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How Companies Communicated Being Hacked

Evernote

It’s probably a pretty bad idea to have your site go down, when people are supposed to read the blog post explaining the hack.

Twitter

Notice how another site reporting the hack received more attention than Twitter’s own announcement. Why was that?

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@Hannahdouken has outsmarted the t-shirt bots stealing people's designs on Twitter.

This is a blocklist for the sites caught up in the sting operation. Below is a table with the offending sites and links, some of them archived for perpetuity, so you can add them to a blocking service like uBlock Origin and Pi-hole. All you have to do is add this link to your blocklist:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ndarville/6da8247493e8c06daaf306bb6c4b2c29/raw/7582b3cc7c9c8d2018ba2bd8b7b05a8f8a272cb1/blocklist.txt

For more, check out Waxy.org's coverage.

Please add your own links in the comments.

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I keep forgetting how to do this, and I never find a place that answers it online. Gists usually have pretty decent SEO.

Check out my style GitHub repo where you can see my snippets.

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$ ocrmypdf -l eng report.pdf mueller.pdf
   INFO -    2: [tesseract] Too few characters. Skipping this page
WARNING -    2: [tesseract] unsure about page orientation
   INFO -    8: [tesseract] Too few characters. Skipping this page
WARNING -    8: [tesseract] unsure about page orientation
WARNING -   12: [tesseract] lots of diacritics - possibly poor OCR
WARNING -   24: [tesseract] lots of diacritics - possibly poor OCR
WARNING -   27: [tesseract] lots of diacritics - possibly poor OCR
WARNING -   38: [tesseract] unsure about page orientation
WARNING -   38: [tesseract] lots of diacritics - possibly poor OCR

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1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,033
Edited at https://subtitletools.com

2
00:00:09,620 --> 00:00:09,630
white man gave you to the Bible you are

3
00:00:09,630 --> 00:00:12,860

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My computer is barely able to run Overwatch, and every now and then, I get the most ridiculous performance spikes

Save the contents of killresourcehogs.bat to a file (named whatever.bat) and just double-click on it to end the listed processes.

• /f: Force
• /t: Kill threads
• ::: Comments

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How to export your Tumblr site

You will need to have Ruby installed and the knowledge of how to run commands from the terminal.

1. Install the [jekyll-import][] gem.

    gem install jekyll-import
   

2. Save the included export.rb to an empty folder.

3. Open export.rb with a text editor and define the website to export under "url".

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ID,Since,Last tweeted at,Tweets,Favorites,Listed,Following,Followers,Screen name,Name,Verified,Protected,Bio,Status,Location,URL
37579871,2009-05-04 03:06:20 +0000,2016-11-18 05:30:35 +0000,31816,1244,68,2274,1739,07shari22,shari white,false,false,"NYC Born, Football Lover, Skin care Expert, Scientist and Lover of Quotes",@SweetFreedom29 i could not agree with u more! @CAIRNational,"Virginia Beach, Va",http://sharisaysthis.blogspot.com/
763548377036402689,2016-08-11 01:31:34 +0000,2016-11-14 04:31:50 +0000,5896,5741,14,1221,726,10_flick,George,false,false,"proud American, veteran sick of PC and people who complain but never vote, DT will win, Hillary for club fed",RT @Jonioroni1: @PolitixGal and it feels so good. We can't let up. DJT needs us.,United States,
38338408,2009-05-07 01:54:47 +0000,2016-11-18 02:32:38 +0000,11439,17716,28,888,677,1315Nani,Bronx NY for Trump!,false,false,Native New Yorker on the Trump Train 🚂because I know better! Standing with Trump/Pence2016 for all our VETERANS because we owe THE

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