Hari Rana TheEvilSkeleton

Once upon a time there was a user that wanted to install firefox.

The user tried to do pacman -S firefox but it didn't work. The all mighty pacman reported that firefox-3.2.4-1.i686.pkg.tar.gz could not be found on his mirror. So the user tried pacman -Sy firefox. It worked and the user rejoiced since he could once again go and troll /h/.

But all was not good. The user had made a grave error!

See, when the user told the almighty pacman to -Sy firefox, pacman did

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.

iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

Install BetterDiscord on Linux

This Gist contains simple instructions on how to install, update, and uninstall BetterDiscord on Linux.

For more thorough documentation, take a look at betterdiscordctl's README.

Do NOT submit issues here as I don't check the comments. You should submit them here instead.

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	#Resizes an image and keeps aspect ratio. Set mywidth to the desired with in pixels.

	import PIL
	from PIL import Image

	mywidth = 300

	img = Image.open('someimage.jpg')
	wpercent = (mywidth/float(img.size[0]))
	hsize = int((float(img.size[1])*float(wpercent)))

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Dark Horse Downloader
	// @namespace http://schiff.io/
	// @version 0.1
	// @description Download a DRM-free copy of your Dark Horse digital comics.
	// @author Hayden Schiff (oxguy3)
	// @match https://digital.darkhorse.com/read/*
	// @match https://digital.darkhorse.com/bookshelf*
	// @include https://.cloudfront.net/
	// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest

	#!/bin/sh

	set -eufo pipefail

	if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then
	echo "usage: $0 source_repo_url target_repo_url" >&2
	exit 1
	fi

	SOURCE_URL="$1"

	/* Highliting accessibility errors in HTML */

	/* highlight HTML element with invalid value for lang attribute */
	html:not([lang]),
	html[lang=""] {
	border: 2px dotted red !important;
	}

	/* highlight images missing alt text */
	img:not([alt]) {

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	#Short script that creates a streaming setup in pulseaudio. It does the following:
	#1. Create a null-sink as ApplicationSink to separate a single applications audio from the rest
	#3. Create another null-sink as Input-Combinator; CombineSink
	#4. Create remap-source as Virtual Microphone; Vsource
	#5. Loopback the the ApplicationSink's audio back to the systems default audio output
	#6. Loopback ApplicationSink audio again, this time into the CombineSink
	#7. Loopback actual microphone audio into the CombineSink as well
	#8. Loopback combined application output and real-mic input from CombineSink into virtual microphone Vsource