He got it for his molars 🦷 The word mannequin is Dutch! 👯♀️ Sinking our teeth into Dutch dental idioms 🦷
heddwen-newton
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Decompressing a bzip2 file using another computer
alvarezp
I have a 2 TB file which I compressed using bzip2. This file lives in a Raspberry Pi NAS. How did I compress it? I must have sent it across the network for storage in this NAS; something like this: rain$ tar cj * | ssh nas dd of=backup.tar.bz2 where rain is my laptop and nas is my Raspberry...
My first global LibreOffice Conference
alvarezp
In recent weeks I had the opportunity to attend the LibreOffice Conference 2025 in the ELTE Informatikai Kar. had earlier been part of the 4th Latin American LibreOffice Conference (Mexico City, Mexico, 2023) but this is the first time I attend the global edition. I was particularly glad that it...
Poda: finds similar directories
alvarezp
I invite you to try Poda. I made this to find similar directories among multiple storage locations (or hampers as I call them in the program). The typical use case is to find out whether I find whether I have duplicate or similar directories in my laptop, the other laptop, NAS, flash drives, etc....
Updated IPv6 Toolkit in Debian
alvarezp
I recently updated IPv6 Toolkit in Debian. IPv6 Toolkit is a security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols, written by Fernando Gont. Mainly, this update prevented it from being removed from Bullseye, as compilation broke under the new GCC 10. This is the full changelog:...
Calculating values for the Xfce Sensors Plugin
alvarezp
I extensively use the Xfce panel to monitor my system. I like having a picture of its state without having to launch any diagnostic tool. This proves to be quite useful! Also, should my computer experience a sudden problem and not respond anymore, I can glance at its last state before rebooting. I...
My laptop was broken into
alvarezp
Initially I titled this «My laptop was hacked» but because the way they got in was by guessing a password, so it’s difficult to consider this a hack. Furthermore, what they did was pretty standard stuff, so although they technically broke into my laptop, I feel more like I invited them, they had a...