Google Recaptcha issues

I’ve noticed recently I am constantly being asked to solve Google Recaptchas when using Firefox and when logged into Google (which you would think would decrease this). So I’ve started using google container which has the additional advantage of restricting google’s tracking. Two issues: You can’t go back to your google search results, so I …

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Thunderbird 60+ replacement extensions

With TB 60+ a lot of old extensions are incompatible including my favourite nostalgy. Update: as of 23 Sep 2018 Nostalgy has a new version that is compatible with modern Thunderbird! Update 2: Nostalgy is broken for TB68+, but there’s a fork. I now use Quick Folder Move (in combination with Dorando to rebind keymappings) …

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“changing the system requirements for the Dropbox desktop app for Linux”

If you’ve recently received a mail from Dropbox “[Action required] We’re updating Linux system requirements” and will be getting support discontinued due to running an old version of glibc, you probably want to move to Dropbox containerized via Docker. This will affect you if you run Centos / RHEL 6 or 7. Update: this docker …

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Auto-insert snippet for python emacs

A small skeleton you can put into your python emacs editing session: ;; insert python skeleton with auto-insert (eval-after-load ‘autoinsert ‘(define-auto-insert ‘(“\\.\\py\\'” . “python skeleton”) ‘(“” “#!/usr/bin/env python” \n “# ” (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)) \n \n “def main():” \n “pass” \n \n “if __name__ == ‘__main__’:” \n “main()” \n \n)))

Rooting your Gemini PDA

I recently got a Gemini PDA (WiFi). To run rooted Android and Linux (dual boot) I did the following: Followed the details here. Downloaded & unzipped Windows Flashing Tool Downloaded & installed Windows Drivers Chose my Partition setup here then downloaded Scatter File Base Firmware (ie Android) Linux Firmware Unzipped both firmwares into a dir …

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