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Developer by profession, IT geek by choice. Full disk encryption enthusiast. The "you should have made backups" guy on Superuser. BIOS < UEFI. Python is a great language with weird culture; still better than JS though. I'm spending way more time here than I should.

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How to rename file to .. (dot dot)?
Aug 5, 2014
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How to properly make custom zsh completions "just work"?
Aug 14, 2019
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Is disk encryption without requiring a password at boot possible?
Mar 31, 2021
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Fastest way to count zero bytes on a partition
Jul 25, 2018
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How to mount bzip2-ed Clonezilla image without using extra drive space?
Nov 30, 2013
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USB network adapter claims to work at 100 Mpbs, but router says it's 10 Mbps
Jan 24, 2020
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Cryptsetup with dm-integrity - weird benchmark results
Jun 8, 2020
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Finding offset of a filesystem in LVM relative to beginning of a drive
Mar 8
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SSH key added on boot without password prompt - how and why?
Nov 8, 2019
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SSH key added on boot without password prompt - how and why?
Dec 3, 2019
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How to find a router at an unknown location in a house?
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If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing?
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Why does RAM have to be volatile?
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I hid the menu bar in VirtualBox, how to show it again?
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Is "password knocking" a good idea?