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Transfer BTFS snapshots with netcat

Jesse Harris — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 22:57:11 +1000

Netcat, the swiss army knife of TCP/IP can be used for many tasks. Today, I'll breifly demonstrate sending btrfs snapshots between computers with it's assistance.

Screen sharing and capture in Wayland on Gentoo

Jesse Harris — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 21:05:46 +1000

The article shows the tweaks I had to make to my system in order to be able to share my screen in Zoom, and capture my screen in OBS under Gnome on Wayland on Gentoo.

Scrubbing my data - BTRFS

Jesse Harris — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:49:01 +1000

It's no secret I use BTRFS, so I have a fair amount of data stored on this filesystem. With most popular filesystems you have no way of knowing if your data is the same read as was originally written. A few modern filesystems support a function known as scrubbing.

Defragging files in btrfs - Oneliner

Jesse Harris — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:01:14 +1000

Sometimes, small databasey files get a bit fragmented over time on a COW filesystem. This touch of shell is a goodone to clean them up every now and then.

Lets encrypt kerfuffle

Jesse Harris — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:35:26 +1000

Let's encrypt had a kerfuffle last week by accidentally not checking CAA DNS records of domains it had requests for.

Firewalld kernel requirements

Jesse Harris — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:16:53 +1000

I wanted to work out the minimum kernel requirements to run Firewalld with nftables backend running in Gentoo. Here I've documented my findings.

Nagios Core on Gentoo/Raspberry Pi with Nginx

Jesse Harris — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 23:06:38 +1000

I haven't posted in a while due to a change in my work. I'm currently working in the Server and Storage team at my workplace for a 6 month secondment. The role is much more aligned with my enjoyment of using GNU/Linux.

Precision 5510 - Gentoo GNU/Linux

Jesse Harris — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 22:44:07 +1000

This documents all configurations, apps and tweaks to get a nicely working Linux machine.

Trying out a pull request

Jesse Harris — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:10:45 +1000

You've received a pull request on your repo. Before merging you want to see what it looks like in your code base. Perhaps you will run some manual test or some diffs from the command line here and there.

Video editing from the command line

Jesse Harris — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:03:16 +1000

I previously posted about capturing video in Linux. While this isn't exactly part 2 of that post there is enough crossover to warrant a link. This post is about how I have strangely found video editing to be much easier from the command line than a gui app.