Matt Sweeney sweenzor

I'm getting adverts in my TV's UI, help!

Samsung's otherwise excellent 2016 range of UHD TVs received an update that added advertisements to the UI. This has been complained about at great length on Samsung's forums and repeatedly, Samsung have refused to add an option to remove them.

The ads interrupt the clean UI of the TV and are invasive. Here's an example of how they look:

This guide was originally posted on Samsung's TV forums but unfortunately, that site is a super-slow and barely accessible unusable mess.

The Zoom install package for macOS is mad. Rather than actually using the installer to install things, it does everything in the preinstall script. That's bonkers, and also means that the system won't have a list of the files it installed, because it's doing it using shell script.

The script appears to install two items, namely:

/Applications/zoom.us.app
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

If the user opening the package isn't an administrator, it looks like it will install the app in the user's home folder instead. If they are an administrator, Zoom will delete the ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin from /Library if it's there, but it still installs to ~/Library.

It also adds Zoom to your Dock automatically, without asking.

Go to https://script.google.com
Create a New Project
Replace the Code.gs file it creates for you with the javascript below (copy/paste)
Save the script
Go to Triggers (looks like an alarm clock on left-hand side)
Create a Trigger that acts every 10 minutes and calls filterNGPVANSpam
You'll need to authorize this script to act on your behalf, which may require that you use the scary "Advanced" section to allow the script to read/write to your email inbox.

	# Share Tab Collection 1.0 \| Brett Terpstra 2015 <http://brettterpstra.com>

	USERID = 'XXXXX'

	require 'shellwords'
	require 'fileutils'


	def class_exists?(class_name)
	klass = Module.const_get(class_name)

	package main

	import (
	"log"
	"syscall"
	"unsafe"
	)

	var (
	kernel32 = syscall.NewLazyDLL("kernel32.dll")

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require "rubygems"
	require "twitter"
	require "json"
	require "faraday"

	# things you must configure
	TWITTER_USER = "your_username"

	# get these from dev.twitter.com

	import sys
	import re
	import os
	import zipfile
	import shutil

	# Constant Definition
	# -------------------

	# Path to be prepended to image links in markdown file, like so: ![](IMAGE_LINK<image_filename>).

	# Like "git branch", but also show colorized (and aligned!) branch descriptions.
	# Git branch descriptions can be created using "git branch --edit-description".
	gb() {
	maxlen=0
	branches=$(git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/heads/ \| sed 's\|refs/heads/\|\|')
	for branch in $branches; do
	len=${#branch}
	if [ "$len" -gt "$maxlen" ]; then
	maxlen="$len"
	fi

	######################
	### DESIGN CHANGES ###
	######################

	# panes
	set -g pane-border-fg black
	set -g pane-active-border-fg brightred

	## Status bar design
	# status line

	/* Based on original Dark Age theme by @shodty */

	/* MAIN BODY AND BLOCK COLORS */

	.roam-body-main {
	margin-top: 45px;
	border-radius: 12px;
	background: var(--background);
	margin-right: 6px;
	margin-left: 9px;