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Crippling Facebook

Facebook works with advertisers to target you. These instructions are one of the many ways to begin crippling that relationship. When AI targeting is crippled, your psychosecurity improves :)

On your desktop machine, goto https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ads/audience_based_advertising
Maximize the browser window
Press F12 and click on the Console tab
Select the code below, copy it, paste it upon the Console line (The area next to the > character in the Console window), and press enter:

Option	Value
`/ResetRoomData`	`bool`
`/ShowSocialLinks`	`bool`
`/WindowY`	`int`
`/SkipVideoCardTest`	`bool`
`/SteamTrackpadMultiplier`	`float`
`/LastUpdateDate`	`std::string`
`/ZPassCullRadius`	`float`
`/DirectLoadCheckpoint`	`bool`

PostgreSQL is Enough

Background and Cron Jobs

`$HOME`, Not So Sweet `$HOME`

Preface
1 What is $HOME to you?
2 Setup
- 2.1 Linux
2.1.4 xdg-user-dirs

macOS 10.15 System Preference Panes

Below are a list of System Preference pane URLs and paths that can be accessed with scripting to assist users with enabling macOS security settings without having to walk them through launching System Preferences, finding panes, and scrolling to settings. Not all panes have an accessible anchor and some are OS specific.

To find the Pane ID of a specific pane, open the System Preferences app and select the desired Preference Pane. With the pane selected, open the ScriptEditor.app and run the following script to copy the current Pane ID to your clipboard and display any available anchors:

tell application "System Preferences"
	set CurrentPane to the id of the current pane
	set the clipboard to CurrentPane

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TL;DR
Zsh initializations
- Zsh way of $PATH
- the special macOS
/usr/libexec/path_helper

The .*shrc file

	#!/bin/bash

	# Define the main export folder
	export_folder=~/Desktop/iMessages_Export
	mkdir -p "$export_folder"

	# Part 1: Generate the CSV file
	echo "Generating CSV file..."

	sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db <<EOF

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="UTF-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<title>Fullscreen Image Viewer</title>
	<style>
	body {
	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
	}

	url scheme:
	x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.KEY[.KEY]?SUB-PANE

	examples:
	x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.systempreferences.AppleIDSettings?iCloud
	x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.keyboard?Shortcuts

	urls:

	com.apple.systempreferences.ApplelDSettings