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2020-10-31 - Start using GitHub Dependabot
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 now, his service is still in beta but can be added to all service plans.
2020-10-01 - Archiving YouTube
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.
2020-07-18 - Native exFAT support on Fedora 32
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.
2020-05-18 - Docker on Fedora 31 and 32
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.
2019-08-12 - EnvironmentFiles used by systemd
In a previous posting, Environment variables set by systemd, variables were directly set within the systemd unit file. This is fine for a small amount of modifications, but in some case these environment variables are provided by another package on the system or need to be the same for multiple services.