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PDF tools for comparing PDFs visually (overlaying two PDFs to see changed areas) and using a perceptual hash (numerical value indicating visual difference between the two files).

Useful for command line review of PDFs and de-duplication. Configure git to use these tools for better PDF history / comparison in git.

These scripts require imagemagick and poppler. Both installed from homebrew.

Setup git to use a custom diff using:

Call 1-800-829-1040
Press 1 for English (or other language as desired)
Press 2 for personal tax
Press 1 for form / tax history
Press 3 for other
Press 2 for other
Ignore 2 SSN prompts till you get secret other menu
Press 2 for personal tax
Press 3 for other
Wait for agent!

PostgreSQL is Enough

See the new site: https://postgresisenough.dev

Zoom Sucks

Zoom abuses the installer flow on MacOS to bypass permissions dialogs (source)
Zoom sends identifying device info to Facebook, even when users don't have a Facebook account (source) (fixed)
A bug in Zoom sent identifying information (including email addresses and profile pictures) of thousands of users to strangers (source)
Zoom claims that meetings are end-to-end encrypted in their white paper and marketing materials, but meetings are only encrypted in transit, and are available in plaintext to Zoom servers and employees. (source)
zoomAutenticationTool can be used to escalat

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

	-- how to model threaded comments (e.g. reddit comments) in SQL with a simple 'ancestors' column

	-- The comment tree:
	-- [1]
	-- / \
	-- [2] [4]
	-- / \ \
	-- [3] [7] [6]
	-- /
	-- [5]

	#This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	#it under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 as published by
	#the Free Software Foundation.

	"""Algorithmic pseudo-random permutations for large sequences.

	Module to generate random, arbitrarily large permutations. Random permutations
	can be generated in Python with random.shuffle or numpy.random.shuffle:

	import random

	The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
	https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
	match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502

	License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause

	# Single-line version:

	(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}\|[a-z0-9%])\|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com\|net\|org\|edu\|gov\|mil\|aero\|asia\|biz\|cat\|coop\|info\|int\|jobs\|mobi\|museum\|name\|post\|pro\|tel\|travel\|xxx\|ac\|ad\|ae\|af\|ag\|ai\|al\|am\|an\|ao\|aq\|ar\|as\|at\|au\|aw\|ax\|az\|ba\|bb\|bd\|be\|bf\|bg\|bh\|bi\|bj\|bm\|bn\|bo\|br\|bs\|bt\|bv\|bw\|by\|bz\|ca\|cc\|cd\|cf\|cg\|ch\|ci\|ck\|cl\|cm\|cn\|co\|cr\|cs\|cu\|cv\|cx\|cy\|cz\|dd\|de\|dj\|dk\|dm\|do\|dz\|ec\|ee\|eg\|eh\|er\|es\|et\|eu\|fi\|fj\|fk\|fm\|fo\|fr\|ga\|gb\|gd\|ge\|gf\|gg\|gh\|gi\|gl\|gm\|gn\|gp\|gq\|gr\|gs\|gt\|gu\|gw\|gy\|hk\|hm\|hn\|hr\|ht\|hu\|id\|ie\|il\|im\|in\|io\|iq\|ir\|is\|it\|je\|jm\|jo\|jp\|ke\|kg\|kh\|ki\|km\|kn\|kp\|kr\|kw\|ky\|kz\|la\|lb\|lc\|li\|lk\|lr\|ls\|lt\|lu\|lv\|ly\|ma\|mc\|md\|me\|mg\|mh\|mk\|ml\|mm\|mn\|mo\|mp\|mq\|mr\|ms\|mt\|mu\|mv\|mw\|mx\|my\|mz\|na\|nc\|ne\|nf\|ng\|ni\|nl\|no\|np\|nr\|nu\|nz\|om\|pa\|pe\|pf\|pg\|ph\|pk\|pl\|pm\|pn\|pr\|ps

	def trapBOM(fileBytes []byte) []byte{
	trimmedBytes := bytes.Trim(fileBytes, "\xef\xbb\xbf")
	return trimmedBytes
	}