How can one man do so much? Coffee. That's how.
Politeness is briefly defined as the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others. It is an unspoken set of restrictions on how each person can speak and what they re allowed to speak about. The purpose of politeness is to avoid behaviors and topics that could provoke hostility in others. [ ] The post Politeness and the Pigeon appeared first on Jody Bruchon .
Whenever you watch a video about how to be successful on YouTube and why your videos aren t performing, you ll always here that YouTube s algorithm just shows people what they want to see. You ll be told all about how YouTube does a fantastic job of figuring out what kind of content people want and funneling the [ ] The post The Predatory Lie of YouTube Success appeared first on Jody Bruchon .
Web Environment Integrity is a specification being worked on by Google employees and prototyped into Chromium, the open-source core of Google Chrome on which most modern browsers are based (Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and many others). The short version of how it works is that your browser gets a permission slip from a big [ ] The post Web Environment Integrity Must Be Stopped:…
The one huge important thing about repairing things yourself is the same huge important thing about maximally empowering individuals to conduct their own lives as they see fit: anyone that isn t YOURSELF can t respond to your needs remotely as fast as you can, and the consequences of not taking care of it yourself immediately can [ ] The post Right to Repair: Why Freedom and Access Are So…
The advice to not use a hard drive from eBay is not the best advice. You should fully wipe the drive (a zero fill will do) and then install a new OS on it. The old data will be 100% unrecoverable and you won t unnecessarily destroy a perfectly good piece of equipment. Please don t advocate [ ] The post Don t destroy used hard drives! Wipe them and reuse or sell them with confidence! appeared first…
Update: there is an addendum at the end of this article; I mention it because yes, in the end, I switched over to Python sets. I don t want any Python experts cringing too hard, after all. Welcome to the joys of a C programmer adapting to Python. For those who haven t heard of it, youtube-dlc [ ] The post I made youtube-dl faster for archivists and solved a worst-case programming problem elegantly…
While perusing my link referrals on GitHub, I noticed this thread where my duplicate scanner jdupes was mentioned. I then noticed the comment below it: There is also a much faster modern alternative to fdupes and jdupes: fclones. It searches for files in parallel and uses a much faster hash function than md5. My response [ ] The post A CHALLENGER APPEARS: fclones fastest duplicate scanner ever? It…
When the wonderful public domain music website FreePD.com finished its redesign, this song went missing on Page 2 and it s one of my favorite public domain songs. Links to it are getting hard to find, so I ve uploaded it here. Right-click the link to download the song, or click the link to listen in your [ ] The post Manny the Martyr Be That Way MP3 (public domain, CC0, royalty free music)…
I have had this tool lying around since 2014. I wrote it once for a business that needed to convert the plain-text .OUT files from Sage PRO into CSV format. It isn t a super smart script; it only converts the formatting so that the file can be opened in a program like LibreOffice Calc or [ ] The post Shell script that converts Sage PRO exported text (.out files) to CSV text format appeared first…
Some of you are probably aware that I m the person behind the jdupes duplicate file finder. It s amazing how far it has spread over the past few years, especially considering it was originally just me working on speeding up fdupes because it was too slow and I didn t really have any plans to release my [ ] The post What WON T speed up the jdupes duplicate file finder appeared first on Jody Bruchon…