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README

Overview

This script sends an audio file to OpenAI for transcription and stores the result in a JSON file. It works on macOS and Linux and doesn't require programming knowledge.

Requirements

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Figma Make

When downloading a zip file from Figma Make you'll have a "working" React application. However a few things prevent it from actually being useful, we need to first of all make it properly use Tailwind. Why I'm writing these notes is because I chased this for a while without thinking of this and could not figure out why some Tailwind selectors did not exist.

devcontainer

I personally find it easier to use a devcontainer when working with Node etc based projects.

mkdir .devcontainer

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You might be in a scenario where you purchased multiple tickets for a show with Ticketmaster and want to split the PDF.

This is not possible as the file is encrypted. However using Ghostscript we can reprocess the file and get a new PDF that you can split as you want.

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -f your-tickets.pdf

Note: depending on your jurisdiction this might not be legal. INAL.

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The steps below fix it, basically we skip using clang. Check the paths for yourself if the gcc version is correct.

1. Installed GCC via Homebrew:

   brew install gcc

2. Set environment variables to use GCC 14:

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gcc/14.2.0/include/c++/14/"

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# Xorg.conf config for dummy video driver
# For usage with for example TeamViewer on a machine without a monitor attached
# and you wanted more then just 1024x768 ;)
#
# Use at own risk, loosly based on info scattered around but these links really helped
# http://arachnoid.com/modelines/ for the modelines (lot of trial and error to figure out which worked over Teamviewer and Xorg)
# https://www.xpra.org/xorg.conf sample config from xpra who seems to use the dummy driver a lot (thanks guys!)

Section "Device"
	Identifier "dummy_videocard"

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If you ended up here because of the following error:

--grpc-gateway_out: 11:1: expected 'IDENT', found 'import'

And you noticed the generated Go code was missing the package name, it could be due to the way the go_package is declared.

This works for the go-grpc, if you want to generate it directly into a directory

option go_package = "pinger/";

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For some reason macOS reindexes a file if it was read or opened by another program, so cache dirs are heavy offenders. Can be checked with sudo fs_usage mdworker mds

A list to start with, you can add these paths by going to System Preferences then Spotlight and finally Privacy, clicking the + and then doing cmd+shift+g or programatically (see below).

My current list contains the following sudo defaults read /System/Volumes/Data/.Spotlight-V100/VolumeConfiguration.plist Exclusions

NB: Change the /Users/yt to reflect your OWN user.

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Greece Passenger Locator Form PDF Print

When attempting to print the provided PDF my printer gave this output

ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: New

STACK:
/AAAAAB+*Times

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// So ImageMagic is pretty cool, -but- it can sometimes consider a TIFF
// to be "metadata" that should be part of your thumbnailed JPG.

$Thumb = new \Imagick();
$Thumb->setResolution(72,72);                             // set the DPI of $Thumb to 72dpi, it's the WEB!
$data = file_get_contents('/data/some_image.jpg');        // secretly a TIFF pretending to be a JPG
                                                          // else make $data be something that came from curl_exec
$Thumb->readImageBlob($data);
$Thumb->setCompressionQuality(80);                        // you know, why have a 100compression quality thumbnail?
$Thumb->resampleImage(72,72,imagick::FILTER_UNDEFINED,1); // VERY IMPORTANT, without this it'll just "set" the DPI

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#!/bin/bash
# IMPORTANT: Don't forget to logout from your Apple ID in the settings before running it!
# IMPORTANT: You will need to run this script from Recovery. In fact, macOS Catalina brings read-only filesystem which prevent this script from working from the main OS.
# This script needs to be run from the volume you wish to use.
# E.g. run it like this: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD && sh /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/sabri/Desktop/disable.sh
# WARNING: It might disable things that you may not like. Please double check the services in the TODISABLE vars.
# sudo mount -uw /
# Get active services: launchctl list | grep -v "\-\t0"
# Find a service: grep -lR [service] /System/Library/Launch* /Library/Launch* ~/Library/LaunchAgents
# Agents to disable