Posted in 2020
Start using GitHub Dependabot
- 31 October 2020
GitHub bought a service called Dependabot a while back and is now integrating this service as a GitHub Application into the ecosystem. This allows GitHub users to automatically do dependency management and get alerted when a security-related update has been found. For a while this service was in beta but it is now enabled for all public repositories and can be enabled for private repositories as well.
Let’s start simple and create file .github/dependabot.yml in the repository with the content below will tell Dependabot to scan all your GitHub workflows daily for GitHub Actions that are defined and have a newer release available. It will also create a pull request that can be merged when approved.
Archiving YouTube
- 01 October 2020
YouTube is one of the biggest video streaming sites on the Internet and you can find a video for basically everything on it. But in some cases, you can’t find a video anymore or it has been taken down or set to private for some reason. Having a local copy for personal or legal purposes can be useful, but by default YouTube only allows creators to export their content.
With the tool youtube-download, you can download the audio and/or video, and also subtitles in the languages you desire. The example below downloads the audio and video, and subtitles in English and Dutch. Also, it limits the frame size to 1920×1080 and stores everything in an MP4 container.
Native exFAT support on Fedora 32
- 18 July 2020
A lot has changed since 2018 when exFAT was kept out of Fedora due to patent issues and a third-party FUSE-driver needed to be used. Until recently the GPLv2 based driver from Microsoft wasn’t enabled in the kernel as it was based on an older specification and wasn’t fully functional for everyday use.
Fedora 32 recently received an upgrade to kernel 5.7 and with that, the native exFAT driver was enabled during compile time. The driver got a lot of updates from Samsung to work correctly to the latest specifications.
Docker on Fedora 31 and 32
- 18 May 2020
For Developing inside a Container with Visual Studio Code, one of the requirements is to use Docker Community Editon as the version of Docker that ships with Fedora is too old and misses certain features. Also the new Docker alternative Podman from Red Hat isn’t supported by Visual Studio Code.
After installing Docker CE on Fedora 31, cgroups version 1 needs to be enabled as Linux switched over to cgroups version 2, but Docker still depends on version 1. With the commands below cgroups version 1 can be enabled again and requires a rebooting of the system.