Fri 03 August 2018, by Seppe "Macuyiko" vanden Broucke
Moving to Graphs
It’s time to setup a new laptop, so once again I’m jotting down a list of apps I normally install right away, slightly updated again.
Skype is avoided, use web version once again.
I think that Age of Empires II is probably the game I’ve been playing on or off for the longest amount of time. In fact, it is this game which pushed me to write a custom tool to prevent DirectDraw palette issues more than eight years ago, before custom …
Getting a reliable, real-time screen of an Android device is more challenging than one might think, e.g. for the purpose of training a reinforcement learning agent.
This post describes a basic approach:
adb shell screencap -p
Sadly, adb mangles binary output and has a tendency to convert \n to …
A while ago I was interested in performing some HTTPS MITM analysis on an Android app, without having to rely on a real device but instead using an Android Virtual Device, or in other words: an emulated device. It turns out that this is surprisingly tricky with a lot of …
Say you have video such as this one on Facebook. Most of these come with hardcoded subtitles, which we’d like to extract (for whatever reason).
Opening the page in Chrome and inspecting the network requests quickly uncovers the media URL:
https://video-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-2/10000000_703970666457205_4416008794480312320_n …I’ve been interested in computing since I was a kid. The ability to tinker with the internals of a machine, the brutalism of DOS, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95’s interfaces (those big grey buttons)… It was a great time for young persons to get started with IT …
Update: code is available at https://github.com/Macuyiko/gmail-cleaner.
I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated by my overflowing Gmail inbox lately. I’ve been using Gmail as a primary e-mail service since 2005 and have collected tens of thousands emails over the years.
Lately, I’ve been finding it …