flanter21

VitalSource web book page scraper

This pair of userscripts (to be used with any usescript manager such as ViolentMonkey) allow scraping books from the VitalSource Bookshelf web reader.

This allows creating a PDF for offline reading with free-software readers such as Calibre.

The "inner" script hooks into the book page nested iframe; it detects when a new page image is loaded and it automatically starts a browser download.

The "outer" script hooks into the main reader page and adds a "Scrape" button which automatically goes to the next page when the inner script has successfully downloaded a page.

Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon in Practice

I bought M1 MacBook Air. It is the fastest computer I have, and I have been a GNOME/GNU/Linux user for long time. It is obvious conclusion that I need practical Linux desktop environment on Apple Silicon.

Fortunately, Linux already works on Apple Silicon/M1. But how practical is it?

Two native ports exist.

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

UPDATE 2023-01-22 21:34:33

This guide was last tested on an Intel MacBook 2017. Since then it's unmaintained and won't be updated (I quit the game and bought a life-time crossover licence).

This has been forked from https://gist.github.com/Alex4386/4cce275760367e9f5e90e2553d655309

For the latest discussion, see the comments there.

	"""
	Bypass Chrome v20 appbound encryption and extract cookies using Chrome Remote Debugging without admin rights.
	Including HTTP Only and Secure cookies.

	Developed by: github.com/thewh1teagle
	License: MIT
	For educational purposes only.
	Usage:
	pip install websocket-client requests
	python main.py

	#!/bin/bash
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT License
	# Steps:
	# 1) Make sure bash is available
	# 2) Create udev rule
	# - path to new udev rule: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-x-resize.rules
	# - udev rule content:
	# ACTION=="change",KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/x-resize"
	# 3) Create /var/log/autores directory
	# 4) Create script /usr/local/bin/x-resize (this file) and make executable