Grok source and model leaked in a 318 GiB torrent file.
The Grok AI has been leaked in a giant torrent. This is very interesting.
The Grok AI has been leaked in a giant torrent. This is very interesting.
How to apply a patch fle created by diff on Linux.
Gnome 4.4 has icons in the file picker, but I wish everyone had 4.4. I need the icons.
How to encode a good quality webm file from a movie with a small file size.
Some very useful VIM configuration files to help set up a Linux installation.
Fedora 38 has icons in the filepicker at last. Gnome 4.4 is awesome.
The file picker in GTK still needs to be fixed after all of this time.
How to encode a WebM file in the best possible quality.
How to use FFmpeg to rip the audio from a video file very easily.
Gnome have finally started adding thumbnails to the file chooser. Will this finally end the debate?
How to create a file with a blank filename and then delete this file. This is not too hard at all.
If you executed a command on Ubuntu and messed up your system, there is hope. The apt-file utility can search the package repositories for the missing file and then tell you which package contains it. This is a good way to replace a system file that was accidentally deleted. This is impressive, and a good … Read more
Setting up your BASH prompt. A nice BASH shell prompt. This shows the current time and the current folder you are in as well as a full directory path if you are in a subfolder. PS1="-\t– \u@\h [\w]\$ "PS1="-\t– \u@\h [\w]\$ " How to set the contents of the Xterm title bar. Using the PROMPT_COMMAND … Read more
Gnome on Linux still does not have icons in the file picker There is an active feedback tracker task to add icons to the file picker, but this is still going since it was posted 17 years ago. And it still has not been implemented. 17 years. And it seems it will never be implemented. … Read more
How to delete a file with a strange filename This can be an annoying trick to play on someone. Create a file named -f with this command: >-f and then ask them to delete it with the command line only. This can be frustrating exercise; you try to use rm \-f and that does not … Read more
The full release of Ubuntu 21.10 is now out, but the developers of GTK have still not fixed the file-picker not having icons in it. This patch fixes this issue but needs more work. https://gist.github.com/wfr/c8e431a61d300b4f3d15. And it would not take too long to add the option to have either a list view or icons in … Read more
The venerable Far21 file manager for DOS-based systems was very useful for managing files on an old Windows system. Now there is a Linux version. This means that there is now another file manager for Linux to compete with Midnight Commander. The screenshot above shows the Far 21 file manager running on Linux. This is … Read more
Recording a window with OBS is very easy, this allows easy streaming and recording of gameplay or a video window. The screenshot above shows an OBS studio window displaying a video window, you select the window by double-clicking the Window Capture (Xcomposite) 2 option. This brings up another dialogue to select any open window on … Read more
I was using Redshift on Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop and it kept flickering off and on again. I found out that the Night Light feature in Gnome was enabled and this was conflicting with the Redshift app. I just disabled Night Light and this was fixed. But this is a trap for the unwary. … Read more
It is apparently possible to create a file named ., this will make the file unusable, but it is still very cool. I used this simple command. strace touch ‘.’strace touch ‘.’ Type a dot character “.”, then press Control-Shift-u and type 200b and then press ENTER, this will create a zero-width invisible character. Then … Read more