Ritiek Malhotra ritiek

Setting up

First run

$ mkdir /media/spotdlsync
$ cd /media/spotdlsync

$ mkdir "Life is Strange"
$ cd "Life is Strange"

Subnet and Exit Nodes

Server:

# First time
$ echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/99-tailscale.conf
$ echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/99-tailscale.conf
$ sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-tailscale.conf

Hi Everyone! I am Ritiek Malhotra (ritiek on IRC) and recently completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering. I participated in Google Summer of Code '21 and worked on musicbrainz_rs, a library wrapper on the MusicBrainz Web-API written for the Rust programming language.

Why MetaBrainz?

When the program was announced, I was not familiar with MetaBrainz. I've heard about MetaBrainz quite a few times before this but hadn't used any of their products. I'd been looking for Rust projects through the GSoC organizations page, and that's how I stumbled on MetaBrainz. I learnt about the MusicBrainz project and the entire concept seemed very interesting to me (and it still does!). Initially, I was a little intimidated by all the Rust concepts that musicbrainz_rs made use of - macros, traits, generics and lifetimes. I knew how to write basic Rust but not so much about these intermediate concepts. Nonetheless, I tried to learn more about the librar

	#!/bin/sh

	rg '"totp": "' ~/Downloads/bitwarden_export_20250920162136.json \| \
	sed -E 's/."totp": "(.)".*/\1/' \| \
	while IFS= read -r x; do
	echo "$x"
	echo -ne "$x" \| qrencode -t UTF8 -o -
	echo
	done

	# Start server with
	sudo docker run -it --rm -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword postgres

	# Connect to server either with
	sudo docker exec -it 938645c5a5d9 psql -U postgres
	# or with
	sudo docker exec -u postgres -it 938645c5a5d9 psql

	# Referred from:
	# https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/register_api.html

	import requests
	import hmac
	import hashlib
	import json

	# Fill these variables in.
	DOMAIN = "example.com"

	import network
	sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
	sta_if.active(True)
	sta_if.connect("ssid", "pass")
	sta_if.isconnected()
	sta_if.ifconfig()

	import urequests
	response = urequests.get("http://ipinfo.io")
	ip_info = response.json()

	# Generate SSH keys for Bob and add them to ssh-agent
	# Write it to `~/.ssh/bob.id_rsa`.
	ssh-keygen -t ed25519
	ssh-add ~/.ssh/bob.id_rsa

	git config --local user.name Bob
	git config --local user.email "[email protected]"
	git config --local credential.username bobxyz
	git config --replace-all --local core.sshCommand "ssh -i ~/.ssh/bob.id_rsa"

	# Replace "192.168.2.{}" as per your gateway address.
	seq 1 254 \| xargs -I {} "echo" "192.168.2.{}" \| parallel -j 254 "ping -t 1 -c 1 {} > /dev/null && (timeout 1 avahi-resolve -a {} \|\| echo {})" 2> /dev/null \| sort -V