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#!/bin/bash

# Hide the decorations of a window.
# Defaults to hiding the focused window's decorations.
# Pass -m to use the mouse to select the target window.

# Get the focused window's ID
ID_OPTION="-id $(xdotool getwindowfocus)"

while getopts 'm' flag; do

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# Open a new kitty terminal window on MacOS
#
# 1. Copy this script into AppleScript Editor and save it somewhere
# 2. Use something like Apptivate to run the script on a global hotkey:
#    http://www.apptivateapp.com/
#
# Note this script doesn't work well as a Service through Automator as the
# "click menu" functionality requires accessibility privileges granted.
# Services run as the focused app, so that setup would require every context
# the shortcut is run from to have accessibility granted.

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FFmpeg streaming

These are some ffmpeg command lines used when developing VHS dubbing controller.

HLS Stream (on Linux)

#!/bin/bash

# Stream a PAL 50i capture, cropped and de-interlaced using ffmpeg

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; Switch output between headphones and speakers in Asus Xonar STX Control Panel
; On Linux can be done through easily through the ALSA command line tools, but on Windows it's GUI all the way down
;
; This assumes the Xonar Essence STX Audio Center is already running

SetTitleMatchMode, 3 ; Exact match
DetectHiddenWindows, On

ControlWindowTitle := "Xonar Essence STX Audio Center"

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#!/bin/bash

# Run this to update the country whitelist chain in iptables
#
# This is confingured for New Zealand. Other CIDR ranges can be found at:
#
#     https://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/
#
# To use this chain, configure iptables to redirect some traffic to it. Eg:
#

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This is a collection of code snippets for various features on the STM8S family microcontrollers (specifically the STM8S003F3). These are written against the STM8S/A SPL headers and compiled using SDCC.

Some of this controller's functions aren't particularly intuitive to program, so I'm dumping samples for future reference here. These are based on the STM8S documentation:

• STM8003 datasheet
• STM8S reference manual

Run at 16MHz

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USB with libopenCM3 on the STM32F070F6

This specific part doesn't work out of the box with the OpenCM3 STM32 F0 USB example/testcase for two reasons:

• The USB pins (PA11/PA12) are hidden behind a mux on pins PA9/PA10 and need to be switched in. This physically connects the USB peripheral to the pins.
• The STM32F070 must use an external oscillator to drive the 48MHz USB clock. My design used a 12MHz HSE, which libopencm3 didn't have a built-in clock configuration function for.

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# Enable 1440x2560 resolution (mobile phone screen that expects this orientation)

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_pixel_freq_limit=400000000
hvs_priority=0x32ff
max_framebuffer_width=1440
max_framebuffer_height=2560
framebuffer_width=1440
framebuffer_height=2560

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This is a technique for extracting all imported modules from a packaged Python application as .pyc files, then decompiling them. The target program needs to be run from scratch, but no debugging symbols are necessary (assuming an unmodified build of Python is being used).

This was originally performed on 64-bit Linux with a Python 3.6 target. The Python scripts have since been updated to handle pyc files for Python 2.7 - 3.9.

Theory

In Python we can leverage the fact that any module import involving a .py* file will eventually arrive as ready-to-execute Python code object at this function:

PyObject* PyEval_EvalCode(PyObject *co, PyObject *globals, PyObject *locals);

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Convert hackaday posts to markdown with images stored nearby
#
# This needs the following modules to run:
#
#  - https://github.com/matthewwithanm/python-markdownify
#  - https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/
#  - https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/