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Don’t destroy used hard drives! Wipe them and reuse or sell them with confidence!

Don’t destroy used hard drives! Wipe them and reuse or sell them with confidence!

June 30, 2021
The advice to not use a hard drive from eBay is not the best advice. You should fully wipe the...
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I made youtube-dl faster for archivists…and solved a worst-case programming problem elegantly in the process

I made youtube-dl faster for archivists…and solved a worst-case programming problem elegantly in the process

September 18, 2020
Update: there is an addendum at the end of this article; I mention it because yes, in the end, I...
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A CHALLENGER APPEARS: “fclones”…fastest duplicate scanner ever? It’s complicated.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS: “fclones”…fastest duplicate scanner ever? It’s complicated.

July 11, 2020
While perusing my link referrals on GitHub, I noticed this thread where my duplicate scanner jdupes was mentioned. I then...
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jdupes 1.16.0: File Extension Filtering, And I Need Your Support

jdupes 1.16.0: File Extension Filtering, And I Need Your Support

June 8, 2020
Please consider supporting me on SubscribeStar so I can continue to bring open source software and tutorial videos to you!...
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Manny the Martyr – Be That Way MP3 (public domain, CC0, royalty free music)

Manny the Martyr – Be That Way MP3 (public domain, CC0, royalty free music)

May 20, 2020
When the wonderful public domain music website FreePD.com finished its redesign, this song went missing on "Page 2" and it's...
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Shell script that converts Sage PRO exported text (.out files) to CSV text format

Shell script that converts Sage PRO exported text (.out files) to CSV text format

February 16, 2020
I have had this tool lying around since 2014. I wrote it once for a business that needed to convert...
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What WON’T speed up the jdupes duplicate file finder

What WON’T speed up the jdupes duplicate file finder

December 16, 2019
Some of you are probably aware that I'm the person behind the jdupes duplicate file finder. It's amazing how far...
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Google Stadia was guaranteed to fail, according to basic freaking math

Google Stadia was guaranteed to fail, according to basic freaking math

November 29, 2019
If you don't know what Google Stadia is, it's basically a networked gaming console. It renders everything on big servers...
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Should beginner videographers learn photography first? Yes and no.

Should beginner videographers learn photography first? Yes and no.

September 22, 2019
(This is my response to the question in the title, posed somewhere on Reddit.) Filmmaking is a combination of creative...
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PROOF: Follow-up to my “Vox Media says light is racist and that’s stupid” video

PROOF: Follow-up to my “Vox Media says light is racist and that’s stupid” video

September 8, 2019
Vox published a video a few years ago about how "color film was made for white people." There were two...
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