mackwage

:: Windows 10 Hardening Script
:: This is based mostly on my own personal research and testing. My objective is to secure/harden Windows 10 as much as possible while not impacting usability at all. (Think being able to run on this computer's of family members so secure them but not increase the chances of them having to call you to troubleshoot something related to it later on). References for virtually all settings can be found at the bottom. Just before the references section, you will always find several security settings commented out as they could lead to compatibility issues in common consumer setups but they're worth considering. 
:: Obligatory 'views are my own'. :) 
:: Thank you @jaredhaight for the Win Firewall config recommendations!
:: Thank you @ricardojba for the DLL Safe Order Search reg key! 
:: Thank you @jessicaknotts for the help on testing Exploit Guard configs and checking privacy settings!
:: Best script I've found for Debloating Windows 10: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
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rsms

Font "package manager"

I've been thinking about creating a font management service similar to traditional software package managers (e.g. Debian Aptitude, NPM, etc.)

The basic idea is this:

1. There's a main repository of fonts that are free (as in free to distribute) that the working group hosts
2. There's a small program that serves as the "manager", to be used or installed on client systems
3. The "manager" can be configured to operate with multiple repositories

brianloveswords

gif-from-tweet

There are so many great GIFs out there and I want to have copies of them. Twitter makes that harder than it should be by converting them to MP4 and not providing access to the source material. To make it easier, I made a bash pipeline that takes a tweet URL and a filename, extracts the MP4 from that tweet and uses ffmpeg to convert back to GIF.

Dependencies

• ffmpeg
  • macOS: brew install ffmpeg
  • Ubuntu/Debian: apt install ffmpeg

dfinke

function Get-YouTubeLinkAndThumbnail {
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory)]
        $YouTubeVideoID,
        $Width=240,
        $Height=180,
        $ImageAltText='IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE',
        [Switch]$DontCopyToClipboard
    )

mainframed

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import re

def make_header(name):
  return ''')ATTR DEFAULT(%+_)
% type(text) intens(high)
~ type(text) intens(high) caps(off) just(asis ) color(red)
+ type(text) color(turq) caps(off)
` type(text) intens(high) caps(off) just(asis) color(yellow)

sneakers-the-rat

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# Recursively find pdfs from the directory given as the first argument, 
# otherwise search the current directory.
# Use exiftool and qpdf (both must be installed and locatable on $PATH) 
# to strip all top-level metadata from PDFs.
#
# Note - This only removes file-level metadata, not any metadata
# in embedded images, etc. 
#
# Code is provided as-is, I take no responsibility for its use,