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HowTo Geek ☛ 5 Ways to Download Files via the Linux Terminal (That Aren't curl or wget)
Have you ever been stuck in a system with no way to send a simple HTTP request? Perhaps you were trying to rescue a system or build a Docker image. Sometimes you need to use the tools at your disposal; other times it's just curiosity. I have five ways to connect and download files via HTTP.
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Thomas Buck ☛ CYD MQTT Touchscreen UI
Recently I learned about the CYD (cheap yellow display), a nice ESP32 dev board with a touchscreen. This seemed ideal to run a simple user interface to control everything via MQTT.
Here are the results. When not in use the device shows a stand-by screen with the current time and date. After pressing the screen a menu is shown.
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Steve Litt ☛ User Specific Runit Supervisor
Runit can be an entire init system (including PID 1), but that capability is beyond the scope of this document. This document concerns itself exclusively with the multi-daemon supervisor part of the runit init system, and further narrows its scope to the use of this multi-daemon supervisor by and for a specific user. Throughout this document, this user is called "slitt", but unless your user is also called "slitt", you'll replace every instance of "slitt" with the username of the user for whom you're setting up your user specific runit multi-daemon supervisor. Now it's time for a little vocabulary...
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[Old] Diego Elio Pettenò ☛ Stop Calling Them VPNs!
All of these services are effectively traffic aggregators, or tunnels — just like TunnelBear, which at least makes it very obvious in their name and marketing copy, though they also insist on you gaining some type of browsing privacy by using their service. I’m almost going to praise Apple for their branding, since they call it iCloud Private Relay. The “Private” part is in my opinion misleading – it’s not like they assign you our own relay machine or IP on their iCloud service – but at least they make it clear that it is a Relay service, not a VPN.