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Conditional SSH ProxyJump

For Linux and macOS, add these lines to .ssh/config # Default configuration for the target when it is localHost target.domain.name HostName target.domain.name # Override and apply ProxyJump only if the target is NOT locally reachableMatch host target.domain.name exec "! ping -c 1 -t 2 target.domain.name >/dev/null 2> 1" ProxyJump proxy.domain.name:22And slightly differently for Windows, add these…

Fixing the most painful part of Cosmic Terminal

I want to use Ctrl + Alt + P sometimes in terminal applications (OK, in emacs in a terminal), but that pulls up a password manager instead. Google and their AI summary kept saying this couldn t be changed, but when I sent digging in the source to fix it to not do that, I found [ ]

Postgres for everything?

While I appreciate the Postgres for everything point of view, and most of the times I use other things it could fit in Postgres, there are three areas that keep me using RabbitMQ or Redis. First, I frequently use Celery and Celery doesn t support using Postgres as a broker. It seems like it should, but [ ]

Thoughts on the glory of the first day of winter

Looking at it in a different manner, the first day of winter is the beginning of the end of winter and is a day I look forward to every year. That is because it is when the days get longer. By my calculation, it is approximately 2 minutes each day, although Google tells me it [ ]

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Get podman to free persistantly wasted space

I found that there was 60GB in ~/.local/share/containers and podman image prune and podman system prune weren t cleaning it up. After some googling, I tried: podman system prune --all --volumes Problem solved enough. It did print that it freed more space than it did. I m guessing it was counting hardlinked items multiple times.

Just a moment

Edit: Was mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760221 I intensely dislike the following phrases: All of those are usually an excuse to take an indeterminate amount of time that you can t hold people accountable for. “Give me a second” is the worst, because a second does have a specific meaning, and no one ever means that when [ ]

Changing domain name on Ubuntu 24.04 stations

sudo vi /etc/systemd/resolved.confUnder [Resolve] change or add: Domains=jdboyd.netSearchDomain=jdboyd.netMulticastDNS=yes Currently Google keeps trying to suggest netplan on various systems, but I find I don t have netplan on any of them.

TechLancaster Logos

Once someone stuck the old, beloved logo on a calander, it was clear that change was needed. Here is what we finally came up with in color, then black and white.

Better dd img to sd/usb options

sudo dd if=2025-05-13-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync