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File synchronization: Configure Syncthing for multi-user devices
Filed under MPL v2 | System | GUI | Advanced | Infrastructure | Setup & Config

File synchronization: Configure Syncthing for multi-user devices

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.

RSS Guard filter: Modify news item title
Filed under Internet | GUI | Common tasks | Advanced | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Scripts

RSS Guard filter: Modify news item title

A filter for RSS Guard that will match specific text patterns in a news item title, and replace what is matched with something else.

RSS Guard filter: Mark news item as important
Filed under GUI | Internet | Common tasks | Advanced | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Scripts

RSS Guard filter: Mark news item as important

A filter for RSS Guard that will mark a news item as important, if it finds any text that matches specific regular expression patterns.

S01E01: »Damn, this PDF is all I’ve got…«
Filed under Episodes | Document creation | Common tasks | Graphics | Advanced | Terminal | Content creation | Office | Niche | Howtos | One-liners

S01E01: »Damn, this PDF is all I’ve got…«

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.

grabs2pdf.sh
Filed under Common tasks | Document creation | Graphics | Advanced | Terminal | Content creation | Viewers | Office | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Scripts

grabs2pdf.sh

A script that will crop a series of screenshots according to a manually provided sample crop, and then apply OCR to create a PDF.

viewer2grabs.sh
Filed under Graphics | Common tasks | Document creation | Advanced | Terminal | Viewers | Content creation | Office | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Scripts

viewer2grabs.sh

A script that will grab a series of screenshots of any viewer application window that can be controlled by key presses.

Trust issues with Audacity audio software
Filed under News | GUI | Updates | Content creation | Advanced | Warning | Audio | GPL v2 | GPL v3

Trust issues with Audacity audio software

July 7th, 2021October 11th, 2021

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.«

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