Monthly Shaarli

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January, 2021

GitHub - danburzo/percollate: A command-line tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs.
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A command-line tool to turn web pages into beautiful, readable PDF, EPUB, or HTML docs. - danburzo/percollate

#14323 (Virtualbox 5.0: Blackscreen in fullscreen mode with i3wm host.) – Oracle VM VirtualBox

Fixing non-working fullscreen mode in virtualbox under i3wm.

Boils down to disabling the 'seamless' options bar in fullscreen mode, then it works (fullscreen on/off with Host+F, i.e. right-ctrl+F)

GitHub - noamross/redoc: [NOTE: Project in suspended animation for now] Reversible Reproducible Documents
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Using criticmarkup to generate word 'track changes' style reviews and merging 'track changes' style reviews into criticmarkup. Back and forth.

Marked as suspended development, but if it works it could prove very useful.

Free & Open Software | More than free of charge

Good explanation of the very basics of open source software principles.

Configuring Arch Linux on Dell XPS 15
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Configuration steps for arch specifically aimed at Dell XPS laptops. (Though not version specific)

GitHub - mickael-kerjean/filestash: 🦄 A modern web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ...
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🦄 A modern web client for SFTP, S3, FTP, WebDAV, Git, Minio, LDAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, Mysql, Backblaze, ... - mickael-kerjean/filestash

Audio Mastering Workflow for Linux | Andrew Grathwohl

This series of posts will detail the audio mastering workflow I employ on my main Linux workstation.

Goes through setting up jack and stabilizing the kernel parameters for an advanced mastering workstation.

The Best Free and Open Source Media Software | Andrew Grathwohl

The FOSS ecosystem’s many benefits present only a few minor annoyances for sysadmins - the most significant of which is the need for research, as well as trial-and-error, when investigating new software to employ in your stack.

Presented applications:
sox mpv vapoursynth ffmpeg mkvtoolnix-cli graphicsmagick

Best Secure & Encrypted Messaging Apps (And Some to Avoid)
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We analyzed the best secure messaging services that will encrypt and secure your communications. Here are the top recommendations.

Going by open-source, audited, and ownership-based recommendations.

With all the praise for Signal, do be aware that supporting the Signal developers might not be the optimum choice since they are putting large blocking stones in front of what should be collaborative open source work in order to retain centralized ownership and power, especially through platform centralization and trademark lawsuit threats. See here.

Advancing in the Bash Shell – ${me:-whatever}

Some useful shell ideas (bash, but many work with zsh).

Aliases, history functions, brace expansion etc

Installing and Using Wireguard, obviously with containers

How to install and use the Wireguard VPN in containers, with docker and its networking stack.

Playing Your Audible Audiobooks In Linux | Andrew Grathwohl

If you want to convert an Audible .aax file into a less restrictive file format, you can do so with ease using FFmpeg, one of my all-time favorite GPL projects.