JJ jjnilton

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.

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

JQ to filter JSON by value

Syntax: cat <filename> | jq -c '.[] | select( .<key> | contains("<value>"))'

Example: To get json record having _id equal 611

cat my.json | jq -c '.[] | select( ._id | contains(611))'

Remember: if JSON value has no double quotes (eg. for numeric) to do not supply in filter i.e. in contains(611)

A List of Ephemeral File Sharing Services

Contributions welcome.

~ Prajjwal Singh

Service	CLI?	Max Size	Direct Access	Files Expire?	Can Limit Download Count?	Password Protection	HTTPS
c-v.sh	`curl -F`	4 GB	Yes	Yes, by Mister Alg.	No	No	Enforced
FileIO	Yes	5 GB	Yes	Optionally	Fixed @ 1	No	Yes

Exposed headers

Service	SSL	status	Response Type	Allowed methods	Allowed headers

The i3-wm does not come with a keybinding to lock the screen or a preconfigured auto lockscreen. This gist describes how to setup both using i3lock and xautolock. i3lock is a minimalistic lockscreen and xautolock monitors mouse and keyboard activities to automatically lock the screen after a certain time of beiing inactive.

First get the tools if neccessary. E.g. sudo apt install i3lock xautolock.

To setup the keybinding Ctrl+Alt+l (last one is a lowercase L) to lock the screen append the following lines to the i3 configuration file located at ~/.config/i3/config.

# keybinding to lock screen

Electron apps

Slide deck frameworks supporting Markdown source

	Author: Nilo Dantas - n1lo
	Based on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/518056 - helio-valente post

	How to use Cedilha on US Keyboard on ArchLinux

	1) Put: English(US, internacional with dead Keys) on your system keyboard layout.

	2) Editing the files:

	sudo vim /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache

	-- requires subliminal, version 1.0 or newer
	-- default keybinding: b
	local utils = require 'mp.utils'

	--sleep function, so that subs aren't downloaded the instant a file is loaded
	--taken from:http://lua-users.org/wiki/SleepFunction
	function sleep(s)
	local ntime = os.time() + s
	repeat until os.time() > ntime
	end