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Computer science graduate, interested in #infosec, networking and general geeky things πŸ€“ – Linux shill β€” There's no place like ~
Operating system of choiceArch Linux
Favorite programming languageRust, of course, but C++ was my first love lol
Is anyone already actively/productively using #Wireguard?
infosec.exchange right now..

I recently backed up and restored my main home server so I could reinstall it, and ran into an issue with the user and group IDs having changed -- which made restoring more complicated.

A writeup on the small script I wrote to fix the situation: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2020/12/27/rsync-auto-mapping/

Of note: It was very, very useful to have backed up /etc/passwd and /etc/group along with the user data!

Automatically generating usermap and groupmap for rsync | Brain on Fire

Is this thing on?
About a quarter of the page visible on load and four clicks to clear out the banners. What is this nonsense.

https://lmddgtfy.net/

Hahaha. I was just sitting here, wondering if it would become a thing (like LMGTFY) and, sure enough, someone did it. πŸ˜‚

Let Me DuckDuckGo That For You - LMDDGTFY

RT @[email protected]: We salute the news of #knoppix abandoning #systemd to roll out its own init system. If in need, we'll be happy to help on anything we can https://t.co/Pku0lAf8ws
Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 8.6 (DistroWatch.com News)

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

@kev are you seriously surprised that gnome devs remove useful features?
Why is the number one reason why developers lose their mind always the build system? Cmake, Maven.. they all suck so much!

Let's hope my bot will survive 😁

RT @xkcd: This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL.
https://xkcd.com/2185/

Disappearing Sunday Update