I OCR'ed the 2014 DMG down to a text file and then grep'ed out '1d3' to see how many times '1d3' is actually referenced in the 2014 DMG, and the answer is 17 times.

13 of those involved regaining expanded charges for magic items.

$ ocrmypdf --sidecar /tmp/output.txt "Dungeon Master's Guide.pdf" /tmp/output.pdf --force-ocr

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Was bored.... so I updated my anyflip downloader script.

It does this:

1- downloads each of the pages as raw .jpgs
2- combines all the raw jpgs into a PDF
3- then takes that PDF and runs it through OCR software to create a new OCR'ed version of the PDF (so you can search for text inside the PDF, instead of just having a PDF of images)

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resize videos

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i $1 -vf "scale=trunc(iw/4)*2:trunc(ih/4)*2" -c:v libx265 -crf 28 output-half.mp4

Alternatively ... if you know you want it to be 720 (width) and you just want the height to scale accordingly use:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i $1 -vf scale="720:-1" -c:v libx265 -crf 28 output-resize720.mp4

So posting a link to twitter is now considered a "cybersecurity" violation on Facebook now.


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There is no nudity in this photo.

I'm covered with a towel.

And yet ---- 12 years after I posted this ----  12 YEARS later, Facebook sends me a Community Violation notice.

God Facebook's bots are terrible !


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Simple terms resolves a domain name (URL) into an IP address.

In actual terms:

First DNS checks cache to see if the name is locally configured (via /etc/hosts) or is already in the local DNS cache. If it is, it checks the Time To Live (TTL) and sees if the time is valid. If it is, it uses that.

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This is the video you want for fixing Audio preferences inside VLC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMbVsyYgi_0&t=86s

Also, inside the Window>Audio Effects, enable the dynamic range compressor.  Makes a WORLD of different for live recordings.

How to calculate the width of an image (with black side bars) for Instagram.

Assume you have a vertical image with current height= 2048, and you want to know the new width so that Instragram will not try to resize it and cut off parts of your image.

So from terminal (or your favorite calculator) run this:

bc <<<"2048*1080/1350"

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brew remove wine-stable

brew install --cask --no-quarantine  homebrew/cask-versions/wine-staging

Others that I tried:

brew install --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/wine-crossover

brew install --no-quarantine gcenx/wine/wine-stable-legacy