Midi Midi-In

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

You can get the list of installed codecs with:

thanks to @neurodyne and this link for updated instructions

This works with the following versions of termsrv.dll

x64 - termsrv.dll - 6.3.9600.17095

Find	Replace
39813C0600000F849E310500	B80001000089813806000090
090085C07F078BD8	090085C090908BD8

	#!/bin/bash

	user="CHANGEME"
	pages=$(curl -I https://api.github.com/users/$user/starred \| sed -nr 's/^Link:.page=([0-9]+)./\1/p')

	for page in $(seq 0 $pages); do
	curl "https://api.github.com/users/$user/starred?page=$page&per_page=100" \| jq -r '.[].html_url' \|
	while read rp; do
	git clone $rp
	done