Poda: finds similar directories

I invite you to try Poda. I made this to find similar directories among multiple storage locations (or hampers as I call them in the program). The typical use case is to find out whether I find whether I have duplicate or similar directories in my laptop, the other laptop, NAS, flash drives, etc. I may have made a backup of a flash drive on my laptop and not sure what has changed where. Or even within the same storage!

[Update: There was a mistake in the use of dirdupes.py below. A sort filter was missing. It is now corrected.]

The way it works is that you first get the index of each hamper. For example, you may have four hampers:

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Actualicé IPv6 Toolkit en Debian

He actualizado IPv6 Toolkit in Debian. IPv6 Toolkit es una herramienta de diagnóstico y evaluación para los protocolos de IPv6, escrito por Fernando Gont.

Principalmente, esta actualización previene que IPv6 Toolkit sea eliminado de Bullseye, pues la compilación se había roto bajo el nuevo GCC 10.

Esta es la bitácora de cambios completa (en inglés):

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Calculating values for the Xfce Sensors Plugin

I extensively use the Xfce panel to monitor my system. I like having a picture of its state without having to launch any diagnostic tool. This proves to be quite useful! Also, should my computer experience a sudden problem and not respond anymore, I can glance at its last state before rebooting.

I have never liked the excess of colors that is present on the bar, though:

The top panel on my Xfce session showing multiple sensors and how it shows too many distracting colors.

The top panel on my Xfce session showing multiple sensors and how it shows too many distracting colors. Taken from My laptop was broken into.

This takes away from noticing effortlessly whenever something out of the ordinary is occurring. So I put everything (or as much as possible) in gray shades. I managed to change its appearance quite easily:

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