Today at work I got to enjoy another round of “Operation: Donkey Punch”, a term I picked up from my hacking friends. It’s where, after fighting with a device to make a change through standard means and failing repeatedly because the standard means are absurdly dumb or limited by policy or design, you tear it …
Category Archives: Software
VLC Recent Albums Flow
I use VLC on Android to listen to music because it’s kinda neat. My one annoyance is that it doesn’t have anything like the Recent Albums cover flow like Plex does. Really annoying. I pick up a lot of music and really miss being able to look at my recent CD stack to remind myself …
Only the Hardest Links
At home I use backintime as my backup software (a FOSS clone of Apple’s Time Machine). It works fantastically (and has saved my ass several times). It’s a Python framework around some very clever rsync magic; daily incremental snapshots are light on space because it uses hard links on the backend storage if a file …
Photo Stream
For those in the Fediverse know, I created Pixelfed account this week (@phaysis@pixelfed.social) that will focus on the random snapshots and whatnots that roll out of my various cameras. I sometimes find myself walking around and suddenly I’m all Ansel Adams and the world is my muse. So don’t get surprised if you see a …
Remote Bird
While waiting on dinner at the restaurant tonight, I noticed on my phone’s mail app (K-9 Mail) that my emails weren’t being filtered like they should. Automated notifications that normally would be Marked as Read by one of the many rules I have in Thunderbird were going unmodified. That’s when I remembered that, an hour …