Linux Open Source News & Know-How, for Office Tasks
Some data (like password databases) are best kept local. When you sync them to all of your devices with Syncthing, there’s a catch on multi-user devices, like shared PCs. Here’s what to do.
A filter for RSS Guard that will match specific text patterns in a news item title, and replace what is matched with something else.
A filter for RSS Guard that will mark a news item as important, if it finds any text that matches specific regular expression patterns.
So, all you’ve got is a PDF file full of information – but you need (some of) its content in a different format.
Here’s what you can do.
A script that will crop a series of screenshots according to a manually provided sample crop, and then apply OCR to create a PDF.
A script that will grab a series of screenshots of any viewer application window that can be controlled by key presses.
A new Desktop Privacy Policy document now suggests the software better be not used by kids under 13 years. The policy also permits sharing the data with law enforcement agencies, as well as »with our main office in Russia and our external counsel in the USA.«
