#linux tools

[match-your-steps]

kinda funny how most programmers would prefer to not have to touch apple products with a ten-foot pole but if you talk to basically any designer over like 25 they'll swear up and down and backwards to friday that nothing could ever hold a candle to any apple product

[fribblr]

Icons for @/spam_can on twitter ! [f2u with credit!]

These were made on an IBM thinkpad r52 . If you'd like to help support the upkeep of him and old machines like him, consider one of my 2012-core commissions: https://ko-fi.com/fribby/commissions

[cypheroxide]

The Hacker's Guidebook:

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Core Concepts for Budding Cybersecurity Enthusiasts The Building Blocks of Ethical Hacking So you want to become an ethical hacker and enter the exciting world of cybersecurity. That’s awesome! However, before you dive headfirst into firing up Kali Linux and hacking everything in sight, it’s vital to build up your foundational knowledge across several InfoSec domains. Mastering the fundamentals…

[mingos-commodoreblog]

Protrekkr 2.6.7 - A hybrid of modern day audio software and old-school styles of music tracker

[andmaybegayer]

the funny thing about the whole "The hardest part of moving from Windows to Linux is just that software you use won't run on Linux" also exists if you try to move from Linux to a BSD.

[goodgifswithfreetoolschallenge]

TUTORIAL 1

Making Gifs With DaVinci Resolve and FFmpeg or Gifski

FULL TUTORIALS | RECOLORED GIFS

Want to skip the tedious traditional process of screencapping a scene frame by frame and coloring and captioning those frames in batches? Would you rather make high quality gifs in a video editor instead, with a huge toolkit of color adjustment options, applied shot by shot rather than frame by frame, all for the price of $0 per month??? This tutorial is for you!

EXAMPLE SETS

Operating systems: Mac, Windows, and Linux

Quality potential: High

Software needed: DaVinci Resolve and FFmpeg (or Gifski CLI)

Difficulty: Moderate to Advanced

Time: Example set took me 17 minutes

Competencies: Some general familiarity with video editors and using your computer's shell helps but isn't required to follow the tutorial. There is a workaround that allows you to avoid the command line entirely on Mac of Windows. Familiarity with recoloring tools is also great but not required.

LIMITATIONS: None, but do note that DaVinci Resolve has minimum hardware requirements.

See the full tutorial here!

[unixbhaskar]

That's what matters!

#linuxadmin #tools #vim #emacs #opensourcesoftware #productivity

[drrlseason]

[adhdtoolbox]

Make your computer start the task for you

If timers don't work and getting started on something is hard, maybe having your computer launch the program you need will help.

(This tip works for Windows only)

Search for Task Scheduler from your Start Menu

Click on Create Task

3. It'll start you in the General tab. Give your task a Name.

4. You'll need a trigger. Go to the Triggers tab and click New

5. Schedule it!

6. Go the Actions tab and click New

7. In the window that pops up, leave the action on "Start a program" and click the Browse button and go to the program you want to open automatically for you.

Post-it note blindness? Have it launch your sticky notes program only when the task would become available.

[hornetstabber]

doing group work with international students with shaky at best english that haven't been paying attention for half the classes is just. so epic

[frog707]

RenderDoc the block

Today I solved the blocking issue in my Macana OpenGL project. I did it using RenderDoc, an open-source graphics debugger suggested to me by a colleague.

Since I'm a complete noob at RenderDoc (and not very proficient at OpenGL either), it took me awhile to gain traction. I didn't use the tool very effectively. But the key virtue of a good debugger is that helps users visualize what's going on. Somehow in the flood of details, I noticed that my problematic texture (which didn't have mipmaps) used a filter intended for mipmaps. And that proved to be my issue.

Meanwhile, I'm making progress configuring my new Linux Mint environment. I finally got the Cinnamon panel (analogous with the Windows taskbar) configured the way I like. I must've spent hours; it seems to me the Cinnamon UI could be a lot more intuitive.

Also I discovered I had 2 copies of LibreOffice: one installed from Apt and another installed from Flatpak. I only need one copy, so I'm removing the older (Apt) install to free up disk space.

[mivolasvivi]

A noninsignificant portion of my day is now spent fighting for my life in Linux and being fed unhelpful answers by tech support that refuse to give any actual comprehensive training on the cluster. What is it about Linux that makes people lose all empathy I stg.

[lottieratworld]

personal nitpick completely unrelated to the winrar vulnerability itself, but.

the way this person wrote this pisses me off (probably more than it should), theres hundreds of reasons why a developer wouldnt want to implement self-updating in software, especially since implementing connecting to the internet to auto-install updates could open it up to even more potential security holes, plus it just sucks to develop. my web browser of choice, librewolf (a fork of firefox,) excludes self-updating and requires manual updates (or updates from a package manager) for these sorts of reasons. put your big boy pants on and manually download updates from developers websites and shut up

anyway. regarding winrar specifically just use 7zip instead, its free and open source, back when i used windows it served me well.

it does use unrar code to support decompressing rar archives but from what ive read the vulnerability in winrar shouldnt affect 7zip or any other programs using unrar, only winrar itself

[laz-ofthestars]

Can you believe it guys

I got a voidsona. Take a look

Here's another version of it holding a banana

Just because they're made of void, that doesn't mean they can't have a nice, healthy snack.

Or, play a nice wooden flute.

Just kidding. They don't have lungs. It's more about the aesthetic. But you know what they CAN play?

The ability to summon multiple tendrils really comes handy.

[evitcani-writes]

software engineers looking at this post and pretending they can’t read

we need to be teaching kids that macbooks are shit and dont do anything or else tiktok freelancers will make them think macbooks are good