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This is a rudimentary attempt (that surprisingly works) to export passwords from pass to Bitwarden csv format As a requisite you need to have the private key that protects the passwords, exported as an ASCII armored key (Or whatever the nomenclature is),…

Bit of the why So often I come across the need to avoid my system to block forever, or until a process finishes, I can’t recall how did I came across systemd inhibit, but here’s my approach and a bit of motivation Motivation I noticed that the Gnome Setti…

How to save your very old openSUSE Tumbleweed installation?

Thanks to a colleague who introduced me to Nim during last week’s SUSE Labs conference, I became a man with a dream, and after fiddling with compiler flags and obviously not reading documentation, I finally made it.

This is a follow up to my previous post about How to test things with openQA without running your own instance, so you might want to read that first.

If you’re using copilot and by luck also use pass to manage your passwords, you will find that the default configuration, or rather the configuration where you want copilot enabled everywhere, basically creates a risk for your precious passwords… As Copil…

From journal to .json In order to convert from your journal log to json, so it is easily parseable, jq offers an option that allows you to run a filter, only until the end of the file: Instead of running the filter for each JSON object in the input, r…

Happens that I spent today (Finally) a good few hours trying to figure out why my autocompletion was broken on my new shiny MacBook Pro M1 Pro… despite Homebrew’s brew doctor giving me the All OK. foursixnine@pakhet ~ % brew doctor Your system is ready to…

Hace tiempo en el grupo de Developers Ve en el mundo, preguntaba si alguien había utilizado Obsidian.

So, you want to remove that pesky file from your last commit?

So you just broke that PR you’ve been working on for months?

Wait what?

So, you’re in the middle of a review, and have couple of commits but one of the comments is asking you to modify a line that belongs to second to last, or even the first commit in your list, and you’re not willing to do: git commit -m "Add fixes from the…

The uninvited eldrich terror You use local::lib, and the pain unfolds: A shell is started, and you find a dreaded: Cwd.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0xdb00080, needed 0xdb80080) Which means: that the module (Cwd…

Just in case, if you’ve ever wondered how to stop cron from sending empty emails, a quick look at man mail will give you the answer you’re looking for (if you know what you’re searching for): -E If an outgoing message does not contain any text in…

Because I always forget To reboot a SUPERMICRO server: Just remember that the default user/password might still be ADMIN/ADMIN :) ipmitool -I lanplus -H $HOST -U USER -P PASSWORD power cycle To connect to the serial console ipmitool -I lanplus -H $HOST -U…

So, you wake up one day, and find that one of your programs, starts to complainig about “No space left on device”: Next thing (Obviously, duh?)

Quick and dirty Install python3-virtualenvwrapper (via pip or via package manager) Export a workon directory: export WORKON_HOME=/home/foursixnine/Projects/python-virtualenv source virtualenvwrapper foursixnine@deimos:~/Projects> source virtualenvwrapper

Sometimes you just need to search using awk or want to use plain bash to search for an exception in a log file, it’s hard to go into google, stack overflow, duck duck go, or any other place to do a search, and find nothing, or at least a solution that fits

For some odd reason, I couldn’t find quickly (2 mins in the manpage and some others on DuckDuckGo) a way to import a GPG key.

So, say you find yourself, somehow having the following error in the roundcube logs: [27-Sep-2019 12:44:48 +0000]: <f930f680> PHP Error: SMTP server does not support authentication (POST /?

If you happen to be using gnu find in the deadly combination with a directory that is a symlink (you just don’t know that yet), you will find face the hard truth that running: find /path/to/directory -type f Will return zero, nada, nichts, meiyou , which…

So, say you’re running qemu, and decided to use hugepages, nice isn’t it?

The problem Say you have a table that looks like this: AGGREGATE_NEEDED 1 ARCH x86_64 BASE_TEST_ISSUES NUMBER BUILD :NUMBER:PACKAGE DISTRI DISTRIBUTION FLAVOR Server-DVD-Incidents-Install INCIDENT_ID 99999 It’s just that it contains about 78…

Here at SUSE we heavily use Open Build Service, and often while collaborating on a project (In my case, openQA) one has to add a new package as a dependency from time to time, or has to do a backport for an older SLE or openSUSE Leap release It boils down…

The horror You happen to update your system (In my case, I use Tumbleweed or Gentoo) and there’s new version of Perl, at some point there’s the realization that you’re using local::lib, and the pain unfolds: A shell is started, and you find a dreaded: Cwd…

Summary If you are having the following error on your Gentoo system: Can't open the database file '/var/cache/eix/portage.eix' for writing (mode = 'wb') Don’t waste your time, simply the /var/cache/eix directory is not present and/or writeable by the e…

The horror While trying to set up my mail system, I ran into multiple tutorials to figure out what was the best way to avoid multiple error messages, mainly because you, like me (you silly human!)

Como renovar visa como Venezolano con prorroga y no morir en el intento Si llegaste hasta este lugar, es porque eres posiblemente Venezolano, y estas en la penosa necesidad de necesitar una prorroga, pero tambien debes renovar tu visa de residente sea en…

I just followed this medium post, but long story short: Check out the origin/master branch and make sure my local master, is equal to origin, then push it to my fork (I seldomly do git pull on master).