You can search every file on the computer instantly by installing plocate. Once installed, run sudo updatedb to create the database of (nearly) every file on the computer. Check how big the database is: 1du -h /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db Once you have the database, you can find nearly any file instantly. Search for …

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Check subtitles available: 1url='https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/d9567d5b-1add-477c-bce3-a58cef84c28c' 2yt-dlp --list-subs "$url" | grep --max-count=1 '^en' The original language often displays with -orig, e.g. en-orig (Original). 1Language Formats 2ar vtt 3az vtt 4bg vtt 5ca vtt 6cs vtt 7da vtt 8de vtt …

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You can share parts of a secret with multiple people, so only some of them need to agree to see the secret. Install ssss, then decide on the total number of secrets (N), and the threshold of people who must share their shard of the secret in order to reveal the secret. 1N=5 2T=3 3FILE=secret.txt 4fortune | ssss-split …

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sudo apt-get purge -y snapd

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A soft link is a file which says how to go to another file. When a program encounters a soft link, it will make a guess at whether it should ignore it, or try to get to that file. To make a soft link to a file in the current directory, linking is easy: 1fortune > $file_1 2ln -s $file_1 $link_1 Now imagine your …

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Over time git repositories become bloated with old data, but never get cleaned. I can't find an official way to clean up the crud, so I did this: 1usermod -aG soft-serve $USER 2# Log out and back in for this to take effect. 3 4cd /var/lib/soft-serve/data/repos 5sudo chmod -R g+w * 6git config --global --add …

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http Setup In this example, the port used is 23231, but it can be anything. Open /var/lib/soft-serve/data/config.yaml and make sure the http section looks like this: 1# The HTTP server configuration. 2http: 3 # The address on which the HTTP server will listen. 4 listen_addr: ":23232" 5 6 # The path to the TLS private …

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Soft-Serve with https Maintenance

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Work with a database: 1sqlite3 "$FILE".sqlite3 Compress the database: 1pragma vacuum; Optimize the database: 1pragma optimize;

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Basic ssh Try out basic ssh by accessing git.charm.sh, without needing authentication: 1ssh git.charm.sh Start an ssh server to try it out. The ssh server is sometimes in a package called openssh, and sometimes only in openssh-server. Once it's installed, check it's working: 1sudo systemctl status ssh If that doesn't …

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