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by tombrossman 1mo ago
Do any European space agencies make live weather imagery available at high resolution? I'm looking for a direct link to JPEGs that update regularly, to use with a cron script to use as desktop wallpaper. I can easily do this for North
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by tombrossman 7mo ago
You know, now that you point it out that seems obvious. I think maybe I was experimenting with rotation and left that in, unused. I did this years ago. The loop works OK though. Thanks for the feedback (and now I have to finish editing that
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by tombrossman 7mo ago
GNOME Desktop users can put this in a Bash script in ~/.local/share/nautilus/ for more convincing looking fake PDF scans, accessible from your right-click menu. I do not recall where I copied it from originally to give c
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by tombrossman 1y ago
I was taught to use a little cornstarch sprinkled over freshly grated cheese, and to me it is undetectable (served hot or cold) and works amazingly well. The shreds never clump together and are easy to scatter evenly.
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by tombrossman 2y ago
Strange that someone down-voted you, as this is a fair question. > Curious how you found this number, have a source? I don't have the source handy but have seen the estimated 10 million figure cited repeatedly. But maybe it is about
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by tombrossman 2y ago
YMMV indeed. Since moving overseas 15 years ago, I tried numerous times and it simply is not possible. All the forms require a U.S. mailing address to register. Same for online access to your Social Security account. There are an estimated
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by tombrossman 2y ago
Searching article titles will often reveal the same content on aggregator websites. Here's this one on MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/how-pediatricians-c...
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by tombrossman 2y ago
Matomo (self-hosted analytics, used to be called Piwik) maintain a list of referrer spam domains. I use it as a filter list with GoAccess and haven't seen referrer spam for a long time. Worth a look. https://github.com/
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by tombrossman 2y ago
You don't have to turn tracking protection off globally. You can leave it enabled in "strict" mode, and add the x.com domain as an exception (click the Manage Exceptions... button above the mode selection). If you also use Pr
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by tombrossman 4y ago
In Firefox you can change the "network.IDN_show_punycode" value to true, and you will no longer see lookalike UDN domains. It's a good point about using a browser password manager though, since they won't function on a l
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by tombrossman 4y ago
Yes, +1 for Recoll. It can also OCR those PDFs that are just an image of a page of text, and not 'live' text. Read the install notes and install the helper applications. When searching I'll first try the application or system
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by tombrossman 4y ago
Thanks and good point.
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by tombrossman 4y ago
OP, check your camera settings and maybe replace the images with ones containing less metadata. No contact info in your bio or I would have privately notified you. Privacy is difficult, so good luck to you. (edited to make comment less spec
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by tombrossman 4y ago
I believe this was called "FindFace" it became a mobile app and I remember reading this article about it at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/russian-photog...
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by tombrossman 5y ago
For years I had a custom script sync my ~/.ssh directory on my primary workstation to my laptop, to pick up new keys and config changes. It failed after I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora, and I was surprised to discover --xattrs fixed i
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by tombrossman 5y ago
Try switching to an email service that supports custom Sieve scripts, which you can use to permanently reject messages based on variables you configure. These are handled differently than message user agent filtering. Incoming messages are
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by tombrossman 5y ago
I don't know if this is still the case, but in California the DMV form has a box asking for "Apartment or box number". I had a PMB (private mail box, like a PO Box but at a third-party business) so used my PMB number & st
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by tombrossman 5y ago
Here's a link to a more complete explanation from the primary developer of GrapheneOS: https://teddit.net/r/GrapheneOS/comments/du23la/rooted_or_ro... Basically, you don't log in to your Linux
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by tombrossman 5y ago
Firefox users can set "network.IDN_show_punycode" to "true" in about:config (or your user.js preferences), which will help you identify phishing attacks using lookalike domain names. I believe Chrome users can do this as
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by tombrossman 5y ago
You can bookmark about:profiles and click "Launch profile in new browser" under each profile to open it in a new Firefox window. If you are using GNOME desktop you can also try this to integrate the profiles into the launcher. I w
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by tombrossman 5y ago
The HTML reports are my preferred way of looking at stats, but to make them more useful it's worth taking some additional steps to filter all the garbage traffic. What works for me is: - Use ipset to drop all traffic from certain count
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by tombrossman 5y ago
It is great but it increments ports each time it connects/reconnects which means you will have quite a few unwanted entries in your known_hosts file. Minor problem, but if you like to keep it organized you should check it from time to
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by tombrossman 5y ago
> Also that link doesn’t work for me - server not found. Are you using Cloudflare DNS? Related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
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Spy companies using Channel Islands to track phones around the world(thebureauinvestigates.com)
3 points by tombrossman 6y ago|0 comments
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by tombrossman 6y ago
"A friend" drove a (non-UK reg) car from Glasgow to Southampton last year, significantly exceeding the speed limit most of the way and maintaining >90mph for multiple hours, and wondered if speeding tickets would later arrive i
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by tombrossman 6y ago
> I considered filing a complaint with the police department, but I'm skeptical anything would have come of it. Your instincts are correct, it is a waste of time. If the matter is serious enough, hire a lawyer and get a judgement ag
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by tombrossman 6y ago
I live there now and it's great. If you return try the guided walk to Seymour Tower. I did a short blog post back in 2012 with photos, including the rescue tower halfway out. https://www.tombrossman.com/blog/2012&#
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by tombrossman 6y ago
I have heard that setting a very long MX TTL can be helpful if your domain registration is ever hijacked. The idea is that enough resolvers will have the original cached records so you can still receive email (and prove ownership). Anyone h
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by tombrossman 6y ago
As a crude workaround, you can try... curl -O http://image.slidesharecdn.com/PATH-TO-SLIDES[1-50]-1024.jpg && convert *.jpg PRESENTATION.pdf ...to save a local copy. You need to view the page source for the URL and
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by tombrossman 6y ago
My "404-pests" fail2ban-client status, which drops everything making *.php requests (This machine has never had PHP installed...): 2a03:2880:10ff:14::face:b00c 2a03:2880:10ff:21::face:b00c 2a03:2880:11ff:1a::face:b00c 2a03:2880:11

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