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avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Typesetting:

Reader View for the bloated web: Pipe-able web read view

pandoc:

Static Site Generators

hugo-bearblog wrapping

Keep flat URLs

Hugo
Eleventy:

1// Trims first numbers in a file name
2eleventyConfig.addFilter("trimSlug", slug => slug.replace(/^\d+-/i, ''));

Unicode

Detect non-ASCII:

Security, URL Spoofing:

Spreadsheets

Specify dimensions (No infinite canvas):

Random

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Hacker Emblem
gwordlist: interesting data statistics project.
stdin stdout markdown email
Tabs or Spaces
gvfs trash
metadata - GIMP changelog
msmtp dry run
PDF URI scheme
Vim persistent modelines

Previewing

Locales
Keyboard layouts: a latex package would be nice too.
Fonts: use Font Manager for GUI or fontpreview for CLI.

Trivia

Keyboard layout art:

1$ grep '^// This layout is' -A17 /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us
2$ grep '^// This layout is' -A46 /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr
3$ grep 'de facto' -A14 /usr/share/nvim/runtime/doc/arabic.txt

Discussion:

My Linux Journey with some desktips

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Here is the Linux journey I would’ve set to myself if I started getting into Linux.

Fedora: Sane defaults

I’d start with Fedora KDE Plasma. KDE is the most DE with sane defaults. Fedora has a sane release schedule, and has a sane default for native packages. This is unlike Ubuntu with Snaps and flatpaks everywhere.

Sane post-installation walkthrough for any Linux distro:

Auto-cleaners for pacman and pamac caches.
Mirrors
Input Methods (1st step for non-English speakers)
Firewall
Mouse/touchpad sensitivity a. natural/logical scrolling b. tap to click¹ c. Autoscroll: a very sane default from windows that is missing for some reason on Linux.²
File indexing: for quicker searches.
Snapshots/timeshift³
Light/Dark theme³
Theming options. E.g: What if users want text selection highlight to be blue (like Windows) instead of green (theme of Manjaro)

Turn off non-sensical defaults:

Software Bookmarks

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

New:

$ script
$ sttr
$ recode
$ gpp

Command line

Commands Cheatsheet:

CLI Companion](https://launchpad.net/clicompanion)
xman
cheat
howdoi
clf
fu
bro
curl cht.sh/PROGRAM

Copy and Move Progress Bar:

Directory Bookmarks:

Apparix
fasd

Hacker Culture:

Menu:

Progress Bar:

Scripting:

Terminal Colorizer:

FOSS Dictionaries

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Credit: https://github.com/freedict/fd-dictionaries/wiki

Formats

Dictd

Structure: indexed Headwords linked to a plaintext body
Used by: [Dict Clients](Dict Clients) and [Dict Servers](Dict Servers), GoldenDict, GNOME Dictionary

StarDict

Structure: see http://www.stardict.org/StarDictFileFormat
- Supports HTML, XDXF and plain text
Used by: StarDict, GoldenDict, GoldenDict by xiaoyifang, QStarDict, QDict (Android), SDCV (command-line)
- Also see this list.

Slob

Structure: Slob (sorted list of blobs) is a read-only, compressed data store with dictionary-like interface to look up content by text keys
Used by: Aard 2 and other clients

mdict (mdx)

Arabic LaTeX Setup

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

LuaLaTeX fontspec + luabidi

Minimal example:

 1\documentclass{article}
 2\usepackage{fontspec}
 3\usepackage{luabidi}
 4\setmainfont[Script=Arabic,Renderer=HarfBuzz]{ScheherazadeNew}
 5
 6\begin{document}
 7	\begin{RTL}
 8	.قِفَا نَبْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرَى حَبِيبٍ ومَنْزِلِ، بِسِقْطِ اللِّوَى بَيْنَ الدَّخُول فَحَوْمَلِ. فَتُوْضِحَ فَالمِقْراةِ لمْ يَعْفُ
 9	رَسْمُها، لِمَا نَسَجَتْهَا مِنْ جَنُوبٍ وشَمْألِ. تَرَى بَعَرَ الأرْآمِ فِي عَرَصَاتِهَا، وَقِيْعَانِهَا كَأنَّهُ حَبُّ
10	فُلْفُلِ. كَأنِّي غَدَاةَ البَيْنِ يَوْمَ تَحَمَّلُوا، لَدَى سَمُرَاتِ الحَيِّ نَاقِفُ حَنْظَلِ. وُقُوْفًا بِهَا صَحْبِي عَليَّ
11	مَطِيَّهُمُ، يَقُوْلُوْنَ: لا تَهْلِكْ أَسًى وَتَجَمَّلِ. وإِنَّ شِفائِيَ عَبْرَةٌ مُهْرَاقَةٌ، فَهَلْ عِنْدَ رَسْمٍ دَارِسٍ مِنْ
12	مُعَوَّلِ؟. كَدَأْبِكَ مِنْ أُمِّ الحُوَيْرِثِ قَبْلَهَا، وَجَارَتِهَا أُمِّ الرَّبَابِ بِمَأْسَلِ. إِذَا قَامَتَا تَضَوَّعَ المِسْكُ
13	مِنْهُمَا، نَسِيْمَ الصَّبَا جَاءَتْ بِرَيَّا القَرَنْفُلِ. فَفَاضَتْ دُمُوْعُ العَيْنِ مِنِّي صَبَابَةً، عَلَى النَّحْرِ حَتَّى
14	بَلَّ دَمْعِيَ مِحْمَلِي
15	\end{RTL}
16\end{document}

Problems:

Liberate your playlists: M3U standardization

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Stop having platform-locked playlists. Liberate them.

I was looking for a way to view some of my friends’ playlists locally. Wouldn’t it be great if you can diff and version-control youtube playlists, compare them with each other, merge them, simply liberating them from being platform-locked by youtube?

This is a simple yt2m3u script I wrote for downloading playlists as plaintext:

 1yt2m3u
 2#!/bin/sh
 3yt-dlp \
 4	--convert-thumbnails jpg \
 5	--write-thumbnail -o "thumbnail:%(id)s.%(ext)s" \
 6	--no-download \
 7	--print-to-file "\
 8#EXTIMG:./.cover/%(id)s.jpg
 9#EXT-X-SESSION-DATA:%(original_url)s
10#EXTINF:-1,%(title)s
11" out.m3u -a -

If you don’t want to download thumbnails, simply

Arabic Linux

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For problems related to letter-shaping or text direction, check Bidi.

Date conversion:

greg2hijri: tex se, babel

Typesetting

Search and Regex

grepping diacritics
Characters in (U+FE8D to U+FEEF) should be considered uppercase Arabic characters. Example:

1echo ﺏﺡﺭ | grep -i 'ب'

Arabic typesetting:

Editors

Vim

UBA

Combining characters

Commands like tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' use the current locale to determine uppercase/lowercase equivalents. But it doesn’t work for Arabic.
grep: same problem.

Arabic keyboard

CapsLock affect: print “capital” Arabic characters starting from (U+FE8D).
Third level Ein letter: ؏ (U+060F). Currently prints ع with no change.
2nd level Haa: (U+06BE) for Hijri dates.
3rd level asterisk: (U+06DE)
3rd level parenthesis: U+FD3E, U+FD3F

Language Flags

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

National flags are not languages, and so they should not be used to represent them. There are multiple proposals such as using generic methods like names, ISO codes, or generic icons (see language icon). However, flags could provide a visually distinct and efficient way to identify languages among hundreds of each other.

Draft: Design practices

Symbol and Typography: Each language flag shall feature a prominent, easily recognizable symbol or letter representative of the language’s name or phonetic characteristics. The symbol or letter shall be placed on the center of the flag to ensure visibility and immediate identification.

Examples:

Placeholders

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

BIP word list

Lorem Ipsum

Arabic

Taken from the first of the Mu’allaqat: Imru’ al-Qais Muallaqa

قِفَا نَبْكِ مِنْ ذِكْرَى حَبِيْبٍ وَمَنْزِلِ بِسِقْطِ اللِّوَى بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ
فَتُوْضِحَ فَالمِقْرَاةِ لم يَعْفُ رَسْمُهَا لِمَا نَسَجَتْهَا مِنْ جَنُوبٍ وَشَمْأَلِ
تَرَى بَعَرَ الأرْآمِ في عَرَصَاتِهَا وَقِيْعَانِهَا كَأَنَّهُ حَبُّ فُلْفُلِ
كَأَنِّيْ غَدَاة َ البَيْنِ يَوْمَ تَحَمَّلُوا لَدَى سَمُرَاتِ الحَيِّ نَاقِفُ حَنْظَلِ
وُقُوْفًا بِهَا صَحْبِيْ عَليََّ مَطِيَّهُمْ يَقُولُونَ لا تَهْلِكْ أَسًى وَتَجَمَّلِ
وَإِنَّ شِفَائِيْ عَبْرَةٌ مَهَراقَةٌ فهَلْ عِنْدَ رَسْمٍ دَارِسٍ مِنْ مُعَوَّلِ
كَدِينِكَ مِنْ أُمِّ الحُوَيْرِثِ قَبْلَهَـا وَجَارَتِهَا أُمِّ الرَّبَابِ بِمَأْسَلِ
فَفَاضَتْ دُمُوعُ العَيْنِ مِنِّيْ صَبَابَةً عَلَى النَّحْرِ حَتَّى بَلَّ دَمْعِيَ مِحْمَلِي
 أَلا رُبَّ يَوْمٍ لَكَ مِنْهُنَّ صَالِحٍ وَلا سِيَّمَا يَوْمٌ بِدَارَةِ جُلْجُلِ
وَيَوْمَ عَقَرْتُ لِلْعَذَارَى مَطِيَّتِيْ فَيَا عَجَبًا مِنْ رَحْلِهَا المُتَحَمَّلِ

Place holder names

English:

Security

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Possible attack vectors on Linux

https://security.archlinux.org/ includes recent CVE’s related to official packages. See ArchWiki for general security recommendations.

This post is about practical real-life examples of previous security vulnerabilities that Linux has been affected with. The CVE’s listed in ASA are of course useful to know about, but I want to see how they can be leveraged by an attacker. Here are some examples, and what I learned from them:

XMPP discussions

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

XMPP as a WebDav server: modernxmpp
Subscription and invites policy
Bookmark groups
Filtering chat notifications
- XEP-0492
Send-only roles
User chat pinning
- Conversations
- Gajim
Autojoin and archival
profanity: cancel a sent subscription request
profanity: multiline message without editor

Other drafts:

Stories
Disappearing messages
Sync joined chats
Preserve metadata of uploaded files: name, mtime, exif.
Pubsub and fediverse integration.
List of pubsub blogs.
Security transparency:
- Gajim

URI support:

Conversations
Gateways
- SMS
- Backup documentation

To contribute:

Guidelines for extended attributes

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Draft

A standardized tag for marking files as “favorite” (E.g: featured by Nautilus but without using xattrs).
Attribute for binding files with each other. See here.
Dolphin ASCII xattrs

The following is an update of the original XDG proposal since 2013.

Extended attributes (xattrs) can be set in different namespaces. Linux uses “security”, “system”, “trusted”, and “user”. This document only describes and proposes attributes in the “user” namespace.

To avoid future conflicts between attributes, application-specific attributes must be namespaced using reverse-DNS naming style. Standard DNS mapping places a subdomain (WWW) before a domain (EXAMPLE) before the top-level (COM), all separated by periods. In Common Extended Attributes, this is done backwards, in which the top level (user) appears first, followed (optionally) by one or more application-specific namespaces, followed by the attribute name, all separated by periods.

Arabic Lam Alif problem on Linux

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Video of the problem in Gedit

Problem: letter La (لا) keypress results in a single Unicode character (U+FEFB), instead of Lam (ل) and Alif (ا) (U+0644, U+0627) combined in one ligature. The same problem for La variants: ﻷ، ﻵ، ﻹ.

For non-Arabic speakers, this is like having a key that is supposed to send two characters: fi (U+0046 U+0049), but it sends instead one ligature: ﬁ (U+FB01).

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Resources

Mastodon Arabic Instances:

Bassam
Masr (Egypt)
Levant

Arabic Linux Communities

Aosus
Arabeyes
[Arabic ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page_(العربية)
archlinux-ar Matrix Room
Linux Today

Arab Map Blog
Good Twitter thread with resources
OSM Iraq Telegram Group: t.me/OSM_Iraq
OSM Saudi Telegram Group: t.me/OSMSaudi
OSM Yemen Telegram Group: t.me/OSMYemen
OSM Arab Telegram Group: t.me/ArabOsm

Books

I18n status

Translation

This list contains the ways to contribute:

avidseeker7@protonmail.com (Avid Seeker) — Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Utils

awk ;Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
CDROM ;compact disc read-only memory
cfdisk ;curses fdisk
cmd ;phrase
tmux ctrl+b ;stands for base
CUPS ;common UNIX printing system
CVS ;concurrent versions system
daemon ;disk and execution monitor*
dd ;Data Duplicator
DE ;Desktop Environment
df ;Disk free
DHCP ;dynamic host configuration protocol
dig ;Domain information groper
dm-crypt;Device Mapper Encryption
dnf ;Dandified yum
DOS ;disk operating system
du ;Disk usage
emacs ;editing macros
fdisk ;fixed disk or format disk
fgrep ;fixed-string grep
Fish ;Friendly interactive shell
fsck ;file system consistency check
fstab ;file system table
GIMP ;GNU Image Manipulation Program
GNOME ;Gnu Network Object Modeling Environment
GNU ;GNU is Not UNIX
GPG ;GNU Privacy Guard
grep ;Global regular expression print
Grub ;Grand Unified Bootloader
GTK ;GIMP Toolkit
GUI ;graphical user interface
HTML ;hypertext markup language
HTTP ;hypertext transfer protocol
IRC ;Internet relay chat
JPEG ;Joint Photographic Experts Group
KDE ;K Desktop Environment
LCD ;liquid crystal display
LDAP ;lightweight directory access protocol
LED ;light emitting diode
MAC ;media access control
PDF ;portable document format
PGP ;pretty good privacy
PHP ;PHP hypertext preprocessor (originally personal home page)
ping ;packet Internet groper (orginally not an acronym)
PKI ;public key cryptography
PNG ;portable network graphics
POP ;post office protocol
POSIX ;Portable operating system interface
RSS ;really simple syndication
rsync ;Remote Sync
sbin ;system binaries or superuser binaries
sed ;Stream editor
sh ;Bourne shell
sudo ;substitute user or super user or switch user
su ;substitute user
tar ;Tape archive
udev ;userspace /dev
uname ;Unix name
VFAT ;virtual file allocation table
VGA ;video graphics array
vim ;vi improved
vi ;visual
W3C ;World Wide Web Consortium
WEP ;wired equivalent privacy
WINE ;WINE is not an emulator
xargs ;extended arguments

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Typesetting:

Static Site Generators

Keep flat URLs

Unicode

Spreadsheets

Random

Previewing

Trivia

My Linux Journey with some desktips

Fedora: Sane defaults

Software Bookmarks

Command line

FOSS Dictionaries

Formats

Arabic LaTeX Setup

LuaLaTeX fontspec + luabidi

Liberate your playlists: M3U standardization

Arabic Linux

Typesetting

Search and Regex

Editors

Vim

UBA

Combining characters

Arabic keyboard

Language Flags

Draft: Design practices

Placeholders

Lorem Ipsum

Arabic

Place holder names

Security

Possible attack vectors on Linux

XMPP discussions

Guidelines for extended attributes

Draft

Arabic Lam Alif problem on Linux

Resources

OSM

Books

I18n status

Translation

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