today's howtos
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Mandaris Moore ☛ One less card for stoot
Stoot now has an option that will remove the Open Graph / Meta Tags card associated with the first link in a mastodon post. If you are interested in the tags that Mastodon sees, you can go to OpenGraph XYZ to put in your favorite URLs. Here a direct link to your fifth favorite. Mastodon takes the information meta tags from the first URL and makes them look nice when you post. For example, I posted a toot1 with a link to a post that created. I will get something like the following.
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Leon Mika ☛ Idea For Syntax Highlighting for CSV Files
I may be one of the weird ones here where I find myself sometimes preferring to edit CSV files in a text editor. If the CSV file is small or simple enough, it can be a fair bit quicker to work in than opening a file in a table editor1. But I’ve never come across a text editor that has made this easy. Some of them give you the option to switch to a built-in table editor, but these are usually feature poor compared to text editing capabilities the application has (which makes sense, given that we are talking about text editors).
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University of Toronto ☛ Doing general address matching against varying address lists in Exim
In various Exim setups, you sometimes want to match an email address against a file (or in general a list) of addresses and some sort of address patterns; for example, you might have a file of addresses and so on that you will never accept as sender addresses. Exim has two different mechanisms for doing this, address lists and nwildlsearch lookups in files that are performed through the '${lookup}' string expansion item. Generally it's better to use address lists, because they have a wildcard syntax that's specifically focused on email addresses, instead of the less useful nwildlsearch lookup wildcarding.
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HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install Mattermost on Debian 12
Mattermost is an open-source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams. It allows you to self-host online chat and offers many features like file sharing, search, automation, and numerous third-party integrations.
Mattermost is a collaboration platform designed as an internal chat for organizations and companies. It combines messaging systems, automation, integrations, and security for critical workflows.
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HowTo Forge ☛ How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12
Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. It is a cross-platform software that offers a set of cloud storage features and allows users to store, manage, and share files within the Seafile ecosystem.
In Seafile, files are stored in the central server and can be synchronized with clients across multiple devices and mobile phones. Seafile is an alternative to file-hosting services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Mega.nz. With Seafile, you can build a file-sharing solution for your private cloud applications.
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Alvaro Montoro ☛ Halloween, (CSS) Masks, and Logic Gates
I learned about CSS masks by replicating a nerdy Halloween meme with HTML and CSS... refreshing my knowledge of logic and logic gates in the process.
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Jake Lazaroff ☛ My Modern CSS Reset
Then, a few years ago, I read a blog post by Josh W Comeau called My Custom CSS Reset. I realized that there’s no deep magic; everything a reset does is just normal CSS that you can read and understand.1
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install Howdy in Ubuntu 24.04 for backdoored Windows Hello Style Facial Authentication
This tutorial shows how to install and setup howdy to get backdoored Windows Hello™ style authentication in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10. Howdy is a free open-source Python program, that can use your built-in IR emitters and camera in combination with facial recognition to prove who you are.