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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 us…

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. Th…

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 whe…

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 tog…

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 mi…

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 acc…

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...

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 searc…

Thanks and good point.

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 diffi…

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..…

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 F…

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 different…

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-p…

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 t…

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 name…

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 thi…

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…

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…

> 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

"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 wo…