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bash: Last Day, The People Who Lived As Many Days as You
Definitions bash: This is the command line, where you can run relatively simple scripted programs, available on all three major computing platforms.SPARQL: On the Internet, there are repositories of information. Some of these repositories are in a format called RDF, or Resource Description Framework. Users of these repositories typically need a subset of the information … Continue reading bash: Last Day, The People Who Lived As Many Days as You
Accessing a Locked Android Phone Not Displaying A Keyboard
I use AnySoftKeyboard as my keyboard of choice on Android. It's great, except when my SD Card becomes corrupted. When that happens, AnySoftKeyboard no longer works. If my device is locked at the time, there doesn't appear to be a way to type in my password to unlock the device. There is a solution to … Continue reading Accessing a Locked Android Phone Not Displaying A Keyboard
Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Mining Ergo as part of the ergo.getblok.io mining pool is easy, particularly on Windows. If you already have a Ergo wallet, it can be set-up on a computer with a GPU video card compatible with mining Ergo in less than 5 minutes. For Ergo, you need a card with a minimum of 4GB of RAM, … Continue reading Mining the Ergo Cryptocurrency in the ergo.getblok.io Pool
Conceal Network
"Conceal Network is a secure peer-to-peer privacy framework empowering individuals and organizations to anonymously communicate and interact financially in a decentralized and censorship resistant environment."-https://conceal.network/
Why is Plaintext Better than HTML for Email?
"In short, HTML emails are a security nightmare, are mostly used for advertising to you and tracking you, are less accessible for many users, and don't offer anything especially great for it."https://useplaintext.email/ He buried the lede. I went ahead and put it at the top. For more detail, read the below. Another in my ongoing … Continue reading Why is Plaintext Better than HTML for Email?
Photopea.com
"Free online [image] editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Sketch, Adobe XD, and CorelDRAW)."https://www.photopea.com/ A javascript implementation of many of the common features of Photoshop. Supposedly easier than GIMP.
Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux
Installation Download the Citrix Workspace app from the official website.Install using dpkg: $ cd Downloads $ sudo dpkg -i Citrix-Workspace.deb Installing a CA Certificate The pre-installed certificates might work for you. If you get errors when trying to use Citrix, then you'll likely need to install a CA certificate. Go to the VPN website you … Continue reading Installing Citrix Workplace on Ubuntu Linux
Borogove.io
This is a free hosting service for Interactive Fiction games. You can upload games and share them with others by giving out a link to play online.Games must be either parser system story files or HTML files. Currently supported file formats:* HTML (including Twine and Texture)* Z-Machine (Inform, Dialog, ZIL)* Glulx (Inform).* gam, .t3 (TADS)* … Continue reading Borogove.io
bash: TOTP From the Terminal With oathtool
TOTP is Time-based One Time Password. Most people use applications on their phone for TOTP, such as andOTP, Google Authenticator, and related apps. But, as we move from using a phone as a second factor for what we are doing on a computer to a phone being the primary way we interact with the Internet, … Continue reading bash: TOTP From the Terminal With oathtool
Disco Elysium
"This is why I love Disco Elysium. Why I think it is one of the most shit-stained, beautiful, and hopeful games I have ever played. Throughout its entire length it never fails to give testimony to the pain and splendor of Revachol and of life. I have thought about it every day for the last … Continue reading Disco Elysium
Newsboat
Newsboat is the Mutt of RSS readers. Works and looks pretty much the same as mutt. In making the conversion, I learned that I have over 500 RSS feeds, which in combination with a few dozen newsletters via email is how I discover the material to post to this blog. I used to use an … Continue reading Newsboat
bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
#!/bin/bash printf -v coin '%s' -1 # crypto.sh bitcoin price() { # A function that pulls cryptocurrency price data from coingecko curl -X 'GET' 'https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids='"$1"'&vs_currencies=usd' \ -H 'accept: application/json' 2> /dev/null | # sends download data to /dev/null sed 's/.*usd"://' | # Removes everything before the price sed 's/..$//' | # Removes back two }} … Continue reading bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
Tildeverse & Rawtext.club
I was checking out Lagrange, which is a web browser for the Project Gemini Internet protocol. The Gemini protocol is a text based, privacy focused communications protocol, and Lagrange renders the text beautifully. But, during the course of checking it out, I was reminded of the Tildeverse. In short, tilde communities are playgrounds for people … Continue reading Tildeverse & Rawtext.club
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