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import tweepy
# Instructions:
# 1. Log in to your bot's Twitter account.
# 2. Fill in the lines below for the consumer key and secret.
# 3. Run this script.
# 4. Click on the link that the script produces, then click "Authorize App" (Make sure you are logged in to your bot's Twitter account!).
# 5. Copy the code shown on the web browser and paste it into the console running this script and press enter.
# 6. The auth key and secret for your bot's account should be shown. Use them in your other Tweepy script!
@joostrijneveld
joostrijneveld / gpg2qrcodes.sh
Created May 20, 2014 19:43
Producing printable QR codes for persistent storage of GPG private keys
# Heavily depends on:
# libqrencode (fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/)
# paperkey (jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/)
# zbar (zbar.sourceforge.net)
# Producing the QR codes:
# Split over 4 codes to ensure the data per image is not too large.
gpg --export-secret-key KEYIDGOESHERE | paperkey --output-type raw | base64 > temp
split temp -n 4 IMG
for f in IMG*; do cat $f | qrencode -o $f.png; done
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

@datagrok
datagrok / git-serve.md
Last active April 21, 2023 07:33
How to easily launch a temporary one-off git server from any local repository, to enable a peer-to-peer git workflow.
@chrisroos
chrisroos / gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Created September 9, 2011 10:49
Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...