Interesting Snippets from 2019-11-25

• GitHub - W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10: A collection of Scripts which disable / remove Windows 10 Features and Apps

  This project collects PowerShell scripts which help to debloat Windows 10, tweak common settings and install basic software components.

• GitHub - dg/rss-php: Small and easy-to-use library for consuming RSS and Atom feeds

  RSS & Atom Feeds for PHP is a very small and easy-to-use library for consuming an RSS and Atom feeds.

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Interesting Snippets from 2019-11-21

• exa · a modern replacement for ls

  exa is an improved file lister with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.

• GitHub - sharkdp/hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool

  To run a benchmark, you can simply call hyperfine .... The argument(s) can be any shell command.

• GitHub - antifuchs/chars: cha(rs) is a commandline tool to display information about unicode characters

  Use this tool to display names and codes for various ASCII (and unicode) characters / code points! It's strongly inspired by ascii(1), but supports unicode characters; it's also inspired by unicode.py, but it attempts to support whitespace/control characters better.

• Introduction · Tig - Text-mode interface for Git

  Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser, but can also assist in staging changes for commit at chunk level and act as a pager for output from various Git commands.

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Interesting Snippets from 2019-11-17

• GitHub - zadam/trilium: Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

  Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.

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Interesting Snippets from 2019-11-05

• WebPerf - PageSpeed - How to use webpagetest.org for page load speed testing | Centmin Mod Community Support Forums

  My favourite page speed tool for web page page load speed testing is webpagetest.org. It has dozens of test geographical locations and web browser and mobile/tablet testing profiles so you can do detailed page load speed tests. WPT has recently updated all their Amazon AWS EC2 testing locations to using Linux which has improved the testing servers performance as well. You can also read an overview at WebPerf - Measuring Web Performance – Analyzing What Matters Most.

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Interesting Snippets from 2019-09-13

• Evading Machine Learning Malware Classifiers - Towards Data Science

  In this post, I’m going to detail the techniques I used to win the Machine Learning Static Evasion Competition announced at this year’s DEFCON AI Village. The goal of the competition was to get 50 malicious Windows Portable Executable (PE) files to evade detection by three machine learning malware classifiers. Not only did the files need to evade detection, but they also had to maintain their exact original functionality and behavior.

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