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It feels quite surreal to write a post with such a title in 2025 but I’ve been recently given the simple task to folders of ~10-20GB of Camera galleries from Android phones to back them up to a physical drive. Surely a joke at this moment in time, with devices in the GHz range and tens of gigs of RAM, right? Well, no. The device in question is an ASUS ZenFone with no apparent damage and completely functional (albeit feeling very sluggish)....

If you let the battery drain out completely while the headset is paired, the device will disconnect and enter a “glitched” state where it becomes completely unrensposive (not even after charging it or trying to plug it via USB instead of the bluetooth dongle) and the only thing it’ll do is blink rapidly twice in red when you press the microphone button to turn it on or off.

If you let the battery drain out completely while the headset is paired, the device will disconnect and enter a “glitched” state where it becomes completely unrensposive (not even after charging it or trying to plug it via USB instead of the bluetooth dongle) and the only thing it’ll do is blink rapidly twice in red when you press the microphone button to turn it on or off.

Firewalls that only allow standard ports (such as HTTP, HTTPS) can be easily circumvented by proxying all traffic trough port 443, using an external machine. Here’s a minimal setup to obtain so with proxytunnel: Apache2, running on the external machine: [...] ProxyRequests On AllowConnect 22 <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Deny from all </Proxy> <Proxy 127.0.0.1> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> [...] Local SSH configuration: Host vps_proxy ProxyCommand proxytunnel -q -E -p VPS_IP:443 -d 127....

Rooting a Xiaomi phone in 2022

Cleaning up: Stopped containers: docker container prune Stop all containers: docker container stop $(docker container ls -aq) Dangling images: docker image prune Images with no containers: docker image prune -a All but volumes: docker system prune All: docker system prune --volumes Volumes not in use: docker volume prune Remove all containers: docker rm $(docker ps -aq) Remove all images: docker rmi $(docker images -q) docker run --rm -it --entrypoint bash testror docker run --rm -it --entrypoint bash --user root testror docker logs -f ror2-server

LaTex package “float” broke after texlive 20190830 After updating texlive to the 20190830 version, the “float” package started working, giving ! LaTeX Error: Unknown float option 'H'. even if the same file was compiling correctly before and \usepackage{float} is used. You need to downgrade at least to the 20190227 version. I did apt purge texlive* then tried to install texlive from the stable distribution (buster is shipping 20190227) but even after having purged everything related to texlive the system could not install that version for broken dependencies/wrong versions....

Recently a friend tried to install Battlefield 3 after some years and was unable to install Punkbuster due to the error The extract file failed an autheticity check during the services install. There’s no official solution or reason to this error. basically, Punkbuster services can’t be copied/installed or can’t run correctly. First of all clean your system from every trace of PB software (regedit, services) and try an admin-install of the PunkBuster Setup (PBSetup) and the PunkBuster Service Installer (pbsvc). If you keep getting the error, the installer can’t copy the services executables into the windows folder (or it’s copying a corrupt copy of them). We can force this manually moving these files. ...

Yesterday I was working on a AutoHotKey project and was wondering if It was possible to automate the extraction of the age from a facebook profile without making use of API or Facebook Graph. This applies to whatever value you can’t (or you don’t want) obtain through official APIs. IE := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application") IE.Visible := True Check(){ ComObjError(0) DOB := "" Loop { Elements := IE.document.getElementsByClassName("_50f3") Loop, % Elements.Length ;if Elements[A_Index-1].innerText ~= "^Born on" ; NAME := Elements[A_Index-1]....

useradd sftp-only create user In /etc/ssh/sshd_config comment the existing line starting with Subsystem sftp and add: Subsystem sftp internal-sftp Match user sftp-only ChrootDirectory /path/to/the/dir X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ForceCommand internal-sftp service sshd restart The folder must be owned by root, remember to set the read/write permission for the user. User will be chrooted to the selected folder and won’t be able to use ssh or the shell.