Posts for: #Technology

Remove duplicates with fdupes

Example, this searches the current directory including subdirectories and presents a prompt for deletion: fdupes ./ -r -d In the prompt presented use the following to select rows matching the string: sel The selection can be inverted with isel Mark selected rows for keeping with ks Each entry has to be accepted by pressing enter. When rows has been accepted, delete the ones not selected with prune When done, exit the prompt with
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Remove duplicates with fdupes

Example, this searches the current directory including subdirectories and presents a prompt for deletion: fdupes ./ -r -d In the prompt presented use the following to select rows matching the string: sel The selection can be inverted with isel Mark selected rows for keeping with ks Each entry has to be accepted by pressing enter. When rows has been accepted, delete the ones not selected with prune When done, exit the prompt with
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Control D and NextDNS

For years I have successfully subscribed to the service NextDNS. This has opened my eyes to what goes on in my network when accessing the internet. Access to the internet was in the early days largely available at the universities. Tools like e-mail, ftp, telnet and gopher were used as means to communicate on for instance DEC VAX/VMS-terminals. Around 1993 the web browser Mosaic made it’s debut, and it was available on the SUN Sparc-station which had a stunning graphical interface.
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Control D and NextDNS

For years I have successfully subscribed to the service NextDNS. This has opened my eyes to what goes on in my network when accessing the internet. Access to the internet was in the early days largely available at the universities. Tools like e-mail, ftp, telnet and gopher were used as means to communicate on for instance DEC VAX/VMS-terminals. Around 1993 the web browser Mosaic made it’s debut, and it was available on the SUN Sparc-station which had a stunning graphical interface.
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Setting up a new blog

After watching the video “I started a blog…..in 2024 (why you should too)” by NetworkChuck I was inspired to start a blog. In this video the service Hostinger is used for hosting the website. An automatic process starting with writing the post in Obsidian, generate a web-page using Hugo, sending it via Github and then using webhooks to automatically fetch from the Github-repository and publicise it on the Hostinger website is used.
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