	"crypto/rand"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net"
)

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/*

Go-Language implementation of an SSH Reverse Tunnel, the equivalent of below SSH command:

   ssh -R 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 [email protected]

which opens a tunnel between the two endpoints and permit to exchange information on this direction:

   server:8080 -----> client:8080

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Convenient DeDRM Scripts
-------------------------

**NOTE**: read https://blog.quaintous.com/2021/02/16/remove-drm-from-ebooks/ to find out what this gist is good for.

* ./init.sh:	extracts Adobe Digital Editions private key and required files to DeDRM.
* ./dedrm:	removes DRM from given ebook (pdf/epub)

If you are using this for the first time, make sure that you have authenticated your Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) and run './init.sh'. Import any DRM-protected file into ADE and run 'dedrm.sh':

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#include "ConfigFormat.h"
#include <string.h>

const struct ConfigFormatField *ConfigFormatGetFieldByName(const struct ConfigFormat *Format, const char *Name, void *Structure)
{
	static struct ConfigFormatField Field;

	for (size_t n = 0; n < Format->num_members; n++) {
		if (strcmp(Name, Format->names[n]) != 0) {
			continue;

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#include <WiFi.h>
#include <SPIFFS.h>
#include <ESPAsyncWebServer.h>
#include <WebSocketsServer.h>

// Constants
const char *ssid = "ESP32-AP";
const char *password =  "LetMeInPlz";
const char *msg_toggle_led = "toggleLED";
const char *msg_get_led = "getLEDState";

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ZFS Snapshots and PostgreSQL

I recently set up a host running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, ubuntu-zfs, and PostgreSQL 9.3. Using the ZFS snapshot feature I was able to make a snapshot of the file system holding the PostgreSQL database, write the snapshot to a compressed file, transfer it to another Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host running ubuntu-zfs, restore it, and launch PostgreSQL using that data directory with all the data (seemingly) intact.

The database is very low-traffic, so I do not know how effective this strategy would be for a busier database.

I take no responsibility if you attempt this setup and it causes data loss or other issues. Use it at your own risk; this document is meant to explain a potential setup and open discussion about limitations and potential improvements.

First Host Setup

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Download ejs.min.js from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/ejs.min.js
See also https://cpp.hotexamples.com/examples/-/QJSEngine/toScriptValue/cpp-qjsengine-toscriptvalue-method-examples.html