locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale

I have an Ubuntu 24.04 server and I have the following errors when I run “locale” command:
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
That’s how I fixed it:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install locales
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

How to manage the uploaded resumes on LinkedIn

You can manage your uploaded resumes on LinkedIn through the “Job Application Settings” page. Here’s a step-by-step guide:

  1. Login to your LinkedIn account and click on the Me icon.
  2. Click on Settings & privacy, then select Data privacy.
  3. Scroll down to the Job application settings section.
  4. Click on the three dots next to your uploaded resume(s) and select Delete resume to remove it.
  5. Alternatively, you can also Upload a new resume by clicking on the “Upload resume” button.

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Pi-Hole and IPV6 – How to make it work?

Im using Pi-Hole with IPV4, recently I discovered my router Xiaomi AX1800 (OpenWRT) supports IPv6, as well as my ISP (A1).

I noticed that I can assign DHCP static IPv4 assignment from the router’s interface, but I can’t do the same for IPv6. That’s why I decided to set a static IPv6 address for the machine running Pi-Hole (Raspberry Pi 2).

There is a short guide on how to do that:

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Can I disable the default browser response for Shift-click event?

In the newer browsers, you can distinguish the Shift-click event from a simple click, and disable the default response for Shift-click.

To disable Shift-click, insert the following code in your page’s <HEAD> section:


<script language="JavaScript">
  function mouseDown(e) {
    let shiftPressed=0;
  
    if (document.layers) {
        shiftPressed=(e.modifiers-0>3);
    } else {
      shiftPressed=e.shiftKey;
    }
  
    if (shiftPressed) {
      return false;
    }
  
    return true;
  }
  document.onmousedown = mouseDown;
<script>

Organize pictures by the data taken


#!/usr/bin/env bash
BASE_DIR=$1

if [ ! -d "${BASE_DIR}" ] ; then
echo "$BASE_DIR is not a directory";
fi

## Find those files that are older than a month
find "$BASE_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -type f -name '*.jpg' |
while IFS= read -r file; do
## Get the file's modification year
year="$(date -d "$(stat -c %y "$file")" +%Y)"
## Get the file's modification month
month="$(date -d "$(stat -c %y "$file")" +%b)"

## Create the directories if they don't exist. The -p flag
## makes 'mkdir' create the parent directories as needed so
## you don't need to create $year explicitly.
[[ ! -d "$BASE_DIR/$year/$month" ]] && mkdir -p "$BASE_DIR/$year/$month";

## Move the file
mv "$file" "$BASE_DIR/$year/$month"
done

Hot to install GPaste on Ubuntu 23.10

GPaste is an open-source clipboard management tool for Linux-based operating systems. Clipboard managers like GPaste allow users to manage and access a history of items they have copied to the clipboard, enabling them to easily paste previously copied content.

Sadly, there are binary packages available but you can compile it and install it manually.

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Docker fails to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease

I found a network issue when trying to build my docker image: the command `apt update` fails with the following error:

W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/buster/updates/InRelease
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving ‘deb.debian.org’
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/buster/updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving ‘security.debian.org’
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving ‘deb.debian.org’
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This happens because your ISP DNS servers are not reachable from this network. The easiest workaround is to directly instruct Docker to rely on some public DNS servers proven to be stable and reliable (Google, Cloudflare).

Add them to a new configuration file called daemon.json:

$ sudo pico /etc/docker/daemon.json

Insert the following:

{
    "dns": ["1.1.1.1", "8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4"]
}

Then restart the service:

$ sudo service docker restart

Composer 2.3.0 breaks Symfony 3.4 app

If you experience the following error while installing the required packages for Symfony 3.4 packages, it is highly possible to have Composer 2.3.0 or newer installed:

symfony-scripts: Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::buildBootstrap

In Process.php line 143:

[TypeError]
Argument 1 passed to Symfony\Component\Process\Process::__construct() must
be of the type array, string given, called in /var/www/example.com/releases/20220330124916/vendor/sensio/distribution-bundle/Composer/Scrip
tHandler.php on line 310

The root cause of the issue is that Composer 2.3.x requires symfony/process^5 itself, but your project also has a dependency on symfony/process^4 somewhere, composer loads it first and when your project tries to use it, expecting v4 but using v5 instead it triggers the error

The quick and dirty solution is to downgrade Composer to 2.2.x so you are able to update your dependencies normally. To do that just run the following command

sudo composer self-update 2.2.9

Enjoy!

 

How to install autojump for Fish on Ubuntu

Autojump is a tool that can be used to jump around in the shell to frequently used directories by typing just a part of their name. It is typically aliased to j. Autojump is available as a package in the Ubuntu repositories, but it needs manual intervention to be available in the fish shell.

1. Install autojump

sudo apt install autojump

2. Source the autojump.fish file in your fish configuration, by opening the file ~/.config/fish/config.fish in an editor and adding these lines:

begin
    set --local AUTOJUMP_PATH /usr/share/autojump/autojump.fish
    if test -e $AUTOJUMP_PATH
        source $AUTOJUMP_PATH
    end
end

3. Add j shortcut command to fish creating a new file ~/.config/fish/functions/j.fishwith the following content:

function j
    set new_path (autojump $argv)

    if test -d "$new_path"
        echo $new_path
        cd "$new_path"
    else
        echo "autojump: directory '$argv' not found"
        echo "Try \`autojump --help\` for more information."
        false
    end
end

Usage examples:

j Down – changes to my Downloads folder
j work – changes to my workspace folder

Enjoy!