humandoing

My Stripe Tax Story

I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.

Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.

The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.

In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".

Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa

miguelmota

https://thedefiant.io/feed/
https://www.coindesk.com/arc/outboundfeeds/rss/?outputType=xml
https://cointelegraph.com/rss
https://cryptopotato.com/feed/
https://cryptoslate.com/feed/
https://cryptonews.com/news/feed/
https://smartliquidity.info/feed/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rssindex
https://www.cnbc.com/id/10000664/device/rss/rss.html
https://time.com/nextadvisor/feed/

dysinger

# Basic Full-Disk Encrypted ZFS Thinkpad (w/ 512 sector SSD) booted from USB key

# EFI/BOOT:
#   export BOOT=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_4C530001011030101042-0\:0
#   parted --script $BOOT -- \
#     mklabel gpt \
#     mkpart esp fat32 1MiB 512MiB \
#     mkpart primary 512MiB 100% \
#     set 1 boot on
#   mkfs.vfat -n BOOT $BOOT-part1

avoidik

Raspberry Pi from SD to USB

How to switch over from SD-card to USB-attached device (USB thumbstick, USB enclosed SSD or HDD, etc.) to have more durable storage option.

Steps

1. Connect USB device to your RPI

2. Make sure USB device visible by the system

siberex

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# https://github.com/siberex/cancelot
#
# To download the latest version (if you trust running random bash scripts from the internets!):
# curl -L https://gist.github.com/siberex/bb0540b208019382d08732cc6dd59007/raw -o cancelot.sh && chmod +x cancelot.sh
#
# Provides automation for cancelling Cloud Builds
# Use as a first step to cancel previous builds currently in progress or queued for the same branch name and trigger id.
# Similar to: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-builders-community/tree/master/cancelot

cj

SPC
    SPC: find file
    , switch buffer
    . browse files
    : MX
    ; EX
    < switch buffer
    ` eval
    u universal arg
    x pop up scratch

xnumad

If you activate WhatsApp (verifying your phone number) while having a /sdcard/WhatsApp/Databases/msgstore.db.crypt12 file present AND have a WhatsApp backup on Google Drive, WhatsApp will claim to restore your Google Drive backup (with your consent), but it only restores the media files from Google Drive but at no occassion the msgstore.db.crypt12. It won't merge your local backup and the cloud backup databases!

With local WhatsApp media files it will only offer to restore the local backup at activation but not the one from Google Drive, hence the need for an empty /sdcard/WhatsApp/Media/ folder. But with a local chat backup, the Google Drive backup restore process just imports media only anyways.

Ways to get to the key file to decrypt the *.crypt12 DBs:

• either access /data/data/com.whatsapp/files/key with root permissions
• OR adb backup com.whatsapp and extract the key from the .ab file

I have extracted the key and found out that it's the same for all my devices (*I always tested wi

bbqtd

Installing tmux-256color for macOS

• macOS 10.15.5
• tmux 3.1b

macOS has ncurses version 5.7 which does not ship the terminfo description for tmux. There're two ways that can help you to solve this problem.

The Fast Blazing Solution

Instead of tmux-256color, use screen-256color which comes with system. Place this command into ~/.tmux.conf or ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf(for version 3.1 and later):

ryu1kn

Getting GCP access token from a service account key

Use your service account's key JSON file to get an access token to call Google APIs.

Good for seeing how things work, including the creation of JWT token.

To create a JWT token, you can replace create-jwt-token.sh script with tools like step.

If you just want to get an access token for a service account,

robinp

Lots of goodies like <githubstatus> pinging.
https://github.com/input-output-hk/iohk-ops/blob/bc8195de286d8b9b55b06f2046ab5412307a51b6/modules/hydra-master-common.nix

Declarative jobset bootstrapping:
https://github.com/shlevy/declarative-hydra-example

Declarative jobset with Git PR evals:
https://github.com/cleverca22/hydra-configs/tree/master/toxvpn

Other notes: