Month: November 2020
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“Jitsi Meet” as an app outside browser, also for macOS
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases
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GitLab CI – an introduction by Ivan Nemytchenko
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/29/the-basics-of-gitlab-ci/
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Unix …: “exa” – a modern replacement for “ls”
https://the.exa.website/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa_(command-line_utility) pros: … (lots, that’s why I started installing and using it all around me) cons: I can easily ignore backup files ending in a ~ (AKA “tilde”), but if I do want to see them, that’s difficult – “ls –ignore-backups” ignores backup files, if run on a directory, but it shows them, when…
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a cross-platform password manager: KeePassXC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePassXC https://KeePassXC.org https://www.mankier.com/1/keepassxc-cli – manual page for the command line interface https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Password_Tools/
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BorgBackup – Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption
https://www.borgbackup.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(backup_software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attic_(backup_software)#Borg https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Backup/ This utility lets me back up files resp. directories to a target directory (which can be a “network share“) as well as to a remote directory reachable through SSH. Its target is called a repository. In order to browse the backups I can mount that repository to a local directory –…
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X2Go – open source remote desktop software for Linux on the server side – on the client side: Linux, macOS, Windows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2Go https://www.curlie.org/Computers/Software/Networking/Remote_Access/