Up until quite recently, I’ve been using YTD Video Downloader in Windows for downloading YouTube videos, but even the paid version has issues. This weekend I rediscovered the steps I took using youtube-dl (yt-dlp) during last Xmas, and made a shell script to automate everything.

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Running the command sudo soup on your manager node gives you this warning: WARNING: If you run soup via an SSH session and that SSH session terminates, then any processes running in that session would terminate. You should avoid leaving soup unattended especially if the machine you are SSHing from is configured to sleep after […]

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When the harddrives in the oldest virtualization server at $WORK died, I was virtually left without any test systems running the other BSDs and some select Linux distros. We have another virtualization server with plenty of resources, and I decided to try NetBSD/amd64 10.0-RELEASE, build a few packages, and upgrade the VM to 10.0-STABLE.

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