I finally worked out why files seemingly at random kept disappearing from my Syncthing-synchronized directories.
The Standard Notes webapp kept either deleting or overwriting the unlucky note at the top of my notes list. It’s time to switch…
Rake randomly ran into problems with non-existing files. That wasn’t the core issue. Instead, something interfered with the process’ working directory.
Peer-to-peer apps forget the IP addresses it communicated with in the last session and rely on peer-discovery all the time. Caching…
You can instantly clone files on many copy-on-write (CoW) file systems. But how do you do that in different operating and file…
An investigation and comparison into how KeePass-compatible password manager apps for Android handle external changes to an unlocked password vault database.
You can control your password manager with KeePass or a self-hosted Bitwarden Server. One is a simple password vault file and the other…
The Kate Editor has a great feature that prevents data-loss if the text editor or the system crashes. It auto-saves “.kate-swp…
Syncthing can deduplicate data before network transfers and even utilize on-disk storage deduplication on modern file systems on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
Joplin for Android stopped supporting local file syncing and Syncthing. I tried cloud-storage alternatives, but the other sync methods are slow and unreliable.
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