I bought an ezviz DB1 camera a while ago, expecting to be able to set it up to play a notification on my Google Home mini when someone pressed the doorbell but it looks like the only way to get any notification is through ezviz's own app. The problem is that notification takes 30 seconds or more to...

The find command can optionally pass the files it finds to another command using the -exec option. The syntax is easy, just add -exec 'other_command ;' as an argument to find. But I did that, and it's telling me find: missing argument to `-exec'.

Turns out it just needs the semi-colon es...

I have a cron job which dumps my influx database nightly before borg does a backup of it. It does that by running influx backup in the container with the command:

docker exec influx /usr/local/bin/influx backup /backups

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it gives the error OCI runtime exec f...

You can use ulimit -c 0 to disable core dumps, but that obviously won't remove any core files that are already sitting on your filesystem - and sometimes you have no idea where they might be since different stuff can be running in the background from any directory. These files can be a few gigabyt...

Update: It looks like youtube-dl is getting maintained again, See the message on github. So this script is hopefully going to have something to download again soon :) My yt-dlp script didn't always seem to work right.

There is a SlackBuild available for youtube-dl at https://slackbuilds.or...

The Linux version of Spotify provides a way to control the music using the DBus org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify service. This lets you skip tracks, play, and pause the music. It doesn't let you change the volume though.

If you are using PulseAudio or PipeWire then you can use the pactl command to...