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Digital Ocean has an API that, among other things, allows DNS changes.

A github user called skibish maintains a small daemon written in go that implements DDNS using this API.

This guide shows you how to make this work on OpenWRT.

DNS records

Let's say you want the subdomain home.example.org to point to your home router. You can either use Digital Ocean's DNS servers for the entire example.org domain or you can add the following records to your existing DNS server to let Digital Ocean only handle the subdomain:

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To turn a router into a bridge between wifi and ethernet, with the router being a wifi client/station, you need 4-address mode aka Wireless Distributions System or WDS.

This does not necessarily work between vendors so make sure your AP and client use chips from the same manufacturer.

It seems that enabling WDS on an AP's wifi interface does not prevent non-WDS clients from connecting normally, at least in my limited experience.

On the AP you simply add option wds '1' to the relevant wifi-iface section. E.g:

config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'

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#!/bin/bash

# It appears my anamorphic lens is closer to 140% than the 133% is says on the label

# TODO Have an argument to force orientation since the identify command seems to not always work

echo "Creating directory: desqueezed/"
mkdir -p desqueezed

for f in `find -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg"`; do

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I have an old Galaxy S7 (herolte) that I wanted to use for filming. Looking for a rom with a maintained and fairly modern Android I found pixelexperience.

I found both the built-in camera app and the OpenCamera app from F-droid somewhat lacking. Don't get my wrong, OpenCamera is a great piece of software, I just wanted some more "pro" features like real-time anamorphic demorphing and such.

While I try to avoid proprietary software in my day to day I decided to give Filmic Pro a try to see if it could turn this old device into a useful camera.

This guide was written based on Filmic Pro version 6.9.1

Unfortunately Filmic fails to launch getting stuck at the splash screen after asking for various permissions. Looking at adb logcat output it was clear that it was looking for the file scamera_sdk_util.jar in the /system/framework and not finding it.

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This is a quick guide for how to set up an August Smart Lock Pro for use with Home Assistant using only locally hosted open source software.

This is a nice solution if you already have a deadbolt with a manual key-less toggle on the inside of the door since installation takes about two minutes and you don't loose the manual toggle capability even if the batteries die.

The initial setup process if full of badness (identity verification, cloud bullshit and location data) but after the one-time setup it will run locally with just z-wave and no proprietary or cloud stuff.

The August lock uses four AA batteries. They recommend non-rechargable batteries (probably due to the discharge curve for AA being better for correlating voltage with battery level and warning users about low battery before it's too late).

Note that you will need a bunch of non-free terrible software for the initial setup and to change certain settings. Specifically you will need an iOS or Android device with bluetooth, internet and in case

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#!/bin/bash

ffmpeg -i $1 -aspect 64:27 -c copy ${1}.fixed.mp4

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This a quick guide to configuring tagged VLAN using DSA on OpenWRT routers with a switch and only a single physical ethernet port.

This was tested on a Xiaomi Redmi AC2100 (MT7621 chipset) running OpenWRT Snapshot from April 19th 2021.

Here's how you make an interface lan3.2 which will send tagged packets on lan port 3. This assumes the lan port 3 interface is called lan3.

config interface 'pub'
 option ifname 'lan3.2'

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Attach router's WAN port to internet (or at least a DHCP server).

Connect to router's wifi (it has no password per default) then go to http://192.168.31.1/ and click through the setup wizard.

When it asks for a password just give it something easy to remember.

Once the setup wizard is done, connect your computer to one of the routers WAN ports and again go to http://192.168.31.1/ and enter the password you set to log in.

I recommend flashing the version 2.0.23 firmware before going any further. I know the exploit works on some newer firmwares but I also know it doesn't work on some 1.x firmwares. Search the web for the filename firmware miwifi_rm2100_all_fb720_2.0.23.bin to find the correct firmware.

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This is a guide for getting the HP/Agilent 82350 A or B GPIB cards working on Linux.

There are other guides made by other people for a couple of other GPIB adapters here:

• Agilent 82357B
• National Instruments GPIB-USB-HS

Unfortunately the mainline Linux kernel does not have any GPIB support. Even more unfortunate is that neither Ubuntu nor Debian appear to have packages for the kernel modules nor do any third-party apt repos appear to exist that are remotely up to date.

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Download the two .deb packages from Brother's website:

• mfcj480dwlpr-1.0.0-0.i386.deb
• mfcj480dwcupswrapper-1.0.0-0.i386.deb

Install them both at the same time: sudo apt install mfcj*.deb

Add a new printer using the GUI and enter the IPP URI manually like: ipp://<ip>:631/ipp

In the Printer Settings -> Printer Options change Media Size to Letter (unless you're using A4 of course).