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MahdiMirzade / Fontconfig.md
Last active May 13, 2024 19:23
Font Configuration in Linux

Font Configuration in Linux

A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats.

Most computer fonts used today are in either bitmap(BDF) or outline data(otf/ttf) formats.

Many non-English users have problems with their language's rendering, at least Persian users have problems with viewing Persian charactars that can happen because:

  1. Proper fonts are not installed/found by fontconfig. Click here
  2. Fontconfig order is wrong and the latin fonts are above Persian fonts and don't have a good support that causes problems. Click Here

Notes

@0xabad1dea
0xabad1dea / copilot-risk-assessment.md
Last active September 11, 2023 10:21
Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

@plembo
plembo / vmwp-no3d-avail.md
Last active March 12, 2025 13:02
VMware Player: No 3d support available from the host

VMware Player: "No 3d support is available from the host"

Facts: VMware Player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the standard Gnome desktop running an AMD WX-2100 graphics card. Both glxinfo and glxgears show 3d acceleration is enabled and working on the host. In addition to VMware Player, the host is also running the qemu-kvm/libvirtd stack from Ubuntu's official repositories. My use case for 3d accelerated graphics in a Windows guest is to occasionally play a Windows-only game.

Issue: Player barks this warning during installation of... anything.

Solution: This askubuntu post, Powered by StackExchange[TM], provides the solution:

@BenniG123
BenniG123 / tesseract-ocr-folder.ps1
Last active November 14, 2023 14:37
Quick powershell script to grab all images in a folder, run tessaract OCR on all of them, and then pipe all output to out.txt
function Get-DirectoryName($initialDirectory)
{
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") | Out-Null
$openFolderDialog = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
$openFolderDialog.ShowDialog() | Out-Null
return $openFolderDialog.SelectedPath
}
Write-Output "Select image folder"
@maxwelleite
maxwelleite / ttf-wine-tahoma-installer.sh
Last active July 23, 2024 07:56
Script to install the latest Wine Tahoma fonts on Ubuntu distros
#!/bin/bash
# Author: Maxwel Leite
# Website: http://needforbits.wordpress.com/
# Description: Script to install the latest Wine Tahoma Regular and Wine Tahoma Bold fonts on Ubuntu distros from the Wine Project.
# The Wine project includes the free and open-source fonts Wine Tahoma Regular and Wine Tahoma Bold released under LGPL
# designed to have identical metrics to the Microsoft Tahoma font. This was done because Tahoma is available by default
# on Windows, and many applications expect the font to be available.
# Dependencies: wget
# Tested: Ubuntu Saucy/Trusty/Xenial/Bionic
# Latest Update: 20/11/2020