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After taking a break and stepping away for a bit, I realized that I was recreating an archiving system for websites and that there are existing solutions that do the same thing. I …

I don't have to use curl, but in the past when I have setup something that opens browser instances it has usually been a bit unstable in the sense that it would crash intermittentl…

Is there a tool/script that will allow me to filter out ads from a page when downloading it using curl. (Similar to how uBlock Origin works for a browser). Basically, what I am doi…

That's a good point. I use Linux where file names are Case Sensitive and the sync to Windows has problems when the files are copied over to an NTFS partition or to my Android phone…

yeah, just because there is a potential loophole we should make absolutely no effort to solve the problem. Reminded me of: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotc…

yeah, it really sucks that we improved security, reduced the risk of Man in the Middle Attacks, reduced impersonation risks by moving to a more secure protocol. Actually, you don't…

Works fine for me without a login.

The article specifically says that they "drilled down into the hill and collected core samples that allowed them to use radiocarbon dating techniques to learn the ages of the layer…

Syncthing works over mobile data as well. You need to enable the option to Run on mobile data in settings. In addition you will need to Enable Relaying and Global discovery on both…

The issue with CD/DVDs is that they degrade quickly over time. The CDs I burnt in early 2000s had tons of read errors when I tried restoring in 2022. Personally, I think storing da…

Like you I also dislike the Blocks editor, however the fix is easy. You can install the Classic Editor ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/ ) plugin and get the old inte…

Well, wget still works and allows you to mirror a website with a single command The following command mirrors a given website: wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --pa…

Ah... fair enough. For me the annoyance is minor enough that I wouldn't be installing an extension that gets access to all the sites that I browse, but I get that for others it mig…

Not sure if I am missing something, but this is something I can do without any extra extensions installed? Out of the 27 accounts I am currently following, 20 are accounts from oth…

At the moment I check them manually. I have all the blogs bookmarked under 1 folder and use the "Open All in Tabs" option in Firefox to open all of them together first thing in the…

Quality is a must. It doesn't matter how frequently/consistently you post if the posts are not of good quality. There are a few blogs I follow where the author don't post very freq…

You can use Tweepy (Python Package) to query their API for the data. You will need a Twitter Developer Account but the setup is quite simple. You can use the instructions at: https…

Baen Books ( https://www.baen.com/ ) is a publisher that only releases DRM free ebooks. They primarily publish scifi / fantasy books that you can buy from their site directly.

You realize that it is fairly easy to create false ID's right? There are services that do that for you with minimal fuss. > When everyone has 2FA, 2FA backup keys become kind of im…

They are displayed by default when you enable 2FA. If I remember correctly there is a note stating that we should print them out or save in a secure location. They are meant to be …

I use it on my laptop because it is stable and because I want my desktop and laptop to have the same environment as much as possible. Lots of others do the same as well. More and m…

If your account gets compromised attackers can use the details from the history to move laterally in the network, because if you have passwords etc in the history then the attacker…

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ from EFF does something similar using analysis of all the data shared by your browser. It also gives you a score of how unique your browser signatu…

It's telling the truth without sugarcoating it in crypto make believe. That's why people read it. If any of the stories / updates on the site are false please do share since from m…