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@thesamesam
thesamesam / xz-backdoor.md
Last active December 9, 2024 16:23
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094)

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

@pukkandan
pukkandan / ytdlp_nest_comments.py
Last active November 16, 2024 11:28
Prettify and nest comments from yt-dlp's info.json file and write it to a new html/json file
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
Copyright © 2021 pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com
* Input file is an info.json (with comments) that yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) wrote
* Change FIELDS according to your needs
@crittermike
crittermike / rename.sh
Last active September 28, 2020 02:51
Mass renaming files on macOS using the "rename" command
# Install it with Homebrew.
brew install rename
# Replace "oldstring" with "newstring" with files in the current directory.
rename -s oldstring newstring *
# Do the same thing, but recursively.
rename -s oldstring newstring **/*
@fardjad
fardjad / batch-m4a-to-mp3.md
Last active February 28, 2024 16:37
[How to Convert m4a Files to mp3, Preserving Bitrate and ID3 Tags Using ffmpeg] #ffmpeg #bash

How to convert m4a files to mp3, preserving bitrate and id3 tags using ffmpeg

Prerequisites

  1. ffmpeg
  2. cygwin (on windows)

Commands

cd /path/to/m4a/files
mkdir out
for f in *.m4a; do