MaartenBaert

Manually fixing bit flips in BTRFS

Somehow my BTRFS file system became corrupted by what appears to be a single bit flip in a metadata field. Rather than copying all the data and reformatting the file system, which would have required another disk at least as large as the original, I decided to try to fix this manually, which appears to have worked. I've documented the procedure I've used here, in case I need it again or someone else runs into a similar issue and finds it useful.

The first thing you should do is run btrfs check. For me this produced the following output:

Opening filesystem to check...
Checking filesystem on /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID: ec7afe1c-8478-450a-82fc-d17b32d8ca3d

metametapod

Minimal script to quickly update hosts file from a filter list.

Note that this does not replace the entirety of the hosts file, so previous customizations will remain intact.

Installation

Download the update_hosts script below or run:

$ curl --proto "=https" --tlsv1.2 https://gist.githubusercontent.com/metametapod/4c4a7a9c888343fc6e722f8ed77aa763/raw/update_hosts -o update_hosts

rain-1

How to make a small tweak to free software

The target audience for this is people who are beginners at software engineering and using linux. A lot of the information here may be obvious or already known to you. The language involved is C but you do not need to know any C to read this tutorial. I used mg to write this blog post. I used vs code to edit the source code.

This post is also available on gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~river/tweak-free-software

If you use a piece of free software and it's 99% perfect but there's just this one thing it does that annoys the hell out of you.. you can in theory just fix it! Here's a look at what doing that is like. Hopefully it inspires you, or you pick up a could tricks on the way!

Step 0: Have a problem

dougallj

# IDA (disassembler) and Hex-Rays (decompiler) plugin for Apple AMX
#
# WIP research. (This was edited to add more info after someone posted it to
# Hacker News. Click "Revisions" to see full changes.)
#
# Copyright (c) 2020 dougallj


# Based on Python port of VMX intrinsics plugin:
# Copyright (c) 2019 w4kfu - Synacktiv

NARKOZ

fay59

Here's a list of mildly interesting things about the C language that I learned mostly by consuming Clang's ASTs. Although surprises are getting sparser, I might continue to update this document over time.

There are many more mildly interesting features of C++, but the language is literally known for being weird, whereas C is usually considered smaller and simpler, so this is (almost) only about C.

1. Combined type and variable/field declaration, inside a struct scope [https://godbolt.org/g/Rh94Go]

struct foo {
   struct bar {
 int x;

steven2358

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

varqox

Instructions how to install Debian using debootstrap. Below instructions were verified to work with debootstrapping Debian 11.

Table of contents

1. Conventions
2. Essential steps
   1. Install debootstrap
   2. Prepare disk for installing boot loader
      • BIOS systems

• GPT specific instructions

willerce

/**
 * jQuery Plugin to obtain touch gestures from iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, should also work with Android mobile phones (not tested yet!)
 * Common usage: wipe images (left and right to show the previous or next image)
 * 
 * @author Andreas Waltl, netCU Internetagentur (http://www.netcu.de)
 * @version 1.1.1 (9th December 2010) - fix bug (older IE's had problems)
 * @version 1.1 (1st September 2010) - support wipe up and wipe down
 * @version 1.0 (15th July 2010)
 */
(function($) { 

xaviervia

- (void) doIt {
  
  // Define the command name and the arguments array (the nil at the end is needed)
  NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"--some-argument", @"--another", nil];
  NSString *command = @"do-something-shell";
  
  // Setup the NSTask for the command execution
  NSTask *task    = [[NSTask alloc] init];
  task.launchPath = command;
  task.arguments  = arguments;