Make firefox read to you
This will be just a quick note because this will be a place where I find it again and you may enjoy this. If you are on linux and like being read to by the computer rather than reading yourself for what reason ever you will most likely enjoy installing a package that on Arch Linux is called "speech-dispatcher" and using the reader-mode. There you will notice a third option below closing reader-mode, changing font-size with the icon of headphones. When you click it you are presented with a most gay-forward menu to start/stop being talked to, skip chapters forth and back and change the voice that reads to you. That shall be all for now, enjoy your time, make black lives matter, wear your mask and stay healthy.
Tags: tutorial, web, linux, technology
Signing git commits with GPG
This post aims at enabling you to sign your commits, sign past commits, removing accidental signatures and editing your config to do this with less active thought.
Runbooks
What?
Today on the Fediverse I stumbled upon someone asking for resources on creating good runbooks. This reminded me of a prior thought of myself where I wanted to create a list of runbooks without knowing the term (I didn't start back then, but more of a tendency to have too high demands on my first-tries, so maybe I should create a runbook for that...) so I thought there might be low-lifes like myself out there who are helped by this.
Autoloading new kernel after upgrades on Arch Linux
As an Arch user you may have noticed your USB devices won't work when connected after a kernel update. If I understand correctly that is due to te new kernel storing their modules in another directory than the one still running, while during upgrade also the old location is being removed. Hence when you plug in a new device the corresponding module is not found and you won't be able to use it.
Getting an RSS feed from Youtube channels
After getting a recommondation for a YouTube Channel I decided I would actually want to follow its releases without having an account there and suspected I might be not the only one. So a quick search brought up this post which might have ended the issue. However since the post's publish date (November 2017) there must have been some update to youtube changing some stuff. Hence here some updated information:
- Get the URL to the channel. For sake of having an example we will use this channel.
- From our resource mentioned above I got the schema https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$id. $id happens to be exactly what follows after /channel/, so in this example UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w.
- We combine these parts, in this example to https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ.
Now you can add this URL to your feedreader and get notified upon new videos. However I already got the hint there may be channels without feed. When you stomble upon such a channel I would be interested in order to maybe find a pattern and understand that better. Until then: Enjoy having Youtube feeds! :)
Getting an RSS feed from Youtube channels
After getting a recommondation for a YouTube Channel I decided I would actually want to follow its releases without having an account there and suspected I might be not the only one. So a quick search brought up this post which might have ended the issue. However since the post's publish date (November 2017) there must have been some update to youtube changing some stuff. Hence here some updated information:
- Get the URL to the channel. For sake of having an example we will use this channel.
- From our resource mentioned above I got the schema https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=$id. $id happens to be exactly what follows after /channel/, so in this example UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w.
- We combine these parts, in this example to https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBcRF18a7Qf58cCRy5xuWwQ.
Now you can add this URL to your feedreader and get notified upon new videos. However I already got the hint there may be channels without feed. When you stomble upon such a channel I would be interested in order to maybe find a pattern and understand that better. Until then: Enjoy having Youtube feeds! :)
What to do when I create an XMPP account for you
This blogpost is mainly for documentational reasons so I have a document to give people when I give them an account. This will be a chronological list of stuff happening before you got the message and stuff you will have to do. You should be able to guess these categories from context.
How Pandoc saved my nervs
You may or may not have heard of Pandoc, a grat tool when dealing with documents of almost any known type you may dislike or just not have the tools installed to handle them otherwise. This tells a user's story with some /very/ basic pandoc stuff (beside the story I will bore you for sure if you ever used Pandoc before, be warned ;)).