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Mirroring a repository using GitLab CI

inspired by https://gitlab.com/freifunkks/mirror-scripts

This can be used, for example, to clone a repository living on github over to GitLab in order to run CI

Setup

• Setup separate repository with mirror scripts. We'll call it "mirror-scripts"
• push the two files below.
• in the .gitlab-ci.yml replace MY_REPO with your repo name

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SevDesk is a useful tool, but on my 13" MacBook, I find it wastes too much whitespace on menu elements and such, which makes it hard to keep an overview.

These styles can easily be applied using StyleBot or your CSS-tweaking tool of choice.

Some aspect ratios will look yanky with this applied, so YMMV.

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Parsing SML Energy Meter Values for Loxone Miniservers

This is a custom PicoC program to parse the SML energy readings in a tibber+Loxone setup.

Our system runs a [tibber Pulse], connected to a [EMH ED300L][ED300L] energy meter. We run this code on a [Loxone Miniserver][loxone], which can run custom PicoC code.

We use the TCP stream method to read the current SML data packet from the tibber bridge

Getting started

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See the bash script below. :)

Tested on debian bookworm-slim (`docker pull debian:bookworm-slim`).

### Prerequisites

```bash
apt update
apt install -y build-essential wget bison
```

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Firefox userChrome.css for macOS & Tree Style Tab

• for use with Tree Style Tab
• high space utilization on small displays by reducing the height of the title bar

I like it this way.

Setup

To use this:

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Time Machine backups via SMB

Cobbled together from https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/83vkaz/howto_make_time_machine_backups_on_a_samba/

1. Have at least Samba 4.8
2. create /etc/avahi/services/timemachine.service (see avahi.xml)
3. edit /etc/samba/smb.conf (see smb.conf)
   • I only added one path and one valid user, your choice

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Note (2024): This was relevant in 2014, when the YouTube OneBoxer integrated with Discourse was not exactly behaving how I liked it, so I made this one.
It probably doesn't work anymore.

YtLight

Replace those nasty YouTube iframes with static images for ultimate loading time in threads with lots of videos

When clicked, they get replaced by the actual iframe.

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// https://github.com/anuejn/muzikilo.js

const {sin, PI, round, pow, abs, floor, exp} = Math
this.t += 1/44100

const sine = (name, f) => {
    let phi = this[name] += 1/44100 * 2 * PI * f * saw(name+10000,f*0.5)
    this[name] %= 2*PI
    return sin(phi)
}

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Styling for Tree Style Tab

See https://superuser.com/a/1424494/118213 for finding where to put this file.

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Note (2024): I've used this for a while to get a reasonably workable Docker installation on my M1 MacBook. For simplicity I use colima nowadays. The setup below should still work though.

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1. Install lima

   brew install lima