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stevenwalton / .dotfiles

.dotfiles

Holds all the dotfiles

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Holds all the dotfiles

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-06-03 00:54:56 UTC to 2025-10-15 20:38:08 UTC.

01232019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

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stevenwalton·Oct 15, 2025
> To any Linux users, I have a Macbook Air and I pretty much use it as an ssh machine. It is definitely over priced for that, but it at least beats the annoyance of having to deal with Windows and all the Word docs I get sent or Teams meetings... (Seriously, how does Microsoft still exist?) Since I mostly live in the terminal (ghostty) or am using the web browser I usually don't have to deal with stupid Apple decisions. Though I've found it quite painful to try to do some even basic things when I want to use my Macbook like I'd use a linux machine. Especially since the functionality can change dramatically after an update... I just don't get why they (and other companies) try to hinder power users so much. I understand we're small in numbers, but usually things don't follow flat distributions. > I had to split all my dot files into com
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mon/Linux/Mac specific sections There's often better ways around this. On my machine my OSX config isn't really about specifically OSX but what programs I might be running there[0]. Same goes for linux[1], which you'll see is pretty much just about CUDA and aliasing apt to nala if I'm on a Debian/Ubuntu machine (sometimes I don't get a choice). I think what ends up being more complicated is when a program has a different name under a distro or version[2]. Though that can be sorted out by a little scripting. This definitely isn't the most efficient way to do things but I write like this so that things are easier to organize, turn on/off, or for me to try new things. What I find more of a pain in the ass is how commands like `find`[3] and `grep` differ. But usually there are ways you can find to get them to work identically across platforms. > Don't expect to be able to clone and build any random C++ project unless someone in the project is specifically targeting Mac. But yeah, I don't have a solution to this... :( [0] https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/rc_fil... [1] https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/rc_fil... [2] https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/rc_fil... [3] https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/tree/master/rc_fil...
In M5 MacBook Pro
stevenwalton·Sep 8, 2025
> Once you have it on disk, how do you get it away from your phone? Since we're talking about Android, a great method is to just use Termux and rsync. You can write a pretty quick and dirty shell script to accomplish this. Here, I'll drop mine[0]. It's no the cleanest but it'll get the job done and has some documentation to it. It will check if you're on WiFi and connected to a specific SSID. You can change this around pretty easily to do different things like point at 2 servers, use Tailscale, give a white list of allowed SSIDs, change the rsync to have it delete from the local storage, or whatever. If you don't know how you can reply to this comment or open an issue and I'll respond[1]. Unfortunately this doesn't work on iPhone. I have a shortcut that will do something similar that I can share but that is a lot hackier... [0] https://g
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ithub.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/script... [1] Probably better. I'm normally logged into my alt account
In Signal Secure Backups
stevenwalton·Feb 16, 2025
> Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? I don't know what the answer is, but I ran into this when I was trying to harden my systemd settings. I'll link my override below and maybe someone can give something more conclusive (and any suggestions to my override or for other services are greatly welcomed. I'm happy to add even ones I don't use). Where I hit this error was when messing with RestrictAddressFamilies, which are network socket addresses. For example, when I restrict AF_PPPOX or AF_UNIX I get that issue. IIRC I also hit that issue when I had moved a file, but I forgot which one (I noticed it got autogenerated again). So I suspect it has to do with access to some file location where it stashes a config file. Fwiw, this works with tailscale just fine. https://github.com
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/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/skelet... (docs for RestrictAddressFamilies) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
In Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
godelski·Jun 3, 2019
Yeah I rebind keys and write my own functions. I have a preference for distilling things that I use out of plugins[0] and into just vanilla vim (I still use plugins). I'll share my configurations[1]. I don't document it well btw and there's frequently changes. But I find that looking at others rc files many times gives me ideas that I hadn't seen before. Also, if you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them. [0]see my git rebindings instead of using tpope's plugin [1]https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles
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