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This command provides a simple and reliable way to calculate how much disk space all ZFS snapshots are consuming on your system.

The F4 key no longer opens Launchpad by default, the good news is you can re‑map it with hidutil.

Here is a simple script to backup your Linux/FreeBSD server or your macOS on storage.rcs-rds.ro.

Probably the easiest way to deploy Plex is using their docker image.

This post is here to save you from frustration, trips to a car shop and money.

Once in awhile sshd will break on your server, maybe after an update and you need to send long lines, maybe a cipher list from one server to another.

Puppet on FreeBSD connecting to servers using a self-signed certificate.

This is mostly a reminder for myself that http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ on a aws ec2 is really cool because you get get all sort of information with it.

Debugging shell scripts comes handy, especially when unexpected things happen.

On M1 Mac’s F4 was mapped to Finder.

Install imagemagick (from MacPorts or Homebrew): port install imagemagick or brew install imagemagick convert +append source_image1.jpg source_image2.jpg source_image2.jpg combined.jpg Voilà!

I don’t usually share videos, this one is a significant one.

If you are having below error in duplicity probably your token has expired and you need to generate a new one.

If you are using macOS and Apache Directory studio there is a chance you’ve met this error message: Below fix should work in most cases.

Once in awhile I hear (since the pandemic mostly see on chat) people comparing Ansible and CFengine: this is better, that is better. etc.

For whatever reasons a process can crash.

In case you run docker behind nginx some of your container might need specific headers otherwise a browser trying to access them might want to connect to a local or private address, something like https://127.0.0.1:8080. […]

How to extend ZFS on FreeBSD How to extend ext4 on Ubuntu using LVM (Linux Volume Group)

If you don’t know LibreNMS, it is a great monitoring tool with auto discovery, auto operating system detection, custom alert settings, extended application support and more.

vi and vim are two out of many text editors on Unix, this is my .vimrc.