Blocking scripts in uBlock origin is very easy, if you know the path to an annoying script, it may be easily blocked. Open the dashboard in uBlock origin and use the code below to block the script. ! 2021-05-25 https://boards.4channel.org ||bid.glass/lib/bg.js$script,domain=boards.4channel.org! 2021-05-25 https://boards.4channel.org ||bid.glass/lib/bg.js$script,domain=boards.4channel.org This is another example, blocking the…
Read MoreHow to easily update your Debian Buster installation to Bullseye easily. This is not too hard at all. 1. Make sure all your packages are up to date. Run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade. 2. Make sure gcc-8-base is installed and up to date. 3. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list…
Read MoreTo merge a Video file and an audio file, only FFmpeg is required. I needed the audio from one other video, I ripped it like this. ffmpeg -i Online-1.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aacffmpeg -i Online-1.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output-audio.aac Then I could use this command to merge the aac audio…
Read MoreRecording 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…
Read MoreCompanies and institutions using virtualization There are many companies using virtualization. One is the University of Arkansas. This campus has facilitated new distance learning and resource sharing approaches by deploying virtual virtual systems on an IBM zEnterprise mainframe that may be used for student exercises. Another example is Transzap. This…
Read MoreThere are quite a few interesting command-line tricks for Windows. Create a folder named CON. This is quite difficult to delete. echo "hello" > \\.\C:\Users\shawn\Documents\CONecho "hello" > \\.\C:\Users\shawn\Documents\CON Another interesting trick is one. C:\Users\Dyatlov\Downloads\testing>echo "" > ….::$INDEX_ALLOCATION The system cannot find the file specified.C:\Users\Dyatlov\Downloads\testing>echo "" > ….::$INDEX_ALLOCATION The system cannot…
Read MoreMaking a slow-motion clip from a video can be very useful to show off what is happening in a certain scene. The example below will make a slow-motion clip from a video file. This would be another very useful FFmpeg tip. > ffmpeg -i qS_lu5dKo9A2qoNW.mp4 -c:v libvpx -b:v 3200k -filter:v…
Read MoreMaking a video file brighter is very easy, this can be done with FFmpeg. The curves filter can easily brighten a video file without causing much degradation at all. Use this example to make a video file a bit brighter and it will still be the same quality. ffmpeg -i…
Read MoreThe MATE desktop that comes with Ubuntu is very amenable to customization. One cool theme idea is to try and make it look like Windows. There are Windows Vista icons that are very nice. They can improve the look of your desktop a lot. Download them here: https://www.securitronlinux.com/linux/files/Vista.tar.gz. That would…
Read MoreThere are many ways to find files embedded inside other files, one way is using binwalk to find embedded files inside another file. This is how to use binwalk to list all embedded files inside a larger one. This takes a while with a multi-gigabyte file, but it does work….
Read MoreFFmpeg allows interesting video manipulation. This includes inverting the colours of video files. The example below will invert the colours of a video file. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos/titles] └──╼ ╼ $ ffmpeg -i zombiestrain.avi -vf lutrgb="r=negval:g=negval:b=negval" zomby.avi┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Videos/titles] └──╼ ╼ $ ffmpeg -i zombiestrain.avi -vf lutrgb="r=negval:g=negval:b=negval" zomby.avi This is an example of what this…
Read MoreMounting an HDD formatted with the Xbox filesystem can be a pain, but it can be done. Run this command in the terminal to get the filesystem offset of the current filesystem. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo head -c 4k /dev/sdg | grep -aobuP ‘\x00\x00\x00NTFS’ | sed ‘s/\:.*//’ 2048┌──[[email protected]]─[~] └──╼…
Read MoreThe scrollbars on Firefox are very narrow and annoying, but this may be fixed. This is how to get wider scrollbars in Firefox when using Linux. The best way is to edit the about:config and then look for this entry. widget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-sizewidget.non-native-theme.gtk.scrollbar.thumb-size Change this to 1.50 and this makes the scrollbar…
Read MoreThere are some very nice themes out there to stylize your Linux desktop, the trendy Linux user may install a theme and make the Linux Gnome desktop look like iOS. This is very easy. iOS 10 theme for Gnome Shell and MATE. https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1220826/. Download this theme and place it under…
Read MoreApparently, Microsoft is working on Windows 11. This might be a cloud-based version of Windows that makes use of Onedrive and can automatically save your work in the cloud. You do not need a full installation of Windows if you are only doing word processing or database work, that could…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreResizing a window that has no border can be a problem on Linux. I started MPV with no border to watch a stream of TV and it was larger than I wanted. I could not resize the window by the old Alt->Right mouse button method, but I could use the…
Read MoreI just installed a fingerprint reader in Ubuntu and after scanning my fingerprint into the system, I was able to login to Ubuntu using GMD3 and it works just fine. Access this by typing users in the Activities view to access the Users panel under Settings. Then enable the Fingerprint…
Read MoreFootprinting Footprinting is defined as the process of gathering information on computer systems and networks. This is the first step in information gathering and provides a useful insight into the network you are planning to attack. Zero-day exploits These are exploits that are found before there are patches for these…
Read MoreKilling rogue programs in Linux The kill command included by default with the Linux suite of commands may be used to terminate a process by passing kill a process ID (PID). By default, kill just tells the process to die, but if the process has made previous arrangements with the…
Read More