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I need to build a big database of video filenames.@ann3nova @riley I agree with Riley, without knowing what you’d like to accomplish, it’s difficult to advise you. Do you want a GUI? Command line tool? Plain files? There’s a tool that lets you query and join CSV files with SQL. It achieves this by seamlessly importing them into an SQLite database. It’s pretty cool and I can try to find it again.
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Here's a fun exercise for people learning #Linux@pino @memoriesin8bit @vwbusguy Yes. For example, there’s a cool feature of rsync where you can give it a reference folder in addition to the source and destination, and any file that’s identical in the source and reference will be created as a hard link in the destination. This way, both the reference and the destination end up being full copies of the source (but at different points in time,) without taking double the disk space. This is leveraged by rsnapshot for incremental backups.
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When you meet people that can type out `openssl` commands from sheer memory, be kind to them, because they've been through a few things.@rameshgupta
I think neither. I read it as: openssl’s CLI interface is so convoluted and makes so little sense that knowing any command from memory means you used the tool a lot. And the tool and SSL/TLS are so shitty that the only way you chose to use the openssl CLI is because you had serious problems to solve. So “having serious problems to solve” and “a lot” lead to “having been through things.”
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New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/@josephcox @inthehands Good. Maybe it’ll distract them from removing articles about women.