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Over-engineering my backups

2 years ago I wrote about how I over-complicated my document storage system: Over-engineering my document storage system with Paperless-ngxI think the first realisation that I was getting old was when I implemented a system to store physical + digital documents and was excited about it. My previous document system looked

Everywhere I changed my name in the UK

First I got a name change deed, I did not enroll this. Instead I had my friends sign it digitally. It was free and took around 5 minutes. * Internet bank accounts Monzo is super easy to change my name on. I did it in like a minute or 2 minutes.

japanese

Playing Stardew Valley in Japanese

So you want to play Stardew in Japanese. Download Yomininja to OCR the on-screen text: GitHub - matt-m-o/YomiNinja: Open-source OCR and dictionary tool.Open-source OCR and dictionary tool. Contribute to matt-m-o/YomiNinja development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubmatt-m-o Next you'll realise the font is too

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How I learn Japanese offline

Sometimes I travel for many hours or I sit in cute coffee shops, and I love to learn Japanese while doing it. But I don't have internet :( Here's a collection of tools I use to learn Japanese offline. Manga I read manga that has been processed

ScreenPipe AI company will harvest your email without your permission

Opensource AI company ScreenPipe has been harvesting your email without your permission. All you have to do is star their repo, and they will add you to their marketing lists. This is illegal in many countries around the world. Who would have guessed that an AI company would not respect

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How to download 800gb of Manga and put it all onto a MicroSD card

Why do this? I work in tech and love tech. When you love tech, sometimes you make something just because you can. There is no real reason as to why you want to do this, but perhaps if you are not familar with having fun there are some reasons: 1.

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Reading Manga everyday for 1 hour

I just published this video on YouTube, come check it out!

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Announcing KatakanKore1k

Hi folks, I have made a new Anki deck consisting of the top 1000 Katakana words. Download here: KatakanaKore1kKatakanaKore1k.apkg3 MBdownload-circle Features 1. Audio for every card. TTS. No, I have not checked pitch accent. I don't care. It's a Katakana reading deck🤷 2. Frequency sorted.

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We hacked Anki - 0 day exploit from studying someone elses flashcards

Anki is the most popular flashcards program in the world. The Android app alone has 10 million downloads, and this is a third party app that someone created and isn't an official Anki application. Anki is available on Windows, Mac, Web, IOS and more devices. Anki has maybe

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3 months of learning Japanese

So I have been learning Japanese for a while. But not seriously. I have a 1700 day Duolingo streak, but I am certainly not learning a language with it. At this point, Duoling is something little I do every single day as a habit. No matter how bad my life

The Ultimate Discord Hacking Bot

The Ultimate Hacking Bot™️ contains a bunch of useful hacking tools: * LemmeKnow * Ares * Ciphey * Search-That-Hash The GitHub Link is below: GitHub - bee-san/discord-bot: Discord bot for Ares & Lemmeknow in the http://discord.skerritt.blog discord serverDiscord bot for Ares & Lemmeknow in the http://discord.skerritt.blog

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How we keep our self-hosted Discord bot up to date

Over in my Discord we have a cool bot called ✨The Ultimate Hacking Bot✨ Really it's a bot that has a collection of pentesting tools one may find useful. With many tools come many issues... Dependency issues... If one of our many dependencies updated, our process was: 1.

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Run your own ChatGPT in 5 minutes of work with Kobold AI

This is a very quick guide on running your own ChatGPT locally. Why would you want to do this? * You can use uncensored models ChatGPT and the likes have an alignment that censors them. For example, it's primarily aligned with Americans which means it's not very

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SSH Permission denied (publickey).

Solution 1 - Regenerate the key 1. Generate your key. 2. Configure ssh to use the key.Your config file should have something similar to the following:You can add IdentitiesOnly yes to ensure ssh uses the specified IdentityFile and no other keyfiles during authentication. Setting IdentitiesOnly prevents failed authentications

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Packaging your Python Project

I was looking to package my project, Ciphey, for operating systems and for managers that aren’t PyPi. Unfortunately, there seemed to be very little information on the web about this. This is a guide on packaging your Python project for: * PyPi * HomeBrew * Windows Package Manager * Arch User Repository Semantic

Algorithms

Set Theory for Programmers

If you’ve spent time on HackerRank or LeetCode, you might have noticed most of the optimal solutions use Set Theory. By reading this article, you will gain a deeper knowledge into set theory and how to use it to create optimal algorithms. Set Theory was invented (or found, depending

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3 Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2024 [Ultimate Guide]

Fancy watching this as a video instead? Click below: Introduction I have around ~10k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days

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Packaging Your Rust Code

I recently went through the trouble of distributing a Rust package. I wished that there was a simple guide on distributing one package to many platforms, so I wrote this guide. Follow me as we publish my package, RustScan, to multiple distributions. Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a system defining

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Divide and Conquer Algorithms with Python Examples

Often I’ll hear about how you can optimise a for loop to be faster or how switch statements are faster than if statements. Most computers have over 1 core, with the ability to support multiple threads. Before worrying about optimising for loops or if statements try to attack your

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Ripgrep cheatsheet

I use RipGrep all the time, but sometimes when I want to do something I have to search the internet to find out. GitHub - BurntSushi/ripgrep: ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignoreripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

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All You Need to Know About Big O Notation [Python Examples]

By the end of this article, you’ll thoroughly understand Big O notation. You’ll also know how to use it in the real world, and even the mathematics behind it! In computer science, time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of time it takes to run

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Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of

Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia. Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort for the Python programming language in 2001. Timsort

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Greedy Algorithms In Python

Greedy algorithms aim to make the optimal choice at that given moment. Each step it chooses the optimal choice, without knowing the future. It attempts to find the globally optimal way to solve the entire problem using this method. Why Are Greedy Algorithms Called Greedy? We call algorithms greedy when

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How Does BitTorrent Work? A Plain English Guide

No talk about downloading things on BitTorrent. Or the best clients to do so. Just a deep dive into the technical side of it. Anyone can read this article. Requires ZERO knowledge of networking or BitTorrent to read this. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large

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How to Share a Secret (Diffie-Hellman-Merkle)

Diffie-Hellman-Merkle is a way to share a secret key with someone (or something) without actually sending them the key. Before we look into how we share keys let’s first look into what keys are and why we would want to invent a method to share keys without giving the